September 29, 2025 • 41 mins
Valentina is an amazing Dominican pop-artist on the rise from la isla whose career i've been watching for years, but before getting into her story–I have two points to make I think people should be thinking about as we process the life of the great Assata Shakur.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Me, Scota son Sonis I want to take the whale
this episode even more by talking your ear off. I
know what some of y'all are saying or thinking, Yo
me or Guando. No will buckle up, Buttercup, because outside
of an amazing interview with Valentina A dol Dominicana artists
(00:21):
that amya, I really want to get into a black
fan radical thought real quick, let me cook, and I
just really want to talk about what that means. On
this episode we're getting into duality and you know where
the inspiration comes from. Just a few days ago, on
September twenty fifth, the great revolutionary activist Asada Shakur has
(00:45):
died from old age and sickness. In twenty twenty five, Trump, Conservatives, Republicans,
Nazis are all on some shit, I mean, Guando, but
especially now they're feeling themselves. As I've shared as several
points throughout this entire show. We're episode twenty five. Oh
my god, I'm sure the SoundBite reel would really hate.
(01:08):
But anyway, in Focando, I have adhdo. I really want
to get into the life and legacy of Asada Shaker
and the significance of her death, especially during this administration
because her words are hitting a little harder today. I'm
an educator, not an activist in the sense that I'm
not out in the streets. Don't know that, Joey Noaz.
(01:35):
I will do that with a book in my hand.
But that's it. That's all I got. But do I
like to think that I am a black radical woman
because of my politics? I'm gonna go with yes.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I wouldn't compare myself to anyone because there are levels
to this type of classification, but I fall within the
ballpark for sure. In this episode, I really want to
break down who Asada Shaquer was for those of y'all
who are like, who is this and like why is
everyone praising someone on the FBI terrorist list and what
her significance means, because she's much more than that. She
(02:10):
is an activist. She was a member of the Black
Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, she was a mover
a shaker and where all black women are better off
because of her and all of her associates. So let's
get right into it, Aki, okay me Hanther, I promise
(02:42):
you I'll bring it Togaton, But first I want to
honor Asata Shaker Asata is Maya Angelo, Nina Simone's sister Soldiers,
sojian At Truth and Harriet Tubman rolled into one. Okay,
I said that the thing that all of these women
have in common is that they're all about action.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
All right, spell on you, because man.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So what are we about to do? One thing that
people always get wrong about marginalized people in history is
that everyone moved the same and that's not true. There
were people throughout history who escaped their conditions. That's like
a Harriet Tubman. There were people who were too scared
(03:35):
and did what they thought they had to do to survive.
We all know people like that, people who don't want
to change their their circumstances because the canan and media
can kidding Camasusi, Kustacia Mihante. And then there were people
who made it harder on people in the same predicament
as them by joining those who oppressed them Lamboni's kuns
(03:58):
in twenty twenty five, there's so many people who fit
that last category, and it's why progress feels so slow.
I'm gonna bring this to Tega Thrown in a second,
but first I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud
Assada Shakur, who was a member of the Black Liberation
Army the Black Panther Party, two groups that were created
(04:18):
to improve the living conditions of black people in America
to SATA like the Young Lords, different Latinos, but especially
Bodriqua's if you didn't hear the episode with Jinna Martinas
Go tap In and she talks about it. They were
all eventually classified as enemies of the state because then
and now, and I'm talking about the sixty seventies. Now,
(04:41):
those in power want to control what poor people have
access to, whether it's food, healthcare, like basic shit that
people need to survive. They're not happy unless the ground
is shifting underneath poor people. Asada was wrongfully convicted of
murder of a New Jersey police officer. She went to jail,
(05:03):
escaped and lived in Kuba, where she was granted asylum.
Like I know some people are like, okay, girl, like
how do we get to draghetto sons. I just want
to make these points because the truth is I could
write a book on how important Asada Shaker's life is
(05:26):
as a case study on how far the government is
willing to go to humble black women but I'm not
gonna do that right now. I'm gonna make one of
two points.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I know a lot of you are looking at the
news and thinking, bro, how did we even get here?
I thought it was about Democrats and Republicans. Where are
people saying nazi and fascists and authoritarian dictatorship all of
a sudden, Like, where did this come from? It's not
all of a sudden, all right. Both the parties got
(05:57):
so big that they started absorbing and ideas that they
don't even really care about, to force people into choosing
one over the other while convincing us that both groups
are so different. Well, I'm here to tell you that
they're so not. Asata Shaka is brilliant in that she
understood this from decades ago. Okay, she literally is on
(06:22):
record saying some iteration of people who will express an
opinion on every conceivable subject, I'm gonna finish it, are
ultimately saying nothing. If you're saying an opinion on everything,
oh ca see no cause sometimes gues sometimes no. Okay.
If you're always in the middle, you're not standing on anything.
(06:42):
And people who don't stand on anything real are dangerous
because guess what you can't be the get in the
middle when it comes to like helping people when they
need help, okay, when when violence is a factor, like
then I can go ahead on latto okay. And not
(07:03):
picking aside is picking aside thrombing. That's point one and
point number two. There's a lot of people out here
who think they're radical, but they're not. They're subscribed to
the program, and some people even think they're bigger than
the program. And I wish we were more real about that. So,
first of all, it's not popular to look like you're
(07:24):
part of the program. It's not. In fact, those who
rise socially are often looked at as like they're so
counterculture and rebellious and radical and et cetera. But the
truth is a lot of people are only as radical
as what is necessary for their comfort of living. And
that's the truth that's really really hard to swallow. I
(07:47):
have to swallow that myself, in the sense of, like,
you know, how deep is a person? How deep am I?
