September 24, 2025 • 20 mins
The Black American STREET SH!T Has Died! | The ThoughtCast™ | Ep.5-One
The streets have changed, and so has the game. In this provocative and powerful episode, JuniorTheTruth™ dives deep into the dying street culture in the Black American experience and explores the refacing of the street drug game. This is a conversation that challenges conventional thinking, exposes harsh truths, and demands reflection on the realities shaping modern urban life.
💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
The decline of traditional street culture and its impact on community dynamics
How the modern street drug game is evolving and what it means for the next generation
The social, economic, and cultural forces driving these changes
Insights into the consequences for Black American families and communities
Provocative questions that challenge complacency and encourage reflection
This episode isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s raw, unfiltered, and designed to spark dialogue, awareness, and action.
🌐 Explore more of JuniorTheTruth™’s work at: https://juniorthetruth.com
#StreetCulture #BlackAmericanExperience #TheCultureCollective #JuniorTheTruth #UrbanLife #StreetGame #SocialCommentary #BlackCulture #CommunityImpact #ProvocativeDiscussion #RawTruth #ThoughtLeadership #CultureMatters #UrbanChange #StreetEvolution
The streets have changed, and so has the game. In this provocative and powerful episode, JuniorTheTruth™ dives deep into the dying street culture in the Black American experience and explores the refacing of the street drug game. This is a conversation that challenges conventional thinking, exposes harsh truths, and demands reflection on the realities shaping modern urban life.
💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
The decline of traditional street culture and its impact on community dynamics
How the modern street drug game is evolving and what it means for the next generation
The social, economic, and cultural forces driving these changes
Insights into the consequences for Black American families and communities
Provocative questions that challenge complacency and encourage reflection
This episode isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s raw, unfiltered, and designed to spark dialogue, awareness, and action.
🌐 Explore more of JuniorTheTruth™’s work at: https://juniorthetruth.com
#StreetCulture #BlackAmericanExperience #TheCultureCollective #JuniorTheTruth #UrbanLife #StreetGame #SocialCommentary #BlackCulture #CommunityImpact #ProvocativeDiscussion #RawTruth #ThoughtLeadership #CultureMatters #UrbanChange #StreetEvolution
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Speaker 1 (00:55):
Man, is this thing on? What's up with it? Family?
Ooh that feel good?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man? It feels good. Don't they feel good in there?
Shiny man? Salute to shine on the tracks, man, Yes,
that feel good. Beet Wade. All right, man, what's up
with it?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Family? What's the damn deal?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man? This is Junior the Truth and this is indeed Man.
Episode five of the Culture Collective Thought Cast Man, posted
by yours truly.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Junior the Truth.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in, Man,
really truly genuinely appreciate it. You could be anywhere in
the world, man, but you spending time with me, and
I appreciate you. They tell me I'm old, they tell
me I'm country, but ultimately, whatever it is, I can
just tell you that I appreciate you. Man, I really
truly genuinely do salute to you atto. Thank you so much. Man,
(02:02):
I guess housekeeping items.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You can be sure to follow me everywhere via social media.
I can be found with the handle Junior the Truth.
That's j U N I O R t H E
t r U t H. And that's over all the
social media platforms man, each and everyone. But if you're
really looking for me. You can catch me over on
Junior Thetruth dot Com. That's www dot Junior the Truth
dot Com. That's the hub all things Junior the Truth.
(02:24):
Man is there. So thank you man so much, really
truly genuinely appreciated.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I just don't want to, man, I really don't want
to start start because I'm cooling and this is just
this man the vibe saluting my brother Shiney on the tracks. Man,
(02:52):
he's the DJ, I'm the rapper, you feel me. But
once again, thank you all so much. So I just
I guess that's what gone ahead on the get to
it like a lot of fluid. Man, I am. I'm
gonna tell you so this this this, this today's episode, man,
is just really truly it is inspired by really in
(03:17):
the spirit of collective. It is inspired by a collective
of conversations that I've had recently. And I'm gonna tell
you the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I I you know, we have a lot of changes
in the world, Like the world is changing, things are changing,
people are changing, the culture is changing. A lot of
things are changing, and a lot of the changes I'm
not so comfortable with. But then some of them I
(03:50):
am one hundred percent here for like, I am absolutely
positively one hundred percent here for quite a few of
the change actually, and I just wanted to do a
little bit of a concentrated It's not really a deep dive.
