The Kanye West Storm

Since then he hadn't been on so many national programs, networks podcast, So I'm gonna drop my gems on the Kanye West storm about White Lives Matter, the George Floyd incident, as well as him talking about the music industry that has a lot of self destructive lyrics that is causing influential effect on the black community in a devastating destructive manner. I had to bump my episod sold about the Latino

paragraph in Los Angeles. I'd have bumped that to next week because I gotta stay relevant and right now, nothing is more hot on social media than this storm that Ya has created. That's Kanye was Also, I'm gonna be talking about the episode six what the Bobby Shop talks, So I'm gonna bringing that to you and we're gonna keep this thing going. Oh, by the way, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshew, So stay tuned.

I gotta come back with part two on this Kanye West Ya storm because it's so much more has developed since last week when I did White Lives Matter based on a shirt that he wore. Now so much more has happened is continuing because he's been going on some of the top shows all over this world, top podcast, top TV show, The Tucker Carlson, The Breastlets Club, Piers Morgan, I Believe Um, and so many more. And what's happening is is Tanane West is trying to clarify his position.

But one of the things that his hit a home run is profiteering off of certain lyrics that promote death, drugs, sex, Like right now there's an opening war and a fitting on war and guess what they're trying to address that. But how is the music plan apart in the culture in terms of influencing people to drugs do drugs? And are these top artists who making millions off of selling death and destruction and black on black vial islens making

millions selling those types of rap songs and music. The question is, you know there are entities in industries making billions off of black talent, and this is you know, hit a home run, which a lot of what Kanye Ya was saying about why he's been saying some of the things that he was saying now it offended because you can't blanket everybody. There's always, you know, within every group, there's always people in within that group that are not

a participant it what's going on. So you's trying to clarify himself, and as he should, he said, but it's certain members, all right. So this is Yaye's position right now. Hold on because this thing here is I did a I did a podcast one time called words Matter, okay, and I talked about sticks and stones may break, bomb bones and words and never heard and I said, they never say that nursery rhyme because it is a lot. Words will destroy you, Words will kill you, all right.

So the question is if a person is signing talent and the issues that they are spearing in the rap are affecting the society in a negative way while they're signing these type of artists and allowing them to say these kind of things that promote the degregation and the death and destruction of a group of people. Now a group that Jake has target was Jews, right all right, now they are upset over the words they he chose,

and they have a right calls to be right. Then why shouldn't black people be upset over lyrics that promote the destruction and death and the you know, and the sex and oh, you know, of our culture and of our people. Why shouldn't black people be upset when the the airwaves are consumed with sex, drugs, murder of black

on black? Why shouldn't black people be upset about that and be upset about industry that is promoting such lyrics that lead to devastation and destruction Because words matter, Words would destroy you, words would influence you, and and they're trying to put a muzzle on yate. People are apologizing

on behalf of ya. You see what I'm saying. So all I'm saying is is what my take on what took place and what's going on is the fact that why are that these industries allowing, even the artists are talking to why are they're allowing these kinds of words to devastate a underserved people who already a devastated who already suffered from drugs, alcohol, teenage pregnancy, poor health, diabetes,

high blood pressure, um mental health. Why are certain industries able to profit and offer this and then nothing and then they are unapproachable. They are unapproachable, you see what I'm saying. So, but the thing is, this is a real conversation that needs to be addressed. And that's the point that you was trying to I think was trying to say. Now, he can't blanket every whole group and the whole religion because everybody ain't participating in that. You

know what I'm saying. Everybody ain't, you know, doing that, So you gotta be specific and and and zone in too what it is or the person or the groups that are involved in the destruct definite destruction of black race and Black nation and black culture. And and now he's out there on the island on his own, got Black people not liking what he was saying, You got Jewish people not liking what he's saying. You got white people and all kinds of people upset about what he's saying.

And then you got people who love what he's saying, who look what he's saying, and who agreed with what he's saying. So the question is, now, I don't know the percentages. I don't know how what percentage like this, like it or don't like. But all I know is when you went on Paris Morgan uh show, he apologized, well, you know, I think it was an apology. Did He was saying that he should if he hurt anyone from what he said, that he's sorry and he would love

to give you a hug. Now. I think that that's noble of him, because all Jewish people are not involved and what he's saying, you know what I'm saying, So you can't blank it millions of people when you need to focus on if you have something to say about the industry, focus on the executives and the people in

charge that it allows this to what I'm saying. So I think that he understands that understands that now and he's course correcting now I'm giving you what he we're saying um and woven into all this is you know, my take or on this whole thing, and that is I think it should be addressed that for far too long, you know, and we're all guilty of it. We have listened to things that have danced and and had drinks over and celebrated and exalted on things that you know,

