September 26, 2025 • 20 mins
The Black American STREET SH!T Has Died! | The ThoughtCast™ | Ep.5-THREE
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 (00:01):
It's a cold gang. It's a cold gang.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And you can go you can go get I'm talking
about you can go get opioids. You can go get stimulants.
So opioids, you know, that's shit your hair on, that's
the the Those are the downers. That's the stuff that
slows you down. Those are your suppressants. Those are the
things that a lot of people take for pain, anguish
(00:29):
a lot of uh, psychological issues, people take uh some
rendition of opio opioids, some psychological I won't say a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And then you also have stimulants, the uppers, Right, you
have stimulants. You know what the stimulants are in place
of cokayena, Yeah, you can go get You didn't thought
you thought you could just get heroin. Nah, they'll write you,
(01:05):
they'll write you prescriptions for stimulants. Yeah, especially with the
if you have some sort of psychological issues, depressions, so
on and so forth, you'll get recommended. You'll get recommend
if you get prescriptions for some stimulants.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, wanna get wanna get up? Can you say hi?
Can you say higher? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They got they got what you need. They got what
you need. Chase stimulants depressants. You feel me up ers
downers all around us. Yeah, you gotta get balanced out
a little bit. Yeah, they got you. So you have
to be absolutely out of your mind man, in the
year twenty twenty five, to go buy drugs in the streets,
(01:56):
and you gotta be even more out your mind in
the year twenty twenty five, the actually sell drugs in
the streets because the train is gone and it's wink,
it's wink, it's went mainstream. You understand what I'm saying.
It's so mainstream that they actually have Listen, they have
this new thing. What's it called. What's it call? It's
(02:16):
called a dispensaries for the football weed smokers. You mean
you hold on, Judge Joe Brown. You mean to tell
me that you can just walk in the building and
you can buy marijuana. You can legally buy a reefer. Nah, Man,
(02:37):
Remember when you used to have to go to somebody's
house and you have to knock on the front door allegedly,
and then they peek through the window. But that front
door had bars and shit on it, and so you
have to peek through. You know, they look and they say, hey,
what's up. And they'll be like Oh no, that's Coli cool.
Hey man, come to the side. Then you gotta go
to the side door. You feel me and go get
(02:59):
your go, get your go, get your your quarter. You
feel me or your half ounce or maybe your oz
if you didn't went in with it on your with
your homeboys, y'all don't got y'all ounce.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And yeah, remember you had to go do the Yeah.
Then you was getting ready to go. Roll up. Man,
he's getting to go roll up the Swishers or what
is it they called the grenadick grenadiers. You feel g Yeah,
Grenadier's or uh uh Swisher sweets, Philly blunts, you know,
(03:32):
uh tops papers, joker papers, like you was getting ready
to go roll and puff puff pass man and send
a and send that reefer playing up to the heavens
to the ancestors.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You feel me. Now, y'all have to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now now you can go in the dispenser and you're
going to dispenser and that shit looked like.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A uh shid like you going to a subway.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A lot of them are right next door to subway,
you feel me, Like a lot of them are writing
shopping centers next to your subway. Is your Jersey mics,
you feel me, your mos your Mo's Mexican grill, Get
Chipotle like they in them sinners like you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Just go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's a dispensary. Go in there, give them a couple
of dollars, get your ounce, and go all about your business.
Then you ain't got to ride around the city and
go and worry about somebody shorten you, or gotta look
at the motherfucker when they put put your shit on
the scale. You feel me and so on a snow man.
You can go to a dispensary. It's legal. You gotta
(04:28):
be absolutely out of your mind to be engaging in
the drug trade. In twenty twenty five. You throwing rocks
at the penitentiary for what Because you didn't listen to
that music and the music told you you need to
do it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's crazy as hell, them people making that music. Bro
ain't ain't ain't doing that shit, man, Which is another thing.
I guess we can add that that's a bonus reason
why I know the streets is dead because the music's trash.
Oh that's that music celebrating street culture and all that
street shit.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That music is trash.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That music is trash, and you know why that music
is trash because a lot of it don't even make sense.
