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let me tell you what the health hanna happened. But we could sum it up this whole situation in one phrase. The great prophet Nas gave it to us, or maybe you heard it first on the Sopranos. I think might be the same sample gonna sing it. Yeah, I hope you got yourself a gun? Hood politics, you're so good right now. Politics, y'all so hood, And when I see you, I'm gonna take what I want. So I got mine. Hope you got yourself a gun? Yeah, Yeah, got yourself

a gun. That dog that was the still maddic record. Didn't not have y'all heard King's disease. This is not a no stand account, but I mean it's dope. To see the legend still dropping superheat and again shout out here, boy, you know what I'm saying, rapping that I E school and I I've said that many times. Anyway, y'all, I'm sure by now you've seen the videos. We had to do a breaking news story. We had a whole other thing playing right now. We've got Whitey's on the moon.

We gotta talk about the Olympics. We got all kind of stuff, but this is no way we can't talk about this ship right here. I mean, it's people falling off planes in Afghanistan trying to get the hell out the hood. It's crazy. But let's back up. You're in a situation where these voutos keep chasing you home and just you can't win, and they just they're running your lunch money every time they see you, every time you get your bike getting stolen. Everything you can't and you

can't live because they do. Undecided, you just part of the lips that they running. At some point, like any other any city kid, hell, any other suburb kid, you're gonna figure out there has to be a bigger person I could call to come help me with this. So you call your cousins, call yo yo yo active uncles to be like, are you telling the situation? Got dog? These and every time I man, I can't even go outside. Man, every time they do something, they just these niggas is

wild un say, all right, nephew, I got you. It's all good. It's all good, nephew, stay in the house. Well, well we'll take care of it. Matter of fact, I've been itching to take care of these niggas anyway they been, they've been, they've been out of pocket for a while. I'm like, wait, you know them. Then it get real crazy because he say, yeah, we put them on. Wait wait wait wait wait you put them on? Oh hell okay,

then you need to these diggers is wilding out. I can't even walk these about throws like listen, I can't even walk to the store. They hit and everybody, everybody car getting robbed, everybody, Grandma, mama, mad dear, everybody. Nobody's safe with these niggers. Like dog, can you come? You put them all? You need to come deal with this.

Un say all right, now, we got you, So pull up smackety smack smax Max Max smackinty smack smacks Mac and then popped the O G Uncle popped the O g over there and he say, now stay o ass in the corner. Y'all lead a little hommies alone, and it looked like it's over. You think it's cool, but you know in the back of your mind we better keep Uncle over here because at some point that nigga gotta go home, and if he go home, we're gonna have these problems again. Debo, be like, shut up, I'll

be shutting up. When he leaves, I'll be talking. So you're just coming over there kind of put us in a situation to where, like Nigga, you can't leave. The only way for him to be able to leave is for you to put us on. When you put them on, put us on. We need some of them guns. I need to I need to be able to like square up. But unc you know good and dog on, Well we two lighting the booty over here. You see them niggas. You think they're crazy, these fools is they don't? They don't.

These fools is crazy. They don't care. They about their business. They bout their thing. They're gonna run this hood regardless. And check this out. You think them kids has been picking on you, kids has been running your neighborhood. You think they don't know that at some point your uncle gotta go home. You think you really bruise them. You think they was ready to fold over and give up when your uncle and them shot their big homie. You think, what do you think they were like? Oh, man, I

guess we're done now. What what hood is like that? What? Yeah? Have you? I mean? Yeah? I mean have you ever seen the news? Is it ever like that that they just kind of fall apart? No? You just wait, because what then, bully niggas know and what you know and what your uncle and them know is Uncle and them don't live here. They're not They can't be here forever. My big cousin Sean, you know, I didn't call him because he was in Compton, now far away that is

from where I was. He wouldn't get here in time, and he would look at me like, I can't come over here all the time. Be cousin Jackson, you gotta throw hands. At some point, somebody gonna tell them, y'all gotta come home. We got problems at home. You can't just be running over there for your little nephew every time you call you and uncle like, look, man, you can't call me every time you and you got a problem. How many I mean, listen to raise your hands if

