MYSONNE’S SOUL IS NOT FOR SALE

how did all of this happen? Right Like everyere we go, people are like, what's the story of how Street Politicians came about? Also until Freedom, and just the story of how we came together in general. And it's been it's been a six year about six years, six plush years, man, just working just you know, I tell people all the time, man, sometimes you meet people, sometimes you have situations and it's

just a calling, you know what I'm saying. You were already doing the work and I was fresh out of prison, just trying to find not really fresh out of prison, but home from prison for a while and still just trying to find my space doing music. I was doing personal training, you know, I was just utilizing every attribute that I had to try to create a lane, you know.

And we were connected event at a service event. Shout out to my homegirl media who had called me to do a service event on a Christmas and you were there. You also wanted to organize that and Shane that set up to Shane. There was a lot of people there, Kruchi was there, was there, Karuchi was there, Free, Jennifer Williams, a lot of different people. Shanda was there, you know, shout out to I knew Machanda for years, but we

just started to vibe. And then that's when you want to do personal training because I was a personal trainer and while we were I was training, I started telling you about the music that exactly and then and then we listened to it as our background music. I was playing the music. He's like, Yo, this is dope. And then I'll let you here this one piece that I did for Trader on Mother's Trade, on Martin's Mother Sorry, and you were like, you know that is so beautiful.

I actually know her. Send it to her and she fell in love in love with me. And then he was like, I knew my homegirl calm and goes into the tender centers and she works with these these you dope for. You introduced me to her next thing. I know,

we were Injustice League. I was in the Middle Street at a march for your first protests, protests, you know, and it's been a good you know, right, But it's time for us to really bring all of what we have to the forefront so that you know, we've done a lot to serve other people, which we will always with our organizations that were member burds of and you know, and just all of these other things that we do all the time to support other people's visions. But now

our vision is coming to the forefront. And we love our Until Freedom Families, specifically our co founders Linda Sarsul and Angelo Pinto. All the time, we all argue, so we do, and I think that's where greatness comes from. I think when you debate with someone and you have a different point of view and you're able to at least let them understand your point of view, and then

you come together and you form like votum. Because everybody does different things, we have different entry points into this work and into this movement, but we all have the same goal, you know. So it's like until freedom is like a one stop shop for everything. You have people who we have a lawyer, Angelo is a lawyer. You have Linda who who specifically does policy, and she is, you know, in tune with the Muslim community, with the Palestine community. She is like she pretty much in her

book is dropping her book. Does a lot happen, But it's been a good ride to get to this place. And we have to give love to our sister, our big sister mentor she's not that big though. She's still a little snack pack cat Triggs. Snack pack Cat Trigg, you need to write the snack trick you need to check out. But we love our our woman TV family. And so, like I said, this weekend in particular was loaded.

A lot of stuff was happening. We ended the week last week with the Senate voting against bringing witnesses to the impeachment trial for Donald Trump. I mean that's a sham. Like this whole impeachment trial to me is a sham. And and I get it because us we have to let the world see this, like it has to be documented how far they're willing to go to really undermine

the government Constitution is being thrown out right now. To really see this, like when you really watched this in real time, it's like you're sitting there and you confused, like is this really what's happened? Because I know if this was me and you, we would be under the jail. Well, let's save the conversation later because we really need to

get into it. But you know that happened, and I think, you know, if you're coming out of the week or ending the week with the impeachment stuff just being as you said, a sham. And then I received a text message actually from Angelo, our partners, saying Bloomberg might make the debate stage. Now. The rules for the Democratic Party had been that you have to have thousands of donations from everyday people before you can make it to the debate stage. Right now, all the people of color gone,

Corey's gone gone. What's his I was about to call him Fidel Lord Jesus Julian Castro is on all the people of color gone? And now because because they well they didn't meet the criterias because they were on the debate stage. But it was becoming more and more of a struggle financially the support that they need Corey was having a hard time getting his whole numbers up. And you also have to be at least at four percent UMU polling at four percent in order for you to

to be to make the debate stage. So you know, they were having some issues and challenges there. But these folks, all of them are gone, and now Bloomberg enters the race. Besides, he opts out of taking any political any donations from just the outside public. He's paying for his campaign himself, pouring mills and millions of dollars okay, okay in advertisement right, and he's now eligible to be in the debate because the Democratic Party has changed the rules now I mean

it just anyway, We talked about that later. Um, the Super Bowl ads a lot of mixed feelings out there about the ads. We can talk about the NFL UM ads where the Inspired Change which is their initiative, that is it sort of comes out of the Colin Kaepernick UM situation, a Colin Kaepernick protests UM and and so Inspired Change is supposed to bring the issues that the players have to the forefront along with the players coalition, and so they had an advertisement that was shown uh

during the Super Bowl. This year that people have different feelings about. Um. And then, and of course you had Donald Trump. He had an ad where he specifically targeted the black community around criminal justice reform. To me, it was extremely disgusting. But that's a whole different conversation. Um. And then I want to make sure I say this brother's name properly, Javonta Javonte Javonte Davis, who is a my our buddy. Chili keeps telling me that he is

a star played a star boxer. What does that mean? It means that he's pretty much ranked in the top ten in the world in boxing, and is he's like on the road to be number one? Like he's Floyd Mayweathers. I remember last month because I was trying to figure out who he who he is? And I remember last month all that who's who was out looking good going

to a boxing match in Atlanta and it was him. Okay, so Um, he basically snatched his baby mama, as they say, but I'd like to say his daughter's mother off of her out of her seat at some type of event. Looked like it was a sporting event. There were a number of TMT event uh signs around, But he snatched her out of her seat by her collar. Some people say his hand was around her throat. I'm not sure exactly,

but definitely he was in that area. UM. And you know, there's a lot of controversy online about that UM, you know, and just what it means and what it looks like and the whole thing. So we can talk about that, UM and then you know, last but not least, perhaps we won't get an opportunity to really really get into it. But I think it's important for us to mention that the coronavirus is spreading, that there is now another possible case in New York one, that one case has been

confirmed in Boston. UM. I remember checking the numbers last week at some point and it was eleven thousand and one publication. By the time time I checked again last night, they said fourteen thousand people in China specifically are excuse me, have been affected by this virus. UH. And now we have more cases here in in the US somewhere it

said nine, now it says twelve. So not sure, but people really need to stay protected, pay attention, and if you feel like you're sick, go to the doctor and get yourself checked, and and and just right now, we're hearing from our producers that they're seventeen thousand at this point. So again I checked last week, eleven thousand. By the time I checked yesterday fourteen thousand, and now today we're hearing seventeen thousand people UH and eleven in the US.

So this is very serious and and I think the important thing for us to know. I was reading the New York Times article um this weekend that talked about how China was aware that this UH virus was spreading. They knew it, and in fact they chastised doctors who were speaking about it too, people who were outside of the hospital. So there was one they tried to keep.

But this is China operates on secrecy, hashash silence. They don't like to talk, you know that as I'm talking about the Chinese government, not Chinese people, so let's be real clear about that. But they operate on you know, silency. Nobody don't want anyone in their business. You know, we don't really talk publicly about what's going on within our country.

