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big dog over here. This is my hood, this is my spot, that's my body, or whatever you want to say. This our block, you know. And if we say you're good over here and you're good over here, you know, you don't go talk to them foods. You don't go talk to them foods. You tap in with US only because we run this block right and if everything goes according to how it's sold to you, then that makes

you all right. Of course, you got enemies, whatever the case. Maybe, but you're not in your enemyhood, you you're not in theirhood, you in our hood. This our block. You tap in with us. You don't tap in with our little homies, you don't tap in with our BGS. You don't tap in with any of the set. You tap in specifically with the lgs, with the hood. This will you tap in with right and if something go wrong, like if you get hurt, you get robbed, you get start because, listen,

don't call me after. You were supposed to tap in when you got here and tap in. If you don't know what that means, it's real simple. Just let us know if you're coming over here. Let us know. It's a matter of respect. You, you, you, you're respecting the work we put in on this block and you understand that we're the big dogs. We're the big step. Is What we say. Goes and again. If something happened to you, M that's on you. Don't call me later. You should

have tapped in. You gotta handle that. You, you, you big dog like that day, handle that stuff yourself. But sometimes you don't tap in with these particular folks because you don't respect that gangster or you trying to make a point. I'M gonna go check in with WHO I check in. I'M gonna go chill with WHO I want to chill with. I don't care what you say. You Get mad if you won't all right with them and

put it on. How with it. Either these people are all three of the people in these stories are the person coming in, the person demanding the tap in and the person who actually got the TAP in. This could start some some drama. Yeah, and if you're a civilian or you just happen to live on these blocks, or you actually do, you don't participate in the missions that you gotta Bust Uh you, you just turn the heat up. The block just got hot. You don't by this unspoken

gesture of diplomacy. See, this is aod diplomacy right here. This is this is a good way to understand diplomacy. You gotta tap in like this is diplomacy. You know what I'm saying. And if you don't follow these particular protocols, then it's gonna be a problem for everybody. And sometimes, if you're not paying attention or if you don't know what you're looking at, you may be missing all this stuff and it may not seem like it's such a big deal, especially when this happens, oh, I don't know,

on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. I know this happened a couple of months ago, but y'all don't know what might have gotten started. Let's let's talk about China and Taiwan politics. All right, y'all, welcome to her politics. Listen, these are one of these things that hit the news

that like. I love these things because they give me a chance to really teach you feel me, to really tap into pun intended the knowledge that a lot of us inner city folks just know you know what I'm saying and really don't realize like you can use this, you know. I mean that's the essence of this show. You could use this. You actually understand what's going on right now. Uh, it's just you need somebody to point it to you, unless you ain't already figured it out.

So here's the thing. Diplomacy is what people call war without death, and I know that that seems like a weird thing to say, because some people say war is diplomacy with guns. The part what makes it so hard is that there's no I joked in the intro about like checking the rule book, but there is no written texts, there's no constitution, you know what I'm saying, for us to actually appeal to. There's just collected ancestral knowledge. You gotta Know How those foods move. You have to understand

how they work. And again, like going back to my childhood, which is which is why I feel qualified to talk about this stuff, is that you have to just know how they move. You don't have to be a member, you just have to know how they move. And if you understand how they move, then you know how you

need to move. And there are some generalities, generalities. I don't know if that's worth there are some generalizations you can make around the way you're protecting of your borders, if you will work, and when someone is trying to rule the block, when they're trying to rule the hood. UH, your pride, the pride and the respect like, uh, gang life, you know, is in a lot of ways really it's

honor culture. You know, if you look at any of the honor civilizations, like even going back to like stupid seventeen hundred duels, like I challenge you to a duel. You know what I'm saying. It's about your honor. You know what I'm saying. And is it honor in its pure sense? Not. Most it's really ego like. Let's be real.

You know what I'm saying. But you need to respect my gangster, you need to respect my block, respect my conglomerate, as the great profit bust, the rhymes, has told us, you gotta respect your conglomerate, whether this is East Coast, west coast, whatever the case may be. This my building, this my hood. You don't come in here. I'm the big boss, you know what I'm saying. I'm the DON Carleone. This are set. We run this town. You respect us, and how that respect is earned is usually via blood.

