Speaker 1: A media. So the following series is called Lessons from
Speaker 1: the Big Three. I will, if you don't already know,
Speaker 1: explain who these people are and why I feel like
Speaker 1: they have something to teach us about politics. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go into it in this intro, but I
Speaker 1: do want to say that because you're going to hear
Speaker 1: about all of it through this whole thing. If you
Speaker 1: don't know what it is this moment in culture, you know,
Speaker 1: if I were conspiracy theory, build would be one that
Speaker 1: would make me to believe that you're trying to make
Speaker 1: us not pay.
Speaker 2: Attention to collects.
Speaker 1: But I ain't that conspiracy theory pild But also even
Speaker 1: our discussions of pop culture and things that we just
Speaker 1: find funny actually have a level of sophistication that we
Speaker 1: are going to draw out in this series. So Part
Speaker 1: one is just going to be an overall of some
Speaker 1: big picture stuff, like when you every once in a
Speaker 1: while when you have to zoom up ten thousand feet
Speaker 1: and be like, yo, what are we doing here? Part
Speaker 1: two has to do with our particular election and strategies
Speaker 1: that have to do with running for office. And then
Speaker 1: part three, oh, we got to go back to Israel
Speaker 1: and talk about he wasn't outside. Now, I recorded this
Speaker 1: as it was happening, and which means that some of
Speaker 1: this stuff will be old news. Part three is about
Speaker 1: Iran jumping into seemingly jumping into this Israeli war and
Speaker 1: then Iran saying, don't clap back, and then they actually
Speaker 1: clapped back. So it's which as today, which is four nineteen.
Speaker 1: You probably don't hear this that episode until May, but
Speaker 1: just know that it was recorded in time. And as
Speaker 1: you know, I'm so mature this year and so far
Speaker 1: ahead of y'all that I have to come back and
Speaker 1: record these intros. So lessons from the Big Three Part one.
Speaker 1: This is future me, not as in metro Bloom. In
Speaker 1: the future. I don't need to be corny like that.
Speaker 2: You get it, all right?
Speaker 1: Oh man? What I tell you about them cold fans.
Speaker 1: You can't argue with j Cole fans, there's no oh man,
Speaker 1: Big three. Yeah, there are some lessons that we can
Speaker 1: learn in this politics, y'all. All right. I was gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and talk about the abortion issues happening in
Speaker 1: Arizona and then ultimately what that what that means for
Speaker 1: the country and the state of mind our country is
Speaker 1: in which is not one that's not hard for any
Speaker 1: of us to understand. But when you when you're when
Speaker 1: you're so far into the weeds, it's it's really difficult
Speaker 1: to like peek your head out and get a get
Speaker 1: a some perspective. And that's what i want to do
Speaker 1: right now. Like I'm gonna use the Big Three, which
Speaker 1: was such a great diversion in some ways from the
Speaker 1: slow drift to oblivion that we're experiencing in our politics.
Speaker 1: And then it turned around and reminded me of the
Speaker 1: slow drift of oblivion into our politics. Sometimes sometimes the
Speaker 1: way my brain works could get a little annoying, but
Speaker 1: it's also why you listen to this podcast because how
Speaker 1: my brain works. We don't have many heroes as black
Speaker 1: men who choose to make the right decisions. Oftentimes it's
Speaker 1: because our heroes were assassinated or because they turn out
Speaker 1: to be diddy. I'm saying this because I'm laughing. I'm
Speaker 1: giggling at it because you have to understand, again, black
Speaker 1: people don't take much serious. And part of why we
Speaker 1: don't take a lot serious is it's really just trauma.
Speaker 1: You know, we just we it's pain, you know, it's hurtful.
Speaker 1: We The thing is, like I want to believe the
Speaker 1: best in Diddy, Like I want to believe that he's
Speaker 1: just a freak like that is like that none of
Speaker 1: this was actually he wasn't really like trafficking girls that
Speaker 1: they were all consensual. He just he's just he's just
Speaker 1: got kinks. That's what I want to believe, you know,
Speaker 1: And it's just probably not the case. So the best
Speaker 1: thing we could do is just make memes, especially at
Speaker 1: his man flying away looking like George Bush flying over
Speaker 1: Katrina like what is such? Peter Rest and any back
Speaker 1: in the hood at top Golf to try to show
Speaker 1: y'all like, Nigga, I ain't scared, come give me you
Speaker 1: know where I'm at. I'm in the hood right now,
Speaker 1: Like that's a real I'm in the hood right now.
Speaker 1: And then this in the midst of that, we get
Speaker 1: a patriotic Beyonce album, which was also a great breath
Speaker 1: of fresh air. From what I understand, they was passing
Speaker 1: out American flags at the at the listening party, and
Speaker 1: if you my boy Merse, you know, he's like this
Speaker 1: is a distraction, Like you trying to get black people
Speaker 1: uninvolved with politics. You're trying to turn it. Watch why
Speaker 1: Beyonce all of a sudden doing country music. You're trying
Speaker 1: to be You're trying to distract us from the struggle.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Merse, I ain't mean to do the voice
Speaker 1: like that because I mean, it's possible Nigga like you
Speaker 1: might be on the So I just don't think all
Speaker 1: these people court, I just don't think they that organized that. However,
Speaker 1: they are are coordinated enough to do that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, like if if the Feds raised your house
Speaker 1: and Nigga you at top Golf, then something else happening,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And if you could weaponize Beyonce,
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you could get her on
Speaker 1: your side, like Nigga, don't nobody care a little pump,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You know it was wearing
Speaker 1: a Maga hat. Don't nobody care about that. But you
Speaker 1: got yon where was Nigga? Like I'm not saying she would,
Speaker 1: but for her to be all patriotic on this book
Speaker 1: and maybe not patriotics, she just being she like country music,
Speaker 1: black music. I don't care what you say, which is true,
Speaker 1: you know, but obviously I don't want to smoke with
Speaker 1: the bay Hive. I have nothing negative to say. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that this was a good break from all
Speaker 1: we've been going through and all we've been witnessing, you know,
Speaker 1: poor citizens of Palestine perience in Easter and Ramadan and
Speaker 1: like in rubble, like there's no how like what do we?
