December 3, 2025 • 32 mins
Since our President has chosen to speak so ill about many of our US cities, specifically calling them hellscapes, I figured I would find people I know that are from there and live there and ask them "Is this in fact a hellscape?" Today we talk to Bridget Todd about her beloved hellscape: Washington, DC.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media, but I g gendin two. Hey y'all, I
got some random raps that popped in my head. Anyway, politics,
as we you know, come into the let's circle back
after the New Year's era, kind of wanted to round
(00:22):
out the year with another one of the city Scapes
Healthscapes episodes. There's gonna be a two parter one because
it went long. We just gushed, and then second because
that uh stretches out till the end of the year.
Homegirl Bridget Tod and I we gush about the city
(00:43):
that my mama and her mama and her mama after
that is from Washington, DC, Chocolate City, Southeast South Southeast. Listen,
DC will always hold a special place in my heart,
like I said, because like you'll hear a meet gush
about it with Bridget very soon. Because it's kind of
(01:05):
like a hometown I never lived in. You know, my
grandma must stay so many roots, there are so many
memories there. Anyway, but it's a hell hole apparently according
to my current president. All right, this is part one.
(01:36):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, hood politics. We are here
holding down the let's say seventy five fifty to seventy
five percent of the diversity at Cool Zone, right maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, I'll take those numbers, yeaheah.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, it's it's somewhere around there. Like you know, obviously
in including the trans community into the diversity hires, you know,
I would leave it at about roughly fifty to seventy five.
This is me and Bridget toide. Everybody say, what's up
to the Homi Bridget.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yes, yes, yes, so glad to be here. This is
the continuation of the Hellscapes series coming into the holidays,
and I think both of us have been like, I
don't know how much heavy lifting research we're trying to
do now, So I'm just trying to like, what can
we do that really don't take a lot of work?
(02:42):
You feel me? And which But I say that to
also say, like, you know, in this series, we were
speaking from the heart, you know, about places that we
love that apparently our president would like to cast as healthscapes.
So we're going to talk about today the hellscape that
(03:05):
is the District Washington, d C, Prince George County and
all the surrounding areas.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm glad that you said it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That way because people sometimes talk about the district, but
it's really the whole DMV, the district, Maryland, Northern Virginia,
depending on where you're at.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Absolutely Now I've said this many times on our show,
but bringing this to this to this moment, like it's
it's weird to be for me from a city you're
not from, right, So I say that because so my
mama is from the district. By the time I was around,
(03:49):
even look, she was like, you see that area, like
when you fly in Torontald Reagan, She's like, you see
that area right there. She was like, that was our beach,
like it was because it was the black neighbor hood
and we all got kicked out because they were building
an airport there. So she was like, there's no parts
of DC that we haven't driven around that. She was like, oh,
(04:10):
I used to walk that was where my brother's barbershop was.
That was you know what I'm saying. And by the
time I was around, they were in Northwest. My mother
is one of nine, my grandmother is one of twenty,
Like this is all on my mom's side. So I
spent every other summer in DC. So for me, like
(04:35):
there was a song on one of my records called
Southeast DC because we were driving down was it Carolina
East Capital something like that. One of the streets that
goes into Upper Marlboro, like across from six Flags, so
the street that goes right into there. We drove by
this community garden and it was called the East Capitol
Community Garden, and she goes, those were our projects. I
(04:59):
was like what she Yeah, I used to live in
the East Capital East Capital Projects. It was on this
corner and just the building wasn't there. I've never seen it.
I didn't know, you know what I'm saying, But like
this feeling of like did I just lose some of
my history? Like I've never seen it, But I felt
this love and this loss in this for a city,
(05:24):
like I said, for a city that I am not from,
you know what I mean. But DC and the DMV
has always meant a lot to me. So I feel
like I could gush, but I don't live there. You
know what I'm saying. I could gush forever. So now
your turn.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, I mean what you just said.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, did I just lose something that I didn't
even really know I had. That is the experience of
being a DC resident. Right, I've looked here for most
of my adult life.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I also had, you know, taught like like generations of
ties to the area.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think there is something.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Specific that happens in a city that is known for
being kind of a transient city, where not just the
people but the land beneath your feet can change so
quickly and so deeply. And you know, I look back
at old pictures, even pictures that I took ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, and I think, where was this?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
What is this now?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I think it's one of the things that makes
DC special but also sort of heartbreaking, is that you
don't really know that you're experiencing things that are going
to become memories and memories in this like very weird
way of did I ever even really have that?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Because it's a city that changes so quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, man. I remember, you know, once,
at least the generation of cousins that I was in,
I'm like at the tail end of all my cousins.
But like once we can now start driving, you know
what I mean. So you know, he finally took me
to a go Go. Now I actually understand go they
(07:03):
used to bring tapes back and I was like, what
is this? Like this horribly recorded like cover songs. I
don't understand it. But anyway, we were driving and I
just remember being like, I don't understand how you learn
how to drive here these corners there's no corners, it's
(07:23):
like it's five lights, they're just they're straight. I was like,
how do you know how do I stay on the street?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm on like now even just driving straight as a challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I was like, how are you doing this? Like that
was like this makes no sense. My auntie, my aunt
aunt Stephanie, I never forget it. I'm Stephanie from the
backseat goes, well, you know this was designed by a
black man. It was designed by Benjamin Banneker, and it
was because these were horse routes. And I was like, wait,
it just my soul kind of like sunk in me
(07:55):
because I was like, y'all all know this and they
were like yeah, we like we all know this. And
I'm like, are you serious that the capital is designed
by like you know, just that? And then now the
streets are starting to like straighten out and ye a little.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Bit, but they're still caddy wampus as fucked to drive through.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Fun.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Fact, my local community pool or the rec center or
the pool is that I go to every summer is
the Bannocker Community Center. Serious, Okay, yeah, I mean you
really put it well, DC. To live in d C
and to love d C is to also hate it
a little bit because driving here is such a pain.
