H.M.A.D.C. It All Falls Down

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, look, I'm gonna give it to you the way
they gave it to me. Hi, ain't nothing changed, but
the weather. Ain't she changed, but the weather. Listen, you

(00:24):
could control CV this to any any decade. Family. This
is thirties in Brooklyn, This is seventies and eighties in
l A. This is Detroit, this is New York, this
is Russia, brod China, anywhere, tailors all this time. I

(00:46):
said 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 and your homies. You know
what I'm saying. You're tired of not being up. You're
tired of and 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 to school. Man. It's just yeah,

(01:06):
oh you know what I mean. You're just watching them
like man, like this came, this came. This can't be
what the rest of my childhood 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 gonna chase me home every day. These
these fools got all the girls. They're coming in school dipping,

(01:28):
you know what I'm saying, Like the new Feelers you
feel Me, the new Rebox, you know what I'm saying.
They got They got DDI's track suits. You know I
don't you know, they got the Pure Player kimono's you know,
wherever we are, and foods 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,

(01:51):
you know he he know how to talk and he
and you could see him that that that fool just
fueling he like, and you could tell he's scheming, you
know what I mean, Like, Man, I'm man, I'm ai
to 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 why we gotta live?

(02:14):
Like I man, I'm not gonna live like this no more,
you know what I mean. Like, so you gotta 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 or the burner in the backpack.
You know you got you got the blaky whatever it is.
It's like, listen, dog, like, this's not happening no more.
And this real charismatic friend of yours, you could tell

(02:37):
he don't look scared like the rest of us. He
paying attention and then watching, and he's watching for the
things that I told you 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're probably gonna get mopped. But the one thing you
can't do is nothing. And what you need to do

(02:59):
is you need to fire are on one of them
and get out of there. But what you need to
pick is is 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 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 one of

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the ones that you like. Okay that and if you
fire on him hard enough on her, Let's be real,
you fire on her hard enough. You gotta 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

(03:40):
I'm saying. But he's watching, 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, they're other niggas. And then you start
noticing as as you're watching, like you watching, paying more atention,
you start noticing, and you know what, a lot of
them niggas can't fight, you know this party is ain't

(04:01):
what they say they are. You know, you we're pulling
up to these parties. We were thinking, Man, they're bawling,
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. So I 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

(04:24):
when she was my age, you know what I'm saying.
But I'm looking you, you the little brothers, you're their
little sisters, and like y'all not okay. You know, I'm
starting to see cracks in the armor here. Maybe it's not.
Maybe it's not what y'all say it is. So you
pick the right day, and you know, any giving Sunday,
any day, anybody can get it. It's anybody's game. You
pick the right party where the right people are there,

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and you and your crew roll up and you decide, listen,
it's some new bosses in town. We're done with this.
And you know you aren'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
crashed that party, mocked them fools just that day, that day,
that was just y'all's day. You mocked them fools, right

(05:06):
and now, and then everybody saw a whole hood. Was
there even some motherhoods from down the street that everybody
saw them due, So it was like and then and
then now they start questioning, like, hey, who these young
who these young boys? What do y'all be throwing parties? Yeah,
we'll be throwing parties. Yeah, we'd be kicking it, you
know what I'm saying. And now and now everybody else going,

(05:26):
wait a minute, now, y'all, you know, we was only
rolling with these fools because they was up. We thought
this was maybe we was kind of wondering if they
really wasn't this 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 trying to build. Oh man, what you

(05:47):
need to build. Okay, you need 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, how you gotta how
you gotta get out in the field. You know, we
gotta make money. We need to get this money. What
what what we're doing? What we're doing. We were pushing Pete.
You know what I'm saying. We're doing We're getting these
we're selling these guns, we're selling these pills, we're selling

(06:09):
these these bricks. What we're doing. You know what I'm saying, Well,
you mean we we're breaking into cards, we're doing home evasions,
and your your charismatic leader going you know, and it
gets all of the above. You know what I'm saying,
by any means, and that's all money in 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 kind of other stuff. We're gonna make

(06:29):
sure everybody eats you feel me. But but but if
we're gonna do that, we need these people to understand
that we are not to be left 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

(06:52):
that is like, listen, uh, Carolyn slowing us down, Carolyn
gonna get gonna get us all eight by lions. We
need to gone. We need to gonna leave on curling
because we're all gonna die. You need somebody that just
like that, just has no moral compass. You understand I'm

