Speaker 1: So in the absolutely seminal work of two thousand two, uh,
Speaker 1: a movie called eight Mile came together starring famed White
Speaker 1: rapper Eminem. Now I'm saying white rapper just just for funnies,
Speaker 1: because had he not been easily one of the greatest
Speaker 1: rappers to ever rap rapping, there's that just undeniable ki influences, cadences. Now,
Speaker 1: some of y'all are a little young, so you you,
Speaker 1: you may not really appreciate. You may only know moms spaghetti,
Speaker 1: moms spaghetti. You may only know the of course some
Speaker 1: world torn dropping the four tours over the floor boards,
Speaker 1: getting divorced and divorce at the same time as Harrison
Speaker 1: Ford and tinking panting, panting, panting, wall panickin. You're using
Speaker 1: way too many napkins, bapkins flapping flapping around like a bathkin.
Speaker 1: You may only know Meme Eminem. But in the art
Speaker 1: of rap, in the time that he came and even
Speaker 1: up to now, his track record, his catalog, his ability
Speaker 1: to just the mastery of the art and skill of rap,
Speaker 1: he's he's really there's there's not really you can't. He
Speaker 1: may not be your thing, which is what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get out he may not be your thing. Maybe
Speaker 1: what you like, just like some people don't like sushi.
Speaker 1: I disagree with those people. They are wrong, but some
Speaker 1: people don't like sushi. But it is when you have
Speaker 1: someone who is a an absolute prodigy, Mastery, Michelin, star,
Speaker 1: sushi chef, it is what it is. They're objectively Eminem
Speaker 1: what my argument is, take it from prop Eminem is
Speaker 1: objectively one of the top five rappers to ever rap.
Speaker 1: Just I know, trust me. But in this work eight Mile,
Speaker 1: which in hindsight's a little funny, you know, growing up
Speaker 1: in the mean streets of Detroit, which is not funny,
Speaker 1: and them streets are actually very mean, but their music
Speaker 1: scene was thriving, like there's no other way around that.
Speaker 1: Detroit all the way back to Motown. Detroit has given
Speaker 1: us some of the greatest music in the world. Anyway,
Speaker 1: their underground scene and I've got to perform at this
Speaker 1: place which was super dupe. But St. Andrew's Hall upstairs
Speaker 1: and then downstairs is the famous scene at the end
Speaker 1: where he's rapping two overshook ones and loosely based on
Speaker 1: his life living in a trailer park and he's trying
Speaker 1: to get a record deal and break it to the
Speaker 1: industry and has this one major battle. And in this battle,
Speaker 1: he's just knocking off local rappers left and right, you know,
Speaker 1: and the cheddar Bob of the world. And anyway, at
Speaker 1: the end of it, he wins the battle and he
Speaker 1: goes home, but he wins over this room full of
Speaker 1: black people. And as he's taken out crew after crew
Speaker 1: and rapper after wrapper, he uh then just has to
Speaker 1: go back to work because underground wrap don't pay. This
Speaker 1: is pre you are l and grind time before any
Speaker 1: YouTube channels for rap battles. I'm quoting myself in that
Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to my work excellent record.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm excellent, but there's an album called excellent,
Speaker 1: and the title track is called excellent. And I say
Speaker 1: he with low standards, don't get no mics on the
Speaker 1: stage as I stand on to battle where the stakes
Speaker 1: where the rights to keep the mic for a couple
Speaker 1: more bars. No YouTube channels for rap battles of cash prizes,
Speaker 1: just keeping your cool when heat rises. So anyway, there's
Speaker 1: no ten thousand dollar pots. It wasn't until like the
Speaker 1: end of my time in the battle rap scene where
Speaker 1: you would win a chance to do a song with Dre.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Anyway, Uh, that wasn't the scene.
Speaker 1: We can that what that scene that y'all know about,
Speaker 1: where you write the you get to do the acapella
Speaker 1: right then write the three minute verse. You get three
Speaker 1: months to prepare. I didn't come from that. You had
Speaker 1: to come off the head. You don't know who you
Speaker 1: was battling, and you got to do anyway. So this
Speaker 1: scene was supposed to be that any completely wins over
Speaker 1: the crowd, and it was absolutely incredible and encouraged. White
Speaker 1: rappers are everywhere to think that they could actually do this.
