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end of a decade and the beginning of a new one. Right, some ship change, some ship hasn't. So it hasn't. But you know, but personally, each one of us are actually posted a meme um that said that living from January to December is no joke and thanking God for keeping us, keeping our minds, keeping our health, our spirits, our families. So much is happening in the world and the fact that we keep living every day with all the challenges is a blessing. Got Trump being leaving the White House?

How about that I saw? I mean today, it wasn't even a meme, It was a tweet from Mike Huckabee ran for president, former governor Mike Now I don't think

he's still governor. Uh. And he was talking about how he's been selected as the whole store the chair of the committee to had to re elect Trump for a third term because the Democrats are you know, this is illegal what they're doing, and it's wrong, and impeachment is you know, it's it's unfair and it was a witch hunt and all this stuff, and you know, and we have been saying for a while that you know, listen, Michael Bloomberg did it in New York and this is

one of the most uh you know, the most powerful cities in the world, and he did it here where he extended his term. His term limits was two terms, so that would have been eight years, and when it was getting towards the end of the second term, he was able to get the city Council to vote for a third term, which of course the city council members were also able to be in office for a third term.

But he is mayor wanted to stay for a third term because he said that, you know, the city needed him, that he was doing so much economically and turning the city around, and you know all that. And by the way, I know from council members that I was friends with, that there was a lot of pain in the decisions

that they made. There was you know, there were people who knew personal background stuff about those folks and was like literally coming to them saying, you better vote for uh, this extension this, you know, the term limits to be lifted if you will based upon that's like putting your public your your personal business and public. I'm not gonna say that they were black male because well listen, I'm not trying to be suited by the Bloomberg said people

were black men exactly. And Trump ain't leaving the White House. Well, so you know, you never know. I don't know if he's going to leave. The man has for him to cool and you're looking at one of posts on my page, we got to his three fifty seven is making sure that nothing happens to Trump. You know, if people try to impeach him, he's going to be civil war. And you know, and I've been saying that for a long time. He's running the White House like the mafia, Like he

really like a mab boss. So it's not pass him. Like when he doesn't feel like he wants to leave, I can't see the reason why he would. He has to Trump is a gangster man. He is going to be able because you know what, so is Nancy Pelosi. Uh and and you know AUNTI Maxine is up in there like, oh he think he I'm definitely exactly so, you know. And I'm not a big fan of like any of them, Pelosi, I mean, obviously anti Maxine, but

I'm not a big fan of avideo of them. But I do know that what Pelosi has done is something that Trump tried. He tried everything that he could to really be like threaten her without like calling her out her name, but damn near, he was really trying to intimidate her in the media, even in person, and she still went forward with the impeachment because the man is a trader. He's a trader. His behavior, his behavior is treason us and really he should have been impeached a

long time ago. But hey, we are where we are, so that's that we were. I haven't. I really literally refused to get myself deep into the impeachment proceedings and watching everything because what I think is more important than the sensationalism of what's happening in this moment is us focusing on getting our people ready for to money twenty.

And I'm not even talking about registering the vote. I'm talking about mentally, like folks need to know how serious it is for them to be in the game and for them to be able to understand everything that's happening. So do you do you think is gonna benefit us or it's gonna be negative? I think you damned if you do, damned if you don't. I think that no matter what, the people are losing in this moment because I don't I don't see anybody running the government like

the government. I don't even know what the government does because everything I hear is we lose food stamps, you know, the children being separated. The young man died in the jail just last week. Actually, yandy Um. She sent me a piece of like a clip of the young man falling out in his cell. He had the flu, and there was another person in the cell as well, under those like silver blankets or whatever he was. He is in there as well. They had they quarantined them, put

them in the cell, and the boy died. That's he fell out and died like a teenager. But those things are not they're just so common being formally incarcerated. I know so many people who have passed from similar circumstances. If it wasn't from somebody beating them, it was just lack of taking care of their health for them being put into the box and then just left isolated, not fed properly. So those are common things. I was just told about one of of the friends I have that incarcerated.

