Conversation About Rappers (R.I.P. Young Dolph)

the thing that freaks me out? What? What? Well? All this ship that's going on and hip hop, it's in this weird space right where back when I first started listening to hip hop when I was younger, just beefing with a nigga captured the imagination, you know what I mean, Like if you was, you know, verbally sparring with somebody or the idea y'all was even that was enough to promote it to the you know, to the front of hip hop, like everybody wanted to see that because hip

hop used to allow you know, the public to to capture them. You know, it would capture the imagination like, oh, if these two guys seen each other, it will be on whether you know all of New York stuff that was going on um on the West Coast, it might have been in w a versus the police, and then it was ice Q versus in w A. Then it was Dr D versus Easy, and that's all you needed,

Ice Q versus Ruthless. And you know you might have heard about the skirmish, Yeah, like at the Jack the Ripper um the imagination, like you know, you you imagine what would happen if these guys got into it with each other, you know what I mean. And that was the only that that was the all the marketing you

needed to be at the front of hip hop. And I think now, you know, in two thousand twenty two, we're looking at what happened with Dolf and you know, obviously you get the on slide of people posting his pictures, talking about his music, talking about his contribution to the community because he passed away. But what freaks me the funk out is people seem like they're surprised, like I

can't believe this happened to to Dolf. You know, you know, we need to we need to change this, We need to you know, we need to alter what's going on because you know, people was losing their lives and I'm thinking, like this is the fourth time. I think that's the correct number they made in the temple on Dolf's life, right, So it was a time he was line assistance. Yeah, it was sometime he was in the Carolinas. They put

a honey shots into a bulletproof truck that he was in. Yes, something happened in Memphis and then he got shot out here in l A m hm m hmm. And I just thought that that was crazy. Um, Like people just so surprised, like oh, and I'm like, well, would if as a culture we intervened when they put the honey shots into his truck, like we all know auto something like that. Yeah, like because we all knew exactly who he was beefing with. They was making a beef public.

So literally up as a collective, right, whether it's Yo Gotti at the top of it, because in Ohio and excuse me, in Tennessee and Memphis, you think about Yo Gotti, You think about three six, Mafia eight and m J. G. Buck, you think of all the veterans, not to mention, you got you know, outcast t I, all the rest of the people from the South, and then all the rest of us in hip hop. We could literally come and

say hey, man, um, you gotta comment ship down. I mean, it could be some ship, but if if the whole culture, because it's so much street, you know, politics within the culture, like where I don't care where you're from. Eventually you gotta respect the whole culture. Stepping forward saying, hey man, y'all gotta kind of calm down, like with all this extra ship y'all seeing at each other and ship, you know, I mean, that's that's not gonna happen because you're gonna

sunk up the money. So we don't get to this point where it's like, oh, you know we I can't believe what happened at DOLF. I can't believe it. It's like all the other stuff didn't even matter until at this point now that he died. Our p Do you think that people even goofy girls on Instagram? Do you think people honestly can't believe that that happened. Yes, they cannot believe that it happened. What's wrong with those people? I have no clue, Like, you can't believe that that happen.

Folks start getting certain amount of money, uh, and people start liking you. They they man, I haven't heard one song of the dude saying nothing cool and you know, I just started really listening to a music, the music I was here, and he like, fuck you and if I catch you, I'm gonna blow your head off. He had me for god, he had this on got it. He had beef and back and forth the project pat before. He seems like he antagonized. I wasn't surprised at all,

not even a little bit. When you start liking people when they got that money, you just you forgot all that. He's like, oh, he he was that community activists. Was he a hood dude like with the ships like that, or was he just kind of like a rapper or the guy people I know they say it was pretty legit. You know. I don't know what type of trooper he was, but everybody I know said he was a pretty legit dude.

But even to the point where right after he got shot in Hollywood or right after the Carolina shooting, he made an album and the track listing like he was talking to the shooters, like antagonizing the motherfucker shooting. Yeah, and like I'm not trying to tell no nigga how to deal with the ship, right, But I just look at us as a community, Right And then I say damn Like I'm not the one to try to intervene

in wars. And you know I'm not trying to, you know, all the piece, I'm not because I don't know what Nick is really arguing over. I don't know what the beef is is over. So I'm really careful with how I get in the middle of another nigga ship, like some ship worth shooting the nigked. But I'll tell somebody,

maybe you shouldn't go to a location like that. I just looked at where it was, and I'm like, it was right, really like you went to that parking lot right there, in that car, and he wasn't sold right by all of our park buildings that I know. I know those buildings from from property looking like I know that that community and I know it too. And and that's what's funny, is right, is he wasn't by myself. But it don't matter. You gotta landload with a wrap

on it. It's like that car. You couldn't mistake that car in four states from that location if I see it. If we got an issue, or if my crew and your crew got an issue, and you and that motherfucker right, I'm I'm going to see you in traffic, and when I see you in traffic, if I'm if I'm on feeling, if I'm if I'm heated, all I gotta do is wait for my opportunity. Yes me, hold hold up, no seilings, g L my man Peter and the ship is not. We got Uncle Muke back up on this motherfucker once again.

You know what I mean, our resident guests who pops in and out feeling me on this conversation right here. Okay, so we get to it. Um. Look, I'm if you in the streets, right, you know how this thing go, especially if you're screaming war like, you know how this thing goes. So I'm not you know, rest in piece to Dolf. I'm just looking at us as a community. How everybody's posting this picture. How other rappers is posting a nigger picture. I mean they're talking about his music

is quote his contribution to the community. Oh, he bought a house, a house for every one of his children. He bought a house every year for his children. Like if you knew this other was such a positive influence, right, this nigga was on like that. Why didn't you know all of these legendary rappers posting this picture talking great, why did we not intercede as a community and say, hey, when they put the honey shots in the nigga truck? Who the funk puts the honey shots in the nigga truck?

