November 27, 2024 • 53 mins
This here is a throwback to when we tried to tell y'all that all empires fall. And well... not sayin' I told ya so, but um...
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Original Air Date: 4.6.22
Today's show is about empires. If there's one thing we should know by now about empires, criminal or national, it's that they fall. Today we look at how the rise and fall happens. Take notes y'all, this one is A LOT.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Media. Okay, this is who politics will props say, what's up? Soul?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Say it louder Hi, that's my daughter's soul. This is
us finally taking a break. We're about to have a
rewe a rewe a rerun rewine selecta, which means daddy
don't got to record next week. How do you feel
about that? Yay? Yay? What are we doing right now?
(00:34):
Are we popping your popcorn? Yeah? We are so uh
so today's rewe. I keep saying re one it's because
of you. Yeah, it's your fault. It's not your fault anyway.
So the one we're running is is one about the
(00:54):
ending of world powers? How world power stop? You have
any idea why? That's funny? So no, I didn't think
you did it, which hopefully you won't have to worry about.
But this is book by Ray Dalio And yeah, so
we're gonna talk about how and when empires fall. And
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right now while you're listening to this, I will be
knee deep because I put my foot in them collar
green y'all all right, hood politics. Hey, look, I'm gonna
give it to you the way that gave it to me.
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Lehemmy ain't nothing changed but the weather ain't shit changed,
but the weather. Listen, you could control CV this to
any any decade. Fam This is third in Brooklyn, This
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is seventies and eighties in LA This is Detroit, this
is New York, this is Russia, brud China, anywhere, tailor
is all this time. I sat in a poem once
that history got bars. What I'm trying to say is
that it rhymes get it. You and your boys, You
(02:23):
and your homies. You know what I'm saying, y'all tired
of not being up. You tired of them being kids,
picking on y'all man, taking your bikes, taking your lunch money,
always running around here like they run this whole city,
like they run this whole town, like they run the school. Man,
it's just getting old, you know what I mean? You
just watching them like, man, like this can't this can't.
This can't be what the rest of my childhood are
(02:43):
gonna be. Like, you know, and one day you decide,
you and your homies decide, like, look, man, at some
point we're gonna have to do something about this, Like
you're not finna chase me home every day. These these
fools got all the girls they coming into school, dipping,
you know what I'm saying, Like the new Feelers, you
feel me, the new Rebox, you know what I'm saying.
They got the neatest tracksuits, you know auto you know
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they they got the pure player kimonos. You know. Wherever
we are and food's always dipping, got the baddest girls.
It's just like, man, I'm tired of this dog like
I want to be up. I'm tired of being not
being up. One of your homeboys is really charismatic though,
you know, he he know how to talk, and he
and you could see him that that that fool just
(03:25):
fuming he like, and you could tell he's scheming, you
know what I mean, Like, Man, man, I'm tired of
all this, Like you know, we're gonna do something about this.
And then he go talk to the homies down the street,
you know what I mean, And even some homies on
the other side of the on the other side of
the tracks. You're looking at them like, hey, man, like,
ain't you tired of this? Like while we gotta live, like, man,
I'm not finna live like this no more, you know
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what I mean. Like, so you got to wait for
the right place at the right time, where you decide, listen,
you're not taking my bike no more. You know you
put the put the monkey wrench in the backpack, or
the or the or the burner in the backpack. You
know you got you got the blaky whatever it is.
It's like, listen, dog like, this is not happening no more.
And this real charismatic friend of yours, you could tell
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he don't look scared like the rest of us. He
paying attention that nigga watching and he's watching for the
things that I told y'all you're supposed to watch for.
In the same way, when you're about to get jumped,
you need to look at who's really in charge, Who
really could take a punch, who can't take a punch, right,
Because if you're about to get jumped, like I said,
you probably gonna get mopped. But the one thing you
can't do is nothing. And what you need to do
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is you need to fire on one of them and
get out of there. But what you need to pick
is if sometimes it's the loudest dude, right. But what
you need to do is you need to pay attention
to who really in charge. A lot of times it's
the man standing on the side of the street that's
not in that circle with you. That's the one standing,
that's the one in charge. But you need to pick
one of the biggest dudes, one of the ones that
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you like, okay, and if you fire on him hard
enough on her, let's be real, you fire on her
hard enough. You got to pick one that's gonna make
the other ones question. Because if you show you not
scared and you pop the one that they all think
is the best fighter, the rest of them gonna think twice.
And that's gonna give you that split second to get
out of there, you know what I'm saying. But he watching,
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and when he watching, he watching close, and then he
started noticing. You know what, they don't all get along.
That man crew, that crew that's up, they don't all
get along. One of them don't like them other niggas.
And then you start noticing, as you're watching, like you watching,
paying more attention, you start noticing, and you know what,
a lot of them niggas can't fight. You know, these
parties ain't what they say they are. You know, we
pulling up to these parties were thinking, man, they balling,
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They got everything up. You know, they got money, they're
getting money they're getting the girls. You start noticing, you
know what, some of this don't don't. I don't think
this is what they say it is. It might have been.
You know, maybe you got an older brother, you got
an older sister, you know what I'm saying, Like me,
for me, I my sister was six years older than me,
So like maybe maybe they was hot when she was
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my age, you know what I'm saying. But I'm looking you.
You they little brothers, you they little sisters, and like
y'all not okay. You know, I'm starting to see cracks
in the armor here. Maybe it's not what Maybe it's
not what y'all say it is. So you pick the
right day, and you know, any given Sunday, any day,
anybody can get it. It's anybody's game. You pick the
right party where the right people are there, and you
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and your crew roll up and you decide, listen, it's
some new bosses in town. We done with this. And
you know you weren't even invited to this party because
you're not cool enough. But you know what, you don't
get to decide who's cool and who's not. You crash
that party, mop them fools. Just that day. That day,
that was just y'all's day. You moped them fools right
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and now, and everybody saw a whole hood. Was there
even some mother hoods down the street, nigga, everybody saw
them dudes. It was like, and then now they start questioning, like, hey,
who these young who these young boys? Do y'all be
throwing parties? Yeah, we be throwing parties. Yeah we be
kicking it, you know what I'm saying. And now and
now everybody else going, wait a minute, now, y'all, you know,
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we was only rolling with these fools because they was up.
We thought this was maybe you know, we was kind
of wondering if they really wasn't as up as they
say they were, you know what I'm saying. Maybe, Still,
let's start what's up with y'all. What y'all got going?
The problem is you ain't got nothing going. You was
just tired of getting bullied. But now it's time to build.
Oh man, what you need to build? Okay, you need
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to sit down with your boys. It's like, all right, now, okay,
we we got we got a victory under We showed
we weren't no punks. We showed we ain't no easy
come ups. All right, now we need to get out
in the field. You know what I'm saying, Like, you
gotta get out in the field. You know, we gotta
make money. We need to go get this money. What
we're doing, what we're doing. We were pushing pe you
know what I'm saying. We're doing We're getting these we're
selling these guns, were selling these pills, were selling these,
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these bricks. What we're doing. You know what I'm saying, Well,
you I mean we were breaking into cars, We're doing
home evasions. And your charismatic leader going, you know what,
it gets all of the above. You know what I'm saying,
by any means, and that's all money. And you feel
me like we're gonna make it. We're gonna get this,
We're gonna get this right. But we're gonna do a
different you know what I'm saying, Like, we're gonna get in,
We're gonna get out, you feel me, We're gonna we're
gonna establish all kinds of other stuff. We're gonna make
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sure everybody eat, you feel me. But but if we're
gonna do that, we need these people to understand that
we are not to be fed with. I need a shooter.
Some argue that you need a sociopath in your circle.
I mean going back all the way to Hunter Gather
African Savannah. You need somebody in your crew that is like, listen,
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uh a Carolyn slowing us down? Are Caralyn gonna get
gonna get us all ate by lions? We need to gone,
We need to gone leave on Caurland because we all
gonna die. You need somebody that just like that just
has no moral compass. You're in said, I'm saying that's
like I hop out the whip right now. Shoot this
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nigga in front of his child and his mama. You
need somebody that's like, listen, like this nigga in and
out of Juvie, I'm not afraid of nobody. You know
the kid that's like yeah, that's jumping off the roof
into the pool, that never thought twice about it when
we was kids, just that just you just looking at
(09:07):
them like you don't fear anything, do you. So you
need some shooters, somebody that's like all right, nah, but
that shooter need guns. How you're gonna get guns, nigga,
y'all junior hires, How you gonna get this work? How
you're gonna get this weight. You know what I'm saying, Well,
you need some big homies, you need some help. So
you need to start looking around at like some of
these other crews around here, and it's like, hey, man,
(09:28):
like listen, if we just roll together, man, let me
do Look, look, I got the juice right now. Let
me just you feel me. Let's just let's just see
what we could do. And them nigga's on the side,
like y'all got guns. Man, all right, I'll be on.
But you know what I'm saying, like you could borrow
from us. You feel me like youre gonna pass packs
Like yeah, nigga, we got it. You know what I'm saying.
We all start throwing these dope parties, getting fly girls.
You know what I'm saying, Like everybody, now, you up,
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you feel me? You up? You know you up? Get
money coming in. You know what I'm saying. You got
foods on every corner. You started like sending people across town. Look, look,
one of the homies got in trouble with they mama,
and they mama moving them to another state, to another dynasts,
you know, to another province. You feel me, and you like, yo,
just take the work over there. You feel me like,
we'll make it work, you know what I'm saying. But
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we up though, but sometimes that up to stay up, man,
you need that violence, need that violence, You need that money,
and you need that dedication. You need to start teaching
these young dudes like, yo, we building something. It's our block.
Man like, ride or die? Is you a rider or not?
Man like? So then you start doing stuff like branding them,
like giving them tattoos like let me help you feel
like you in you know what I'm saying. But after that,
y'all gonna get old. Y'all gonna get popped. Y'all gonna
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start dying. So you need some new booty. You need
some young niggas. You need some young you know, some YG's,
that's what that stands for, a young young gangster. You
know what I'm saying. You need some YG's. You got ogs,
You need yg you know what I'm saying. You gotta
convince them like they buying into something bigger than them.
You gotta start for using academic You gotta start mythmaking,
gotta start legend there. You gotta start telling these war stories.
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You feel me because you building something, you part of something.
You give them flags man put that rag on their head,
you know, initiating ceremonies. You know what I'm saying, bar mitzvahs,
Inner city, bar mitzvahs. You feel me like, that's when
you get jumped in. You know what I'm saying, You're
getting jumped in. Man, It's family. It's my grandma, my daddy.
You know what I'm saying, My uncle, everybody like, this
is what we do. Man, we been up. You know
what I'm saying, You out hold down the fort. But
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eventually what's gonna happen is once you start birthing people
who wasn't a part of the build. Man, all they
know is up. All they know is money coming in.
All you know is this stuff working. All you know
is you the bullies on the block. You don't take nobody, sirius.
You don't understand why they all hear is all talking
about May and mud Day. We used to knuckle up.
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Not all this shooting y'all. Internet bangers, y'all little corny
ass niggas. Y'all out here trying to rap. Y'all niggas
is rappers, nigga week gangsters. You know what I'm saying, Like,
and you're like, yeah, we rappers, Like what did you?