They're supposed to start putting the body cams on the offices. I think they started. I think he said that somebody would. But they only use it. They only, excuse me, they only use it when, like there's an incident, so it's not like all day they were in it. But when somebody pulls a pain and they says the incident and they have to go and deal with one of the prisoners,

they have to show the camera. That's what he was telling. Well, I mean, because the camera's that's all around, I'm supposed to be able to show you what's going on, and somehow for years and years and years, that doesn't really work. But yeah, because they put him in blind. If you look at what they put them, they put them right outside that you can see in front of the celle you can't in yourself unless they have to. Yeah, they do it all the time, and nobody gets to see.

Like I've just seen one online the other day where a guy was getting processed. They walked him in the sale next to you know, he comes out limping, his eyes all beat up. Then nobody shows how it happened, but they just showed they came beat up. Say that's some of the stuff that has not changed, right, definitely in this new decade. Um, let me see what else has happened to Michael Vick. I mean, he's getting this opportunity which we were saying is an award, and I

guess that's no, it's an honor. It's not a reward. It's um he's been he's been voted as one of the captains for the Pro Bowl. So that's like when you have legendary status, they choose you as whinning captains. Mike Vic pretty much revolutionary, I mean revolutionized the quarterback position. He was one of the first um multi talented running back slash quarterbacks who ran for a bunch of yards. So he had this kind of you know, multi task that he was able to do as a quarterback, which

prior to him wasn't being done. The quarterback was primarily the person who threw the ball, handed the ball off. He wasn't a runner, and he revolutionary revolutionized, no revolution. Sometimes the words definitely makes it's not I just know how to make vocabulary evolved. Whatever you gotta help, you gotta make because we can't keep using the same and that we gotta we gotta evolve. But I think that

means using words in the English. Yeah, that's the word revolutionary word, I know that, but but you know what I'm talking about. I would pull one up for you when you made up a whole word. It worked though, so usually have the route that's the word anyway. So yeah, so there's a there was a petition had over four hundred thousand signatures on it from people who said they

did not want him to be honored. When you're saying is really more so positioning like him being recognized as the captain and the bowl and then him there, so pretty much I don't think people knew that. I think that the way I think the way the media said he's being honored, folks signed it thinking he was about to stand up and get some you know, special But if that's but if that's what they did, I'm just saying that that's what people were reacting. I don't think

a lot of folks understood exactly what was happening. Common sense ain't that comment or more? And people don't even They just want to grab onto social media and they want to attack things. You know, Michael Vick was did his he served his time for his infraction, you know with the dog fighting situation, and he did his time, he paid his fines, he came out, he's been he's an apology tour. He's been an advocate against you know, animal rights, I mean for against for for animal rights

like he's been. He's been doing his job. So for somebody to make a statement or sign a petition to stop him from being anything, getting honored or being an honorary captain, it's just ludicrous to me. And it's like when when do you pay your debts to society? Like what what does rehabilitation look like? So you know jewels, you know jewels. How Julianne who works with us, she's a white woman and she is one of our allies. We rather call her an accomplice. She's more than an

she's assistant these our sisters. She's down with us, working with us in the struggle. So I happen to turn on Facebook, you know, open up Facebook, and the first thing that popped up was that she was up there with her her her She was basically promoting the petition asking people to sign the petition against Michael Vick. Now, you know, Jules loves her dog, just very serious dog.

Like her dog is like the whole person. And I understand she loves her dog, but I had to I wrote to her, to Jules, the question that I have for you right like, you know, being a part of our movement, she is often around people, particularly black men who are formerly incarcerated, who who or who may have killed someone, who may have hurt another person. I mean, she's been around all these people, and we support all

of us together. The idea here that these black men, black and brown men who are entering society again should be that their time is up, they've done their time, and that if they're being honored for turning their lives around, for helping young people for whatever, that you support that, And I asked, so you support that you support this These men who may have killed another black man, may have hurt someone you support them being acknowledged for turning

their lives around after serving their time. She's and of course she agrees with that, and like, you can't be okay with that and then say, but you can't be honored for killing a dog because that puts more value

on the dog's life than another black man. And we specifically support something called the Time Done Campaign, which our brother Jay Jordan's is the executive director of an organization in California that has this Time Done campaign that really talks is specifically designed to deal with at that when you come home from prison, when a person comes from from prison, there are too many barriers for folks being able to into society and do work and be productive citizens.

