August 1, 2025 • 11 mins
Two quick stories that will restore a little bit of hope in humanity: Egyptians puttin' rice in bottles and throwing them in the ocean, and Baltimore's crime rate is down 62%.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
As media. Truth is, I'm tired. Truth is, I'm tired.
I'm tired of unprecedented times because I really wish that term,
like why can't that apply to when it's good? It
(00:24):
always be when things is like truly falling apart. And
I've tried to on these fridays give y'all pieces that
were obviously shorter and sometimes you know, kind of fun
or breadth, the fresh air you know with the or
a farmer for me, and don'tisa or be the tyler
you want to see in the world. But it's just
(00:46):
so much awfulness happening that I can't dedicate. I can't
commit to this just being all positive. But sometimes people
be good, Sometimes the news be good. Sometimes you get
stories that remind you that, like, oh, you know what
(01:07):
it's it's some humanity in there somewhere. And I got
two stories of that for you, tap being with The
(01:29):
first one has to do with how oftentimes we rise
to the occasion in ways that will continue to surprise me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So Gaza is being starved.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We all see that, and do you in everyone watching
is like, Israel is doing this. You have the power.
You created this sense of urgency. It got to a
place to where they had reached phase four of starvation,
which means that they're so malnourished that even if you
(02:04):
got food in there now is probably too late for
most of them. And then they want to cart around
images of boxes of aid sitting in the sun and saying, see,
the UN's not distributing it. It's like, bro, you think
we're stupid. You're the only person defending it. Why the
rest of the world is like, we see what you're doing. Anyway,
(02:25):
a complete governmental breakdown and collapse. That the institutions, even
the well meaning institutions, have truly failed these people, but
the people don't failed these people. And a video has
gone viral of people in Egypt. I almost want to cry,
(02:47):
understanding the desperation, understanding that listen, these borders are guarded
by weapons and military and choke points, and even when
you did bring food in, you're just gathering them in
there and shooting them. There has got to be a
way to get food here. And they said, you know
what carries food, the ocean currents. They're putting bottles sealed
(03:10):
up with rice and grain, throwing them into the Mediterranean
Sea and just like hoping that the current would take
that into Gaza, and you know what, a few of
them got there. It's desperate, it's sad. It should not
have to be like this, but damn, that is beautiful
to me. It's just so beautiful that people will find
(03:34):
a way. And it's at the time, like y'all, I've
been so I almost didn't want it. I was like, yo, record,
I'm not recording this week, man, y'all run some reruns.
I'm like, my heart is just I have a soul
tiredness being here in La the fires, then the ice raids.
(03:55):
I'm tired this Palestine like I'm tired. But that moment
right there, and that gave me life. These people did it.
They found a way, and it's why I am an anarchist.
CC See, y'all think anarchy means no rules, and in
some ways it is because listen, it's the archies that's
(04:19):
stopping the food from coming in there. The anarchy is
the one that says, I don't care about your borders.
I'm gonna put this rice in bottles and we're gonna
get this food to these people.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I don't need no dude to tell me there is
an understanding that these humans who live on the other
side of an imaginary line, who clearly that this government
want them to die, not on my watch, cause we're
gonna do whatever we can. And it was such a
shot of life to me because it's like, we can
(04:52):
paint our signs, we could protest over here. It's children
in Israel right now burning their draft paper. I love it.
Nobody wants this, nobody wants this. But as much as
these governments want to believe, you can't control the tides, baby,
the tides is bringing the food in there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And is it enough? No, not at all. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of course, since the whole world was like you are
you created a famine and they was like, all right,
all right, we'll stop shooting for ten hours and we'll
let y'all fly in eight. It's just so absurd, like
why do we have to do this. It's just I mean,
this is disgusting. But sometimes people be good and they
(05:38):
put the rice in the bottles. Now, my second story
is stateside. Uh you remember how when Republicans would drop
the All Lives Matter on you and they and the
whole black on black crime thing, and what about in Chicago?