Speaker 1: What do you? This is Unlike it's one thing to
Speaker 1: be there, like obviously, you know, and it's one thing
Speaker 1: for us to like just know that as a nation
Speaker 1: like damn we who are we? Like? You know, and
Speaker 1: it's called again it's billed into our politics in the
Speaker 1: sense that like this is why a lot of people are,
Speaker 1: you know, voting uncommitted right as a way to say, like, nigga,
Speaker 1: don't just you can't just keep being cool with all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and Biden talking about he big mad. I'm
Speaker 1: big mad. I'm mad at you now, you know, but
Speaker 1: going over to the back get you whatever guns you won't,
Speaker 1: but I'm mad you better stop using them guns that
Speaker 1: I'm paying for it and giving you. So it's like
Speaker 1: niggas needed a break, and one of the great breaks
Speaker 1: we got. Oh man, this was so wonderful. First of all,
Speaker 1: before I get into this. I got to tell you
Speaker 1: how I came to it. I woke up and the
Speaker 1: board it and again, my nigga, merce, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: You should listen to his podcast, Best Rapper in La.
Speaker 1: It's like it's really a love letter to La merse
Speaker 1: goes Man. I was listening to this verse was Kendrick verse,
Speaker 1: and I was like, damn, why couse this and a
Speaker 1: white white dising ice Cube? Why is he dising? A
Speaker 1: big three man? He doing a mate, He's doing an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing thing in basketball. And then he was like, you know,
Speaker 1: how I know I'm over forty like this? How I
Speaker 1: know I'm washed because I really thought he was talking
Speaker 1: about ice Cube and I'm giggling ha ha ha. But
Speaker 1: I also get it either. I had to scroll through
Speaker 1: the comments to realize what was going on. So let
Speaker 1: me catch you all up and then we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about what this has to do with abortion, politics
Speaker 1: and where we are as a nation.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Again, you have to understand that, I truly believe that,
Speaker 1: like the discourse, even in pop culture within the black
Speaker 1: and brown community is almost predictive. We are so equipped
Speaker 1: to understand politics. It's a very obviously it's the cornerstone
Speaker 1: of the show. There's a sophistication in this conversation that
Speaker 1: were about to discuss that I know most people wouldn't
Speaker 1: think about because it's just so fun. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out to the fact that it's just fun because
Speaker 1: it's even fun for me, Like this is I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what I come from. I love all this.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there's a sophistication here, so it's not a stretch.
Speaker 1: It maybe I'm saying this to myself, it might feel
Speaker 1: like a stretch, but it's now among at least for
Speaker 1: the last decade, the leaders of the pack in like
Speaker 1: hip hop, hip hop, like rapping ass niggas. Obviously, Drake
Speaker 1: Drake's one of the biggest artists on Earth. And then
Speaker 1: there's Kendrick Lamar stratosphere, right, and then there's j Cole.
Speaker 1: Now obviously this is Big Shawn E Raser, which is
Speaker 1: really not fair because the nigga's amazing. If we were
Speaker 1: talking basketball, if we're talking Jordan, Kobe or Lebron that
Speaker 1: is obviously Steph Curry does that? You follow with me,
Speaker 1: Kendrick Drake Cole As if Big Sean don't exist. Now,
Speaker 1: if we're doing sheer numbers, Cole's not in the conversation.
Speaker 1: If we're doing sheer numbers, we're doing if we're just
Speaker 1: talking numbers, it's it's Drake and Kendrick. And even with that,
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, Drake's a pop artist. Like, let's not
Speaker 1: like he's a rapper. Don't get me wrong, a boy
Speaker 1: care rap. He's a pop artist, right, It's it's Michael
Speaker 1: Jackson and Prince right. Like, so I've said this even
Speaker 1: in my book, like that, I'm like that that I
Speaker 1: went the Prince route. Like I say this all the time,
Speaker 1: Like you could be Michael Jackson, you could be Prince,
Speaker 1: you could be Kendrick, or you could be Drake. It's
Speaker 1: the same principle. Like Drake's essentially a pop artist. But
Speaker 1: like it's not like it's not like he can't wrap
Speaker 1: his ass off. He's just he just makes catchy pop music.
Speaker 1: Kendrick's a different animal. He's the Compton kid, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He he makes what he makes and
Speaker 1: it's just so deep and powerful and good and resonant
Speaker 1: that like it just creeps to the top. So Kendrick
Speaker 1: has no Kendrick in a lot of ways. It's cut
Speaker 1: from a cloth that I'm cut from. He's of a
Speaker 1: different eraror. He's a disruptor. He's competitive, but he's very quiet.
Speaker 1: He don't be on Instagram. He pops out for his
Speaker 1: shows and then he goes home. He ain't got no
Speaker 1: big old entourage. He is a street nigga, but he
Speaker 1: real quiet, complete introvert. He's not flashy. Of course he
Speaker 1: got his of course he's not without scandal. He's not
Speaker 1: without his name. But it's just he don't be on
Speaker 1: the internet like that. He's a creative. He don't. You
Speaker 1: don't see him in no paparazzi. He's like, that's just
Speaker 1: not his life. He don't do that right. But he's
Speaker 1: never backed down from a battle. So whether we're talking
Speaker 1: about his Control verse, where he did basically fifty two
Speaker 1: bars and dissed everyone Big Sean Jay Electronica, like everyone
Speaker 1: calls himself the King of New York. Like I don't care,
Speaker 1: Like this is competition, nigga, Like get your bars up.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to raise the ball. I just want everybody
Speaker 1: to get dope, like come on full. He's the homie
Speaker 1: that's like you know this nigga right now, Like that's
Speaker 1: the running joke. This nigga right now is doing like
Speaker 1: you know, Cholo Prison Burpies at the park right now.
Speaker 1: He just I'm different, you feel me? He come from that.
Speaker 1: And then Drake has been like sort of like subliminally
Speaker 1: jabbing at Kendrick for years. Kendrick don't care Kendrick name's name,
Speaker 1: so his beet cipher verse was clearly about Drake. So
Speaker 1: with this this, I'm taking y'all back a while right
Speaker 1: during this time, I mean, this is before. This is
Speaker 1: when both of both Kendrick and j Cole had short hair,
Speaker 1: when they still had they still had fades. They were
Speaker 1: talking about at some point doing a tape together, doing
Speaker 1: the mixtape together, like they have been friends this whole time,
Speaker 1: right at least that's what it seems like, because in
Speaker 1: a lot of ways, Cole was on the same trajectory
Speaker 1: as Kendrick. This is more thinking man's music. You know,
Speaker 1: we're from the streets, but it's like we're trying to
Speaker 1: put good in the world. As an aside to Cole
Speaker 1: very much, he's a lot like Odyssey. I would like
Speaker 1: y'all to Google, take your time to go look up
Speaker 1: Odyssey and his music and his whole persona around like
Speaker 1: riding bikes everywhere, and his production just's Cole is clearly
Speaker 1: influenced by Odyssey, which is a great person to be
Speaker 1: influenced by. I'm a huge Odyssey fan anyway. So it
Speaker 1: was understood that they were, you know, friends, and I
Speaker 1: think us as fans wanted to picture these two guys
Speaker 1: that were like totally not like everybody else on the radio,
Speaker 1: you know, doing the things that they were doing as like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is dope, Like this is like the new gen
Speaker 1: at the time, is like this is a new era.
