Chose Violence and Stay Dangerous

You know, if you run on something as a as a voter, you could be like, look, do what you said you was gonna do, and I'm an apply to press. You shouldn't open your mouth and said it if you didn't either way, I hope that that you know theater, you understand that that's theater, that that's not what the hell going on. But I do think there is a way to understand the season we're about to enter, and it's um maybe even to two phrases. Is why this

episode it's got two names. You wake up and choose violence and make sure you stay dangerous hood politics, y'all. I don't remember when this phrase kind of started hitting uh social media, you know, man, as we woke up and chose violence. Usually it has to do it like somebody just like you know, it starts like they got

time today. They start saying what they really think, no, and um, maybe maybe this person been holding their tongue this whole time, but that they've hit a hit a hit a place where they're like, look, I'm done being patient with y'all. This is what I think. This what's going down, Like some a line has been crossed, right, um, And when that line is crossed, the it's like the only choice is to just start popping off. You just

started letting off, you know what I'm saying. And when you do, like, look, it kind of is what it is. One thing, I used a phrase stay dangerous for a reason because you know a lot of times people say, hey, you know, be be safe out there. You know what I'm saying, Uh, be safe outside stay safe. I know among at least the answers, I knew, you know what I'm saying, and you know, people around the hood. And

he was like, no, no no, I'm gonna stay dangerous. Like and what they're trying to say is that like listen, it's like I'm not safe. Like it's not like you know, you saw some people that's like, look, man, they ain't gonna you ever heard the phrase, you know what I'm saying, ain't gonna bust a grape and a food fight. You know what I'm saying, Like it's like, you're not you know this person is like they may be loud David is,

but you're not really you're not dangerous. You don't pull triggers like it's not it's not it's not gonna pop off. You feel me like you ain't gonna do nothing, Like you ain't gonna do you know what I'm saying, Like you're not gonna do nothing. Staying dangerous is this idea of like just what it says, Like, hey, man, like, don't get it twisted. I might be smiling right now, we might be chilling with the homies. You need to know that at any moment, I might decide you've disrespected me.

You know what I'm saying, Like it's people in here, it's shooters in here. I might be one of them. You keep you keep your mind, keep your head. You know what I'm saying. You you better know that, like listen, I'm dangerous, Like don't just you can't just be any way around me. I might choose war. You feel me when you choose violence is like listen, when you're dangerous. It is like the violence is always on the table. You know. It's it's it's people I know that I'm

I'm very close to. It's it's friends I have, you know what I'm saying, it's family members. I have this particular family members that I'm like, I just you don't, you don't really I'm family, but you know what I'm not. I'm not set. I'm not hood since I'm not there, I don't. We got but we got blood in us.

We share blood. But you know what though, like when somebody like listen, man, when somebody join a gang, man like these people like a lot of times these brothers since as they joined when they're like twelve, thirteen years old, you know what I'm saying, like their kids, and so there's a camaraderie that's built. You know, at least I'm talking specifically about l A like I can't. I don't. I can't speak in any sort of authority on anyone else,

but I know, yo, it was middle school. It was middle school was when you know, the like kind of started, the dust started settling. As to like where you was gonna go? You feel me? And so for me, like middle school was when somebody put a break can in my hands, you know what I'm saying, Like I've I've told this story so many times. Was like that was for me. Graffiti hip hop was gang intervention for me,

you know what I'm saying. Like that and the fact that we moved and you know, just whatever the case, maybe I was with the Vatos, whatever the case, maybe middle school was when it was like oh me and like Philibert though, like we can't really kick it like we used to, you know what I'm saying. Me and you know, um, the twins across the street from my grandma's house, you know, Dwayne and Dwight, it's like little kay, We're it's not the same, you know what I'm saying.

And it's like niggas loved me, you know what I'm saying, Like we you know, grew up together, like we've been around each other the whole time. Like I moved a lot, you know, so like they didn't see me every day but since but once that started happening, you know what I'm saying, it was like, Okay, listen, this ain't your streets, your granny street. You know what I'm saying, Like we love your granny, respect your granny, respects, your family. We

know you out here. But like listen, I'm dangerous. Like you can just we're dangerous, you know what I'm saying, And like you understand that, you know, and that and and and part of the thing is like you have to like remain dangerous, like stay that way. I'm I'm building this case because I'm gonna talk about the mid arts very sud Okay, so keep that in mind. It's like you gotta I'm gonna stay dangerous. You know what I'm saying. There's this code of ethics, this like honor

code that I have found. Um, now keep in mind, you know my perspective I have found that is sometimes use that at a at a Nick's convenience. You know, Uh, there's a generation before me that almost like the like if you go back to the generation of mafia that was like born and raised in Sicily and then came to America before like the John Gotti's and the you know, the flashy dudes that like they live by a code that is a blood death honor you never ever break.

