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January 4, 2024 10 mins

In this episode, Dramos combines lyrics from Kanye West with a quote from Marcus Aurelius to encourage us to stop listening to our haters, and instead focus on ourselves and what makes us happy.

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Yes, Yes, I am Dramas And this is the Street
Stoic Podcast, bring you your daily dose of timeless stoic
philosophy remix for the hip hop generation. Now, with that
in mind, let's get things started with your daily shot
of inspiration. Now today we are talking all about the

(00:38):
idea of diminishing your ego, letting things go. And it's
kind of ironic that the person delivering the first sort
of quote here on this topic of diminishing your ego
is Kanye, who is notorious for having a fairly large ego.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
But old Kanye had some bars.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
And this is actually a track off of the College
Dropout that was never released right he recorded during that
album process and it was left off of the album.
It's called Gossip Files. The part of the record that
I pulled here, Kanye says, I want to be a baller.
The dream spoilers will fool you hating on you to them,
Man's on the corners, old folks said, he never make

(01:19):
it off the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
They are the virus that corrupts the soul.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
They are the cubic zarconia inside the tank carrot gold.
They get green on you when you get green on them.
You got to wash your hands of them, get clean
on them. Somebody told me success is the best revenge,
so they're going to be fucked up when you do
your thing on them. And first of all, this is
just like a genius line even as I read it, like,

(01:46):
I love parts of this where he's like, they are
the virus that corrupts the soul. Now we're talking about
the people who are hating on you or are doing
negative things to you. They might literally be trying to
stand in the way of you and your success, you
and your greatness. Right, the people that are sadly trying
to take you down and are not allowing you to

(02:07):
live your best life just because of their own limiting
beliefs or because they dislike themselves so much they don't
want to see somebody else succeed.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And this also led me to finding a quote from
Nathan Panwar, and I thought this was also kind of
a great follow up to it, where he says the
best revenge is to show them that your life is
getting better after they're gone. And I love this because
I think it's easy to see somebody who particularly might
actually go out and do something to harm you or

(02:36):
to disrupt your progression. Right, they might go out and
talk smack on you to certain people and sort of
try and destroy your character to others. Right, And this
is obviously frustrating, we've all been there before. But I
love this idea of rather than trying to get even
with them and inevitably inviting chaos into your life, allowing

(02:57):
yourself to just focus in on showing them that your
life is actually getting better after they're gone. And this
leads us to a quote from Marcus Aurrelius born of Stokes,
point blank period saying the best revenge is to not
be like your enemy. And there's another you know, hip
hop quot that goes against all that we're talking about today,
like revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting women,

(03:18):
we'll say, for the term of not having to get
crazy on here.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right now, that's a Tupac lyric.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Right, But even you think about somebody like Tupac, right,
let's sort of think about about his sort of philosophy there,
he's the one saying that quote. Think about the amount
of chaos that he invited into his life by having
this feud, by being a part of this East Coast
West Coast feud, right, And I think that's sort of

(03:43):
the point of it all. And when we think back
on it, when you look on those two men's legacy,
Biggie and Tupac, this feud wasn't worth either one of
them losing their lives over right, It wasn't based on
anything really that deep. And then as just fans of

(04:05):
theirs and music in general, the rest of us all
being deprived of the greatness that could have come from
seeing those two men grow in their craft and as
human beings. Right, And I think that again is all ego.
I have to respond to this person. I have to
hold my own I can't look weak in front of
this person.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
If they're coming at me strong, I have to come
at them ten times stronger. That's all ego. And again,
you're inviting chaos into your life. And you know, I'm
not saying that this is easy by any means, right.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
I've had this come up for me recently.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
You know. Somebody that I was very close to started
coming for me, like personally but also in sort of
a bigger way in my career, right and saying some
really denigrating things that weren't true about me. And I
had to make a choice about how I was going
to handle it. I knew that if I played fire
with fire, it's just going to continue on this sort

(04:59):
of nonsense until it escalates beyond the point of return. Right,
and again, that's that chaos that I would be inviting
in by responding to this person by acting the way
that they have decided to act, right, instead putting my
ego aside and saying, I'm not going to respond to
this right, it's not worth my energy. I'm going to
keep doing what I do. And anybody that knows me,

