IDGAF with Murs

I don't know. I don't know if I can overstate the important to this brother, to the culture, to the coffee, and just to the state of homy ship. Uh we got Merge three sixteen. Please say what's up, Mercy? I don't know, man, like I feel like you. You know what I'm saying. You joining the club? You know what I mean? I had to retire, man, my assd reflux? Shut up? No, how did you retire? Had to retire to barely drink my home beer? Now? Damn? How are you gonna have your own beer and can't drink it?

I'm sorry, stuff is rough, man, it's growing up. You have chocolate oat milk right now, Damn. Growing up is hard to do. Mm hmm. All right, So we haven't had a guest in a while, which is super dope. I'm glad to have Mercy being one of the inaugural uh redl much guests. His reputation supersedes him. For y'all who maybe don't know, go ahead and do your google's

uh trust me, you do know? Uh anyway, Uh, I'd like to do this in the way that, like, you know, my homies come in blind Me and Merth share a lot of like similar experiences of being you know, in the culture, being hybrids, right is that? Is that a good way to explain it? Like, yeah, super in love with hip hop but from the city, you know, and having to learn how to navigate both, which is why I think, Um, he's so qualified to discuss what we're about to discuss, and he doesn't know what it is.

You know, do you know what we're going to talk about? You can? We we cuss a lot on this, uh yeah, which is even a throwback as to how long I've known this nick. Anyway, So when you hear the phrase out of some body's mouth, I have a I have a theory, and um, I'm a flesh this out with you and we can discuss what it is. Then we'll go into like the political comparisons, and I'm pretty sure

you'll see it as we start going. When someone says I don't give a fuck, right, Yeah, I am of the belief that there are multiple definitions of what that means and what they're trying to say, depending on the context. Just use your antennas. What are Give me a couple of definitions of what it means. When somebody say I don't give funk, it's either you've presented this person with the option to make like sue for peace. Okay, they're

they're still on the war path regardless of what you say. Yes, um, you just did something and you really have no regard for the results or the alcohol you feel, you feel the consequences are beneath you, and you're not gonna feel Look then quences of this action correct, correct I am? Or generally it could just be a you're you're unbothered, you don't care, I really could care, I could care less. Yeah, I think those are the three ways I would take that state. Yes, I am. I am totally on board

with all three of those. I also think that there might be more. Yeah, yeah, and you can get and let's let's discuss some of these more ones. I love the first one that you talked about to where you just like, there is no regard for my safety or the safety of the people around me. Right, that's the extreme. I'll give that nigger watch out for it because there's no because consequences are of no consequence. Consequences are of no consequence. Is that, yes, we and we know nigs

like this, right, yes? Yes. Do you feel like a rational person can be driven to that? Yes, absol lutely, I absolutely agree with this. I also think there's a version of I don't give a funk, which is actually more motivated by the fact that you actually do. It's just a matter of figuring out what you give a funk about, because I think oftentimes like say, for example, you know you you, this is your ex, and you know what I'm saying, and you like, I'll get funk

what y'all do, I'll get nikki you hurt? You heard? Yeah, there's that way, yea, there's down for sure. Yeah, yeah, I guess there's also the I don't give a funk like you with whatever, like that's how me. Like people are like, oh, you dated porn stars, she sucked this in me. I don't give a fuck, Like doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah, this is so. I'm concerned about other things, right, there are other things that concerned me. This thing that you're

bringing up is not one of them. Yeah, I want my dick to be one of those dicks I don't have been before me. That is the past. The past is not real. Neither is the future not real. All that's real is the present. You know. I learned that in the house party one. You know what I'm saying when it comes to me and my dick action I'm thinking about currently currently right now listen that you know what,

that's funny. That's funny because I was thinking about something else actually for another episode that this actually fits in in the sense that, like, I'm almost positive that just human genitals just suck at reason, Like reason is not a part of its strength, and it's up to like our the accounting department in our bodies to try to at least way the pros and cons for our genitals. Who just yeah, there, it's like a bucking bronco. That's like never like that horse on the ranch that can't

be broken. Yes, and for men that that horse doesn't

get broken. Maybe into your sixties, you your whole, A lot of your being is like you know, like I've tried to like Mentor and Foster fourteen year old boys like I don't blame me because half of your your every your hormones or everything is in your nuts right now, everything you are splitting like there's only so much blood flow and you're splitting it between your brain and then a lot of your brain I'm forcing to deal with with with school, Yes, something's gonna suffer, either chores around

the house, your school, your ability to obey obey commands from your parents. Something's gonna suffer. So I'll give I give you a lot of leeway. Bro, No one gave me that leeway. I understand, But this is what you gotta do. You can't do this, yes, like don't know. Don't push your little brother over, walk the dog, do your homework there, don't go to jail. Right, the fence is wide, but there is a fence, there is a fense. I'm gonna give you a very like you were you

