Net Bangers

probably be along this to those things. But of all the things that like, the Internet has changed, you know, streaming music, virtual concerts. It's also changed gangbanging in a in a in a sad sense. You know, the recent death of a lot of a couple of rappers have been due to the Internet. You know, on social media, you know, dropping a pen and tagging your location and you know you flexing on the Graham or something else that you know what happened only because of the Internet.

You know, people like oh, I know how much money you gotta know where you are. They're gonna go and rob you, you know, uh, and unfortunately sometimes can't kill you, especially in California. Like you know, we we we we did an episode about Nancy Pelosi and and tapping in tapping into something that like it comes from the street, like you you know you're moving into Like uh, you're gonna move go to like a new city or something.

You need to make sure you're good over here, and maybe like that city will tell you, Hey, don't tag your location. It's a lot of hungry dudes out there. Maybe go to this Rosco's and not that Rosco's. You know, the recent death at a Roscoe that I'm referring to was a Roscoe on Manchester and I think it's Avalon Manchester and Avalon. Yeah, you shouldn't go to that Roscoe. Like there's two other ones. You could go to Sunset

and Gower, you know what I'm saying. You could go to Peak on the Brea, like unless you know anybody over there. Like it's like, don't wear this as a badge of honor that like you look may look a harder. And I'm like, don't you know, I'm not victim. Blame me here because that's tragic. But like it's changed gang banging, Like now you don't have to have you know, pigeon stools out all the time to be watching the streets and know where they are. It's like, you're gonna tell

us where you are, We're gonna run on you. And it also invented a thing that has been lovingly deemed net bangers bag. It's when people talk real big, real scary, real tough on the internet, when everybody got something to

say behind your avatar. There was even a moment where I remember during the pandemic seeing people going on Instagram live and boxing talk about I'm gonna catch catch this fade, like look at these hands, you like, see me throwing these hands and then being like drop a pin lane where you have fool Like I'm pulling up on you. No you're not. You're sitting safely behind the keyboard talking all kind of you know, people replying to stories DM

and like hey, where you lanes from? Like are you banging on me on the internet, like on a social media like it just it just seems strange, just like you you you you, Why are you talking so tough? I mean, do you bring that same energy in person? Are you actually willing to pull up? And for the most part, if you are the type that's really willing to pull up, you don't do a lot of talking to quote some some Steve Harvey c C. Now not see me. I'm old school, you know, uh, maybe I am.

Maybe I'm old school. But dudes, I I I grew up around and some of the real thorough dudes outside like they don't do a lot of talking, and especially on the Internet. You know, I mean you get like you get one or two warnings, you know, if you're in person or on the internet. They like that's like, I'm not gonna no, I won't do a lot of talking. We won't do a lot explaining either, Like they're running up immediately. A lot of them see that Internet talk

like that stuff lame to them. Now. Maybe it's because we all school, you know. The young dudes are a little different, like in in a in a sad way like them them dudes be like live streaming murders, Like they'd be going on I G Live and being like, Yo, we're gonna hit this lick. That's the strangest thing. You know. There was another dude like out here in l A that was like sitting in his car on I G Lve. Somebody ran up and shot him because they figured out

where he was. You told us where you were like, the internet has changed everything you're talking or you about that action now some people are about both. Some people they talk a lot. That's because they could back it up. I still know some people like that, you know what I'm saying, like, look, we talked. We talked because we can do you know, like here go to receipts. So when in foods be like, hey, drop a pin. I'm

pulling up like, don't drop a pin. Fan. But for the most part, you know, this net banging phenomenon is is basically has a lot of talking, and it's a lot of talking from a very safe distance. So the question you gotta ask is, when you're dealing with a net banger, is it worth it to call their bluff? Y'all? Are we going to nuclear war? Good politics, y'all? So look, I am a eighties baby, child of the nineties. So I remember my early childhood like nuclear bomb drills. You know,

you have fire drills and stuff like that. I remember like nuclear bomb drills like this where for some reason they was like, man, if you get up under the desk, you're gonna be all right, which now in hindsight, is rather comic. Call that a little that little desk with the cubby hole up under it. You know what I'm saying, Uh, that's gonna protect us from a nuclear bomb. Like you know, you remember like in the eighties, like we really thought

Russia was gonna bomb us. And the more you know about history, like Reagan almost hit the button and this is there's an interesting story. I forget the name of it, um, but there was an incident where you know, he actually met some of the Russian military folks and was like, oh, dude, they're just scared men like we are. And like it was some miscommunications that led the complication Sean, and we

almost blew each other up. But I think there was an understanding at least back then that like, you know, we need to stop playing about this stuff because like she ain't funny, y'all. Like if we you can't, we can't. Really we're not gonna really blow each other up, are we? Like you can't We're not gonna really do this, right, right? Yeah, Like nukes like that would end life as we know it.

