December 24, 2025 • 42 mins
It's time again for the State of the Blackness Address. This week, we rewind to halfway point of 2025 in preparation for next week's full year round up.
Original Air Date: 6.4.25
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
As media. Okay, it's literally Christmas Eve. Nobody should have
to work right now unless you're in a retail store
and somebody else was irresponsible somebody else and didn't get gifts. Anyway,
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It's the most wonderful time of year for me. In
preparation for my favorite episode, The State of the Blackness,
before we go into the new Things, the Complete State
of the Blacknessity of twenty twenty five, talk about quarter
zips and f the streets. We got to go back
and remind ourselves how the first part of this year
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started with what we thought was the new generation of
the greatest hater of all time, Kendrick Lamar, you know,
starting off looking at the camera going say Drake, and
this year ending with you know, the og hater who
refused to let his crown get taken just yet fifty
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What a great way to end cap the year. But
before we get into that again, let's remember twenty one
Drew Hills and when Joey Badass attempted to battle all
of California. What a time? All right, ladies and gentlemen,
the half year mark January to June twenty twenty five
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State of the Blackness and we'll see y'all next week
with the full year.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Blackness.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual
State of the Blackness Address. I will be your tour director.
My name is per Rop again and this is Hood
Politics with prop the State of the Blackness Address, Part one,
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twenty to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him. Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome.
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The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty
five has been quite a show so far. I know
we all feel like this that January was such a
long month and then we blinked and it was June.
We're already here. So many things have happened, so let's
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stop and let's take a second to acknowledge the blackness. Now,
last year started out, came out swinging with with Club Shaysha,
and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's
not like you, you know, and and all the things that
your boy Kat Williams gave us. Oh man, it came
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out so fun. You know. 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, the culture was very strong
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and probably I think now we can say like the
biggest and greatest disc song and 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 were amazing. Of course Wes West,
but were they in the history of hip hop. I'm like,
I think, man, I think Ether has been d throned.
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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 ones yesterday and shout
out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up Ian producer Ian that
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produces a lot of these clubs clubs see cools on
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, let's get to it first.
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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. And Altadena is 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,
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which is how you get over to the valley. But
that range kind of stretches up and it becomes like,
you know, like I said, the Angelus Crest all the
way over to the Azusa Mountains, down the mountain Baldy,
and then you get out to Big Bear as you're
going east or inland. But nestled at the foothills the
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east side is an enclave called Alta Dina, and Altadena
was one of the few standing black communities that most likely,
I think it's it's fair to say that most likely
your grandma lived in Altadena. She probably bought a house
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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 because won their location and
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to their build They're these like super dope kind of
break mid century modern like 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 down in West Covina or Baldwin Park,
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like you live with the Vathos, 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 something that as far as locally has been concerned,
was our focus. There was an African American library there.
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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. Lahmert
Park is in the Crenshaw District, which is on the
West Side, and sometimes because of unfortunately, because of gang
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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 hair grease is, you know what I'm saying,
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Like those things become the seasonings. I remember I was
trying to make some greens 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 grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in
a Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke
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turkey during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah,
I need to go to Alsadena because I was like,
I need to go where black people live because I
know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhogs, they're gonna
have the things I need just to cook. So sometimes now, granted,
this Alta Dina and a lot of like ethnic neighborhoods
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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 can't appreciate, like
why other ethnicities feel even more like a fish out
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of water when they're in you know, neighborhoods that don't
represent them, you know what I'm saying. It's little stuff
like that. You know, I couldn't find the right kind
of shampoo for a long time too, because that mug
said you got the store and it said this is
for normal hair texture. I'm sorry, what the hell is
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normal hair? Well? 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. You know, Altadena is
a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the fundraisers focused
around la especially again in the black community, was around
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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 mad Lib. Mad
Lib again in the state of hip hop is a
behemoth of a producer. The Mad Villain album that everybody
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talks about with m F Doom mad Lib, Jlib is
him and Jay Dillah, you know, the champion sound stuff man.
Mad Live is a if you are a rapper, no
matter what part of the country you're from, mad Lib
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should be on your bucket list to get production from. Yeah,
he lost his own too, you know, and there was
a bunch of fundraisers that we've done in hopes to
save his own and his record collections and those things.