were eight. I think that's the thing is like you I construct, I put the fence around my kids young and then I start to expand it as they get older. That's me, that's how I should be. Yeah, because then so by the time you're fifteen, bro, I'm almost out of your way because you want to get out of here anyway. This fence is never gonna be wide enough for you're ready to start your own. The hope is the hope is I've invested enough into the accounting department, right,

you can make a better decision for yourself. Yeah, because you don't give a fuck, because you don't get it. Because at the end of the day, you don't give a year old that is they're they're they're they're coming back to that. Yeah. And and but that's good. That's good because because you don't give a fuck. But it's my job as your parents to figure out what you actually do. Give a yes, yes, And if I understand that,

then I understand how you move. I think it's the same in let's say, in the streets where it's just like nigger run up on you, like I don't give a funk, Like will you care about something? Right? But see that's I think too. Like I was in St. Barth's on a random trip with my family, okay, And I'm walking with my son to the fit and I'm looking at my outfit and people don't know what to make of me, you know, the local the local black people like how does he like? Is he on vacation?

He doesn't work in any of the hotels, and the white French people are all uptight and mad and they don't know why I'm not there to serve them. And I was like, I don't give a funk, and I was like to thing about me. You can look at my hair the way I addressed I was like a lot of niggas in the rap game will say they don't give a funk. I'm the one that really doesn't really don't. Yes, I'm the one you made fun of because I came to school how I came to school.

I don't only thing to give a funk about his hip hop at that point. Yeah, you guys get about girls, even rappers. Now you give a funk about the Grammys. Rappers give a funk about other rappers, Like you know, Kidrick just dropping amazing verse and he's like smashed at Hard Drive. Blable was like, because you give a funk what other niggas are dropping. You get like I put my arm out in the middle of a pandemic. I don't. I really don't give a fuck. You guys are scared

of jail. You're scared of your enemies. You know, you know what I mean. We're getting there. That's it. You're scared of something, right, you're saying this, and I understand what you're saying. But you're scared of something. You're trying to impress somebody. Yeah, it's somebody or somebody or somebody killed your homies. So you got joined the gang so that you can get revised. Because you give a funk, because you give I never, I really there's a lot. It takes me a long time to give it. On

skill of giving a funk. There's a lot of a lot of people who give more funks to me that say they don't give a funk at all. Yes, yes, and and and even in you saying that, you made it very clear they are what you care about. I care about a hip hop and now I got a family. I care about my family. You understand what I'm saying. So if you if I know that, then I'm like,

I understand all of them. I understand your moves. I understand exactly what you're doing because I know what you care about, right, So I feel like, yeah, it's the same thing with like you was the one that brought up was that was that schoolboy that did the quote about being sensitive? I think I think it was him. I may have credited because it's the same like on the New Kindrick verse, which is great, Yes, I love it. Um or he says, I got a gun on me.

I'm scary, Like I'm scary, I got a gun in here, Like, yeah, that's how you like. The scary niggas. The sensitive niggas is the ones you gotta watch out for. Yes, oh oh, you're walking right into it. The sensitive ones, it's like because they triggered easy, right, it's something else going on and you don't know how to process that. You hold it on the something, and that makes you dangerous, right

because you hold it on it something. Right. I honestly think there are a handful of situations in our politics and in our and with our politicians that from the outside it looks like they saying they don't give funk. That's what I do, that's what I want. But I think if me and you would use our antennas and the rest of us would use our antennas to really understand what somebody means when they say that. It's like, I think we can actually follow they move and really

understand what they're doing. That. Does that make sense? Yeah? Yeah, yeah for sure. If you really understand that most most niggas that say they don't give a funk actually give a fuck, then then you could follow what looks like not having funds to give because you just gave it to something like yeah, you're giving it like like the like what I love about the Kindrick versus, like like

I don't give a funk who's outside. I'm killing everybody, but you care who because you want the top people outside when you drop your album because you want to kill them because you give a funk about. But the verse, the whole feeling of the verse to me is like I don't give a funk. But it is like that's the balance because I understand I have my antendance that I know what he does give a funk about, because that verse was fucking relentless, like I don't give a

fun to hit. I didn't put a hook on this, I didn't put Yeah, I just came from Nigga's next. So I don't give a funk about anything but being the greatest about that that. Yes, yes, No one ever finishes the sentence when they say I don't give a funk. What you mean is I don't give a funk about there's an ellipses, there's dot dot dot. I don't give a funk dot dot dot yes, perfect, all right, there we are. So the point is I don't give a

funk dot dot dot. So you got to not give a funk about something, right, So when you ask yourself senator, a governor, b whatever the case may be, And you might wonder what would possess a senator to say I don't give a funk about what you're or not senator governor to say I don't give a funk about what your school district is saying in I'm not making nobody wearing no masks, and if you make them do it,

I'm shutting y'all down. Where it's like like you're okay, So you're acting like this pandemic don't exist and you just don't get so it looks like, damn, I don't give a fuck. It looks like it's think it don't give a funk because you're just like, look, this is what we're doing. This, this my squad, this my voter block, this is what I'm doing, even though you're putting your

voter block in danger. Right. But it seems like, and especially it seems as though in this like in this Trump era, that the it seems as though the most not give a fuck you are as a as a conservative, the most like, I don't get funk. This is what we're doing. You're not gonna this is terrany. This is this the most I don't give it. I ain't taking nobody's vaccine. I ain't doing this. I don't give it. Seems like the most I don't give a funk you

are the louder. Their fan base kind of cheers for him. Right. Is that is that seem is that something you're saying? Yeah? So, so the question will be, well, then what if if my assertion is if you say you don't give a funk, it's about something, but there are other things you do give a funk about. Let's let's get into it. Yea.