Speaker 1: The problem is, this would be the corniest movie ever
Speaker 1: if Eminem was not the most amazing rapper ever. Like it.
Speaker 1: I can't stress this enough. How good of a rapper
Speaker 1: Eminem is that being said, Like I said, I come
Speaker 1: from the battle rap scene. It don't really be working
Speaker 1: like that, Fam. You don't ever really went over the crowd.
Speaker 1: It just you got your whole crew the air cheer.
Speaker 1: They listen, this ain't Eminem, Fam, This ain't look it.
Speaker 1: You have to be the greatest rapper in the world
Speaker 1: for this to happen. Listen, this ain't a mile. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about televised debates, y'all. Hood Polo tis welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: In this season of midterms, hopefully you've watched a number
Speaker 1: of like local debates, um, and maybe you didn't watch them,
Speaker 1: maybe you uh just saw the clips the next day,
Speaker 1: and those clips oftentimes tend to go a long way.
Speaker 1: My man JB out in Au Oklahoma City, shout out
Speaker 1: j B and okay see and everything he's doing on
Speaker 1: the East Side project, it's just absolutely incredible. At some
Speaker 1: point I'm gonna bring him in here just to talk
Speaker 1: about what he's doing because it is the epitome of
Speaker 1: what we want to see and why we do this pod. Anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: that was a sip of coffee because I keep it real.
Speaker 1: The Cliffy showed was from their gouvernatory a race where
Speaker 1: this man that was running was basically trying to make
Speaker 1: a point about being aspirational, and he was essentially saying, listen,
Speaker 1: when you run a company and you say you're gonna
Speaker 1: be the top ten company in the world, it's it's
Speaker 1: not like a literal thing, it's it's aspirational, like and
Speaker 1: you know me being the government. You know, Oklahoma being
Speaker 1: the top ten state. We're not gonna be that, but
Speaker 1: it's aspirational. I was like, Fam, you said, what now,
Speaker 1: so hold up in in a debate to get elected.
Speaker 1: You just this the people that's supposed to choose you
Speaker 1: by being like, y'all ain't gonna ever be no top
Speaker 1: ten you ain't never you ain't never no, but you
Speaker 1: ain't in nobody's top ten list. We'll never be there.
Speaker 1: I just want us to work as if we might
Speaker 1: one day. I was like, Fam, you gotta write this
Speaker 1: stuff down before you start talking. Every once in a
Speaker 1: while when you freestyle, and I'm gonna be real, like again,
Speaker 1: I come from battle wrap. I come from freestyle. Every
Speaker 1: once in a while when you get sometimes you black out.
Speaker 1: There's been moments that I'm like, you come to at
Speaker 1: the end. It's just I it's like, what when people
Speaker 1: talk about flow state, like I didn't realize that. We
Speaker 1: didn't obviously we didn't know what that was called. But
Speaker 1: we were accessing flow state every night because there's a
Speaker 1: there is a moment where you start feeling like a man.
Speaker 1: Before I recorded this, I should have brought in some
Speaker 1: of the homies you start feeling like in your head
Speaker 1: you're three and four lines ahead of what's coming out
Speaker 1: of your mouth. I'm already connecting the dot. I'm four
Speaker 1: bars ahead of you of what's coming out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: I didn't already connected those dots. I've already thought about
Speaker 1: the patterns, like when you're good at it, and the
Speaker 1: extent for which you could be good at it is
Speaker 1: your mastery of the ability to do that. And then
Speaker 1: sometimes my homeboy pad side and talks about this sometimes
Speaker 1: and I've experienced it. You just black out. You couldn't
Speaker 1: ask me to tell you what I just said. I
Speaker 1: don't remember it. It's just the moment gets so intense,
Speaker 1: everything clear, It's like everything fires. The moment slows down.
