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hand hold metal like a Blacksmith dap hits got. I'm like, you can't beat as ill dope knife spit hard as Adaman. Team still still smacked ship out of wrappings and chill. I think this ship is all good at than rapping with skill. Look, this is me, this is team. Your mama is a fan. Y'all sipping lean. It's no doubt whenever Rockspits six team have these niggas acting like a white chicken scream. I came, I saw not the kid ass conquered dope knife a k A big gass monster. Ah.

That is verse and this is the beat. It's my song, the big fat Kill. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, In case you didn't know, I am a rapper. I will hawk my music from time to time. I do push mix tapes on unwanting family members. I'm not ashamed. I'm an idiot. Yo. My name's Dope Knife. We are Waiting on Reparations. Hey, how you feeling, partner, I'm feeling a little bit under the weather. Um. Nothing like covid or scary Chess. I don't know a little bit raspy. So thanks for taking

the bars this week. It's all good. It's all good. You know, I got you. I always got it. Helped down on the bars. What's going on everybody out there? Welcome to the Waiting on Reparations Podcast. Another week has gone by. I hope everybody out there is doing well. So we lied to you again our voting episode. It's

going to come out next week before the election. We figured it'd be a little bit more impactful that way if we drop it there today, we're gonna be talking about the heel turn as it were for ice Cube and fifty Cent, as they both caused a little bit of a stir last week by endorsing or at least expressing a willingness to work with the Trump administration on things A lot of people were mad about it, a lot of people had a lot to say, and we're

going to talk about it. We're also going to talk about the role the black celebrities playing the right wings efforts to peel Black voters. Will also have a music discussion as well. I gotta push back a little bit on the framing that right wing are trying to peel Black voters, because I know that we do sort sort of vote as like a democratic black but if you can only vote for one party, are truly free. I'm not talking about voters from where just assumed democratic monolith.

We'll not even peel black voters, but peel and suppress Black voters. Like, Yeah, the suppression attempts are interesting and concerning for sure. I mean I feel like I feel like a part of political organizing is making connections with titan ces on racial class, union membership, gender identity, sexuality, lines, immigration status, and so they're just connecting with some people that they perceive, even if in factually to be their base in the sense of like men love Trump, Black

men love Trump. Unemployment numbers went up under Obama, which they love to tout, and so like black the you know, black people have done better under Trump than anyone else. They just think they're just connecting with black people because they don't see why black people wouldn't vote for them. I'm in no way coming from it from like a standpoint of black people aren't allowed to be right wing or aren't allowed to vote Trump right right wing or

I know. Yeah, so we've talked, but we've talked previously in this show about the right wing technancies of hip hop, and that though we has left us try to sort of like look at the policy connections to hip hop from someone of a US of lens. There is ultimately, like with regards to the Second Amendment, with regards to like gender roles, with regards to xenophobia and homophobia, a very much conservative strain through line in a lot of

mainstream hip hop in particular. And so I think to sort of make this this, I think the recent controversies around public black figures like ice Cube, UM, I hope they illuminate that connection. And I'm happy about two and especially in the fifty cent situation has but you know what, like that's what we're gonna get into it today. So um, let's actually fill everybody in on the whole on the

whole topic. Over the last weekend, some change hip hop artists ice Cube Famous Rapper both made the headlines when they each respectively endorsed or express approval of the Trump administration's policy, specifically in the form of tax and the Black Agenda. For ice Cube, now, last week the Trump campaign, a Trump campaign official, seemingly out of the blue, thanked Ice Cube for helping with the Trump administration or being at least being open to working with them on implementing

the rappers proposed Contract with Black America. And I just honestly feel like this is a massive failure of the Biden campaign, which I think has advertisements on the show. But I'm gonna be real, because like if you had offered, if you had offered reparations, if you had offered a federal job guarantee, if you had offered like reverse redlining, or like assuming this package to the form of community development block grants to black communities, like people there, this

wouldn't have happened. Well, there's more to this, there's more to the story. It wouldn't have to get that out of the way because me off so ice Cube put out the c w b A, the Contract with Black America and uh for or while, you know, when this Trump official thanked them for a little bit, people thought that it was like a troll or a trick, and no one was really sure what was going on. But later on ice Cube himself confirmed it with a tweet he said, facts, I put out the c w b A.

