January 1, 2025 • 47 mins
Finally, after a year of high and lows in Blackness, ranging from Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter, Usher's Las Vegas residency, Kendrick ending Drake's death grip on hip-hop and the fall of Diddy, I present... the full State of Blackness Address.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media. I'm opening this episode up licking my fingers
cause this is left overseason. Are we good in my house? Uh?
(00:26):
This this black Sekin house? Oh yo, yo, food don't
smack like ours? Trust me, yeah, trust your turkey ain't
Enchilada style, is it? You ain't got it based in
it an shei Litha's because your mother in law don't
(00:47):
know what the hell Thanksgiving means. They just saw it
on TV and she was like, a turkey don't seem
like it's enough going on. Why don't I make it
like an anchi litha. So it's like covered in enchilada sauce,
Like yo, a turkey, don't slap like mine. Me and
the homies just like fried stuff. So brind that mug
in occasion and then deep fry it like it's some
(01:09):
shrimp and some old baycuz blood you don't eat like me.
These collar greens. Listen, my greens. You don't want to
smoke with your boy. With the greens, your boy can burn.
I put my foot in them greens. The hot water
corn bread next to the authorities, both the slang and
(01:36):
the literal. You know what I'm saying, all kind of
homemade silicized cuz my mother in laudo play around my swag.
You don't want it with folks, you feel me. You
don't want it with the mac and cheese. You don't look.
(01:57):
You don't want it with the mac and cheese. And
then to wake up with a whole bowl of pasola
and to my list the next day. Cut you don't
want it with my house. Aamn, yams, ain't got no
dog on marshmallows on top of marshmallows, don't belong on.
No yams is wrong with you. I can get to
(02:18):
the yams, baby sweet yea ams? Sure me? Oh man,
you don't want it with my house anyway. I think
you do want it with my house. You want to
(02:38):
be in myles eating my food. You can't have you
can't have none of this. We not sharing nothing. I
am talking about nonsense right now. Sent of the year,
and oh my god, what a year there's like in
this cycle of the contract. It's like, I owe, I
heard two more episodes now obviously that's just on this
(03:00):
contracting me. Praise the Lord God Almighty. We got renewed
for another season. But yeah, I'm crawling into the end
of the year. Just like y'all are. But what we
did at the halfway mark, and I can't believe that
was the halfway mark, was we did a half a
year stated a Blackness address. So now coming into the
(03:24):
end of the year, it is now the twenty twenty
four end of the year State of the Blackness Address,
hook politics, y'all. Yeah, buddy, what a year has been? Man?
(03:55):
What do you say? Dude? Like, So let's first let's reflect.
You know, the year started off so promising. You guys
may remember it started with Club Shasha and Kat Williams
(04:16):
just setting the record straight, just being like, this is
the tone. What's going on this year? Is we cleaning
house and we shining? Who knew Kat Kat was? I
thought I got said in the first time. I thought
Kat was gonna give us the phrase we was gonna
use forever, but instead he gave us the facial expression
we gonna use forever. Is that man looking at you
(04:38):
with his little drinker and just being like I tried
to tell y'all, you got to tell Diddy No, who knew?
No Diddy, when you want to play in your buttthole,
give you five million dollars, You got to tell Diddy no,
kat was trying to tell us something. That man exposed
(04:59):
frauds inside of the comedy circuit. Some of it was like, yeah,
you was being a little salty. Maybe you know what
I'm saying. Like some of it felt like it was
a little little sus because he definitely followed up with
that Netflix special that I couldn't even finish. I ain't
gonna hold you like. I was like, ah, man, I don't.
(05:21):
It just ain't doing for me. But that interview when
he laid down that you have an unnatural alliance to
losers and it's not like you. I was like, Kat
is letting us know what the year is twenty twenty four.
We done, lion, We've done hiding. We're saying what we
(05:43):
were saying. It was such a great moment for the
culture for us. Followed like almost the next day with
the dude, the brother that jumped over the bench in
the court. You murdered a brother, the flying felon brother
(06:07):
jumped over the thing and tackled the lady. Y'all. That's
how the year started. The year started with Cat Williams
and then the boy jumping over the bench to tackle
the judge because she ain't she wasn't listening to what
(06:30):
he was trying to say. He's trying to say he
had changed man, but she wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't
hearing it. That's how the year started. It was like,
this is this is a wonderful way to start a year.
And it started making me think this year is finna
be black as hell. And it was like a very
(06:53):
exciting time for the year to be black as hell.
Because right after that, oh Man Caw Girl Carter came,
Beyonce did a country record, and of all the talk
around what it means to be a country artist, what
country is, and let's let me let me who who
(07:16):
has a day job as being a musician. I understand
what it means to be multi genre. I write poetry,
I do hip hop. I understand also that I know
a lot of rappers right now, right now in sessions
with country artists because they're writing songs for him. Why
because there's money there. You can't look at what Jelly
(07:39):
Roll doing. You can't look at Shaboozi and be like,
that's Jay Kwan's song he did, It's what a lick? Right?
It is Jae Kwan's song One here comes the two
to the three to the four, everybody drunk about the
(07:59):
dance floor. He just changed the word from club to bar.
Everybody at the club getting tips, everybody at the bar
getting tips. It's just like, why would you not that dude.
Dack's the other black dude rapper that was on the
Corner list. And I mean, you say what you want
about him, but yeah, like he was on the Corner
(08:20):
rapper list. But I'll tell you what. He over there
in country music making his bread. Now do we have
the right to do that? Well? As Beyonce so eloquently
pointed out, country music is black. We were. We have
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a right to be here because we made it. I
have a song called Gentrify on a record called Crooked
that I did in twenty seventeen. Matter of fact, the
first uh it could happen here stuff that it had
the song crooked as like the theme word the Grandpop's
(09:07):
good and fathom the Obamas is Yeah. So that was
from the album Crooked. And I'll have a song on
there called Gentrify where I'm gonna quote myself because I'm
that shallow. I ain't saying you ain't welcome. Please be
(09:31):
our guest just know the city limits beat in our chest.
So it's not so much that we feel as though
what we create isn't for everyone. It just doesn't mean
that you get to if you're welcome into my house,
(09:51):
you just can't rearrange my furniture and start putting your
name or all my stuff. That's this. This is what
I'm trying to tell you. You not allowed to. You
can't just this ain't your house. You can't just act
like it's your house. So what Beyonce did was remind
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everybody and to highlight other black country artists that's been
there the whole time. That's like, well, we never left,
We've always been making country music. And then she made
a music that and she made an album that like,
I mean, it's the other part that kind of made
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me mad. I'm like, we is. I mean, it's pop music.
Like I don't understand why y'all so mad about this.
It's pop with a country feel. And let her live.