And in fact, there was a doctor who was quarantined on a particular floor with people who had the virus or who have the virus, and he texted some friends who are also in the medical field and said to them, I'm quarantined doing such and such floor this is very akin to stars. It's a real big situation. And when and of course those people went around telling folks, and when the hospital found out about it, they chastised him and then made him sign some type of legal documentation

that he wouldn't talk about it anymore. So as a result of them not doing what was necessary and making sure that other governments knew about it so people could do the things that we see now where they shut down travel, and and also just inform people if you're going to China, know that this is happening. Because they didn't do that, it's spreading across the country and you know, who knows what we what's going to end up happening.

So these governments have power over our lives. It's really serious, man. We gotta pray for the people in China. That's seventeen thousand. That's a lot of people who seventeen thousand people. I keep hearing about the coronavirus and they're saying, how many people are actually dying? Is this is this? So? Is it mutating to this point? Where they're dying instantly or is it something that is potentially between nine people? And that's that my last check, and I was off already

to three thousand people. Two fifty nine people had died. No one in the US has died from the virus, so you know, it seems like it is treatable. But you know, still again, how it happened, how it's spreading, what information. A lot of conversations we had about that. So I guess we'll start with my thought of the day.

I mentioned you said, Jervonte Giant Davis the Boxer, and I'm really troubled, Mice, Like, I'm really, really, really troubled because I posted what I had I saw on the Shade Room and ball Alert and all of these different sites.

I saw that this incident happened. So you know me, whenever I see a black woman being mistreated, I'm always like, my little spidy sence this peak up and I'm ready to go because I know that, as Malcolm X said, the black woman is the most unprotected, disrespected person in

the world. And so as I looked at it and I saw it, and for the first time in a long time, I decided I wasn't going to say much because you know, people always accuse me you so, you know, you always bashing black men and this and that, and I said, you know what, I'm not gonna say anything yet. I was gonna wait until this was in the middle of the night. So I'm like, let me wait until I talk to you and you know, brothers and and

just be like, yo, do y'all see this. Maybe you could lead the conversation on how this is, how this happened and what it looks like. And then I saw his Instagram comments which he said, I didn't you know, Oh y'all relaxed. Basically, yeah, I was aggressive, but I didn't hit her and I would never abuse her or heard her like that. But anyway, Happy New Year's and

January was trash, so that was it for me. And the other thing I saw was he was out with some of your friends partying the night after it happened. Because these are your friends. They were hanging out the night of after this incident happen, partying. I think, you know, in in you know, in defense of the deck, and then you got it. I'm gonna let you take it away from it. My thought of the day was around

when I saw his comment. I posted it and I said, it's someone going to tell him that this is violence and that this is abuse and it was wrong? Is anybody gonna tell him that? And and and of course over two thousand comments are now on my page. Most of them, I will say, you know, I would say like se and that's a low rating to me. Our feet are people in general who are like, it's wrong,

it's abuse, is wrong, what have you? And I have to also say I am very very grateful and humbled by the amount of black men who are on my page saying full stop, no, it's wrong, period. But there is another thirty of women and men and a lot of women not saying more, but a lot of women who were saying all he did was him up a little bit, like you know what I mean, it's not really that serious, like come on me, shut up. But

we have to get into this. But the question thought of the day, which I still haven't gotten to, is we need to have, first of all, a big conversation about domestic violence. And then the real question is like why don't other people see this as abuse? Like what is happening that we don't see that as abuse. Well, what we don't see, why we don't see that as abuse. I believe in what I say is we've normalized abnormality, especially in this culture, in the culture that we live

it in. Like you'll watch because this is common. This is not an abnormal thing. You'd be in the club if somebody sees their girl talking and somebody you'll see somebody grab a pull, or you'll see girls hit their man and people laugh and they put the memes up and there's never really any seriousness because it has been normalized in our culture, is it right? Of course not. I come from a family of which i've I've witnessed, you know, domestic abuse, so I understand the seriousness of it.

But there is a dynamic and a demographic within our culture who have normalized this, who used to getting him. They see their man and they argue, and they put their hands on a man and he grabs on and they shake each other, and this is how they express some level of love. This is a normal thing that I've seen done numerous times with couples who who you see together the next day and they didn't get into nothing.

They laugh about it, like, yeah, I was about to break his neck, or yeah she she no better than me. I had to him up a look, this is normal, especially within our culture right now? Is it right? No? But is it normal? You see that you have thirty percent of people who see that this is something that's they used to it. They they're like, come on, I wasn't like he you sort he said, oh, come on, I wouldn't do nothing like that because to him, just

grabbing her like that wasn't anything that was abusive. There was no level of abuse to It was just him explaining to her how he was mad. This is how he was able to express. If he didn't punch her, if he didn't hit up, it was okay. And I've argued with men on my page who have watched men fully beat women and said, well, she hit him first, or she's done this like beat up like she's So the mind state is way different because the big question that folks had is what did she do? What did

she do to make him respond this way? You know? What was? What was? Who was she there? With? What she's? Then someone said, well he is escorted her out and he probably told her to get up via text or whatever, and she didn't go, and therefore he had to escort

her out. So I'm just trying to figure out how people see someone grabbing you by the neck or by your collar and forcefully lifting you out your chair to be escorting, because escorting to me means you arm in arm, and I can only I can imagine if you're doing something crazy, or maybe she texts him something crazy, or she was out doing god knows what. Maybe he saw her on somebody's stories kicking in and too much and

you know whatever, who knows. I could even imagine him walking up to her and an arm in arm telling her like, we're getting out of here right now. You know, I'm I'm pistol off this that in the third we're gonna discuss this or whatever. I could see that, but he grabbed. This is a man who is a boxer, who's his hands are considered to be lethal weapons. Still, and that's what I'm trying to tell you. I get it,

But I also get that. There's I'm telling you. You can go in the average club and see those type of situations happen all day and people normalize it. The police could be there, the bouncers. The police won't even they won't even get involved in they won't unless most of the time they just walk away. They're not going to say there's a domestic dispute. If he was grabbing his girlfriend by the colin pulling up, they're like, hey, calm down, they're not going to rest they immediately because

it's normalized within our culture. And I understand what you're saying, but I think we have to really look and be serious about our analysis of this situation because most people, especially in the hip hop culture, this is a normal thing. But see, but that okay. So that brings me to my point on and what I and what I said, because I think on the Shade Room, I said, when I saw your friends having a good time with him at the club, later on, I said, no one's gonna

tell him that what he did was wrong. And I a video and I totally respect that, right I do. But I also feel like that's one of the biggest problems that we have, is allowing people around us to get away with things that we really should be like, I don't really want to hang out with you right now if I think that's possible that you're abusive. Now check this out. A woman sent me a d M afterwards, telling me about another incident with someone very close to

her and him. And then someone else came on my page and said some other girl named Ari that I'm not sure who that is, another uh celebrity or whatever you know, influence, whatever you want to call her. That she said he came to her hotel and kicked her door, tried to kick her door in, saying that he was gonna beat her ass. Right, So now there's been there, I mean, but what happens is now he's opened up