It's kind of more of a concentrated dive that was
(04:11):
inspired by a recent conversation that I was a collect
collective of recent conversations, y'all know me. I like to
just rip the bandaid off and just get straightened directly
into it. Man, the streets are dead, man, The streets
(04:34):
are dead man. If anybody's paying attention to the modern
landscape of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The streets, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And when I say the streets, I'm talking about the
underworld element of our culture. The streets. You know, the
streets shit things that take place in the street. And
when I say in the streets, we you know, we mean,
you know, crying, things that you know, people do for money,
the hustle, like money making making Mitch said, and paying
(05:06):
the fools.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The hustle. I love the hustle man. Yeah, like the
hustle man.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This stuff is dead man. The streets are The streets
are dead. Coming on the heels of the recent UH
information about the Wire's l case and seeing the people
who were, you know, talking to the police and cooperating
and so on and so forth. Just like the things
(05:36):
that you see, you understand when you get to have
age on you like me, you look at things and
you get to seeing stuff and you're just like, ah, man,
this ain't the same. Adrian and Problem Brunner had a
song called Slammer, one of my favorite songs in the
world in life and to be honest with you, But
(06:01):
in the song he had a line he said, niggas
be telling a be college, niggas be telling like man,
the streets dead. The streets are dead. And a lot
of the people who were glorified street figures, you know,
during the time of me growing up and being a
(06:24):
young adult and whatnot. You know, all of the people
who were doing things in the street, and they were
glorified for doing things in the street. You look at
them now and like they are no longer in the street.
They're out the street, like they ah man, they somewhere
chilling put up those who are fortunate enough to still
(06:45):
be living and still be free.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Right y'all. Remember back in the day.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When people used to people used to get convicted and
they used to go to the pantentiary and then they
would get back out and they be right back to
it like light of fluid be they get right out
and get right back to the same old two step.
Now I start like that no more streets is different,
like the streets is dead, it's over, and it's so
(07:10):
that the streets are so dead. And I was having
this car I literally and I'm trying not to do
too much talking because you know, I'm not a I'm
not a I'm not a street cat at all by
any stretch of the imagination. I'm a square. But I
still don't do you know, certain things you don't say,
certain things you don't discuss, so on and so forth.
But having a conversation, and I am puzzled. In the
(07:38):
year of twenty twenty five, I am puzzled when I
see people who are still so hell bent on being
in the street and doing illegal things in the street.
And I'm looking at it and I'm like, man, do
you understand, Like, no, bro, like it's twenty and twenty five,
(08:03):
like you, especially for you youngins, like y'all youngins can
get them, y'all youngins can like really like get get
one of those backpacks and start live streaming and just
walking around the street recording yourself and make a fortune,
Like you can go outside and literally fall into money. Legally,
(08:26):
you can legally fall into money going outside, and y'all
are gonna come out and literally still throw rocks at
the penitentiary. And I'm just baffled by it, man, Like
I'm I'm so baffled by it that people who sell
drugs in twenty and twenty five, I look at drug
(08:49):
dealers like I look at drug dealers like a payphone.
You feel me, Like, when's the last time you've been
riding down the street and you actually saw a payphone.
That's how I look at drug dealers in twenty twenty five,
people who sell drugs like in the street, like the illegally,
like people who are engaging in the drug trade. I
(09:09):
look at you like a like you you're a payphone
and I need a quarter, Like you are a quarter
payf a fifty c payphone. You understand what I'm saying.
So even if I were to come across you in
the street as a payphone, I still gotta get not
one quarter, but two quarters, like you a fifty cent payphone.
