Weed Everyday

from a tabby catty nap to the kitchen cabinets. He's not the students to catch your mouse's while he sleeps up in the cup webs up more because even though I got breakes, a loss of will power to eat, will power to clean, will power to pay the power pay the dentists in the hospital, but pay the internet. The want to build that at the office is pay for kitten chousing out this little nigga hostage. Like he said this to what Cosby did, It's not up of

to hear that it's adopted him. Because I needed a friend, needed somebody to be with just needed body heating the bed. Ao shouts out to Eggs. Really rest in peace, Eggs for you with Homie yo. Now in the meanwhile, situation seemed foul, miss my Homie Eggs. So I had to bust this freestyle snuck into my room trying to tell me that he needs child. Told him I was sleeping, but he hit me with him. Me y'all, lord, while

you take him. It was long before his time, and some girls let me fun because they thought that he was mine. It had everybody crime, even me and nine nine. It was Thanksgiving Day. How am I gonna tell me? Rock? But death is universal. It's what we are are facing sometimes. I believe in reincordination. Right now, Eggs is one of the lost souls. Until then, Homie, I see you what the cross roads and I'm gonna miss everybody, And I'm

gonna miss everybody. I'm dope. Night. We are waiting on reparations, still waiting. No Biden check yet. So it is one o'clock on a Monday night. If this were a regular DJ gig, I think that was when I would like press the button to que sill break God times come off is celebration? Why are we celebrating. We celebrating because tonight we elected Georgia's first Latina District Attorney to the Western Judicial Circuit. And when I say we, I mean

like encouraging people to vote that. But we've literally been out there like knocking on doors. Our team knocked on about doors in the last week and a half. And how much she went by She won by eight votes, killing it, Like I'm super stoked about this. This is the first this is the first winning campaign I think I've ever been involved in in my entire life. The student body joint that I did when I was like

the seventh grade, niggas lost that ship. Then the first time I was ever really like when I first started coming into my political awareness and niggas out there for carry that nigga lost. Then like after like fifteen years of malaise, you talked me back into it, like, yeah, we gotta get out here for Bertie. I'm like where we got out there, the hot South Carolina. The son

and Nike lost, but de Gonzalez did it. Not only did she win the election, the election happened because Debra Gonzalez sued Brian Kemp, who tried to cancel the election and appoint someone to the seat. The case went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court and she won,

which is why the election happened at all. She actually had the balls to just just she's great, crazy, she's crazy, but it really it's some good news though, because like, I mean, this has been I mean, this has been the last week and a half, for two weeks of my life. And I mean you've been like more involved in than that, haven't. Yeah, I mean I've Debra has been running for like two years, you know, Like I've been you know, hanging out with her and supporting their

work for a long time. But it's been really like a lot recently. So what do you what do the people have to look forward to with Dereka Jals the

people of Athens. Yeah, so I mean abolishing cash bail for non violent offenses and like other forms of low level crime um using greater like caution in cases of like she's like committed to ending the school to prison pipeline and ending our racial disparities in like juvenile sentencing UM, which all comes down to a d as discretion deciding what charges are brought against people and if people are brought up for bullshit charges. She can call it bullshit

and just throw it out. And so uh suddenly with like weed, Um, she's interested in bringing restorative justice practices into like our criminal legal framework, so that if you have some bad happen to you, or you did not bad, you actually have some resources for like learning how to be different in future, rather than it's being locked in the cage. So anyway, so all of us really she supposed to do some really dope shit. So then you would say that right now the jubilation isn't simply because

the Democrat one, but because the actual progressive one. Because a progressive one. Yeah, And we suffered a couple of losses in our in our state house races in the general election, and so like there's this frustration with jerry mandering, this feeling like votes don't really count, and so for us to actually come together and elect someone that is like present in our communities and like straight up badass, like fearless leader person. So we actually did it. You know,

our power and numbers is great. Well that's stuff one, because tomorrow tomorrow we start working on sorry, we started

working on the senator campaign. Yeah, um, which I want to I want to clarify with all that is that I don't really necessarily like particularly John us Off um Raphael war Knock, mostly for the things that conservatives have like tweeted about him, uh, that he has said previously has actually made him ME like him more with this hope that maybe like underneath he's a socialist or something