So Greg Abbott in Texas, right, he at one point mandated masks because he was like, I ain't taking a vaccine on man mandate masks, and then all of a sudden, masks got like not good for his for his ace. Now he was like, I'm not mandating masks. I'll give funk what y'all say. I'm not making nobody wear a mask. The school districts are like, listen, we're making these kids wear masks. I don't care what you say. We're making them wear masks, nigga, because we don't want to die.

So the question you have to ask yourself is what would Greg Abbott actually give a funk about? Then? What gives about votes? That's why give the funk about votes? If there's no votes in it? Do you? And especially this because he all of our government officials are vaccinated, every last one up right, So if the nigga gives funk about votes, then what must be his situation? This is Texas, Like, how in the world would there ever be an issue with him worrying about votes? If you're

a Republican in Texas, nigga, you good. The only way for this to be a problem is it's got to be a bigger gangster somebody, somebody out here that's challenging you who's this, Who's this? Who's this competition? I'm glad you asked. He about to be primaried. He's gonna be primaried by a man ex Republican UH Texas UM chairman Alan West. He been a prime at him. Now. Alan West is interesting because this fool uh back in two

thousand ten was like a tea party hardliner. If there's anybody mo right wing, then the Republicans, it's the tea party because they're already there in the bay with the tea. They hadn't already spilled it right, this thing, this, this nigga, Allen West had already faced UH trial for UM torture. He tortured in Iraqi police officer by beating him and carrying a mocks exit execution of the poor dude while dragging him outside, putting a gun behind his head and

shooting at the round next to him. This nigga wilds officer. You would think, right, that part part much rampart much this fool he also UH is being flanked by the right by Senator Don Huffins. And nigga's name is Don Huffins. You believe that the Don of Huffing, right, Uh, he's been tacking in for not cracking down on schools with these mass mandates. So the so it's almost like when you see somebody wild out on the block, it's probably because it's somebody wild earthen them right. So Alan West

is wilder than Abbott. So if we don't and if we don't like Abbott, there's no way you're gonna get a Democratic candidate to beat Allen West or Abbott. I mean, you tell me, unless you find somebody more wild the other direction. And there's out enough people that fell off the Republican vote that we can't get a middle to write um version to jump over to the Democratic side

or run as an independent. I wish we could. Is there a middle to right person that can come in and say, yo, hey, you know are okay, but Democrats still suck right one will Biden. But let's wear masks and get vaccinated or whatever. Or there's no vaccination, we're just requiring masks. You know, if you don't want to get vaccinated, that's fine. If you don't want to provide a test, fine, then wear a mask. You have three options. Because I was told in my Tony Robbins class to

anything that with two options is an ultimatum. It's not options you have don't have a choice to you have three. So here you go. You can provide a negative test, you can get vaccinated, or you can wear a mask. Those are the three options people, So we don't die. That's it to choose. Choose one of three? You know what? That's almost good parents and invite it's too Oh yeah, I try to implement it in everything. It makes perfect sen yeah, because I'll be like, here's the thing. You

either finish these chores or you don't go anywhere. That's definitely an ultimatum. I never thought about that. What works better in our house is, hey, I know you want to do this. You can either do them now or before you go to bed. Right. So now it's like, okay, well I got some options here. I know I gotta do it, but yeah, and then I think that, like, you know, and you have a third option of you cannot do it at all and be in real trouble.

But you can not do it at all, you can tell me funk off and then you know what's what's good with that? Or you can do it later, or you can do it right now. I acknowledging the extreme. I understand that you don't have technically have to do any of this, and if you and I don't have to, I can't make you do it. But I can do this, so you cannot do this at all, and then you can get nothing that you want or be prepared for

the consequences. Yeah, yeah, you know. Yeah, I've tried. I've tried to like always acknowledge that you could do nothing, and then also by acknowledging that you can, you get to I get to make you aware of the consequences of doing nothing. There it is, but then there's now and then there's later. But you also have a you have a teenager, like I don't give it three I don't give three options to I don't believe I'm not a Yeah, we we have a diet to cut him out.

I don't believe in discussing things with terrorists. I believe toddlers are terrorists. Like, but you don't have the mental I'm not gonna talk to someone who doesn't have the mental facilities to understand. I have an eight year old. Now we can have conversation. I can give you three options. I'm not giving options to someone who doesn't speak English, and but I'm not saying they speak Portuguese or sparsh they just don't comprehend. You don't understand the words coming.

