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these things are true. Did Kanye not show up with a maka hat top? My slavery was a choice? But did he not fill an arena with a half done album a second ago that he was able to stream live on Apple TV? Y'all know that album ain coming out when you say it is? Come on, fam. Did we not know when R Kelly married a Leah when she was fourteen? We all knew that man had issues? But hell stepping the name of love, I believe I

could fly. You think I don't know Columbus Day is ridiculous, But if you give me a day off, I'm I'm not gonna go to work. I know it's ridiculous, but I'm gonna day home. I like having a day off. This is some bull. I know it's bull. I know I don't celebrate this. A matter of fact, I've adamantly and vehemently disagree with it. Do you think I don't know that gang violence in our cities has stolen so much from our family, so much of our young men

are young women. You just have been cut short. We killed each other in our own If you think I don't know that, you think I still you think I still don't be like, that's my cousin, though, that's my family, Though that's my relly, right, You think we still don't celebrate what we know was so detrimental to us. You think we don't know it's a problem. Same thing got every girl singing as soon as too short? Come on, what's my favorite word? You? You? You finished it already,

know you finished it. You ain't even gotta tell me. Same thing I know when I say it ain't no fun if the homies can't you already you didn't even have to finish it. Why is that every girl's anthem? When I was growing up? Don't look, I don't know what to tell you. You know it's wrong. I know it's wrong. But got dog that mugs slap, then ribs slap. Kanye can make some music. Y'all. You are fully aware that both these things are true. This is wrong, but

the dog is right too. And it's wrong and it's right. Both are living. There's a dissonance. We got to talk about the Olympics, y'all. Hood politics. It's so who right now. Little politics, y'all so good. I was a really, really, really young child during the eight four Olympics, and I just remember all the excitement about it. I remember Carl

Lewis and black people love track and field. Matter of fact, for a long time, I thought that was the only thing that was in the Olympics until the Dream Team. I was like, I'm here for the track and then you learn about Mary lou Retton in the in the gymnastics and stuff like that, and I got caught up in the excitement. I remember in fifth grade being like, I want to go to the Olympics and track and field, and it's just it's just in my head. It was like,

this is the best of the best. But there's things you're just not aware of. Now you become an adult and you start going, oh wait, so the Olympic torch was invented by the Nazis as a sign of white supremacy. You know, you started in Greece and you go around all the Western civilization as the passage torch of just of the dominance of Western culture. They invented de toy. We all know what the torches. It's it's the white

supremacist thing. I'm out here thinking Jesse Owens out there doing the lord's work and changing maybe possibly the mind of the Nazi regime, but white supremacy already believed that like, well, of course the black man is gonna be a run faster us. They're running in the jungles, you know what I'm saying. So they it just reinforced they understanding of eugenics views they already had. You're talking about, it's supposed to be the best of the best, get to compete

from all over the world. When we know for a fact Sharia Kari was gonna smoke everybody, but y'all took her off because she had to smoke, because y'all ain't won't the smoke, So you clearly ain't want her there. We noticed racist stuff going on. Hell, they told the black swimmer she can't use a cap that fits her head. Hell,

we know it's sexist. There's the Norwegian team this year, the Norwegian beach volleyball team that said they don't want to wear bikini bottoms because they don't make no damn sense. So they had just like some some like workout shorts on. They got fine because they wasn't wearing no bikinis. That's some ball. Like, we know it's bullshit. Listen, Russia got kicked out a few years ago as a country for doping, but they here they just can't be called Russia. So

the Russia is still sent a team. They're just not under the This some bullshit. We know it's some bullshit, but I don't know what the hell else to tell you. It's the Olympics is fun as hell. I just it's a dissonance that I feel like I'm not saying it's okay. I'm just like it's Sports has and continue to break down so many racial barriers. So many advancements we've made have been be has of sports people like man Jackie Robinson. Again, I mentioned again Jesse Owens. You know Wilma Rudolph like

