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West Coast artists. This tall slender young man was named Calvin Broddess a k a. Snoop Doggy Dog, And it was the beginning of the upper center of culture moving west. And there was some glory times, some glory days when the all taste, making, all direction, all sound, aesthetic style everything. Finally we had our day in the sun and it lasted. It lasted for a while. Snoop all the Death Row stuff and dads and corrupt and dubb seeing the mad

circle West Side connection, we became the center. And if you wanted to be an artist, you had to come mess with the West. Then a beef came as to be like who gets to be the center of culture? And that was the Biggie and Tupac thing between Death Row and bad Boy. It was. It was all happening

on the coast East coast versus West coast. Little did we know at the most important pivotal Hip Hop Awards Source Awards event on the famous event where Sugar Knights stood on the stage and said, if you want to come to a label where you ain't got your executive dancing all up in the videos, come to death, bro. The famous event during that Hip Hop Awards we're Snoop and Drain and Biggie and Pock and Man. One of

the most pivotal moments in nineteen nineties. I think it was ninety six, Might I think it was ninety six that year who won Artist of the Year was out cast while everything was happening on the coats. It turned out gravity was shifting. And the line from my personal top five artists Andre three thousand, you could quote and this is hard for me coming out of my mouth as somebody that bleeds California, my top five artists, he said, let me say here like this here, you know, the

South got something to say. And I would say, from that moment on, everything changed A t L Shaudi po politics, y'all al a t l A t l s A t l A t L s a t l A t l s A t l sawty a t l s A t l A t l s A t l A t l s A t l A t l A t l Hey listen. I believe there's a documentary about it where they interview Ludicrous killing Mike and a bunch of different people from the South that was like, oh, that was their clariton call because they weren't respected as

far as being taste makers and culture makers. Now I know, now this scene is like the most foolish thing to say, but the center of gravity had to change. It wasn't always the way it is. Oh, now we know, like you have to sound like the South. You the drill music, snap your fingers, and what I want to do is kind of for a second here track uh, track that.

Because the South had been collectively building steam, whether it was scar face ghetto boys like the clash money foods, and you know what was happening in New our Lands, you know, with with with this young shooter prodigy of an artist named Loel Wayne who was wrapping everybody under

the table at the time. You have to remember there was a man named Jermaine dupri who put out y'all make the things going to but put out a group called Criss Cross, and Gravity was shifting outcast was making some of the greatest music in the world with Southern player listed Cadillac Music and the a t Aliens, all the tall t s in the in the in the White Air Force once that's the South wearing throwback Jersey's.

That was the South. It was Atlanta. Lanta brought in ludicrous and the style of dress, the center of sports with Mike Vick, you know. And and it's not like they hadn't had people like Dominique Wilkins at the you know, for the Atlanta Hawks and spud Web, you know, and and uh, there was always stuff going down there. But the Atlanta Falcons and Mike Vick brought in a certain

type of cool. You know. Of course his name burnt with all the like, you know, the dog fights and stuff which he has made penance for, which is pretty cool to see how he's made penance. But it became

the center. Gravity moved to the South and after that, after the South got ahold of it, whether it started with Jermaine dupri all the way down to ersh your Baby, to Ludicrous to little John to the Yin Yang Twins, right to Future to two Chains everybody, and even now you listen to New York rapp, they sound like the South when you listen to some of the biggest Kendrick songs, the biggest West Coast songs, and of course West Coast is having a renaissance right now, but the center of

culture has been Atlanta. And if you don't understand that, you being delusional or you just love your area, which of course you should love your area. All g unit had a moment. But Young Buck from Nashville, and while Genuinity was having this moment, guess what they was building down south? Why all that was happening. Wayne was dropping all these Carter mixtapes. The South became long hard fought the center of gravity for culture, for hip hop culture.