Speaker 1: And then there's Drake, who's just an international pretty boys star. Right.
Speaker 1: So eventually the fandoms developed ten years later and we
Speaker 1: got we've got our teams, We've got our arguments with this.
Speaker 1: This is now we're in the barbershop. We're arguing about
Speaker 1: who's the best. There is obviously a discussion around who
Speaker 1: are there's always gonna be like a top five, and
Speaker 1: essentially Cole was always kind of like kind of like
Speaker 1: third place when it came to this this you know,
Speaker 1: like he's but either way, these are the big three now.
Speaker 1: Cole acknowledges it on a song with Drake right in
Speaker 1: the songs called First Person Shooter. Okay, Cole acknowledges that
Speaker 1: like Okay, Kendrick, Drake, and Cole are essentially like the
Speaker 1: Big three, like the league that Ice Cube made, which
Speaker 1: was my confusion, and this was this was a song
Speaker 1: that they put out. And remember, as far as we know,
Speaker 1: Drake and Kendrick don't really get along. They just fundamentally
Speaker 1: see the world different. I'm gonna catch y'all love what
Speaker 1: happened in the past few weeks. Kendrick puts out a verse.
Speaker 1: He puts out a song. Well it's actually not even
Speaker 1: his song. It's a song with Metro Blooming and Future
Speaker 1: and they're just featuring Kendrick and the songs called like
Speaker 1: that and it's sampled Rodney Oh's Everlasting bass, So that's
Speaker 1: a Compton sample. Don da dun Dunt dunn dun don
Speaker 1: and then and it's a regular like it's a Future song,
Speaker 1: you know, and like remember Future got a whole tape
Speaker 1: with Drake. It's there's so much we don't know happening.
Speaker 1: And then Kendrick comes on and this ZGA was like
Speaker 1: I chose violence. He just starts ripping Drake to shreds,
Speaker 1: and in that there's these jabs at Cole, and the
Speaker 1: final jab is because Cole is the one that said
Speaker 1: we're the Big three. Kendrick goes, motherfuck the Big three, bitch,
Speaker 1: I'm the big Me. Ain't no big three nigga is me.
Speaker 1: You have to remember again, Kendrick has a history of
Speaker 1: being like nigga, this is hip hop. Like nah, fam nigga,
Speaker 1: you not as good as me, because like, stop talking
Speaker 1: about Big three. No, we not equals me and you
Speaker 1: are not the same. Homeboy. This nigga Drake talking about
Speaker 1: he walking around with the stick, nigga, you not three stacks?
Speaker 1: Meant basically like your stick is like a flute. Cause
Speaker 1: that's all these these sightings of Andre three thousand walking
Speaker 1: around New York and he's got a flute, and then
Speaker 1: he put out the Flute album. So he's like, you
Speaker 1: don't walk around with the stick. You not three stacks.
Speaker 1: So he's so he's like, even if you were walking
Speaker 1: around nigga is a flute, You're not a street nigga. Like,
Speaker 1: you not hard, you're not tough. Stop rapping like you
Speaker 1: tough and cale nigga, We are not the same, So
Speaker 1: go ahead of the songs all like that, right, Internet
Speaker 1: blows up because listen, we haven't had a real rap
Speaker 1: beef in a while.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You might be traumatized from the biggiea Tupac era where
Speaker 1: niggas died over over a rap beef. Now that hasn't
Speaker 1: happened at that scale since then. There's been rappers that
Speaker 1: have died over beef, but a lot of shit had
Speaker 1: more to do with the streets than anything. Right, But
Speaker 1: rap beefs have been glorious. They have been things in
Speaker 1: the history of hip hop that have been have pumped
Speaker 1: life into the culture. It has helped everybody sell more
Speaker 1: records and it gets us talking, right. There was the
Speaker 1: famous Nas and jay Z beef with the Ether and
Speaker 1: and and the beef went for a while and then
Speaker 1: obviously they squashed it. Right then there was other beefs
Speaker 1: that y'all remember that that y'all remember with you know,
Speaker 1: Drake and Meek Mill. There was Drake and push a
Speaker 1: te and even with Cole it was calling no name,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like he apologized or let
Speaker 1: me let me fast forward. Wait, wait, let me wait.
Speaker 1: So there was Nikki and what's all girls name Megan?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like rap beef is ah Cardian,
Speaker 1: it was Cardian Nikki for a while. Like rap beef
Speaker 1: is a thing. Sometimes it's personal, sometimes it's all made up.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's wwe. But sometimes it's like nigga, we really
Speaker 1: don't like each other. But the point is you take
Speaker 1: it to the studio and it's like song for song,
Speaker 1: bar for bar, let's go, let's do it. I mean
Speaker 1: you look at like the King of the Dot in
Speaker 1: the u r LS, Like there are like rap battle
Speaker 1: leagues to where it's like we're like like we're friends.
Speaker 1: It's just I'm gonna murder you on this song because
Speaker 1: that's how we do nigga. Get your bars up, you
Speaker 1: feel me. So this is why Cole is in album mode.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. The the running thing with between
Speaker 1: Kendrick and Drake is that Drake as for cars. We're concerned.
Speaker 1: Drake really only punches down towards the direction that he
Speaker 1: thinks is actually like he he don't want it with
Speaker 1: the compter Kid. He never goes. It's always kind of
Speaker 1: like sly kind of maybe things he don't want it
Speaker 1: with the compter he'll take it to anybody. He took
Speaker 1: it to push a t you know, he took it
Speaker 1: to meet Mill but he not gonna take it. And
Speaker 1: Kendrick's the one that's like, Nigga, I'm here, let's go, Nigga,
Speaker 1: run it, but he won't do it. So and the
Speaker 1: verse is mostly about Drake. Drake ghos Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get it to the there's I have a theory about
Speaker 1: Drake's corniness because guys like he's he's objectively corny, like
Speaker 1: he's objectively successful. Don't get me wrong. If we all
Speaker 1: understand he is a megastar. Like, listen, I'm saying this
Speaker 1: recording on my one studio mic in Boyle Heights, Nigga,
Speaker 1: I don't have mansions in multiple countries. Okay, So like,
Speaker 1: don't listen to me, nigga. But some of this shit
Speaker 1: is corny. So but anyway, what should have happened if
Speaker 1: this is hip hop's Drake should have had his going
Speaker 1: back to back ready, you know what I'm saying. No,
Speaker 1: the six God is watching, he should have where your
Speaker 1: verse at. And as of today, the fact that he
Speaker 1: still hasn't responded, while Cole has responded and retracted. The
Speaker 1: response is the most drake thing ever. That's what the
Speaker 1: homie DJ had said. And I was like, Nigga, yes,
Speaker 1: Cole said, his phone was blowing up that like this
Speaker 1: nigga dissedant, like it's supposed to be a hummy. And
Speaker 1: here's what's funny. This is what This is why I say,
Speaker 1: okay argue with Ja cole Fanz because j cole fans
Speaker 1: was like, what, no, like they're friends, Like no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't mean it like no one their friends. Because
Speaker 1: I feel like we all know no one wants it
Speaker 1: with the Compton kid. But if he throws some shots
Speaker 1: like that, you have to respond. You have to respond.