Both parties contacted me. DEM said we'll address the c w b A after the election. Trump campaign made some adjustments to their plan after talking to us about the c w b A. And that's that fucking ship. I'm so I'm so sorry because it's like, okay, we just need your votes for now, and we promise we'll get to this. We'll get to your issues once we win.

Like I think back to I recently finished reading We've Got People by Ryan Grimm and which he talks about UM during the fight for marriage equality UM and you know during Obama uh for a selection campaign or it might have been his re election twos, I can't remember which, but he was like actively according LGBTQ constituency is UM while also talking about how he believes marriages between a man and a woman. He had a pastor who is

very like pro um like traditional views of marriage. I think, like fucking speak at his swearing like you know, prey to sparing it or some sh it, and like they used Obama, um, like Obama saying that he believes in civil unions but marriages between a man and a woman on robo calls when they were trying to repeal same sex marriage in California, like, hey, Obama doesn't stand for

gay marriage, so vote no on prop whatever. And so after all that, you know, it gets back trying to court LGBTQ constituencies to like get back in the good graces and then for years nothing, you know, for years nothing for for us, nothing, you know, no marriage quality. Um, you know, all the ship with like uh case in the military, like is going back and forth. Um, and it's always like, okay, vote for us, and then we'll

get to your issues once we're in. Like we're not gonna speak to them now, but once we're in, we'll do something about it. And then they still don't. But so like if our ice cube and I did this, yeah, i'd be like Trump campaign, I agree with, I agree, I don't. I don't think that this has to be an endorsement of Democrats or a defense of Democrats are Biden in order to critique somebody getting ruised by the

Trump campaign. Because the thing is everything that you like, the superficiality of courting the vote is all present in everything that the Trump campaign is going on. Like as we'll go through, you'll see that it's like there are things that are in the c W b A that we just know for a fact that it's like the Trump the Trump administration is like diabatrically opposed to. But we'll get into that they don't even take us seriously enough to pretend like they're going to do stuff for us.

So this is the Democrats don't even take it seriously enough to pretend like they're going to do so all I'm saying is if somebody is truly last week. Don't get me wrong, but like what the fun if somebody is un ironically just in their heart believes no man like Trump is telling the truth, like this is real? Like this is I mean, I know that he's been president for three and a half years and they haven't done shipped, and they've been hanging with Nazis and been

have like been actively antagtagonistic towards marginalized people. But you know what, I believe this like this is this is the real ship. Then by all means, I think you know, mago Away, you know, if like you truly live. But if you don't really believe that, then I just don't understand how you could fall for it. Like being critical of the Democrats, like, oh, the Democrats didn't do this outreach,

the Democrats didn't do this. I want the Democrats to do that, or whatever political party you want to do it, that's fine. But the Trump administration in particular, it's like want man, you know what I'm saying. But um, but if Joe Biden put on his platform next week, then

we're going to nationalize all energy production. They say he's pandering, and that would literally wouldn't believe him, but I would be like fucking stoked to vote for him because at least acknowledge my fucking existence and acknowledge the deep existential dread that I fear every morning when I wake up and think about our planet burning to ash. But alwayst like, oh, we acknowledge me, all right, okay, so the thing so

I get it. Would would you describe the Joe Biden campaign as being run in as being absent and unacknowledging of the black community or black people. They want our votes, they don't want to do ship for us? What the fund is Trump doing. So what I'm saying is if that if somebody was like, Yo, they want our votes, they don't want to do it for I'm not voting. I don't agree still, but I got it, you know

what I mean. If somebody's like, they don't want my vote, they don't want to do ship for us, so let's vote for the nazis no, no something for you, and that something is tossed us into a fucking furnace. Look, if they had the chance, they would bring back Jim Crow because let me tell you something, people, right, the Republican endgame is apartheide. That's what they're going for. They're going for minority rule. They want to control the courts.