So rather than coming out swinging for black people with funniness,
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we came out swinging with a little bit of pain.
Next is the Ballad of p Diddy, y'all. This topic
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has clearly spanned a number of stated the blacknesses because
Ditty 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 homophobia is a normal, normalized thing
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among the black community, although black queer is also a
ginormous part of our culture. So weird how we do this?
People still have kind of changed pause to all no Diddy,
which is essentially a way to say I'm not gay,
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like I'm not doing gay stuff. 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
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story that she was forced to make live to this
male escort while Diddy was in a job like with
just the little eyes showing watching him get down. Boy,
that man kid Cutty two for two with his mentor
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choices because both of them went crazy. Cutty said 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
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he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh you
know you ain't got your skincare routine in the pan?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Did he out here wildin 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, that
the songs are not made for radio. That's what everybody's
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argument with, Like mister Morale was like, but there's no
there's no radio songs. He come back with these these
hits with sizz 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 continues to break
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tour ticket sale records, and just continues to put the
West on the map. 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 us please? Anyway?
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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, you'll know these people are. But
if you're in our culture, this has been some of
the funnest few months of bringing which is what Kendrick
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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 bar 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, this
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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 line
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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 not
in the conversation about the top rappers of my era.
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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
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. Joey has
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that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside Gun
and and and all this stuff that they're doing is
bringing a New York sound back. So in some stances,
I 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 mke told you.
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He didn't sound like it. 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 Vaughn
is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap
Rap Rap rap rap, And then it became this like
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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. He wrote a number of Drake songs.
He's also very close with ab Soul, And you have
to remember about the thing about ab Soul, who's also
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a part of Top Dog absol of Black Hippie. Black
Hippie is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Q and Apps like
the first the kind of the founding members of Top
Dog Entertainment. Of them, Kendricks obviously the hit maker, the
star of the show. Jay Rock's the street goon, you know,
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and then Schoolboy is the like almost like the melodic
street goon, you feel me. Ab Sol 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 I said I'd said before,
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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 the street dude.
But he's the Caviar. Now when he got in there's
Red Bull has this thing where they do this like
three sixty sipher. The first one I saw was of
Soul's a Mischief. But what they do is they get
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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 Rayvaon
but because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not, Yeah,
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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.
You know what I'm saying. He's take 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
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for a few weeks reason Daylight, Rayvaughn, Joey Badass. These
are like, again, you 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 Gina Is was like,
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I'm t get off the internet and get into booth,
like nigga rap. Why are y'all not rapping rap?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And guess what niggas is rapping? But 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,
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when we don't have to worry about things being misinterpreted.
This is what's happening inside of hip hop right now
when you ain't got to explain. There's no New York Times.
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'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
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on right now, man, and it is fun and they're
all talking about how fun it is. The homie Curtis
King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna if
you're gonna hop online, and play two K or Madden
with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying to win.
I like, I am truly trying. I'm trying to destroy you.
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This is the same as hip hop. This is what
I love. 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.
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If you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules,
but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in
the face, and I feel like I want you to try.
Like that's the thing. Like if you playing pickup ball,
like that's a lot, that's another way to clay battle
rap like this, it's like street ball, Like you know,
these are pickup games. There's gonna be more elbows, it's
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gonna be a little more aggressive, but you gotta hold
your mud. You know what I'm saying. 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. These are rappers. So
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all this is about is bars. 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,
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all these rappers going to jail. You know, just not
a good look. This was a moment we all needed,
moving out of hip hop. Let's go to this little more
politics next, all right, for some reason, the desire that
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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. And then when DEI
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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. Now. It's not so much that we
care as black people about the name DEI. It's the
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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 way that was supposed to
be looking at us and winking saying we're still going.
We're just going to you know. 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,
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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 do it again, and then you're
gonna change the name again and try to figure it out.
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Either way, you're still taking a submissive position to a
group that needs to understand the principalities of a thing.
So Black people decided some of it was organized through church,
others was just organized through social media, that we were
just gonna not shop at Target. No more than the
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businesses that were in Target. They all got websites. 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 it to Target. They took a massive l
Black people used to spend twelve million a day at Target.