Speaker 1: You feel like you're again. I come from the time
Speaker 1: where it's there's an instrumental playing and you just I
Speaker 1: couldn't get off beat if I tried, and what's coming
Speaker 1: out of my mouth, I'm so in the moment. You're
Speaker 1: so locked in that it's like I couldn't fall off
Speaker 1: if I tried. I have another friend where you you
Speaker 1: have to cut him off because he won't stop. It's
Speaker 1: just you you lock in, which is why it's I
Speaker 1: have a hard time to understand if he rappers who
Speaker 1: say they came freestyle, because I just didn't come from that,
Speaker 1: Like that was something that It's like a basketball player
Speaker 1: that can't dribble. It's just a part of the game.
Speaker 1: I know things have changed. See I'm old school. Everybody
Speaker 1: don't work like me, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: that's that's where I came from, right, and the melody
Speaker 1: in the case into the words and the styles, like
Speaker 1: it all had to be together. Now when you think
Speaker 1: about like Southern trap rap or like drill music or
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like it's all vibe, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's just gotta feel aggressive. And a lot
Speaker 1: of them dudes do go in there in freestyle songs
Speaker 1: like rain Drops, jop Talps, Cooking U Feather the crup pot.
Speaker 1: That's the girls thought thought like, if that's vibe, like
Speaker 1: you were just feeling good, it don't have to make sense,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It does, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to. It just has to feel right. I didn't
Speaker 1: come from that. You had to bar out you feel me.
Speaker 1: But then there are other times when you're in that
Speaker 1: flow state and something ridiculous comes out of you about
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh what just wait, what did I
Speaker 1: just say? And what was so funny? And not funny
Speaker 1: but like sad from that time is like hip hop
Speaker 1: historically has been very homophobic. So unfortunately a lot of
Speaker 1: the battle phrases were about calling the other person gay
Speaker 1: to our shame, you know, That's what the scene was like.
Speaker 1: But when you when you black out and your freestyle
Speaker 1: and some of the things that you're saying are rather gay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and it's and at the at the time, unfortunately
Speaker 1: we would it was it's I'm saying this to our
Speaker 1: shame at the time, those things will come out of
Speaker 1: our mouth and you would catch yourself like, you know,
Speaker 1: bend over, nigger, I turned you to a prostitute. Get
Speaker 1: putting that grass like it's like word, I mean, that's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're suppressing stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But the point I'm trying to make is sometimes it
Speaker 1: comes out of your mouth in a way that it
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to come out of your mouth. And I
Speaker 1: feel like that's what happened with a Oh boy, Like
Speaker 1: maybe you're not as doub with a freestyle as you
Speaker 1: think you are. You should have thought that through. You
Speaker 1: should have random bars in front of you. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: point is all I know about that that debate was
Speaker 1: that clip. Okay, some might ask at least some people
Speaker 1: have asked me this, why do you even televise debates?
Speaker 1: Especially after the debacle of the two thousand sixteen elections
Speaker 1: that were just absurd. They were just like these screaming matches.
Speaker 1: You're not answering the question. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember in two thousand and sixteen when there was
Speaker 1: count them eleven people running for the Republican See, it's like,
Speaker 1: you can't get no word in. There's no way for you,
Speaker 1: there's no way for you to like get your bars off.
Speaker 1: You can't get your bars. There's two many people and
Speaker 1: and we're talking over each other. We're just trying to
Speaker 1: get singers, and like nobody's convincing anyone. This is why
Speaker 1: I bring up battle rap. Now. I come from a
Speaker 1: scene and and please follow me when I say all this.
Speaker 1: I come from a scene where this is early internet,
Speaker 1: so Internet didn't rule the world. I am probably a
Speaker 1: lot older than a lot of y'all. Um, Well maybe
Speaker 1: not a lot older. You know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: hip hop, the type of hip hop we existed in
Speaker 1: it was really a clandestined sort of thing. We were
Speaker 1: the scene. While like perfect example, when Doggie Style dropped
Speaker 1: the Snoop Dogs record and single Snooke Dog Dog in
Speaker 1: the same city in Los Angeles, so did a song
Speaker 1: called Passing Me By from a group called the Far Side.
Speaker 1: And I can still wrap that song from top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Near my younger days, I used to support a shack.