Pandora's box, like and this is what usually happened. If you're an abusive person, then it usually comes out if you've abused somebody before, and even the most minute situations like this can open uncovered. And you know, I don't, I don't. I wish that is wrong. I wish that um that these are not true allegations because he's a young black kid from the inner city, grew up in uh um, forced to care. He's been by himself, come

from the dirt, poverty, so from Philly. Like, so you want Baltimore, my fault, You from Baltimore and you want to see him become successful, but you don't want you don't. We can't condone things like this, but that the reality is there is a culture that is very toxic that we celebrate right now and it's normalized and we have to of course, we got to call out things when we see it, when we see people do things, we got to call out. But we have to do is

try to start changing the toxics. But that's my question. Can you change the toxicity without challenging I'm trying to figure out why is it that I even even and I didn't even bring this up in my post, although many of the comments was questioning why another any other black men who were in that room didn't stop and say, hey, you can't take ky out of here like that. You need to relax, my man. You can't, because I'm gonna

tell you. I'm gonna tell you the realist thing in that situation right there now, if he had punched in the face and somebody got in, sure, I'm sure the woman would have done. Listen to me, but listen, listen, I'm not saying this. Listen. I'm gonna give my point out is that if he had punched there and he jumped, somebody jumped in for her, she would have been okay, thank you. But in that situation. I've seen those exact situations. Would woman say you mind your business, we're good over here,

and they'll jump you. I've I've seen that is the issue because people, especially in those situations like that where there isn't any blunt enforce and punches and and things thrown, people don't know how far to get involved in someone else relationship because they have been vic they have thought that they were doing the best thing. And the woman tell of the minor business, we got this, don't worry about this because they have they have toxic relationships that

these things are Normally we need to be talking. It has to be a full conversation. But I don't think it's on you know, I think it's on every I think it's on a relationship. I think people have to be have to restructure this, this culture of how relationships are handled, because I'm telling you that no, not attend

people that you come from. You act in our communities, especially in the hip hop culture, they're young within between the twenty something before, a little bit before thirty or even thirty will tell you that it wasn't that serious. All he did was grabbed by the collar, like he can't beat it up, like I'm telling you that's so.

In other words, there has to be a conversation across the I just want, I'm hoping, I'm personally hoping, and my thought of the day that my son is being taught by every man around him, every man, that that behavior is wrong. Number one, that it doesn't matter what she did, that you can't she's not your dog, she's not your child, because you're not even allowed to beat dogs, and they've stopped really allowing you to even uh physically

chastise your children. Although my parents didn't care about you grab your your child by the collar. You ain't gonna get him, Okay, so but you still it might be somebody that says this looks a little whatever and whatever. But I hope that people are telling them this is

not the right way to behave. But I also would hope that if he does do it, that there would be a real come to Jesus conversation and that maybe his friends wouldn't be in the club laughing and joking and having a good time, because basically what that says, it's a throwaway thing. It's not that serious. This is what I want, I want to act, and it's a really serious point. When Clange jay Z did anyone, there was a number of articles and people who spoke to

the fact that violence, no matter what, is wrong. In fact that maybe that may be what you heard, but I'm just telling you there were a lot of people and in fact, and I can find it for you and share with you. And in fact, there was an entire you know, part of our community, or many people in our community who argued that should he have been a lot out to hit her back because she hit him? Right,

I didn't. I'm just trying to tell you in our culture, because maybe it was somewhere else, but I'm talking about in the culture where I lived, it was celebrated, were celebrated as that's right. You disrespected me, you dispected my sister. We put our hands on you. It was music, It was every There was nobody that I've seen of any level of statue. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I think that we didn't. We you know, we didn't look into it

before coming here if you had asked me that. But I'm gonna go back and find it because I know that there were stories where women were talking and men were talking about violence and how it's wrong and what have you. But what I will say is this, I don't think anyone needs to put their hands on anyone. I think everybody needs to keep their hands to themselves. I don't want my son's girlfriend hitting him. I don't want him hitting her. But I will say this, black

men need to understand. Specifically, all men need to know. But black men need to know that you got birth from a woman, that you got birth through a woman, and if you abuse the person that carried you and brought you into this world, it's some real scum shit about that. And I'm not Also, we have to look at like you said, what's abuse? What abuse is? I'm sitting somewhere and you physically come and decide that I gotta go. But I'm trying to tell you that is

normalised and understand that to a bunch of men. Anytime a man of being a club having a conversation with a woman and women have come grab you out your seat, I promise you a bunch of average man cannot will not physically move when a woman comes and grabs him. I promise you that that's not it's not physical. Don't know. What I'm asking you is the fact that he doesn't move, it's wrong. Okay, that's what I'm trying to say, because she can't physically moving, but the act itself is the same,

and I'm saying to you that it is wrong. So that's physical in any case is wrong. And we have to have the conversation because the culture has normalized it on both ends. Okay, that's fine, and we could be done with it. And I just I feel like a lot of brothers are out here talking about, you know, respect the man. I'm a man, and what that looks like.

And if it doesn't look like having the discipline that you were not in public, violate, embarrassed, and disrespect with your physical ability that is clearly more dominant than a woman. If you don't have that type of discipline, and don't come tell me about being a man, don't don't tell me about that. Okay, So you want to have the last because to me, like listen to me. You know, I'm an advocate, like I cannot. You're not going to do anything to a woman in front. It's just not

gonna happen. It's never going to happen. But what I'm asking is all we have in that same criteria is you a woman putting her hands on a man, does that exclude her from womanhood? Is that less? It's her lack of discipline. I think what you just said, No, I just wanted to let me see what I'm saying, because you said if a man doesn't have the discipline enough not to put his hands or grab anything to a woman, then he can't talk about being a man.

And I'm asking you, if a woman doesn't have that same discipline enough not to put her hands on a man, can we say that she's not a woman. I think I think, yeah, it's very childish and and I think it's very childish. And I will say again that there is a difference in the physical it is ability of men and women. I think that I'm not saying that it's right or wrong, and I think you're right a conversation she needs to happen again. Across the board, people

need to not put their hands on each other. But the problem that I have with this conversation even is the equivocation that because we're talking about something that actually happened yesterday or the day before yesterday, that we need to now bring up what women have done also, instead of us being able to deal with the fact that this happened, and and and there are a lot, but I don't think. I don't think that we're not dealing with it. I think that we've already. I think that

my point, my position was that is wrong. It is totally wrong. And you asked me why. Your question is why people, and I had to break it down to what it is. Because when you can see salangs do that, or you were at the club with a dude, dance with a dude and you see a girl walk up behind him and start hitting him and doing no not to do the dude dancing with a girl and somebody coming behind, Yeah, beat him up, and it's it's a number one mem and anybody's laughing at joke and anybody saying, Yo,

that's messed up. So I understand with your point of view, because for me, I'm physically too strong. I'm not gonna do anything to him because don't matter what you do to me, you can't really hurt me. So my hope, my first thing is to restrain you at home, so I don't see a need to return fire or harm you fire return fire, because just think about firing, that's firing.