Speaker 1: This is hip hop. Cole was in album mode. He
Speaker 1: was about to drop his album I Delete Later and
Speaker 1: and look and the album got APPS Soul on it.
Speaker 1: In Daylight. These are two like West Coast like Legends.
Speaker 1: Apps Soul is part of Top Dog, like that's TDE
Speaker 1: like this is Crewe that's black hippie like their crew.
Speaker 1: And for the most part, Cole snapped on the record.
Speaker 1: So then he puts a song on this record called
Speaker 1: seven Minute Drill, and it was the response to Kendrick
Speaker 1: and Apparently the term seven minute drill is it's from
Speaker 1: like it's like a basketball thing to where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the topic. You got seven minutes, write it right,
Speaker 1: So that's why he calls it seven minute drill. So
Speaker 1: it's like I have to respond. So he writes the
Speaker 1: rap and y'all it was mid but again, as you know,
Speaker 1: you can't argue with J cole fans. They was like
Speaker 1: it was trending on Twitter or x it was Cole
Speaker 1: one Kendrick zero cold up one zero. It's like, first
Speaker 1: of all, it's impossible because Cole was at first anyway,
Speaker 1: you can't argue with J cole fans, and even the
Speaker 1: disses he was saying, like nobody agreed. He was like,
Speaker 1: your first record was classic. Second record was tragic and
Speaker 1: like it put people to sleep. He's talking about to
Speaker 1: Pimple Butterfly and like everybody's like, no, that's wrong. The
Speaker 1: album was amazing. It was a jazz influenced trap hip
Speaker 1: hop album. That's the one that's got we Gonna be
Speaker 1: all Right, Nikka, we Gonna be all right. That's on
Speaker 1: that record, Like, what are you talking about? That's got
Speaker 1: King Kunta, you know, bitch, where you when I was
Speaker 1: walking Now, I run a game, got the whole world
Speaker 1: talking King Cuta like that's got, that's got. I love
Speaker 1: myself like that record didn't What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: The record was amazing, that's false. And then he was like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this is just a warning shot, like you don't want
Speaker 1: it with me. I got shooters in the streets, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. And it was like, I personally now put
Speaker 1: in my bone opinion as a moving away from the narrative,
Speaker 1: my own opinion, I expected more from Cole to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. He was in a very precarious position
Speaker 1: because again, you don't want it with the comp to kid. Secondly,
Speaker 1: you really have to come with it, but you have
Speaker 1: to come with it at a particular angle because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna go bar for Barwick Kendrick. I think it's
Speaker 1: the it's the thing that nobody wants to say. It's
Speaker 1: that you may like this dude more than the other one,
Speaker 1: but it's it's like Eminem, it's like you you don't
Speaker 1: don't battle him. I know, it's like it seems corny
Speaker 1: right now to say that about Eminem because he's like
Speaker 1: a meme you know, put in a hand, seeing which
Speaker 1: out the damn cabinet, like it's funny now but like
Speaker 1: his in his era, like sheesh anyway, And if Cole's
Speaker 1: like I just caught a stray bro like that wasn't
Speaker 1: even a wasn't even about me, Like why you come
Speaker 1: after me? But you but you can't. But it's hip hop.
Speaker 1: You gotta respond, he said. Boz's blowing up his phone
Speaker 1: like you gotta do something. He's like, album probably done.
Speaker 1: It's the last song on the album. You gotta do it,
Speaker 1: and it was mid And my opinion is, how do
Speaker 1: you approach how do you approach this? Well, what you
Speaker 1: say this is me as a rap of a rapper,
Speaker 1: This is proba being a rapper. If it were me
Speaker 1: and I were cold, Okay, I'm not cold, And if
Speaker 1: Kendrick were to diss me, I'd be like, wonderful. Now
Speaker 1: I'm a star. Nigga. You know what I'm saying, Cause
Speaker 1: like niggas don't why if y'all don't know me, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like nobody knows me, Like if
Speaker 1: that would put me on the map, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: If you're cold, what you in my opinion is you.
Speaker 1: You approach it more like you're like, don't bring me
Speaker 1: into this. What is this? What is this thing between
Speaker 1: you and Drake? Like, Nigga, y'all deal with that, like
Speaker 1: I ain't got shit to do with that. You talk
Speaker 1: about you. You approach it in a very in a
Speaker 1: cold like fashion and be like, nigga, go get some therapy.
Speaker 1: What is this insecurity? That I complimented you? And your
Speaker 1: response is like this, like what what? What fear do
Speaker 1: you have? What inadequacy? What imposter syndrome is going on
Speaker 1: in your heart? Like what's wrong with your heart in
Speaker 1: that you can't even take a compliment my nigga? Like, nigga,
Speaker 1: you're you're so insecure? Why are you so insecure? Nigga,
Speaker 1: we're friends. Fucks your problem? Like that? To me, if
Speaker 1: I were to write a disk and I was called,
Speaker 1: I would approach it like that, like, nigga, what is
Speaker 1: your problem? What is not enough for you? Why is
Speaker 1: this not enough? Are you not happy? Are you not
Speaker 1: happy with your success? Nigga, go get therapy? Like That's
Speaker 1: what I would say. That would be my response, and
Speaker 1: it would be a dis about his mental health. Yo,
Speaker 1: say because you ain't gonna go bar for bar right
Speaker 1: like I do I scare you? Does me hitting my
Speaker 1: hitting my strides? Does that scare you? Like? Do I
Speaker 1: make you nervous? Because you didn't? You don't need to
Speaker 1: take shots at me? And that be if you got
Speaker 1: his with him, you being real, Like that's real Caddy
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, if you're friends with him, you
Speaker 1: can't be friends with me, like Nigga, come on like
Speaker 1: this ain't like ain't you a grown ass man with
Speaker 1: two kids? Like Nigga, I heard your last record where
Speaker 1: Nigga you you've cheated on your wife? Nigga like and
Speaker 1: you had to go get therapy because like I like,
Speaker 1: what do you? What the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like I don't want But instead he tried to go
Speaker 1: like I got the shooters and then he made some
Speaker 1: like transphobic responses and it was like weird. So the
Speaker 1: song was out and then in promotion of the album,
Speaker 1: a few days later, he was on Amazon Prime Live
Speaker 1: doing his concert and then he apologizes for putting the
Speaker 1: song out. He was like, man, I regret it. People
Speaker 1: were it didn't sit right with me, like I was
Speaker 1: losing sleep, and he goes it made me realize, like
Speaker 1: how good I was sleeping over the past ten years.