like that. This whole thing helping, the whole thing with the Warnickers reminding me of the Reverend right situation back when Obama was running. You might do you remember that, Um, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're married, right, yeah. It reminds me kind of I mean as far as like the Republican strategy of it, like finding a snippet that you can should I was on YouTube today and like I must have seen that add like fifteen times today of Warnock saying something about the I love it, I

see it. I want to vote for him more and more. And so that said, given the awareness that like their teams would both spend all of the million dollars that they're going to generate in these elections, UM on advertising and consultants instead of investing in working people from the communities start trying to flip blue knowing that as well as the fact that they're going to be sending in field organizers that don't know these areas. So like haven't

run campaigns here before. Um myself and my two fellow commissioners, Tim and Russell put together this thing called the Athens Progressive Canvassing Corps. We were raising money to pay people, just fucking pay people to go talk to people about the election instead up sending the stupid fucking mailers they're

paying for. You get the text on your phone or somebody calls you and it's annoying, go knock on somebody's door, and like people who are out of work right now and it's the holidays, Like give people stuff to do so that they have money because nobody everybody's broke right now, um so. And along in that process, like learn about how campaigns work, like this is a fundamental feature of

like electoral organizing and organizing generally. Um. And so it's just like trying to channel like the energy of this moment in the most productive direction. Knowing that all this money, all the people are going to be trying to find somewhere to donate, and like the campaigns are going to try to and fail to figure out what's going on. It's like, shut the funk up, everybody, just let us do this. We know how already here, we've been here,

we've all won campaigns in this area. All of us are elected, and we know the people, you know, the neighborhoods, and do fucking pay people that are doesn't need money because I'm gonna work around and coming here and try to be on some like godfather, let us take over the show. Know what the funk y'all are doing. Let's be quiet, We're gonna help you. Okay. Well, unfortunately, yeah we can't. We can't just be all celebration and smiles

tonight because the week was unfortunately not without impression. Yeah, we're both. We're both definitely. Maria is definitely feeling it harder to be. Some of y'all may may be aware, just if you listen to the every episode on some ship, then you might be aware that we have a housecat. You know, we record in our living room and we have a housecat, beloved eggs Um, who's from time to time jumping around on us, and he gets mentioned and

shouted out when we're when we're recording and things. But unfortunately on Thanksgiving, eggs passed away sadly, and we have been in the throes of grief while also working on the campaign and everything. Um, yeah, everything there, Yeah, I'm okay. Well it's really helpful. Actually, in fact, how we came to the topic of today is that I've been just trying to cope, go on a long walks, you know, listen to ocean sound yea, and eat edible. Well, we had a we had a friend of the show, friend

of the show, good friend Caroline. She she sent us some edible arrangements, let's say, and uh, you know it just it's just all the package got here just coincidentally while we were all kind of in a dark funk in the house about eggs. So I feel liberated. We've been feeling a little bit better, a little bit better. I feel like I'm healing and so I mean so that brings us to the topic of today, which is, um, we're gonna be talking about pot We're talking about Bud

Herb Mary Jane Kush what what gas the loud. So it's been almost a month after presidential election and Trump and the maggots are still on some fun ship. But without a doubt, the clear cut winner of the election on all levels was it was cleared in several states, and it got us thinking about, you know, decriminalization, legalization, the difference between the two. So that's we're gonna talk about.

We're gonna talk about America's history with marijuana and how racism has played a role in its legal status, as well as go into the roots between hip hop and its sacred bond with Sweet Sweet Chiba. Now full full disclosure. I am a pot smoker, but you know, like dare

to be different or some ship. So I mean, first first things first, it's like, while you know, we were putting this together tonight, I was personally, I don't want to say sketch dout isn't the right word, but like I was wondering, like are you cool with talking about you know, I'm just a rapper dude, so like every and my name is Dope, so everybody can assume that I'd be smoking mad weed and do a edibles and all that. Ship. How do you feel as an elected official?

Like it was cool first to talk about I mean I feel that, uh, in many ways I engage in civic life. I see that morality often up out strips legality from you know, the caravans in the summer when we were like blocking traffic and like engaging several disobedience. Um Like, I feel like anyone that would uh look down on add activity in with regards to like a plant that is now legal in fifteen states and legal for a third of the US population. Um no, Like I'm not like, I'm just not I'm not living in

the past. I'm not living the past. And I feel like and I feel like a important part of my politics is also like instantiating the world that you think we should live in as a way of paving a path towards that world, like to like to like make to make like the vision of what shouldn't things should be like a lot like more tangible for others, and saying that, um like it's something we ought to demand, and so kind of being a little unapologetic in that.