And how do you make a rap? I can't make a rap album for Nick put the honey shots in my truck. I gotta get somebody gotta get killed or or I need to squash this because this ain't what I want. I need to come to the We need to find an amicable solution because I'm trying to still do my family for me. But if I'm going to antagonize you for show, a lot of people gotta get killed honey shots in my ship. They wasn't trying to miss.

They for sure, I wasn't trying to miss. And then they shot because yeah, they shot him already and we all watched this ship happened. It's not making the front headlines like Biggie and Popa was at the time, or Easy and and Ruthless or you know, dre Easy like well that she was making a front page, you know, or the news, the beef, you know, pocking all this ship making it for a page. Now it's on the underground circuit of the news, you know where you might

be on TMS, but it's not on Channel seven. But if the whole culture, every legend that we all look up to, and all of us know what I'm saying, if we all want to rest in peace and to talk about the type of nigg he was, why the fund did we not getting the motherfucking middle of the should say hey, because like, because the nigga is who he,

you know they're going at it with. I'm not sure if these people are responsible for his death, but because this is the third or fourth time that the other three times was the same niggas, I might be into thinking that this was them the fourth time. So why are we not as a community, because these niggas all

gotta come out here. So my thinking, we're literally we had like the culture that this hip hop has say in other places, because you gotta come out and get some money, and we all tied into the streets out here, So literally we could have sat niggas down to say, because like all that you're shooting at each other, We're

not gonna do this biggiepox a here. We're not gonna do that again, or you're not gonna come to my studio record and get me fucking shot up, he said, who, Or you're not gonna come to my studio in Hollywood and record and get me fucking shot up for being next to you. Yeah, that's not what I worr about, because a nigga wouldn't even bring that energy into our ram.

You know. Forgive me for the but but I'm saying us like the streets, you know, we shouldn't even if we think this the world of this brother, Like if we think the world of this brother in this particular situation where it was a public beef where niggas was getting shot shot at in New Orleans, why are we

not interceding. That's a mistake I think we're making. Or it's disingenuine to post this person and say rest in peace and you know, capitalize off of him dying and just creating and using making social media content out of it, acting like you really funk with somebody, If we really funk with our peers and the niggas that's in this business. Eventually we gotta stand up and do something about certain things when you get to this level. Because this ship

has been lingering. That particular situation has been lingering because for like three or four years, and it probably started before, but I've been aware of it publicly for three or four years since two thou it's at this point where it would be like if some of this affiliate with like CML, you know, NIX every Oh my god, I

can't believe. And that's different, right because DNM ain't necessarily in the business, No labs them still underground niggas like okay, you know what I'm saying, perpetrators of this unless it's like is it the young kids or whatever. See that's the thing I'm I'm I'm betting it's not the rapper at this point, or it's not the niggas he had beef with. At that level, they don't have to say, hey, um go out here and go do that. Niggas know

what's on niggas do that for free niggas. No, We're soon so like like the duds, like what people been killed between those two hoods over the last like several years. Like, but this that's different because lavishing them is still caught up in the streets trying to make a transition. So it would be a conversation with one person. It ain't like a like dollship is like two successful entities at the highest levels of of you know what I mean in hip hop versus Mazzi indeed trying to get into

the business. And nigga's not gonna fuck with d because they fuck with Marzi. So it's still the streets versus a rapper. That that's something you can't really even all niggas could really do is sit down with Mazi and they wanted to be like, man, may need to figure this out, which that ain't how the streets work. But when it's like, you know, two successful rappers, like we was watching it happened, like we see it. What's going on with with with uh with NBA with young Boy,

and what's going on with a Dirk. So now that had already claimed the life, you know, they it's it's you see it happening with two high level people where it's enough people to n see because no matter who you is, I don't gonna suck if you the real is rapping in the world that's on some street ship. You gotta go to all our towns to get some money. You can't not go to our towns and get some money so niggas could have some safe Always felt like with the Black Church, the mistake it was making right

was church should be a community center. It ain't necessarily they call it a house of worship. You know, we're supposed to praise God, but praising God is actually doing right by other human beings too. So if it's a community center and everybody, let's say, off a hundred and sevent team go to this one church. My whole life, it was people that worked in the community. We talked about this before. They had great jobs. It wasn't a ton, but it might have been three or four who've been

living there for years. And nobody knew that this man worked at Edison for all of these years because he looked at us as like hoodlums and he didn't want us in front of his house, and so it wasn't a real relationship. He used to go to church, but he went to church fifteen minutes away, twenty minutes away.

So if we all went to the same church, that person could pass on resources like a whole church is opposed to, you know, share the communities resources like you know when you go to Louisiana and and I haven't read up on this, but it struck me like their French Catholic you know. That's like the history of Louisiana and the areas are called parishes, well like a Catholic church community is called a parish. And when there weren't a lot of different religions in an area, your parish

was your one community church. So like in old Italy, old Sicily, like where my whole family was from, there was like that there was one. Like when we see with the Morris they have wars, you know, like the one church is for the whole neighborhood within a square mile or whatever the hell, or in Utah within six

hundred yards because that's a thousand people. But you know, it's it's it's kind of like that, and it's what it does exist in places with Jewish temples out here, because you have to go to the temple that's located in the area. Like you don't have a right to just go to any fucking temple. You like, you're like Rabbi Johnson and you I don't rap, no nigga, you don't have that because as it ain't about the rabbi

you like, it's about the community. You know that that that you're part of, and you know, whether you like to rap by or not, this is your community center, this is your temple. And I think that's the issue with the Black community. But I always feel like that's why the Black church last, say in the neighborhood, because they don't have influence. They're not doing right by the

people there. So many people go to different places. So no differently to huh all say, I think to some degree, also there's a little bit of and I don't want to put that on like the preachers who run the churches, but it's not one singular like the Jewish churches, like you have franchise and so to speak. So it's a little bit more like coordinated singularly, yeah, whereas it's a little bit more free market, you know in the Black church, because you can open up a Zion temple or whatever herr.