And I'm gonna make an argument that as of now, because of the shifting in demographics, because Hollywood went to Atlanta too, it was too expensive to shoot movies in the l A. It's so expensive to shoot in New York. Tyler Perry, y'all, you know, you could crack jokes about mydea, but he brought entertainment industry to the out Atlanta. Atlanta became a place where black people could be a fluent with like it did. The everything shifted, whether it was

real estate, music, sports, television, movies, it moved to Atlanta. Look, if you was in New York, a lot of people they look they either moved to Florida, moved to a man of Miami, or they moved to Atlanta because New York is too expensive. When you was making music, you had to have that. You had to have that. Triples me goes that. You gotta understand the sound change. They changed everything. The South changed everything, and at least in the world that we live in now. But with that

became not just metaphorical but actual demographic shifts. The Atlantic Metropolitan swelled and swooped up all these other counties now out of all the way out in Grannette, which you may not know unless you're down there, Grannette, that's Latino. The South even got Mexicans down shout out, my boy, uh, my boy. Rg you know what I'm saying. Listen, our dress, our clothes are like the industry, it moved to the South,

and because it moved, so did the demographics. Atlanta became the place to watch to understand where culture is going, to understand the changes in demographics, and it's happening in politics. Atlanta is the epicenter. Let me give you some examples as to why. Let's go. So first of all, you have to go all the way back to like elections, which brought somebody like Stacey Abrams to um the forefront, right,

you know, on a national circuit. Again, just like in hip hop, there were people that were already popping in the local area that the rest of the world didn't know who were popping big, and then took on the national scene. The Bay Area is a perfect example of that. Like, you know, by the time the rest of the world knew who Effort he was, he was already platinum out the trunk, like the Bay already knew it. You know. So you take somebody like a Stacey Abrams or specifically Atlanta.

I think Atlanta is so special like that, like their own ecosystem. You could already be a star just in Atlanta before the rest of the world knows. But now the world knows. I can say Senator Warnock, you know what I'm talking about. I could say Governor Kemp, you know what I'm talking about. Like you. You know what I'm saying, Like y'all shouldn't know these names, but we do now Now Atlanta uh as somebody that tours and somebody who has plenty of friends in the greater Metro

Atlanta area. Atlanta historically although progressive, progressive for the South, this is like you you're still in Georgia. Like I need you to remember that. You know that that the fact that we even talking about this is proof of what I'm saying. Because this is Joja. You understand what I'm saying. And most people who are from Atlanta, and if you travel through Atlanta, you understand once you leave Atlanta,

now you in Georgia. It's way it usually feels. It's like oh yeah, this this ain't the South until you leave there, until you leave Atlanta Metro. And what Atlanta Metro has done, it keeps spreading because of again tech jobs and stuff like that. So what what what was once rural Cobb County that's like, you know, white Republican is now a fluent black Democrat because the city just keeps growing. And when it keeps growing, that means the

voter profile is going to change. The story was you know back in like are we really talking about Georgia being a swing state? Like how did we get here? Well, it took a while. But here's some numbers. You know, Cobb County, Uh, in two thousand twelve, they voted forty two point eight percent Democrat and in fifty six point three percent Gwinnette County, like I said before, Democrat in two thousand twelve and percent. That's a fourteen percent change.

I'm trying to tell you Atlanta is different now, Oh, y'are different. And I think that these demographic changes is something really to watch if you really want to understand how to understand the map right now? As a matter of fact, what has taught us is throw away the map, you know what I'm saying. It's like we're just we're off the grid now, like there's no this, nobody knows. None of the matrix we would have used before matter anymore. Gravity has shifted. So let's look at the governor race

right now. It's it's Brian Kemp versus Stacy Abrams. Now this is a rematch. And I don't know if y'all remember this. We was talking about like runoffs and such like that, like this was a big deal. Remember four years ago. This was a big old thing, like how close this race was and if any prediction, had Atlanta not become what it became, you would think that this will be Atlanta. You're talking about a black woman running for now. Granted we knew that, like we already called

you know, Atlanta like black Hollywood. But it's like, that's just Atlanta. We're talking about the governor of Georgia, like the whole state again, when you leave Atlanta, you and George, that is the understanding. But keep Birdly one, like just Burly one. And that's like that's nobody looked this fooll Burly one by maybe fifty thousand votes and you and like when you when you talk about millions and millions of people fifty five like that's listen, it's nothing. He

Burly won. And if you don't know Georgia politics, which most of us don't, is like, if the you have to win, you know, for it to be uh, you know, said and done right. If not, then you gotta trigger a runoff. And that's what we saw happening. If you this is flashbacks to y'all. We saw this runoff between them two, right, and it was like this how in the world. Not only is it a Democrat, but it's a black person. And not only is it a Democrat

black person, it's a black woman. Really got this, really really ran up on this dude like this like this should this a t L shouty things? Is a change in right, and and this race really put her into the national spotlight. Now it's the same camp you know when you're going back to like election fraud and the duty had the call that was like supposed to be finding votes about this, this and this Like now what

Kemp did is again this is what I mean. This The new playbook for the Republicans is you don't pope the bear because what's crazy is out there in Atlanta if you like like talking to the people, listening to the people that's like on the ground reporting out there, people ain't really they're not really talk about Trump like they used to. Of course he's there. If you're a Republican to play is this you don't like you don't outright be like that's my dog, unless you Margine Taylor Green.