With regards to various forms of civil disobedience, I thin guess I mean, I find uh smoking weed always. I don't smoke weed, but I do eat weed. Um as a former civil to obedience like it's bullshit, this is this is I feel the same way about that as I do, like just the consistency that I have on like the abortion issue, where it's like I'm only trying to have this moral argument or engage with somebody about

the moral compass of weed. Use if you're straight at you know, like straight up like you have to be like I don't do ship in order to like come at me for me to even entertain it or else, I just I don't get you. I mean, I'm not going to have somebody talk to me about like how bad it is to smoke weed when you drink beer every day. You know what I'm saying, You're getting drunk, and I just don't. I'm not there for it. So that absolutely it's funny, like, um my mom recently figured

out that I smoked. My mom drinks wine and huh yes, yes, now it's the same sweet ship that you do. The hangovers are terrible, but I love it. But um yeah, now recently, I think it was last Christmas when I went home. You know, she kind of put it together that I kept going into my brother's garage and said, at this point, now you know, like I'm a grown

ass man. So it's like it was it was a lot more understanding of a conversation and I thought it would be then it would have been if it was like when I was in high school or something like that. All right, So, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota all clear cannabis for adult use, bringing the total number of states that have approved it for that purpose to fifteen. With the general election. It's about a month ago now. John Hoodick, a cannabis policy expert and deputy director at

the Brookings Institution, said they passed overwhelmingly. These were not close races. It was a resounding win for cannabis. And I just want to pause here and say that like the fact that this, among many progressive ballot measures like passed with more popularity than like either presidential candidate in some places really speaks to just like how fucked up it is that the people that are running this country.

I just can't one of the people just literally is being ignored in the excruciating I think it's a rebuke of the notion that the country is like center right leaning, you know what I'm saying. It's like, it's I really think what you could determine as the country, the people are not, yeah, the people exactly. The people are not

the people are not my friend. So UM industry members and analysts say New Jersey likely will trigger domino effect legalization measures within the Northeast, and most notably, this could like trickle down to New York and Pennsylvania. Tiffany Devitt, the chief of Government and consumer affairs at Cannacraft, which is headquartered in California's Sonoma County and makes about two

hundred cannabis products. She told Business Insider about potential parallels to this and the end of alcohol prohibition and a desire during the Great Depression the spur economic growth. She said, you can see a similar trajectory playing out with cannabis, whereby economic issues that we're facing as a country is waking people out to the fact that cannabis industry can, in fact, would be a benefit in the community. The guiding the Biden The guided the Biden campaign did talk

a little game about the criminalizing. Biden himself has refused to join the majority of US voters and endorsing broad cannabis legalization. We'll see how that plays out as the administration goes on. But UM Andrew Yang was talking, he was saying, he was he was saying this about Biden he was less aggressive than say I or some of the other candidates, but even Joe has been making signals about the criminalizing and not prosecuting various marijuana related statues

and restrictions. She leading cannabis companies reported better than expected results in the after bath of Biden winning canapy growth surge t in auroral cannabis jump after both reported higher than forecast sale and narrowing losses. So the stock market is taking notice of it. I mean, it's it's one of those things we just see. No, I mean, I'm just talking about that you have to at this, you kind of have to make at least for a sizable amount of the population. You have to make the economic

you know what I'm saying, uh point of it. And that's the thing that gets me for the for the fiscal fiscal conservative types. It's like there's so much money, Like there's so much money in taxing weed. You know what, We've been framed it all wrong. We need to push we need to push for we legalization and then we can argue that we don't have to defund the police because we have enough money to fund mental health care

and like youth job skills programs. And community gardens and fund the cops, and then we'll lie to them and actually defund the police. But weekis be like, look, if we just make we legal, we can all have everything we want. Yeah, I mean that's a good that's a good ass point. Like you honestly you could the cops could keep all the money they need and yeah, you

could just like use the revenue from generator. I feel like a lot of like the calculus around police funding is driven by the finiteness of city of city budgets. It's not like the federal government where they could just print money. I think we're gonna have to extend it and go into that just a little bit might have to Um well, I mean, like with all things, you know, when when you sit down and you wonder, Yo, this particular thing doesn't make sense, why is it that it