They want to fuck the country so bad from like the structural level, that it doesn't matter how much they're outnumbered, it doesn't matter how progressive the country really is. That they just have total control. You do not have to be a Democrat to be able to look at the situation and and see that. In my opinion, I don't think you have to be a democrat or a liberal to look at the situation and realize that. And if you are leftist, I mean, I'm just not understanding, Like

I mean, I was with you. I canvass for Bernie, I did that little bit of the work. At what point for anybody in the Bernie or bus crowd did like you read in a pamphlet or some ship. Hey guys, do you know what the alternative the better alternatives to this is nazis? It's just what the funk are people talking about? I just don't understand how you're not looking at how people are looking at it from like, uh, what is going to give us more freedom of movement?

Because if you think that these Trump motherfucker's are gonna like sit at the table and negotiate with people, they damn sure aren't. That's why they're doing all this ship twenty five days before the election happens. That's like, you know what I mean that right there is a dead giver if they if they were talking about this a year ago. You know what I'm saying, Like, how how how much woulden doubt of what I'm saying be if like now, yo, like Trump has been on this black

agenda for like a year. It's like, oh, okay, well, I mean they've been going at it. It didn't take pull numbers being in the tank. It didn't take him lagging behind and it'll in the election by you know, like major points. It didn't take Covid ruining the country and changing the dynamic of how the race was supposed to play out. He just did it because it was on his mind. So it's just like, I don't understand how the critique can be on one end where it's like, oh, man,

the Democrats did the Democrats didn't do. The Democrats are supposed to do better because we think we don't let the Republicans aren't honest and aren't acting in good faith on virtually everything, to the point where it's like I don't even feel any hesitation to just say that as a matter of fact, See we know that, but ice

Cube doesn't. And that's not his because he's older than both of us, and he's more connected than both of us, and I mean this all led to um in in the weeks afterwards, ice Cube doubled and tripled down, and he's talked about it, and I'm not even I'm not gonna like mischaracterize it because you know, all of his critique of the Democrat Party are all on point. Is it's nothing unlike things that you've heard Mariah say just now.

But you know he'd gotten he had an interview with Roland Martin and it was kind of a disaster, you know what I mean. And it was obvious he was a bit out of his depth in terms of like

knowing even what Trump's policies were and stuff like that. Now, Trump, the Trump administration, they have a proposal which um is called the Platinum Plan because the Bling Bling Plan must not have been available, so they went with the Platinum Plan, and it allegedly promises opportunity, security, prosperity, and fairness for

the black community. Um So, in this the Trump Plan, we've got a promise of three million new jobs for the black community, creating five hundred thousand new black owned businesses, increase access to capital and black communities by almost five hundred billion dollars, safe urban neighborhoods with the highest policing standards. YadA, YadA, YadA, da dada. But it's interesting, I guess interesting to me, given Ice cubes previous views on the cops. You're right,

I was thinking that too. I mean, if you see any footage of the Trump rallies now, they're like flying the American flag right next to the Blue line flag. So I guess it's love the police. I mean, both parties are like, we support our law enforcements. So I guess if you're dealing with equivalent like sanceis why not go with the people that are like, we're willing to

like throw you a fucking bone. But do you But that's what I'm saying, like that is to be honest, I don't understand how anyone can think that, Well, that's too fucking bad, like like no, for real, Like so you're telling me that you're looking at the Republicans and you're like, oh man, Trump wants to throw us a bone. I mean, I'm just seeing how I'm seeing how I'm saying.

