Speaker 1: One Cosby on the beat, Twitter wraps, the Twitter wraps
Speaker 1: to that reparations. You're listening waiting on reparations herending on Twitter.
Speaker 1: All right, Funck Bryant Kim and all the voters suppression.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker witness told the November election, I don't like to
Speaker 1: see him, not in my reflection, and said, I want
Speaker 1: to give him a fucking lesson. Show him what's your
Speaker 1: leadership really look like? If you're trying to get right,
Speaker 1: get that hook right, that hook right, because we don't
Speaker 1: play funk all that crooked ship in the d o
Speaker 1: j all. This ship seems word you nigga seems scared.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that hashtag and peach Ford because the
Speaker 1: motherfucker's stealing it, and I think Trump's in the background
Speaker 1: just feeling and dealing. He'd be staying on that same team.
Speaker 1: I'm like jy'all Smith, I'll be high smoking dank green
Speaker 1: speaking to jy'all. I really need to stop it. I
Speaker 1: messing that game is the Lakers versus the Rockets. Uh,
Speaker 1: Michael Sparko wildfire or maybe go put on some flager.
Speaker 1: A tiger like my name was ice Cube yelling at
Speaker 1: people and getting politicians to make we legal no fudget.
Speaker 1: I hope they have some firefighters in the California budgets
Speaker 1: because right now they fucking running because it's an exodus. No,
Speaker 1: it's not the best of this. It's the climate change
Speaker 1: disaster coming to the master bedroom of your house in
Speaker 1: the middle of the valley. And I'm saying, the police
Speaker 1: kissing the white girl. Let a Trump rally, dope knife
Speaker 1: linger Franco waiting on reparations. You know who we are.
Speaker 1: You know what it is? Back again another week? How
Speaker 1: you doing? How how's the teaching? How's how the class
Speaker 1: is gone? Is it all online? It's been split in
Speaker 1: person online? So my the class, the main class that
Speaker 1: I teach, it's there's twenty students in it because of
Speaker 1: social distancing. However, only twelve of them can fit in
Speaker 1: the classroom at any given time. So I have to
Speaker 1: teach one class to folks that want to come, and
Speaker 1: then a second version of the same lecture on zoom
Speaker 1: every Tuesday. So it's twice the work for the exact
Speaker 1: same amount of money. And I definitely love that a
Speaker 1: great deal. Um, But I've been drinking, so I started
Speaker 1: drinking like two gallons of water every day, any particular
Speaker 1: reason why, No, just because I'm depressed, and that's for solutions.
Speaker 1: Be careful about that. I remember d legend back from
Speaker 1: when I was a little kid about some lady who
Speaker 1: kept drinking too much water and then like she perished.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that ship is true. It sounded true,
Speaker 1: it doesn't sound true right now because he used the
Speaker 1: verb perish and then she perished. It sounds like the
Speaker 1: scary story You're like, like, being great on water does?
Speaker 1: Like I started off saying that because I've been drinking
Speaker 1: two gallons of water every day and I've just had
Speaker 1: limitless energy. Today I worked on grading for like four
Speaker 1: hours straight and recorded this bomb mass like video lecture
Speaker 1: and was just really on top of my ship and
Speaker 1: felt actually hopeful about teaching in this god forsaken pandemic
Speaker 1: with this god forsaken school open. So would you say
Speaker 1: that other teachers like in Georgia have it worse, considering
Speaker 1: you know how they're kind of forcing everything to be
Speaker 1: open and should I mean, yeah, schools, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of school systems that school districts that are open for
Speaker 1: in person class and the public schools. Um I mean,
Speaker 1: I think among public higher education institutions, Georgia is just
Speaker 1: doing one of the worst jobs imaginable. Zero transparency with
Speaker 1: regards to their COVID numbers. Story came out a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago saying they trained bunch of contract contact
Speaker 1: tracers over the summer and then didn't hire them to
Speaker 1: do contact tracing and sell straight upline about you. That
Speaker 1: is straight up just misleading everyone. Speaking of misleading, have
Speaker 1: you been hearing about the deep fake videos coming out?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, at this point, I kind of
Speaker 1: even feel that it would be irresponsible for me to
Speaker 1: even repeat the video that I'm talking about, because I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to drive people to like go look for
Speaker 1: it and ship. But I've started seeing um fake videos
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden and other Democratic political figures popping up
Speaker 1: in my feet and stuff like that, and people that like,
Speaker 1: you know, sharing it like like it's the gospel truth,
Speaker 1: and it's like you have to kind of pull them aside, like,
Speaker 1: hey man, uh, probably not wise to share the first
Speaker 1: thing you see when you log on. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you might want to that. It's just just
Speaker 1: one of those things in the background that I've been
Speaker 1: noticing that's just kind of getting a little alarming. But
Speaker 1: this day would come. I knew this day would come.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah for so today, So we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a little break from our usual historic deep dives into
Speaker 1: the inter link juice between hip hop and public policy
Speaker 1: and kind of look at what's going on with real
Speaker 1: time with the singles and music videos that have dropped
Speaker 1: in the past week in their relationships to current events
Speaker 1: and public policy. So I want to start out by
Speaker 1: wishing a happy birthday too Easy, who would have been
Speaker 1: fifty six years old on Monday. He was fondly remembered
Speaker 1: by fellow indow w a remember nice que on social media,
Speaker 1: and he died of AIDS induced pneumonia on March Goddamn
Speaker 1: n fucking crazy. You know, I remember when that ship happened.