Speaker 1: He's like, man, this is the lamest shit I've ever
Speaker 1: done in my life. This shit is so corny, like
Speaker 1: I stepped out of my character, I walked away from
Speaker 1: my vision. Like I'm not even like that. I think
Speaker 1: Kendrick's one of the greatest rappers of all time. So
Speaker 1: he's like, man, say whatever you want to say, Like
Speaker 1: I'll leave with my chin. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Say say whatever you gotta say, nigga, Like this shit
Speaker 1: is stupid, Like I'm pulling it off the album, Like
Speaker 1: I apologize, man, like I shouldn't have. I didn't sit
Speaker 1: right with me as a man, and it shocked the
Speaker 1: world because you did you just nigga? Did you just
Speaker 1: just apologize right now? Did you what? Nigga? What what?
Speaker 1: Here's where the metaphor comes in because the culture's torn,
Speaker 1: because here's the reality. That is a stand up thing
Speaker 1: to do. That's a real nigga move. This don't feel
Speaker 1: right for who I am, and I'm not gonna let
Speaker 1: you move me off my square? What are we even
Speaker 1: doing here? I don't even not on top of all that,
Speaker 1: you wasn't even talking to me. You was really talking
Speaker 1: to Drake. I just let my friends get in my ear.
Speaker 1: That's actually like, that's great. And Nigga, did you just
Speaker 1: a pop? This is the lamest shit I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. No, that's the lamest shit I ever seen.
Speaker 1: It's what are you talking about? It's just it's rap.
Speaker 1: What you need to apologize for is how mad diverse
Speaker 1: was Nigga, Like, this is the fact that you rushed it,
Speaker 1: Like that's so so like I and and it's like
Speaker 1: I think, I think. This is what I think about.
Speaker 1: I think about. You're out at a bar with your
Speaker 1: lady with your boot, like I'm talking men stuff, man
Speaker 1: and stuff shit like sis, gendered masculinity, testosterone, traditional manshit. Like,
Speaker 1: forget all that I know about intersectionality and masculine infeminine,
Speaker 1: forget all of it. I'm just talking traditional manshit. You're
Speaker 1: at the bar and some drunk dude is pushing up
Speaker 1: on your lady, okay, and being out of pocket and
Speaker 1: being disrespectful. The correct thing to do is this nigga's drunk.
Speaker 1: Check on your wife. Check on your lady. Is she cool?
Speaker 1: Is she just annoyed? Then you just asked this man politely, like, hey, bro,
Speaker 1: like you know, hey, we're on a date, like, you know,
Speaker 1: can you kindly give us some space? Man? Let me
Speaker 1: let me you know, hey, let me buy you another drink.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, and like and you you
Speaker 1: you de escalate the situation. You know, you're not a punk,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna masking you kindly. You know what I'm saying, Like, yo,
Speaker 1: you got chilled. And if it gets too wild, if
Speaker 1: he's like too belligerent, it's like and your lady is like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's just go somewhere else. You're supposed to choose her.
Speaker 1: That's the right thing. Two dude or nigga, I slapped
Speaker 1: a taste out your mouth. If you don't go sit
Speaker 1: your drunk ass down somewhere, you or I fire on
Speaker 1: you because no, brod did you just you you were
Speaker 1: super distret I'm a fire on you. I'm gonna stand
Speaker 1: you up and then make you apologize to my lady.
Speaker 1: We fighting right right wrong? But right? Who are we?
Speaker 1: What are we? What are we doing right now? I
Speaker 1: saw a TikTok that wull talking about how bell Hooks
Speaker 1: ruined us, like that Belle Hooks because never before I
Speaker 1: understood what toxic masculinity meant, before I understood about mental health,
Speaker 1: ain't nowhere in the world. I'm apologizing in a battle
Speaker 1: number one because I know it's just a battle. We're
Speaker 1: not This is not personal. I know he doesn't really
Speaker 1: mean this, and if he does, then that's his problem.
Speaker 1: This is a sport, right where this is fun, like
Speaker 1: boxing fighting like when we was kids. It's crazy, but
Speaker 1: like when we was kids, fighting was fun. So we're
Speaker 1: having fun and at the end of it. I could
Speaker 1: pick you up and be like, yo, that was dumped
Speaker 1: out I respect. It's a compliment that you think enough
Speaker 1: of me to try to throw jabs at me. That
Speaker 1: means I'm worth your time, all right, Well, out of
Speaker 1: respect for you, I'm gonna throw some jabs back, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw some haymakers. I'm gonna give you my all.
Speaker 1: Or maybe we have an asinine view of ourselves and
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be like this. Maybe the things that we're
Speaker 1: saying about each other is petty and pitiful. I don't
Speaker 1: really think these things about you, so then why would
Speaker 1: I say that I am very happy with who I am.
Speaker 1: I just want to write rap songs now as a
Speaker 1: side notice, like we'll call all that tough talk is
Speaker 1: done now because like, well, I mean what am I?
Speaker 1: I can't listen to you talk about how you got
Speaker 1: killers in the streets no more when you had a
Speaker 1: chance and you apologize, Like so it's almost like the
Speaker 1: k fab has been ruined? You do you feel me?
Speaker 1: That being said, this is a question about like what guys,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? Like what do what? What's what
Speaker 1: are we doing? Like Ed Weird, I stand in the
Speaker 1: same place that most of the college is in. We
Speaker 1: are up to minds where part of us is like actually,
Speaker 1: I mean that's a pretty stand up dude. That's actually
Speaker 1: like that's pretty dope. Like he's stood on this square.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to, you know, go against his own integrity.
Speaker 1: It's great. And the other part is like Nigga is
Speaker 1: the corny and shit I've ever seen in my life?