I mean? Yeah, we're getting this money. Nigga, y'all, y'all
net bangers, y'all. I don't understand you niggas. You know
what I'm saying, y'all just talk man, that's look look
in my day, Nigga, we rolled up on it. You
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know what I'm saying. Nigga, we hopped out the whip. Shoot.
It's like, all right, man, you know what I'm saying. Like,
thennis it start getting Oh you don't want whatever? Nigga,
we up. We're getting money. You know what I'm saying.
You got dudes wearing opposite colors. You know what I'm saying,
You hanging out with other people's Like, man, what's wrong
with y'all? This don't work like this? Like, man, we
getting money, Man, don't worry about it. Dollar getting money? Well,
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are you getting money? Is that real money? Because a
lot of the work you selling was fronted, and it
was fronted because of the work of the ogeez. When
I say front of the work, that meant that, like
I gave you this brick on credit. You ain't broken
that deal with them vothos. You wasn't in the pen
with that lion May dude where you made friends with,
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like Carlos Martinez over there, you know, on the East side.
You know what I'm saying, he get it from Mexico,
from the cartel down there. You ain't broken that deal,
you know what I'm saying. One Carlo don't know you. Oh,
he trusts your big brother, but you don't know you.
You wasn't tapped in with them Russians, you know what
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I'm saying, don't know Vladimir, Nigga, You're gonna have to
pay the stuff back. You just been paying installments. At
some point somebody gonna come and be like, with my money.
You're gonna mess around and confuse a Mexican for an
El Salvadorian. You go, you gonna mess with Marucha, mess around,
step into a whole war on some stuff you don't
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understand because you just thought they both spoke Spanish. Nigga,
you like, listen, y'all too busy partying, y'all balling out.
You're not paying attention to the streets. It's some Hongry
dudes out there, are you, good man? Look, Look, look,
give me one more break. Let me push that and
I'll give it, I'll give it all back to you. Well, no, homie,
I need my money. So then what do you usually do? Well,
if that's the case, somebody say, oh I need my money. Like, look, look,
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let me get real hood on you. You know your
mama used to write a check and then say, hey, listen,
don't don't. Don't cash that till tuesday. Yourself said why
because the money ain't in the account. You cash it
right now. The mug gonna bounce, you, feel me. Or
they start putting the electric bill in their kids' names.
You know what I'm saying. Kids grow up because the
elect your building turned off by your name. So now
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like niggas grow up they sixteen years old with bad
credit because the light build been in their name three times.
You ain't got it. Let me give you something a
little more modern, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
you out with your homies y'all at dinner, you're gonna
swipe your card. You swiping your card, praying that mug
go through cause you know good and dog on, well,
you ain't got money in that account. That swiper not real.
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It ain't real money in there. That swipe is only
as good as the bank say it is. And sometimes
the bank will be like, just like to connect, Yeah,
I'll front you that it's gonna cost you. Though it
cost you in overdraft fees, it cost you in compound interest.
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That's all I mean. That's how credit work, right, Like
you swipe that card, it's like, yeah, I got you,
but I'm gonna need it later. So what do most
people do when they get in trouble with credit? They
borrow from some somebody else to pay the first person back,
and then that other person they borrowed from. They borrow
somebody else pay the other person back. At some point
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they gonna need they money. Somebody in your crew ain't
liking what you do. They start noticing, you know what
I'm saying, like, hey, it's getting a little y'all. Y'all
love sloppy. I don't like how you running this. It's
a little you know what I'm saying, Like matter of fact, man,
it seemed like it seemed like the only people getting
money is y'all old niggas we out in the field.
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These young dudes is out in the field. We don't
want Dodger bullets. We don't want out here recruiting these
We don't want to break it in the cars. We
the ones getting misdemeanor charges, we do want doing five years.
We the ones were the ones on probation, We the
ones on house arrests. You niggas is sitting nice out
in at Hills just collecting checks from us. The shit
ain't gonna work no more. And guess what some other
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little niggas is watching. They watching this happen. Y'all got
this wealth gap inside of your own crew, and it's
somebody who y'all been bullying, Who y'all been running up on,
who y'all been hitting licks on, who's about tied to y'all?
And the cycle continues, Empires come and go, y'all, how
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much a dollar cost? Hood politicics? All right, So welcome
to another how much a dilo cost episode, which is
essentially just economics. Today, we're gonna talk macroeconomics. Y'all know.
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I have an education back, I said all the time,
specifically in history and social scientists. And I loved thinking
a lot of ways like ancient history for a number
of reasons. One, I just thought this stuff was cooler,
like the fact that it was just left familiar. But
there's one thing that every historian, anybody that studies history, politics, economics,
whatever it is, in a macro sense, understands. Nobody stays up.
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No one. I've said once history got bars in a
rap You know what I mean is like it be rhyming.
It's not the same. Of course, there's differences, but things
take on particular patterns, and when you're looking at stuff
from a macro sense, from a whole history perspective, you
can essentially start graphing things that buy and large kind
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of fit this pattern. A lot of times, that's what
history and economics are doing. They just look at the patterns.
It doesn't mean that it's always going to go this way,
but it means that you can. It's a safe bet.
And here's what I know about empires. They come and go,
they got about. I know I've said this before, and
please please please go pull my receipts. Empires run about
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two hundred, two hundred and fifty years. They crash, Empires fall.
And if you think America ain't an empire, you trip it.
And if you think we can't fall, you don't believe
that the propaganda pun intended. If you think you if
you think America ain't gonna collapse. You believe a cap
because that is all cap. They all fall, every empire
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falls it aloud. I'm telling you maybe I should change
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the name. First I was calling this episode ain't nothing
changed but the weather. But I think the idea of
it all falls down, it might be better. Yeah, it continues
like they all do it, and if you are willing
to like really look at it and understand sort of indicators.
And that's what a lot of like economists doing. They
looking for indicators. They're not saying this is what always
gonna be in a lie. Again, they all don't agree.
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We said that in the first how much a dollar
costs episode? Everybody don't agree. But these indicators are just that.
They're like indicators symptoms. You know, person's a heart rate
is way too high when they're resting. That's an indicator
that this person might not be in shape or some
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something not right. You know what I'm saying. Person's left
hand be tingling, that's an indicator or something. You know
what I'm saying. Somebody, you know they digestion be weird.
That's an indicator or something. You know, I can't predict that.
That means you're gonna die in six months, you know
what I'm saying. But there are things that would make
us say that, Like, yo, unless you make some changes,
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it's been a crash quicker. Now, whoever up always comes down,
and the question ain't will you come down? The question
is how fast and how long you're gonna stay up.
All you can do is postpone it. So today I'm
gonna give y'all some some macroeconomics. Ray Dalio, I don't
even know if I'm saying his name right, but he has.
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He's an economist, a brilliant, brilliant dude. He has a
book out called Principles of Dealing with the Changing World
Order adupe. Like. There's actually like even a short like
maybe like a forty five minute like animated YouTube video
breakdown of what he's talking about in the book. But
I wanted to bring it to y'all, you know, in
my voice, cause he gave actual numbers to the stuff
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I was trying to tell y'all. You know what I'm saying.
When I'm like, yo, it like read the tea leaves,
cause like every historian is I said before, it's flaring
their arms around, going guys, yo, this is These are
the things. These are the indicators. We're here. We fit
a crash and burn. Now, Like I said before, there's life.
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There's such thing as There is such thing as the Dutch,
there is such thing as Britain. In the UK, they
used to be up. They're not up no more. There's
such thing as Russia. They used to be up, They're
not up no more. They fighting to get back up
right now. But life goes on after an empire crashes.
There are such things as the Greeks, Joe said, But
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you need to pay attention to what's happening now. Why
when you're experiencing these, living through these, like empires rising
and falling, you feel like you special, just like when
you're in a hood. Remember I said, like, oh, we're
gonna do things different. It feels like the things that
are happening are so new and exciting or so terrifying
and shocking. Is because it just ain't happening in your lifetime.
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I don't know, do you how many of y'all was
alive during the Great Depression? You know what I'm saying.
I don't know how many who listen to this remembers
World War One? You know what I'm saying, if we
don't none of us was here for the Revolutionary War,
none of us was here for the Civil War. That
stuff seemed it's so ancient, and you just think, nah,
it's different. It is, but it be rhyming. So today
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I want to talk about a few indicators that this
book kind of lays out to help you get your
brain around what I mean by this. So this is again,
this is some this is some game. It's some economic stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I still want you to understand why everybody bugging out
about stock markets, inflation, all this stuff that to me
for most of my life just flew over my head.
All right, take a break, bring the track in. Okay, dope,
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now we're back. Check it. So, of course, to the
content that I'm giving y'all from, like I said, Ray Dalio,
changing in the world order. First of all, let me
lay out what I mean by the world order. Who
we mean is like empires who on top. Now I'm
saying this from a black perspective, which means that like
most of the time, anybody can anybody counting on Africa
right now, because that's how y'all, do you know what
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I'm saying? White supremacy abounds. We're not talking Ghana, Mali's Songhai,
were not talking Egyptian, Ethiopian, Dogans, We're not talking any
of those empires for this particular talk. But I would
bet that they run. If people are people, they probably
run on a similar story arc. But that's not what
we talk about right now. We're gonna go back and
talk to like the last like five hundred years. The
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way we can understand that has to do with the
concept of capitalism as we know it, where commodities, the dollar,
whatever dollar, whatever version of your nation or your empire's dollar,
is the way y'all was getting money, how y'all mean
maintain money, and how y'all maintained power, and then how
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that power started waning and falling, and then how the
next nigga got up. So world order basically means which
empire is up. We've been calling ourselves in America superpower.
Now that's really just because we just own now. And
that's the point we're trying to make here. And as
you know, we wasn't always owned it. We ain't gonna
always be on which is what we're talking about. You know.
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How we know because at one point the Dutch was on.
Who knocked the Dutch off? The British? Who knocked the
British off? Us? Who gonna knock us off? Some people
think China. I don't know. Let's get to it though.
Now what constitutes being up? A lot of it has
to do with Again, we use an economic theory. You
know what I'm saying. It has to do with your currency?
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Is this the currency everybody mess with? Is your currency
dominant over everybody else's currency? Is your weight weightier than
everybody else's weight? And do you got the muscle? Do
you got the goons to make sure that that's what happening.
Don't nobody run through this city unless they run through us.
You gotta tap in with us. No matter what you're
doing across the world, you gotta tap in with us.
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No matter what you're doing across the hood, you gotta
tap in with us. You ain't co signed with us,
if we ain't stamped you, it don't matter. Now it's current,
this current order we end. Like I said, who up?
America became top of the food chain. Everybody you gotta
tap into after World War Two for a number of reasons.
One because Britain was broke who were up at that time.
Y'all remember that little island colonized everywhere they was up,
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they pound, the pound ruled everything. Eventually it took us
that long. But at the end of World War Two,
after they was broke, we showed that we got our squabbles,
you know what I'm saying. And then at Britain Wood's
Agreement nineteen forty four, they agreed that like listen, man,
currency got to Look, if you gonna use currency, let's
just use ours. Ours got the tallest. So then we
got to control the central bank of the world, which
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we still control now. It's called the reserve currency. It's
the currency that's pretty much accepted everywhere wherever you go,
you know what I'm saying, gonna take your dollar mostly.