Like really measuring where that is and where it's not.
There are people who are literally fit put in their
bodies on the line. I'm not deeper than those people,
you know what I mean? And so that's literally what
I'm talking about. Okay, And at one point in time,
(08:09):
to bring it to another context because you're like, I'm
going to gata. How did we get here? And please
bring it to reggaeton Okay, I got you. Reggaeton at
one point in time was radical, it was bold, it
was questioning, It defied, it rejected, it disrupted. Today reggaeton
(08:32):
is mouldible, it's whitewashed. It questions nothing. Go ahead, girl,
give us nothing. Like Reggaeton's not deep at all today.
It absorbs and anything that's able to like take form
from something else. Like it can't stand on its own.
It's not durable, it's not strong anymore. And I say
(08:55):
that with the profound love of ragaton. Ragaton is not
deep anymore. Reggaton is now a tool that's used for
the masses, but not in a way that it's positively
influencing something that that is pro black. And that's where
its roots are from. That's where I'm always basing it
from Actuchando. So with that said, what does it matter?
(09:17):
What does it matter that some people are, you know,
subscribed to the program. I just wish that we could
be real about this and bringing it back to Asada Shakur,
she was absolutely not part of the program. She defied
the program. She was. Her ability to defy the program
(09:38):
and reject it was so scary to white people. It's
why they made her the number one enemy literally because
for some reason black people being free and not being
subjugated and not a you know, marginalized, it's against the
white supremacist order. So her literally dedicating her life and
(10:03):
her work to going against that and educating people on that,
it's by definition a part of the program. And so yeah,
in today's world where people can't even be true on that,
you know, it was vulnerable for me to say that
I'm not that deep bro, like I'm not in certain
in certain times, like I'm really really not and that's
the truth. And I stand in my truth and that's
(10:25):
who I am. I know who I am. A lot
of people swear they know who they are and they don't.
And where I'm going with this since to bring it
to a point, and the close is that when you
don't know who you are and you're yapping and you're
educating or influencing millions or hundreds of thousands of people,
that's dangerous, and in today's world, programming can't be left
(10:49):
to like nonsense bro like, everything needs to be more intentional.
In fact, the fact that that things are not as
intentional as they should be, or ought to be, or
used to be is quite literally the reason why we're
all here. It's quite the reason why a lot of
people are like, oh, but you know, Democrat Republican. Everything
(11:11):
that I've set a point one directly relates with everything
I set in point two. Now, Asada Shakur was a
force to be reckoned with. Her name is to not
be compared lightly. Don't be putting her next to any person.
Just because you admire her doesn't mean that some people
are on her level. What she was willing to sacrifice,
(11:35):
a lot of people would never be able to sacrifice
eyes open or shut, period. And so think about that.
I encourage you to read all her work by from
black owned libraries. You see me hint recipes. Asada Shaker,
you are among us as an ancestor. And I'm holding
on to that hope because God knows we need it easy.
(12:01):
I know I'm going off on a Sada Shaquer, but
we'll be right back after these messages do not move, Okay,
(12:34):
Ma Hansa, I've been yapping for Gano how long. I
want to get into the guests of this episode. Let's
get into this conversation with Valentina Abbada, dominiqu Ghanazia and
Willin Lachula, who has a lot to say. Yes, regressor story,
but also the scene of Latin music. Let's get into it.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
So you're like, I love that Valentina, Yes, Dominican energy.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh how are you feeling? I love it? Yes, exactly.
I'm good girl.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I'm doing good because I'm like, it's been crazy week.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Right, crazy, but good.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm so proud of you, thank you your bron like
so much, like so so much.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I honestly know, I'm enjoying watching it, like it's inspiring,
like your God, You're you're going for the gold, you know,
and you're not letting anything stop you and you're doing
what the smell in your face and yimo like.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I love it? Yes, its like infectious one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Day you may I know where you're from, and we
of course hinted at it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But you see, y'all know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So shout out to.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
You.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes, I miss living in the art.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Lord tell me, tell me about your because I know,
you know, you wear it everywhere you can go.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's infectious. You know, you can't keep it a secret.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It's like all over your face, it's all over your being,
It's all over your foremother said, like, talk to me
about how your dominiquans a like influences your music and
and and you yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Is that I get I'm okay, wow that Dominica. Yeah yeah, okay,
my personally dimica.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Artilminicano, trata si.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Conto and minas ibamicanla musica.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Why do I.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Get to know because the thing is Mira.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, Ana.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Aguela perros to momentary moments and local Musicamnica and the
Prieto west com Mostra roll out the look.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
At I'm being Mosica, That's what.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
And and Capri okay.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You miss cancion and like, you know, let people know
that I'm Dominican. Okay yo, soy yak ya set I
gonna get in the house of n y ya.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Sorry you know yah yah.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Know saying any ja, but okay, mijauki no liken.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Me our max.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
In the.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Receiver, poko okay, Dominica.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Your personal p and me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Like lame Fluencias, Ander and Lola, you know, like it's
mensa and aspect of the goa. Right, I'm like, no,
that's that's Dominican. That's that that that's that comes from
over there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's grea.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You don't know you're talking about. So like I I
appreciate what you just said because and I hear what
you're saying. You're saying like you as well, in the
way that you exist is also Dominican. That gathers different
ways to to exist.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
As a Dominica. It's not just one way. You don't
have to be in one. So I appreciate that because
it's the truth, you know, like.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Us Okay, obviously if we go.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And typical.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And Sario too, our worlds Fernando na like per in
a musical, okay, come.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Misconcept and lookay what I mean said, you know, like
urban music, hica, and just like, well that's what I'm
trying to do.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
And I still represent you know.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah, And I appreciate this again because.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know, there's a difference between what the artists are
putting out into the world and what the industry wants
the artists to put out into the world, and what
they're accepting because I I would call it right of
artists who are coming out and and trying to like
really hone in on their dominicanla but in innovative ways.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I think of you, I think of I think of
MARII I think of There's so many that, honestly in
my mind is like which one does I say? Which
want to say?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, I gonna guantas that are coming out and like
they're being called. You guys are being called like defiant right,
Why can't you just right?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Why can't you just but no?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because guess what, like people who are gonna who love
you will gravitate towards that and that will only grow.