still occurs? If it doesn't make sense, And the chances are, you know, racism is probably going to be at the root of it, and that's you know, let's just just call it what it is, called spade a spade. There's a lot of racism, if not mostly racism, behind a lot of how marijuana is legalized and adjudicated in this country. So we're gonna get into a little bit of the racist history of marijuana. Now. As as early as the eight hundreds, there were no federal restrictions on the same

or possession of cannabis in the US. Hemp fiber from the plant was used to make clothes, paper, rope. Sometimes it was used medicinally, but as a recreational drug it wasn't that widespread. In the early nineteen hundreds, and influx of Mexican immigrants came to the U S fleeing political unrest in their home country, and with them they brought the practice of smoking cannabis recreationally and un surprisingly it

took off. The Spanish word for the plants started to be used more often too, marijuana or as I spelled the time, my juana with an h and nineteen thirty six, a propaganda film called a reef Madness was released. Did you ever see Reformada? Yeah? The movie you depicted teenagers smoking weed and for the first time and and you know, had some at the time embellishments of what the effects

of very wild, evolving hallucinations, attempted rape, murder. The media portrayed as a gateway drug purpose this is the Business Insider. In seven, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. Cannabis sales were now taxed due to the fearmongering at the time. The main instigator um behind the Marijuana Tacks Act was commissioner to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics during the prohibition era.

His name was Harry Anslinger. Anslinger took the route of junk science, stating marijuana as a violence inducing drug and connecting it to black and Hispanic people, emphasizing that the Spanish word marijuana you know, well Spanish, instead of the word cannabis. He created a strong association with the drug and the new Mexican immigrants that helped popularize it in the States. He also started the narrative that we'd made black people forget their place in the hierarchy of society.

I like that it makes me forget my place. I've ever forget that. I've just at the bottom of the total pole. Fucking Jeff Bezos and he insisted that the jazz was evil music that was created by Pew under the which was also that's that's false because everybody knows, you know, heroin addicts were doing jazzy. I'm sorry that's terrible. Alright, it's not too soon. It's time. It's time for that. Yeah, it's been long enough. So by two the Bogs Act

made sentencing for drug convictions mandatory. First offenses of possession could land you two to five years in jail prison and to find up to two thou dollars, which ship two. But it's funny, right, because it's like we're trying to get back to the tax the criminalized you know way, which was that even that in itself was instituted because of some racist prick, you know what I'm saying, And like here we are, damn near a hundred years later. It's like, yo, can we just the criminalize the ship

at least? Like, can we at least get back to you know, and just the Controlled Substances Acting seventy, passed under President Nixon, repealed the Marijuana Tacks Act instead make cannabis Schedule one drug, the most serious class great jobs one drug to consider to have high potential for abuse and addiction, and are not allowed for medical use. I feel like it's almost cliche for us to go off

about the stupidity of that. All right. It's like, you know, we all seen half baked all right, marijuana is not like that. I have never seen somebody. Second, it remains a schedule one to this day in your bloody blood does a little bit. Those are all the sort of like stoner bro facts that I've known since high school. But like even even just reading it out loud, it

makes me upset. That makes me angry. Why this attitude towards marijuana is not like that, Like it's just like beer or any other you know what I'm saying, like recreational drug like that. I just yeah, I mean, I've been in fights when I was drinking. I would never do that if I was ever stoned. Ship that you might not get a nig out of the house if I get stoned. Yeah, just you know the terrible things

that people do. How many people die are accidents? You just you ever noticed that, like if you're hanging out and maybe this is something I know because I do go through the I have been in the situation of being around somebody their first time smoking several times in my life. Right, I've noticed that if a motherfucker like gets too high, like somebody who doesn't smoke like that, if they get too high, they'll be like, oh, man,

you'll do I need to leave right now? Or can I like chill them, like not get high so you know I could drive. You can be like, oh yeah, man, just chill like you know, like letts before you get in the car. But if a motherfucker's drunk, they're always I'm good, bro, I'm going going. I got immediately runs some of your dog every fucking time. So during the Democratic primaries, Elizabeth Warren among you know, obviously Bernie Sanders and others, she actually had a plan for full legalization.