(07:13):
saying that's like I hop out the whip right now.
Shoot this nigger in front of his child and his mama.
You need somebody that's like, listen, like this, digget in
and out of juvie. I'm not afraid of nobody. You know,
the the kid that's like, yeah, that's jumping off the
roof into the pool, that never thought twice about it

(07:34):
when we was kids, just that just you just looking
at him 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 are you gonna get guns? Nigga,
y'all junior hires, How are you gonna get this work?
How are you gonna get this weight? You know what
I'm saying, Well, you need some big homies. You need

(07:54):
some help. So you need to start looking around and
like some of these other crews around here, and it's like, hey, man,
like listen, 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 then Nigga is on the side like y'all got guns? Man,
all right, I'll be on. But you know what I'm saying,
like you can borrow from us. You feel me like
you're gonna us back. It's like, yeah, nig we got it.
You know what I'm saying. We all start throwing these

(08:15):
dope parties. Canna fly girls. You know what I'm saying,
Like everybody, now, you up, 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 and look, look one
of the home he's got in trouble with their mama,
and their mama moving them to another state, to another dynasty,
you know, to another province. You feel me and you're like, yo,

(08:35):
just take the work over there. You feel me like,
we'll make it work, you know what I'm saying. But
we up though, But sometimes that up to stay up, man,
you need that violence. You need that violence. You need
that money, you need that dedication. You need to start
teaching these young dudes like y'all we're building something that's
our blocked man like ride or die? Is you a
writer 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

(08:57):
I'm saying. But after that, y'all gonna get old. Y'all
gonna get popped, you'all gonna start dying. So you need
some new booty. You need some young niggas. You need
some youngs. You're some ygs. That's what that stands for,
a young young gangster. You know what I'm saying. You
need some y g s. You got o gees. You
need y g You know what I'm saying. You gotta
convince them like they're buying into something bigger than them.
You gotta start for using academic. You gotta start myth making.

(09:20):
You gotta start legendary. You gotta start telling these war stories.
You feel me because you're building something, You're 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
Mitzvah's Inner City, bar Mitzvah's. You feel me like, that's
when you get jumped in. You know what I'm saying,
You're getting jumped in. Man. This families, my grandma and
my daddy. You know what I'm saying, My uncle or
everybody like, this is what we do. Man, we've been up.

(09:42):
You know what I'm saying. You out hold down the fort.
But 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 serious. You don't understand. Why then, why the all
heads all talking about Marry mud Day. We used to

(10:04):
knuckle up. Not all this shooting y'all. Internet bangers, y'all,
little corny as nigged y'all out here trying to wrap y'all.
Niggas is rappers, nigga weak gangsters, you know what I'm saying. Like,
and you're like, yeah, we're 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. Nigga. You know
what I'm saying, y'all just talking and that's Look look
at my dad. Nigg We rolled up on it. You

(10:26):
know what I'm saying. We were hopped out the whip. Shoot.
It's like all right, man, oh lass, you know what
I'm saying, Like then this is 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're hanging out with other peoples. Like, man,
what's wrong with y'all? This don't work like this? Like, man,
we're getting money, man, don't worry about it that we're
getting money. But are you getting money? Is that real money?

(10:50):
Because a lot of the work you're selling was fronted,
and it was fronted because of the work of the
o GS. 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 the Vatos. You wasn't
in the pen with that lionmate, dude, when you made
friends with like Carlos Martinez over there, you know, on

(11:11):
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. Want Carlo
don't know you. Oh, he trusts your big brother, but
you don't know you. You You wasn't tapped in with the Russians,
you know what I'm saying. You don't know Vladimir naked.

(11:34):
You do have to pay this stuff back. You've 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 El Salvadorian. You go, You're gonna
mess with my throot. You mess around, step into a
whole war on some stuff you don't understand because you
just thought they both spoke Spanish, and you, like, listen,

(11:55):
y'are too busy party and y'all bawling out. You're not
paying attention to the streets. There's some hongry dudes out there,
are you good man? Look? Look, look, give me one
more brick. Let me push that and I'll give you.
I'll give it all back to you will No, no, homie,
I need my money. So then what do you usually do? Well,
if that's the case, somebody say I don't need my money. Like, look, look,
let me get real hood on you. You know your

(12:16):
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? That mug gonna bounce you, feel me. Or
they start putting the electric billing their kids names. You
know what I'm saying. Kids grow up because the electric
building turned off? Uh by your name? So now like
niggas grow up there sixten years old with bad credit

(12:37):
because the light bill 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
you you know, you out with your homies, y'all at dinner.
You're gonna swipe your card. You're swiping your card praying
that mug go through because you know good and dog on, Well,
you ain't got money in that account. That's swipe are
not real That ain't real money in there. That's why.