(06:01):
What about crime in Baltimore? I don't know if y'all notice,
but these white people then built their own segregated city
again in Arkansas and the Ozarks. This white's only city.
They literally built a white's only city. How they were
able to do this was they was able to get
their charter as a private country club. But it's a
(06:21):
city that only white people allowed to live in. Anyway,
we can't live with the blacks or any other races.
And apparently the Jews ain't allowed in there either, because
they have their own cities. We're not allowed. We need
our own safe spaces because what about crime.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now, crime in Baltimore, don't get me wrong, was awful.
And the approach for years, just like the approach that
Donald Trump tried to sell us song, was by continually
to incrementally militarized areas and get tough on crime. But
(07:05):
now they truly got a home grown elected mayor, somebody
from the soil, and Baltimore just finished the first half
of twenty twenty five with the fewest homicides ever recorded
thanks to Mayor Brandon Scott. Now, how does this happen?
How is this happening right now? And I don't understand
why I do know why the news ain't talking about it?
(07:26):
And you know why the news ain't talking about it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Because Brandon Scott.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, of course this is obviously more complicated than this,
and of course that I bet you if you was there,
you got a lot more critiques. But I can attest
to this. The mayor invested in forty two summer youth programs,
twenty nine literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to
eleven PM, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe
fund in several school for summer's classes, and crime is
(07:55):
down sixty two percent. Imagine that. Now, why are y'all
not talking about that?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, nigga do.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But you know why I believe these numbers is because
I'm a product of these numbers. That's what happened in Kelly.
I've mentioned these locations in my own rap music and
on this show. Palm View Rec Center, Shadow Oak Park,
Cameron Youth Center, after school karate classes, after school boxing classes,
(08:31):
after school art classes, community sports teams, Edgewood Swimming Pool,
Workman High Swimming Pool. Listen, we had stuff to do.
There were other things to do that were fun. And
guess what my mama could afford them. Why because the
(08:52):
city supported it. It wasn't a private thing. I have
to go all the way to the burbs. No, in
my city. I just finished performing on Saturday, which was
well now last weekend for y'all. But down in South
Central off of fifty fourth and Crenshaw.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The what is it called the Whitehall.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Arts Academy, they do this third annual Rock the Block. Okay,
I watched these kids go to this art school from
it looked like from first grade all the way to
eighth grade. These kids wrote and performed these songs for
this little block party festival. The radio was out, Guitar
(09:37):
Center sponsored it. They was doing free groceries. These is
black and brown kids, and they wrote some of the
dopest songs. They danced, they performed. Me and the homies
who ended up having to perform, was like, look, man,
I hate that y'all put us on after them.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I cite for when I was a child.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I cite space people like Tommy and the Crump Battles.
You know why we weren't being violent, why we wasn't
out doing all kind of foolishness, was because we had
stuff to do. It ain't because you had a gang
of police on our streets. We had things to do
with adults that cared about us, people that gave us
(10:20):
ways to channel our energies and use our talents.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And even if we had beefs.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like y'all understand, that was what was so dope about
Timmy the Clown.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
If y'all beef, you would battle.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
If it was some street stuff you was a little
more aggressive, they'd give you boxing gloves.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You go to a rec center, y'all box, and then
after that you cool.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And of course for me, two locations project Glowed and Foundation.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
These were and mic and dim lights.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
These were poetry spots, rap spots, and dancing spots where
you just look, You used your energy and your talent.
You made friends, and some of these people I'm still
friends with to this day. I can attest that I
know in my soul that crime is probably down sixty
two percent, and I can draw a direct line in
(11:06):
my own life that the city investing in ways for
which the youth can spend their time in healthy ways
in my own life is what I'm telling you. I
know that brings crime down. So shout out the mayor, man,
I see you, homeboyd that's a terror former. Now you
(11:27):
might notice that me big enough. This mayor would be
the opposite of anarchy, because now I'm saying the institution
is doing good. Here's the reality. I'm not married to
any of these systems. You know what. I'm married to
the flourishing of the people.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Tap in with me.