You know what I'm saying, and the blood is the intimidation factor. In a lot of ways it's it's the warning. You know what I'm saying, and those stories gotta travel. You feel me, and you gotta make sure that everybody around y'all understand that it's safer for you if you just roll with us, if you just pay your taxes. You know what I'm saying. Respect the O G s will make sure you are. You all right. Don't go to war with us. You know what I'm saying and

want you in. There's no getting out unless we let you out, but odds are we ain't gonna let you out. You just don't do that. Now my wife, she Dr Alminansari, goes to Petty Brag about all the time. She's got a book coming out of November. It's called Ching going on, Um, finding your inner badass to discover your healing or I'm paraphrasing, but it's super dope. Any Latinos out there, you know,

Ching going out, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, she has a very unique story, which she'll talk about in her book, but one of the things that I was interesting with her is like her part of like sort of southeast l a that she's from. I'm not gonna name the set, uh, because we might ask some problems, but when she was younger, she was actually allowed to walk out, and that's really unheard of, uh, and it was. Honestly, it's pretty it's it's really like, you know, it's divine intervention.

Like basically, she her little her little hood, saw her report guard at her grades were phenomenal and they were like fam what the Hell is this? You know, and she was like well, like that will kill me if I don't get good grades, and they was like your dad cares, you know, and there was like Nah, fam like you got a future, you know, you you know you shouldn't be doing this, and she was like, well, who am I gonna hang out with? They was like, they're not us. You're saying you got a future, you

need to go live your life. You'RE gonna get out of here. They're like, look, weird, this is all we're gonna do, like this is it. We don't sign up for. This is all we're gonna do. Uh, you should go listen. That never happens. So she is a living and breathing miracle, but you gotta get her book chain gonna, you know what I'm saying, follow her the DOT Z P anyway. That's not that's not understand. That's not how it go. Now, if yo little set, you know what I'm saying, your

Little Hood, you and your little homies. You don't want to be like up under these big homies no more, you know what I'm saying, up under this particular set,

then you gotta go to war for that. They're not just gonna let you walk out, and that's a lot of bloodshed, and especially if you're taking on the boss, you're taking on a big set, then gee, like, if you ain't got them things on, you ain't got them Blicky, you ain't got enough manpower, then this is this is gonna be bloody, you know, and so, or at least you need to believe it is, so you don't just

walk out. You know what I'm saying. You don't just declare your own you don't start making your own in rows and connections. You're not supposed to do that. You' puposed to run everything through the set. You're supposed to run it through the block so that in return, we break you off. When there's some missions going on, there's some licks going on, you feel me, you got our protection. You know what I'm saying, when somebody with, somebody tapping,

like we got your back. If, like, if stuff go down, if you if you were seeing one of the reds pull up, you know what I'm saying. Like, if you roll with us, you know what I'm saying. You put in that work, you bust that mission, like we got you, and in return, you do what the Hell we tell you to do and you don't go make your own money. We we you know what I'm saying. You run your positions up to us. At some point you'RE gonna get tired of it. If you're the love block, I mean

if you're feeling frog. You didn't jump, you either go to war with them, or you get somebody to back y'all from somewhere else. The problem is, though, that might work. You might get somebody to back you, you know what I'm saying. You might get somebody else to come up here and be like Yo, we got them things too, you know what I'm saying, to be like hey, you need to lead a little home alone. They run with us now, but see, that's the rug. Now, you run

with them, you're not getting your independence. You just run it with somebody else. So when you affiliated or you're civilian just like me, you gotta Watch all this stuff because you need to know what that got to do with me. I need to know, especially, like if we're gonna keep it in the in the teenage, little young young life sort of gang situation, I need to know which party is it okay for me to go to, you know, if I got a little crush on something,

you know, a little girl. I need to make sure you feel me that if I make a move on this, that's not gonna get me set up later, because I'm saying this as a CISTER, gender, heterosexual, you know, Male. If I'm like, okay, but her brother with them, but her uncle mess with dad and maybe her cousin don't get along with my hood. You know what I mean. And even though I'm not even in it, it don't matter.