(09:33):
I'm looking at you all kinds of Cockaye, you understand
what I'm talking about. People don't even have have changed
in their ash trays in their cars no more. You
want to know something different, Cars don't even have ash
trays anymore. When's the last time you got in a
car and it was an ass tray in it? You
feel me? Cars don't even have ash trays anymore. That's
(09:54):
how outdated you are. Like you are a payphone, a
fifty cent payphone where I need two quarters and nobody
has change anymore. The last time you was walking around
somebody and you heard change jingling in their pocket. I
got one cousin who always got changed in his pocket.
He the oldest, youngest motherfuck I ever seen in my life.
He keep a pocket full of change. My cousin just Blaze,
(10:15):
he keep a pocket full of change like Just and
he'd be like, exact change you need, you need twenty
seven cent, Just will have a quarter and two pennies
for your ass he will pull out of his pocket.
But outside of Just, I don't think anybody in the
(10:36):
world has any use for a payphone that you need
two quarters to use. And that's how I see drug
deal people who like, literally, I'm talking about drug dealers
in twenty twenty five. Oh man, you outdated, bro, And
we're gonna come back to that conversation. So let's put
a let's put a we can put a what do
(10:59):
you call it, We can put a bookmark there, and
we can come back to the conversation. But I really
wanted to just kind of run through the fact that,
you know, man, the street, the street shit is dead.
It's two ty twenty five and the street shit is absolutely, positively,
one hundred percent dead.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And I'm glad about it.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We're gonna have a moment of silence for the streets.
We're not gonna be silent, but benue, street shit is dead.
All that running around doing crime, all these crime families,
(11:49):
linking up with your cronies, running around pulling kick those
selling dope, robbin and shooting and killing and robin and
shooting and killing in robin and shooting and killing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Get down.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's over with, man, Like it's really truly over with
for you. You better keep your little ass in school.
The streets are dead, man, And I feel real good
about it. But I wanted to give you all I got,
(12:25):
Like I really got like ten. But I'm gonna give y'all,
like four my four reasons. I'm gonna give you four
my reasons. This is kind of off the top, but
four reasons why. The streets are officially dead in two
thousand and twenty five, and the only people who are
out there in the street are the young, crash out
people who don't.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They don't care nothing about life, you feel me. They
don't care nothing about life, and they don't They just
here to essentially crash out.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Period.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Them the only ones that's out here. But the other
than that, the streets are dead. The first thing, man,
is the fact of the whole entire world is under surveillance.
We are under constant surveillance, right like, the whole world
(13:23):
is being monitored like never before, you feel me. We
are being monitored, and we have been sold the monitoring
by way of smart devices, convenience, and pop culture. So
(13:43):
we have these smart devices, we have this culture around
the smart devices. We have this connection to social media.
Connection is the wrong word. We have this addiction to
social media. We have these things that we have just
(14:05):
implemented in our life like never before. My father, when
my father passed away, my father passed away was two
thousand and nine. My daddy passed away. My father passed
away without a cell phone in a year of two
thousand and nine, and he was really intentional about not
having a cell phone, to the degree that he had
(14:31):
got a couple of cell phones. I purchased them one
and he refused to constantly and consistently carry a cell phone.
In two thousand and nine, he didn't carry a cell phone.
And to think that we are in this space where
(14:54):
people will people will leave their children before they leave
their cell phone. You understand, people will walk off and
leave their babies in a stroller before they leave their
cell phone. And so it was just incredible. It's incredible that,
you know what I mean, we've been sold this, this
(15:15):
this new world of having you know, a cellular device,
and not only is it a cellular device, but it
also happens to be a supercomputer, right, and it's a
supercomputer that has the ability to track your geographic locate,
to have to track your geographic location with pinpoint accuracy.
(15:39):
It also has the ability to ping your location and
usage off of towers in the area. So no matter
where you go on God Greens, God's green Earth. They
can track You can be tracked because you have your
cell phone and your cell phone is connecting to the
(16:00):
towers based on your respective service. On top of the
fact that you have the social media sites where when
you sign off and when you create an account, you
put in your email address, and they have all of
that fine print that nobody reads, you know, that fine print.