And you support that. And she's a great supporter, I mean, I think, but she came back just to be clear after she thought about it, she said, you know what, you're right And now she's like the biggest advocate online.

Because that's the thing about being an airline and accomplice and someone who leads in love is that when you see when somebody gives you the truth or somebody is able to change your mind honestly based on you know, facts and and based on really just sitting you down and walking you through something and you're able to say, you know what, I made a mistake or now I see it your way. That's what it is about, you know, because we can just argue just for the sake of

arguing all day. So, like I put out a post also about Michael Vick situation, I was just talking about the comparison to him and ray Lewis, and a lot of people give me flat, you know, and I understand he was one of the people. And for me it was just like understanding. Like you said, like Michael Vick killed the dogs. Let me change that Michael Vick was was he was found guilty or he pled guilty to having um something to do with the dog fighting ring.

I don't think. I don't know, facilitate, facilitated, I don't I don't know if he was okay, I don't know what. I don't know that his father exactly said that this is his thing, fighting dogs. But even if it was in a house that belonged to him, that's still facilitates. So he facilitated. But what I was saying was ray Lewis was involved in a situation which led to the death of two black men, and he pled guilty to a lesser charge which was associated with it there for

the two black men. So I was in, we're okay with a black man who kills a black man or is responsible or any way has a connection to the death of two black men, but we're not okay with the black man who is connected to the death of dogs. And you know, it just shows to me that the black man's life is less valuable in America's us, you know.

So that was my argument. A lot of people, a lot of people seen in my way, and a lot of people, you know, then there was you know, there was this discourse and it's but my only issue was that I just felt like I didn't I hate us even having to talk about what another black man has or has not done, when there's so much that white folks have done. But I want and if not ever,

but I get your point. You made me understand your position that you know, basically, there's two different black men with two different scenarios, but one is responsible for the death of dogs and the other one that's responsible potentially or involved somehow in the killing of a man. And it's the same organization and the hypocrisy because he was being just voted was one of the top one hundred players two weeks ago, so nobody there was no petition.

If there was, please show me how to see a petition at all for somebody to say that he didn't deserve it. So you know that this is hypocrisi out and now he's gonna and that's that's a good thing. Good looking. The NFL did something good. They did something good. They got a lot of other stuff, but you know, one of the things that is it that I'm verily, like really concerned about. So you know, like I'm not getting myself caught up into impeachment stuff right because I

can't take it. You know, I get mad. I saw yelling at the TV and calling everybody and saying we need a march and a protest. But I am paying attention to as I said, nobody doing work in the government. Most of our cabinet members are acting like none of

them are actually confirmed cabinet members. He really is running, like you said, the government like the mafia because he knows that the loophole is having everyone is acting cabinet members because he can't get people confirmed, which means that there's a vote with the House and then and they confirmed exactly. You still getting paid for him, so he

doesn't need confirmed. But but the reason why it's important for these people to be confirmed is because it gives the American public and opportunity to see through the hearings and other things, who these individuals. We know what's important to us to him, and then and then the people that we put an office get an opportunity to vote. And so he has he has that process and he has all these people acting. So so this guy William Barr, who's the acting Attorney General, which means he is the

top cop in the country. He was speaking to a group which include law enforcement officers, which included law enforcement enforcement officers, and he started talking about how when veterans come home from war, they are they're acknowledged their parades

when out. And there's a lot of veterans that would disagree with that, let's be clear, but you know, he said, there's so much love for veterans coming home and good and he said, but police officers are not treated the same, and that he we certain communities, certain communities, people need to start respecting police officers because if not, we may find ourselves being, you know, left without protection. Our communities

may be left without protection. That is absolutely crazy. It's not because the problem with this whole situation with Trump and bar and all these things is these people are just seeing things that have been happening. You understand I'm saying. So when you hear Trump spewards rhetoric and people like yo, you heard what he said, this is what America has been. This is what they've been thinking. When you hear William Barr said what he says, it's what the police been doing.