As media. Truth is, I'm tired. Truth is, I'm tired.
I'm tired of unprecedented times because I really wish that term,
like why can't that apply to when it's good? It
(00:24):
always be when things is like truly falling apart. And
I've tried to on these fridays give y'all pieces that
were obviously shorter and sometimes you know, kind of fun
or breadth, the fresh air you know with the or
a farmer for me, and don'tisa or be the tyler
you want to see in the world. But it's just
(00:46):
so much awfulness happening that I can't dedicate. I can't
commit to this just being all positive. But sometimes people
be good, Sometimes the news be good. Sometimes you get
stories that remind you that, like, oh, you know what
(01:07):
it's it's some humanity in there somewhere. And I got
two stories of that for you, tap being with The
(01:29):
first one has to do with how oftentimes we rise
to the occasion in ways that will continue to surprise me.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So Gaza is being starved.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We all see that, and do you in everyone watching
is like, Israel is doing this. You have the power.
You created this sense of urgency. It got to a
place to where they had reached phase four of starvation,
which means that they're so malnourished that even if you
(02:04):
got food in there now is probably too late for
most of them. And then they want to cart around
images of boxes of aid sitting in the sun and saying, see,
the UN's not distributing it. It's like, bro, you think
we're stupid. You're the only person defending it. Why the
rest of the world is like, we see what you're doing. Anyway,
(02:25):
a complete governmental breakdown and collapse. That the institutions, even
the well meaning institutions, have truly failed these people, but
the people don't failed these people. And a video has
gone viral of people in Egypt. I almost want to cry,
(02:47):
understanding the desperation, understanding that listen, these borders are guarded
by weapons and military and choke points, and even when
you did bring food in, you're just gathering them in
there and shooting them. There has got to be a
way to get food here. And they said, you know
what carries food, the ocean currents. They're putting bottles sealed
(03:10):
up with rice and grain, throwing them into the Mediterranean
Sea and just like hoping that the current would take
that into Gaza, and you know what, a few of
them got there. It's desperate, it's sad. It should not
have to be like this, but damn, that is beautiful
to me. It's just so beautiful that people will find
(03:34):
a way. And it's at the time, like y'all, I've
been so I almost didn't want it. I was like, yo, record,
I'm not recording this week, man, y'all run some reruns.
I'm like, my heart is just I have a soul
tiredness being here in La the fires, then the ice raids.
(03:55):
I'm tired this Palestine like I'm tired. But that moment
right there, and that gave me life. These people did it.
They found a way, and it's why I am an anarchist.
CC See, y'all think anarchy means no rules, and in
some ways it is because listen, it's the archies that's
(04:19):
stopping the food from coming in there. The anarchy is
the one that says, I don't care about your borders.
I'm gonna put this rice in bottles and we're gonna
get this food to these people.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I don't need no dude to tell me there is
an understanding that these humans who live on the other
side of an imaginary line, who clearly that this government
want them to die, not on my watch, cause we're
gonna do whatever we can. And it was such a
shot of life to me because it's like, we can
(04:52):
paint our signs, we could protest over here. It's children
in Israel right now burning their draft paper. I love it.
Nobody wants this, nobody wants this. But as much as
these governments want to believe, you can't control the tides, baby,
the tides is bringing the food in there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And is it enough? No, not at all. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Of course, since the whole world was like you are
you created a famine and they was like, all right,
all right, we'll stop shooting for ten hours and we'll
let y'all fly in eight. It's just so absurd, like
why do we have to do this. It's just I mean,
this is disgusting. But sometimes people be good and they
(05:38):
put the rice in the bottles. Now, my second story
is stateside. Uh you remember how when Republicans would drop
the All Lives Matter on you and they and the
whole black on black crime thing, and what about in Chicago?
(06:01):
What about crime in Baltimore? I don't know if y'all notice,
but these white people then built their own segregated city
again in Arkansas and the Ozarks. This white's only city.
