June 4, 2025 • 40 mins
It's that time again! The State of Blackness Address, where we cover everything from Rodney Hinton Jr. to Dru Hill to Joey Bada$$ vs everyone.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Colser Media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Blackness.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual
State of the Blackness Address.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I will be your tour director.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
My name is Parapaganda and this is hood politics with
prop The State of the Blackness Address, Part one, twenty
to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty
five has been quite.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A show so far.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I know we all feel like this that January was
such a long month and then we blinked and it
was June.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We're already here.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So many things have happened, so let's stop and let's
take a second to acknowledge.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The blackness.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Now, last year started out, came out swinging with Club Shaysha,
and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's
not like you, you know, and all the things that
your boy Kat Williams gave us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh man, it came out so fun. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We had the guy that jumped over the bench, you know,
went flying to tackle the lady after he got sentenced.
We had some good ones, and of course last year
gave us the Fall of Drake and the Kendrick and
Drake that gave us Stay Night like us and man,
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the culture was very strong and probably I think now
we can say, like the biggest and greatest disc song
in all of hip hop. I just I don't know, man,
I used to think like I mean, I thought all those,
all those I thought all the Kendrick songs, we were amazing.
Of course, Wes West, but were they in the history
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of hip hop. I'm like, I think, man, I think
Ether has been dethroned. I think it's it's hard to
hard to defeat it. I'm realizing I'm not wearing my
headphones now, That's why I don't hear myself. There we
go anyway, I'm really tired because of the club real
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ones yesterday and shout out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up
Ian producer Ian that produces a lot of these clubs
clubs see cools one media shows. Ian came out with
his with his lovely better half and we had us
a good time. So yeah, twenty twenty five stated of blackness,
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let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
First.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You got to start off in January with the La Fires. Now,
while we got to start there is because while a
lot of the news was covering what was happening in
the Palisades and Malibu. A lot of our local eyes
were on the city of Altadena. I know, I did
a small, short kind of breakdown of Altadena inside of
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the Block is literally hot episode when I talked about
the La fires.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And Altadena is.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The northern part of Los Angeles County on the east side,
in the foothills under the Angelus Mountains. Now the Hollywood
Hills is a part of a mountain range right with
a valley in between, which is how you get over
to the valley. But that range kind of stretches up
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and it becomes like, you know, like I said, the
Angelus Crest all the way over to the Azusa Mountains
down to Mount Baldy and then you get out to
Big Bear as you're going east or inland. But nestled
at the foothills the east side is an enclave called Altadena.
And Altadena was one of the few standing black communities
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that most likely, I think it's it's fair to say
that most likely your.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Grandma lived in Altadena.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She probably bought a house right after the Vietnam War,
because this was one of the first like middle class,
like working class middle class black neighborhoods where you could
you could get an affordable home working a regular ass job.
Now as time went on, those homes became quite pricey
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because won their location and to their build They're these
like super dope kind of break mid century modern like
it just it's just a great neighborhood. You know, merce
talked about how when he moved to the six to
six that's where his church was. A lot of times
if you lived in the rest of the spots, like
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down in West Covina or Baldwin Park, like you lived
with the Vatos, like a lot of times your barber
was up in Altadena, you know, or in Pasadena. You know,
the Pasadena Rubber Rebels. You know, that's a very local reference.
But the loss of that neighborhood is some thing that
as far as locally has been concerned, was our focus.
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There was an African American library there. There was all
these like kids programs that where a lot of us
learned about the diaspora of Africa and drumming circles and
stuff like that. Like if you wasn't going out to
Lamert you know, you were staying. Lamert Park is in
the Crenshaw District, which is on the West Side, and
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sometimes because of unfortunately because of gang festivities and activities,
that's sometimes not an option. But a lot of times
you were moved as a child out of those areas.
But you don't want to lose what it means to
have a black community, just as simple as like where
to get your hair grease, not having to explain what
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hair grease is, you know what I'm saying, Like those
things become the seasonings. I remember I was trying to
make some greens. Uh one time last summer, I just
needed a smoke turkey leg. Whole Foods ain't got no
smoke turkey leg. I went to the rest of the
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grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in a
Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke turkey
during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah,
I need to go to Altadena because I was like,
I need to go where black people live because I
know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhocks, they gonna have.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The things I need just to cook.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So sometimes now granted this Altadena and a lot of
like ethnic neighborhoods were created because of redlining and because
of prejudice. But inside of that, you create a community
of the things that we all need and those little
things that I feel like a lot of times white
people are people of the dominant culture, you know, really
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can't appreciate, like why other ethnicities feel even more like
a fish out of water when they're in, you know,
neighborhoods that don't represent them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's little stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You know, I couldn't find the right kind of shampoo
for a long time too, because that mug said you
at the store and it said this is for normal
hair texture.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm sorry, what the hell is normal hair? Well?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know what they mean by that, don't you exactly?
So little things like that where I don't have to
like concern myself.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Altadena is a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the
fundraisers focused around la especially again in the black community,
was around rebuilding Altadena and it's still going on. There
are still links in my bios to support a lot
of these families. One of the people up there was
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mad Lib. Mad Lib again in the state of hip
hop is a behemoth of a producer, The Mad Villain
album that everybody talks about with m F Doom, mad Lib,
Jlib is him and Jay Dilla, you know, the champion
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sound stuff man mad Live is a if you are
a rapper, no matter what part of the country you're from,
mad Lib should be on your bucket list to get
production from. Yeah, he lost his home too, you know,
And there was a bunch of fundraisers that we've done
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in hopes to save his own and his record collections
and those things. So rather than coming out swinging for
black people with funniness, we came out swinging with a
little bit of pain.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Next is the Ballad of p.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Diddy, y'all.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
This topic has clearly spanned a number of State of
the blacknesses because Diddy is now finally on trial. As
we've known, Diddy was one of the worst kept secrets
in Hollywood, hip hop and black culture. We all knew
that man was weird now unfortunately, because use homophobia is
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a normal, normalized thing among the black community, although black
queer is also a ginormous part of our culture.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So weird how we do this?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
People still have kind of changed pause to ah No Ditty,
which is essentially a way to say.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm not gay, like I'm not doing gay stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Unfortunately, that the gayness was the line that the culture
finally drew. But as the case is going on, we're
seeing that man was even more bizarre than we all thought.
