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State of The Culture with 19 Keys & EYL: Dangerous Rap, Kyrie, & Black Media · Earn Your Leisure

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Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. Still,
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Speaker 2: my brother, what's going on?
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Speaker 3: Man?
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Speaker 2: How are you? Man? I feel a maculum? Man. I've
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Speaker 2: been having actually a pretty blessed day with some amazing
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Speaker 2: ideas and execution on the ground. So you know, Uh,
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Speaker 2: I'm interested to getting this conversation. I know it's not
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Speaker 2: a lot going on right now, so it's probably we
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Speaker 2: have to figure out what to talk about.
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Speaker 3: But you know, we do these things. We've done these
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Speaker 3: a few times.
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Speaker 4: Stay of the culture, right, Yeah, yeah, I think that's
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Speaker 4: what if I need to a third for something around
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Speaker 4: that that's quite popular to man. So if you don't
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Speaker 4: know me and nineteen topic things, you know, add our perspective,
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Speaker 4: ads some solutions and you know, our take on it
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Speaker 4: when it's important and now it's an important time.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot going on.
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Speaker 4: You know, we talk all the time offline, and I'm like,
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Speaker 4: you know, sometimes those offline conversations need to come online.
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Speaker 4: So we're gonna we're gonna talk about a few different things, man,
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Speaker 4: so not to talk about to say the least, to
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Speaker 4: say the least.
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Speaker 3: So I'm not sure. I guess let's start in London.
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Speaker 4: Let's start. Let's start with the London situation. Yeah, London
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Speaker 4: some some level of positivity first and you know, for
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Speaker 4: anybody I wasn't aware. We went to Royal Alcohol in
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Speaker 4: London myself Troy uh nineteen keys Ian Dunlap, Wall Street Trapper,
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Speaker 4: Trisha Brett MG, a mortgage guy except the mortgage guy
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Speaker 4: from London to B D Stevens. So many different people.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to figure anybody's name, but so many
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Speaker 4: different people. And you know, it was a historic event.
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Speaker 4: Royal Alcohol, one of the most prestigious venues in the world.
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Speaker 4: You know, sold out over four thousand people in in
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Speaker 4: in London. Crazy at sphere. It felt like a show.
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Speaker 4: No no musical performance, no celebrities, just education people. It's
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Speaker 4: just it was just an amazing experience. So first and
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Speaker 4: foremost I wanted to think everybody in London for showing
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Speaker 4: us so much hospitality, so much love shots and everybody
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Speaker 4: from America that came over and you know, we was
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Speaker 4: just talking about that.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 4: It's just like, you know, that was just a moment
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Speaker 4: in time, and it's just crazy that, you know, no
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Speaker 4: blog site or no otheration at mass has picked that
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Speaker 4: story up, because that's not normal.
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Speaker 3: You know, we think of the world alcohol.
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Speaker 4: That's where the Queen spoke, that's where you know the
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Speaker 4: Beatles played, that's where Adele sayings, that's where you know
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Speaker 4: jay Z performed. So this is the equivalent of like
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Speaker 4: Carnegie Hall, but even bigger. It's hard to give it
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Speaker 4: a comparison in America. So for us from America to
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Speaker 4: come over there, it has never been done before in
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Speaker 4: history of Europe, for the whole entire continent, there's never
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Speaker 4: been anything done like that from foreigners or from people
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Speaker 4: from the country to have financial literacy.
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Speaker 2: Pack.
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Speaker 4: It's just it's never actually been done in the history
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Speaker 4: of the continent. So for that to happen for the
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Speaker 4: first time ever for the history of the continent, and
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Speaker 4: for that to happen, you know, you're a you're a
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Speaker 4: you're thinking of colbinize white people. So the first time
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Speaker 4: that has ever happened in the whole entire history of
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Speaker 4: the continent was black people from America. It's a little
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Speaker 4: disheartening that nobody has picked this story up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's very tail tale. It's very tell
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Speaker 2: tale because you know, walking on that stage and you know,
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Speaker 2: when I walked on stage, you know, we had a
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Speaker 2: grand entrance, a grand deal's entrance. But when you walk
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Speaker 2: on that stage, man, and the way that it's like
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Speaker 2: a fishball, right, and you feel very personally, you feel
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Speaker 2: very connected to the crowd, and it felt like, you know,
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Speaker 2: I can imagine the gladiator walking into a coliseum, right,
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Speaker 2: and you ful feel that energy that suckle the energy
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Speaker 2: of all of the people around you. The only thing
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Speaker 2: I could do when I walked out of there of
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Speaker 2: screaming people that is in the audience was put my
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Speaker 2: hands up and embrace it. That's what it gave me,
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Speaker 2: the energy, and I just embraced the energy. And then
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Speaker 2: I turned that into a fist because I felt like
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Speaker 2: this was about me embracing it. Then I put the
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Speaker 2: fist up and it was about the people. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I think, I wonder if part of it is that
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Speaker 2: we don't know how to report good news in our culture.
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Speaker 2: I think that the machine of media is completely an
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Speaker 2: arm of negativity and entertainment that we don't know how
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Speaker 2: to report good news and our culture whatsoever. So if
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Speaker 2: one of us does something bad, it is blocked, it
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Speaker 2: is recording, it's streamed, it's shared, it's politicized. People put
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Speaker 2: all of their comments on it, celebrities we didn't even
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Speaker 2: know news. Everybody has an opinion on it. They share
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Speaker 2: it that it's on a front page, to post it,
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Speaker 2: to engage in their fans and commentary about it. It's
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Speaker 2: everywhere it's viral, And so I said, like, if you're
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Speaker 2: not sharing the good, I don't give a fuck about
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Speaker 2: your opinion on the bat, Like you invalidate your total
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Speaker 2: existence of anything you have to say one hundred percent.
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Speaker 2: And as black media specifically, you invalidate your platform if
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Speaker 2: your platform is not to share good news in the culture,
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Speaker 2: Like what else do you have your platform for? So
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Speaker 2: you have to think about it, like ask yourself, why
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Speaker 2: are these people building platforms if it's not to share
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Speaker 2: the type of news, particularly like this, And it's not
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Speaker 2: that don't say that they don't know about it. We're
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Speaker 2: very hard to ignore. We're very hard to ignore. We're everywhere,
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Speaker 2: you know. But what happens is is that during these
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Speaker 2: particular times, I think one of the greatest quotes is
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Speaker 2: that what you say your words in your silence will
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Speaker 2: both be judged. Like I want you all to think
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Speaker 2: about that. Your words in your silence will be judged
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Speaker 2: during these times. When you are silent during acts of injustice,
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Speaker 2: you're judged by that right. And then when you speak
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Speaker 2: against things that are good or on cold, when you're
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Speaker 2: being off cold, you judge by that as well. So
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Speaker 2: the people will be looking at these platforms, and you
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Speaker 2: don't want history to record that you were silent right
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Speaker 2: as we were manifesting these things to be brought into reality,
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Speaker 2: because that's violence. Silence is violence. It's saying that we
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Speaker 2: don't want nobody to know about y'all. It's like blocking
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Speaker 2: a person. It's like trying to shadow ban them. They're saying,
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Speaker 2: And no, I know y'all doing good, and I can't
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Speaker 2: think of a single bad thing that y'all done as
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Speaker 2: far as how the impact is going directly towards these
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Speaker 2: young men and women out here, and y'all doing exactly
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Speaker 2: what we want y'all to do. But I can't use
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Speaker 2: my platform to support y'all. Why So I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to tally a guess that's too why I'm gonna let
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Speaker 2: y'all think about that. Why. What is the spirit? What
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Speaker 2: is the spirit of our people? What is the spirit
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Speaker 2: of some of the people that's here watching. What is
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Speaker 2: the spirit that we have for each other? When we
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Speaker 2: have all of the passion when something negative happens, none
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Speaker 2: of the passion when something good happens.
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Speaker 4: And that's true, and it's responsibility and it's not just
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Speaker 4: you know, you can't look at pages. It's like these
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Speaker 4: are just Instagram pages. They're media outlets. Meet their media
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Speaker 4: outlets because nobody's reading new pagers, nobody's listening to the news.
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Speaker 4: But they are going to Shadle, they are going to
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Speaker 4: Spiritual World Word, they are going to academics pages. So
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Speaker 4: these are actual media outlets. So with a media outlet
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Speaker 4: comes responsibility. And my thing is like, you can want,
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Speaker 4: but you have to look yourself in the mirror. Wand
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Speaker 4: the only thing that you're publishing is celebrity gossip and negativity.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I understand that that's what people are interested in,
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Speaker 4: but why not have some level of alternative narrative because that.
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Speaker 2: We prove that this people interested in as well.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. So that's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 4: Why don't you just have an alternative narrative because it's
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Speaker 4: obviously people aren't interested in that as well, and you
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Speaker 4: are not helping by continuously posting things that are not beneficial.