Speaker 1: I was a huge N Wave fan, and I was
Speaker 1: a fan of all that gangster rap shot when I
Speaker 1: was a little kid, ship that I probably shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been listening to, but Easy, he was definitely one of
Speaker 1: my favorites back in the day. Yo. Imagine going to
Speaker 1: the doctor for a cough and finding out you have
Speaker 1: fucking AIDS. Wrap it up, Wrap that shut up. Be Yeah,
Speaker 1: and June of the year of his death, the fter day,
Speaker 1: I approved the first proteins inhibitor, beginning a new era
Speaker 1: of highly active anti retroviral treatments or HEART for AIDS.
Speaker 1: Treatment for AIDS um ones incorporated into clinical practice. Heart
Speaker 1: brought an immediate decline of between six and rates of
Speaker 1: AIDS related deaths and hospitalizations and countries that could afford it. Damn.
Speaker 1: So if you lived just a few more months, he
Speaker 1: would have been alive to or able to get the
Speaker 1: treatment for the treatment. Yeah, you know, and I mean
Speaker 1: you never know what happens. You know very well could
Speaker 1: still be alive. Yeah, So what what do you think
Speaker 1: Easy would be like if he had lived to be
Speaker 1: in middle aged man like ice Cube is now? It's
Speaker 1: those are hard questions to answer because it's like it's
Speaker 1: like the last memory that you have of someone like
Speaker 1: Easy is when he was in his late twenties, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's it's like that we
Speaker 1: will never know what he would have been like if
Speaker 1: he had grown older, you would have done like are
Speaker 1: we there yet experienced exactly? If you experienced the world
Speaker 1: as we all experienced, it been a point where he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I need to, I need to Where's where's the scripts?
Speaker 1: Where's are we there yet? Where's you know? Where's bad boys?
Speaker 1: I could totally imagine Easy is one of the cops
Speaker 1: and bad boys. Like I mean, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: he should replace Martin, but if it was Easy and
Speaker 1: Will Smith, wouldn't that have been Hi Easy ear and
Speaker 1: Will Smith in the Buddy Cop movie, that would be dope.
Speaker 1: Make a deep fake, make it happen. Yeah, I'll come, y'a.
Speaker 1: Don't make deep fakes a positive ship like that. Um,
Speaker 1: it's always like Joe Biden's face and the WAT music
Speaker 1: video or something terrible, something to hout your your dreams
Speaker 1: and your nightmares and Ben Shapiro as Shakira or something
Speaker 1: to fucking hot my night marethew I thank you so
Speaker 1: speaking of Easy in this protege ice Cube, like you're saying.
Speaker 1: Ice Cube sat out the primary in terms of supporting
Speaker 1: a candidate, but he recently took to Twitter to support
Speaker 1: the Black of Agenda, and he urged his followers to
Speaker 1: be skeptical of anyone telling you to vote but discouraging
Speaker 1: you from asking anything. And so it's interesting to me
Speaker 1: because he's sort of like being like scoffed at by
Speaker 1: the left for like, where were you when we had
Speaker 1: the choice of multiple candidates who are like trying to
Speaker 1: offer us something or like inviting us to ask them
Speaker 1: for stuff as a part of gaining our support, whereas
Speaker 1: now the center left the liberals are like, shut up
Speaker 1: and vote because we have an existential threat of fascism
Speaker 1: in the White House right now. And so he's kind
Speaker 1: of getting shipped on by everybody. I mean, he didn't
Speaker 1: he did he not have like a thing where somebody
Speaker 1: thought or did he posted something that was like anti
Speaker 1: semitic too or something like that. I remember his name
Speaker 1: being brought up around the time of the Nick Cannon
Speaker 1: thing too. I think it's weird that anyone that's like
Speaker 1: part of any sort of political establishment is um looking
Speaker 1: too ice Cube to like co sign what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, trust me, you listen to ice cubes music,
Speaker 1: and you know he definitely he has an understanding of
Speaker 1: the issues, but ice Cube doesn't funk with them. Like
Speaker 1: what in the world would make them think that ice
Speaker 1: Cube would just be on board because the team Democrat.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's weird. Ship that must be like
Speaker 1: being on Twitter and having too much access to people
Speaker 1: and thinking it's like, oh, yes, let me tell ice
Speaker 1: Cube who to vote for, how to vote, or what
Speaker 1: I think about his vote. Yeah. I mean it's also
Speaker 1: interesting to think along the same lines. You're just talking
Speaker 1: about what easy ease political development would have been had
Speaker 1: he lived to this day, Kevin that they you know,
Speaker 1: had a very critical stance of the police and you know,
Speaker 1: armed agents of the state in this current period, what
Speaker 1: side he would have fallen on. Because a lot of
Speaker 1: folks grow up and they and they mature and they
Speaker 1: grow more conservative, I personally don't understand mat I've gotten
Speaker 1: more and more left wing. Is older I get, the
Speaker 1: more I learned about how funked up everything is, the
Speaker 1: more I'm like, yes, it might be clear all the