She did that already with the Renaissance record, which was
reminding everybody that house music, it's Chicago, queer, black black people. Man,
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this our year cause And I was excited until the
worst kept secret in all of entertainment slid out and
that is Diddy, p Diddy, Sean Puffy Comb's nasty ass.
(11:20):
It all kind of all kind of stumbled out videos
of him beating the mess out of his girl. All
the NDA's about him diddling p Diddy diddling kids is
we still haven't confirmed whether that mug happened to Justin
(11:41):
Bieber and maybe us should brought him over where. It
was like, Okay, this one situation, these Diddy parties, this
one thing could take down like almost all of black entertainment,
unless you like Kendrick Lamar, which was like, I stay
in the crib, but we'll get to Kendrick later. So
(12:05):
Diddy gave us new phrases no Diddy, right, and just
the amount of people that were mixed into that thing,
Meek mill, it's still people talking about how jay Z
is paying millions to keep his name up out of
that right, I don't know. Jaguar Wright started telling everybody
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all started telling everybody's business. The drugs that they take,
the uppers and the downers to stay in that party,
the women that they flew out there, and how and
a lot of times Didd he ain't even interested in
the women and just the memorable level of a thousand
bottles of baby oil. It's just this is disgusting, but
(12:55):
it couldn't have been more funny. Here's the thing about
black people. Just like we said in the last one,
we could be deeply unserious about very serious things, and
we could be very serious about un serious things and
never really lose sight as to what is important and
(13:16):
what was not. That man diddy House got raided and
he was gone, and he left his boys. Bad. Oh
this private jet on his way to a play as
a way to a place that don't extradit. This nigga
left is getting the nigga looking like George Bush flying
(13:37):
over Hurricane Katrita. Why his kids is being the Oh
my god, oh my god. Speaking of which, we were
still on a high from Aquamane and the Montgomery brawl,
the fade in the water. We were still on a
(13:59):
high from that. I'm telling you, man, this was supposed
to be our time.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Babe, baby, babe, Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And then what happened next? Oh lord, you know what? Yeah,
you know what happened next? Margie Taylor Green decided she
wanted it with the black congresswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and
and a beautiful show of solidarity among the black and
(15:05):
brown communities with congressmen or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and uh
Alexandria Cassio Ortez Cortes. The thing that like, if you
have not figured this out by now, if you listen
to my show, you are not going to If you
if your ancestors is from the equator in any way,
(15:26):
shape or form, you are, You're never gonna roast us better.
We will always like we're gonna cook you. Why because
of the culture and the families for which we were
forged in You have to understand our aunties, our uncles,
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Our theos are theias, our theitos are the thoughts. They're merciless.
They have that your your age don't matter. They don't
do age appropriate, like you're merciless. I understand a lot
of times in the Asian community it's a little more
like it's a little different. No, it's not a little different,
because I've heard from my Asian friends they're like, are
(16:09):
you walking the door? Your grandma will be like you're fat. Now,
like listen, so they very direct for us. It's jokes
like she gonna say that about you, but it's gonna
be a joke. Like you, I don't know how else
to say this. No one is safe in our only
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No one's safe in our homes. Grandma, Grandma cook you.
You come in there wrong. Listen, listen. You happen to
walk in. You happen to bring your little white girlfriend
in here. And she insisted on bringing her vegan muffins,
like Grandma is gonna cook her like, and she gonna
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cook you right after you, just like, listen, you have
to listen. Listen. I'm in an interracial relationship now. Granted
mine is Mexican, so it's a little different, you know
what I'm saying. And she like her granddaddy black is
hell like they from southern Mexico is different, right, And
she looked Mayan, like my wife looks indigenous. So the
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point is, we have a few more cultural Oh, of
course we have our differences, but we have a few
more cultural overlaps. But listen. I still had to prepare
her last year. She said she wanted to take a
shot at making the macaroni and cheese. And I said, okay, now,
(17:39):
let's do a trial run. Okay, before you bring this
to the rest of my family. Okay, they love you,
they like you. You have to understand our meals. This
is what you understand about black people. And probably Latinos. No, yeah,
for shaw Latinos too, but specific Latino said. Look, it's
(17:59):
a little different, but with black people, it's a meritocracy.
Like you earn the dish you are. You are assigned it.
You don't get to pick it. You're assigned the dish
that you bring. I don't care if you like making
mac and cheese, my nigga, you bring in the collar,
you bring in the greens. You're better at greens. That's
what you're bringing. And look if you can't, if you
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can't cook, you just bring the drinks. It's fine, Brendana baby,
you brown and bring the alcohol. We'll do the cooking,
you know, because don't it ain't nobody gonna eat it, right.
You're gonna waste all that money, all your time, and
we're gonna make fun of you for bringing it. We
already told you not to bring that dry ass corn
bread in here. We told you not to do that.
I don't know who told you that was okay, so
(18:41):
I listen, you need to prepare your melanin challenged partners
prepare them. So I prepared her, and she went on YouTube.
She found somebody, an old woman from Louisiana that uh
and when I tell you like she's I mean, my
(19:02):
wife's a PhD. She knows how to follow directions. She
followed that recipe to a tea and let me tell
you something. That mac and cheese was smacking. It even
had the right crust on the top of it, like,
you know, we can go get the corner, like the
corner was right, y'all, listen, I'll look, I'm not telling
y'all you already know. You already know the test the tests.
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At that point, I was like, you can absolutely bring
this around my family because I don't want her to
feel what we felt as children. So let me bring
that back to Congresswoman so Marle Marjie Taylor Green. I mean,
(19:43):
this was such an amazing clip. Was just running her mouth,
just leaning back, running her mouth, you know, and and
and just being just being completely rude and talking about
eyelashes and men and making comments about the phys appearance
of Congresswoman Jasmine and the thing about again, I keep
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having a school, y'all. This's the state of the Blackness
address we are required to, especially as black men, or
specifically as black men, and very specifically as black women.
Specifically as black men, we have to keep our cool
because we'll get murdered. So're you like any show of
aggression or discontentment as a black man, you have to
(20:30):
really calculate, like how much I can't just lose it
like these white boys can lose it. Like we can't
just lose it like that, Like we have to maintain
a certain level of decorum because we're fighting stereotypes and
just the anti blackness, the fear that that strikes in
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people's hearts when we just raise our voice or even
are just having fun. Like there are times like you know,
it's like from the hood is thing called park day,
where like park Day it'd be I mean, it could
(21:12):
get rowdy, but most of the time, like we're playing
like Niggas is playing kickball and like you know, like barbecue,
are having a fun time. Niggas is just loud, Like
if we're playing Domino's, like we may like we just loud,
you know what I'm saying, And it's just for some reason,
it just be terrifying for people, Like I was having
(21:32):
this conversation even with my own wife, like about I
had to take I like taking public transit these days
because gas prices is crazy. But I was taking the
train home and I was like, yeah, nah, this train
gets rowdy, dog And she was just like, oh, it's
a lot of a lot of young young hoodlums and
(21:53):
I was like, no, I'm completely comfortable around them. It
was a whole lot of old people that was yelling
at each other. Who was elderly folk hitting there and
they wheelchairs just mad at everything. I was like, Yo,
this is getting rowdy. And the poor bus driver there's
two people in these wheelchairs, was yelling at each other.