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Speaker 4: It's nonsense. And you keep posting the same things and
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Speaker 4: shout out to like little UZI verbs. I'm a big
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Speaker 4: fan of his, but how is he goes viral for
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Speaker 4: dancing on top of a car and I see every
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Speaker 4: every outlet post in that.
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Speaker 3: But how that helpful? And how is that beneficial?
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Speaker 2: Mm hm, And you can't And that to me says
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Speaker 2: that you can't have any critic sism towards the youth
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Speaker 2: and any of their antics and actions. If you don't
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Speaker 2: promote anything inspiring right in a way to where they
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Speaker 2: can follow it, that's a consequence that can help them
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Speaker 2: better themselves. So if you only promote the things that
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Speaker 2: are negative, and then you look out in the world
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Speaker 2: say why these you don't mean killing each other? What
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Speaker 2: do you mean? What do you promote with your platform?
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Speaker 2: Don't you only promote distractions and escapism and don't you
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Speaker 2: only promote celebrityism of an entertainment culture And you never
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Speaker 2: present option solutions or anything good that these young men
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Speaker 2: and women can be inspired by as an option and
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Speaker 2: the alternative. If you don't do that, then you're perpetuating
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Speaker 2: the things that you complain about. So you literally are
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Speaker 2: are an opt You are part of the problem. You
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Speaker 2: are in opposition to the good things that happen. And
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Speaker 2: so you know, I've had you know, some of our
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Speaker 2: peers that are in media, they told me today face
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Speaker 2: that they don't want to put on smart shit on
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Speaker 2: their platforms, not unless niggas is paying. Let's be honest
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Speaker 2: when you said love it all right, So here's the
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Speaker 2: game of reality, right. You know, if niggas is not
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Speaker 2: paying to put out something good for the courtyard, niggas
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Speaker 2: don't want it on there. But you can come on
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Speaker 2: here and talk about your beef with another black man.
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Speaker 2: You can talk about your issues and your problems, and
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Speaker 2: they don't mind capitalizing off that. And they're gonna scream
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Speaker 2: and they gonna cry, you understand me when somebody dies
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Speaker 2: and something happened. But them saying niggas will charge you
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Speaker 2: to put our information as positive because they're gonna say, well, no,
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Speaker 2: that's shit too smart, that's not what the hood wants.
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Speaker 4: That's the fucking lie. And shot a lie. Fout out
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Speaker 4: to my god, Dion. I see him in the comments.
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Speaker 4: And Revolt and y'all know that we work with Revolts.
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Speaker 2: Family, and I actually rock with Revolt.
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Speaker 4: I think Revolt has done the best job as far
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Speaker 4: as trying to diversify that content because unfortunately, we understand
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Speaker 4: that negativity is always going to be popular.
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Speaker 3: It's an uphill back.
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Speaker 4: But you know, they've actually have done a good job of,
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Speaker 4: you know, programming that it's gonna be beneficial.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but we.
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Speaker 4: But there has to be that across the board, Like
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Speaker 4: there has to be that across the board where it's
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Speaker 4: just normal. Like I said, it doesn't have to be
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent of the programming from every single blog
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Speaker 4: or Instagram page, but at least that fifteen percent of
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Speaker 4: programming that's beneficial, right, And this goes for all of
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Speaker 4: the blogs, all of the Instagram pages, all of the
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Speaker 4: influencers that's putting up content, because you keep putting up
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Speaker 4: the same content and it's not beneficial and it's harmful.
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Speaker 4: And the thing about it is that we keep we
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Speaker 4: always try to like like Toray shot to him, but
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Speaker 4: he put up up about how hip hop music is
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Speaker 4: not the reason of crime, and I'm like, yeah, it
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Speaker 4: kind of is, like at some point we gotta be honest, right, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: of course, poverty, of course all that. But to say
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Speaker 4: that music is not something that is not harmful is
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Speaker 4: a lie. It's actually been extremely harmful and the majority
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Speaker 4: of it is not beneficial. And the majority of the
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Speaker 4: of the influencers that on social media are not beneficial.
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Speaker 4: When we're just hearing about celebrity gossip and this person
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Speaker 4: cheated on this person and Nick Cannon is having his
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Speaker 4: thirteenth child. How is that beneficial? How is Nick Cannon
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Speaker 4: having his thirteenth child beneficial to your life?
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Speaker 3: So I don't know, how is that? How is that
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Speaker 3: something that's going to be beneficial?
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Speaker 4: How is that something that is going to be inspirational
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Speaker 4: or something that a young boy is going to look at?
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Speaker 4: And the spider that I'm not knock connected shout out
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Speaker 4: to him, salute whatever he wants to do. But what
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Speaker 4: I'm saying is that why why are you publicizing every
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Speaker 4: single time he's having each child?
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Speaker 2: And I think that the reality of it is is
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Speaker 2: that we know our power and the family and the
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Speaker 2: brother Dion says something key, you know, we prove that
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Speaker 2: we don't need them, right. And you know when me
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Speaker 2: and you talk, were always talking about the solutions to
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Speaker 2: these things, and we're talking about how if you create
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Speaker 2: a blog culture around what we do right, it helps
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Speaker 2: influence and it helps validate right, this new courture that
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Speaker 2: we represent right because one hundred percent, music is the
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Speaker 2: soundtrack that influences people. Music is the most influential thing
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Speaker 2: on the planet. Earth, right, Because people listen to music
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Speaker 2: over and over and over. It's hypnotizing, right, it's the
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Speaker 2: soundtrack when a person want to go kill somebody, they're
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Speaker 2: literally put on a type of music to put themselves
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Speaker 2: in the moved to condition them so that they can
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Speaker 2: go out there and commit a crime. Right. So we
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Speaker 2: know the reality of it is that you got to
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Speaker 2: change the frequency because the dominant frequency wins. If the
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Speaker 2: dominant frequency is that of a death culture, a destructive curture, right,
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Speaker 2: then therefore that's the frequency that people, especially that are
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Speaker 2: highly influenced, that are impoverished environments, that's the one that
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Speaker 2: they ride in on.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: But if their environment is immersed in education and knowledge
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Speaker 2: and inspiration, then it forces them to have a different
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Speaker 2: outcome because that's all they know. Right. We are people
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Speaker 2: that just get programmed, and we are very emotional people,
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Speaker 2: and it's easy to program people through they motions. So
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Speaker 2: we can make a list of who is the top
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Speaker 2: one hundred most influential people within our culture in our media,
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Speaker 2: and if you go to them, you say, well, listen,
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Speaker 2: here's a solid program we really want to push. Right,
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Speaker 2: what these brothers is doing. Look, they had ten thousand
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Speaker 2: people here. Look, they had five thousand people. Could y'all
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Speaker 2: help them get into fifty thousand people? Could y'all help
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Speaker 2: them reach five hundred million people? Like if you really care?
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Speaker 2: Now they got to say yes or no. But we
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Speaker 2: got to start putting that out there so people know.
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Speaker 2: They say, well, listen, man, we brought the program to
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Speaker 2: the people that y'all consider to be on cod that
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Speaker 2: y'all consider to be a part of the culture. But
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Speaker 2: the reality of it is, they denied us. They said
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Speaker 2: they don't fuck with us. They said that this don't
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Speaker 2: make enough money. They said that this doesn't directly go
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Speaker 2: with their business plan. So we had we can't look
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Speaker 2: at everybody, and that's why I look at the difference
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Speaker 2: between race and ethnicity. Everybody may be you may be
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Speaker 2: an African origin, you may be a black man melanated.
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Speaker 2: But do we have the same ethnic background. Do we
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Speaker 2: have the same of faith and belief system on where
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Speaker 2: we actually want the curture to go? Do we speak
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Speaker 2: the same lifeanguage? So we get confused a lot because
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Speaker 2: you look like me, but you don't think like me.
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Speaker 2: Our values is not the same. So there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of people and that when we see a lot of
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Speaker 2: people speaking out on things that are counter to what
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Speaker 2: we think would be on cold to a good culture.
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Speaker 2: It is because they have a completely different ethnic background.
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Speaker 2: They believes are different, so they shouldn't even be qualified
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Speaker 2: to even speak. They should not give the credit of
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Speaker 2: saying that that's a black business. It's not not the
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Speaker 2: type of what we're talking about. When I said I
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Speaker 2: look at a brother like Rashad and he want to
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Speaker 2: use all his time to educate people, I see a
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Speaker 2: brother like him five huney when he use always time
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Speaker 2: to educate people, Adams good energy, all the time to
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Speaker 2: execute people. That's a completely different ethnic group inside the
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Speaker 2: black culture, right than somebody who uses all they time
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Speaker 2: to talk about how I came from the hood. I
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Speaker 2: just want to kill niggas and rob him and take
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Speaker 2: the bitch.
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Speaker 4: WOULDNA say said, see niggas in black. They goes a
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Speaker 4: loud difference, It goes down and at some point we
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Speaker 4: got to have a real conversation like Shana Alex, he
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Speaker 4: just put Jamaica just being volunt At some point we
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Speaker 4: got to have some level of responsibility what we're endorsing
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Speaker 4: and what and they got to be opposition. We got
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Speaker 4: to draw opposition from shit that's detrimental and harmful. And
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Speaker 4: you said something that was very key a long time ago.