That's gone. They made that CEO get a fifty percent
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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,
a 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. We're done. That's why not on the
news no more. We're done. Sell your swastikas. Go ahead, bro,
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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 got a chief sticking in
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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,
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Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got that sentence commuted,
commuted from a d Trump organization. Now, no one could
have imagined this timeline that this would happen commit black people.
Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is
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to exploit the divide of gender among the black community
because we're having some 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
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want to be getting money. Muff, 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 un
trumped up charges. So this is supposed to feel good. Now,
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this is not to be little. Any of the things
that Larry Hoover has done to 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 just the same man that's
ending head Start programs, the same man that looked at
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our Haitian brothers and sisters and was like they eating pets,
literally eating cats and dogs. That's what they said about
our brothers and sisters in the diet. This the shithold
Country's man. This the same man that's removing the medicaid,
that's making medicaid hard for my d and them. That
man don't love you. And I feel like we understand
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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
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man is while you 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
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the NBA, young boy and Larry Hoover, U Leonard Peltier,
because can you believe it? Do your googles all right?
Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney Hitton, Junior.
This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where a young
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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, he was
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so distraught that the next day he drove his car
into an officer who was directing traffic. The complications of
this story, he puts the reality of radicalization into focus
even more because this is a sad story for all
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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. Dek Chauvin is the person that
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killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney Hidton
Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments
where thirty officers showed up for this trial, for his uh,
for his for his arraignment, and that man chin up
full of pride, like you not gonna have me down.
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You're 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
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defense for vigilanteas them or murder. I'm not. I'm saying
I understand it. This is what I'm saying. I am
a father and sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child.
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If you see the if the parents are part of
the storyline, you see somebody's child going through some suffering,
if you care about your fathering.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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 like you feeling froggy get jump
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So I think I understand that. Lastly, in the State
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of the Blackness, the memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now,
a father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother.
And if you understand something about the black nuclear family,
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won't play not about our wives. Ain't nowhere in the
world you're gonna let your child be disrespectful today. Mother,
That's something we just don't that's not not we don't
abide by that, and especially if it's your boy. Now,
I have daughters, such a different story. But black men
and their sons when it talks about how when when
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you think about how you want your boys to treat they, Mama, boy,
you be not in my presence, I bet not ever
catch I bet not ever see you be out of
pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't, that's not
that's not something we play around with. So a lot
of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes their kid
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do He used to make his son, his stepson do laps,
so he would told go to the high school on
the court and you not make him run laps. The
hommy La Cree used to have his kids do walk
Sits right, we're trying to break these generational curses of
whipping our children. Okay, so forgive us. But this man said,
we're doing twenty Drew Hills. Now, if you know nineties
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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 son do it.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Because it's a workout.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
One man said twenty Drew heels. 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
(38:04):
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 matter.
(38:29):
People writ 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,
(38:51):
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 but 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. We tried, We
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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. 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
(39:36):
this yo 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, so
I can say the state of the blackness is strong.
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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.
Good politics. All right, now, don't you hit stop on
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this pod. You better listen to these credits. I need
you to finish this thing so I can get the
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let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living,
you understand politics. These people is not smarter than you.
We'll see y'all next week.
As media. Okay, it's literally Christmas Eve. Nobody should have
to work right now unless you're in a retail store
and somebody else was irresponsible somebody else and didn't get gifts. Anyway,
(00:23):
It's the most wonderful time of year for me. In
preparation for my favorite episode, The State of the Blackness,
before we go into the new Things, the Complete State
of the Blacknessity of twenty twenty five, talk about quarter
zips and f the streets. We got to go back
and remind ourselves how the first part of this year
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started with what we thought was the new generation of
the greatest hater of all time, Kendrick Lamar, you know,
starting off looking at the camera going say Drake, and
this year ending with you know, the og hater who
refused to let his crown get taken just yet fifty
(01:03):
What a great way to end cap the year. But
before we get into that again, let's remember twenty one
Drew Hills and when Joey Badass attempted to battle all
of California. What a time? All right, ladies and gentlemen,
the half year mark January to June twenty twenty five
(01:23):
State of the Blackness and we'll see y'all next week
with the full year.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Blackness.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yes, it is that time of year, the bi annual
State of the Blackness Address. I will be your tour director.