One of them was having like a delusional moment where
she was like, they say, I'm a murderer. I can't
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even get out of my chair right. I was like, Yo,
it's getting hectic in here. I'm a whole bunch of
like Now, granted I'm not delusional, I understand, like I
got Antenna's, but generally, if a bunch of like a
bunch of actos, a bunch of like, you know, young
black dudes, get on, get on the train, I'm like, nigga,
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ain't me like you know what I'm saying. Like I
don't know, like that doesn't But anyway, if they're being loud,
I'm not scared. I'm annoyed, you know what I'm saying,
because I'm like, nigga, put your headphones on, okay, like
you do't like what is you doing? Homie? Like you know,
and it's more like as a big hummy, like you
know what these people think of you? You feel me
like you're gonna be targeted, but scared so and with
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black women probably which you know, an extension to all women,
but I'm not talking about all women. I'm talking about
black women. They got attitudes, they difficult, you know, and
if she likes show her rage, then she's an angry
black woman, you know what I'm saying. So you got
to really calculate and like you got to really get
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us there, because to get to the level of Congress,
like Congresswoman Jasmine had to like really know how to
control herself and the things for which she needs to say,
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because you got to be able to move in areas
that are very foreign to us and don't understand our
ways of communication. So but Margie Taylor Green ain't got
to worried about that, so she popping off. Sister. Oh man,
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y'all remember this. She said, Okay, we're talking about bodies. Well,
it is it appropriate if I call if I say
this this bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, like you, like,
did you have to understand that that comes from decades
of training and that like it is. It is fifty
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percent possible that she thought of that off the head,
that she just looked at her right there like oh
you're trying to oh you got something to say, and
that alliteration bleach blonde, bad built, butch body just flew
out of her soul just because we just had that
kind of training. Or it's fifty percent possible that she
thought that the first time she saw her. It just
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had been holding it because it's inappropriate to talk about
somebody's body parts on the Congress floor. But either way,
she lit that girl up. And at that point I
was like, oh, nigga, this is our year. I was like, yeah,
this is doll this this is the blackest year on record.
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This made me so happy. But the only thing that
could top that was the light skinned Canadian had the
nerve to pop off and the People's champ corn Roll,
Kenny Pullitzer, Kenny jumped on the tape with Future in
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Metro Blooming and was like, it's not about the Big three.
Nigga is the big Me and that's set off. And
now you know what I'm gonna include. I'm gonna include Draking.
This Drake hav black. He counts this, although he proved
he not really part of our culture, but that he
loves the culture. But you know what he gave us.
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You know what they gave us something we have not
had in a long time. A really good hip hop
battle that didn't end in death. That wasn't petty. It
was the sophistication. And I'm gonna give because it can
only be a battle. If if Drake wasn't a hit maker,
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this wouldn't have worked. This wouldn't have brought our culture
the joy that it brought us, if Drake wasn't the
villain that he is, which made basically the hip hop
Avengers and X Men wrapped in one come around and
show y'all the very premise of what I mean by
this show, which is, if you understand the hood, you
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understand politics, you can't move the way Drake moves and
expect people to come to your defense. That's why nobody
came to his defense. Kendrick showed you you be a
man of your word. You stick to your guns, you
go to work, you go home. You keep your integrity,
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and you let your work do to talking. And for
a span of two weeks, we got really to witness
two of the best, two of the top. Like, think
about this for a second. The two top in what
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sport is it really and truthfully, the two best teams
make it to the finals. This was truly the two
best artists in hip hop for the decade. We got
to witness them go to head to head. And what
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all of us predicted who was in the culture was,
first of all, you don't want it with k Dot.
We already told y'all you ain't want it with k Dot.
But the fatal mistake was the AI two pac. That's
where Drake went wrong, because that went from Drake to
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Kendrick to Drake to the West coast. You made this
a coastal thing by invoking our heroes. Not only was
it corny, it just wasn't good. But when you do that,
you've set in motion. You woke a sleeping giant, you
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poked a bear, and at that point, the run from
Euphoria to Meet the Grams to six sixteen in it's
just the raps that we got from that, all culminating
dropping on Sinko Demio Da Da Da Da. They not
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like us, They not like us, They not like us.
The man gave us the song like this year will
This year is gonna go down in history because it
gave us an anthem of the ages, DJ Mustard, the
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anthem of the ages, y'all, the brother streak of the
Everybody screenshot it. Kendrick has seven tweets this year, and
they're only just links to the songs and videos, and
then the announcement that I'm also performing in the super Bowl.
How do you like? What the how do you knock
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a year out? The part work. We didn't even got
to his album that just dropped. I haven't even screamed
my side yet. What a year, What a year for
the coast, What a year for black people. But it
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wasn't all good. We'll talk about the next things that
weren't all good next. All right, we're back. This year
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also brought us, obviously, the fall of Diddy, like we
talked about before, a reckoning that absolutely needed to happen,
and was long overdue. But we also found out that
we can now play R Kelly music again. Why is
that because all of the money from playing his music
and streaming his music goes to his victims. So like,
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hey guys, you can listen to R Kelly again. Now
we also had some deaths, oh I forgot about. The
good thing is like the Kenny and Friends pop out
on Juneteenth where he actually brought one hundred different hoods
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and united them on one stage to bring peace to
Los Angeles. I've never seen anything like this. It was
almost like this was Pok's dream. He did it. This
was Nipsey's dream. Nipsey and Pac walked and ran, so
Kendrick can fly. It was just absolutely beautiful. But we
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lost some heroes. Man, we lost James Earl Jones. Now,
for you white people, that's the voice of Darth Vader.
But for the rest of us, he is the royal
king of Zamunda. He is Prince Takim's father. I'm not
even gonna explain that to you. For the rest of us,
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he's sold his royal oats. Words would fail me to
tell you the ways for which we are connected to
James Earl Jones We lost John Amos, who was the
adult version of Kuntikine, and then was James Evans. Yeah,
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John with James Evans on good Times, America's favorite Black,
America's favorite daddy from the ghet To. You may not
know what good Times is, but you ever heard somebody
say diin't no mind. That's from the show. That was
JJ Walker and he was junior on good Times? Do
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do good Times in it time? You need a permit?