people have really seeing their lives change. The world has changed because of like athletes, and I'm a fan. I know some personally. I know some Olympic athletes and I'm like, Doc, these are just the dopest humans and it's amazing to see them work. It's amazing to see them put in their work and earn their goals. It's fresh, dogins inspiring. These people work as hard as they do. I get the glory they get. It's incredible. I watched the sport I've never seen before, just earlier to day called it

was a single person rolling. The girl was on her knee on a canoe on one knee and had one or and was paddling up on his sparon. He was the first one to have It was the first goal metal ever in that sport. It was a woman from America. I was like, that's sister is yoked. I've never seen a sport like that. They said it. When she was little, she had a weird thing with her hip where hip didn't fit in the ball socket right, so she could never play soccer or any other get sport that she liked.

Ever again, discovered this sport that I ain't never seen before, discovered it nine years later, want of gold medal. It's inspiring. So when you talk about why people in the hood glorified gang culture and glorify our you know, violent passing our loss, like why we glorify the hood, and it gets the same reason you still celebrate the Olympics. No one full and got dog All, well, this is not good for us. Got dog and mugs slap and mugs slap slap slap, slam slack. Now, let's get down to it.

Let's get to it. As to like what I really mean by like this thing is really not good for us. There's so many assumptions we have seemed like faris sumptions like it's it seems like this would be the case. It just ain't. We would believe that when you're the whole city, you make a gang of money that the city would like from tourism, from building all these new spots, artists, new stuff you with artists like attention on the city. You would think this would be good. You would think

you'd be good for the athletes. That looks like Doc, you get to be seeing all over the world, you know what I'm saying, Like you're supposed to make a ton of money. You know, you feel me like this is supposed to be a win for everybody, and the nation gets the flaws, they get to finally put their arm around their people. We know it's we know it's pageantry. You know what I'm saying. Flashback to the nineteen Olympics, the poster that's saying everybody's every at least every black

person's house. Of the two brothers, what they fist up, you know, with the poor dude from Australia that was in second place that had to stand there while these brothers with they with the big black power fits stuff. They was making a political statement that like, yeah, I'm out here running for y'all, but y'all still beating in the streets, y'all still killing that. So it's like, who

am I really cheering for? What's really going on? Like why are we playing this pretend game like it's all ra ra you know sis boomed By, Like it's coom By y'all back at home. My nigga is not but we all know it. But damn you see that nigga run a ten flat? That mug was crazy. It's just it's this, it's this dissonance. The mug introduced you to sports. Like, you know, I never seen no water polo game ever.

You know what I'm saying. But yo, since two million people have been displaced because when you come to a city, you gotta build an aquatics center. It ain't one here, and you just gotta build one. And where do you build them? You build them where you could get the land? Where do you get the land? The land that the easiest land to get. It's poor communities. They can't fight back take their land. You just two million people have been displaced. Where I get that from? I got that

from a bunch of sources. So there's the New Republic. There's a Washington Post are the hole, There's an Oxford University research projects about the Olympics between nineteen sixty and like this stuff is. I mean, it's like clear data shows that this mug is damaging. Said, so look, let's get to the numbers according to the New Republic. I'm gonna be paraphrasing and doing some direct quotes, so just bear with me. So here go to paraphrase. Networks, you know,

cable media outlets. I mean they're making billions on airing the thing not to mention corporations making millions off you know, sponsorships. Not to mention real estate, infrastructure, just all of the things that takes to become a whole city. Yeah, there's billions and billions of dollars to be made. But okay, now I'm gonna start quoting. The whole city gets stuck with the bill for billions in infrastructure tweaks, construction and

operation costs. As specific University professor Jules Boykoff, who has written extensively on the politics of the Olympics, argued in The Washington Post, there's an overwhelming evidence that the Games

are a financial disaster for cities. Every Olympics since nineteen sixty has exceeded its budget, and cities and host countries are on the hook for the cost overruns, a loss rarely recouped by the eventual influx of revenue, so enthusiastically touted by the elected officials as the reason to place