(08:42):
I actually don't drive a ton, And it's one of
the perks of living in a city like DC is
it's very.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Walkable, vicable.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But the rare times that I if I'm particularly if
I'm driving I've done that East Capital drive, particularly if
I'm driving out of the city into nearby Maryland or Virginia,
just get ready for screams and swearing.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, buddy, that that you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, something that brings the city together, is it really does? Man?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, Like it's not walkable until you get into the city,
you know. Like I remember, we used to live my
grandmother's sister, my you know, great aunt. She was the
one I spent most of the time with, mainly because
apparently that my mom was that aunt's favorite, so so
(10:00):
she took care of me and my sister mostly, you know.
But anyway, she lived off South Dakota Ave and Bladensburg Road.
So she lived over there in the Fort Lincoln area,
and I remember we were like just my just Southeast
Bama cousin, you know, was like going to Checkers. I
(10:23):
was like, what Checkers? I was like, what are you saying?
I didn't understand him. He was like, do you let's
go get some checkers?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So I didn't know that was a burger joint, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think that Checkers is still there, still there.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So we walked, but I was like, this is the
most dangerous, Like there's no this is such a dangerous
walk because you're not in the city yet. Now now
it was so scary, but it was so fun man.
And there was a community pool up on the hill
that mister Woods who used to like who apparently was
the who ran the rect Center when my mother was
(10:59):
a child, you know what I'm saying. So like yeah, anyway,
but like I that that trying to navigate was just
it's still a core memory of mine. Like I don't
know how we got. I don't know how y'all know
where you are?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, poor prop like running across like essentially a highway.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, it's a highway.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, that's so I love that you know that it's
a highway.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So the kind of thing that your older cousins that
you kind of want to impress, ye kind of talk
you into.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Doing exactly, that's exactly what happened. That is exactly we
were left, you know, because it's the summertime and everybody's working,
like you know, all of our our aunts and uncles,
our parents, they're working, you know, and Granny not going nowhere,
you know what I'm saying, So like you're just you
either you're in the basement and the basement is sweaty
(11:55):
because it's hot. You know, My uncle Allan lived in
the basement, so he was like, like, y'all can't play,
And Uncle Allan, what in the safest due to be
around anyway, you know what I'm saying. So it was
just like y'all need to go do something. So my
little checkers just walked across the highway anyway, So tell me,
(12:16):
I'm putting you on the spot here. But I'm like, okay,
So the three things I need is the fondest memory
that is like this only happens here.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a lot of those the most frustrating thing to
where you're like, this only happens here, and then where
we getting them crabs at? Like, where are you going
to get that bushel?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Okay, it makes me kind of sad to say this.
The thing that is, I have the answer that I
have kind of in the chamber. As much as I
love DC is the frustration part. I could tell you
exactly what that is, which is the way that I
think DC is often ignored in the larger kind of
(13:01):
conversation nationally. I think that people are so used to
think and they're not wrong, but they're very used to
think about DC as you know.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
This seat of federal power, where the.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
President lives, where lawmakers are, where federal stuff happens. And
again that's totally correct, but people completely forget the fact
that there are over half a million people who live
here in the district, who many of whom have no
connection to.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The federal government.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There's people who live here and are living their lives here,
and I hate that when we talk about DC, that
conversation gets missed. I've had people say like, oh, well,
nobody really lives in the district, and I'm saying, oh,
that's not true I do, or do they say, well,
people weren't meant to live there, they shouldn't be living there.
(13:47):
I one time was with a friend, I think we
were someplace in the Midwest and we were trying to
get into a nightclub or a bar and we had
to show our ID And when we showed our district IDs,
the bouncer was like, what is the Like, what is
this idea?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Where's this idea from? And called the district of Columbia.
It was like, what is that? We were like, it's
not a state, yeah, but a place I like, but
it is.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You get a little tongue tied because it's not a state,
so you know, it's a little it is a little
bit complicated to describe. But I really had to sit
in my feelings a little bit in that frustration when
over the summer Trump was, you know, deploying federal agents
and the National Guard. I have been talking about and
screaming about d C and the need for statehood and
(14:31):
autonomy and respect for DC's residents for for the longest time, right, Yeah,
but when that happened, I really kind of felt the deep,
long simmering frustrations of the way that I think that
something about DC. It just is easy to overlook that
there are people here that these things impact. And so
(14:53):
you know, when that initiative started in DC and then
quickly expanded to other cities. I I'm happy that people
talked about the ways that was showing up places like Chicago,
as they should, but I.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Guess I feel and Portland.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But there's something about d C that I think makes
it easy for people who don't live nearby to just
overlook it. And I would come on cool Zone shows
and say, you know, the reason why Trump was able
to start this in the district and why he started here,
it's not a coincidence. It's because DC is not a state,
and that makes DC vulnerable in all these different ways.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And I just wish that that.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Were a conversation that more people understood.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I mean, it is like a complicated, wonky thing of
why DC is not a staate and what that means.