You know what I'm saying. But you don't outright be like, yo, that's my dog, like I run with him. You just kind of like you just don't talk about him. It's like I'll neither confirm or deny, you know what I'm saying, whether I run with him or not, because we're not entirely sure how much of an asset this man is. That is a change, bro, Like, that's not they're different

Atlanta difference, y'all. And that's something to watch because it's like, wait a minute, we you you're supposed to think that a Trump back dude, like he's supposed to be batting a thousand these days, that that's the teflon man. You know what I'm saying, and and and and what Atlanta has showing us is like, oh, well, no, I don't no, I don't know about that there, Jake. It's like, this race is interesting. It's not what it used to be. Stacy Abrams has a chance like that shouldn't which we

shouldn't even be talking about. It's things are changing. And the other race we're watching down there, which again, this is what's so interesting, Like this is how we know it's the center of the universe because we shouldn't care about no Senate see, but this Senate seat would give the Republicans the majority they're looking for so it's a lot like looking like, That's what I'm saying, is city like there's a lot writing on if you're a republic it's a lot writing on this race. And you would

think that, oh, it would be a shoe in. However, the Republican they're running is the herschel motherfucking Walters Walter Walker. And why this is so funny to me and even Mitch McConnell admitted it. He's like, YO, were having a candidate quality problem. It's like herschel Walker let me before, I before I thought too much here. But Herschel Walker

is uh, you know, NFL legend, Georgia tech legend. Right, but he lived in Texas for most of his time, but um kind of got recruited back to come to Georgia to possibly run for this seat from President Trump. So so he's a he's a Trump guy, Like he's really a Trump guy. Now. The thing about him is his insistence on the right wing sort of talking points. The only problem is the man can't talk. Oh lord, oh lord. And then secondly, this is actually a really

interesting point here because it's a question. It's a question about black people. Because he's running against Senator Warnock, who one would think would be a shoe in you know why because he's the pastor of mL k's church, like of of the church that Martin Luther King. So I'm like, yo, a t L different. So there's something going on here.

What like this is what I mean by it's a black people because you've got two black people running, you know, and when you take these black people that are Southern sometimes that Southern conservatism even when you black, you know the manners and the and the you know, the yes man's and the no man's. You know what I'm saying, Like, they're not. This ain't no coast. You feel me, They're not these Southern folks. Like again, I'm saying this is

look it, I'm saying a t L different, y'all. When you in the South, you would think that they don't play all that pronoun you know what I'm saying, Like, they're not into the they're not into the in betweens unless you in Atlanta. But we're talking about a whole senator seat like this is different. But I think the first question is like why in the world when you look at somebody like herschel Walker who flashed that toy. Uh that toy I can't even get it out. Badge

that that sheriff's badge. Right, My my homie sent me this clip that he saw on TikTok of this influencer that kind of put together how some of the black community feels about a herschel Walker and why the Republicans not listen. This is just my hood, Antennis, I'm not I'm just I'm just I'm just I'm bringing a message why him, because like I feel like he would be if I if I'm trying to, like you telling me like as much as as much as is writing on

this man winning, like is this your king? Like they running moment odds up in Philly, like are you serious that the doctors? Yeah, But anyway, herschel Walker is according to this matter of fact, let me get this dude's name, so y'all don't get mad at me. So Leslie Jones posted this from this brother name Thomas the villain Um, and his argument is herschel Walker is exactly what these people think of us. He's the perfect representation of every

stereotype of a black man. He absentee father, he's sound illiterate, he's incredibly athletic. He'll listen to whatever his master tell him. He's abusive and violent, he's he's all the stereotypes. He ain't like somebody like you Newton, like a Fred Hampton. You know what I'm saying, Like we're not dancing for you. You know what I'm saying, Like we're not sucking and driving. I'm not tap dancing for you. I ain't playing. I'm not I'm not safe. I'm dangerous. I stay dangerous. I

