1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: You're listening and waiting on reparations production. The story is 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: the story of how I came to have eggs, all right, 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: pee uh picture that's oct up for two thousand fifteen. 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: It's not the statement to say that I'm rounded in 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: to see of work at the university curves and I'm 6 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: taking personally my eggs. Got a new girl, but he's 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: still pounded on the sneak because that coochie is juicy, 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: is a corner pounded with cheese. Otherwise, I'm pretty worthless 9 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: that I mentioned that my house is pulled up LEAs 10 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: from a tabby catty nap to the kitchen cabinets. He's 11 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: not the students to catch your mouse's while he sleeps 12 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 1: up in the cup webs up more because even though 13 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 1: I got breakes, a loss of will power to eat, 14 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: will power to clean, will power to pay the power 15 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: pay the dentists in the hospital, but pay the internet. 16 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: The want to build that at the office is pay 17 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 1: for kitten chousing out this little nigga hostage. Like he 18 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: said this to what Cosby did, It's not up of 19 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: to hear that it's adopted him. Because I needed a friend, 20 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: needed somebody to be with just needed body heating the bed. 21 00:00:54,840 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 1: Ao shouts out to Eggs. Really rest in peace, Eggs 22 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: for you with Homie yo. Now in the meanwhile, situation 23 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: seemed foul, miss my Homie Eggs. So I had to 24 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: bust this freestyle snuck into my room trying to tell 25 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: me that he needs child. Told him I was sleeping, 26 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: but he hit me with him. Me y'all, lord, while 27 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: you take him. It was long before his time, and 28 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: some girls let me fun because they thought that he 29 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: was mine. It had everybody crime, even me and nine nine. 30 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: It was Thanksgiving Day. How am I gonna tell me? Rock? 31 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: But death is universal. It's what we are are facing sometimes. 32 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: I believe in reincordination. Right now, Eggs is one of 33 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: the lost souls. Until then, Homie, I see you what 34 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: the cross roads and I'm gonna miss everybody, And I'm 35 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:42,279 Speaker 1: gonna miss everybody. I'm dope. Night. We are waiting on reparations, 36 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: still waiting. No Biden check yet. So it is one 37 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 1: o'clock on a Monday night. If this were a regular 38 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: DJ gig, I think that was when I would like 39 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: press the button to que sill break God times come 40 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: off is celebration? Why are we celebrating. We celebrating because 41 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: tonight we elected Georgia's first Latina District Attorney to the 42 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:13,959 Speaker 1: Western Judicial Circuit. And when I say we, I mean 43 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 1: like encouraging people to vote that. But we've literally been 44 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: out there like knocking on doors. Our team knocked on 45 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: about doors in the last week and a half. And 46 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: how much she went by She won by eight votes, 47 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: killing it, Like I'm super stoked about this. This is 48 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,679 Speaker 1: the first this is the first winning campaign I think 49 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: I've ever been involved in in my entire life. The 50 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: student body joint that I did when I was like 51 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: the seventh grade, niggas lost that ship. Then the first 52 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: time I was ever really like when I first started 53 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,519 Speaker 1: coming into my political awareness and niggas out there for 54 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 1: carry that nigga lost. Then like after like fifteen years 55 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: of malaise, you talked me back into it, like, yeah, 56 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: we gotta get out here for Bertie. I'm like where 57 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:00,399 Speaker 1: we got out there, the hot South Carolina. The son 58 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: and Nike lost, but de Gonzalez did it. Not only 59 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: did she win the election, the election happened because Debra 60 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: Gonzalez sued Brian Kemp, who tried to cancel the election 61 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: and appoint someone to the seat. The case went all 62 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: the way to the Georgia Supreme Court and she won, 63 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: which is why the election happened at all. She actually 64 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: had the balls to just just she's great, crazy, she's crazy, 65 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: but it really it's some good news though, because like, 66 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: I mean, this has been I mean, this has been 67 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: the last week and a half, for two weeks of 68 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: my life. And I mean you've been like more involved 69 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: in than that, haven't. Yeah, I mean I've Debra has 70 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: been running for like two years, you know, Like I've 71 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: been you know, hanging out with her and supporting their 72 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: work for a long time. But it's been really like 73 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: a lot recently. So what do you what do the 74 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: people have to look forward to with Dereka Jals the 75 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: people of Athens. Yeah, so I mean abolishing cash bail 76 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: for non violent offenses and like other forms of low 77 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: level crime um using greater like caution in cases of 78 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: like she's like committed to ending the school to prison 79 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: pipeline and ending our racial disparities in like juvenile sentencing UM, 80 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: which all comes down to a d as discretion deciding 81 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: what charges are brought against people and if people are 82 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: brought up for bullshit charges. She can call it bullshit 83 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: and just throw it out. And so uh suddenly with 84 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: like weed, Um, she's interested in bringing restorative justice practices 85 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 1: into like our criminal legal framework, so that if you 86 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: have some bad happen to you, or you did not bad, 87 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: you actually have some resources for like learning how to 88 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: be different in future, rather than it's being locked in 89 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: the cage. So anyway, so all of us really she 90 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: supposed to do some really dope shit. So then you 91 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:51,279 Speaker 1: would say that right now the jubilation isn't simply because 92 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: the Democrat one, but because the actual progressive one. Because 93 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: a progressive one. Yeah, And we suffered a couple of 94 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: losses in our in our state house races in the 95 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: general election, and so like there's this frustration with jerry mandering, 96 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: this feeling like votes don't really count, and so for 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: us to actually come together and elect someone that is 98 00:05:09,880 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 1: like present in our communities and like straight up badass, 99 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: like fearless leader person. So we actually did it. You know, 100 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: our power and numbers is great. Well that's stuff one, 101 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: because tomorrow tomorrow we start working on sorry, we started 102 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: working on the senator campaign. Yeah, um, which I want 103 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 1: to I want to clarify with all that is that 104 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: I don't really necessarily like particularly John us Off um 105 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: Raphael war Knock, mostly for the things that conservatives have 106 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: like tweeted about him, uh, that he has said previously 107 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: has actually made him ME like him more with this 108 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 1: hope that maybe like underneath he's a socialist or something 109 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: like that. This whole thing helping, the whole