But it's it makes me so frustrated. And what's interesting
is that when I see certain DC celebrities like the
rapper Walley Well yeah, so often like people clown him,
but everything that he says, I'm like, I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He's right, like like you know, and so I see
it mirrored and.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Our celebrities who are from d C where they seem
like they have a chip it on their shoulder, but
they do and they're right, they're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I was absolutely I was Wilee was. I was just
about to bring him up as the example of like, no,
there's a culture here, yeah, and there's a senior and honestly,
as somebody who lives on the opposite coast, I like
to your point and my shame, I wouldn't have known
(16:26):
if my mother wasn't from it, you know what I'm saying,
Like I would have I would have I would would
think the same thing because even growing up, it's still
kind of didn't make sense to me of like you're okay,
so you're but my mom's from this state that's not
a state and you blink and you're in Maryland. Like
so like I didn't get that either, because we would
(16:49):
go from you know, I have an ant in Capital
in uh yeah, in Capital Heights. But it's I mean
it's seven minutes from my grandma's house and I'm like, wait,
we left DC, you know what I'm saying, Like, just yeah,
it was so fast and like I so I could.
(17:10):
I honestly couldn't get my brain right there, Like, Okay,
but we're gonna go down and visit your on Bernice
And I'm like, she's only fifteen minutes away. She's like, no,
but that's Virginia. And I'm like, when did we get
to on the other side of the airport's Virginia? Like
it's just I could not, and especially a state as
large as California like that. I didn't. I didn't. But
(17:30):
all that to say, from a political standpoint, I only
understand because my mom's from there. From a cultural standpoint,
I also only understand because my mom's from there, you
know what I'm saying. I for me just being just
a crate digger. I think about there was this group
that it was called question Mark Asylum. They had one album,
(17:53):
you know, but just me being a backpacker rapper. I
remember when that tape got to this store called Fat Beats,
and I remember they mentioned DC and I lost it
because they he had a song. There was a song
on there that samples Chuck Berry on it, you know
what I mean. So I again, I only know Chuck
(18:15):
Berry and Backyard Boys and all that, Like I only
know that because my cousins would bring the tapes back here.
But but for me, it was like none of that
made sense, none of it until you until I saw it,
until we were older. I was sixty. I never forget.
(18:35):
I was sixteen years old. Another cousin by the time,
you know, I'm rapper, battle rapper whatever, right, So they
it was like, okay, you old enough to get in now,
Like we're gonna get you in. So we went down
to U Street, you know what I'm saying, and he
took me into a little spot and he was like,
there's an open mic, and I'm like, okay, there's eighteen
drummers like I've never seen there are eighteen dudes on
(18:59):
drums right now in those drums or buckets, and I
don't know how you're rapping over this. Like so it
was like an open mic, but it was like a uh,
but it.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Was like a either way.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was like, I get it now, like you know
what I'm saying, Like I I did, And and for
me it was like once you see it, you can't
unsee it. Another one of my favorite favorite rappers is Odyssey.
Odyssey is from the district, you know, like so I
just it was a thing that bringing it back home,
(19:34):
I still couldn't explain, you know, like I still couldn't
I I until a Marie and uh, this one thing
has got me. Yeah until that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And crazy in love. You know what I'm saying, Beyonce
is crazy love. Where I was like, that's go go,
Like I was trying to like, no, that's that's that's it,
Like that's you know, when you could connect the dots
to be like there's a culture there. And I again
growing up where I grew up, my mom grew my
mom grew up. That was Wakanda. That was a black world.
(20:14):
I didn't grow up in that same thing I happened
in Memphis. I was like, I didn't grow up in
a black world. I grew up in a black and
Latino world, but the black you know out there. I
didn't grow up in Chocolate City, you know. And I
think that like I became an adult when I finally
appreciated like, there's a culture here, you know, that.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is such a beautiful and special thing. It's funny that
you say this. I for a time lived in Northern California,
and you know, I went to Northern California very briefly,
and at the time DC was like my home, right, yeah,
And when I got there, I was so deeply homesick
for DC. And I remember telling my co workers about
(21:31):
go go music and I was trying to describe a
bet and I said, oh, it's percussion heavy. Ye you've
heard you know Chuck Brown busted blues like and favre like?
Is it reagae like the way that I was like,
I can't really explain it, but you have to hear it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh, Chuck Brown, I called him, Chuck buried his old
tell Yeah, Chuck Brown fault.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, it's I mean, he's we have a street samed
after him.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But the thing I love so much about the music
you mentioned the covers, there is a my probably my
favorite go go song is the iconic group The Rare
Essence their cover of Ashley Simpson's Pieces of Me. If
you've not heard that, go the Go Go, like the
go Go version of that, I know you're thinking Ashley Simpson, no,
(22:20):
no what, But the go Go version of that is
like a DC anthem. And I truly believe if Ashley
Simpson came to d C, she would get like a
Hero's Welcome because.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's such a big song here. But that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, I think that DC has its own special sound,
and you know, not every city has their own form
of musical expression. That it's also you know, it's not
just a type of music, it's also an activity going
to the go go like that is part of our city.
And I am grateful that it's something that you have
(22:54):
connected with because I think that outside of the mid
Atlantic region, it's not like people don't know it, and
there are a handful of songs that sort of like
use the sound and get popular, but it's ours. It's
like a special little thing that it's it's just it's
I mean, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. And
the times that I have gone to in person go
(23:16):
go like like concerts, there is an energy that I
have never experienced anywhere else anywhere, and it's just it's
just very special. And even even the the political and
social implications of it, Like there was a time where
go go music in DC was was unfairly associated with
(23:38):
crime and so it was essentially illegal. You couldn't you
couldn't do that, right, and so you know, imagine the
sound of your city that was a distinctive music type
being literally outlawed, you can't you can't meet up and
experience as kind of music in your city. So it's
it's it's it's like hard fought and hard won, and
(23:58):
it's just so special and so beautiful. But this is
what I love about DC, Like it's just a unique,
special thing that is often overlooked. But weirdly, I almost
feel like it being overlooked kind of makes it more
special to me. Like people who are from here really
care about being from DC, right, Like we really rep
our city very hard, I think, because it is so
(24:19):
often overlooked.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yes, you nailed something that you're right that is singular
about d C, which is like we all know the
southern sound, like we know it because we know it's
from the south, but it's everywhere. You know, we all
know gfunk, West Coast, we all know, we all know
East Coast. For some reason, I only only in DC
(24:46):
something that has somehow and I don't know. Usually you
say that as negative, like all this sounds regional, like
it's never left, and I'm like, usually that's a negative thing.
