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Episode #269 – February 14, 2026 – “Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack / And a white man get paid off of all of that”
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| I am your host, Neo Griot, and this is Episode 269 of the Rational Black Thought Podcast. This week’s title is a line Kanye dropped that still cuts like a scalpel: “Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack / And a white man get paid off of all of that.” From “All Falls Down” on College Dropout. And I’m starting there because it’s not just a lyric. It’s a diagnosis. It’s the economic machine in plain English: predation gets dressed up as “the market,” addiction gets criminalized, consumption gets celebrated, and the profits flow upward to people who never touch the…
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