glorified black destruction. And I think that Kanye West is that is making this an issue. This should be addressed now, for for for for right or for wrong. The reality is that that needs to be addressed. And this whole thing where they're trying to shift to this George Floyd and make that an issue, and they want to sue for two hundred and fifty million, well good up. Because opinions shouldn't be able to be sued. You should be allowed to say what you wanna say without having the

threat of being sued. It is your opinion. It could be wrong, and I don't have to agree with it or listen to it. But I didn't see that. I didn't listen to the whole three ey that that drink Drink Champ interview with three and a half out, and I didn't listen to the whole. So I don't know what he said about George Floyd, but I do know this censorship is the saving grace of America. And if it wasn't for free speech, there would never been a

Martin Luther King. There never would have been a w either Boys, a Book of t Washington or UI Newton. You know, they would never have been Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and all the many other great revolutionaries have stood up and stood against oppression and wanted to make changes in America. They're never would have been any of them if it had not forben for speech, and before black media starts trying to censor black people who think different, we need to examine that because for far too long,

white media has censured the black voice. That's why my league books exist, and that's why we give voice to the voiceless. Listen um. There are decent people all over this country and all over this world, you know, and sometimes, you know, people make a mistake and say something inappropriate and in the wrong way. I don't think that that's worth to be hated and ridicute. It should be a dialogue. It should be hey, you know, I think it was

immature to just say that. But sometimes when a person is hurting, they said in a whole lot of ways and you might not like and they're rough feathers, you know how he is. And I think that a lot of people, you know, look at the Will Smith slap. I don't know what got into him, but he went up there. It's a lot of the day life of Chris Rock on National TV. Now that's emotional, you know, and you know so sometimes man, you do things that you go back in your examine and you have to man,

you know, uh, of course correct. Now, all I'm saying is the Kanye storm, you know, shouldn't be all of a sudden diverted because of what's perceived what he said about George Floyd. Now, and that seems like a lot of attention is trying that he gave two million to the daughter and for her education and other things. But the y'alli is that, Um, we need to protect free speech. We need to stand up for free speech, and we

need to not have censorship. We need to have be allowed to have our opinions even if you don't agree with it, but be respectful of it. You know. We gotta learn how to agree, to disagree and still get along. I don't know why a person will have so much intense hate for someone who just agreed different. And I think that in order for us to bring the temperature down, we need to reach a point where we allowed to say what we need to say and have a dialog,

have a dial loog. So this this Kanye West. You know, things be going on for two weeks, and I got a bump my segment about the Latino power grab in the Los Angeles. I gotta push that back another way because this right here is sucking up all the oxygen world. Why so you either be on time or you late. So I'm coming on time and I'm chiming into this subject matter because I think that this is a real issue. We need to address all them things, all death and destruction,

this being spewed all over the radio. Let's just keep it where. We are influencing kids and youth, and that's our future, and we need to encourage them to be more than drinking and drugs and having sex with our responsibility and buying taking all your money and buying all that bleed and ain't buying no property. Crying about gentrification

when the black community was the gold mine. Now you were complaining about outside is buying it up and building more time million dollar complexes, when the gentrified and blighted area was there for a decade and we didn't take our own money in our own community and build up. See, guys, the things that need to be we need to focus on. We need to get real about the things that we're spending too much time on destroying each other. This black

on black crime needs to stop. This black on black crime needs to stop, and we need to come together and stop it so that we can then be able to sit at the table with other civilized nations and have a dialogue. Because this is ridiculous all over this world. Our perception they sold black women in Hollywood is what as being a mean and angry on most of these shows. This is the image going all over the world. I

talked about this. We talk about this on The Bobby Shop Talks that I've been airing for the last five weeks, The Bobby Shop Talks to you Ain't hurt that. Go back and listen to my old episode the Bobby Shop Talk. The way our women are portrayed. You know what I'm saying. We have to come to grips with dealing with these images and these perceptions that are being thrown out all

over this world. People have this perception of black people in a negative way, and they look at only individual black people like Obama and um Oprah and Sabrina Williams. The people like that. They look at them different, They look at them as individuals, but as a group, as a society, as a culture, we are stereotype and they look at us in a negative way. They look at us as as you know, I'm not even gonna say it,

but that's the reality. They don't look at us in a favorable way, and we need to realize that why because what they see is black and black destruction and that what they here is what music that that talks about what goes on in our communities, what sex, drugs, death and murder. All right, So that's my take on the Kanye West storm. So hey, tune in next week. I don't know what I'm gonna talk about. Well I do know what I'm gonna talk about, but it might

