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got doubts. While you win, you're fortressing the people getting shot down because they're in the streets, and now the cops are using hot rounds. I don't even want y'all massive gets swung on, watch the world burn with some gasoline draws on make that. But I'd rather take all ship and as long as you flowers put a face on it, wait for it. Not saying that I hate all rich, but I smoke an l for all of that hate. Y'all get dope. He my name is Dope

night Frank, and we are waiting on reparations. Hurry up. Ah So fuck well, I mean, there's no it's no easy way to say. We might as well just say because it's on both of our minds. But um, you know, this episode comes after unfortunate bit of news this week, the passing of journalists, political commentator, and activist Michael Brooks. It's weighed pretty heavily on both of us. I was devastated.

I am devastated. We're both pretty big fans. Yeah. I had recently, only recently gotten into his work, and it felt like I was only very very recently becoming like smart enough to fucking understand it. Like he had such a like internationalist perspective, and she's like such deep care

for the struggles of working people around the globe. And I learned so much from him about like uprisings from Brazil to like communism in India in the way that they had organizedly effectively under COVID, and um, it's really apartide and just like so many topics, And to find out that he's gone, he hurts it's like every time you listen to him speak, it's like you learned something each time. But it's funny that you said that, because it's like the way that I found out about him was, um,

it was actually him being funny. It was he was he was hilarious. He was playing a clip of h I mean, I had seen him, you know, guests appear on like Young Turks and you know, Majority Report, but he was you know, at this point he had had his show, I think, and he was playing a clip of Alex Jones, like berating Ben Shapiro. But he said it to the beat for Nazis Ether and it was like the funniest shit I had ever heard. I was like, yeah, I gotta find out who this guy. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,

it's unfortunate. You know. Definitely was hoping at some point, the more that we keep doing this, maybe being able to talk to him. Yeah. Yeah. So if all our listeners out there, if you would please join us in a brief moment of silence for Michael, we really appreciate it. So yeah, go check out some of Michael streams with the Michael Brooks Show on YouTube, um Patreon. He had a book out about the Intellectual Dark Web that I recently started reading and it's really good, um that you

can get via red Emma's and highly recommend um. Yeah. Just it's not too late to learn from him even though he's gone. The thing about when you follow people on YouTube like that is you feel like you know them, so something like this happens, or you know, you feel every day you feel a little bit harder than you

do for usually in situations like this. But then also because of the nature of being a YouTuber, this is just endless amount of content that you can always look to remember him ever, Yeah, so go check that out for sure. What else is going on with you? Oh? Um, I'm finally ready to let you read my comic book

because I'm finished writing it. Finished writing it. Yeah, Like I mean to explain, the comic book was written, but I kind of went with the what they call in the industry the stan Lee method, where I outlined the story and then I drew it and then I put the you know, the dialogue and word balloons after and stuff. So that's what I've been doing for the last month and finally finished that. So um, yeah, look in your in box soon you'll be everybody about everybody who's read

it so far said it's been dope. So you describe it to me? I was just fucking mind blown. This is the thing that exists or what exists to the one. And because I've been like doing the dialogue, you know, recently, it's it's been influenced by everything that's been going on, so a lot of my current thoughts on stuff have been incorporated into the story of it. I I don't want to like tease it too much because it doesn't you know, it's no one can hold it in their

hands yet, So fucking download that ship. What about you? Fun man? Just watching what's going down in Chicago and Portland's Yeah, did they already send troops Chicago? I don't

think they had. What's going on in um I believe Friday night they had a de colonized Zega gong hopefully and pronouncing that right, protest for Black and Indigenous solidarity, asking for us for you know, the government to decolonized by like protecting community gardens in Chicago, by bringing down the Columbus Christopher Columbus statue, and you know, obviously to fund the CPD and get uh Chicago cops out of schools and uh protesters where I met with violence by CPD.

A eighteen year old activist with a Good Kids Mad City named Miracle Boyd while filming an arrest, got several teeth knocked out by a Chicago police officer. And UM, I've been really heartened by the act. They haven't really let up in that aftermath, Like the very next night they were outside of Lory Lightfoot's house once again demanding to fund CPD. UM. You know, I think at this point the word is out about what's happening in Portland.