you look, they can't keep calling you. I know so many stories, and my my friends are you know. Everybody telling like how do you learn how to fight? Is like, well, you know, I was getting chased. Sometimes our mama's are the ones that are like, you need to go out there and you either fight. Listen. You can ask black people this all the time, especially in my age, Yo, Mama, yo daddy. Somebody said, I'm gonna leader's blank because I already know if you if you black you from the city, listen,

if you're blacking you from the city. You know what I'm gonna say. Your mama saw you running. She looked at you and she said what yep. She said, you either fight them or you fight me. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I'm trying to tell you when you grow up like this, your mama and them told you that you better go outside outside and fight. You better go outside there and defend yourself. Look, this is how you do it. And they're gonna put their hands

up for you and say, look, you do this. This Your uncle and them say Hey, look at how you're doing. Niggas be like, well, sometimes sometimes that's how you get put on the set. Your uncle and cousins sitting on the parts, they're drinking and they say, hey, hey, little man, hey, square square was just on. See if this little nigga can fight. You just got put on your set and you just didn't like you like that? Just how just how it happens. I learned how to box. You know

how I learned how to box. I just went across the street from my deer's house. I just wanted to play Nintendo over there. They decided they wanted to put on some gloves. We was in the yard seventy third and pedro. We was in the yard. This boy across the street from my DEA's house put one square in my nose. How I was like, I will never ever let this happen again. Like you just you just be outside, do you don't? I remember across the street, cousin's looking

at me, like, why are you over there? Well, if you're over there, you put on the gloves. You put our gloves. You better start, you better better defend yourself, better guard your nose. Dot So it don't happen again. But back to the story, Uncle no good and dog on, well, you can't keep up them. Nig is gonna mop you up. So all he could do is his best to terrify these people and say, now you stay away from my you stay away from my family. Don't make me have

to come back here. And if the mother Diggets is smart enough, all they do is wait. You just wait, yeah, because once you leave, this block is yours again. Once your uncle leave that block belonged to him again. Hell, this is in your this is in your family. This in your family. Your big brother, your big brother picking on you so bad, right, your big sister. Just when it just giving your charlie horses left and right, Mama

walked in and say, hey, hey, hey, he stopped. She stopped, But Mama gonna go back to her room at some point. So you you gonna go wide behind Mama the whole time. Now you better learn how to wrestle. You better learn how to give a purple nurple. I don't know. All I'm saying is we can't just stay here the whole

time because when you leave, it's going down. And the onliest way to try to like stop that is to say, okay, uh, would it show me how to throw them, show me how to throw hands, Give me some, give me some, give me some of them tools, man like, okay, But then once you got the tools, you gotta square up, you gotta squaw because if you don't, guess what, every car in your neighborhood gonna keep getting rid and they're gonna be mad at you for even thinking that you

could stop them from doing this. They're like, no, it's my hood. It I don't know what the hell cross your mind to think that maybe you could stop us from getting he got what the you bugging homie? You

ain't gonna stop us from doing this? And the absolute worst part is just the regular ass grandmama, the regular And if this is still a school situation where like I mean again, I'm pulled whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever example you need, let's just say, you know your again, your big brother uses you in middle school, and your big brother came and took out some big bad eighth grader. You know what I'm saying, Just whoop that needn taill you feel me? And it's like, listen, all the rest

of us wanted to do at this school. I mean We're glad he gone, but I just wanted to make it to fourth period safe. I just can I just walk home? I can? I just can I get to school and not have my lunch money take it? That's all I want. Then, when your uncle and them leave your big brother and leave the people that are supposed to like that he trained niggad, they ran too. I'll ship y'all. Y'all Ran, y'all set you tried to put together. Y'all, Ran, You're just gonna you just fnna leave us here to

find for ourselves. So you so you're telling me the O g s that came to help us, they're gonna the people that the ogs put on to protect us, They're gonna. All you've done done was made them niggas angry. Guess who's gonna suffer? Yeah, you know, y'all, this is what has unfolded in Afghanistan. Let me out, let me out the box. Say there was no good way for this to end. If you know anything about Vietnam Cambodia, it held South Central you know what I'm saying. There

was no good way. This couldn't have This is the worst case scenario because it took him niggas a weekend him niggas got their hood back in a weekend. That ain't that? Ain't that something a weekend America can say. We spent two trillion dollars in twenty years. Went over there to try to respond to nine eleven, and there was one loan senator, a black woman leading away again that voted against the invasion of Afghanistan and the war

