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Deontay Kyle
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Big Ice Cupcat
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Deontay Kyle
Not anymore. Save up to 40% your first year. Visit lifelock.com podcast terms apply. Yeah woke up in the morning and to God be the glory Thankful for another day to tell my story Put my opinions in the universe and let them orbit I'm from the dirty south with a dirty mouth might need orbit miss things things on me like a Norbit had to ref them cause my no rest and she gorgeous as I doubt my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead tell them we gonna get this money to my pockets morbid remember living in apartments now we playing mortgage you ain't gotta like a regardless baby I'm blessed and I keep that blick with me we like grits and eggs as you sip your coffee Flick your cigarette and let a vent yeah we back oh we back Grits and eggs podcast episode 134 I am your host Deontay Kyle. But who's behind the camera? The coolest co host in the world. Big Ice cupcat. Yes, sir. Ski he is back. He is. Big ice cup. Big ice cupcat. Yeah, man. Dj. Yeah, man. DJ to the stars. DJ to the stars, baby. Yeah, man. Here. So if you watching this now, we just go ahead and call it. We're gonna go ahead and call it. Yeah, if you watching this, it's Wednesday starting on sold out, Sold out, man. Sold out night. We in Birmingham as you watch this with that motherfucker, man. Yeah, man. That leaves Nashville and that's April 28th. I mean, that's gonna get sold out. Yeah, man, that's sold out. Sold out. Let's call it a sold out tour. Just sold out. First tour. Sold out. First tour. Sold out, sold out. Making noise for that yeah. Yeah, yeah. Ye. Knowledge. Do the knowledge. Yeah. Yeah, man. Damn, man. We did it. We did it, baby. This is. This is fun, man. I love the live show. It's a good time. The live shows is where it's at. Yeah. And if you ain't been to a live show, you're missing out king. You're missing out queen. Let's talk about the power of community real quick before we get into the regular deglars. Okay, so we had a situation last week. Read an email. And one of the cousins wasn't needed a car because they're trying to go to trade school.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yeah.
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Deontay Kyle
And they need transportation. Our cousin down there in New Orleans. Well, guess what, baby. What happened? We got you a car. We got a call for you, baby. Yeah, man. One of the cousins pulled through one of the cousins, said they had a car that's in great condition. Yeah. That they don't use. I'm gonna pay for the shipping. I'm gonna put them together sometime this week. So before y' all even see this episode, we're gonna. We're gonna make sure they get put together. Yeah, man. So we. We gonna get that. We're gonna get that put together. But I've been in contact with both of them. Yeah, man, I'm gonna pay for the shipping. I know it's gonna be like a little logistics, but you can put that bitch on the truck for like $400. I'll take care of it. You know what I'm saying? And we'll have one of our big cousins, one of our OG Cousins. If you live in the New Orleans area. Yeah. Please go link up with this. This young person and. And. And guide them through on how to get their registered things. And if they need money for the registration, they need money for the tag. Just holl at me. I'll take care of it. That's just. That's just what's going down. Yeah, we're gonna. Me and big cat gonna make sure it gets shipped there. Me and big cat gonna make sure you got the money for the registration, and we'll pay for your first month of insurance. Hey, yeah, we're gonna take care of. Damn, can't be that. Yeah, yeah, we gonna take care of you. We're gonna take care of you. So if you're a big cousin from New Orleans, you got your shit together. Yeah. And you can help this young person move around. Please, please reach out to us and let us know. And we're gonna go out there and make sure they straight. Now. 657234, eggs. That's 657-234-3447. If you wanna leave a voicemail, we got a couple voicemails. Ow. Deontayantaykyle.com for all booking and inquiries. Adviceyontecy.com if you want to send in an advice submission. You know, I can't guarantee you we're gonna be barke, but if you need help, hit your folks up. We got community building. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Supportant Kyle.com if you have any issues with merch, if you have any issues with, you know, tickets or any. Any issues that you may have, whether it be on the website, whether it be, you know, on the YouTube page, whether it be subscribing to the patreon, Just hit us up at support. At g. At support. Deontay. Kyle.com. suki will take care of it. Now, Deontay Kyle.com is where everything lives. Where does everything live. Big diantech how dot com. You can go there and you can get merch. We got. We got some new merch. We got. We got some grits hats in the good grits. The new. The new and improved grid tags. Yeah, we got those in the building. I'm pretty sure tripping to put a graphic. Yeah, right here. Yeah, we got the new grits hats available. We also got some new merch. We got some new cousin club merch. So if you part of that cousin club. But the only way to get into that cousin Club is what, $8? You got to get at $8 at the Patreon Grits and X podcast on Patreon. Ain't nothing but $8. You get two bonus episodes. You get two live streams every month. You get first dibs on everything you do. Every month you do. So if you. Them grits have been available to them. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Huh? You get. You get a week. You get a week in advance on. On. On most things. You probably get 48 hours advance on all ticket sales. And, you know, we. We. We ain't gonna get to him yet. All right. All right. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. All right. Yeah. Also, Deontay Kyle.com is where you could buy those Nashville tickets. So DeontayCol.com tour or just go to DeontayColle.com and hit that tour tab and you will be able to see the Nashville tickets. But we gonna call it for Birmingham. It's sold out. It's sold out. Jacksonville. It's sold out. Sold out. Charlotte. Sold out. Sold out, baby. We. We. We. We selling things out over here. Yeah, man, they already calling us saying where y' all want to go next? Hey, they hit us up. They said, well, how's the southwest tour sound? How's the Northeast? How about to go to the Midwest, go holler them people in Chicago and Detroit? Yeah, gotta holler my people. We. We gonna be everywhere if you a. And you live there, we gonna be there if you a. You live there. The population is 40, 30 to 40% or above. We pulling up there. What else we got? I think that's it, baby. I think that pretty much covers all the plugs. I mean, I got. Damn. Damn. Yeah, that's. That. That. That'll do it.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yeah.
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Deontay Kyle
Y. It's pretty much it. Big cat, how you feeling? I feel good, baby. A man djing the tour, hosting the tour, bringing you out, son. Bringing my man outside, you know what I'm saying? On stage, baby. Oh, man, you can get your first DJ check, too. I got the check for you in the car. Oh, hey, listen. We get money. Big ice car. Yeah. Yeah, man. You know what I'm saying, Baby? Did a service. Did a service. You should get paid. Gotta get paid. Yeah, man. I tell you what, bro. I'm excited. Yeah, me and. Me, too. I'm excited. Listen, man, you know what I'm saying? If you're trying to book me, man, you better get it in now because the price just went up. We was featured in Ebony magazine. Yeah, man, the prices went back up. Yeah, every magazine. I don't want to tell you what it was before, but I'm telling you, it's about five grand more now. Yeah, we went up 5K. You know what I'm saying? Look, Ebony, Mac. I used to read Ebony. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, man. Man, come on, man. Hey, let me tell you what every black. Black household gonna have. You got a good mama. Yeah. Jet magazine.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yep.
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Deontay Kyle
Ebony Magazine. Essence magazine. That's it. That's it. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You gonna be. I'm trying to put you down, you know what I'm saying? But other than that, man, you know, we popping it over on the Patreon. Patreon cousins. They've been showing up to the shows. It's been crazy. Love if. If you don't have a date to the tour. If you just like, man, I'm by myself. Don't worry.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Pull up.