thing with 110 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: the Warnickers reminding me of the Reverend right situation back 111 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,720 Speaker 1: when Obama was running. You might do you remember that, Um, 112 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're married, right, yeah. It 113 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,160 Speaker 1: reminds me kind of I mean as far as like 114 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: the Republican strategy of it, like finding a snippet that 115 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 1: you can should I was on YouTube today and like 116 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: I must have seen that add like fifteen times today 117 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: of Warnock saying something about the I love it, I 118 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: see it. I want to vote for him more and more. 119 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: And so that said, given the awareness that like their 120 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: teams would both spend all of the million dollars that 121 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: they're going to generate in these elections, UM on advertising 122 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: and consultants instead of investing in working people from the 123 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: communities start trying to flip blue knowing that as well 124 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: as the fact that they're going to be sending in 125 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,239 Speaker 1: field organizers that don't know these areas. So like haven't 126 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 1: run campaigns here before. Um myself and my two fellow commissioners, 127 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,799 Speaker 1: Tim and Russell put together this thing called the Athens 128 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: Progressive Canvassing Corps. We were raising money to pay people, 129 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: just fucking pay people to go talk to people about 130 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: the election instead up sending the stupid fucking mailers they're 131 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: paying for. You get the text on your phone or 132 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: somebody calls you and it's annoying, go knock on somebody's door, 133 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: and like people who are out of work right now 134 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: and it's the holidays, Like give people stuff to do 135 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: so that they have money because nobody everybody's broke right now, 136 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: um so. And along in that process, like learn about 137 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: how campaigns work, like this is a fundamental feature of 138 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: like electoral organizing and organizing generally. Um. And so it's 139 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: just like trying to channel like the energy of this 140 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: moment in the most productive direction. Knowing that all this money, 141 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: all the people are going to be trying to find 142 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: somewhere to donate, and like the campaigns are going to 143 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 1: try to and fail to figure out what's going on. 144 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: It's like, shut the funk up, everybody, just let us 145 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: do this. We know how already here, we've been here, 146 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: we've all won campaigns in this area. All of us 147 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: are elected, and we know the people, you know, the neighborhoods, 148 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: and do fucking pay people that are doesn't need money 149 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: because I'm gonna work around and coming here and try 150 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 1: to be on some like godfather, let us take over 151 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: the show. Know what the funk y'all are doing. Let's 152 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: be quiet, We're gonna help you. Okay. Well, unfortunately, yeah 153 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: we can't. We can't just be all celebration and smiles 154 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: tonight because the week was unfortunately not without impression. Yeah, 155 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: we're both. We're both definitely. Maria is definitely feeling it 156 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: harder to be. Some of y'all may may be aware, 157 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 1: just if you listen to the every episode on some ship, 158 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: then you might be aware that we have a housecat. 159 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: You know, we record in our living room and we 160 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: have a housecat, beloved eggs Um, who's from time to 161 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,480 Speaker 1: time jumping around on us, and he gets mentioned and 162 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: shouted out when we're when we're recording and things. But 163 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: unfortunately on Thanksgiving, eggs passed away sadly, and we have 164 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: been in the throes of grief while also working on 165 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: the campaign and everything. Um, yeah, everything there, Yeah, I'm okay. 166 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: Well it's really helpful. Actually, in fact, how we came 167 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: to the topic of today is that I've been just 168 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 1: trying to cope, go on a long walks, you know, 169 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: listen to ocean sound yea, and eat edible. Well, we 170 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 1: had a we had a friend of the show, friend 171 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: of the show, good friend Caroline. She she sent us 172 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: some edible arrangements, let's say, and uh, you know it 173 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: just it's just all the package got here just coincidentally 174 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: while we were all kind of in a dark funk 175 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,319 Speaker 1: in the house about eggs. So I feel liberated. We've 176 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: been feeling a little bit better, a little bit better. 177 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm healing and so I mean so 178 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: that brings us to the topic of today, which is, um, 179 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about pot We're talking about Bud 180 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 1: Herb Mary Jane Kush what what gas the loud. So 181 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: it's been almost a month after presidential election and Trump 182 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 1: and the maggots are still on some fun ship. But 183 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: without a doubt, the clear cut winner of the election 184 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: on all levels was it was cleared in several states, 185 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: and it got us thinking about, you know, decriminalization, legalization, 186 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: the difference between the two. So that's we're gonna talk about. 187 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about America's history with marijuana and how 188 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: racism has played a role in its legal status, as 189 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: well as go into the roots between hip hop and 190 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 1: its sacred bond with Sweet Sweet Chiba. Now full full disclosure. 191 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: I am a pot smoker, but you know, like dare 192 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: to be different or some ship. So I mean, first 193 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: first things first, it's like, while you know, we were 194 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: putting this together tonight, I was personally, I don't want 195 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 1: to say sketch dout isn't the right word, but like 196 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 1: I was wondering, like are you cool with talking about 197 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:28,680 Speaker 1: you know, I'm just a rapper dude, so like every 198 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: and my name is Dope, so everybody can assume that 199 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: I'd be smoking mad weed and do a edibles and 200 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: all that. Ship. How do you feel as an elected official? 201 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: Like it was cool first to talk about I mean 202 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 1: I feel that, uh, in many ways I engage in 203 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: civic life. I see that morality often up out strips 204 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: legality from you know, the caravans in the summer when 205 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: we were like blocking traffic and like engaging several disobedience. 