Speaker 1: major industries. Uh. I don't know if this affects any
Speaker 1: of that. But I think another ingredient of the whole
Speaker 1: growing older thing is having a kid. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that can be part of it too, So because I
Speaker 1: feel the same way. It's like the older that I'm
Speaker 1: getting and this is like truth, the older that I've gotten,
Speaker 1: the more left I my, my, my, you know, the
Speaker 1: thought patterns have been but the friends of mine who
Speaker 1: I have noticed have become more conservatives older, they've gotten
Speaker 1: the one common ingredient to that is like a kid
Speaker 1: or two. Interesting, I can't relate. I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: only child and he is uh, laying on my hoodie
Speaker 1: and orange and flapping his tail around because he is
Speaker 1: a cat, and he probably will be my only child ever,
Speaker 1: because I don't think I'll ever be able to afford
Speaker 1: to have children in this economy and in this climate literal, physical, geological, astronomical.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked me that question just a few days ago. Um,
Speaker 1: I had caught up with an old just through the
Speaker 1: power of Facebook. I had caught up with a old
Speaker 1: friend from like fifth grade or some ship, and she
Speaker 1: was like, do you have any kids? I was like nah.
Speaker 1: Then she says, are you planning on having kids? If
Speaker 1: you would ask me this like eight months ago? I
Speaker 1: might have said, but asking me right now, asking me
Speaker 1: in August, I don't really know that. But let's get
Speaker 1: back to what we were talking about with the FDA.
Speaker 1: So the groundbreaking AIDS treatment that came too late for
Speaker 1: easy was expedited for clinical use through the FDA's accelerated
Speaker 1: approve of regulation which allows drugs for serious conditions that
Speaker 1: fill an unmet medical to be approved based on a
Speaker 1: surrogate endpoint or sign used in place of another sign
Speaker 1: to tell if the treatment works and give health providers
Speaker 1: the wiggle room to use approaches during a public health
Speaker 1: emergency that have a likely benefit. An FDA Commissioner, Stephen
Speaker 1: Hahn Hassett, he's open to pursue of this avenue with
Speaker 1: the coronavirus vaccine, Trump claimed on Monday that a vaccine
Speaker 1: could be available by October through with operational warp speed
Speaker 1: public private partner. That's a stupid name. I just I
Speaker 1: you know. I'm sorry, sorry to cut you off, but
Speaker 1: that's a stupid fucking name. Sorry anyway. The New York
Speaker 1: Times obtained documents sent to the state and city officials
Speaker 1: in August to indicate the CDC is already instructing hospitals
Speaker 1: to begin preparing personnel, freezers and distribution sites to administer
Speaker 1: a vaccine as soon as late October. So we got
Speaker 1: all this rushing, we got Trump rushing. We've got the
Speaker 1: CDC sending the ship out to state and city officials,
Speaker 1: trying to prep hospitals for distributing a vaccine. But on
Speaker 1: the flip side, nine companies leading the charge to develop
Speaker 1: a COVID nineteen vaccine released a pled on Tuesday, stick
Speaker 1: to the science and the development and licensing of the
Speaker 1: vaccine and not given to political pressures speed up the
Speaker 1: process for convenience. So here we are the coronavirus cases
Speaker 1: in the United States topping six point three million and
Speaker 1: the confirmed death toll at over one eighty nine thousand,
Speaker 1: as well with the knowledge that expedited FDA propl for
Speaker 1: an eighth treatment came too late to save easy ease life.
Speaker 1: And I, you know, I'm wondering who the next e
Speaker 1: could be without fast action from the pharmaceutical companies. So
Speaker 1: how do we feel about a vaccine? I don't know.
Speaker 1: This is the sort of things that ship away of
Speaker 1: people's trust in these bureaucracies and things like that. And
Speaker 1: if you have half of the country that doesn't trust
Speaker 1: the word that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, and
Speaker 1: I don't want it. I don't want any rushed ship.
Speaker 1: I don't want any rush ship in my events dead.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm not entirely sure how
Speaker 1: the science works, but I think that could potentially make
Speaker 1: the whole entire thing worse right, Like, so, I don't
Speaker 1: see any reason to risk it. What I do know
Speaker 1: is that I've seen video of it raining and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump say that it's not raining. You feel me? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so funk that I'm not. I'm not taking it. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Like, yeah, I never thought I would be
Speaker 1: pushed at this point where like, I'm so mistrustful of
Speaker 1: a government that a life saving medical treatment. You have
Speaker 1: to like think twice about it from you now, if
Speaker 1: it's like something we're in, you know, who are the
Speaker 1: trusted sources and who aren't You know that at this
Speaker 1: point it's it sucks to fucking say. But at this point,
Speaker 1: every you know, everyone's got their bubble of who they trust.
