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And it's an action, you know what I mean? It's not about convenience. It's not about getting something out the deal. It's about I was invited, I said, I go, I'm a show up. And I think that this is something I've learned over the course of this last year is how good it feels for people to show up for you. Yeah. Yeah. When people show up to our shows, they are excited to be there. They're enthusiastic. It breathes life into me, you know what I mean? That people have shown up for me. And so it's important for me to show up for other people. And I think that this is something we can carry throughout every aspect of our lives, is that we could truly treat people how we want to be treated. And we don't need to focus on the negatives of this thing. Cause oftentimes it's like, well, I treated people well and they treated me like shit. And it's like, that's them. Oftentimes we forget that life will hand you consequences in silence. Right? There's some people out here who are dealing with the consequences of actions that they probably done forgot about. You see what I'm saying? And you wondering, like, why ain't nothing going right for me or why don't nobody show up for me? It's all the times you didn't show up for others, or it's all the times that you fuck people over and you used People, and now there ain't nobody left in your world to use. And you wondering, well, why me? What did I do wrong? But you know that karma gonna catch up, bro. The karma gonna catch up. A lot of the reasons why, probably why they releasing the Epstein files and things like that at this time is very convenient that it's being released around the super bowl and the Winter Olympics and shit like that, right? It's very convenient, right. But it's also the law of karma, where it's like, if you admit to doing a thing, if you tell the truth about a thing, whether you do it consciously, subconsciously, or subtly by them putting it in movies, by them putting it in all these different things, they feel like it alleviates them from the karma. Cause it's like, technically, we told the truth. We said what we was doing. But to me, on a more micro scale, these things become very evident in how things play out in your life. I know for a fact there's just so many things I've done in my life for myself and others that hasn't been documented, that doesn't need to be documented. Because, you know, my checks and balances is with the universe. I leave it up to the universe to create the checks and balances for me. I don't need everything to be documented on film. I don't even get pictures. I went to see Mandalorian. I don't even think we took that picture, because I don't be going to places for that. If y' all knew how much this man been showing up for me in my life. You understand what I'm saying? Like, not only every Sunday, not every time we do a show before, this was a podcast, episodes and interviews that I go to where he. Not even on camera or saying anything, he still show up. I think that the power of showing up for people is an extension of that golden rule. And I think it's important because we see this now with LA Russell, right? He'll be. He's doing. He's probably actively right now performing with his band in the Bay Area. And he announced on the Breakfast Club that he signed the Roc Nation. And automatically, what does everybody do? Ah, you should have stayed independent. Ah, they got him. It's like, we only do this with our black ex. We only do this with our black entertainers. If this man has hustled his way to the super bowl from his garage independently, he created a pay what you will feature and is getting people to send him $11,000, $15,000 for an album. You don't Think this nigga know how to negotiate the terms of a contract that's working to his favor? Like, what are we talking about? What do we be talking about? You do realize, like every contract is not a bad deal. Yeah, there's a lot of good deals out there, a lot of good contracts. It's just that they fucking prey on people who are green and naive to the industry. And because that story is told more often than not, then we look at every contract as a bad deal. If he, first of all, he signed with Rock Nation, it's the same company he called out. Then he sits down with Jay Z. And obviously, well, in our interview, you'll see that he says that Jay wasn't even completely aware of the structure in the business they was presenting to him, which made him have to go look at the business like, well, what are we doing? Because now y' all giving us a bad rep in the street. But also it's like, you know, we supposed to be artists for it. Yeah, and sometimes Roc Nation. I don't. I think a lot of the Roc Nation deals are just management deals where they, they basically utilize their structure to get you the best deals, to distribute your music to the best place. But I don't think these are record deals. No, these are management deals. So we look at somebody and this is the thing that is disingenuous to me, but it's also like, you know, it's just very. It's like you gotta always be mindful of the anti blackness when it creep up. We see this young man hustling. We see this young man have literally created his own world over there. He never left the bank. He's doing all this out his backyard and hitting the road and doing different venues and stuff. He's always so for it with the people. He's always so for it with his working with other artists. He do hella features. He'll show up on your podcast as long as you putting