on terror. Senator Barbara Lee representing Callifornia. Let's go west west anyway. She was the one person that was like, maybe this ain't the best idea it. Maybe this maybe look because once you go in, maybe this ain't got shipped to do with us. Maybe we shouldn't have been over there in the first place. Yeah, we gotta attacked. Yeah, somebody like, um, somebody took a shot at you. Uh American gangster. You know the Frank Luca's story when his mobster home, he said, somebody took a shot at you

and made successful. We are you gonna make him unsuccessful? Minds, people take a shot all the time. So she's trying to be like, what do you okay, So they took a shot at us. It's a tragedy, but like, maybe we over. Let's all I mean, okay, hold on, let's let's rethink this. You can't just be going in their guns a blazing right. Nobody listened to the Black woman. Twenty years, thousands of lives, trillions of hours later, here

we are again, like it didn't even happen. And did I tell you that we're happening in Antenna's It's gonna be like we was never there. The only thing I was wrong about that is it's actually worse. I think we made it worse. But what was you supposed to do? You're gonna blame You're gonna blame Biden. You're gonna blame Trump, You're gonna blame Obama, You're gonna blame Bush, You're gonna blame anybody. You blame Reagan. Oh yeah, this, this whole

ship is because of the Cold War. Remember I told you in our scenario, your brother put them on, your big homie that's coming to protect you, actually put these bullies on. Yeah. You we trained the Taliban? Why did we train the Taliban? Because we thought the enemy of our enemy was our friend. Were still do in this big pissing contest with Russia? We was afraid Afghanistan was

gonna go communists. So we had these rough and tumble revel leaders that we're gonna stand for democracy and we put some guns in their hands to stop the spread of communism. Oh, they played us. They was like, yeah, give me them, give me them sweet democracy guns. Let me get them American guns. Let me get it. Let me get a few of those. Yeah, you're right, man, our our our government's going crazy. They're gonna they're gonna bring in communism. That's what you want to hear. Yeah, yeah, no,

they're gonna bring in communism. Just played us. They was able to stop the communism spread and they just was like, oh we up now, and just kept moving. Then they got froggy. It was like, you know, fuck America, the West, you know, fly these planes into this building. And we was like, oh you don't do that now, right and came back over there. I thought we was out there wrecking shop. You know what I'm saying, Which if you just a regular Afghani person, you're like, yeah, no, man,

these niggas is terrible. Can you come get these fools? I know they slapped at you, but man, they've been they've been terrorizing us this whole time. So this do this work for you? Can you come? Wait time out, nigga, you made them if you Afghanistan, You're like, oh, well you need to come. Y'all need to come take care of this. We was just in a regular civil ass war. But I ain't know they American trained. Damn cut nigga,

come take care of this ship. We went over there to take care of it, all right, So at all we did was popped the big homie and push them in to the corner. Now you're talking about a radicalized group of people that was believe what they believe so much that they'll fly a plane into a building. They will take on the browniest, the toughest, the most killing this war machine on the planet that is America. They

was willing to throw a hay maker at America. You think if you pop their big homie, they're just gonna fold. They just gonna let that ship ride. But wait, wait, wait, let me take this further. You popped their big homie in they hood. Nigga. You came to my hood and killed my big homie on my soil, on my block. Okay, just wait, you're gonna have to go home, you right. We we threw a haymaker at you. You're right, we can't look You're right. I can't square up with you.

I'm look you right. It's Taliban like. You're right. We can't really square up with y'all. But you're gonna take me serious. You're gonna remember me. Remember I told you about when when you're getting jumped, the only rule is you can't fold. You may take that fade, but you gotta throw some haymakers. You look for a way out, you cover up, but you need a dog walk somebody.

They was able to get it. They was able to stay in this squad for maybe there was they was back fedaling, but they stayed in that squad for they stayed. They was getting jumped, but they stayed in that squad. They kept they kept squabbing, just waited. It's like, we're gonna get our hood back. Twenty years later, four presidents later, there was listening. You know why I think it's four presidents later because there was no there's no easy way out of this. You know what I'm saying. You didn't

walk into somebody house and spilled grape wine. You didn't spill some mer lower on their carpet. My bad dog damn man, I thought I was coming to help. You're gonna try to start scrubbing the Merlau. I thought, now you're gonna do an Irish exit mon nigga like oh man, oh sorry, y'all, here goes some here goes some four oh nine, here goes some soz like I got some fa so for you, but we gotta go. It's like, Nikki, are you serious? You gotta go clean this ship up?