I would be I would be an idiot to reason with you because you have no reasoning. You know. Somebody used to say that. I remember that was one of the good pieces of advice when when when our youngest was born, was like, have you ever tried to reason with somebody drunk? And it's like, okay, that's talking to a toddler, Like there's you can't there's nothing you can I don't know why you're trying to talk to them. Yeah, all that, like what are you feeling? And that's okay. No,

it's not okay. You just threw a toy and hit your brother and it's gonna be okay. No if I if you know, you're going on time out and it's not okay that you do that, and that's why you're on time out. Listen, Let's let's sit down and say I understand you frustrated. I understand all this, but listen, you will not be able to handle toys anymore. That's that's not good. It's not good, bro, You're hurting yourself

and others, like you're danger to yourself and others. And that's like terrorists the terrorists, is that the terrorists doesn't give a fuck. That's the ultimate level. And kids, toddlers don't give a fun. Terrorists don't give a fund. But a lot of a lot of a lot of politicians will position themselves as toddlers or terrorists, right, but you do give a funk because you want to keep that off,

you want to keep that check. I wish public servants went back to being servants, which means you don't get paid. At the time when government officials didn't get paid, and my stepfather made me aware of that. So if you served, you were literally serving literally and that's and there was no lobbyists, there was no money, there was just your served. That's a job you wanted. It's a public service, damn. And we made it a paid thing thinking we would

get better politicians, but we got more corrupt politicians. So we could take a step back and to get into public service. But now with social media, public service will still provide benefits, but there's no reason that we have to pay them because it would take hustle. I would admire public servant that you know, Trump was a hustler. There's a part of me that admires that hustle. I can't kill that. This is a free it's a free market,

is you know, capitalism whatever. But if you find but I'm not gonna these politicians want to keep their accounts where they fly for free. No, you fly yourself to Washington and then that's what they're when this one like once the swamp develops and like they're not gonna pass this bill by this date because they're going on vacation. My stepfather was like, well, back in the day, they would get stuff done because they had a business to

get back to. If these politicians, yeah, if you're if you have a you know, a dry cleaning business, or you have a shoe store or whatever, and you're in Washington for the weekend to vote on some stuff or for the week to vote and stuff, you're gonna get everything you have done because you want to get back to work. If Trump says you guys are gonna stay here until you figure it out, you're not saying, Okay, I'm in for a star hotel. You're paying for all that.

That's that's that's love. You start messing. You start sucking up the money. Yeah, you start doing what you gotta do. Then you get in that room. It's kind of like jury duty. We don't get paid for that. Yeah. So there's use solutions and when there's something big and you know what I mean, you get you get a small amount of money. I think there should be a small one. You shouldn't like you should be paid like a juror that was set a precedent. Cool. You guys are here

to decide this on the lass. I bet if you know you're missing time with your families it's costing your money, you guys will come up with some creative solutions. You'll come across the aisle more often. There'll be more coming across the aisle. Money invove if there's no money involved. There was no money, if their money was But think about it like this, which is kind of gets me to this next person I wanted to talk about, Joe Manuchin. I don't know Joe, So Joe I love. I'm glad

you asked this. Joe is that person in the middle that you was discussing. Now, he's from uh West Virginia. He's a Democrat, right, But if you're a Democrat in West Virginia. You can't really be that democratic, right, So he's been in a lot of ways bossed up because the um the way that like we've been trying to get these like these like voter rights passed, you know, the John Lewis law. I don't know if you saw that.

There was this past weekend, there was a march in on Washington to get our protections for voter rights because you know, in a lot of Republican states they're trying to do a lot of voter suppression laws. YadA, YadA. Right, everybody on board in the Democratic Party except for this fool. And since there's such a narrow um majority, if he don't get on board, this ship don't pass, right, But what he so, So this one of the biggest rally

cries among them. I did an episode about a filibuster, which is you know what the filibuster is besides like shooting the nigger, Yeah, a filibuster basically just means that like you can't It's just it's essentially you just gotta keep talking because if I keep talking, then y'all can't stop and do anything. So, so you can't we can't vote on this if the floor is still open for debate.