Some points from her website's plan stated, working with Congress, they les marijuana as quickly as possible, or use the president's executive authority if Congress used to take action supported by the majority of the American people, sponge past marijuana convictions. And there's a lot more. There's a lot more too. We're not gonna we're not gonna read her whole plan, but it's it's really moral. Like what's like something funny secrets, you know what we were It was like we were

still in like primary season. If this is like February like that, I would I'd be like, hey, you know what, let's take some time in the show to give Elizabeth words whole marijuana legalization plans, but I may get lost to we don't go, Oh my god. Even with the possibilities of legalization on the horizon, America's a racist past

and present is causing familiar roadblocks. In past episodes, we've mentioned how black owned businesses often struggle with access to capital, and in the field of legalized weed, the lack of access to capital has many African American entrepreneurs concerned that systemic and economic racism is definitely going to exclude them

from the burgeoning marijuana business. One of the things that we definitely learned since the establishment of equity is that a license doesn't go as far as it need be so Jacob Plowden, co founder and deputy director of a Cannabis Cultural Association, a New York based nonprofit that helps marginalized and underrepresented communities compete in the legal cannabis industry. Per EMBAC News, the numbers are disturbing. Less than a fifth of the people involved at the ownership or stakeholder

level or people of color. Seventeen survey found this black people made up only four point three New Jersey has proposed to bill mandating that of all legal licenses be said side to people of color. Black legislators in New York emphatically said that they will not vote for any legislation that doesn't redirect some profits from regalization to communities of color, and in Massachusetts there's an added social equity program um to their legalization efforts. Still, the number of

African Americans developed in legal marijuana trade remains low. We reached out to a blood tender at a dispensary in Colorado, Lance Nixon, and he told us about some of his experiences, you know, being black in the legal marijuana field. Lance also used to you know, hustle in the black market before he in Georgia, before he moved to Colorado to get into the legal side of it. And we take his brains and just some of his experiences in that game ship every day every every level too. Like uh,

it's a kind of good old boys system. Like that's how you get the high up positions that they are not necessarily about who working the hardest is all about who you know and uh and uh and damn. So like I worked for as one cat um. He was the head. His friends like him up and it's I mean I guess this is a microcosm for all of America, but that don't matter what industry you were really right now, the position I got, I'm a I'm a budgeton at UH. I ain't gonna say their name, but I'm a budgeton

out for you. I got an apartment for you, I got a call for you. And that's how he became the head girl at that place, not because he knew what the hell he was doing. When people come into the place, I talked to him about the products and if they don't know or if they do know, exactly what they're looking for, you to get them as closest to what we have there. And it's like the seventh UH dispensary. I hadn't worked that on the retail side

before that. I had a lot of bunch of like grow and harvesting and behind the scenes type of in the grove jobs. I worked over forty places because the first job I got was just like cannabis, like um um temp agencies, So they have seen you somewhere different every two or three days. So I learned a lot.

But they also pay very little in this in this industry because everybody want to do it, so like you're highly replaceable at all levels, and they just if you don't want to do it, If you don't want to do it, they found somebody to do it for cheaper. Uh. The bad part about the black market is you know, of course you can get killed, you can go to prison. That should happened to me there. That's the bad part. But as far as like the risk you take for the amount of money you made, Man, I go through

Hustle's withdrawal, I missed that ship. I just don't want to fucking I go back to prison. So I'm trying to do the right thing and here doing this ship legally, but damn, it's the right before the poorhouses, where what you at trying to do the same thing legally. It's all the it's very little go down from the owners, from the owners to the people who run this ship.

For I've heard rumors of equity programs, about programs for people to benefit people who were negatively affected by the warm drugs, and like only those people get particular licenses to be in this industry, like the people who would negularly affected. Like I've heard rumors and ship like that, but I don't know, no, I don't know nobody who's

ever benefited from it. And I've heard about it in Oakland, and then I heard about some um politicians were one of the black dispensary owners here signing some UM some into law very recently here, and then about the equity program. But uh, I have seen literally none, none of that. And the only place I know where it's a really or a real thing is in Oakland as an equity program.

And I heard about the dude, the black Dude alherents in their own viola, uh, trying to do that ship where he was gonna try to do certain things like make for a certain amount of black millionaires and the kindabis industry like help people who need help but want to do this became a foard to and but I don't know how to join that program. I don't know what that application is. I ain't saying it ain't real,

but it sounds good. Day released his classic album Bill Chronic, introducing the World Too, among other things, shameless buttual recreational use of we within hip hop culture now years before, in particular nineteen eighty nine, the summer that saw a slew of world changing, cultural defining rap albums. Uh, this was when you had run DMC is tougher than leather E P M D strictly business public animals. It takes

the nation to millions to hold us back. Ryp and Rokinds fault the Leader, Salton Pepper's Assault with a Deadly Pepper two Live Cruise move somethinged power and both easy ease easy does it in a street out of Compton. Not only such an insane summer of music, that's like

just insane summer music. Just trying to picture being like fourteen or thirteen in like a hip hop fan back before everybody was in the hip hop and just going through that summer and then it as a movie nerd, I just got to add this into just imagine this. Tim Burton's Batman and Ghostbusters two came out that summer too, and Honey, I shrunk the kids? Are you fucking kidding me? Like I was? I was only I think I might have been like three or some ship like that or four,