But it wasn't always like that. So according to this book,
there's this thing that that Ray is calling, call him
Ray like he calling the Big cycle. And the Big
Cycle is again a rough estimate as to this two
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hundred to two hundred and fifty year life cycle of
an empire. You can lay this on the Dutch, the British,
and ourselves and probably who coming next. Now that story
I told you in the beginning of it. In the
beginning of this podcast about that hood getting up, it's
that it's the same cycle. What starts off is, you know,
you got these you got this this rough upstart of
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a country, a civilization, you know, a real charismatic leader,
ila George Washington, you know what I'm saying, in the
founding fathers who realized that like listen, man, we're not
taking all this shit from from the British no more.
We tied all this. We want our own. And then
you start scrapping, and then you establish your own place,
like look this who we are. So that's the establishment.
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The next step is a part of what we would
call the peace and prosperity era. And then the next
is like you know, then you start producing a lot
of stuff. And and when you start producing, you start
borrowing too much money. You start borrowing too much money,
you start creating a big old wealth gap. Right. Once
you create a big old wealth grap, you got you
realize it like, yo, I'm spending more money than I have,
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So that means I gotta start printing money. And once
you start printing money, you know what I'm saying, Now,
the cost of stuff go up and the wealth gap
starts growing, and when there's a wealth gap, then the
natives get restless, my nigga, And at some point you're
gonna have to pay them debts back, and when them
debtors come for their money, then you have what's called
an economic downturn. And the way to fix and pay
them debts is you got to pretend like you got
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the money. Oh I got it. I'm just gonna keep sweeping,
keep swiping my car. I'll pay this food to pay
that food. I'll borrow from there to borrow from there.
You know what I'm saying. But the only way to
protect your money in the hard time, you got to
start building up. You got you need some goons. You
need some goons to build up and protect everybody because
while you up, you know, when you're on top of
the hill, everybody coming for you. So you got to
make sure you got this big problem. You're spending most
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of your money on your defense and on your luxuries.
And then they become this political infighting, and usually what
happens is somebody leads towards a populace or a totalitarian
ruler that can like, look, I'll calm everybody down. I
get this stuff together. But everybody outside, who you've been
stepping on for this whole time, is watching, y'all, And
while we going through all these in house debates, we
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can't get our shit together. The enemy watching, and they
getting strong, and they about to start the same cycle
that we own. You got it. Now, let's put the
pieces on the puzzle. How do you measure how up
a nation is? How you measure how upper empire is? Well?
According to this this here go your markers for it.
Your education a y'all schooling the youngins? Are you innovating?
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Are y'all building dope shit? And that type stuff creates
good myths, good buy ins, good feelings of belonging. Are
y'all competitive in the market? Can anybody mess with your stuff?
You got the best product or not? Are y'all out
putting it like y'all putting it in the streets? It's
getting everywhere you feel me your role in world trade?
The strength of your currency as far as like world trade?
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Is your dollar worth more than everybody else's dollar? And
how well y'all shoot? How strong your military? Now? If
you could average out these numbers, you could tell who
really up and who not? According to this thing, again
and yo. And since these are measurable numbers like you
can you could look this stuff up. Then you could
tell if an empire rise and or falling, you could
tell where they are in this thing. You can tell
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how long you gonna be up. Of course, it's not
like it's a it's not a DeLorean, my nigga. Like
you can't really tell the future, but you can measure
these things like yo. I mean, are y'all strong? Is
your work really that dope? Is people really buying your product?
Are y'all really educating your are y'all really innovating? I
mean you were? Are you still? And hopefully you can
see how that stuff is interconnected. Better education, you schooling
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the kids means you probably gonna innovate a lot of stuff.
And if you innovate in a lot of stuff, that
means you creating the best product. If you creating the
best product, you're gonna make the most money. That I mean, dug.
So let's go back to the beginning. An establishing of
a new empire, a new up, a new world order
usually starts with some sort of big cataclysmic war conflict.
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If we're gonna use America, then let's do that. America
started actually as a war, duh. You know what I'm saying,
That's where we started our in client, we started at
a war, and Nigga, we won, and we wasn't post
to win because y'all you got I don't think y'all
understand how big Ball and Big Boss Great Britain was.
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I mean, like that little teeny Island almost conquered the planet.
And it's because if you know your history, nigga, the
Navy didn't play like they listen, they had wealth coming
in everywhere you talking about. You talk about Mongolian silk
with Indian spices and sugar from sugar from Haiti. You
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know what I'm saying. In at that they got from Persia, Nigga,
like everywhere. We wasn't supposed to win. I'm saying we
because I'm American, Because no, Nigga, that wasn't me. You
know what I'm saying. I would that wasn't my fight,
cuz you know what I'm saying because I'm black. But
you understand I'm trying to say America wasn't supposed to win,
that you ain't supposed to take them out. Go again,
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going back to our first example, you love. Niggas ain't
supposed to win this, but you did. Now, since you
won and everybody saw it, people are like, like we
said in the beginning, oh man, maybe maybe there's a
new boss. Maybe everything cool, and don't nobody want to
mess with you. Remember I told you before again, it's
just like when you jumping somebody, you got a molly
whopp them when you get when you getting beat, you
got to mollywop these foods so they know, don't come
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back again. But this was a theory we talked about
a long time ago. With dropping these atom bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was like, this is the wrong
thing to do if you have any sort of moral compass.
But if you just talking war, what you're trying to
say is like, listen, we crazy. Don't listen. Try Jesus
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not me. I throw hands. I'm crazy. Do not come
over here. It's terrifying you, Like, damn, the niggas is crazy.
I ain't gonna mess with them no more. So that's
what happens as a nation. It's like, okay, cool, So
there's a relative moment of peace and prosperity. What was
happening in America all nigga, we was building cities. I mean,
we was getting free labor from slaves. And you got
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to understand how much money. Listen, I don't think y'all. Look,
I'm gonna set aside the actual human atrocities that slavery
was for a second. I'm just gonna talk money with you.
Innovation was happening up north right with industrial growth, you
know what I'm saying. Technology, All that shit was happening
up north. Down south, they were called a grarian where
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it was like, this is agriculture, Like they growing cotton,
tobacco sometimes, but mostly cotton. Let me tell you something.
Do you understand that what cottons was worth, the gross
national how much money they was making on cotton was
more than every other commodity in the States combined. There's
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so much money coming from cotton now, which meant that
if you was Joe Blow slave owner, you was like, well,
I know this sucks, but god damn, it's a lot
of money. And I mean, what we gonna do cuz
I mean, I mean, damn, Like I'm just one person.
I know it's I know it's awful, I mean, but like,
I mean, shoot, this is just the way that the
world slavery existed forever. And besides, then you start turning
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your brain into a pretzel because of how much money
is being made. You're like, you know what, well, maybe
they built for that because they show don't die, I mean,
you know, and if we ever let them free, look,
they try to kill if stay savages, so maybe we
should just gone on keep them. That's because the money
too much. And if you already think these people ain't humans, look,
you ain't got to listen, that's one hundred percent profit.
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You ain't paying your wages give or take the cost
of the slave themselves. But eventually, which never happened before,
once the slaves have kids, the kids are slaves. It
wasn't like that nowhere else. So you multiplying and you
ain't got to buy a new one. Not to mention,
you know, we talked. I make the comment about the
gold rush. Who really made most of the money where
the shovel sales. Listen, you selling slaves, nigga, You balling
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out too. It's too much money. So this prosperity happening.
And again again we talk in nation building here, nigga,
is so much money coming in. We bought and it's
so comfy. Don't nobody want to mess with us? We don't.
It was the seven year War. We done fought off
the Natives. We done fought off we didn't fought off
the British. Like niggas start getting comfort. And of course
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this is not like a straight line, because there was
other hats of countries like nah, I don't think that's
the way to go, you know what I'm saying. But
as things, you know, you still an upstart, you still
figuring out, but you like you balling out, like Nigga's
gonna start taking you serious by the time we get
to World War one, world War two, when we building
shit out the brain. You know what I'm saying. The
big five that built the country, you know, the carnegiese
you know what I'm saying, the gerald Fords. You know
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what I'm saying, This industrial Revolution. We killing the game.
It's too much money and so food's getting comfy. Once
you start getting comfy, you gotta protect that comfortable. But
also it's all you know at this point, it's kids
that don't want you. A few generations after the Revolutionary War,
there's people that don't know war. They wasn't there for
that they was born into relative prosperity. There was this
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phrase that you learned. I learned from Dan Carlin. He
was like the stone boots and silk slippers. You got
the toughest nails. People that fought for something, just WHI
I was talk about, the earlier earlier fought for something
to get us up. And then you have kids, and
all them kids know is success. They don't know struggle.
They ain't got to go through what you go through.
All they know is prosperity. So they think you crazy
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for always being nervous because it ain't happening in their lifetime.
And if it do go down, they think the world
on fire, which is like current America right now. They
got time to contemplate the start, They got time to
envision better ways to do things. They got time to
think about things like morality, you know, and if we
should keep enslaving these people they got time to do.
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Basically the nineties, if you was white and wealthy, just
buy shit. That's all they did in the nineties. Again,
this is for the sake of this argument. Think about it, y'all,
Like that Americana, like the invention of a strip mall,
a suburb track housing. That's because they like, we fine, nigga.
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Everything good. You know. You remember like the when you
see the white people on TV and the milkman would
come and they would just they were that's clean green energy.
You had glass bottles that you were cycled. America had
to be taught to throw shit away because we used
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to not throw stuff away.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
There's too much money, y'all. Niggas is comfy.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Now. If you know the money coming in, you're not
worried about it, you can start borrowing. You can go
and get the credit card. I know what I make
a year. I know we got We're good. It's fine.
The crops always grow. We're gonna make the money. It's like,
so you can start buying more and buying more on
credit because you know what you're gonna do. You know, look,
we flushed, flushed, but the last with cash, it's all good.
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What you're so worried about. It'll be fine. Swipe that card.
Were cool as an individual and as a nation. Yo,
we're good. Then you start diversifying, right, so rather than
just buying a car, buy how you know what I'm saying.
You buy some stocks. You feel me, you get it.
You know what I'm saying, Get some gold bars, put
them away. You ain't just gotta be flushed with cash, nigga,
Like put your stuff in some other stuff. You feel me,
You know what I'm saying, Like ball out, you know
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what I mean. Like, put your money in a lot
of different places. And all I gotta do is put
on credit because it's cool. I'm gonna pay it back.
Money coming in, right, scam money don't make money. So
you're putting your money in these places. And what's happening
is the wealth gap is growing because the people that's
producing that money, the people that's doing the actual work,
they not getting none of the none of rewards of
what's coming from this wealth. While they steady being told, well,
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it's the American dream. You could just work hard and
you too can have this wealth. Well, is the land
of the free, the land of opportunity, and every man
who's willing to work hard can succeed. Meanwhile, Jim Crow abounds.