an Olympic bid in the first place. One recent study found that since two thousand and seven, the Games cost twelve billion of peace in sports related costs alone, including event security, medical services, catering, and the construction of stadiums and Olympic villages, not to mention up to several times as much for food and transit improvements, hotel expansions, and whatever else is needed to accommodate the quote largest and highest profile and most expensive mega event hosted by cities

and nations. If the Japanese governmental audit is correct, Tokyo will come out to eight billion, almost four times the original budget of seven point five billion. Who you think gonna pay for that? Yeah, you got the answer. Check this out. Look, I'm paraphrase again. Venues in peong Yang in two thousand eighteen and then in Rio in two thousand sixteen are empty, like you build these days and

ain't nobody there. But where did they build them? They built them man hoods where there was communities that were there. Favelas completely knocked down in n in Atlanta, listen, four thousand people lost their houses to build the Olympic stadiums. Listen. In Rio in two thousand sixty, there was where there was favelas, their luxury condos. Where you think those people gonna go? People talking about we got a home, this problem. You just knocked down the houses right in Los Angeles.

This is the we gotta bid we so we didn't want the bid for the Olympics in but check this out. Data already knocked down rent stabilized houses. Hell, do you know? Do you know what's happening this skied road? You know, the Union Rescue Mission is right down in six three in downtown. Do you really think you really think Los Angeles gonna let downtown just be full of the house lists population we got right now? No, they that's that's

prime real estate. They didn't already sold their building. We y'all, And look, I don't say this as a disk to the Union Rescue Mission. They do amazing work. I know some of them folks. They problem was will never sell? I know, we know our location is amazing. They're like, we'll never sell because we can't go nowhere. What city wants the hub of services for the house list? Like, we can't go nowhere. Nobody wants us, so we stay here. People have been trying to buy that spot for a

long time. They finally found a place, though. I think it has a lot to do with the Olympics. But think about it, though, they take our houses and they build these things and then we gotta pay for the family is trash. But did I not get that original dream Team T shirt? I don't know what to tell you. So look, uh, here's this article from the Washington Post. I'm gonna pull most of this data from and it's this article is called the Five Myths about the Olympics.

And again it's one of those things you don't want to look at because I enjoy it so much much and you kind of already know. So it's like, dog, don't man, don't say it out loud, but we know you you knew good and well, someone's wrong with Michael Jackson. That boy. Listen. You don't build no Neverland in your front yard talking about you miss being a child. You got an amusement park in your house. That's that's for kids? Are you we? Dog? We knew, like we can't say

we ain't no, we knew. Do you know what I'm saying? We knew? Okay, I need to stop stress at this point. Cat Williams did this stand up a while back where he was talking about Mike and he was like, man, we can't front like we ain't know he So I was listening. I got stuff around my house because I'm quoting him because I like batches. So I got stuff around my house that women like. I got a drawer full of pads and tampons. I got silk sheets. Why because women like it, So it's shipped around my house

that women like. He was like, if you build an amusement park, nigger, it's because you like kids. He was like, I don't act like we ain't know now. The first myth is the idea that it's going to be a big money maker. And like I said, the city don't make money right a matter of fact, they're always over budget. We always end up having to have all around the city,

these things we don't ever get to enjoy. Oxford University research analyzed Olympics between nineteen sixty and twenty and found out that every single game ran over budget, with an average cost overrun of a hundred and seventy two in real terms, notably higher for the mega projects. The Tokyo Olympics is a striking example. Originally slated for seven point five billion, like I said, the price tag is around twenty eight billion according to the Government Audit of Japan.