Speaker 1: When I went to school. I carried lunch in a
Speaker 1: bag with an apple for my teacher. That would fill
Speaker 1: up too much time. But anyway, with my name last
Speaker 1: on the looking glass and seen her yesterday, but still
Speaker 1: I had the letter pass Do for Dirt Dirt or
Speaker 1: Cheekie's Oh Pasting Me By a good film. You can
Speaker 1: watches the Elements documentary. It's about this, the other scene
Speaker 1: of l a hip hop. A lot of my friends
Speaker 1: are in that, and it was about what else was
Speaker 1: happening in Los Angeles. So while DJ Quick and Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg and dog Pan what's happening so was dialectic people's
Speaker 1: Far Side ending up in the Bay. People like Soul
Speaker 1: is a mischief and I need three to infinity gift
Speaker 1: to gab you know, uh Visionaries, Uh Freestyle Fellowship. You know,
Speaker 1: this whole other world Ski Low. You know, I wish
Speaker 1: I was a little bit taller. I wish I was
Speaker 1: about he come from that scene, right, So there was
Speaker 1: this whole other area of Los Angeles that was doing
Speaker 1: a different type of hip hop, right and out of
Speaker 1: that was like m where I would show up at
Speaker 1: weekly open mics and battles and DJs and some some
Speaker 1: of them were always battles, some of them were just
Speaker 1: like those are even a spot called Building Box, you
Speaker 1: know where you just you're we're playing past the mic
Speaker 1: and uh event called Project Blowed in this area called
Speaker 1: the Mert Park and the Crenshaw District, you know, where
Speaker 1: you would stand outside on the street corner and you
Speaker 1: just freestyle until the sun came up. It's a great childhood,
Speaker 1: you know. But then Elements itself, like Elements was like
Speaker 1: the Playoffs. It was like it was cutthroat in a
Speaker 1: way that it's like like, think of it like this.
Speaker 1: It's a single elimination tournament. You know, you sign up
Speaker 1: on the list of battle and when you're sometimes your
Speaker 1: friends would sign you up on it, just be like,
Speaker 1: oh dang, I wouldn't even try to do it, but anyway,
Speaker 1: you gotta get up there and do it. And out
Speaker 1: of that came things like the Blaze Battle that was
Speaker 1: on HBO, and then I was in a documentary called
Speaker 1: The Battle for l a about l a battle rap scene.
Speaker 1: And then out of that you get stuff like eight Mile,
Speaker 1: you know, which was a movie that's about the Detroit scene, right,
Speaker 1: and then later on you get like the King of
Speaker 1: the Dots in grind Times, where you can build a
Speaker 1: whole industry around that, where people are like athletes, like
Speaker 1: battle raps. They're like T threes to me, like those
Speaker 1: are those are evolved versions of what I came from.
Speaker 1: I can't do what they do. I've hung my mic
Speaker 1: up when it comes to the battle rap stuff. Now
Speaker 1: off the head. I might serve these foods, but for
Speaker 1: what they do now, I can't do what they do.
Speaker 1: This is a long way to say that in that scene,
Speaker 1: what you find is and we would travel like you would.
Speaker 1: You would show up like Elements was one night, Blowed
Speaker 1: was another night. There was a spot called Foundation, which
Speaker 1: was another night. There was one called Chain reaction, which
Speaker 1: was a whole other night. So four and five nights
Speaker 1: a week, we were all over the town in different places,
Speaker 1: and each of those places had like their hometown heroes,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, had their locals uh elements.
Speaker 1: There was a guy named Dotted Line who is in
Speaker 1: the documentary. There was a story where he which happened.