My name is per Rop again and this is Hood
Politics with prop the State of the Blackness Address, Part one,
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twenty to twenty five. Matt dropped the track on him. Okay, welcome, welcome, Welcome.
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The bi Annual State of the Blackness Address twenty twenty
five has been quite a show so far. I know
we all feel like this that January was such a
long month and then we blinked and it was June.
We're already here. So many things have happened, so let's
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stop and let's take a second to acknowledge the blackness. Now,
last year started out, came out swinging with with Club Shaysha,
and you have an unusual alliance with losers and that's
not like you, you know, and and all the things that
your boy Kat Williams gave us. Oh man, it came
(03:18):
out so fun. You know. 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, the culture was very strong
(03:42):
and probably I think now we can say like the
biggest and greatest disc song and 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 were amazing. Of course Wes West,
but were they in the history of hip hop. I'm like,
I think, man, I think Ether has been d throned.
(04:08):
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 ones yesterday and shout
out Ian Dude. Ian pulled up Ian producer Ian that
(04:28):
produces a lot of these clubs clubs see cools on
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, let's get to it first.
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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
(05:19):
the Block is literally Hot episode when I talked about
the La fires. And Altadena is 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,
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which is how you get over to the valley. But
that range kind of stretches up and it becomes like,
you know, like I said, the Angelus Crest all the
way over to the Azusa Mountains, down the mountain Baldy,
and then you get out to Big Bear as you're
going east or inland. But nestled at the foothills the
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east side is an enclave called Alta Dina, and Altadena
was one of the few standing black communities that most likely,
I think it's it's fair to say that most likely
your grandma lived in Altadena. She probably bought a house
(06:30):
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 because won their location and
(06:51):
to their build They're these like super dope kind of
break mid century modern like 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 down in West Covina or Baldwin Park,
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like you live with the Vathos, 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 something that as far as locally has been concerned,
was our focus. There was an African American library there.
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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. Lahmert
Park is in the Crenshaw District, which is on the
West Side, and sometimes because of unfortunately, because of gang
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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 hair grease is, you know what I'm saying,
(08:20):
Like those things become the seasonings. I remember I was
trying to make some greens 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 grocery store around here. Y'all know I live in
a Mexican neighborhood. They're like, yo, we only have smoke
(08:42):
turkey during the holidays, during Thanksgiving. So I'm like, uh, yeah,
I need to go to Alsadena because I was like,
I need to go where black people live because I
know they're gonna have They're gonna have hamhogs, they're gonna
have the things I need just to cook. So sometimes now, granted,
this Alta Dina and a lot of like ethnic neighborhoods
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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 can't appreciate, like
why other ethnicities feel even more like a fish out
(09:27):
of water when they're in you know, neighborhoods that don't
represent them, you know what I'm saying. It's little stuff
like that. You know, I couldn't find the right kind
of shampoo for a long time too, because that mug
said you got the store and it said this is
for normal hair texture. I'm sorry, what the hell is
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normal hair? Well? 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. You know, Altadena is
a beautiful, beautiful city, and most of the fundraisers focused
around la especially again in the black community, was around
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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 mad Lib. Mad
Lib again in the state of hip hop is a
behemoth of a producer. The Mad Villain album that everybody
(10:35):
talks about with m F Doom mad Lib, Jlib is
him and Jay Dillah, you know, the champion sound stuff man.
Mad Live is a if you are a rapper, no
matter what part of the country you're from, mad Lib
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should be on your bucket list to get production from. Yeah,
he lost his own too, you know, and there was
a bunch of fundraisers that we've done in hopes to
save his own and his record collections and those things.
So rather than coming out swinging for black people with funniness,
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we came out swinging with a little bit of pain.
Next is the Ballad of p Diddy, y'all. This topic
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has clearly spanned a number of stated the blacknesses because
Ditty 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 homophobia is a normal, normalized thing
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among the black community, although black queer is also a
ginormous part of our culture. So weird how we do this?