Postponement increased the bill to about thirty billion, and in academic paper, economists Robert Blade and Victor Mathieson found that the overwhelming conclusion that it is in most cases, the Olympics are money losing proposition and result in a positive net benefits only under very specific and unusual circumstances. In other ways, look, dog, you're gonna take a hell the money's you're gonna lose money, and the Olympics just get the card off into So it's really not making y'all

know money. You may think, so that's a cool, nice little aquatic center that can nobody go to. It's one of down to Long Beach. I think an aquatic center down in Long Beach that I think maybe we did a summer camp at. But like I mean, it's not like this like tourist attraction when they get like you know what I'm saying, it's way down there at Long Beach. I mean when I used to live down there, Like I said, me and my I took my daughter to a summer swimming class down there. But like once you

feel me. Myth two is that the cities are super eager to host. That's just not true. Cities aren't don't want to do that. It's the oligarchs to do because Nika, your traffic gonna suck nig. You might lose your house. Do you know what I'm saying. Uh, it's gonna be a million of the outside is out here taking up all the everything, gonna cost more. It's like it's a it's it's a headache. Not to mention. If you black and brown, like I said, you might lose your home.

So check this out here I'm quoting. In two thousand and fourteen, the IOC unanimously passed Agenda in a slate of recommendations designed and resuus costs and to incite bidders. The closing report asserted that this new flexible approach is bearing fruit and is well appreciated, as demonstrated by the interests currently being shown in future Olympic Games. At one time, bidder interests was indeed strong. Twelve cities vied for the two thousand four Summer Olympics. After night a number of

bits emerging from developing countries more than tripled. But more recently, though, fewer and fewer cities have been game to host, which is partly why the IOC embarked on Agenda. A look at the race for Winter Olympics is instructive. Initially, multiple cities were interested, but Ukraine, uh Poland, Stockholm and many

others pulled out. Then Oslo withdrew after Norway's parliament jettison the necessary financial guarantees, as the io C seven thousand pages of demands like a private meetings with the Norwegian King v i P traffic lanes and hotel mini bars stocked with coke products, which comedians just dragged, landed with a thud that left only Beijing and Kazakhstan neither bastions of democracy, and the IOC went to the known entity Beijing,

who previously hosted the two thousand eight Summer Games. Now this is what they said, Hey, you guys want to do this. It's like, here's seven thousand pages of what it takes to do it, and cities are like, okay, hold up, we have to have coke products in here. Yeah, every yeah, if you want the Olympics, you have to you have to. You could only have coke products what you trivit And then the city's budgets look at it and they go, family, it's gonna cost us how much?

Not homie? Were good? The cities don't really want it. That's been too Mid three the Games. Our path to riches for athletes. Okay, let's talk about megastars, then some mobiles. Michael Phelps, can you name anybody else the Dream Team? Dudes, Well, they're pro athletes there. They don't make money off the Olympics. The Olympics is reflex. Yeah, who got second place in men's archery in nineteen? I don't know. Hell, it's Olympic sports. I don't even know our Olympics sports quoting, most Olympic

athletes don't cash in. Even medal winning Americans don't strike it that rich. A gold medal earns thirty five thousand, five dollars paid by the US Olympic Committee, while silver means twenty two thousand, five hundred and bronze means fifteen thousand. After earning a bronze medal in judo in the two thousand eight Beijing Olympics, future Mixed Martial Artists star Rhonda Rousi lived in her two thousand five Honda Accord to

make ends me. Two time medal winning cyclists Rebecca Twig ended up homeless in Seattle ahead of her two thousand sixteen Rio games. More than a hundred US athletes started go fund me pages to pay for their Olympic dreams. Success can lead to lucrative sponsorships, at least for athletes in high profile sports. But the show ain't no bet. So you are telling me to think of it like this. You make it to the NBA and hopes to be Lebron James. Nigg has one Lebron James. Everybody don't get

a shoe deal. Nigga? Where the last time you wore some air Gasol's nigga? He don't get a shoot Listen, thirty seven thousand, five hundred dollars for a gold medal, that's in four years. They only come every four years. You have to win the whole thing. You feel me. All they're gonna get sponsors and they can get. Really every gold medalist as a silver medalist. Theyy doing no commercials and they work just as hard as a gold medal. They made less talk about we're gonna make money. I

was there with you ain't making a dime? What about fourth place? You know what I'm saying, Like you've been working fifth? Hell six you made the Olympic team. Think you fitna work in Starbucks because Dave passing out no shoe deals for sixth place? Now they don't. Everybody don't make it, but everybody gotta go. We all gotta pay the same. And as a matter of fact, y'all just saw some old biobs like this, I'm going home. At first, you know what, her situation really taught me a lot