Good Times time? You be afreed any time. We're out
from Manda. So, yeah, so we lost him. We lost
the dude that played candy Man, Tony Todd, you know
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the scary movie candy Man. We lost him, y'all. We
lost Quincy Jones this year, the greatest songwriter of all time.
You could quote me. Where do you where? You want
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to start with Quincy Jones? We are the world. You
want to start with Lionel Richie. You want to start
with Michael Jackson? Where you want to start Quincy Jones.
You may have known them as you may have known
him as Rashida Jones daddy, but we know him as
the responsible for Thriller and Billy Jean. There is no
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Michael Jackson without Quincy Jones, y'all. I would love for
you to, at some point today or over the over
the holidays, just google Quincy Jones's catalog of song of
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songs he's written, and just you know, good luck, good
luck finding time to listen to anything else that was
tough and hip hop. We lost DJ Kark Kent do
your googles, ca, y'all. We lost rich Homie Kwan Dang, y'all.
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We lost Frankie Beverly in the maze or not the maze.
We just lost Frankie Beverly. Uh, you don't know Frankie
Beverly is. You don't know what maze is? You ever
seen black people do the electric slide? You know what
song came on that immediately made us do the electric slide?
Dun Dun do do do Dune Dun dun whoa before
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I let go? That's it's Frankie Beverly. We had a
good time. I'm gonna make sure them righter. Oh you know,
oh you know Beyonce's version done and dun dunk. Yeah,
it's Frankie Beverly. We lost Frankie Beverley. We lost Fat
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Man Scoop. Here we go now, here we go now,
fat Man, scoop y'all. Tito Jackson as in Michael Jackson's brother,
d Kimbamo Tumbo, the wag Finger. Come on, man, kim
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Bemo Tumbo, one of the greatest sinners in all basketball history.
We've lost some giants this year, man. We've also had
some tragedies when the continuation of police brutality in the
police state just now is reported that twelve men in
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a Virginia state prison self motified themselves, Like yeah, I
said that weird self emole emulation. They set themselves on fire.
In twelve of them. They were in solitary confinement. The
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first two were in solitary confinement, and they said it
was the egregeous, exhausting amount of racism that they had
to deal with. They were there for two months solitary confinement,
shouted at food spit in just a horrendous experience, so
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much much so that they set themselves on fire in protest. Guys,
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We've had some good times, but we've had some bad
times this year. This year. In one of the episodes,
I told you who child let me put you on
I'm cops in Minnesota, or nam cops in Mississippi and
tied up up, tied up two men. They went in there,
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they called him. They was like a team. They went
in there on purpose to tie up these these people
in torture them tie up these black people in torture.
That lady that had that that got shot up because
the cop thought that he was he was scared she
was gonna throw boiling water on her. Things still happened
to us all the time. Now, while this was going on,
(39:26):
so was the presidential election. And there was a moment
where I thought this episode that I'm doing right now
might end with us having a black female president. This year,
we did see a black woman. She's black and Indian,
(39:56):
I know, but like you also know, oh black woman
be on the top of the ticket for president. Ye'ah.
We could have had a black woman president. But it
(40:19):
didn't end that way for a million reasons that I'm
pretty sure you've heard. But it didn't happen, and it
was for the for the culture. Was a little disappointing.
Now granted, you know, obviously you take a guess who
(40:41):
I voted for. But she wasn't a perfect candidate, you
know what I'm saying. She had her flaws, she had.
They ran a campaign that was frustratingly doing its best
to Playcate the right rather than just standing on business,
which I wish she would have done. But you know
(41:03):
what do I know? But it was a beautiful thing.
I'm not gonna hold you. It was a beautiful thing
to hear, you know, wipe me down in the background
at her headquarters. It was kind of cool to be like,
this is sorority sister that went to Howard University. It
was pretty dope to see stuff like it was dope
(41:24):
to see you know that her silk press, you know
what I'm saying, Like it was, it was dope to
see it. It was dope to see the culture on
display and at the level that she could. But she lost,
and I thought that that's what was going to be
the death knell in the blackness of the year until
(41:48):
until squabble up, Squabble up, squabble up, get the gout
my fires. Until Kendrick Lamar came to save the day
against so black people. We got us an anthem, We
(42:17):
defeated a Canadian. The dark Skins is back up. Lebron
actually had to practice some nepotism. It was kind of cool.
To see black people do the nepotism thing by putting
Brownie into a game that boy average point one points
a game. He definitely needed to go to the G League,
(42:38):
but it was really cool to see this time. For example,
you know, a black man bringing his unqualified child into
a position that he shouldn't have. That felt good to me.
Do you know what I'm saying? We got us an anthem,
(42:59):
We got us a super Bowl, we got us a
fiery discussion as to whether Lil Wayne has the right
to be mad or not. We got bleach blonde, bad built,
butcher body. But also we got Phoebe l drizzy. What
(43:22):
a year, y'all hood politics.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
And then the year kept giving because oh man, the Canadian.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Drake, drake suing his own label, y'all the state of
the blackness. I don't want to blame it on his
light skindidness because that's not fair, because look, you know
who ain't corny, Steph Curry. He don't be doing corny
(44:13):
stuff like this. But here's the argument, as we know
of so far, his argument is it was time for
him to renew his contract with umng umg ain't want
to pay him. This is his argument ungng ain't want
to pay him what he feels like he worth, and
a way to make sure that they don't have to
pay him as much as he's asking for. They was like, well,
(44:37):
we need to just like you know, lower his brand value.
And how we lower his brand value is we push
Kendrick's value up. So what he's saying is like, y'all
ran the bots to run up the numbers on not
like us. I'm suing that's not real. And where he
got this data from was because some dude on Academics
(44:57):
stream said he got paid five hundred hours to run
up the streams plus some points on the album. Do
you know how points on the album means, like percentage
of ownership of the song. What you're telling me is
Universal Music Group was willing to rather than just pay
(45:18):
their own artist what these words, they was willing to
tank their own artists and then pay some rando's ownership
of the song to make sure that his numbers would
(45:39):
run up so high as to lower Drake's value so
they don't have to pay him what he's asking. That's
what the lawsuits saying. Now, if that's the case, that's trash.
I just can't I'm just saying, I don't understand why
a label would shrink the artists numbers. I don't know
(46:06):
either way. What a year of y'all other politics? All right, now,
don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen
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to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
Calls media. I'm opening this episode up licking my fingers
cause this is left overseason. Are we good in my house? Uh?