Speaker 1: He battled five dog from tribe call quest. Just because
Speaker 1: you have a big name, at least when it comes
Speaker 1: to l a on me and you get a pass here,
Speaker 1: you got to prove yourself right, which is the point
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get at. So in this area, in
Speaker 1: this scene, you usually if you're on the list, even
Speaker 1: if it's like planning like I'm a battist foreman, service food,
Speaker 1: the crowd is the X factor. Follow me. If the
Speaker 1: crowd just decides they like one guy, if you bring
Speaker 1: enough of your homies there and they just cheer leading,
Speaker 1: there's nothing the other person can say. It don't matter
Speaker 1: even if this person's there's you know the meme of
Speaker 1: the guy that like of the guy's going like but
Speaker 1: I'm not a rapper, and all of his friends are
Speaker 1: like going crazy, you know, after he drops his boss,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a rapper. You flow show mo and
Speaker 1: everybody behind like really, in some ways it was more
Speaker 1: like that, you're not gonna defeat this dude unless you
Speaker 1: was a purist. Most of the time. If he brings,
Speaker 1: if she brings her whole squad, her whole crew, they
Speaker 1: whole crew. If they whole crew is there and their
Speaker 1: whole crew loud enough, the other person can't get their
Speaker 1: bars off. And sometimes the hope is to get into
Speaker 1: the other person's head enough to where the crowd has
Speaker 1: just turned against them and they're still laughing at the
Speaker 1: lines from the other guy. What you saw an eight
Speaker 1: mile is something that I gotta tell you it rarely happens.
Speaker 1: I maybe can count on one hand, and I'm when
Speaker 1: I tell you from ages sixteen, two wenty five, maybe
Speaker 1: something like that. So for maybe even younger than sixt fifteen,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe fifteen fifteen. So for ten years of my life,
Speaker 1: that is what we did, whether it was somebody's garage
Speaker 1: or at the open mics, or traveling across how I
Speaker 1: ditched school to go to Arrival High School to battle
Speaker 1: some dude at lunch like this is the this is
Speaker 1: what we get. I can count on one hand that
Speaker 1: what you saw an eight mile happens. You don't win
Speaker 1: the crowd over unless you are eating this food. You
Speaker 1: have to be eminem level exceptional. It just there has
Speaker 1: been times where I know for a fact I'm serving
Speaker 1: this food, you know what I'm saying, But I'm at
Speaker 1: his school as it just don't matter, Like I'm out
Speaker 1: of school. He got his armies, like I can't get
Speaker 1: these bars off. This fool even looked at me later
Speaker 1: it was like, I know, you know, we were scared.
Speaker 1: I never forget. He was like, now everybody knew you
Speaker 1: was gonna win, So we just did this to like
Speaker 1: try to make you so that you wouldn't but of
Speaker 1: course you want, you know, like and it was part
Speaker 1: of the game, you know now. Um that being said,
Speaker 1: and the things like like an elements, you become weeklies,
Speaker 1: right you you so you become regulars. You know, you're
Speaker 1: there every week and you're kind of battling the same people.
Speaker 1: It's the same home he's in. Like sometimes you win,
Speaker 1: sometimes you lose. Sometimes you you know, you get taken out.
Speaker 1: Other times you take them out, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And you just you get on streaks and it was dope,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Uh, but that's because the
Speaker 1: crowd knows and loves both of us. Does that make
Speaker 1: it's It's very rare that someone could come into Los
Speaker 1: Angeles an attempt to battle one of our rappers. Unless
Speaker 1: they were incredible. You just don't. You don't win over there. Listen,
Speaker 1: this ain't eight miles that ship don't happen. You feel me?
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the same what televised debates
Speaker 1: back after this? Yeah, all right, we're back. So I
Speaker 1: bring all that up to say this. When you turn
Speaker 1: on your television for clips, whether it's CNN or Fox
Speaker 1: News or whatever the case may be, of these air
Speaker 1: town hall meetings, you know, air debates between candidates, whether
Speaker 1: it's local or um you know, national, you're probably thinking
Speaker 1: most people are like everybody else, they haven't already decided.
Speaker 1: They just want to see if they're do got bars
Speaker 1: or if you want to see if you're just looking
Speaker 1: for something to to go oh at, which is just battling, right,
Speaker 1: and you're hoping the person that you're not feeling just
Speaker 1: has whack bars and don't a something. But there you
Speaker 1: know what, but you know what, they they team gonna
Speaker 1: do day team gonna find the clips of day person
Speaker 1: dropping bars and then your team gonna find clips yo
Speaker 1: person dropping bars, Or you're gonna be one of those
Speaker 1: like bitter fans that are like, man, this fool ain't
Speaker 1: even giving bars. You so much better than this. Why
Speaker 1: do you main't give them the bars? He was out
Speaker 1: here just lacking. Man, Come on, why you keeping for
Speaker 1: this stuff? Man? Not say to say the joints? Say
Speaker 1: the joint you know. Um, if it's like a three
Speaker 1: or four person battle, you like dog no, but homie
Speaker 1: over here was listen. That's when you're like, look, you're
Speaker 1: not giving no love to my g over here in
Speaker 1: the corner. That fool giving y'all heat. You're here with
Speaker 1: this fool said, ain't nobody paying this food no attention?