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Deontay Kyle
Just pull up. The cousin's gonna look out for you, man. That shit is family over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they talk about it all the time. A lot of them go solo and meet up with other cousins. They do. You know what I'm saying? So don't have no fear about showing up to a grizzly ass show solo. Cause we're gonna take care of you now. White people. White people have been quite a tizzy this week. Drew Ski. Him. Drew Ski strikes again. Drew Ski strikes again, bro. Drew Ski is on a. Not only a generational run, but maybe historical sketch comedy run. Yeah. And I think that the reason why his shit hit different. Now, we've all seen skits on Instagram, but he's doing sketches at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Up in the production value. Shout out to the makeup artist. Yes. Shout out to the goddamn makeup artist. Yeah. But Drew Ski is an anthropologist, bruh. Yeah. He just understands human behavior. He understands what Makes people tick. He, He. He is very observant. So when he's doing. When he's recreating events or when he's recreating a certain archetype of a person, he's got that bitch dialed in. Yeah, he studies it. He studies it. He studies it. I, I want to know where he finds the time. I mean, but it is time between each. Each. It's a lot of time. I think it's like maybe two to three weeks. Yeah, he studied, which, which is great, because that means he's putting a lot of effort into the production of it all. But, man, bruh, that is hilarious. Is funny as hell. So, of course the whites are in the tizzy. Say, oh, man. You know, if it was blackface. Okay, then Erica Kirk chimes in. Mm. Now, Drisky did not name her. He didn't name her. He didn't name any names. He didn't say anybody name. So, Erica, you may not be too familiar with niggas, but in our community, we like to say a hit dog. Holler. Yeah, your ass over there. She hollering, baby. Yeah, I'm howling wolf. Yeah, man. Yes, you over there howling. You went past hollering and went straight to howling. Either way, she's. If I was to do blackface, y' all would call me a racist. Y' all are trying to cancel me. Hey, come here, Erica. Like Jordan, come here. Do it, bitch. And put some of that TP USA money behind. Put some of that Turning Point money behind. Cause obviously, you don't have no problem doing a motherfucking production. You out here like Shawn Michaels in 94 as soon as your husband died. I think I'm cute. I know I'm sexy. Yeah, she had no problem putting on a production. Now we putting on a production. Niggas over there putting on a production. Now it's a problem. I thought you like production. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you like. I thought she was a fan of production. Yeah. You're a production productionist. Yeah. You're the producer, a productionista. I, I, I figured if anybody was going to appreciate the skin, it'd be you. You, You. You're a big fan of production. Obviously, you're upset about this. Now, it's always very funny to me that white people try to pull the racism thing or white people try to say, oh, if we did blackface. If you did. If I'm reading this book called the Color Cartoon, I want to read a passage from the Color Cartoon, and so we can dive into this whole idea of blackface in the history of the menstrual stone while white people sign up. If. If I did blackface. What do you mean, if? You mean when? Hold on. We got images, too. Let's just. Let's talk about the times y' all do blackface. Trayvon Martin died. Y' all was out here painting your face black. And, and. And doing. And posting up with Skittles and Arizona tees. We got the pictures. Yeah. Every Halloween, y' all show up in blackface. Yeah. George Floyd died. Y' all doing the George Floyd china where y' all kneeling or doing some type of form of blackface. President Trump. Oh. Paints the Obamas as apes. Hey, what the fuck you mean, if? You mean when? Yeah, now. Erica, I'll say this. I would love nothing more than to see you in blackface. Just do it. Just do it, man. Yeah. I mean, you did everything else. I mean, call Triple H. Call the Generation X. Call Triple H. Call Triple H. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Triple H done blackface. He's done blackface. You know what I'm saying? For the wrong. Yeah. Yeah. White people historically have been in blackface, created an entire genre of American entertainment. This may be white people's only original idea, and it's noted in this book. We're gonna read a passage from this book, just let you know about Erica Kurt and her if I did Blackface. By the early of. By the early 20th century, the influence of African American folk tales, music and dance was everywhere. Evident in Amer in American culture. From the ongoing performance of blackface minstrelsy to the enormous popularity of Joe Chandler, Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, white entertainers had blackened their faces and poked fun at African American song, dance, and speech on stage since the 1840s. And many 19th century Americans consider blackface minstrelsy the nation's first original art form. The first. Meanwhile, Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin caused controversy not only because of his strong abolitionist sentiment, but also because minstrels easily borrowed the main characters and reduced them to caricatures. The pious slave Uncle Tom, the foolish slave Topsy, and the evil master Simon Legree. Because of its adaptability, the book continued to draw readers long after the Civil War ended slavery. Especially when minstrels created stage adaptations exploiting the theme of antebellum nostalgia from the 1880s into. From the 1880s until well into the 20th century, Harris's fictional works also enjoyed a tremendous readership. They start a resurrect Reconstruction era African American man teaching moral lessons to the children on his employer's plantation by using anthropomorphic animals. So most times when you see animals show up in cartoons, those are representations of black people. Yeah. It goes on to tell you about how Bugs Bunny was representative of a black person as well as Daffy Duck as well as a lot of other characters, because they like to use that anthropomorphic thing to reduce basically these black. These black archetypes into animals. Yeah, but the 1840s. Since the 1840s, y' all been doing blackface. Y' all got almost 200 years in the game. I can name on my hand, like, three or three to five niggas that have ever done whiteface, and there's no historical context to it. Y' all actually adapted the. The sentiments of an abolitionist and reduced his character into something to be made fun of. So what the fuck you mean, what if it's literally, possibly the only original art form white people have created because everything else y' all stole? So what you mean, what if take credit for your creation. Hey, hey, it seemed like racism and the systemic racism and the whole racial construct is the only invention. White people don't want to take no fucking credit for everything else y' all steal. Y' all try to make seem like y' all came up with it. Well, we know y' all not that original. Even. Even your creation is birthed out of hatred. Now Erica Kirk calls on Daddy Trump. Uh oh. And she says, I called Daddy Trump and he's assured me this will be taken care of. Drew Ski, you won't be getting away with this. Mm hmm. I may be dead in the eyes, but my relationship with Daddy Trump is very alive. Meanwhile, I don't know how Trump got time to focus on Drew Ski because Trump is on Truth Truth Social, or maybe he was on Twitter. I don't know. I don't have either one telling y' all niggas to eat butter sandwiches. Shit, I got the tweet, son, eat a butter sandwich or something. Listen, my told y' all niggas to eat a butter sandwich, son. Conductor Donald J. Trump at real Donald Trump at 3:30am that mean this nigga's up thinking about this? Yeah, he's up. He got dementia. He just wandering around. Yeah, he said dementia plus cocaine. Terrible combination. They got that the 2020, 2027 drugs. Yeah, yeah. If you're having affordability issues, maybe eating for sustenance instead of enjoyment, a bread and butter sandwich will fill you up just as much As a Big Mac. Thank you for your attention to this matter. It's got their mind, son. Listen, how about. How about what? How about if niggas eat you?
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Big Ice Cupcat
Oh.
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Deontay Kyle
You know what I'm saying? Like, like, like. Cause that's what it's gonna come down to. Yeah. Yeah. You, you, you, you, you. You're a billionaire. You made $3 billion the first year in the presidency. Unprecedented numbers. Yeah. Never seen a president even. I mean, God damn. God damn. He's. He's cutting a lot of corners. He's chopping a lot of departments and he's putting that money in his pocket. Him and Israel got a good thing going. To take your influence to make $3 billion in one year. And we don't know how you made it because you're not a great businessman. Trump steaks, Trump vaca. Trump airlines. Trump casino and hotel. Trump everything. Anything Trump put his name next to. He got a file. Bankrupt. Yeah. Tank it tanks. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And, and America is no different. Tanked, insolvent. To tell that if you have an affordability issues that they need to eat for sustenance and not enjoyment. And, and yes, suggesting this is how. You know, somebody just told him this. Yeah. A bread and butter sandwich dish. Your president the way how you could even still be in support of this and how this, how you don't see this as fascism is beyond me. Meanwhile, this probably having a goddamn buffet. Yeah, you got a buffet, son? Yeah, a buffet of Big Macs. You know you love McDonald's. Yeah. You love a Big Mac. And, and, and, and, and, and it would make sense that he loves McDonald's so much because we know that McDonald's contains human meat. Hey. And we know him and his cronies like a little human. Yeah, they like a little human. Like a human. Yeah, they fuck with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They. They have a taste for it. They do. So no surprise on Big Big D, D, JT and the Big Mac. The big big dj built like a Big Mac. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. But to tell. And, and this is the first place a butter sandwich will fill you up just as much as a Big Mac. You how about that? And anybody, if you voted for this, honestly, you got to be ostracized. Send these to Argentina. Yeah, yeah, let them go to Argentina, son. You can go down there with the Confederate soldiers and you go down there with the Nazis and all their offspring and y' all go live y' all best life eating butter sandwiches or whatever the fuck y' all eat in Argentina, nigga. Fuck all these niggas. Cause that shit, nigga, this is. This is. This is the equivalent of Marie Antoinette let them eat cake yet. Y' all ain't making no noise, no king's parade, or. I mean, protest, you know, whatever. Yeah. Here's my thing. Now, this is where we. We started talking about class, right? Because he's talking to his people. Then he's talking to his people. Hey, man, I need to eat a little butter sandwich. A little butter sandwich. Can you imagine? You. You work for a job 14 hours a day, and. And CEO Rich is a. And he land a helicopter, and y' all in the break room, and he coming in and say, man, look, I think your problem is y' all trying to enjoy your food. Ah, man. Fuel. Fuel. That's what you need. You need fuel. Yeah, I. Bro. 27 loaves of bread and two tubs of butter. Have at it. Have at it, Ted. Limb from limb. Yeah, yeah. A limb from Limb. Him and his security. Limb by limb. Throw them in the bed, start eating them. Put up. I got a. I got a arm sandwich. Yeah. Chop them. I got. I got big bicep sandwich on the. Yeah, yeah. Ribs. Yeah. Oh, oh, great. Ribs, good Ribs. Forearm, filet. Yeah, you know all that. You know all that. Oh, yeah. But this is the thing that we deal with when we started talking about class. Now, white people, I'm gonna tell you what, the white leftist, the white liberal, what they love talking about. They love talking about class. They. Oh, man, we're all in this together, guys. We're all in the same class. And the reason why white people love the class issue is because it leaps right over the race issue. And if we start talking about the race issue, they're gonna be held accountable. Well, there you go. You're not low. You can't fool old Deontay and Big Cat no with your goddamn class talk, huh? We study the Panthers. We've been hip to the class game. It's just that y' all been addicted to the race game. Now y' all fall. Y' all done fell so far behind the class game, y' all like, God damn, guys, we gotta start talking about these elites. God damn. Gotta catch up, son. Damn, man. You know what I'm saying? I didn't want to talk about classism or racism. Gotta pick one. But God damn, we know. We know. Y' all gotta. Y' all gotta say, y' all gotta pass like Zoron's wife. That's why y' all don't want to talk about the race issue. All you have a past, like Zoron's wife. All you niggas went through a phase where you was racist. All you niggas went through a phase of anti blackness. So we can't talk about the race issue because then I'll be held accountable. That class issue, man. Brother, I'm falling behind. I'm falling behind. Yeah. I need somebody to throw me a life jacket, a loaf of bread and some butter. I thought it was going to be djt. No, I thought it was gonna be maga. I thought it was gonna save me. And all these niggas been doing is stealing from me. I done lost my farm, I lost my crops, I done lost my cattle. If you live in Nebraska, I done lost a state. This is on fire. Nebraska's on fire and nobody's talking about it. Hawaii's underwater. Soon to be Florida underwater. They say wherever the data center is, if there's a data center in your neighborhood, your community becomes 15 degrees hotter. Jeez. I mean, you know, the class issue, very big issue. But y' all like to talk about that. Cause y' all want to hop over that race issue because. Listen, bro, I'm telling you what. I'm not locking arms with no fucking bigot. You ever see that picture that go around and it's the black dude and he got the Malcolm X shirt and Africa. African American garb and all that, and he. He fist pounding a white dude, and the white dude got on a Confederate flag hat and whatever and all this, and it's like, oh, this is what they're afraid of. No, that's not happening. Y' all niggas is foolish as fuck. I got on a Malcolm X shirt and this bitch got on a Confederate flag hat. They afraid of us coming together now. Actually, they not, because that. Because me and that nigga never going to be in the same room. Why? So we could defeat the elites and then he can enslave me or attempt to. You sound stupid. Listen, y' all have to deal with y' all racism. Y' all have to deal with your original sin. Ghana just came out and said the transatlantic slave trade was the most egregious crime against humans in human history. All of the other countries agree, except three. The big three, huh? Yeah. America. Yep. Usa. Israel in Argentina. Hey, that old triangle offense of genocide, racism, bigotry, Bigotry, sex trafficking and child and pedophilia. That. The triangle offense of that. God damn. Of course they don't agree. America creates imprisoned slaves, debt slaves, wage slaves, sends all the prophets over to Israel where they murder women and children with impunity. They get involved in war crimes with impunity. And of course, Argentina is where they send everybody to flee persecution. Yeah. So of course those three don't agree. But here's the thing about white people in this, this thing where we want to deal with class. I believe that not only do they want to deal with class so they don't have to be accountable for their racism and for their history with racism. So they skip right to something where they won't have to be accountable for was the class issue. But I feel also their issue with class is that they're not involved. Anybody, any white person complaining about class, give them a million dollars. See if they still keep talking about class or see if they don't start talking about you niggas. Man. You know, maybe let's make the airplane seats a little smaller. Y' all start acting like the elites immediately. We know how y' all give it up. Here's the thing. I think the idea behind the no Kings protest is great. We get together, we pow wow, we say no Kings. And this is a protest of class. I don't think we're out there talking about the hard hitting things. And I don't really believe in a protest that's that peaceful. Nobody gets arrested. Ice running rampant across the country. I ain't heard about nobody getting arrested. A little, little wild, little kooky little. Sounds like a parade. White people, you're just not asleep. It's another thing white people like to do. I'm gonna tell you something white people like to say. This is another thing that they like. They like to do when they, when they, when they, when they, when they become woke. They like to say, like you see graphics like this. Humans really could have had a beautiful little existence on this earth just creating art and eating fruit. Instead we have credit scores and taxes. Human was. Humans were having a beautiful life. Creating art, creating society, creating structures, eating fruit, eating off the land, great agricultural practices. We was doing all that until white people came along. Who the fuck came up with the idea for credit scores and taxes if it wasn't a cracker? White people. Y' all gotta stop saying humans and start saying white people, because the humans was doing that. And then they came upon white people. They came upon white people. The humans was out here eating fruit, dancing, huh? Reading the stories in the skies, huh? Telling folk tales to our children. Maybe have a little scuffle with a, with a little, little, little faction over there over some reason I Met a little scuffle. Hey, man, this outside of the river, you know what I'm saying? Y' all fish over there, you know what I'm saying? If y' all don't fish to dry. Oh, fucking well, bitch. But don't come over here and croak. Do we gotta go to Wah? I got the face paint ready, bitch. Ready. You know what I'm saying? Little village scuffles, right? No credit scores, no jails. Then the boat pull up and who get off the boat? Big cat? White people. White people get off the boat. Then they start talking about loans and taxes and owning land and property and all this different shit. And then what do they bring with them? Diseases. I don't want this idea to keep floating around like white people was just out here conquering. Oh, just white people just out here conquering the goddamn earth by the rule of their goddamn iron fist. No, y' all was getting people sick everywhere y' all went. Because y' all are dirty and unsanitized and y' all still are. It's in your jeans, baby. Y' all wasn't thinking about eating no goddamn fruit and doing no art. Y' all was thinking of new ways to subjugate. Steal their art, put it in museums and charge his view.
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Big Ice Cupcat
It
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Deontay Kyle
crazy. Oh, they always wanted to think, men, we could be doing so much more. And I always leave out the part if it wasn't for us, we ruined the human way of life. Yeah. And a lot of times, and you know, we wanna go back to the class thing. A lot of times. It's not that every single white person came with the idea. It's that all of y' all were complicit and participated because it benefited you.
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Big Ice Cupcat
You.
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Deontay Kyle
Therefore, you have to be held accountable. If you was complicit, you must be held accountable. Yeah, I can't just drop a. I can't take a. I can't drive a down the street and he go kill somebody and police don't want to talk to me. Yeah. I can't just say, I just drove the car. I'm like, yeah, yeah, he murdered somebody. Yeah, yeah, he murdered somebody. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got questions. Yeah, let's talk to you for a minute. You can't say. You can't say, man, we could have had it all good. Yeah. Had I not hopped in that car and drove that murderer over there to murder somebody. Well. Well, you did. I don't hear nothing about no credit scores and taxes. This is y' all idea. You come far and wide to Timbuktu. Yeah, Study the universe. That's why they call it a university. Huh? Huh? You ain't trying to hear that, though, man. Y' all just wanna, you know, like, this is why I'm skipping over Portland on the tour. I don't feel like being around a bunch of dirty rich white people. Yeah. That want to feign homelessness but can start up a kombucha shop. Yeah. Poor people can't do that. Nah. Where you get that loan from? Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is all Portland is. A bunch of rich white kids that want to be one with the earth. Yeah, just bunch of rich white hippies. Rich white hippies that are low key Republicans and just don't want nobody else telling them what to do so they can be racist in peace. Because if that shit was a haven in a Kumbaya, it'd be more black people out there. But black people tell you they experience a lot of racism in Portland. And let's not talk about just Portland. Let's talk about the state of Oregon. Yeah. They held on for the longest time that black people were not allowed to own anything in the state of Oregon. Now what y' all doing up there in the fucking rainforest being racist? You up. You up way too. You on the wrong motherfucking side of the map, bitch. Trying to be racy on Pacific Northwest, nigga. But the amount of racism in Iowa and Utah and Washington state and places like Oregon, y', all, this is the thing about white people. This is how I know why y'. All. Y' all project this subhuman on everybody else. Because it might be a little bit of y'.
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Big Ice Cupcat
All.