So you creating this wealth gap right, Just like I
said earlier. You know, we out here, nigga, We out
here on the corners, We out here, y'all living in
these nice houses up out in the valley. You know
what I'm saying, Like, we out here on the corner,
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we don't want catching cases, and you're telling us we
better not snitch because our life is only good because
you giving us the little bit we got. You telling
me I'm better off because of you. You know what
I'm saying. Let me just you know, if I do
go do Julie, I do go five years. If I
keep my mouth shut food, that's like a vacation. You
know what I'm saying, Like, well, make your money on
your books. Everything cool. Meanwhile, you collecting dough this whole time,
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you getting richer and richer. It's creating a wealth gap.
You know these ogs man, they just you know what
I'm saying. They're not even out here in the field.
We out in the field. Ohg Like you just hate
me because you hate me. Little niggas is saying something different.
This shit ain't gonna keep. But I'm not gonna keep
standing for this. But look at eventually, all that money
you spend it, all that stuff you borrowing, uh you
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got you keep increasing that credit limit, that black card.
Eventually you're gonna have to pay that shit back. Because again,
money has to be something in real life unless it's
just paper. I remember I told on the last one,
on the last how much a dollar costs. Money's not
real no more, it's just whatever we say it is.
It wasn't always like that money was a thing. It
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was gold. You take that dollar and I'm just making
up this number, and this dollar means I can get
this much gold because it was real thing. And instead
of buying just the gold bar, I'm gonna buy a product.
And I know this product is worth these many goal bars.
And rather than me handing these, go bobbing hand you
just because gold is a finite thing. We know what
it is, and it sits in a reserve. But eventually
you borrowing more, you spending more than there is gold.
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Are we good? We good? You spend it more than
we got. So I said, you know what I'm saying.
You put these bricks on credit. You know what I'm saying.
You feel me? You promising shit you can't deliver. We
ain't got it. Look look, look look again, you out
with your homies, you swiping your card, knowing full well
you gonna overdraft that. But you good, the bank will
just charge you to thirty five dollars. You'll just pay
the thirty five dollars. You keep swiping that that thirty
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five become seventy. You say what I'm saying, and it
just keep adding up. You mess around. Check your bank account.
Your last seven transactions were now declined. You now overdraft
eleven hund It is like, what you're gonna do? You
ain't got it? What nations do keep swiping? How do
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they keep swiping? What we print the money? Remember it's ours.
You just print more. And what happens when you print
more than what you actually got is it starts to
become just paper again. That's called inflation. It's more money
in circulation. Then we can actually back you just writing checks,
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you just swiping your card. It ain't real money there.
And at some point the nation like, yo, we're finna
default on our loans cuz so this what we're gonna do.
We're gonna do this stimulus package. That's a nice way
to say, is we just gonna make up money. But
before they get to the makeup money, look, I'm gonna
blow your mind right now. You know what food's due.
They lower the interest rates. Oh man, hey, interests are
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on a low time low. Everybody go buy their houses
or that's because they like damn these niggas not paying
they debt. We do the loan dot it money' not
paying us. Okay, well maybe if we lower the interest
niggas will start paying because we're not getting they money.
You could lower the interest rates to zero, nigga, because
that happened if I ain't got the money, I ain't
got the money. You know what you do now? You
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just print the money. But the money don't mean nothing
because we just printed it. And that, my friend, is inflation.
It's because the dollar don't do shit for you because
they just printed it. So you know what the wealthy dude,
when you just make up money, they know, Oh the
price of everything's finna go up. And I got the bread,
but the price of real shit finna go up. We
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do an all gonna do. I'm gonna buy the stock, I'm
a body's bonds, I'm a buy this commodity. I'm finna
buy this goal. I'm gonna buy it right now because
I know that's real. This dollar ain't gonna be worth nothing.
So let me get the dollars out of my hands
because theyin't not worth nothing, And I'm gonna get the
actual shit into my hands because that's worth something. The
rich get richer, and eventually, once they start happening, guess what,
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the natives get restless, not a hood mad, not a
set mad, because what is we gonna do? You done
snatched up? Now? I can't afford nothing. Remember I talked
about the ice cream truck. My five dollars, don't get
me the same amount of ice cream and get me
before all right, we'll pay me more. They like, oh,
we ain't got it. We can't pay you more. What
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the fuck me? And you ain't got it? Now, think
of this as a nation. We're telling were telling China,
You telling Russia, You're telling all these not Russia. Well yeah, Russia.
Sometimes you tell China, telling russa yo, you're telling China, like, Yo,
let me buy let me get seven million of them
car chips, them car micro chips, Japan, let me get
seven hundred car micro chips, seven hundred million of them.
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They're like, all right, cool, Uh, that's gonna be nine
trillion dollars. You're like, yo, well send a link, send it,
send a square link. I'll just I'll swipe my card
and you're gonna swipe your card. That mug gonna say processing, processing, processing, processing.
At some point, Japan gonna be like, I want my money. Look.
That's when the cartel dude from Mexico fly in and
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he like, Yo, where my money. That's a nice house
you got. I see, I see you shining in that car.
I see look, I see. I say, that's a nice
car you got outside, Nigga, that's a nice house. That's
a nice beach house you got. So then what happens
is like, Yo, whatever wealth is here, it's not distributed, right,
the top ten percent got everything. So this is happening
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now internally. So then some sort of like conflict happens
internally where the nation is like, look, man, we like look,
y'all need to rethink this stuff out because we're producing
all the product and y'all making all the money. So
then you have a call for the redistribution of wealth.
I don't know if this shit is sounded familiar to you,
But then you have an other side that says, wait,
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wait wait no, no, no, no no no, no, everything's fine, we
got this. Y'all need to stop tripping. How about y'all
work harder? Hell? I did you work harder? And how's
that solved, either with a civil war or a culture war.
That's going on on Twitter like we got it right.
And what happens while that's happening. I know, education suffers.
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I know the policing goes up because look, military, that's
not protecting y'all safety, it's protecting our money. The police
ain't protecting your safety. They protecting that property. When you
got your sociopath in the hood, that's just shooting. They
protecting their interest. It's the block. Niggas ain't worried about you.
They worried about the block. They were youth securing the bag.
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So you got to make sure that they money good.
What do we call that the military industrial complex. They
need to be able to get their money. They need
to be cool because everybody coming after us. And while
we can't get our shit together on the inside, China
watching somebody over there watching, They watching you fight inside it,
They watching y'all not be as smart. They watching y'all
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spending y'all time with a dollar That don't mean shit
no more, because y'all done got comfortable. Y'all ain't got
the grit you got used to being up. Y'all kids
don't even go to college no more because it costs
too much, and y'all can't even get the shit figured
out because ain't no way, ain't no reason on God
Green Earth college should cost this much, And y'all don't
know how to work no more cause you expect the
government to pay y'all's debt. Y'all falling off again. This
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is China's perspective, or Whoever's next, And what happens is
some sort of some sort of charismatic totalitarians, some sort
of populist dude come up and he say, hey, listen, listen,
I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna calm everybody down. You
just let's just just give me all the power. I'll
fix this for y'all. I'm gonna give you some sort
of peace. This is how you get the rise of
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these like dictators. You get the rise of these autocrats
because they like, nah, it's cool, I'll fix your money.
You know what we need to do. We need to
muscle up. And you muscle up on your own people
to get them to chill. And then you muscle up
because you don't want nobody outside to think that there's
problems happening. But there is problems happening because y'all not
innovating no more, y'all. Donet got comfy, y'all spending y'all money.
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You spread your money too far. You fighting on so
many levels. Look how many, how many? How many American
outposts are there? Of the military cards. We can't keep
spending this much money. Why because we ain't got it, Nigga,
we ain't got it. The money made up, trying to
watch it. China get they act together, Russia trying to
get they act together because Russia used to be up.
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And then what happens either while we fighting on the inside,
somebody come knocking on our door and stretch us too thin.
Look that's what happened with Britain. Britain got stretched too thin.
Great Britain got stretched too thin. At the end of
World War Two, they couldn't pay their debts. You ain't
got no money. All we got it. We good. You
borrowed from us, but you gotta pass back though we up.
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So when you think about where we are in the nation,
you got to ask yourself, y'all, where are we? I
don't know, man, We ain't really educating our children the
way we used to, Not like we ever really worked,
know what I'm saying. I mean, look, anybody that got
any sense with money then left the place they not.
That's why it's like build USA, buy USA. Nigga, You
losing money, Nah, hommie, Why would I do that when
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I can get the work from China for half the
price and it's just as good. That don't make no
good money? Since China been reverse engineering all of your
innovation and they didne figured out how to do it cheaper.
And I'm gonna say this as callous as possible. Y'all
worried about civil rights and shit. Nigga, we tell you
the work you work, anybody was since gonna get what
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they can get for cheaper and just as good, if
not better. Keep American jobs, nigga, Why like you gotta
think of it like if it's just, if it's just,
if it's just raw down, you gotta think of it
like that. Why this one from over there is half
the price, it costs better, And y'all printing money. Your
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money ain't even up no more so where are we?
I mean, we haven't done the big sell off like
Britain had to do at the after like they printed
their money. They had that great depression, I mean, not
that great depression when they're their their pounds just started dripping,
dripping down to the bottom at the end of World
War Two when they tried to print more and then
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inflation got crazy and it was like, I can't pay
my debts. This ain't real money. And you got this,
like I said, somebody that when the when the cartel
boss come in and say you all right, give me
that house, all right, give me that bike, all right,
give me that necklace, that's the sell off. At some
point you got to you got to get rid of
all your stuff cause you got to pay these fools back. Okay,
that hasn't happened in America yet. We ain't got to
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full civil war yet, although the January sixth Joint got
real close. Ain't nobody actually yet has yet to pop
off on us. But the wealth gap, oh that's there.
The inflation, Oh that's there. The stimulus, oh that's there.
I just said, I just read that Biden given eight
million dollars billion dollars, eight million dollars to uh the Ukraine,
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nigga where you get that money from? Because it's not
real y'all. Now, can our nations leaders get together and
actually do the hard things. I don't think, so that's
the part I'm worried about. Like I said, every nation
grand opening, grand CosIng, But don't mean we disappear off
the face of the earth. It just means we just
become just like every other nation, which we always work.
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Everybody had they moment in the sun. We'll be fine.
But I think to shave off the pain of all this,
there's two principles that Dali Oh presents, which I have
said so many times, which makes me feel vindicated. It's
pretty simple. Make more than you spend and treat people fairly.
Don't spend money you ain't got. If I wrote a
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financial book, it would be that one page. Don't spend
money you don't have that ain't even gotta worry about.
None of the speculations. Shit, don't spend money you ain't got.
I know, cost of living is ridiculous. That was like
the one I said before. I know this is super easy.
I'm just saying, as a nation and as a whole,
don't spend money you ain't got. And to just treat
people fairly. What wealth gap is unfair? Paying people below
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they wages before living living wages is unfair. Just treat
people fairly, pay what they work and don't spend money
you ain't got. I know it's not that simple, and
I know this arc we just explained ain't exactly it,
and I know there's a lot to disagree with. I'll
tell you what, though, it all falls down, y'all. Question
is how hard you're gonna fall? And who did you
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smash on the way up? Because them niggas is watching
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Say it louder Hi, that's my daughter's soul. This is
us finally taking a break. We're about to have a
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about that? Yay? Yay? What are we doing right now?