Speaker 1: I'm more so looking for what most doctors and scientists
Speaker 1: are saying, you know. So if they should co sign
Speaker 1: it and be like, hey, no, you know, this is
Speaker 1: what's up, then I guess that would kind of put
Speaker 1: my mind at ease. But does it make you feel
Speaker 1: any better that these companies have signed under this pledge
Speaker 1: saying They're not going to about a political pressure and
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick to the science and the development
Speaker 1: of the vaccine. Yeah, it does. But then that makes
Speaker 1: because I never thought I would trust fucking pharmaceutical capitalists
Speaker 1: who make all this money off of like human pain
Speaker 1: and suffering. Do they have something to gain by like
Speaker 1: duping people in this in this sense with coronavirus, I guess,
Speaker 1: and not in this specific sense. I mean they do
Speaker 1: profit off of people staying sick. If someone needs to
Speaker 1: buy more and more of their medicine every month, it's
Speaker 1: more profitable for them to make that medicine then to
Speaker 1: make pure I wonder what the numbers would be in
Speaker 1: terms of how many people are who don't have serious
Speaker 1: cases of coronavirus are getting treatment. I mean, for real,
Speaker 1: like it would probably be this is totally just pulling
Speaker 1: out the ask, but I would imagine that most motherfucker's,
Speaker 1: especially in this economy, most people that end up feeling
Speaker 1: some symptoms that aren't serious that it's just like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I'm just gonna write it out. So,
Speaker 1: as one of the artists says in a song, We're
Speaker 1: gonna look at a little bit later. Uh, finding off
Speaker 1: a virus with hot water and lemon peel is what
Speaker 1: a lot of people are resorting to. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I can speak from Oria, and she says, we're not
Speaker 1: like condoning any anti vaxx ship. I want everyone to
Speaker 1: like use their best judgment to read, stay up on,
Speaker 1: you know, whether or not they're doing their due diligence
Speaker 1: with these clinical trials, you know, keep tabs on what's
Speaker 1: happening with the CDC, is happening with the FDA, and
Speaker 1: try to, like dicern you know, what what's best for you.
Speaker 1: I'm not at all endorsing everyone, uh but boycotting the
Speaker 1: vaccine or anything like that. I'm just stating personally how
Speaker 1: I feel right now. But I mean, I just maybe
Speaker 1: it's probably because I have a news overload too, but again,
Speaker 1: it's just I'm looking at the people who are in charge.
Speaker 1: That's who I'm taking my cue from. And the people
Speaker 1: who are in charge have given me no reason to
Speaker 1: believe that like my safety or well being is a concern.
Speaker 1: That's the way that I look at it. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Now, it's like a feeling that you
Speaker 1: you normally have no matter who the people in charge are,
Speaker 1: but now it's like really like, oh, Ship, these motherfucker's,
Speaker 1: these other bugs really were just cool and just like
Speaker 1: let a whole pandemic, like funk up the whole country,
Speaker 1: you know. So I I don't I can't be the
Speaker 1: only person that feels that way. That Like, let's say
Speaker 1: Trump wins and then they get the vaccine. He's like, here,
Speaker 1: you go take it. Take I I just I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of people that are gonna
Speaker 1: not want to. And that'sm not saying that's a good thing,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people are gonna feel that way. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't trust him or his administration that they would feel
Speaker 1: comfortable with taking some rushed vaccine. And it's a moment
Speaker 1: of expanded empathy, you know, Like I've never really empathized
Speaker 1: with the anti vax position in general. I haven't read
Speaker 1: what those folks have read, so I'm not really sure
Speaker 1: where they're coming from in terms of what perceived science
Speaker 1: is behind that position with regards to vaccine is causing
Speaker 1: office and things like that. But it's like, I get
Speaker 1: it now, it's mistrust of the government. Like, oh man,
Speaker 1: I think that's get it. I think that's what most
Speaker 1: of it is. It's just the mistrust of the government.