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Deontay Kyle
It might be a little subhumanist to y'. All. Y' all go to some of the most beautiful places on earth and destroy them. The Appalachian Mountains. Beautiful. Beautiful, right? One with nature in a real way. Yeah. What y' all up there doing? Just inbreeding? Junking it up. Junking it up. I mean, God damn, a lot of junk. A lot of goddamn junk. Hey, this they they idea of rebellion. I'm just gonna put shit everywhere. Yeah. No structure. This is how y' all had it in Europe. This is why the rats came. Rats came, start biting people. Next thing you know, walking down the street with a bell in a cart, talking about, bring out your dad. Bring out your dad. I think it's out there partying with the rodents because y' all just got everywhere. No structure, no organization, no running water, no sanitation. Throw it in the. Throw it in the street. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I I, I, I just, I just. I just don't like the idea of white people not talking, not dealing with the racism because they don't want to be accountable. This is like, this is. This like men that refuse to acknowledge the patriarchy. Right? It's like, you wanna. Hey, man. This is like. Niggas is like, say, hey, man, I believe women could do just as good a job as anybody else. Now, can we talk about class and can we talk about. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Slow down, slow down, slow down. We can't just skip over that. It's like, that's what white people do. They be like, hey, man, niggas is fine. They fine. Can we talk about these elites? Yeah, like, no, brother, because that's not the game that you play. I don't have no issue talking about the conditioning of patriarchy, the internalized misogyny. You know what I'm saying? People have DM me or emailed me several times like, hey, man, can you stop saying bitch so much? It's like, man. But it just rolls off the tongue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just part of my vocabulary at this point, but I understand why. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like, I wouldn't say. I wouldn't say it's like the N word, but the parallel. Yeah, the parallel is there. It's like, you know, I'm asking you to stop calling me A. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm saying but be liking it. It's a work in progress. I've been, I've been working on dialing it back. It just feels so good to call somebody a. I'm not calling nobody a. Individually, you know, Shut up. Yeah, I'm not doing that. Yeah, but when I'm talking about white people, I'm like, you. Yeah, yeah. Collective. The collective. Yeah, yeah. Now I will individualize the. When I'm talking about a white woman, I just feel like that's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But just saying, we all got things to work on. And, and, and I understand women's hesitation to be in coalition with men due to the history between men and women. So I need y' all to understand that there ain't gonna be in my lifetime. Yeah. I, I likely won't have a Malcolm X moment. I ain't never with these crackers. If you, if you could get a little bit of that in you see, this is the other thing too. Like, to go places and see, like, oh, oh, my God. White people are here. They're in support their allies. No optics they whole game is pr Baby, go watch Mad Men. They don't even believe in the shit they selling. It's just gonna make them money. Cause white people know they can go, Rachel Dolezall, she gonna put on a black face in a real way. Black body, black body. I ain't gonna lie. If I was nigga end up like 5 minute I'm foot on Rachel Dozal. That was mixed. Yeah, yeah. I thought she was mixed up. I've seen the picture of the before. God damn. That was a pale white. Yeah, there was a white woman. Yeah, white woman. Yeah, a white woman. A woman. Yeah. I'm just saying. Listen, this is the thing. If I could just get all my on the same page, because this is like the thing. It's like, oh, well, we don't have to hate. I mean, what's wrong with a little hatred? This is their whole entire history with you is hating you. Yeah. And y' all be like, man, but I don't hate white. I don't know why. I'm not fond of them niggas. Yeah. One, one could say I hate them. Hey, I tell you what. I wouldn't run from the allegation. I try to dress it up and lie like they do. Yeah. Because at some point in my life, we're gonna have to use these whites. Here we go. They go saying for the live show, yeah, yeah. I got some white folks in my. In my life that I with. They know how I feel about white people. They don't. They don't. It's no push back from them. It's no resentment from them. Because at the end of the day, they know what I'm saying. I believe and, and what I'm saying is true. They know they people. I just don't understand that's constantly trying to appease white people. Like, bro, God damn, give it up, bro. It's just in the DNA, son. Just coded Tacun. Yeah, man, we got to put them niggas on the island. We got to bring back nigger Island. Yeah, put them on the island. Yeah, yeah. We definitely. We finna bring back. Put them, put them on the island. We're gonna bring back island. Because a lot of you, it's a lot of used out here just having a goddamn good old time. Yeah, I, I, I'm just saying, like, it's. It's this hopefulness. It's the hopefulness, like, we don't need anybody else but ourselves, bro. We are so. We have showcased time and time again how powerful we are when we just Stick with one another. And this is not like a trying to be on some Confederate bro. This is like real bro. You have no allies, Zoran. Good for the city of New York Wife racist as you have no allies. And this like sticker saying, oh, well, I mean, that's his wife, though. Okay, well, I'm gonna tell you who else wives was folding up the fucking lawn. Who the fuck you think was folding and washing them sheets? The wife and the husband often hold the same beliefs. Listen, the politicians tell you I'm doing what's best for the state of West Virginia. I put West Virginia first. I'm gonna do what's best for my people. These niggas was flying to an island and raping and killing children and eating them. I don't give a fuck what these niggas say. Hey, look, great work. Great work on the potholes. Love that. Love that. For New Yorkers, you know, great work on getting niggas to shovel snow for 30 bucks an hour. Love that for New Yorkers. I'm just saying, apple ain't gonna fall far. And nor am I surprised when a person of color has a little. A bit of that anti blackness in them. Zara might be a real nigga, but you married a fucking bigot. What's good for the goose, though, you know, that's what it come down to, man. It's good for the goose, it's good for the gander. I'm not in a position of worried about what the fuck these people doing. I'm just here to report the news. Huh? I'm here to report the news. I'm here to point out the hypocrisy. And I'm here to remind you that all you need is yourself. I have been privy to a debate. This is women's business. We're going to go ahead and call it what it is. This is women's business. Okay? There's been a big debate online about women and their natural hair. I want to tell you this. We live in a microwave society. A very wash and go ass society. A very what's ever done quickest in society is what's best convenience. So when women say, it's just too hard for me to maintain my hair, I have seen y' all wash, condition, and dye wigs. So the same amount of care and, and, and, and time that you spend on taking care of a wig is the same amount of care and time you could spend taking care of the hair that grow out your head. You don't feel confident in it because it's not the beauty standard because you don't see it being represented anywhere. Why do we constantly have to have natural hair movements? Why? It grows out. I, I tell you what, how about this? Go get a fucking relaxer, huh? If it's like that, it's too hard to maintain. Go get a relaxer. Go get a relaxer. Fuck it, Fuck it. Bring it back. Cause we keep bringing back these same old fucking tired ass conversations just because these bitches in the UK just learned how to goddamn do they fucking hair. Now we gotta be back on natural. Now we gotta be back having. I'm sorry to call y', all, I say, God damn, I'm sorry, but the American set the standard for black American women. Set the standard for beauty. Now I'm not gonna say, I'm not gonna just say. I'm just saying from a popularity standpoint, black women are the most forward facing beauty standard for black people nationally and I believe globally. Because the looks that the girls in the UK be given is black American girl looks just is what it is. So just because now y' all figuring out, now y' all gotta have the wig debate and that's spilling over into the diaspora. Listen there, I'm gonna tell you this. I don't care if you wear a wig or not. If that's your, if that's your thing, that's your thing. I'm gonna tell you what I do know. I do know that every day of the week, every hour of the day, every minute, every second when you got that natural hairstyle, you look 10 times better. That's the, that's the thing that gets the wheels turning. Even, even like, even like a nice little, Even the braids y' all do with braids. The wig is whatever, man. Maybe it's like, it's like, it's like. I'm gonna tell you what the wig is to me. It's like a, when you go get The Cut Day 1, with all the enhancements, it look good. Yeah. As soon as that lace start peeling back over with. I don't, I don't think, I don't think I, I don't think our baby should be wearing wigs in high school. I don't think that, I think if they want to bust down for prom, maybe that's great, but I think we need to be constantly pushing a love for self and a love for how we are naturally. Who we are naturally. I don't even like when they go to Turkey. If you bald, just be bald. Bald it out, son. Go bald, son. Yeah. Son, I don't. I'm not a supporter of lock extensions. Grow that, bruh. Go through that ugly phase. You gotta get this shit out the mud for sure. I'm, I'm always gonna be in favor of black people being as natural as possible. And the reason is, is because that is a big fuck you to the empire that tries to tell you that who you are naturally is ugly. I'm gonna let y' all women have this because y'. All, Y', all, this is the conversations that y' all have taken over. And I'm loving the things I'm seeing. I'm saying from my opinion, I think there is nothing more beautiful than a black woman in her natural state. The natural hair. Baby. I ain't even tripping on a little makeup. Little. I like a little makeup. You know what I'm saying? Beautiful. But I also like you when you ain't got no makeup. Yeah, I, I, I don't think. I, I, I think, I think, I think this idea that we have to be dressed to the nines all the time. Have you ever been to your granny house, man? Granny go outside. She look good as a granny in the house. Big moo moo turban on the mother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Big moo moo, big turban. Big moo moo, big turban. Yeah, man. You can let it loose. And, and the thing is, because we. And the cameras. The cameras is everywhere all the time now. You feel like you got to be dressed up all the time, man. Let that go, man. You're beautiful, man. You're fine just the way you are. Yeah, man. You don't gotta walk every day. You ain't gotta wake up. And it ain't gotta be no contest to prove that you look good. The way the hair grow out, your head is beautiful, look good. The natural lip, the, the lips is beautiful. They go get injections so they can get their lips to look like you. The nose is beautiful. Yeah. You don't need no rhinoplasty. Nah. Throwing out the symmetry of your face. That's spitting the face of God. You with your nose. And in order to hide the creation that you created, they blew off the noses. And you want to go with your nose. Your nose is important. They knew if they hid the nose, they could hide you. We gotta get back to this place where we embrace who we are, bro. That's the most beautiful part of us is who we are. They tell you not to like things about yourself just so they can sell it back to you crazy white women in the 90s was throwing up left and right. Bulimia, anorexia. Then the Kardashians came along. Now everybody want to get ass shots. I have seen the most botched ass shots in history and I'm. What we doing if. Listen, man, here's the thing, man. If you ain't gonna get it from your mama, you just ain't gonna get it, man. Nope. If you ain't gonna get it from granny, you just ain't gonna get it. Don't make you less beautiful. You. It's a lot of flat back ass women out here. Married. Yeah. But a flat back, I mean, the ass is just, it's just an enhancement. Whether you got it or not, it don't take nothing away.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Mm.