You can open up and men, you can open up the Baptist Church of Third Street like so you get through to go offst that money and you're good. And that's the same thing though. The point I was saying, and and to even build off that is we have that saying hip hop with everybody involved with it. We have that safe. We have that safe. We could say, hey, look y'all niggas need to figure this. Shout nig If y'all don't as a community, you're not gonna get no

money out here. That's just stopping. Because l A is kind of the Vatican to music, or if not New York is close enough, it's the short of Vatican to entertainment to some degree. So I just think that ship is weird, you know what I mean, where we're constantly watching these rappers go through the ship, and it's like, now people are saying being a rapper is like this dangerous job, and I'm like, not really, you know, it's only dangerous when you're trying to be more than just

a rapper. Are you trying to be a gang banger and a rapper. It's like being a drug dealer and a rapper, right, a drug dealer and a gang member. Right. It's a tough mix because you're don't have to do business with all kinds of different characters from different places. You're gonna have to do business with different people. So what save one very high profile incident for all the rappers and all the gang culture and all the stuff that goes on in l A. For by and large,

there's really not that. I can think of a lot of rappers that got killed over various like hood beats in l A history to given the scale, you think there'll be a hundred and fifty, you know, in twenty five years, there's like four maybe tops, you know. Whereas like he was like half of the guys whoever recorded a screw got killed. You know, that's ridiculus. They took out like half of all of them. But in other cities, you know, similarly, a lot of guys get shot in

other parts of the country. Is there like something to say, like the structural element in l A, like you y G or whatever. There wasn't like anything spun off out of you know, the incidental proximity there or other people or anything like that. You know. Yeah, but even for me it's different, right as a rapper, if I got into y G, I funk with a lot of YG older homies. I funk with a lot of y G

homies his age, Nigga's I've been knowing it was young. So, but that's like a thing I was talking about the structure of l A. There's like lineage, whereas like other parts of the country, it's just like a group of like there's not an intergenerational type of stuff like that. You don't see like it is, but it is like it's very much just think a lot of the g dudes that's in the game, it's just what you said they disingenuine. It's not it's not it's not all of that,

you know, that love that they really portraying. They got some type of bag on their mind when they're dealing with these youngsters and the new you know, the new generational wrap and seeing okay when young Dolph he kind of bring this a lot of money. All yeah, you know, you got to bring a lot of money. Man, if I could do a collaboration possibly with them at some point,

you stay a little relevant on both sides. I think everybody just trying to they're play in the middle and it ain't that big at the deal, like they try to make it after now the nigga did you know the niggad and got killed. Now they want to post him up and oh man, he was this great dude and this that. And I ain't saying he wasn't a

great dude because I don't know him. I'm just talking about, uh, the disingenuineness, if that's a word, uh of what the older cats is doing, or the order or the catt that've been in it long, or the or the bigger name cats, whatever the case may be. I don't think it's as genuine as they're trying to portray it when they're messing with these dudes. So now when these dudes and you know, they know about beasts, they know what's going on, they know they know they probably should have

been spoke on it. Um. I've seen um a little interview when your boy when he got on Drink Champs, and I've seen Noriega like, hey man, you know y'all you need probably need to just chill man. I mean, you know, you gotta be out that area. You can't

be hanging out like that. And I'm wasn't too sure if he knew what was going on, but I think he was just spending some regular what he feeled to be some O. I feel that was genuine because I don't think he cares about wrapping that now or trying to get on the tape with nobody just saying you know, I've been hearing about the ship. But but my thing, he didn't even with that ship. Like, I'm not saying it should be left up to one legend or one

peer or one something. As a community, once we see somebody's life is truly in danger, sometimes you don't get that because it could be the first incident and then it's over, right, But whether the incident is heating up and now people are getting hurt and shot over it, and there's two mainstream entities or NTC is moving around the country to collect checks, Like we all network with each other, our network with dogs, our network with you know, Noriega,

network with Fat Joe, I networked with fee Me, Scarface and different people are fellowship with a lot of my my elders and even my peers. So it shouldn't be in the hands like I can't look at Pat or Juice or Paul and say, hey, this is your responsibility, especially when it's that high profile between two successful entities. I think some I think a lot of neggats is looking at the ship on the regular street level because they possibly came from the streets as well. Like ship,

you all young niggas gonna figure it out. How we had to figure it out we went through this ship, y'all gotta go through that ship, or we felt we was going through this ship, so y'all gotta go through this ship, or y'all gotta figure it out on your own too. And that's evil. Right, So today I probably right. Today I had this super brilliant stream of consciousness. Right,

it's like this idea that came to me. The most innate, golly thing you could do is teach no like the the only responsibility of a single sale is to pass information. And people are gonna hear that and they're gonna think of a thousand things. Oh well, somebody tall you. The wrong thing that's missing for me, that's missing from information is specific. So that's learning. I mean learning is defined by error. Right. But but I'm saying somebody passed you.