(00:26):
This this black Sekin house? Oh yo, yo, food don't
smack like ours? Trust me, yeah, trust your turkey ain't
Enchilada style, is it? You ain't got it based in
it an shei Litha's because your mother in law don't
(00:47):
know what the hell Thanksgiving means. They just saw it
on TV and she was like, a turkey don't seem
like it's enough going on. Why don't I make it
like an anchi litha. So it's like covered in enchilada sauce,
Like yo, a turkey, don't slap like mine. Me and
the homies just like fried stuff. So brind that mug
in occasion and then deep fry it like it's some
(01:09):
shrimp and some old baycuz blood you don't eat like me.
These collar greens. Listen, my greens. You don't want to
smoke with your boy. With the greens, your boy can burn.
I put my foot in them greens. The hot water
corn bread next to the authorities, both the slang and
(01:36):
the literal. You know what I'm saying, all kind of
homemade silicized cuz my mother in laudo play around my swag.
You don't want it with folks, you feel me. You
don't want it with the mac and cheese. You don't look.
(01:57):
You don't want it with the mac and cheese. And
then to wake up with a whole bowl of pasola
and to my list the next day. Cut you don't
want it with my house. Aamn, yams, ain't got no
dog on marshmallows on top of marshmallows, don't belong on.
No yams is wrong with you. I can get to
(02:18):
the yams, baby sweet yea ams? Sure me? Oh man,
you don't want it with my house anyway. I think
you do want it with my house. You want to
(02:38):
be in myles eating my food. You can't have you
can't have none of this. We not sharing nothing. I
am talking about nonsense right now. Sent of the year,
and oh my god, what a year there's like in
this cycle of the contract. It's like, I owe, I
heard two more episodes now obviously that's just on this
(03:00):
contracting me. Praise the Lord God Almighty. We got renewed
for another season. But yeah, I'm crawling into the end
of the year. Just like y'all are. But what we
did at the halfway mark, and I can't believe that
was the halfway mark, was we did a half a
year stated a Blackness address. So now coming into the
(03:24):
end of the year, it is now the twenty twenty
four end of the year State of the Blackness Address,
hook politics, y'all. Yeah, buddy, what a year has been? Man?
(03:55):
What do you say? Dude? Like, So let's first let's reflect.
You know, the year started off so promising. You guys
may remember it started with Club Shasha and Kat Williams
(04:16):
just setting the record straight, just being like, this is
the tone. What's going on this year? Is we cleaning
house and we shining? Who knew Kat Kat was? I
thought I got said in the first time. I thought
Kat was gonna give us the phrase we was gonna
use forever, but instead he gave us the facial expression
we gonna use forever. Is that man looking at you
(04:38):
with his little drinker and just being like I tried
to tell y'all, you got to tell Diddy No, who knew?
No Diddy, when you want to play in your buttthole,
give you five million dollars, You got to tell Diddy no,
kat was trying to tell us something. That man exposed
(04:59):
frauds inside of the comedy circuit. Some of it was like, yeah,
you was being a little salty. Maybe you know what
I'm saying. Like some of it felt like it was
a little little sus because he definitely followed up with
that Netflix special that I couldn't even finish. I ain't
gonna hold you like. I was like, ah, man, I don't.
(05:21):
It just ain't doing for me. But that interview when
he laid down that you have an unnatural alliance to
losers and it's not like you. I was like, Kat
is letting us know what the year is twenty twenty four.
We done, lion, We've done hiding. We're saying what we
(05:43):
were saying. It was such a great moment for the
culture for us. Followed like almost the next day with
the dude, the brother that jumped over the bench in
the court. You murdered a brother, the flying felon brother
(06:07):
jumped over the thing and tackled the lady. Y'all. That's
how the year started. The year started with Cat Williams
and then the boy jumping over the bench to tackle
the judge because she ain't she wasn't listening to what
(06:30):
he was trying to say. He's trying to say he
had changed man, but she wasn't. He wasn't. She wasn't
hearing it. That's how the year started. It was like,
this is this is a wonderful way to start a year.
And it started making me think this year is finna
be black as hell. And it was like a very
(06:53):
exciting time for the year to be black as hell.
Because right after that, oh Man Caw Girl Carter came,
Beyonce did a country record, and of all the talk
around what it means to be a country artist, what
country is, and let's let me let me who who
(07:16):
has a day job as being a musician. I understand
what it means to be multi genre. I write poetry,
I do hip hop. I understand also that I know
a lot of rappers right now, right now in sessions
with country artists because they're writing songs for him. Why
because there's money there. You can't look at what Jelly
(07:39):
Roll doing. You can't look at Shaboozi and be like,
that's Jay Kwan's song he did, It's what a lick? Right?
It is Jae Kwan's song One here comes the two
to the three to the four, everybody drunk about the
(07:59):
dance floor. He just changed the word from club to bar.
Everybody at the club getting tips, everybody at the bar
getting tips. It's just like, why would you not that dude.
Dack's the other black dude rapper that was on the
Corner list. And I mean, you say what you want
about him, but yeah, like he was on the Corner
(08:20):
rapper list. But I'll tell you what. He over there
in country music making his bread. Now do we have
the right to do that? Well? As Beyonce so eloquently
pointed out, country music is black. We were. We have
(08:45):
a right to be here because we made it. I
have a song called Gentrify on a record called Crooked
that I did in twenty seventeen. Matter of fact, the
first uh it could happen here stuff that it had
the song crooked as like the theme word the Grandpop's
(09:07):
good and fathom the Obamas is Yeah. So that was
from the album Crooked. And I'll have a song on
there called Gentrify where I'm gonna quote myself because I'm
that shallow. I ain't saying you ain't welcome. Please be
(09:31):
our guest just know the city limits beat in our chest.
So it's not so much that we feel as though
what we create isn't for everyone. It just doesn't mean
that you get to if you're welcome into my house,
(09:51):
you just can't rearrange my furniture and start putting your
name or all my stuff. That's this. This is what
I'm trying to tell you. You not allowed to. You
can't just this ain't your house. You can't just act
like it's your house. So what Beyonce did was remind
(10:15):
everybody and to highlight other black country artists that's been
there the whole time. That's like, well, we never left,
We've always been making country music. And then she made
a music that and she made an album that like,
I mean, it's the other part that kind of made
(10:36):
me mad. I'm like, we is. I mean, it's pop music.
Like I don't understand why y'all so mad about this.
It's pop with a country feel. And let her live.
She did that already with the Renaissance record, which was
reminding everybody that house music, it's Chicago, queer, black black people. Man,
(10:57):
this our year cause And I was excited until the
worst kept secret in all of entertainment slid out and
that is Diddy, p Diddy, Sean Puffy Comb's nasty ass.