Speaker 1: You know? So you're essentially already went in the way
Speaker 1: that most crowds go in at battles, which has already
Speaker 1: got our person. I'm a cheerlead for my dude, like
Speaker 1: my homie on the list. I got my homie back. Now,
Speaker 1: if my homie gets served, am I gonna say something
Speaker 1: to the rest of y'all? No, do I really think
Speaker 1: they got served? Or I'm gonna try to find a
Speaker 1: way to be like, I don't know, it's close now. Me,
Speaker 1: I'm a purist. If the homy got served, they got served, right.
Speaker 1: But in our politics, do you know any peers. I
Speaker 1: don't know nobody that would be honest and will be like, nah,
Speaker 1: you're tripping dog, that's my dog. But they now, they're
Speaker 1: bugging out right most of the time. And I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure your perception is mine is we already know who
Speaker 1: your person is. You just trying to get ammo on him,
Speaker 1: or you just trying to get ammo on why the
Speaker 1: other person is whack. Now, granted, the ship show that
Speaker 1: was debates was like I ain't never seen nothing like that.
Speaker 1: That was bizarre, right, But this isn't the nineteen sixties
Speaker 1: and nineteen fifties where these debates were, at least from
Speaker 1: my perspective, way here in much more cerebral, much more academic,
Speaker 1: and like like you had to you had to know
Speaker 1: what the hell you was talking about. That just doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like now in this age of two minute one
Speaker 1: minute clips. You know what I'm saying, You just trying
Speaker 1: to get your punch lines off. That's why I say
Speaker 1: this is battle rap. You're trying to get your punch
Speaker 1: lines off. You ain't gotta put together no bars. You
Speaker 1: ain't gotta have to like seven you know, the the
Speaker 1: octuplet you feel me unless you really into that, unless
Speaker 1: you are a nerd, like you're a battle rap nerdy.
Speaker 1: You want to catch the octuplets, you know, wrap like
Speaker 1: common sense or common uh jay z bar. Truthfully, I
Speaker 1: want to rhyme like common Sense, but I did five mill.
Speaker 1: I ain't been rhyming like Commons since it's a disk
Speaker 1: on Common because Common was one of those clever, clever
Speaker 1: rappers who would say stuff like, swell, does my child
Speaker 1: now a milk? Like sim relax, don't have cinemax because
Speaker 1: my cables pirated. Bug out with the rhymes. Try to swat,
Speaker 1: I'll get fly with it. To my comp I'm a
Speaker 1: ton I get amped like Watson a riot, you know,
Speaker 1: to my competition, I'm a ton I get amped like
Speaker 1: Watts in a riot. The Watts riots anyway. Anyway. Then
Speaker 1: he's like, you know these four parts word plays, nobody's
Speaker 1: here for that. They want to like turned your mama
Speaker 1: into it and veal let's go. The point I'm making
Speaker 1: is you've already decided who your dog is, who your
Speaker 1: winner is. So then the question is what are the
Speaker 1: debates for, if not for most of us at least
Speaker 1: as we think who we've already decided. Like, listen, ain't
Speaker 1: no whe in the world, I'm voting Republican or you've
Speaker 1: already decided, ain't in the world I'm voting Democrat. Who
Speaker 1: is this for? What's for the undecided? To what you
Speaker 1: would say, really, how many people undecided? Even if it's
Speaker 1: at least or the independent voter. It's like a lot
Speaker 1: of people, you know, they say they don't like politics.
Speaker 1: I don't want to get into It's like, no, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm not political. A lot of people said I'm not political,
Speaker 1: which is a political statement, but I'm not really political.
Speaker 1: I don't wanna. What they mean is they're not partisan.