People still have kind of changed pause to all no Diddy,
which is essentially a way to say I'm not gay,
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like I'm not doing gay stuff. 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
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story that she was forced to make live to this
male escort while Diddy was in a job like with
just the little eyes showing watching him get down. Boy,
that man kid Cutty two for two with his mentor
(13:37):
choices because both of them went crazy. Cutty said 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
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he aged seventy two years inside of jail? Oh you
know you ain't got your skincare routine in the pan?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Listen?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh man?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Did he out here wildin 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, that
the songs are not made for radio. That's what everybody's
(15:04):
argument with, Like mister Morale was like, but there's no
there's no radio songs. He come back with these these
hits with sizz 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 continues to break
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tour ticket sale records, and just continues to put the
West on the map. 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 us please? Anyway?
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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, you'll know these people are. But
if you're in our culture, this has been some of
the funnest few months of bringing which is what Kendrick
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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 bar 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, this
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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 line
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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 not
in the conversation about the top rappers of my era.
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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
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. Joey has
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that sound. Dudes like Griselda and you know, Westside Gun
and and and all this stuff that they're doing is
bringing a New York sound back. So in some stances,
I 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 mke told you.
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He didn't sound like it. 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 Vaughn
is an artist on TDE also and Homie can rap
Rap Rap rap rap, And then it became this like
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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. He wrote a number of Drake songs.
He's also very close with ab Soul, And you have
to remember about the thing about ab Soul, who's also
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a part of Top Dog absol of Black Hippie. Black
Hippie is j Rock, Kendrick, Schoolboy Q and Apps like
the first the kind of the founding members of Top
Dog Entertainment. Of them, Kendricks obviously the hit maker, the
star of the show. Jay Rock's the street goon, you know,
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and then Schoolboy is the like almost like the melodic
street goon, you feel me. Ab Sol 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 I said I'd said before,
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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 the street dude.
But he's the Caviar. Now when he got in there's
Red Bull has this thing where they do this like
three sixty sipher. The first one I saw was of
Soul's a Mischief. But what they do is they get
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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 Rayvaon
but because they're all friends, right, AB finally or not, Yeah,
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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.
You know what I'm saying. He's take 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
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for a few weeks reason Daylight, Rayvaughn, Joey Badass. These
are like, again, you 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 Gina Is was like,
(21:15):
I'm t get off the internet and get into booth,
like nigga rap. Why are y'all not rapping rap?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
And guess what niggas is rapping? But 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,
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when we don't have to worry about things being misinterpreted.
This is what's happening inside of hip hop right now
when you ain't got to explain. There's no New York Times.
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'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
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on right now, man, and it is fun and they're
all talking about how fun it is. The homie Curtis
King was like, listen, bro, if we were gonna if
you're gonna hop online, and play two K or Madden
with your friends. You gonna talk trash. I'm trying to win.
I like, I am truly trying. I'm trying to destroy you.
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This is the same as hip hop. This is what
I love. 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.
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If you was slapboxing with your friends outside that there's rules,
but we're still being physical. I'm gonna get slapped in
the face, and I feel like I want you to try.
Like that's the thing. Like if you playing pickup ball,
like that's a lot, that's another way to clay battle
rap like this, it's like street ball, Like you know,
these are pickup games. There's gonna be more elbows, it's
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gonna be a little more aggressive, but you gotta hold
your mud. You know what I'm saying. 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. These are rappers. So
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all this is about is bars. 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,
(23:55):
all these rappers going to jail. You know, just not
a good look. This was a moment we all needed,
moving out of hip hop. Let's go to this little more
politics next, all right, for some reason, the desire that
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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. And then when DEI
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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. Now. It's not so much that we
care as black people about the name DEI. It's the
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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 way that was supposed to
be looking at us and winking saying we're still going.
We're just going to you know. 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,
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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 do it again, and then you're
gonna change the name again and try to figure it out.
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Either way, you're still taking a submissive position to a
group that needs to understand the principalities of a thing.
So Black people decided some of it was organized through church,
others was just organized through social media, that we were
just gonna not shop at Target. No more than the
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businesses that were in Target. They all got websites. 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 it to Target. They took a massive l
Black people used to spend twelve million a day at Target.