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Is only as good as the bank say it is.
And sometimes the bank will be like, just like to connect, yeah,
off front you that it's gonna cost you though it
cost you an overdraft fees, it costs you in compound interest.
That's how I mean, that's how credit work, right, Like

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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
borrowed from somebody else to pay the first person back,
and then that other person they borrowed from, they borrowed
somebody else, pay the other person back. At some point

(13:41):
they're gonna need their 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,
y'all little sloppy. I don't like how you running this.
It's a little you know what I'm saying. Like a
matter of fact, man, it seemed like it seemed like
the only people getting money is is y'all. Old niggas

(14:01):
were out in the field. These young dudes is out
in the field. We don't want to dodge your bullets.
We don't want out here recruiting these We don't want
to breaking into cars. We don't want is getting misdemeanor charges.
Weren't one doing five years? We don't want We're the
ones on probation, were the ones on house arrest. You
niggas are sitting nice out in at the hills, just
collecting checks from us. They said, ain't gonna work no more.

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And guess what some other little niggas is watching. They
watching this happen. Y'all got this wealth gap inside of
your own crew. And there's somebody who y'all been bullying,
Who y'all been running up on, Who y'all been hitting
licks on, who's about tired of y'all? And the psycho continues,

(14:47):
empires come and go, y'all, how much of dollar cost
hood politics. All right, so welcome to another how much
a Dillar cost episode, which is essentially just economics. Today,

(15:11):
we're gonna talk macro economics. Y'all know. I have an
education back, I said, all the time, uh, specifically in
history and social sciences. And I loved thinking a lot
of ways like ancient history for a number of reasons.
One I just thought the stuff was cooler, or like
the fact that it was just less familiar. But there's
one thing that every historian, anybody that studies history, politics, economics,

(15:33):
whatever it is, in a macro sense, understands. Nobody stays
up no one, I said, once history got bars in
a wrap. You know what I mean, is like it'd
be Rhyman. 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,

(15:56):
you can essentially start graphing things that buying large kind
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 gonna 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

(16:18):
please please please go pull my receipts. Empires run about
two hundred, two hundred fifty years. They crash, Empires fall.
And if you think America ain't an empire, you're tripping.
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 cat, because

(16:38):
that is all cat. They all fall. Every empire falls
an I'm telling you maybe I should change his name. First,

(17:10):
I was calling this episode there 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're
looking for indicators. They're not saying this is what always
gonna be in a lot. Again, they all don't agree.

(17:31):
We said that in the first how much of Dollar
Cost episode? Everybody don't agree. But these indicators are just
that they're like indicators symptoms. You know, person's uh heart
rate is way too high when they're resting, that's an
indicator that this person might not be in shape or

(17:52):
something something not right. You know what I'm saying. Person's
uh 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

(18:12):
some changes, that'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 some macro economics.
Ray uh Daily, Oh. I don't even know if I'm

(18:34):
saying his name right, but he has he's a He's
an economist, a brilliant, brilliant dude. He has a book
out called Principles of Dealing with the Changing World Order.
A dope 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 in the book.
But I wanted to bring it to y'all, you know,

(18:54):
in my voice, because he gave actual numbers to this stuff.
I was trying to tell y'all, you know what I'm saying.
When I'm like, yo, it's like read the tea leaves
because 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've fin

(19:17):
a crash and burn. Now, Like I said before, this life,
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 things as Russia. They used to be up. They're
not up no more. They're fighting to get back up
right now. But like goes on after an empire crashes,

(19:38):
there are such things as the Greeks, Joe said, But
you need to pay attention to what's happening it now.
Why when you're experiencing these living through these like empires
rising and falling, you feel like you special, just like
when you in the hood. Remember I said like, oh,
we're gonna do things different. It feels like the things

(19:59):
that are happening are so new and exciting or so
terrifying and shocking. Is because it just ain't happened in
your lifetime. 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,
Like if we don't, none of us was here for
the Revolutionary War, none of us was here for the

(20:19):
Civil War. That stuff seemed it's so ancient, and you
just think, no, it's different. It is, but it be rhyman.
So today 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.
That's some economic stuff. Uh we I still want you

(20:40):
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 rightlet's take a break,
bring the track in. Okay, dope, now we're back check it.