Speaker 1: That's what they mean by that. You know they don't
Speaker 1: want to get into partisan politics, right, but you already know, well,
Speaker 1: I know I'm never gonna vote Democrat. Or you're like, well,
Speaker 1: I already know I'm never gonna vote Republican. There's no
Speaker 1: way in the world I could support this party. Well,
Speaker 1: then that's partisan. But this news might shock you that
Speaker 1: half the voters in America if the polls had stand
Speaker 1: up that like post stand up are undecided And monthly
Speaker 1: reports from UH you could look at um. This is
Speaker 1: called the World Population Review and in the Party Affiliation
Speaker 1: on the Gallant Pole history, they're all saying this like
Speaker 1: at least it's how many voters who identify as Democrat,
Speaker 1: a Republican or independent is actually very surprising. In monthly
Speaker 1: reports says on an average of more than of voters
Speaker 1: identify themselves as independent. Now when you say independent, a
Speaker 1: lot of times what they mean is undecided. Another investigation
Speaker 1: I'm reading right here, this this section from World Population
Speaker 1: Review dot com. It says, in many cases these numbers
Speaker 1: can be viewed as undecided voters who may often choose
Speaker 1: independent when in limbo. By contrast, the number of people
Speaker 1: who claire as Republicans or Democrat typically hovers around yes.
Speaker 1: That means voters who identify as independent voters outpaced both
Speaker 1: those who declare themselves as Democrat and Republican. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you, They just loud. When I tell
Speaker 1: you you in that room you're battling, you just got
Speaker 1: loud cheerleaders. And that's what the Democrat and Republican parties
Speaker 1: has convinced us is that they more of him. They are,
Speaker 1: of course the most powerful, but they're not the most numerous.
Speaker 1: It's really not that many of y'all in this room.
Speaker 1: You just loud. These numbers aren't an abarition. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is all the statistics, go back all the way
Speaker 1: to two thousand four. The thing is, we've let the
Speaker 1: cap fool us, and they know it. This ship is
Speaker 1: not set in stone. These people are out here trying
Speaker 1: to recruit as many of the undecided as they can.
Speaker 1: You know why because if you want their team, they
Speaker 1: already got you. Because most of us have said what
Speaker 1: we said, which is, I mean, I don't like this nigga,
Speaker 1: But ain't nowhere in the world I'm voting for no Republicans.
Speaker 1: You have already said that I don't like this nigga.
Speaker 1: Ain't why in the world the important Democrat Because we're like, well,
Speaker 1: if these are choices, and how many times have you
Speaker 1: been in a conversation where you tried to critique one
Speaker 1: side and then they'll go, well, well, well what about
Speaker 1: these fools? And you're like, I'm not even talking about
Speaker 1: them fools. I'm not saying they are any better. I'm
Speaker 1: just critiquing this one thing. Well, it's either this or that.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you know what they know is that
Speaker 1: it's not we're in a two party system. But what
Speaker 1: the numbers say? That blew my mind. So when I
Speaker 1: look at these debates and I'm like, while y'all acting
Speaker 1: like this eight man, you ain't gonna win, nobody turns
Speaker 1: out I was wrong. There's somebody in the back that's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Danny kind of got a point there. So the question
Speaker 1: really is that every politician is asking, and why you
Speaker 1: put on these debates is how do you get your
Speaker 1: hands on them independent voters? How do you get your
Speaker 1: hands on him? Undecided? What do I need to tell you?
Speaker 1: What do you need to see bad about the other side,
Speaker 1: about the other person? How can I convince you there's
Speaker 1: no third choice? How can I convince you that my
Speaker 1: bars are greater than yours? So what I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: is I'm just gonna throw as many bars as I
Speaker 1: can at you in these small bites and small clips,
Speaker 1: and at least when you see us head to head,
Speaker 1: you could be like, dangle, Yeah, he got a point there.
Speaker 1: Dang he got a point there. That's why you air
Speaker 1: these things. You air him for the news tomorrow, right,
Speaker 1: So what does that mean to us? Here's what it
Speaker 1: means to us. And this is what like I cannot
Speaker 1: stress enough. It's that these people running for office are
Speaker 1: more aware of the power you have than you are.