Like we're not gonna really not who we have for anything, right, So, Like it was almost like going into the nineties, there was this understanding that like, no, we probably shouldn't. I shouldn't do this, but just in case money, we're gonna go and store ards back there, you know. But let's let's go ahead and them make an agreement that we got these things that could that are humanity killers and we're just gonna we're gonna agree not to use them,

right right, Yeah, yeah, we ain't. You know, both nias had their fingers tied behind their back. Y'all were saying like, but like, I ain't gonna use them, Okay, cool with then, well throw yours away? You throw yours away, while throw mine away. When you throw yours away, well I ain't gonna throw mine away. Lets you throw yours away. Then we're right back where we started, you know what I'm saying. But uh, either way, I think because the nineties was

you know, get this thirty years ago. It's crazy. We just we forgot like how how serious a nuclear bomb is. You know, I wonder if dropping I think I've said this before, when we dropped you know, the Adam bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the effect of that was so visceral, like we really saw what it does. That foods was like, yeah, we need to stop playing around because this, but you're too far away from it now and now like it's

okay to start talking about nukes again. And they seem like mythical unless you old right and you was around during that time. And then you're like, no, y'all don't understand how like y'all can't keep talking like this? So entered geopolitics. Right now you got Russia, you got North Korea, and right now you got America. And are we net bangers? Are all y'all net bangers? Let's talk about it? So first let's let's start at home. Let's talk about America. Now,

we don't talk about nukes. We because I think for some reason I don't. I don't know, it doesn't make our news. Maybe we do, maybe we do talking to other people, but we feel like if the nation is personified, that there's kind of off the table. But we got them, we got them things what he was kind of gonna talk about it. I think we're net banging other ways. But the question is, again, is it worth it to call somebody's bluff? In one way, I think somebody has

been calling our bluff is old Vladimir Putin. He's been calling our bluff for a while, he's saying, the West is all talk because y'all won't pull up. What do I mean by that? Well, like we talked about last week the situation going on in Ukraine, America has been throwing sanctions. Now, don't get me wrong, Like if you do sanctions right, like they could really hurt and there's no like there's no death toll, So don't get me wrong. Sanctions play a role, right and penning on what those

sanctions are. I think I did a episode on like what we started doing. One thing we did was we cut off their money. All banks. International banks have like basically a language they all talk like, and that's like the software language that they talk, right, So basically one thing that America did was like remove the software that

makes the bank's talk right. So you may have this pot of like, you know, four billion dollars sitting in the bank, but your A T M car don't work, you know, so you can't get to it, you know what I mean. So that's like one thing that they did. And one thing that that we introduced as far as sanctions is putting pressure on the oligarchs there on the ballers, you know what I'm saying? Like the quiet power. You

got loud power, you got quiet power. Right, what we did was we put sanctions on the on the quiet power. You know the dudes, the dudes that don't want their face on camera. Some people like their face on camera. Other people like the power mode and they face you know what I'm saying. They like power more than fame. So if you can get at them, you might be able to do something. But as you know, when you got people like Debo, like like like like Vladimir Putin,

like big Bank, p over there. You know what I'm saying, shout out my homegirl a B I legally hype. They only know violence. All they know is action. You got an old school KGB people like you gotta pull up and shoot. That's the only thing he respects. And when you have that type of understanding of the world, you're looking at your enemy. You're looking at Ukraine and you like these people just talking, they're saying they're helping you.

They just talking tough on the internet. Yeah, they're sending you weapons. Yeah they're doing stuff. Were here, but they're not jumping in. We didn't drop the pen. They ain't pulled up y'all. Like so so putin looking over at the west ak America like y'all ain't pulling up. Though it's so putin, like y'all net bangers, y'all ain't pulling up. I don't respect that. Now. The question is is that a good calculation because at this time Ukraine has fast

tracked their joining of NATO. So if they fast tracked the joining of NATO, now that kind of gives us a green light to pull up. Now will we pull up? Now? Here's here's here's where lad may know our politics are our our local politics better than we do. Do we

have the heart? And when I say hard, I mean the will to actually go over there and fight another proxy war to being somebody else's what do we care that much about what he doing way over there to jump in there, and like, does it bother our pride that much? Our national pride to get into another Vietnam, another rock, another situation where this was really not our fight. But it's like, yo, the homies asked for us to come.

I mean you yeah, I mean, how are you doing that in the middle of a mid term you know, gas prices we didn't like, you know, women the lost their reproductive rights. You feel me like theyve burning books in schools. You know. Just I don't know Kanye West being anti Semitic. You know, I'm saying, like wearing White Lives Matter T shirt. We got a lot of problems

going on over here. So if you're over Lad, it's not like you ain't got Fox News on and not like you ain't watching our television to know, like, oh, them niggas is busy. They're not pulling up. You're not gonna pull up. I don't drop the pin. You ain't even pulled up. Y're in that bankers are we? I don't know, Man, do you call America's bluff? Just? Uh? I don't know. Next is Lad himself. I've been talking about dropping nukes now now Lad different, Lad talk about nukes.

