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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 nigga Norbit had to refuse them cause my bitch no rest fusion she gorgeous as I d my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead tell them we gon to get this money to my pocket more bit remember living in apartments now we playing mortgage you ain't got to 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 Gritson eggs podcast episode 136. Huh? I'm your host, Deontay Kyle. But who's behind the camera? Ladies love cool cat. Oh, yeah. Sold out cat. Big ice cup. Big ice cup. We are back, baby. Yeah, man. Golly. Where do we start? Deontay come up with this. That's a good place to start. Yes. Good. Deontayantaycom.com for all booking and inquiries. And you know, man, a lot of bookings, a lot of inquiries. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of bookings and inquiries. You know what I'm saying? You know, April, it ushers in spring. We spring it forward. I had something to say, but then I feel like I'm doing too much, so I'm not gonna say it. Advicedeontaykyle.com if you want to send in some advice submissions. Got a couple advice submissions, you know, later on in the show. Okay. Supportyontecyle.com if you have any issues on the website. If you have any issues purchasing merch. Yeah, you just hit support. Suki will get with you Now, Deontay Kyle.com is where everything is found. Yeah. Huh? Yeah. That's where the merch is. You can go get them grit tats. That's where those vinyls will be when they come out in a few weeks. Yeah. You know, if you want. If you want to subscribe to Big Cats only fans. Hey, deontay.com I'm just DJing naked. Jesus. Big ice cup. Yeah, man. Deontaycott.com is where everything is now. I would tell you that you could purchase a ticket on there. Oh. For the tour. But sold out. It's all sold out. Yeah, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yo, yo. We we so make some noise for that. Yeah. Every day. Shout out to everybody. We come and see Jacksonville this week. Birmingham. Birmingham. So much love in the building in Birmingham, man. Almost shed A tear, son. Yeah, that was beautiful. It was. We had. We had some folks that we've been. We grew up with coming together. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? It was love. Yeah, it was a lot of love. Yeah, man. You know, my wife and kids was in the building. Yeah, man. You know what I'm saying? I was helping. Granny would come, but Granny was on a cruise. Oh, yeah. Granny living her best life, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Granny. Granny was on a cruise. Yeah, man. But it's all good, man. It was a beautiful show. 10 out of 10. Reg Thomas again. Yeah, man. Showing up. Comedian Reg Thomas shows up and warms up the crowd every time. Yeah, he does great job. They tried to sabotage me, man. They tried to sabotage me, man. It was too many niggas in the spot. The Wi Fi crash. Many in the spot had to hook up to the hot spot. We got back right, though. We got right. I. It was a lot of human interaction for me. I woke up the next day feeling a little sick. I'm just not getting over it. But, you know, if you. If you hear me coughing a little bit and then just have no fear, little airborne. Little turmeric and ginger, I'll be. I'll be back better, and I'll be ready to roll. In Jacksonville, I was going to go get a goddamn. I was gonna get. Go get a ying on my. Go get a grill. Yeah, I wasn't feeling good. I was like, I'm not going to establishment. But, yeah, everything's been great. The tour so far has been amazing. So shout out to y', all, but shout out to everybody that bought the ticket. Shout out everybody who did meet and greet. Shout out everybody who bought a piece of merch. You know what I'm saying? And shout out to y' all just for showing up, you know, we telling you folk, we selling these shits out on weekdays. Yeah, Jacksonville showed out weekday Tuesday. Birmingham sold out Wednesday. Wednesday. You know what I'm saying? We're doing our thing, bro. It's been love. 657-234. Eggs at 657-234-3447. You know, we got a couple voicemails we're leaving today. We also are doing a stream immediately after this is recorded with the cousins. Hey, and you know you can use that number to call us, but the only way to be able to get in that stream is $8. You gotta get them $8, man. You know, Shout out to all the new cousins. Yeah, man. Shout out to the cousins that left us. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Take your eight and go where it's great. Go. Go up the goddamn Taco Bell. Yeah. Cantina Chicken quesadilla. Yeah, man, you're gonna be good to go. And then next month come back, they had to get rice, I had to pay rent. You know what I'm saying? I get it. Yeah. Times is hard, baby. Trump is bombing the. Out of everybody or at least attempting to the Iran is shut the straight of her moves down. And they're not playing with this. They ain't playing. Yeah, they released a lot of propaganda this week. Yeah. What do we call propaganda? They call Nipsey Hussle a martyr. Yeah. They got Tupac on the missile. Yeah. They fuck with niggas, obviously. Yeah, obviously. I think we good. Yeah, I think we all right. This is why I haven't been doing like week to week coverage. Yeah, I think I'm straight. Yeah. I think I'm all right. You know what I'm saying? Elon don't got no smoke with me, you know what I'm saying? So, Autumn, pedophile niggas. That's on y'. All. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So y' all figure that out. But other than that, man, beautiful week. I got my. You know, I'm rapping today. Hey. Because I. I was honored. Four, four day. I don't know, four, four day. By the city of Atlanta. Hey. You know what I'm saying? It was a beautiful thing. You know, they don't prepare you. Oh, I was with the mayor. Yeah, yeah, I seen him. The mayor is every goddamn where he outside that. He every goddamn where. I ain't gonna hold you, though. When I got on the stage, I was like, yeah, tell that nigga I'm running for him against him next time. Oh. So when I got on the stage, he was like, come. Come here. Yeah, he. Dre. That was Drake, Dre. He said, come here, Nick. He said, man, I love it, man. I watch the clips. You know, me and my family, we send each other clips. Yeah, I love it, man. I gotta come on that show. Oh. I said, pull up the mayor. Yeah. Let's do it in Four Seasons. Why not? Why not? Let's do it for the Penitentiary. Do it right there, son. Take a few steps back to go. You ain't got the answers, man. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answer. Sway, we not doing it in front of Penitentiary. It's right next to Four Seasons. It is right next to Bro Will see their future growing up, man. It's crazy. Yeah. Four seasons, like, damn. Third world over there. Yeah. Before he got over there. Before he got over there, he done fixed it up. Shout out to Mayor Andre Dickens, though, man. You know what I'm saying? You know, the thing is that they don't prepare you for what I was saying before. It's just like, how much they just going to give you? Oh, yeah, free. You know what I'm saying? Bottles. So, you know, I. I feel like strongly like, have changed their behavior ever since we became Tequila. I can see that when we was Henny, huh? The behavior was a little different, but it was bad. It was more Nick. It was. It was cultural. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It got real bougie since we started drinking tequila. Yeah, yeah. And so I was like, you know what? They was like, what kind of bottles you want? I said, man, bring me some Hennessy, man. Yeah. Got ignorant quick. I bet it did. We had a great time. I was having niggas do stupid ass toes. Like, everybody on three say that turtleneck. That's what the Henny would do to you, man. But that's what I'm saying. We was having a good time. Yeah. Yeah. Because before I wanted to leave because it was a lot of people and, you know, I wasn't feeling too good, so I felt it was irresponsible for me to be out. So I was like, doing niggas this. I'm sure niggas felt some type of way, but I was telling niggas, I don't really feel too good. So boom. Yeah. And then. Yeah, man, but when I. But when they honored. When they honored your boy, it was love out there, first of all. It was a lot of love. Yeah. So I was like, man, all right, this straight. We'll go back to the stations. I get a bottle or two, and then we'll got there and get up out of here. Then me and D went to Barcelona. That shit was lit. The chef knew who a nigga was. That's what I'm saying, bro. This shit getting different, son. Shit. Wow, son. Shit getting different. Yeah. We need security now, first of all, white girl, white girl waiting on the table. She come back, she said, I ain't want to say nothing. I really? With the chef? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She was like, you know what I'm saying? Me and she was like, the chef, we talk about your all the time. Yeah. I. Would you mind him coming out here? I was like, hell, yeah. Bring chef out meal. Yeah. Then to cut the steak. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So I'm trying. You know what I'm saying? Wag you mother. Yeah, but of course, he gave me, like, a little discount and shit, but he showed crazy love. But I was like, barcelona's my spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because there's a lot of light bites in that. Yeah, Light bites. Yeah, Light bites. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I order a lot of. Yeah, yeah. A lot of appetizers on the table. Yeah, yeah. That's all it is. You know what I'm saying? But, yeah, man, it was a beautiful week. I would say, you know, Jacksonville show, then I go to LA to film. Yeah, yeah. Let me just say that. The thespian, Beyonce. Hey, the thesbian. Yeah. I'm going to be on a feature now. I ain't gonna say feature film. That'd be bugging. I'll be doing the most if I said that. But I. I will be, you know, doing some things, but I can't tell y' all exactly what. But y' all know it when y' all see it. So. Yeah, that's it. And then I get on the Internet, and I'm. I'm a rare occurrence. What the Is that? We back. I thought. I thought we wasn't safe. Yeah, thought we wasn't safe. End of this podcast, y' all said 250. We say 136. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Either way, I get on the Internet, and I rarely watch. I typically watch, like, Joe Budden podcast clips when I see his Imona or Martin Lamont Hill speak. Okay. So it's like, I don't. You know, B Dot is not such a great addition. I respect some of B Dot's takes, but a lot of times it'd just be like, all right, B Dot. Like, every time he do his list, I'm like, all right, B Dot. So. But they was having this discussion about Jay Z and Kanye west in A versus who? Okay. And off the top, I'm thinking, like. I mean, music, like, song for song, rapping is Jay Z. Right. And they was like, well, hold on. Because if it's kind. If they gonna do the verses and versus stuff, you gotta include Kanye's production. You gotta pack that up. Pack that up. You can pack it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause he can come out, play Izzo. Yep. He'd come out and play J songs against him. He could. He go izzo, then go Otis. He could then play Lucifer. Hey, it's over with. It's over. Yeah, it's done. You know what I'm saying? I was like. Then I got to thinking, like, including production, because you remember when the verses started, it was songwriters just going through they songs. Yeah. So it's basically anything you basically got a credit on, you can do, you can use. Yeah, cuz, you know, Jada Kiss, he was using mixtape songs. He was doing all. Yeah, yeah. Including production. Can anybody beat Kanye in a versus? I don't think so. I don't think so. That nigga's a Created player. The 899 overall cross boards, the sliders. Yeah. Up green. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Green, Green. It's green every time. I'm like, cuz, if you just think about it, like, he could go just to get by. He was in his bag. He was in his bag, yo. That the early 2000 Kanye production was crazy. And it's bag boy that. I wish I could give you the spilling. I wish I could give you the spilling. The corner doing spoken word. Yeah. You listen. Backpack Kanye. Backpack Kanye. Like Louis Vuitton backpack. Kanye was crazy. He's different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think anybody can be. No, no, no. If we. Including production, because then he could just back out. Power on you. I'm just telling then. Can't tell me nothing. Hey, listen. It's over, son. Damn. Damn. You're the only power. You the only power. All the lights. That nigga's a musical genius, boy. I ain't gonna lie. He's a fucking nutjob. Yeah. And I think that's what you get. That's what you get. Yeah, I think for. And I hate for it to be this way, but it just tracks. If a nigga is that much of a genius, they're gonna have a little darkness to them. Yeah. They gonna say stupid shit. You know what I'm saying? Like, you can't ask this the nigga who makes the best beats on earth about politics. Yeah. It just don't. Just don't line up, you know, it's not. Yeah, that's not. The extremes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, those are the extremes you work. Yeah. I was talking to somebody, and they was basically saying, like, you know, I don't think they was trying to. Oh, they. I feel like they was trying to excuse it a little bit, but I think they were just trying to rationalize his behavior as he's the type of person that likes to go after where he perceives as bullies. And so that was, like, the explanation for the maga Thing is that he felt like people was bullying Maga, so he just joined. I'm like, I don't know about that. Yeah. I can't see that. I know that now. Like, that I feel like Maga is America's bully. You talking about. Yeah, but, you know, whatever. But as a versus goes. As far as the versus goes, I don't think nobody can with them. No, no, no, no. And then that's another thing, too. Is like, Wayne is another one like. You got me. If. If we just drop mixtapes, I don't know if nobody rapping wise. If it's just rapping, you might have, like, a long day with Lil Wayne on the mixtapes. Yeah. Cause Lil Wayne got them. He. Again, he. He might play one of your shits. He might play your. And then rap. Rap better than you want to on your shit. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. But, you know, the thing with Kanye is, like, when it come to production. And then that's another thing too. If it's just production. He got so many goddamn songs he can pull from. From every goddamn body. Like, he can go down and out. Kanye, I mean, Cameron, he go down and out. It's over. They got them beat drop, baby. They got down beat. Crazy. Nah, I ain't gonna lie. We gotta give. I ain't we. Maybe not flowers. Yeah. But something. You gotta get a something. You gotta give him something. Yeah. It was on a crazy, nice, crazy run. He's insane with it. When he came out, he was on a tear. Yeah. I think he kept up until. After me, my beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy, things started getting weird. Yeah, it got a little weird. Yeah. Once Life of Pablo dropped, I was like. I mean, 808 and heartbreaks was