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Speaker 4: You was like, you know, the rappers, a lot of
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Speaker 4: they always say like, this is just my environment. Well
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Speaker 4: put it how you put it, because I don't even
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Speaker 4: want to I don't want to misquote your But.
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Speaker 2: It's one thing to reflect your environment, it's a it's
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Speaker 2: another thing to reflect what you want to see in
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Speaker 2: the environment. Right. So you have your reflections and then
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Speaker 2: you have your aspirations. Like I come from the hood,
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Speaker 2: but I don't talk about the ship that I did
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Speaker 2: in the streets all fucking day long, right because all
17:43
Speaker 2: of them guys that talk about that have now had
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Speaker 2: new experiences. But they don't talk about that, right. But
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Speaker 2: why because they are on cold with the corporations who
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Speaker 2: also don't care. And most of the music is anti black.
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Speaker 2: It's all anti black, right, you know down where Martin
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Speaker 2: Luther King one like it, you know, Malcolm X's one
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Speaker 2: like it. Why because they're gonna be like that shit
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Speaker 2: is detrimental to our people. Yet niggas go get them
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Speaker 2: tatted and get big change on them, like they representing
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Speaker 2: those ancestors. You you can easily come from an environment
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Speaker 2: and say, well, I come from that's what I know. Well,
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Speaker 2: what do you want to see in that environment? Do
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Speaker 2: you want to see it get better? And if you
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Speaker 2: believe that your music has the ability to create that
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Speaker 2: influence and reflection, then why not talk about the things
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Speaker 2: that you wish to see. You know, we're not gonna
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Speaker 2: say I came from a broken household, so now I'm
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Speaker 2: about to rap about the broken households only and perpetuate
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Speaker 2: that rather than say that, well, I'm gonna rap about
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Speaker 2: how I made a shift and I made a change
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Speaker 2: because my father wasn't there. But I'm not gonna be
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Speaker 2: the same. And that was a bars too, by the way.
18:47
Speaker 4: It's just it's it's it's time, man, because at the
18:49
Speaker 4: end of the day, you can only have you can
18:51
Speaker 4: only have so much patience before you just have to
18:54
Speaker 4: just be honest.
18:55
Speaker 3: You can just have to be honest.
18:56
Speaker 4: And it brings us to the you know, unfortunate you
18:59
Speaker 4: know situation of takeoff, rest and piece to takeoff.
19:03
Speaker 3: And he was in Paris. I got the news.
19:06
Speaker 4: They kind of just rolled my whole day like I
19:08
Speaker 4: couldn't even believe in honestly, like I took the train
19:09
Speaker 4: to Paris and I woke up and they were like,
19:12
Speaker 4: you heard about Takeoff. He died, And I'm like, it
19:14
Speaker 4: took me a minute to even understand what do you
19:16
Speaker 4: mean Takeoff like Migos one of the greatest rap groups
19:18
Speaker 4: of all time, Like that's not of course, anybody dies,
19:21
Speaker 4: that's tragic, but he's like a you know what I'm saying, like.
19:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a cultural treasure.
19:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, And then like you know, in an alley, in
19:30
Speaker 4: the back of an alley and of a dice game.
19:32
Speaker 4: It just it didn't make sense to me, Like it's
19:34
Speaker 4: just I'm like that, how does that happen? But it's
19:37
Speaker 4: it's it's it's so many things to unpack from this situation.
19:41
Speaker 4: First of all, So like I said, first of all,
19:43
Speaker 4: rest in peace to him, and you know, prayers to
19:46
Speaker 4: his family. But it's like once again, and you.
19:52
Speaker 2: Know, there's a reason why not to cut your wisdom.
19:54
Speaker 2: But there's a reason why you don't see the lupe fiasque, right,
19:59
Speaker 2: and the of the world, you know, and people who
20:03
Speaker 2: make a different particular type of music getting killed, and
20:08
Speaker 2: we don't you know, anytime you want to make something,
20:10
Speaker 2: you want to make a change. You're gonna look at
20:12
Speaker 2: what are the things these things have in common? You
20:14
Speaker 2: start looking for common threads, right, and so we don't
20:18
Speaker 2: take responsibility and accountability whatsoever in this culture. We're gonna cry,
20:23
Speaker 2: We're gonna say we need to do better, We're gonna
20:26
Speaker 2: say we need to change. But you know, any good detectives, right,
20:30
Speaker 2: is going to start looking for connections. What are these
20:33
Speaker 2: things have in common? Right? And the music is the
20:37
Speaker 2: most you know, connecting force that these things have in common,
20:41
Speaker 2: the influence, the vibration, the frequency, the lyrics. So if
20:47
Speaker 2: these type of rappers, you know, we see that consider
20:50
Speaker 2: themselves to be street, consider themselves to be gangster, consider
20:53
Speaker 2: themselves to talk about a particular type of lifestyle. If
20:56
Speaker 2: these are the brothers that's being taken out the most, right,
20:59
Speaker 2: then and we know that there's a common now in
21:01
Speaker 2: theres a thread of things that need to change, because
21:04
Speaker 2: I see, I've seen all of the names I was
21:07
Speaker 2: on there talking about. They don't want rappers to be
21:09
Speaker 2: taken down for their lyrics in court. And I believe that, yes,
21:12
Speaker 2: you should have a certain artistic integrity. But if the
21:15
Speaker 2: reality of it is, we know niggas be talking about
21:17
Speaker 2: shit that they be doing in their lyrics, and they
21:18
Speaker 2: want to brag about put niggas in a pack, They
21:21
Speaker 2: talk about putt niggas in a pack. Then they go
21:23
Speaker 2: out there and rap about it, and somebody mother got
21:25
Speaker 2: to hear that over and over and over, and we
21:27
Speaker 2: as a coach are supposed to stand up behind that shit.
21:29
Speaker 2: You niggas is demons. But let's be honest, if you
21:32
Speaker 2: killed my child and you rapped about it, then somebody
21:34
Speaker 2: gonna want to murder you. Like that has to happen.
21:36
Speaker 2: So when we stand up in front of that right
21:41
Speaker 2: and we be like, nah, we got to stand up
21:42
Speaker 2: for that. What about lyric reform? Right? What about changing
21:46
Speaker 2: the things that you rap about? How you gonna talk
21:48
Speaker 2: about killing niggas and then tell the coach, y'all need
21:50
Speaker 2: to stand up. I should have my right to talk
21:52
Speaker 2: about niggas that I killed, or talk about crimes that
21:54
Speaker 2: my homie done did, or like, we gotta come on, now,
21:58
Speaker 2: that's a strategy. We gotta make a fun difference. So
22:01
Speaker 2: if you niggas really care, right, then that means that
22:04
Speaker 2: you would change your way so that you would get
22:06
Speaker 2: caught up in the same thing niggas know not to
22:07
Speaker 2: snitch on themselves. I'm from Oakland and I grew up
22:11
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis, so I know the streets very well.
22:13
Speaker 2: You understand me. I understand that niggas shuldn't be wrapping
22:16
Speaker 2: up out their crimes. That's not hard to do. We
22:18
Speaker 2: see niggas getting caught up for ricos. So the problem
22:22
Speaker 2: is is though you know, the activist community will support
22:25
Speaker 2: that and push that right, but we don't get that
22:27
Speaker 2: same support on the side where we're pushing out the
22:29
Speaker 2: cure for this issues in these problems. But I think
22:32
Speaker 2: that what we need to change is to say that
22:35
Speaker 2: we can be heavy on the activist side, because the
22:38
Speaker 2: activism is just moving people, showing them what the problem
22:41
Speaker 2: is is activating them. But sometimes we got to make
22:44
Speaker 2: sure that our activists are pushing towards supporting the solutions
22:48
Speaker 2: as well. Because if I get killed, man, I'm on
22:51
Speaker 2: everybody page. Man, y'all marching for me. But as I
22:54
Speaker 2: live and breathe and make decisions that are good, and
22:58
Speaker 2: we bring people together and educate them so that we
23:01
Speaker 2: can destroy the crime rates, destroy the poverty rates, so
23:04
Speaker 2: that they don't get to the point where niggas are
23:06
Speaker 2: killing each other because they have more options because they're educated. Right,
23:10
Speaker 2: there's no support for that. So what I start to
23:13
Speaker 2: see is like you get so caught up in a
23:16
Speaker 2: system that you can actually help change it, so you
23:19
Speaker 2: become another arm of it. And what we do is
23:21
Speaker 2: because we're so independent and we realize that ain't nobody
23:24
Speaker 2: is coming behind young black men educating and they ain't
23:26
Speaker 2: propping this up, like this shit ain't the most important
23:29
Speaker 2: work in the world when you can get three thousand
23:31
Speaker 2: plus people all the way across season, the most prestigious
23:34
Speaker 2: event in the world, and y'all want to act like
23:36
Speaker 2: that's a normal shit. But the nigga have a throng
23:38
Speaker 2: talking about niggas and bitches that become a hit or
23:40
Speaker 2: he talk about Megan Stallion and the lyric. All of
23:42
Speaker 2: a sudden, everybody need to talk about that shit. Come on, man, like,
23:47
Speaker 2: how low are we? And then we mad that other
23:50
Speaker 2: people treat us like we divide it? Obviously we are.