Look if you're some fires is so not to sell mixtape and mixtape that that is, you know, we're the critics corner and me specifically, Um, we listened to everything that you say with and read everything you write with a very fine tooth comb. UM. And I can say that I'm very proud of your growth because I certainly have seen it now. Sister Carmen was talking about that yesterday. Just how much you have a lovely text. Thank you, Carmen,

You've grown so much. Um. And as I'm listening to so not to sell the mix tape, I hear so much passion and so much and just I mean, I don't feel like you developed as an artist, because you've always been a great artist to me. And I just think people need to listen and really take the time because I think folks, if it's not in rotation on the radio, it takes them a longer process to actually sit down and listen. In the world is moving so fast that folks that even they want to but they

just can't, you know, for whatever reason. Um. But I sat down, but I was hearing different songs at different times in different spaces. But I sat down and I listened to every single song, every single word. And I have to say that there are really really some dope tracks on this mixtape. So shout out to you. Congratulations

did a really really really really really good job. So how does it feel and talk about the process and the whole Well, for me, man, I've put together this is like the third pro project that I've created in the last few months. Man, shout out my boy Chris Gotti um at Adventure Music something for shoutouts around. Shout out because in just give him love. Man, Um, Chris Gotty have been reaching out to me for a while, like, y'all want to do some music with you. I want

to work with you. I think you dope. Were always thought you was dope. I love what you stand for and you know. And then one day we were at the Rucker, I mean not the Rucker, we were at in the Dikement playground and then we just started building. He's like, come to the studio. And then I went to the studio and we just started working on a project. We did a project you know, um, that we already created. We had it. It's another project that you've heard some

of the tracks on. But we got about twenty songs and it's so like dope, you know, and we just we're waiting for the right time to release it. So while I was writing, I'm like, you know what, let me just put something out. I want to put a mixtape about that, because was a field. It was just a field because people want to know, why not the album? Why not the album? But I was like, it's a setup because the album, to me, is even doper than this. But I think this is dope. But the album touches

on so many different subjects and stories. There's so many different things on the album. But this mixtape for me, was something that was like a two and a half weak process that we went to and we found some tracks that just married and had a feeling and you know, So Not for Sale was is a is a clothing line that I you know, I worked with with my

partner little Man in my Life. He started the company, started so Not for Sale brand a few years ago and then we started partnering on it a couple of years ago, and which you know, he he's um was the founder of that. And I said, you know what, this is something that represents me, you know what I'm saying. So that's why that's where our our partnership came and

I was like, this mixtape should be named that. You know what I'm saying, Like, I feel like that's always been my soul has never been for sale, and because of that, I haven't been able to get recognition. I haven't been able to get on certain platforms and certain situations that I believe I deserve. I don't think there's anything that I lacked musically. I don't think that there's anything that I lack in the entertainment person and all

of those things. I believe that I have all of the things necessary to be an elite artist in this field. But the fact that that I don't, you know, I don't go about it a certain way, and I don't cow tow and I don't bite my tongue and I don't I feel I need to do things to fit into certain rooms is probably why I have And that's just my personal opinion. So this music was to reflect that, you know, I wanted this music to reflect it and didn't also have essence of what it is that I represent.

The movement, you know how it is in almost every song it seems like you touch on um just you know, the movement and and not even so much the movement, that's one part of it, but just like common sense things and just like real authentic talk, specifically the young people about choices that you've made, decisions you've made, and ways in which they can not fall into those same traps. So I just think it's a it's a really good project.

I hope that people will download it every platform, millions old platforms, man, you know, because I really just wanted to Like a lot of projects I put and I put on a few platforms, but this one, I really was like, this needs to be on all platforms, and it's completely independent. You know. I've partnered with Adventure, Me and Chris Gardy. We just just wanted to give it

to the world. We didn't just promote it. We didn't do no big We just said, you know what, this this project for me is gonna be like an R and B album. You know, R and B albums, they don't just go straight to the charts unless you just

be honest, here's somebody. But what happens is they start to just grow slowly, you build like I don't I don't mind building this project for the next six months, like just building with it because I know each song is so powerful, Like, I haven't heard one person that listened to this project that didn't have the sentiments you had, Like people like, yo, this this is an epic body of work, Like it's the feel of it's just so real and authentic that it took me somewhere else. It's

not nothing like that's out now. It still feels, but it has a feeling a vibe that just just empowers you. It makes you just feel something. Now, I was studying your Instagram um stories and really sort of studying what people felt about it, and I noticed that you're already starting to have certain songs that have a trend, like Rain that Sale, and it seemed like a lot of people around certain songs that I also felt, you know, I had a good feeling about and you can see

it translating into what the public is saying. So, you know, Harry Belafon said something one day that I thought was so powerful and it's stuck with me. He said that when he saw how Paul Roberson was being black ball. You know, Paul Robinson was a revolutionary, you know, and he spoke truth to power. Anytime you did that, especially back then, you could be black balls, and he said he started to see what was happening with him, and so he decided to continue as Harry Bellefonte is fine,

black man, successful rich man. He decided to still continue to do the chicken circuit, like to still do small clubs, and to stay down, stay tintoes down, connected to the people. Never get too high where they can take it from you, right. And I feel like in your situation, although it's it's topsy turvy, it's been difficult, you are built. You have built such a strong and authentic relationship with people on

the ground that no matter what, they support you. Because everywhere we travel speaking and whatever it is that we're doing across this country organizing, people love you and they come out and they support you, and they and they and they treat you just like they do any other celebrities. So you know, I just I think it's great. I think you have the right model. But I know it's frustrating at times to just know where you were and to have this be the new direction that you've had

to take. But it's obviously God's walk for you. Yes, I think it's it's like you said, I'm building it in authenticity. Man, compromising myself. I'm putting out music that has doesn't have to go with status quo. It doesn't have to have a certain sound that is current. It just has what I feel like I'm able to put my music and how I feel, and people are really

just gravitating into it. So I'm just like you said, I'm blessed to have people that love me, regardless of the statue or what's going on al radio play, Like people have been on my page like, you know, we need a project, we need a project. You know. That was my process for it, Like I just wanted to give my hardcore fans, people that really want and believe in me, something to listen to. So I'm grateful for the way that y'all have received it, you know, and

I'm I'm going to continue to push it. We're gonna probably shoot a video for every song because I feel like everything on his visual and heartfelt, you know, probably might make a mini movie coll so not for sales because you need to still focus on your album. So but it's it's it's a part of it though, you know what I'm saying. I want to I want to the music to be the soundtrack for the movie because it's so it's so real. That is super super super dope.