It don't even make sense. The tone, the volume, the cadence,
the stuff they rapping about, ship that they saying. It
don't make sense that it don't even make sense. Drill
(05:20):
rap respectfully. I don't want no I don't want no
smoke with no drill rappers. I don't want no smoke
with you youngins. I don't want no smoke with nobody,
Uncle Junior. I'm just telling y'all because I care, nigga,
take your ass and go get a trade. Go learn
the plumbing they gonna need. We need plumbers, we need electricians,
We need more fuckers to install solar panels. Like go
(05:42):
get you go down, now, get your ass a trade.
You fear me, Uncle Junior. Don't want no smoke with nobody,
no smoke. I'm just telling you the music is true.
What are they talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
How many motherfuckers you gonna put the switch on? You
think you can just run around here just putting a
switch on everybody? Bro?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That make you?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't that make you like a cereal something they call
that's called cereal? And I don't mean captain crunch, you're
you're a serial something bro. They come get, they come
get people like that, Like you don't get to just
do all this work, all this stuff that y'all doing
in the street, and it don't make sense because you
still running around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That don't make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In my time, right, the music actually made sense, like okay,
like you feel me, Like it actually made sense when
I first started back in nineteen ninety nine, I wasn't
moving keys. I was barely moving dimes like it. I
(06:50):
got my first key from my baby mama's brother, Like, okay,
it kind of sound like okay, like it makes a
little bit more sense. You understand what I'm saying, Like
it makes a little bit more sense, Like that seems
like it might be a little bit more practically applicable
to my life.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's some stuff that it sounds like. Okay, man, I okay,
I'm up before the sunrise, first to hit the block.
A little bad motherfucker with a pocket full of rocks.
He in the street going rock for rock. I learned
to throw them things. Get my skinny little ass kicked,
and niggas laugh to the first motherfucker got blasted, Like
(07:34):
you feel me? Like it kind of okay. They kept
jumping on you. You was out there going rock for rock.
You was already early, up before the sunrise, first to
hit the block, early bird, get to work, Like okay.
That stuff sounds like it might be a little practically
applicable for those who have been out in the streets
and engaged in the street culture. I'm a square. I
(07:56):
was up before the sunrise, but I was headed to
winter conditioning, like I was going to work out. I
was going to train, I was going to lift, or
you feel me I was. I was going to I
was going to school. I gotta go to school. I
was going to school. You feel me, I was going
to school. But that sounds something like it's a little
bit more practically applicable, you feel me. If you want
(08:21):
to smoke on something, you better have twenty or ain't
shit jumping. That's the way it goes on, funking, smoking
on that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Curded, feeled roaded.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Lie like that's what we That make a little bit
more sense. That sounds like something I can practically apply
to my life. This new music, it makes absolutely no
sense and I can't apply it. There's nothing I can
do with that granted, I'm old man, I got gray
in my beard, and it's getting grayer and gray, or
and grayer, you know, as the days go. Bible was
(09:03):
looking at myself today recording content like ooh, I'm gray.
I'm good and gray. I'm getting good and gray. I'm
handsome then the motherfucker. But I'm getting good and gray.
You feel me. I'm you know, I'm gonna be salt
and pepper. Real soonna be salt and pepper. So I
gotta get it. I gotta get it together, man, cause
I like to have a you feel me. I like
(09:24):
to I want to be you know, I want to
be put together. I want to get back built like
a brick shit house. But I'm old. So that the
new music it don't it don't You can't apply it.
You understand what I'm saying. When I was growing up,
some of the stuff I would hear, I knew, okay,
like it's cool, but I know that that's not for me.
(09:46):
You understand what I'm saying, Like, Okay, I get it,
that's that's not for me. Like yeah, Like like listening
to Top Authority Salute the Flint, Michigan, Michigan Salute the
Top authority, Like when I was listening to top authority,
it's another murder, another murder, and I'm listening to it
and I'm like, uh yeah, I think I'm finna go
lift weights. That just ain't for me, you understand, some
(10:09):
of it's just went entirely too far, Like I'm ay,
that ain't for meh. This new shit man like, it
makes absolutely no sense and it does not sound practically
applicable at all. And I think people are out here
trying to live and emulate this shit that they're hearing.