All we tried, but look here here go? How you clean it? Here go? Are you no? Niked? Like? Goddamn so? It took the Taliban a weekend and then I'm pretty sure you saw it, which is what made us be like, okay, we have to talk about this. I'm pretty sure you saw how fast they took over, and I'm pretty sure you saw it. Just these horrible, horrible, like I cheered up these images of these regular as people just trying

to get out. Man, going to the airport when you when you leave, wouldn't you be like, looking, I'm going to Canada, wouldn't you leave? Just think about this, Think about this for a second. The January six insurrection. I don't know if y'all saw it, like to me, them pictures a little real similar. When they were standing in the in the Presidential Palace, I was like, Oh I haven't seen this before. Oh no, do they got foot soldiers? You haven't read about the Proud Boys, my nigga? You

know anything about the dog on four chin? Do you don't understand what I'm saying? What Boogaloo and Adam waffing? The nigga's like, and they inspired by this ship? You know, you know what I'm saying. So I don't think it can't happen here. Shout out, it could happen here, nigga, because it could happen here. So you just got a picture. Let's just say the Proud Boys one. Let's just say the insurrection worked, my nigga, wouldn't you be gone? Wouldn't

you be out? What if the Proud Boys took over the airport, but the Proud Boys that was trained by Navy seals, wouldn't you be out too? And our whole lass government was like, I don't know, nigga, hope you got a gun? Would you be like? What the are you serious? Bro? So heartbreak, heartbreak happened, you know, people falling off the plane. The plane had to take off like just just a horrible situation. And Biden had to get on the screen and try to explain what he did.

And you know what his answer was, al Right, guys, you on, y'all man, I hope you got yourself a gun. Now. Y'all can be mad at him because this was the worst case scenario. But your antennis should tell you this was there was never this was never gonna work. How you clean up some ship you wasn't supposed to be in in the first place. It wasn't No, I don't know what you was what what was we supposed to do? I'm like, who's the blame? Nigger Earth Earth is to blame? Like,

I don't who do you blame the Afghani Afghani military? Oh? Because they got their ass beat. Sometimes militaries get their ask beat. Sometimes it happens. Were they not trained or they not listening? I don't know. Do you blame the American military? Dog? You know how many of these these men and women got PTSD that like worried about blowing their head off. You went over there to a war you couldn't have win, fighting the war you shouldn't have

fought in the first place. You blame the American soldier? What the hell was he supposed to do? What the hell is she supposed to do? She following orders? Do you blame the powers that be? I mean, well, what what would you do? What would you do? Somebody fly playing in your building? What would you do? Some lightweight set figured it was time to take you out? What would you do? Would you go fight? I mean, I don't know what to say. Do you blame Joe Biden? I mean, he just Joe Biden. Just I mean, he

just took the acid bath for everybody. I feel like he's the sacrificial lamb out this mug because he was like, nobody else will pull this trigger. That was his answer. Nobody else, nobody else had the balls to pull this trigger. I pulled the trigger because listen, he talking to two different people. You're talking to the world, you're talking to your hood. He talking to his hood. And he was like, I'm not sending I'm not sending no more of our

children over there. This is unwinnable. Rather than saying, oh we lost it's yeah, this is unwinnable. We gotta go. We tried to help him, We can't help him. You got to get your own. I hope you've got yourself a gun. Oh man. He looking at Afghanistan regular as citizens and was like, yo, I ain't think it would

be this fast. I'm sorry, y'all got dog. And I'm like, did you not calculate while the Taliban was just waiting for y'all to leave, they wasn't stacking bread, getting people on their side, recruiting, reminding everybody how cruel America is. You know, the biggest import, the biggest money maker for Afghanistan is the poppy plant. You know, poppy is where we get heroin, cocaine. It's it's an opioid. Who you think run the poppy industry? Huge antennas, y'all Taliban making