The mainstream media's finally picked up on what's going on. I mean, they're they've been going at it um as far as like covering it. So that's been encouraging because I mean you would think if there's ever gonna be a moment that's going to unify just everybody on like different political spectrums, it would be literal jack booted thugs like kidnapping people off the streets. You think the fucking libertarians would have something to say about this. And Uh,

I mean no, there's definitely boot liquors out there. I've been I've been seeing them. There's like all of the freedom of speech warriors that are always down to declare the end of Western civilization the minute some purple haired kid won't let Jordan Peters and speak somewhere where are you nig is at? Huh you can stop those in the street where you at? Yeah? I digress, you know, I mean, I guess this is all fitting with you know,

Donald Trump's America. You know, on this podcast, um, and maybe it's mostly just me, but you know, by extension, on this podcast, um, we talk a lot about the revolutionary roots and potential for hip hop a lot of times, but um, it's inevitable that eventually, sometimes occasionally we uh in diving deep into hip hop's complexities and contradictions, we address it's fawning over the President of the United States, Donald Day Trump. Donald and So this is a topic that,

like you feel really impassionate about it. I definitely have thoughts to say, Louise, well, you know what, I feel that we should clarify this right, like we should maybe amend it and not necessarily talk about hip hop's relationship to Donald Trump, but talk about rappers relationships Donald trup.

Hip hop is so many different things that I think it's kind of unfair to just mask all of it like be boys and be girls and graffiti artists, every this is this is more of a rapper thing because it has to do with personas, Yeah, and like the cultivation of like very specific kind of personas in hip

hop and in the rise of Donald Trump. Donald Trump, in many ways, Donald Trump's very essence pre presidency represents in a lot of ways the very id of what for at the very least mainstream American hip hop what now, you know, obviously there's much to be said about the turn that hip hop is taken on Donald Trump. This is a public figure and that's all that we're really dealing with here, Like, trust me, well, we can get into, like you know, the political ramifications of this, but I

think that's pretty easy, you know what I mean. It's fun Donald Trump all day in hip hop at this point, you know what I mean, because of what he represents politically. But as we all know, that wasn't always the case. And Donald Trump was definitely a figure that was a referenced numerous times over two d times, over two hundred times in the last thirty years. So the takeaway from all these references positive and negative, and most are positive and favorable. By a count done by of song lyrics

about Trump were negative, while sixty we're positive. Two hundred rap songs. Obviously, I know they've been way more than two hundred rap songs created in that time, but that's

really that's a lot of references for anyone. That's crazy if you think about that, you know what I'm saying, Like, the only only other you know, figure that I can think of that has that many references in hip hop would be like Tony Montana, who's like famously not really notoriously not a real person, not even necessarily his um rise to political power, but he became such a commonly referenced character in the story that is hip hop if you actually go back and you listen to it. So

let's just give you a brief little history. So the earliest that anyone can really recall hearing references to Donald Trump and rap songs would be around and that unfortunate, unfortunate accolade is going to either go to the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, or my pick of the goat iced tea. But one of those cats had the first Donald Trump bar I did a cart in the White House, and after that Donald It's hard to think of Donald Trump

as anything other than a politician. At this point. You can't really divorce him from his office or his power or the party that's behind him. But if you really do try to, just like take yourself back to a time before that this brash, arrogant, self important, um verbose dangerous like might be a criminal, but has like an acceptance in legit business. Just there's just a lot about who Donald Trump was as a figure that totally makes sense that he was dealt with the way that he

was in hip hop up to that time. I mean, no different than I mean if you just consider, if you if Tony Montana was a real person, pretty sure it would be like a horrible human being, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, like not a good person. Pretty sure Al Capome was not like a good guy. I'm pretty sure Noriega wasn't a good guy, you know what

I mean. Like, these are all figures that have been referenced in hip hop time and time again, and I don't think anyone is going to to to question the references that will come in the future, you know what I'm saying. The aspect of Donald Trump that makes it such a regrettable reference going back is what he's become, you know what I'm saying, which to reveal himself to be. But that is the issue to me, is that the deal breaker he has revealed himself. Yeah, like like was

that not something that was obvious to people? All right? So my thesis, as it were, if hip hop is the most powerful cultural entertainment phenomena to happen in the last thirty years, with its mainstream incarnation being at the forefront, then does mainstream American hip hop have any influence over

Donald Trump's rise to power? Now? By power, I don't necessarily mean political power because again, one of the reasons that we're not really tackling what hip hop's relationship to Donald Trump is now is because like at this point it's kind of cliche, Like the consensus is fun Donald Trump for the most part, it's it really is something.