Speaker 1: Like did you just apologize? Nigga? Just what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Spit bars, nigga rap nigga? What? I guess
Speaker 1: the debate's over, Nigga. Kendrick won. But again, you can't
Speaker 1: argue with Jay cole fans because j cole fans went
Speaker 1: from being like Chris Dugger was spitting bars. Kendrick don't
Speaker 1: want it to like, oh you see put the kofee
Speaker 1: on it became hoteps. It's because it's because cold is healthy.
Speaker 1: He's well, you know, and like non Kendrick Kendrick. It
Speaker 1: issues like, look, Cole did the right thing. So no
Speaker 1: matter what Cole do, he spit bars. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: mad at the bars. Okay, No, you know that's the
Speaker 1: right thing to do. I like that. That's the type
Speaker 1: of fandom you won't he got that. He got that
Speaker 1: trunk fandom, whereas like Nigga can do no wrong, and
Speaker 1: the thing is it's gonna stick with him forever. Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like the point is, it's like
Speaker 1: I like, I'm I'm torn because what, like what do we?
Speaker 1: Who are we? There's this reckoning happening I think among
Speaker 1: hip hop period, because if you're telling me that Puffy
Speaker 1: had these gangster ass New York dudes filling niggas talking
Speaker 1: about how they got guns in the streets and how
Speaker 1: they run, and you had them in your house having
Speaker 1: sex with other men and theirs and these men are
Speaker 1: supposed to be straight and you have them for their careers.
Speaker 1: When I hear Mick Mill say, man, I hope the
Speaker 1: streets forgive me for what I did with Diddy, Like
Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa is that really? Is that what you
Speaker 1: were saying? What is this?
Speaker 2: Is this?
Speaker 1: Are y'all just act like? Is this not real? Is
Speaker 1: none of it?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: None of this real? We're like, is Kendrick is West Coast?
Speaker 1: At least on the West Coast? And We're like, are
Speaker 1: we the only real? Because we know Nitsy, We we
Speaker 1: knew him, we know we know Mazi, we know Kate
Speaker 1: like we know school Boy. This nigga is Hoover like
Speaker 1: he been out. We know these niggas, so like we
Speaker 1: know why we know y g Like, so their stories
Speaker 1: are true because they've been cooborated. You telling me, y'all
Speaker 1: was y'all was at Public's party and there's cameras and
Speaker 1: now cole out here like your life not in danger?
Speaker 1: He just basically said, like Kendrick just said that he's
Speaker 1: a better rapper than you, and you couldn't respond with no,
Speaker 1: you're not, I'm better, Like you couldn't or are we
Speaker 1: moving to a place as a culture to where it's
Speaker 1: like nah, mental health is really important. Maybe this nigga
Speaker 1: is starting. Who knows, We don't know. The question is
Speaker 1: what are we even doing? Like what's happening right now? Now?
Speaker 1: That is the question that's interesting about our politics. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about it next. That was a long way around, right,
Speaker 1: But the question is and what really reminded me of
Speaker 1: all this is the Arizona abortion law and Trump's response
Speaker 1: to that, and really statistically speaking, where seventy five, like
Speaker 1: the vast majority of Americans actually sits. It's like, like,
Speaker 1: what what are we doing? You know, like why, why
Speaker 1: is this? What's happening right now? We got an election
Speaker 1: coming up that that's I'm not gonna be all extra
Speaker 1: and be like the most important election of our lives.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be extra like that, because the truth
Speaker 1: is anything can happen. I'm reading a book about about
Speaker 1: actual nuclear war where they where they play out this.
Speaker 1: It's actually a super interesting book. It's called Nuclear War.
Speaker 1: A Scenario is written by Annie Jacobson where she runs
Speaker 1: a scenario of like, if let's just say North Korea
Speaker 1: just out the blue decides to shoot a nucadus, we
Speaker 1: essentially have like twenty four minutes to figure out what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do, and and really that could happen at
Speaker 1: any moment, at any time, at all times. We could
Speaker 1: get so there's like anything could happen. Coast of California
Speaker 1: could blow up in the next second, Like is this
Speaker 1: the most important election? Any election could be the most
Speaker 1: important election. But what are we talking about? So in Arizona,
Speaker 1: once Roe v. Wade was overturned, Okay, that meant that
Speaker 1: rules about abortion get kicked down to the states, right,
Speaker 1: so the states get to choose what they do. And
Speaker 1: that's all the drama that we've been experiencing over the
Speaker 1: last couple years and all the midterm elections and how
Speaker 1: a lot of states Republicans lost their seats. It was
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways over this. But in Arizona
Speaker 1: when this happened, there was the state Supreme Court was like,
Speaker 1: all right, you could do a fifteen you could do
Speaker 1: it up to fifteen weeks. And that's based on one
Speaker 1: of their lower courts like interpretation of the law. Basically,
Speaker 1: you don't have a federal constitutional right to an abortion,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean you can't get one. And we're saying,
Speaker 1: according to our laws, anything past fifteen weeks is off limits. Now,
Speaker 1: when you go into the Arizona archives, there was a
Speaker 1: law like from the Civil War era. You heard me, right,
Speaker 1: a law from the Civil War era that is, I
Speaker 1: mean it's old than Arizona itself. Like this was a
Speaker 1: law before Arizona was a state. This law was put
Speaker 1: in place. It says that all abortions are off limits
Speaker 1: except for when the mother's life is threatened. So there
Speaker 1: was an anti abortion doctor out there that was like
Speaker 1: asking for clarity. That's basically like, yo, is this still law?
Speaker 1: Because if this is still law, then you can't have
Speaker 1: another one that just happened. This means that this the
Speaker 1: oldest abortion law in all the country. No exceptions for
Speaker 1: rape or incests, and if you perform an abortion you
Speaker 1: go into two to five years in the prison. That's
Speaker 1: that's the law. Now, they did a few weeks stay
Speaker 1: on this before it goes and it goes into full effects.
Speaker 1: Say like, okay, this is what we're saying. You're right
Speaker 1: that law supersedes the other one. But hold on a second, befo,
Speaker 1: y'all start getting active. So this is where we are now.
Speaker 1: The top of the Republican ticket that the head honcho,
Speaker 1: the top got is Trump, as we know, right, So
Speaker 1: if anything you would be one would think you'd be like, yo,
Speaker 1: score one for the squad, you feel me? And then
Speaker 1: Trump put out his official statement. What they wanted him
Speaker 1: to say is he's anti abortion, but that's not what
Speaker 1: he said. He said, I was never for a federal
Speaker 1: abortion fan band. I think this should be up to
Speaker 1: the states.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: And the way that he was saying is you listen
Speaker 1: to me. He said, it's just not a winning topic.