Tell people again how you can actually, Yes, you can go to my page. You can go to my Instagram page. My song in by General and you can click the link in the bio and go straight to my website and you can purchase it there. Or it's on every other platform in the world that you want to is on Title, Spotify, Apple Music, any other platform that you go to, you can stream it. And you know, just people that don't have Instagram, they could go to your website. You can is my son y dot com. It is

my son yg dot com. You can go right on my my website and just purchase it by yourself dot com. People should know, just in case they forget, that means my son New York General dot com. That's good. That's good. And that was such a high to talk about your album. And I hate to go bring up the Senate stuff again, and but we have to make sure, as this show is called Street Politicians, that we educate our audience and that we become educated on what's happening from a political perspective.

I just think America's in big, big, big trouble and we always have been think, but this is really when white folks get scared, then black people should be terrified, like and white people are scared like. There are many white people. I have been meeting white folks who are staunch Republicans. They are Republican. They've their granddaddy was a Republican, their grandmama was cooking pies for the Republican Convention. They children are Republicans. They are they are Republicans, and they

are struggling with supporting the Republican Party right now. Many of them have for the first time and they allowed it was two thousand and sixteen, for the first time in their lives, they voted on the Democratic side. But even if they didn't then, because they still were so tied to it, now as we moved towards uh election, They're like, there's no way I can support this. They're right, I mean, and I'm not saying that, like, let's not even get into it, because I'm not saying at all

that the Democrats are anything better. But I do know that President Trump is probably the most dangerous man in America, and the party that supports him is definitely not for us. And that's and that's just always been my point of view. Like people always say, oh, you Democrats and you talk, I don't. I'm not. I'm not. I'm by I'm bipartisan

by party. That is, you're by parties. Okay, I mean because the reality situation is if if I because I want you to understand about a position, because if I've seen somebody, if I saw somebody, if I had already seen, or if I saw somebody that was in the Republican Party that represented my interests, I would vote for That's what I'm trying to People think that I keep by

the party. I don't. That's about the party. You think I care about the part the Republicans was talking to my needs and the things that's going on in black communities and really was helping us and understood. I would vote for them. But the problem for me where I have a disconnected You can't tell me that a party ran by white people, the Democrats, but they're all over there.

But I'm talking about of them are white people that come from privileged communities that I don't come the leadership, the leadership, even the people that over they only have two black people in their party right now that are in office in the Senate. So you can't explain to me that white people know more about me and was for me than we do. Right now, they're all white people.

What I'm trying to s who come from privilege. But what I'm trying to tell you is because that we've narrowed it down, but there were people on that stage, There are people, there are There are hundreds of people in the Democratic Party that looked like me and when we Okay, so let's be clear about because you know

it's got to be clear. So what you're saying is that when you see the leadership, all the folks that are hired, the people moving and shaken within the Republican Party, of them our wife folks, that's leaders and most of the leaders and that's the four white people that come from the same well some of them may have started. We take away leading leaders the leadership. That's important, Okay, but you need to understand this. How many people actually

are in office that are black Republicans? Well no, okay, wait, wait, wait wait? How many office? How many Black Republicans have they actually voted into? All? Okay, but I'm saying I'm just trying to go slow because people don't necessarily understand. They hear things and they go and they'll say of Republicans. My son said that of Republicans have come from privilege, which wouldn't be true because the body, the Republican Party's

body just like every other body. When you start to trickle down, it's just everyday people who are part of the party. But from the top in the leadership positions, you're saying that they the leadership is basically a bunch of privileged white What I'm saying is this, how many Republicans are black that are in office? No, not in office really because in these little towns across the country there maybe what I'm trying to tell you that's not

I've done the study. Well, you've got the show from the Congress to Senate, all of these things given to listen to me, Tim's they're about probably about three of them. They're about three of them. But I want you to understand this, and I'm telling you I've done I've done the study because I wanted to understand why people are saying that we need to switch parties. I actually wanted

to understand it. And I've had debates with other people who are telling me they're black Republicans, and they cannot name to me a double digit amount of black people that are are elected officials in any state in America. Elected officials are Republicans. But but, but there is a difference between there's a difference between elected officials and the leadership of the party. But the leadership is even worse than elected officials. What I'm saying is that I don't know.

I don't know. You are probably right, because I want to understand that across the country in every single state Senate seat and all these other city councils, but I do I don't know that they don't have black people. I'm telling you the one and they had a woman that just said that she felt like a black woman. I forgot her name and we should look it up.

But she was just talking about how she felt that they completely were against her, that it was racism that was showing everything as a black woman, a black Republican woman. She was supposed to be the next of the party. They had a lot behind her and she got out of there. And I'm trying to tell it was about three of that. There's some people, you know, it would be really sad if you know, when you show me

that it's really sad it. Nonetheless, in the Democratic Party, yes, you are right, there are many more people of color who are in leadership positions. However, in terms of Senate seats, not that many, Corey Kamala, it's not it's not like you're saying that on the Democratic side, there's so many more they are. But that's what I tell you. You saying it's not that many and not that many that we have is that much more than they have on

the other side. Let's look at that because I what I what I think though, is that what we should be saying, which would support your position a hundred percent, is that I know for a fact Minyon more uh Leah Daughtry and other women who have been a part of the party leadership. So there are other there are black women who are part of the party leadership, even even black men Michael Blade, who who is everything you're saying. But what I want you to know is that I

get it you. You don't want to go on a limb and say something because because you probably don't believe that what I'm saying because you liked that I'm not going on I'm just saying that I think it's important for us to be clear about I'm clear because I was listen to me because when when Kanye and these people are talking about this and that and how you see and it goes back some time, Carol Moseley Braun, I'm just trying to say, this is what I'm talking about.

I promise you you will. You will be surprised because I couldn't believe it that that black people was actually telling me that this is what I needed the party. I needed to vote for Tim Scott. I think he might be the only black and then. But all I'm saying is that on the Democratic side is too So you're saying that one more is better than one less. I'm saying, and I agree with you that across the board in terms of the leadership of the Democratic Party,

which is not just people in elected office. The Democratic Party and all parties, leadership is not just people who have been elected to serve in a political office. There are people who are running the different committees, There are people who are running the party. And it is very true that the diversity in the Democratic Party is much more in line with who we are and our mission and also much more representative of the communities that we

support than the Republican Party. So we're on the same page about that. Where I was getting worried is around saying that all the elected officials. And I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that would be really sad, but it is. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

If you should it's sad, I'm trying to tell you it's really sad because I actually googled it and I studied it for about two days because I was like, why would somebody tell me to vote for somebody that never came for where I come from, don't look like me, don't have any cultural identification in me, and tell me that they know more about what's best for me than I do. Well, Okay, so then if that's the case, let's see who we're gonna cross out here of the candidates.