(05:20):
anybody that follows me, that is a fan of mine,
that supports what I do, or is partnered with me
in some sort of way, they know the type of
person I am and they're going to make their judgment
based upon that. It's not worth your time or your energy,
and it's not going to really change anything for you.
You have to put your ego aside and think about
what's best for you. Now, with that said, we have
heard from Kanye, you have heard from Nathan Panwar, We've

(05:44):
heard from Marcus Aurelius. I squeezed in a random tupac
lyric in there, giving you some insight into my own
personal dealings with this idea of letting go and not
letting your ego force you into thinking you have to
respond to everything. Now, let's talk about how you can
make it your mantra or today. Well, first to take
a quick break and then we'll be right back. All right, soday,

(06:15):
we're talking all about diminishing your ego, but more specifically
just letting things go. We've heard from Kanye, We've heard
from one of the Stokes, Marcus really is I give
you some insight into my own life. Now let's talk
about how you can make it your mantra for today.
And I really want to harp on.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
This idea of chaos thanks to yourself.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
What unnecessary chaos am I allowing into my life? Because
life is chaotic as is right, Life is always gonna
be throwing some nonsense at you. There's always going to
be some stupid thing that you have to deal with
that is incredibly annoying that you don't want to deal with,
that you shouldn't have to deal with, and you invitement
more of that chaos into your life. It just sounds crazy,

(06:58):
Like it really sounds crazy when you think about it,
Like with no emotions whatsoever, like, my.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Life is already difficult. I have a lot of things
I navigate.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Why the hell what I want to add more obstacles?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Why would I want to add more hoops to jump
through just to make it through my day? And that's
what you're doing when you allow yourself to move from
a place of ego feeling like you have to respond
to every single naysayer, every single person talking bad on you,
everybody who has decided to do something negative to you.
When you feel like you have to respond or one
up them or hold them accountable, you are literally inviting

(07:34):
more chaos into your life and more obstacles that you
then have to duck and dodge.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
That's what's happening.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
And maybe you're gonna get some small satisfaction in the moment, right,
your ego is going to be very happy with the
fact that you owned this person, or you put them
in their place, or whatever it might be. But I
promise you it, generally speaking, never ends there. Those moments
of satisfaction, they don't last for very long. Generally speaking,
they invite more nonsense into your life. And talking about

(08:02):
what Kanye is saying on here, right, I love the
idea of retraining your brain right and looking at these
people as a virus, a virus that corrupts your soul.
If you allow them to write you responding, you, giving
your energy towards negativity is inviting that virus into your soul.

(08:22):
And instead of actively putting any energy towards them, just go.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Harder at what it is that you do.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Trust me, that will put them in their place far
more than any comeback you have or any sort of
response you could ever give them. It's like Marcus really says,
the best revenge is to not be like your enemy.
Reminding yourself that in this moment, you despise that person, right,
you have angst towards that person, that person rubs you
the wrong way.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Why the hell would you want to be anything like them?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
When you allow your ego to take hold and you
feel like you have to respond, you have to get
them back, you have to retaliate, you've inevitably become just
like the very person that you hate. And again the
idea of chaos that I want to drive home for me,
I've personally been dealing with a situation like this, But
what I can say is I'd rather just take that

(09:16):
energy and move it towards advancing my life and career.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
I know they're watching right because.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
They're commentating that they're making negative, disparaging remarks about me
to other people. So why not give them more things
to watch, more things to get upset about, rather than
responding and giving them more ammunition to come after me.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
That's how you have to look at this stuff, right.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It's again, what are you inviting in by being a
part of this Remember, in these moments, you have a
choice of whether or not to invite more chaos and
more obstacles into your life. Do not allow your ego
to get you down a road where your energy is
being drained and you're being taken further and further away

(09:59):
from the life that you add actually want to live. Now,
with that said, thank you so much for checking out
the Street Stoke Podcast. Your best to apply these concepts
that we discuss into everyday life, and I will catch
you next time. The Street Stoke Podcast is a production

(10:19):
of Iheart's Mika podcast Network.
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