But I'm like for DC for so some reason, it's
y'all's powered. Like that's the secret sauce that I'm like,
you have to you can I and I honestly think
(25:07):
this is honestly my in my heart of hearts of
anything else. Specifically, it's because you have to go to it,
you have to see it. It truly only works in context.
Like I and I can't think of as a hip
hop artists. Somebody's been around world like and does music.
(25:28):
I'm like, specifically, it's so great to be if you
get to go see like somebody you know in Houston,
you know, with tans folks poking out. Of course that
adds to the experience. You know what I'm saying. You
see somebody actually tipping on faux fos. You know what
I'm saying. You come out in the West Coast, you
hear that g funk, You hear that. You know what
I'm saying. You're you feel the air, you feel the temperature,
(25:51):
you can smell the weed. Like there is something very
specific about being in Cali that heightens the experience, but
you can still understand it from the outside. I feel
like DC, it just you. It does not translate like
you have to see it. You won't get it until
(26:12):
you experience it. You won't get it into your experience it.
And I am saying that from absolute a trillion percent
experience because I was confused. I was like, what are
y'all talking about? And they couldn't explain it, like you're
like no, you like they was trying to tell me,
like you don't like this, and I'm like, this is
(26:35):
recorded ter No.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yes, it's it's always recorded in a way like it
doesn't it doesn't translate, It doesn't translate, it doesn't translate.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, And and then like I'm saying that even as
a metaphor because like that Chesapeake Bay blue crab going,
you know, putting your putting five dollars together with the
homies to buy yourself a dozen or a bushel, like
it just you can only do it there, like it
just it don't work. In Cali, we used to, like listen,
we used to have my uncle Jeff used to freeze
(27:05):
dry a box and mail it to us so that
we can have it at home. And it just don't work.
You know what I'm saying. There's little I don't know
if they still sell half smokes. They look like, oh god, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
That's our if I had to say there was a
food item that is maybe the DC food item, it
will be the half smoke.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's a half smoke. They're not here. And I used
to try to explain that. I'm like, and my dad's
from Texas, like a hot link, and I'm like, no,
it's not a hot link, Like it's not a hot dog,
it's not it's it's a half smoke. I'm I just
tongue tied, like I could not. But now now we
would definitely get those shipped, you know, because you could
freeze those and send them.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So so I do love a hot link.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I do love a hot link. But yeah, these very
specific experiences, yeah, like you have to see it. The one.
The last one I think of is like, because there's
such an age gap between you know, all of like
my relatives, it's very rare. And you know, some dudes
(28:05):
were in jail, some just you know what I'm saying.
It was very rare that we could all be together.
But when we were, we Jeff on Dorothy on step
they ordered a bunch of crabs for all of their
nieces and nephews whatever, right, So we were all sitting
down my Helen's house and you know you grab your
grab your crab, flip it over. You know. My dot's
(28:26):
kind of teaching me how to like, you know, break
it open, get get you know, get the meat out right.
And I'm sitting there and I remember two of my
oldest cousins, uh, Aaron and Kurt. They sat on two
sides of me. They was like, we're gonna sit by Jason,
you know. So they sat right next to me. I'm
(28:49):
working on my crab and they not grabbing they own.
So then he go, you done with that one? I
was like, yeah, he goes okay, he just takes it
and gets way more meat out that day. He's like
you going with that? And I was like, yeah, he
just takes it and I'm just watching him. I was like, man,
you couldn't have shown me that, Like I wasn't doing
(29:11):
this right. He was like, nah, you know you're gonna
learn now. Look you see all this, you see all
you left all that in there.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
He's just eating it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And I'm like, dog, like you couldn't you know, say
it is just that's just no other place. That's not
happening any other place.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Oh man, you just brought me back.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
This is my My mom passed away pretty recently, and
a memory that I have of her is that, uh,
you know, she my poor mother. We would do crabs
and she would basically she was the best one of
getting every single piece of meat out of the crab.
So she, this poor woman, never just got to sit
and eat her own crabs. She was always expected to
(29:49):
hand me and my brother little piles of meat. Everybody
would be eating, having good time, and she's just working
being like here here, here, here, for getting none for herself.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh my gosh, I remember.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean that was something we grew up doing, putting
newspaper down on the table, and this happened, Pratt. I
remember being real little and accidentally making the worst error
you can make, rubbing my eye when I had on
my finger.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I will never make that mistake again.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'll tell you that much again. Oh Lord, all right.
(30:40):
I don't know where matt ended this, but hopefully at
like around a half hour mark. That is the end
of part one, and next week you will hear part two.
I think I have a Cyber Monday sale going on
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to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
Calls media, but I g gendin two. Hey y'all, I
got some random raps that popped in my head. Anyway, politics,
as we you know, come into the let's circle back
after the New Year's era, kind of wanted to round
(00:22):
out the year with another one of the city Scapes
Healthscapes episodes. There's gonna be a two parter one because
it went long. We just gushed, and then second because
that uh stretches out till the end of the year.
