1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: Yeah you don't. Let's just keep a real straight shot 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: with Jason. I'm gonna get a little bit rougher. I'm 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: here for it. Those who really believe in the American process, 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: all of us straight Shot no Chasing. What's your Girl? 5 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: Teslam figure O on the Black Effect podcast Network, What's 6 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: happening straight This is your girl, Tesla figure O checking 7 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: in for another edition of straight Shot No Chaser today. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: As you know, I always got love for l A. 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 1: L A is in the building again. We got the 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: home MEI prop who is here that will be chopping 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: it up with me as the host of the podcast 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: Hood Politics. He's also spoken word artists, an activists, uh, 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: poet rapper, all of those things, loving hip hop, loving 14 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: the hood, and loving politics apparently, so we are here 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: to chop it up to see what's what and stop 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: by the hollad me what's happening for what's West West? 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: How y'all doing doing really good? I'm glad to see 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: you came by. Let me just get this part straight 19 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: straight off the top when I got your because this 20 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: is why I'm straight shot no chases me and I'm authentic. 21 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it all the way one hunt you 22 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: with you. I'm not gonna bullshit you at no time. 23 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: And when I got your trailer, well, first of all, 24 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: when I saw the name, I don't know if you know, 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: but Charlottagne and gott named me the hood Whisper. So 26 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: when I got the namehood Politics, I was kind of like, okay, 27 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: that sounds kind of familiar. And then when I heard 28 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: the trailer and you started, you know, incorporating the streets 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: and gang banging, which that's certainly something I do, I said, wow, 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: okay the g and me was kind of like, okay, oh, 31 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: don't hear my lane a little bit. I don't know. 32 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm really I don't know if 33 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be glad. I don't know if I 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: was supposed to be okay, cool. I got a comrade, 35 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: I don't know what's what. I started running Your license 36 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: played off through l A like straight up. I was like, okay, 37 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: so who am I sitting down with. Let's make sure 38 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: we had this conversation, because you know, it's a lot 39 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: of us in this space. We certainly plenty people you know, 40 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: incorporate you know, the streets and politics and and things 41 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: of that nature. Not so many people really do the 42 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: gang banging, at least the way I do in the 43 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: space that I'm in, you know, being a political commentator 44 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: on a black news channel, Fox News, MSNBC, I am 45 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: truly the only one that brings gang banging conversation to 46 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: that space. Um So when I saw it, I was like, Okay, 47 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: I'm really interested, you know, and seeing what's happening to scene. 48 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 1: You know, like what this is all about, and you 49 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 1: know how you how you use that you know, conversation 50 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: and your experience and how you move forward. So I'm 51 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: gonna ask you straight up after gate l a Stad 52 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: where are you from? I love it. I love it. 53 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: First of all, I want to acknowledge the fact that, 54 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: like the minute you was like, let me let me 55 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: ask you nickas know him out here, Like that is 56 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: the right question, you know what I'm saying. That's what 57 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: makes me know I'm in the right place. Yeah. So 58 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: I'm from south central Los Angeles. Originally I moved around 59 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: to like San Gabriel Valley, you know, six or six, 60 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: but like home home. I mean, I don't know how 61 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: deep we're trying to go, because because I think you 62 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: may be misunderstood question. I asked you, where are you from? 63 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 1: Not your location, not your GPS, where are you from? 64 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:33,119 Speaker 1: So I'm from South Central? Okay, Now, okay, that's not clean. Yeah, 65 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: let's not clear the clean because you said you you 66 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: say you do politics, so I want to know where 67 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: you're from. See that's see, we gotta make we gotta 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: be clear. See you say you do a little politics. 69 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: So we're gonna get into the hood, into the politics. 70 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to test you gangster everyway across all 71 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: this this thing, because we gotta make sure to everybody. Yeah, 72 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: we gotta make sure everybody authentic in this. So I'm 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: gonna say again, where are you from? Okay? My family 74 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: from the six pack? Okay, so we out our blue 75 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: laces because we're from were from the Blue Side, East 76 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: Side and South Central. Grew up in a six pack. Um, 77 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: my father was a black panther, so so actual banging 78 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: just wasn't an option in our house. Okay, So you've 79 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: never been banking, man, So yeah, So I made that 80 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 1: pretty clear on the pod that I was like, I 81 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: grew up affiliated, I grew up in this, in these neighborhoods. 82 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: I'm from these areas. I lived most of my life 83 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: in the Latino hood. You know. So we started off 84 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: in the sixth Pack, and then I grew up around Lama, 85 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: around like the Mexican Mafia and stuff. So like the child, 86 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: you know, Florence thirteen. Like, so I was in those neighborhoods. 87 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: Like I said, my family is from the six Pack. 88 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: So with that, which was the kind of the idea 89 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: to show is like you learn how to navigate it, 90 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like how to understand and 91 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: move in between these in between these these spaces and 92 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: kind of how they work, how that hood move, how 93 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 1: that hood move. Who's safe? Who not safe? You know 94 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Who gonna who? Who do I call 95 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: if I'm trying to walk home and somebody just ran 96 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: ran my new Jordan's So you was living in South Central. 97 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: I was living in South Central on the east side, 98 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: so the east side, yes, sixty seven San Pedro's, like 99 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: most people are familiar with South Central from if we're 100 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: getting real l a here, So like the one ten 101 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: freeway divides east Side and the west side, so west 102 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: side stuff, that's where that's Nipsey hood, that's sixties that's 103 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: a trades and stuff like that. They on that side 104 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: I grew up on, whereas their swan. There's, like I said, 105 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: six pack, and there's a few rolling sixty sets, but 106 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: mostly I'm from the six Pack sixty seventh in San Pedro. 107 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: But you okay, but you was really functioning with the essays. 108 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: I was functioning with the Vastos, because again, this is 109 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: what's interesting about That's what I love about l A man. 110 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: You got you, you're tingling all the things I lived. 111 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:55,920 Speaker 1: And y'all gonna know, whoever listening from out here, gonna 112 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: know I grew up on sixty seven in San Pedro. 113 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: Once you cross in between that block, the next block 114 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: from San Pedro is Avalon. Once you get to Avalon, 115 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: you're in an area called Huntington Park. And in Huntington 116 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 1: Park there's no signs in English, so it's you, you 117 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: are in, You're in your in the Vato's hoods. So 118 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: I lived in this crazy borderlands where my granny was 119 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: on seventy three, I was on sixty seven. So the family, 120 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: like I said, this area is called a six pack. 121 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: So from the sixth, from from sixty to sixty ninth street, 122 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: they called at the six pack that's where I lived, 123 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: but it's a borderland between the black neighborhoods and the 124 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: Latino neighborhoods. Because once you cross Avalon again, I mean 125 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: this might you might as well be in Mexico. You know. 126 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: What I'm saying, like is there's no English spoken. So 127 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 1: that's why I lived in that hood. Yeah, and that's 128 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: what kind of confused because when I read your information, 129 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, again, this is straight shot, no chase. 130 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: You know, I was like, Okay, I see a black man, 131 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: but I look like he's functioning with Mexicans, no and 132 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: no disrespect. And I'm not saying I'm saying this respectfully. 133 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 1: You know, I see your wife is looks apparently certainly 134 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: not a black woman. So I said, okay, when he's 135 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: translating these conversations because as you know, not a lot 136 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: of essays and black people around with each other in 137 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: l A. Some do, some don't, but it's not a 138 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: common thing. So I was just curious when you're saying, 139 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: I definitely feel you on knowing how to navigate from 140 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: one hood to the other. But when you're when you're 141 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: pushing this, you know, hood politics, and you know, I'm 142 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna use gang banging, you know, lingo and all 143 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: of that. I was curious, like are you talking about 144 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: the black gangs? Are you talking about the essay? Like what? What? When? 145 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: When you're having this conversation, where are you pulling from 146 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: for most of your references? Because when I'm using that 147 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: type of lango, I'm talking about black you know gang 148 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: and so I'm trying to I really you don't want 149 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 1: to understand you merging the two where you're leaning towards 150 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: one towards the other, because that makes a difference on 151 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: on our you know, our markets and who were connecting 152 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: to for sure. Yeah, I think that's one thing that's 153 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: like why I feel like I'm I'm like uniquely qualified 154 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: for the pot that we do, you know, not for 155 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: nobody else's poble for mine. Is it kind of like 156 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: depends on the situation, Like so if you whatever is 157 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: happening in politics, Like there's a there's a lot of 158 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: cultural overlap that you see when you sit outside of 159 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: both of them and have to learn how to live 160 