So like there's a generation of like hoofles before me that this code is solid, concrete, and it's in a lot of ways, it's like an honor culture, you know what I'm saying, Like an honor code that like is like in Eastern traditions to where it's like my honor or even like how America at some point how to honor code? Like why would you duel if somebody insults you?

Like you know, I'm challenging you to a duel. You've you've insulted my honor, So we need to step ten paces away from each other, turn around and shoot, that's ridiculous. It's an honor code. Like once you've crossed that, the only choice is violence. We're not reasoning, there's no all you misunderstood all. Let's talk this out. It's like, no nigga,

you've like I have been disrespected. And there's a lot of gangs is out there that like you know, people from the hood or whatever that like really carry that code. But I would say the generation before me, like there was it was like there was no exceptions, you know, saying them early nineties gangsters, like there was no late

eighties early nineties, there was no exceptions none. Then you get more into a generation that I'm sort of like kind of came from that was like sort of in my mind, kind of like hybrids, Like you could have a career, you know what I'm saying, and still be you know, kind of in the hood, you know what I'm saying. So if you had a career and you were still in the hood, you know what I'm saying, like like a like a like a like a similar like a y G or like a like a nip,

you know what I'm saying. Like they were still very serf, but they had careers, you know what I'm saying. And there were certain ways that this this code had to sort of evolve, uh, not broken, not like all these niggas ain't real gangsters, because like listen, come come to Content, come to South Central, asking them niggas really gangs, I'm saying, but there was it had to evolved because it was

money to be made, you know what I'm saying. And then when you add like the drug game and the hustling, like a lot of times that you know, the gang banger kind of like slows down because you know, you you're putting the bag in danger. I trust me, I'm not rambling like I'm talking about this code to where you know, when somebody feels disrespected in whatever way, shape or form they feel it, it's like action. We're done,

we're done talking. We've chosen war. And when you've chosen that, no matter what the other person says, no matter what happens, it's all you're piling on the disrespect. You feel me like, it's just like I mean, I was just funny because I knew a dude like like like that. That was just like sometimes I felt like, man, you're putting extras like you put extras on it, like everything distries, everything's a this, all of this is a war, and no matter what, it's a war. Like, oh man, I don't

like the way you're sitting. Man, that's disrespectful. At home, you're gonna have that you feel aware that rams Jersey, that's distre respectful. Hey, home, you're gonna come over here with that that penalting on with the small blue stripe on it nigked as disrespectful. Hey, hommy, I don't like how you looking at my sister. That's disrespectful. Like okay, bro, Like you've just chosen violence, like Okay, is it all? Like really it's all like that, Like really it's all.

It's all war. Everything is everything is a declaration of war. It couldn't be no misunderstanding. It couldn't be like, you know what I'm saying, like you have to stop side, you know what I'm saying. You had a red light. You know you drive, you had a red light. You're just having to look over to the car next to you, just glance at it. It's like, nigga, what's white white? Why are you looking at me like that? Nigga? Like what's you want? Something's like, no, fam, I'm just are

you serious? That's disrespectful, like cause come oh man, it's a red light. Like I'm not you know what I'm saying. And if you if you are the person that's like looking over there and you're like, man, I live by the same code, then it's like, oh, we gotta get down now because now you've disrespected me, like you've made all of this award. Or you could laugh at off, strug get off and keep you know, keep it pushing.

But the point is it's like if you stay in dangerous and somebody put you in a position where you gotta clap back or you're not dangerous like you but if you're like, look, I'm gonna stay dangerous, you know what I'm saying, Like I'm here chilling some stuff not worth my time. But at the same time, there's this part of that life that's like, no, everything is worth my time. All of this is a challenge. I don't you need to understand that I am not the one the what you and I would think is so petty.