I'm saying our jobs is we can't sit back and say, you know one thing I respect about me and the dudes I came up with head Tommy Sallas, you know anybody to me who was paying attention to everything we was learning, even my older brother and everybody. We try to give everybody the information that we learned that we know it's to be true. We were like we don't have to have no vested interest in you. They don't

got to be no money. If you talk the head and you ask head if you can get here somewhere, you say, hey, man, like what am I doing wrong with records? And you playing your records, he'll give you the information that he can about what has worked successfully nine of the time. Now sometimes people don't want to

accept that. But he tries his best to teach you know he And that's why I say today I called him literally, was tell him like, man, I love you a little bro like because he's somebody to me who struggles with a lot of rappers were trying to teach him, and it's like they think they know, and you know they didn't. Like, we got bruises on our head from learning this ship. And we're watching people have success right earn a living, but they're not at their pinnacle. You're

not at the peak of where you could be. If you knew this ship, we could tell you because then you can flip it and make it yours. But for him to teach me, he had to try a couple

of times. It wasn't simple. The one lesson he gave me that helped me change the trajectory of where I was gonna finish that in my career, Like where I was gonna finish that in my career before he gave me the information, I was gonna be one of them niggas who made a living make millions of dollars over you know, twenty years, maybe three or four million bucks over twenty years to three million dollars over twenty years. Cool, you know, cool because he fought to teach me as

a rapper. He fought, man, I'm gonna keep trying to give you to the point where he had to make fun of me. For me to finally receive the information in the studio, it changed my trajectory to where, you know, this is the situation. I probably end up making ten million dollars in that same amount of time because he got to me. So it can't be like we can't just be okay with the O G s like like hold withholding information. Yeah, but that's not right on us.

It ain't right. But it's just like you said, so bumping your head, you said, nigga had to he had to stay consistent and persistent to even keep giving you that information, let alone. It had to be a nigger that you liked, let alone, it had to be a nigga that you was gonna be receptive to. So now these young niggas, uh, not even young niggas, young niggas, old names. All niggas, yeah, but all niggas, you know, depending on where their brain is and where their reception

is gonna be. They gotta have that same balance to them who're talking to them. But so it can't just be you're gonna tell me I ain't gonna get no money, because this is would have happened even if you look at the nigga I don't know him. I like him though, but he I just I feel he's this type of

nigga that to do this. But Kodak Black, you tell that nigga he ain't gonna make no money in l A, guess who you're gonna say, Well, I'm gonna come to l A. But but again, even in that situation, right like my my range ain't just here but I'm saying or or just what the g's here? Like this could also mean you ain't gonna get no money because of the niggas I funk with in Louisiana. This is you might not get no money with the niggas I funk with in Michigan, like at the community. We gotta protect

these young men from their self sometimes. But you already noticed same like I just said, Nigga had to tell you that over and over. Imagine the nigga feeld. He got ranged too, and I got ranged too. This is how these niggas think. But if he got ranged and he's gonna be talking to the people, and the people gotta tell him, hey, we gotta protect you from losing

your life or get yourself put in prison. You gotta realize or your test doctor on that at the time when you're getting this information, because see, it don't matter, depend and depending on how you feeling when they telling you that. It's like, nig I don't give a funk like you know what I mean, because depend on who you're talking to that attitude. But eventually you're the baddest nigger in the world. When you see enough badass kneeds you just loads you. Okay, we're just dying. That's cool.

But most men, obviously, even in the highest testosterone level, don't want to just die. They just sometimes think they could size up or overcome the ods until they look at the odds and see it's not overcommable. The we as a community got to protect young men from themselves. Now we don't gotta censor what they're doing. But in that situation where it's these two high level entities, you know what I mean, going at it and fucking each other up and ship like that, like as a as

a culture. If if we're gonna post pictures of niggas dead and talk about their successes and try to celebrate them, how did we not as a community try to preserve his life because we watched this ship play out over years where it became obvious that it was going to be a deadly situation. I think some people feel like you when you're talking to brick walls, or you think these niggas is in spaces that you can't reach them anyway.

Niggas put their hands up. Niggas put their hands up, like fucking y'all, go ahead on and go at it. But that's that. But again, to not teach right and you know better is exactly what evil is about. But see, some people might feel like, okay, if I sit in there, get he could have set you down at one time and said I did my best right there, But I tried. I'm not saying that right, And that's that's different from

me right because this ain't threatening my life. He did something that was actually for my benefit of my livelihood. This ain't even like living um. I mean, I'm saying, no, these young nigga, they're coming from the streets too, so they their life was on the line ten fifteen years ago. But that that's eventually it comes to a space to where none of that. Ship don't mean none if Our job as a community is to make sure you aliged

and you don't funk up the money for all of us. Yeah, I just think that's a tough job because I mean, Ship, the job is tough. It's tough being a young black men didn't have an opportunity. I finally malade grown man. I'm finally a grown man. So that's what I'm saying. But I'm saying if snoop. So, we had a movement going on when I first got in the game, Me and something, a lot of young rappers right uh, Me,

Bishop Mike stro Jay Rode, a lot of us. We had a movement called the New West because we felt like a lot of legends was withholding information. They wasn't willing to help us and assist us and trying to change our life from out of the streets. You know why they did it as a whole another reason Again, now I realized as of today that actually is being evil. Now, maybe your trauma is forcing you to be that way,

but it's evil, right. So immediately my natural spirit, before I even knew what it was, was rebelling against it. It was rebelling like, yeah, I'm not with that. That's out because I'm not fuck y'all. Whatever y'all got going on. We're not working with y'all. Were gonna do our own things. But if they would have all came together as a collective, whether it were Snoop Cube, the mac uh iced tea exhibit Dr Dre and said, hey man, we're gonna have a conference. We need to get to the bottom of this.