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Deontay Kyle
What is this struggle for this ass shit? This is all this, some, all slavery shit, this obsession over ass, some slavery shit. They took Sarah Bartman and put her in a fucking, put her in a fucking circus act because of her ass. And now you over here possessing and every time you got, you gonna have lower back problems. Because every time the camera come on, you gotta turn your motherfucking back to the camera. Cause the only thing you deeming important about yourself is your motherfucking ass. Every time I see you fucking turned around just ass. I'm thinking something wrong. I'm thinking something wrong. Cause I ain't seen you on social media three, four days. I just found. Oh, you just didn't have a wig. Fuck. Look, I want black women collectively let go of this idea of I look a mess. White people, what they deem beautiful, all these other anti black and what they deem beautiful. Show up as you are, and it's beautiful. You don't need the world to appreciate you. We do. Yes, sir. And, and, and, and, and a lot of the, the global cousins are a little late on the fashion. A little late. You know, they just got they shipment of the bus downs. They just got their bus downs. They just start rocking their bus down.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yeah.
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Deontay Kyle
So now they gonna have this conversation because that's the trendy thing over there in the uk. That ain't none of our business, man. We done dealt with that. We don't need to keep reinvigorating that conversation. If, if you don't like your hair, you don't like yourself. That just is what it is. Not liking your natural hair is anti black just is what. I, I think that, I think that how we show up, how we're born, who we are, our identity is constantly under attack to the point, to the point where we start making excuses for why we can't show up as we are. So we'll start saying things like, oh, it's just too hard to maintain. But. But the girls is bringing back pixie cuts. You remember 90s pixie cut, man, I followed over pixie cuts. Huh? What? I'm glad they bringing back something to bring. Bring back the up dudes, bro. Get a bring. I want. I want to see if this look like bats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring me love. Do you? Well, bamboo earring. Get. Get a gold door knocker. Get a gold too. Get a gold too. Oh, my God. Long nails. Listen, man, you can get creative with this. Yeah, but you can't make excuses for this. We've been creative with this. You cannot. There's a. We've had hair shows, man. You can get creative with this, but you can't make no excuses for this. I'm sorry for calling the UK Girls. Yeah, Yeah. Y. Y' all still my sisters, even though y' all are the. Y' all are the caboose of the diaspora because y' all be on the. Y' all be heavily cooned out. Y' all just tune. Y' all two. Y' all two. Y'. All. Y'. All. Y' all really in the empire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They in the end. Yeah, yeah, they there. Yeah, you're there. That's crazy. You. You at the seat of colonization. Yeah, they right. It's gonna be a lot harder for y'. All. Yeah, I get it. You go to court. It's in white wigs. I get it. Yeah. So we're gonna let y' all have y' all conversation and figure that out on y'. All. I'll stay out. Y' all been. I'm stay out with him. I'm just tell you. I'm just telling you, sister. We love you as you are. You do. Girls show up with the pixie cutters, man. A good pixie cut. Girls gonna ball them. Go ball with the blonde. That blonde pixie cut that knee along. And Friday. I'm just saying, y' all fine, bro. Yeah, y' all fine. Black women be fine, bro. Yeah, they be looking good as. Looking good frustrates me when. They don't. Frustrates me when they not. They're not embracing it. But, you know, we play a part in that, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Is is going after the girls with the bus downs because you is anti black, too. And you want a white doing some exotic. No, Latina. Yeah. Oh, Latina girl. Oh, she cuts me Out. She pulled a knife on me. She's spicy. She's spicy. Yeah. A black woman asked you to do what you said you was gonna do. Ah, these got too much attitude. Yeah, man, I can't deal with it. God damn, man. Can't deal with this. You told her he was gonna do it. Yeah, that's what you said. Latina woke up out of dream and try to stab you. Trying to kill you. Oh my God. She's obsessed with me. She loves me. She loves me. Oh, that's a form of anti blackness. Check your anti blackness. Yeah, check it. Because guess what? They participating in it. They would love nothing more for you to join in. This is why I don't want to talk about class. I want to talk about race and the multitudes of ways that has affected our community because you are losing your goddamn minds. It is that deep. It's always that deep. And I want to be amongst think deep thinkers. I want a community of deep thinkers. Not that's thinking so deep that they start talking about the Grand Canyon. Nah, not that deep. Nah. Deep enough that you'll pick up a book like the color cartoon and understand how they have manipulated your media to cause self esteem issues within you, to make fun of you, to make fun of your history, make fun of your swag, to make fun of your contributions. Pick up a book. Pick up that book, son. Color cartoon by Christopher P. Lehman. Pick that up. That's my read this month. Yeah. You know, month and month I start going through some of the reads. Yeah, man. We have always had a very strong movement in our media surrounding the fact that. We celebrate ourselves. If you go back and you just think about some of the accomplishments of someone like a Robert Townsend putting up his own money, represent himself to see himself represented in film the way he wanted to. Yeah. And live in color even though it was funny. Change the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Yeah. We. We have always been contending with the fact of this society telling us to hate ourselves while we want to be loud about loving ourselves. And so I'm gonna keep bringing this home. What's the revolution, Big Cat? Love. The revolution is love. Because it starts with self. When you love yourself as you are. When you love yourself as you are, as you were born. When you love yourself in this natural form, that is a revolution. Just that, just that part right there. Just loving your hair, loving your nose, loving your lips, loving your hips. Loving the way you was built. Loving the way your mama was built. Loving the way your daddy walked. Loving the lingo. Loving the conversations that we have amongst each other, even if we in mixed company and they won't know what the we talking about. Loving our ability to adapt and then create. Loving our ability to innovate. Loving yourself as you are when you wake up in the morning, your breath stinging, you got crushing your eyes. Loving that because that's you. That's you. Everything else is a product. What you gonna be in the revolution? What's gonna happen? Go ahead. What's gonna happen? They wipe all the cards out. You ain't. You can't afford no makeup. Yeah. You can't afford no wig. But you know, I'm not. You're not. You ain't gonna get outside. Yeah, you ain't gotta be outside. You gotta be outside, but you're not gonna participate. Yeah. You gonna be worried about how you look then. Mm. Mm. Black Panthers was out there. No makeup. All fro. All fro, all natural. Beautiful. Yeah, Beautiful. You have to adapt to it. You've been putting product on your face a long time. You been product in your hair a long time. Shout out to Baskin Lather. You know what I'm saying? Great products for natural people, nigga. It's okay, bruh. Gotta love yourself. In a country that's doing everything to get you to hate yourself. Everything. They got a history of it, nigga. 1840s even. Why they had you enslaved, they form of entertainment was to continually mock and demean you. That's what this shit is built off of you hating yourself. That's why the revolution is love. Because the second you start loving yourself, nigga, this shit over with. They could pack it up. They spend billions of dollars a year to get you to hate your motherfucking self. This ain't no debate. Say nothing. We need to talk about. Nigga, this is an act. Act on it. Because revolution is what? Love. Revolution is love. We'll be right back after these commercial breaks. We back. All right. 6, 5, 7, 2, 3, 4 eggs. That's 6, 5, 7, 23 4, 3, 4, 4, 7. If you want to leave a voicemail. We got a couple voicemails today. You know, let's get to it. Gotta do it like I'm used to it. Oh, we got a couple niggas leaving three minute voicemails. Oh, shit. Leaving multiple voicemails. Hey, guys, if you gotta leave three, four voicemails, we just gonna pack that up. We can't. You get three minutes per voicemail. Let's try to keep it between a minute and 30 seconds to two minutes. We got to get right to the point, all right? Because we also got to think about the fact that people are listening to this. This is a time consuming thing. This is some extras at the end of the show. Let's get right to our points, okay? So, you know, when I'm looking through these, I'm looking for the people. That's between. Between one minute and two minutes. That's really getting to it. So we're going to take our first one. And that's just a little. This is a little, you know, future reference. Future reference. Goddamn. Get to it. Get to it, baby. You know what I'm saying?