don't stay safe. They don't like, they don't like black men like that in power, you know what I mean? Now, the greatest take comes from the Good Brothers on the eight five South podcast when he was like that nigga played football when the helmets was soft. I'm not listening to this nigga. He just they just like this understanding is like that nigga brain is scrambled. This is ct Like, Bro, why would I listen to you like now? I'm just

listen that. It's just funny. You know when you could take your helmet off and folded and put it in your pocket. That's where he played football. Come on, y'all, that's funny. Now. Now you take somebody like Raphael Warnock, big dog. You you're a direct descendant to Dr King in Spirit like you run it like you you thinking, okay, well we're in the South. This is a pastor. Oh but this pastor don't play nice. You could still tap into the Southern tendencies of being like, oh well, you

know that's just that's social justice gospel. Right. You got somebody like Herosha Walker who say, well, I'm a Christian too, you know, but here Christian like like like Dave Christians that believe that like like you know that God chose America. You you feel me with a special little especially here dance for you. You know. You know what I'm saying that that now this this, this is the argument. Now the question is will it work. Let me talk to

you all about split tickets. L A t l A t L song a t l A t L song a t l A t L song a t L salty a t L sal a t l a l a t l s a t L s SALTI now listen, if you followed politics in the last ten years, you understand like once you pick your R O O D, you just voted down the ticket because you just like, look, I may not like this, dude, but I ain't voting

for no Democrat. And but when you pulled in Atlanta, they pulled when you they I mean, if you trust the polls, whatever, you're gonna say, like, but when you pull them, uh, it's polling. Where of the Republicans, Kemp got a good of Republican vote. Her show got about eighty two Republican vote. That's listen, that's in in politics. That's big. That means that people Republicans are either gonna skip your race and just be like I don't, like,

I can't get myself. What they're saying is I can't get myself to vote for Warnock because he's a Democrat. But I don't think I could for herschel Walker. I don't. I don't think. I don't think I can vote for her schel Walker. Now, the last time we saw this was when Mitt Romney was running, like you just you when you you you skip that because it's like I just can't get myself to say, yeah, listen, throw away

the map, y'all. Atlanta looked crazy because Atlanta is showing us that like, oh wait a minute, now, wait a minute, people just don't vote all the way are down or d down. If you gotta whack ass candidate, it's possible. You gotta show improve. You can't just say just because like you know what I'm saying that your governor's Republican. That means that you're gonna get your Republicans said, I

don't mean it. It's it's tricky. It's not it's not that like a t L. Different, y'all, and it's continuing to be different. Listen, it wasn't. You didn't have big stars and hundreds of tons of thousands of millions of dollars being dumped into an Atlanta Senate race. That ain't what they used to. It's like now that they Atlanta, they didn't say, didn't d cded Florida. You know understand what I'm saying, Like Florida, Ohio used to be like the center of like NAIs a t L. Shaudi people

coming down there? Why because so much is writing on this Stacy Abrams became the face of fighting voter suppression. That's that's a national good God, that's that's like, Look, we're different down these these black people different down here. And uh herschel Walker might possibly be the fifty first Senator for the Republic. You will you might actually like,

do you think about this? I am a Laker fan, as you know, and right now it pains me to say it, but we gotta let go of Russell Westbrook, the brother guy I like, he is my he from the city, our respect is gangster. What he did for when Nipsey passed. Like he's funny, he's talented, and he will go down in the annals of history as a Hall of Famer. But that being said, he got the yips. Do not put the ball in this man's hand at the end of this game. We gotta trade him. He

he gotta go. I can't imagine put the ball in the bronze hand when the game's on the line. He just did this recently. The game was on the line. This fool pulled up or a jumper. He's over for eleven. Nigga, Why are you shooting like I was furious? Nigga, the ball is not falling for you. Fam Now, I'm not saying Russell Westbrook is herschel Walker. I'm just saying I don't know if this is who I want to have the ball. I don't want to put the whole game on his shoulder. Right now, he not the strong on

gets candidate at this moment. That's where they are see because split tickets again, let me let me. I can't stress this enough. Split tickets tells you a lot about where our country is going. And it also says that listen, I love you, but you're not putting up numbers. That's what it says. I love you, but you ain't putting up numbers. The times are changing, and what's going on. What's happening in Atlanta gonna tell us a lot about what's going on and what the rest of the country

is doing. We ain't like, we ain't seeing those They don't split tickets. It hasn't been since two thousand twelve. Like that's not been a thing we talked about. You gotta put up some champions. If you're not gonna throw up some champions, this is what it shows us. If you're not putting up champions, you can't just trust just because you got that initial behind your name. It's not that I'll vote for the other team. I just won't vote for you. Is what happens. Foot will skip it.