Speaker 1: Let that sink in day, more aware of the power
Speaker 1: that you have than you are. I used to battle rap.
Speaker 1: I know what kind I know. I can spit. Listen,
Speaker 1: I pound mix. I do a lot of like conscious
Speaker 1: and uplifting and positive music. But if you need me
Speaker 1: to just get my bars off. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see propaganda. Your boy got bars. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: You sent me to battle down in New Orleans, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lose because the crowd matters. You sent me to
Speaker 1: battle down in Texas. I'm probably gonna lose. You know why,
Speaker 1: because the crowd old matters. Yeah, these politicians know that.
Speaker 1: So what I want you to know is, listen, I
Speaker 1: don't believe our liberation is in the hands of any
Speaker 1: of these political parties. I think a two party system
Speaker 1: is our demise. It's and and it's because they're really
Speaker 1: good at convincing us that there is only two parties.
Speaker 1: You feel me. Oh look, look they talk about take
Speaker 1: the streets. You talk about crips and bloods. I was like,
Speaker 1: I grow with atos. There's a third option over here.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying. So the point I'm trying
Speaker 1: to make is they would convince you that we are
Speaker 1: the keys to your liberation. My answer is neither one
Speaker 1: of y'all. All the keys to the liberation. The keys
Speaker 1: to our liberation is realizing the power that we collectively
Speaker 1: have as a community. They need what we got and
Speaker 1: they know that more than we know that. You better
Speaker 1: make these people sweat for your vote, make them earn it.
Speaker 1: This let's let's let's make it a mile. Okay, get
Speaker 1: up there and show me your bars. You're following me. Listen.
Speaker 1: Our relationship with with the government. Listen, we're not friends.
Speaker 1: There's something you want me stand up there and act
Speaker 1: like we're friends. Nig We're not friends. This ship is transactional.
Speaker 1: Like you understand what I'm saying, Like like it's a
Speaker 1: T shirt on my website. I don't hate America. I
Speaker 1: just the man she keeps your promises. You haven't made
Speaker 1: promises to me. I need you to uphold your side.
Speaker 1: Our relationship is transactional. Nigga, were not friends. So when
Speaker 1: you get on this camera you want me to choose
Speaker 1: you for your job, I need you to spit that heat.
Speaker 1: And if you're gonna spit that heat, I need to
Speaker 1: be able to see if you false flagging? Nigga, Is
Speaker 1: you really about that? Is you're about I'm gonna run
Speaker 1: your license? You really about that these streets? You're really
Speaker 1: doing this ship you say you're doing. You understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Nigg Listen, I came in here at first,
Speaker 1: change my mind. I may look like I'm on one side,
Speaker 1: just like you make just like you can stand on
Speaker 1: that crowd. Listen. There has been those other times in
Speaker 1: my battle rap career too. You walk into the city,
Speaker 1: you walk into this room, and then niggas just love
Speaker 1: hip hop. So they may believe already because they ain't
Speaker 1: heard me rap yet. You know that they boyfriends served
Speaker 1: me and I'm listening they boy getting their bars off.
Speaker 1: But there's a moment, probably any other athletes understand when
Speaker 1: you realize in the middle of this game, oh You're
Speaker 1: gonna win this. They can't. It's over. These fools can't
Speaker 1: guard me? Are we were about to win this game? Like,
Speaker 1: there is a moment. I remember those moments in battle
Speaker 1: Rap where I was just like, after this dude did
Speaker 1: his first round, I was like, oh, I'm a moth,
Speaker 1: this fool. Oh it's going down, and watch me win
Speaker 1: this crowd over watch. I've won crowds over It's not impossible,
Speaker 1: it's just rare. You have to be listening. I had
Speaker 1: to earn it. So my request to all of us
Speaker 1: listening to this is, Okay, this ain't aight mile, but
Speaker 1: maybe you can make it a mile. Make these fools
Speaker 1: earn it. Did you know that on average? And do
Speaker 1: your googles, maybe on average of registered voters actually vote.
Speaker 1: You're hearing me? So who gets? Who get their choice?
Speaker 1: Or the loud ones? They're not the most of us.
Speaker 1: They just allowed it. Make these fools earn it. Little politics, Yeah,
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