206 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: Um Like, I feel like anyone that would uh look 207 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: down on add activity in with regards to like a 208 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: plant that is now legal in fifteen states and legal 209 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: for a third of the US population. Um no, Like 210 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: I'm not like, I'm just not I'm not living in 211 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: the past. I'm not living the past. And I feel 212 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: like and I feel like a important part of my 213 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: politics is also like instantiating the world that you think 214 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,839 Speaker 1: we should live in as a way of paving a 215 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 1: path towards that world, like to like to like make 216 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: to make like the vision of what shouldn't things should 217 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: be like a lot like more tangible for others, and 218 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 1: saying that, um like it's something we ought to demand, 219 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: and so kind of being a little unapologetic in that. 220 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: With regards to various forms of civil disobedience, I thin 221 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: guess I mean, I find uh smoking weed always. I 222 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: don't smoke weed, but I do eat weed. Um as 223 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:03,319 Speaker 1: a former civil to obedience like it's bullshit, this is 224 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: this is I feel the same way about that as 225 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,280 Speaker 1: I do, like just the consistency that I have on 226 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 1: like the abortion issue, where it's like I'm only trying 227 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 1: to have this moral argument or engage with somebody about 228 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: the moral compass of weed. Use if you're straight at 229 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 1: you know, like straight up like you have to be 230 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: like I don't do ship in order to like come 231 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: at me for me to even entertain it or else, 232 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: I just I don't get you. I mean, I'm not 233 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: going to have somebody talk to me about like how 234 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: bad it is to smoke weed when you drink beer 235 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: every day. You know what I'm saying, You're getting drunk, 236 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: and I just don't. I'm not there for it. So 237 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: that absolutely it's funny, like, um my mom recently figured 238 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: out that I smoked. My mom drinks wine and huh yes, yes, 239 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: now it's the same sweet ship that you do. The 240 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: hangovers are terrible, but I love it. But um yeah, 241 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: now recently, I think it was last Christmas when I 242 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: went home. You know, she kind of put it together 243 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: that I kept going into my brother's garage and said, 244 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: at this point, now you know, like I'm a grown 245 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: ass man. So it's like it was it was a 246 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: lot more understanding of a conversation and I thought it 247 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: would be then it would have been if it was 248 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: like when I was in high school or something like that. 249 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: All right, So, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota 250 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: all clear cannabis for adult use, bringing the total number 251 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: of states that have approved it for that purpose to fifteen. 252 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: With the general election. It's about a month ago now. 253 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: John Hoodick, a cannabis policy expert and deputy director at 254 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: the Brookings Institution, said they passed overwhelmingly. These were not 255 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: close races. It was a resounding win for cannabis. And 256 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: I just want to pause here and say that like 257 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: the fact that this, among many progressive ballot measures like 258 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 1: passed with more popularity than like either presidential candidate in 259 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: some places really speaks to just like how fucked up 260 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 1: it is that the people that are running this country. 261 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: I just can't one of the people just literally is 262 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: being ignored in the excruciating I think it's a rebuke 263 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: of the notion that the country is like center right leaning, 264 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's like, it's I really 265 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: think what you could determine as the country, the people 266 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: are not, yeah, the people exactly. The people are not 267 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: the people are not my friend. So UM industry members 268 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: and analysts say New Jersey likely will trigger domino effect 269 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: legalization measures within the Northeast, and most notably, this could 270 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:44,840 Speaker 1: like trickle down to New York and Pennsylvania. Tiffany Devitt, 271 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: the chief of Government and consumer affairs at Cannacraft, which 272 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: is headquartered in California's Sonoma County and makes about two 273 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: hundred cannabis products. She told Business Insider about potential parallels 274 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: to this and the end of alcohol prohibition and a 275 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: desire during the Great Depression the spur economic growth. She said, 276 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 1: you can see a similar trajectory playing out with cannabis, 277 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: whereby economic issues that we're facing as a country is 278 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: waking people out to the fact that cannabis industry can, 279 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: in fact, would be a benefit in the community. The 280 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 1: guiding the Biden The guided the Biden campaign did talk 281 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 1: a little game about the criminalizing. Biden himself has refused 282 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: to join the majority of US voters and endorsing broad 283 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: cannabis legalization. We'll see how that plays out as the 284 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: administration goes on. But UM Andrew Yang was talking, he 285 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: was saying, he was he was saying this about Biden 286 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: he was less aggressive than say I or some of 287 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: the other candidates, but even Joe has been making signals 288 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: about the criminalizing and not prosecuting various marijuana related statues 289 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: and restrictions. She leading cannabis companies reported better than expected 290 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: results in the after bath of Biden winning canapy growth 291 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: surge t in auroral cannabis jump after both reported higher 292 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: than forecast sale and narrowing losses. So the stock market 293 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: is taking notice of it. I mean, it's it's one 294 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: of those things we just see. No, I mean, I'm 295 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: just talking about that you have to at this, you 296 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: kind of have to make at least for a sizable 297 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 1: amount of the population. You have to make the economic 298 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, uh point of it. And 299 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: that's the thing that gets me for the for the 300 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 1: fiscal fiscal conservative types. It's like there's so much money, 301 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: Like there's so much money in taxing weed. You know what, 302 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: We've been framed it all wrong. We need to push 303 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: we need to push for we legalization and then we 304 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: can argue that we don't have to defund the police 305 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 1: because we have enough money to fund mental health care 306 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:46,280 Speaker 1: and like youth job skills programs. And community gardens and 307 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 1: fund the cops, and then we'll lie to them and 308 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: actually defund the police. But weekis be like, look, if 309 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,199 Speaker 1: we just make we legal, we can all have everything 310 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: we want. Yeah, I mean that's a good that's a 311 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 1: good ass point. Like you honestly you could the cops 312 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 1: could keep all the money they need and yeah, you 313 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: could just like use the revenue from generator. I feel 314 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 1: like a lot of like the calculus around police funding 315 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: is driven by the finiteness of city of city budgets. 316 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: It's not like the federal government where they could just 317 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: print money. I think we're gonna have to extend it 318 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: and go into that just a little bit might have 319 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: to Um well, I mean, like with all things, you know, 320 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: when when you sit down and you wonder, Yo, this 321 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: particular thing doesn't make sense, why is it that it 322 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 1: still occurs? If it doesn't make sense, And the chances are, 323 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 1: you know, racism is probably going to be at the 324 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: root of it, and that's you know, let's just just 325 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: call it what it is, called spade a spade. There's 326 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 1: a lot of racism, if not mostly racism, behind a 327 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:51,920 Speaker 1: lot of how marijuana is legalized and adjudicated in this country. 