I mean, I've I've asked several rapper friends of mine, and it's kind of a hard thing to deal with in music now because like making a song about your thoughts about Donald Trump is like it's kind of passing. It's like cancer is bad word, dude. Yeah, it's a really interesting song exactly what racism is bad, you know, like word, okay, we got we got you? Yeah, what is what is your thoughts on that? Just just your initial thoughts on just like that question he just wrote

out of the deal. He has pretty much lied his way into people thinking he is something he's not. It's already begun and he's gotten embraced by That's that's the power I'm talking about. Yeah, Like does hip hop have have anything to do with his rise to that? I do not think hip hop is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump. I wanted I wanted to make clear something about that, because it's not as if these positive Trump references to the decades have been turning young black

men out to vote for Trump in droves. According to the n y T, only of black men voted for him. So I don't know if we can really make the connection of like these positive references throughout the the years, and like, it's not that um saying that hip hop is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump. I do not believe that. But I don't believe that The Apprentice

is responsible for the rise of Donald Trump either. But I definitely know that there's a there's a part in conditioning the public to be comfortable with Donald Trump as a public figure. That the Apprentice definitely played right. Yes, yes, that's all I'm saying. Well, what I think is that, Um, you know, Donald D. Trump was a young man in New York during the air of hip hop's ascendency. He was, even if distantly there when it came up, and he

reportedly liked hip hop. Um, he had friendships with the had friendships with people like Russell Simmons. Um. And I'd say that this relationship between Donald Trump and hip hop, and indeed some shared characteristics between hip hop creators, rappers specifically, and the current president are what they are because they

were cooked up in the same cauldron. The same social, cultural political forces that gave birth to hip hop, and the same mentality that circulated within hip hop as a result of these cultural forces also shaped Donald Trump and who he has, who he became, who has become Um, and and and and some and some have even said, you know, Charles blow In two thousand eighteen even ventured to say that Trump took after hip hop in some ways. He and he quote unquote invidd he aped it. He

admired the men who learned how to monetize swagger. So I think the really interesting question is to what degree did hip hop Makedonald Trump who he is? That is true, but even the implications of that, to me, like I never even thought about it that way. But even that, with what we know of Donald Trump, now, do we think any of that reverence or respect was genuine? No, I mean it was like it's in cultural appropriation and it's superficial. I talk about the fact that Donald Trump

has always been a racist. Going back to seventy three, the Justice Department that Trump discriminated against prospective black tenants of his apartment complexes, rather than just screening out low income applicants as they claimed at the time. The Department of Justice said, black testers to more than half a dozen buildings and we're denied apartments. But but similar white testers would then be offer departments in the same apartment buildings.

So this is back in n seventy three, before before he even has a claim to the fame of the Trump Tower, before hip hop was even really a thing. So I do not disagree with anything that you said. I just feel like there's a reason that they referenced him so much. I'm not saying that there's no like mitigating factors behind it, and there's very well a reason for why there was that connection. There's a reason why Donald Trump was hanging in those scenes and was around

those people. I don't mean it and like, I gotcha, see what you did. Yeah, that's not really how I mean it. I mean it more so just is like you know what, maybe just letting any old body get into our hip hop ship is not like a good idea. Do you think people are have wisened up to them? No? No, no, not at all. If anything, it's power has been in the way it has fueled the white suburban imagination about Black America and stoking those fears of it through reporting