Speaker 1: The people don't want that. And one hundred he's saying
Speaker 1: the quiet thing out loud. That's crazy because first off,
Speaker 1: he's right. The Supreme Court justice is that he put
Speaker 1: owned the Supreme Court is what scored. That was the
Speaker 1: long game. Remember we talked about this with moneymaker Mitch,
Speaker 1: with Lord Vader over there. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The move the whole time, I mean, that was the game.
Speaker 1: The whole time was ending Rov. That was the law.
Speaker 1: That was the play the whole time the play was
Speaker 1: ending Roe v. Wade. That was the play the whole time.
Speaker 1: Why these people plugged, they nose and put this man
Speaker 1: in office was to get was to get to this point,
Speaker 1: was to get a ban on abortion, Rovi Wade got overturned,
Speaker 1: which basically means isn't a ban on abortion. It's saying
Speaker 1: you don't have a federal right to one. It's different.
Speaker 1: According to them, we not cross the finish line. And
Speaker 1: now your man, who you made disagreement with, who done
Speaker 1: broke your party, you feel me, is on the top
Speaker 1: of it. And he like, I mean I was never
Speaker 1: really for that, basically, he was like, I just I
Speaker 1: was here for the check. Y'all needed me to do this,
Speaker 1: I do, But like it should be up to the
Speaker 1: state decide. We shouldn't really be talking about this anyway.
Speaker 1: People don't really want it. And if you, if you're Arizona,
Speaker 1: you like this motherfucker fool I We was down the
Speaker 1: line for you last election, so okay, but I mean
Speaker 1: thank you, right, I mean that's that's what we think too.
Speaker 1: But like, Bro, like we just trying to do our part,
Speaker 1: were putting it in work. What this has to do
Speaker 1: with the Big three is who are we? Like, what
Speaker 1: are we do? Like we're so far into the weeds
Speaker 1: that like, Bro, this tit for tat was so important
Speaker 1: to you that you was willing to pull a law
Speaker 1: out of the Western territories, nigga out of the Civil War,
Speaker 1: like the principle, the principle, the point of the thing
Speaker 1: is so important to you, right the point of it.
Speaker 1: That is what we call being lost in the sauce.
Speaker 1: Y'all lost in the sauce, like you if it's like
Speaker 1: that now on the left, the kids won't let us
Speaker 1: get lost in the sauce. They won't let us just
Speaker 1: be worried about no wording. They about that action, They like,
Speaker 1: no stick to the point. You're runner, the midle centrist
Speaker 1: democrat is just saying, you just want to hear the
Speaker 1: word cease fire. Okay, that means you not listening to
Speaker 1: the kids, bro, because the kids get the point right
Speaker 1: right are y'all? Y'all seeing these college protests, they they like, look,
Speaker 1: whatever coming out your mouth is one thing. What we
Speaker 1: saying is die best. Stop spending our money. This is
Speaker 1: the point. Stop spending our money on this. I don't
Speaker 1: want my college tuition to go to this. Nigga. Y'all
Speaker 1: can't shut us up like the schools is blow white
Speaker 1: because they get the point. The kids get the point.
Speaker 1: Prout you're talking about. I just want you to say
Speaker 1: the word ceasefire. I don't care. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you say it.
Speaker 2: Do it.
Speaker 1: That's the point. Do the thing. I don't care what
Speaker 1: speech you make. I don't care about your grandstanding. I
Speaker 1: don't care about you, you know, getting clout on the TV.
Speaker 1: You can't tell BB what to do.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: Stop selling them weapons, Stop spending my money on the genocide, nigga,
Speaker 1: that's the point. But if you just want, if y'all
Speaker 1: just want people to say ceasefire, you tripping, just say ceasefire,
Speaker 1: Like no, I don't care if you say it, do
Speaker 1: the thing. If the American position was when you're ready
Speaker 1: to be reasonable, when you're ready to actually treat these
Speaker 1: other people like humans, then we'll talk. I will. What
Speaker 1: I really want is for you to just like, y'all
Speaker 1: need to break up completely, because like, I don't understand
Speaker 1: why you keep supporting this, Like you shouldn't be a
Speaker 1: part of this at all. But I will live with
Speaker 1: as because I understand geopolitics. I live with y'all being like, Okay,
Speaker 1: start being reasonable, that's your boy. I get it. When
Speaker 1: you become reasonable, we'll talk again. But until then, nigga, like,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't got shit to do with this,
Speaker 1: that blood is on your hand, those none of that
Speaker 1: are the words cease fire, because I understand the point.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Are we arguing? Like? What am
Speaker 1: I fight? What are we doing? Like you're telling me
Speaker 1: that this issue of a boy is so important to
Speaker 1: you that despite all clear medical understanding since the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: all that we know about the reproductives, all that we
Speaker 1: know about the human body, all we understand all of
Speaker 1: the ways that shit can go sideways, of all the ways,
Speaker 1: all the ways that shit could go sideway, You're telling
Speaker 1: me the only the only exception, only exception, right, is
Speaker 1: if the mother's life is in danger. And then to
Speaker 1: top it all off, you got to define what in
Speaker 1: danger means. If I were to even slip in today's shoes,
Speaker 1: I would be like, Yo, what are we doing? Like
Speaker 1: if we believe abortion's murder, then they know? Then what
Speaker 1: is this exception? Like then what are y'all doing? Then?
Speaker 1: Like you have stepping on what you believe? And like
Speaker 1: what do we do? Is this is this about the mother?
Speaker 1: Is this is this about the child?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Is this is this really what we talk about here?
Speaker 1: What do we really what are we talking about? Here
Speaker 1: is this about owning the libs? Like, is that is
Speaker 1: that really all we Is that what we're doing, like
Speaker 1: the whole libs of TikTok, you're just getting your bars
Speaker 1: off you. You're of to minds, right listen, in the
Speaker 1: same way. That's why I'm trying to say, like, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm learning from this, from this ja cult thing.
Speaker 1: I am of to minds and I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 1: are too, because yes, absolutely, if you're if you, if
Speaker 1: your stance is constantly answered the boys, you're like, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it is about this. What the fuck are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Like you're looking at cold like, nigga, spit your bars?
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you? Yes, nigga, it's about that.