The story about one of the male escorts said, no,
this was Cassie's story that she was forced to make
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live to this male escort while Ditty was in a
job with just the little eyes showing watching them get down. Boy,
that man kid cutty two for two with his mentor
choices because both of them went crazy cut He said
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that man showed up at his house and set his
car on fire. Obviously he didn't do it himself. Why
you set that man's car on fire? Did he look
like he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh
you know you ain't got your skincare routine and the
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pan Do you listen?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Did he out here wildly in the state of the blackness.
Maybe let's stay in hip hop before we move into
other topics. The continuation of Kendrick Tamar's curb stomping of
the culture moves on. While this tour that the GNX
Tour that is now broken records for touring ever, and
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then he broke his own record as this tour game
went on as far as ticket sales. The argument against
k Dot apparently, which I didn't agree with, was that
he don't make bops, that he don't make hits, and
that the songs are not.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Made for radio.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That's what everybody's argument with, Like mister Morale was like,
there's no there's no radio songs. He come back with
these these hits with Sizz, which of which he took
on tour and gave her, which what I love about
it equal amount of time on stage because he's just
a good man. He continues to break streaming records, he
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continues to break toward ticket sale records, and just continues
to put the West.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
On the map.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Now while that was happening out on the East Coast,
on the Beast Coast, my homeboy Joey Badass. Now Joey
is not my homeboy because I ain't never met this man,
but we do share a manager, which would be like,
damn man, can y'all connect this please?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What I love about this moment in hip hop is
that it's kind of just for us because the rest
of the people I'm about to name, unless you really
tapped into hip hop, y'all know who these people are.
But if you're in our culture, this has been some
of the funnest few months of bringing which is what
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Kendrick said he tried to do. Bring that competition back,
that goon competition back, the sport of hip hop, the
sport of battling, of beating your chest and spinning in
bars and having bought and having something to come back,
having a response, the competition part of hip hop. That
is about we're sparring. This is art for art's sake,
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this is this is battle raps for battle rap sake.
There has been a battle going on between Joey Badass
and essentially all of the West, right. Joey had said
in a song a while back, in reference to a
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line that Jay Z said years ago, which was like
it's too much West Coast dick licking right. He was
making an observation that the West is up right now,
the West is hot, you know, and y'all need to
stop jocking this, like, don't forget the East Coast started
hip hop essentially, like I feel a way that I'm
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not in the conversation about the top rappers of my era.
This is Joey Joey Badass is a sort of premise
and like y'all acting like New York don't run things still,
and they don't, partially, I believe, because New York gave
up its sound because it started doing drill and like
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the ASoP rocky stuff, the French Montana stuff. There was
no way you'd know they were from New York because
they don't have they don't have a sound, but Joey
has that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside
Gun and all this stuff that they're doing is bringing
a New York sound back. So in some stances, I
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feel like New York gave up its flavor, but it's
cool to see it pop smoke, Like y'all didn't know
he was from New York unless Mike told you. He
didn't sound like it. They're they're redefining their sound anyway.
In this battle, he takes shots at the West but
Kendrick over it, so everybody else jumped in. Ray Vaughan
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is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap
rap rap, And then it became this like sort of
a brawl because another man named Daylight. Now Daylight is
super interesting because Daylight again comes from the battle scene.
I believe Watts right. He also his ghostwriting pen is insane.
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He wrote a number of Drake songs. He's also very
close with ab Sol. And you have to remember about
the thing about ab Sol, who's also a part of
Top Dog. Absol of the of Black Hippie, Black Hippie
is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Qan Absole like the first
the kind of the founding members of Top Dog Entertainment.
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Of them, Kendrick's obviously the hit maker, the star of
the show.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Jay Rock's the street.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Goon, you know, and then Schoolboy is the like almost
like the melodic street goon, you feel me. Absol, that's
the rappers rapper, he's the that's the caviar, like the
the We would be here for seven months trying to
break down his lyrics, like he's the wordplay intricate, like
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I said I'd said before, which I love. He's like
backpack rap with a gat in it, Like so it's
a backpacker but he got a gun in it because
he's still a street dude.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
But he's the caviar. Now when he got in.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There's Red Bull has this thing where they do this
like three sixty site for the first one I saw
was of.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Soul's a Mischief.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
But what they do is they get like three or
four rappers in and they spit, you know, freestyles, not
like I call freestyles, but freestyle's into this thing. And
this one was Big Sean, Joey and Absol. Now Joey
had already taken shots at Daylight and at Ray Vaughn.
