Yo, West West. Everybody my name is propaganda or prop for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it. I'm give y'all some game real quick. I want to put you onto my uh my podcast called Hood Politics to the black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway, let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you understand geo politics, because politics is gangbanging in nice suits.
Let me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're gonna cover all kinds of hot topics that are in our news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even concepts that maybe take a little more to understand, kind of like how the January six insurrection could be understood as like the hood boss given a green light that was clearly a green light. Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's foreign policy is basically Tupac stance, which is, I ain't a killer, but don't push me. You know what I'm saying.
How the GOP had to make a calculus when Trump was leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride with the boss or ride with this that? Because bosses come and go, but the Hood lasts forever. It's all politics, it's just hood life. It's gangbanging. You understand it, and if you don't, I'll show you how our politicians tend to talk to us like like this, like alien language, and it makes you feel like you posted just trust
what they're saying. But I think inside all of us were kind of saying to ourselves, I don't know, man, I don't know if I trust y'all because what I'm experiencing is quite different than what you're saying. I'm experiencing what you're doing is so much different than what you're saying you're doing. Somehow, another deep down inside of us, we're like, no, I don't know if I understand this, but this kind of looks familiar to me. I want
to lean into that feeling of familiarity. Okay, little background
on me. I'm from south central Los Angeles. I've moved all over the l A surrounding areas, and before I did music full time, I used to teach hight school and when I was in the process of getting my teaching credential in history and social science, I kept stumbling over the last part of the test, which is the economic part, and it wasn't that I didn't know what I was talking about, because economics, in my mind are real simple because I'm from the hood, scared money, don't
make money, right, don't spend money you don't have right. But I didn't understand their terms. I am of the belief that most of us are like that, where we know what we're talking about, we just don't know the way you want us to talk about what we're talking about. But again, if you understand hood life, you actually understand all this stuff. Can I give you some more examples? Well, I'm going to anyway. How about this. If a person wants to expand their business to a neighborhood next to him,
you gotta pay for that. You have to pay that block to be able to sell their But if you feel like you're being charged way too much, and that neighborhood wants to sell a product on yo block, you're gonna charge them a high price. You're gonna sell on my block, It's gonna cost you. So what does that mean for the consumer? Well, it means that it costs the seller way more than it normally would. So what
they're gonna do. You think they're gonna keep the price to say, no, they raised the price all of a sudden. What you used to be able to buy, but ten dollars now cost twenty dollars. So it's like, who's being punished here? Turns out that's called a tariff. And what I just explained was a trade war. You're looking around like, all of a sudden, the cost of aluminum foiled and tripled. Why, it's because we got beef with China. We had a trade war with China. The government doesn't raised the tariffs
on aluminum. Everybody in the city already understood it. You just didn't know that's what it was called. Here go another one. You know, Vietnam War, Korean War, those are called proxy wars. Turns out of proxy war is real simple. It's just two dads that kind of don't like each other and their sons are on rival. Pop Warner teams. Turns out mixed. McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He needed his judges. Trump was just a leg. Are we really ever confused as to why, despite this not being
in your own best interest, you always vote along party lines? Well, because the hood comes first, as the great profit of our time. Kendrick Lamar said, Democrats re blood of kins. It's all the same, Ride or die, loyal to your soil. I could go on for hours, and I'm going to cease fires, workers unions. It's all there. You actually already understand this stuff here. I can't stress this enough. You don't have to be just from the hood to understand this.
If you navigate the eighth grade, if you ever had to figure out which of the lunch tables you can sit at during lunch, you understand geo politics. So join me every week. This is what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through the news, maybe go through a concept that's going on in the news, maybe something that takes a little more background to understand. I'm gonna show you how you could use what you already know to understand what you think you don't. We're gonna laugh, We're gonna
have fun. I don't take myself too seriously, but I do want you to feel empowered. These people ain't smarter than you. They just use a different language. Joe. If you're feeling real Froggy, go ahead and check out. Like some of the old episodes, they're still in the feed. What I'm saying kind of get You get yourself a primer as to what's going on in here. I'm trying to tell y'all something. Dig this because politics is just
gang banging in nice suits. So tap in with me weekly hood politics would problem Catch me on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.