And the way that you do that is it's called filibustering, right, and almost every like uh famous filibuster has almost always been around black people rights, where they've been trying to stop black people's rights. It's always been like this for some reason. Anyway, everybody trying to end this filibusters so we could vote except for him, right, everybody want to

get this thing past except for him. So in a lot of ways, this fool has by not throwing his vote in the thing, been like, uh, stop this whole movement that the entire Democrat is like. It's almost like he willed more power than actually Joe. They're actually Biden because he's stopping the ship from happening by not casting

this vote. Now, my theory is because Nigga lives in West Virginia, right, at some point you gotta go home, yeah, right, and if you gotta go home, then out then yo, the middle ground thing that we're kind of hoping for, like you said in in in in Texas, it's like, well, Nigga, I'll go to Washington. I'm gonna go to Washington. I'll try to do this middle ground ship but I gotta go home. And when I go home, and as soon as he's like, now, we're not in the era of

where you can't he could do it on the low. Yeah, because there's a Republican candidate waiting in West Virginia for him to for him to go with this law so that he could say he was with the niggers and he would did this when he went to Washington. And then he loses West Virginia. It may look like he don't give a fuck, it may look like it, but oh he gives and that's and that's the thing, is like he is. But a loss of that Democratic seat also hurts us. It hurts us period. So we want

to keep Joe Manusian philibustering. But we need his vote. So we do we need do we want that? Do we want him to give us his vote at the cost of losing the seat? Is he a senator or senator House? So yeah, oh god, do we want to lose a Senate seat over this issue? You tell me? It's like, yeah, that's the thing that we have to see. But it's like, where are we going to pick up with with keeping these laws out of place? Where are

we gonna pick up. We may not need his seat next year, our next you know, in the next two. So that's an interesting thing. It's like you have to ask yourself as Okay, so uh of the Democrats votes was was black people, like we carried them into office, you know. And then so then you have to step back and say, well, have they put on for us? We put on for you, you put on for us? Right? Have you put on for us? Because look, these primaries are coming the primary on this way, and that's and

that's the question you gotta ask. So so yeah, like that, that's that's the real thing. It's like, well have you put on? And if you ain't put on, like what happens in the hood, you don't put on? Yeah, you get off, you get all right, it's just gets And that's but that's the thing is that it's just do we need West Virginia? Are we ever gone? Because and Joe? Does Joe need the black vote in West Virginia? Because

that is that even a thing in West Virginia. Yeah, I don't know, you know, I haven't been booked for show in West Virginia ever in something years I performed on I think of most states I think I've gotten forty seven. I've done North Dakota, South Dakota. I've done in Arkansas. I've done Tennessee. I've done Maine, I've done Connecticut. It man, I believe I've done New Hampshire, Delaware. I

know I haven't done Delaware, West Virginia. My booking agent asked them if I could do a show, and they said, no, no, we don't need we don't need im merse, we don't need it. I said, I'll do a door deal. I just need to knock this off of my list. There's no thank you. So I don't know how much Joe needs the black vote. I think that's the thing. I think that's the thing. I think the Democrats are really

thankful that there's a Democrats. But if you ain't gonna do as well, give it back to the Republican, giving back to the Reds. I don't know. And so but if you but if you minute, and you're like, well, I don't care about none of this ship. I gotta go home and I need this job right. But the whole thing is like Joe, you're gonna lose his job either way, yeah whatever, no matter what he does. But you know, but I don't think no, because if he doesn't,

he can keep this job. Actually, he's just gonna be a thorn in the side of the Democrats in Washington. But as long as he toes the line, he'll go home and get reelected. And why does Joe care so much about this job is because he's getting paid bags bacts. He doesn't want to make change. He has no political Joe has no political agenda. Joe has a financial agenda. Oh we're gonna get to that. Okay, good, good, good, Hold onto that right, hold onto that? So, yes, sir,

I wish y'all see what this food did. So we still talk about the art and not giving the The last person I want to talk about is the Santos in uh in Florida. Oh I know, I know, I've her cousins name. Yeah, that's the governor. That's the governor. Oh yeah, that guy is popular. He real popular. I I think so. So the question for us is like, what does he give a funk about this? Nigg is like, y'all can't y'all can't y'all have to If you go into college, I think you should. You should have a

box for your political views. I think you can't talk critical race theory. I'm gonna sue you if you do. Y'all can't make him wear a mask. I don't believe in odell to virus. I ain't taking this. What does this nake give a fun? What do you think he's trying to do? Man, He's trying to keep keep keep Florida, Florida. I think I think what like you know, like the Universal Studio Florida's has has Trump been it? He's trying

to keep Disneyland, SeaWorld and on Universal Studios open. Here here why governors maybe very well recalled is because Orange County, Orange County got in a huff when he closed the beaches and Disneyland. That's a lot of fucking money for white people. These are international. It's a lot of banks, a lot of there's a hard rock cafe. There's a Bob Marley restaurant in Universal CityWalk, Florida, Margaritaville Emerald has

a kitchen. Like that's just big business. I will never go there as long as I live because they gave money to Donald Trump. But I love that park. On tour, I made sure I went there, Like that's what he's trying to keep South Beach popping, keep keep a one a popping, those are huge things, and keep college football popping. Those are all huge things, huge things. I think there might be one more thing. What is it? I think he want to run? Oh, you think he wants to

be president. I think you want to be president. I don't think there's anyone. So is he admired from by right wingers outside of Florida. I think I feel like I feel like that's the movies doing right now, because this ship is wild. Yeah, I just don't. I just don't see him getting the pubby. I think maybe he could think that, but I don't think it's reality because Ted Crews couldn't come out that motherfucker. You ain't coming off that motherfucker. I don't think Jeff Bush can Jeff