He would talk about nukes for a long time. Oh I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. And at some point it's like, Nigga, you nothing. You ain't finna do ship. Whoa. We've called this bluff many times. We was like, do it and see it happens. We gave him the funk around and find out chart The level of fucking around is the level of finding out.

You know, what I'm saying is lad in that banger, because that's all he talked about, is like, you know, after he did an annex these folk little spots in crimea talking about, look, I defended at all costs. What he's trying to say is I got these nukes. I ain't afraid to pull the trigger. It's like, Okay, you could have pulled that trigger for the last twenty years, you keep threatening this ship. At some point, I'm gonna stop believing you. At some point I'm gonna be like,

you're net banger, nigga, you ain't gonna pull shit. The problem with somebody like lad is like, yo, he's poisoned his own spies. The boy's pride is so fragile, and that's what he keeps showing us is like he don't take too well the losses. He don't even admit losses. That's the like last week, that's the whole Latin extlation about the fact that nigga won't ever admit he loss because it looks soft. So when you take somebody that's like so nervous, so worried about proving themselves, I mean,

do you do you call him on it. He's talking about it again. He's still talking about dropping nukes. And it was like, Bro, you was around in the eighties, like you know when we stopped talking about this, but you like you can't. That's a dude. Listen. Some people it's so volatile that you just you just don't tease. Like most people can take a joke. I am. I

am positive that most people can take a joke. Most people when when they are bluffing and you called a bluff, they back down because they really understand that, Like maybe I don't want this smoke. I just glad ain't the person he wants all the smoke. Now, will he actually drop this nuke? I don't know. He'd be testing them. They be shooting him in the air. I mean, but that's like, I mean, that's net banging. Though you're gonna

do it or what. Now Here's what's interesting about net bangers on the Internet and the metaphor I'm making is I really wish it would stay on the Internet. It would be really cool if people just talk trash on the Internet because we wouldn't have a lot of debts. Like, like I said before, like l A has in recent times seen a lot of murders come from the internet. That would be super cool if they befoul to stay there, if it didn't actually creep in the streets, creep into

the streets. You know. You know, y'all know, I come from battle Rap like and and part of like, at least the time that I was from, part of the battle Rap stuff was like that stuff kept a lot of violence off the streets. You know. You we had a lot of testosterone, you know what I'm saying. Like, you know, we was young, hungry, l a dudes. Now, you know, obviously like at that time, you know, if you were if you were at the open mics, that meant you weren't on the street corners being active. But

that don't mean that everybody was like that. Some of these dudes at these open mics were packing, you know, but you had to. But part of your part of the strength of battle wrapping, part of your certification card was being able to stay on that stage, to keep your cool, to say something back. And if you lose to come back next week, you are you can't lose your cool. If you get violent, you automatically lost. Like

that was like, oh you couldn't handle it. You know what I'm saying, Like you have, part of the game was being able to handle it. These people saying the most worst things about you to your face in front of this crowd and everybody laughing. You're supposed to be able to handle it. That's part of the game. And some of these people in these situations word like very violent people. But you had to be able to handle it, you know what I'm saying. No matter what they said.

You know, now we're people called outside after catching outside? How about that? Yeah, that yet that happened, but it wasn't. It wasn't respected Like you're not supposed to supposed people to handle it. Street stuff is street stuff. Like if that was if that was some hood business, then that's hood business. You keep that over there, But here that's different.

My point is that saved a lot of lives. So I'm saying that to say this man, it would be dope if lad was shut down and stop all this because of sanctions, if you couldn't negotiate and and you know, do foreign policy or way out of millions of new refugees created and death on both sides of these guns, it'd be great if it just ended with with that if if right now, like we said, you know, lad got the picture and you know you Crane knuckled up and was like, no, we're good, We're gonna do it.

We're good. But that's just not the case. He he itching, you know what I'm saying. And when you're itching again, this is the question I'm asking, like, is he the type of dude you just keep poking at? Is America the type of people you just keep poking at? Because we are known for pulling up let's second break and back in the building. Last, you want to bring up North Korea. Here's the thing, Okay, I want to bring up North Korea in relation to South Korea. All right,

South Korea. It tends to and we'll probably bear the brunt of all the trash talk we do to North Korea because they write. You know, if you're at the park and everybody making fun of your brother, at some point, you're gonna be like, even if they write, you're gonna be like, hey man, you gotta look, he gonna take it out on me. Y'all gotta leave this full a loan because he's gonna get mad. And he don't destroy everything I got because he really don't want to smoke

with y'all or you can't keep up. But y'all keep teasing him, y'all keep sonning him. I'm the one. I'm the one that gotta go home with him. So y'all need to chill, right. If you South Korea, that's your situation, you're like, man, I look, I know you're weirdough, but y'all gotta like many, I gotta stop doing this now.