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: in both of these arenas. Like I spent a good 161 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: amount of time long Beach where you running with the Polynesians, 162 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,320 Speaker 1: you know, what I'm saying, and and in that space 163 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: again there's a lot of overlap, but you could see 164 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: um different sort of cultural differences. So a lot of 165 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,719 Speaker 1: times I'm like Loki, I'm kind of pull it from 166 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: all of it, you know what I'm saying, um, because 167 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 1: it depends on the particular situation. Now that I said, 168 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: you know, I try to be what I love is 169 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: straight side and say so, I try to be as 170 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: authentic as possible when there's when there'ship that's going down 171 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,079 Speaker 1: that I'm look, I wasn't outside for that. You know 172 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Then I'm gonna be real about it. 173 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like I fell in love 174 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: with which is I just talked about in the last show, 175 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: Like I fell in love with hip hop in a 176 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: way that had me like I was writing my name 177 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 1: on the walls. I was hopping over fences and you know, 178 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: so that's how I got in the system. I got 179 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: in a system because it GRAFEEDI you know what I'm saying, um. 180 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 1: But so when you're doing it like that again, the 181 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: color lines are different. Now obviously everybody we all from hoods, 182 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: so everybody's got you know, they their neighborhoods that they 183 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: repped whatever, but we was you know, it was about 184 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: hip hop, you know what I'm saying. So with that 185 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: you learn to pull from and just understand kind of 186 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,760 Speaker 1: how each of these neighborhoods work, Like you know, specifically, 187 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: one thing that's interesting about what you ask, like specifically 188 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 1: with in the Latino hoods, like there's a back home, 189 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: whether it's jail or whether it's like they're like Native lands, 190 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: that there's a lot of shock calling that come from 191 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: back there, you know what I'm saying. That to me 192 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: in which is different obviously than like you know, like 193 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: Black neighborhoods that longer narrative of like there's there's a 194 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,439 Speaker 1: there's a longer like cultural history with their hoods that 195 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: actually like really communicated something different that like a lot 196 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: of times you're looking at this vato like it's like 197 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: it's it's different, homi, you know what I'm saying. So 198 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: having to know how to like spot that difference was 199 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: maybe it's unique to l A, but like you know, 200 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: and I know, in the nineties it was like, yeah, 201 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: niggas and vatos did not mix, you know what I'm saying. 202 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: But as time went on foods, just trying to get money, 203 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and like, and they're not 204 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: going nowhere. We're in the same projects, so you just 205 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: learned how to be like, we gotta learn how to 206 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: like at least and again Mexico, Mexico two hours away, 207 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And they to plug, so 208 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: you better learn how to work with them vatos, you 209 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:54,679 Speaker 1: know saying, because I mean business wise, black people have 210 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:58,559 Speaker 1: always in the hood, you know, connected with that, Asians 211 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 1: everything else on business. But I was just trying to see, 212 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: you know, basically was you outside because I was, I 213 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: mean just straight up. So when I saw I was like, 214 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: let me see. So I grew up for I sent 215 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,440 Speaker 1: to Peru hood in my neighborhood that I grew up 216 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, not from l a UM, but my 217 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: folks that came from l a UM. And when you 218 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: can check out one of the podcasts what with Clifford 219 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: Spud Johnson Um, I've been around this all my life 220 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: for real, So cousins cripts all my neighs bloods, like, 221 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: that's what it is. So when I saw it, I 222 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, we want to make sure and not 223 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 1: you know. I'm not trying to challenge and nothing. I 224 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: just try to understand because I can learn a lot 225 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 1: from you about the mixing side. I don't know shit 226 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:42,840 Speaker 1: about it. So when we really I know, um, I 227 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: was asked, asked you like you do you function with 228 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 1: eighteen Street or yeah, I mean for us, for the 229 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: for the Vatos, it was more like we was messing 230 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:53,960 Speaker 1: with like the STV hoods, which was connected more with Lama. 231 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: So a lot of those came out of like the 232 00:11:56,360 --> 00:12:00,080 Speaker 1: Florence thirteens dudes, so like the the um but a 233 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 1: T Street like that's I mean not so generational like 234 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: you lead you you leading foods alone, you know what 235 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So uh but yeah, so I was messing 236 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: with like um Pin with like the Linda Flats with 237 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: like uh and they were all like basically lying the like, Well, 238 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: I definitely appreciate you saying being authentic, like you're saying 239 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 1: you you know, have an understanding, but you're not trying 240 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: to say you was claiming a hood you know anything 241 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah that's what and and and and the 242 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: reason why. Thank you so much for allowing me to 243 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: ask those questions because I'll tell you why why I'm 244 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: saying that in the political space, people have looked at 245 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: our culture as a gimmick. Whether it's hip hop now 246 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: it's all of a sudden everybody from the street. And 247 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: I'm real protective of that, you know, whether it's a 248 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: politician pretending, you know, if it's Kamala Harris, Oh yeah, 249 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: I was listening to Tupac whatever, like, I'm real protective 250 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: about that. Ship a matter of fact, I did a 251 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: thing years ago where I said, the days of using 252 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: hip hop as a political fundraising gimmick with out accountability 253 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: to heal the story to hip hop tails is over. 254 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: So I'm very clear. I try to be very clear about, 255 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: you know, where we're coming from, because what can't happen 256 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: is we start using this life, you know, for there's 257 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: so many we lost so many homies behind this, behind 258 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: some damn political gimmick. And and and so I was 259 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: really here, and be honest, I was hesitant. And Marcy, 260 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: my producer, like, no, your interview. I think you'll have 261 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: a good conversation. And I'm glad she did, because I 262 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: don't want to make assumptions about people. You know, I 263 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 1: want to ask if you know, I want to make 264 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: sure it's clear because I am representing a certain demographic 265 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,680 Speaker 1: that's really really important to me. I appreciate that. I 266 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: appreciate that realness. I appreciate you, like I said, like, yeah, man, 267 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: run my tax you feel me in the sense that 268 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: it was it was a really like when I thought 269 00:13:47,920 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: about like going you know, more corporate with the show, 270 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: one of my concerns was that, like what I don't 271 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,679 Speaker 1: want to do is, like you said, make a spectacle 272 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 1: about you know, I mean Bob, Like I'm picturing right 273 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: now my uncle getting shot by some niggas from ghost Town, 274 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: like you know, like we really died over this ship. 275 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But what what my hope 276 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 1: with the show is is not so much um. Obviously, 277 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to profit tearing off the stuff that 278 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: like I'll start family over, you know what I'm saying. 279 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 1: But the hope is too more like it's to legitimize 280 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: our information base, our knowledge base, you know what I'm saying. 281 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: Like I say, I talked about it in one of 282 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: the earlier episodes when I Be I taught high school 283 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,120 Speaker 1: you know in city called Premona. Um. That's where shooking 284 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 1: Free from so just get your references together. Um So 285 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: I taught high school over there, and when I was 286 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: getting ready to finish my credentialing program, the third part 287 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: of that test was the economic section. Now I'm you know, 288 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: I'm master's in education, Like I know what I'm talking. 289 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,000 Speaker 1: Like some my father's a black panther, you know, Afro 290 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: studies and sociology degree, and my father is a brilliant man. 291 00:14:56,160 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: But you know from the hood, you know what I'm saying. 292 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: So when I took that test, I failed it like 293 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: three times. And I failed it not because I didn't 294 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,200 Speaker 1: know what I was talking about. I just didn't know 295 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: how they wanted me to answer the question. Because, as 296 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, economics is easy. Scared money, don't 297 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: make money, you know what I'm saying, don't spend money 298 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: you don't have you know what I'm saying, Like I 299 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: know how that works. Ice cream truck pull up? You 300 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's ten of us out here. 301 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: Carlos got twenty dollars, like we all eaten. But the 302 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: question is not that simple because I know Carlos's older brother. 303 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. At junior, like Junior killer 304 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: so do I really want to take this ten dollars 305 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: from Carlos? You know what I'm saying, Like, so I 306 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: understand that situation just from growing up where we grew up. 307 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: But so I'm saying, it's kids all over the world 308 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 1: grew up like we grew up that knows this answer, 309 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: But we don't know. That's called trade offs, opportunity costs, 310 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: Like we don't know that's what that's called. You know 311 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So for me, that was my experience. 312 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 1: And then when I started teaching these kids, it was like, 313 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: I know what what the state was telling me these 314 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 1: kids needed to learn, and I was but I was 315 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: like they already noticed. I know they noticed because they 316 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: had to navigate the same streets so I had to navigate. 