I'm from over there. I don't know if you remember, we talked about the four year old version scene with Steve Krell and and and Kevin hard at the store, Um, the fake best buy store that they all worked at. When Kevin hard was like Hey, he with you? It's like I'm coming up and I'm clapping both of y'all. Want you to get back. He's like, I didn't say anything. Kevin hard was like you don't can matter if you with them. I'm clapping both of y'all. So you don't

want to find yourself in that situation. You feel me. So you need to watch what's happening now for this to make any sense as to why US way over here in the US of a need to care what Nancy Pelosi did or how America is messing with China and Taiwan. You need to understand how tapping in works and let's do some history. You already all right? We're back for you to really understand, like the way to what's happening right now. And why you need to care.

Short of just you being able to know what you're talking about all the time, we gotta go back in time a little bit to the nineteen forties. Unfortunately, if you grew up in America, you know very little about Asian history. Yeah, I mean little you know, and and a little you know. It's probably remarkably racist. I remember junior hide, him saying like yeah, Japan and China was closed off to the West until there, like nobody even we don't know what happened over there. I'm like, what

do you mean? Well, word yo saying a lot happened. We were taught as if it was just like a sort of a historical black hole, like they were just, you know, they're still doing dynasties like they were ancient or something. Anyway, I'm off, I'm off, I'm off the rails here. Day history just like everybody else's history. Wars, famine, success, innovations. You know, it's just as rich and interesting and conflicted

as everybody else's history. Now, China had in the nineteen and nine bloody, nasty, awful civil war, like it was bad and it ended with the losing army. Air quotes. I mean I'm running through nine years of history here. In nine losing army fled to Taiwan, right, and they founded a new government over there. Here's where it gets confusing. The actual name of the country of Taiwan is the Republic of China, while as China, as we know, it

is the People's Republic of China. Because they just be they be a petty with each other, you know, because they were arguing over who the real China. You know what I'm saying, when you're having a civil war, it was just like the civil war in America. Of course, it wasn't over slaves, but the idea of like the confederate states of America. They believed that they were the true America. In the United States of America Ain't the

real America. So if you could imagine the confederacy not just like breaking off, but like that army going to like, I don't know, Puerto Rico and then calling it America, you know what I'm saying? Like you gotta picture it like that, right. So they formed a nation called the Republic of China, and China to being salty about that ever since. So China been blocking them, kind of salting them, kind of start trying to start them out for the

whole time being like Yo, don't nobody mess with them. Y'All, can't mess with them. They know they're not their own country. Niggad they still with us? No, no, no, no, no, you can't sunk with them, because they are you know what I'm saying, they're not a really and if you mess with them, if you start, if you you know what I'm saying, you tap in with them, you mess with them, then you got a problem with us because you can't take them serious. They're trying to steal our name. No, no, no, no,

they lost. They're not a real country. They tried to square up and they lost. It's over. That's China's attitude about it. You're not real. You know, Taiwan and in the Republican China now again. I'm not comparing them to the confederates in the sense that like, I look Al Kay, there's no other way. That's like it. In America, the confederates are the bad guys, like you, just I don't you look y'all the bad guys. You are the antagonists. You, you, you wrong. You know what I'm saying. It's not that

simple over there. Right, and we don't got time to go into like the the full history of China, but just understand it. It's not that simple, it's not that count dry. I'm just saying that they were the losing army, right, and they founded a whole government over there and because of that they've been like the the underdog. They've been under China's thumb this whole time and trying to keep blocking them. No matter what they try to do, China

always in the way. And the problem is China got them things Trya got them armies trying, you know, China got them Blickies, they got them tanks and they got this history right, and they also got the bread. And when you got the bread, then you could make different

moves than anybody. And every time China or Taiwan trying to get on their feet, I'm trying, trying to set up some licks, trying to get their situation together, China always in here like like like, you know, just, for lack of better term, cop blocking, like they just blocking all the time. Just haters. Like if you Taiwan, it's like, man, y'all just haters. Y'All are violent haters, no matter what. You just drinking hatterade all the time. Man, let me live.