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But because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not? Yeah,
ab Soul finally addresses it in this circle where he
was like, listen, Joey, you put me in this predicament
that like, I know me and you are friends. But
it's not like I'm not gonna stand with my syndicate.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He's takes so he's taking shots at at Joey standing there,
and then when it's Joey's turn, Joey taking shots at
Ab standing there. So for a few weeks reason Daylight,
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Ray Vaughn, Joey Badass. These are like, again, you're not
in the culture. These are rappers, rappers, right, They are
spitting because GENA views is part of the show called
effective immediately with DJ head gena Is was like, I'm
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get off the internet and get in the booth, like
nigga rap.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Why are y'all not rapping rap?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And guess what niggas is rapping.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
The beauty of this is everyone agrees in this that
we are having fun. As vicious and cutting as these
words are, this is almost like black people getting to
be black without the white gays. How do we talk
when y'all not around, when we don't have to worry
about things being misinterpreted. This is what's happening inside of
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hip hop right now when we ain't got to explain.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There's no New York Times.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I don't have to explain to you why BBL drizzy
is funny, Like I don't like. This is one of
those things where it's like cool, we get to just
speak our own language. We ain't gotta translate and just
enjoy what's happening in hip hop right now. That's what's
going on right now, man, and it is fun and
they're all talking about how fun it is. The Hommy
Curtis King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna
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if you're gonna hop online and play two K or
Madden with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying
to win, like I like, I am truly trying. I'm
trying to destroy you. This is the same a hip hop.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
This is what I love.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
This is what I felt love about battle rap is
after telling someone the worst possible things you could ever
say to somebody, we all left and went to Denny's.
This stuff isn't personal. This is fun with somebody. If
you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules,
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but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in
the face, and I feel like I want you to try.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Like that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Like if you playing pickup ball, like that's a lot,
that's another way to clate battle rap like this.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's like street ball, Like you know, these are pickup games.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
There's gonna be more elbows, it's gonna be a little
more aggressive, but you gotta hold your mud.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You gotta stand your ground, you gotta spit back, and
the best bars win. This is also what's beauty about
beautiful about this moment. It's like without the gaze of
pop culture talking about numbers and streams and all that
good stuff that's not a part of the conversation because
these artists have not poked into mainstream or pop culture.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
These are rappers. So all this is about is bars.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And it's been good to enjoy this with hip hop
because this is something we needed. You know, you get
Mac Miller's death, you get Pop Smoke's death, you know
Triple X at Tassion, all these like really sad stories.
You got young thugs, all these rappers going to jail.
You know, just not a good look. This was a
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moment we all needed, moving out of hip hop. Let's
go to this little more politics next, all right, for
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some reason, the desire that for some reason this year
it kind of worked where black people got real solidified
over Target. And I think partially because Target took such
serious strides towards being present for us in supporting black businesses.
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And then when DEI was attacked, they removed their DEI program.
Here's where this becomes complicated. They still sold the products,
the black products that they already had, they just decided
to stop being upfront about it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
It's not so much that we care as black people
about the name DEI. It's the principle of it in
the sense that you stood up for us, and when
the white supremacists came to tell you to stop doing it,
you just folded, and I know you folded in a
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way that was supposed to be looking at us and
winking saying we're still there.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We're just gonna you know.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
But when you just wink and look over there and
say I'm still gonna do it, but I'll still please
you by changing this name, you still give them a
win because they still believe that they have the authority
to bully you, and that perception, the visual and the
belief is all they need because then they're gonna come
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do it again, and then you're gonna change the name
again and try to figure it out. Either way, you're
still taking a submissive position to a group that needs
to understand.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The principalities of the thing. So black people.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Decided some of it was organized through church, others was
just organized through social media, that we were just gonna
not shop at Target.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
No more than the businesses that were in Target. They
all got websites.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We'll still support y'all. You don't have to lose money
because it is so we still buy a products. We're
just not shopping at Target. Target, they took a massive
l Black people used to spend twelve million a day
at Target.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's gone.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
They made that CEO get a fifty percent pay cut
because black folks decided when we was done shopping there.
It's crazy that when we actually decide, when we finally done,
when you get to the go ahead, chief, you got
a champ when we get to that, like when we're done,
we're done, which is what's going on with Kanye.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We're done. That's why not on the news no more.
We're done.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Sell your swastikas, go ahead. Br niggas is over it.
It's one thing I do enjoy about us is we
are long suffering. We will stick with you for a while.
But when we're done, I said, because it's all you, you.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Got a chief.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Sticking in the politics section, Larry Hoover, founder of the
Gangster Disciples, Leonard Peltier, freedom fighter from the sixties, political prisoner,
and believe this, NB A Young Boy all got released
from prison, Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got
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they sentence commuted, commuted from a dut Trump organization. Now,
no one could have imagined this timeline that this would
happen commit black people.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is
to exploit the divide.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Of gender among the black community because we're having some
sort of some sort of a civil war among us,
and Trump is making strides in gaining support with black men.
Part of that is because we're trying to get this
money and we just want to be getting money, Muff,
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because you understand what I'm saying, but it's complicated. And
then when you start doing stuff like this, because we
understand prison reform, we understand our need to like a
lot of young brothers have been put in jail, you know,
on some untrumped up charges. So this is supposed to
feel good. Now, this is not to be little any
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of the things that Larry Hoover has done it better himself.
I'm not putting that aside. I'm talking about Trumps rereading
Trump's lick because this man may do these gestures to
try to make us feel better, but this is the
same man that's ending head Start programs, the same man
that looked at our Haitian brothers and sisters and was
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like they eating pets, literally eating cats and dogs. That's
what they said about our brothers and sisters in the diaspora.
This the shithold country's man. This the same man that's
removing the medicaid, that's making medicaid hard.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
For my DNM. That man don't love you.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And I feel like we understand this because I have
a lot of the similar memories you have when the
pusher come through the city or come through the neighborhood
in the Cadillac you start handing out twenty dollar bills
or taking us off to the ice cream truck. You know,
doing backpack drives you feel me. But that man is
why your auntie strung out. That man is while you
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went to your cousin's funeral last week. He may tell
you sorry and promised to take care of you, of
you and your mother, you and your auntie, your cousin,
your auntie. He promised to take care of him, But
I tell you what, he also got him killed. So
I need you to remember that this man is really
not on your side. That being said, welcome home the NBA,
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young boy, and Larry Hoover. Now I brought up Leonard
Peltier because can you believe it? Do your googles all right?
Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney
Hiitton Junior. This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where
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a young man and his friends stole a car and
were pursued by the police. One of them hopped out
the car. The cop says he saw a gun. The
guy dropped the gun and run ran. The little boy
took four shots to his back and died. After the
little boy's father got to see the police surveillance video,
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he was so distraught that the next day he drove
his car into an officer who was directing traffic. The
complications of this story puts the reality of radicalization into
focus even more because this is a sad story for
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all parties involved. It's a clear case of temporary insanity.
But also it is what I've been trying to tell
y'all about Palestine. It's that state sponsored violence always creates terrorism.
As I don't know of any terrorist group that wasn't
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a response to state sponsored violence. So the continual insurgent
force that is the police department in America towards or
at least what it feels like towards black people, is
gonna eventually drive us to these types of actions. So
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this man was like, listen, you not gonna see justice.
These people killed my son and now they protecting the
man that killed my son. I don't know if you know,
but Derek Chauvin is getting out also by the same
administration that freed Larry Hoover. So don't think this man
is full of us. Derek Chauvin is the person that
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killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney hidden
Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments
where thirty officers showed up for this trial for his uh,
for his first arraignment, and that man chin up full
of pride, like you're not gonna have me down. You're
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not gonna have me sad. I stood up for my son.
I found justice for my son because I know you
would never do this for me. So he kept his
head up. Now, I'm sure you're not asking me this
because you listen to the show and you know what
it is that I am not giving a defense for
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vigilanteism or murder. I'm not I'm saying I understand it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This is what I'm saying. I am a father.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child. If
you see the if the if the parents are part
of the storyline, and you see somebody's child going through
some suffering, if you.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Care about your fathering.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You, it's hard for me to see that without feeling
like deep feelings and emotions and sometimes rage like I'm like, boy,
I wish a mother, I wish you would talk to
my daughter like that. I wish you would put my
child's life in danger.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Like you feeling froggy than jump. So I think I
understand that. And lastly, in the State of the Blackness.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
The memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now, a
father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And if you understand.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Something about the black nuclear family, won't play not about
our wives. Ain't nowhere in the world you're gonna let
your child be disrespectful today.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
That's something we just don't that's not not we don't
abide by that, and especially if it's your boy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Now I have daughters, so that's a different story.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But black men and their sons when it talks about
how when you think about how you want your boys
to treat they, Mama, boy, you been not in my presence,
I bet not ever catch I bet not ever see you.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Be out of pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's that's not something we play around with. So a
lot of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes they
kid do. He used to make his son, his step
son do laps, so he would go to the high
school on the court and he go make him run laps.
The homy La Cree used to have his kids do
wall sets. Right, we're trying to break these generational curses
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of whipping our children.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Okay, so forgive us. But this man said, we're doing
twenty Drew Hills.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Now, if you know nineties R and B, you already
know exactly what he talking about. It is a dance
from a video that has a step and a jump
and it's almost a burpie. Because when he said I
gave my son twenty Drew Hills, we all knew exactly
what he meant. And then the video cut to his
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son do it.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Cause it's a workout.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
One man said twenty Drew Hills. And lastly, one hundred
men versus one gorilla. You may or may not know,
but that whole discussion actually came out of black Twitter.
Now I know there is no such thing as Twitter anymore,
but it actually comes from black Twitter can now is
(36:39):
a stand in term just for black. Social media started
off on Reddit a long time ago, got brought back
via the Black social media Pipeline, and then spilled out
to the rest of the world, charting out some of
the greatest moments of extra ness about stuff that don't
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matter people right now charts bringing in anthropologists and people
who study apes just sometimes we just need some fun.
Another trend in social media, which has to do with
sort of all of this, is how, for the most part,
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a lot of the anti Trump rallies don't have no
Black people there. A lot of the anti fascism ones
don't really add to black people there. Let me tell
you why, because we try to tell you we fought
all we could. Nobody y'all ain't we told y'all about
this man. Ain't nobody We tried.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We tried.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We did a whole movement in twenty twenty, got laws changed,
really saw some results, just for y'all to put this
man back in charge again.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You know what, y'all got it. Y'all got it. That
is not so much that we don't want to stand
in solidarity with you. It's that this is yo.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Turn my feet hurt. Been trying, but I tell you what,
I'm gonna go on to this brunch and Mimosa's. You
let me know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I can say.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
The state of the blackness is strong. We still got
the rest of the year ago. We're gonna see the
complete fall of Diddy and hopefully we keep the city
laughing because that's how we handle things.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Good politics.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
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You better listen to these credits. I need you to
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Colser Media.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Blackness.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual
State of the Blackness Address.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I will be your tour director.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
My name is Parapaganda and this is hood politics with
prop The State of the Blackness Address, Part one, twenty
to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty
five has been quite.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
A show so far.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
I know we all feel like this that January was
such a long month and then we blinked and it
was June.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
We're already here.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
So many things have happened, so let's stop and let's
take a second to acknowledge.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The blackness.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Now, last year started out, came out swinging with Club Shaysha,
and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's
not like you, you know, and all the things that
your boy Kat Williams gave us.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Oh man, it came out so fun. You know.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
We had the guy that jumped over the bench, you know,
went flying to tackle the lady after he got sentenced.