Homegirl Bridget Tod and I we gush about the city
(00:43):
that my mama and her mama and her mama after
that is from Washington, DC, Chocolate City, Southeast South Southeast. Listen,
DC will always hold a special place in my heart,
like I said, because like you'll hear a meet gush
about it with Bridget very soon. Because it's kind of
(01:05):
like a hometown I never lived in. You know, my
grandma must stay so many roots, there are so many
memories there. Anyway, but it's a hell hole apparently according
to my current president. All right, this is part one.
(01:36):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, hood politics. We are here
holding down the let's say seventy five fifty to seventy
five percent of the diversity at Cool Zone, right maybe.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, I'll take those numbers, yeaheah.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Yeah, it's it's somewhere around there. Like you know, obviously
in including the trans community into the diversity hires, you know,
I would leave it at about roughly fifty to seventy five.
This is me and Bridget toide. Everybody say, what's up
to the Homi Bridget.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yes, yes, yes, so glad to be here. This is
the continuation of the Hellscapes series coming into the holidays,
and I think both of us have been like, I
don't know how much heavy lifting research we're trying to
do now, So I'm just trying to like, what can
we do that really don't take a lot of work?
(02:42):
You feel me? And which But I say that to
also say, like, you know, in this series, we were
speaking from the heart, you know, about places that we
love that apparently our president would like to cast as healthscapes.
So we're going to talk about today the hellscape that
(03:05):
is the District Washington, d C, Prince George County and
all the surrounding areas.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm glad that you said it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That way because people sometimes talk about the district, but
it's really the whole DMV, the district, Maryland, Northern Virginia,
depending on where you're at.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Absolutely Now I've said this many times on our show,
but bringing this to this to this moment, like it's
it's weird to be for me from a city you're
not from, right, So I say that because so my
mama is from the district. By the time I was around,
(03:49):
even look, she was like, you see that area, like
when you fly in Torontald Reagan, She's like, you see
that area right there. She was like, that was our beach,
like it was because it was the black neighbor hood
and we all got kicked out because they were building
an airport there. So she was like, there's no parts
of DC that we haven't driven around that. She was like, oh,
(04:10):
I used to walk that was where my brother's barbershop was.
That was you know what I'm saying. And by the
time I was around, they were in Northwest. My mother
is one of nine, my grandmother is one of twenty,
Like this is all on my mom's side. So I
spent every other summer in DC. So for me, like
(04:35):
there was a song on one of my records called
Southeast DC because we were driving down was it Carolina
East Capital something like that. One of the streets that
goes into Upper Marlboro, like across from six Flags, so
the street that goes right into there. We drove by
this community garden and it was called the East Capitol
Community Garden, and she goes, those were our projects. I
(04:59):
was like what she Yeah, I used to live in
the East Capital East Capital Projects. It was on this
corner and just the building wasn't there. I've never seen it.
I didn't know, you know what I'm saying, But like
this feeling of like did I just lose some of
my history? Like I've never seen it, But I felt
this love and this loss in this for a city,
(05:24):
like I said, for a city that I am not from,
you know what I mean. But DC and the DMV
has always meant a lot to me. So I feel
like I could gush, but I don't live there. You
know what I'm saying. I could gush forever. So now
your turn.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, I mean what you just said.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You know, did I just lose something that I didn't
even really know I had. That is the experience of
being a DC resident. Right, I've looked here for most
of my adult life.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I also had, you know, taught like like generations of
ties to the area.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
And I think there is something.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Specific that happens in a city that is known for
being kind of a transient city, where not just the
people but the land beneath your feet can change so
quickly and so deeply. And you know, I look back
at old pictures, even pictures that I took ten years ago,
fifteen years ago, and I think, where was this?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
What is this now?
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You know?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I think it's one of the things that makes
DC special but also sort of heartbreaking, is that you
don't really know that you're experiencing things that are going
to become memories and memories in this like very weird
way of did I ever even really have that?
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Because it's a city that changes so quickly.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah that's good. Yeah, yeah, man. I remember, you know, once,
at least the generation of cousins that I was in,
I'm like at the tail end of all my cousins.
But like once we can now start driving, you know
what I mean. So you know, he finally took me
to a go Go. Now I actually understand go they
(07:03):
used to bring tapes back and I was like, what
is this? Like this horribly recorded like cover songs. I
don't understand it. But anyway, we were driving and I
just remember being like, I don't understand how you learn
how to drive here these corners there's no corners, it's
(07:23):
like it's five lights, they're just they're straight. I was like,
how do you know how do I stay on the street?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm on like now even just driving straight as a challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I was like, how are you doing this? Like that
was like this makes no sense. My auntie, my aunt
aunt Stephanie, I never forget it. I'm Stephanie from the
backseat goes, well, you know this was designed by a
black man. It was designed by Benjamin Banneker, and it
was because these were horse routes. And I was like, wait,
it just my soul kind of like sunk in me
(07:55):
because I was like, y'all all know this and they
were like yeah, we like we all know this. And
I'm like, are you serious that the capital is designed
by like you know, just that? And then now the
streets are starting to like straighten out and ye a little.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Bit, but they're still caddy wampus as fucked to drive through.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Fun.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Fact, my local community pool or the rec center or
the pool is that I go to every summer is
the Bannocker Community Center. Serious, Okay, yeah, I mean you
really put it well, DC. To live in d C
and to love d C is to also hate it
a little bit because driving here is such a pain.
(08:42):
I actually don't drive a ton, And it's one of
the perks of living in a city like DC is
it's very.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Walkable, vicable.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
But the rare times that I if I'm particularly if
I'm driving I've done that East Capital drive, particularly if
I'm driving out of the city into nearby Maryland or Virginia,
just get ready for screams and swearing.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah, buddy, that that you know.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, something that brings the city together, is it really does? Man?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, Like it's not walkable until you get into the city,
you know. Like I remember, we used to live my
grandmother's sister, my you know, great aunt. She was the
one I spent most of the time with, mainly because
apparently that my mom was that aunt's favorite, so so
(10:00):
she took care of me and my sister mostly, you know.