But the problem is the people that are sending this
(10:31):
messaging are not committing these egregious acts that they're rapping about.
You feel me. So in this instance, I think that
and this is I think that it's inaccurate, right, and
I believe it's culturally inactive. And I'm gonna tell you
the truth about the culture. The best times with regard
(10:53):
to the culture, in my opinion, when I go and
I look at different times when the culture was reaching
all time heights, if you will, the best time in
the history for the culture was when the art was
so very closely related to life, and art active accurately
(11:17):
imitated and depicted real life.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And since we are in this space.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Where the art and I'm talking all of the art.
I'm talking about film, I'm talking about I'm talking about music,
talking about television. It's not accurately depicting life. It's not
giving you something positive. It's not giving us anything positive
(11:47):
to us aspire toward. You feel me, We used to
aspire to. I'm an eighties baby. I was born in
the seventies. I was I'm an eighties baby. I grew
up aspiring to have a woman like Anita Baker. If
(12:10):
I could, I give you the word rappid all around you?
Who I can't be saddisfied with just a piece of
is uh my.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Jail? What? Like I grew up Yeah, y'all very glad.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I can't say like I grew up with that like
a woman referring to you as her angel. You know
that's gonna give me something to aspire to. I'm a
sucker for love, like I love love. Dreams are dreams, nah, man,
like I I man what art imitated life like? It
(13:01):
was a beautiful time, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Now? I wanted to be cool like new addition, you
feel me.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I wanted to have friends Ronnie Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph,
Johnny too shit. I wanted to have friends and have
everybody and we be cool and we hoop and we
mac and we in the neighborhood and we chilling like nah,
there was things I wanted to expire toward, and art
literally imitated life.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The Cosby Show gave me a vision, something to aspire toward,
wanting to be or have a life that mimicked or
was similar to the Huxtables. Wanting to have a successful
professional wife, wanting to be a successful professional father and husband,
wanting to be a man that was able to successfully
(13:56):
navigate this world, and most importantly, just have respect and
be respect it you feel me, to be respectful and
be respected, like Art successfully and accurately imitated life because
a lot of us come from households where there were respect,
(14:16):
respect the boat people and people who were respected. We
had fathers, we had grandfathers, we had uncles, We had
people men that were respected and respect the boat. You
feel me, we had family structures that were respectable. This
(14:40):
new place, man, in this new art, it's not really
accurately imitating life, and it's not giving us stuff to
aspire to. They'll tell you that the black father is absent,
the black fathers not around.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's crazy as fuck because believe either it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right now, I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a
I'm a sports dad, right and I'm also a pta parent.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm an active father. You feel me.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And when I go to these places and I go
to games, and I go to you know places, you
know who I see. I see other active fathers from
the culture that look like me. And when I engage
them in conversation, they talk like me. They have similar
(15:30):
interests me. They are literally people who are similar to me,
but they're here. But anyway, man, that's a whole different conversation.
That's a whole different show. The streets are dead over
(15:52):
with for nick though, like no more, no more streets,
it's over with. If you are currently caught in the streets,
let uncle Junior help you. You better take your ass
to school. You better get a trade, You better go
(16:12):
get a CDL, you better go become a nurse. You
better go to community college. Get into fintech. Man, go
take you some fintech. Take you some what is it
called some computer science security courses?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Cybersecurity. That's the word I'm looking for. Get into some cybersecurity.
You need to get into something that you're gonna be
able to feed yourself, because the street shit is dead
and you're gonna mess around out there in them streets
and you're gonna get your ass toe up.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The streets is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And Uncle Junior has the courage to tell you that
because I actually love you and I care about you.
And if don't, nobody else love you and care about you,
Uncle Junior love you and care about you. Now, Family,
if you're listening, because them people that ain't the people
that you know what I mean? And I hate that?