We had some good ones, and of course last year
gave us the Fall of Drake and the Kendrick and
Drake that gave us Stay Night like us and man,
(02:14):
the culture was very strong and probably I think now
we can say, like the biggest and greatest disc song
in all of hip hop. I just I don't know, man,
I used to think like I mean, I thought all those,
all those I thought all the Kendrick songs, we were amazing.
Of course, Wes West, but were they in the history
(02:35):
of hip hop. I'm like, I think, man, I think
Ether has been dethroned. I think it's it's hard to
hard to defeat it. I'm realizing I'm not wearing my
headphones now, That's why I don't hear myself. There we
go anyway, I'm really tired because of the club real
(02:56):
ones yesterday and shout out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up
Ian producer Ian that produces a lot of these clubs
clubs see cools one media shows. Ian came out with
his with his lovely better half and we had us
a good time. So yeah, twenty twenty five stated of blackness,
(03:16):
let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
First.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
You got to start off in January with the La Fires. Now,
while we got to start there is because while a
lot of the news was covering what was happening in
the Palisades and Malibu. A lot of our local eyes
were on the city of Altadena. I know, I did
a small, short kind of breakdown of Altadena inside of
(03:53):
the Block is literally hot episode when I talked about
the La fires.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And Altadena is.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
The northern part of Los Angeles County on the east side,
in the foothills under the Angelus Mountains. Now the Hollywood
Hills is a part of a mountain range right with
a valley in between, which is how you get over
to the valley. But that range kind of stretches up
(04:25):
and it becomes like, you know, like I said, the
Angelus Crest all the way over to the Azusa Mountains
down to Mount Baldy and then you get out to
Big Bear as you're going east or inland. But nestled
at the foothills the east side is an enclave called Altadena.
And Altadena was one of the few standing black communities
(04:53):
that most likely, I think it's it's fair to say
that most likely your.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Grandma lived in Altadena.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She probably bought a house right after the Vietnam War,
because this was one of the first like middle class,
like working class middle class black neighborhoods where you could
you could get an affordable home working a regular ass job.
Now as time went on, those homes became quite pricey
(05:22):
because won their location and to their build They're these
like super dope kind of break mid century modern like
it just it's just a great neighborhood. You know, merce
talked about how when he moved to the six to
six that's where his church was. A lot of times
if you lived in the rest of the spots, like
(05:43):
down in West Covina or Baldwin Park, like you lived
with the Vatos, like a lot of times your barber
was up in Altadena, you know, or in Pasadena. You know,
the Pasadena Rubber Rebels. You know, that's a very local reference.
But the loss of that neighborhood is some thing that
as far as locally has been concerned, was our focus.
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There was an African American library there. There was all
these like kids programs that where a lot of us
learned about the diaspora of Africa and drumming circles and
stuff like that. Like if you wasn't going out to
Lamert you know, you were staying. Lamert Park is in
the Crenshaw District, which is on the West Side, and
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sometimes because of unfortunately because of gang festivities and activities,
that's sometimes not an option. But a lot of times
you were moved as a child out of those areas.
But you don't want to lose what it means to
have a black community, just as simple as like where
to get your hair grease, not having to explain what
(06:50):
hair grease is, you know what I'm saying, Like those
things become the seasonings. I remember I was trying to
make some greens. Uh one time last summer, I just
needed a smoke turkey leg. Whole Foods ain't got no
smoke turkey leg. I went to the rest of the
(07:11):
grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in a
Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke turkey
during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah,
I need to go to Altadena because I was like,
I need to go where black people live because I
know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhocks, they gonna have.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The things I need just to cook.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So sometimes now granted this Altadena and a lot of
like ethnic neighborhoods were created because of redlining and because
of prejudice. But inside of that, you create a community
of the things that we all need and those little
things that I feel like a lot of times white
people are people of the dominant culture, you know, really
(07:54):
can't appreciate, like why other ethnicities feel even more like
a fish out of water when they're in, you know,
neighborhoods that don't represent them, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It's little stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
You know, I couldn't find the right kind of shampoo
for a long time too, because that mug said you
at the store and it said this is for normal
hair texture.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm sorry, what the hell is normal hair? Well?
Speaker 3 (08:24):
You know what they mean by that, don't you exactly?
So little things like that where I don't have to
like concern myself.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Altadena is a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the
fundraisers focused around la especially again in the black community,
was around rebuilding Altadena and it's still going on. There
are still links in my bios to support a lot
of these families. One of the people up there was
(08:55):
mad Lib. Mad Lib again in the state of hip
hop is a behemoth of a producer, The Mad Villain
album that everybody talks about with m F Doom, mad Lib,
Jlib is him and Jay Dilla, you know, the champion
(09:18):
sound stuff man mad Live is a if you are
a rapper, no matter what part of the country you're from,
mad Lib should be on your bucket list to get
production from. Yeah, he lost his home too, you know,
And there was a bunch of fundraisers that we've done
(09:39):
in hopes to save his own and his record collections
and those things. So rather than coming out swinging for
black people with funniness, we came out swinging with a
little bit of pain.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Next is the Ballad of p.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Diddy, y'all.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
This topic has clearly spanned a number of State of
the blacknesses because Diddy is now finally on trial. As
we've known, Diddy was one of the worst kept secrets
in Hollywood, hip hop and black culture. We all knew
that man was weird now unfortunately, because use homophobia is
(11:03):
a normal, normalized thing among the black community, although black
queer is also a ginormous part of our culture.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
So weird how we do this?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
People still have kind of changed pause to ah No Ditty,
which is essentially a way to say.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I'm not gay, like I'm not doing gay stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Unfortunately, that the gayness was the line that the culture
finally drew. But as the case is going on, we're
seeing that man was even more bizarre than we all thought.