get up because this is topic peace Enjoy. Part six of barber Shop talks accept your own and be yourself? And what is myself? A righteous Muslim? Is that right? And now? Who want to accept that? Who want to go back to what they was cut off from about we already talked about society. Gonna look, we already talked about slavery. Oh you know that they were saying slavers. They changed our little and they change our name, they

change our culture, they change that they change that. Okay, Well if they changed it, then what were we before the change? And can we go back to the change? Okay? But can we go back before? But you know, when you're looking at a situation, you're talking about going back to the roots, and which which grows the branches. Well, most people ain't gonna go as deep as going back to the roots. What they see is what they see,

and that's the branch. And so most people they don't want what you and I might believe in think, they want what society. So because we're talking about the brands, so we're talking about credibility, we're talking about the people, you know, the most successful people we see every day. You know what I'm saying that the problem is going to continue because they don't until until we find a way to make the change, until we find a way to be affected. Yes, what we can do? So how

can so? How can we make the change? First? We got to change not number one. Second, then we gotta find a way to civilize the uncivilized, to make the

healthy unfortunate change for the better. And that stiffer what you say, we have to make a change, which part of the people you're trying to make the one that already make any thing that trying to be out here trying to teach, or the one that had not even accepted the change, the ones that have not changed and need to change the need that the orphans, the disenfranchise,

they all pressed, they're ignorant. They're gonna have to try to find there, try, They're gonna have to try to find a way where they're gonna have to say, you know what, this is not working. We could be more advanced, maybe do that and try other avenues were here that all the time. If this ain't after, you gotta go down an avenue. You know, we're we're in this condition. We're in the scene like beginning worse. The duty of

a civilized person civilized uncivilized. I think about it. You know, people come here this morning and like I'm not in social media that gonna hear people talk this morning out So you do believe it's our obligation to try to civilize or or educated the miseducated, teach them. Absolutely, that's why we were chosen for the job to teach them. You see what I'm saying. But but but look at it today, Man's Roscoe. It's the hardest job Roscoe in

the world. Brother brother yesterday, I got told that more than brother yesterday in Roscoe. Right, you're a Manchester and man got killed a rapper? What all you going on? And then not only that, but another rapper just got killed in Hollywood. You see what I ain't. So the point that I'm making is as the killing is increasing, people young people taking out young people like it ain't nothing and for nothing. So we're getting worse, We're not

getting better. When you look at up the door when when we when our people was released from Shateau slavery, we wasn't that here came banging killing each other. That wasn't even in existence. Do you look at the nineteen ten, the twenty thirty forty, where are we game banging on each other? So we have got we have gotten worse that we gotten further away from slavery. So we gotta do something the same man, this ain't We can't go there, So we can agree. We gotta do something. We gotta

make a change. We gotta make an impact, we gotta make a deal. We gotta teach we as men, we're the men, were the we're the leaders of our society. Well, I think we're the leaders of our society. We gotta step up a department. Not too many men now just stepping up to the plate. Why because we men, we want to go to strip bars, we just want to watch football and basketball. Say, here's the thing, here's the thing. We know that's the problem. That's my point. We know

that that's the problem. The thing is we gotta spend more time to address the solution. And the solution is difficult because so many of us don't want it and it's hard to implement. The solution is what you say, accept your own and be yourself, the step up and be in se is here and here, And one good example of that's from the Nation of Islam even prior in nineteen seventy five. And you look at what what the Honormalijah MOHAMMEDD did with the Nation of Islam prior

to nineteen seventy five. How these black men was working number one in fishing port, how the all printed press called the World School. Yeah, all these things. But then the solution is economic development. So so so whatever, that's the solution, economic development. What happened after that, they came in with a new religion for our people it's called materialism. It's called getting that bag, it's called all his other

foods in it. It's called t working, it's called all the Then start getting the white men who started getting cloth to freedom. They're getting right. But here's the thing that's you know, we can we can phistophically talk about you know, you know, from one era to another and why we went from this to that, But the problem is it remains an issue, and then we have to brother change and we have to be effective enough then we understand economics is the key to our to thrive

and to elevate and to evolve. And it does it take education? Yes, does it take us heaven and agenda that focus on our own aspirations and own desires that would cause a explosion of creating a generation of change for our future and our success. Well, hey, you know it's tough, it's real. It's the task is before us.

I don't expect society to solve the problem. But if you're out here and you listen to this podcast, if anything that you can do to make a difference, start with yourself, then the family, then your friends, and then hopefully your neighborhood, your community, and so forth. Were in that, we're in with that. I hope you enjoyed this episode of Barbie Shop Talks. Come back next week for Part

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