They either over police our communities to where they make us just um criminals. They don't come in there to help and really say protect and serve. They've never done that. So ultimately, this is why the king stopped killing King's model and raising King's model that I've created. It's something

that is going to be needed in our society. We have to get back to police, to um community police, and we have to get back to the men in the community and the women in the community coming to hand in hand and being in unison and being able to dictate what goes on the community so we don't have to call police because we see what having when the police come to our communities. They either harm someone

who called for help. Um, you know, mentally ill people being shot down in their own homes that call when somebody calls to help them, they're being killed, you know police. I mean kids are being handcuffed and beat up on the corners for walking down the block because they quote unquote fit descriptions. So the bottom line is we have to get back to that mine. Anyway. We have to tell Mr Ball thank you, because what that's going to

do is call us to start commute. I mean, police in our own community is gonna call us to be a lot more responsible. It's gonna call us to be a lot more unified and look to each other for solutions before we call these people into our communities that are just throwing our kids in jail or hurting and killing them. So I say thank you. Let's like I said thank you the Trump. I told you these people were needed. I didn't I knew that any other president but Trump was gonna have us sit around for a

few years and be like, look we did something. Oh look Hillary is here, the first woman. While we did something. Something that's happened. Ain't nothing happening in America? And Trump just lets you see that America has been racist, It's been directed at us. White supremacy has always been the mantra of America, and now you get to see it. So when you hear these people say the things, and

you hear the people talk them out. If Trump is impeach, is gonna be civil war, and you hear the bars saying, hey, the police are gonna stop doing if certain communities don't respect them. It gives you the reality and the route awakening that people in our communities, the people in our communities need to wake up and start governing their themselves.

Well yeah, okay, first of all, I think that yes, there are problems with police and community, absolutely, but generally police officers go to work, to do their job, go home. They don't want to have issues. There are the bad cops, if you will, and the good cops that there and watch it happen, so we can classify them all together. Because unless you are and Edwin Raymond or one of the you know, or the officers who are considered whistle blowers or people who really stand up within the department,

you are part of the problem. But most police officers do try to do their job every day, and unfortunately, they work within a system that if they they facilitate their job the ways in which they're being trained, it means they're either over policing or under police and our people. I agree with you about that thousand percent. I don't. I still think when you are in they uh not

an elected official. But when you are representing the country, right, you're you're you're the top cop, You're the person that is setting the tone for what happens in the country. You cannot say things like that. It incites tension on both sides of the owl. It puts police in danger, and it puts communities in danger because now you basically are telling us that if we hold the protest then and then the police can just come in and do whatever they want to us, or they can hurt us.

Then our response to that is going to be a visceral response. It's not good. So I just I think it's wrong. I think the rhetoric is extremely dangerous. I do agree with you that there has to be a movement to take care of our own communities. And I don't know that we can use the words police. I think we do need different languages or Yeah, I think that we do need to evolve the language. We have to.

We have to find a different way words. You have to make up a word because we have to find a way because we're policing, policing, policing the stigma and the negativity attached to that world. It doesn't even fit what that want. Yeah, we we do got to find a different way to be able to describe what it

is that we need to do. And I do think the Kings Stopped Killing Kings movement is so important because what you're basically doing is taking madis into your own hands and get and you have so many community partners where across the country people are like, we're gonna go out and work on kings to stop the killing in their own communities, which would give us right, which right, It's right. It's a culture shift. It's not just about shooting. It's not just even though we do work on those

efforts as well, but it's not about that. It's a culture shift. And even queens and a lot of women are involved in helping people who gender nonconforming for are involved because they understand the importance of like when the men in our community are healthy, when when we have a king's mindset, then it lends itself to a more

positive space. But if people don't need to come to our communities to lock us up and to have so much contact with the men in blue, right, and that's that's the thing that we have to be able to create, is a model for how people can take care of their own communities as we always have. We always have. In fact, in New York there was a police slowdown over some issue. I don't remember what it was, but they were piste off with everybody for what people were protesting.