23:56
Speaker 2: I'm just saying like to me, I'm just I got
23:59
Speaker 2: so much common sense. I could take this ship to
24:01
Speaker 2: the bank, you understand me, and get paid off of it,
24:04
Speaker 2: like it just don't make no sense to me.
24:08
Speaker 4: I mean, the good points the lyric re form thing
24:12
Speaker 4: is is brilliant because it's like, yeah, you keep fighting
24:16
Speaker 4: for these things, and you keep chating, You'll let them
24:19
Speaker 4: stay whatever they want. And and it's like, you know,
24:22
Speaker 4: prison reform, and like Cary he said, but you're not
24:25
Speaker 4: what you're rapping about things that's gonna get you into prison.
24:29
Speaker 4: And that's not a shot at meat milk, because I
24:31
Speaker 4: rock with meat milk, but that's just in general for
24:34
Speaker 4: rap artists. And it's like at some level, like we're
24:38
Speaker 4: not We're not gonna have no level of intelligence at all,
24:40
Speaker 4: Like how is this intelligent? How is it intelligent to
24:43
Speaker 4: keep rapping about killing people and taking drugs and taking
24:47
Speaker 4: prescription court medicine and putting tattoos in your on your face,
24:51
Speaker 4: and how is that intelligent?
24:53
Speaker 3: And how is that? How is that respected?
24:57
Speaker 2: It's notification for it.
25:00
Speaker 3: So it's at.
25:03
Speaker 4: Some point in time it's like like you can only
25:05
Speaker 4: be nice to a child for so long. Sometimes you
25:07
Speaker 4: gotta smack a child, you gotta spink them, and you
25:10
Speaker 4: got to discipline them, like yo, bro, like this is
25:12
Speaker 4: not what we're doing, Like this is really it's really
25:14
Speaker 4: not because it's not working, and and it keeps happening,
25:18
Speaker 4: and it keeps happening. You know what I'm saying. They
25:19
Speaker 4: gonna keep saying, Well, sometimes it is on fault. Sometimes
25:23
Speaker 4: it is.
25:25
Speaker 2: And and we know that we can blame. It's not
25:30
Speaker 2: even so much blame. It's looking at the interconnectivity of
25:33
Speaker 2: how these things get pushed out. If Kendrick Lamar and
25:38
Speaker 2: like j Cole is supposed to be in some of
25:40
Speaker 2: the top rappers in the world and they don't rap
25:43
Speaker 2: about killing niggas, then how can you say, well, that's
25:46
Speaker 2: not what niggas want to hear. Jay Cole drop a
25:49
Speaker 2: hot line of hot bar all the fucking time and
25:51
Speaker 2: it should go you understand me. So it's like this,
25:54
Speaker 2: you're telling me that this is actually this is actually monetizable,
25:58
Speaker 2: like niggas is buying it, this is profitable to do.
26:00
Speaker 2: So how come that's not what's being pushed by the
26:03
Speaker 2: record labels.
26:04
Speaker 4: Because the crazy thing is the most successful artists in
26:08
Speaker 4: the world. Rap artists in the world right now are Drake,
26:12
Speaker 4: Jake Cole, and Kendrick Lamar.
26:14
Speaker 3: None of them are gangster Drake.
26:17
Speaker 4: Every once in a while Drake might, but nobody really
26:19
Speaker 4: looks at Drake's not like no gangs believe It's like
26:25
Speaker 4: the most successful business model is anti it's anti dad.
26:31
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. All of these guys are presentable.
26:34
Speaker 3: All of these guys.
26:35
Speaker 4: None of these guys are rapping about, you know, just
26:37
Speaker 4: taking drugs twenty four to seven. None of these guys
26:39
Speaker 4: is rapping about killing people twenty four to seven.
26:41
Speaker 3: And they at the top, they at them mount rushmore.
26:44
Speaker 3: The situation. So, if the most successful business model is
26:48
Speaker 3: something that is productive on a certain level, why wouldn't
26:52
Speaker 3: that be the blueprint?
26:54
Speaker 2: Bro That's because because P and B can get killed
26:58
Speaker 2: and robbed as a rapper, being g can make a
27:00
Speaker 2: song on how to rob a rapper? We don't have
27:03
Speaker 2: no accountability in this culture whatsoever. We don't really care.
27:06
Speaker 4: That was something that was and iracka why imagine person.
27:09
Speaker 4: We interviewed him for a revolt. But some things is right,
27:11
Speaker 4: some things is wrong. That's wrong. Why would you make
27:13
Speaker 4: a song called how to Rob a rapper one week
27:15
Speaker 4: after a rapper got killed, even if the song was
27:17
Speaker 4: recorded six months ago, even if that's not what you're
27:19
Speaker 4: talking about, insensitive to his family, and it's it is
27:24
Speaker 4: you trying to say how to rapper when you yourself
27:26
Speaker 4: are a rapper.
27:29
Speaker 2: Just imagine, imagine if see this, this is what we
27:33
Speaker 2: have to understand. Imagine if a Jewish Man was killed
27:36
Speaker 2: and then you made a song with how to how
27:38
Speaker 2: to rob a Jewish Man, the whole their community will
27:41
Speaker 2: be an uproar against that. Our community has to care,
27:44
Speaker 2: that's why. And so when we don't show we care
27:46
Speaker 2: and we forget about it, you understand me, then we're
27:48
Speaker 2: complicit in it as well. And this ain't about yg
27:51
Speaker 2: but it's just more so about how we're hypocritical when
27:56
Speaker 2: it comes to us morning one thing and then celebrating
27:58
Speaker 2: the very thing that kills me. And so it's one
28:00
Speaker 2: of the quotes, my favorite quotes to think about the
28:03
Speaker 2: culture is that we had died before we give up
28:05
Speaker 2: the thing that kills us.
28:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the whole and the whole thing is just
28:10
Speaker 3: checking in.
28:11
Speaker 4: You're only making people that check in that look like you.
28:15
Speaker 4: You're not telling nobody. You're not telling Italian man to
28:18
Speaker 4: check in. You're not telling the Jewish man to check in.
28:20
Speaker 4: Because when the Jewish man comes in, he said, and
28:23
Speaker 4: he's your landlord, and he says you better have my
28:25
Speaker 4: money at the end of the month where you're getting
28:27
Speaker 4: kicked out, you're gonna rob a black.
28:28
Speaker 3: Man to give him your money.
28:30
Speaker 2: That's a fact that we were bullied in our culture.
28:35
Speaker 2: There ain't no gang it ain't no There are no
28:37
Speaker 2: gangster rappers. I just want to put this out there.
28:39
Speaker 2: There are no gangster rappers whatsoever. You can't name me
28:43
Speaker 2: one gangster rapper. They're just bullies. See, gangster is one
28:47
Speaker 2: who controls his community, who controls his family, who has
28:51
Speaker 2: operations set up. There ain't no gangster rappers. There's just bullies.
28:55
Speaker 2: Because that's the thing. Gangster turns into a boy in
28:57
Speaker 2: front of the police. That ain't turns into a boy
29:01
Speaker 2: in front of the contracts with the lawyers and the labels.
29:04
Speaker 2: That ain't gangst There's nothing gangst the about it. They
29:07
Speaker 2: towed us against them.
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Speaker 2: PERSONA. But you can't show me and I ain't talking
32:02
Speaker 2: about because you didn't killed the black man and you
32:04
Speaker 2: didn't got you a stripe and your eyes as glass,
32:06
Speaker 2: because you ain't got no heart and no soul towards
32:08
Speaker 2: your own people. That ain't gangster. You understand me, Like,
32:11
Speaker 2: at this point in time, gangster is small under a
32:14
Speaker 2: god in the first place. You understand me like that.
32:17
Speaker 2: That's saying I'm still a boy and I ain't graduated.
32:19
Speaker 2: You understand me because I want to stay inspired by
32:21
Speaker 2: the things that don't happened in the streets. That's not gangster.
32:25
Speaker 2: You gotta be on the turn where like no, we
32:27
Speaker 2: godly towards each other. This is how we move, This
32:29
Speaker 2: is how we operate. You understand me. So, and we
32:33
Speaker 2: gotta let like the world know, Like we be listening
32:35
Speaker 2: to that shit, we bomb to it. It sound good,
32:37
Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, that ain't nothing.
32:39
Speaker 2: We aspire to be, Like we don't want to go
32:40
Speaker 2: back to the street and have to hunt each other
32:42
Speaker 2: because of proximity. You understand me. The issues and problems
32:45
Speaker 2: that we have with each other in the streets. I
32:47
Speaker 2: don't want to have to rob somebody. You know how
32:48
Speaker 2: low life that is for me to have to go
32:51
Speaker 2: rob another black man to feed myself and or my family.