Can I live China like now? You can't live, or you could live as long as you just like, you know, follow the rules, stay with us. And then trying to turn to the whole world. It was like, Hey, nobody messed with them. If you mess with them, we got issues now. And why that's so difficult for anyone to even, you know, kind of touches, because not only do trying to got them things, trying to be making stuff. Dog We, you know, in this global economy family, we need them.

Don't like. Don't hey, dog like. We need them. Don't let nobody lie to your homy. We we need them. Our supply chain is absolutely one connected with us staying good with China. Now America stancing artist has been what they called strategic ambiguity, which basically means, man, that's y'all. Look, I ain't in at Hommy like the old folks you say, when we was kids. My name is Bennett nine. Ain't

in it. You know the rules during the nineties. If you were, you know, of African American descent and you was about that life, even though we was in the same hoods, right next door to the Latino, the Rollos, and they was about that life. We was like, look, we stay out of that. That's day stuff. We'll work with y'all to get this money. You know what I'm saying, because you know, the weight was coming up from the border. So we'll, we'll connect with you that. But that's whatever.

That's whatever's going on with y'all, that's between y'all. I ain't got nothing to say about that. But, like, we'll respect your system. You know what I'm saying, like, if this is what it is, then we'll do what it is. So so America stands traditionally has been. Look that that be for you guys with your homie. That's between you and your homie. You know what I'm saying, like that's not that's not our issue. If y'all say that's what it is, that's what it is. So we will, at

least publicly and on paper, respect the big dog. You're saying this show block, this show block. It is what it is, just like one one though problems. We also ain't trying to see no wars over here, because if y'all start, I'll start beefing, y'all start shooting. It messes up our bags. So, like, as long as everybody cool, y'll figure that out. That's between you and Taiwan. You know what I'm saying? Uh, that's our our our public stance. While on the load, we've been jipping at Taiwan, like,

but we got you, though. That's that's trash what they're doing to y'all. Man, if y'all want to do y'all thing, y'all do y'all thing, just like just keep it on the load, just like. You know what I'm saying. Hit the burner phone like don't just just play it low, like, don't put it on your instagram. You feel me, but like we're good dog, like we ain't gonna look if y'all go to war. We ain't gonna necessarily publicly choose sides, but if y'all need some of them things, we got you.

That's been America's stance the entire time. But listen, don't that sound like some side chick energy? Don't you? At some point, if you're the big dog or you the side chick, you're gonna be like, I'm gonna need you to say something like this. This, this don't work for me no more. I'm gonna need y'all to like to say something, because you see the stuff China doing. You see how they fraudulent, you see how they move and you know that's not right. That's Taiwan saying. You see

how they move, you know that's not right. And China like look, you really you want to smoke with us? Don't gonna say what you need to say. You know what it is. You don't want to smoke with us. Stop talking like like you don't know what it is. Stop talking like look man, like, Hey, if you with us, you with us. If you're not, you not. You need to stand on your square. Stop playing all this like Willy Nilly. You know what I'm saying, wishy washy Milwaukee

type stuff, like are you with us or not? And in the nineties, like look, because China about that action. They've gone. They've had squirmishes ever since. Like in the nineties you had like the third Taiwan straight joint where like foods was like really scrapping. Y'All remember the tenement square stuff this. Now we're getting into why, why this was such a big deal with Nancy. Nancy been about

that action. Nancy been very clear this whole time. Nancy showed up back in the day like Um at the tenement square, like anniversary, being like Y'all did this wrong? We're here for democracy, I know what it is. But since she ain't the president, again, going back to forty all virgins, you ain't the president, but the President by Association messes with you, so that means that's the stance of America. Now we've got a problem. But don't nobody want to mess up the bag, though. You feel me?