328 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into a little bit of the 329 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: racist history of marijuana. Now. As as early as the 330 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: eight hundreds, there were no federal restrictions on the same 331 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: or possession of cannabis in the US. Hemp fiber from 332 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: the plant was used to make clothes, paper, rope. Sometimes 333 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: it was used medicinally, but as a recreational drug it 334 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: wasn't that widespread. In the early nineteen hundreds, and influx 335 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 1: of Mexican immigrants came to the U S fleeing political 336 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: unrest in their home country, and with them they brought 337 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 1: the practice of smoking cannabis recreationally and un surprisingly it 338 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: took off. The Spanish word for the plants started to 339 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: be used more often too, marijuana or as I spelled 340 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: the time, my juana with an h and nineteen thirty six, 341 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: a propaganda film called a reef Madness was released. Did 342 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: you ever see Reformada? Yeah? The movie you depicted teenagers 343 00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: smoking weed and for the first time and and you know, 344 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,560 Speaker 1: had some at the time embellishments of what the effects 345 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: of very wild, evolving hallucinations, attempted rape, murder. The media 346 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: portrayed as a gateway drug purpose this is the Business Insider. 347 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,639 Speaker 1: In seven, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. Cannabis sales 348 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: were now taxed due to the fearmongering at the time. 349 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:13,440 Speaker 1: The main instigator um behind the Marijuana Tacks Act was 350 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: commissioner to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the prohibition era. 351 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: His name was Harry Anslinger. Anslinger took the route of 352 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: junk science, stating marijuana as a violence inducing drug and 353 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 1: connecting it to black and Hispanic people, emphasizing that the 354 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,439 Speaker 1: Spanish word marijuana you know, well Spanish, instead of the 355 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: word cannabis. He created a strong association with the drug 356 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: and the new Mexican immigrants that helped popularize it in 357 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:39,879 Speaker 1: the States. He also started the narrative that we'd made 358 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: black people forget their place in the hierarchy of society. 359 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: I like that it makes me forget my place. I've 360 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: ever forget that. I've just at the bottom of the 361 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: total pole. Fucking Jeff Bezos and he insisted that the 362 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: jazz was evil music that was created by Pew under 363 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: the which was also that's that's false because everybody knows, 364 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:11,720 Speaker 1: you know, heroin addicts were doing jazzy. I'm sorry that's terrible. Alright, 365 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: it's not too soon. It's time. It's time for that. Yeah, 366 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: it's been long enough. So by two the Bogs Act 367 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 1: made sentencing for drug convictions mandatory. First offenses of possession 368 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: could land you two to five years in jail prison 369 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: and to find up to two thou dollars, which ship two. 370 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 1: But it's funny, right, because it's like we're trying to 371 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: get back to the tax the criminalized you know way, 372 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: which was that even that in itself was instituted because 373 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: of some racist prick, you know what I'm saying, And 374 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: like here we are, damn near a hundred years later. 375 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: It's like, yo, can we just the criminalize the ship 376 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,520 Speaker 1: at least? Like, can we at least get back to 377 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: you know, and just the Controlled Substances Acting seventy, passed 378 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: under President Nixon, repealed the Marijuana Tacks Act instead make 379 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: cannabis Schedule one drug, the most serious class great jobs 380 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,639 Speaker 1: one drug to consider to have high potential for abuse 381 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: and addiction, and are not allowed for medical use. I 382 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 1: feel like it's almost cliche for us to go off 383 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,199 Speaker 1: about the stupidity of that. All right. It's like, you know, 384 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: we all seen half baked all right, marijuana is not 385 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: like that. I have never seen somebody. Second, it remains 386 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 1: a schedule one to this day in your bloody blood 387 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: does a little bit. Those are all the sort of 388 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: like stoner bro facts that I've known since high school. 389 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: But like even even just reading it out loud, it 390 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: makes me upset. That makes me angry. Why this attitude 391 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: towards marijuana is not like that, Like it's just like 392 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: beer or any other you know what I'm saying, like 393 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: recreational drug like that. I just yeah, I mean, I've 394 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: been in fights when I was drinking. I would never 395 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 1: do that if I was ever stoned. Ship that you 396 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: might not get a nig out of the house if 397 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: I get stoned. Yeah, just you know the terrible things 398 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:26,480 Speaker 1: that people do. How many people die are accidents? You 399 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 1: just you ever noticed that, like if you're hanging out 400 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: and maybe this is something I know because I do 401 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: go through the I have been in the situation of 402 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: being around somebody their first time smoking several times in 403 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 1: my life. Right, I've noticed that if a motherfucker like 404 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,399 Speaker 1: gets too high, like somebody who doesn't smoke like that, 405 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: if they get too high, they'll be like, oh, man, 406 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,159 Speaker 1: you'll do I need to leave right now? Or can 407 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: I like chill them, like not get high so you 408 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: know I could drive. You can be like, oh yeah, man, 409 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: just chill like you know, like letts before you get 410 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,359 Speaker 1: in the car. But if a motherfucker's drunk, they're always 411 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: I'm good, bro, I'm going going. I got immediately runs 412 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 1: some of your dog every fucking time. So during the 413 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: Democratic primaries, Elizabeth Warren among you know, obviously Bernie Sanders 414 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: and others, she actually had a plan for full legalization. 415 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: Some points from her website's plan stated, working with Congress, 416 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 1: they les marijuana as quickly as possible, or use the 417 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,400 Speaker 1: president's executive authority if Congress used to take action supported 418 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: by the majority of the American people, sponge past marijuana convictions. 419 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:36,719 Speaker 1: And there's a lot more. There's a lot more too. 420 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: We're not gonna we're not gonna read her whole plan, 421 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 1: but it's it's really moral. Like what's like something funny secrets, 422 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: you know what we were It was like we were 423 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 1: still in like primary season. If this is like February 424 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: like that, I would I'd be like, hey, you know what, 425 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 1: let's take some time in the show to give Elizabeth 426 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: words whole marijuana legalization plans, but I may get lost 427 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: to we don't go, Oh my god. Even with the 428 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: possibilities of legalization on the horizon, America's a racist past 429 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: and present is causing familiar roadblocks. In past episodes, we've 430 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: mentioned how black owned businesses often struggle with access to capital, 431 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: and in the field of legalized weed, the lack of 432 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: access to capital has many African American entrepreneurs concerned that 433 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 1: systemic and economic racism is definitely going to exclude them 434 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,000 Speaker 1: from the burgeoning marijuana business. One of the things that 435 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,959 Speaker 1: we definitely learned since the establishment of equity is that 436 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: a license doesn't go as far as it need be 437 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: so Jacob Plowden, co founder and deputy director of a 438 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: Cannabis Cultural Association, a New York based nonprofit that helps 439 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: marginalized and underrepresented communities compete in the legal cannabis industry. 