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Are we popping your popcorn? Yeah? We are so uh
so today's rewe. I keep saying re one it's because
of you. Yeah, it's your fault. It's not your fault anyway.
So the one we're running is is one about the
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ending of world powers? How world power stop? You have
any idea why? That's funny? So no, I didn't think
you did it, which hopefully you won't have to worry about.
But this is book by Ray Dalio And yeah, so
we're gonna talk about how and when empires fall. And
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right now while you're listening to this, I will be
knee deep because I put my foot in them collar
green y'all all right, hood politics. Hey, look, I'm gonna
give it to you the way that gave it to me.
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Lehemmy ain't nothing changed but the weather ain't shit changed,
but the weather. Listen, you could control CV this to
any any decade. Fam This is third in Brooklyn, This
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is seventies and eighties in LA This is Detroit, this
is New York, this is Russia, brud China, anywhere, tailor
is all this time. I sat in a poem once
that history got bars. What I'm trying to say is
that it rhymes get it. You and your boys, You
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and your homies. You know what I'm saying, y'all tired
of not being up. You tired of them being kids,
picking on y'all man, taking your bikes, taking your lunch money,
always running around here like they run this whole city,
like they run this whole town, like they run the school. Man,
it's just getting old, you know what I mean? You
just watching them like, man, like this can't this can't.
This can't be what the rest of my childhood are
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gonna be. Like, you know, and one day you decide,
you and your homies decide, like, look, man, at some
point we're gonna have to do something about this, Like
you're not finna chase me home every day. These these
fools got all the girls they coming into school, dipping,
you know what I'm saying, Like the new Feelers, you
feel me, the new Rebox, you know what I'm saying.
They got the neatest tracksuits, you know auto you know
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they they got the pure player kimonos. You know. Wherever
we are and food's always dipping, got the baddest girls.
It's just like, man, I'm tired of this dog like
I want to be up. I'm tired of being not
being up. One of your homeboys is really charismatic though,
you know, he he know how to talk, and he
and you could see him that that that fool just
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fuming he like, and you could tell he's scheming, you
know what I mean, Like, Man, man, I'm tired of
all this, Like you know, we're gonna do something about this.
And then he go talk to the homies down the street,
you know what I mean, And even some homies on
the other side of the on the other side of
the tracks. You're looking at them like, hey, man, like,
ain't you tired of this? Like while we gotta live, like, man,
I'm not finna live like this no more, you know
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what I mean. Like, so you got to wait for
the right place at the right time, where you decide, listen,
you're not taking my bike no more. You know you
put the put the monkey wrench in the backpack, or
the or the or the burner in the backpack. You
know you got you got the blaky whatever it is.
It's like, listen, dog like, this is not happening no more.
And this real charismatic friend of yours, you could tell
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he don't look scared like the rest of us. He
paying attention that nigga watching and he's watching for the
things that I told y'all you're supposed to watch for.
In the same way, when you're about to get jumped,
you need to look at who's really in charge, Who
really could take a punch, who can't take a punch, right,
Because if you're about to get jumped, like I said,
you probably gonna get mopped. But the one thing you
can't do is nothing. And what you need to do
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is you need to fire on one of them and
get out of there. But what you need to pick
is if sometimes it's the loudest dude, right. But what
you need to do is you need to pay attention
to who really in charge. A lot of times it's
the man standing on the side of the street that's
not in that circle with you. That's the one standing,
that's the one in charge. But you need to pick
one of the biggest dudes, one of the ones that
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you like, okay, and if you fire on him hard
enough on her, let's be real, you fire on her
hard enough. You got to pick one that's gonna make
the other ones question. Because if you show you not
scared and you pop the one that they all think
is the best fighter, the rest of them gonna think twice.
And that's gonna give you that split second to get
out of there, you know what I'm saying. But he watching,
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and when he watching, he watching close, and then he
started noticing. You know what, they don't all get along.
That man crew, that crew that's up, they don't all
get along. One of them don't like them other niggas.
And then you start noticing, as you're watching, like you watching,
paying more attention, you start noticing, and you know what,
a lot of them niggas can't fight. You know, these
parties ain't what they say they are. You know, we
pulling up to these parties were thinking, man, they balling,
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They got everything up. You know, they got money, they're
getting money they're getting the girls. You start noticing, you
know what, some of this don't don't. I don't think
this is what they say it is. It might have been.
You know, maybe you got an older brother, you got
an older sister, you know what I'm saying, Like me,
for me, I my sister was six years older than me,
So like maybe maybe they was hot when she was
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my age, you know what I'm saying. But I'm looking you.
You they little brothers, you they little sisters, and like
y'all not okay. You know, I'm starting to see cracks
in the armor here. Maybe it's not what Maybe it's
not what y'all say it is. So you pick the
right day, and you know, any given Sunday, any day,
anybody can get it. It's anybody's game. You pick the
right party where the right people are there, and you
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and your crew roll up and you decide, listen, it's
some new bosses in town. We done with this. And
you know you weren't even invited to this party because
you're not cool enough. But you know what, you don't
get to decide who's cool and who's not. You crash
that party, mop them fools. Just that day. That day,
that was just y'all's day. You moped them fools right
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and now, and everybody saw a whole hood. Was there
even some mother hoods down the street, nigga, everybody saw
them dudes. It was like, and then now they start questioning, like, hey,
who these young who these young boys? Do y'all be
throwing parties? Yeah, we be throwing parties. Yeah we be
kicking it, you know what I'm saying. And now and
now everybody else going, wait a minute, now, y'all, you know,
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we was only rolling with these fools because they was up.
We thought this was maybe you know, we was kind
of wondering if they really wasn't as up as they
say they were, you know what I'm saying. Maybe, Still,
let's start what's up with y'all. What y'all got going?
The problem is you ain't got nothing going. You was
just tired of getting bullied. But now it's time to build.
Oh man, what you need to build? Okay, you need
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to sit down with your boys. It's like, all right, now, okay,
we we got we got a victory under We showed
we weren't no punks. We showed we ain't no easy
come ups. All right, now we need to get out
in the field. You know what I'm saying, Like, you
gotta get out in the field. You know, we gotta
make money. We need to go get this money. What
we're doing, what we're doing. We were pushing pe you
know what I'm saying. We're doing We're getting these we're
selling these guns, were selling these pills, were selling these,
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these bricks. What we're doing. You know what I'm saying, Well,
you I mean we were breaking into cars, We're doing
home evasions. And your charismatic leader going, you know what,
it gets all of the above. You know what I'm saying,
by any means, and that's all money. And you feel
me like we're gonna make it. We're gonna get this,
We're gonna get this right. But we're gonna do a
different you know what I'm saying, Like, we're gonna get in,
We're gonna get out, you feel me, We're gonna we're
gonna establish all kinds of other stuff. We're gonna make
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sure everybody eat, you feel me. But but if we're
gonna do that, we need these people to understand that
we are not to be fed with. I need a shooter.
Some argue that you need a sociopath in your circle.
I mean going back all the way to Hunter Gather
African Savannah. You need somebody in your crew that is like, listen,
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uh a Carolyn slowing us down? Are Caralyn gonna get
gonna get us all ate by lions? We need to gone,
We need to gone leave on Caurland because we all
gonna die. You need somebody that just like that just
has no moral compass. You're in said, I'm saying that's
like I hop out the whip right now. Shoot this
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nigga in front of his child and his mama. You
need somebody that's like, listen, like this nigga in and
out of Juvie, I'm not afraid of nobody. You know
the kid that's like yeah, that's jumping off the roof
into the pool, that never thought twice about it when
we was kids, just that just you just looking at
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them like you don't fear anything, do you. So you
need some shooters, somebody that's like all right, nah, but
that shooter need guns. How you're gonna get guns, nigga,
y'all junior hires, How you gonna get this work? How
you're gonna get this weight. You know what I'm saying, Well,
you need some big homies, you need some help. So
you need to start looking around at like some of
these other crews around here, and it's like, hey, man,
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like listen, if we just roll together, man, let me
do Look, look, I got the juice right now. Let
me just you feel me. Let's just let's just see
what we could do. And them nigga's on the side,
like y'all got guns. Man, all right, I'll be on.
But you know what I'm saying, like you could borrow
from us. You feel me like youre gonna pass packs
Like yeah, nigga, we got it. You know what I'm saying.
We all start throwing these dope parties, getting fly girls.
You know what I'm saying, Like everybody, now, you up,
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you feel me? You up? You know you up? Get
money coming in. You know what I'm saying. You got
foods on every corner. You started like sending people across town. Look, look,
one of the homies got in trouble with they mama,
and they mama moving them to another state, to another dynasts,
you know, to another province. You feel me, and you like, yo,
just take the work over there. You feel me like,
we'll make it work, you know what I'm saying. But
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we up though, but sometimes that up to stay up, man,
you need that violence, need that violence, You need that money,
and you need that dedication. You need to start teaching
these young dudes like, yo, we building something. It's our block.
Man like, ride or die? Is you a rider or not?
Man like? So then you start doing stuff like branding them,
like giving them tattoos like let me help you feel
like you in you know what I'm saying. But after that,
y'all gonna get old. Y'all gonna get popped. Y'all gonna
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start dying. So you need some new booty. You need
some young niggas. You need some young you know, some YG's,
that's what that stands for, a young young gangster. You
know what I'm saying. You need some YG's. You got ogs,
You need yg you know what I'm saying. You gotta
convince them like they buying into something bigger than them.
You gotta start for using academic You gotta start mythmaking,
gotta start legend there. You gotta start telling these war stories.
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You feel me because you building something, you part of something.
You give them flags man put that rag on their head,
you know, initiating ceremonies. You know what I'm saying, bar mitzvahs,
Inner city, bar mitzvahs. You feel me like, that's when
you get jumped in. You know what I'm saying, You're
getting jumped in. Man, It's family. It's my grandma, my daddy.
You know what I'm saying, My uncle, everybody like, this
is what we do. Man, we been up. You know
what I'm saying, You out hold down the fort. But
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eventually what's gonna happen is once you start birthing people
who wasn't a part of the build. Man, all they
know is up. All they know is money coming in.
All you know is this stuff working. All you know
is you the bullies on the block. You don't take nobody, sirius.
You don't understand why they all hear is all talking
about May and mud Day. We used to knuckle up.
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Not all this shooting y'all. Internet bangers, y'all little corny
ass niggas. Y'all out here trying to rap. Y'all niggas
is rappers, nigga week gangsters. You know what I'm saying, Like,
and you're like, yeah, we rappers, Like what did you?
I mean? Yeah, we're getting this money. Nigga, y'all, y'all
net bangers, y'all. I don't understand you niggas. You know
what I'm saying, y'all just talk man, that's look look
in my day, Nigga, we rolled up on it. You
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know what I'm saying. Nigga, we hopped out the whip. Shoot.
It's like, all right, man, you know what I'm saying. Like,
thennis it start getting Oh you don't want whatever? Nigga,
we up. We're getting money. You know what I'm saying.