Nobody want to mess up the bag. But at the same time, y'all just can't keep talking reckless like this, because you know, China reckless, like I don't like listen, but they reckless. Here's where it gets ill day, reckless. In the same way, re reckless. We get to the bag and, whether you want to admit it or not, we prove our weight and blood too. Yes, we do. If you don't like I'm I'm assuming if you listen to politics, you already know that that we we bout

that light. When it comes down to it, don't get so anyway, Nancy, in the middle of July, Nancy pulls up on this trip over all of Asia. Now she ain't just go to Taiwan, she went to Singapore, she went to Malaysia, she went to South Korea, and her reason for going, at least publicly, was I'm just tapping in with our allies. So even that is already shade, because you ain't tap in with China. He's like, Oh, I just want to go see the homies. You ain't

called me, though. How y'all feel with some of the homies come from come from out of town. They come chill. You catch them on their instagram, you catch them on their on their socials day out at dinner where all the homies except you ain't nobody call you. And what would be real crazy is like they only know them because of you. Like it needs are my friends plus one enemy. How you down here? You ain't even call me, fam you just out here and enjoying a brunch after

I had and told you I don't mess with them. Fools. Come on, fam we're not good. Hopefully you're not childish enough to be like, Oh, well, that means that you want to go to war with me. Hopefully you're not that childish, but nations are right anyway. So Nancy, pull up now on the load. Nancy got all kind of money Nancy might be checking on her bitches. You know what I'm saying? Like, I hate to say it like that, but Nancy got her money. She might be checking on

some of her investments. You feel me, Nancy, about that money? You Yeah, and I mean you kind of gotta be, because, I mean, the Senate don't pay that much. So she out here checking on her investments. You feel me? Maybe I don't know. She ain't talking about it, but that makes the most sense. But at the same time, remember again, Nancy. Nancy ain't never changed her stands. She like, Oh, mess with China. That's y'all. That's y'all. Y'All cool with them.

I ain't cool with him. I mean, I'll follow the rules, but like, listen, I'll mess with them. And it's been since that way back in the nineties that anybody at that rank of US government official has gone over there, to Taiwan and tap in with him. China is like the disrespect this is. I'm hot at both for y'all. I'm hot of America, because you know better how to Taiwan because you're feeling froggy. So China and them is like, all right, we need to show you, we need to

show you how these things going on around here. Trying to start busting off shots, trying to start driving slow through your neighborhood with the lights off, just looking at you, trying to start shooting guns in the air. You feel me, trying to start flying planes around the corner. You understand what I'm saying. China like, all right, cool. Let me just remind you that I got them things just in case you ever feel like you could do this again. We don't. We got guns. Fam Listen, let me tell

you something. There is nothing more scary than you're sitting outside in the Lolo, slowly turned the corner right, driving real slow. They're not doing nothing, they're driving real slow and just looking out the window. You're looking in the car like Yo, who that? Who that? Like, don't nobody want to start shooting just yet, just in case it is nothing. But when something like this go down, you

know it's something like it's it's gonna get cracking. Now if you just happen to be three houses down from where the homies are sitting on the porch, you're like, Oh God, everybody getting the House, everybody get in the house. You don't go outside for the next few days because it's about to get hot. Some somethingna go down. Everybody go inside. Uh, if you was just, let's say you were just visiting your cousin, and then you're like, all right, y'all, want to come stay with us? You can't go over

Granny House for the next couple of weeks something. It's crazy on her block right now. So that's just unless you about that life. Then you're like, all right, action, who that? Get that next. You know what I'm saying. Figure out who that is. You know who that is. You start calling around a blue, blue Elderado, and you know them Niggas like yeah, that's all. And so you know what I'm saying. And and and if you're China, I want you to know that that's my blue ipolo.