But anyway, she lived off South Dakota Ave and Bladensburg Road.
So she lived over there in the Fort Lincoln area,
and I remember we were like just my just Southeast
Bama cousin, you know, was like going to Checkers. I
(10:23):
was like, what Checkers? I was like, what are you saying?
I didn't understand him. He was like, do you let's
go get some checkers?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So I didn't know that was a burger joint, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think that Checkers is still there, still there.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
So we walked, but I was like, this is the
most dangerous, Like there's no this is such a dangerous
walk because you're not in the city yet. Now now
it was so scary, but it was so fun man.
And there was a community pool up on the hill
that mister Woods who used to like who apparently was
the who ran the rect Center when my mother was
(10:59):
a child, you know what I'm saying. So like yeah, anyway,
but like I that that trying to navigate was just
it's still a core memory of mine. Like I don't
know how we got. I don't know how y'all know
where you are?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, poor prop like running across like essentially a highway.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, it's a highway.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Yes, that's so I love that you know that it's
a highway.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So the kind of thing that your older cousins that
you kind of want to impress, ye kind of talk
you into.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Doing exactly, that's exactly what happened. That is exactly we
were left, you know, because it's the summertime and everybody's working,
like you know, all of our our aunts and uncles,
our parents, they're working, you know, and Granny not going nowhere,
you know what I'm saying, So like you're just you
either you're in the basement and the basement is sweaty
(11:55):
because it's hot. You know, My uncle Allan lived in
the basement, so he was like, like, y'all can't play,
And Uncle Allan, what in the safest due to be
around anyway, you know what I'm saying. So it was
just like y'all need to go do something. So my
little checkers just walked across the highway anyway, So tell me,
(12:16):
I'm putting you on the spot here. But I'm like, okay,
So the three things I need is the fondest memory
that is like this only happens here.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh my god, I know.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a lot of those the most frustrating thing to
where you're like, this only happens here, and then where
we getting them crabs at? Like, where are you going
to get that bushel?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Okay, it makes me kind of sad to say this.
The thing that is, I have the answer that I
have kind of in the chamber. As much as I
love DC is the frustration part. I could tell you
exactly what that is, which is the way that I
think DC is often ignored in the larger kind of
(13:01):
conversation nationally. I think that people are so used to
think and they're not wrong, but they're very used to
think about DC as you know.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
This seat of federal power, where the.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
President lives, where lawmakers are, where federal stuff happens. And
again that's totally correct, but people completely forget the fact
that there are over half a million people who live
here in the district, who many of whom have no
connection to.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
The federal government.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
There's people who live here and are living their lives here,
and I hate that when we talk about DC, that
conversation gets missed. I've had people say like, oh, well,
nobody really lives in the district, and I'm saying, oh,
that's not true I do, or do they say, well,
people weren't meant to live there, they shouldn't be living there.
(13:47):
I one time was with a friend, I think we
were someplace in the Midwest and we were trying to
get into a nightclub or a bar and we had
to show our ID And when we showed our district IDs,
the bouncer was like, what is the Like, what is
this idea?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Where's this idea from? And called the district of Columbia.
It was like, what is that? We were like, it's
not a state, yeah, but a place I like, but
it is.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
You get a little tongue tied because it's not a state,
so you know, it's a little it is a little
bit complicated to describe. But I really had to sit
in my feelings a little bit in that frustration when
over the summer Trump was, you know, deploying federal agents
and the National Guard. I have been talking about and
screaming about d C and the need for statehood and
(14:31):
autonomy and respect for DC's residents for for the longest time, right, Yeah,
but when that happened, I really kind of felt the deep,
long simmering frustrations of the way that I think that
something about DC. It just is easy to overlook that
there are people here that these things impact. And so
(14:53):
you know, when that initiative started in DC and then
quickly expanded to other cities. I I'm happy that people
talked about the ways that was showing up places like Chicago,
as they should, but I.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Guess I feel and Portland.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
But there's something about d C that I think makes
it easy for people who don't live nearby to just
overlook it. And I would come on cool Zone shows
and say, you know, the reason why Trump was able
to start this in the district and why he started here,
it's not a coincidence. It's because DC is not a state,
and that makes DC vulnerable in all these different ways.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And I just wish that that.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Were a conversation that more people understood.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
And I get it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
I mean, it is like a complicated, wonky thing of
why DC is not a staate and what that means.
But it's it makes me so frustrated. And what's interesting
is that when I see certain DC celebrities like the
rapper Walley Well yeah, so often like people clown him,
but everything that he says, I'm like, I get it.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
He's right, like like you know, and so I see
it mirrored and.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Our celebrities who are from d C where they seem
like they have a chip it on their shoulder, but
they do and they're right, they're not wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
I was absolutely I was Wilee was. I was just
about to bring him up as the example of like, no,
there's a culture here, yeah, and there's a senior and honestly,
as somebody who lives on the opposite coast, I like
to your point and my shame, I wouldn't have known
(16:26):
if my mother wasn't from it, you know what I'm saying,
Like I would have I would have I would would
think the same thing because even growing up, it's still
kind of didn't make sense to me of like you're okay,
so you're but my mom's from this state that's not
a state and you blink and you're in Maryland. Like
so like I didn't get that either, because we would
(16:49):
go from you know, I have an ant in Capital
in uh yeah, in Capital Heights. But it's I mean
it's seven minutes from my grandma's house and I'm like, wait,
we left DC, you know what I'm saying, Like, just yeah,
it was so fast and like I so I could.