We need to stop this. We are all a part of the same cultural, you know, revolution of things that's happening. We need to sit you all down and explain to y'all this is what's wrong. But they never did, and I thank god every day and never got serious, like you know, niggas could have really got shot because like we was on some ship. We were trying to change

our life. Nigga, and y'all not gonna help us. Think we're gonna eat you, We're gonna take your plate, because that's how desperate we were to get out of the streets of selling dope and we want to earn a living and create for ourselves. But if they would have came as a collective, I don't care the roughest versions of us, even if you turn out. If it's fifteen of us and you turn out twelve of us, the three of us is different. I mean, but you have to put effort to teach, and if you don't, that's

exactly what being evil is. To not pass information as a sale means you're worthless and you think and you're not working with the complete rest of the organism that make up of body or a living thing. So the flip side is what these niggas, all them niggas your name, They got information, but they got projects and they got ship they're doing too. They don't have that. This is the responsibility to you, don't see just like as a father, right,

you know your father? Yeah, because you got your own ship going on, don't mean, you're responsible for mad that's your fucking responsibility. And that just because you busted a nothing something lady, right, that's unsufficient. Like And I get that you can see him and see yourself, so you naturally feel inclined to pass yourself information. That's a big part. But eventually it has to become bigger than just your own personal motives, and you have to feel responsible for

people that come up through the same culture. And if you don't, eventively, yo ship should be sliced. Anyway, Well that's why I worked with you. I'm just but yeah, but but see, that's what I'm saying, like to me, just on they saw just like I could just see it, niggd. Man, I could see the I'm saying. I'm gonna try to give a nigga the game you niggas is out there. Wow, though, man, you know what I mean. And I remember when I was well, you know, I just feel like how them niggas,

them niggas, you know, when them nigget straightened up. Not not all them niggas, but some of them niggat straightened up when they made it through some bullshit where they livelihood was on the line and they made it through like, oh, we gotta do that. Then that's when they brain all

of a sudden switch rooms. So I think some of these older niggas be feeling like they possibly whether it be UH talk to the nigga fifteen twenty minutes at this show or this I tried to get him on the song one time, or I got when I when I when I did talk to him and I had him in a song, I told him this, this, this, and this. But that nigga just like I was when I went through boo woo woo woo whoop, and I didn't straighten up until this. So maybe that nigga needs

to learn that. Yeah, but you, while I understand experience is the best teacher. That don't give you the right to not teach. Now, somebody not to learn is different. Self rejecting information is a complicated thing because it could be root of the trauma. But a sale not passing information because it means you're worthless sale. Well, I feel like ship, Like I say, half the ship I've been seeing, like I didn't know, I'm not too familiar with to dude like that. Like I said, y'all had to kind

of put me up on something it ship. But the ship I was seeing, like I said, I see some people seem to be reaching out in certain ways. My thing is, have some people spoke to them about it? I would imagine so. But did the whole community as a hip hop community decided to come together and make a concerted effort to make sure Dolf was alive? No, And we got the opportunity to see the threats on his life, Like sometimes we don't get to see it,

but we saw this ship play out four years. And hip hop never made a concerted effort right to get to make sure that this man was gonna be allowed to take care of that wife and them kids, or be there for his family, or be there for his community. We never intervened as a whole culture east to west, south to mid west, up top, and I'm saying we never did. So, is it? It has to be disingenuous if you posted ship on the nigger and you are aware of this situation the whole time, Like how genuine?

Like how how badly did you really wanted? How sad are you really? Are you sad because you didn't do anything to make sure that this nick? Did you do anything to protect this young man from losing his life, Like, did we do anything as a community to show him we love him? The one thing you can do with love. Love means to preserve life, you know. I mean that's the catch. So to truly love somebody, it's the way you treat your kids. You're trying to preserve his life.

So you do everything to preserve his life, even give your own life. That's the true sign of love. So well, they definitely and it's disingenuine what's going out on around because look at every post, every nigga posted pictures of cousin and did y'all ever come as a community and sat down and say, hey man, did you make the calls and did you try and get rejected? I don't think niggas even tried and get rejected. I think we're so comfortable in the space of oh, you know them

niggas got that going on. This that in this situation and crazy because Nigga's actually was getting shot and shot at and we all knew it for years, so this was like one of the craziest situations that was they probably staying there funk out of it. You don't shoot me. But that's the best ship because I who got what think you still got as many or more. I mean, that's the truth. But you know these other nick man,

I don't know, like like certain names. I mean ship niggas was willing to do commercials on crime stoppers and they got to stay out of jail. Yeah, but not don't don't shoot at me. I ain't getting in that right now. I'm at it. I'm at I'm at a certain point in my life. I ain't got to get into that type of ship. Right That's not enough. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable that you're scared of the situation.

So it's like, oh, well, you know what, I got my home, No champion, we made you have your problems. A lot of nigga screen their self maint no nigga self made bits. We made all y'all, we bought all y'all records. Ain't no nigga self man. We made you. I mean we can't. We supported you. We spend money on your ship. So if nothing else, you owe the community your best. That's not to say you gotta get more your money, but goddamn, if you can't pass information.

