The Hood Comes First

do die every day. But that is somebody's baby. I mean, that's somebody, that's somebody's like life cut short, somebody playing done. But the thing they're trying to communicate is that, like, it sucks, but it happens. And at the end of the day, the hood come first, the set last bosses come and go. Hood comes first, Hood politics, y'all comes first. So today we're in one of the this bizarro world which were already would have been a bizarre world because

this is what they called the lame duck season. President as new president has been elected depending on who you ask, But we're gonna get into that um and the sitting president has a job to continue to govern. I mean you're supposed to um and try to like tie up some loose ends that would be if politics was not gang banging, it would be really that simple. Just tie

up some loose ends, finish up your work. You know, you got projects you want to make sure, like are setting stone, you know, start cleaning up around the house because you gotta move out. You know what I'm saying, handing over keys, you know, giving log in information, you know what I'm saying, like what's the WiFi code? Just like you know, I mean it's you rented there. This is a rented spot. You feel me like you do your best with the with the with the thing, but

you know y'all own this house. My make feel me like you just a charge for now house belonging to us. That would be if this wasn't gang banging. Since it's gang banging, you got some scores to settle. You feel me like you ain't supposed to just be sitting around. You understand what I'm saying, like you gotta make sure the people around you so that your legacy don't ever get wiped away. Because again, the hood comes first. They just died. Daily presidents come and go, elected officials come

and go. I say all this to try to lay out for you the calculus that the GOP is working through right now. Some of y'all might be a little confused as you're watching what I would say, some in house beefing when you got like to crip hohoods fighting against each other like sixties and eight trades, Like, uh, I know that's that's a deep cut. But you know, if if you know your hip hop, follow me like this, Uh Nipsey Hustle was a was a ruling sixty crip

and school Boy Q was an eight tray crip. You know they I mean they right around the corner from each other, but they never really got along. There's a whole video with Monster Cody, who was another like O g uh L a gangster, kind of explains where it started. It started over a party. It was stupid, but either way, they've been beefing for decades. But they're both crips, right, so if we were gonna look at look inside were blood of kins over there and sort of see really

what's going on in their house. It's the calculus I was trying to tell y'all um last week, where you have to decide either you're gonna go down with this boss right or you're gonna set yourself up for the next guy that's gonna take charge, because the Republican Party gonna last. I mean, Trump has moved it in a lot of ways. I think he's caused an identity crisis, but the party lasts. The Party's gonna outlast any other

person that's sat on top of it. So you gotta make your calculus you're gonna I mean, are we are we playing a long game here, We're playing a short game here. So we're in a situation where this man is convinced um or at least he's publicly convinced. I have my doubts about what's happening inside the White House itself, because I know gangsters. Now, who knows what's gonna happen between the day I'll record this and the day it comes out. So this is Friday the thirteenth that I'm recording.

As of today, Trump is still saying this race ain't over, and he's pushing I'm sorry, y'all, but it's just it's these are the facts. He's pushing verifiably false statements right about the legitimacy of this election. I know because his own department at Homeland Security, his his old his own administration is like, look, put some respect on our name. We did our job. This the most secure election we'd

never had. We remember two thousand and sixteen. We remember when the Russians told us like like we was chumps. You feel me, Like, we remember all that, So look respect on our name. We we did our part. You know. Now, if you won't recount, you got the right to do that. But my name get Look we did our role. Don't don't you put that on me? Ricky, Bobby, what the what the Department is saying? But the question comes if you're an elected official, like if you're a senator, you're

down battle it. You're looking at this election and you're seeing what I'm trying to tell y'all, which is the hood comes first. Because what these ballots are showing me is that the people chose to set over the boss. How do I know that? It's because the Congress didn't flip. That means that people had mixed ballots. They voted blue here and read there. They said to themselves, look, we still believe in small government. So I want this senator, I want this legislator, I want this governor, I want