The story about one of the male escorts said, no,
this was Cassie's story that she was forced to make
(11:52):
live to this male escort while Ditty was in a
job with just the little eyes showing watching them get down. Boy,
that man kid cutty two for two with his mentor
choices because both of them went crazy cut He said
(12:18):
that man showed up at his house and set his
car on fire. Obviously he didn't do it himself. Why
you set that man's car on fire? Did he look
like he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh
you know you ain't got your skincare routine and the
(12:40):
pan Do you listen?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Man?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Did he out here wildly in the state of the blackness.
Maybe let's stay in hip hop before we move into
other topics. The continuation of Kendrick Tamar's curb stomping of
the culture moves on. While this tour that the GNX
Tour that is now broken records for touring ever, and
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then he broke his own record as this tour game
went on as far as ticket sales. The argument against
k Dot apparently, which I didn't agree with, was that
he don't make bops, that he don't make hits, and
that the songs are not.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Made for radio.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
That's what everybody's argument with, Like mister Morale was like,
there's no there's no radio songs. He come back with
these these hits with Sizz, which of which he took
on tour and gave her, which what I love about
it equal amount of time on stage because he's just
a good man. He continues to break streaming records, he
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continues to break toward ticket sale records, and just continues
to put the West.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
On the map.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Now while that was happening out on the East Coast,
on the Beast Coast, my homeboy Joey Badass. Now Joey
is not my homeboy because I ain't never met this man,
but we do share a manager, which would be like,
damn man, can y'all connect this please?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
What I love about this moment in hip hop is
that it's kind of just for us because the rest
of the people I'm about to name, unless you really
tapped into hip hop, y'all know who these people are.
But if you're in our culture, this has been some
of the funnest few months of bringing which is what
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Kendrick said he tried to do. Bring that competition back,
that goon competition back, the sport of hip hop, the
sport of battling, of beating your chest and spinning in
bars and having bought and having something to come back,
having a response, the competition part of hip hop. That
is about we're sparring. This is art for art's sake,
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this is this is battle raps for battle rap sake.
There has been a battle going on between Joey Badass
and essentially all of the West, right. Joey had said
in a song a while back, in reference to a
(15:29):
line that Jay Z said years ago, which was like
it's too much West Coast dick licking right. He was
making an observation that the West is up right now,
the West is hot, you know, and y'all need to
stop jocking this, like, don't forget the East Coast started
hip hop essentially, like I feel a way that I'm
(15:49):
not in the conversation about the top rappers of my era.
This is Joey Joey Badass is a sort of premise
and like y'all acting like New York don't run things still,
and they don't, partially, I believe, because New York gave
up its sound because it started doing drill and like
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the ASoP rocky stuff, the French Montana stuff. There was
no way you'd know they were from New York because
they don't have they don't have a sound, but Joey
has that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside
Gun and all this stuff that they're doing is bringing
a New York sound back. So in some stances, I
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feel like New York gave up its flavor, but it's
cool to see it pop smoke, Like y'all didn't know
he was from New York unless Mike told you. He
didn't sound like it. They're they're redefining their sound anyway.
In this battle, he takes shots at the West but
Kendrick over it, so everybody else jumped in. Ray Vaughan
(16:55):
is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap
rap rap, And then it became this like sort of
a brawl because another man named Daylight. Now Daylight is
super interesting because Daylight again comes from the battle scene.
I believe Watts right. He also his ghostwriting pen is insane.
(17:16):
He wrote a number of Drake songs. He's also very
close with ab Sol. And you have to remember about
the thing about ab Sol, who's also a part of
Top Dog. Absol of the of Black Hippie, Black Hippie
is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Qan Absole like the first
the kind of the founding members of Top Dog Entertainment.
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Of them, Kendrick's obviously the hit maker, the star of
the show.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Jay Rock's the street.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Goon, you know, and then Schoolboy is the like almost
like the melodic street goon, you feel me. Absol, that's
the rappers rapper, he's the that's the caviar, like the
the We would be here for seven months trying to
break down his lyrics, like he's the wordplay intricate, like
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I said I'd said before, which I love. He's like
backpack rap with a gat in it, Like so it's
a backpacker but he got a gun in it because
he's still a street dude.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
But he's the caviar. Now when he got in.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
There's Red Bull has this thing where they do this
like three sixty site for the first one I saw
was of.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Soul's a Mischief.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
But what they do is they get like three or
four rappers in and they spit, you know, freestyles, not
like I call freestyles, but freestyle's into this thing. And
this one was Big Sean, Joey and Absol. Now Joey
had already taken shots at Daylight and at Ray Vaughn.
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But because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not? Yeah,
ab Soul finally addresses it in this circle where he
was like, listen, Joey, you put me in this predicament
that like, I know me and you are friends. But
it's not like I'm not gonna stand with my syndicate.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He's takes so he's taking shots at at Joey standing there,
and then when it's Joey's turn, Joey taking shots at
Ab standing there. So for a few weeks reason Daylight,
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Ray Vaughn, Joey Badass. These are like, again, you're not
in the culture. These are rappers, rappers, right, They are
spitting because GENA views is part of the show called
effective immediately with DJ head gena Is was like, I'm
(19:50):
get off the internet and get in the booth, like
nigga rap.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Why are y'all not rapping rap?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And guess what niggas is rapping.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
The beauty of this is everyone agrees in this that
we are having fun. As vicious and cutting as these
words are, this is almost like black people getting to
be black without the white gays. How do we talk
when y'all not around, when we don't have to worry
about things being misinterpreted. This is what's happening inside of
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hip hop right now when we ain't got to explain.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
There's no New York Times.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I don't have to explain to you why BBL drizzy
is funny, Like I don't like. This is one of
those things where it's like cool, we get to just
speak our own language. We ain't gotta translate and just
enjoy what's happening in hip hop right now. That's what's
going on right now, man, and it is fun and
they're all talking about how fun it is. The Hommy
Curtis King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna
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if you're gonna hop online and play two K or
Madden with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying
to win, like I like, I am truly trying. I'm
trying to destroy you. This is the same a hip hop.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
This is what I love.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
This is what I felt love about battle rap is
after telling someone the worst possible things you could ever
say to somebody, we all left and went to Denny's.