Bloomberg definitely out, Biden out. Who else? You got Day on the stage? You know, I like Tom Stire, but you know he might have to be he's out because I mean, I mean, Bernie, if you if by your definition that they don't come from where I come from, they don't understand my issues, almost none of them. But I'm just saying, Bernie has been in the struggle with us for years. Oh man, you can't. All I'm saying

is wheah, he's been. He definitely has protested, He has been a part of, uh, you know, civil rights issues. He has he has definitely carried the torch on behalf of the civil rights movement. Different situations and different but I would challenge that none of them, none of the people who are currently running for president, deserve our vote in the way in which we have to vote for them now because of the fact that we got to

get this. I think the only time in history I felt like that was with Obama and he and he is questionable exactly, But I don't think I've ever felt like somebody had to get my vote. I don't think nobody. They do have to because we have to get rid of try. But I'm trying to tell you I've never felt like. The closest I felt after Obama was burning because he spoke directly two things that his platform is the most it is and you know, and it's a

new way of thing. And he challenges the system and he says, look, why can't everybody go to school for free? Why can't anybody have health care? No, they can. We just got to make sure some of these billionaires a little less rich, and we can support everything you want to. You'll find ways to do everything. But these are the most important things in the world. Your life and your education are the most important things. So why so why

is that's something that people have to have money to get? Like, it doesn't make sense. So I'm with that, I hear you, and and today, you know what, on our next episode, we should really talk about these candidates we have. We haven't really talked about going on for the rest of the presidential cycle. Yeah, but we do need to like really analyze these different folks because it's so much happening. You know that we were gonna talk about the Super Bowl ads. I just really wanted to throw up when

I watched Did you watch? I don't. I don't watch anything that has to do with Super Bowl. You can't tell me you didn't see Shakira and j looks anything. I don't watch the NFL and I don't watch Super Bowl. Oh, you don't watch the NFL either, none of the games. You don't support any of the teams. So why now when you have been very vocal about your support for your yeah, support for jay Z, like you really want to see j win. But what it is that he says that he's working on. I think we all want

to see him win. I certainly do, even even the toughest critics want to see what Jay has set forth to do actually come to fruition because it needs to. And that's when I will watch the NFL see I'm I'm applauding Jay because he has I'm applauding or supporting, supporting. I mean, I'm not trying to change your world. I'm saying both because to have the wirwidthal to take the

criticism about what it's going to take. The Transformer situation, you know, an organization has been historically you know, racist, but has profit of black bodies and will continue to profit of black bodies. And to say to yourself, Okay,

they're going to continue to profit of black bodies. So how do we make it to where these black bodies have a say to where we start to create ownership inside something that's been profit off us for years, that has labor has been profit off with you, how do we start to transform and start making culturally sensitive, make people culturally identify what our thinks. That takes a lot because you're gonna be called every name in the world. So I all that because everybody is not willing to

do it. Some people are willing to sit there from their house and say, oh, you could have did this and you can buy this, but they don't do nothing. So I applaud anyone willing to take those stripes, you know, take those weapons on the back. And the reason why I still don't watch the NFL is because what Kaepernick stood for what's real. You know, we are being killed at higher rates, we are being ignored, black bodies are being valued, you know, in the NFL punished him for that.

So I still have a problem with that. Although there are there, you know, things that I've expressed that I have different disagreements with both of them all. But the reality is the Kaepernick and jay Z I have this disagreements on both of their approaches in this situation. But the reality is I want to see, like you said, I want to see j succeed in his his plight to try to differ, versify and change what's wrong within the NFL and make it a more level player. FAIL

want that to happen. But until I see that happening, until you know, because right now there's the project. It's like a building a house, but I'm not gonna move in the house while until it's built. So I'm i'm, i'm, I'm hopeful that that that he's gonna do what he

set out to do. Yesterday, I watched him after I've seen it on the Instagram and I reposted with him, and Beyonce's never stood for the national anthem, so to me, that shows that, okay, we have we're doing business, but the issue at hand, that America doesn't respect black people is still something that's dead to me. And I don't want you to believe that because I've decided to come in here and try to transform this from my people that I sold them out. So there's gonna be different views.

Everybody has a different point of view, But for me, I'm not watching it until I see the work that they say they want to do actually get done, and I I aar you and I I have very deliberately taking a position of not speaking too much on this NFL situation because I also want to see what jay Z is doing. Understanding it's not like my relationship with

or my my. When I say relationship, I don't want it to to be misconstrued that I'm saying that I have a personal relationship with jay Z, but my relationship just in terms of knowing what he's done for many of the families in the movement, how he's been supportive of organizations financially and other resources that he has given h to support different organizations, not necessarily an organization that I um was leading, but definitely I know that he's

done a lot. And so when he stepped out there with the NFL, while I had very serious and specific issues around some of the talking points, the optics of the whole thing caps involvement, I also still feel that what he's saying, what he's trying and to do, is really coming from a very real place. At the same time,

I support Colin Kaepernet and I support his movement. I support what he stands for, and I think that the NFL by itself, just the NFL, without all the issues, the brothers, you know, jay Z, Colin Eric read all of that, just the NFL itself is trash. That's what I feel. So how do you reconcile all these things it's difficult, and I feel that from my perspective, I could go analyzing everything and shooting at this one and saying what I feel about some of Colin in my opinion,

my personal opinion some of his missteps. I could go about talking about what I feel, and all that does is add to what I feel has been very divisive in our communities because it has been extreme. This has been probably one of the most divisive issues that we that I personally have seen in a very very long time. UM. And I just don't feel like I can help by being, you know, by being because really I'm gonna tell I would say the jury is out on both sides with me,

We're gonna see what happens. I still think Colin Kaepernick should have a job in the NFL, period, point blank. He should be playing UM. But I also understand it there's a bigger picture here that has to be addressed, and that is how our communities. These players come from communities that need to be supported, uplifted, UM, and so how does that happen. At the same time, while you deal with Collins issues, there's a lot and and everything everything that we see, even in our expert places where

were all experts on different issues. We're not always able to really have a conclusion, you know, So I struggle internally with it. But I also sit and work with Rock Nation, right like, I sit with them, and I've been working with them to see how we can advance the cause. So it's a it's a lot, but they know everybody knows me. I'll still say what it is that I feel, absolutely absolutely That's why I don't watch

the NFL. But anyway, the ad that Trump hit, Trump's ad, which I thought was interesting that there's been so much turmoil between black folks and the NFL, but yet they chose Trump chose the Trump chose. Trump chose two place his advertisements specifically targeting black people during the show. I didn't, and I'm still maybe it is some numbers that I don't know about. But the last I checked, the NFL

was having issues with black viewership. I don't understand why he chose that venue to place a black ad, But you know whatever, there's a bunch of conspiracies I could come up with around how what they think about us and the fact that sports is like the only place where we actually pay attention. But that's a whole different conversation. But the advertisement basically was about criminal justice reform, and

he's basically touting his record on criminal justice reform. You know that the First Step Act has helped to free many people, uh I think they. Van Jones says like seven thousand people have gotten not a prison since President Trump has been in office. A lot of people work with him on that. To Pika Sam and we are all for the fact that government is doing what it's supposed to do. Like, right, we that's what you're supposed to do, help to free people who shouldn't be in prison. However,

he uses one woman who was free. That's the woman Alice Johnson, who him Kardashian support supported. He used her two to create this add around and pretty much said, you know, I'm the only one that can get this done right, Like some people talk about criminal justice reform,