317 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: You just don't know the words for it. So for me, 318 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: what I wanted to do with the show was to 319 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: tell was to inform or or remind kids that look 320 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: just like us, that like, listen, the knowledge you have 321 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: is it's legitimate knowledge. It's legitimate what you know. You 322 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: already you understand foreign policy, you understand you know what 323 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm saying. You understand it already. You just no one's 324 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: ever affirmed that your knowledge base is legitimate. So that's 325 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: really my hope with the show. It's like, I just 326 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: want to affirm you that, like you know what you 327 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 1: talk Trust me, these people ain't smarter than you. You 328 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. You know what I'm saying, 329 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 1: like I said, and we have that in common. You 330 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 1: said you have a masters in education. I do too, 331 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 1: of an adult education, and I try to do the 332 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,480 Speaker 1: same thing, like I have whole classes where I teach 333 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: the political system using the ogs, the b gs, the 334 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: y g's, the trapped, the sect, the month, like the 335 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,840 Speaker 1: whole not That's when I said, like, okay, he doing 336 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: literally what I'm doing, you know, and maybe from different 337 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: perspectives and you know, different things we bring to the table, 338 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: but I I try to you know, that's the same 339 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: thing I do, and I try to come from a 340 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,399 Speaker 1: place of authentic understanding, you know, from living it as well. 341 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: And so I appreciate that and it's needed and instead 342 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,439 Speaker 1: of you know, like I said it, we can't have 343 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: enough of us that can translate like that because it's 344 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 1: not a lot in this space. And that's why when 345 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 1: I saw it, I was like, okay, you know, this 346 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,120 Speaker 1: is this is in in my lane, and I want 347 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: to really, you know, sit down and see what's happening. 348 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 1: When I'm translating the streets and politics. I'm doing it 349 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: from you know, working over twenty years, have a political 350 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 1: consulting firm. You know, I've worked on UH state, local, 351 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: federal races. I was racial Bernie Santa's Racial Justice Director. 352 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: I'm Attorney Crump Senior public Policy. I'm the senior visitor 353 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: George Floyd. I've said on government boards, I'm a political commentator. 354 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: I'm in politics for real, for real. And one thing 355 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: that the homies appreciated when they see me out doing 356 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:23,959 Speaker 1: what I'm doing in politics, and they can come back, 357 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: Like yesterday, for example on BNC, I quote an m 358 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: c A we just got off the phone, you know, 359 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 1: and I mixed his lingo and what I do politically. 360 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 1: So I try to give show, you know, real examples 361 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:36,760 Speaker 1: basically similar to what you're saying. What affirming what you 362 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: already know and seeing how you can have you know, 363 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: a space, you know place in this space. So what 364 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: is your political background? I guess when you're saying hood, 365 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,679 Speaker 1: politics are you talking about? Like politics are politicking? And 366 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: just every day you know, getting along with other communities, 367 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: how you move are you talking about specifically are you 368 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 1: actually dealing with you know, yeah, actual policy and and 369 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: all of that. Because politics is when you say politics, 370 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: that could be it's really broad trillion, Yeah, it could 371 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 1: be a million different things. People politics in depend they 372 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: don't mean they're talking about Joe Biden. So when you say, 373 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: when you say politics, what are you what are you 374 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: talking about? What I'm talking about is a zygeist, if 375 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 1: you will. What I'm talking about is being able to 376 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: read and interpret what's coming across your news channels, you know. 377 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 1: So what I'm what what I do off Mike is 378 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: a lot more sort of like advocacy and justice work 379 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: and and um, you know, to to uh you know, 380 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,639 Speaker 1: I kind of kind of go to my references. Like 381 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: I worked off Mike, I worked deeply in education, so 382 00:19:46,359 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 1: like the school I taught at, like I wrote I 383 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: wrote the eleventh grade, you know what I'm saying, like 384 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: help build that charter, you know, and and worked on 385 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: a couple of different charters for high schools and a 386 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,400 Speaker 1: couple like you know, Capital Hill lobbying situations. But that's 387 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 1: off Mike's stuff. But for this, my hope is basically 388 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: too just understand headlines and and and give somebody a 389 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: uh a reason to or a way to be able 390 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,719 Speaker 1: to feel empowered to formulate their opinion about what's going on. 391 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 1: So can I can I bang on you a little bit? 392 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: Let's go okay, So so you said I love this, 393 00:20:24,119 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: thank you for being so being able to will have 394 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: this conversation. So I'm gonna back up this a little bit. 395 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: When you said that's off Mike stuff. So I'm trying 396 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: to run your license plate on off Mike um because 397 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: it's important. And again I run communications firm. Understand what 398 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: you're saying, like under translating the headlines, but I want 399 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: to be clear and say that a lot. Unless you 400 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: worked in politics, it's I can tell you this means 401 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: this and translate it. Hey on me. What they're really 402 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: saying is like for infrastructure, Hey on me. What they 403 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: really saying is you know, such and such she got 404 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: the sack. They're going right now, Republicans and Democrats are arguing, 405 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: you know, right now, it's all about the SEC. They're 406 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: trying to figure out who god it has gonna be 407 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 1: broke down, has gonna be distributed? Whose hood gonna get 408 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 1: what and they can't seem to figure out, you know 409 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: what is what kind of weight we're gonna move and 410 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: so forth. So I can translate that easily because I 411 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: work in the system, so in headlines are always always 412 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: for cent the time, because I work in media misleading. 413 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: So my question to you is, if you don't work 414 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: in politics, how can you translate a misleading headline if 415 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: you don't know that it's misleading? Now it's it's deeper 416 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: in reading on me, like you gotta be out, you 417 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: gotta kind of know, like it's not really because remember 418 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 1: what Malcolm make said, the media is the most the 419 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 1: media can have you thinking that the oppressor is not 420 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: the oppressor. I'm I'm paraphrasing. So what what I'm saying 421 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: is it's not just reading. It's not just And that's 422 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: where the education folks come from, you know where they say, 423 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 1: you know, you have your PhD s. Folks that never 424 00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: was outside in politics, and they say, no, it says 425 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 1: this and this and this, and they can translate it well, 426 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: and you can translators to the street. But I'm I'm 427 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,439 Speaker 1: trying to figure out it's not just reading it. Some 428 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:07,439 Speaker 1: of that experienced matters just like with gangbanging, some of 429 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: that experienced matters because if you could be translating something 430 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: that's inappropriate, you know that's not right. The game, the 431 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: game that's in it is what I'm saying. So the 432 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: game that's in politics kind of gotta be understood by 433 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 1: working in politics. So that's why I was asking why 434 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,080 Speaker 1: I'm asking a direct question. Have you worked on any 435 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: campaigns anything on the political end? Yes? So I worked with, 436 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:35,959 Speaker 1: like I said, like one campaign, couple, uh lobbying, you know, 437 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: organizations as far as for like climate change and uh um, 438 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: infrastructure in California. I was never hired by I was 439 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:51,720 Speaker 1: never hired by any particular campaign, volunteered for local canvassing 440 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 1: around here. But yeah, when I say reading, I don't 441 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 1: necessarily just mean like things in the in the abstract, 442 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: if you will. It's reading is also calling somebody like 443 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: you and being like, all right, who do I know 444 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: in these offices? Who can I who can I ask? 445 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: Are there other articles? Are there? Are there other scholarly journals? 446 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:19,280 Speaker 1: What are what is what is the BBC saying about 447 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: this same story? What is you know Al Jazeera saying 448 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 1: about the same story? You know what I'm saying and 449 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: just kind of kind of putting it all together. But yeah, 450 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: you're right, you know what I'm saying, like there is 451 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 1: a limit to my knowledge base and maybe we can connect. 