about the generation I was raised. Then, let me tell you what I mean by that, because I'm like, look, we wasn't allowed to quit stuff when I was a kid. We wasn't allowed to quit. You could, man, y'all built different. It's like you don't let down your team simone like fan. First of all, I don't want mold medals than anyone. Some of them medals, some of them championships I won

with two broken toes. And you asking me to go back to the Olympics after knowing full well Larry Nasser Nig had been molested, he'd been sexually assaulting these kids this whole damn time, and you want me to go back. She like, kick rocks, nigger. I'm going home. I wish, man, I wish I would have nobody gave me that option. I come for the generation where we wasn't giving the option to goal. We was out there passing, and I and what's crazy. Is I wear it as a badge

of honor. It's so crazy to be like, listen, we was out there getting heat strokes, summer league basketball, getting heat strokes, running laps because you can't give up. How many of y'all hate it? Soccer hated it, but you had to play. You can't you can't get you don't give up on your team. Was like, Ni, I hate this game. You had to do it. And look, look we grow up saying you know what, But it taught me stick with itness. It taught to me how to stick it out and stay for your team. And yeah,

these are important things. But fam, how many of us in therapy because we should have quit some ship? You understood what I'm saying. Sophie, Sophie that produced this show and produced all the other shows on the network that we all like. When she she played basketball in high school, she said she popped her shoulder, got popped, got displaced in the game, stayed and they popped it in, popped it in wrong, stayed in the game and they won.

She was like eight years of physical therapy after that, Nik, your shoulder out of just sit down. We don't come from that. Look, we come from play through the pain. You know what I'm saying, You suck it up. Physical and emotional and emotional pain don't count. That's not real pain. That's where we come from. What is doing to these Michael Phelps one of the most gold medals ever. You know what he is now a spokesman for mental health. He'd the dude on the call map NI because we

just don't what we're doing to these athletes. Man far entertainment. Day's like, look, I'm going home. I didn't look, I got nothing else to prove. If you're an Olympic athlete, you're the best in the world unless you smoke some herb in which is part of the bullshit. Unless you smoke some herb in Oregon where it is legal and you black, then you're the best of the world. But don't get to go, do you know? I mean it's it's is it really helping these athletes if they like

this too much? Y'all this too much on it? If you could get go back to nineteen where it's like, yeah, I wonder dog Mohammed Ali he said in his own interview, I went out there in the Olympics and I whooped all I whipped all of of of of America's enemies. I beat them up, and then I came home and I can't get a piece of pie in my own hometown. It's like, what is we? The mind bender that must be for an athlete, especially if you go back all the way to that, but they like I can't even

can you imagine? Can you imagine like that? Just I just read you Rhonda Rousing she became a legend after, but after she don't want to meddle. She living in her car? Is it really that good? Myth number four, which is the easiest one, that are athletes have the

right to freedom of expression? Do that? Because I mean, do I need to bring back up the Norwegian women's volleyball team that was like I'm not playing in bikini pants like I mean, and and even and look look look I'm gonna put the most f boy and who I just learned like the British version of that is the lads like the lad culture. That's like the British version the UK's version of like a fun boy. I didn't know that, but I've learned it. I'm gonna put

the most fun boy lands on. They still looked good, these these professional women athletes. I'm saying, Okay, so they ain't got their cheeks out, they got the tight biker shorts on. I'm like, if you're gonna be a douchebag, they still look they're still look good. Was I don't understand. I'm saying this is the most douchebag way ever to say it. But I'm like, but that's not the damn point. Man Like they athletes? Man Like, why why are you going to tell them their uniform needs to be sexier?