Be fucking with a nigga, that fine print that we
(16:23):
nobody ever reads. We just check the box so we
can hurry up and get to the app and set
up the app. And so each and every one of
those social media platforms they have that fine print and
they have that box that you check, basically sacrificing all
your personal information, your likeness, your images, your media, your sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And all of that to the gods.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, so we incorporate that in our lives like it's
nobody's business. And so surveillance is at are all time hot.
Is like, man, you can get on a computer and
think that you're doing stuff excreetly, and it's so funny
when people get online and break the law and do
things from their computers thinking that it's macaroni time, only
(17:13):
to get caught because they were able to be tracked
down because they were traced by their IP address. Like
that's how serious their surveillance, he is. You can get
somebody's IP address and get there every bit of information.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I was being trolled.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This is a fight week for Canelo Alvarez versus Terrence
Bull Crawford. So I got a Conelo Alvarez story. So
when early on, when I was first really you know,
was making my way with regard to being a pundit
in the sport of boxing.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was talking about boxing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now, I had a problem with Canelo Alvarez because he
tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Conelo Alvarez, being the
Mexican born fighter, has a tremendou this league strong fan
base with a good number of the Mexican fight fans.
So I had one fight fan who took it upon
(18:10):
himself that he was going to personally just destroy me,
I guess, and run me off of the Internet and
run me off from talking about the sport of boxing.
So he would he would bother me, He would heckle
all my all my videos. He would if I wasn't
really doing a whole bunch of live then, but he
(18:30):
would come and leave comments in my videos and he
would catch a live every now and again. He come
in alive, get banned, create a different channel, and come
back in, so on and so forth, and then he
was he started he followed me on all of the
social media platforms. Like how I tell y'all to follow
me on all the different social media platforms and y'all
don't do it. Well, this this, this, this, this troll.
(18:54):
He's a Mexican American troll. He did it. So he
followed me. Then he started harassing me, and he started
making mention of my kids, and you know, he was
just doing them absolute most so when he inboxed me
one day and he said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're
(19:15):
still talking shit. Like that's what he said to me.
He said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're still talking shit.
And I don't know what it was about that interaction, man,
And I was still I was still working. I was
actually on my way to the university at the time,
getting in my car, getting ready to do my on
the move segment that I used to do every morning.
(19:37):
And I don't know what it was about that interaction,
but I decided I had enough, and so I said, man,
let me, let me get him together real quick. So
now the thing that I you know, I have people,
There are people who love me, which is why you
can't really bother You can't really bother folks. And it
(19:58):
would be who of people to leave folks alone, Like,
just leave people alone, because you don't know who people are,
nor do you know who people are connected to. Right,
So in this in this new world where everything's under
surveillance and everybody can get any piece of information about you,
it would be who of you to just leave folks alone, right,
(20:22):
So you gotta be careful. So I've decided I had enough,
so I went on and I reached out to my folks.
I have people who have specialized skills, abilities and accesses
where they can they can find they can find a
lot of information
Man, is this thing on? What's up with it? Family?
Ooh that feel good?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man? It feels good. Don't they feel good in there?
Shiny man? Salute to shine on the tracks, man, Yes,
that feel good. Beet Wade. All right, man, what's up
with it?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Family? What's the damn deal?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Man? This is Junior the Truth and this is indeed Man.
Episode five of the Culture Collective Thought Cast Man, posted
by yours truly.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Junior the Truth.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in, Man,
really truly genuinely appreciate it. You could be anywhere in
the world, man, but you spending time with me, and
I appreciate you. They tell me I'm old, they tell
me I'm country, but ultimately, whatever it is, I can
just tell you that I appreciate you. Man, I really
truly genuinely do salute to you atto. Thank you so much. Man,
(02:02):
I guess housekeeping items.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
You can be sure to follow me everywhere via social media.
I can be found with the handle Junior the Truth.