32:55
Speaker 2: It's nothing to wrap about for me to go literally
32:57
Speaker 2: have to self crack to my people, and then I
32:59
Speaker 2: need to rap about that for the next thirty years
33:01
Speaker 2: because we consider that to be some fly shit, even
33:04
Speaker 2: though we talk about how that was the worst form
33:06
Speaker 2: of destruction that our people went through that killed the revolution.
33:09
Speaker 2: How you go rap about your compliccency and our mental
33:13
Speaker 2: destruction like we feed into these things and then we
33:18
Speaker 2: justify and by saying, well, he got money, so that
33:20
Speaker 2: means that god money has become your god. And as
33:23
Speaker 2: long as a nigga get money off the evils that
33:25
Speaker 2: he do is justified. Don't you know how sick that
33:28
Speaker 2: is in reality? So what we doing and I don't
33:32
Speaker 2: stand on that now. I would love for anybody else
33:34
Speaker 2: to stand on any stage in the world that got
33:36
Speaker 2: an issue and tell them that they're doing more important
33:38
Speaker 2: work than what's going on over here. They're not. They
33:41
Speaker 2: can't tell me that all of the shit that you
33:43
Speaker 2: put out there is because we know the game behind
33:46
Speaker 2: the scenes. As we understand business, it's based on ads
33:49
Speaker 2: and capital and revenue. You're doing this so that the
33:52
Speaker 2: corporation is going to have something to run to add on.
33:54
Speaker 2: Because if you speak truth and might dang you. But
33:57
Speaker 2: if you talk about killing each other, shit, we're reward
34:00
Speaker 2: you by putting an add on that shit so you
34:01
Speaker 2: can get paid. So we can influence the same destructive
34:03
Speaker 2: culture to buy into our products. We all know the
34:06
Speaker 2: business model. It's a business model of death and destruction.
34:10
Speaker 2: So we got to create a different business model to
34:12
Speaker 2: be like, how do we monetize doing good? And that's
34:14
Speaker 2: what we do. We monetize doing good. So the more
34:18
Speaker 2: success that we have, the better the world is. Because
34:21
Speaker 2: it's a representation that we're actually selling this Like a
34:24
Speaker 2: person selling vitamins. Well, if this man is selling billions
34:27
Speaker 2: and vitamins, that means that the world is getting healthier.
34:30
Speaker 2: That's what we're doing. Though. We're selling health in life
34:33
Speaker 2: and construction to our people, in education and enlightenment and
34:36
Speaker 2: options in business strategy and wealth, you know, in structure
34:40
Speaker 2: and set up. We're not selling death and destruction to nobody.
34:44
Speaker 2: So that means that you should pray that we become
34:46
Speaker 2: more successful because it's a representation that we got a
34:49
Speaker 2: better future coming about that we put in our money
34:51
Speaker 2: where what our heart is and our spirit and where
34:53
Speaker 2: our mind is. So that's why I get frustrated. And
34:56
Speaker 2: I'll be like y'all exactly, y'all think y'all can take
34:59
Speaker 2: this for granted and complain ain't about the issue that
35:01
Speaker 2: don't make no sense. That's like a person's complaining about
35:03
Speaker 2: a virus the whole time, and think of like, yo,
35:05
Speaker 2: I got a cure to be like, nah, bro, we're
35:07
Speaker 2: talking about the virus right now, but what about.
35:09
Speaker 3: The cured door.
35:10
Speaker 2: Nobody want to talk about this, don't you know? This
35:12
Speaker 2: is how we get rid of the virus. And everybody
35:14
Speaker 2: want to talk about the problem, and everybody wants to
35:17
Speaker 2: ignore the solution.
35:17
Speaker 4: And with the solution, Yeah right, yeah, absolutely right, yeah,
35:23
Speaker 4: absolutely right.
35:25
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about the state of culture. Kyrie.
35:30
Speaker 2: Oh, my brother.
35:31
Speaker 4: Good good friend of yours. I met him. I met him,
35:34
Speaker 4: I spent a couple of hours with him. I know
35:37
Speaker 4: he follows her your leisure. He's been tapped in with
35:39
Speaker 4: us for a while. And I'm not saying, I'm like
35:41
Speaker 4: his best friend. I met him one time. But meeting
35:43
Speaker 4: him and having a conversation about hip hop and about
35:46
Speaker 4: you know, sports and about so much different stuff.
35:48
Speaker 3: And to me, to do.
35:53
Speaker 4: Person somebody that really, you know, struck me as somebody
35:57
Speaker 4: that's just really into receipt even information and gaining information.
36:02
Speaker 4: That's the that's the vibe that I got from him.
36:05
Speaker 4: A good dude to me. So where are we at
36:11
Speaker 4: with this Kyrie Urban situation?
36:13
Speaker 2: That's my brother, man. I love my brother. You know,
36:16
Speaker 2: there's a saying I seen my brother law posts. He say,
36:20
Speaker 2: we criticize in private and we praise in public. That's
36:24
Speaker 2: the code, right, So I want to give praise to
36:27
Speaker 2: my brother first, Kyrie Irving for being on an active
36:32
Speaker 2: campaign and journey to find himself boldly in front of
36:37
Speaker 2: the world. You know how hard that is to to
36:41
Speaker 2: have a platform with millions of people are judging you
36:43
Speaker 2: on a consistent daily basis, and at the same time
36:46
Speaker 2: you're utilizing your platform while you know, sacrificing yourself and
36:51
Speaker 2: losing hundreds of millions of dollars because he lost one
36:52
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars, he said, standing up for what he
36:55
Speaker 2: believed was his beliefs during the COVID height right by
36:59
Speaker 2: not taking a ya. So, first of all, I want
37:01
Speaker 2: to respect the brother for standing on integrity. You understand me,
37:04
Speaker 2: And I think that that's a thousand percent important and
37:09
Speaker 2: that has to be recognizing the history and the lineage
37:11
Speaker 2: of the good brother Kyrie Irvan. You understand me, and
37:15
Speaker 2: you know there's not too many people and the entertainment
37:19
Speaker 2: in the sports world that stand for anything anymore. Right
37:22
Speaker 2: we sing Shaq, Charles Barkley, Kareem abdua Elijah line have
37:27
Speaker 2: all been weaponized against a young black man growing up
37:31
Speaker 2: in the same game that it made them famous. And
37:34
Speaker 2: instead of I imagine reaching out and having personal conversations
37:37
Speaker 2: with him and trying to help give him mentorship and
37:40
Speaker 2: give him guidance, right, instead, they go on public platforms, right,
37:45
Speaker 2: and they do the master's bidding. Right. They want to
37:49
Speaker 2: talk about it. They want to call him names, right,
37:51
Speaker 2: they wanted to mean his talent and his opportunity. That's
37:55
Speaker 2: so disrespectful, right, that's disrespectful to all black people in
37:59
Speaker 2: his word, disrespectful to all older men who's supposed to
38:03
Speaker 2: give constructive The brother only thirty years old in the
38:06
Speaker 2: sixties and the thing that you can go on there
38:11
Speaker 2: is criticized and called the man out his name to
38:15
Speaker 2: where his son and his daughter and people of that
38:17
Speaker 2: nature or his wife is going to have to hear that.
38:19
Speaker 2: It's so disrespectful number one, And it's the most off
38:22
Speaker 2: cold thing in a culture that can possibly happen. So
38:26
Speaker 2: there needs to be a conversation with them, brothers number
38:28
Speaker 2: one right about their behavior, right, that's completely anti black
38:33
Speaker 2: and number two with brother Curry and anybody else, you know,
38:40
Speaker 2: because I think the most dangerous thing is that, you know,
38:44
Speaker 2: we can't continue to allow bullying to become a norm
38:49
Speaker 2: in our curture so that they can utilize that to
38:51
Speaker 2: spread fear and everybody else to stay in their place,
38:54
Speaker 2: right number one. I don't think he made any mistakes
38:58
Speaker 2: per se as far as him sharing content that he
39:01
Speaker 2: said that he watched or he wanted to watch, because
39:04
Speaker 2: we all do that, right. I watched millions of movies
39:08
Speaker 2: or thousands rather, and I don't have to explain to
39:11
Speaker 2: anybody what I agree with or whether I disagree with things.
39:15
Speaker 2: I think what we can do as a people is
39:18
Speaker 2: that when we are ready to speak, we have the
39:21
Speaker 2: ability to defend our truth. And we're only ready to
39:25
Speaker 2: speak when we have the ability and the thoughtfulness to
39:28
Speaker 2: defend that truth. And then we have to make sure
39:31
Speaker 2: that we are an active council with people that will
39:34
Speaker 2: allow us to gain the best thought leadership so that
39:38
Speaker 2: when we are in front of the world, we can
39:39
Speaker 2: speak with a clear representation of our peers' mind. Right,
39:45
Speaker 2: we know as a people, as a brother that's listening
39:48
Speaker 2: and actively engaging to understand him. Right when I listened
39:52
Speaker 2: to his press conference, I hear the brother actively explaining
39:56
Speaker 2: himself very clearly, and everybody else understood what he was
39:59
Speaker 2: saying and what he meant. So this is no longer
40:01
Speaker 2: about him being clarified and what that meant. Now it's
40:05
Speaker 2: about them punishing him. Now, it's about they're weakening his position.