(17:10):
I honestly couldn't get my brain right there, Like, Okay,
but we're gonna go down and visit your on Bernice
And I'm like, she's only fifteen minutes away. She's like, no,
but that's Virginia. And I'm like, when did we get
to on the other side of the airport's Virginia? Like
it's just I could not, and especially a state as
large as California like that. I didn't. I didn't. But
(17:30):
all that to say, from a political standpoint, I only
understand because my mom's from there. From a cultural standpoint,
I also only understand because my mom's from there, you
know what I'm saying. I for me just being just
a crate digger. I think about there was this group
that it was called question Mark Asylum. They had one album,
(17:53):
you know, but just me being a backpacker rapper. I
remember when that tape got to this store called Fat Beats,
and I remember they mentioned DC and I lost it
because they he had a song. There was a song
on there that samples Chuck Berry on it, you know
what I mean. So I again, I only know Chuck
(18:15):
Berry and Backyard Boys and all that, Like I only
know that because my cousins would bring the tapes back here.
But but for me, it was like none of that
made sense, none of it until you until I saw it,
until we were older. I was sixty. I never forget.
(18:35):
I was sixteen years old. Another cousin by the time,
you know, I'm rapper, battle rapper whatever, right, So they
it was like, okay, you old enough to get in now,
Like we're gonna get you in. So we went down
to U Street, you know what I'm saying, and he
took me into a little spot and he was like,
there's an open mic, and I'm like, okay, there's eighteen
drummers like I've never seen there are eighteen dudes on
(18:59):
drums right now in those drums or buckets, and I
don't know how you're rapping over this. Like so it
was like an open mic, but it was like a uh,
but it.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Was like a either way.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I was like, I get it now, like you know
what I'm saying, Like I I did, And and for
me it was like once you see it, you can't
unsee it. Another one of my favorite favorite rappers is Odyssey.
Odyssey is from the district, you know, like so I
just it was a thing that bringing it back home,
(19:34):
I still couldn't explain, you know, like I still couldn't
I I until a Marie and uh, this one thing
has got me. Yeah until that.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
And crazy in love. You know what I'm saying, Beyonce
is crazy love. Where I was like, that's go go,
Like I was trying to like, no, that's that's that's it,
Like that's you know, when you could connect the dots
to be like there's a culture there. And I again
growing up where I grew up, my mom grew my
mom grew up. That was Wakanda. That was a black world.
(20:14):
I didn't grow up in that same thing I happened
in Memphis. I was like, I didn't grow up in
a black world. I grew up in a black and
Latino world, but the black you know out there. I
didn't grow up in Chocolate City, you know. And I
think that like I became an adult when I finally
appreciated like, there's a culture here, you know, that.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Is such a beautiful and special thing. It's funny that
you say this. I for a time lived in Northern California,
and you know, I went to Northern California very briefly,
and at the time DC was like my home, right, yeah,
And when I got there, I was so deeply homesick
for DC. And I remember telling my co workers about
(21:31):
go go music and I was trying to describe a
bet and I said, oh, it's percussion heavy. Ye you've
heard you know Chuck Brown busted blues like and favre like?
Is it reagae like the way that I was like,
I can't really explain it, but you have to hear it.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh, Chuck Brown, I called him, Chuck buried his old
tell Yeah, Chuck Brown fault.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Yeah, it's I mean, he's we have a street samed
after him.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
He's like, you know.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
But the thing I love so much about the music
you mentioned the covers, there is a my probably my
favorite go go song is the iconic group The Rare
Essence their cover of Ashley Simpson's Pieces of Me. If
you've not heard that, go the Go Go, like the
go Go version of that, I know you're thinking Ashley Simpson, no,
(22:20):
no what, But the go Go version of that is
like a DC anthem. And I truly believe if Ashley
Simpson came to d C, she would get like a
Hero's Welcome because.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
It's such a big song here. But that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
I mean, I think that DC has its own special sound,
and you know, not every city has their own form
of musical expression. That it's also you know, it's not
just a type of music, it's also an activity going
to the go go like that is part of our city.
And I am grateful that it's something that you have
(22:54):
connected with because I think that outside of the mid
Atlantic region, it's not like people don't know it, and
there are a handful of songs that sort of like
use the sound and get popular, but it's ours. It's
like a special little thing that it's it's just it's
I mean, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. And
the times that I have gone to in person go
(23:16):
go like like concerts, there is an energy that I
have never experienced anywhere else anywhere, and it's just it's
just very special. And even even the the political and
social implications of it, Like there was a time where
go go music in DC was was unfairly associated with
(23:38):
crime and so it was essentially illegal. You couldn't you
couldn't do that, right, and so you know, imagine the
sound of your city that was a distinctive music type
being literally outlawed, you can't you can't meet up and
experience as kind of music in your city. So it's
it's it's it's like hard fought and hard won, and
(23:58):
it's just so special and so beautiful. But this is
what I love about DC, Like it's just a unique,
special thing that is often overlooked. But weirdly, I almost
feel like it being overlooked kind of makes it more
special to me. Like people who are from here really
care about being from DC, right, Like we really rep
our city very hard, I think, because it is so
(24:19):
often overlooked.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yes, you nailed something that you're right that is singular
about d C, which is like we all know the
southern sound, like we know it because we know it's
from the south, but it's everywhere. You know, we all
know gfunk, West Coast, we all know, we all know
East Coast. For some reason, I only only in DC
(24:46):
something that has somehow and I don't know. Usually you
say that as negative, like all this sounds regional, like
it's never left, and I'm like, usually that's a negative thing.