If you can't pass information, you can't do the one single purpose of a seal. Hey, man, y'all need to get this, and I'm not sure Tip didn't. I would like to believe Tip talk to Dolph and said, y'all probably should just hope you know what I'm saying. But it's not just him. I mean, Jip could call Tip got reach out here, Tip reaching the mid West, Tip got recently coach. He could literally set up and say, hey, this should get too serious. These niggas from the killing

each other and funk with the money with them. And every time this happens, it funks with the money. So what does it look like then? Like all right, Tip saying like no, I'm I'm just we just exactly where we went. But so if Tip was just saying, hey, man, y'all tripping, I'm trying to sit down with you. That ain't working. I gotta slow from of y'all bread up home because y'are doing too much. So what's that go? He goes boom, I'm goin a hit. I'm gonna hit

big you, okay, but big you go hit all of us. Yeah, they can't get that they're doing too much out here. Man, Hey, that niggas got to figure out the situation for they funk up all the money. Okay, Tip could get tricked in the middle. Trick got hit work, nigga hit niggas on these truck they got dam network or what has. I'm not saying that's the solution. I'm saying you gotta do something. You have to do something in these situations

that be this obvious to young men from themselves. They they do like, no, man, how does that manifest in real time? Because obviously it's it's one party because you're talking now about talking to like the party they got it, you know, in park, So it's obviously like the perpetrators that had in their minds reason enough to go do that. So it's not just it's not just him like to see this situation as unique. And it's important because d I think this is gonna be a situation We're gonna

see happen a lot more. We're gonna see this happen a lot more. But once it's this high level, you could call the you could call both sides in this situation. We could reach out. But I know a nigga that's the nigga big homie feel me. I know niggas's big homies to both niggas if I had, you know, if I really like, I'm also not one of the nigga's posting rest in peace and all that. I'm just like, damn,

you know what I mean. I'm not even I'm not trying to capitalize socially off what happened to the man or nothing. I'm just like ship. But it's people capitalizing off of what happened. There's people capitalizing socially off what happened to them, whether it's posting pictures of them, whether it's putting the music videos up where there's postlrics, are saying positive things. That's a great way to get likes

and increase your followers. Understand, you're capitalizing off another nigga death socially, but if you really love that person, you're gonna try to preserve his life. So I mean, I'm not saying this is the solution. I'm saying just that fast, I thought of something we could really do at the highest level if we saw it going bad like this. How do you how do you get somebody who has that much of a problem with a target to do that? To know, you know, because no matter who you think

you is, you ain't that bad. Nigga. I don't give a fuck who it is. It could be Jake Prince. Jay Prince still need a network of people to operate. He ain't bad enough to go. Jake Prince might be one of the most powerful black men that ever came from our ghetto, any ghetto for me around our errors. That don't mean he don't need a network of people to accomplish things. So we're looking at a situation that's

gonna cost all of us. It's like if we all sledge on the plantation and one nigg we're trying to plan a breakout, and this nigga might be a bad nigga. Like, I'm gonna tell master y'all trying to break out. Maybe we're gonna come together and do something to that nigga. Man, you're fucking with the plan, like this ship fus with the plan offentally, like we're going to stop signing people that look like us, They're gon sign more people that look like Peter and eventually we'll be washed up by

this ship. So you brought up jp uh j I like that. Man, I gotta get that book too, Yeah, yeah, So what about do you think do you think he was you know. Do you think it even got to him? I think he was aware, but he also ain't posted pictures talks like it's me where it's like you're not vested in the middle of you just looked at him. He squashed the beet. That just happened right now between two niggas that wasn't gonna pinch each other them to Nika d each other. Did the thing because he thought

about what happened. He realized this could benefit Larry Hoover. He kept it real with the corners, the street Larry who was from a no country nick. He understood the importance of Larry Hoover as his comrade. You feel me he doing That's why I respect Jay Geez like. I respect him because he goes out of his way, feel me to make sure real ones benefit like and that's from me to legends like Larry Hoover, the glasses to anybody like, I love that nigga. That nigga is such

a great figure. I'm sure he gives some ship to motherfucker's that motherfucker's wouldn't aprove of. But I respect him. I feel like he does a good job. I think you does a good job getting his homeboys making a lit. I ain't like you getting there's no cracking, nobody smoking, no cracks, so getting the security jobs. He's doing everything he can in his power to make a living and make sure his homies and his friends making a living. That's what I respect, That's what our jobs is as rappers.

I think when I expressed to you, people couldn't understand why I want to lead cash money. I was making enough money for me to live good. But none of my homeboys who in prison, I could do nothing to change their fortunes. Something wrong. I'm not doing something right. So that's that's all responsibility as black people in this country. Like I tell Pete, they don't have that. They all gotta even chance us. You gotta move his once we it's already fucked up. We already way behind a ball,

were starting off way then. Motherfucker's at thirty. We had negative twenty. Feel me. So we don't have the luxury to act like them. Just do what they want to do. Nig It don't matter whatever you want. You white, you got as much chance to me if you white. Feel me. Pete, Pete, a poor white Pete. Now you know you from where we're from you feel me, it's different. So we have to together, We have to have some ideas together, we have to sacrifice a little for each other. And if

we don't, that's what's selling now. It isn't. Really we should cut your throat because you're not any good for us as a community. That's the point of this raption. We should cut your fucking throw have no thro A sale that's not passing information is a worthless sale. What the fuck? What the funk? Now? I'm not saying I get it. If you've tried, and nobody listening to you. Mac told me ship and not listen to Matt ten He was telling me some gang a couple of things.