on what's happening on the ground in Black America. Oh God, these thugs are gonna come and rape your wives and like whatever. Um that's sort of like white supremacy. Uh that you know has linked arms with Donald Trump? Is that have foisted him up as they're champion. Like hip hop has definitely influenced that to a degree and sort of stoked most fears that gave an opportunity for someone

like uh, Donald Trump too. I'm just always curious, right, maybe it's I didn't grow up in the States, And something that will discover as as we go on with these episodes is like there's certain things that I perceived one way because I was living overseas as a kid when it was happening, that maybe it didn't have the same perception. Like there definitely was a point in my childhood when Donald Trump is a figure I just knew

him to be like this rich guy. Yeah, but there definitely was a point in my childhood when Donald Trump's bankruptcy and like just the concept of bankruptcy was just something that like I associated with Donald Trump. He was like the most famous person that I knew that went bankrupt. I didn't even really know what bankruptcy meant except that you money is the only concept I had it, So like I knew that, And from all of the research that we've been doing, it doesn't seem like that was

ever like held against Donald Trump. Yeah, let me get you know, Like there's never any like I can't find any references to you ni is gonna go broke like Donald Trump, Like no one was ever saying that, like he even though that was the reality of his life, it seemed to escape between two tho nine. Trump's hotelling casino business has declared bankruptcy six times due to inability to meet requiring payments and renegotiate debt with bis Yo.

I mean, so that's like it's like the heyday of most of these quotes that were like, yeah, that's like over a decade of failure for this to catch. But even the reference doesn't make sense that. Yeah, the aspect of like Trump being like such a bumbastad figure also playing into it too, because you know, surely, like Bill Gates is a famous, rich guy, but he didn't get as many shoutouts or like comparisons or things like that as Trump because he's not like showy. Yeah, that's a

good point. That's a good point. Yeah. I know hip hop is supposed to be inclusive and everybody can get in and YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, all that all that ship I'm saying. So I guess the thing's just like disheartening.

The lesson that I don't think is being learned because maybe it's just some ship that only I'm thinking about, but is who we let into hip hop and how this Donald Trump situation is not the first time that some body fake in the funk, got open arms, embrace, and then flipped around on the other side and turned it turned out to not even be not a decent person, not be for the culture. Like nothing, know what I'm saying, Like I look at Donald Trump's fall from grace, no

different than Kid Rocks. You feel what I'm saying. But there's a lot of people who listen to mainstream hip hop who, like I'm pretty sure, don't give two funks about the people making it or anybody that looks like though, no, yeah, I mean, this is a college town that we're in right now, and like you definitely see like hoisted pickup trucks, you know, Magga Hat asked, Motherfucker's out here and the newest Mego song. I just feel like, obviously there's nothing

anybody can do to change the path. But in hindsight, you know the fact that there's no self reflection as to like, damn, you know what wasn't about what I was doing that would have made a motherfucker like that feel comfortable? Because what do you what do you see as the deal breaker for Trump and hip hop? I don't think. I don't think you can ask me that question because I feel like we should have been not fucking with him all along. I agree, No, I agree

for you. So I'm not talking about you personally. Yeah, I'm talking about what what do you see like? Because obviously there's a switch right like Trump has been he's been doing he's been being Trump and doing all of his Trump things and having all of his Trump is um and then in hip hop was this I'm doing I'm living. It's always I'm living like I'm with um, you know. I mean, I'm getting money like Trump. That they're staying in Trump hotels, they're well known, like him,

they're saying to the black version of him. And so Trump has represented as an expiring example of wealth and success and that and something they want, someone they want to be close to, whether socially or in terms of emulating that success. If there was a switch to where it was just universally fuck Donald Trump. What aspect of

Donald Trump do you think is the deal breaker? It's hard to say, because I mean, like its latest two thousand and fifteen jaw Rule was saying not even like rapping about Trump, but saying things like Trump is very entertaining. He speaks very openly and candidly about what he feels.