good. And. No, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm just. I'm just going through the. No. Jesus was hard, too. Jesus was hard. But that's where it started. It started. That's where he started getting experimental. Yeah. And then I would say Life of Pablo is when it just was like, all right. Yeah, all right. My. Yeah. All right. So you know you marry a Kardashian. Yeah. I was just watching a Lamar Odin documentary, man. It's something about them Kardashians, bro. They get you every time they get you every time they get you. Any. First of all, talk about Lamar Odom real quick being just a hell of a. Probably one of the most talented NBA players of all time. This thing was doing cocaine, coke, and dropping triple doubles because high as A high as a. Yeah, you can't teach that. It's God given. Heaven sent with this. That's heaven sent. Even you. You know what I'm saying? So a couple of interesting things happened this week, though. Over the last two weeks, there's been an effort to roll out the black capitalists to try to convince us that capitalism is the way. Yeah, it started with Jay Z, which I don't put too much into the Jay Z shit because I know that that kid wasn't asking him the questions he wanted to ask. Jay was like, this is what you're going to ask me. This is what I'm gonna answer. And like, for some reason, they trying to turn capitalists into a slur. And then they want to say, oh, well, we're all capitalists. And it's like, all right. And then they roll out John Hope Bryan on the Breakfast Club, and he says, we all need to be. We need to fall in love with capitalism, and we need to. Instead of complaining about it, we need to dominate it. It's like, brother, y' all niggas make it sound so easy, you know, oh, I'm in all these different rooms and I'm the only black person there's. Well, Well, my brother John, middle name Hope, last name Brian. I don't know what the fuck you thought. You was convinced enough. Here's the thing. There has. There has to have been a collective understanding that black people are against capitalism, and that that's moving the needle somewhere. It is. It's definitely moving the needle somewhere. Especially the way that they running this country. And this unfettered capitalism is what lends to the war machine, is what lends to the idea of what they gonna make. Now that same capitalism is gonna cause the price of oil to skyrocket because they profit from war. Now, in a better, more decent society, nobody would profit from war. It'll be a total sum loss, but somebody can win. And the true nature of serial capitalism and the capitalism that people speak out against is the exploitive nature of it. Right now Jay Z will say, I never exploited anybody. Well, I came into this hundred grand strong. Nine to be exact, from grinding G packs. Okay, well, well. So you was exploiting the out your neighborhood. I mean, God damn, you damn near came to game a million off drug money. You are a capitalist. Yeah. Then John Hope Bryant says, what is a gang leader if he's not just a disgruntled union member? Y' all can't fool us with these bullshits no more, okay? Then he says, oh, Well, a drug dealer is just an entrepreneur. I tell you what, you right. The most successful the black community has ever been at capitalism was selling crack. That is pure capitalism. That is capitalism 101 exploit for maximum profit, then we get a Jay Z out of that. But I'm gonna tell you what, I'm gonna tell you what. We didn't get multiple jay Z's because 99.9% of niggas are gonna die or go to jail in that trade. Now John o' Brien wants to make it seem like, oh, we just need to, we need, we need to stop complaining about it. And, and we just need to get better at the game. Okay, well, where, where. What do you tell a kid that his mama working two jobs and they still poor? What is she supposed to do? And what is he supposed to do? They just make this seem like it's so. Like they trying to Tony Robertson. Like, it's so easy, guys. It's so easy. All you gotta do is raise $1 million, start a business. Do that 10 times. Now you're, now you have $10 million. Like, bruh, that is not life, bro. If it was so easy to be successful in capitalism, if it was so in favor of everybody else, 99% of the country wouldn't be fucking struggling. We wouldn't even have top. We wouldn't even have conversations about the 1%. We wouldn't be telling you to tax the billionaires. We wouldn't be saying eat the rich if it was so fucking easy. And then these niggas that are the exceptions, because every rule has the exception. Jay Z is an exception. John Hope Bryant is the exception. You wanna know how I know you niggas are an exception? I know your names. Specifically. I should know every successful multi millionaire, multi billionaire black person. But I do at that level. Cause it ain't enough of them for you for to colleagues to say, these people are psychopaths. The top 1% always want to make you say, like, it's not rational to think that we are. How do we dictate our society off 1% outcomes? You wouldn't do that nowhere else. You wouldn't do that shit nowhere else. If I, if I gave you. If I brought out. Let's just say, let's just say I brought out a meal and I say, man, it's one of the most delicious meals in the world. 