in the work. And we assume that this person is gonna work all this time to get into a fucked up contract. Like now we diminishing the genius and the intelligence of this young man because of how you view things. You don't know the terms of this nigga contract, bro. But I can guarantee you somebody has been working as hard as he's been working. Didn't work all this way to sign a fucked up deal with a major. It just didn't happen like that. So we have to get to a place where we are respecting the intelligence, respecting the mind and respecting the integrity. Of these artists that are coming forth and building worlds independently. But understanding like, yeah, building shit independently is very expensive. You gotta pay for the production. You gotta pay for everything. I done did it. All of our first shows was independent. You gotta. If there's chairs that need to be rented, you gotta pay for chairs. We like people to eat when they come to our event. We gotta pay for the eat. We have staff. You gotta pay for the staff, you gotta pay for all the BTs. If there's equipment that's needed that you gotta rent, you gotta pay for that. You got to pay for the venue, you got to pay for merch. All the overhead, all the ins and outs, every little bit of production equipment down to the goddamn seats that people sitting they ass and you got to pay for. So, yeah, it may be better to just know that there's a company out there that's like. Like what we doing right now with the, with the, with the people who's partnering with us on our. On our first cousin's tour. We don't gotta worry about none of that. We gotta make sure these tickets get sold. We still gotta take care of our merch, and we gotta take care of getting ourselves to and from each show. But only thing we worry about is front end and back end. Very simple. That's a big burden off of the independent person. Because Shizlot got them 1099s. Nigga, If y' all knew how many invoices and 1099s I opened up this goddamn week, man, and head would spin. And I ain't. And I'm not doing it at the level that somebody like a little Russell is doing, where he's constantly putting on shows. I can't imagine what his goddamn taxes look like. But I'm just saying, I think that we need to have a little bit more consideration for the intelligence of others. Like, there's this idea that when I. When you get online and you start tweeting that you smarter than the person you talking about. But like he said, you ain't never bought no ticket, you ain't never bought no merch, you ain't never sold up to no show, you ain't buy no album. You don't know what you're talking about. And it's okay not to know what you're talking about. But the assumption is so pessimistic. The assumption is that, oh, he done fucked his career up. No, I'm pretty sure the Russell is smart enough to do something that's gonna enhance his career. Cause he Worked for it. He's not just gonna give it away. A person like that don't just give it away. I can't wait till y' all see, like, the first part of our conversation where we talked about. We talk about that. Creating worlds where every institution and every, like, fire little cultural quip that we had, including something like a rap city. Nigga sold that shit. They sold it all off. And now we, as millennials and elder Gen Z, people are like, left to, like, damn, well, shit, I guess we gotta reinstate these institutions. That's why we got the rap session. We trying to reinstate a rap city type vibe because it don't exist. And yeah, like, n could go do freestyles over beats with just incredible or, you know, go perform this song on the radar, but it doesn't have that cultural currency. It doesn't have that feel to it where it's like, damn. Even when it comes down to people you may not have heard about, you're not being introduced to nobody new. So trusting the independent artists, trusting these black artists to have integrity, trusting these black artists to do what's not only in the best interest for them, but in the best interest of their business and them maintaining their creative control and they not compromised. Everybody not trying to sell they soul. You know what I'm saying? Everybody ain't no cat, man. Some niggas got integrity and some niggas know what to do, what's best for the business. All right, we can take a quick little, brief little break, and then I'll be right back. We back. We back. Yeah, man. So, you know, we live in some interesting times that we do. You know, the world is burning. The world is burning, guys. But it's okay. Listen, the standard should be loud. The standard should be disgusted. The standard should be anger. The standard should be making motherfuckers who acting like what's going on ain't going on make them niggas uncomfortable. We should be talking about this. This is at all times. I seen a video of a dude at the airport and he was screaming like, the Epstein's files have been released. These motherfuckers are sick. They're harming women, they're harming children. And you niggas are just going to work. You got to catch a flight. You're going on like it's business as usual, but it's not business as usual. But the difference is, is like everything. Now, I said what I said last week and I talked about how the human trafficking and sex trafficking and, you know, the rape, the Murder of men, women and children is exactly how the west was built. This is Chattel Slavery 101. But I heard a young lady say on Tick Tock way more succinctly, everything that's happened in the mepscene's files is what's going on on the