So I didn't really get to experience like that. But get the funk out of here, you know that? That is oh man. So not only did these albums, you know, not make reference to smoking weed, but with the crack

epidemic ravaging the black community like in real time. There was a defined anti drug vein running through all of these albums, and the most talked about example of this is on n W a s album when the song expressed yourself for Dr Dre, the man who three years later would inside hip hop's bond with cannabis culture, give us. He wrapped the lyrics because it's known to give up at the pan damage and prying damage on the mic,

don't manage nothing. It's theorized that, you know, this is all the national exhaustion with the just say no sloganeering and of the Reagan era and the whole puritanical music regulation stance of Tipper Gore and the p mr C. We talked about this in a previous episode, but they

were the ones who brought you the parental Advisory sticker. Um. You know, there's just like people might have been burnt out by a decade of that sort of ship an intern that made just the whole nineties music and social scene a bit more freer and looser, and that's when we could truly take hold and gain a footing and wrap The chronic gets credit because of its astronomical sales numbers, but it was a smaller and just this important album, Cypers's Hell, self titled um It was the true true

game changer, so much so that it made the term blunted mainstream. The casual weeds smoking in their records and the peel of the wrap stoner aesthetic. Almost overnight had

other rappers openly talking about smoking. Um dr dre identified this wave and then ran with it, totally made it this thing, and then that so now it's like, yeah, you almost can't really imagine, Like if you just like close your eyes and imagine wrapper, you're like probably imagining a bunch of weeds smoker round them on the haping. Now um Q point talked to send Dog from Cypers Hill and he had this to say. I think marijuana slash weed was always part of the culture. It was

just underground. We just wanted to make it cool again. And after the War on Drugs that the Reagans had when they classified marijuana as a Class one drug, it made it really uncool and made parents really concerned about smoking weed, which just kind of like tickles me slightly that he says after the War on drugs, says that

the War on drugs, it's like over now. Well, I mean you understand send Dog is a fifty five year old right now, but like we're still like literally, i mean, I'm just saying he's coming from like he's coming from like eighties era enforcement of the War on drugs, which you know, we all want the War on drugs to be over, period, but it's not quite the eighties. Yeah,

it definitely is. Definitely is the cops. If you think the cops are out, I mean, the cops are out of control now, but holy shit, were they given the green light back then to just fucking act out? Yeah, and there was no internet to capture any of that ship. But their funding is probably increasing. Then we approve increases in the police budget year after year, and I'm imagine the same it is true of like federal grants that we found we that they apply for and are funded.

I mean, like literally, the war on drugs is still happening. Like tonight at our commission meeting, I had to like fight my fellow commissioners about this grant we approve year after year that like data we've recently uncovered has shown, like the Narcotics Task for as we get money from the federal government to do is arresting, like seventy percent of the people being arrested are black people, even though black and white people use and sell drugs at similar rates.

And then the most common type of arrest is for intent to sell marijuana wish if you have if you just have marijuana in certain quantities and like baggies, they can say you're intending to sell, you know, and sell Like it's not even that these people are like big time drugular is necessary really, and it's just it's absurd because two thirds of the American public support legalization in fifteen states, have a third of the American public like

live in legalized states. It's just really like it's we're still just going about these this is almost gonna this thing. It was always going to pass without even any conversation because we're so used to just like funding the drug war,

funding the drug war. You have to hear, uh, and so I guess just as an aside to our listeners, and you're wherever you live in your local government police pay attention to like the ways they fund the police year round, not just when they're doing their budget processes. Because uh, we give so much money to the police department to the black people were smoking weed in a drug war that like it's been explicitly like there, it's in writing that this was uh initiated too pretty much

round up black people. But you can't anyway. So here we are today still, I mean, we're I definitely didn't mean to suggest that we're out of it at all.