Speaker 1: It just depends on which government, what part of the
Speaker 1: government or aspect of the government you don't trust, You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. All Right, I'm next. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the new single from my Gian Canadian
Speaker 1: rapper Toby featuring Jewels, entitled Dollars and Cents. Let's give
Speaker 1: it a spin. Making examp taking at the game the
Speaker 1: minute I was making a plan? Where did it gives
Speaker 1: me a j I D vibe? I get a strong
Speaker 1: Anderson pack vibe and in the in the vocal style wars,
Speaker 1: it's got this like this that's almost whiny edge to it,
Speaker 1: but like it's kind of like allerting. You said, he's
Speaker 1: Nigerian Canadian. Yeah, so I really dig the video. That's
Speaker 1: a really original take on doing a video for the
Speaker 1: Corona virus era. So pretty much in the video he's
Speaker 1: having a FaceTime chat in different scenes with a significant
Speaker 1: other while she's like dancing around the apartment. She's over
Speaker 1: in Lagos, Nigeria and he's in Toronto, Canada. Yeah. Toby
Speaker 1: told Okay Africa that he was supposed to go back
Speaker 1: to Nigerian in March, but the pandemic scuttled those plans,
Speaker 1: so he made a music video to capture connecting with
Speaker 1: its homeland from a distance via FaceTime call. I thought
Speaker 1: the music video was tight, very stylish. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I love lady with the big dancing around and this
Speaker 1: like modernast lead home cooking up something I don't know,
Speaker 1: chopping up garlic and ship like it was. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the simplicity of it is what's out to me. And
Speaker 1: I guess the thing about it that I like is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: my mom watches a lot of Nigerian movies, right, Like
Speaker 1: that's her that's like her ship, that's her hobbies. Like
Speaker 1: she just has a whole fucking collection of like vhs
Speaker 1: is at that too, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: Nigerian films, Nigerian sinema, and it's like watching it, I
Speaker 1: just dig how it's like it doesn't matter what setting
Speaker 1: it is. You can tell that it's a Nigeria, you
Speaker 1: can tell it's African, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: has like it just it can be like a completely
Speaker 1: uh standard stereotypical like I mean, but just the people
Speaker 1: interacting in the scene, it's like, oh yeah, this is African,
Speaker 1: you know, Like specifically, I love that. I love that
Speaker 1: vibe from the video, like from the minute it starts,
Speaker 1: I could pick that up now. The outbreak of the
Speaker 1: coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, and Nigeria is
Speaker 1: one of the worst effect to come trees on the continent,
Speaker 1: with thousand cases and a little more than a thousand
Speaker 1: deaths at the time of this recording. Nigeria in fact,
Speaker 1: just ended its second lockdown for the coronavirus last week.
Speaker 1: Nigeria had three hundred and fifty ventilators and three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty ICU beds for its entire population before the outbreak,
Speaker 1: and many officials feared its healthcare capacity would quickly become overwhelmed. Surprisingly, however,
Speaker 1: infection and death rates in many African countries have turned
Speaker 1: out to be much lower than initially feared. It seems
Speaker 1: that our struggles are pre conditions might be working in
Speaker 1: favor of African countries in our population, said said Professor
Speaker 1: shaub A Mahdi, South Africa's top virologists and an important
Speaker 1: figure in the hunt for a vaccine for COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: This is what he told the PC For while now,
Speaker 1: experts have cited a youthful population is the best explanation
Speaker 1: for Africa's relatively low infection rates. After all, the average
Speaker 1: age and the continent is roughly half that in Europe.
Speaker 1: The scientists continue to look for a reason as to
Speaker 1: why the cases and death counts have remained relatively low
Speaker 1: to that of Europe and the America's. So the CNN
Speaker 1: article about the scientists trying to figure out why African
Speaker 1: nations haven't been as impacted by the coronavirus has initially
Speaker 1: expected was harshly received by the Internet. A lot of
Speaker 1: folks landbassing at first Team in that Africa Africans can't
Speaker 1: handle their ship, which like I get, but it's not
Speaker 1: like these are just random white people that are like
Speaker 1: why is wired Africans dying? These a literal virologists who
Speaker 1: understand the way virus is spread, the conditions that foster
Speaker 1: their transmission, because like for real, like you you obviously know,
Speaker 1: I hate saying ship like this, but as an African dude,
Speaker 1: you know, like when when the ships was popping off
Speaker 1: in March and I was talking to like family members
Speaker 1: and people who were in Africa, it was like, yo,
Speaker 1: if the ship is that bad over there like in
Speaker 1: the US, Like funk, what's it gonna be like over here,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. After about a month it
Speaker 1: was like yore, y'all, okay, do you need you need
Speaker 1: me to send you something Naculi up? So it completely switched,
Speaker 1: and I mean I still don't know why, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people had that concern, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that this was gonna hit Africa and particularly hard. I
Speaker 1: mean especially considering that you could look over at Indians
Speaker 1: he was going on in India. Some man, people need
Speaker 1: to calm the funk down for real. It's unexplained. Top
Speaker 1: scientists can't figure it out. Some fucking nimrods on Twitter
Speaker 1: aren't gonna fucking figure it out. Like you know what
Speaker 1: this made me think of when I saw that in
Speaker 1: the nose because I I hadn't heard of that about
Speaker 1: the whole like reaction to that, but um, you know
Speaker 1: I watched basketball and ship this similar thing happened in basketball,
Speaker 1: or just a similar reaction to something where a guy
Speaker 1: just got a job to coach the Brooklyn Nets. His
Speaker 1: name Steve Nash. He used to be really good for
Speaker 1: There's some people who are listening to those who are like,
Speaker 1: why are you explaining it? This way, it's because Mariah
Speaker 1: doesn't watch basketball, doesn't know what. So Steve Nash is
Speaker 1: a really good basketball player and he retired, and it's
Speaker 1: like a common thing. It's not an unusual thing that
Speaker 1: he's like super super good basketball players, point guards and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, especially end up getting coaching positions after
Speaker 1: they retire, right without any experience or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So Steve Nash got the job, and there were takes
Speaker 1: of it being white privilege and how did you guys
Speaker 1: give him this job? And it should have been a
Speaker 1: black guy. But in this particular case, it's like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this ship happened for like five black coaches in a row,
Speaker 1: like yesterday. Maybe not, maybe not, maybe not this time.