You Post to know that's my blue epolo. If you Taiwan, you absolutely know whose that is. They're trying to tell you, like listen, we're watching, streets, is watching, because that's what they're trying to tell you, and you out here playing, you playing games with Our Name, like this America. See all this is happening. Is Like what they did? Whatnot? All right, Taiwan, y'all need some guns. Hey, we got you headed them through some guns. Taiwan, like y'all got things,

we got things. You got guns. We got guns. They start busting on some shots too. America, like listen, we ain't gonna tell nobody, we ain't gonna be loud about this, but don't play with me, don't play with me and my homies if you're gonna push us on some like Lord Wayne, I ain't a killer, but don't push me on some pock. I ain't killer, but don't push me. That's what they're saying right now. Like listen, don't push us. The difference between America and Park is we are killers, Yo, say, like,

don't listen. We're we're shooters. So it's hot over there. The temperature just rose. Is there anybody's fault? I mean, was everybody's fault? You can't listen. The way that the world is set up, you can't stay out of it. It's just it's impossible. It's impossible to stay out of it. Just like I said, listen, just like I said, growing up out here, it's impossible to stay out of it. You could go to the I. E. that's the inland empire, the air quote suburbs, but that they active. They active

over there too. There was a one of my homeboys was telling me, like he older gentlemen, you know, he got about ten years on me, but he's like, you know, he's from Van Eyes, which is like the valley, but he was a surfer dude and he tried to go down to San Pedro to kind of Surf Down there. Is Jan Pedro's the southernmost sort of l a county city. Uh, but there's a lot of surfers down there and they ain't bang too saying. So I'm like, there's no escaping

it's what I'm trying to say. You know what I'm saying. So at some point you're gonna be a party. You can't you can't live here and not somehow be affected by it. And it's the same with geopolitics. You can't be on the planet and not be affected by it. It's I just don't know what I just don't know what else to tell you. So it's hot over there. Now, why should we care? For a number of reasons. One, you have to remember how much China really really messes

with Russia. Like China mess with them, mess with them heavy. And what is Russia doing. Russia essentially flexing on Ukraine the way China wanna flex on Taiwan, the way the thing with now, y'all remember in Hong Kong, the way it went down. Now, Hong Kong was was was about that action in the same way you crane about that action. They was like, look, you ain't gonna just run up up here like we're gonna squad. You're gonna remember us. You know my heart and a little bit. You're gonna

remember us. That's the Hong Kong was like Nah, Homie, you're gonna remember me. You're not just gonna run up here like this, like you run this place. We're good. But if you China, you're like look, man, Hey, hey, Russia, like hey, hey, bladlow, Yo, Yo, give me game, man, tell me how you did that. Like let me, let me see. Let me go exercise with Y'all. Let me go work out with y'all. Know what I'm saying. It not for China been doing. They've been doing military exercises

with Russia. Like, Yo, let me what's what's what's what's good with it? You know what I mean? Like what Y'all got? So like they they number one. China hungry China about that life and they see what's going on in Russia. Number two, I've said it before and I'll say it again. China got next. If we're talking global world power, China got next. We taught this before. They smell blood in the water. They got next off, and this is a good way to get certified, is to

prove you got next. So if you are, which most of us are, the U S of a, you need to make sure or one, that China and Russia don't get too close and two, to secure your own safety, your own place on the top fam you can't let them get no stronger. You gotta Watch like no wonder. We low key like on on Taiwan, like I can't. I can't get no strong like if I'll get no stronger day you're coming for us. Your dollar ain't gonna mean nothing. And and so, if you so, if you're American,

you like look dog. I gotta stake in this race. We can't just stay out of this. Now you're staying out of it anyway, but you can't just stay out of it. So it's quite an issue of diplomacy. You gotta Work here. how You keep somebody who as hungry as China happy, but at bay? That's the question. And listen, if you are a US diplomat, you need to call into our hoods and you need that. You need to tap into some of these O g s that ask them that question, because, I tell you what, I don't

know the answer. But this is quite a predicament and this, this is the type of stuff that's rumbling across the world while our local politics is burning books and you know what I'm saying, and teachers getting exhausted. Do you feel me? I don't know, man, listen, I want to know where the answer might lie. It's in the hood hood politics. Yeah, this is here. Thing was recorded by me propaganda in East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles, California.

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