plantation every day. Boom. Full stop. I was trying to got down. I love it when a person like take my work and package it and bing, here we go. Everything that happened in them Epstein files, what's happening on that plantation every day. And so I don't want to diminish anything, right? Like I looked at some of the comments and people was like, well, the President being racist is still newsworthy. It is. It's not to me. It's just not new. We've been there. This man was racist. I mean his goddamn daddy is clan member slum lord. Very interesting things came out of those Epstein files that I've seen this week. One of the files says, and they refer to us as hip hop Blacks. They say the hip hop blacks are easily distracted by celebrities. I know that a lot of niggas gon watch the super bowl still right now, 2016. We said we was done with it because of the Colin Kaepernick situation. Somebody who kneeled in protest to police brutality and his brothers. The overwhelming black majority of black athletes did not stand with him in solidarity and those that did were quickly blacklisted and not hired again. So Colin wasn't the only person that lost a job because of his protest. But I find it just glaringly evident that people are not willing to give up the bread or the circus. They want to be fed, they want to be entertained. But the normal state of us should be discussed. The things that they're discussing in these files and even though like I said before, these are also things that were happening on the plantation, for them to be happening now and in secret and for us to know that this is not only the way our government operates, but these are crimes that the government covers up to maintain a structure. A structure ran through blackmail operations by the Mossad, by Israel that basically controls our US government in our everyday lives as US citizens while also funding a great quality of life for the residents of Israel. Now they're selling off New Gaza. They got all these futuristic plans after they committed a genocide against hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people. The majority of those people being children. So there's no way that we could walk around on a day to day basis and act like this shit is normal. There's no way we can walk around on a day to day basis and still be trustworthy as a politician. There's no way that we could still be looking at what's going on. Seeing the COVID ups, seeing the collusion, seeing how both parties are working side by side to not only achieve a similar goal of power for themselves, control over the US population, But still be talking about midterms. Nigga, we need to be talking about guillotines, firing squads. We don't need to be talking about midterms. We need to be talking about guillotines. Call Carson at, figure out the streaming setup. Snatch a politician and get the guillotines active. Cause you can't vote this away. This is one of the very few times where you won't see me trying to rock the vote. I'm all for rocking the vote. I'm a big encourager. I'm a big advocate for local politics. I love for people to know who their local politicians are. So you could think locally, act globally. Big. Big on that. Not big on big government because I understand there's two wings, one bird is two sides to the same coin. It's two different parties. But. But they having a big party in the middle, big old party. And who knew at that party they will be eating people and raping children and covering it up. What's that? What's that? What's that term? What's that term? Whatever. I can't think of the term. Hold on one second. We see a lot of the Democratic Party operate with this weaponized incompetence. Now, let's not oversimplify what's going on in New York City. What's our. Mom. Donnie. Mom. Donnie. But things that these Democrats have been telling us for years, well, it just can't be done. Well, we have to raise funds. Bridges fixed it, fixed it again. I don't want to oversimplify it, but it's getting done. He's getting done the things that he promised in his campaign. He's getting things done. Things that are in favor for the everyday working class person who actually props up a city like New York. He just passed an executive order today that bans ICE from all public places. They can't go to schools, they can't go to churches, they can't go to private places of business. I mean, I think they can, but they can't go to anything that's publicly run, that's funded by public money, funded by taxpaying dollars. They can't be there now, I would say abolish them from the entire city. But, you know, we gotta work these things up. He's at least starting somewhere where niggas can't just go to the school and snatch up babies. Niggas can't go to the courthouse and snatch you out. What they need to be doing is putting the fucking police on there. The law enforcement, the actual people enforce the laws and not these rogue agents of fucking war. Agents of civil war that Trump got roaming the fucking streets all over America. Like, we can't get quiet about that either. Again, ICE doesn't need more funding. ICE doesn't need better training. ICE needs the guillotines. I'm sorry that it had to come to this, because this is what I've been thinking from day one. But they will kill you. These people are increasing the budgets for people to murder US Citizens. And niggas is in the streets talking about midterms now. Still vote, But I don't think waiting on the vote is getting their attention. But I think a nigga had separating from his body in the public.