I think it's a breath of fresh air. Right, And so there was already this undercurrent of like questioning the belonging of African American folks in this country, and like, yeah, I mean, let's not forget about all of the housing discrimination stuff back in five. I think it's overt racism is the deal breaker. To me, that's very easy. I

think there's a lesson to be learned from that. We all look at Donald Trump now, we're like, wait a minute, this guy's a fucking idiot, right, like like he doesn't know anything, He's dumb, Like why is he always lying all the time in abloviate like like this is really like damn, who the fund shoul for anything that this guy was saying. You know, That's how we look at him now, And she's like that. But the thing is

he's always been that. So if the only different factor is that he came down the escalator and said that Mexicans are rapists, ah, Like we don't like that ship. Everything else we were cool with, you know what I'm saying, Like all the other ship, all the like crooked dealings

and moralistic selfishness, misogyny, like all that ship. It's like, I mean, when I think of all of the things that I think are bad about Donald Trump, when I go down the list, there would be like two or three things that would come out that I would imagine, like that, why is anybody funk with this person? And racism comes in a like number three or two? Do

you feel what I'm saying? Period? But I think that if there was a Donald Trump, or if there was an alternate reality where Donald Trump didn't come down the escalator and say that Mexicans are rapists, I have a hard time imagining a reality where you would not see a lot of your favorite mainstream rappers at the Mcarellies. I fell you on that. I feel you on that. Yeah,

So I think you're making a good point. But like, the thing that I really wonder in these times is that, Okay, rappers have been trash talking Trump since seventeen, But what are rappers gonna do? Like? Are they gonna mobilize people to vote? Are they gonna come out and endorse candidates? Are they gonna campaign for candidates? Are they gonna benefit conference constants for candidates? Like? What are what are we going to do? What are they going to do? I

don't even think that we necessary. That isn't a must that rappers go out there and necessarily speak on behalf of like a candidate or anything like that. But going we had like the we had like jay z and like Beyonce indorsed Obama and and but when when jay z or endorsed the Hillary Clinton, what did he say when he did it? Said something to the effect of, now, I got no problem with Trumph. He's a nice guy,

but like Hillary Clinton. You know what I'm saying, It's like, nah, man, obviously we you know, I'm kind of passionate about this, and I'm totally open to being wrong, But I feel that for thirty years hip hop has been like yo, you know what I'm saying, I gotta get mine flash flash Flash. We've been putting it out there and it's I mean, we're living in in woke times and more aware times where people were more aware and more you

know what I'm saying. So it doesn't mean that shipped from the past is like bad, but I would think that people would want to reflect this like damn you know what, like maybe maybe we have some sort of like responsibility to take this guy down like a particular responsibility, Like we have some some of the burden on our filders of the guilt the past. We have to patone for our previous actions by like doing something about the situation.

Everybody who everyone who works at the crew of the Apprentice television show I feel, feel the exact same way. It's like, yo, man, we was working on making this type of ship like mad regular. You know what I mean, to normalize, you know what I'm saying, And now that doesn't seem cool anymore. So people who worked on that show should be dropping all those like tapes that no one is seen yet. I think rappers should. Rappers should make more of an effort if they feel this way.

If they don't feel that way, then it's different. But like, if there are things that you recognize in Trump and Trump is m that like you see is like yo, that's like a whack way for people to be, then you should speak on it and speak on it in your music because more people are going to hear that

than they're gonna hear any interviews that you did. Right, they might see on like Billboard or Rolling Stone that you endorse someone one time in their feet, but they're gonna listen to that song in their car exact day, and that's what's gonna drive people out to vote. That's when it's gonna embraise critical consciousness about the issues. So I guess that's what we need to do. Remains to be seen if it will see it, But we can

only hope. The only hope it only man. I would kill to go to see like a hip hop show. I would kill because like I've been seeing online that like Bernie is having these like yeah yeah, and like I would love, I would love to see, you know, Cardi B is probably gonna do. I would, I would, I would go see Cardi B. And Bernie Sanders. That's the thing about like hip hop and politics. It's just like so much of the music doesn't like match, doesn't

those hand in hand. It's fine. I think the more we encourage people to see that, like you can turn up and twork on the weekend and fulfill your civic duty and vote like it doesn't have to. It's not like you're not that kind of personal, that kind of thing because you are into a certain kind of music. It's been too long that like we've carved out this space in between those identities were like, oh I am that I go to the club. That other ship is