Bushes in Florida. Yeah, but he Yeah, he'd have taken away too many else that man. Yeah, he can't. Nobody could come out of Florida is a joke, bro, Damn, you can't come out of Florida. Florida is a joke to other Republicans, like, you can't come out of Florida. Florida's about to be a blue state like Arizona. I probably helped turn turn Arizona blue. Let's go, but I but I got on. I sat first class on a flight reason when COVID first started, and I sat behind

two white people. I made to bring my my Black Panther book to read in first class too. If you ever, as a black person, if you ever find the most revolutionary literature to read in first class, to scare the funk out. But these individuals, the ladies sitting next to me was shook. She didn't speak the whole time. But the two dudes sit in front of me like, yeah, man, you hear about all these people moving for California. Keep bring your money, but keep the politics. And we're on

our way to Dallas. Bring your money, but keep your politics. That's why you're moving here, Why you want to move here, because all politics are great. You love our tax breaks and everything, but don't bring your democratic liberal bullshit down here. Yeah. Man, And these guys were forty something. Yeah, and I was like, yo, what the fun. But but to my to my left wing friends, that's why that was my argument about a lot of that. Do not come and bring your legislation.

That's set California for failure. There's a reason you're leaving in California. Make sure that when you vote, you're not just voting Democrats without understanding how it's affecting. Because the schools are good here for certain reasons, because the taxes are a certain way, don't come changing the tax laws. Don't come changing that. If you want a Democratic senator, think about what he's gonna vote for and what he's

gonna because I feel them on certain parts. But there's a whole lot of don't bring your your love for black people and brown people down here to coding that statement, but there is things you do when you move to another state. Think about why you're leaving, you know what

I mean, and don't bring those things you make. You know what you make a good point, man, because I think what you what you're talking about in a lot of ways is quality of life and accountability, and I think oftentimes which is something that like I'm really hoping you know, people in this pod listen to whoo who are buying large left wing like let's not let me not be blind, but one thing that like one thing that I feel like why the left oftentimes counts on

our votes but don't really put on for us is because of what you're saying, in the sense that we don't hold these foods accountable once you in the office. We need to be able to like you said, it's time for discipline, Like you know what I'm saying, Like, we need to be able to discipline these foods when we say, hey, listen, this is what we ask for you to do. Niggie, you're not putting on you know

what I'm saying. And what's scary to me is like you said about this gather and Newsome joint, where it's like, well, fam, I don't know what the hell to tell you, bro. You like there's a lot of stuff I liked about you, but like I mean, you're kind of not putting on, Joe saying, and when when you don't put on this the ship that happens. Yeah, he didn't do enough, and he didn't he doesn't have That's why I noticed it, Like he doesn't have enough of people on the left

supporting him. Yeah, you didn't do right by the right, and he didn't do right by the left. Yeah. And so my wife says that like he's done probably the most ever for the Latino community than any other governor. So for her, she's like, no, that's my guy. You know what I'm saying. But like you said, and that's that's interesting because like you said in about um minuting, is the same point you're doing here. It's like you

stay in the center. Nobody like you, and it's like, right, well, when it comes for you, we can't really say that, oh that's my boy. I can't really, yeah, I can't really. I don't ever stood up against me, you know, but I gave you my vote. It's like it's like, I'm cool with you in the middle of I never gave you anything, Yeah, you know what I mean, But we gave you a vote and so on that, and then you still try to stay in the middle. It's a

it's a it's a weird ye position. That's interesting man, because I think, yeah, it goes back to like securing the bag, because if the bag that they got was our approval, then they would really fight only for that. But if it's like I'm gonna be up regardless, I just need to make sure this money stays right, then Yeah. And I think that like we knew something. I think he was playing for president. I think that Florida and and and I mean dosantos as fools. I mean to

give some real life experience. I know it's still secondhand for people. But my brother went to South Beach for his birthday two party from California. He was in a very fancy hotel. I forget to which hotel on South Beach staying there. He walked in the lobby with his mask on. And my brother is a black male who's six ft four, about two fifty pounds cons. Three fifty. He's a big dude. This little white man ran up to him in the lobby and said, sir, I'm gonna

have to ask you to take off your mask. He was right, yeah, And they were enforcing no mask in. You couldn't even wear a mask. So the freedom thing lost, it lost its way. Yeah, you don't mean that. You don't mean he didn't have the freedom to wear a mask in the lobby. And then they were dry. He said they were paid billboards driving up and down the fucking the boardwalk saying or it's not the boardwalk, but up and down the strip saying don't take your mask off,

state state marandate to take your mask off. Wow, and so like that, like he jumped the shark. Yeah, yeah, jumped the shark and then you got and then you got but all going on and I don't even want to talk to you and your left friends about that, right, but you know my rules. If you don't have family in Cuban, you've never been to Cuba, and you're not Cuban, shut the funk up, Shut shut up talking about Shut

the funk up. Like when when other black leaders coming here, I'm not gonna name, no name's talking about they're gonna get the Bloods and Crypts together. I'd be like, shut the funk up. Don't tell me nothing about nothing, unless you're Tookie Williams t Rogers. You know what I'm saying,

Michael Conception, don't shut up, shut your asks up. And that's all if you have if you're on the left and you have opinion about Cuba, or unless you're Russian, like you know what I mean, and you lived you lived in the USSR for a certain amount of years, your experience with communism is that thorough because I've been to Russia. That's like, I gotta at least arm Armuir leftist, Like I've talked to people, I know, I know what's going on over there a little bit more than you.