So go to you, goudos to you, you know, I know,
I mean it's a truth. I'm like where, you know,
let's be real here and honest saying no, that's not
another said right?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How do you maintain your your mental health?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Like how do you take care of.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
You know that at the beginning, it was hard musica
twin covers.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That I remember, yeah, kom Okay, hell.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Pero and pianos super.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Over here Ye a travelism by said Andre went back
to twenty seventeen Ilami and doombar yea and momento.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Your receiving Mucho mucho hate and grace of seattles and much.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And la parade imo mura to you went this single.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
And as a momento.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Okay okay tala come okay kando, but you're not gonna
hat on me because of this implemented part using the
kayes orright sogo.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Public whatever you were, a puligan does it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's all.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
They're not opinion.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Ye it's a momento segment hate.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
There like it were today. You have never been online like.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Pedal because it's not just being on.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's like in the midst of that, you know, to
you know, it's not like you're going out of your
way doing something that's not you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's like, look, I'm being me. Those who like it's
okay you.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Look you an innisodid your argument receive your come I
wouldn't show myself some personal exists them.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I say, okay, you know, so.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
You see Rosa at the end the come ok for
Meluca said the weather and then person, I mean you
see I show my excitement for every thing that's that's
been happening.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Coin come com and por my coastal.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Pymorando or showed too much excitement.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I love you energy and I love your attitude sadly.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Like with me, you know, like you see my work,
you you see my work? Wait, and so you know,
like with me, I can I can identify with that
as well, especially like these past two years I worked
on shout Out to Shout Out to Netflix, like shout
Out to April.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That show was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I got that threats.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was like the best project I've I mean, this
is this is my new best project.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Right, but that was my favorite, you know in most okay,
life changing project that I've ever worked on.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know, I have TV credits now, like I don't
is that in Netflix?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Like lead that on?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And I got that threats. People were like right, yeah,
but people were you know, I got that threats. People
were like, oh okay, yeah what.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Like I'm like, bro, like, how are you lad? How
are you mad? I got a job either.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
We say okay, and the and the tiving oh, we
say get the present, the present, whatever, And here I am,
you know, fighting for us.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And then this is what I get.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sometimes I've learned and I guess to get to the
point here is that sometimes culture can be ungrateful, and
that's something that I've I've accepted because if I'm gonna
keep going forward, I have to like not get distracted
by that, you know, like and I feel like that's
what I'm also getting from you, like just focus on
who loves you. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
(25:36):
I do want to shift gears a little bit and
talk about your music, you know, like who cares about
the people who you know don't like your whatever?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Because I saw you sing on Arima.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Stage period, okay, pariod.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You did that shit and it looks so cute.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
I love the outfrere no so nervous, noo, moving around
the stage, vocal, the mic was on, mic was on, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Like, no, you did that. You did that, my dear, the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So like, you know, just shifting us a little bit,
Like what project or what song in particular you think
is like the most.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Encapsulating of who the aura of Valentina is? Does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Can you see what joke they stay in San Domingo
un salio and your basal you don't get in your poke?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
I feel, ok, it's a cancium, the finio, the finio
on the joy and.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
My Projecto.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Okayas has been you know, he said, Pami aiong boy
and we film Versail maconas Mincio, Garcia Cancio.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Do so I feel like.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I obviously say it's my favorite all the time, when
then let so I would say that's.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I love that. I love that, and honestly I love
that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I love that for you. I want to shift hers
a little bit of me and that you of course
are a woman and you're putting on for the ladies.
What does it mean for you to express yourself and
to own your body and like in a space where
easily right it's and with right and for those who
(28:38):
feel that that's invigorating and and you know, like lively.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Like for me one of those people. Then if you're okay,
know right, So what does that look like for.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You, like owning like your sexual liberation and and your
body and well being an artist?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I feel like jelly jumbo la. It was a lot
of pettos y l k s, Like I said, okay,
because because your comgram mental life feel like Judo generals.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
In okay, no no.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Melodis sex and the cheeta you know, Son.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
What's funny as that, what's funny as a saxonist.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's the friend I form.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You are a cold and you had your stomach a
little bit and you had your Are you the part
to me? I don't know, it's it's a flowers.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Me moment, boy take my life, but memo, just get
your boy.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Being coma.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And Kambia is the secret, you know, not bandy.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
And what.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
But I mean, I feel like I don't need it,
and that's okay. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. It's
true to who you are. I music. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
We talked about a number of different things, your music,
mental health, sexual liberation.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
There's a lot of oh.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Hello, because you said, I'm like, I can't let that
one slide because finally in my chair talk me about that.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I of course I might like I might. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't know, I might know.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, I'll big for me what I love about honestly,
like I always say, and it's not so dramatic, but
it's the truth that I don't say my life like
you can't listen to and be sad. You can't like
when I was younger, No Bana, no you know when
(32:02):
I was, I was a depressed emo teenager. Like I
know people are listening to the like huh and I'm like, yes,
I was a depressed emo teenager like I've gone through
some stuff in my younger years and like it's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm like shopping at Hot Topic, the Black Nails, the Evil.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Haircut, Reggaeton, Regaton and Green Day Reggaeton and Guess three
Days Grace Reggaeton and Paramoid Regaton.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yes, I listened to rock. I love rock, you know,
you know, so like I love rock and I love Regaton.