440 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: Per EMBAC News, the numbers are disturbing. Less than a 441 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: fifth of the people involved at the ownership or stakeholder 442 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: level or people of color. Seventeen survey found this black 443 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: people made up only four point three New Jersey has 444 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: proposed to bill mandating that of all legal licenses be 445 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: said side to people of color. Black legislators in New 446 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:26,440 Speaker 1: York emphatically said that they will not vote for any 447 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: legislation that doesn't redirect some profits from regalization to communities 448 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: of color, and in Massachusetts there's an added social equity 449 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: program um to their legalization efforts. Still, the number of 450 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: African Americans developed in legal marijuana trade remains low. We 451 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: reached out to a blood tender at a dispensary in Colorado, 452 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:52,120 Speaker 1: Lance Nixon, and he told us about some of his experiences, 453 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 1: you know, being black in the legal marijuana field. Lance 454 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: also used to you know, hustle in the black market 455 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: before he in Georgia, before he moved to Colorado to 456 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 1: get into the legal side of it. And we take 457 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 1: his brains and just some of his experiences in that 458 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 1: game ship every day every every level too. Like uh, 459 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,800 Speaker 1: it's a kind of good old boys system. Like that's 460 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: how you get the high up positions that they are 461 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: not necessarily about who working the hardest is all about 462 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,639 Speaker 1: who you know and uh and uh and damn. So 463 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: like I worked for as one cat um. He was 464 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: the head. His friends like him up and it's I 465 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: mean I guess this is a microcosm for all of America, 466 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,680 Speaker 1: but that don't matter what industry you were really right now, 467 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: the position I got, I'm a I'm a budgeton at UH. 468 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,959 Speaker 1: I ain't gonna say their name, but I'm a budgeton 469 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: out for you. I got an apartment for you, I 470 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: got a call for you. And that's how he became 471 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,200 Speaker 1: the head girl at that place, not because he knew 472 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: what the hell he was doing. When people come into 473 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 1: the place, I talked to him about the products and 474 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,520 Speaker 1: if they don't know or if they do know, exactly 475 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: what they're looking for, you to get them as closest 476 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 1: to what we have there. And it's like the seventh 477 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 1: UH dispensary. I hadn't worked that on the retail side 478 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: before that. I had a lot of bunch of like 479 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 1: grow and harvesting and behind the scenes type of in 480 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 1: the grove jobs. I worked over forty places because the 481 00:28:56,800 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: first job I got was just like cannabis, like um 482 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: um temp agencies, So they have seen you somewhere different 483 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: every two or three days. So I learned a lot. 484 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: But they also pay very little in this in this 485 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: industry because everybody want to do it, so like you're 486 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: highly replaceable at all levels, and they just if you 487 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: don't want to do it, If you don't want to 488 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: do it, they found somebody to do it for cheaper. Uh. 489 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 1: The bad part about the black market is you know, 490 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: of course you can get killed, you can go to prison. 491 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: That should happened to me there. That's the bad part. 492 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: But as far as like the risk you take for 493 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: the amount of money you made, Man, I go through 494 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: Hustle's withdrawal, I missed that ship. I just don't want 495 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: to fucking I go back to prison. So I'm trying 496 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: to do the right thing and here doing this ship legally, 497 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: but damn, it's the right before the poorhouses, where what 498 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,200 Speaker 1: you at trying to do the same thing legally. It's 499 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: all the it's very little go down from the owners, 500 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 1: from the owners to the people who run this ship. 501 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: For I've heard rumors of equity programs, about programs for 502 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 1: people to benefit people who were negatively affected by the 503 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: warm drugs, and like only those people get particular licenses 504 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,240 Speaker 1: to be in this industry, like the people who would 505 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: negularly affected. Like I've heard rumors and ship like that, 506 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: but I don't know, no, I don't know nobody who's 507 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: ever benefited from it. And I've heard about it in Oakland, 508 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 1: and then I heard about some um politicians were one 509 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: of the black dispensary owners here signing some UM some 510 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,320 Speaker 1: into law very recently here, and then about the equity program. 511 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,760 Speaker 1: But uh, I have seen literally none, none of that. 512 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: And the only place I know where it's a really 513 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,479 Speaker 1: or a real thing is in Oakland as an equity program. 514 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: And I heard about the dude, the black Dude alherents 515 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: in their own viola, uh, trying to do that ship 516 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 1: where he was gonna try to do certain things like 517 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: make for a certain amount of black millionaires and the 518 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: kindabis industry like help people who need help but want 519 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: to do this became a foard to and but I 520 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: don't know how to join that program. I don't know 521 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:22,320 Speaker 1: what that application is. I ain't saying it ain't real, 522 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: but it sounds good. Day released his classic album Bill Chronic, 523 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:38,240 Speaker 1: introducing the World Too, among other things, shameless buttual recreational 524 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: use of we within hip hop culture now years before, 525 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: in particular nineteen eighty nine, the summer that saw a 526 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: slew of world changing, cultural defining rap albums. Uh, this 527 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: was when you had run DMC is tougher than leather 528 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: E P M D strictly business public animals. It takes 529 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: the nation to millions to hold us back. Ryp and 530 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: Rokinds fault the Leader, Salton Pepper's Assault with a Deadly 531 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: Pepper two Live Cruise move somethinged power and both easy 532 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,360 Speaker 1: ease easy does it in a street out of Compton. 