452 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:32,959 Speaker 1: And I'm saying that to say maybe you can connect, 453 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,960 Speaker 1: because if you're saying, Okay, BBC is saying this, and 454 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 1: Fox is saying this, and MSNBC like that's needed. Like 455 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not dissing the um. I'm definitely not 456 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,719 Speaker 1: dis in the theology of it all. You know, the 457 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: theory of it all. That's why I have a mass 458 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: is in education too. I understand the theory, but there's 459 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: something to be said. What actually being in the room 460 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 1: with these with these folks, with these towns, you know 461 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: what I mean, I'm literally in the room and I 462 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,000 Speaker 1: know you know, I know what they put out is 463 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: one thing. For example, when we talk about research papers, 464 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: one of the things that's lacking in social justice is 465 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: not being able to have you know, our law students 466 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: be able to write you know, research research papers. So 467 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: when people are in fact, Attorney and Crump and I 468 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: talked about that all the time, they don't have the funding, 469 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: they have the fellows to write that. So when people 470 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,760 Speaker 1: are researching certain information. It's coming from white supremacy, are 471 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 1: coming from certain people in power, and so somebody's taking 472 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 1: it like yourself and reading and say, okay, it says this, 473 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: but how it's interpreted or what they put out the 474 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: agenda behind it. You learned the agenda behind it by being, 475 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: like we said, outside, working with these folks on a 476 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: different level, so you know the games that they play, 477 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: and that is what's so critical, you know when we 478 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: get into these hoods face and I'm not saying, you know, 479 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not meaning to quantify or qualify your 480 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: experience at all, but I'm just expressing how you and 481 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: I and other folks like us have to get together 482 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 1: and really combine our knowledge to see, you know, how 483 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 1: we can contribute to each other when we're talking about 484 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: these streets, because this is the most important demographic to me, 485 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 1: and it's it's important that they know. It's just like saying, 486 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: you know, I can say all the time, yeah, okay, 487 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,200 Speaker 1: I was a sympathized I was this, I was that. 488 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: But if they ain't never put in no work, it 489 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: ain't If they can't speak, you can't speak to that, 490 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: you know, So all of those elements have to be 491 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: you know, dealt with, you know, so that we understand 492 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:21,880 Speaker 1: even and I'm not you know, certainly not sending it's 493 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:23,480 Speaker 1: to be rude. I know you're straight shot, no chase, 494 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,320 Speaker 1: you do want one to comm show, So I give 495 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: it to you straight up raw. And I had these 496 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: conversations all the times to compare so that we all 497 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: can add value and make it a seamless education, because 498 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 1: nobody wants to educate the hood, like it's literally when 499 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: I saw you, I was like, Wow, that's not because 500 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: you don't. You don't get that. And so there is 501 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: I think deeper conversations that you and I can have 502 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: that I can give you some game on what what 503 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: they're saying in that meeting, you know, literally in that meeting, 504 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: because it does make a difference. It will make a 505 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 1: difference with how you translate information, um, because it definitely 506 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: goes beyond you know, the theory you know of it all. Um. 507 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there's there's some ways you know. 508 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,959 Speaker 1: Yeah I don't. I don't, And I hope I'm not 509 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: coming off like this like I don't know. Yeah, I 510 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,639 Speaker 1: don't take no offense. I've been checked plenty of times. 511 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,040 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I don't take. I don't take. 512 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: No I mean and um, yeah, I don't take and 513 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: I and I also, like you know, I have no 514 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: desire in to be in nobody else's lane, you know 515 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,399 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, that's not something I need to do. 516 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: I I have. I have been humbled enough to know that, Like, 517 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: I can't be the fountain Head. You can't do this 518 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: by yourself. You know what I'm saying. And it's really 519 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: not my line, because I hope I'm not coming off 520 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: that way just because I said it. It's not that 521 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: I'm territorial about my lane. I was being funny because 522 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: of the Gang Bank. What I'm saying is I am territorial. Yeah, 523 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: I am territorial about my territorial. I'm very passionate about 524 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 1: the demographic you're talking to. And yeah, I'm very protective. Yeah, 525 00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you know that we're 526 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: giving him as much as possible because nobody's doing it. 527 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: Nobody validates literally, and you're the only one that I 528 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: ever met that really other than killing Mike, you know, 529 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: but that's not what he's doing on a daily basis. 530 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: So the Homies like it's important whether you're talking about 531 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: the Basican side, I'm talking about Black side, whateverything. It 532 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: is so important you know that they're getting and it's 533 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 1: separate information, and it's important to me, you know, one 534 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: that there is and I can hear it in your 535 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: voice that there's more of us, you know what I'm saying, 536 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,840 Speaker 1: who at least know what they're talking about. You know, 537 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,719 Speaker 1: got their credentials, And it's clear to me, like and 538 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 1: and you know, and I try to make it clear 539 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: because I really do know niggas out there that it's 540 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: clear that y'all understand that, Like listen, um, here's where 541 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: I'm coming from. This is where I lived. Y'all did 542 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:50,439 Speaker 1: the ship. You know what I'm saying. I had to 543 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: make sure you know I'm saying I can survive around y'all, 544 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: so that y'all know, like you said, like, look, I'm 545 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: not I'm not lying about this life. You know what 546 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like that's because then the whole thing over 547 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 1: you feel me so like so that authenticity I found, 548 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying in the reality of like 549 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,919 Speaker 1: you know, actually growing up of being Like listen, you 550 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, listen, I'm I'm about this hip 551 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: hop like that's my nigger, that's my cousin, that's my uncle, 552 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: that's my family, this is my sister. No less, you 553 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna 554 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,679 Speaker 1: be around when y'all need me. It is what it is. 555 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 1: I know the codes, I know the rules, but look, 556 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,440 Speaker 1: this is what I signed up for. That's what y'all 557 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: signed up for. And it's clear you feel me. I 558 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,639 Speaker 1: think to me specifically on the hood, it's like the 559 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 1: part that bothers me the most, and I think we 560 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: got got there in the beginning is like when you 561 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: know what what what they call performative hoodness. You know 562 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like I'm not, I'm not performing. You 563 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying like I'm not. I'm telling y'all 564 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: the truth. You feel me. This is where I was, 565 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna up my hood stories if to 566 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: make it. See you know what I'm saying, like, I'm 567 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: not gonna do that. No, and I was, And I 568 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: hope you feel the same way about politics to like 569 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: not try to with your like I didn't. I'm not 570 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: gonna lie to y'all. You know what I'm saying, Like, 571 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: that's important what I'm saying, Yeah, because I'm telling you. 572 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: After get I was like, I'm gonna see, yeah, I'm 573 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, okays, and see, really politics, because that's I'll 574 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: be finding. And I don't have no problem with somebody 575 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: say hey, no, hey, this is what I've done. I 576 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: did this, I did that, I didn't do this and 577 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: didn't do that. And I'm contributing what I had to 578 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 1: the game. And for that's what I got. I got 579 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: respect for you because I'm just being Yeah, I'm very honest. 580 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: I was like, listen, I don't like when people say 581 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 1: they hood and they're not. I don't like when people 582 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: say they do politics and they're not, because niggie, you 583 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: don't do politics. When I hear people say I do pop, no, 584 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: you don't. You know what I'm saying, doing politics mean 585 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: nick run not wear some campaigns. It is nonprofit. World 586 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: is nonprofit. Education is education. Politics is politics. You know 587 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: what I mean. And it's important. So I so I 588 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: got I have respect for you, and I appreciate you 589 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,479 Speaker 1: explaining that because that's really important. And I tell all 590 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:06,960 Speaker 1: people all the time in my show I'm not looking 591 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: for allies. I'm looking for frontline soldiers. That's why you 592 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: know I said straight shot, no chasing, and frontline soldiers. 593 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: You don't have different experience they can bring to the table. 594 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: And it's so critical and you're you are where my 595 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 1: folks are, so I see benefit. You know, we're working 596 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 1: with you. But I needed to know those things because 597 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,080 Speaker 1: if it comes off gimmicky to me, and I don't, 598 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: that's that's like, man, that's my worst nightmare is for 599 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 1: it to come off gimmicky. That's not at all what 600 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: I'm trying to do. You know what I'm saying. I 601 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,480 Speaker 1: oftentimes like like I said, in my head, I'm picturing, 602 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: you know, this, this little nigga who's actually doing it, 603 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 1: doing it ship now. It's little nigga City James. His 604 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 1: name was Trey when he was in my class. You 605 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,479 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But like I'm picturing him who's like, 606 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: you know, suspended every other week, you know what I'm saying. 607 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,200 Speaker 1: But I'm looking at him in my little classroom, and 608 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,960 Speaker 1: I'm just like, God, this litt niggas smart as hell, 609 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like, you know, I'm just 610 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: like how can I. I started taking him to the 611 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: poetry spots out in l A because I'm like, you're 612 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,760 Speaker 1: a great writer, Like, just come with me, you know 613 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, so when I'm thinking about this, 614 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about him, I'm thinking about little it'smail, you 615 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's Meil Rodriguez that I'm Like 616 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: when I first started teaching, I taught it East Lake, uh, 617 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 1: which is our juvenile halls down here, So that was 618 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: like I spent my first two years of teaching teaching 619 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: in prison, you know what I'm saying. So like for me, 620 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: I'm looking at them niggas, you know what I'm saying 621 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: that I'm trying to tell you, like you're not wasting 622 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,719 Speaker 1: your time. What you're saying makes sense, you feel me, 623 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: and like nobody you're not doing something any different than 624 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: they're doing, you know what I'm saying. So for me, 625 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: it's like that's my heart, you know what I'm saying, 626 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: Like I think that there's an importance that I appreciate. 