This stuff isn't personal. This is fun with somebody. If
you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules,
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but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in
the face, and I feel like I want you to try.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Like that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Like if you playing pickup ball, like that's a lot,
that's another way to clate battle rap like this.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
It's like street ball, Like you know, these are pickup games.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
There's gonna be more elbows, it's gonna be a little
more aggressive, but you gotta hold your mud.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
You gotta stand your ground, you gotta spit back, and
the best bars win. This is also what's beauty about
beautiful about this moment. It's like without the gaze of
pop culture talking about numbers and streams and all that
good stuff that's not a part of the conversation because
these artists have not poked into mainstream or pop culture.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
These are rappers. So all this is about is bars.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And it's been good to enjoy this with hip hop
because this is something we needed. You know, you get
Mac Miller's death, you get Pop Smoke's death, you know
Triple X at Tassion, all these like really sad stories.
You got young thugs, all these rappers going to jail.
You know, just not a good look. This was a
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moment we all needed, moving out of hip hop. Let's
go to this little more politics next, all right, for
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some reason, the desire that for some reason this year
it kind of worked where black people got real solidified
over Target. And I think partially because Target took such
serious strides towards being present for us in supporting black businesses.
(23:51):
And then when DEI was attacked, they removed their DEI program.
Here's where this becomes complicated. They still sold the products,
the black products that they already had, they just decided
to stop being upfront about it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
It's not so much that we care as black people
about the name DEI. It's the principle of it in
the sense that you stood up for us, and when
the white supremacists came to tell you to stop doing it,
you just folded, and I know you folded in a
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way that was supposed to be looking at us and
winking saying we're still there.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
We're just gonna you know.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
But when you just wink and look over there and
say I'm still gonna do it, but I'll still please
you by changing this name, you still give them a
win because they still believe that they have the authority
to bully you, and that perception, the visual and the
belief is all they need because then they're gonna come
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do it again, and then you're gonna change the name
again and try to figure it out. Either way, you're
still taking a submissive position to a group that needs
to understand.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The principalities of the thing. So black people.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Decided some of it was organized through church, others was
just organized through social media, that we were just gonna
not shop at Target.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
No more than the businesses that were in Target. They
all got websites.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
We'll still support y'all. You don't have to lose money
because it is so we still buy a products. We're
just not shopping at Target. Target, they took a massive
l Black people used to spend twelve million a day
at Target.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
That's gone.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
They made that CEO get a fifty percent pay cut
because black folks decided when we was done shopping there.
It's crazy that when we actually decide, when we finally done,
when you get to the go ahead, chief, you got
a champ when we get to that, like when we're done,
we're done, which is what's going on with Kanye.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
We're done. That's why not on the news no more.
We're done.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Sell your swastikas, go ahead. Br niggas is over it.
It's one thing I do enjoy about us is we
are long suffering. We will stick with you for a while.
But when we're done, I said, because it's all you, you.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Got a chief.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Sticking in the politics section, Larry Hoover, founder of the
Gangster Disciples, Leonard Peltier, freedom fighter from the sixties, political prisoner,
and believe this, NB A Young Boy all got released
from prison, Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got
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they sentence commuted, commuted from a dut Trump organization. Now,
no one could have imagined this timeline that this would
happen commit black people.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is
to exploit the divide.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Of gender among the black community because we're having some
sort of some sort of a civil war among us,
and Trump is making strides in gaining support with black men.
Part of that is because we're trying to get this
money and we just want to be getting money, Muff,
(27:48):
because you understand what I'm saying, but it's complicated. And
then when you start doing stuff like this, because we
understand prison reform, we understand our need to like a
lot of young brothers have been put in jail, you know,
on some untrumped up charges. So this is supposed to
feel good. Now, this is not to be little any
(28:08):
of the things that Larry Hoover has done it better himself.
I'm not putting that aside. I'm talking about Trumps rereading
Trump's lick because this man may do these gestures to
try to make us feel better, but this is the
same man that's ending head Start programs, the same man
that looked at our Haitian brothers and sisters and was
(28:28):
like they eating pets, literally eating cats and dogs. That's
what they said about our brothers and sisters in the diaspora.
This the shithold country's man. This the same man that's
removing the medicaid, that's making medicaid hard.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
For my DNM. That man don't love you.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And I feel like we understand this because I have
a lot of the similar memories you have when the
pusher come through the city or come through the neighborhood
in the Cadillac you start handing out twenty dollar bills
or taking us off to the ice cream truck. You know,
doing backpack drives you feel me. But that man is
why your auntie strung out. That man is while you
(29:10):
went to your cousin's funeral last week. He may tell
you sorry and promised to take care of you, of
you and your mother, you and your auntie, your cousin,
your auntie. He promised to take care of him, But
I tell you what, he also got him killed. So
I need you to remember that this man is really
not on your side. That being said, welcome home the NBA,
(29:32):
young boy, and Larry Hoover. Now I brought up Leonard
Peltier because can you believe it? Do your googles all right?
Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney
Hiitton Junior. This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where
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a young man and his friends stole a car and
were pursued by the police. One of them hopped out
the car. The cop says he saw a gun. The
guy dropped the gun and run ran. The little boy
took four shots to his back and died. After the
little boy's father got to see the police surveillance video,
(30:18):
he was so distraught that the next day he drove
his car into an officer who was directing traffic. The
complications of this story puts the reality of radicalization into
focus even more because this is a sad story for
(30:39):
all parties involved. It's a clear case of temporary insanity.
But also it is what I've been trying to tell
y'all about Palestine. It's that state sponsored violence always creates terrorism.
As I don't know of any terrorist group that wasn't
(31:02):
a response to state sponsored violence. So the continual insurgent
force that is the police department in America towards or
at least what it feels like towards black people, is
gonna eventually drive us to these types of actions. So
(31:22):
this man was like, listen, you not gonna see justice.
These people killed my son and now they protecting the
man that killed my son. I don't know if you know,
but Derek Chauvin is getting out also by the same
administration that freed Larry Hoover. So don't think this man
is full of us. Derek Chauvin is the person that
(31:46):
killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney hidden
Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments
where thirty officers showed up for this trial for his uh,
for his first arraignment, and that man chin up full
of pride, like you're not gonna have me down. You're
(32:07):
not gonna have me sad. I stood up for my son.
I found justice for my son because I know you
would never do this for me. So he kept his
head up. Now, I'm sure you're not asking me this
because you listen to the show and you know what
it is that I am not giving a defense for
(32:34):
vigilanteism or murder. I'm not I'm saying I understand it.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
This is what I'm saying. I am a father.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
And sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child. If
you see the if the if the parents are part
of the storyline, and you see somebody's child going through
some suffering, if you.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Care about your fathering.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
You, it's hard for me to see that without feeling
like deep feelings and emotions and sometimes rage like I'm like, boy,
I wish a mother, I wish you would talk to
my daughter like that. I wish you would put my
child's life in danger.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Like you feeling froggy than jump. So I think I
understand that. And lastly, in the State of the Blackness.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
The memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now, a
father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And if you understand.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Something about the black nuclear family, won't play not about
our wives. Ain't nowhere in the world you're gonna let
your child be disrespectful today.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Mother.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
That's something we just don't that's not not we don't
abide by that, and especially if it's your boy.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Now I have daughters, so that's a different story.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But black men and their sons when it talks about
how when you think about how you want your boys
to treat they, Mama, boy, you been not in my presence,
I bet not ever catch I bet not ever see you.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Be out of pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
That's that's not something we play around with. So a
lot of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes they
kid do. He used to make his son, his step
son do laps, so he would go to the high
school on the court and he go make him run laps.
The homy La Cree used to have his kids do
wall sets. Right, we're trying to break these generational curses
(35:38):
of whipping our children.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Okay, so forgive us. But this man said, we're doing
twenty Drew Hills.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Now, if you know nineties R and B, you already
know exactly what he talking about. It is a dance
from a video that has a step and a jump
and it's almost a burpie. Because when he said I
gave my son twenty Drew Hills, we all knew exactly
what he meant. And then the video cut to his
(36:06):
son do it.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Cause it's a workout.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
One man said twenty Drew Hills. And lastly, one hundred
men versus one gorilla. You may or may not know,
but that whole discussion actually came out of black Twitter.
Now I know there is no such thing as Twitter anymore,
but it actually comes from black Twitter can now is
(36:39):
a stand in term just for black. Social media started
off on Reddit a long time ago, got brought back
via the Black social media Pipeline, and then spilled out
to the rest of the world, charting out some of
the greatest moments of extra ness about stuff that don't
(37:03):
matter people right now charts bringing in anthropologists and people
who study apes just sometimes we just need some fun.
Another trend in social media, which has to do with
sort of all of this, is how, for the most part,
(37:27):
a lot of the anti Trump rallies don't have no
Black people there. A lot of the anti fascism ones
don't really add to black people there. Let me tell
you why, because we try to tell you we fought
all we could. Nobody y'all ain't we told y'all about
this man. Ain't nobody We tried.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We tried.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
We did a whole movement in twenty twenty, got laws changed,
really saw some results, just for y'all to put this
man back in charge again.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You know what, y'all got it. Y'all got it. That
is not so much that we don't want to stand
in solidarity with you. It's that this is yo.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Turn my feet hurt. Been trying, but I tell you what,
I'm gonna go on to this brunch and Mimosa's. You
let me know how it goes.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
So.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I can say.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
The state of the blackness is strong. We still got
the rest of the year ago. We're gonna see the
complete fall of Diddy and hopefully we keep the city
laughing because that's how we handle things.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Good politics.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
You better listen to these credits. I need you to
finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay,
so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded
in East Lost Boil Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap
in with me at prop hip hop dot com. If
(39:24):
you're in the Coldbrew coffee we got terraform Coldbrew. You
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get twenty percent off get yourself some coffee. This was mixed, edited,
and mastered by your boy Matt Alsowski killing the Beast Softly.
Check out his website Matdowsowski dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I'm a speller for you because I know m A T.
T O S.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
O w s Ki dot com Matthowsowski dot com. He
got more music and stuff like that on there, so
gonna check out.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
The heat.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Politics is a member of cool Zone Media, Executive produced
by Sophie Lichterman, part of the iHeartMedia podcast network. Your
theme music and scoring is also by the one and
Noble mattow Sowski. Still killing the beats softly, so listen.
Don't let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living,
you understand politics. These people is not smarter than you.
(40:19):
We'll see y'all next week.
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