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So according to the content that I'm giving y'all from,
like I said, uh Ray dal Leo, 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 say white supremacy abound. We're not

(21:53):
talking Ghana Molly's song Hi. We're 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're talking about right now. We're gonna go
back and talk like the last like five hundred years.
The way we can understand that has to do with

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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 maintain money, and how y'all maintain power, and
then how that power started waning and falling, and then

(22:36):
how the next naked 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 on and we ain't
gonna always be on, which is what we're talking about.
You know how we know because at one point the

(22:57):
Dutch was on? Who knocked the Dutch off the bridge?
This 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
that economic theory, you know what I'm saying. It has
to do with your Your currency? Is this the currency

(23:17):
everybody mess with it? Does your 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.

(23:38):
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, this current,
this current order, we end. Like I said, who up,
America became top of the food chain everybody 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 Woods Agreement,
they agreed that like listen, man, currency gotta look. If
you're gonna use currency, let's just use ours. Ours got
the tallest. So then we got to control the central

(24:21):
bank of the world, which 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,
that somebody gonna take your dallar mostly, but it wasn't
always like that. So according to this book, there's this
thing that that ray is calling, calling ray like you hum,
he calling a big cycle. And the big cycle is

(24:42):
again a rough estimate as to this two hundred to
two h fifty year life cycle of an empire. You
could latest on the Dutch, Um, 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 p cast about that hood getting up, it's that
it's the same cycle. What starts off is you know,

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you got these you got this this rough upstart of
a country, a civilization, you know, a real charismatic leader,
Ali George Washington, you know what I'm saying, in the
founding fathers who realized that like listen, man, we're not
taking all this ship from 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,

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like look, this is who we are. That's the establishment.
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 uh. 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 gotta really

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you realize it, like, y'all, I'm spending more money than
I have, 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 nigked. 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

(26:11):
them debts is you gotta pretend like you got the money. Oh,
I got it. I'm just gonna keep sweep, keep swiping
my car. I 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 gotta 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 gotta make sure you got

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this big problem. You're spending most of your money on
your defense and on your luxuries. And then they become
this political in fighting, 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're going through all these

(26:55):
in house debates, we can't get our ship together. The
enemy watching and they're getting strong and they're 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 these here go
your markers for it. Your your education, are y'all y'all

(27:16):
schooling the young ins? Are you innovating? Are y'all building
dope ship and that type stuff? Creates good myths, good buyings,
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

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currency as far as like world trade? Is your dollar
worth more than everybody else's dollar? And how well y'all shoot,
how strong you're military? Now, if you can 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 can look
this stuff up, then you could tell if an empire

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rise in the falling, you could tell where they are
in this thing? You tell how long you're gonna be up.
Of course, it's not like it's not a it's not
a deloy in my nigga, Like you can't really tell
the future, but you can measure these things like yo,
Is 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,

(28:19):
are you still and hopefully you can see how that
stuff is interconnected. Better education. You schooling the kids means
you're probably gonna innovate a lot of stuff. And if
you innovating a lot of stuff, that means you're creating
the best product. If you're creating the best product, you're
gonna make the most money. That I mean, dug. So
let's go back to the beginning and establishing of a

(28:39):
new empire, new up, a new world order usually starts
with some sort of big cataclysmic war conflict. If we're
gonna use America, then let's do that. Uh, America started
actually as a ward duh. You know what I'm saying.
That's where we started our incline. We started at a
war and Nigga we won and we wasn't puposed to

(29:00):
win because y'all do you got I don't think y'all
understand how big balling, big Boss Great Britain was. I mean,
like that little teeny Island almost conquered the planet. And
it's because if you know your history, Niggada Navy didn't
play like they listen, they had wealth coming in everywhere

(29:23):
you're talking about, you talking about Mongolian silk with Indian
spices and sugar from sugar from Haiti. You know what
I'm saying in the t that they got from Persia,
niggd like everywhere. We wasn't supposed to win. I'm saying
we because I'm American, Because no, nigga, that wasn't meet
You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't. That wasn't my

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fight because you know what I'm saying because I'm Black.
But you understand I'm trying to say America wasn'tupposed to win.
That you ain't supposed to take them out. Go again,
going back to our first example, you litt nigga ain't
supposed to win this, but you did. Now since you
one and everybody saw it, people are like, like we
said in beginning, oh man, maybe maybe there's a new ball.
Maybe everything cool and don't nobody want to mess with you.