To me, they're not that different. They're just you know,
like in theory.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And that's what that does for me, at least on
a personal super personal. And then Tambanga was like a woman.
I just I'm like, wait, the calling response that's always
like got to me, like get to getta. I'm like,
I'm sorry, wait, who had who has the power here?
(33:00):
If if the woman? If the woman, take the woman
out of the song? No sanci and I no, no,
you know nomo. So that's what I get tool that
for me?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
What does it do for you?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
I love it?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
First of all?
Speaker 8 (33:12):
O you I mean you.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Don't you and you look yeah yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Rubio frake chakie, I can't.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Know that you see moving fan like Comala and he
puts on my projecto.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Sorry prieto sat bola point because I'm mocho the.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Okay, I'm going bare foot and.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Brattling in cabrio.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Akay, I mean it's part of me, that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No lo.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, am mblla just brought me back. So you know,
not to keep bringing up Neon, but I mean it
is my baby as well. If you watch Neon that
(34:46):
Shaw on Netflix, the last episode, there's a kings I say,
it's a real life story from my from my life.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So during my King.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Says, I of course was obsessed what I get on then,
and of course it were in the big white dress
and like you know, like super formal, and my parents
they met in church, like mommy is.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Super religious, Galla Domingo.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, so like you know, like she was not a
fan of me being a fan of and so during
my King says this kid that I was like dating.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
My little boyfriend or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He like walks in and I'm like ah, and they
started playing Jordan. I'm like, oh my god, I want
to dance with this kid, but like lot, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Then I get right.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And so if you watch the scene, it's a true
story for my life. Like my cousin he went to
go distrac mommy and then my other cousins.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Like make a wall. No bullshit, Like watch watch the episode.
That's a real story.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I told the writers that, and they were like, we're
putting that in the show, like it's a little.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
That it actually exists visually.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
You just brought me back there. They're so my mother
would never my mother would never come by you have.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Me gains it?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
No girl?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
No?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Maybe no? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh girl? Oh wow, shout out to he follows.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
A woman that.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I cannot You're like full of surprises and like I
love it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Keep being you, keep going after what you want, don't
pay attention to the haters, like and and keep like
Anna and friends, you know, like keep expressing yourself the
way that you want to and like keep pleading thank.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
You for existing, you for having me by my love. Yeah,
I got there, child.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I know y'all are really digging what I'm saying. But
we'll be right back right after these messages. Then Okay, okay,
(37:50):
Black Panther Party as Sada Shakur, White Supremacy, an interview
with the Puppies Dominicana. This is a lot going on
in this episode. Let's get into La La La, the
segment where I break things down. Let's get into it.
(38:16):
My god, what an episode.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Who would think?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Where else are you going to get a breakdown of
the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army Asada Shaker, the
FBI cointail pro Regga. You know, cultural appropriation that regat
people are doing it right, people are doing it wrong
in an interview? Where else are you going to get that?
Only here? This interview with Valentina was dope. I super
(38:42):
appreciate it. I feel like this girl grew a lot. Okay,
she grew a lot in general artistically, and she grew
a lot on me. I remember when she first stepped
out onto the scene. I was like, oh, my goodness.
But no, over time, she showed her heart, over time,
she showed her talent. At the end of the day,
(39:03):
this is a business, y'all, and this is music, y'all.
As long as we like what we're hearing, the other
things that can be fixed, especially if the artists are
willing to do so, and if they're they're down and
they're you know, go, which she is that she always
has been. So I like Valentina. I'm a fan. I
like what I hear, I like what I see, and
(39:23):
I like where she's going. I truly hope that you know,
you guys give her a chance and that you guys
learned with my long ass monologue at the top of
this episode me Henther, I just think it's super important
for you know, now more than ever. There are so
many initiatives listen to black women, protect black women, But
(39:46):
I truly can't emphasize it enough. These are not just
stylish monikers that you hear all over the internet. The
repercussions for not listening to us is dire. And you
know what they say, when black people get a little bit,
everyone else gets a lot. I'm gonna go ahead and
(40:06):
reiterate that here in the sense of, you know, doing
right by us has positive effects for everybody else, because
unfortunately black women we do too much for everybody else.
But that is the reality, and I'm not holding us
to that. I'm making that observation. That's what that was.
(40:28):
But more importantly, like if we're gonna get out of
this predicament, which I'm eager to I don't know about y'all.
It's going to require that we listen more than we talk,
especially if we're non black p s. A. And that's
all I got for it.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
La La La.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Podcast is an Ahameia production co executive producer Melia. The
Kiaro producer is Grace Gonstalez. The Kiero music engineer Habbi Vibe.