That's gone. They made that CEO get a fifty percent
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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,
a 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. We're done. That's why not on the
news no more. We're done. Sell your swastikas. Go ahead, bro,
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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 got a chief sticking in
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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,
(28:27):
Larry Hoover specifically, and NBA Young Boy got that sentence commuted,
commuted from a d Trump organization. Now, no one could
have imagined this timeline that this would happen commit black people.
Y'all get it? What the lick read? The lick is
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to exploit the divide of gender among the black community
because we're having some 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
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want to be getting money. Muff, 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 un
trumped up charges. So this is supposed to feel good. Now,
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this is not to be little. Any of the things
that Larry Hoover has done to 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 just the same man that's
ending head Start programs, the same man that looked at
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our Haitian brothers and sisters and was like they eating pets,
literally eating cats and dogs. That's what they said about
our brothers and sisters in the diet. This the shithold
Country's man. This the same man that's removing the medicaid,
that's making medicaid hard for my d and them. That
man don't love you. And I feel like we understand
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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
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man is while you 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
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the NBA, young boy and Larry Hoover, U Leonard Peltier,
because can you believe it? Do your googles all right?
Next is our continual war with state sponsored violence Rodney Hitton, Junior.
This happened out there in Cincinnati, Ohio, where a young
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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, he was
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so distraught that the next day he drove his car
into an officer who was directing traffic. The complications of
this story, he puts the reality of radicalization into focus
even more because this is a sad story for all
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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. Dek Chauvin is the person that
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killed George Floyd. So Rodney was on trial. Rodney Hidton
Junior and gave us one of the most epic moments
where thirty officers showed up for this trial, for his uh,
for his for his arraignment, and that man chin up
full of pride, like you not gonna have me down.
(33:32):
You're 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
(33:56):
defense for vigilanteas them or murder. I'm not. I'm saying
I understand it. This is what I'm saying. I am
a father and sometimes watching movies and I'm seeing somebody's child.
(34:18):
If you see the if the parents are part of
the storyline, you see somebody's child going through some suffering,
if you care about your fathering.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
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 like you feeling froggy get jump
(34:57):
So I think I understand that. Lastly, in the State
(35:44):
of the Blackness, the memes, Ladies and Gentlemen twenty Drew Hills, Now,
a father saw his son being disrespectful to his mother.
And if you understand something about the black nuclear family,
(36:08):
won't play not about our wives. Ain't nowhere in the
world you're gonna let your child be disrespectful today. Mother,
That's something we just don't that's not not we don't
abide by that, and especially if it's your boy. Now,
I have daughters, such a different story. But black men
and their sons when it talks about how when when
(36:28):
you think about how you want your boys to treat they, Mama, boy,
you be not in my presence, I bet not ever
catch I bet not ever see you be out of
pocket with your mother. That's it. We don't, that's not
that's not something we play around with. So a lot
of men I've seen my homeboy Triune makes their kid
(36:50):
do He used to make his son, his stepson do laps,
so he would told go to the high school on
the court and you not make him run laps. The
hommy La Cree used to have his kids do walk
Sits right, we're trying to break these generational curses of
whipping our children. Okay, so forgive us. But this man said,
we're doing twenty Drew Hills. Now, if you know nineties
(37:11):
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 son do it.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Because it's a workout.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
One man said twenty Drew heels. 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
(38:04):
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 matter.
(38:29):
People writ 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,
(38:51):
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 but 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. We tried, We
(39:15):
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. 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
(39:36):
this yo 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, so
I can say the state of the blackness is strong.
(39:57):
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.
Good politics. All right, now, don't you hit stop on
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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 Boyle Heights by your
boy Propaganda. Tap in with me at prop hip hop
dot com. If you're in the Coldbrew coffee we got
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terraform Coldbrew. You can go there dot com and use
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This was mixed, edited and mastered by your boy Matt
Alsowski killing the beat softly. Check out his website Matdowsowski
dot com. I'm a spelling for you because I know
M A T T O S O W s ki
(41:15):
dot com Matdowsowski dot com. He got more music and
stuff like that on there, so gonna check out The heat.
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
nobly Mattowsowski. Still killing the beat softly, so listen. Don't
(41:37):
let nobody lie to you. If you understand urban living,
you understand politics. These people is not smarter than you.
We'll see y'all next week.
Host
Prop
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