not for me. We need to start normalizing, like both, yes, twere your ass off, get down and go fucking vote. I agree, I agree, it's just funny. I'm just saying, like, no one can say that it's not funny, Like it's not funny. Well, by the time you guys are hearing this, um there's no telling. But it could be. It could be either on the eve of this ship popping off, or it could be while the primaries are still going on. But vote, you know what I'm saying, or at least

at least speak up. You know what I'm saying. Ship, Yeah, vote and be a vote multiplier. Tell your roommates, tell your friends. I don't know where squally are the roommates stands politically about it. You bet your ass. I'm gonna get his asked to go vote. So let's let's maybe get into talk about some of these pre two fifteen references. One of the earliest mentions, as we kind of touched upon earlier, was um BC Boys track Johnny Ryo of

the album Paul's Boutique. But I think Donald Tramp was supposed to be like some like comic coal version in the song, so he's talking about Johnny Ryle running around just doing crazy ship He's lives in the street. It's a rockabilly star for the days of old. You just have teeth off field with gold um. But then they talk about Donald Trump and Donald Tramp living in the men shelter. What are bread bag shoes and singing helter skelter he asked for? Don't let you know what's for?

Man Botley always needs more. So, I mean, I don't really it's not really clear what It's not really clear to me what Donald Trump is doing in this song other than the fact that the Men Shelter is um okay homeless shelter in Brooklyn that provides temporary emergency housing for um single men who are diagnosed with mental illness and substance abuse, which I think those two uh qualifiers might have applied. I think in that context is just

as a pop cultural figure, just pop culture bigger. Yeah, I mean I want to read too much into the like I mean a lot of these are because of that. I mean, I don't think it's I don't think it's something that doesn't lend itself to be read into you know what I'm saying, Like, I definitely think there's room to read into it too much in a good way though, like in a way that we should be reading into it. But on their end, like I said, Donald Trump has been at this point and this is what's so fucking

sad about it. And I'm glad that we're getting this episode out of the way so that we don't something about truple. But it's just like, as a figure, Donald Trump has been present and constant in American life for so long, you know what I mean, Then it just makes sense that it's just like he comes up as a default thing that you think of when you're trying to make a certain point when you're a lot of these rhymes, they don't have a very like they don't.

They're not like talking about him at length any of his qualities or qualifications as a popular, powerful person. That's it. That's all. That's all the only context. Yeah, scarface and money and power jobs in nigger rolling haunts back in paper like uh you g k pocket full of Stones that I love that song dicking lick just to get up bump black Sea. The Niggers called me black Trump. No one calls you that. First of all, no one calls you. Then I like, okay, the coup, work yourself,

this collection day, break yourself Trumps collection. The coup isn't that? Is? That? Is that Boots has been? Um I think so I do think that's Boots Riley's band. Yeah, so okay, so okay, the coup, Well here's that. Break yourself Trump, It's collection day. Okay, listen, No, so we have our first example of a negative Trump. Ryan,

let me hear it. Now the oozy that we're once used to kill each other are now used to serve and protect the brothers and as sisters because they're packing forty five and nine were down for revolution and not just for their behind. Because the word is heard across the Bay in l A and New York, New York, Chicago and Atlanta, GA. We give a fox if you've got money in the billions, because I'm because, motherfucker, we've got possets in the billion to break yourself Bush, It's

collection day, Break yourself, Trump, It's collection day, Break yourself. DuPont, It's collection day. You stole the ship from your grid from my great granddaddy. Anyway, So yeah, I mean but look at who that is. It's the Coop. I mean, it's the cool Yeah. So it's like that that makes all the sense in the world. Okay, that's cool. So who is the Coup? Just for a little bit of background, it's an Oakland, California based hip hop group that UM has frontman Boots Riley. As you may know from Uh