627 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 1: Actually even doing this is even helping me flesh out 628 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: like really where my lane is, you know what I'm saying, 629 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: and like really understanding actually what I'm trying to do 630 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: you feel me and that actually it actually helps. I 631 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, you know. And and like 632 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 1: I said, I want to hook up with you and talk, 633 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: you know, especially when you're gathering you know, information and 634 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: really studying that when I heard your trailer is different 635 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,480 Speaker 1: than how when I heard the trailer it but it 636 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: gave me the impression, Okay, he outside for real and 637 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 1: he must be doing something in policy. That was the impresident, 638 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,000 Speaker 1: Mr damn good trailer. But just reading that because you know, 639 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,640 Speaker 1: just listen to it, I thought, I thought something that 640 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: not taking away you know, you weren't overselling yourself. I'm 641 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 1: just telling you the feeling, you know, the feeling that 642 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,200 Speaker 1: I got when I see the name and I hear 643 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: the you know, I'm like, okay, he really he can 644 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: kind of probably, you know, have the same conversation. I can't, 645 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: which I can tell that you can. I know, you 646 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 1: know the bourbage. I know you can flip it. I 647 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: just want to put you on making sure that we 648 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: go beyond that, you know. Yeah, yeah, And I do 649 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: the same thing like I talked to niggas as active 650 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: to make sure that I understand because the cold, the 651 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 1: same cold now you know, so different, man, I was 652 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: just as crazy. I was just talking a little young 653 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,920 Speaker 1: niggers out in Florida and I'm like, y'all, so y'all 654 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: murder somebody and then put they put their face on 655 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: your mixtape like you're not quiet about it? Like I 656 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: was like, this is new y'all Instagram and this ship. 657 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I school me because I'm like this, 658 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: what part of the game is this y'all out? Y'all 659 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: just out about it? Okay. So that's some stuff that yeah, 660 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 1: like and I tried to admit that even in one 661 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: of the first few episodes that I'm like, I might 662 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 1: be stuck in a decade. Maybe I am. You know 663 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I know I'm stuck in the region. 664 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: I got a really good friend out there actually okay, see, 665 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,360 Speaker 1: but he was he was a c so just in 666 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: case someone like keep his name off right now, you 667 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But like, um, but yeah, it's 668 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,600 Speaker 1: even there, like different, it's different. Well, we're just like 669 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: no about Oklahoma City. I mean, it was heavily influencing 670 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,839 Speaker 1: West Coast in the nineties because that's where they came 671 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,480 Speaker 1: to get their money. That's where they came to set 672 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 1: up shops. So when people say when they hear my 673 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: lingo and they sell you from l A, No, it's 674 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,399 Speaker 1: just that's who ran our hoods from the big turf, 675 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:27,360 Speaker 1: and that that's not the same. I've lived in Texas, Chicago, Orlando, Dallas, Houston. 676 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,839 Speaker 1: It's not the same here, even though you've got people 677 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,080 Speaker 1: that bang here, is not the same. And I'm talking 678 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,160 Speaker 1: at nineties lingo. You know, nineties ling different stuff, you know, So, yeah, 679 00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: you're right it. But Oklahoma City is very close to 680 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: West Coast. Um. It's really real. It's funny, man, I 681 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: was telling I was telling him the homy that's out there, 682 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 1: Like there's this disconnect that happens when we hit about 683 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:57,280 Speaker 1: six seventh eighth grade over the summer, just like Nigga's 684 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: just disappeared, and you like, hey, we're it where James go. 685 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, he had to go live with his 686 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 1: auntie and Oklahoma and you just for us, it's like 687 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,680 Speaker 1: they just ceased to exist. You forget that, Like, oh, 688 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,920 Speaker 1: when they moved to Oklahoma, they got active. Like I 689 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: just all I knew was their families was trying to 690 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,759 Speaker 1: keep keep them out their life. So they had to 691 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: go to Atlanta, had to go to Arkansas, had to 692 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: go to this and they just they just disappeared with 693 00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: the Vatos. It was like, oh, he got to go 694 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 1: to Mexico. You know I'm saying, so like Homy in 695 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 1: Mexico for two years, you know what I'm saying, and 696 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 1: you just you forget that once they get to Mexico, 697 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,160 Speaker 1: they don't stop doing this ship you know what I'm saying. 698 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: But you don't know, you know what I'm saying. And 699 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,399 Speaker 1: then when I started touring doing music, Yeah, you land 700 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: in the city right here and like niggas sound like 701 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: back home and I for you know, pre internet, you 702 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You just like how did this? Yeah? 703 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah the culture yeah, but you get it, dude, 704 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,840 Speaker 1: you know you get it. Like like I said, like 705 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,839 Speaker 1: you know, homies out there, and it was like that 706 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 1: was so eye opening to me, even even what you 707 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: explaining it where it was like East City, you know 708 00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. East Region take on its own you know, 709 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: personality and way of making it. They own that. Like 710 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 1: it's really important that like you still gotta be what 711 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 1: you just said right now, you still gotta you just 712 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: gotta stay plugged in. Like and I'm like, if you 713 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 1: don't know any like young shooters, I just think you 714 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 1: just you're dead in the water. You lost. Yeah, that's 715 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: that's it. Lost. Yeah, you gotta know some of these 716 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,359 Speaker 1: young shooters, you know what I'm saying. And I do 717 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: like I've earned enough, Like I've been around enough, you know, 718 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: I've survived enough to where like these young shooters, like 719 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 1: now they start treating me like you know that energy, 720 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: Like is that what is that what your target market is? 721 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: Like a lot of young adults maybe are they? Are they? 722 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:44,120 Speaker 1: Is that who you're trying to get to list to 723 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,800 Speaker 1: your podcast? More so? Nah, it's more to like I'm 724 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,200 Speaker 1: looking at the twentiesomething's, you know, twenty something's earli thirties, 725 00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,879 Speaker 1: Like you know, I just thought about myself, Like that's 726 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,239 Speaker 1: when the disillusion man happened for me. Was like when 727 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 1: I I, like you mentioned before, like I took the 728 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: bait of believing that if I got a formalized education, 729 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, then you'll take me serious. 730 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 1: I took that bait, you feel me, And but I'm 731 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,920 Speaker 1: sitting in this room where it was like my walls, 732 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: the walls of my childhood was I had the tim 733 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: Buck two road on my wall, you know what I'm saying. Like, 734 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: as a kid, I had the the lineage of like 735 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,080 Speaker 1: the Zulus because of my father, you know what I'm saying. 736 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: So you're sitting in this room and I feel like 737 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,319 Speaker 1: I know more about not just Black history, but just 738 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,960 Speaker 1: history period than the teacher I'm sitting across from. But 739 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: this is not the question you're asking me, you know 740 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,799 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like, So, so I sat in there 741 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 1: and was just like, oh, this is just white ship, 742 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,879 Speaker 1: Like I just what am I? What am I even doing? 743 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,840 Speaker 1: So I felt like early on it's it. I was 744 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:57,640 Speaker 1: tempted to delegitimize the eighteen or twenty years it took 745 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,640 Speaker 1: me to get to that seat, only to come out 746 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,719 Speaker 1: the other end and be like, actually that was real knowledge, 747 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,359 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So for me, it's like 748 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 1: and my heart is like I want to catch that 749 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,919 Speaker 1: kid that twenty something before they check out, and just 750 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: to say no, no, no, no no no, don't throw it away, 751 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:16,439 Speaker 1: don't throw it away. You know what you're talking about. 752 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,359 Speaker 1: You know that, so you beyond you help them. Then 753 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,280 Speaker 1: beyond politics. You you try to show them things in business. 754 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,640 Speaker 1: Sounds like you you showed them life period, life skills. 755 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: What it sounds like. It's yeah, not necessarily just politics, Okay, 756 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: because when I saw and like I said, it's such 757 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: a broad word when I saw politics, That's why I'm 758 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:35,839 Speaker 1: saying it could mean a number of different things. So 759 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,360 Speaker 1: when I'm talking to the homey, just so you know 760 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 1: what what what I do, I'm yeah, I'm specifically talking 761 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,919 Speaker 1: about politics. I still just you don't have conversations life 762 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,600 Speaker 1: skill type conversations. But what I'm saying, I'm the hood whisper. 