You got dudes wearing opposite colors. You know what I'm saying,
You hanging out with other people's Like, man, what's wrong
with y'all? This don't work like this? Like, man, we
getting money, Man, don't worry about it. Dollar getting money? Well,
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are you getting money? Is that real money? Because a
lot of the work you selling was fronted, and it
was fronted because of the work of the ogeez. When
I say front of the work, that meant that, like
I gave you this brick on credit. You ain't broken
that deal with them vothos. You wasn't in the pen
with that lion May dude where you made friends with,
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like Carlos Martinez over there, you know, on the East side.
You know what I'm saying, he get it from Mexico,
from the cartel down there. You ain't broken that deal,
you know what I'm saying. One Carlo don't know you. Oh,
he trusts your big brother, but you don't know you.
You wasn't tapped in with them Russians, you know what
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I'm saying, don't know Vladimir, Nigga, You're gonna have to
pay the stuff back. You just been paying installments. At
some point somebody gonna come and be like, with my money.
You're gonna mess around and confuse a Mexican for an
El Salvadorian. You go, you gonna mess with Marucha, mess around,
step into a whole war on some stuff you don't
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understand because you just thought they both spoke Spanish. Nigga,
you like, listen, y'all too busy partying, y'all balling out.
You're not paying attention to the streets. It's some Hongry
dudes out there, are you, good man? Look, Look, look,
give me one more break. Let me push that and
I'll give it, I'll give it all back to you. Well, no, homie,
I need my money. So then what do you usually do? Well,
if that's the case, somebody say, oh I need my money. Like, look, look,
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let me get real hood on you. You know your
mama used to write a check and then say, hey, listen,
don't don't. Don't cash that till tuesday. Yourself said why
because the money ain't in the account. You cash it
right now. The mug gonna bounce, you, feel me. Or
they start putting the electric bill in their kids' names.
You know what I'm saying. Kids grow up because the
elect your building turned off by your name. So now
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like niggas grow up they sixteen years old with bad
credit because the light build been in their name three times.
You ain't got it. Let me give you something a
little more modern, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know,
you out with your homies y'all at dinner, you're gonna
swipe your card. You swiping your card, praying that mug
go through cause you know good and dog on, well,
you ain't got money in that account. That swiper not real.
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It ain't real money in there. That swipe is only
as good as the bank say it is. And sometimes
the bank will be like, just like to connect, Yeah,
I'll front you that it's gonna cost you. Though it
cost you in overdraft fees, it cost you in compound interest.
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That's all I mean. That's how credit work, right, Like
you swipe that card, it's like, yeah, I got you,
but I'm gonna need it later. So what do most
people do when they get in trouble with credit? They
borrow from some somebody else to pay the first person back,
and then that other person they borrowed from. They borrow
somebody else pay the other person back. At some point
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they gonna need they money. Somebody in your crew ain't
liking what you do. They start noticing, you know what
I'm saying, like, hey, it's getting a little y'all. Y'all
love sloppy. I don't like how you running this. It's
a little you know what I'm saying, Like matter of fact, man,
it seemed like it seemed like the only people getting
money is y'all old niggas we out in the field.
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These young dudes is out in the field. We don't
want Dodger bullets. We don't want out here recruiting these
We don't want to break it in the cars. We
the ones getting misdemeanor charges, we do want doing five years.
We the ones were the ones on probation, We the
ones on house arrests. You niggas is sitting nice out
in at Hills just collecting checks from us. The shit
ain't gonna work no more. And guess what some other
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little niggas is watching. They watching this happen. Y'all got
this wealth gap inside of your own crew, and it's
somebody who y'all been bullying, Who y'all been running up on,
who y'all been hitting licks on, who's about tied to y'all?
And the cycle continues, Empires come and go, y'all, how
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much a dollar cost? Hood politicics? All right, So welcome
to another how much a dilo cost episode, which is
essentially just economics. Today, we're gonna talk macroeconomics. Y'all know.
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I have an education back, I said all the time,
specifically in history and social scientists. And I loved thinking
a lot of ways like ancient history for a number
of reasons. One, I just thought this stuff was cooler,
like the fact that it was just left familiar. But
there's one thing that every historian, anybody that studies history, politics, economics,
whatever it is, in a macro sense, understands. Nobody stays up.
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No one. I've said once history got bars in a
rap You know what I mean is like it be rhyming.
It's not the same. Of course, there's differences, but things
take on particular patterns, and when you're looking at stuff
from a macro sense, from a whole history perspective, you
can essentially start graphing things that buy and large kind
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of fit this pattern. A lot of times, that's what
history and economics are doing. They just look at the patterns.
It doesn't mean that it's always going to go this way,
but it means that you can. It's a safe bet.
And here's what I know about empires. They come and go,
they got about. I know I've said this before, and
please please please go pull my receipts. Empires run about
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two hundred, two hundred and fifty years. They crash, Empires fall.
And if you think America ain't an empire, you trip it.
And if you think we can't fall, you don't believe
that the propaganda pun intended. If you think you if
you think America ain't gonna collapse. You believe a cap
because that is all cap. They all fall, every empire
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falls it aloud. I'm telling you maybe I should change
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the name. First I was calling this episode ain't nothing
changed but the weather. But I think the idea of
it all falls down, it might be better. Yeah, it continues
like they all do it, and if you are willing
to like really look at it and understand sort of indicators.
And that's what a lot of like economists doing. They
looking for indicators. They're not saying this is what always
gonna be in a lie. Again, they all don't agree.
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We said that in the first how much a dollar
costs episode? Everybody don't agree. But these indicators are just that.
They're like indicators symptoms. You know, person's a heart rate
is way too high when they're resting. That's an indicator
that this person might not be in shape or some
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something not right. You know what I'm saying. Person's left
hand be tingling, that's an indicator or something. You know
what I'm saying. Somebody, you know they digestion be weird.
That's an indicator or something. You know, I can't predict that.
That means you're gonna die in six months, you know
what I'm saying. But there are things that would make
us say that, Like, yo, unless you make some changes,
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it's been a crash quicker. Now, whoever up always comes down,
and the question ain't will you come down? The question
is how fast and how long you're gonna stay up.
All you can do is postpone it. So today I'm
gonna give y'all some some macroeconomics. Ray Dalio, I don't
even know if I'm saying his name right, but he has.
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He's an economist, a brilliant, brilliant dude. He has a
book out called Principles of Dealing with the Changing World
Order adupe. Like. There's actually like even a short like
maybe like a forty five minute like animated YouTube video
breakdown of what he's talking about in the book. But
I wanted to bring it to y'all, you know, in
my voice, cause he gave actual numbers to the stuff
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I was trying to tell y'all. You know what I'm saying.
When I'm like, yo, it like read the tea leaves,
cause like every historian is I said before, it's flaring
their arms around, going guys, yo, this is These are
the things. These are the indicators. We're here. We fit
a crash and burn. Now, Like I said before, there's life.
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There's such thing as There is such thing as the Dutch,
there is such thing as Britain. In the UK, they
used to be up. They're not up no more. There's
such thing as Russia. They used to be up, They're
not up no more. They fighting to get back up
right now. But life goes on after an empire crashes.
There are such things as the Greeks, Joe said, But
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you need to pay attention to what's happening now. Why
when you're experiencing these, living through these, like empires rising
and falling, you feel like you special, just like when
you're in a hood. Remember I said, like, oh, we're
gonna do things different. It feels like the things that
are happening are so new and exciting or so terrifying
and shocking. Is because it just ain't happening in your lifetime.
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I don't know, do you how many of y'all was
alive during the Great Depression? You know what I'm saying.
I don't know how many who listen to this remembers
World War One? You know what I'm saying, if we
don't none of us was here for the Revolutionary War,
none of us was here for the Civil War. That
stuff seemed it's so ancient, and you just think, nah,
it's different. It is, but it be rhyming. So today
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I want to talk about a few indicators that this
book kind of lays out to help you get your
brain around what I mean by this. So this is again,
this is some this is some game. It's some economic stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I still want you to understand why everybody bugging out
about stock markets, inflation, all this stuff that to me
for most of my life just flew over my head.
All right, take a break, bring the track in. Okay, dope,
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now we're back. Check it. So, of course, to the
content that I'm giving y'all from, like I said, Ray Dalio,
changing in the world order. First of all, let me
lay out what I mean by the world order. Who
we mean is like empires who on top. Now I'm
saying this from a black perspective, which means that like
most of the time, anybody can anybody counting on Africa
right now, because that's how y'all, do you know what
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I'm saying? White supremacy abounds. We're not talking Ghana, Mali's Songhai,
were not talking Egyptian, Ethiopian, Dogans, We're not talking any
of those empires for this particular talk. But I would
bet that they run. If people are people, they probably
run on a similar story arc. But that's not what
we talk about right now. We're gonna go back and
talk to like the last like five hundred years. The
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way we can understand that has to do with the
concept of capitalism as we know it, where commodities, the dollar,
whatever dollar, whatever version of your nation or your empire's dollar,
is the way y'all was getting money, how y'all mean
maintain money, and how y'all maintained power, and then how
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that power started waning and falling, and then how the
next nigga got up. So world order basically means which
empire is up. We've been calling ourselves in America superpower.
Now that's really just because we just own now. And
that's the point we're trying to make here. And as
you know, we wasn't always owned it. We ain't gonna
always be on which is what we're talking about. You know.
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How we know because at one point the Dutch was on.
Who knocked the Dutch off? The British? Who knocked the
British off? Us? Who gonna knock us off? Some people
think China. I don't know. Let's get to it though.
Now what constitutes being up? A lot of it has
to do with Again, we use an economic theory. You
know what I'm saying. It has to do with your currency?
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Is this the currency everybody mess with? Is your currency
dominant over everybody else's currency? Is your weight weightier than
everybody else's weight? And do you got the muscle? Do
you got the goons to make sure that that's what happening.
Don't nobody run through this city unless they run through us.
You gotta tap in with us. No matter what you're
doing across the world, you gotta tap in with us.
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No matter what you're doing across the hood, you gotta
tap in with us. You ain't co signed with us,
if we ain't stamped you, it don't matter. Now it's current,
this current order we end. Like I said, who up?
America became top of the food chain. Everybody you gotta
tap into after World War Two for a number of reasons.
One because Britain was broke who were up at that time.
Y'all remember that little island colonized everywhere they was up,
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they pound, the pound ruled everything. Eventually it took us
that long. But at the end of World War Two,
after they was broke, we showed that we got our squabbles,
you know what I'm saying. And then at Britain Wood's
Agreement nineteen forty four, they agreed that like listen, man,
currency got to Look, if you gonna use currency, let's
just use ours. Ours got the tallest. So then we
got to control the central bank of the world, which
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we still control now. It's called the reserve currency. It's
the currency that's pretty much accepted everywhere wherever you go,
you know what I'm saying, gonna take your dollar mostly.