I see how I got that. Well. I think that if ice Cube feels that that's genuine, then I feel that the Nigerian Prince could probably scam ice Cube out of some ship too. And I feel that like, uh, vacuum cleaner salesman could probably sell him a broken vacuum cleaner as well, and it used car salesman could sell him a shitty car that doesn't work, Like I mean, it's just it's all like a con. So it's not even really something that I'm that I I personally am

taking serious. Like I think that Trump lies through his teeth. Like, for example, in the Ice Cubes contract with Contract with Black America, there's this part right here where it says mandatory civil rights and anti racism classes and all elementary schools black scholars will write the textbooks and curriculum adopted for these classes. That's one of the things that ice

Cube wants. Trump literally had a full two hour press conference to pretty much say fuck anti racism, Fuck you niggas, talking about how they he was against that that very thing. So when ice Cube talked with Trump or when ice Cube met with Trump, did he ask Trump about that? You know, like, like, did did he ask Trump about like, hey, what what what is up with the fine people on both sides ship? Like what did he ask Trump about

stand back and stand by with the proud boys? Did he ask Trump about the migrants that are locked in

the cages? You know what I'm saying. It irks me out, especially with like rappers and rock stars when they're like cozy with any politicians, because I feel like, if you're really like a rock star like that, I don't think like a really mainstream politicians should feel comfortable like talking with you, because you're probably gonna ask them some ship that they're not gonna feel comfortable answering, and we can hedge everything with saying, oh, both sides are fucked out.

I agree, But there's never been a politician that's more embodied that to me than Donald Trump. You know what I'm saying, Like Donald Trump should only want to be around far right, fringe media figures that are gonna lavish praise on him and tell him everything he wants to hear, because anybody who's real is not gonna be able to

have like a regular conversation with him about ship. So you know, you you're hearing the pain in the voice of somebody who really really was like a huge Ice Cube fan and right now, I'll always be a fan of his music and what it you know, what it did for me, But this is disappointing, not even from a political and it's just like, damn, like you were able to fall for that. That's how I feel. But I look at all Trump So I look, literally look

at all Trump supporters that work. That's it, you know, you know, they're all being con to a certain degree, and the maggots are going crazy online over it. Um there's a picture that was photoshop with a fifty cent nice cube wearing Trump hats, and Eric Trump tweeted it out like a dumb fuck. So, um, fifty cents situation was a bit more. I think it's a less nuanced situation.

I don't even know if it's serious. So as for fifty cities watching the news and heard about Biden's tax plan and proposed an increase of taxes on people making more than four New thousand ills a year, he responded with the treat tweet, what the fuck vote for Trump? I'm out for New York. The Knicks never win anyway. I don't care that Trump doesn't like black people. Are you out of your fucking mind? Yeah? So, I mean, yeah, that sounds like a troll to me. To like, I mean,

it sounds like fifty cent doing some friendship. Whether or not it's a situation you should be playing around with when you have millions of followers, I don't know, but I don't know how serious he Isn't that. I mean, I'm not super will versed in Biden's tax policy. I

am not a tax expert in general. But I feel like even millionaires, even even ice Cube, even like all of the movie stars we love and rock stars whatever, like we're still all getting screwed by the people that like ohn Sony, that own Microsoft, that own Spotify, that own Netflix, like the folks at the like the top, top top, Like I hate that this happened. I guess I'm trying to say because like Hiftes is closer to being at my level than he is to being Jeff Bezos.

Like we're on the same team ultimately, But does fifty cent consider himself on the same team. That's what I'm saying. I'll even ask you this. I would say that there's like millions of Americans who definitely aren't on the Jeff Bezos team, but they think that they will be. And that's the problem. Yeah, I think fifty cent would probably be one if if this is like a serious sentiment, that would put fifty cent in that category of like no, man, I mean, I'm rich, and it's like, yo, you're rich.

But like when people say eat the rich. They're not talking about rappers. Are you're talking about Lebron We ain't talking about David Levato, ain't talking about Chris Pratt. We are talking about We're talking about people at the very top that run the whole ship. That the reason why isn't as rich as he could be because they're taking a cut on his contract when put album on. Motherfucker's whose names you don't know, who you never saw in

a music video, That's who we're talking about. UM would like it kind of brings up like another question of black celebrity, Black celebrities playing this role just in politics in general, because like I feel, you know what else is like a sheer good away at how much of a rus this is? I feel like if this was some serious ship, Like if it was some serious ship, if Trump is Trump and it's like, y'all see me, I'm Trump on the mic. You know what I'm saying.