Like this don't make no damn sense. What did you talking about? Foods get fined? You think here's a quote. But athletes remained barred from expressing their views during metal ceremonies, opening and closing ceremonies, in the Olympic village, or on the field of play during competition. Rule fifty was a response to the indelible act of political dissonan the movement in ninety eight where the Olympians John Carlos and Tommy Smith, through their black gloved fists, skyword for the human rights

and black freedom. Curiously, the Olympic official channel celebrates Carlos and Smith as legends for their demonstration, dubbing it one of the most iconic moments in the history of modern Olympics, yet updated their guidelines to prohibit any other Carlos and Smith's from emerging at the Tokyo Olympics. So when you get it's so dope that you guys did that. Man, you were standing up for your rights. Y'all change the change the laws. Make sure don't nobody else do this

Like it's a joke. Doc man, y'are weirdos in l A. That's probably like the worst that you can call somebody. It's like it's for weirdos. Y'are weirdos. And then the last myth, at least for these Olympics is that they're gonna stop the coronavirus. Come on, because you're gonna say it's top right, and they're doing what they can. It's like there's no there's no audience in the stands. You know, they're trying to stagger the overlap of athletes using the

best scientific guidelines and safety available. However, the idea of getting all these people one place and thinking you're gonna stop the spread of an invisible virus is ridiculous. A matter of fact, multiple athletes have already tested positive, but let me stack on top of that, Japan still got a low vaccine rate. They ain't got enough vaccines for themselves.

So if you're sitting outside trying to get your vactual, just a regular Joe blow citizen of Japan, and you, like I thought, y'all said, y'all ain't have money for vaccus for us. Well, why y'all got it all for these oh niggy y'all don't care. Y'all don't care. So to summarize, it's built on and has racist practices. It cost the city more than it makes The athletes, unless you are the like Simone bios of your sport, probably not gonna make no money. The city don't want it,

and you can't stop disease from spreading. And I'm gonna throw it again a go back to rock. I can't stress this enough. Even if you cheat, you can still come. You just gotta change. I just think that's the funniest to me. That's the funniest part of this mug. You just Russia just can't wear their shirt. But we all know it's Russia. That's hilarious to me, So we all know. And did you see that girl just do that triple backflip axle off the thing, y'all. Did you see the

US men's basketball team? One? Y'all? Did you see that wrestling? Y'all? Did you Philippines? Philippines just won their their first medal ever. It was in like powerlifting. I'm so happy for that lady. Now, when she got back to the city, they I mean, they deemed her good. They did her good. She was the first Olympic winner ever. Do I every time when you do the opening ceremony, I'm sitting there with my Google maps out. Whenever like nations come fam I'm looking

them up because it's like, I get it. It's exciting and it's trash. That's called all cognitive dissonance, and we have it all the time in so many areas. Take it back to politics. Do you think I don't understand gentrification completely, wrote a damn song about it, working purposefully to fight against it. I do like craft beer, though I am a coffee nerd ah dissonance. So what's my

takeaway for us? Big Old Air quotes us as people of color, as black and brown communities, as you know, BIPOC, indigenous, l g B t Q. Oftentimes we don't allow ourselves to have this type of dissonance. Uh, my wife. If y'all new to hear my wife referred to her by her prefix dot dolmroz. There goa the most smartest person I know, first gin Latina from southern Mexico or her daddy from MC to go see your mom from Acapoco. Anyway, first gen came like came from no running waters to

a pH d and educational policy. She's brilliant, She's she's smarter than me. She gave me this term. It's called class straddler. And I think if you listen in the podcast, and you came from where I came from, any town, USA, where I came from, where she came from, you came from working class, check to check, make spaghetti, because spaghetti last for weeks. You know, serpup sandwiches, Uh salt tacos. You know what I'm saying. You do what you gotta do.

You know your dishes ain't match you feel me? You thought making it was having a pantry or an upstairs that meant you made it. You feel me. We come from that, but now we're in a place where we can sit down and listen to podcasts. You're living comfortable. Maybe not you ain't balling, but like if you want it, to rent an airbnb in you know, Palm Springs or you could. You could take a weekend and go to

Vegas like you could. So you and this like in between space to where it's like in your childhood, you would have been one of the houses that got displaced when the Olympics came. In your childhood, that would happen to you. And guess what, It's probably happened to the people you probably grew up with. It's probably happening to people you love dearly because you're in between these guys.