That's j U N I O R t H E
t r U t H. And that's over all the
social media platforms man, each and everyone. But if you're
really looking for me. You can catch me over on
Junior Thetruth dot Com. That's www dot Junior the Truth
dot Com. That's the hub all things Junior the Truth.
(02:24):
Man is there. So thank you man so much, really
truly genuinely appreciated.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Man.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I just don't want to, man, I really don't want
to start start because I'm cooling and this is just
this man the vibe saluting my brother Shiney on the tracks. Man,
(02:52):
he's the DJ, I'm the rapper, you feel me. But
once again, thank you all so much. So I just
I guess that's what gone ahead on the get to
it like a lot of fluid. Man, I am. I'm
gonna tell you so this this this, this today's episode, man,
is just really truly it is inspired by really in
(03:17):
the spirit of collective. It is inspired by a collective
of conversations that I've had recently. And I'm gonna tell
you the truth.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I I you know, we have a lot of changes
in the world, Like the world is changing, things are changing,
people are changing, the culture is changing. A lot of
things are changing, and a lot of the changes I'm
not so comfortable with. But then some of them I
(03:50):
am one hundred percent here for like, I am absolutely
positively one hundred percent here for quite a few of
the change actually, and I just wanted to do a
little bit of a concentrated It's not really a deep dive.
It's kind of more of a concentrated dive that was
(04:11):
inspired by a recent conversation that I was a collect
collective of recent conversations, y'all know me. I like to
just rip the bandaid off and just get straightened directly
into it. Man, the streets are dead, man, The streets
(04:34):
are dead man. If anybody's paying attention to the modern
landscape of.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
The streets, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And when I say the streets, I'm talking about the
underworld element of our culture. The streets. You know, the
streets shit things that take place in the street. And
when I say in the streets, we you know, we mean,
you know, crying, things that you know, people do for money,
the hustle, like money making making Mitch said, and paying
(05:06):
the fools.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The hustle. I love the hustle man. Yeah, like the
hustle man.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
This stuff is dead man. The streets are The streets
are dead. Coming on the heels of the recent UH
information about the Wire's l case and seeing the people
who were, you know, talking to the police and cooperating
and so on and so forth. Just like the things
(05:36):
that you see, you understand when you get to have
age on you like me, you look at things and
you get to seeing stuff and you're just like, ah, man,
this ain't the same. Adrian and Problem Brunner had a
song called Slammer, one of my favorite songs in the
world in life and to be honest with you, But
(06:01):
in the song he had a line he said, niggas
be telling a be college, niggas be telling like man,
the streets dead. The streets are dead. And a lot
of the people who were glorified street figures, you know,
during the time of me growing up and being a
(06:24):
young adult and whatnot. You know, all of the people
who were doing things in the street, and they were
glorified for doing things in the street. You look at
them now and like they are no longer in the street.
They're out the street, like they ah man, they somewhere
chilling put up those who are fortunate enough to still
(06:45):
be living and still be free.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Right y'all. Remember back in the day.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
When people used to people used to get convicted and
they used to go to the pantentiary and then they
would get back out and they be right back to
it like light of fluid be they get right out
and get right back to the same old two step.
Now I start like that no more streets is different,
like the streets is dead, it's over, and it's so
(07:10):
that the streets are so dead. And I was having
this car I literally and I'm trying not to do
too much talking because you know, I'm not a I'm
not a I'm not a street cat at all by
any stretch of the imagination. I'm a square. But I
still don't do you know, certain things you don't say,
certain things you don't discuss, so on and so forth.
But having a conversation, and I am puzzled. In the
(07:38):
year of twenty twenty five, I am puzzled when I
see people who are still so hell bent on being
in the street and doing illegal things in the street.