these laws. But I'm cool on this Nick. They chose the hood over the boss, and I have no choice but to respect that. I respect it. So if you down ballot, you gotta do this calculus. You gotta say, Okay, it's not like this boss, this Trump guy don't have a legion of fans who are willing to go down in the in the ship with him. You also gotta be bugging because you know, like he actually could pull

off winning. Are they staging a coup? Well, now you can't really call it the coup because the army is not involved, because that's kind of like you need you need the military for something to be a coup. I don't think it's that, but yeah. I also, now let me say this, there is a legal way for old Trumpet to state president. You just it's pretty convoluted, but

and quite a long shot. But essentially, you'd have to sew enough disbelief into our last election into the election enough to get the courts to say and you gotta throw out audise like electoral votes because you just can't trust it. You can't trust it, and then make the states select new electors, right because remember, electoral college is like there, dudes, they're just dudes that the state chooses.

It's you get. You take the amount of senators and the amount of just basically the yeah, the amount of senators and representatives you have in a state, you add them together, and that's how many electors the state gets there. So they're just dudes. The president could pressure states to select new electors and then those guys can basically pick whoever they want, and then it's very possible that that one state sends two different choices like went red and blue.

And then it's up to the Congress to figure out which one of those electoral votes that you believe or listen to. And the person who get to decide that is the person that presides over the Congress, which is the Vice president Mike Pence gets to pick which elected to listen to. So there's a way, but it's a long shot. But there is life after him. So you have to do this calculus to say, I'm not necessarily scared of Trump, but I'm scared of his followers. I'm

scared of losing the neighborhood. I can't have a neighborhood flip on me if I just start talking reckless about their favorite dude. Because again, if you know how Senate works. Their terms are six years. President's terms only four. You're gonna outlast him anyway. I still gotta work with these people. So you gotta figure out the calculus. How do I say, I'm not gonna go down with this fool, because I know the hood comes first, the hood gonna lasts forever.

At the same time, I can't turn the neighborhood against me. Now when I say the hood, like, this is what I'm trying to understand what I mean hood and neighborhood. When I say the neighborhood, I'm talking about the people that live in the neighborhood. When I talk about the hood, that's just it's a shorthand for the gang. That makes sense the name of the gang. But the neighborhood is the people that are in it. So when you're saying, look,

I can't have the neighborhood turn against me. You can't have the literal people inside the houses say you're not allowed to slang on this corner no more. You can't have that happen. If they chose that they like this dude, they ain't gonna rock with you, and you can't. You can't set up your activities, you feel me. So you have to make sure that you don't lose the support of the neighborhood. But at the same time, you can't torpedo on your future by going down with somebody that

inevitably is going down. It's calculus, and it's a hard calculus, and I think we're watching it play out on screen. Now that's the calculus from the Mactro perspective. The hood comes first. Now the calculus that if I'm using my gangster intentders are happening inside the White House. I think there's a couple of things going down. If I understand how my bosses work, they don't losing its fine. Quitting is not getting your ass beat. That's not that's not acceptable.

If you go out, you go out in the blaze of glory. You feel me. You you you go out, you go out like like Escobar. You understand what I'm saying, Like, no, you gotta come in here and get me. That's that's the way gangsters go down. You know, you have to break, if you, and then it's like you earned it, if you, if you, I gave I sent you my best, my hardest warriors. We shot it up and shot as hard as we could, and you got the best of me. Well, damn you earned it. I'm not gonna just walk into

your hands. You're tripping with bosses work right, But they also understand again, you gotta set up for the future if you if you want to live through this thing again, you can't go out like no punk, right, So you have to have an exit strategy. Trump's extra strategy is, well, they cheated. I would have won if y'all ain't cheat. I mean, I know that's a strategy because that's what he's still saying about the popular vote. Four years ago, y'all brought in illegals and dead people to vote. I