But that's that's my that's my character. Like you don't know what I'm thinking behind closed doors and ship like that, because I actively think about the black community every day. Let's just say that's what it is. I think that this Platinum plan would have involved like actual serious people. And this is no disrespect to ice Cube in the fifty cents of the world ship like that, but maybe it would have been. Hey, the Trump campaign reached out to Cornell West, you know what I mean? The Trump

campaign reached out to Tissy Coats. That's not what happened. They're reaching out to rappers in boxers, you know what I'm saying. In in Kanye West, that's who they're That's who they're getting like, because that's Trump is like that sort of old school in New York racists where it's like, oh no, those are the good ones, you know what I mean. The I like basketball players, wouldn't let them date my daughter, but you know that's a good one. I like that one. So shit, I'm black and COVID

and it's just got my blood pressure up. You wanna talk about some music, Okay? Let's that's some music quick. Okay. So for the music discussion today, given that we're talking about rappers turned Republican are working with the Republicans, We're gonna examine just some lines and a couple of songs or two just kind of dealing with that sentiment, you know, lines that kind of stand out as having sort of

a conservative bend to them. You know, it's gonna kind of be a light one because we had that whole episode on abortion where we found abortion lines, so you could pretty much consider any of those anti abortion lines from that episode would probably fit in this. And my ass is gonna find something progressive about it because I just can't help up progressive eyes hip hop because I want so desperately far our culture to be the bank

pard of like revolution. That again I said, I wanted that's really for our culture to be the Vancord revolution, even what it isn't. Well, Um, the first track we've We've mentioned this line briefly before in another episode, but it's from the DJ Khaled song I'm on One, and it's from the Drake verse. Let's listen to this line. All I care about his money in the city and I'm from Mamma sipp And all I care about his

money and the city that I'm from Heresy. Hey, I care about my city, Go Savannah saying O Athens too, I love you. I love everybody, but no, no, it's I think that every all the intentions of the line were completely pure. If you can say that, I believe it's true. I don't. I don't think there's anything nefarious in the line and show like that. I'm just talking about the sentiment of those words. All I care about

is money in the city that I'm from. I remember when the song came out and I heard that just I couldn't help thinking it was like, damn, yo, this song is hot. If I was like thirteen. I mean, you hear a lot of whack ship in hip hop, and you hear, especially when you're like a real like kid listener, you hear a lot of like you know, messages and values and stuff that you probably are getting exposed to too early or whatever the argument is for it.

But it's like, I think about the person that I am now, in the beliefs that I have, and I just think, like if my favorite rapper was telling me, yo, money, money, money, something about money, get that paper, Get that paper, and it is you know, the song is kind of the epitome. That line is kind of the epitome of a sentiment

that's always been around in hip hop. But I guess there's something about how soul full in real it is a good job on Aubrey and making making that just feel so so real, but for real, not just that line, lines like it and other sentiments. You know, you have to wonder what what type of value system it's shaping in people, if any you know, maybe it's maybe it is just entertainment. I just think about I'm gonna get roasted for this so hard. I'm sounding I'm sounding like

a fucking Trump supporter. But both parties are capitalists. Neither Democratic party or neither major party nominee wants to overthrow capitalism. Is not going to overthrow capitalism. I care about his money, like, of course. Like that's not even a Republican that's not even a Republican line. That's an American line. True, of course, But you know, again, it's just let's not make false equivalences. If capitalism was cocaine, then Democrats have a bad coke

habin and Republicans are smoking all of the crack. Okay, what if Baron Trump as he gets older, he discovers SoundCloud and starts making SoundCloud. Little Nick doesn't have no SoundCloud, isn't he like he's like fourteen or fifteen? Yeah, SoundCloud? I know. So I'm saying, let's say he discovers and he's like yo, I was meant to be a rapper, and like Baron Trump is making like rap songs, He's like, all I care about his money in the city that