Sorry to Bother You fame. UM they have you know, a lot of the music has a critique of capitalism, American politics, white patriarchal exploitation. The only reason I'm just not as taken aback by it, it's just because it's expected. Like if we if we should come across like a dead press you know, I don't know if it's in here, but if we should come across the dead press one and it's a negative one, that would make all the sense. I'll be surprised if it's like your master P has

like a you know what I'm saying. Oh wait, my own master up. Yeah. See like now if Master P has said fuck you Trump, fuck you Bush, I got a top cocktail. Yeah, I think we could have made a difference. Um what do we got? Uh? Ray Kwan in cars rated scarface cool g wrap mafioso and I said the eight can't stop. You're stopping. I gotta cuss off the Trump plub not a lot of people talk, A lot of people talking about wanting to be to

stay at the City Hotel. I'm in the Trump in the Nationale thirty floor is up, Kim, shut up, bitch. Two thousand five. Wait, yo, I'm in the Trump in the National Dirty flows up paying. Yeah, that's perfect. Kanye West two thousand ten, spawn Donald Trump taking Dallas for y'all. These are these are the ones that I'm really interested. Okay, it's the ones that occur after two thousand ten? Whoa waite on tas Ball, after I ain't trying to stand I'm gonna fighting my blood like down ther Trump? Maybe

only in reference to the Apprentice? When was that? That was two Okay, yeah, that is a reference to the Apprentice, But still still right is it's like two thousand twelve Obama's running for his second tour. Yeah, the year before Donald Trump comes out wild racist birtherism ship right, And still we're getting positive references to Donald Trump, like ray k the chef, the chef chef take over the world.

When I'm on my Donald Trump ship Mac Miller Rest in Peace two thousand eleven, And I remember watching the first birtherism interview, at least one of the first ones, Like I was like, I remember avidly watching it on TV, is like, oh word, this thing is racist, you know

what I'm saying. But again, to me, it's just that's just what really solidifies it in my mind that I think the visceral reaction to seeing him come down the escalator running for president and like kicking off the whole thing with like, oh, by the way, the Mexican you know what I'm saying, Like, I really think that that it was just like the switch of like, oh, yeah, we're not fucking you, you know what I'm Yeah, so Vader has said then the official end of the era

of positive Donald Trump references was with how do you say this race? Shrimmer, single single up like Trump, which was really just before Trump announced his campaign and was am positive, What was it? Like? Donald Trump? Okay, I'd like Donald Trump. You know, here we are two tho fifteen,

Donald Trump is running for president. Suddenly there's the escalator moment, as you you know noted, and then things then that's when you get Kendrick Lamar Black Friday, two thousand fifteen of the paget knit that get your did you better you put Donald Trump cross free Enterprise? Alway? Is it because of rich? And I know what painting is sas Nick Trump like M Simmerman. No, Donald Trump ain't safe on my block? Got your wife Atyehop Davis? Yeah yeah,

I not my actual favorite though I didn't. I didn't know who said that, but like, as I was reading it, I was like, oh, this is a New York grapher. Yeah, claim you're quicker than yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's like I think Trump had uh had probably won the primary by that point. I do remember that. I think LP has the illest Trump bar. Oh yeah, that's I mean, I mean, unless we're going for positive no, no, If it's just a reference to Donald Trump, that is the

coldest bar. Likelier tumble, I like that, that's probably yeah. And then of course there's Donald Trump. I y g, he's too rich. He got the answers. He came out sing his Couch, which was purportedly inspired by Hustle's positive experience working with Mexican immigrants the US. I didn't know that.

Um as many probably know, as includes some sound bites of several black protesters who were rejected from a Trump rally down Strode from US in Baldosta, Georgia, and they actually got called in the secret service to his label, def Dam and Lions got blanked out of the song so that they could include it on the final coude of the album. Yeah, it was definitely an affirmation, you know what I mean, like a statement type of song.

It was kind of like a it was it was just like a summer jam kind of in the sense of like people really real when you can say something a phrase and then like just naturally f d T is like you know what I'm saying, write ft T. Everybody instantly knows what it stands for. It's like you did it. You need strong song writing behind making something like that happened. And do you think they brought it? Um?