763 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying, I'm literally teaching them like politics, so examp 764 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: for example, I may use Inglewood family to teach the 765 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,960 Speaker 1: electoral college, you know, I may use different voting precinct, 766 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,319 Speaker 1: you know, like literally in the space of politics. Um. 767 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: And I try to drill and that I would have 768 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,960 Speaker 1: named my show something similar to yours. But I do 769 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,000 Speaker 1: do other interviews outside of that, So I don't want 770 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,440 Speaker 1: to be you know, just kind of boxed in if 771 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,520 Speaker 1: you will. Um. But I I'm specifically in that area 772 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,000 Speaker 1: by itself. Now when I talk school and sub with kids, 773 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,600 Speaker 1: you know, I use hip hop to teach vocabulary. I 774 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,279 Speaker 1: did all of that because I do spoken word too. 775 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:26,239 Speaker 1: I've seen you some of my stuff. Um, so all 776 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 1: of that I use that, you know with the kids. Um. 777 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,279 Speaker 1: But I'm specifically talking about, Hey, do y'all want to 778 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: know how the electoral college works. Let me show you 779 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,359 Speaker 1: how it works in your hood, you know, like let 780 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,000 Speaker 1: me show the me use hoods and show you know 781 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, so that's specifically what I do. 782 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,439 Speaker 1: And it sounds like you do even more than that, 783 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: you know, with just teaching in general. That's why I 784 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 1: started with. That's why I say I try to start 785 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,760 Speaker 1: with headlines because it's like this is just for me. Yeah, 786 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:53,879 Speaker 1: this is this is the entry point, like we did 787 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 1: this whole I got this whole shit on tariffs and 788 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,839 Speaker 1: you need to understand there are many and genocide. I 789 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,280 Speaker 1: need to talk to you about the Israel Palestine ship, 790 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,439 Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, like how to ship 791 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 1: run deep and and a matter of fact, the name 792 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,400 Speaker 1: of that episode is you wasn't outside, so you know 793 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: before yeah, before you start talking about what Israel and 794 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,040 Speaker 1: Palestine should do, It's like, hey, nigger, you wasn't there. 795 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,480 Speaker 1: You don't know what the funk you talking about? This 796 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 1: beef go back to seventy a D Like, shut the 797 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 1: funk up, you know what you're talking about? What I'm saying, 798 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,399 Speaker 1: so like, but I do because I'm interested in the ship, 799 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's like, so what 800 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is like there's a lot of it's 801 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 1: like there's parts where it's just history like yeah, so 802 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: for me, yeah, the political part of it is like 803 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,080 Speaker 1: that's the entry point, Like okay, come in here, you 804 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 1: see this all over you Why why why are we 805 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,440 Speaker 1: talking about arms trades? You know what I'm saying, Why 806 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 1: are we talking about why? Why is it? Like why 807 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:51,680 Speaker 1: are we still selling twenty million dollars to the Arab 808 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: be you know the Emirates? Like yeah, yeah, so this 809 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: this is like using that example where you can talk 810 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: about this is this, you know, the history and the 811 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,320 Speaker 1: breakdown and going back from dinner that because I don't 812 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,920 Speaker 1: do a lot of that. Um, I'll talk about the 813 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: reason why they're saying X y Z is because this 814 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,640 Speaker 1: lobby and firm paid you know, five point six m 815 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,719 Speaker 1: and this is what it is. And really this mother 816 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,680 Speaker 1: trying to get sudden such out of office. So that's 817 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,040 Speaker 1: where you can you that's where we can connut. I 818 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,759 Speaker 1: talk about when I say the politics of it, not 819 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:32,239 Speaker 1: necessarily the history, because that's important. I'm talking about all 820 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,839 Speaker 1: that sounds good, but this mother right here, they're really 821 00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,879 Speaker 1: trying to run right here, So so that's that's that's 822 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,279 Speaker 1: like they got nothing to do with right Yeah, So 823 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: that works, So that works. That'd be nice to know 824 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:46,359 Speaker 1: I can call on you on certain things like when 825 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,239 Speaker 1: if you're really taking headlines and really like breaking all 826 00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,200 Speaker 1: that down, because you've got different commentators that do that 827 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,200 Speaker 1: on TV. You know, you you'll have your security uh 828 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:59,360 Speaker 1: national security advisor, are your foreign policy expert, that's not 829 00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,279 Speaker 1: what I do for I'm not an expert in that, 830 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,960 Speaker 1: and your foreign policy expert will do exactly what you're saying, 831 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: like break down the historical standpoint. But then you've got 832 00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: a commentator that's giving opinion that come do what I 833 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,319 Speaker 1: do and say all this sounds good, but really it's 834 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,759 Speaker 1: about this this that you see what I'm saying. So 835 00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:21,120 Speaker 1: that that's where I think there's a benefit that what 836 00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm doing in the space and what you're doing in 837 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: the space and how that can help help our community. 838 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,440 Speaker 1: So that makes me very happy. That's me me and 839 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,279 Speaker 1: me too to hear that's like you like that that 840 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 1: policy won't like you. You you in the weeds, you 841 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: feel me and like and you're right, like there's some 842 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,359 Speaker 1: parts of that ship that like my eyes blaze over, 843 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:39,759 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I do have to 844 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:43,320 Speaker 1: call actual like experts to get me in the weeds 845 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,400 Speaker 1: and then kind of be like, oh, I see what 846 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,439 Speaker 1: you're doing, because that's all I figure out who running play? 847 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,920 Speaker 1: That's that's all. That's what beautiful. Yeah, it's your antenna's 848 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,080 Speaker 1: It's like even even you read it, like your antennas 849 00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,080 Speaker 1: start perking out, you ain't even gotta finish. I know 850 00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: exactly what you're doing. That that's all I do. Yeah, 851 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,279 Speaker 1: all I'm doing is I didn't find who running the play, 852 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 1: who's the PAMs, who's the real gamester? Is? Who's doing what? 853 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:10,799 Speaker 1: So that's my lane. I don't try to get into 854 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,719 Speaker 1: the history. You know. That's good, you know, I know 855 00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:16,239 Speaker 1: what I have to be informed, but not to the 856 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,640 Speaker 1: depth that you are. I can tell you really, you know, 857 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: like really put all this ship together and really understand. Um. Yeah, 858 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:28,600 Speaker 1: and that, yeah, absolutely, and that's needed. That's needed in 859 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,320 Speaker 1: the lingo that we speak, because nobody does that, nobody. 860 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,319 Speaker 1: And and so when you hear you know, you hear 861 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,399 Speaker 1: folks Dr so and so on MSNBC doing what you're doing, 862 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,040 Speaker 1: he can't relate it to the streets like you're doing. 863 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,960 Speaker 1: And when you hear somebody like myself another commentator, you know, 864 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,560 Speaker 1: I won't throw our names because I want you don't 865 00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,520 Speaker 1: throw shade, but you got it's about thirty of us 866 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,400 Speaker 1: on between MSNBC, C and N and Fox. So you 867 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,640 Speaker 1: have opinion commentators that also do what I do, but 868 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,719 Speaker 1: they can't translate it to the street like I do. 869 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,399 Speaker 1: So this was a beautiful connection because both of those 870 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,800 Speaker 1: are needed. And it's definitely needing what you do without 871 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,759 Speaker 1: a doubt. Um because especially if you're going across the 872 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: board with understanding all of that that's involved. Um So 873 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:15,680 Speaker 1: that's important. That's though I appreciate that just dropped today. 874 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,279 Speaker 1: Um ever, so we dropped today. It's yeah, I know 875 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,440 Speaker 1: you know what I'm about to say or like under followed. 876 00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:26,080 Speaker 1: This whole thing was like again like I'm trying to 877 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: give I'm trying to give entry points I'm trying to 878 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: give anchors so I have My thing is like Joe 879 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,160 Speaker 1: Biden from Long Beach. Now, if you know anybody you know, 880 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,000 Speaker 1: you know, there's only Cripts and Long Beach, right, So 881 00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,640 Speaker 1: that so, and what you notice about them niggas is 882 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:48,000 Speaker 1: they are the nicest, like funnest dudes to be around. 883 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,480 Speaker 1: Like they just nice guys. Like it's the weirdest thing. 884 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,360 Speaker 1: I feel like I can spot somebody from Long Beach anywhere, right, 885 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,640 Speaker 1: They just just cool dudes. I don't know if it's 886 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,640 Speaker 1: the ocean, I don't know what where it is. But 887 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,200 Speaker 1: they're nice, but they will beat your ass like the 888 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,000 Speaker 1: cripping is not a game out there, you know what 889 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying. But they're just nice. So if you don't 890 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:12,600 Speaker 1: know what you're looking at just because you are Olt 891 00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:18,040 Speaker 1: Genesis and Vince Stables Nias cartoons, like they are funny dudes, 892 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,120 Speaker 1: but do not do not get it twisted. And see 893 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,719 Speaker 1: that's where and see that's where. Say so to me. 894 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,640 Speaker 1: It's like that's what I like. When you're looking at 895 00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:30,439 Speaker 1: Joe Biden and you're like, oh, you know he's saying 896 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:31,960 Speaker 1: nice thing, it's like no, no, no no, no, no no wait 897 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: wait wait wait wait, wait, wait, no, he he moving 898 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,120 Speaker 1: just like everybody else moving. He just he's just nice. 899 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,080 Speaker 1: And see, my my analogy will when you say not 900 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 1: moving like everybody else moving moving, Like what what I'm 901 00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:50,160 Speaker 1: saying is like, for example, he didn't stop the arms 902 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,160 Speaker 1: trade with the Arab Emirates, Like that didn't stop. You 903 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You're still funding wars on the 904 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,080 Speaker 1: other side of the world, Like there ain't no different. 905 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,600 Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying That's that's what I wanted to hear, 906 00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:06,239 Speaker 1: Like so so that's so that's two different. So so 907 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,080 Speaker 1: I like that. So that's where we both So you're 908 00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,839 Speaker 1: you're saying he ain't no different, like I always say, 909 00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,719 Speaker 1: I'm an independent just so you know, you know, the 910 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 1: two birds are the same wing as far as I'm concerned. 911 00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 1: So I'm glad. That's why I wanted to know, Like, 912 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,600 Speaker 1: what do you mean he's still moving hand different? However, 913 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:27,680 Speaker 1: when I use crip analogies, crips, bloods, you know, crips, Democrats, bloods, red, 914 00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,680 Speaker 1: I would say that he don't move like crips in 915 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,880 Speaker 1: Long Beach. And I know you're saying they're nice and 916 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,399 Speaker 1: they're nice, but I know real gainst the crips, and 917 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,560 Speaker 1: nothing about him when it comes to the black voters 918 00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,560 Speaker 1: gangster at all. In fact, Trump is the only So 919 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,279 Speaker 1: that's what. So I have more of those conversations. Don't 920 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,759 Speaker 1: get them to I hear what you're saying, like, don't 921 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:51,560 Speaker 1: get this ship twists. I'm trying to say exactly exactly, 922 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,880 Speaker 1: but but I don't compare crip. In fact, that's the 923 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,839 Speaker 1: post I was putting up right before we got on 924 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,520 Speaker 1: this thing. He's more of a pimp. His pimpant is strong. 