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Remember I told you before again, it's just like when
you jumping somebody, you gotta molly whop them when you
get you. When you're getting me, you gotta molly wap
these foods so they know don't come back again. But
we this was the theory we talked about a long
time ago with dropping uh, these atom bombs on Hiroshiama Nagasaki.
It was like, this is the wrong thing to do
if you have any sort of moral compass. But if

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you just talking war, what you're trying to say is like, listen,
we're crazy. Don't don't listen. Try Jesus not me. I
throw hands. I'm crazy. Do not come over here. It's terrifying.
You're like, damn, it's crazy. I ain't gonna mess with them,
no mo. So that's what happens as a nation. It's like, okay, cool,
So there's a relative moment of peace and prosperity. What

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was happening in America, nigga, We was building cities. I mean,
we was getting free labor from slaves. And you gotta
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. Uh.
Innovation was happening up north right with industrial growth. You

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know what I'm saying. Technology all that ship was happening
up north. Down south they were called a grarian where
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

(31:29):
more than every other commodity in the States combined. There's
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, there's a lot
of money. And I mean, what we're gonna do because
I mean, I mean damn, Like I'm just one person.
I know it's I know it's awful. I mean, but like,

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I mean, shoot, this is just the way of the world.
Slavery existed forever. And besides, then you start turning your
brain into a pretzel because of how much money is
being made. You like 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 us. They savages, So maybe we should just
go on on and keep them. That's the because the
money too much. And if you already think these people

(32:15):
ain't humans, you ain't gotta listen. That's a hundred percent profit.
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 you multiplying and
you ain't gotta buy new one. Not to mention, you know,

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we talked. I make the comment about the gold Rush,
who really made most of the money where the shovel sales. Listen,
you're selling slaves, nigga. You bawling out too. It's too
much money. So this prosperity happened in and again again
we're talking nation building here, nigga. It's so much money
coming in. We bought and it's so comfy. Don't nobody
want to mess with us? We didn't. It was the

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seven year war. We didn't fought off the natives, didn't
fought off. We didn't fought off the British like nign
start getting comfortable. And of course this is not like
a straight line because there was other hals and countries
like now. I don't think that's the way to go,
you know what I'm saying. But as things, you know,
we're still you still upstart, you're still figuring out, but
you like you're bailing out, like Nick's gonna start taking
you serious. By the time we get to World War

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one and World War two, we building shipped out the brain.
You know what I'm saying. The Big five that built
the country. You know, the Carnegie you know what I'm saying,
the gerald Fords. You know what I'm saying, this industrial revolution.
We killing the game. It's too much money and so
foods getting comfy. Once you start getting comfort, you gotta
protect that comfortable. But also it's all you know at

(33:38):
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 weren't there for that. They was born into relative prosperity.
There was this phrase that you learned. I learned from
Dan Carlin. He was like, um, the stone boots and
silk slippers. You got the toughest nails. People that fought
for something. This why I was talking about the earlier

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earlier fought for something to get us up. And then
you have kids and all them kids know it's success.
They don't know struggle. They gotta go through what you
go through. All they know is prosperity. So they think
you crazy for always being nervous because it ain't happen
in their lifetime, and if it do go down, they
think the world on't fire, which is like current America
right now. They got time to contemplate the start, They

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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. Basically the nineties, if he was white
and wealthy, just buy ship. That's all they did in
the nineties. Again, this is for the sake of this argument.