I'm from, doesn't it hit different or no? I think that I have slight more tolerance for black capitals on the white capital. So yes, it hits different, um, but both have to be abolished. Though, all right, there you go. That's what I'm talking about, Like by no means make my ship any sort of like endorsement or like I'm not drinking the kool aid. I'm not on Team Blue

as it were. But you know, I'm not working with the Nazis, man, Like, That's pretty much what it make very clear in this episode that I also am not working with the Nazis. You know, there's like shades of grain what I'm saying that might be concerning this and listeners, I am not. They know you though you've done You've done too much work for anybody to its interm with that and hilarious, and it came out that I was it's like this whole time, just like I know where

it's coming college prisons. Also, Hail Hiller, what the thing is I don't want I don't like getting in in discussions like this and dismissing how people feel, you know what I'm saying, or like acting like, yo, my way is right, in your way is wrong. It's just not I just think you're wrong, and I think I'm right, you know what I'm saying. But it's not like I don't think that it's ridiculous for people to make these

points and stuff like that. And it's just I find as I guess someone who you know, I guess, you know, I consider myself to be, you know, a leftist and ship and it's like I find myself having conversations and it's just like the people who are really in that NA the Democrats are sucked up. The Democrats are sucked up. The Democrats are sucked up. It's like, yo, we all know that, but like, are you seeing that ship over there? And it's almost like they treat it like it's ridiculous

for you to bring that up, you know. It's like, no, I think I think you can fairly say that one side's worse, you know, I don't think that's that's controversial. Also saying that I'm not like saying it, but like I mean it. Um the next one that the next one talking about is the jay Z song The Story of o J. Now that's not it's not that it's

not that the song is promoting Republican values. There's just it's just there's just something about it overall that just has like a feeling like, yeah, nigga, who are you talking to? Let's listen to I could have brought a place in dumbled Be four was dumble for like two millions, that same building today it's worth Yeah, It's like I don't know, it feels like, um, you gotta be talking to like an NBA player or like a nigga that works for Goldman Sacks or some ship to for them

to like really relate to that ship. I mean, niggas is out here. They need like job training and G E. D s and ship And you're talking about flipping fucking buildings. There's nothing inherently wrong with like black people behind land.

I think that's great. I think we should. Um, I am skeptical of like when people are like, oh, we need you know, to invest in black homeownership are like land acquisition to like build generational wealth where it's like I want a world where like generational wealth doesn't matter anymore. And so it's like, okay, buying your whole block to transform it. It's kind of cool. But then being like, want to buy my whole block because it's worth four meal right now and in twenty years of worthy five

And then what isn't that called gentrification? Buy your whole block? Let everybody. He didn't say whether or not it's gonna keep let everyone keep living there. If I could, if I were the Tsar of Athens, if I had a billion dollars, I would just buy my whole district and just let all the people who have generationally lived here just like everybody gets to have a house and you don't have to pay mortgage and you're good. So I

think the end goal, I mean, he does say. And the thing is he says, oh, in like a couple of years is gonna be worth twenty five meal. So he's looking at it as an like an asset for himself rather than thinking about acquiring land for the sustenance of the community. But I feel like there's a colonel in there where you can twist it be like that's not totally bad. It's not it's not really bout and you know, there's mad parts of the song that are like,

you know, good point. I'm just I'm just saying there's a sentiment to it. And we we've talked about this before, that like black capitalist thing where it's like, Yo, what's really gonna fix it is if there's more black billionaires.

You know what I'm saying. Now, don't get me wrong, if I got to choose between a black billionaire and a white billionaire, actually a black billionaire, but that is well, at least just in my opinion, that's not ultimately the goal, you know what I mean, Like, we're not gonna like things aren't gonna be solved if like the corporate boardrooms are just diverse, but they're still doing all their fucking grubby corporate ship. You know what I'm saying, Like that

doesn't help anything. The last line is from Pastor Mace. His hit song Feels So Good Back in the Day is on that that Rush Hour soundtrack. But he had this line that and this is this kind of scarred me when I was a Kid's always gonna stick with me, but it'll be talking funny people show. Now there's like a whole there's a whole song before that you have