And you know, I love Russia, but I didn't want to stay. Yea's not what I wanted to live. It's a night great place to visit. It was cool. I played in St. Petersburg. It was a great show, beautiful state. I felt like I was in l A when I played. Yeah, you know, I was ready to go. Yeah, I was, you know, and I'm ready to go back. But for me, it was just there's no there's no black or brown

people there. Yeah. That was hard. And then and they know you're not from there, and they do not a lot of the hardcore people do not care for me. This is one place. Then when I was in my Skelley tell me don't go out at night, and I looked at the size of Eastern European thugs and I'm yes, I've never obeyed that. When people told me a right, I was like, stay in my ass right here and stay right here. I'm going, yeah, buddy, I'm gonna go

on ahead and stay there. Like man, we had to American get caught under the bridge, and I was like, I can't hide from being an American. There's no that I can't. If it was if it was Living Legends and there was eight of us. I'm going where the funk I want to. I don't nobody want those problems. I don't get eight black dudes going. So we're gonna go where we want. Yeah, yeah, but me by myself. Yeah, I've done. I've done the ninth Ward in New Orleans. I've done the third Ward in Texas. Just got out

and walked. I shot dice in in Dallas, like I've done some things, gone to strip clubs and in the projects and in Madison, Wisconsin or whatever. In Milwaukee. Good Moscow, bro they had they had a whole lass T shirt next door to the Apple store. What's that little that little thing in Moscow? Red Square and Red Square, the mall, they have them all with the food court, just like for the for the communist people who think that there's

no capitalism there. Right next to the Apple store was a store where they sold T shirts with Putin walking around walking away from the White House exploding, who exploding? They sold. They also had the same T shirt in

the vending machine at the airport. Because don't play. They don't like us, they don't play, they don't they want nothing to do but then they also plaining to me in the Ukraine situation from another thing, and I was like, oh, I understand, And the Ukraine's kind of like Cuba, and it's just like yo, like we told you all, y'all can have your country back, but we told you couldn't have NATO here. Then as soon as we give your

country back, you want to bring NATO here. There's no way we're gonna let a NATO base our enemies, we are, we share of a border to touch each other. And I was like, the same reason that we don't want Cuba to be free, because you're too close. The first thing they're gonna do is strike a deal with China and make a base there. You too close, y'all too close, it's too close. That's too days, sucked up a long time ago, is dat? So? But and I understand it.

It's fucked up. That what I'm saying is we need to shut the funk up about it, because are you gonna take credit? Because can you guarantee me a hundred percent that if we've lift all the embargoes, China's not coming through there tomorrow. No, you can't get and and and they probably are. Yeah, I mean, I mean, it's a lot of ways you can watch this, and you know, I hate to bring it to this, but like, you watch this in Afghanistan because you know who ain't left

in China and Russia. They ain't left Afghanistan. You know what I'm saying. Everybody else gone, They're not right, And I'm like, oh, okay, who's your friends? Yep, who's your homies? And especially and and it puts you in a situation. It's so crazy. It's not even the topic of this one, but this works out perfect because it puts you in a situation to where you like, uh, China and Russia can always look at Afghani government and be like, hey where your homies go? Yeah, hey they left, you know

what I'm saying. Even if it's like bullshit, boy, you're like, well they've been here for twenty years, you know what I'm saying. It's like, well, well they're gone now and look and look. And if you Taliban, you gotta remember isis are they are opt the whole time? And they just showed out a few a couple of days ago that like, oh we're not gone. No, we still blow up ship. So if you Taliban You're like, I better get me some homies over here, because you hearsel I

was saying, because they've never stopped being up. So just because we're gone, just because the police gone, you know a k America don't mean that, Like the streets ain't still hot. So you gotta have some friends, you gotta and America saying we're done having friends in the region. Yeah, we're done having friends and got it. We might we might have to put people on the streets to vaccinate other people. We might have a situation situation back home.

It could be BLM. It could be vaccines. I don't know, man, so be hurricanes, like, yeah, we're spreading ourselves right. It could be Cuba, like it could be So to bring in full circle, America was like, man, I don't give y'all figure this out. We got over here at some point in America. And I think Joe Baren is a perfect president to say, I don't give a funk, Yes, Joe, I think just Joe makes the of decisions man, Like I like, I've liked Joe Biden as a politician. Yeah.