It's like that's because we're not them, you understand I'm saying. I was listening to this interview about it's the it's the clubhouse stuff with with you know. Now, if you're

not in this, don't even worry about it. But like I picked my head in every once in a while to hear some of the like clubhouse conversations with like Whack One Hunted and you know, Jim Jones and just some real like now if you want to know, like real like hood politics in its literal sense, like these are the politics among gangsters, which is not what this show is obviously, you know what I'm saying, But like you want like that's that that's a lot of like

hood business that like I just gave you a vocabulary term hood business is is stuff that you just have to understand, which might apply today. It's stuff you just may have to understand. You'll just never know. There are things that are happening among these said sees, you know, obvious rival gangs, just reasons that we'll just never know because this hood business. You know, here's an example. I live in the neighborhood. Remember I live with the Vatos.

I live in the neighborhood where the set of my neighborhood doesn't pay taxes. I don't know why. Maybe it's some jail stuff. No one's gonna tell me. It's just they look about those they had a rules, and I just happen to live in the neighborhood that I don't know. They just don't That's what I'm saying. You're gonna have to use your antennas and kind of figure out what's happening, or just be like it is what it is, I'm gonna act accordingly, which in a lot of ways really

applies to the politics that we have. Like there are things we're just never really going to know what some of these politicians decide behind closed doors unless you're in there. You're just not gonna know. The point is you just have to act accordingly. I think there are positions and ideas which I'm gonna get too later. There are positions and stances and feelings that Republicans and Democrats might actually feel. Uh,

they're gonna ever say it out loud. You're not gonna have to know, because that's whole business why certain things get through and don't get those happens. You ain't gonna know unless you're there. You know, that's just that's just reality. But the point is, like, which is the concept of my show is like, even though we don't know, we have to use what we do know to figure out what we don't know and make our moves accordingly. If

me and you're gonna survive anyway. So Charleston White, he's um, you know, a hoods to from from Dallas was in the room with Whack one Hunted and they were talking about the death of this guy's slim for Hunted. Now, y'all may not know who any of these people are. Knowing who they are is not the point. Okay, that's not the point I'm bringing up right now. The point I'm bringing up right now is the code that these people live by. When you just chose violence, this is

who we are. Everything is a disc it's all a war, right, Johnston was talking about when Slim passed away. Now why Slim died is the hood business. So we're back to that like again, but that's not the point. Slim he was rapper, he was an artist, but he was absolutely duman. He was a blood like it is what it is. So he was like, look, Charleston was like, look, Slim died, fucking whatever, nigger, that's a gangster, you know what I'm saying. That's the answer. As a gangster, we know we signed

up for. And Whack was like, wait, hold up, like you're just gonna talk about like you know, alreally like that, Like do you understand how l a gangs work? Like you can't just be he was, and he was basically going like, he's a man first, you know what I'm saying. And Charleston was like, no, he's a gangster first. He put himself out there like this and he died in the streets because he knows what he signed up for. And if I'm a gangster, and if you're a gangster,

you need to just be like he's another gangster. Fuck him. It don't matter. Niggas die every day. Told you about that. Niggas die every day. It don't make no sense to me. Now they're both of these men are adults now, so they were like, well listen, um, I found out his name is Vincent, and you know, we're growing up. So now we survived a lot of stuff we went through. So you know what I'm saying, Well, he's man, and it's a tragedy that Vincent passed. You know, he's got

a family. You know what I'm saying, that's that's that's a tragedy. But Slim fol hunted nigga, I don't care, you know. And Whack was like, uh, you're not gonna talk. You're not gonna come to l A and talk like that, and then it devolved into something else. But the point I'm trying to make is it does not matter the humanity, the logic, it doesn't matter. We tell is violence. It is what it is. This is the life we stepped into. Everything's a war. Now. Of course, there are exceptions to

this rule. There's nowhere in the world. I mean, come on, guys, like you know I know this firsthand. Second and third hand, when you're in the back seat of that car about to bust this mission, when somebody turned the corner and they say, hey day, they go right there, you know what I'm saying, And the kids sitting next to you pull pull a heater out of his backpack. You know what I'm saying. There's a part of you that's like, there's nowhere in the world. Five out of five of

y'all are like nigg and less go. Somebody in that car is like, man, I wish I could be anywhere but here. Somebody scared. Come on, man, y'r whole set and not scared. Somebody is thinking now listen. They will never ever ever say this out loud ever. Ain't gonna tell nobody. No one would ever notice. But when nobody around you know what I'm saying in the back of their minds, sometimes in the front of their minds, but it's gonna never come out of their mouth that it's like, man,