Speaker 1: It's true, maybe not this time. I knew this week
Speaker 1: as well as East Coast rapper Graphs new single Killing
Speaker 1: Kings featuring my son ray Manuel and Sly Piper, dropped
Speaker 1: on September three. It calls out inter racial and police
Speaker 1: violence equally, as well as the stress of this trying
Speaker 1: to stay alive under the inter twinding pandemics of the coronavirus,
Speaker 1: and systemic racism over a twining guitar, simple reminiscence of
Speaker 1: me of the fujis. Let's take a listen at the
Speaker 1: Homma Nica last week. I'll be back in the street,
Speaker 1: active and rather believe we could have peace of everyan
Speaker 1: poe you'd rather believe. Now, I've said before the iced
Speaker 1: Tea is my goat and my favorite hip hop artist.
Speaker 1: But you know, Graph is probably my favorite rapper. He
Speaker 1: definitely was my favorite rapper when I was first starting
Speaker 1: out back in the day. This is like, this type
Speaker 1: of song is more indicative of my son's catalog, Like
Speaker 1: he usually raps about ship like this, so so for Graph,
Speaker 1: this is kind of not his usual ship. So he
Speaker 1: calls out those who criticize. On the first verse, uh,
Speaker 1: Graph calls out those who criticized Kaepernick for kneeling, and
Speaker 1: later way a manual times in the line, I've got
Speaker 1: a target on evact, I don't care if they put
Speaker 1: it on the target where you at. And then on
Speaker 1: the third verse, my zone name drops Brianna Taylor and
Speaker 1: Elijah McClain saying they did little Elijah, I don't care
Speaker 1: if your precincts on fire. Nika's getting tired of marching,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like talking about the different forms
Speaker 1: of protests how the former peaceful ones often get overlooked,
Speaker 1: they get criticized as much as the not so peaceful versions.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's it's it's I think it's touching
Speaker 1: upon this national conversation right now about like what is
Speaker 1: the proper way to express our grief and the aftermath
Speaker 1: of tragedies like these. In my personal favorite part that
Speaker 1: I uh duh, it's a part where Graff says how
Speaker 1: I'm fighting police when I'm busy fighting depression. That ship
Speaker 1: that captures this whole last fucking three months for real,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, but I mean, you've been dealing with
Speaker 1: it better than most motherfucker's because you've actually still been
Speaker 1: You've actually been getting up and doing it. But I mean, god, damn,
Speaker 1: when I heard that line, I felt that ship, because
Speaker 1: it's like a lot of the last six seven months
Speaker 1: has felt like a punch in the gut a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, you know, and and it's sometimes it gets
Speaker 1: hard to kind of look at you know, the world
Speaker 1: is like a whole picture and not like just be
Speaker 1: concerned with what's going on internally. So I feel that
Speaker 1: I feel that, oh, yeah, you know, you you especially
Speaker 1: for someone like me who like I mean, I watched
Speaker 1: the news all the time for this podcast, so it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I see I see the protest, my roommates
Speaker 1: going to protests and ship and I'm like, I'm sad.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's it makes you feel guilty in a way. No,
Speaker 1: I feel that. I mean, in the aftermath of the
Speaker 1: budget vote back in June and our failure to defund
Speaker 1: the police here in Athens, I spent like a solid
Speaker 1: month just in bed. In bed, I like fled. I
Speaker 1: went to California. I fucking back from California and fucking
Speaker 1: just fled to my mom's house. I was just in
Speaker 1: a feuge state. I was in a FuG state because
Speaker 1: it's too much to handle. It's a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: no one should, no one out there should feel like
Speaker 1: like it's not a lot, Like this is fucked up.