but I'm actually making it happen. And I just thought to use this black woman and her story as a problem while at the same time, you participate in racist behavioral patterns and put people in serious danger, and just the other day blocked African countries from being able to come to the United States. Put put you know, it's called on instant, I mean on social media hashtag the African Band. It really really bothers me that you would use this woman, you know what I mean. Well, we

understand that Trump is a businessman. Everything he did a strategic you know, when when he freed up from the beginning,

it was about strategy. You know, when Kim Kardashian came and she's one of the most well known people in the world, and she pleaded with him, and when people with a lot of people don't understand was you know, there was a lot of situations within Obama's administration where he commuted the most people in history because they shot down bills that would have allowed people like Alice to be to be set free. So so when they denied the bills that would would have her crime wasn't even

supposed to she was supposed to get out. It would have been hundreds of thousands of people that have been out if he was trying to do it done. But nobody wants to have those conversations, you know, so this is a fact. So when he wasn't able to do that, he started commuting sentences, which he was over a thousand people. He commuted the sentence means that he freed them and he signed exact could have ordered to let the people free.

He wasn't able to get to Alice Alice Johnson before, but she was on the list of one of the people that he was supposed to be free. But people don't have these conversations, they don't have real live conversations about that. But her case is so drastic when you look a mother who would sent it to life for drugs and things that nature, who had served how many over twenties, So when you look at it, it seemed like, wow,

she should have been there. And he utilized that to play on the strings and the heart strings of America to say I've done something. Look I've done that. Not not saying that these judges that you put in are gonna make sure that most of our kids never because the federal judges that they have been putting in office, that's the thing. It's like they're letting people out the front door for the cameras. This is this is to me,

it's just the bat and switch. What they're gonna do with the people that go into jail, Now, you're gonna have hell getting out of there. So they're letting people in. Okay, these people have been here over time. We're gonna let them go. These crimes, we're commuting this. But when you go into this facility from that one for the crimes, the minimums are going to be raised. All of these things are gonna be different because they're opening new jails

for a reason. They're not just opening new jails because you know what, we we want to stop crying. We're gonna make sure that we let people go. Know, they open the new jails because they're playing the film. So these are this, This is not this is this is a tact that that people don't understand that the Trump pulls. So he knows what he's doing. He's been a reality

TV star, he knows reality teams media. But and and and and and you know, and there's some folks that's like, all I care about is black people in black black black black black. But you can't support a person who says,

I freed some folks from jail. But yet they have thousands of families, Mexican families and and and African families that they never really show you in the media, separated at the border, with children in cages, children dying, families, dying, people who have lost their children forever and will never see them. But those are people they need to get. So listen to me. If you're if you're smart, you'll

go get those people. You'll go get the exonerated five who Trump said you deserve to get the death penalty. Those people you get. You. We want to We want to who so happy? Who are you talking to when you say if y'all people want to go, I'm talking to all the presidential candidates, the rest of the presidential candidates, if you want to do something. He just for Alex Johnson now, and we're so happy that she's home because she deserved to be home. But let's talk about the

people that he kept in cages. Let's talk about people like the exonerated five that he put out full page ads to say that they deserved the death penalty and never, even to this day, after they were proven DNA proved that they were innocent, he never even gave those men and EU policy. Actually he doubled down and was like, yeah, you know, I don't know about that, but you know, and and and and back to the federal Yo. The federal judges piece is so important because I don't know

about rights. I don't know about the average person. Weal, that's what his whole Supreme Court play was the reason why he needs to stack the Supreme Court is because and even he said, in reference to impeachment and other things around um, you know where where he's been found to be engaging in criminal activity. He even said, that's okay, we'll take it to the highest court. You know why, because he knows that the court is stacked. It's not

really in his favor yet. And God, let's hope that Ruth vaders Ginsberg that she stays as healthy as she can. And I don't want to stay healthy just so she can hold the court, but in general, but but he's trying to stack that court with Supreme Court nominations and Supreme Court excuse me, confirmed seat that will give the Republican Party the upper hand with the courts, so that whenever there are major cases like Roe v. Wade, which would uh reverse abortion and other really important things that

they find to be problematic. They don't want us women to have our rights, civil rights, you know, all these different things that people fought, live, died for. They want to turn those things back. They know that the Supreme Court can do it, and so that's one level. But you also need the federal courts to advance these things to the dan on Supreme Court. So they're stacking. Were playing chess, you know what y'all say, were playing check

and they playing chess. We all were arguing about, you know, who don't like cool? And did they did Bernie say this to Elizabeth? And what she thinks? And she's a lion, he's this, and and and Bloomberg's ugly and so and so is this. Biden is nibbling on his wife his finger while at an event in front of everybody. I mean, we're going through we're dealing with all of that. Meanwhile, these people are in power positions, putting people in place to be able that when Trump is long gone, they

would have changed things in our constitution. They would have reversed very serious rites. As you said, this is some serious ship. It's very serious. Extremely it's super serious. We need to take it serious. Man. You know, you know Trump is such a dangerous but hilarious person. I was just looking at what you know, it's hilarious because he congratulated. I don't watch the super Bowl, but you know I've seen that. He congratulated Kansas City on their huge win

by saying, you represented the great state of Kansas. And in fact, the entire U said he so very well. Our country is proud of you. Now as a president, somebody of just grade school you would know that Kansas City is not in Kansas. You know, that's just. But this is the president. The president of the United States doesn't know that Kansas City is not in Kansas. But this is the person that's the leader of the free world. It was a post. I mean, it's just it's just

it's a scary thing. And I think my final point that I would would just make. Yeah, but I mean it is, Lord have mercy. It's serious and you know, and Lord have mercy on us. I was I was coming into the studio today and I passed a man in the train station who was sitting there and his legs was just riddled with swords and he just looked sick. I mean he first of all, he was swollen to this disease and his body and he was big, and

he had swords everywhere on his body. And I was just looking at him and I started praying loudly, Lord help us, like help us, like, why have thou forsake in us? Like what is this? You know? Because he's one of so many people, the homeless. This in New York and across the country is out of control. And yes, it is diverse, because I obviously I saw a white couple. I passed them all of the both of us from beholders.

This is true. I give this white couple. They sleep on the ground on the street in New York, and I give them every time I see them. And the woman now she knows me, She's like, yeah, man, how you doing? You know, But it's a lot of our people, a lot of black people who are out here, homeless, young people. And Fordham Road on the Bronx and the for On in Fordham Road on for the road in the Bronx, there's a little circle and Cardi Beak gets her nails done there, so you know, I know about that.

So I was going to coming from going to the nail salon one day, trying out her person and as I was walking through this little square in the middle it's a big shopping center for people who don't know, it's a lot of stores, A lot of folks go there. There were so many young people early in the morning, sleeping on the benches all over the park, all over the part was young people I'm talking about eight years old,

nine years old, their homeless, sleeping in the park. And I thought to myself, this issue of black people in America still being considered slaves, that we don't have our full rights, that we don't we're still in the constitution considered to be three five human that has never been changed.