Speaker 1: Kendrick is right now personally, yeah, Kendrick is right. But anyway,
Speaker 1: but for this position, I get it. And yes, nigga, yes,
Speaker 1: you need to your and again as a progressive, get
Speaker 1: on the stage you call yourself the leader of the
Speaker 1: free world and say the words cease fire. Yes, fool,
Speaker 1: yes it is about that. And I'm not gonna argue
Speaker 1: with you semantics. It's like Cole being wise enough to
Speaker 1: jump out for himself and say, like, what what's the point,
Speaker 1: Like what what am I am? I just trying to
Speaker 1: please the homies? And if your politics is really you
Speaker 1: just trying to please the homies because because that's what
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do, I think you missing the point.
Speaker 1: If you just if you feel like you can't vote
Speaker 1: for certain things because the Homi's gonna get mad at you,
Speaker 1: you missing the point Cuz I wonder if I wonder
Speaker 1: if I wonder if that's what I'm learning from the
Speaker 1: Big Three from this whole situation, is like, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: missing the point because I'm I'm like, I'm of two minds.
Speaker 1: I wish Cole would have just came with it but
Speaker 1: did it the way I suggested. But like, but also, man,
Speaker 1: that's super kind of right though. It's how everybody felt
Speaker 1: about Andre's flute album. Let's just be real. I'm really
Speaker 1: mad at him that he did a rap. I'm also
Speaker 1: very proud of him for being who he is and
Speaker 1: understanding that that's the record he wanted to make. I like,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? And who? Who am I to
Speaker 1: be mad at him? I don't even know that guy?
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? What are you actually voting for?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What are we doing? What are we doing, guys when
Speaker 1: you look at the actual breakdown of the political stances
Speaker 1: of our kind. Saying this, even in my own to
Speaker 1: my own detriment, seventy five percent of the country somewhere
Speaker 1: around that is basically America's center left. Like we're essentially
Speaker 1: America just wants to go to brunch, you want to
Speaker 1: not think about government. That's honestly, the reality is that's
Speaker 1: where most America is. You're and in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: because of the vocabulary and because of the the wwe
Speaker 1: of it all, we can't jump out and be like,
Speaker 1: Damn Cole did something for his own mental health. That's
Speaker 1: because he's actually a person and rap's not real, right, So,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I'm like, but Kendrick's the
Speaker 1: goat and nigga, this is rap, and that's what you
Speaker 1: do in rap. You know what I'm saying, He is
Speaker 1: the most of the country. If you say I feel
Speaker 1: like there is a certain amount of taxes that I
Speaker 1: should pay for our shared infrastructure, I get it, Like
Speaker 1: somebody needs to pay for you know, the streets and
Speaker 1: the lights and the fire department, and like I get it, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should, I should pay something it shouldn't be exorbit
Speaker 1: but like it shouldn't be gone at all, Like I
Speaker 1: get it. Hey, if a little bit of my check
Speaker 1: goes to making sure that you see this homeless population, man,
Speaker 1: it sucks. I hope that. I hope they get resources
Speaker 1: and you know, and there's families out here that may
Speaker 1: need a little bit of extra, you know, to help
Speaker 1: them out, like if they don't make enough to be
Speaker 1: able to Yeah, it's fine, man, Yeah I help them out. Dude, Like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with them having a situation when people starre? Man,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with them having some sort of program that
Speaker 1: will hey, you know, we'll help with the short falls.
Speaker 1: That's called welfare. Welfare. No, it's because you's just it's
Speaker 1: just because you use the word welfare. If you don't
Speaker 1: use the word welfare, most people are like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just helping the poor, Like yeah, you should, we should,
Speaker 1: we should do that, right. Yeah, most people are like that.
Speaker 1: Most people believe in like body autonomy, where it's like, look, dude,
Speaker 1: like I know my body, Like I you know, like
Speaker 1: if I think no, if I think that this is detriment,
Speaker 1: like I should be able to make that decision for myself,
Speaker 1: not the courts. I should have the right to be
Speaker 1: able to so even to follow my own heart. Like,
Speaker 1: if I don't believe in abortion, then I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: get one, you know what I'm saying, Like most people
Speaker 1: think that I'm not saying everybody is, but most of
Speaker 1: the countries, Like I have a personal, you know more
Speaker 1: be moral objection to it, but I understand that there
Speaker 1: are situations that are beyond our control and sometimes a
Speaker 1: person should have the right to be able to. I
Speaker 1: don't believe in it, but they should have a right.
Speaker 1: That's like most people or most people just think you
Speaker 1: should be able to. Most people think that healthcare shouldn't
Speaker 1: cost what it costs, right, and most people think we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be dropping bombs in other countries. You want to
Speaker 1: live safe, you know. You know what I'm saying. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like you're not gonna you're not gonna
Speaker 1: argue for open borders if you will. But it's like,
Speaker 1: but dude, like if people come, there should be like
Speaker 1: a reasonable process to become a citizen in America, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Guns, Like yeah, yeah, like you should there
Speaker 1: should be Yeah, you have a right to it, but
Speaker 1: like everybody shouldn't have one. Most people are generally there.
Speaker 1: Just hey, be responsible, do your part. I hope everybody's okay. Then, Yo,
Speaker 1: how come our politics don't reflect that? How come the
Speaker 1: how come those aren't the people that we put in
Speaker 1: on cameras? And what are we doing? Who?
Speaker 2: Like? Who?
Speaker 1: Who are we? I think that's what we learned from
Speaker 1: the Big Three? Like who are we? And the archetypes
Speaker 1: aren't Kindrick and Cole because we're both that in the
Speaker 1: sense that it is hip hop. You're supposed to like
Speaker 1: somebody trying to battle, you're supposed to battle back. But
Speaker 1: also it's it's also just hip hop. We are human,
Speaker 1: we're men, we're fathers, we're husbands, we're wives, and like,
Speaker 1: there is way more to life than than this. And
Speaker 1: I'm not voting just to please the homies. I don't
Speaker 1: want to score any points for my team. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm voting to build a bigger and better world. So
Speaker 1: I say that to say to all of y'all, you
Speaker 1: don't want it with the counter kid, and as annoying
Speaker 1: as the next six months are about to be, keep
Speaker 1: your head about you, okay. And when I say keep
Speaker 1: your head about you don't allow yourself to fall into
Speaker 1: the tea of it all. Stick to what matters. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say, the dignity of humans everywhere. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say. And I'm going to do something when
Speaker 1: I go into that ballot box and when I make
Speaker 1: my decisions and when I try to understand what's happening
Speaker 1: in front of me. Yes, descending to the particulars, but
Speaker 1: most importantly, remember that this is about human flourishing and
Speaker 1: I don't need to score points on nobody said he politics.
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Speaker 1: let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living,
Speaker 1: you understand politics. These people is not smarter than you.
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