40:10
Speaker 2: Now there's about saying that, come on, none of the
40:12
Speaker 2: other you other niggas in the NBA beding I ever
40:14
Speaker 2: think about being like, no Kyrie Irving, We're gonna show
40:17
Speaker 2: you understand me. And so for any of us to
40:20
Speaker 2: participate in that, right, it's dangerous. And one last thing
40:25
Speaker 2: is that there's this movie called Goodbye Uncle Tom that
40:27
Speaker 2: everybody should watch, and there's this scene in the movie.
40:32
Speaker 2: And in the scene, there's this slave in the slave
40:36
Speaker 2: house and he's getting neutered. They're cutting off his boss
40:39
Speaker 2: and the rest of the slaves. They're standing around and
40:42
Speaker 2: they're laughing. They're laughing, and the narrator's the pseudo documentary
40:47
Speaker 2: he's explaining, he said, you know, they're not particularly laughing
40:51
Speaker 2: because they are you know, enjoyed, but they're laughing to
40:56
Speaker 2: cover up the pain, hoping that they don't be next, understand,
41:00
Speaker 2: And I think that that's what's happening, and it's a
41:02
Speaker 2: bug breaking process, right, And the rest of them are
41:05
Speaker 2: actively campaigning on the side of Rome so that they
41:09
Speaker 2: don't be next, because they're doing it completely out of fear,
41:12
Speaker 2: and so that we as a people can allow, you know,
41:15
Speaker 2: any I'm gonna just say any white man to actively
41:19
Speaker 2: admonish a black man on TV, because this is America.
41:22
Speaker 2: Nobody has been treated worse than black men and women
41:24
Speaker 2: in America. Nobody. And that's not even an argument that
41:27
Speaker 2: any people on this planet Earth can make. So when
41:30
Speaker 2: we look at the statistical challenges that black men face
41:33
Speaker 2: from a mental health standpoint, that we face, from a
41:35
Speaker 2: gun violent standpoint that we face from a disease standpoint,
41:39
Speaker 2: from a prison population standpoint, from a poverty standpoint. The
41:43
Speaker 2: most important topics in America is fixing the issues with
41:47
Speaker 2: black men. So you're talking about men of privilege and
41:50
Speaker 2: power that are owners of institutions and corporations that have
41:54
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing their power to go
41:58
Speaker 2: on TV and ad monish your young man that utilize
42:01
Speaker 2: his talent and says that I am actively in a
42:04
Speaker 2: search to find myself because of what somebody else's ancestors
42:07
Speaker 2: did was ropping and robbing me of my own history
42:10
Speaker 2: from our people because of slavery. So if there was
42:12
Speaker 2: a people that understood that the most you would imagine
42:16
Speaker 2: the sympathy that the Jewish community wants, then they should
42:19
Speaker 2: they should act with some sort of empathy. They should
42:21
Speaker 2: act with an actor sympathy, and they should open up
42:24
Speaker 2: a line of communication. But that's not what it's about.
42:28
Speaker 2: It's about a pure attack, and it's about capitalists. It's
42:31
Speaker 2: about people that are at the top right making examples
42:34
Speaker 2: of people inside these franchises and these organizations. And so
42:37
Speaker 2: I believe that it's a very dangerous demonstration of what
42:40
Speaker 2: we're seeing right now. And I know that a lot
42:42
Speaker 2: of us lack the ability to, you know, give thoughtful commentary,
42:47
Speaker 2: which means that we should just shut up. But I
42:49
Speaker 2: like to see what my brother Kad did. Is you
42:52
Speaker 2: know he said, listen, man, I don't want to see this.
42:54
Speaker 2: I think we've born things out of proportion. If you
42:56
Speaker 2: don't have nothing good to say, either say nothing or
42:59
Speaker 2: say something or were you empathetic about your brother, but
43:02
Speaker 2: never go against him? That's what I respect said bad precedent.
43:06
Speaker 4: That's my thing is I haven't watched the documentary, so
43:09
Speaker 4: I'm not even and I'm not prepared to even speak
43:11
Speaker 4: because I don't even. I'm not I don't speak like
43:16
Speaker 4: I'm not about but I would say that, you know,
43:18
Speaker 4: from Shack and once again a rock with Shack we
43:20
Speaker 4: interviewed him could do to me.
43:24
Speaker 2: Man, I'm gonna have to get my crown back. You
43:25
Speaker 2: keep backing like.
43:26
Speaker 4: This, good dude, But I just don't understand. Why don't
43:31
Speaker 4: you just say nothing at all? Like you know what
43:33
Speaker 4: I'm saying, like, why is it so? Why do you
43:35
Speaker 4: always have And I'm not just saying him, just in general,
43:37
Speaker 4: from Steven A. Smith to whatever, why is it always
43:40
Speaker 4: have to be a public display of embarrassment and calling
43:46
Speaker 4: somebody out their name. Nobody else does that. Nobody else
43:49
Speaker 4: is calling him an idiot, and then they like, no
43:50
Speaker 4: white person was on state, we'll call him an idiot.
43:52
Speaker 4: It's only a black people. So why don't you just
43:55
Speaker 4: you don't even got a co sign him. You could
43:57
Speaker 4: just be like, you know, I don't want to talk
43:58
Speaker 4: about that, or you know, that's not that's not up
44:01
Speaker 4: to me to figure out, because it's not it's not
44:03
Speaker 4: up to you to figure out. You doing have to do.
44:06
Speaker 4: You don't even have to like you're doing. You're going
44:09
Speaker 4: to extra mouth that nobody even asked you to go.
44:12
Speaker 4: All you had to do is just be like, you know,
44:14
Speaker 4: the NBA is going to figure it out. I don't
44:16
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. If he did that, then
44:18
Speaker 4: you know it shouldn't have did that, or you know,
44:20
Speaker 4: to go and call him an idiot and all of this.
44:22
Speaker 4: It's like nobody you're doing things that's not even necessary
44:25
Speaker 4: to do that. Nobody else is doing it.
44:28
Speaker 3: It's not even your nobody asked you to do a
44:30
Speaker 3: car for You're.
44:31
Speaker 4: Not you're not even in a position to have any
44:35
Speaker 4: authority on the situation, So why are you speaking on it?
44:39
Speaker 2: And it's it is violence, That's what it is. You
44:42
Speaker 2: understand me, is verbal violence. And we can't wait to
44:45
Speaker 2: offend each other. Understand me. And I think that it's disrespectful.
44:50
Speaker 2: And like I said, specifically to the young man that
44:52
Speaker 2: see that, like the example that they setting to young
44:55
Speaker 2: men that see that, they're seeing a grown man talk
44:58
Speaker 2: shit about for a lot of these young men who
44:59
Speaker 2: they idol, who they wear those they wear his shoes,
45:02
Speaker 2: and they love Kyrie Irving, and you will get on
45:04
Speaker 2: there and call him an idiot. It's the same thing
45:06
Speaker 2: when Obama went on TV and he called Kanye jackass.
45:10
Speaker 2: You understand me, Like that's and whether he say it
45:13
Speaker 2: was supposed to be seen or not, like, this is
45:15
Speaker 2: not good demonstration, right from these men who's supposed to
45:18
Speaker 2: be in these positions. They're supposed to be highly intelligent, right,
45:22
Speaker 2: that are a deck of millionaires, right, they have influence
45:26
Speaker 2: that will reach millions of people. If you believe that
45:29
Speaker 2: the reason that you're saying is because he not utilized
45:32
Speaker 2: his platform correctly, because he has influence, then how you're
45:35
Speaker 2: going to go out and do the exact same thing
45:38
Speaker 2: when you know that there's a lot of violence in
45:39
Speaker 2: the street, and the first thing you go do is
45:41
Speaker 2: speak violently against your brother, even how you use your
45:45
Speaker 2: platform correctly.
45:46
Speaker 4: But even Obama had enough, had enough where with Thor
45:50
Speaker 4: because if you remember when he said that that was
45:52
Speaker 4: kind of off the record, he was, but then and
45:55
Speaker 4: they put it out there, at least he knew he
45:57
Speaker 4: had enough common sense to say, don't put that out there. Charles, Like,
46:01
Speaker 4: these dudes is going on like this is premeditative and
46:04
Speaker 4: doing this.
46:04
Speaker 2: It's not like charge we know Charles Barkley ain't never
46:07
Speaker 2: on the right side of history.