We we think about the thirteenth Amendment, which says that we are free unless we commit a crime and end up in prison, in which at that point you can be uh sentenced if you will, to indrt indentured servitude, which is how we end up making products for every corporation, answering the phone for the d m V. We're in in prisons working and when you get out of prison because you have a criminal background, can't even get a job for the same company you were working for while

you were in prison. The deck is stacked against us. It's stacked against us, and you know, we don't have time to play around. That's why you try to make light laugh at it, because I, like I told you, like I watched it and it's a sham, just watching this impeachment trial is a sham, Like this man is literally running the White House like it's the mafia, Like it's not even a joke, Like he's running with mafia rules, like he's running it like it's against the organization. And

you know, and that's what we're dealing with. So when you look at what's funny was him and Bloomberger started to have this exchange. You know, Bloomberger is somebody that I'm not. Definitely we're not found, especially from New York. You understand he's stopping frisk and how those things have definitely played black people in our in our city. But when you look at the tactics, they both have the same mentality because they both Bloomberg pretty much gangster New York.

He said, know what, I don't want to get my terms. I'm gonna change like he knows. But you got to explain that quickly because we gotta wrap it up. But you gotta explain when you say he because everybody we're not you know what I'm saying. Basically, prior to Bloomberg, you were only able to run for two terms. You yeah, you occupied occupied the mayor seat for two terms, and he somehow enacted some law. He changed, he changed policy, and they made him he was able to have three

terms as a mayor. So this is what Trump is doing. So this is familiar to Bloomberg. So Bloomberg is using the same exact tactics he's talking about somebody. Bloomberg is talking about his head and talking about his skin, and he's he's using the same he's using the pigpin tactics. Man, He's going they go like Michelle Obama said, when they go low, we go high. No blue work. When they go low, we just go at. You know what I'm saying.

So and this is and I tell people all the time, that's what it's gonna take the beat Trump, you cannot be politically correct. You cannot be this calm, savvy person, because he is talking to a demographic of people who don't give a fuck. Like literally, they fed up, they're mad, they've been feeling like their country has been taken over by these immigrants and bodies blacks and people being celebrated.

He's saying, nah, we're gonna get this back. So and if somebody ain't over here talking today, based the same way he's talking to his you cannot beat this man. I want you to understand this. This man is playing a game. You gotta take the gloves off. He is a celebrity um can artist. The man is a car artist. He has Listen to me. This man is they got a rapist in the White House. He got he got

hundreds of people who have accused him. I mean, I'm not accused him of criminal activities like there's double digit rape people who have accused him. He has. He has us over hundreds of accusations of crimes, different types of different types of from the people who worked for him. He wouldn't pay them a black folks said he treated them like garbage while they worked in the Trump and

his different trump Um facilities. I mean he immigrants have issues with him that he had the Trump University which ended up being a sham. And it's crazy how you can have a college if you will, some educational institution that stole from people, that wasn't accredited, all these different things, and then you have to pay all these people back and still be the president. It's no way Obama could have done that. We can listen to me. Next inequity inadequacies of Donald Trump. We can we can have a

whole podcast. It really needs to be we're gonna move on, you know, kind of wand down and we're gonna get down to my I don't get it. I don't get it. Like I just don't get it. You know. When we were talking, we were talking about my mixtape, and we're talking about certain other things where their support where we need supporting the movement and in certain things like we do.

And a lot of people behind closed doors that come to us and tell us how good a job that we're doing, and they give us hugs, and they they want to pick your brain, and they want to have conversations with you, and they want to figure out and they want to do all these things in privately, they silently and privately celebrate you, but they never publicly support you. And I just don't get that. Like to me, that's very like I don't understand why. How do you know?

And they're in the positions because most of the people I'm speaking about there in positions to to to just give a kind word. If they if they would tweak about something that you were doing most of the time, it could change your tax bracket, it could change your whole life, It could change the struggle that you're actually going through. It could change, it could elevate them moment,

But most of these people don't do it. They'll tell you how they love what you do, they tell you how they celebrate you, how dope of a person you are, how they really um feel you and they love you, but they will never ever support you publicly. And I just don't get that. And you know, and I want you, I want you at home to really come back, because

we've had this conversation all the time. Like we go places and you know, based on the work that we do that is is really authentic and comes from a place of us really just want to see our people in better positions. We travel a lot and we see a lot of people, celebrities who come up and they talk to us and tell us, you know, I love the work you're doing to do this. But these same celebrities and people in power, they haven't done anything to

help the work that we do. They haven't done anything to make the work that we do any easier, you know, and it really it pains me. I don't you don't have any obligation to it. None of us have any obligation to anyone but I just want to understand, if you celebrate somebody, if you say you believe in them, if you say you respect them, and you say that what they're doing is so dope, why don't you see the need to publicly, publicly I'm gonna say it again,

publicly support those people. I don't get it either. So I have nothing to say on that, because you know, it's it's a hurtful thing when you know that people who you would imagine, and it's worse when you believe that somebody cares about you and they don't support you. But you know, I found over time that God will just help you see things you need to know and make your circle tighter and stronger, because those who have been with us have really been with us, and there

are so many we can't even name. So you know, God, what what what's the what's the thing? You always say this about when God sent the vote for Noah? Yeah, it was for Noah, and he sent them to the vote at first he sent him what it wasn't no it was no, wait a minute, Noah's are hold on? Wasn't that just it was just it just it's a tail where they said, oh, it's a tail. It's not

in the Bible because I beat that thing. So but basically God sent it was a man that was on the sea and he kept he was waiting for God. He said, God's gonna save me. So he sent the boat. So he sent the boat and he was like, get on. He's like, no, no, God's gonna save me, you know. Then he sent somebody in a little canoe and he said, God's gonna save me. And he said a big ship, A big ship, a helicopter. He said, no, waiting on God,

and he drowned. Thing that they put they sent down the vote like I said, no, I don't worry about God's gonna save me. And he said when he died, he drowned and he said, God talk preacher, come on, he said, God, I thought you was gonna say it was waiting for you to come save me. Said, well, I sent you a boat. I sent you a helicopter. You know, I said you could do you ain't get it.

So the more of the story is, you know, you never know what help looks like, and we just got to be able to to see it when it comes right and not worry about what who isn't but be grateful for what God does, and I mean I'm grateful for those who support us in private or people who don't support us. But I'm not that type of person. You know. If I say I'm gonna do something, I'm I'm authentic. If I say that I care for you, if I say that I support you, then I'm gonna

let the world know. But for those of you who not that way and you want to secretly support us, we take donations. You know what I'm saying. You want to give private donations, and that type of secret I can deal with, but don't secretly do nothing. You know what I'm saying. If you want to give secret donations, they don't secretly do nothing. But we appreciate donations until Freedom. You can go to until Freedom page and you can donati until Freedom right now. Because the work is always

needs to be fun, ongoing. So we're gonna wrap it up another episode. Like we said it. You're not gonna always agree, We're not gonna always be right, but we're gonna always be old. Yeah, that's how we owned it.