I wish I was not here. I've made some choices. Uh that has left. I'm gonna live with my choices. It is what it is. But it is way more hurtful to myself to admit this then to rather just toe a line. I know what I signed up for. These are my brothers. Like I said, we signed up and we were twelve thirteen years old. Now it is what it is. Here's where we are. I wish it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, like I do have anywhere, but here,

you know, it's where we are. You know, I'm saying, like ever time I've been like man, listen of all the rides home I could have got in, of all the times I cannot believe I chose to jump into this car. Got You know what I'm saying, Here we are. But what are you gonna do? You know what I'm saying, like, I'm not gonna admit it. You know, look, because if we survived this thing and then I tell this fool, like the fool's heard me say I was scared and I want to be here. Oh man, I'm done, you know,

like you you can't you done? And then it's gonna get out if it gets out to everybody else the whole city here that you were scared when it was trying to throw hands like oh no, that's a you're done. What does this have to do with the mid term elections? I am trying to teach you all about the Republican Party. Listen, they haven't chose violence. They have chosen to stay dangerous. I know this because everything they whole platform y'all, and I don't know why it's not obvious to everybody. They

platforms a culture war. Everything is a culture war. One would think that, you know, a global pandemic would end that. No, it's disrespectful. It's a culture war. You you you turn a vaccine into the fauci vaccine. You know what I'm saying. A mask is in a on your on your freedoms, like it's a culture All things are disrespectful. It's a I don't chose violence. Let me tell you how I know that. I noticed, y'all know a few weeks ago Margie Taylor Green finally got kicked off of Twitter and

that this was her fifth offense. Right where you get the warning, you get the shadow band, you get the like, you know, suspension for a few days. Finally they're like, all right, nigga, you gotta go. She has chosen her path. The path is violence, my nigga. You I'm gonna keep telling you some ship that we know is verifiably false I'm gonna keep putting this up here because nigga, I'm dangerous. I don't chose it's a war, homie. This is what we're doing. You know, I'm not here for no logic.

Now we I chose violence. I'm dangerous. Don't come at me. This is what we're doing. You're coming at you. If you listen, listen, you're gonna try to primary me big home he listen, I'm burning the ground. I chose by all things or everything's a war. There were some statistics about, uh, how Trump was like gaining ground with some like inner City black Man. It is because they get it, they understand, they know what they're looking at. They're like, oh, that

nig is a gangster. You know what I'm saying, Like, it's it's that because it's like everything is disrespectful. It's all the war. I take on all challenges. I accept all fades, even if even if it don't make sense, it don't matter. I accept all fades. And that's kind of like look a look y'all. See Trump get booed when he talked about the fact that he has been vaccinated and got his booster a bull that nigg but he looked like, I mean, y'all, look, I don't care.

I do what I do. Hey, hey, look y'all store in the capitol for me. At least that's the way his his in his brain. I mean, like, I think they feel like it's bigger than him. They booed him over that up, but he like, listen, if I run, y'all gonna vote for me, because you know what the alternative is. He got Republicans, all these Republicans under him lining up behind whatever he said he's gonna do. Because I think it's a gangster like. He's still run, yo,

And that's why they get there. Like, I get that. I understand that. Whether whether they agree with his politics or not, they like but that I recognize I'll do what I say I'm gonna do. You're gonna follow me because I'm dangerous. I'm I'm I'm ready for the war at all times. I take all fades. Right. Somebody worried about y'all bulling him, ain't worried about that at all.

Everything's a war. Everything is a cultural war. You know how I know because as I'm recording this, there was count them two Republicans that showed up at the January six, memorial thing the capital. Two of them. Let me tell you why is because this wasn't an attack on democracy. In their minds, this has become an issue of respect. What they look like showing up of funeral of like a rivalhood. What I look like showing up today memorial?