46:09
Speaker 4: They doing for no reason, I think. But once again,
46:12
Speaker 4: this is this goes back to we have to point
46:15
Speaker 4: to blame it ourselves because we give too much influence
46:17
Speaker 4: and too much power to athletes and musicians. As black people,
46:23
Speaker 4: we have Charles Barkley don't need to have no influence,
46:28
Speaker 4: Charles Barky don't need to have a voice because he's
46:30
Speaker 4: never anything that's He's never said anything that has been productive.
46:35
Speaker 4: Never in life, he's never said anything that's been productive.
46:39
Speaker 4: Why is he Why does he have a voice?
46:43
Speaker 2: But see, that's the same thing with politicians. A lot
46:45
Speaker 2: of times is that politicians is not We don't vote
46:48
Speaker 2: for politicians based on their intelligence, right, And this is
46:51
Speaker 2: the one of the primary things that is an issue
46:54
Speaker 2: fundamentally with society is that we're not picking people based
46:58
Speaker 2: on thatity to solve a problem whatsoever. Right, otherwise Biden
47:03
Speaker 2: will not be president. Biden is represents, you know, a
47:07
Speaker 2: very old white man who did not intelligently provide discords
47:12
Speaker 2: and intellect that says that you are the best candidate.
47:15
Speaker 2: And it's the same thing when we looking at our
47:17
Speaker 2: culture and our people. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever from
47:22
Speaker 2: an intellectual standpoint where you represent somebody who should have
47:26
Speaker 2: a voice on political issues. You don't know anything about
47:29
Speaker 2: political science, you don't have some high level IQ, you
47:33
Speaker 2: haven't passed the test, you haven't showed an example whatsoever.
47:36
Speaker 2: So we got to start looking at who are actually
47:39
Speaker 2: qualified in the culture for our people to speak. Right.
47:43
Speaker 2: So what's the point of saying that yo, y'all need
47:46
Speaker 2: to go get an education if the people that are
47:49
Speaker 2: most educated, right, are not the ones that represent us?
47:52
Speaker 2: And what's the point of that.
47:55
Speaker 4: They do is so disrespectful, Like even even when they
47:58
Speaker 4: try to prop up a black leader, it's herschel Walker
48:03
Speaker 4: is running herschel Walker about to herschel Walker, he's sounding
48:08
Speaker 4: crazy out here right now. Bro is so crazy he
48:13
Speaker 4: sounds I'm not It's like, what may hershel Walker even
48:18
Speaker 4: qualified to be in that seat because he's because he's
48:23
Speaker 4: he didn't even have he's not even a Hall of
48:25
Speaker 4: Fame or he had a mediocre NFL career. Bro herschel
48:29
Speaker 4: Walker sounded so crazy right now. That's so disrespectful he's been.
48:35
Speaker 4: It's not easy to get to this point where he's
48:37
Speaker 4: at right now. The fact that he.
48:40
Speaker 2: Is so crazy, that's so funny. How dumb down we are.
48:44
Speaker 2: That's how dumb down we are as a society though,
48:48
Speaker 2: like look at that, like this one. What I'm trying
48:50
Speaker 2: to tell y'all, like hip hop has been dumbed down.
48:52
Speaker 2: You know during that time work where Lupe Fiasco was
48:57
Speaker 2: talking about the dumbing down of hip hop, right you
49:00
Speaker 2: was banned, right and his career was hearted because they
49:05
Speaker 2: consider that to be too of intelligent rap and he
49:07
Speaker 2: started talking about, you know, things that he believed to
49:10
Speaker 2: be true about the industry, and so that they signed
49:12
Speaker 2: to him. Like Upe Fiasco is a very intelligent man,
49:15
Speaker 2: right But now We're at this point where hip hop
49:19
Speaker 2: has dumbed down so much, I mean so much, right,
49:24
Speaker 2: that it's disrespectful for us to even listen to some
49:26
Speaker 2: of these remedial boys and to allow them to be
49:29
Speaker 2: the ones that influence your mind. Just think about that, like,
49:34
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so dumb down, right that even when
49:37
Speaker 2: somebody says something of intelligence, you said, well, nah, you can't.
49:40
Speaker 2: You know, don't don't don't talk too high level, nigga,
49:43
Speaker 2: what is the high level conversation? Get millions of views,
49:46
Speaker 2: but y'all telling me that people don't want nothing high level. No, nigga,
49:49
Speaker 2: you just not high level, and you don't want people
49:51
Speaker 2: to want anything beyond your level. That's what it is.
49:55
Speaker 2: You want to keep people dumb down because you not
49:56
Speaker 2: ready to raise up. That's all it is. That's the
50:00
Speaker 2: like a man at the corner store staying that nigga,
50:02
Speaker 2: don't be coming around. You're teaching people about health foods.
50:05
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna tell none of that shit in here
50:07
Speaker 2: how to fuck I'm gonna capitalize. You're gonna shut down
50:09
Speaker 2: my store. I don't care if it's not good for them,
50:11
Speaker 2: I don't care if it continue to increase the diabetes
50:13
Speaker 2: and the blood pressure and the disease and the arthritis
50:15
Speaker 2: and all this stuff. No, it's not good for business.
50:19
Speaker 2: So we got to realize that most of these niggas
50:20
Speaker 2: don't care about you. They don't care about no. They
50:23
Speaker 2: use the word culture. They don't give a damn about that.
50:26
Speaker 2: I don't give a damn about you, right, No, it's
50:29
Speaker 2: about whether it's gonna line they pockets, whether it's profitable.
50:32
Speaker 2: Because we have the most capitalistic culture on the planet Earth,
50:35
Speaker 2: and we now we don't know how to be righteous
50:37
Speaker 2: and capitalists at the same time, we don't know how
50:40
Speaker 2: to sell a good product. We only know how to
50:42
Speaker 2: sell each other out.
50:48
Speaker 3: That is a fact.
50:49
Speaker 2: That is a fact. Man.
50:52
Speaker 4: It's so crazy, man, it's so crazy because there's a
50:55
Speaker 4: lot of good stuff that's happening in the world, that's
50:59
Speaker 4: happening in our culture. Like I said, just to you know,
51:01
Speaker 4: we talked about London, we talked about things that I need.
51:04
Speaker 4: But it's like high level conversation is rivaling the success
51:08
Speaker 4: of any any podcast. There's there's really no there's no
51:12
Speaker 4: show on YouTube or on Apple or Spotify that's that's
51:18
Speaker 4: leaps and bounds over it. So it's like to say
51:22
Speaker 4: that people are not interested in it. That's not actually true.
51:25
Speaker 4: It's not actually true because when you can drop a
51:28
Speaker 4: conversation for four hours, three and a half hours, talking
51:30
Speaker 4: about you know, metaphysics and biology and history, all of
51:37
Speaker 4: these different extraterrestrial activity, and you know three million people
51:42
Speaker 4: watch it, Well, somebody's watching it.
51:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, people are people three and a half man.
51:49
Speaker 3: So where where these people?
51:50
Speaker 4: If people are not interested in your least have one
51:54
Speaker 4: point two million followers on Instagram and for us to
51:58
Speaker 4: have fourteen thousand people that investment, some four thousand people
52:01
Speaker 4: in London.
52:02
Speaker 3: Somebody's interested. Somebody's interesting.
52:06
Speaker 2: Man, float this shit is so raw. Excuse my language,
52:11
Speaker 2: but London man. Listen. First of all, it was twelve
52:14
Speaker 2: thousand people in Atlanta, three thousand plus people in uro.
52:17
Speaker 2: Nobody just went to year. Listen, it's never been done.
52:20
Speaker 2: It's not a rapper on the planet Earth that did
52:22
Speaker 2: that before. There's not a billionaire that's in our culture
52:24
Speaker 2: that did that before. Deca millionaire. There's nobody that did
52:27
Speaker 2: this before. This is the first time in history. You
52:30
Speaker 2: got to understand what that represents. Like, y'all know, we
52:33
Speaker 2: in a different kind of time. Where black men can
52:35
Speaker 2: literally go fly over to London, you understand me, and
52:38
Speaker 2: shift the whole culture, Like y'all know how raw that is.
52:41
Speaker 2: We don't have a blog culture to be talking about
52:44
Speaker 2: it all day like this is not talked abottom of
52:45
Speaker 2: the news all day long, so we don't understand how
52:48
Speaker 2: important that is. But imagine if you understand me, Shade
52:53
Speaker 2: Room was posting it three four times in Baller Alert
52:55
Speaker 2: and Hollywood Unlocked, right in Spiritual World and all of
52:59
Speaker 2: these Blo box I was talking about it. He'd be like, damn,
53:02
Speaker 2: that was amazing, that was historical. That was what they do.
53:05
Speaker 2: How do they do that?
53:06
Speaker 3: And just the perspective of like Royal Alcohol.
53:10
Speaker 4: I believe it was built by Queen Catherine for her
53:14
Speaker 4: son Albert, so it's not just a.
53:17
Speaker 2: Name, oh exactly.