Speaker 1: If if you, if you, if you're wondering, you're not alone,
Speaker 1: like this whole entire situation. And I'm talking I'm not
Speaker 1: just talking about the George Floyd stuff. I'm talking onto now,
Speaker 1: Like there's nobody who's alive who's experienced anything like this,
Speaker 1: and it's relentless you know, and they call it out
Speaker 1: here in the hook when they sing, they say they
Speaker 1: shot him because they fled. And it's unfortunately a timely
Speaker 1: refrain given the killing of eighteen year old Dean k
Speaker 1: by DC police the day before. The single dropped so
Speaker 1: body Warren camera released in the aftermath of the shooting
Speaker 1: shows the officer running out of his car and in
Speaker 1: a matter of seconds, firing his gun at a teenager
Speaker 1: as he was running away from police. The officer made
Speaker 1: no attempt to de escalate. There was no warning or
Speaker 1: directive given to Kay to drop the weapon, a weapon
Speaker 1: that K appears to have thrown in the air, in
Speaker 1: which was recovered almost a hundred feet from his body. Now,
Speaker 1: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, I stood firm against call, said
Speaker 1: a fund to the police from the get go. Has
Speaker 1: been lambastad by Black Lives Matter DC for painting the
Speaker 1: words on the streets she were named for the rallying
Speaker 1: cry BLMDC is now calling from Mayor Bowser to fire
Speaker 1: the officer that killed Dion. I think you know the
Speaker 1: fact of the facts that are revealed by this body
Speaker 1: camp footage, and you know, calls from reformers to oh well,
Speaker 1: we need to increase body cameras and mandate body cameras
Speaker 1: and increase police budgets for body camera usage. Um, I
Speaker 1: think still fall short of what a lot of the
Speaker 1: activists in the streets, the you know, the revolutionaries out
Speaker 1: here putting their lives on the line for this movement
Speaker 1: I want to see. Because in the case of Daniel
Speaker 1: Prude in Rochester, who you know, a black man that
Speaker 1: was experienced a mental health crisis. His family member called
Speaker 1: the police, who you know, put a spithood on him
Speaker 1: and pressed him face down on the freezing cold street
Speaker 1: until he had, you know, problems breathing. He ended up
Speaker 1: going to the hospital and dying seven days later. Um,
Speaker 1: that body camp footage didn't come out. He died in March,
Speaker 1: and that body camp footage came out last week. And
Speaker 1: so the transparency and the ease of access to this
Speaker 1: footage is unequal. Sometimes it stays locked up for months,
Speaker 1: sometimes it never gets released. And so sure, you can
Speaker 1: say it gives us greater accountability with the police, but
Speaker 1: we got but it's not. But there we run into
Speaker 1: issues with how the police misused this footage sometimes for
Speaker 1: their own game and to protect those that make up
Speaker 1: their force. Well, I mean, I mean, especially if we
Speaker 1: don't have any control as to when the body cam
Speaker 1: footage get out and when it doesn't. Because I mean,
Speaker 1: right now, what when when did uh proud happen? March?
Speaker 1: She died in March. That happened in March. So that
Speaker 1: happened around the time of a mat Abrey, right or
Speaker 1: a little bit after, Yeah, right around right after Brown
Speaker 1: Taylor's killing, right after a mod Arebrey. The public being
Speaker 1: aware of the situation, and possibly the protests lasted a
Speaker 1: little bit longer with I mean more like as intensely
Speaker 1: as they were in like July and June, they last
Speaker 1: a bit longer than that. Maybe something extra gets done,
Speaker 1: like this is important in the entire the um chief
Speaker 1: of Police, entire command staff of the Rochester Police Department resigned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard about that, you like, and they've been they've
Speaker 1: been in the streets for like what five days, because
Speaker 1: I've noticed that the k case hasn't gotten as much
Speaker 1: because you don't. Yeah, I was gonna if that's what
Speaker 1: you thought it was. It sucks that a gun being
Speaker 1: involved makes people be dismissive of it. But yeah, because
Speaker 1: this is double edged sort of also expanding the surveillance
Speaker 1: state so that every interaction that you have with the
Speaker 1: police officer is filmed and they can do what they
Speaker 1: want and what they will with that footage. Whereas, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, UH footage of these police killings has
Speaker 1: helped draw public awareness to the issue of police brutality
Speaker 1: and of UH police impunity. So it's like, what, I
Speaker 1: just don't know how to feel. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: really in favor of giving any more funds to the
Speaker 1: police for anything, to expand their budgets in any way. UM,
Speaker 1: And yet documentation of this you know, systemic issue is
Speaker 1: the only way that we have been able to cultivating
Speaker 1: national conversation about how to fix it. So lastly, let's
Speaker 1: turn to the controversy swirling Tianna Taylor's new video or
Speaker 1: self directed video for her song Still. Let's check it
Speaker 1: out a little bit of that makes movie. It opens
Speaker 1: with her parent out the window with a gun like
Speaker 1: Malcolm x Um and smattered with historical footage from black
Speaker 1: liberation movements and police impunity throughout the decades. Later, Taylor
Speaker 1: is dressed up like Brianna Taylor and her E M
Speaker 1: T uniform and later Still as Emmett Till's mother grieving
Speaker 1: at this casket side and then he took to Twitter
Speaker 1: to cry the videos profiting off of black death. I
Speaker 1: actually thought the video was kind of if you just
Speaker 1: played that song for somebody, they wouldn't think that song
Speaker 1: is about what's going on right now with the And
Speaker 1: that's why the video is powerful because it recontextualizes the
Speaker 1: lyrics in the on a way that makes the lyrics
Speaker 1: even more profound. If you read them as like a
Speaker 1: simp will love song and she's crying out for this
Speaker 1: guy she thinks about still, like I would probably hear
Speaker 1: that on the radio and then like switch stations because
Speaker 1: who then cares We heard that song up any of times,
Speaker 1: but re contextualized as as a statement of the grieving
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with this still, that we're thinking of
Speaker 1: these people who were slain. Still. By adding the visual
Speaker 1: element to it, it really like change. It really changes
Speaker 1: what the song means and kind of like again, I
Speaker 1: got goose bumps, like people's issue exactly with the The
Speaker 1: issue is that the lyrics have nothing to do. There's
Speaker 1: no call to action, there's no direct people to resources
Speaker 1: to get involved in the movement. It's not activism. It's
Speaker 1: not activism. That's bullshit. I think that's bullshit, that criticism
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know why this doesn't make me
Speaker 1: not like it because, like I feel how you feel.