925 00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:01,440 Speaker 1: He's bitch of Don Juan. He is not one of 926 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,799 Speaker 1: the homies because he because he don't ride for us. 927 00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,839 Speaker 1: He don't and that's why. That's why I wouldn't say 928 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:09,719 Speaker 1: he's a creep. But I appreciate what you brought to it, 929 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,719 Speaker 1: but I wouldn't not I'm not calling him a crip, no, 930 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,160 Speaker 1: I understand. No. I called some of him like a gangster. 931 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,359 Speaker 1: He's not a gangster. As far as his set. He's 932 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,799 Speaker 1: a he's a gangster. He's a gangster. When it comes 933 00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,120 Speaker 1: to like you said, still creating wars. You still like, 934 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. I'm saying when I compare him, 935 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,520 Speaker 1: when I'm using street lingo. He's more like a pimp 936 00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,279 Speaker 1: than he is a gangster. And the reason why it's 937 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,920 Speaker 1: because he doesn't ride for his set, and his set 938 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,480 Speaker 1: is ninet of black people. So when I'm using those analogies, 939 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,480 Speaker 1: that's where I'm where. Just so you see how we 940 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:45,600 Speaker 1: bring you know, different conversations. Yours is accurate, Yeah, yours 941 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,600 Speaker 1: is accurate. But my note, NIGGI, actually he not a gangster. 942 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:50,919 Speaker 1: You don't ride for your set. You got these people 943 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,600 Speaker 1: slapping your ass around. I thought she was a big homie. 944 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,160 Speaker 1: You letting them counter offered, who does it please? Against whatever? 945 00:47:57,480 --> 00:48:00,040 Speaker 1: So I hear what you're saying, But I but I 946 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,799 Speaker 1: can use Yeah, that's how I used my I like 947 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,440 Speaker 1: that because he don't come in with like on principle. 948 00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,080 Speaker 1: He come in like we willing and dealing like okay, 949 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,480 Speaker 1: so I give you this right? Are you gonna give me? So? 950 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,799 Speaker 1: To me, it's like the way you describe him, it's 951 00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,120 Speaker 1: how I would describe like a Mitch McConnell to where 952 00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,200 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, you're just a hustler, like you don't 953 00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,920 Speaker 1: care about none of this ship. No, actually no, actually, 954 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,440 Speaker 1: actually Mitch McConnell is a gangster. He is he if 955 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,240 Speaker 1: you were going to refer to him as who's a gangster? 956 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling you this based on what I heard, based 957 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:30,439 Speaker 1: on what I know, not what I heard. They ride 958 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,719 Speaker 1: for they set, they say flat out, he said, flat out, 959 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,040 Speaker 1: I am going to block everything Biden does. Democrats never 960 00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,680 Speaker 1: say that to me. It's like, yeah, say word, But 961 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,120 Speaker 1: to me, it's like, to the extent that this set 962 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,799 Speaker 1: works for me, you know what I'm saying, to the 963 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:48,920 Speaker 1: extent that this ship works to me. It's like I 964 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,239 Speaker 1: look at him and I'm like, this ship is transactional 965 00:48:51,280 --> 00:48:54,000 Speaker 1: with you, Like, yeah, but that but that's how the 966 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:55,919 Speaker 1: set work. Though. When I say the set, I'm coming 967 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:59,480 Speaker 1: at their voters. Yeah, okay, you're talking about voters. Yeah, 968 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,279 Speaker 1: I was talking party. That makes more sense party too. 969 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,640 Speaker 1: I mean, whatever, whatever it is, they gangster with it, 970 00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:06,759 Speaker 1: even when it don't work for him. There, gangster with it, 971 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: even if when you said, okay, it's only when it 972 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,239 Speaker 1: works for them, yeah, right, But they're gangster with it. 973 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,120 Speaker 1: Trump say, don't give an y'all like what I like, 974 00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,480 Speaker 1: you like it, don't like it. I'm build the ball period. 975 00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:19,000 Speaker 1: That's gangster. That's gangster. It ain't. No, No, they still work, 976 00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, they're they're they're the bloods surrounded in Inglewood, 977 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:27,319 Speaker 1: surrounded but nothing but Chris. That's like pushing the line 978 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:29,480 Speaker 1: over a period. So that's what I mean when I 979 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,719 Speaker 1: say having these conversations about gangster ship when it comes 980 00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,399 Speaker 1: to policips because miss miss messages. That's what I'm saying. 981 00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:40,120 Speaker 1: Interpretation is different based on who's putting the information out 982 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,680 Speaker 1: and who's hearing it. So what I'm talking to the homies, 983 00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,000 Speaker 1: that's how I'm giving them the game. I hear what 984 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,320 Speaker 1: you're saying. No, like like it's still gangster like mobs 985 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,120 Speaker 1: style gangster, you know, like I'll still blow this motherfuck up. 986 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:56,080 Speaker 1: I'm nice, don't get it twist right, but yeah, no, 987 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,520 Speaker 1: I get you. But what I'm saying is the gang bangers. 988 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,879 Speaker 1: I know, I side. It ain't not when you gave 989 00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,200 Speaker 1: analogy saying it was nice. But don't get a twisted 990 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:07,040 Speaker 1: and long beating on the gang bangers. I know it 991 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:09,759 Speaker 1: ain't no playing nice, motherfucking straight up, just like straight 992 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,279 Speaker 1: up out to gave me where you from, straight up 993 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,319 Speaker 1: even on this everywhere you from, let me bang on 994 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:16,080 Speaker 1: you a minute. So I hear what you're saying. But 995 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,120 Speaker 1: when I'm talking to the homies and all, I'm trying 996 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,040 Speaker 1: to get them. I'm trying to get homies run for 997 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,440 Speaker 1: office for this reason. I'm trying to get them to 998 00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,360 Speaker 1: see that you should be pushing Biden. Look at he 999 00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,200 Speaker 1: should be rapping us, just like the homies repped to 1000 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,520 Speaker 1: the day they die, you till the end. They wouldn't 1001 00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:34,440 Speaker 1: have die for it. They wouldn't to be outside. So 1002 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is not a gangster. Uh he is. He 1003 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,719 Speaker 1: is maybe against in white folks terms. That's why it 1004 00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,919 Speaker 1: all depends on what terms you talking about. Because gangster, yeah, 1005 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,800 Speaker 1: gangster in white terms, mob mentality. Sit back, real nice 1006 00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,719 Speaker 1: and then make a move. That's that New York mob 1007 00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:53,120 Speaker 1: ship that don't get a twisted I'm not gonna come 1008 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:54,520 Speaker 1: in here and be loud. I'm not gonna do all 1009 00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,960 Speaker 1: this extra ship. But I but I blowed, but I'll 1010 00:50:56,960 --> 00:50:59,200 Speaker 1: blow your house up now. That can be Joe Biden. 1011 00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,000 Speaker 1: But biding damn show ain't no blood or no crip 1012 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,919 Speaker 1: because he don't be don't ride for a set, which 1013 00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,040 Speaker 1: is the black voters. He's getting his ass slapped around. 1014 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,799 Speaker 1: He's not like you know he don't slide around by 1015 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,120 Speaker 1: his own party too. Yeah, No, he didn't getting bossed 1016 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:16,839 Speaker 1: round by his own party because he's own party telling 1017 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,439 Speaker 1: him what you're doing, he's not doing it. He ain't 1018 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,160 Speaker 1: getting bossed by his own party, Darling, let's talk politics. 1019 00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:26,400 Speaker 1: How is he getting bossed around by his own party? Uh? 1020 00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:32,160 Speaker 1: I feel like he's um bending over on areas that 1021 00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,279 Speaker 1: maybe I'm looking at the progressive wing. I think the 1022 00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,960 Speaker 1: progressive wing is just asking more of him than he's 1023 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:42,400 Speaker 1: willing to give. Because you still ain't raising the minimum 1024 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:45,040 Speaker 1: ways number one, You know what I'm saying. But how 1025 00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,279 Speaker 1: is he getting bossed around? So if he hasn't done 1026 00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,640 Speaker 1: any of the things that they're asking, how is he 1027 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:54,040 Speaker 1: getting bossed around? What to shat? Maybe that's not what 1028 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:58,200 Speaker 1: I meant. I just meant, yeah, Okay, that's a better 1029 00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:02,319 Speaker 1: way to put it. Yeah, because he's not he's not 1030 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:07,799 Speaker 1: doing what he wants exactly right, But he's not, which 1031 00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:13,120 Speaker 1: is more like mafia. But but he's not representing his 1032 00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: set because he see gangsh it ain't about see politics, 1033 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,759 Speaker 1: ain't about getting bossed around. You're supposed to represent your set. 1034 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,200 Speaker 1: If you say you sent apart, you sent apart. And 1035 00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,279 Speaker 1: if you say you Inglewood family, you Ingwood family. Your 1036 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,760 Speaker 1: job is to represent the set. And if all Eaglewood 1037 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:30,960 Speaker 1: families say we want fifteen dollars an hour, nigga, make 1038 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,759 Speaker 1: it happen. That's what Trump did because he was a 1039 00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,360 Speaker 1: real O G gangster. He was mafia and gangster. But 1040 00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,440 Speaker 1: he put it on the line and said this is 1041 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,239 Speaker 1: what it is. So no, Joe Biden is not not 1042 00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:43,160 Speaker 1: getting boss around, said because he's not doing what we 1043 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,479 Speaker 1: want him to do. Number one, he's not a gangs. 1044 00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,360 Speaker 1: So you would say, you would say, because I guess 1045 00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,520 Speaker 1: maybe in my head, I got these like two different distinctions. 1046 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:52,920 Speaker 1: I got like, so you got the hood and you 1047 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,839 Speaker 1: got like the neighborhood where it's like the civilians that 1048 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,680 Speaker 1: just live here versus the niggas that signed up for 1049 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,600 Speaker 1: the ship, you know what I'm saying. So like in 1050 00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,640 Speaker 1: my head, it's like I feel like we're talking about politicians. 1051 00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,080 Speaker 1: It's like those are the two different things we're talking 1052 00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,279 Speaker 1: about here, Like are you talking about the niggas that 1053 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,479 Speaker 1: just live here or you're talking about niggas have signed 1054 00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,120 Speaker 1: up for the ship, you know what I'm saying. And 1055 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, who are you. I think that's why I 1056 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,319 Speaker 1: went with the miss McConnell thing, because I'm like, who 1057 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:22,359 Speaker 1: are you here for? When I look at Mitch, I'm like, oh, 1058 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,319 Speaker 1: Mitch here for himself. No, no, but no, that's not 1059 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,680 Speaker 1: how it works. I'll give you I'll answer that he is. 1060 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:30,960 Speaker 1: So when you say the people that are actually with 1061 00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,919 Speaker 1: let's use Mitch for an example. Let's take him being 1062 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,560 Speaker 1: for said you're saying the Niggs that signed up for 1063 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,280 Speaker 1: this ship, meaning the homies on the set, like everybody 1064 00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:40,200 Speaker 1: is riding on the set, versus the people that live 1065 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,560 Speaker 1: in the community. So how it works in politics is politicking. 