But it wasn't always like that. So according to this book,
there's this thing that that Ray is calling, call him
Ray like he calling the Big cycle. And the Big
Cycle is again a rough estimate as to this two
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hundred to two hundred and fifty year life cycle of
an empire. You can lay this on the Dutch, the British,
and ourselves and probably who coming next. Now that story
I told you in the beginning of it. In the
beginning of this podcast about that hood getting up, it's
that it's the same cycle. What starts off is, you know,
you got these you got this this rough upstart of
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a country, a civilization, you know, a real charismatic leader,
ila George Washington, you know what I'm saying, in the
founding fathers who realized that like listen, man, we're not
taking all this shit from from the British no more.
We tied all this. We want our own. And then
you start scrapping, and then you establish your own place,
like look this who we are. So that's the establishment.
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The next step is a part of what we would
call the peace and prosperity era. And then the next
is like you know, then you start producing a lot
of stuff. And and when you start producing, you start
borrowing too much money. You start borrowing too much money,
you start creating a big old wealth gap. Right. Once
you create a big old wealth grap, you got you
realize it like, yo, I'm spending more money than I have,
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So that means I gotta start printing money. And once
you start printing money, you know what I'm saying, Now,
the cost of stuff go up and the wealth gap
starts growing, and when there's a wealth gap, then the
natives get restless, my nigga, And at some point you're
gonna have to pay them debts back, and when them
debtors come for their money, then you have what's called
an economic downturn. And the way to fix and pay
them debts is you got to pretend like you got
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the money. Oh I got it. I'm just gonna keep sweeping,
keep swiping my car. I'll pay this food to pay
that food. I'll borrow from there to borrow from there.
You know what I'm saying. But the only way to
protect your money in the hard time, you got to
start building up. You got you need some goons. You
need some goons to build up and protect everybody because
while you up, you know, when you're on top of
the hill, everybody coming for you. So you got to
make sure you got this big problem. You're spending most
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of your money on your defense and on your luxuries.
And then they become this political infighting, and usually what
happens is somebody leads towards a populace or a totalitarian
ruler that can like, look, I'll calm everybody down. I
get this stuff together. But everybody outside, who you've been
stepping on for this whole time, is watching, y'all, And
while we going through all these in house debates, we
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can't get our shit together. The enemy watching, and they
getting strong, and they about to start the same cycle
that we own. You got it. Now, let's put the
pieces on the puzzle. How do you measure how up
a nation is? How you measure how upper empire is? Well?
According to this this here go your markers for it.
Your education a y'all schooling the youngins? Are you innovating?
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Are y'all building dope shit? And that type stuff creates
good myths, good buy ins, good feelings of belonging. Are
y'all competitive in the market? Can anybody mess with your stuff?
You got the best product or not? Are y'all out
putting it like y'all putting it in the streets? It's
getting everywhere you feel me your role in world trade?
The strength of your currency as far as like world trade?
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Is your dollar worth more than everybody else's dollar? And
how well y'all shoot? How strong your military? Now? If
you could average out these numbers, you could tell who
really up and who not? According to this thing, again
and yo. And since these are measurable numbers like you
can you could look this stuff up. Then you could
tell if an empire rise and or falling, you could
tell where they are in this thing. You can tell
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how long you gonna be up. Of course, it's not
like it's a it's not a DeLorean, my nigga. Like
you can't really tell the future, but you can measure
these things like yo. I mean, are y'all strong? Is
your work really that dope? Is people really buying your product?
Are y'all really educating your are y'all really innovating? I
mean you were? Are you still? And hopefully you can
see how that stuff is interconnected. Better education, you schooling
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the kids means you probably gonna innovate a lot of stuff.
And if you innovate in a lot of stuff, that
means you creating the best product. If you creating the
best product, you're gonna make the most money. That I mean, dug.
So let's go back to the beginning. An establishing of
a new empire, a new up, a new world order
usually starts with some sort of big cataclysmic war conflict.
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If we're gonna use America, then let's do that. America
started actually as a war, duh. You know what I'm saying,
That's where we started our in client, we started at
a war, and Nigga, we won, and we wasn't post
to win because y'all you got I don't think y'all
understand how big Ball and Big Boss Great Britain was.
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I mean, like that little teeny Island almost conquered the planet.
And it's because if you know your history, nigga, the
Navy didn't play like they listen, they had wealth coming
in everywhere you talking about. You talk about Mongolian silk
with Indian spices and sugar from sugar from Haiti. You
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know what I'm saying. In at that they got from Persia, Nigga,
like everywhere. We wasn't supposed to win. I'm saying we
because I'm American, Because no, Nigga, that wasn't me. You
know what I'm saying. I would that wasn't my fight,
cuz you know what I'm saying because I'm black. But
you understand I'm trying to say America wasn't supposed to win,
that you ain't supposed to take them out. Go again,
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going back to our first example, you love. Niggas ain't
supposed to win this, but you did. Now, since you
won and everybody saw it, people are like, like we
said in the beginning, oh man, maybe maybe there's a
new boss. Maybe everything cool, and don't nobody want to
mess with you. Remember I told you before again, it's
just like when you jumping somebody, you got a molly
whopp them when you get when you getting beat, you
got to mollywop these foods so they know, don't come
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back again. But this was a theory we talked about
a long time ago. With dropping these atom bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was like, this is the wrong
thing to do if you have any sort of moral compass.
But if you just talking war, what you're trying to
say is like, listen, we crazy. Don't listen. Try Jesus
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not me. I throw hands. I'm crazy. Do not come
over here. It's terrifying you, Like, damn, the niggas is crazy.
I ain't gonna mess with them no more. So that's
what happens as a nation. It's like, okay, cool, So
there's a relative moment of peace and prosperity. What was
happening in America all nigga, we was building cities. I mean,
we was getting free labor from slaves. And you got
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to understand how much money. Listen, I don't think y'all. Look,
I'm gonna set aside the actual human atrocities that slavery
was for a second. I'm just gonna talk money with you.
Innovation was happening up north right with industrial growth, you
know what I'm saying. Technology, All that shit was happening
up north. Down south, they were called a grarian where
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it was like, this is agriculture, Like they growing cotton,
tobacco sometimes, but mostly cotton. Let me tell you something.
Do you understand that what cottons was worth, the gross
national how much money they was making on cotton was
more than every other commodity in the States combined. There's
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so much money coming from cotton now, which meant that
if you was Joe Blow slave owner, you was like, well,
I know this sucks, but god damn, it's a lot
of money. And I mean, what we gonna do cuz
I mean, I mean, damn, Like I'm just one person.
I know it's I know it's awful, I mean, but like,
I mean, shoot, this is just the way that the
world slavery existed forever. And besides, then you start turning
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your brain into a pretzel because of how much money
is being made. You're like, you know what, well, maybe
they built for that because they show don't die, I mean,
you know, and if we ever let them free, look,
they try to kill if stay savages, so maybe we
should just gone on keep them. That's because the money
too much. And if you already think these people ain't humans, look,
you ain't got to listen, that's one hundred percent profit.
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You ain't paying your wages give or take the cost
of the slave themselves. But eventually, which never happened before,
once the slaves have kids, the kids are slaves. It
wasn't like that nowhere else. So you multiplying and you
ain't got to buy a new one. Not to mention,
you know, we talked. I make the comment about the
gold rush. Who really made most of the money where
the shovel sales. Listen, you selling slaves, nigga, You balling
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out too. It's too much money. So this prosperity happening.
And again again we talk in nation building here, nigga,
is so much money coming in. We bought and it's
so comfy. Don't nobody want to mess with us? We don't.
It was the seven year War. We done fought off
the Natives. We done fought off we didn't fought off
the British. Like niggas start getting comfort. And of course
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this is not like a straight line, because there was
other hats of countries like nah, I don't think that's
the way to go, you know what I'm saying. But
as things, you know, you still an upstart, you still
figuring out, but you like you balling out, like Nigga's
gonna start taking you serious by the time we get
to World War one, world War two, when we building
shit out the brain. You know what I'm saying. The
big five that built the country, you know, the carnegiese
you know what I'm saying, the gerald Fords. You know
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what I'm saying, This industrial Revolution. We killing the game.
It's too much money and so food's getting comfy. Once
you start getting comfy, you gotta protect that comfortable. But
also it's all you know at this point, it's kids
that don't want you. A few generations after the Revolutionary War,
there's people that don't know war. They wasn't there for
that they was born into relative prosperity. There was this
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phrase that you learned. I learned from Dan Carlin. He
was like the stone boots and silk slippers. You got
the toughest nails. People that fought for something, just WHI
I was talk about, the earlier earlier fought for something
to get us up. And then you have kids, and
all them kids know is success. They don't know struggle.
They ain't got to go through what you go through.
All they know is prosperity. So they think you crazy
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for always being nervous because it ain't happening in their lifetime.
And if it do go down, they think the world
on fire, which is like current America right now. They
got time to contemplate the start, They got time to
envision better ways to do things. They got time to
think about things like morality, you know, and if we
should keep enslaving these people they got time to do.
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Basically the nineties, if you was white and wealthy, just
buy shit. That's all they did in the nineties. Again,
this is for the sake of this argument. Think about it, y'all,
Like that Americana, like the invention of a strip mall,
a suburb track housing. That's because they like, we fine, nigga.
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Everything good. You know. You remember like the when you
see the white people on TV and the milkman would
come and they would just they were that's clean green energy.
You had glass bottles that you were cycled. America had
to be taught to throw shit away because we used
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to not throw stuff away.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
There's too much money, y'all. Niggas is comfy.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Now. If you know the money coming in, you're not
worried about it, you can start borrowing. You can go
and get the credit card. I know what I make
a year. I know we got We're good. It's fine.
The crops always grow. We're gonna make the money. It's like,
so you can start buying more and buying more on
credit because you know what you're gonna do. You know, look,
we flushed, flushed, but the last with cash, it's all good.
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What you're so worried about. It'll be fine. Swipe that card.
Were cool as an individual and as a nation. Yo,
we're good. Then you start diversifying, right, so rather than
just buying a car, buy how you know what I'm saying.
You buy some stocks. You feel me, you get it.
You know what I'm saying, Get some gold bars, put
them away. You ain't just gotta be flushed with cash, nigga,
Like put your stuff in some other stuff. You feel me,
You know what I'm saying, Like ball out, you know
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what I mean. Like, put your money in a lot
of different places. And all I gotta do is put
on credit because it's cool. I'm gonna pay it back.
Money coming in, right, scam money don't make money. So
you're putting your money in these places. And what's happening
is the wealth gap is growing because the people that's
producing that money, the people that's doing the actual work,
they not getting none of the none of rewards of
what's coming from this wealth. While they steady being told, well,
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it's the American dream. You could just work hard and
you too can have this wealth. Well, is the land
of the free, the land of opportunity, and every man
who's willing to work hard can succeed. Meanwhile, Jim Crow abounds.
So you creating this wealth gap right, Just like I
said earlier. You know, we out here, nigga, We out
here on the corners, We out here, y'all living in
these nice houses up out in the valley. You know
what I'm saying, Like, we out here on the corner,
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we don't want catching cases, and you're telling us we
better not snitch because our life is only good because
you giving us the little bit we got. You telling
me I'm better off because of you. You know what
I'm saying. Let me just you know, if I do
go do Julie, I do go five years. If I
keep my mouth shut food, that's like a vacation. You
know what I'm saying, Like, well, make your money on
your books. Everything cool. Meanwhile, you collecting dough this whole time,
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you getting richer and richer. It's creating a wealth gap.