Why in culture that wayian should? I hate that. I
(17:14):
don't even use it right. But they not listening, like
that's just the truth. They're not in here, They not listening.
This ain't for them. But I'm gonna tell you though,
right those of you all are who are listening to this,
you got them, You got some of them people in
your life, and you're gonna have to get on some
game and you're gonna have to tell them, man, the
(17:34):
streets are dead.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Bro Sover with it's done. It's Faniko Sover.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And there's nothing that you're gonna be able to do
about it like it's done. There is no way in
the world you are going to be able to be
successful in the street. And the thing is is it
was always fool's goal because nobody can ever tell you
what was success in the street. Nobody can ever tell
(18:01):
you that the street shit is dead. It's over. Oh
it's over. It's over, and I'm glad about it. I
want to sing an old Negro spiritual salute to the family.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Thank y'all so much, man for taking the time to
tune in. I really truly genuinely appreciate it. Thank y'all
for letting me vent. I really had to get that off. Man.
Thank y'all for allowing me to vent being my soundboard.
Be sure to smash the like button, man, share the content.
Please let people know. Man, and y'all stop taking my
talking points and not giving me my work cited. Give
(18:36):
me my credit. Man, y'all need to cite this. Send
some folks over here. Man, Thank you so much. Man,
really truly genu really appreciate it. Once again, I am
indeed your host Junior the truth. You can 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 for all the social media platforms, man, each and
every one. If you're really looking for me, you can
(18:58):
catch me over on www. Dot Junior try. I wish
I'll go over there. It's so dope. It's so dope.
But once again, though, thank you so much. This is
Junior the Truth standing off man from episode five of
the Culture Collective Thoughtcast. Man. I am mister Ohio born,
(19:19):
player made, and I'm gonna give you your daily reminder
to give your life like a pair of dice until
your life looks like a pair of dice. And I
gotta say it again. I am mister Ohio born player made.
And if you don't know anything else about me, at
the end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby something.
(20:07):
Spink spinksh
It's a cold gang. It's a cold gang.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
And you can go you can go get I'm talking
about you can go get opioids. You can go get stimulants.
So opioids, you know, that's shit your hair on, that's
the the Those are the downers. That's the stuff that
slows you down. Those are your suppressants. Those are the
things that a lot of people take for pain, anguish
(00:29):
a lot of uh, psychological issues, people take uh some
rendition of opio opioids, some psychological I won't say a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And then you also have stimulants, the uppers, Right, you
have stimulants. You know what the stimulants are in place
of cokayena, Yeah, you can go get You didn't thought
you thought you could just get heroin. Nah, they'll write you,
(01:05):
they'll write you prescriptions for stimulants. Yeah, especially with the
if you have some sort of psychological issues, depressions, so
on and so forth, you'll get recommended. You'll get recommend
if you get prescriptions for some stimulants.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, wanna get wanna get up? Can you say hi?
Can you say higher? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
They got they got what you need. They got what
you need. Chase stimulants depressants. You feel me up ers
downers all around us. Yeah, you gotta get balanced out
a little bit. Yeah, they got you. So you have
to be absolutely out of your mind man, in the
year twenty twenty five, to go buy drugs in the streets,
(01:56):
and you gotta be even more out your mind in
the year twenty twenty five, the actually sell drugs in
the streets because the train is gone and it's wink,
it's wink, it's went mainstream. You understand what I'm saying.
It's so mainstream that they actually have Listen, they have
this new thing. What's it called. What's it call? It's
(02:16):
called a dispensaries for the football weed smokers. You mean
you hold on, Judge Joe Brown. You mean to tell
me that you can just walk in the building and
you can buy marijuana. You can legally buy a reefer. Nah, Man,
(02:37):
Remember when you used to have to go to somebody's
house and you have to knock on the front door allegedly,
and then they peek through the window. But that front
door had bars and shit on it, and so you
have to peek through. You know, they look and they say, hey,
what's up. And they'll be like Oh no, that's Coli cool.