53:20
Speaker 4: Royal Alcohol is Actually it's a royal It's built by
53:23
Speaker 4: the Royal family. Right, so from some perspective, the Royal
53:29
Speaker 4: family has they have boxes in Royal Alcohol that only
53:33
Speaker 4: the Royal family.
53:34
Speaker 3: Actually can go to.
53:36
Speaker 4: Once again, the Beatles played the Royal Alcohol adele like
53:40
Speaker 4: the Queen has spoken at the Royal alball like this
53:42
Speaker 4: is the venue that it is, right.
53:45
Speaker 2: So when I was thinking of Muhammad Ali, Ahmed.
53:48
Speaker 3: Ali for sure.
53:50
Speaker 4: So when thinking about you know, you might have seen
53:54
Speaker 4: me come out with the flag. So when I was talking,
53:57
Speaker 4: when I'm thinking I was the day as a day,
54:00
Speaker 4: I'm like, yo, something inspired me like I want a flag.
54:03
Speaker 4: I want to come out with a flag. And I
54:06
Speaker 4: hit my guy DaLie shot the dial. He's from there,
54:08
Speaker 4: and I'm like, yo, how would people feel? How would
54:10
Speaker 4: black people feel about a flag? Because I'm like, if
54:13
Speaker 4: you're in America and you're waving an American flag in
54:16
Speaker 4: front of black.
54:16
Speaker 3: People, they're not a jacket. He was like, he was
54:19
Speaker 3: like all about how to do it? He's like, how
54:22
Speaker 3: you doing? So he gave me the idea.
54:24
Speaker 4: So what we did was we played the national anthem,
54:28
Speaker 4: all held a queen for like twenty seconds. People was confused.
54:33
Speaker 4: I ain't know what was going on. And then and
54:37
Speaker 4: then we to gigs. If gets the biggest artists in
54:41
Speaker 4: like that's like when jay Z said, I see a
54:43
Speaker 4: lot of hoping gigs. He has a song called talking
54:47
Speaker 4: to Artist, which black people in Britain referred to as
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Speaker 4: a national anthem. That's what they call their national anthem.
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Speaker 3: Google it so when we.
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Speaker 4: Switched the national anthem to the Black National way talking
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Speaker 4: the hardest and came out with that flat It was
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Speaker 4: so disrespectful.
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Speaker 3: Bro, that's so crazy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was wild. So look look, you know you
55:16
Speaker 2: was behind you was used in the back when I
55:21
Speaker 2: was talking to the to the brother the minister duel
55:23
Speaker 2: over out there and he told me, you know, I
55:26
Speaker 2: always knew that minister far kind band from the UK,
55:28
Speaker 2: so it was actually Tarika she and but he said
55:33
Speaker 2: that you know when he got banned, He said, the
55:35
Speaker 2: real Albert Hall is what he actually had booked. And
55:37
Speaker 2: he telling me this right before I go on stage,
55:39
Speaker 2: so he put a battery in my back. I ain't
55:41
Speaker 2: gonna lie, I said, well, I gotta walk out there. Godly,
55:44
Speaker 2: I said, I need the brothers to come out with me.
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Speaker 2: We already had it playing for JLA, trying to cut
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Speaker 2: a song to play, right, So the energy walking out there,
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Speaker 2: it just felt like, you know, number one regardless of
55:58
Speaker 2: what happens, right, because they actually sued and one the minister,
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Speaker 2: the brother that was out there that you met, he
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Speaker 2: actually sued and won. So they actually had to pay
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Speaker 2: of men's of dollars in their legal fees and everything,
56:09
Speaker 2: but they they and it was overturned, but they didn't
56:11
Speaker 2: honor it, right, which is is crazy. But anyway, it
56:17
Speaker 2: just represented an extension and I just felt like, you know,
56:19
Speaker 2: we was really making the accessors proud coming out there
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Speaker 2: doing that, and just felt like we was doing something
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Speaker 2: way bigger than ourselves, you know what I'm saying, Like
56:25
Speaker 2: we was a representation, you know, for the world to see.
56:28
Speaker 2: And that's why I want people to really understand that, like,
56:30
Speaker 2: this is not this is not something that just happens
56:33
Speaker 2: in the world. This is not just something that you book.
56:35
Speaker 2: People actually got to show up, people actually got to care. Right,
56:38
Speaker 2: this is this is this is from years and years
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Speaker 2: worth of work and putting in work every single day. Right.
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Speaker 2: This is not just you know, people came to a concert,
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Speaker 2: but at the same time, we created something new where
56:51
Speaker 2: this can replace, right entertainment because it was it was
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Speaker 2: inspiring and it was entertaining, but it was so valuable
56:59
Speaker 2: that you can literally come there and get information real
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Speaker 2: quick on a Saturday night and change your life and
57:03
Speaker 2: go back home. But if you go to a concert,
57:06
Speaker 2: you go listen to the music you turned up, you
57:08
Speaker 2: go back home. Life is the same so now we're
57:10
Speaker 2: creating these opportunities where we're injecting value you understand me
57:15
Speaker 2: into these households, but people are interacting with it and
57:18
Speaker 2: taking a budget that they normally have for entertainment, and
57:21
Speaker 2: they're changing their habits because we know for a fact
57:23
Speaker 2: the habits of the culture need to change. So for me,
57:26
Speaker 2: experiencing that was different than even experiencing you know, invest
57:31
Speaker 2: Fest in Atlanta, because invest Fest in Atlanta was like
57:33
Speaker 2: three days, but this was like you know, quick curture shock, right.
57:38
Speaker 2: And now I can see people saying that, damn, instead
57:41
Speaker 2: of me picking this concert, I'm about to go to
57:43
Speaker 2: yel in them concert, I'm about to go to invest Fest,
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Speaker 2: you understand. Y'all get to have a good time. I
57:48
Speaker 2: get to enjoy myself, I get to learn something right like,
57:51
Speaker 2: And if we did that habitually over time for years,
57:54
Speaker 2: where would we be at? Because if we take all
57:57
Speaker 2: the money that we spend in noough disrespect to the artists,
57:59
Speaker 2: because y'all, y'all can always collaborate with us. But if
58:03
Speaker 2: we if we look at all the money that we
58:05
Speaker 2: spend on you know, entertainment and going to concerts the
58:08
Speaker 2: same way, we can go watch a movie, right, shout
58:10
Speaker 2: out to Wakanda. But what's the difference If all black
58:14
Speaker 2: people in America watch high level conversations versus Wakanda, you
58:17
Speaker 2: actually go get some value from the high level conversation.
58:20
Speaker 2: You may be inspired by Wakanda, but the value of
58:22
Speaker 2: actually getting an education is what we need. It's a
58:26
Speaker 2: different level. So we just got to look at like
58:28
Speaker 2: we have a one point five trans spending power. So
58:31
Speaker 2: it's not about us particularly making more money, but it's
58:33
Speaker 2: how our habits are aligned with our spending so that
58:37
Speaker 2: we can change it into investing in ourselves and that
58:39
Speaker 2: changes the culture overnight, just what we get attention to.
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Speaker 4: And the thing about it is that our culture is
58:45
Speaker 4: still new. It's in its emphasy stages. Like we don't
58:48
Speaker 4: have thousands of years of hundreds of years. We got
58:51
Speaker 4: like one hundred and fifty years of course, like hip
58:54
Speaker 4: hop just started fifty years ago. This is the fiftieth
58:57
Speaker 4: anniversary of hip hop. Like we just so they have
59:00
Speaker 4: to say, we have opportunities to create. We're still adding
59:03
Speaker 4: on to our culture.
59:04
Speaker 2: Less than that shit in nineteen sixty four, brothers just
59:06
Speaker 2: got rights.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So I feel like for us, like you know,
59:09
Speaker 4: this edutainment thing is a new ad or piece to
59:13
Speaker 4: it could become like a real part of our culture
59:16
Speaker 4: and ritual where you're going and you're getting entertained because
59:19
Speaker 4: it's a vibe. At the end of the day too,
59:21
Speaker 4: they're getting entertained, you know what I'm saying, Like you're
59:23
Speaker 4: having fun, but you're being educated, you're learning, and you're
59:27
Speaker 4: making great relationships and you're being inspired. And that is
59:31
Speaker 4: a model for the world out for the world because
59:35
Speaker 4: how we do the edutainment thing in America with shots
59:39
Speaker 4: and shot circle CEOs only do their events and you know,
59:44
Speaker 4: of course investmentsts and you know, anybody else that doesn't
59:47
Speaker 4: event similar to that way. You know, it's kind of
59:49
Speaker 4: like it's a vibe. You got musicians, you got a
59:51
Speaker 4: VIP experience, you got you know, education, it's all vib right.
59:54
Speaker 4: They don't have that. They wasn't used to that in Europe.
59:56
Speaker 4: They never you know, they don't have that type of thing.
59:58
Speaker 4: So that was the first time where they actually experienced
1:00:01
Speaker 4: that to have been party the night before and and
1:00:06
Speaker 4: then you know that the vibe and then the DJ
1:00:08
Speaker 4: plane