But I'm like for DC for so some reason, it's
y'all's powered. Like that's the secret sauce that I'm like,
you have to you can I and I honestly think
(25:07):
this is honestly my in my heart of hearts of
anything else. Specifically, it's because you have to go to it,
you have to see it. It truly only works in context.
Like I and I can't think of as a hip
hop artists. Somebody's been around world like and does music.
(25:28):
I'm like, specifically, it's so great to be if you
get to go see like somebody you know in Houston,
you know, with tans folks poking out. Of course that
adds to the experience. You know what I'm saying. You
see somebody actually tipping on faux fos. You know what
I'm saying. You come out in the West Coast, you
hear that g funk, You hear that. You know what
I'm saying. You're you feel the air, you feel the temperature,
(25:51):
you can smell the weed. Like there is something very
specific about being in Cali that heightens the experience, but
you can still understand it from the outside. I feel
like DC, it just you. It does not translate like
you have to see it. You won't get it until
(26:12):
you experience it. You won't get it into your experience it.
And I am saying that from absolute a trillion percent
experience because I was confused. I was like, what are
y'all talking about? And they couldn't explain it, like you're
like no, you like they was trying to tell me,
like you don't like this, and I'm like, this is
(26:35):
recorded ter No.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yes, it's it's always recorded in a way like it
doesn't it doesn't translate, It doesn't translate, it doesn't translate.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, And and then like I'm saying that even as
a metaphor because like that Chesapeake Bay blue crab going,
you know, putting your putting five dollars together with the
homies to buy yourself a dozen or a bushel, like
it just you can only do it there, like it
just it don't work. In Cali, we used to, like listen,
we used to have my uncle Jeff used to freeze
(27:05):
dry a box and mail it to us so that
we can have it at home. And it just don't work.
You know what I'm saying. There's little I don't know
if they still sell half smokes. They look like, oh god, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
That's our if I had to say there was a
food item that is maybe the DC food item, it
will be the half smoke.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's a half smoke. They're not here. And I used
to try to explain that. I'm like, and my dad's
from Texas, like a hot link, and I'm like, no,
it's not a hot link, Like it's not a hot dog,
it's not it's it's a half smoke. I'm I just
tongue tied, like I could not. But now now we
would definitely get those shipped, you know, because you could
freeze those and send them.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
So so I do love a hot link.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
I do love a hot link. But yeah, these very
specific experiences, yeah, like you have to see it. The one.
The last one I think of is like, because there's
such an age gap between you know, all of like
my relatives, it's very rare. And you know, some dudes
(28:05):
were in jail, some just you know what I'm saying.
It was very rare that we could all be together.
But when we were, we Jeff on Dorothy on step
they ordered a bunch of crabs for all of their
nieces and nephews whatever, right, So we were all sitting
down my Helen's house and you know you grab your
grab your crab, flip it over. You know. My dot's
(28:26):
kind of teaching me how to like, you know, break
it open, get get you know, get the meat out right.
And I'm sitting there and I remember two of my
oldest cousins, uh, Aaron and Kurt. They sat on two
sides of me. They was like, we're gonna sit by Jason,
you know. So they sat right next to me. I'm
(28:49):
working on my crab and they not grabbing they own.
So then he go, you done with that one? I
was like, yeah, he goes okay, he just takes it
and gets way more meat out that day. He's like
you going with that? And I was like, yeah, he
just takes it and I'm just watching him. I was like, man,
you couldn't have shown me that, Like I wasn't doing
(29:11):
this right. He was like, nah, you know you're gonna
learn now. Look you see all this, you see all
you left all that in there.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
He's just eating it.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And I'm like, dog, like you couldn't you know, say
it is just that's just no other place. That's not
happening any other place.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Oh man, you just brought me back.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
This is my My mom passed away pretty recently, and
a memory that I have of her is that, uh,
you know, she my poor mother. We would do crabs
and she would basically she was the best one of
getting every single piece of meat out of the crab.
So she, this poor woman, never just got to sit
and eat her own crabs. She was always expected to
(29:49):
hand me and my brother little piles of meat. Everybody
would be eating, having good time, and she's just working
being like here here, here, here, for getting none for herself.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Oh my gosh, I remember.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I mean that was something we grew up doing, putting
newspaper down on the table, and this happened, Pratt. I
remember being real little and accidentally making the worst error
you can make, rubbing my eye when I had on
my finger.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I will never make that mistake again.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I'll tell you that much again. Oh Lord, all right.
(30:40):
I don't know where matt ended this, but hopefully at
like around a half hour mark. That is the end
of part one, and next week you will hear part two.
I think I have a Cyber Monday sale going on
on the website still profitpop dot com. Go buy some merch.
I know it's been saying sold out forever. It's not
(31:02):
sold out. Apparently nobody's just updated anyway. Good Politics. All right, now,
don't you hit stop on this pod. You better listen
(31:23):
to these credits. I need you to finish this thing
so I can get the download numbers. Okay, so don't
stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded in East
Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap in with
me at prop hip hop dot com. If you're in
the Coldbrew coffee we got Terraform Coldbrew. You can go
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and mastered by your boy Matt Alsowski Killing the Beast
Softly check out his website Mattowsofski dot com. I'm a
speller for you because I know M A T. T O.
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(32:09):
He got more music and stuff like that on there,
so gonna check out the heat. Politics is a member
of cool Zone Media, executive produced by Sophie Lichterman, part
of the iHeartMedia podcast network. Your theme music and scoring
is also by the one and nobly matdow Sowski. Still
Killing the beats softly, so listen. Don't let nobody lie
(32:30):
to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
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