WEBVTT - ETHER! get cho Barz up! 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.480 Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo, yo, yo yo yo. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:09.040 What's up, y'all. I'm back. It's been a while. Let 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:24.119 me explain. Okay, if you don't know, this is her politics. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.280 My name is propaganda. This is politics with prop Here's 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:30.920 where I've been. I've been writing a book, I've been 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:35.720 finishing an album, and it's a global pandemic. So attempting 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.720 to parent during all of these things while at the 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.920 same time producing content. And if you know, The Red Couch, 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.000 the sister podcast of this that this podcast grew out of, 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:54.520 is currently in season. So for my own health and workload, 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.360 I put this aside for a second. If we don't 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.000 know what this is. Is built on the idea that 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:07.560 if you understood gang life or survived eighth grade, you 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:11.640 understand geo politics, because after all, politics is just gang 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:16.920 banging in nice suits. Also, the second thing that's been 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.080 going on with her politics is we are in negotiations 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.760 with a much larger network. So that's super exciting, which 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.800 means that like will be bringing this thing coming at you, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:35.760 smoking hot all the time, probably weekly very soon. You know, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.880 I just needed to make sure that you know the 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.120 bag was secured. As I taught y'all, and that you 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.480 know I can not just secure the bag for myself 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.280 but pay my dog Matta Sawski still can't pronounce his 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.640 name to gore and mix and master. It's a lot 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:55.600 that goes into making podcasts. Anyway, No guests today. Moving forward, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.840 there probably will only be guests a few times, but 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.880 most likely it'll be more just like me, just giving 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:08.000 y'all to business about a certain topic. So you're ready 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:32.240 to dive in, here we go. Ether. So anybody's been 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.840 around hip hop for a while in their early two thousands, 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.880 you understand that ether has become a verb. I think 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.160 I may have speaked spoken of this before, where it 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.120 is an action of what you do well. Ether has 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.760 an origin, and the origin is Ether is a song 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.240 by Nas Do your googles. If he's not in your 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.239 top five, I don't think you really love hip hop. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.480 And Ether actually was a dis track. Now, there's a 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.320 long history and hip hop of a diss track, right. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:12.320 It's a song that specifically a diss towards a certain person, crew, coast, 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.680 whatever the case may be. And you you you you 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.120 started making those when y'all start beefing. It came out 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.600 of the longer history of battle rapping Um, which also 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.320 came out of a longer history of the Sound Clash. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.000 You know, in the sound Clash actually goes all the 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:29.960 way back to Jamaica. But I'm going too far right now, 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.240 this is too hip hop Nerdery Nas was dissing jay Z. 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.320 Jay Z hove as y'all may know him. You know 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.360 Bay and Jay y'all y'all know the the final version 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:44.320 of jay Z. The younger jay Z was one of 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:48.280 many New York rappers who put out some classic records 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.600 and obviously changed hip hop as we know it and 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.720 aged very well. But anyway, Nas was dissing jay Z. 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.280 There was a time that them two beefed and jay 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.440 had put out a number of tracks, a number well, 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.080 first of all, it was a verse and this verse 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.360 from this song called Takeover, and it was pretty it 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:11.720 was pretty raw, like he he he kind of. He 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.160 came in nos tough knowing how hip hop works, Like 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.480 the importance of being the King of New York is 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.680 just like because that's where hip hop sort of not 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.760 sort of, that's where hip hop originated from. Like, being 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.920 the King of New York was something very important. As 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.920 an MC, you had to be the king of New York. Really, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.960 the king of New York for a long time was Biggie, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.800 right uh. And then after Biggie passed there was almost 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.840 like a mad scramble for the top of the food 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.960 chain and the as far as the lyricists were concerned, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.160 it was always always belonging to Nos only a lot 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.320 of Nos had a string of duds and his albums, 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.640 there's a few albums that were just terrible, but his 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.120 first record, Illmatic, was so good that it overshadowed the 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.440 duds that he had after that. Anyway, we could argue, 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.240 and we do all the time. Ether was probably the 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:10.520 greatest dis track of all time. It's the greatest haymaker 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.719 anyone has ever thrown. Because you have to remember, Nas 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.479 was playing from behind. Jay Z was becoming. Like I said, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.640 he was poised to be the top of the food chain. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.120 As far as lyricists were concerned, people that just liked 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.520 underground hip hop, it belonged to Nos. Jay Z was 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:29.520 a commercial rapper, right, But as far as the public 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.360 was concerned, Jay was the top of the food chain. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:39.640 To take a shot at him was very brave, right, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.320 But in the in the in the hard and soul 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.120 of hip hop. Anyone can get it. When you're battling, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.160 anyone can get it. So we like to say that 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.279 NAS through the greatest haymaker of all time. People still 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.159 argue who won that battle, Jay or Nas. I like 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.359 to say it like this, Nas won the battle, but 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.240 j won the war because Jay went on on to 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.640 become the hope that we all know of, right and Nas, 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.560 I'll be honest with you as hard to admit this 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.680 as like a hip hop guy, but like he didn't 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:13.840 age as well as Jay Um as far as making music, style, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.440 growth and stuff like that, but he's This is not 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.480 to take anything away from Nas. Eventually they've squashed it, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:27.960 moved on. Everything's fine. But since then ether became a 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.200 verb for when you honestly take somebody out with like 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:37.560 a really powerful disc of powerful some bars. Right. So 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.880 battle making distracks is a part of the bigger culture 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.040 of battle rapping right in hip hop. More recent examples 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.880 of this is the Drake and Meek Mill battle, you know, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.560 you know, the back to back songs and me kind 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.680 of like stumbling. I mean, he fumbled bad his response, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.880 but again everything works out. Everybody starts, you know, making records. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.839 There was one that was pretty funny, like the J 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.560 Cole and the Cannabis one. Cannabis is like a legendary 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.680 battle rapper, but that's all he does. It came at cold, 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.440 which was like, I don't know, I don't know why 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:13.720 you're doing why you're coming at cold. It's not it's 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.600 not the move. But battle rapping wasn't always just making 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.560 dis tracks. It's usually a head to head thing. That's 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.239 the history where it's like head to head. You guys 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.480 just kind of like you know, you you you trade 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.720 bars even though the bars are they're just wrap lines 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.720 or couplets if you will, it's you know, it's a 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.120 music measure. We just call them bars. The best example 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:37.720 I think some of y'all may know of it is 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.920 like sort of the U R L, The Grind Times, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.760 or of course the movie eight Mile. You know this eminiminiuminium. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.760 You know, of course you can't stand it making a 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.560 hand seeing which up the damn cabinet? Right, you know, 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.840 be rabbit, you know what I'm saying. Lose yourself, right, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.160 you know? So that scene underground when it's like a 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.040 crowd of people and you you're supposed to wrap off 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.280 the head, you know, meaning you're supposed to freeze style. 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.600 You don't really get to research the person you're battling 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.560 because it's more like a tournament, you know. You whoever 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.120 signs up, and that's the culture I came from. You 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.360 get there, everybody signs up, and it's like single elimination. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.200 You get thirty seconds. The DJ throws on a beat. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.000 You guys have to wrap on the same beat, and 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.080 you gotta come up with the bars right there to 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:25.080 serve that fool, right. And it's equal parts style and 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.160 finesse and and punch lines. And you know, the punch 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.120 lines are like the knockout punch is the part that 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.000 makes the crowd go oh. But it can't just be 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.320 punch lines, you know what I'm saying, Like, you gotta 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.480 have some style in finesse. You've gotta still be rapping, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:40.720 you know what I mean, Like it's gotta rhyme, it's 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.040 gotta be on beat, you gotta be clever. It's the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.319 crowd engagement, you know, But it can't be so styled 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.640 that there's no punch lines. And then it's like he 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.000 just wrapped a verse that's not interesting. So there's really 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.120 all art form to it, right, And some of the 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:57.480 strategies you would do is you would get your whole 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.640 crew on the stage, you know, to like hype you up, 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.880 gas you up. You know, you have people in the audience. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.160 You know, it's kind of like the home court advantage thing, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.640 like if you got a whole crew behind you, a 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.240 lot of times they cheerleading, you know, and anytime you 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.600 say some of the silliest bar even if it's not 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:14.280 that hard, but if you got a whole crew of 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:19.240 people being like, oh, that's the hardest you ever heard, right, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.360 then you just create this frenzy. Even if you're not 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:27.640 that much better, you still create this frenzy. Now, the 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.240 new style of battle rapping is a little different. These 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.040 young dudes, like I like to call myself like I'm 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.720 like an OS one. I'm like an iPhone one battle rapper. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.960 These dudes are like you know, the iPhone twelves. They 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:45.160 just they just move different. They get it's three minutes around, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.040 you get three rounds and these dudes have had two 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:54.800 months to research each other. And there's like actual money involved, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.600 Like you could have a career, you feel me being 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:01.320 a battle rapper. You just write the three minute verses 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.959 about this person who are all in this like league, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.720 if you will, And you get to know these people's 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.240 track records and history and stuff like that, and then 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.760 people you sell tickets to come see it. For us, 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.640 it was three corners or just weekly events. You're wrapping 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.400 in front of the same people every time. You know 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.160 what I'm saying, except for whoever else might show up. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.440 So this is totally different. So you get to do 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.800 your research. You're doing homework. So if you get to 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.880 research doing homework, you're memorizing these raps. You gotta come 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.600 with it. You gotta be fumbling those verses, and you 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.320 had three weeks to play these things. Your little knockout 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.360 punch is better be hard. But you gotta have strategy. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:43.880 You can't bring out all your big guns in the 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:48.559 first round. But at the same time, you gotta establish 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.800 who's boss in the first round. You gotta try to 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.880 win the crowd over. You should have your crew there right, 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:01.160 who's already on your side? You feel me? And then 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.520 I saw you want the battle now. There's sort of 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:08.120 a trope among hip hop and it's battle Rappers usually 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.400 can't write song. The greatest example of that as cannabis. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:17.320 He just you can't write a song. You don't. They 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:22.320 don't make hits. Battle rappers don't make hits. That that's 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.560 what was so unique about the Jay and Nas and 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:27.559 even the Drake and Meek Mill battle is like, well, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.120 these guys write songs like they make and make hits 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.080 for them to come down and just like I had 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.120 to say, come down. I don't mean like condescend, but 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.160 I mean that, like, come to this part of hip hop, 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.320 to where you're just writing dis tracks for each other. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.040 It is like, dang, okay, boys got bars. That's dope, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.720 you know what I mean. That's why, as much as 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.160 I want to dismiss Drake Um as a meme of himself, 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.240 when it comes down to, like the boy got bars, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.640 the boy can write, you know, and I'm sorry, man, 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.600 stuff is catchy anyway. The consensus is they don't write songs. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:03.319 So just because you a battle doesn't necessarily mean you're 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.200 the better artist. The opposite is also true. Just because 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:11.440 you lost the battle doesn't mean you're the worst artist. 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.400 Because there's a lot of ways to approach this, so 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.839 a battle doesn't necessarily settle. It's almost like in basketball, 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:19.800 you play one on one with somebody. That don't mean 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.720 you're the better player. Because basketball is a team sport. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.960 You know, there's a lot of different things that go 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.240 into being able to play basketball. Just because somebody beat 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.920 you one on one don't mean they're the better ball player. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.280 You should be asking what the hell am I talking about? 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.800 And remember this is about politics. I am talking about 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:48.400 running campaigns. Y'all. We are in the throws. There's only 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:53.040 a few weeks left of the presidential election. Now, before 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.280 we go further, let me say this about an election. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.480 I think it's important to remember at the end of 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.400 the day, when you cast your vote, mostly probably have 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.000 already voted, because that's just the statistics of America. But 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.320 but if you haven't cast your vote just yet, here's 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.200 the thing I want you to think about. I know 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.760 when I went, when I got my ballot, one thing 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.440 that I thought that was very interesting and telling was 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:22.280 that the presidential election, like the voting, the vote to 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.800 cast for the ballot for the president was the last 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:30.319 one on page six. So for six other pages, they 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.800 were all kinds of other things. There was California propositions. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.880 There were local elections, their city elections, their state elections, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.400 there's Congress, there's district all kinds of other things that 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:47.439 actually affect me directly. So as much attention that we 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.880 in the culture, the media, or whatever the case may be, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:57.480 give to the one big one, understand there are so 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.280 many other ways to affect change. There's so many other 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.600 things to vote on. So I just thought it was 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:08.480 very telling and a beautiful metaphor for the apart type 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.080 of importance that you really need to place on the 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:17.240 totality of your ballot and not just the last dot 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.160 on the last page. Having said that, let's get into it. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.440 We are at the battle rap stage. You gotta start 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.400 throwing This is first of all, it starts off with, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.640 let me just make my case as to why I'm 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:51.160 your dude. That's that's them dropping their albums, they dropping 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.920 the mix tapes. I'm the guy, and another guy's dropping 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.200 mix tapes. I'm the guy. No, I'm the guy. No, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.560 I'm the guy. But somebody got to be the king 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.160 of the and sometimes in hip hop that plays along 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.720 lines of the coast, who's the king of the West. Well, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.920 I mean it's easy, it's Kendrick Lamar. I don't understand 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.480 why anybody else would ask any other question, who's the 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.480 King of New York. I don't know. That's not where 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.720 culture is at right now. You I mean that that 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:19.680 could actually King of New York could go to anybody, 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.760 is astop mob whatever? Right I don't know. We've sent 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.880 the West has sent their champion. Maybe New York is 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.800 not the one we're talking about. Actually, you know hip 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:31.880 hops in the South right now, it's I mean, is 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.960 it coming out of Atlanta? Is it coming out of Houston? 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.200 One could argue the King of New York right now 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.920 is Cardi B You feel me? What could argue the 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.920 King of the South right now is Megan the Stallion. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.800 You understand what I'm talking about. You gotta send your champion. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.800 But when you send your champion, your champion gotta be 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:54.760 prepared for whatever this is. The other people gonna say, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:59.720 so you bring your bar now. Just like with most 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.600 of hip hop, at the end of a battle, it's fine. 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.440 We're all friends. You know, Drake and Meek have done 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:11.040 songs together. Jay and Nas you know they've done songs together. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:15.280 They worked together. Even the versus battles on Instagram through 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:19.000 this quarantine, they're not really battles. They're just bringing their 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:24.080 hits and ultimately the culture wins. Like there's no real 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.680 winners and losers in that situation. I don't know if 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.400 you saw the Brandy and Monica one. I mean, look, dude, 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.400 who one was us? We just got our groove on 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.920 during that time. Then they did the d m X 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:44.480 and and and and Snoop. Listen, I'm gonna say Snoop 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.000 won that. But the winner was the culture there early 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.600 on there was little John and t Pain. You're just 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.320 playing hits. The winner is the culture, right. Ultimately, that's 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.920 what it's supposed to be. The winners the culture. So 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.880 when you think about president your elections, the winner should 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.400 be the culture. Right. That's just not where we are 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.040 right now. This on some Biggie Tupac. Somebody might die 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:15.080 out this book. This would hate the same, right. So 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.560 when you walk into what we set up presidential debates 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.240 as they're supposed to be, the winner is supposed to 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:27.840 be us. You bring your champion, you bring your best bars. 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.199 Maybe you maybe you're throwing eat maybe you're throwing you know, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.200 heymakers at the opponent, the opponent throwing hay makers back. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:35.600 But at the end of the day, to win us 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:39.760 the culture. Right, But that's if you understand how they's 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.800 supposed to go. Clear that's not where we are right now. 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.440 Right now, foods is getting personal one of the things 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.240 in hip hop culture too, and and especially with battling. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.040 You're supposed to be able to let this person say 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:55.840 the worst things about you, and you can't get out 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.080 your skin, you can't get out your comfort. You gotta 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.080 be able to handle it. You can't get violent, and 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.520 you can't you can't take that stuff personal. You gotta 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.520 be able to just take it on the chin and 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:06.960 not let this person wrap You gotta let them get 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.280 their bars off. You gotta be okay, because it's fine. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.520 Once they get their bars off, you get your bars off, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.480 and whoever got the best bars win, right. You can't 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.080 be interrupting fools. That's not how it works. Clearly, that's 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.399 not where we are right now. We're in this season 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.639 that people like to call the October Surprise, and if 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.760 you remember it back in two thousand sixteen, the October Surprise, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.800 it was two October Surprises, which was again, these were 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.520 these were the greatest hay makers, These were the dis track. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.160 You're supposed to be able to take them and punch back. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:42.639 The October surprise for Trump was the Access Hollywood tapes. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.440 This was the hay maker. US just supposed to take 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.400 you out, right, and it was a punch boy. However, 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.320 the punch back towards you know, miss Hillary Clinton was 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.760 her email. Whether one was worse than the other doesn't matter. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.520 You gotta get the crowd involved. And if you ask me, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:12.760 Trump got the crowd involved via Russia. That boy, that 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.960 boy has some goons in the audience. You feel me. 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.360 You had some people, some cheerleaders that was like, yo, 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:23.360 did you see that? That was crazy? You see them emails. 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:27.000 If you get the crowd involved, it don't matter, right 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:30.240 because some of y'all might be thinking logical like that. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.920 I don't know. It just I mean, I don't understand 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:36.040 what these emails proved. Right a matter of fact, if 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.640 you remember, the Homie Comy came back and was like, yeah, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.080 the emails didn't really prove much. It's just you know, 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.240 I mean, it wasn't really a thing. Too late, crowd 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:48.040 already over the whole crowd, like, oh, Hillary couldn't get 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.440 no bars off. This is the season we're in now. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.879 We saw the first battle, the first battle was the 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:58.679 first presidential debate, and it was chaos. Foods couldn't get 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.600 their bars off. Joe trying to get his bars off 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.120 that that that boy Trump had he had a plan. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.080 The plan was to get that food flustered. And I 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:08.960 know battle rappers like that they plant is just to 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.639 get him flustered. You you troll the guy in a 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.480 lot of ways. Drake kind of did that to me 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:15.560 for a little bit. He was dropping merch, you know 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.119 what I'm saying, you know, charged up merch, you know 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:20.680 what I'm saying. And like you know, he was sending 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:24.080 the trolls out to like out to out to meets 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.280 like events, you know what I'm saying, stopping him from 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.720 coming into Toronto, like you get everybody charged up. You 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:33.960 feel me, Joe couldn't get no bars off. But in 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.040 this situation, the losers the culture like we lost. But 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:42.400 at the same time, when you see somebody out of pocket, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:46.360 especially at a battle, you like, man, I don't know, man, 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.440 I don't know, Like you didn't let the other dude rap, 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.080 so I don't know if you won this mug. You 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:56.120 just kept like shouting over it. You feel me, so 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.800 like maybe you didn't maybe you ain't got no bars, 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.119 Like why you being so out? You just let the 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.160 man get his bars off, you get your bars off. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:07.800 So now we have our version of October surprises. It's 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:13.639 going down. The October survise towards Trump was his seven 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:17.360 hundred and fifty dollars in Texas. The man paid seven 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.800 hundred fifty dollars in Texas. And then when they asked 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.359 him again, it was like, yo, you that's it. He 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.640 was like, no, that's not true. Then they pressed them 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.760 a little more and I was like, Yo, what's up 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.280 with this four hundred million dollars you owe? Who you 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:38.399 owe that too? Wait? What's up with that? He's like, 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.440 that ain't true. They was like, yo, four hundred million 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:42.640 dollars to look, man, I'm looking at you. I'm looking 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.240 at the papers right now. What's up with this four 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.960 hundred million dollars? Who you owe this too? He was like, Yo, no, 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:50.520 you know what, it's really not that much man, it's 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:52.680 it's it's secured. So this was him trying to defend 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:55.400 himself from these bars right from this time, Yeah, it's 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:57.159 all good. It's like, man, who do you owe this? 0:21:57.280 --> 0:22:00.240 To answer the question, who you owe this? To me, 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.320 and you have you've been following the hood if you 0:22:02.359 --> 0:22:04.520 know the hood rules. He owed that money to the 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:11.200 big homies, big homies who put him on. Somebody fronted 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.399 him to work, and he got to pay it back. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:16.640 I got my guesses as to who fronted him to work. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:21.360 I think you got your guesses as to who fronted 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:25.359 him to work. Because if politics is just gang banging 0:22:25.400 --> 0:22:30.600 in nice suits, homie, you know who fronted him to 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:38.280 work was the crimlin because thinking for hunting million dollars 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:44.000 to rush in now this is all speculation. I don't know, 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.960 but my aunt tenders telling me, I kind of maybe 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:52.960 know who this thing. I owe this money too, because 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.960 you can't be talking trash towards people you owe money to. 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.000 My grandmama used to say, as long as somebody owe 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:05.639 you money, you never brought ooka because every dollar Trump 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:12.920 made belong to Russia. Uh maybe, So that's the October surprised. Now, 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:19.480 the October surprise towards Biden was supposed to be this laptop, 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:22.520 these text messages. And now now remember Trump started a 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:26.520 long time ago. We're going after Hunter and Barisma and 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.960 this oil company out there. That's Hella crooked let me 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:33.240 back y'all up for a little bit. Hunter Biden, while 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:37.240 Joe Biden was Vice president, got this job with this 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:43.640 company in the Ukraine called Barizma. Now Ukraine is notoriously crooked, right, 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:47.440 Remember when you're dealing with goons, whether it's Russia or Ukraine, 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.399 every they all gangsters. So there's really no there's no 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:54.399 good guys in this scenario. You're just say what I'm saying, 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:59.959 nobody good in this Everybody has dirty. Right, So Barisma 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:03.280 us got an inside person inside of the Ukrainian government 0:24:03.680 --> 0:24:08.080 right to make sure that, just like the mob here, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:10.439 to make sure that all their contracts go through with 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.800