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yo, Deontay.
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Deontay Kyle
I'll say this too. I'll say this too. If you don't want to leave a voicemail and you have something you want to say to us directly, where they need to go? Deontaycow.com. no, no, no. Oh, no, no. I'm sorry. They want to talk to us directly. Oh, directly. Patreon. Yeah, yeah. You gotta get on that Patreon. $8. Yeah, yeah. One of the live streams that we do per month, we take calls from the listeners. So 657234, eggs. If you don't want to leave a voicemail, you got too much to say and you want to say it to us directly, you gotta get in that Patreon. Yeah. Cause we take calls from the listeners, we take calls from the cousins. We talk to the cousins. We chop it up like five to ten minutes. Yeah. So you know what I'm saying? A lot of y' all leaving like three, four voicemails. Like, disregard that last one. I'm gonna say no, call me. Yeah, call me. $8 to the call. Don't ask no questions. Just. I said don't ask. I said don't ask. I said don't ask no questions. Just call. Just call me. Just call me. You, me. Shout out to chingy man. Yeah, man, shout out to chingy man. Chingy man. You know what I'm saying? Fly right there. Man up. When he beefed with Nelly, though, you can't. You can't beef with the big dog. You can't beef with a big dog in the city, man. Not Nelly, not Nelly. No, that made ei, son. Yeah, What he say? Oh, wait a minute now. Know what I'm saying? You can't beef with that, son. You can't beef with that shiny, shiny pants. Can't beef with pimp juice. Yeah, yeah. Dirty sucker for corn rolls and manicure toes. Nigga just was saying shit. Yeah, that nigga made Tip drill, cuz. All right, man. I know you know.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yo, Deontay and the biggest Ice cup cat. What's up with y' all boys, man? First and foremost, I appreciate y' all for what y' all do. For empowering, I want to say. Empowering, empowering, you know what I mean? Just in general, just black people, you know what I mean? Lifting them up, showing them what it's like to love on one another. Big up people. But also call them out on their shit and make them take accountability. I appreciate y' all for that. Made me take a step back and look at myself sometimes. But I. This is my message. This is what I wanted to ask. So I was having a debate with a Christian the other day on my. You know, I'm saying we've been back and forth on Instagram and she was talking about how we cannot claim to be God is my argument. And my statement was that we are the living, breathing, we're the living version of God. We get to live out and see the creation. You know what I mean? We get to see it, feel it, touch it and appreciate it. And one of the arguments that I made that was kind of shallow, I guess it might seem a little shallow. This point might seem a little shallow. But if God, if all it took for God to be worshiped and for God to be God was creating, do we not hold that same power through procreation? Like I said, maybe that might be a little shallow, but that was one of the points I was making. And I'm just trying to figure out if we create, if we have the ability to create life, what negates us from being divine. They just make it seem so out of touch and so unobtainable. So yeah, that was just my thing.
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Deontay Kyle
Here's the thing, like God in his essence is the beginning and the end. It's a constant. We are mortal. That's the thing that separates us from being God. I think that's just as simple and plain as it is now. If you want to talk about us being God's creation. So having some of the create creative abilities that God has, like, like we are shepherds of this earth, we are shepherds of this planet. We know how to use and manipulate the elements into our favor or into others destruction. But the thing is, is that I don't really think we have a true idea of what God is because of how God has been co opted by Abrahamic religions. So if you ask me what God is, God is the sun, it's the moon, it's the stars, it's the trees, it's every living organism and it's interconnectedness all at once. It's the intelligent design of nature, you know what I'm saying? And we are an extension of that and we will return to that. So I understand that this is more of an affirmation than it is a fact. If you, if you want to affirm yourself by saying I am a God or woo, woo, woo, I think that, I think, I don't have, really have a problem with that. But to say you are the true and living God or whatever that case may be, you know, that's where things get a little tricky for me. Just because God is constant, God is not. God is immortal. You know what I mean? It's omnipresent, it's omnipotent or whatever the case may be, you know what I'm saying? That's where I stand, you know what I mean? And also, like, there's enough to be the reason why we don't want to connect with humans because of what we've seen humans do, and specifically white people. But I think, like I said, I don't, I don't, I don't. I never claim to be God, but I, but I, you know, made. Made in his. Made in his or her image. Yeah, maybe I can get down with that. But I think the, the true God is that you unlock God's power for real. When you love yourself truly and radically and you love the people around you, when you, when you commune the way that nature communes. Yeah, yeah, you can get, you can get it in. But I think that, I think identifying with the all knowing, all being, you know, the intelligent design down to the decimal, I'm just not, that's not where I'm at with it. But, you know, I understand it and I respect it. How you feel, big cat? You know what I'm saying? The black man, 5%. Hey, you know, man, you know what we say, man? The black man, the black man, the black man is God, son. You know what I'm saying? You'd all be so. Listen, man, I ain't gonna get too deep into it, but you know, you are the foundation of your universe, of your universe, like the sun is the foundation of the solar system. You know what I mean? You hold your planets in orbit. You know, it's a lot I can explain. I'm gonna have to do it one time in the Patreon. I'm have to just sit down and explain this. I'm have to give y' all yeah, I'm have to get out of mathematics in the Patreon. So you can understand when I say the black man is God and what that actually means and what that represents and why the. And why the women are the Earth's and the alikes, you know, I mean, I have to. I have to explain that to y' all in depth. So one day in the Patreon, man, I'm have to explain the mathematics and everything that I represent, man. You know what I mean? But, yeah, I do believe the black man is God. I mean, the black man is God. Yeah. The true living man. I just. I just want us to, you know, acknowledge our connection to something greater than ourselves. Yeah. Yeah. I think. You know what? I hate to be so literal and so capitalist sometimes, but, like, there's a lot of niggas out here doing nothing, nothing in community, nothing for their family, bumming it up, but calling themselves guys. It's like, man, if you're going. If you're going to represent God, bro, you got to represent. Yeah, you got to represent, bro. You know what I'm saying? Represent your click. You got to represent that shit, man. Yeah, but. Yeah, man, shout out to you, man. This. And this is. And also this conversation where we sit now as a community is non conversation. This conversation for when we got a community. Yeah. And when we community building, when we. When we got grocery stores in our neighborhood and we got doctor's offices and urgent cares in our neighborhood, we got our own transportation services in our neighborhood, then we can start talking about how we Gods right now. We need to get our humanity back. I agree. We need. We need to. We need to reclaim our humanity and reclaim our rhythm with nature. Then we can start having God talk. You know what I'm saying? I agree.
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Big Ice Cupcat
I agree. Yeah. What's happening? How y' all feeling out there? Brand new cousin. Big ice cup conglomerate.
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Deontay Kyle
We back.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Hey, I just wanted to make it short and sweet. I'm from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This last episode. I heard y' all talking about Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and you called it suburbs. And this is not a bragging thing. But don't for everybody thinking Harrisburg is suburbs. Don't get it twisted. Don't come down here and think everything's sweet. It's not. You can get jammed up real quick, Baby mama cop something. Something to get you. Something to get you. Anyway, I just wanted to let y' all know that I'm kind of new. I'm a new cousin, like I said. But I'm enjoying the show. I'm enjoying what y' all doing. The knowledge is impeccable. I'm spreading the word about y' all so, you know, if y' all do come to Philly. You said May. When it get warm. It's warm right now. But Pennsylvania is like a woman, man. It. It could be hot, it could be cold. You never know. You could come up here in May and it could still be snowing. You would never know. But if y' all come to Philly, let us know asap. I'm gonna pull up. Glad to see what y' all doing. Support of the show. Always watching YouTube, listening to the show, all of it. Appreciate y'. All. Peace.