Why would I? Why would I go to that when you were like, well, because it was a place that all we was all at and everybody got shot up at. Like well, nah, now we're tond online and I am positive you're telling me. Out of two hundred or so Republicans, all of them are about it like that. Now there's some hood business going on. There's people behind the scenes that are like, look, this is madness. They tried to

kill us all this man Trump is crazy. He got a death grip, but he got a death grip on earth. I mean what I'm gonna say. They're going with they they remember you go with the Boss going to set. They was like, well, look the boss still hold the set. I don't know what to say. I don't know how you doing it, but he's doing it. And they're like nah. They they they're scared. They're scared that if they actually say something it's even worse for him. That's why they're

not saying nothing. That's why you're not showing he can't show up even though you think that like this is stupid. Look of course, I mean like dog like we almost like you're kidding me, But they're like, nah, man, like I'm not gonna aren't gonna go to that, You're crazy. M hm. Why that seems absurd to us is because well, you know, we're civilians. We and we're not signed. We don't live by that code. That's the code, and you

and it's and it's clear they chose violence. Everything is a culture ward h M. Now is that violence all theater? I don't know, because there is. According to an IPSOS poll, fewer than one half of Republicans actually accept the elections that think that the Joe Biden's election was legitimate. And so they still don't believe that. They actually believe, despite any evidence otherwise, that yeah, that this election was stolen.

It's not he's not a legitimate president. So if you really actually truly believe that your only choices violence, then everything after this, everything after that point is fair game is continual disrespect. I mean, that's why you now of course, there are those that know that this is theater and are like, I'm just gonna play the game. There are those that actually buy in, But the point is anything after that is like, oh, we'd I mean, either way

at war? You know. According to the same if so is pulled, two thirds of America agree that democracy is at risk, just for opposite reasons. One of us. One side believes that, uh, I mean somebody storming the Capitol to try to overturn a duly elected president and this is crazy, right. Others believe that, like this election was legitimately stolen. I mean, if this is what you think, y'all, I mean, how else you're gonna solve it? They feel like, well, we tried to go the civil route. We tried it,

and y'all cheated. I'm choosing violence now. That's that's That's what I mean, that's their choice. I everything is a culture war, all of it. Everything. That's why they talk about cancel culture all the time, and just you know, everything is a war no matter how reasonable or unreasonable it is. They've chosen to stay dangerous, don't come in our or Now, what do you expect in these mid term elections? I expect the Democrats gonna get their ass beat.

I think they're gonna get the shell lacking of their life. I think because one, they still haven't been able to tow the line the way that the Republicans have that they got everybody and check. I think that they still can't agree on what they want to do. The Democrats, I think that they're not shooters. At the end of the day, that has to answer. They're not shooters. Republicans are shooters. They may shoot all willy nilly, but their shooters.

How do you deal with somebody that's a shooter? Well, I mean, I don't know. I'm look, that's hood business. You have said, there's something that they want that this violence, this this disrespect. There is a way to satiate that disrespect. I think I talked about this before, Like there's times that when you're dealing with somebody super volatile and very dangerous, one thing you gotta do is just cut to like, Okay, what can we do what you need from me? O G? Yeah?

And sometimes that work. Sometimes sometimes that other O G on the other side reads that as weakness, that like, oh, you're trying to reason, you don't want a war, you ain't prepare for a war. Okay, Oh we find offen a slay, y'all. There's something that read it like that, Others that be like, huh, this is what I need. You know I've said. And if there's a way you can go behind closed doors and get them what they need,

that's a different story. You gotta suss that out. I don't know what do we as the constituents need to do. Remember that there are things that we just don't know that happened behind closed doors. On the other hand, there's who we choose to send the primaries. There's who are elected officials that we actually are behind, Like who who you know, Like, let's let's start calling their offices and saying, Yo, if this this and this goes down, I'll vote for you.

I want you to be the guy. I want you to be the girl, but you're not, like you're not giving me something, yo. And sometimes look, sometimes even running for a position ain't really about winning. It's about being able to shift the conversation. It's about being able to put things in the air that says like you're you're creating demand for something. You know what I'm saying. It's like, yeah, you may not ever win. That's like, ain't know when

the world's gonna win. Like there was somebody I forget homeboy's name, who was the who's who is the millionaire? The billionaire I forget homey named that the billionaire that just signed up and started running commercials talking about Trump getting getting uh impeached and then ended up running like I. He was just there to change the narrative. There was another guy that was like, I literally got on the stage just to make sure that climate change was important

in this ain't in the world you're gonna win. This's like, you know you're not gonna win. It's about shifting the narrative. Right, So there's there's a part of like running for for midterms and elections that's really just about that. But if you're waiting for some sort of like levelheaded logical, you know, merit based discussion on what we want to do and to be as a nation, I don't know where you've been for the past ten years. We've we chose violence, y'all.

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