I have staying you know what I'm saying. So I'm not saying we out of our our silos here. But I am saying, oh, you can't just you can't just assume. You gotta give us, you gotta give me something to work with here. That's not And look a t l y'all. Things is changing like and and I'm saying this in the opposite Stacy Abrams shouldn't she shouldn't have a shot, but she there. This race is so close, it was so close last time. And on the other side, he

should walkers shouldn't have a shot. You shouldn't have a gentfent. Things is changing. Takes it to look things is changing. So we'll see see how Trump backed candidates do. And what I'm saying is, at least in Atlanta or George's name really don't matter that much. Listen to anybody out there, and by reporting out there his name don't matter that much. That's wow. Okay, you don't poke the bear, you don't diss him, but you also don't need to bring him up.

You know what you talk about now if you're Republican, Oh, you talk about crime, We're back to normal. You talk about crime, you talk about you talk about coming out of the pandemic early that you wouldn't you wasn't wearing no mask. You talk about the vote police, that's what you're talking about. If you if you would your Democrat. Oh, you talk about abortion, you talk about reproduction rights, you talk about justice in equity. Yeah, we're not even we're

not even talking about it. We'll see though, If Trump's candidates like do well, we'll know what gonna look like. It's good, candidates do terrible, we'll know what looks like. Or if he's just inconsequential where it's all over the map like some so many wins, some of his candidates win, some of those candidate's lose. That also tells us what's going on in the future. What does that have to do with us. Here's my last point is it doesn't have to be a foregone conclusion that your party can

count on your vote. It don't have to be like that. You know you can. It's okay if you don't rock with a dude, it don't mean you gotta rock with the other guy. It just means you don't rock with that one. They need to know that. And lastly, is an X factor that I need to throw in here in relation to Atlanta politics, and his name is Killer Mike. Listen, Killer Mike's a new version. That's not something people have calculated for Now, let me make this case as to

why Killer Mike is so important. Hip hop, you have to remember, is maybe fifty years old. It's it's still a young genre in relation to a lot of other big cultural movements. We don't have a lot of like Bonnos if you will, people who have transcended, people who have became presidents. But Jay Z s Arbano, like he's

there's one who's hit a level of stratosphere. We have people that gone into entertainment obviously with like an iced Tea or Will Smith the ice Cube, who have transitioned out of just wrapping in hip hop into being mainstays in dominant culture. And they have somebody like Kanye you know who. We already talked about Kanye. But we don't have no politicians except for Killer Mike. Killer Mike is a grassroots organizer and is really not want to mess with.

He's brilliant, he's nonpartisan. He will meet with whoever he needs to meet with. Think about a matter of fact, there was this there was this article in a huff Post about him being more Dane Riss then Kanye because his presence and his word gives legitimacy too. Somebody to a to a to a candidate right him meeting with Governor Kemp. The article was was critiquing that by being like, bro, why would you meet with this man knowing full well

like verifiably he suppressed black votes. And the first thing I thought of was Dr King meeting with Lyndon B. Johnson. I was like, I'm going here too. I'm here in the same way he's a raised here. I'm here for everybody black. You have to somebody like killing Mike is like, listen, this is transactional. I'm here for black flourishing. That's the type of man that was like, move your money away

from those banks. Put him into black banks. He was like, by black grocery stores, support black businesses, and vote people out. If you remember, he got on stage on camera during the George Floyd uprising and was like, vote these people out of here. It's time to strategize and organize. But the critique was like, why would you even meet with

somebody like herschel Walker? Why would you even give this person legitimacy, which to me is an understanding really of how much power grassroots organizing has because Killer Mike could sway a vote. He is street dude, he's a rapper, but he has actual political pull. The ability to even get a meeting with the governor shows a t l different y'all. Even the rappers organized. It's it's a new day everyone, and how you let them know you gotta vote?

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