Hey man, come to the side. Then you gotta go
to the side door. You feel me and go get
(02:59):
your go, get your go, get your your quarter. You
feel me or your half ounce or maybe your oz
if you didn't went in with it on your with
your homeboys, y'all don't got y'all ounce.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And yeah, remember you had to go do the Yeah.
Then you was getting ready to go. Roll up. Man,
he's getting to go roll up the Swishers or what
is it they called the grenadick grenadiers. You feel g Yeah,
Grenadier's or uh uh Swisher sweets, Philly blunts, you know,
(03:32):
uh tops papers, joker papers, like you was getting ready
to go roll and puff puff pass man and send
a and send that reefer playing up to the heavens
to the ancestors.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
You feel me. Now, y'all have to do that.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Now now you can go in the dispenser and you're
going to dispenser and that shit looked like.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
A uh shid like you going to a subway.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A lot of them are right next door to subway,
you feel me, Like a lot of them are writing
shopping centers next to your subway. Is your Jersey mics,
you feel me, your mos your Mo's Mexican grill, Get
Chipotle like they in them sinners like you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Just go.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's a dispensary. Go in there, give them a couple
of dollars, get your ounce, and go all about your business.
Then you ain't got to ride around the city and
go and worry about somebody shorten you, or gotta look
at the motherfucker when they put put your shit on
the scale. You feel me and so on a snow man.
You can go to a dispensary. It's legal. You gotta
(04:28):
be absolutely out of your mind to be engaging in
the drug trade. In twenty twenty five. You throwing rocks
at the penitentiary for what Because you didn't listen to
that music and the music told you you need to
do it.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Man.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
That's crazy as hell, them people making that music. Bro
ain't ain't ain't doing that shit, man, Which is another thing.
I guess we can add that that's a bonus reason
why I know the streets is dead because the music's trash.
Oh that's that music celebrating street culture and all that
street shit.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That music is trash.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
That music is trash, and you know why that music
is trash because a lot of it don't even make sense.
It don't even make sense. The tone, the volume, the cadence,
the stuff they rapping about, ship that they saying. It
don't make sense that it don't even make sense. Drill
(05:20):
rap respectfully. I don't want no I don't want no
smoke with no drill rappers. I don't want no smoke
with you youngins. I don't want no smoke with nobody,
Uncle Junior. I'm just telling y'all because I care, nigga,
take your ass and go get a trade. Go learn
the plumbing they gonna need. We need plumbers, we need electricians,
We need more fuckers to install solar panels. Like go
(05:42):
get you go down, now, get your ass a trade.
You fear me, Uncle Junior. Don't want no smoke with nobody,
no smoke. I'm just telling you the music is true.
What are they talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
How many motherfuckers you gonna put the switch on? You
think you can just run around here just putting a
switch on everybody? Bro?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
That make you?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Don't that make you like a cereal something they call
that's called cereal? And I don't mean captain crunch, you're
you're a serial something bro. They come get, they come
get people like that, Like you don't get to just
do all this work, all this stuff that y'all doing
in the street, and it don't make sense because you
still running around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
That don't make sense.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
In my time, right, the music actually made sense, like okay,
like you feel me, Like it actually made sense when
I first started back in nineteen ninety nine, I wasn't
moving keys. I was barely moving dimes like it. I
(06:50):
got my first key from my baby mama's brother, Like, okay,
it kind of sound like okay, like it makes a
little bit more sense. You understand what I'm saying, Like
it makes a little bit more sense, Like that seems
like it might be a little bit more practically applicable
to my life.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That's some stuff that it sounds like. Okay, man, I okay,
I'm up before the sunrise, first to hit the block.
A little bad motherfucker with a pocket full of rocks.
He in the street going rock for rock. I learned
to throw them things. Get my skinny little ass kicked,
and niggas laugh to the first motherfucker got blasted, Like
(07:34):
you feel me? Like it kind of okay. They kept
jumping on you. You was out there going rock for rock.
You was already early, up before the sunrise, first to
hit the block, early bird, get to work, Like okay.