The police might have been around stopping frisk um. And the data showed that when police when their efforts decrease, crime went down. Because I think again, I think it's something to be said about people feeling like folks are in your commun and don't really necessarily have your best interests at heart. Just thinking about even in Queens, they have these big the towers where police officers are near the parks and everything and they're watching everything that's going on.

But yet a fourteen year old boy was shot to death right next to the towers, like literally where this microphone is over the park, and a little boy was shot in the park, shot dead. Basketball player I guess he was, you know, shooting his last shot and he he so what is the point. They're not doing anything? And that's what I'm saying. That's why we have to take matters back into our own hands. Yeah, no, we

absolutely do. We do. We do. Um which And then this week, I mean when you talk about like changing the culture, the whole issue around this guy Juice World, who I've never heard of. Then again, there was a song on the radio and then I was like, oh man, I kind of like that he has. He has some

good music. M young boy, one years of age, um D. They are different accounts why it happened, but it's been common knowledge that he was advoct and excessive user of Lean quote unquote quoting that these kids are taken in perks, and you know, his music reflected that. Talked about it. He talked about how artists such as Future influenced him from his mixtape, the Dirty Sprite Mixtape, which he heard when he was only eleven years old, and he was

inspired and wanted to sibling. Like he said, he just wanted to be on Lean and you know, and I just and I had a conversation about someone about this, and I was like this culture of drug culture, you know, which also has been a culture of the suicide culture. Like if you listen to the music, there's so much pain and drug usage, and people are saying, all these kids are over they just medicated because they're deal with

pain and trauma. And you know, I understand understand being young and being confused, and I understand just looking at

social media. Social media is doing so much damage to these kids because they're trying to live a life that is not even attainable, because the life that is being shown to them is not But it's even worse when when you're young and you're trying to figure something out and you think you're supposed to you see somebody's best sixty seconds of their life, and you're looking at their best sixty seconds and you're judging your whole life by that, not knowing that they didn't prop this and put this

money here, and they took a picture in front of his camera and they put this background here, and you're saying that, why is my life not like this? And you know, and these kids have been program that this perks in this lean and this drug culture is something to you know, the aspired to and then you know it's definitely going first aired. They are listening. If you listen to the interview that I put on my page

that Juice Worrey. We're talking about the way he felt when he listened to Futures Dirty s Bright mixtape and he was like, yo, I couldn't wait. I was like, yeah, gotta get me some lean your ways of that. Like he said, I was a basketball player, I was a good in sports and all that, but as soon as I heard that, I want I just wanted to sit lean. I just wanted to get hot. But people said you was a hater when you talked about Future because that's

the person, that's the thing that's been glorified. You know, Futures quote unquote this megastar and hip hop. So when you talk against the megastar, you know that when you go against the status quo on the trend, everybody's gonna say you hate because you don't got what you got. So you're just mad. You want to shoot him down, and there's nothing about that. This is another black man.

I'm happy that he's able to escape poverty and able to feed his family and provide beyond the means that then most of the people in our community, and I'm happy for him, but not on the backs, not on the you know, not at the expense of our children, not feeding our kids poison. If that's what it's gonna take for you to attain some level of monetary wealth, and I don't think it's worth it, and not for me anyway, So I've always not even necessary. It's not

because you already here at this point, you know. And I think I think the future said, did you respond? I think he said I'm sorry or whatever, but it was like, you know, in response to him, it wasn't so much of him. But I just think at some point you have to do more than just do a little interview saying yeah, I said this and this and that. I think at some point you what I said, Oh yeah, I know I said that because he's done interviews saying yeah,

I've taken lean or haven't taken Lean. I don't even take lean. I used to. I don't do it no more. But I can't say that to the people because then, you know, my following is gonna stop following me because that's what they believe I do. And when you when that's how you feel, that's ignorant. You know it's it's it's terribly ignorant, and you you miss leading and miss gud and these kids so that you can make a couple of dollars. So I'm never I'm gonna be okay

with that. I always speak against that. And if that's what's called the hater, then I'm okay with the hater. We know you're okay with the hater title because you're always going against, always going against, said is quote man. But it's sad when you look at what the drug is a culture of drugs. It is definitely before we people are smoking a little weed in and now when you talk about these pills, they're popping pills like it.