1066 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,319 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the theory side of it. Politicking 1067 00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:51,160 Speaker 1: is your local your representatives, Congress, all of them. They 1068 00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,680 Speaker 1: the homies. They they they're the muscle on the block. 1069 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,560 Speaker 1: They're the ones outside. They're representing the people that saying, 1070 00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,920 Speaker 1: oh I just live here, those are still people with 1071 00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:04,440 Speaker 1: in those districts. They're still representing Inglewood Center Park, that family, 1072 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,000 Speaker 1: even if you just live there. Because in the voter world, 1073 00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,520 Speaker 1: they still voted to put these people in office. So 1074 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:13,000 Speaker 1: your job, my job. If I am an elected official, 1075 00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:17,040 Speaker 1: I am the o G for District nine. I am. 1076 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,000 Speaker 1: I didn't expect the people to live here to sign 1077 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:21,240 Speaker 1: up for what I do because I'm the muscle out side. 1078 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:23,959 Speaker 1: But I'm still representing what you want. So I'm gonna 1079 00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,240 Speaker 1: take care of my hood, just like plenty gang bangers 1080 00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:27,520 Speaker 1: took care of the hood, and a a lot of people 1081 00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,640 Speaker 1: don't know about. They gave away turkeys, they give away money. 1082 00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,320 Speaker 1: They take care of their ship like big, Big you 1083 00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,399 Speaker 1: and all of them. So when so when you say 1084 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:36,680 Speaker 1: are you talking me the ones that signed up, you're 1085 00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:39,280 Speaker 1: talking about it's vote. The ones that signed up represent 1086 00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,960 Speaker 1: the hood and the hood those who are in the 1087 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,760 Speaker 1: set with those who actually in the set, gang bangers. 1088 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,840 Speaker 1: The set is the actual political party. But the people 1089 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,000 Speaker 1: that that feed the set, that's still a part of it. 1090 00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,640 Speaker 1: They're still a part of the set. And and Trump 1091 00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,080 Speaker 1: represented his set, meaning he didn't give a damn what 1092 00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,719 Speaker 1: a Democrat wanted. And see that that's what people owe 1093 00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,759 Speaker 1: these a if everybody. No politics don't work that way. 1094 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,759 Speaker 1: No politics works. So when you say Mitch is for himself, no, 1095 00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,879 Speaker 1: he's not for himself. He's for his set. Because one 1096 00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,640 Speaker 1: thing about Republicans, if you don't do what they say do, 1097 00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,680 Speaker 1: they will DP you they will discipline you. Yeah, Democrats 1098 00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,440 Speaker 1: don't discipline. So so let's go further. They don't discipline. 1099 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,279 Speaker 1: They let you do whatever the funk you want to do. 1100 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,960 Speaker 1: And that's why I say he's not a gangster by no, Stretcher, Man, 1101 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,839 Speaker 1: I understand what you were saying in that analogy. I'm 1102 00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,680 Speaker 1: just here to clear up, like, yeah, no, I like 1103 00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:31,600 Speaker 1: that because I'm thinking in the sense of like this 1104 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:35,600 Speaker 1: Nigga was like, listen, I need some judges. I don't 1105 00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:37,680 Speaker 1: care who funk y'all put in charge. I need these 1106 00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,839 Speaker 1: judges and then walked away and was like, well, it's cool, 1107 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,320 Speaker 1: I got my judges. Nig The president gonna come and go. 1108 00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:48,480 Speaker 1: He's talking about biding up Trump. I'm talking about Mitch. 1109 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,120 Speaker 1: Mitch was like, I need judges, you know what I'm saying, 1110 00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:54,600 Speaker 1: and got him. And so to me, it was like, 1111 00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,400 Speaker 1: that's I guess in the in the lands that I'm 1112 00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,719 Speaker 1: talking about, That's what I was thinking about anyway. But 1113 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:03,000 Speaker 1: let's less um, let's let's unpack that just quickly. It 1114 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:06,400 Speaker 1: was just I need judges. It was I need conservative 1115 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,600 Speaker 1: judges so I can lock this ship all the way. 1116 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,239 Speaker 1: So so again that's why mitchells a gangster. He didn't 1117 00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,000 Speaker 1: just say I need judges and walk off home. And 1118 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,600 Speaker 1: he said I need conservative judges because they say for 1119 00:56:16,760 --> 00:56:20,919 Speaker 1: a lifetime. Right. He went right, He went and set 1120 00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:24,040 Speaker 1: up shops Okahoma City. He left l A and said, 1121 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,640 Speaker 1: I want you all to pick I need fifty domods 1122 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:28,719 Speaker 1: that's gonna come up here and move this work in 1123 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,280 Speaker 1: every hood. No, he didn't just pick it and walk away. 1124 00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,239 Speaker 1: So that's the reason why mitchells a gangster. He's making sure. 1125 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,480 Speaker 1: That's not about Mitch. That's about his set. He's locking 1126 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:40,799 Speaker 1: in the set, and that's why they win every single time. 1127 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,120 Speaker 1: What Democrats did is we're not gonna wear about stack 1128 00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,439 Speaker 1: in the court. We're just gonna let it all work out, 1129 00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,560 Speaker 1: which is why they're not gangsters. I'm trying to get 1130 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,920 Speaker 1: Democrats to be gangster. So I'm gonna need you to 1131 00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,360 Speaker 1: make sure when you're moving forward on that conversation, like 1132 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,000 Speaker 1: explained both sides, because that's what I'm saying. Why it's 1133 00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:01,319 Speaker 1: so important because if we're giving that inform ation and 1134 00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:04,000 Speaker 1: I understand the theory of it all, but it's still 1135 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:06,920 Speaker 1: I won't say misleading, but it's not. It's so much more. 1136 00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,239 Speaker 1: We can go in that so that people, so the 1137 00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:13,480 Speaker 1: gangsters that hear you truly understand, because I need them 1138 00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:17,160 Speaker 1: to understand. And and and I know more homies that 1139 00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,800 Speaker 1: respect Trump for his gangster ship. That's how I got 1140 00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,120 Speaker 1: a lot of homies involved based on Trump don't know, 1141 00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,840 Speaker 1: Gates understanding this soft ship Biden doing. Gangsters don't roll 1142 00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:28,080 Speaker 1: that way. Now, maybe niggas that you said, Hey, maybe 1143 00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:32,920 Speaker 1: sympathizers did. Maybe who ever know every front liner don't 1144 00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,520 Speaker 1: play nice on this side and on that side. You 1145 00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,440 Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. No, what Biden doing, he know 1146 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,200 Speaker 1: he ain't no gangs. That ain't what gangsters do. He 1147 00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,720 Speaker 1: mo fil he a pimp. He got a cold as 1148 00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,240 Speaker 1: pimpan that hey, he got a cold as pimpan. Pimps 1149 00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,160 Speaker 1: all around the world. She'd be looking at him as 1150 00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,120 Speaker 1: the salt spoken ship, that big ass hope thing he 1151 00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:54,120 Speaker 1: did yesterday. Hey, pimpan, Yes, gangster. No, but I understand 1152 00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,280 Speaker 1: what you mean when you say cruel, when you say 1153 00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,000 Speaker 1: you know, we'll still don't get it twisted there. You know, 1154 00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,520 Speaker 1: they're still the same. America in itself, you know, is 1155 00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,040 Speaker 1: the most gainst the country ever. I get that the 1156 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,080 Speaker 1: system of it all. But when we use the analogies 1157 00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,400 Speaker 1: on how people are moving in Jesus are moving, it's 1158 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,760 Speaker 1: really important that we be really clear about that because 1159 00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:14,920 Speaker 1: if not, they don't see how they can get involved 1160 00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,960 Speaker 1: in the progress in the process. And that's what I'm 1161 00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,600 Speaker 1: trying to get them to do. Understand that, y'all can 1162 00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:21,680 Speaker 1: be precinct captains. You can get involved in politics. You 1163 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,440 Speaker 1: can run your hood Inglewood, no way that new stadium 1164 00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,880 Speaker 1: in Inglewood, Nick Inglewood should have a piece of that. 1165 00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,080 Speaker 1: If they organize their neighborhood, if they organize their neighborhood. 1166 00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,080 Speaker 1: You should have apprenticeships, you should have jobs, you should 1167 00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,360 Speaker 1: have whatever. Because you got five six D votes sitting 1168 00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,600 Speaker 1: right there, but you never knew how to work. So 1169 00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,400 Speaker 1: that's why I try to get the homies understand the 1170 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:42,240 Speaker 1: politics side of it, so they can see, like when 1171 00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,640 Speaker 1: you say, oh, you understand this because of the knowledge, 1172 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,840 Speaker 1: I'm trying to get a not just to even understand it, 1173 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,440 Speaker 1: to know how they can get involved and run some 1174 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:51,880 Speaker 1: of these weak as people out here. Politics can use 1175 00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,200 Speaker 1: the gamester too. So that's that's my lane. I love it. 1176 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:58,200 Speaker 1: Never had I've never had a chance to like bounce 1177 00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,400 Speaker 1: any of these ideas off everybody else. Nobody speaks both 1178 00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:06,640 Speaker 1: these languages. This is dope. H Well, I appreciate this 1179 00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,160 Speaker 1: to thank you so much. This was great, very informative. 1180 00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,000 Speaker 1: I definitely encourage you all out there listening to please 1181 00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:16,480 Speaker 1: listen to hor Politics right here on our heart radio. Certainly, 1182 00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,200 Speaker 1: I'm glad to have an opportunity sit down with you. 1183 00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:21,360 Speaker 1: Thank you for allowing, you know, an open conversation understanding 1184 00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,600 Speaker 1: where we're both coming from. Because one thing for showing 1185 00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,640 Speaker 1: we know in the hood, the worst thing ever was 1186 00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,840 Speaker 1: a miscommunication. It's always about having to understand. The whole 1187 00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:33,320 Speaker 1: bunch of nigga's got killed over misunderstanding, right, So being 1188 00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,439 Speaker 1: able to sit down like grown folks is the real 1189 00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,720 Speaker 1: gangster ship. So I appreciate your proper coming by y'all. 1190 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,280 Speaker 1: Make sure you check him out again on Hood Politics, 1191 00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:42,880 Speaker 1: and make sure you check in again next week. Like 1192 00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,960 Speaker 1: I always say, use the loser can't make it cho 1193 00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,720 Speaker 1: right here. 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