You know these ogs man, they just you know what
I'm saying. They're not even out here in the field.
We out in the field. Ohg Like you just hate
me because you hate me. Little niggas is saying something different.
This shit ain't gonna keep. But I'm not gonna keep
standing for this. But look at eventually, all that money
you spend it, all that stuff you borrowing, uh you
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got you keep increasing that credit limit, that black card.
Eventually you're gonna have to pay that shit back. Because again,
money has to be something in real life unless it's
just paper. I remember I told on the last one,
on the last how much a dollar costs. Money's not
real no more, it's just whatever we say it is.
It wasn't always like that money was a thing. It
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was gold. You take that dollar and I'm just making
up this number, and this dollar means I can get
this much gold because it was real thing. And instead
of buying just the gold bar, I'm gonna buy a product.
And I know this product is worth these many goal bars.
And rather than me handing these, go bobbing hand you
just because gold is a finite thing. We know what
it is, and it sits in a reserve. But eventually
you borrowing more, you spending more than there is gold.
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Are we good? We good? You spend it more than
we got. So I said, you know what I'm saying.
You put these bricks on credit. You know what I'm saying.
You feel me? You promising shit you can't deliver. We
ain't got it. Look look, look look again, you out
with your homies, you swiping your card, knowing full well
you gonna overdraft that. But you good, the bank will
just charge you to thirty five dollars. You'll just pay
the thirty five dollars. You keep swiping that that thirty
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five become seventy. You say what I'm saying, and it
just keep adding up. You mess around. Check your bank account.
Your last seven transactions were now declined. You now overdraft
eleven hund It is like, what you're gonna do? You
ain't got it? What nations do keep swiping? How do
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they keep swiping? What we print the money? Remember it's ours.
You just print more. And what happens when you print
more than what you actually got is it starts to
become just paper again. That's called inflation. It's more money
in circulation. Then we can actually back you just writing checks,
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you just swiping your card. It ain't real money there.
And at some point the nation like, yo, we're finna
default on our loans cuz so this what we're gonna do.
We're gonna do this stimulus package. That's a nice way
to say, is we just gonna make up money. But
before they get to the makeup money, look, I'm gonna
blow your mind right now. You know what food's due.
They lower the interest rates. Oh man, hey, interests are
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on a low time low. Everybody go buy their houses
or that's because they like damn these niggas not paying
they debt. We do the loan dot it money' not
paying us. Okay, well maybe if we lower the interest
niggas will start paying because we're not getting they money.
You could lower the interest rates to zero, nigga, because
that happened if I ain't got the money, I ain't
got the money. You know what you do now? You
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just print the money. But the money don't mean nothing
because we just printed it. And that, my friend, is inflation.
It's because the dollar don't do shit for you because
they just printed it. So you know what the wealthy dude,
when you just make up money, they know, Oh the
price of everything's finna go up. And I got the bread,
but the price of real shit finna go up. We
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do an all gonna do. I'm gonna buy the stock, I'm
a body's bonds, I'm a buy this commodity. I'm finna
buy this goal. I'm gonna buy it right now because
I know that's real. This dollar ain't gonna be worth nothing.
So let me get the dollars out of my hands
because theyin't not worth nothing, And I'm gonna get the
actual shit into my hands because that's worth something. The
rich get richer, and eventually, once they start happening, guess what,
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the natives get restless, not a hood mad, not a
set mad, because what is we gonna do? You done
snatched up? Now? I can't afford nothing. Remember I talked
about the ice cream truck. My five dollars, don't get
me the same amount of ice cream and get me
before all right, we'll pay me more. They like, oh,
we ain't got it. We can't pay you more. What
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the fuck me? And you ain't got it? Now, think
of this as a nation. We're telling were telling China,
You telling Russia, You're telling all these not Russia. Well yeah, Russia.
Sometimes you tell China, telling russa yo, you're telling China, like, Yo,
let me buy let me get seven million of them
car chips, them car micro chips, Japan, let me get
seven hundred car micro chips, seven hundred million of them.
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They're like, all right, cool, Uh, that's gonna be nine
trillion dollars. You're like, yo, well send a link, send it,
send a square link. I'll just I'll swipe my card
and you're gonna swipe your card. That mug gonna say processing, processing, processing, processing.
At some point, Japan gonna be like, I want my money. Look.
That's when the cartel dude from Mexico fly in and
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he like, Yo, where my money. That's a nice house
you got. I see, I see you shining in that car.
I see look, I see. I say, that's a nice
car you got outside, Nigga, that's a nice house. That's
a nice beach house you got. So then what happens
is like, Yo, whatever wealth is here, it's not distributed, right,
the top ten percent got everything. So this is happening
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now internally. So then some sort of like conflict happens
internally where the nation is like, look, man, we like look,
y'all need to rethink this stuff out because we're producing
all the product and y'all making all the money. So
then you have a call for the redistribution of wealth.
I don't know if this shit is sounded familiar to you,
But then you have an other side that says, wait,
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wait wait no, no, no, no no no, no, everything's fine, we
got this. Y'all need to stop tripping. How about y'all
work harder? Hell? I did you work harder? And how's
that solved, either with a civil war or a culture war.
That's going on on Twitter like we got it right.
And what happens while that's happening. I know, education suffers.
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I know the policing goes up because look, military, that's
not protecting y'all safety, it's protecting our money. The police
ain't protecting your safety. They protecting that property. When you
got your sociopath in the hood, that's just shooting. They
protecting their interest. It's the block. Niggas ain't worried about you.
They worried about the block. They were youth securing the bag.
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So you got to make sure that they money good.
What do we call that the military industrial complex. They
need to be able to get their money. They need
to be cool because everybody coming after us. And while
we can't get our shit together on the inside, China
watching somebody over there watching, They watching you fight inside it,
They watching y'all not be as smart. They watching y'all
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spending y'all time with a dollar That don't mean shit
no more, because y'all done got comfortable. Y'all ain't got
the grit you got used to being up. Y'all kids
don't even go to college no more because it costs
too much, and y'all can't even get the shit figured
out because ain't no way, ain't no reason on God
Green Earth college should cost this much, And y'all don't
know how to work no more cause you expect the
government to pay y'all's debt. Y'all falling off again. This
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is China's perspective, or Whoever's next, And what happens is
some sort of some sort of charismatic totalitarians, some sort
of populist dude come up and he say, hey, listen, listen,
I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna calm everybody down. You
just let's just just give me all the power. I'll
fix this for y'all. I'm gonna give you some sort
of peace. This is how you get the rise of
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these like dictators. You get the rise of these autocrats
because they like, nah, it's cool, I'll fix your money.
You know what we need to do. We need to
muscle up. And you muscle up on your own people
to get them to chill. And then you muscle up
because you don't want nobody outside to think that there's
problems happening. But there is problems happening because y'all not
innovating no more, y'all. Donet got comfy, y'all spending y'all money.
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You spread your money too far. You fighting on so
many levels. Look how many, how many? How many American
outposts are there? Of the military cards. We can't keep
spending this much money. Why because we ain't got it, Nigga,
we ain't got it. The money made up, trying to
watch it. China get they act together, Russia trying to
get they act together because Russia used to be up.
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And then what happens either while we fighting on the inside,
somebody come knocking on our door and stretch us too thin.
Look that's what happened with Britain. Britain got stretched too thin.
Great Britain got stretched too thin. At the end of
World War Two, they couldn't pay their debts. You ain't
got no money. All we got it. We good. You
borrowed from us, but you gotta pass back though we up.
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So when you think about where we are in the nation,
you got to ask yourself, y'all, where are we? I
don't know, man, We ain't really educating our children the
way we used to, Not like we ever really worked,
know what I'm saying. I mean, look, anybody that got
any sense with money then left the place they not.
That's why it's like build USA, buy USA. Nigga, You
losing money, Nah, hommie, Why would I do that when
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I can get the work from China for half the
price and it's just as good. That don't make no
good money? Since China been reverse engineering all of your
innovation and they didne figured out how to do it cheaper.
And I'm gonna say this as callous as possible. Y'all
worried about civil rights and shit. Nigga, we tell you
the work you work, anybody was since gonna get what
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they can get for cheaper and just as good, if
not better. Keep American jobs, nigga, Why like you gotta
think of it like if it's just, if it's just,
if it's just raw down, you gotta think of it
like that. Why this one from over there is half
the price, it costs better, And y'all printing money. Your
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money ain't even up no more so where are we?
I mean, we haven't done the big sell off like
Britain had to do at the after like they printed
their money. They had that great depression, I mean, not
that great depression when they're their their pounds just started dripping,
dripping down to the bottom at the end of World
War Two when they tried to print more and then
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inflation got crazy and it was like, I can't pay
my debts. This ain't real money. And you got this,
like I said, somebody that when the when the cartel
boss come in and say you all right, give me
that house, all right, give me that bike, all right,
give me that necklace, that's the sell off. At some
point you got to you got to get rid of
all your stuff cause you got to pay these fools back. Okay,
that hasn't happened in America yet. We ain't got to
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full civil war yet, although the January sixth Joint got
real close. Ain't nobody actually yet has yet to pop
off on us. But the wealth gap, oh that's there.
The inflation, Oh that's there. The stimulus, oh that's there.
I just said, I just read that Biden given eight
million dollars billion dollars, eight million dollars to uh the Ukraine,
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nigga where you get that money from? Because it's not
real y'all. Now, can our nations leaders get together and
actually do the hard things. I don't think, so that's
the part I'm worried about. Like I said, every nation
grand opening, grand CosIng, But don't mean we disappear off
the face of the earth. It just means we just
become just like every other nation, which we always work.
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Everybody had they moment in the sun. We'll be fine.
But I think to shave off the pain of all this,
there's two principles that Dali Oh presents, which I have
said so many times, which makes me feel vindicated. It's
pretty simple. Make more than you spend and treat people fairly.
Don't spend money you ain't got. If I wrote a
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financial book, it would be that one page. Don't spend
money you don't have that ain't even gotta worry about.
None of the speculations. Shit, don't spend money you ain't got.
I know, cost of living is ridiculous. That was like
the one I said before. I know this is super easy.
I'm just saying, as a nation and as a whole,
don't spend money you ain't got. And to just treat
people fairly. What wealth gap is unfair? Paying people below
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they wages before living living wages is unfair. Just treat
people fairly, pay what they work and don't spend money
you ain't got. I know it's not that simple, and
I know this arc we just explained ain't exactly it,
and I know there's a lot to disagree with. I'll
tell you what, though, it all falls down, y'all. Question
is how hard you're gonna fall? And who did you
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smash on the way up? Because them niggas is watching
little politics, y'all. Yeah, this here thing was recorded by
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ME Propaganda in East Los Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.
This mug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by Matt Osowski.
I can totally say the name, guys, it was. It
was a stick. He's going by Matt now again because
he got into some legal situations with the name Headlights. Y'all.
No comment used to be called common sims. Y'all know
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tip t I was tipped Sometimes it happens. Executive produced
by the one and only Sophie Lichtorman for Cool Zone
Media and the theme music by the one and only
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remember listen every time you check in. If you understand
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