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Deontay Kyle
We on that Gullah, Gullah iced tea. Shout out to my Harrisburg. Harrisburg. My bad, son. We weren't trying to. Yeah, when you say Harrisburg was soft, son. We ain't say y'. All. We didn't say soft, son. We ain't say y' all was soft. No, no, no. But when we announced that Philly date, man, push up on us, man. Appreciate the love, bro. Appreciate your support, for sure. Appreciate you being a new cousin brother.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yes, yes, yes. Cribs and Eggs podcast. I'm at the job watching y' all right now. Ah, Big Ice Club Cat Shout out. I love the new Music Mondays and definitely Deontay Kyle, Complete and total fan. I am a fellow Jacksonville Duvalian at heart. Y' all will be coming through for the. For. For. For the live show, and I cannot come. I cannot make it because a fact jury duty the next day bright and early. I am really considering. Like, I live out of the area now. Like, I'm retired military, so I don't stay in Jacksonville no more, but I'm really considering driving home. I live in Melbourne, Florida, now. I'm considering driving home just for the show and driving back that night just so I could get back so I could go to jury duty the next day. But if I can't, just know. I am an avid follower on Instagram and all forums. I watch y' all all the time, over and over. I have even tuned my daughter into y'. All. So just wanted to give y' all a shout out. Just wanted to call, leave a message and say that I. Y' all so close but so far away. I'm hoping that I can still try to figure out how to make it to the do all show, but if not, I'm just gonna constantly be watching an avid supporter like, love y' all.
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Deontay Kyle
Duvall. Yeah, man. Shout out to Duvall. Man, we love you too, man. We love you too. You understand? Bro, you know what I'm saying? I, I, I, we. We get it, bro. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Goddamn jury dirty. Yeah, goddamn jury dirty on that day. And I'm taking it sold out. So. Yeah, so we're gonna catch it when we come down and got down. Where else can we go? We got Broward. Go Miami. You go Miami. We'll be in Miami for Art Basel. Hey, hey, no, Kizzy. Art Basel, baby. We're gonna have our own activation Art Basel. I'm calling it now. Hey, let's do it. I already done. I'll talk to the powers that be. Hey, let's get it. When I talk to when. I mean the powers of beaches. Some that I know some movers and shakers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know some out there. Not the whites. Yeah, the, the baby. The. That they give me the creative direction and production. Yeah, yeah. You know I'm saying executive producers and we get right, man. Put me on. I want my own. Yeah. I mean, called Joe Fresh Goods.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Oh,
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Deontay Kyle
all right, man. It's time. Let's do it. Big cat. Yo, it's time. What's time for. I think my boyfriend hates me. Oh, there we go. Big ice cup. Oh, brother. Yeah. Hi. I want to start by saying I love the pod. My name is Blank. I'm 20 year old from Chicago. Can you say Chi City? Hey, I'm coming home again. Coming home again. Do you think about me now and then? Do you think about me now and then? Cause I'm coming home again, Home again. Listen, I'm gonna tell you something, son. When we go to do the show in Chicago, don't bring me out to the Grits and Eggs. Bring me out. You want to go there? I'm gonna hear that. I'm gonna come out. I want to come out. Then we can run the Grits and eggs. I got you. But I want to walk up there. I gotta walk on stage that once in my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's only rec we can give or do. Can you say shot city? Can you say shot city? I might let a gun out in that. Oh, welcome to the rack. Yeah, yeah. Come out to. I'm coming home again. To let off a shot is nuts. All right. My name is blank. I'm 20 yard from Chicago. Me and my high school sweetheart got pregnant at the beginning of senior year. Had our daughter, who is 2, almost 3 now. Started off rocky, but ended up in a better place. We've been together for four years now, and I can feel his energy shifting He. He recently took a trip to HIV town, AKA Houston, for spring break. My God. God damn. I said it didn't bother me because ultimately I want to trust him, but he's done things before where it's hard not to question his loyalty. He also went with his cousin, who is a serial cheater, whom I hate, but the whole trip hasn't. The whole trip, he hasn't really been texting me back or calling me. I talked to him about it, and he said he would communicate with me, and he still didn't call or text, so I blocked him. And also for his versa birthday, we went to Vegas, and for my birthday, I went to Hawaii, which I've been saying for two years, oh, I want to go to Hawaii. And now he's trying to throw me alternative destinations. I didn't question where he wanted to go, but he's questioning me. They. This can't be love. Young love. Young God damn. Young love. I the Houston trip for spring break. Yeah. They're trying to change the destination.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yeah.
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Deontay Kyle
He might hate you. Ain't gonna say he hates you. I am gonna say y' all young. And he not being forthcoming about him still wanting to. Yeah, yeah. Want to roam the streets. Yeah. He went wrong. I would say this man ethically cheat back. Give me your cheap bag. Get your bag, son, if you want. If you're not ready to let him go. Yeah. At least get your lick back so you got something to talk. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying don't with his cousin. Don't with him. Also make sure that update that my chart. Yeah, yeah. Go up as soon as you get back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He should be back now. He should be back. Let's get that my chart updated. Yeah, let's go. Let's not this nigga stat. Yeah. Let's notice know also him not communicating why he OT is crazy. Yeah. If I think about any time that I've cheated, there was always a lack of communication. Yeah. Not trying to put no bad bugs in here, but you, you know, trust your energy, trust your judgment. You know, women's intuition is a real thing. Y' all be knowing. So trust what you know. And he's in Houston. And. And. And move accordingly, cuz. Going to Houston for spring break is very telling. Yeah, yeah. Spring break is for single people. It is. It's for single people. You go to. You go to mingle single. You ready to mingle. You know what I'm saying? You go to catch H. All right, Let that be the last emails. All my bad. Taught or truth. Hey cousins, it's your cousin Charlie. Like Charlie or as this black folks say, Charlie. Anyway, so out of nowhere I just became began feeling differently about religion, more specifically Christianity. I feel awkward right now because I grew up in the south missionary Baptist and right in my grandma's church. They was freemasons by the way. Story for another day now tell us that story. Hey, yeah, yeah. I don't know that. Anyway, what do I do now? What do you do when you're in the middle of not knowing what feels true anymore? Like how do you pray again? What do I study now? Yes, I believe in God. I just don't know what's after that. So I've been sitting in the middle stagnant almost love y' all keep shining, keep thriving and keep the behind you free collards best Charlie. Listen, listen Dr. Taylor Comics see what Dr. Taylor Cummings website is. She got the knowledge for you. She got the knowledge. She got the knowledge for you my boy. I'm gonna always advocate you can go to the self love doc.com that's T-H-E S E L F L-O-V-E-O C dot com. When you go you can go to the lab. There's a tab that says lab. Go to the go to the lab and see what she's doing. See what she's offering. You know she has a sister circle discover discussion, black scholars meet and greet. Then you want you just want to go see what all she's about. Then you want to go to the shop tab. Okay for 17 she will send you a PDF. It's called Decolonize your mind. These are essential resources for decolonizing your mind. This is where you're at. You're at the beginning of decolonizing that mind. Go spend that $17. If you ain't got $17, hit me up. I'll give you $20 on cash app so you can buy this. Those are the resources. That's where you need to be now that you now that you are undoing you need to be replacing. Yeah you're questioning. You need to start looking for the answers. She has the answers. I'mma advocate for this. I'm proud owner of the decolonize your mind PDF. It's a lot of it's a lot of resources and information in there that you need. So if you are listening the self love doc.com read through it, see what she's about. She's also been on the show twice and then go to shop. There's only one item in the shop and it's going to say, decolonize your mind. Go get that. And all the answers will be answered. Questions will be answered. All right, looking for some insight. It's long, but it's worth it, I think. Please don't say my name on air due to the nature of my work. Baby, we don't even do that. We only said Charlie because she said it three different ways. Yeah, what's up Deontay? Big ice cup cat. I'm not going to lie. I just started listening around Last year the Ali Sadiq interview popped up on my TL and I decided to watch and was hooked. Ever since 1985. Millennial, born and raised in South Memphis and I am ashamed to say I hadn't heard of him before then. And I went through all his stand up shows over the month following. I even started sharing the interview with all my friends, like, listen to this guy. My friends were like, oh yeah, Ali Sadiq, one of my favorite comedians. Clearly I've been living under a rock. I say all that to say thank you for introducing me to so many people. I probably would have never known otherwise. I have a doctorate degree, a doctoral degree in social work. I've always done the work that I do for people in the hoods. I grew. Okay, I've always done the work that I do for the people in the hoods like I grew up in. My final dissertation dissertations, Positionality statement was something I've lived through my whole educational and professional career. I do it for the kids in the hood because I'm a kid from the hood. Hey, hey,
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Big Ice Cupcat
who better to do it?
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Deontay Kyle
Hey, can't nobody do it like you.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yeah.