And it's like and you live comfortably in this space, but still have the sentiment of and this and the you still think like where you from to where it's like I have a hard time, like this is me. I have a hard time spending money like I got it, but like there's certain things I just I can't. I just can't get myself to back because I'm just like I think we ain't feel about that like I've never when I was growing up, we didn't go on vacation. We went to visit family, but I ain't going vacation.

We have money for like to go do what, like just to go kick it somewhere, like we just didn't. We ain't had the money for that, you know, said we I would like I said. We went to visit family. We flew to d C. My mom's from d C. We flew to d C, you know, but we we had to straddle it. It was like either one of us could go, like all me and my sister, either she could go or I could go. Right, either my dad went or my mom went, but we never all went.

Wet had the money for four people to fly like, we just ain't have it, you know, and still to this day, like my plates don't match, I'm not gonna like you don't throw away perfectly fine dishes. All of our bowls got chips on them because I just can't get myself to go buy like I just ain't nothing

wrong with the bowl. You buy it when it breaks yourself saying you buy new one for breaks, and you buy one like I gotta set of dishes, like I just it's those type of like little things that when you come from it's called a class straddler like I'm I'm in between, Like I understand this because I've kind of lived there, but I still I still feel these

sentiments here. You and I have this dissonance of things we understand politically, things we under stand socio economically, culturally, and can relate to much closer, but it's not necessarily where we live now. It becomes this mental sort of tub a war that is unique to people in these marginalized groups. You like nice things, but I kind of feel bad for liking nice things because we never really had nice things, and a lot of my folks can't

get it. That's it's weird, the cognitive dissonance of going back to the music. Example, we just forgave Kanye, We just let it go. My man said slavery was a choice, like and then he did the Sunday services and we just like forgot this all the madness this man was talking because it bangs the music banks. It's just like, y'all field an arena with unmixed music. Yeah, I mean he just walked around in circles to hear this man play songs that really ain't done and charts fifty dollars

for chicken strips, Like, what are we doing, y'all? Well, it slaps We feel like we should make a choice. Some of y'all don't feel it. You just okay with the dissonance. We're just like whatever, they get slaps. But it's still a question we ask in our culture, should we have canceled R Kelly much earlier? What do we mean by cancel now? What we mean is always and oftentimes having nothing to do with what conservative pundits think we mean by cancel culture. What they talk about is

they just don't want accountability. They just want to be able to do what the hell they want to do. And we got nowhere to go because y'all on top, or because it was so long ago, we supposed to just get over it. You know what I'm saying. Oh, they're they're they're canceling Dr SEUs, Well, nigga. Dr SEUs said some trash ship and we just ain't never had the chance to say nothing about it. It ain't nobody

canceling him for were holding him accountable. We're saying maybe the culture has moved on it and we shouldn't talk about So that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about us when we're like, yo, this is enough years. Why aren't we say something? Why aren't we doing nothing about our Kelly? We knew that man was sick because I think at twelve play go listen. Yes, I know gang violence is a problem. That's my RELI though I

know some things feel like selling out. I think selling out of something totally different, like selling out your your issues. And I feel like, if you've been listening, that might have been something you've been waiting for me to acknowledge that like selling out of selling out, that's that's a thing. I'm talking about, dissonance. I'm talking about the turkey leg, the color greens, and the macaroni and cheese that you're gonna have on Thanksgiving. Enjoy it. It's good food. I

don't know what. I don't know el to tell you. Enjoy it. It's good food on a terrible holiday. Dissonance, you know, Fourth of July. Look, if you get some some of that dry rub Memphis barbecue, get the barbecue, enjoy it, and keep you fisted up. It's both. We'll never get to be both. I'm saying, be both. That's the dissonance, protest, fight, stand up, and just I don't it's weird dog look man, because the wealthy gets to have at you know Branson didn't Whitey on the Moon

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