They literally built a white's only city. How they were
able to do this was they was able to get
their charter as a private country club. But it's a
(06:21):
city that only white people allowed to live in. Anyway,
we can't live with the blacks or any other races.
And apparently the Jews ain't allowed in there either, because
they have their own cities. We're not allowed. We need
our own safe spaces because what about crime.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
In Baltimore?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Now, crime in Baltimore, don't get me wrong, was awful.
And the approach for years, just like the approach that
Donald Trump tried to sell us song, was by continually
to incrementally militarized areas and get tough on crime. But
(07:05):
now they truly got a home grown elected mayor, somebody
from the soil, and Baltimore just finished the first half
of twenty twenty five with the fewest homicides ever recorded
thanks to Mayor Brandon Scott. Now, how does this happen?
How is this happening right now? And I don't understand
why I do know why the news ain't talking about it?
(07:26):
And you know why the news ain't talking about it.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Because Brandon Scott.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, of course this is obviously more complicated than this,
and of course that I bet you if you was there,
you got a lot more critiques. But I can attest
to this. The mayor invested in forty two summer youth programs,
twenty nine literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to
eleven PM, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe
fund in several school for summer's classes, and crime is
(07:55):
down sixty two percent. Imagine that. Now, why are y'all
not talking about that?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Well, nigga do.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But you know why I believe these numbers is because
I'm a product of these numbers. That's what happened in Kelly.
I've mentioned these locations in my own rap music and
on this show. Palm View Rec Center, Shadow Oak Park,
Cameron Youth Center, after school karate classes, after school boxing classes,
(08:31):
after school art classes, community sports teams, Edgewood Swimming Pool,
Workman High Swimming Pool. Listen, we had stuff to do.
There were other things to do that were fun. And
guess what my mama could afford them. Why because the
(08:52):
city supported it. It wasn't a private thing. I have
to go all the way to the burbs. No, in
my city. I just finished performing on Saturday, which was
well now last weekend for y'all. But down in South
Central off of fifty fourth and Crenshaw.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
The what is it called the Whitehall.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Arts Academy, they do this third annual Rock the Block. Okay,
I watched these kids go to this art school from
it looked like from first grade all the way to
eighth grade. These kids wrote and performed these songs for
this little block party festival. The radio was out, Guitar
(09:37):
Center sponsored it. They was doing free groceries. These is
black and brown kids, and they wrote some of the
dopest songs. They danced, they performed. Me and the homies
who ended up having to perform, was like, look, man,
I hate that y'all put us on after them.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I cite for when I was a child.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I cite space people like Tommy and the Crump Battles.
You know why we weren't being violent, why we wasn't
out doing all kind of foolishness, was because we had
stuff to do. It ain't because you had a gang
of police on our streets. We had things to do
with adults that cared about us, people that gave us
(10:20):
ways to channel our energies and use our talents.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And even if we had beefs.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Like y'all understand, that was what was so dope about
Timmy the Clown.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
If y'all beef, you would battle.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
If it was some street stuff you was a little
more aggressive, they'd give you boxing gloves.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
You go to a rec center, y'all box, and then
after that you cool.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And of course for me, two locations project Glowed and Foundation.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
These were and mic and dim lights.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
These were poetry spots, rap spots, and dancing spots where
you just look, You used your energy and your talent.
You made friends, and some of these people I'm still
friends with to this day. I can attest that I
know in my soul that crime is probably down sixty
two percent, and I can draw a direct line in
(11:06):
my own life that the city investing in ways for
which the youth can spend their time in healthy ways
in my own life is what I'm telling you. I
know that brings crime down. So shout out the mayor, man,
I see you, homeboyd that's a terror former. Now you
(11:27):
might notice that me big enough. This mayor would be
the opposite of anarchy, because now I'm saying the institution
is doing good. Here's the reality. I'm not married to
any of these systems. You know what. I'm married to
the flourishing of the people.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Tap in with me.
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