won the electoral College. I would have been a popular vote if y'all ain't have all these illegals vote. Y'all don't remember Trump saying that, which is crazy because he lost by two million more votes this time, which means that his his immigration policy still allowed, according to his logic, two million mo illegals to come vote against him. So, I mean, you gotta watch your words, big fellas. So the strategy is you got to create it out because

you can't. You can't kill the storyline. I'm gonna set up shops somewhere else. If I got my ass beat in my last hood, you can't set up shop nowhere. What's the shop he's setting up? Well, some of them saying he's setting up to run in. Some of them saying he's setting up for his kids to run. Some of I'm saying, which is the one that I'm thinking, is like, Oh, it's business. I'm gonna live down in mar Lago. I'm done with New York because I got

a pending case in New York. Y'all think we forgot this. Think you think we ain't forget that. He got a pended He got a case in New York, so he read it for the law. You understand, I was saying, So you got a case of New York. I'm gonna go down to Florida. I'm gonna golf. I'm gonna set up this news station. I'm gonna take down Fox News. That's why he started trolling Fox News. I'm gonna take down Fox right, and I'm gonna ride off into the sunset and continue to make this pretend money. You know

what I stand up saying, do it? Say you gotta you gotta, you gotta set it up. I can't, but I can't just be like, damn my loss, now, everybody come follow me. No, you can't do that. You have to be like, nah, they they shot it up. They shot the place up, and they stole what they got. But you know what, we're gonna continue to continue to be keepers of the flame. That's the calculus. If I'm

using my antennas, that's the calculus. Lastly, I think there's a lot to be said about lessons we could see about how power works in a system that is so cutthroat, so gangster that it's only the you're basically just playing king of the hill. Ok. And I think what we learned is this is that when you on top, you can't really punch down because again, you won't always be

on top. And your little worker bees, your little cronies, they're doing calculus, they're working their own angles, and if you just abuse them as tools, at some point they're gonna start not taking your ship and be like okay, cool, this's okay cool, and they just they just biding their time. And I feel like that's the lesson we're seeing with

Fox News. Fox News was Trump's microphone for a long time, but then he started doing all this on the microphone, and eventually Fox was like, okay, okay, uh, we see what's happening here, And they had their own little inner turmoil between the nion shows and the news shows, because the opinion shows are still, you know, pushing the same narrative, the Tucker Carson's of the world, you know what I'm saying, that Sean Hannity's of the world. Like they're still like,

you know, riding for the boy. But then the the news stations themselves, like the newscasters are being like, uh, we're not gonna airtive is. You ain't got no proof of this stuff. We can't just be coming on the show saying some reckless Nah, there's life after you. Fox News has existed before you. There's life after you. Foxes, like the Hood come first. We there's an end to your era and we need to survive after you're done. I'm not gonna go down with you. It was cool,

we got what we needed, but we're good. I think the Senate is kind of doing the same thing, y'all. Gotta remember somebody like a Mitch McConnell, which somehow another still got his his seat in is proof to me that Mitch understanding the hood comes first. I'm playing this game with you. I've been playing this game with you this whole time. People like Lindsey Graham, they they hood comes first. There was like, look, I let you pick on me as long as you want. I let you.

I'll let you. I'll let you do what you want to do. Meanwhile, you didn't gave me twenty judges. I feel like when they got their Amy Coney Barrett, they decided, all right, look we got what we needed from him. It's all good, We're done. The whole time Trump thought he was using them low and behold. They knew what they was doing the whole time. This mug was transactional. They hustled me because I was like, man, who is bewitched? Y'all? Like why is you doing? Why are you letting this man?

Why are you letting this man steal your whole narrative? Oh? They wasn't letting him doing anything. They they was playing the game because at the end of the day, Yo, the hood comes first. So that's the g O P. There were blood of kints. If you want to understand this last election cycle, that's your answer. Who it comes first? Yo? Thank you for listening. Uh, this episode was recorded by myself. Uh. This was mixed, mastered, and scored by your boy Matt.

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