533 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: Not only such an insane summer of music, that's like 534 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 1: just insane summer music. Just trying to picture being like 535 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:29,920 Speaker 1: fourteen or thirteen in like a hip hop fan back 536 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 1: before everybody was in the hip hop and just going 537 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: through that summer and then it as a movie nerd, 538 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: I just got to add this into just imagine this. 539 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:42,239 Speaker 1: Tim Burton's Batman and Ghostbusters two came out that summer too, 540 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,840 Speaker 1: and Honey, I shrunk the kids? Are you fucking kidding me? 541 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: Like I was? I was only I think I might 542 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: have been like three or some ship like that or four, 543 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: So I didn't really get to experience like that. But 544 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: get the funk out of here, you know that? That 545 00:32:56,040 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: is oh man. So not only did these albums, you know, 546 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: not make reference to smoking weed, but with the crack 547 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: epidemic ravaging the black community like in real time. There 548 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: was a defined anti drug vein running through all of 549 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,320 Speaker 1: these albums, and the most talked about example of this 550 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: is on n W a s album when the song 551 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 1: expressed yourself for Dr Dre, the man who three years 552 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: later would inside hip hop's bond with cannabis culture, give us. 553 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,000 Speaker 1: He wrapped the lyrics because it's known to give up 554 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: at the pan damage and prying damage on the mic, 555 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: don't manage nothing. It's theorized that, you know, this is 556 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: all the national exhaustion with the just say no sloganeering 557 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,760 Speaker 1: and of the Reagan era and the whole puritanical music 558 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,600 Speaker 1: regulation stance of Tipper Gore and the p mr C. 559 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: We talked about this in a previous episode, but they 560 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: were the ones who brought you the parental Advisory sticker. Um. 561 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,680 Speaker 1: You know, there's just like people might have been burnt 562 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: out by a decade of that sort of ship an 563 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,600 Speaker 1: intern that made just the whole nineties music and social 564 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: scene a bit more freer and looser, and that's when 565 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: we could truly take hold and gain a footing and 566 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: wrap The chronic gets credit because of its astronomical sales numbers, 567 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,920 Speaker 1: but it was a smaller and just this important album, 568 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:27,080 Speaker 1: Cypers's Hell, self titled um It was the true true 569 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: game changer, so much so that it made the term 570 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: blunted mainstream. The casual weeds smoking in their records and 571 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: the peel of the wrap stoner aesthetic. Almost overnight had 572 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,160 Speaker 1: other rappers openly talking about smoking. Um dr dre identified 573 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: this wave and then ran with it, totally made it 574 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: this thing, and then that so now it's like, yeah, 575 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,360 Speaker 1: you almost can't really imagine, Like if you just like 576 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: close your eyes and imagine wrapper, you're like probably imagining 577 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of weeds smoker round them on the haping. 578 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,800 Speaker 1: Now um Q point talked to send Dog from Cypers 579 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: Hill and he had this to say. I think marijuana 580 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: slash weed was always part of the culture. It was 581 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 1: just underground. We just wanted to make it cool again. 582 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,320 Speaker 1: And after the War on Drugs that the Reagans had 583 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,560 Speaker 1: when they classified marijuana as a Class one drug, it 584 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: made it really uncool and made parents really concerned about 585 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: smoking weed, which just kind of like tickles me slightly 586 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,920 Speaker 1: that he says after the War on drugs, says that 587 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,239 Speaker 1: the War on drugs, it's like over now. Well, I 588 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: mean you understand send Dog is a fifty five year 589 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,799 Speaker 1: old right now, but like we're still like literally, i mean, 590 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,960 Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's coming from like he's coming from 591 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: like eighties era enforcement of the War on drugs, which 592 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: you know, we all want the War on drugs to 593 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: be over, period, but it's not quite the eighties. Yeah, 594 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 1: it definitely is. Definitely is the cops. If you think 595 00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,399 Speaker 1: the cops are out, I mean, the cops are out 596 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,120 Speaker 1: of control now, but holy shit, were they given the 597 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: green light back then to just fucking act out? Yeah, 598 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 1: and there was no internet to capture any of that ship. 599 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,160 Speaker 1: But their funding is probably increasing. Then we approve increases 600 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: in the police budget year after year, and I'm imagine 601 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 1: the same it is true of like federal grants that 602 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: we found we that they apply for and are funded. 603 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: I mean, like literally, the war on drugs is still happening. 604 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,920 Speaker 1: Like tonight at our commission meeting, I had to like 605 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,600 Speaker 1: fight my fellow commissioners about this grant we approve year 606 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,720 Speaker 1: after year that like data we've recently uncovered has shown, 607 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: like the Narcotics Task for as we get money from 608 00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 1: the federal government to do is arresting, like seventy percent 609 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,239 Speaker 1: of the people being arrested are black people, even though 610 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,760 Speaker 1: black and white people use and sell drugs at similar rates. 611 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,799 Speaker 1: And then the most common type of arrest is for 612 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: intent to sell marijuana wish if you have if you 613 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 1: just have marijuana in certain quantities and like baggies, they 614 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: can say you're intending to sell, you know, and sell 615 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: Like it's not even that these people are like big 616 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,360 Speaker 1: time drugular is necessary really, and it's just it's absurd 617 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: because two thirds of the American public support legalization in 618 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,360 Speaker 1: fifteen states, have a third of the American public like 619 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: live in legalized states. It's just really like it's we're 620 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: still just going about these this is almost gonna this thing. 621 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,799 Speaker 1: It was always going to pass without even any conversation 622 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: because we're so used to just like funding the drug war, 623 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,120 Speaker 1: funding the drug war. You have to hear, uh, and 624 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 1: so I guess just as an aside to our listeners, 625 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,600 Speaker 1: and you're wherever you live in your local government police 626 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,240 Speaker 1: pay attention to like the ways they fund the police 627 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: year round, not just when they're doing their budget processes. 