North Korea has been testing their weapons, shooting up nukes, trying to show everybody that they're able to make a nuke get all the way to America since the nineties, and I mean all the way back to Bill Clinton being like, hey, funk around and find out shoot that nukes. See what happens, you know. And it's kind of been

this understanding that you're military really isn't ready. And it was like almost comical the way everybody felt about Kim Jong un and Kim Jung ill and and the fact that they're so hungry, they so they want to be big dogs so bad right, and they're guilty of such like crimes against humanity that are just unthinkable. That is just like nor care if you don't sit down somewhere, I'm gonna slap the ship out of you, right like, you don't got the weapons you want us to think

you got. You really ain't figured this out yet. It's like kind of been the stance. But as time has gone on, as they've invested, as they've done everything they can, they actually have gotten better. But they continue to all throughout,

you know, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump. Every once in a while, North Korea flare up and talk about their bombs and it's just like, are y'all, like, y'all ain't gonna do ship like you just talk about this all the time, Like, are y'all like again, if you don't sit down somewhere like man, get off the internet. Like if you was about it, you would have done it. If you was

bout it, you would have done it. It's kind of been the position most of the world has, unless you South Korea, because if you South Korea, you like n it ain't next door. Okay, I can't have this creep in the real life. But they have been for a long time and all the time test these nuclear weapons and talk about what they got and they and they talk much bigger than any of us likes to actually

think they're actually capable of. And part of that is they fault because of their propaganda machine talking about they sent a rocket into the sun, Like what what what is you talking about? Like this? It is hilarious, you know. And then part of like just the bizarreness of them being one of the only like closed nations on the planet and their way of life being so strange from our perspective. It's so bizarre from our perspective, like it

just doesn't look like anywhere else in the world. And obviously I'm speaking like I keep saying, from our perspective, from a Western perspective, like it's just so bizarre. And then when you meet somebody from South Korea, they're kind of saying the same thing, like NAA's weird out there, you know. So you just the mysteriousness about them. They're

tough talk. And then this picture that just came out today of today's October eleventh of this man Kim Jong in some linen among his military dudes, like in the white linen, like he a black daddy. You know, I'm saying it, it's like, fan, what did you what did you do? What's going on? What? What? What? What is what is this thing? And then they're there, so they're they're military parades, their exercises, hoping that this stuff like seeps out into the world as them again talking tough.

But this week they shot these nukes up into the air and into the sea next to South Korea, which again is like, if y'all was really about it, why haven't you've done it? Are y'all just net bangers? But is it worth calling bluffs? But here's what's interesting about this particular action. So these particular nukes were shot up in the air because Kim Jong was asking for some advancement in their tactics. But as uh, the military experts were saying, these are really the same weapons they've had

for the last couple of years. They're not new nukes, kind of the same nukes they've had the whole time, Uh, just re calibrated and shot up in a different way. And it's almost showing if you if you read this for my intent is what is showing is like yo yo, squad ain't advance, but but you scared of you scared of your leader. You're scared of Kim Jung, so I gotta show him something. Right. It's like when y'all, you just found an essay on the internet and you just

changed a few words. You know what I'm saying. I know in college, don't tell nobody, but I definitely I was an art major, Art and inter Cultural Studies. I definitely turned in the same painting for two different classes because I was My My argument was, well, it's just my artwork, Like, isn't that what you want me to do? You want me to create artwork. It was definitely the same painting for two different classes. So it's just like, you know, you just you just had to turn in

your homework. And they turned to their homework and it was these nukes that they already had. They just kind of like read, you know, retooled them. But the Lennens is my favorite part. And I wonder what he's communicating because because again, the cultural que from the world is so much different than ours. Is it trying to he trying to prove he's chilled, Like he a chill chump, Like ain't worried about nothing? Like is that what you're

trying to say? Like I'm not sweating nothing. Is it like, oh my military got it, I can be I can relax. I don't know what you try to communicate, but I think it's phenomenal. So anyway, Russia talking about dropping nukes, North Korea talking about dropping nukes, America talking about sanctions and that we might come help the homies. It's a lot of talk, but we're in a place where the same thing happens in the streets. Are you prepared to back up your talk? And if I'm going to call

your bluff? Do I really really want to challenge this person to make good on their promises, because if they make good on their promises, y'all, the gas price is gonna be the least of our problems. Hood politics, y'all. Yeah, it's here. Thing was recorded by ME Propaganda and East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This smug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by Matt Ososki. I can totally say his name, guys,

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