You know what I mean. It's personally it's not like my favorite song, to be honest with you, um, but it's not because of anything that they did on the song. I just feel again, it's the whole Trump thing. And even when the song came out at that point, it was like, yeah, it's like for me just personally, it's like, yeah, the guys obviously bad so so so the song had much more of a like, yeah, I agree guys. The speeds though, you know what I'm saying, we need protest anthems,

We need stuff for people to rally around. Culturally, I mean, I think that's one of the link linkages between hip hop and like revolutionary culture polytics, because we can rally folks too. I don't know, feel a sense of optimism about our political situation or you know, have this Catharsis around songs like that, even if their content can be trite. The only problem with songs like that is just I feel in a way they kind of lend power to

the figure that they're about. It's like it's like increasing right name recognition through positive the negative reference. So like the if you hear, like you know, if you hear someone got arrested for stealing, they just gotta you know, but they're later acquitted all your members that they got arrested, and so in your mind at the criminals, even if the one is negatively referencing a figure, gives that figure rent free in your head. Yes, yeah, that is true,

all right. I have a sense that there's forces behind trump Ism and maga Ism that are like big and diabolical and evil and all that ship. You know what I'm saying, all everyone's fucking worst live nightmare of what the fun is going on behind those scenes. Like, but then there's also an element to it that's like extremely incompetent and like stupid and dumb, you know what I'm saying.

So there's like an aspect of it that's like damn, you know, like if Mussolini had us all under his thumb, damn, Yo, fuck Mussolini. I gotta make a song about this motherfucker, you know what I'm saying. There's an element of like how goofy the Trump is that just like seems like man that don't deserve no song about him? Okay, So I mean I think we gotta end this, like we end everything. Let's kick it. I feel like, all right,

let's do it. Hey, can we gotta beat uh yeah yeah yeah uh like fun Dom Trump like fuck Dom Trump, Yeah yeah it domond Trump's like yo buck Donald Trump, Yo, funck Donald Trump and the other man like the government and Republicans. I come through motherfucker's tho. I'm smother the ring and you know I'm on the board and I'm hover ringt Yeah, you know I eat a nice meal. I'll show you motherfucker's green new deal. I'll show you

motherfucker's how I mean you feel you're coming up. But your motherfucker's just wearing teal you like a seal hunt you for your blubber. I like these motherfucker's just jiggle like they flubber. And every time I keep my shirt, I'm not usher. I'll put you in a trap like he wasn't goes buster up, won't trust us not. I just go and bust until the whole machines busted, rolling real cool deeper than the three hundred. Every time I grabbed the ship, got a dope sandwich. The needs mustard.

He's mustard. You must not trust them. They's the government and they're coming for your brethren, coming for your mother and other other kids. Everybody know that those people in the government ain't looking out for you. Instead, they're trying to ignore EI. This other exploit you trying to take it, and you go to the toilet. Everybody know that they'd

be toilet. And if you're trying to take your fucking soil Everybody wishes that they could get like this rhyme, but they cannot because they do not have the zest of that line. Little freeze up on the spot on my sandwich. Everybody wishes they can handle it, but they can't. Bitch there. You have to have to understand it otherwise I'm gonna have to can it, and I'm going on the planet like not yo. Some makers marking a weather take apart your protection. That's the start of a lesson.

I think you are second guessing drink in front of the reverence. That's why I have no adversary. Can't compare me to these cherries with their bat vocabulary, want to limit what I say. I remember that nickel snap, don't care if you're straining over democrat you fake your demo's whack. Wait until I get a crack whereever tracks in the back of places with better crap. By the way, what constitute discussing? I am too discussing when coming through percussion?

An effusive husband, and I'm a dude when busting. You want to hear rhymes and I'm the dude you love it, I'm the future cousin. You hardy could rhyme Marty mcflod couldn't even see a part of my time. I was dope when all of y'all was watching Party of Five. Not a ladies man, but I bet your daughter with grind mom the library skin color. Noble looks folded like tiger wings under his over wire, then retired with yes, smiling as I passed him as I go to smoke.

It's my fact, wonder where why the We're the only one who's up in Florida. Human novels stacked around. That's how what heaven could have faded? I am here the only brown wants to be bounding the town that an emancipation erab population was white and black people had sharp up. It wasn't like we left the area. Terror of shas trying to scare us off with other came of it when never were about the heart of her to misery. That's all the earth, the bitter Greek up, the licker

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