(11:20):
It all kind of all kind of stumbled out videos
of him beating the mess out of his girl. All
the NDA's about him diddling p Diddy diddling kids is
we still haven't confirmed whether that mug happened to Justin
(11:41):
Bieber and maybe us should brought him over where. It
was like, Okay, this one situation, these Diddy parties, this
one thing could take down like almost all of black entertainment,
unless you like Kendrick Lamar, which was like, I stay
in the crib, but we'll get to Kendrick later. So
(12:05):
Diddy gave us new phrases no Diddy, right, and just
the amount of people that were mixed into that thing,
Meek mill, it's still people talking about how jay Z
is paying millions to keep his name up out of
that right, I don't know. Jaguar Wright started telling everybody
(12:27):
all started telling everybody's business. The drugs that they take,
the uppers and the downers to stay in that party,
the women that they flew out there, and how and
a lot of times Didd he ain't even interested in
the women and just the memorable level of a thousand
bottles of baby oil. It's just this is disgusting, but
(12:55):
it couldn't have been more funny. Here's the thing about
black people. Just like we said in the last one,
we could be deeply unserious about very serious things, and
we could be very serious about un serious things and
never really lose sight as to what is important and
(13:16):
what was not. That man diddy House got raided and
he was gone, and he left his boys. Bad. Oh
this private jet on his way to a play as
a way to a place that don't extradit. This nigga
left is getting the nigga looking like George Bush flying
(13:37):
over Hurricane Katrita. Why his kids is being the Oh
my god, oh my god. Speaking of which, we were
still on a high from Aquamane and the Montgomery brawl,
the fade in the water. We were still on a
(13:59):
high from that. I'm telling you, man, this was supposed
to be our time.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Babe, baby, babe, Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
And then what happened next? Oh lord, you know what? Yeah,
you know what happened next? Margie Taylor Green decided she
wanted it with the black congresswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and
and a beautiful show of solidarity among the black and
(15:05):
brown communities with congressmen or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and uh
Alexandria Cassio Ortez Cortes. The thing that like, if you
have not figured this out by now, if you listen
to my show, you are not going to If you
if your ancestors is from the equator in any way,
(15:26):
shape or form, you are, You're never gonna roast us better.
We will always like we're gonna cook you. Why because
of the culture and the families for which we were
forged in You have to understand our aunties, our uncles,
(15:47):
Our theos are theias, our theitos are the thoughts. They're merciless.
They have that your your age don't matter. They don't
do age appropriate, like you're merciless. I understand a lot
of times in the Asian community it's a little more
like it's a little different. No, it's not a little different,
because I've heard from my Asian friends they're like, are
(16:09):
you walking the door? Your grandma will be like you're fat. Now,
like listen, so they very direct for us. It's jokes
like she gonna say that about you, but it's gonna
be a joke. Like you, I don't know how else
to say this. No one is safe in our only
(16:31):
No one's safe in our homes. Grandma, Grandma cook you.
You come in there wrong. Listen, listen. You happen to
walk in. You happen to bring your little white girlfriend
in here. And she insisted on bringing her vegan muffins,
like Grandma is gonna cook her like, and she gonna
(16:54):
cook you right after you, just like, listen, you have
to listen. Listen. I'm in an interracial relationship now. Granted
mine is Mexican, so it's a little different, you know
what I'm saying. And she like her granddaddy black is
hell like they from southern Mexico is different, right, And
she looked Mayan, like my wife looks indigenous. So the
(17:17):
point is, we have a few more cultural Oh, of
course we have our differences, but we have a few
more cultural overlaps. But listen. I still had to prepare
her last year. She said she wanted to take a
shot at making the macaroni and cheese. And I said, okay, now,
(17:39):
let's do a trial run. Okay, before you bring this
to the rest of my family. Okay, they love you,
they like you. You have to understand our meals. This
is what you understand about black people. And probably Latinos. No, yeah,
for shaw Latinos too, but specific Latino said. Look, it's
(17:59):
a little different, but with black people, it's a meritocracy.
Like you earn the dish you are. You are assigned it.
You don't get to pick it. You're assigned the dish
that you bring. I don't care if you like making
mac and cheese, my nigga, you bring in the collar,
you bring in the greens. You're better at greens. That's
what you're bringing. And look if you can't, if you
(18:21):
can't cook, you just bring the drinks. It's fine, Brendana baby,
you brown and bring the alcohol. We'll do the cooking,
you know, because don't it ain't nobody gonna eat it, right.
You're gonna waste all that money, all your time, and
we're gonna make fun of you for bringing it. We
already told you not to bring that dry ass corn
bread in here. We told you not to do that.
I don't know who told you that was okay, so
(18:41):
I listen, you need to prepare your melanin challenged partners
prepare them. So I prepared her, and she went on YouTube.
She found somebody, an old woman from Louisiana that uh
and when I tell you like she's I mean, my
(19:02):
wife's a PhD. She knows how to follow directions. She
followed that recipe to a tea and let me tell
you something. That mac and cheese was smacking. It even
had the right crust on the top of it, like,
you know, we can go get the corner, like the
corner was right, y'all, listen, I'll look, I'm not telling
y'all you already know. You already know the test the tests.
(19:22):
At that point, I was like, you can absolutely bring
this around my family because I don't want her to
feel what we felt as children. So let me bring
that back to Congresswoman so Marle Marjie Taylor Green. I mean,
(19:43):
this was such an amazing clip. Was just running her mouth,
just leaning back, running her mouth, you know, and and
and just being just being completely rude and talking about
eyelashes and men and making comments about the phys appearance
of Congresswoman Jasmine and the thing about again, I keep
(20:06):
having a school, y'all. This's the state of the Blackness
address we are required to, especially as black men, or
specifically as black men, and very specifically as black women.
Specifically as black men, we have to keep our cool
because we'll get murdered. So're you like any show of
aggression or discontentment as a black man, you have to
(20:30):
really calculate, like how much I can't just lose it
like these white boys can lose it. Like we can't
just lose it like that, Like we have to maintain
a certain level of decorum because we're fighting stereotypes and
just the anti blackness, the fear that that strikes in
(20:51):
people's hearts when we just raise our voice or even
are just having fun. Like there are times like you know,
it's like from the hood is thing called park day,
where like park Day it'd be I mean, it could
(21:12):
get rowdy, but most of the time, like we're playing
like Niggas is playing kickball and like you know, like barbecue,
are having a fun time. Niggas is just loud, Like
if we're playing Domino's, like we may like we just loud,
you know what I'm saying, And it's just for some reason,
it just be terrifying for people, Like I was having
(21:32):
this conversation even with my own wife, like about I
had to take I like taking public transit these days
because gas prices is crazy. But I was taking the
train home and I was like, yeah, nah, this train
gets rowdy, dog And she was just like, oh, it's
a lot of a lot of young young hoodlums and
(21:53):
I was like, no, I'm completely comfortable around them. It
was a whole lot of old people that was yelling
at each other. Who was elderly folk hitting there and
they wheelchairs just mad at everything. I was like, Yo,
this is getting rowdy. And the poor bus driver there's
two people in these wheelchairs, was yelling at each other.