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Deontay Kyle
I have achieved a lot of success personally, educationally and career wise that so many people who know me are always inspired by my work drive, strength. However, housing seems to be issue for me at the moment. In 2024, I defended my dissertation on a Friday in April and on the following Monday I lost my job as a federal employee. Because I am a therapist, I had to go full time into private practice abruptly and prematurely. So it took some time to build my caseload. However, it wasn't enough to maintain my living expenses. By September of 2024, I had been evicted. I was homeless until February 2025, but because of the eviction on my record, I couldn't find housing aside from a private owner who happens to be shady as fuck. My lease ended with that place in February. I am again homeless because an incredibly difficult to find housing with an eviction on my Record I currently live in Macon, Georgia but I moved here from Warner Robins when I was evicted. I've always wanted to move to Maryland and because I'm singing no human children got two dogs, two cats. Oh, I think it's the best time for me to move. I thought Macon would be a good place to establish my business physically because it reminds me of home and because of the work we do with black women and girls who's been impacted by violence. I've now extend expanded from a solo to a group practice that operates in eight states. But I do not have any support network in making and you know, building community is important at this time. I'm also queer. I know Maryland is more expensive but it offers so many more opportunities. I hate to leave because cities like Making need the resources my work offers. But I've spent so much of my life giving to others and neglecting, fulfilling myself and moving to Baltimore. Moving to Baltimore would be something that would be good I believe would be good for me, my social life and honestly my dating life. Did I mention I am single black queer 40 year old woman with a house full of animals. It's getting bad. I need intervention but I'm struggling to find housing and making. I am nervous about finding housing in a place like Maryland. Having the eventual and the financial setbacks I had when I lost my job is continue to plague my life as an educated professional woman. I always think about how poverty is a trap and it feels like it's impossible to get out of which is what drives my work. Despite that I feel like I'm knocking on the door of that trap. That trap. I know this is super long but thank you for sticking with it. But my question is what is your thoughts? What would you do if you were in my situation? Take the jump and move to Maryland to make it work in Macon. I am single, no kids so I'm not tired of making it any place for that matter I'm open to suggestions except Texas or Florida. My friends tell me to consider Atlanta but Atlanta is not my vibe. I went up there to end last year for a birthday dinner entire party park in a parking garage while I came out to boots on our cars. My time had written out 10 minutes before I came out. We had to pay over 100 and wait hours for them to get to get them off. I told myself ATO would never see me again. I ain't made a deal. That is Atlanta. Yeah, parking is, you know, parking is a hustle, always a hustle. Could you put some fillers out there for a private owner who's willing to rent to me with pets. Two are certified registered service animals and one is 16 years old and go any day now. She couldn't even. She shouldn't even count. So technically I just have one regular cat. Other than that. Thank you for what you're doing. You keep me motivated. FYI, I stay tagging you on ignorance and things that our community should know. I am not a cousin yet, but the audio I heard of that person reading about us giving their last $8 when they were living in that car made me feel like I could give that too. So I will be signing up today. Thank you, cousin.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Hey.
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Deontay Kyle
Thank you again. This is a doctor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We won't. We won't put her stuff. She left us with a quote. When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the services of the service of my vision, the. Then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. By Audre Lorde so listen, man, I want to go back to this. So the self lovedoc.com she has a lab where she connects black scholars and black professionals, specifically black women. So I would suggest going and looking into Dr. Taylor. I know I plug her a lot, but she has so many fucking resources. She does so much good work, and we have built such a great friendship that if I don't feel like I have the answers, I know where you can go get the answer. Yeah. And that's the point of community. So if. If you can't get it from me, I know somebody you can get it from. She has. She also has a lot of experience in the D.C. area in the. In the DMV area. And she can point you, you know, and if you are a cousin and you live in the dmv or if you are a listener and you live in the DMV area and you have some resources for private ownership of people who will rent to somebody with animals. Please reach out, please. And an eviction. And an eviction. Please reach out. Please reach out. Please. Let's help. We. We help somebody get a car. She ain't even asking us for the pay for now. She's just looking for a resource. Yeah. Somebody can help her get housed. I think you should move to Maryland. You think so? I think making is great. I think making is very limiting. It is. And I think also Georgia is one of those places where like invitation homes and all these different places bought up everything. Yeah. So everything is corporate. I think you stand a better chance of some black professionals owning homes and renting them out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In Maryland. Yeah, you do. It's just real, you know what I'm saying? So I think the move to Maryland would be great. I think you should look into the lab on the self lovedoc.com and get with, get with Dr. Taylor and her infinite amount of resources of black women that's around her that are always willing to help. For sure. Those, those would be a great, that's a great space to say. I'm pretty sure a lot of those educated women live in dmv DC area because you know, a lot of them are in politics, A lot of them are, are just in tech and business. A lot of them are come from money. Yeah. It is what it is. You know what I'm saying? You might find you a spot. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Also, there ain't no discrimination. Well, you know, none of y' all rock with is discriminatory towards queer people. Yeah. Or animals for that matter. The only person that hates animals is me. But I think joining the self self love doc, getting, getting some of those labs, connecting with some like minded individuals, some people who are on your same career path, some people who may have resources for you in a place that you might not think of. What if there's a resource in you know, Seattle, Washington or Tacoma? What if there's a resource in Chicago? What if there's a resource and you know, I'm saying New Orleans or some like that, somewhere where you can go and start your practice and still impact the lives that you want to impact. So I would say join Dr. Taylor's lab, get with those, some of those resources. And if any of the cousins or any of the listeners would like to, you know, lend, lend some resources to help this young lady, the police, Police center, send me an email. You know, that's the fastest way to get to me directly. Deontay deontay khan.com. i don't check those emails, but my assistant will send me, she flags all the ones that she seems deems is important. And we got good, we got a good little working relationship. Also. I didn't say this but at the beginning but like and hype the video. Tristan, hold on. Tristan, cut this out. Like and hype the video, huh? If you in the chat right now and you watching this premiere, exit the chat, go to the video. Like it. Scroll to the right, scroll to the right. Hype it so we can get this into the algorithm. Yeah. It's up to you. We can't do it without you. That's Power of independence. We depend on you. You got all the power, all the chips. It's in your hand. So play them chips and we back. So, yeah, man. You know what I'm saying? Hey, hey. All I can do is point you in the right direction. I do think moving out of making is a good thing. Yeah. You know I'm saying. And I do think staying out of Atlanta is a great thing for sure. Yeah, man. We got enough niggas over here. Yeah. It's enough going on. You don't want to be here. You don't want to be here. They doing all this construction for the World Cup. It's going to be a fucking mess.
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Big Ice Cupcat
Yes.
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Deontay Kyle
You're making a great decision not moving here. Don't move here. Don't. All right, man. You know, that's been episode 134, man. I mean, God damn. We did it again. Hey, we here. Hey, man. You know what I'm saying? We did it again, baby. Again. Deontayantaykyle.com booking the inquiries adviceyontechyle.com if you would like to leave email for the advice segment. 657234 eggs 657-234-3447. If you'd like to leave a voicemail and if you like to call and talk to us directly. What they got to do, Big Cat, they gotta just go to that Patreon. $8. $8. She's signing up. And we also have a gift for that cousin. That cousin. That's. That cousin that's spending their last eight. Oh, yeah, yeah. I gotta cut. We got a cousin. I want to give you a year membership so you don't have to worry about coming out your park. Okay. So we're gonna hook that up too. Yeah, man. Deontaycolle.com for everything. Go there for everything, get everything. We got that grits, hats. They coming back. This colorway is not coming back. Once this color. Once these colors. That's out now, go away. They not coming back either. We retiring all the things, you know what I'm saying? If you don't get it while it's hot, you ain't gonna. We ain't gonna talk about it. No, not yet. A couple weeks. A couple weeks ago? Yeah. Not yet. Couple weeks. We're gonna let them know what's going on. All right, man. Well, man, Big Cat, how you feeling? I feel good, baby. Big Cat, you got anything for the people? New Music Mondays is not over. We will be streaming. We will be streaming. We'll streaming it. You know what? I'm saying we will be streaming it. We, we getting it. We, we, we, we trying to get the set up right. We also our, our, our, our, our, our, our, our. Crunch for time, right? Yeah, we are. You know what I'm saying? So we on tour, baby. We on tour. But thank you for all your support. We was going to go to the TI video shoot today. There's going to be a lot of out there and we don't feel like working. No, I don't feel like working. This is enough work. Yeah, A lot of pictures, a lot of goddamn. A lot of. A lot of handshakes, a lot of hus. There's been bugs going around. People get sick. I ain't trying to get sick. We got to show in a few days. Yeah, we do. I got to stay. I'm going to stay in my bubble. Yeah, I'm stay in my bubble so I can be my best when I'm in Birmingham. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? So I gotta be my best swimming Jacksonville. Yeah, man, when I could be my best swimming when I'm in Charlotte. Yeah. Me at my best when I'm in Nashville. And guess what? What? Autumn ho. Sold out. You know what I'm saying? It's just hip hop. It's just.
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Big Ice Cupcat
You know what I'm saying?
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Deontay Kyle
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