628 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,440 Speaker 1: Because uh, we give so much money to the police 629 00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:41,799 Speaker 1: department to the black people were smoking weed in a 630 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: drug war that like it's been explicitly like there, it's 631 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:52,600 Speaker 1: in writing that this was uh initiated too pretty much 632 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:57,560 Speaker 1: round up black people. But you can't anyway. So here 633 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: we are today still, I mean, we're I definitely didn't 634 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: mean to suggest that we're out of it at all. 635 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 1: I just I just understand. I just understand said, I 636 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,799 Speaker 1: just understand where Sendov is coming from, just in terms 637 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: as somebody who like has been seen both eras you 638 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: know what I mean that you could imagine and then 639 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,160 Speaker 1: not only that, but it's like, I don't know, send 640 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 1: dogs whole whole history like that, but it's like, you know, 641 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: as being a fan of Cypher's Hill, he's coming from 642 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 1: actually being in that side of like being like actually 643 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:31,600 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like actually having to deal 644 00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: with the police during that era and shop like that. 645 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm just saying I understand why his 646 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,120 Speaker 1: perspective might be a little bit feeling that things have 647 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,120 Speaker 1: eased up more than they were. You know, I'm saying 648 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,400 Speaker 1: even if we don't particularly see that, because we're not 649 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,560 Speaker 1: even then quantitatively it doesn't make sense. Um, So there's 650 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: more to the acceptance of integration of marijuana hip hop 651 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: than just products, slang or even reform. More in this 652 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,760 Speaker 1: the scene so in the nineties is just a concept 653 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,480 Speaker 1: of model that would later be monetized and map. The 654 00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:00,520 Speaker 1: fact that Cyphress Hill had drawn so much engine too 655 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,239 Speaker 1: a mostly unknown cigar brand by calling it out by 656 00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: name so often in the lyrics, it revealed the power 657 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 1: of hip hop branding. Like band aid phillies, blunts became 658 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,600 Speaker 1: a term for smoking weed in a cigar rapper. Four 659 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: years to follow, Andre has repeated use of the term 660 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: the chronic did the same for certain strains of weed. Yeah, 661 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,600 Speaker 1: and this is all per highest. By the mid nineteen nineties, 662 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,279 Speaker 1: the percentage of rap songs with drug references increased from 663 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: just four tracks in the early nineteen eighties to of 664 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: all hip hop per genius. So just to give you 665 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,080 Speaker 1: that's what type of influence Cyprus Hill and Dr Dre 666 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,239 Speaker 1: had all this ship that It's like they straight up 667 00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:55,040 Speaker 1: changed the content of hip hop for the next five 668 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,719 Speaker 1: or thirty years. Now, who do you think of the 669 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,239 Speaker 1: rappers most tied to culture? If you just have to 670 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:07,800 Speaker 1: rattle off and say, Okay, Snoop definitely, um, whis Khalifa? 671 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: It's funny, I want I was gonna say, I was 672 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:11,960 Speaker 1: gonna say on the New School, I was gonna say, 673 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,000 Speaker 1: whis Khalifah? But then it's like it was Kalief has 674 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:19,799 Speaker 1: been around like for takeing um currency, Yeah, you're right, 675 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,960 Speaker 1: method manner, red man during they're like duo run. They 676 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,360 Speaker 1: definitely had like a thing. And then you give a 677 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,160 Speaker 1: shout out to the fucking Cottonmouth Kings. You know, I 678 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,120 Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know, and I did hear one 679 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,960 Speaker 1: of them passed away recently, so rest in peace to 680 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,760 Speaker 1: to the Holby. But um, yeah, Cottonmouth Kings. I remember 681 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,120 Speaker 1: when I first got in college and I started going 682 00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:42,920 Speaker 1: to the white boy parties and stuff like that. That's 683 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,160 Speaker 1: when I started getting introduced with the cotton Mouth Kings. 684 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,000 Speaker 1: But if you don't know about them, they're a Orange County, 685 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:54,840 Speaker 1: California rap outfit. But yeah, they they definitely paved the 686 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:59,760 Speaker 1: way for weed wraps, that's for sure. But let's get 687 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: too some weed rap songs to cap this off, shall we. 688 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: So we got De'angelo's Brown Sugar, which is this song 689 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 1: about weed. Are you freaking serious? A lot of people 690 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know this, but brown Sugar 691 00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 1: is a metaphor for Mari Juan and I didn't know 692 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: this until till years after this song was in there. 693 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:27,240 Speaker 1: I don't believe you a man, and the name was Broch. 694 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,240 Speaker 1: See we'd be making love constantly. That's why my eyes 695 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,399 Speaker 1: all the shade black and jingle bells on this ship. 696 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,120 Speaker 1: Listen to this beat, yo, And some people could qualify 697 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,439 Speaker 1: this as an R and B song, But fuck you, man, 698 00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,400 Speaker 1: I love I love these sort of songs, you know. 699 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm so good. That's such a sucker for 700 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:55,879 Speaker 1: the double meaning and animal fucking dude, bro So it's like, oh, man, 701 00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: you mean you're talking about a girl, but it's about 702 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:05,279 Speaker 1: something else and it's about sucking pot. I love it sails. Yeah, no, 703 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,560 Speaker 1: that's a classic one. What do we got next? On 704 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,600 Speaker 1: the Got Cypress Hills? Speaking of a classical got Hits 705 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: from the Bong, I don't think you can have a 706 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,160 Speaker 1: fucking weed episode on the podcast without Cyper's hose from 707 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,400 Speaker 1: the balls from the bog. Let's check it out this 708 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:28,840 Speaker 1: got and this is a sample from this is Dusty Springfield. 709 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:34,000 Speaker 1: Isn't it sort of a preacher man, Yeah inhale exhale 710 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:41,880 Speaker 1: just gotta ounce in the mail. Yo, it's just like 711 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,560 Speaker 1: Cayden's intended to his voice that I just can't get 712 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,719 Speaker 1: over it, Like that is irreplicable and that's the one 713 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: not a word fuck Like it's, uh, what's the irreplicable 714 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,960 Speaker 1: in hip hop? Like there's this nobody that sounds like him, 715 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,480 Speaker 1: you know, there's it's it's like it's some thing. Let 716 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:04,359 Speaker 1: me give a little bit of some rapper insight. When 717 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,799 Speaker 1: you are listening to a rap song and it just 718 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 1: sounds like it's coming out super easy, and it just 719 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,640 Speaker 1: sounds like the easiest thing in the world that the 720 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:19,440 Speaker 1: person is doing, it's because they're really really connecting with 721 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,439 Speaker 1: what they're saying. And I just noticed that when there's 722 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,000 Speaker 1: certain things we talked about this and the guns episode, 723 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,520 Speaker 1: but there's just certain things, certain topics when people rap 724 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: about it that you just hear them get so at 725 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,080 Speaker 1: ease with how they flow about the topic that it's like, Yo, 726 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,959 Speaker 1: they really love that ship. And that's how I feel 727 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,120 Speaker 1: about be Real and wouldever be Real rap specifically about Weed. 728 00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,719 Speaker 1: It's like his to me, be Real's weed flow and 729 00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:55,160 Speaker 1: his other topics flow are different flows. Yeah. Um. So 730 00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:01,920 Speaker 1: up next we have ludicrous blueberry Yum fire Fire got 731 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:07,239 Speaker 1: me so tired, I'm gonna Stoptop and roll. We did 732 00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,480 Speaker 1: a video for this and Luda rubbed it in everybody's 733 00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,040 Speaker 1: face him being in Amsterdam just smoking mad. The beat 734 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:19,320 Speaker 1: has this like weirdly haunting video game five Yeah, Final 735 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,960 Speaker 1: Boss level. I wouldn't be surprised if that was sampled 736 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: from a video game. Yeah. I also appreciate the reaver 737 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: about his voice at the end of those sensas, where 738 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,480 Speaker 1: it's sort of like it just replicates the body feeling 739 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,120 Speaker 1: it's being very stiled in a certain way. Uh here. 740 00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,400 Speaker 1: The next song, We've got far