Speaker 1: I thought it was dope personally, but I feel that, Um,
Speaker 1: I gott admit the part where she was singing and
Speaker 1: she was dressed as Brianna Taylor. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I couldn't articulate to you. I've been smoking, but it
Speaker 1: kind of made me cringe. I don't know, maybe if
Speaker 1: it was an actress or there was like an actress
Speaker 1: that was like you know, or you know, one of
Speaker 1: those camera tracks we don't really see the person's face,
Speaker 1: but it's like eluding that it's Brianna Taylor. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. This is just a complete personal thing, but
Speaker 1: something about it. When I saw that part, I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, kind of actually had a
Speaker 1: more vistle reaction to the footage of the actual like
Speaker 1: the audio of like Eric Garner, the audio of like
Speaker 1: George Floyd. That stuff bothered me more because it's so
Speaker 1: retraumatizing to experience that again. Is that I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's in the audio version. I wonder it's just in
Speaker 1: the video. I'm well, I mean, it definitely feels like
Speaker 1: it has more thought behind it than a lot of
Speaker 1: statements that have been made musically recently. We're allowed to grieve,
Speaker 1: We're allowed to make art that grieves. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, she's making money off of it, but
Speaker 1: it's also her authentic expression of how she's feeling about
Speaker 1: what's going on, or is it capitalization on what's going on?
Speaker 1: Or is it both? How much the artist's intentions, you know,
Speaker 1: feed into our interpretation of it. Realistically, there's no way
Speaker 1: that anyone can know how authentic it is, but it
Speaker 1: feels authentic to me personally. It made me feel something,
Speaker 1: and I was supposed to do that. Like for me,
Speaker 1: knowing that you know, it's her song and knowing that
Speaker 1: she directed the video to me made it feel personal.
Speaker 1: Watching it and listening to it, the whole experience was like,
Speaker 1: oh this is It wasn't like a director came to
Speaker 1: her like, hey, I gotta you know, groundbreaking idea that's
Speaker 1: going to make us lots of money. It was like
Speaker 1: she wrote the song, she made this music video to
Speaker 1: capture what her words really meant. And yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it adds a layer of like of of of sensitivity
Speaker 1: and like authenticity to it. For me. Yeah, I I've
Speaker 1: I'm not really that big on R and B. So
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to hear one R and B
Speaker 1: singer from the next and be like, Oh, this is
Speaker 1: why this person is better than this person, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But I know that projects like this
Speaker 1: are things that make me become fans of people. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, man, this is like a whole multimedia
Speaker 1: thing that is primarily one person's idea. Like funk with that,
Speaker 1: you know, like I really do. I really do. So
Speaker 1: I'll probably be listening some more Tiana Taylor after this
Speaker 1: a good ship. Well we're gonna end this by me
Speaker 1: taking my index finger pressing that space bar DJ space
Speaker 1: bar in the house. Let's get one of those beats
Speaker 1: to wrap overation Wait, no reparations. Happy birthday to my
Speaker 1: nigga easy. If he was allowed today, he probably put
Speaker 1: out three CDs, but he died like back before. I
Speaker 1: wasn't high school. Only when we got left is my
Speaker 1: nigga cu I'm like, oh we there yet, let me
Speaker 1: play need a vaccine? Get her from the f d A.
Speaker 1: But it's almost too much histeria. I need to leave
Speaker 1: this country and go to Nigeria. To Nigeria, because they
Speaker 1: are nothing like us. You're very much unlikely to catch
Speaker 1: the VIP risk if you go over there, because they
Speaker 1: ain't shouting louder trying to get some power from Burial Bowser,
Speaker 1: Mario Bowser. She take it in the streets, the hometown
Speaker 1: mayor saying black lives matter to police, and you know
Speaker 1: that's why we call it the mayor. And then I
Speaker 1: go and sing sweeter than Tianna Taylor. Tianna Taylor with
Speaker 1: that video for still depicting a deceased Emmett Till with
Speaker 1: his mama's crying and the tears so they fill all
Speaker 1: over her face, all over her grill, all over her grill.
Speaker 1: I keep them fresh. I'm sitting at the window like
Speaker 1: Malcolm X and just looking at these cops like Coopy
Speaker 1: next every time I'm on the ship. Yeah, I'll beat
Speaker 1: That's what it's. My name is, Dope, KNIGHTE. We are
Speaker 1: waiting on reparations. Hurry up, see you next week. You
Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. We're talking about reparations. We're
Speaker 1: talking about reparations, not the game for reparations. Waiting on
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