The Getto production assistants Naomi Asavelo and Kayla Ecleston. The
show is edited by Walking Cutler and I'm your host,
(41:10):
Lagatta A shout out to Clevelander and Miami Beach. I'll
see you're right here next week on the iHeartRadio app
Me, Scota son Sonis I want to take the whale
this episode even more by talking your ear off. I
know what some of y'all are saying or thinking, Yo
me or Guando. No will buckle up, Buttercup, because outside
of an amazing interview with Valentina A dol Dominicana artists
(00:21):
that amya, I really want to get into a black
fan radical thought real quick, let me cook, and I
just really want to talk about what that means. On
this episode we're getting into duality and you know where
the inspiration comes from. Just a few days ago, on
September twenty fifth, the great revolutionary activist Asada Shakur has
(00:45):
died from old age and sickness. In twenty twenty five, Trump, Conservatives, Republicans,
Nazis are all on some shit, I mean, Guando, but
especially now they're feeling themselves. As I've shared as several
points throughout this entire show. We're episode twenty five. Oh
my god, I'm sure the SoundBite reel would really hate.
(01:08):
But anyway, in Focando, I have adhdo. I really want
to get into the life and legacy of Asada Shaker
and the significance of her death, especially during this administration
because her words are hitting a little harder today. I'm
an educator, not an activist in the sense that I'm
not out in the streets. Don't know that, Joey Noaz.
(01:35):
I will do that with a book in my hand.
But that's it. That's all I got. But do I
like to think that I am a black radical woman
because of my politics? I'm gonna go with yes.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I wouldn't compare myself to anyone because there are levels
to this type of classification, but I fall within the
ballpark for sure. In this episode, I really want to
break down who Asada Shaquer was for those of y'all
who are like, who is this and like why is
everyone praising someone on the FBI terrorist list and what
her significance means, because she's much more than that. She
(02:10):
is an activist. She was a member of the Black
Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, she was a mover
a shaker and where all black women are better off
because of her and all of her associates. So let's
get right into it, Aki, okay me Hanther, I promise
(02:42):
you I'll bring it Togaton, But first I want to
honor Asata Shaker Asata is Maya Angelo, Nina Simone's sister Soldiers,
sojian At Truth and Harriet Tubman rolled into one. Okay,
I said that the thing that all of these women
have in common is that they're all about action.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
All right, spell on you, because man.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
So what are we about to do? One thing that
people always get wrong about marginalized people in history is
that everyone moved the same and that's not true. There
were people throughout history who escaped their conditions. That's like
a Harriet Tubman. There were people who were too scared
(03:35):
and did what they thought they had to do to survive.
We all know people like that, people who don't want
to change their their circumstances because the canan and media
can kidding Camasusi, Kustacia Mihante. And then there were people
who made it harder on people in the same predicament
as them by joining those who oppressed them Lamboni's kuns
(03:58):
in twenty twenty five, there's so many people who fit
that last category, and it's why progress feels so slow.
I'm gonna bring this to Tega Thrown in a second,
but first I'm gonna say the quiet part out loud
Assada Shakur, who was a member of the Black Liberation
Army the Black Panther Party, two groups that were created
(04:18):
to improve the living conditions of black people in America
to SATA like the Young Lords, different Latinos, but especially
Bodriqua's if you didn't hear the episode with Jinna Martinas
Go tap In and she talks about it. They were
all eventually classified as enemies of the state because then
and now, and I'm talking about the sixty seventies. Now,
(04:41):
those in power want to control what poor people have
access to, whether it's food, healthcare, like basic shit that
people need to survive. They're not happy unless the ground
is shifting underneath poor people. Asada was wrongfully convicted of
murder of a New Jersey police officer. She went to jail,
(05:03):
escaped and lived in Kuba, where she was granted asylum.
Like I know some people are like, okay, girl, like
how do we get to draghetto sons. I just want
to make these points because the truth is I could
write a book on how important Asada Shaker's life is
(05:26):
as a case study on how far the government is
willing to go to humble black women but I'm not
gonna do that right now. I'm gonna make one of
two points.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
One.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I know a lot of you are looking at the
news and thinking, bro, how did we even get here?
I thought it was about Democrats and Republicans. Where are
people saying nazi and fascists and authoritarian dictatorship all of
a sudden, Like, where did this come from? It's not
all of a sudden, all right. Both the parties got
(05:57):
so big that they started absorbing and ideas that they
don't even really care about, to force people into choosing
one over the other while convincing us that both groups
are so different. Well, I'm here to tell you that
they're so not. Asata Shaka is brilliant in that she
understood this from decades ago. Okay, she literally is on
(06:22):
record saying some iteration of people who will express an
opinion on every conceivable subject, I'm gonna finish it, are
ultimately saying nothing. If you're saying an opinion on everything,
oh ca see no cause sometimes gues sometimes no. Okay.
If you're always in the middle, you're not standing on anything.
(06:42):
And people who don't stand on anything real are dangerous
because guess what you can't be the get in the
middle when it comes to like helping people when they
need help, okay, when when violence is a factor, like
then I can go ahead on latto okay. And not
(07:03):
picking aside is picking aside thrombing. That's point one and
point number two. There's a lot of people out here
who think they're radical, but they're not. They're subscribed to
the program, and some people even think they're bigger than
the program. And I wish we were more real about that. So,
first of all, it's not popular to look like you're
(07:24):
part of the program. It's not. In fact, those who
rise socially are often looked at as like they're so
counterculture and rebellious and radical and et cetera. But the
truth is a lot of people are only as radical
as what is necessary for their comfort of living. And
that's the truth that's really really hard to swallow. I
(07:47):
have to swallow that myself, in the sense of, like,
you know, how deep is a person? How deep am I?
Like really measuring where that is and where it's not.