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Think about it. Y'll like that Americana like the invention
of a strip mall, a suburb track housing. That's because
they like, we find and they get everything good. You know,
you remember black when you see the white people on
TV and the milk man would come and they would
just they were that's clean, green energy. Do you have

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glass bottles that you were cycled? Nigga America had to
be taught to throw ship away because we used to
not throw stuff away. You that's there's too much money, yo.
Niggas is comfy now. If you know the money coming in,

(36:00):
you're not worried about it. You can start borrowing. You
can gonna get the credit card. I know what I'm
making 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 lush with cash. It's all good.
What you're so worried about. It'll be fine. Swipe that card.

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We're cool as an individual and as a nation. You
know we're good. Then you start diversifying, right, so rather
than just buying a card, buy a house. 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 gonna be
flushed with cash, and you can like put your stuff
in some other stuff. You feel me. You know what
I'm saying, Like bill out, you know what I mean.
Like put your money in a lot of different places.

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And all I gotta do is put on credit because
it's cool. I'm gonna pay it back. Money coming in, right,
Scared 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're not getting none
of the none of rewards of what's coming from this wealth.
While they steady being told, well, it's the American dream.

(37:04):
You could just work hard and you two can have
this wealth. Well, the land of the free, 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're out here,
We're 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're out here on
the corner. We don't want to catching cases, and you're

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telling us we're better not snitched, because our life is
only good because you're giving us the little bit we got.
You're telling me, I'm 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 sure money
on your books. Everything cool. Meanwhile, you collecting dough this
whole time, you're getting richer and richer, creating a wealth gap.

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You know these ogs, man, they just know what I'm saying.
They're not even out here in the field. We're out
in the field. Oh gee, like you just hate me
because you hate me. Little niggas is saying something different.
This ain't gonna keep but I'm not gonna keep standing
for this. But look at eventually all that money you're spending,
all that stuff you're borrowing. Uh, you got you keep
increasing that credit limit, that blackguard. Eventually you're gonna have

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to pay that ship back. Because again, money has to
be something in real life unless it's just paper. Remember
I told on the last one, on the last how
much of dollar costs. Money is not real no more,
it's just whatever we say it is. Wasn't always like
that money was a thing. It was gold. You take
that dollar and I'm just making up this number, and

(38:34):
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 goal bar and hand you this
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 then there is gold? Are we good?

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Were good? You spending more than we guys? So I said,
you know what I'm saying. You putting bricks on credit.
You know what I'm saying. You You feel me? You
promising ship you can't deliver. We ain't got it. Look look,
look look again. You out with your homies. You're swiping
your car, knowing full well you're gonna overdraft that. But
you're good. The bank or just charge you the thirty
five dollars. You'll just pay the thirty five dollars. You

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keep swiping at that thirty five becomes seventy. You understand
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 elevens. Here is like you,
what what you're gonna do? You ain't got it? What
nations do keep swiping? How do they keep swiping? What

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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. You just pipe

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in your card. It ain't real money there. And at
some point the nation like y'all, we've been a default
on our loans. Because so that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna do this stimulus package. That's a nice way
to say, is we're 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 foods do?
They lower the interest rates? Oh man, oh hey, interests

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are on a law time low. Everybody go by their
houses or that's because they like, damn, these niggas not
paying their debt. We don't loan are their money. They're
not paying us. Okay, uh, well maybe if we lower
the interests, niggas will start paying because we're not getting
their money. You can lower the interest rates to zero, nigger,
because that happened. If I ain't got the money, I
ain't got the money. You know what you do now?

(40:43):
You 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 ship 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 is gonna go up. And I
got the bread, but the price of real ship gonna

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go up. You know i'mnna doing. I'm about a stock,
I'm a body's bonds. I'm a buy this commodity. I'm
gonna buy this goal. I'm gonna buy it right now
because I know that's real. This doll ain't gonna be
worth nothing. So let me get the dollars out of
my hands because they're not worth nothing. And I'm gonna
get the actual ship into my hands because that's worth something.
The rich get richard and eventually, once this start happened,

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and guess what, the natives get restless, not a hood mad,
not a set mad, because what is we gonna do?
You don't 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're like, oh,
we ain't got it. We can't pay you more. What

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the funk mean you ain't got it? Now, think of
this as a nation we're telling. We're telling China, you're
telling Russia. You're telling all these not Russia. Well yeah,
Russia sometimes telling Russia. Yo, you're telling China, Like, Yo,
let me buy let me get seven million of them
U car chips, them car micro chips. Japan, let me
get seven car micro chips, seven a 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, uh, send a link, send,
send a square link. I'll just I'll swipe my card
and you're gonna swipe your card. That mud 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 he's like, Yo, where my money.