And I'm looking at it and I'm like, man, do
you understand, Like, no, bro, like it's twenty and twenty five,
(08:03):
like you, especially for you youngins, like y'all youngins can
get them, y'all youngins can like really like get get
one of those backpacks and start live streaming and just
walking around the street recording yourself and make a fortune,
Like you can go outside and literally fall into money. Legally,
(08:26):
you can legally fall into money going outside, and y'all
are gonna come out and literally still throw rocks at
the penitentiary. And I'm just baffled by it, man, Like
I'm I'm so baffled by it that people who sell
drugs in twenty and twenty five, I look at drug
(08:49):
dealers like I look at drug dealers like a payphone.
You feel me, Like, when's the last time you've been
riding down the street and you actually saw a payphone.
That's how I look at drug dealers in twenty twenty five,
people who sell drugs like in the street, like the illegally,
like people who are engaging in the drug trade. I
(09:09):
look at you like a like you you're a payphone
and I need a quarter, Like you are a quarter
payf a fifty c payphone. You understand what I'm saying.
So even if I were to come across you in
the street as a payphone, I still gotta get not
one quarter, but two quarters, like you a fifty cent payphone.
(09:33):
I'm looking at you all kinds of Cockaye, you understand
what I'm talking about. People don't even have have changed
in their ash trays in their cars no more. You
want to know something different, Cars don't even have ash
trays anymore. When's the last time you got in a
car and it was an ass tray in it? You
feel me? Cars don't even have ash trays anymore. That's
(09:54):
how outdated you are. Like you are a payphone, a
fifty cent payphone where I need two quarters and nobody
has change anymore. The last time you was walking around
somebody and you heard change jingling in their pocket. I
got one cousin who always got changed in his pocket.
He the oldest, youngest motherfuck I ever seen in my life.
He keep a pocket full of change. My cousin just Blaze,
(10:15):
he keep a pocket full of change like Just and
he'd be like, exact change you need, you need twenty
seven cent, Just will have a quarter and two pennies
for your ass he will pull out of his pocket.
But outside of Just, I don't think anybody in the
(10:36):
world has any use for a payphone that you need
two quarters to use. And that's how I see drug
deal people who like, literally, I'm talking about drug dealers
in twenty twenty five. Oh man, you outdated, bro, And
we're gonna come back to that conversation. So let's put
a let's put a we can put a what do
(10:59):
you call it, We can put a bookmark there, and
we can come back to the conversation. But I really
wanted to just kind of run through the fact that,
you know, man, the street, the street shit is dead.
It's two ty twenty five and the street shit is absolutely, positively,
one hundred percent dead.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
And I'm glad about it.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
We're gonna have a moment of silence for the streets.
We're not gonna be silent, but benue, street shit is dead.
All that running around doing crime, all these crime families,
(11:49):
linking up with your cronies, running around pulling kick those
selling dope, robbin and shooting and killing and robin and
shooting and killing in robin and shooting and killing.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Get down.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's over with, man, Like it's really truly over with
for you. You better keep your little ass in school.
The streets are dead, man, And I feel real good
about it. But I wanted to give you all I got,
(12:25):
Like I really got like ten. But I'm gonna give y'all,
like four my four reasons. I'm gonna give you four
my reasons. This is kind of off the top, but
four reasons why. The streets are officially dead in two
thousand and twenty five, and the only people who are
out there in the street are the young, crash out
people who don't.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
They don't care nothing about life, you feel me. They
don't care nothing about life, and they don't They just
here to essentially crash out.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Period.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Them the only ones that's out here. But the other
than that, the streets are dead. The first thing, man,
is the fact of the whole entire world is under surveillance.
We are under constant surveillance, right like, the whole world
(13:23):
is being monitored like never before, you feel me. We
are being monitored, and we have been sold the monitoring
by way of smart devices, convenience, and pop culture. So
(13:43):
we have these smart devices, we have this culture around
the smart devices. We have this connection to social media.
Connection is the wrong word. We have this addiction to
social media. We have these things that we have just
(14:05):
implemented in our life like never before. My father, when
my father passed away, my father passed away was two
thousand and nine. My daddy passed away. My father passed
away without a cell phone in a year of two
thousand and nine, and he was really intentional about not
having a cell phone, to the degree that he had
(14:31):
got a couple of cell phones. I purchased them one
and he refused to constantly and consistently carry a cell phone.