One of them was having like a delusional moment where
she was like, they say, I'm a murderer. I can't
(22:15):
even get out of my chair right. I was like, Yo,
it's getting hectic in here. I'm a whole bunch of
like Now, granted I'm not delusional, I understand, like I
got Antenna's, but generally, if a bunch of like a
bunch of actos, a bunch of like, you know, young
black dudes, get on, get on the train, I'm like, nigga,
(22:38):
ain't me like you know what I'm saying. Like I
don't know, like that doesn't But anyway, if they're being loud,
I'm not scared. I'm annoyed, you know what I'm saying,
because I'm like, nigga, put your headphones on, okay, like
you do't like what is you doing? Homie? Like you know,
and it's more like as a big hummy, like you
know what these people think of you? You feel me
like you're gonna be targeted, but scared so and with
(23:03):
black women probably which you know, an extension to all women,
but I'm not talking about all women. I'm talking about
black women. They got attitudes, they difficult, you know, and
if she likes show her rage, then she's an angry
black woman, you know what I'm saying. So you got
to really calculate and like you got to really get
(23:24):
us there, because to get to the level of Congress,
like Congresswoman Jasmine had to like really know how to
control herself and the things for which she needs to say,
(23:48):
because you got to be able to move in areas
that are very foreign to us and don't understand our
ways of communication. So but Margie Taylor Green ain't got
to worried about that, so she popping off. Sister. Oh man,
(24:08):
y'all remember this. She said, Okay, we're talking about bodies. Well,
it is it appropriate if I call if I say
this this bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, like you, like,
did you have to understand that that comes from decades
of training and that like it is. It is fifty
(24:31):
percent possible that she thought of that off the head,
that she just looked at her right there like oh
you're trying to oh you got something to say, and
that alliteration bleach blonde, bad built, butch body just flew
out of her soul just because we just had that
kind of training. Or it's fifty percent possible that she
thought that the first time she saw her. It just
(24:53):
had been holding it because it's inappropriate to talk about
somebody's body parts on the Congress floor. But either way,
she lit that girl up. And at that point I
was like, oh, nigga, this is our year. I was like, yeah,
this is doll this this is the blackest year on record.
(25:15):
This made me so happy. But the only thing that
could top that was the light skinned Canadian had the
nerve to pop off and the People's champ corn Roll,
Kenny Pullitzer, Kenny jumped on the tape with Future in
(25:43):
Metro Blooming and was like, it's not about the Big three.
Nigga is the big Me and that's set off. And
now you know what I'm gonna include. I'm gonna include Draking.
This Drake hav black. He counts this, although he proved
he not really part of our culture, but that he
loves the culture. But you know what he gave us.
(26:03):
You know what they gave us something we have not
had in a long time. A really good hip hop
battle that didn't end in death. That wasn't petty. It
was the sophistication. And I'm gonna give because it can
only be a battle. If if Drake wasn't a hit maker,
(26:26):
this wouldn't have worked. This wouldn't have brought our culture
the joy that it brought us, if Drake wasn't the
villain that he is, which made basically the hip hop
Avengers and X Men wrapped in one come around and
show y'all the very premise of what I mean by
this show, which is, if you understand the hood, you
(26:48):
understand politics, you can't move the way Drake moves and
expect people to come to your defense. That's why nobody
came to his defense. Kendrick showed you you be a
man of your word. You stick to your guns, you
go to work, you go home. You keep your integrity,
(27:11):
and you let your work do to talking. And for
a span of two weeks, we got really to witness
two of the best, two of the top. Like, think
about this for a second. The two top in what
(27:34):
sport is it really and truthfully, the two best teams
make it to the finals. This was truly the two
best artists in hip hop for the decade. We got
to witness them go to head to head. And what
(27:56):
all of us predicted who was in the culture was,
first of all, you don't want it with k Dot.
We already told y'all you ain't want it with k Dot.
But the fatal mistake was the AI two pac. That's
where Drake went wrong, because that went from Drake to
(28:20):
Kendrick to Drake to the West coast. You made this
a coastal thing by invoking our heroes. Not only was
it corny, it just wasn't good. But when you do that,
you've set in motion. You woke a sleeping giant, you
(28:42):
poked a bear, and at that point, the run from
Euphoria to Meet the Grams to six sixteen in it's
just the raps that we got from that, all culminating
dropping on Sinko Demio Da Da Da Da. They not
(29:07):
like us, They not like us, They not like us.
The man gave us the song like this year will
This year is gonna go down in history because it
gave us an anthem of the ages, DJ Mustard, the
(29:32):
anthem of the ages, y'all, the brother streak of the
Everybody screenshot it. Kendrick has seven tweets this year, and
they're only just links to the songs and videos, and
then the announcement that I'm also performing in the super Bowl.
How do you like? What the how do you knock
(29:58):
a year out? The part work. We didn't even got
to his album that just dropped. I haven't even screamed
my side yet. What a year, What a year for
the coast, What a year for black people. But it
(30:20):
wasn't all good. We'll talk about the next things that
weren't all good next. All right, we're back. This year
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also brought us, obviously, the fall of Diddy, like we
talked about before, a reckoning that absolutely needed to happen,
and was long overdue. But we also found out that
we can now play R Kelly music again. Why is
that because all of the money from playing his music
and streaming his music goes to his victims. So like,
(31:35):
hey guys, you can listen to R Kelly again. Now
we also had some deaths, oh I forgot about. The
good thing is like the Kenny and Friends pop out
on Juneteenth where he actually brought one hundred different hoods
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and united them on one stage to bring peace to
Los Angeles. I've never seen anything like this. It was
almost like this was Pok's dream. He did it. This
was Nipsey's dream. Nipsey and Pac walked and ran, so
Kendrick can fly. It was just absolutely beautiful. But we
(32:23):
lost some heroes. Man, we lost James Earl Jones. Now,
for you white people, that's the voice of Darth Vader.
But for the rest of us, he is the royal
king of Zamunda. He is Prince Takim's father. I'm not
even gonna explain that to you. For the rest of us,
(32:50):
he's sold his royal oats. Words would fail me to
tell you the ways for which we are connected to
James Earl Jones We lost John Amos, who was the
adult version of Kuntikine, and then was James Evans. Yeah,
(33:13):
John with James Evans on good Times, America's favorite Black,
America's favorite daddy from the ghet To. You may not
know what good Times is, but you ever heard somebody
say diin't no mind. That's from the show. That was
JJ Walker and he was junior on good Times? Do
(33:34):
do good Times in it time? You need a permit?