But I saw I think it was Charlemagne and Amanda Stills talking about how it's deepening just taking drugs right like, like you said, the pain that people are suffering, what folks are going through every day, and and I think you're right, Like when as I'm sitting here really processing your statement, it probably is that folks are even no matter how successful they are, they're still trying to get to some mystified place. When when when I think of hip hop of our time, like the Queen Latifa, hip

hop time, the Woutang clan. I feel like maybe weed because when you think about Wu Tang, there was a lot of weed. But I don't know if people were like taking that much medication, just taking anything. But did you make it? Not saying that they weren't doing it because there was always drug used, Like was the thing that that under the table if you was somebody that had some level of money and status, people would you know? They they called a little cocaine and they did it whatever.

But it wasn't put in music to where it was glorified. Was personal, personal thing that they did. It wasn't trying to make kids. I don't know because I didn't hear it exactly. You find out if you was in the circle of people you finally do you're doing that? You know? And it was it was never glorified. But they were saying Mary Jane. I didn't know Mary Jane was about

weed and until I got Mary Jane or something. But we weed was glorified because just like right now, we just damn the illegal, so we understand the different levels. Like you ain't finding people overdosing on weed. You know what, I was walking around acting like they over what the reality situation is that these pills and personally is killing because um, major League Baseball they decided to treat marijuana

like alcohol. This week they said they're no longer going to test for marijuana because they're trying to get to the opioid abuse like that. And you know, and I read a story the other day that said, we need to stop acting like opioids is just the white people problem. Yes, it's being treated different. So there's a disparity and the hypocrisy around how they treated crack versus um. You know

now how they're treating opioid abuse. So we know that, but in terms of understanding the issue, the seriousness of the issue, all our people are caught up in it. And it's all ages. It's you know, young people. I had a cousin contacted me the other day telling me that she needs, you know, twenty dollars. I'm like, what what do you need twenty five dollars for? And then it it clicked for me. She just need a few pills to be able to get by. That's very serious.

It is. It is extremely serious, man, and we have to treat it like it's serious. And that's why I think hip hop being the pretty much the staple of the culture, and pretty much these are the vanguards of our culture. So when you are giving that message and you're being very you know, irresponsible to say the least, and you're giving that message and you glorifying it to these kids knowing that they holding onto every word that

you say because they believe you. And if you're not if you're not giving them the facts, if you're not saying even if that's something that you're doing, if you're not telling them how it's hurting you and the negatives that come with it, and you're just telling, you know, we're taking perks and we're doing this, and you're not telling how many of your friends is dying, how many people have locked up, whatever that comes with that, then you just being a false of prose prophet for me

and I can't do it. But that fair are I mean, I know it is. But there are a lot of people who say, as an artist, they are not responsible for raising your kids. But that's not true because as an artist, you you you, especially as my kid's favorite artists, you spend more time to my kid than I do. Because when I ain't talking they got you in their headphones, they're going to YouTube to find you. So you have

to have some level of responsibility. And if you don't have responsibility, then it's our responsibility to make sure that you don't have the ears of our children. So that's that's what it comes down to me. It's like, I get it, you don't need responsibility, but we need to make sure that you ain't over here spreading his poison to these kids. Because it's pretty much like a cold leader. You understand, music is is is has that same level

of code. If you look at the fans that musicians have that they jump on and they fall out when you see people live their lives on the words of these artists. So we a cold leader can have tend people in the room and say yo, I want you to kill each other or kill yourself, and he just keeps saying, but it has happened. It's not saying it happens often because that was the men said that the Cold Leader wanted to temple. But we've seen it happen.