sides Packs of Pipe, 741 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,480 Speaker 1: which it definitely does do the same thing in the 742 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,359 Speaker 1: sense of like celebrating smoking weed, but it gets a 743 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:53,920 Speaker 1: bit more detailed into the nitty gritty weed and I've 744 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,120 Speaker 1: porch about to put it towards to win. Then Coco said, 745 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,600 Speaker 1: don't do which please don't get that in front of 746 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: my productionalist me, and it's just so disgusting, the scratches 747 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:08,800 Speaker 1: in the background and at baseline. I love the analog 748 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,560 Speaker 1: sound of it. It's like almost like in a cry 749 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: for help. I like the abstract vibe of it. Yeah, 750 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,000 Speaker 1: the production of the sound qualities. It's like a whole 751 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,560 Speaker 1: fucking soundscape. This is the most beautiful music I've ever 752 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,920 Speaker 1: heard right now. But then again, so like the first verse, right, 753 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,759 Speaker 1: and this is what I love about, like the hip 754 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:34,719 Speaker 1: hop of the nineties and stuff like that. I could 755 00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,399 Speaker 1: put that song on this far side, pack the pipe song, 756 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,160 Speaker 1: and you could just have it on and somebody whose 757 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:46,239 Speaker 1: ear isn't like in tune with deciphering rap lyrics and 758 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,279 Speaker 1: really like you know, they could just get down with 759 00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,520 Speaker 1: the song and the beat and vibe to it. But 760 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,680 Speaker 1: the whole entire first verse is the guy rapping about 761 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,360 Speaker 1: not liking people mixing tobacco in the joints with He's like, 762 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,359 Speaker 1: if I wanted and I go get a skinny white 763 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,799 Speaker 1: bitch cigarette and he's like, so, nah, keep that ship 764 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,960 Speaker 1: out of the blood, like we just want weed in 765 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,680 Speaker 1: the blood. But go you go about saying it in 766 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,120 Speaker 1: a way that isn't necessarily complicated for the sake of 767 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:21,240 Speaker 1: being complicated, but not just spilling out. This is exactly 768 00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:23,879 Speaker 1: what I mean, you know, fashionate in a way where 769 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,880 Speaker 1: it's musical, but if you pay attention, you you you 770 00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,480 Speaker 1: follow what he says. I love that sort of ship. Yeah, 771 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,520 Speaker 1: I feel like you do that in your stuff. I 772 00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:35,319 Speaker 1: really appreciate rap, where like, if you like on repeated listen, 773 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,360 Speaker 1: do you uncover a tale? Yeah, it's like the messages 774 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,040 Speaker 1: that are just like obscured at first, blush shouldn't. Just so, 775 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,520 Speaker 1: That's what I really love about the New Asap Rock 776 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: album and all of his albums. I'm a little obsessed. 777 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: You know what, We're gonna have to do a music 778 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,600 Speaker 1: review episode of all the dope should we've been listening to, 779 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,600 Speaker 1: because there have been a lot of dope should coming 780 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,359 Speaker 1: out recently that we haven't been able to keep up 781 00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:58,480 Speaker 1: with your graph album so bad. But we got some 782 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,160 Speaker 1: weed bars of our own. Yeah, I know for sure. Sure, 783 00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:06,840 Speaker 1: let's let's wrap this up some weed bars. Everybody follow 784 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:11,640 Speaker 1: us on Instagram. I heart reparations um following with Franca 785 00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,680 Speaker 1: on all of the socials. I am dope Knife follow 786 00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,719 Speaker 1: me on all the socials I have. I was not 787 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:21,840 Speaker 1: joking or kidding at all last week when I was 788 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,279 Speaker 1: talking about the tons of music I've been making. Oh 789 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:28,719 Speaker 1: my god, for such a treat. Yeah, I've been I've 790 00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,840 Speaker 1: been working hard. There are people there's gonna be lots 791 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,520 Speaker 1: of dope knife rapidi wraps to come, but um let's 792 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,879 Speaker 1: close the ship out in some wraps. You guys, take 793 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:40,120 Speaker 1: care of yourself. We love you all. Uh. You know, 794 00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,200 Speaker 1: hit us, hit us up on on all the stuff, 795 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: and you know, ask us. Feel free to ask us 796 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,400 Speaker 1: questions whenever you want. We're probably going to try to 797 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,520 Speaker 1: organize whenever we can find some time, organize a little 798 00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,680 Speaker 1: stream Q and a. Yes, when when the horizon better, 799 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,000 Speaker 1: spirits will have a little live stream Q and A 800 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,000 Speaker 1: and and just engage with you a little bit. More 801 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,080 Speaker 1: stuff like that. And one more shout out to the 802 00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:06,040 Speaker 1: unsung heroes of the show. Uh one Cosby, Factor, Chandelier 803 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,720 Speaker 1: and Blue Collar. Those three producer buddies of mine, along 804 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,880 Speaker 1: with myself, provide the beats that you guys hear us 805 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,520 Speaker 1: flowing to and talking to. So go check out their stuff. 806 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,920 Speaker 1: Awesome guys, awesome music. But um, let's get into some 807 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: rap shit, Joel, it's gonna beatporations. U um we wats 808 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,640 Speaker 1: the slave labor wages blazing it like Jamaicans. The rates 809 00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,320 Speaker 1: from the sadvantage is too lately, Lenk. Just the money 810 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,640 Speaker 1: is safe to the savings to take a vacation. The 811 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,759 Speaker 1: vacation so we have well famous drinking Jamison debating were 812 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:51,960 Speaker 1: the days away? Why the days that? With pcames of 813 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,279 Speaker 1: playbor lists take the paint for daily to feel chained 814 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,239 Speaker 1: to with aspirations placed upon the waiting list, hoping these 815 00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:01,920 Speaker 1: bab pens will olopaters to wait. Two three folks, six seven, 816 00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,160 Speaker 1: eight hints. I like to help the way to help 817 00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,279 Speaker 1: my atheist, So I'm like hate mish. I'm kind of 818 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,560 Speaker 1: hating this feeling up primal autopilot. This title eight noist 819 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,280 Speaker 1: and she's a famous escapist, so she has baked hits 820 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,640 Speaker 1: and everybody turns to look while I make my escape 821 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:23,120 Speaker 1: quick ha ha yeah yeo yo, I am clutch when 822 00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,880 Speaker 1: I'm high as fun. Just show me where the goals are, 823 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,279 Speaker 1: line them up, find a dutch I can even roll 824 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,200 Speaker 1: it with the finest touch. But we're trying to look 825 00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,040 Speaker 1: at pretty paper. Get high and what I'm just chilling 826 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,719 Speaker 1: in my room getting blazed mostly and I lick a 827 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,839 Speaker 1: mushroom like my name's yo. She puffumes baked toasty. They 828 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,960 Speaker 1: hate stokes me dope sandwich clan. That's my main broskis. 829 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,239 Speaker 1: I'm dope knife. I'm like, well, frank, guys, than we 830 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,560 Speaker 1: are waiting off. Sorry, I'll just try that again. I night, 831 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:10,000 Speaker 1: and we are waiting on reparations. See you all next week. 832 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,480 Speaker 1: Roll the Blood Titan, let it burn slow. If a 833 00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,359 Speaker 1: wrapper ain't nice, then you better learned code. We're pro 834 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,680 Speaker 1: smoking and I ain't even faking smoking everything. I got 835 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:27,320 Speaker 1: nine and barely Jamaican. Waiting on Reparations is a production 836 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,360 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. Listen to Waiting on Reparations on 837 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,400 Speaker 1: the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 838 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,320 Speaker 1: get your podcasts.