There are people who are literally fit put in their
bodies on the line. I'm not deeper than those people,
you know what I mean? And so that's literally what
I'm talking about. Okay, And at one point in time,
(08:09):
to bring it to another context because you're like, I'm
going to gata. How did we get here? And please
bring it to reggaeton Okay, I got you. Reggaeton at
one point in time was radical, it was bold, it
was questioning, It defied, it rejected, it disrupted. Today reggaeton
(08:32):
is mouldible, it's whitewashed. It questions nothing. Go ahead, girl,
give us nothing. Like Reggaeton's not deep at all today.
It absorbs and anything that's able to like take form
from something else. Like it can't stand on its own.
It's not durable, it's not strong anymore. And I say
(08:55):
that with the profound love of ragaton. Ragaton is not
deep anymore. Reggaton is now a tool that's used for
the masses, but not in a way that it's positively
influencing something that that is pro black. And that's where
its roots are from. That's where I'm always basing it
from Actuchando. So with that said, what does it matter?
(09:17):
What does it matter that some people are, you know,
subscribed to the program. I just wish that we could
be real about this and bringing it back to Asada Shakur,
she was absolutely not part of the program. She defied
the program. She was. Her ability to defy the program
(09:38):
and reject it was so scary to white people. It's
why they made her the number one enemy literally because
for some reason black people being free and not being
subjugated and not a you know, marginalized, it's against the
white supremacist order. So her literally dedicating her life and
(10:03):
her work to going against that and educating people on that,
it's by definition a part of the program. And so yeah,
in today's world where people can't even be true on that,
you know, it was vulnerable for me to say that
I'm not that deep bro, like I'm not in certain
in certain times, like I'm really really not and that's
the truth. And I stand in my truth and that's
(10:25):
who I am. I know who I am. A lot
of people swear they know who they are and they don't.
And where I'm going with this since to bring it
to a point, and the close is that when you
don't know who you are and you're yapping and you're
educating or influencing millions or hundreds of thousands of people,
that's dangerous, and in today's world, programming can't be left
(10:49):
to like nonsense bro like, everything needs to be more intentional.
In fact, the fact that that things are not as
intentional as they should be, or ought to be, or
used to be is quite literally the reason why we're
all here. It's quite the reason why a lot of
people are like, oh, but you know, Democrat Republican. Everything
(11:11):
that I've set a point one directly relates with everything
I set in point two. Now, Asada Shakur was a
force to be reckoned with. Her name is to not
be compared lightly. Don't be putting her next to any person.
Just because you admire her doesn't mean that some people
are on her level. What she was willing to sacrifice,
(11:35):
a lot of people would never be able to sacrifice
eyes open or shut, period. And so think about that.
I encourage you to read all her work by from
black owned libraries. You see me hint recipes. Asada Shaker,
you are among us as an ancestor. And I'm holding
on to that hope because God knows we need it easy.
(12:01):
I know I'm going off on a Sada Shaquer, but
we'll be right back after these messages do not move, Okay,
(12:34):
Ma Hansa, I've been yapping for Gano how long. I
want to get into the guests of this episode. Let's
get into this conversation with Valentina Abbada, dominiqu Ghanazia and
Willin Lachula, who has a lot to say. Yes, regressor story,
but also the scene of Latin music. Let's get into it.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
So you're like, I love that Valentina, Yes, Dominican energy.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Oh how are you feeling? I love it? Yes, exactly.
I'm good girl.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I'm doing good because I'm like, it's been crazy week.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Right, crazy, but good.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'm so proud of you, thank you your bron like
so much, like so so much.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I honestly know, I'm enjoying watching it, like it's inspiring,
like your God, You're you're going for the gold, you know,
and you're not letting anything stop you and you're doing
what the smell in your face and yimo like.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I love it? Yes, its like infectious one.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Day you may I know where you're from, and we
of course hinted at it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
But you see, y'all know, I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So shout out to.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
You.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yes, I miss living in the art.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Lord tell me, tell me about your because I know,
you know, you wear it everywhere you can go.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's infectious. You know, you can't keep it a secret.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
It's like all over your face, it's all over your being,
It's all over your foremother said, like, talk to me
about how your dominiquans a like influences your music and
and and you yourself.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Is that I get I'm okay, wow that Dominica. Yeah yeah, okay,
my personally dimica.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
Artilminicano, trata si.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Conto and minas ibamicanla musica.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Why do I.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Get to know because the thing is Mira.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, Ana.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Aguela perros to momentary moments and local Musicamnica and the
Prieto west com Mostra roll out the look.
Speaker 6 (16:00):
At I'm being Mosica, That's what.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
And and Capri okay.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You miss cancion and like, you know, let people know
that I'm Dominican. Okay yo, soy yak ya set I
gonna get in the house of n y ya.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Sorry you know yah yah.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Know saying any ja, but okay, mijauki no liken.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Me our max.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
In the.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Receiver, poko okay, Dominica.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Your personal p and me.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Like lame Fluencias, Ander and Lola, you know, like it's
mensa and aspect of the goa. Right, I'm like, no,
that's that's Dominican. That's that that that's that comes from
over there.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
That's grea.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You don't know you're talking about. So like I I
appreciate what you just said because and I hear what
you're saying. You're saying like you as well, in the
way that you exist is also Dominican. That gathers different
ways to to exist.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
As a Dominica. It's not just one way. You don't
have to be in one. So I appreciate that because
it's the truth, you know, like.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Us Okay, obviously if we go.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And typical.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
And Sario too, our worlds Fernando na like per in
a musical, okay, come.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Misconcept and lookay what I mean said, you know, like
urban music, hica, and just like, well that's what I'm
trying to do.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
And I still represent you know.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah, And I appreciate this again because.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You know, there's a difference between what the artists are
putting out into the world and what the industry wants
the artists to put out into the world, and what
they're accepting because I I would call it right of
artists who are coming out and and trying to like
really hone in on their dominicanla but in innovative ways.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I think of you, I think of I think of
MARII I think of There's so many that, honestly in
my mind is like which one does I say? Which
want to say?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, I gonna guantas that are coming out and like
they're being called. You guys are being called like defiant right,
Why can't you just right?