That stuff sounds like it might be a little practically
applicable for those who have been out in the streets
and engaged in the street culture. I'm a square. I
(07:56):
was up before the sunrise, but I was headed to
winter conditioning, like I was going to work out. I
was going to train, I was going to lift, or
you feel me I was. I was going to I
was going to school. I gotta go to school. I
was going to school. You feel me, I was going
to school. But that sounds something like it's a little
bit more practically applicable, you feel me. If you want
(08:21):
to smoke on something, you better have twenty or ain't
shit jumping. That's the way it goes on, funking, smoking
on that.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Curded, feeled roaded.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Lie like that's what we That make a little bit
more sense. That sounds like something I can practically apply
to my life. This new music, it makes absolutely no
sense and I can't apply it. There's nothing I can
do with that granted, I'm old man, I got gray
in my beard, and it's getting grayer and gray, or
and grayer, you know, as the days go. Bible was
(09:03):
looking at myself today recording content like ooh, I'm gray.
I'm good and gray. I'm getting good and gray. I'm
handsome then the motherfucker. But I'm getting good and gray.
You feel me. I'm you know, I'm gonna be salt
and pepper. Real soonna be salt and pepper. So I
gotta get it. I gotta get it together, man, cause
I like to have a you feel me. I like
(09:24):
to I want to be you know, I want to
be put together. I want to get back built like
a brick shit house. But I'm old. So that the
new music it don't it don't You can't apply it.
You understand what I'm saying. When I was growing up,
some of the stuff I would hear, I knew, okay,
like it's cool, but I know that that's not for me.
(09:46):
You understand what I'm saying, Like, Okay, I get it,
that's that's not for me. Like yeah, Like like listening
to Top Authority Salute the Flint, Michigan, Michigan Salute the
Top authority, Like when I was listening to top authority,
it's another murder, another murder, and I'm listening to it
and I'm like, uh yeah, I think I'm finna go
lift weights. That just ain't for me, you understand, some
(10:09):
of it's just went entirely too far, Like I'm ay,
that ain't for meh. This new shit man like, it
makes absolutely no sense and it does not sound practically
applicable at all. And I think people are out here
trying to live and emulate this shit that they're hearing.
But the problem is the people that are sending this
(10:31):
messaging are not committing these egregious acts that they're rapping about.
You feel me. So in this instance, I think that
and this is I think that it's inaccurate, right, and
I believe it's culturally inactive. And I'm gonna tell you
the truth about the culture. The best times with regard
(10:53):
to the culture, in my opinion, when I go and
I look at different times when the culture was reaching
all time heights, if you will, the best time in
the history for the culture was when the art was
so very closely related to life, and art active accurately
(11:17):
imitated and depicted real life.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And since we are in this space.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Where the art and I'm talking all of the art.
I'm talking about film, I'm talking about I'm talking about music,
talking about television. It's not accurately depicting life. It's not
giving you something positive. It's not giving us anything positive
(11:47):
to us aspire toward. You feel me, We used to
aspire to. I'm an eighties baby. I was born in
the seventies. I was I'm an eighties baby. I grew
up aspiring to have a woman like Anita Baker. If
(12:10):
I could, I give you the word rappid all around you?