Good Times time? You be afreed any time. We're out
from Manda. So, yeah, so we lost him. We lost
the dude that played candy Man, Tony Todd, you know
(33:57):
the scary movie candy Man. We lost him, y'all. We
lost Quincy Jones this year, the greatest songwriter of all time.
You could quote me. Where do you where? You want
(34:21):
to start with Quincy Jones? We are the world. You
want to start with Lionel Richie. You want to start
with Michael Jackson? Where you want to start Quincy Jones.
You may have known them as you may have known
him as Rashida Jones daddy, but we know him as
the responsible for Thriller and Billy Jean. There is no
(34:44):
Michael Jackson without Quincy Jones, y'all. I would love for
you to, at some point today or over the over
the holidays, just google Quincy Jones's catalog of song of
(35:04):
songs he's written, and just you know, good luck, good
luck finding time to listen to anything else that was
tough and hip hop. We lost DJ Kark Kent do
your googles, ca, y'all. We lost rich Homie Kwan Dang, y'all.
(35:30):
We lost Frankie Beverly in the maze or not the maze.
We just lost Frankie Beverly. Uh, you don't know Frankie
Beverly is. You don't know what maze is? You ever
seen black people do the electric slide? You know what
song came on that immediately made us do the electric slide?
Dun Dun do do do Dune Dun dun whoa before
(35:58):
I let go? That's it's Frankie Beverly. We had a
good time. I'm gonna make sure them righter. Oh you know,
oh you know Beyonce's version done and dun dunk. Yeah,
it's Frankie Beverly. We lost Frankie Beverley. We lost Fat
(36:21):
Man Scoop. Here we go now, here we go now,
fat Man, scoop y'all. Tito Jackson as in Michael Jackson's brother,
d Kimbamo Tumbo, the wag Finger. Come on, man, kim
(36:44):
Bemo Tumbo, one of the greatest sinners in all basketball history.
We've lost some giants this year, man. We've also had
some tragedies when the continuation of police brutality in the
police state just now is reported that twelve men in
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a Virginia state prison self motified themselves, Like yeah, I
said that weird self emole emulation. They set themselves on fire.
In twelve of them. They were in solitary confinement. The
(37:32):
first two were in solitary confinement, and they said it
was the egregeous, exhausting amount of racism that they had
to deal with. They were there for two months solitary confinement,
shouted at food spit in just a horrendous experience, so
(37:59):
much much so that they set themselves on fire in protest. Guys,
(38:40):
We've had some good times, but we've had some bad
times this year. This year. In one of the episodes,
I told you who child let me put you on
I'm cops in Minnesota, or nam cops in Mississippi and
tied up up, tied up two men. They went in there,
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they called him. They was like a team. They went
in there on purpose to tie up these these people
in torture them tie up these black people in torture.
That lady that had that that got shot up because
the cop thought that he was he was scared she
was gonna throw boiling water on her. Things still happened
to us all the time. Now, while this was going on,
(39:26):
so was the presidential election. And there was a moment
where I thought this episode that I'm doing right now
might end with us having a black female president. This year,
we did see a black woman. She's black and Indian,
(39:56):
I know, but like you also know, oh black woman
be on the top of the ticket for president. Ye'ah.
We could have had a black woman president. But it
(40:19):
didn't end that way for a million reasons that I'm
pretty sure you've heard. But it didn't happen, and it
was for the for the culture. Was a little disappointing.
Now granted, you know, obviously you take a guess who
(40:41):
I voted for. But she wasn't a perfect candidate, you
know what I'm saying. She had her flaws, she had.
They ran a campaign that was frustratingly doing its best
to Playcate the right rather than just standing on business,
which I wish she would have done. But you know
(41:03):
what do I know? But it was a beautiful thing.
I'm not gonna hold you. It was a beautiful thing
to hear, you know, wipe me down in the background
at her headquarters. It was kind of cool to be like,
this is sorority sister that went to Howard University. It
was pretty dope to see stuff like it was dope
(41:24):
to see you know that her silk press, you know
what I'm saying, Like it was, it was dope to
see it. It was dope to see the culture on
display and at the level that she could. But she lost,
and I thought that that's what was going to be
the death knell in the blackness of the year until
(41:48):
until squabble up, Squabble up, squabble up, get the gout
my fires. Until Kendrick Lamar came to save the day
against so black people. We got us an anthem, We
(42:17):
defeated a Canadian. The dark Skins is back up. Lebron
actually had to practice some nepotism. It was kind of cool.
To see black people do the nepotism thing by putting
Brownie into a game that boy average point one points
a game. He definitely needed to go to the G League,
(42:38):
but it was really cool to see this time. For example,
you know, a black man bringing his unqualified child into
a position that he shouldn't have. That felt good to me.
Do you know what I'm saying? We got us an anthem,
(42:59):
We got us a super Bowl, we got us a
fiery discussion as to whether Lil Wayne has the right
to be mad or not. We got bleach blonde, bad built,
butcher body. But also we got Phoebe l drizzy. What
(43:22):
a year, y'all hood politics.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
And then the year kept giving because oh man, the Canadian.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Drake, drake suing his own label, y'all the state of
the blackness. I don't want to blame it on his
light skindidness because that's not fair, because look, you know
who ain't corny, Steph Curry. He don't be doing corny
(44:13):
stuff like this. But here's the argument, as we know
of so far, his argument is it was time for
him to renew his contract with umng umg ain't want
to pay him. This is his argument ungng ain't want
to pay him what he feels like he worth, and
a way to make sure that they don't have to
pay him as much as he's asking for. They was like, well,
(44:37):
we need to just like you know, lower his brand value.
And how we lower his brand value is we push
Kendrick's value up. So what he's saying is like, y'all
ran the bots to run up the numbers on not
like us. I'm suing that's not real. And where he
got this data from was because some dude on Academics
(44:57):
stream said he got paid five hundred hours to run
up the streams plus some points on the album. Do
you know how points on the album means, like percentage
of ownership of the song. What you're telling me is
Universal Music Group was willing to rather than just pay
(45:18):
their own artist what these words, they was willing to
tank their own artists and then pay some rando's ownership
of the song to make sure that his numbers would
(45:39):
run up so high as to lower Drake's value so
they don't have to pay him what he's asking. That's
what the lawsuits saying. Now, if that's the case, that's trash.
I just can't I'm just saying, I don't understand why
a label would shrink the artists numbers. I don't know
(46:06):
either way. What a year of y'all other politics? All right, now,
don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen
to these credits. I need you to finish this thing
(46:27):
so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't
stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded in East
Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap in with
me at prop hip hop dot com. If you're in
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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 Mattowsowski dot com. I'm a speller
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He got more music and stuff like that on there,
So gonna check out. The heat Politics is a member
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is also by the one and overly mattow Sowski still
killing the beat softly, so listen, don't let nobody lie
(47:31):
to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
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