It's like me saying I like a cricket player, Like I don't watch cricket much, you know, but I heard him give a speech once, you know, I mean, I drank with this cricket player at the bar one time.

He told me a funny joke like this guy. Yeah, Joe Biden when he asked, like, you know, I'm in two thousand and eight my intro to my major major label album, the first thing I wanted to say was something about the Sudonese people and what was going on to Sudan two thousand and eight before it became a hashtag, and that was a big thing leading into the two thousand and eight election for me and Joe Biden was like, I don't give a funk about sanctions. He's like, they're gangsters,

their thugs. They respect to show first. Because Oprah asked him like what would you do about Sudan, he said, I would go in there and start popping. Basically, I would go in there start popping niggas, let him know we need me business and to leave these people alone because they respect for us. They're not like a poor country. What is the point of the country. Respect about economic stations. They didn't have shipped to begin with. They don't give a fuck about money. No, and That's why I knew

what kind of president Joe Biden would be. He's gonna make the decisions that make him unpopular and people die and not give a funk, not give a funk. He doesn't. That's not what he gives a funk about. He gives a funk about getting ship done. What does this look like to pass? He's a lifetime politician. Yeah, I want to pack I said this initiative. I said this. I want to get it done, whether it's gonna age well, whether it's bussing and you know what, right, Yeah, So

there's a power. There is a power in not giving a funk and understanding what the funk you do give a funk about? Right, And you ain't gonna make everybody happy, you know, even sometimes the people that you may have promised in the beginning, right that I'm gonna do this for you. But if you have an attitude of like, well, I mean, I kind of don't give fun, then you know what I'm saying, Like, we gotta figure out as the constituents like, Okay, well, how do I chlde you accountable? Right?

Because you don't give funk, you know what I mean? But and that's my thing is like there's people said we want to bring the troops back. Has been a theme amongst the left for so long, and now here's the niggatives actually doing it. And that's Joe Biden. Because oh, you said you wanted the troops on, I'm gonna do it and I don't give a fuck, and and everybody's like, but we do give a fun is because you motherfucker's don't understand what it means to bring the troops on.

It was just something cute to say for a long time, but now you got a guy that's like one. And what I like about Joe Biden too is like he understands. You know, me and my family have had real loss and I was driving today thinking about like it's made me cold hearted, Like this is somebody who's daughters and and wife die his first one in a car accident. So he's okay with making tough decisions where people die, but not from a place of those are people with

no faces of practice. I've lost people really close to me too, and I had to go on, He's he understands life goes on, and rarely did we get a politician that understands life goes on. I have to think about the big picture, and I trust him to do the things that are hard that he thinks will have a great outcome. Now I don't us to his evaluation of outcome. Yeah, but from his position, you know, like people like he voted to put the troops there, well cool,

then he's voting to bring them home. Yeah, and he was like, oh shit, all right, well we're better, like we'll better finish it. Yeah, that's good man. That's a good way to look at it. It's almost like using the I don't give a funk for your own advantage in the like, well I know you're gonna you're gonna do it. And a good example, like you said, is

like it's gonna take life loss. And I think I feel like I've said this a few times, like everybody was afraid to pull this trigger because they don't want that blood on their hands. They don't want to be the president when you've been to and that's my thing is too. It's like when I told also when I was in st Bars, like it was my wife and our first child after burying our son, Like that's nothing Like I was really like I don't give a like I've never like I've been in gang things and fights

and stuff. You know, I done some cold blood and ship. I've slapped the ship out of motherfucker's I've done some cold ship. But after my son died, Nigga, there's not verrely many people. I can look at you and when I tell you, I don't give a fuck. I'm seen the worst. I know what darkness is, broth and and that's what Joe Biden, that's what you're dealing with, and that Like I always look at a parent of uh politicians, how long have they been married? Who have they been

married to? You know, their faith is important, but not as much as and then what have you lost? You lost something like McCain was a motherfucker, you know what I'm saying. But he has seen some ship and at the end, you know, you can always reason with the motherfucker when you die, motherfucker. You know, Like when it got to the Trump part, McCain was like, nah, I'm not working with this guy. Yeah, you know what I mean, because Trump is somebody who really what does he give

a funk about? You know, but he's the one I don't give a funk. Yes, I love it. Are we up? Time? I think that's time. Merce You have taken this to a direction I didn't know a go, and I love the place you took it. You took it in to an art form of understanding what I don't give a fun means that's even better than I would have done. But I learned about Joe what was it Joe Manutian? Yeah, like Minuta, like Manuchin Manuchka Manuchin. Do Santosa knew about

He's he'son crazy? Then we have at Um Abbott and Who's Who's abbots? Wet Alan West? Alan was related to Adam West, the first Batman. That would be amazing. I'm gonna that's how I'm gonna have remember it the first Batman. Anyway, drop all your drop all your your ad mention so people can follow you who if they don't already at mersed three six sendor hate mail um and then my album is for free at merse wraps dot com. Love and rockets to um it does I mean this podcast

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