money a lot. I'm gonna keep real with you. I ain't think the Afghan government is still a chance because y'all because you're fighting Matt You you're fighting people that ain't scared to die, that had already worked it out. I saw whack Ua Hunter he was he was doing a little thing with academics and and Takashi six nine, And you could say whatever opinions you got on any of the names. I just said, if you plugged into

the hip hop culture. Say whatever you want. I'm quoting Whack from his O G status and what Wax said when he looked at that boy, He said, I'm looking at a man right now who's not afraid to die, who had already played it out. You don't already played it out? How you go, how it's gonna go. And when somebody like Whack, I believe him when he says

stuff like that, you gotta believe him. Because Whack has also made it very clear, like he's like, I'm not a rapper, I'd work in this industry, but I'm a gangbanger. I am a Domo piru blood Um this is I know. I know what I'm looking at. So when you so, when you got that, when you when you when you look face to face with killers, you know a person that ain't afraid to die. It's something in their eyes. I I knew a kid like this, not a lot. If I knew like maybe one or two kids that

you could see. And when I say kids, I mean kids because we were teenagers. When you looking in their face and you're like, oh, he's this this fool has already accepted my Oh boy, I almost said its full name. Let me, y'all just look almost lost my lost my mind. But which called chewy on boy? Chewie, I coach. I grew up with otos, so it's my humboy Chewie. I remember looking at Chewi being like, oh, you're not You're not scared. Pain doesn't the threat of pain, none of it.

It doesn't shake you in any way. You've already made your decision. I'm already a dead man. So I'm either gonna take a lot of these people with me, but I'm not gonna make it out of this. And when you're fighting people like this, when you're fighting a legion of people like this, but you are reasonable, you understand what I'm saying. You have a desire to see this through. You have a glimpse of humanity in you. It's like, I don't know how you This is no win situation. Obviously,

I kept my distance from Chewy. I made sure I stayed on this good side. Chewi looked out for me a few times. There was a few times I was I was about to get John, Me and Chewi back to back. Put some this was out on my point there when I was um out there in STV. But anyway, the Taliban has already decided. You've already put respect on my name because you're willing to negotiate with me. You didn't send delegates to us, so you respect us more

than you expect the respect the Afghan government. And especially when you talking killer the killer, you respect other killers. I'm gonna pull another one. When um I listened to the to the Drink Champs episode with Beanie Seagull and who I Love Beatie Single was talking about this time that like j as In jay Z like kind of checked him because he kind of like he said, he hung up on Jay. They was arguing over something, some longer story, but he said, Jay called back and was like, nigga,

don't you ever in your life hang up on me? Right? And Being is being from South Philly, Being was you know, he was facing forty years on the murder charts, like Being is a killer and he was like, no one talks to me like that, and he goes. I was like, damn, this fool really checked me. And he was like, damn, that's I. He said. His respect for him shot up. He was like that's big bro, man, this man he really cared about me. That's crazy. And how he understood.

That was because it's street ship. When you talk to me like I'm not scared of you, you understand what I'm saying that like real recognized real. It's like, Okay, he really cared and he really about this life. I'm not afraid of you. I respect you because you know who I am, you know how I move, and you were still willing to command respect out of me. That's a big deal. So to me, killer, the killer army,

the army. In the Taliband's mind, they're going, oh, you you respect us more than you respect the Afghan military. So you're gonna deal with us. But I need you to know, state the funk out the hood. Don't come around here no more this our block. Yeah, you're losing too many soldiers. Don't keep coming over here. Your own, your neighborhood, don't even want you over here. We'll take care of ours, You take care of yours, and we all know who's suffering. We all know how to play out.

Usually I try to end with some sort of way forward. I don't know, man, I just want you to be able to read the lick. Listen. There was no good way to end this. I don't was biding wrong. Absolutely, could he have been right? I don't know if there was ever a way for this to be Should we have went home? Everybody agrees we were supposed to go home, But you know who ain't shut down that consulate China, Russia.

They're still there. So it tells me every move we're making the streets is watching, and if there's ever a chance to make us look bad as a nation, as a president, this is one of them answers. I hope you got yourself a gun, y'all. This mug was recorded and edited by me Propaganda right here in East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles. Y'all can follow me at prop

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