Who I can't be saddisfied with just a piece of
is uh my.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Jail? What? Like I grew up Yeah, y'all very glad.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I can't say like I grew up with that like
a woman referring to you as her angel. You know
that's gonna give me something to aspire to. I'm a
sucker for love, like I love love. Dreams are dreams, nah, man,
like I I man what art imitated life like? It
(13:01):
was a beautiful time, you feel me.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Now? I wanted to be cool like new addition, you
feel me.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I wanted to have friends Ronnie Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph,
Johnny too shit. I wanted to have friends and have
everybody and we be cool and we hoop and we
mac and we in the neighborhood and we chilling like nah,
there was things I wanted to expire toward, and art
literally imitated life.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You feel me.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
The Cosby Show gave me a vision, something to aspire toward,
wanting to be or have a life that mimicked or
was similar to the Huxtables. Wanting to have a successful
professional wife, wanting to be a successful professional father and husband,
wanting to be a man that was able to successfully
(13:56):
navigate this world, and most importantly, just have respect and
be respect it you feel me, to be respectful and
be respected, like Art successfully and accurately imitated life because
a lot of us come from households where there were respect,
(14:16):
respect the boat people and people who were respected. We
had fathers, we had grandfathers, we had uncles, We had
people men that were respected and respect the boat. You
feel me, we had family structures that were respectable. This
(14:40):
new place, man, in this new art, it's not really
accurately imitating life, and it's not giving us stuff to
aspire to. They'll tell you that the black father is absent,
the black fathers not around.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's crazy as fuck because believe either it or not.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Right now, I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a
I'm a sports dad, right and I'm also a pta parent.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm an active father. You feel me.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
And when I go to these places and I go
to games, and I go to you know places, you
know who I see. I see other active fathers from
the culture that look like me. And when I engage
them in conversation, they talk like me. They have similar
(15:30):
interests me. They are literally people who are similar to me,
but they're here. But anyway, man, that's a whole different conversation.
That's a whole different show. The streets are dead over
(15:52):
with for nick though, like no more, no more streets,
it's over with. If you are currently caught in the streets,
let uncle Junior help you. You better take your ass
to school. You better get a trade, You better go
(16:12):
get a CDL, you better go become a nurse. You
better go to community college. Get into fintech. Man, go
take you some fintech. Take you some what is it
called some computer science security courses?
Speaker 1 (16:32):
You feel me?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Cybersecurity. That's the word I'm looking for. Get into some cybersecurity.
You need to get into something that you're gonna be
able to feed yourself, because the street shit is dead
and you're gonna mess around out there in them streets
and you're gonna get your ass toe up.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
The streets is dead.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And Uncle Junior has the courage to tell you that
because I actually love you and I care about you.
And if don't, nobody else love you and care about you,
Uncle Junior love you and care about you. Now, Family,
if you're listening, because them people that ain't the people
that you know what I mean? And I hate that?
Why in culture that wayian should? I hate that. I
(17:14):
don't even use it right. But they not listening, like
that's just the truth. They're not in here, They not listening.
This ain't for them. But I'm gonna tell you though,
right those of you all are who are listening to this,
you got them, You got some of them people in
your life, and you're gonna have to get on some
game and you're gonna have to tell them, man, the
(17:34):
streets are dead.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Bro Sover with it's done. It's Faniko Sover.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
And there's nothing that you're gonna be able to do
about it like it's done. There is no way in
the world you are going to be able to be
successful in the street. And the thing is is it
was always fool's goal because nobody can ever tell you
what was success in the street. Nobody can ever tell
(18:01):
you that the street shit is dead. It's over. Oh
it's over. It's over, and I'm glad about it. I
want to sing an old Negro spiritual salute to the family.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Thank y'all so much, man for taking the time to
tune in. I really truly genuinely appreciate it. Thank y'all
for letting me vent. I really had to get that off. Man.
Thank y'all for allowing me to vent being my soundboard.
Be sure to smash the like button, man, share the content.
Please let people know. Man, and y'all stop taking my
talking points and not giving me my work cited. Give
(18:36):
me my credit. Man, y'all need to cite this. Send
some folks over here. Man, Thank you so much. Man,
really truly genu really appreciate it. Once again, I am
indeed your host Junior the truth. You can 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 for all the social media platforms, man, each and
every one. If you're really looking for me, you can
(18:58):
catch me over on www. Dot Junior try. I wish
I'll go over there. It's so dope. It's so dope.
But once again, though, thank you so much. This is
Junior the Truth standing off man from episode five of
the Culture Collective Thoughtcast. Man. I am mister Ohio born,
(19:19):
player made, and I'm gonna give you your daily reminder
to give your life like a pair of dice until
your life looks like a pair of dice. And I
gotta say it again. I am mister Ohio born player made.
And if you don't know anything else about me, at
the end of the day, I gotta keep pushing baby something.
(20:07):
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