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Why can't you just but no?
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Because guess what, like people who are gonna who love
you will gravitate towards that and that will only grow.
So go to you, goudos to you, you know, I know,
I mean it's a truth. I'm like where, you know,
let's be real here and honest saying no, that's not
another said right?
Speaker 8 (20:11):
You know?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How do you maintain your your mental health?
Speaker 7 (20:17):
Like how do you take care of.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
You know that at the beginning, it was hard musica
twin covers.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
That I remember, yeah, kom Okay, hell.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Pero and pianos super.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Over here Ye a travelism by said Andre went back
to twenty seventeen Ilami and doombar yea and momento.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Your receiving Mucho mucho hate and grace of seattles and much.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
And la parade imo mura to you went this single.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
And as a momento.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Okay okay tala come okay kando, but you're not gonna
hat on me because of this implemented part using the
kayes orright sogo.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Public whatever you were, a puligan does it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
It's all.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
They're not opinion.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Ye it's a momento segment hate.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
There like it were today. You have never been online like.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Pedal because it's not just being on.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
It's like in the midst of that, you know, to
you know, it's not like you're going out of your
way doing something that's not you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
It's like, look, I'm being me. Those who like it's
okay you.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Look you an innisodid your argument receive your come I
wouldn't show myself some personal exists them.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I say, okay, you know, so.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
You see Rosa at the end the come ok for
Meluca said the weather and then person, I mean you
see I show my excitement for every thing that's that's
been happening.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Coin come com and por my coastal.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Pymorando or showed too much excitement.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I love you energy and I love your attitude sadly.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Like with me, you know, like you see my work,
you you see my work? Wait, and so you know,
like with me, I can I can identify with that
as well, especially like these past two years I worked
on shout Out to Shout Out to Netflix, like shout
Out to April.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
That show was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I got that threats.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
That was like the best project I've I mean, this
is this is my new best project.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Right, but that was my favorite, you know in most okay,
life changing project that I've ever worked on.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know, I have TV credits now, like I don't
is that in Netflix?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Like lead that on?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
And I got that threats. People were like right, yeah,
but people were you know, I got that threats. People
were like, oh okay, yeah what.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Like I'm like, bro, like, how are you lad? How
are you mad? I got a job either.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
We say okay, and the and the tiving oh, we
say get the present, the present, whatever, And here I am,
you know, fighting for us.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And then this is what I get.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Sometimes I've learned and I guess to get to the
point here is that sometimes culture can be ungrateful, and
that's something that I've I've accepted because if I'm gonna
keep going forward, I have to like not get distracted
by that, you know, like and I feel like that's
what I'm also getting from you, like just focus on
who loves you. So I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
(25:36):
I do want to shift gears a little bit and
talk about your music, you know, like who cares about
the people who you know don't like your whatever?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Because I saw you sing on Arima.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Stage period, okay, pariod.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You did that shit and it looks so cute.
Speaker 8 (25:57):
I love the outfrere no so nervous, noo, moving around
the stage, vocal, the mic was on, mic was on, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Like, no, you did that. You did that, my dear, the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
So like, you know, just shifting us a little bit,
Like what project or what song in particular you think
is like the most.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Encapsulating of who the aura of Valentina is? Does that
make sense?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Can you see what joke they stay in San Domingo
un salio and your basal you don't get in your poke?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
I feel, ok, it's a cancium, the finio, the finio
on the joy and.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
My Projecto.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Okayas has been you know, he said, Pami aiong boy
and we film Versail maconas Mincio, Garcia Cancio.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Do so I feel like.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I obviously say it's my favorite all the time, when
then let so I would say that's.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
I love that. I love that, and honestly I love
that for you.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I love that for you. I want to shift hers
a little bit of me and that you of course
are a woman and you're putting on for the ladies.
What does it mean for you to express yourself and
to own your body and like in a space where
easily right it's and with right and for those who
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feel that that's invigorating and and you know, like lively.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Like for me one of those people. Then if you're okay,
know right, So what does that look like for.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
You, like owning like your sexual liberation and and your
body and well being an artist?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
You don't know what to say.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
I feel like jelly jumbo la. It was a lot
of pettos y l k s, Like I said, okay,
because because your comgram mental life feel like Judo generals.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
In okay, no no.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Melodis sex and the cheeta you know, Son.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
What's funny as that, what's funny as a saxonist.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's the friend I form.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
You are a cold and you had your stomach a
little bit and you had your Are you the part
to me? I don't know, it's it's a flowers.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Me moment, boy take my life, but memo, just get
your boy.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
Being coma.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And Kambia is the secret, you know, not bandy.