I thought, you know what I mean, I had it a better idea of it than him, which is crazy because he's been successful in this business. But it was some things he told me that was absolutely brilliant that I didn't understand. But it's credit. He wasn't worthless sale. He asked me, information. Now sell that rejects information to be traumatized? Who know that? Mother? Like any other sale

you sell? My guy, Hey, they can't take the information, might be sick or funked up and at that time, traumatized. You're not understanding what's going on. Information huh. Almost the biological definition of a cancer and the proverbial definition exactly like cancer. So like, even when I was talking to Mac, there were certain things it was cancerous things inside of me that made me reject information. But I'm also in a better position and I was able to call Mac.

Tim Becker said, Hey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I wasted your opportunity you gave me. I'm sorry that you paid me not to make you way more money. He like, ge, we make good money. No, we didn't be, cause I am worth a lot more. If I wouldn't have been a cancers salf, I would have just took him information and it had been would have laid the ball in the fucking hoop. It was still some things missing, but we'd have got way more money. Just listen to him,

probably would have got us. Asked you for a million. So you think a nigga that got his car shot up a hunted fucking time and came back out song about niggas, You think he's listening. Fuck No, they told him a hundred times and he wasn't listening. Came right out of getting One of times he came out, it was like truck you niggas and yeah, but he would listen, listen. I don't think I genuinely believe if I would have

talked to that nigga said Amen. I mean, it's only so much I can say because I don't know the dynamics of the situation. But I mean, it's gonna listen, They're gonna listen. The nigga came straight out and made a season because nobody is saying, nobody is giving It's not about the songs that I'm chipping off for. It's not none of that. I'm not chipping off. How you market yourself. I'm saying, when it's a real credit your life.

So the Hunted Bullets wasn't a real yes, one hundred percent, But I'm saying, so now you gotta sit both parties down and have a real conversation because they've gonna funk up the money and Memphis it's gonna end up in this situation going through the same thing that California went through. What happened with Pocket Biggie on this side happened, It's going to happen. You know. Once Rapper died motherfucker's start tripping, mothers start targeting. Man, it's bad. So they said some ship.

I don't know how true it is it is, but I've seen some ship that they said it was like the Nigga cousin and mean like this nigga cousin or somebody that didn't. Yeah, I don't really know, like and like, honestly, we don't know if it's we don't know, you know, issues with right, we don't know what's going on. But I'm saying it's been at a high level for long

enough that hip hop as a community never interceded. Let me ask the question, like, suppose it's a situation like a like a park lane, right, and maybe it doesn't happen in the exact same ninety minute window, you know what I mean, But it's over a period of time where it's times what are you gonna tell a guy, like what's you're gonna tell Lane to say, Hey, dude, don't he's gonna be like the funk I am. Notice

Notice I'm not saying that. I'm saying, see street ship, you got to that's a different thing because you don't have because I haven't contributed to their life that's that's the responsibility of the black church. I think the reason gangs and gang violence seems as as funk up as it is is because people are in the most hopeless state that they've been in. And that's also the number one failure of the black community. The number one failure is the Black church. That's the number one failure of

the Black community is the Black church. White people being consistently fucking over the rest of the humanity for ever, so they're doing as expected. The black church is supposed to be the backbone to each community. They're supposed to be interceded in that situation. Somebody watching your kid for free at the church. The kid is in basketball program. How much you pay for your son to being a football program? A black church supposed to had that lined up.

They're supposed to put your kids in daycare, tutor, church, uh, football, basketball year round. That way. When you got some ship going on with some nigga, Hey, we'll come up here, sir. That's how the passage. Hey, uh hey here, come on up here. Hey listen, you got all that ship gonna we need to talk to y'all. Both of your kids need programs. Y'all need to figure this out or your kids ain't gonna be in this program. All these free

program y'all. That's how you have influenced. The reason your old lady and people can control you us because they have influenced your life. Your boss can tell you what to do because he the pay check. So somebody is is feede kids. Got that at the school program and the basketball programming on that. You don't want to pay this two three thund knowledge every year you're gonna listen. You know what old up sir pastor reverend I've been trying.

You're gonna start trying to work it out. The reason, yeah, we need to work this out because who got fathers some thousand dollars a year to dedicate for each kids? Like think about every who the fund has been five running out to play football. They're wanted to pay you self tickets and you gotta pay to get to the gang a at ice creat ruts and snack boards and ship everybody making money for me. But that's because the Black ain't doing this part. I'm really hard on the

Black Church. They biggest SI everybody talking about games. I saw a little They ain't gonna sucking the club. I was. They were like, hip hop has faility to black commun know they haven't. They're a reflection of the black community. Was felling the black community the number one thing. See, white people ain't feeling they're doing what they do best, sucking up. The Black church should be doing a much better job of providing services in that center, in that community.

It should be the center of They don't have no saying Ship when it's the last time, remember all the movies and Ship. When the church will come in. They will have gang interventions at the church. I'll come up to the church, Nick, you all at the church could be all in a few to pass be talking. Now listen here, look Jay Rock, jay Bone, I did this for your family. That's when you start remembering the kids reginal gangsters. That movie was like that as this church. Yeah,

that is the cornerstone of the black community. That is the center piece. They are the fucking failures. They're not the problems. White people is the problem. But the church is a failure that you were talking about. You were talking yesterday about doing more socially conscious stuff in the future. Right, they'll know, I don't want you conscious. Huh oh, My ship is socially conscious. I feel socially conscious everything I do. You're directing more in that vain yesterday. Maybe not sure