In two thousand and nine, he didn't carry a cell phone.
And to think that we are in this space where
(14:54):
people will people will leave their children before they leave
their cell phone. You understand, people will walk off and
leave their babies in a stroller before they leave their
cell phone. And so it was just incredible. It's incredible that,
you know what I mean, we've been sold this, this
(15:15):
this new world of having you know, a cellular device,
and not only is it a cellular device, but it
also happens to be a supercomputer, right, and it's a
supercomputer that has the ability to track your geographic locate,
to have to track your geographic location with pinpoint accuracy.
(15:39):
It also has the ability to ping your location and
usage off of towers in the area. So no matter
where you go on God Greens, God's green Earth. They
can track You can be tracked because you have your
cell phone and your cell phone is connecting to the
(16:00):
towers based on your respective service. On top of the
fact that you have the social media sites where when
you sign off and when you create an account, you
put in your email address, and they have all of
that fine print that nobody reads, you know, that fine print.
Be fucking with a nigga, that fine print that we
(16:23):
nobody ever reads. We just check the box so we
can hurry up and get to the app and set
up the app. And so each and every one of
those social media platforms they have that fine print and
they have that box that you check, basically sacrificing all
your personal information, your likeness, your images, your media, your sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
And all of that to the gods.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, so we incorporate that in our lives like it's
nobody's business. And so surveillance is at are all time hot.
Is like, man, you can get on a computer and
think that you're doing stuff excreetly, and it's so funny
when people get online and break the law and do
things from their computers thinking that it's macaroni time, only
(17:13):
to get caught because they were able to be tracked
down because they were traced by their IP address. Like
that's how serious their surveillance, he is. You can get
somebody's IP address and get there every bit of information.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I was being trolled.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
This is a fight week for Canelo Alvarez versus Terrence
Bull Crawford. So I got a Conelo Alvarez story. So
when early on, when I was first really you know,
was making my way with regard to being a pundit
in the sport of boxing.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I was talking about boxing.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now, I had a problem with Canelo Alvarez because he
tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Conelo Alvarez, being the
Mexican born fighter, has a tremendou this league strong fan
base with a good number of the Mexican fight fans.
So I had one fight fan who took it upon
(18:10):
himself that he was going to personally just destroy me,
I guess, and run me off of the Internet and
run me off from talking about the sport of boxing.
So he would he would bother me, He would heckle
all my all my videos. He would if I wasn't
really doing a whole bunch of live then, but he
(18:30):
would come and leave comments in my videos and he
would catch a live every now and again. He come
in alive, get banned, create a different channel, and come
back in, so on and so forth, and then he
was he started he followed me on all of the
social media platforms. Like how I tell y'all to follow
me on all the different social media platforms and y'all
don't do it. Well, this this, this, this, this troll.
(18:54):
He's a Mexican American troll. He did it. So he
followed me. Then he started harassing me, and he started
making mention of my kids, and you know, he was
just doing them absolute most so when he inboxed me
one day and he said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're
(19:15):
still talking shit. Like that's what he said to me.
He said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're still talking shit.
And I don't know what it was about that interaction, man,
And I was still I was still working. I was
actually on my way to the university at the time,
getting in my car, getting ready to do my on
the move segment that I used to do every morning.
(19:37):
And I don't know what it was about that interaction,
but I decided I had enough, and so I said, man,
let me, let me get him together real quick. So
now the thing that I you know, I have people,
There are people who love me, which is why you
can't really bother You can't really bother folks. And it
(19:58):
would be who of people to leave folks alone, Like,
just leave people alone, because you don't know who people are,
nor do you know who people are connected to. Right,
So in this in this new world where everything's under
surveillance and everybody can get any piece of information about you,
it would be who of you to just leave folks alone, right,
(20:22):
So you gotta be careful. So I've decided I had enough,
so I went on and I reached out to my folks.
I have people who have specialized skills, abilities and accesses
where they can they can find they can find a
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