So if you are artist and you keep saying lean and perks and we're on perks and lean, and then you have influenced it's a lot of these young artists that talk about that stuff all the time. But when you talk about artists and music, it brings me to this place where I'm just so proud. I'm so proud of Mary J. Blige until write a post because I'd be getting choked up. This is twenty five years my life album. That was the album that to your point, she has I wouldn't a cult, but we are a following.

Oh my god, you rap singing. I don't think you do sing When it come to Mary, I could do whatever. This is true. That's the thing about Mary J. Blidges music right, Like you can sing. You know, it isn't matter if you have a good voice, a bad voice, doesn't matter. If you can get and you feel like you can even if you can't. She just makes you feel because you feel so connected to me Mary is.

It's iconic and so many facets of the world of icon man like she has she created something, recreated herself, rebranded herself and continued several times several times over like she has been able to transcend and continue to be relevant in so many different time periods of music. Man. So when you think about twenty five years years ago I was fifteen years old. I'm literally six months almost to the day of turning forties. So you know, I'm on this little like I'm gonna be forty. Who do

I get rid of? Who do I keep? What do I do? How do I get better? Stronger? The whole thing? And I think about being fifteen. That's like when we really discovered love. Like I thought, I just I knew already broken, and my life was like I know what the hell I was singing, but I knew it was like it was it was, it was, it was. It was like turning my inside and and she would take

you through feeling good about yourself. Mary was listen. Mary is one of the only singers and women that could bash a man, and the man still she really not really bad. She wasn't bad. She was just selling her story. And it was like, damn, he hurt you like you didn't feel like come on, because women would play it. Women would play it to you like they mad at you, and you don't even kid you still be she mad at you and you still singing Mary like, but you

know what's funny? Twenty five years ago, that's probably true. That's how we how many people interpreted it. But the other day when we were coming down to your Kings stopped killing King's March in Baltimore, Angelo, our brother, Um, we were listening to the lyrics and she really wasn't bashing men at all. She was actually talking a lot about love. Some of it was pain, but a lot of it was more so about when you love your man, when you really into a man, when your man is

into you. You see three songs, but there are so many other songs that were not about like bashing. No, she never really bash. I'm just saying she gave she gave woman a voice for pain, pain, pain in relationships. And it was so good that the men even gra gravitated to it and grabbed on while the woman was using it against them. You know what I'm saying. You know when they were using it against because women singing women.

When you're coming the house, okay whatever, you come out and you know your girl madded she's playing married and she looking at you and she's singing the song and you're still dancing, like, no, she killed this. You ain't even you You know she mad a you were she using it to say something to you, but you still

just singing you like I would. I would suggest because as I said, Angela, and we're listening and he was talking about the woman bashing, and then we listened to the song after song and he's like, Yo, this is this is some like powerful always Bible music. So you didn't listen again because you might hear that it's probably two or three songs that might be really bad. I'm just saying she gave the voice to women that were mad at their man's That's that's definitely heartbroken, Yes, definitely

heartbroke and and putting the pieces back together. We watched Mary put the pieces back together and she broke a cover us down to at the same time, whut the was necessary? One thing is one thing we have to say about Mary J. Blide is that consistency but truth. It was always her true self and the storyline was always true and she was. That's why we relate to her so much because we are married and she is us.

Shout out to Mary, congratulations on years not been giving how the type of love that she deserves right now because she supposed to be here your marriage shut down, so we can hug you. We want to show you love like we wouldn't you on Street politicians, like, come on, make that happen for us. Man, We love you. What you mean to our culture, what you meant to meet as a young boy growing up seeing you man, just

the essence. And he was like right from yawkers, like right down the block, and I was in the Bronx and I used to be like, yo, Shore, he is just dope. She was. You couldn't go to skate, you know, I'm saying you couldn't like they were playing they're playing Mary and sk skating like Mary was for every aspect. What's the four one one? Hunt? Yeah? Whats so that means we missed the anniversary of What's the four won one? It was a good, good show. So glad to have

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