I just I just understand. I just understand said, I just understand where Sendov is coming from, just in terms as somebody who like has been seen both eras you know what I mean that you could imagine and then not only that, but it's like, I don't know, send dogs whole whole history like that, but it's like, you know, as being a fan of Cypher's Hill, he's coming from actually being in that side of like being like actually you know what I mean, like actually having to deal

with the police during that era and shop like that. So I'm just I'm just saying I understand why his perspective might be a little bit feeling that things have eased up more than they were. You know, I'm saying even if we don't particularly see that, because we're not even then quantitatively it doesn't make sense. Um, So there's more to the acceptance of integration of marijuana hip hop than just products, slang or even reform. More in this the scene so in the nineties is just a concept

of model that would later be monetized and map. The fact that Cyphress Hill had drawn so much engine too a mostly unknown cigar brand by calling it out by name so often in the lyrics, it revealed the power of hip hop branding. Like band aid phillies, blunts became a term for smoking weed in a cigar rapper. Four years to follow, Andre has repeated use of the term the chronic did the same for certain strains of weed. Yeah,

and this is all per highest. By the mid nineteen nineties, the percentage of rap songs with drug references increased from just four tracks in the early nineteen eighties to of all hip hop per genius. So just to give you that's what type of influence Cyprus Hill and Dr Dre had all this ship that It's like they straight up changed the content of hip hop for the next five or thirty years. Now, who do you think of the

rappers most tied to culture? If you just have to rattle off and say, Okay, Snoop definitely, um, whis Khalifa? It's funny, I want I was gonna say, I was gonna say on the New School, I was gonna say, whis Khalifah? But then it's like it was Kalief has been around like for takeing um currency, Yeah, you're right, method manner, red man during they're like duo run. They definitely had like a thing. And then you give a

shout out to the fucking Cottonmouth Kings. You know, I don't know, I don't know, and I did hear one of them passed away recently, so rest in peace to to the Holby. But um, yeah, Cottonmouth Kings. I remember when I first got in college and I started going to the white boy parties and stuff like that. That's when I started getting introduced with the cotton Mouth Kings. But if you don't know about them, they're a Orange County, California rap outfit. But yeah, they they definitely paved the

way for weed wraps, that's for sure. But let's get too some weed rap songs to cap this off, shall we. So we got De'angelo's Brown Sugar, which is this song about weed. Are you freaking serious? A lot of people a lot of people don't know this, but brown Sugar is a metaphor for Mari Juan and I didn't know this until till years after this song was in there. I don't believe you a man, and the name was Broch.

See we'd be making love constantly. That's why my eyes all the shade black and jingle bells on this ship. Listen to this beat, yo, And some people could qualify this as an R and B song, But fuck you, man, I love I love these sort of songs, you know. I mean, I'm so good. That's such a sucker for the double meaning and animal fucking dude, bro So it's like, oh, man, you mean you're talking about a girl, but it's about something else and it's about sucking pot. I love it sails. Yeah, no,

that's a classic one. What do we got next? On the Got Cypress Hills? Speaking of a classical got Hits from the Bong, I don't think you can have a fucking weed episode on the podcast without Cyper's hose from the balls from the bog. Let's check it out this got and this is a sample from this is Dusty Springfield. Isn't it sort of a preacher man, Yeah inhale exhale

just gotta ounce in the mail. Yo, it's just like Cayden's intended to his voice that I just can't get over it, Like that is irreplicable and that's the one not a word fuck Like it's, uh, what's the irreplicable in hip hop? Like there's this nobody that sounds like him, you know, there's it's it's like it's some thing. Let

me give a little bit of some rapper insight. When you are listening to a rap song and it just sounds like it's coming out super easy, and it just sounds like the easiest thing in the world that the person is doing, it's because they're really really connecting with

what they're saying. And I just noticed that when there's certain things we talked about this and the guns episode, but there's just certain things, certain topics when people rap about it that you just hear them get so at ease with how they flow about the topic that it's like, Yo, they really love that ship. And that's how I feel about be Real and wouldever be Real rap specifically about Weed. It's like his to me, be Real's weed flow and

his other topics flow are different flows. Yeah. Um. So up next we have ludicrous blueberry Yum fire Fire got me so tired, I'm gonna Stoptop and roll. We did a video for this and Luda rubbed it in everybody's face him being in Amsterdam just smoking mad. The beat has this like weirdly haunting video game five Yeah, Final Boss level. I wouldn't be surprised if that was sampled