Speaker 6 (30:36):
And what.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
But I mean, I feel like I don't need it,
and that's okay. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. It's
true to who you are. I music. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
We talked about a number of different things, your music,
mental health, sexual liberation.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
There's a lot of oh.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Hello, because you said, I'm like, I can't let that
one slide because finally in my chair talk me about that.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I of course I might like I might. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
I don't know, I might know.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Okay, I'll big for me what I love about honestly,
like I always say, and it's not so dramatic, but
it's the truth that I don't say my life like
you can't listen to and be sad. You can't like
when I was younger, No Bana, no you know when
(32:02):
I was, I was a depressed emo teenager. Like I
know people are listening to the like huh and I'm like, yes,
I was a depressed emo teenager like I've gone through
some stuff in my younger years and like it's funny.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm like shopping at Hot Topic, the Black Nails, the Evil.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Haircut, Reggaeton, Regaton and Green Day Reggaeton and Guess three
Days Grace Reggaeton and Paramoid Regaton.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yes, I listened to rock. I love rock, you know,
you know, so like I love rock and I love Regaton.
To me, they're not that different. They're just you know,
like in theory.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And that's what that does for me, at least on
a personal super personal. And then Tambanga was like a woman.
I just I'm like, wait, the calling response that's always
like got to me, like get to getta. I'm like,
I'm sorry, wait, who had who has the power here?
(33:00):
If if the woman? If the woman, take the woman
out of the song? No sanci and I no, no,
you know nomo. So that's what I get tool that
for me?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
What does it do for you?
Speaker 8 (33:10):
I love it?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
First of all?
Speaker 8 (33:12):
O you I mean you.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Don't you and you look yeah yeah, I mean.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Rubio frake chakie, I can't.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Know that you see moving fan like Comala and he
puts on my projecto.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Sorry prieto sat bola point because I'm mocho the.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Okay, I'm going bare foot and.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
Brattling in cabrio.
Speaker 6 (34:09):
Akay, I mean it's part of me, that's it.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
No lo.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, am mblla just brought me back. So you know,
not to keep bringing up Neon, but I mean it
is my baby as well. If you watch Neon that
(34:46):
Shaw on Netflix, the last episode, there's a kings I say,
it's a real life story from my from my life.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
So during my King.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Says, I of course was obsessed what I get on then,
and of course it were in the big white dress
and like you know, like super formal, and my parents
they met in church, like mommy is.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Super religious, Galla Domingo.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, so like you know, like she was not a
fan of me being a fan of and so during
my King says this kid that I was like dating.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
My little boyfriend or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
He like walks in and I'm like ah, and they
started playing Jordan. I'm like, oh my god, I want
to dance with this kid, but like lot, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Then I get right.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
And so if you watch the scene, it's a true
story for my life. Like my cousin he went to
go distrac mommy and then my other cousins.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Like make a wall. No bullshit, Like watch watch the episode.
That's a real story.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
I told the writers that, and they were like, we're
putting that in the show, like it's a little.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
That it actually exists visually.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
You just brought me back there. They're so my mother
would never my mother would never come by you have.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
Me gains it?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
No girl?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
No?
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Maybe no? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh girl? Oh wow, shout out to he follows.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Yeah, just.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
A woman that.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
I cannot You're like full of surprises and like I
love it.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Keep being you, keep going after what you want, don't
pay attention to the haters, like and and keep like
Anna and friends, you know, like keep expressing yourself the
way that you want to and like keep pleading thank.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
You for existing, you for having me by my love. Yeah,
I got there, child.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
I know y'all are really digging what I'm saying. But
we'll be right back right after these messages. Then Okay, okay,
(37:50):
Black Panther Party as Sada Shakur, White Supremacy, an interview
with the Puppies Dominicana. This is a lot going on
in this episode. Let's get into La La La, the
segment where I break things down. Let's get into it.
(38:16):
My god, what an episode.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Who would think?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Where else are you going to get a breakdown of
the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army Asada Shaker, the
FBI cointail pro Regga. You know, cultural appropriation that regat
people are doing it right, people are doing it wrong
in an interview? Where else are you going to get that?
Only here? This interview with Valentina was dope. I super
(38:42):
appreciate it. I feel like this girl grew a lot. Okay,
she grew a lot in general artistically, and she grew
a lot on me. I remember when she first stepped
out onto the scene. I was like, oh, my goodness.
But no, over time, she showed her heart, over time,
she showed her talent. At the end of the day,
(39:03):
this is a business, y'all, and this is music, y'all.
As long as we like what we're hearing, the other
things that can be fixed, especially if the artists are
willing to do so, and if they're they're down and
they're you know, go, which she is that she always
has been. So I like Valentina. I'm a fan. I
like what I hear, I like what I see, and
(39:23):
I like where she's going. I truly hope that you know,
you guys give her a chance and that you guys
learned with my long ass monologue at the top of
this episode me Henther, I just think it's super important
for you know, now more than ever. There are so
many initiatives listen to black women, protect black women, But
(39:46):
I truly can't emphasize it enough. These are not just
stylish monikers that you hear all over the internet. The
repercussions for not listening to us is dire. And you
know what they say, when black people get a little bit,
everyone else gets a lot. I'm gonna go ahead and
(40:06):
reiterate that here in the sense of, you know, doing
right by us has positive effects for everybody else, because
unfortunately black women we do too much for everybody else.
But that is the reality, and I'm not holding us
to that. I'm making that observation. That's what that was.
(40:28):
But more importantly, like if we're gonna get out of
this predicament, which I'm eager to I don't know about y'all.
It's going to require that we listen more than we talk,
especially if we're non black p s. A. And that's
all I got for it.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
La La La.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Podcast is an Ahameia production co executive producer Melia. The
Kiaro producer is Grace Gonstalez. The Kiero music engineer Habbi Vibe.
The Getto production assistants Naomi Asavelo and Kayla Ecleston. The
show is edited by Walking Cutler and I'm your host,
(41:10):
Lagatta A shout out to Clevelander and Miami Beach. I'll
see you're right here next week on the iHeartRadio app
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