(42:31):
That's a nice house you got. I see I see that,
I see you shining in that car. I see look,
I see. I said that's a nice car you got outside,
nigg 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 now internally. So

(42:52):
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 a call for the redistribution of wealth. I
don't know if this ship is sounded familiar to you,
but then you have an other side that says, wait, wait, wait,

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no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, everything's fine. We
got this. Y'all need to stop tripping. How about your
work harder? Hell? I did you work harder? And has
that solved either with the 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,
I know the policing goes up because look, military that's

(43:37):
not protecting your safety is protecting our money. The police
ain't protecting your safety, they're protecting that property. When when
you when you got your sociopath in the hood, that's
just shooting. They're protecting their interests. It's the block. Niks
ain't worried about you. Ain't worried about the block. They
worry you securing the bag. So you gotta make sure
that their money good. What do we call that? The

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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 ship together
on the inside, China watching somebody over there watching. They're
watching you fight inside it. They're watching y'all not be
as smart. They watching y'all spending y'all time with a
dollar that don't mean ship no more, because y'all don't

(44:19):
got comfortable. Y'all ain't got the grit you got used
to being up. Your kids don't even go to college
no more because it cost too much. And y'all can't
even get the ship 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 because you expect the government to pay y'all's debt.
Y'all falling off again. This is China's perspective, or Whoever's next?

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And what what? What? Happens is some sort of some
sort of charismatic totalitarian, some sort of populace 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 these like dictators. You
get the rise of these auto cracks because they're like, no,

(45:05):
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 you're not innovating no more, y'all don't
got comfy. Y'are spending your money. You you spreading your
money too far. You're fighting on so many levels. Look

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how many, how many? How many American outposts are there
of the military cross We can't keep spending this much money?
Why because we ain't got it. Think we ain't got it.
The money made up China watching it, trying to get
their act together, Russia trying to get their act together
because Russia used to be up. And then what happens
either we while we're fighting on the inside, somebody come

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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. Oh we got it. We're good. You
are from us, but you got passed back though up.
So when you think about where we are in the nation,
you gotta ask yourself, yo, where are we? I don't know, man,

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We we ain't really educating our children the way we
used to. Not like we ever really worked, I'm saying.
I mean, look, anybody that got any sense with money
then left the place they're not. That's why it's like
build U s A by us a nigga. You losing money, Nahmi?
Why would I do that when I can get the
work from China for half the price and it's just
as good. That don't make no good money sense. China

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been reverse engineering all of your innovation and they didn't
figure out how to do it cheaper. And I'm gonna
say this as callous as possible. Y'all worried about civil
rights and ship niggd We tell you to work, you work.
Anybody was sense gonna get what they can't get for
cheaper and just as good, if not better, keep American jobs, nigga,

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Why like you, I think of it like if it's just,
if it's just, if it's just raw, daddy, 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 money ain't even up no more. So
where are we? I mean, we haven't done the big

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sell off like Britain had to do after like they
printed their money, they had their great depression, I mean
not that great depression when their 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 inflation got crazy and it was like, I
can't pay my debts. This ain't real money. And you
had this, like I said, somebody that when the when

(47:35):
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 gotta you gotta get rid of
all your stuff because you gotta pay these foods back. Okay,
that hasn't happened in America yet. We ain't got to
full civil war yet, although the January six joint got
real close. Ain't. Nobody actually yet has yet to pop

(47:59):
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, uh Biden given
eight million dollars billion dollars, eight million dollars to uh
the Ukraine. Nigger where you get that money from? Because
it's not real, y'all. Now, can our nation's leaders get

(48:21):
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 closing. But it 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 were. Everybody had their moment in the sun.
Will be fine, But I think to shave off the

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pain of all this, there's two principles that Daily O 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 financial book, it would be that
one pain age. Don't spend money you don't have. That way,

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ain't gotta worried about. None of the speculationship. 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, spend money you ain't got. And
to just treat people fairly. What wealth gap is unfair
paying people below their wages before living below we're living wages,
it's unfair. Just just treat people fairly, fad what they work,

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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. The question is how hard you're gonna fall?
And who did you smash on the way up because
them niggas is watching little politics, y'all. M yeah, this

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