from a video game. Yeah. I also appreciate the reaver about his voice at the end of those sensas, where it's sort of like it just replicates the body feeling it's being very stiled in a certain way. Uh here. The next song, We've got far sides Packs of Pipe, which it definitely does do the same thing in the sense of like celebrating smoking weed, but it gets a bit more detailed into the nitty gritty weed and I've

porch about to put it towards to win. Then Coco said, don't do which please don't get that in front of my productionalist me, and it's just so disgusting, the scratches in the background and at baseline. I love the analog sound of it. It's like almost like in a cry for help. I like the abstract vibe of it. Yeah, the production of the sound qualities. It's like a whole fucking soundscape. This is the most beautiful music I've ever

heard right now. But then again, so like the first verse, right, and this is what I love about, like the hip hop of the nineties and stuff like that. I could put that song on this far side, pack the pipe song, and you could just have it on and somebody whose ear isn't like in tune with deciphering rap lyrics and really like you know, they could just get down with

the song and the beat and vibe to it. But the whole entire first verse is the guy rapping about not liking people mixing tobacco in the joints with He's like, if I wanted and I go get a skinny white bitch cigarette and he's like, so, nah, keep that ship out of the blood, like we just want weed in the blood. But go you go about saying it in a way that isn't necessarily complicated for the sake of

being complicated, but not just spilling out. This is exactly what I mean, you know, fashionate in a way where it's musical, but if you pay attention, you you you follow what he says. I love that sort of ship. Yeah, I feel like you do that in your stuff. I really appreciate rap, where like, if you like on repeated listen, do you uncover a tale? Yeah, it's like the messages that are just like obscured at first, blush shouldn't. Just so, That's what I really love about the New Asap Rock

album and all of his albums. I'm a little obsessed. You know what, We're gonna have to do a music review episode of all the dope should we've been listening to, because there have been a lot of dope should coming out recently that we haven't been able to keep up with your graph album so bad. But we got some weed bars of our own. Yeah, I know for sure. Sure, let's let's wrap this up some weed bars. Everybody follow us on Instagram. I heart reparations um following with Franca

on all of the socials. I am dope Knife follow me on all the socials I have. I was not joking or kidding at all last week when I was talking about the tons of music I've been making. Oh my god, for such a treat. Yeah, I've been I've been working hard. There are people there's gonna be lots of dope knife rapidi wraps to come, but um let's close the ship out in some wraps. You guys, take care of yourself. We love you all. Uh. You know, hit us, hit us up on on all the stuff,

and you know, ask us. Feel free to ask us questions whenever you want. We're probably going to try to organize whenever we can find some time, organize a little stream Q and a. Yes, when when the horizon better, spirits will have a little live stream Q and A and and just engage with you a little bit. More stuff like that. And one more shout out to the unsung heroes of the show. Uh one Cosby, Factor, Chandelier

and Blue Collar. Those three producer buddies of mine, along with myself, provide the beats that you guys hear us flowing to and talking to. So go check out their stuff. Awesome guys, awesome music. But um, let's get into some rap shit, Joel, it's gonna beatporations. U um we wats the slave labor wages blazing it like Jamaicans. The rates from the sadvantage is too lately, Lenk. Just the money

is safe to the savings to take a vacation. The vacation so we have well famous drinking Jamison debating were the days away? Why the days that? With pcames of playbor lists take the paint for daily to feel chained to with aspirations placed upon the waiting list, hoping these bab pens will olopaters to wait. Two three folks, six seven, eight hints. I like to help the way to help my atheist, So I'm like hate mish. I'm kind of

hating this feeling up primal autopilot. This title eight noist and she's a famous escapist, so she has baked hits and everybody turns to look while I make my escape quick ha ha yeah yeo yo, I am clutch when I'm high as fun. Just show me where the goals are, line them up, find a dutch I can even roll it with the finest touch. But we're trying to look at pretty paper. Get high and what I'm just chilling in my room getting blazed mostly and I lick a

mushroom like my name's yo. She puffumes baked toasty. They hate stokes me dope sandwich clan. That's my main broskis. I'm dope knife. I'm like, well, frank, guys, than we are waiting off. Sorry, I'll just try that again. I night, and we are waiting on reparations. See you all next week. Roll the Blood Titan, let it burn slow. If a wrapper ain't nice, then you better learned code. We're pro smoking and I ain't even faking smoking everything. I got

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