I was. To me, I always thought that the most practical, like socially conscious rap entity ever because they didn't talk about Broad Calton a lot. But like I always thought U. G. K was exceptional at that. And those guys spend a lot of time and criticizing the church. There's a there's a lot of souls. I don't even know that. I don't know that, but I am comfortable in saying what I'm saying. I've read enough ship, I've been through the experiences to know that the problem is the Black church

as a failure. Now they're not the problem failure. Yeah. See, white people have been a problem historically. They they some colonizing motherfucker's They are not, and there around this motherfucker making every hood theyhood. There's certain games that do that right now. I always called the neighborhood car the most colonizing niggers in the world, and niggas going around colonizing communities. They got that from white folks. But the black is

the failure of our system. That's what's wrong with our system. They have no say, no input, they have no practical purpose for being here are concert they like Broadway like Broadway in New York. And ship they just have a play every Sunday. And you need that motherfucker's spelling spiritually better going back to a fucked up situation, I don't need. I realized today. Yeah, every rapper is a fucking pastor. Every rapper is a pastor. And he was like, man, you're not how easy it is peak for me to

sell hope as a rapper. I could sell niggas hoping and inspiration fast. I'd rather sell education. I don't even want to sell it. I want to give you education for free. I don't want you to pay me now. I don't want to inspire you. Ship is lost in inspiration. Niggas be telling me they're trying to inspire to change the world. Now I'm trying to educate you. I'm I'm closer to what Elijah Mohammed and fraud and it was on. I'm not on that ship. These other niggas on trying

to inspire you, aspire you. I gotta be and you can get a bin that is not no information nigga rap nigga. If I can get one. You can get one man. That's gonna help one out of every thousand kids. Man, how about we teach niggas how to get the money. We teach them, we educate them. That's what rap should be. So rap went from this space of educating to inspirational, where all these niggas looking to inspire you. My nigga

caality is my nigga. All his posts inspirational. Nigga. You inspired me with a car that ain't got no roof. You showed me you can get not nigga that the funk is that And most of these niggas ain't inspiration. Most of these rap niggas is aspirational as a rap nigga. I'm educational. You're gonna listen to my ship. You're gonna listen to Tupop Must Die. You're gonna realize, Oh yeah, No, man is bigger than the program. Them niggas could do

that to him. The Park one of the most important black men in the world because he intervened in some ship. It could happen to anybody that's education ain't gonna inspire you to be no gangbanger. Tupac Must Die inspire you to be a game Baker, you are funked up. Your therapist. Niggas killed Tupac and then I told you at the end the nigga who killed Tupop got killed to three years later. There's nothing about that that should make you

want to be a game banker. Something's wrong with you if you were inspired to be a motherucking gang remember after watching that video, you need therapist nicker for real to call you move, call you a cutting. Hey, nigga's crazy. Tupac must die. On't inspire nobody. You better not be no game may got to watching that ship. That ship all got sucked up. A lot of niggas got killed in the video. I shouldn't just started listening to niggas

that got killed. That was the video. Every nigga that Lane was in the car would include Lane except one nigga got killed. So it's four nigger in the car. Three of them niggas got killed. The niggas out stopped the park out. Three or four of them niggas got killed. The nigga who killed Pop, he got killed. Pop got killed. Niggas didn't even live that story. Fucked up? How are you inspired to be like nigga These niggas de rap niggas is making inspiration little ship and inspirational ship glasses

low as a rapper is making educational ship. I'm gonna tell you how this ship go one plus one equals to nigga. Somebody saw. Look, Tony Robbins makes a lot of money going up and telling people they couldn't do it. If we put a trumpey behind that, we're gonna make ten times more money. We're gonna crush Tony Robbins. Educational big Educating people is not as the other. That's how I know we're not in the righteous society. The teachers

is the worst treated people in the world. If if the most and the things you could do is teach, you know that's the most righteous. Not misinformed, because misinformed at teaching, misinformation is not informant, it's misinformat So to teach and past real, true factual information is the most gali andate thing you could do. How do we pay them is the less because they don't teach ship and

they get paid plenty. You get paid six figures for like a California You get paid a hundred thirty thousand dollars a year in real money and to do what the forty nin out of fifty No, sorry, that's how much they really get paid. They're so stupid they don't even know how much they get paid. And they're teaching

our kids math. That's the fucking problem. You get sixty thou dollars today, you get seventy five thousand dollars in pension for that year's earnings when you retire, and you get all the other ship in between, you get the cost per teachers, like a hundred three hundred, forty thousand dollars a Year's why Cowper's is a multi billion dollars dead hole in the state budget. How they get that? They get that working if you're working for the the

dependitentiary in the county, they don't get cowpers Uh. Teachers in the l A U. S D. So, I don't. I don't know nothing. They have their own pension fund thing, but that's either fifty tho annually and the sevy for pete is fucking cold. Here, goddamn who used to be a rapper? Yeah, so look, that's about how much all the other rappers make. Sixty is not enough, Like in the seventy five thousand pension is cool? But that number

should be done. This this person is literally they don't as much as your parents are responsible for the rest of the world next generation, but they don't teach it. They shake the mind that's going to run the world. That should be the highest paid person in society. Because if they are fucking teaching ship, what shi you can't teach it for sixty thousand that like I'm going with me to Rond, I ain't gonna get you know, crazy video for cisty thousands your video and to be me

standing right in front of the ouse. You can look at the curriculum for free. They don't teach ship. You can put anybody in You can put anybody in there you want to pay anything you want to. You can teach that ship curriculum. That's gonna help anybody make any fucking money. Pe is Ice cold Bro, you're a real rap nigga. Pete telling man, I'm gonna come out. I'm damn right good looking out for tuning into the No Sillers podcast, Please do us a favorite, subscribe, rate, comment,

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