Hood Politics with Prop

Hood Politics with Prop

The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived junior high, lived in an urban city or understand gang life, you can understand geopolitics. Join rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene.

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October 10, 2025 12 mins

It feels like there's just so, so much happening all the time these days. Just a heads up: you don’t always have to keep track of it all.

The Beautiful Endling Live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022

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Hello, Hood Politics Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!

About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depress...

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Our friend Sarah Marshall has a great podcast coming out about the Satanic Panic of the 80's. It's pretty wild how much it actually teaches us about our current moment.

The Beautiful Endling Live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022

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For some reason far-right activist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer came for Rep. Jasmine Crockett on social media, and Jasmine with all the class and Blackness she could muster... clapped back.

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October 1, 2025 34 mins

In 2015, a man in Mississippi told the police he experienced a hate crime. That hate crime was someone burning the Mississippi state flag and spraying painting BLACKS RULE on his driveway. At no time in this history of Blackness have we ever used the phrase "Blacks Rule."

But now we have these Tyler Robinson text messages, and "anti-ICE" writing on the shell casings of the Dallas shooter's bullets... I don't know fam, it's giving "...

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Bad Bunny is the Artist America didnt know it needed. This week he streamed his concert from Puerto Rico bc due to the ICE raids, he chose not to tour here in the contiguous united states. And calling good is the biggest understatement. Come see the Beautiful ending live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022 

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Between Taylor Townsend gettin yelled at, Young Thug snitchin and black folks being conflicted about our participation in anti-Trump rallies, we needed to have a mid-session meeting.

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September 19, 2025 15 mins

The Governor of Utah was praying that Charlie Kirk's shooter was "not one of us" and boy was that a prophetic statment. Is that not just like America? The problem is never you, huh? The poem today is Almost, Pt 1.

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Our world is still reeling from the violence of last week, and processing that can be very complicated. What do you do when a monster of a man dies?

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September 12, 2025 11 mins

This week was.. dark. The Supreme Court says racial profiling is okay, a women was stabbed on a train and a school was shot up within minutes of Charle Kirk being murdered.

The song this week is Mayan Ruins: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mayan-ruins/1835385848?i=1835385858 

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September 10, 2025 59 mins

In light of the ruling of the Department of Justice in the case on Google's monopoly, let's look back on how we got here in the first place.

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September 5, 2025 15 mins

The track this week, "If You Could Ask An Endling" poses the question of how did you get to extinction and what could we do to avoid it. I can't help but think of the erosion of trust in experts as displayed by the firing of the CDC director.

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On Jay-Z's birthday, Cali has to decide if it's gonna pass the gerrymandering act or nah. Do we break our code this one time or is it because of our code we have to do this? https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/154day-presprim-2024/historical-reg-stats.pdf

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So Prop and Matt have been secretly working on a poetry record, lowkey inspired by the work Cool Zone does. Peep the first poem here on the pod!

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August 27, 2025 67 mins

The incredible Jemele Hill, host of the Spolitics podcast and also just an all around rider, pulls up and talks about ALLL THE THINGS. Putin, Trump, NBA, WNBA you name it. And of course DETROIT!

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We been saying for months that the Dems ain't fighting back. Now while I'm not sure this will really move the needle, I like this energy Texas Rep. Nicole Collier is bringin'.

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Taken by themselves, some actions are problematic, but may or may not be deal breakers. But when you add all of them together, they become a bright red flag. Today we talk about Trump's takeover of media, education, law and culture.

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Prop tells two stories about his encounters with powerful white men: how he fumbled the bag with Bill Gates and why he knows Doug Wilson.

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We got good news and bad news about the current status of Altadena as the city contiunes to recover from the fires of January 2025... and it's prolly exactly what you think it is. 

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One of the most frustrating things when playing a game that requires strategy, is playing with someone who doesn't actually understand the strategy of the game. I think we would really find peace for ourselves If we would accept that Trump doesn't have a strategy.

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