to hear. But I remember my older brother who was like seventeen eighteen at the time, and I remember one time we were watching the video and that line habit, and my older brother was like, Yo, he's gonna make a lot of motherfucker's bad at him with that lie. Just something about the way he said. He was like, Yo, that is not cool. Like I've heard a lot of rappers brag about money before, but your fuck you, what

the is up with that? I mean, I was reflecting on the fact that when we talk about like republican bars, all of the examples you come up with are essentially capitalist bars. That's because that's mine, I mean. And then we did did the episode on like abortion, there's plenty of abortion raps, w pro gun wraps, and so it's just interesting that, like, it's interesting to me that they're

they're seen as the hyper capitalist corporatist party. Though again, I feel like that I would say, I would say that that's it is then, I mean, it's kind of not scientific to just be like, Yo, every reference to money that I've heard in hip hop is like, you know, akin to their right wing agenda. You know, it's not really like that it's it's all just it's all just games.

But I do think that when I do have that feeling about the about hip hop not being as progressive as we might think it is, it does stem from that aspect of it, the materialism, the consumerism aspect of it, the fact that hip hop is so in bed with corporate America and that it's almost like that that was the goal, Like you know, when when Nike started doing in reebok and stuff started doing like deals with rappers like Yo, like hip hop made it, you know what

I mean, Like we're officially that ship. And that's dope because a lot of people are eaten and that's dope. But I just wonder culturally, if we'll look back in fifty years, you know what I mean, when there's some whole when there's some new thing that's dominating and hip hop isn't that thing, but we're just looking back at it.

Are we gonna look at that turn when hip hop went so mainstream that it was just like this with corporate America is not gonna be like a good decision that we made that we embrace that as like a culture. I think that an era when hip hop is no longer the like primary genre of music within the mainstream. I like to believe that it also be an era where capitalism no longer dominants, and so it'll be an interesting time capsule of the ideology of their well MEANOK,

back on it. We'll look back on it like, oh, it's so cute. We used to think that kind of stuff. Yeah, no, for real, I wonder what, um, I wonder what just full scale not ironic like socialist hip hop sounds like. Well, hopefully in the upcoming episodes we can explore them. I mean, I like to believe my hip hop, but particularly within

the recent months, has become very badly socialists. I talked about joining the d s A, talk about general strikes, boycotting Amazon, Like, I don't know if I might be the only socialist rapper I know, though, I don't know if I've ever made a reference to buying something in a rap song. I'm really trying to think of a moment in any of my songs that I said I bought this, or you know what I mean, Like I talk about having bad money sometimes. I talked about having

bad money sometimes just because it's fun and easy. Yeah, but I always wondered that, like what if I was in a different subgenre of hip hop, Like, like what if I wrapped about diamonds. You can imagine how ill my punch lines would be about diamonds if I was, Like, it's never too late to reinvent yourself and hopefully in your oultra bars this week you maybe can drop something gems Well, ladies and gentlemen. Next week, what more can I say? The elections coming up. We've got our episode

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ain't it? Tyson to me? Doing life in the being like could be like a prize fight with Tyson the ring. I'm a little back, How real is that? What I'm trying to sing is eat the prums, to play every slice of the thing that's got to beat barriers. Let the steam carry you through the beef grief and survive the leech area, and scared of you rise in your moment of defeat, even when it hands you Lemon's dog. You know you gotta eat like glass. I should should un um shift all right, Uh fuck um, it's the

International Spider with the passport. I will never give you fuss anything you ask for. When I'm in your tape, never put the ship on fast forward, or I'm in your crib, You're like, why you got that mask for? Ask for? The fucker's in the back. Mayby losing, of course, just some rap synth nicas will be using the forest. I write rhyms like I do it for sport. I like domes. Let me cruise. They Porsche. They got through a divorce, Mada door. I killed the bullshit quickly. The

more I show out, the more kids diss me. Bess out yere and my shore fIF fifty less I care. It's like the more y'all miss me ship please. I'm a real African American mixed breed, so you fuss gotta be aware of my technique. Araman accident. When I just speak to win the booth, I don't have to spit. I could just breathe dope, the dope. This is dope night. We are waiting on reparations. See y'all next week. Waiting

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