99% of the people who eat it die, though. Damn. But you could be that 1%. Would you still eat it? No, Nobody would. Nigga, stop the bullshit. Okay, we not on board with it. I'm gonna tell you. I'm gonna tell you about capitalism and I'm gonna tell you how it started in America. Cause the original gold standard was the black body. Yeah. And that's the capitalism. Capitalists dream of a complete for profit system where you can sell and trade bodies for free. You don't pay for no labor, you don't pay for no product. And it's a pure profit system. If you don't have to pay for labor or materials, nigga, it's a pure profit system. Cotton grow out the ground. Rice grow out the ground. Sugar cane grow out the ground. And these PO niggas that watch them, they get paid in power. They don't even want no money or education. You feed them niggas liquor and power and they'll be fine. Did that for generations. Hash marks on the ledger. That's what niggas used to be. John. John Hope Bryant. Since we gonna be so goddamn successful at capitalism, this is when. This is when capitalism was at its best. When we was just hash marked on a ledger used for labor trade and sexual gratification. This is. This is capitalism. 100% pure profit system that exploits others for its own gain. That's what you want us to participate in because you were successful at it. I'm going to tell you how I know. When you tell me a lot of these rooms I'm in, I'm an only black person that tell me everything I need to know. I want more of us in them. I don't want to be in there with the whites. When this system that started with our bodies, the system, they started off our bodies, nigga. And you want me to participate? Not only that, you want me to be one of the few in the room with these crackers. You eat a dick. Go save that shit for hopeless niggas. Go save that shit for niggas that have hope in this system. Still. I don't got no hope in this system, nigga. I'm not putting no hope in this shit. You can see it, the ground crumbling. That's why they want to trot these niggas out. So y' all can keep consuming, so y' all can keep believing. Now all you gotta do is grind a little harder, huh? 10 exit. They always making it seem like it's just so. Oh, all you gotta do. Trust me, guys, all you gotta. Look, you got a bunch of shit in your house you can sell. Just sell all your shit. Sell all your belongings. Invest in a business. What business? Any Business. I was just. You need to invest your money. Where? Everywhere. How, Sway? Take a few steps back to go, you ain't got the answers, man. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answers, Sway. I don't believe you niggas. And I also don't think y' all can just make up shit. Like, yeah, they try to use capitalists as a slur. It should be a slur. You niggas lifestyle is a slur. Nigga sold out the whole Brooklyn for the Barclays Center. That he did. Come on, son. You exploit people. That's what you have to do to be successful. You can't tell me otherwise because that's all he has ever done. Okay, look, here's a perfect example. Kanye, he was like, oh, I wanna make the Yeezys, the Yeezy runners. I want to make them like $40. Because they probably only cost. Given the material they make, it probably cost less than $5 to make. Where are they being made at? You think it's ethic? You think it's ethical? You think you, like, like, like even, you know, we're all participating in it one way or the other. But the truth of the matter is, like, capitalism isn't ethical, bruh. There's no ethical billionaires like that. That. That is not a thing, bro. And like, the thing is, it's like, even I seen them talking about this again, Joe Button podcast. It's like, dumbass. They got dumbass niggas up there. Well, they worked hard for it, brother. Ain't that bruh who works harder than a brick mason? Who works harder than these Mexicans that build up a whole fucking neighborhood in two weeks? These nigga work hard as a bitch. Who working harder? Who was working harder than the slaves in the field? And then they tried to say with Jay Z, oh, well, you could call that exploiting your neighborhood or some could call it survival. They was working in the fields for free and it was about their survival. Did they benefit from it? Who was working harder than a slave who sun up and sun down, back breaking work. On top of that, being ridiculed, demeaned, raped, traded at will. Who was working harder than them? Did they benefit from it? Ain't got shit to do with working hard. Hey, man, I'm telling you, it's gonna be a line drawn when it come to this shit, this money, this capitalist shit, Nigga gonna start drawing a line with that shit. Because I'm telling you, bro, a lot of these niggas is paperwork gangsters, and that's. That's the place that they exploit. We know. You know, it's a lot of billionaires in the music industry and what they do exploit in them contracts, you know? I mean, speaking of contracts, I mean, God damn. Yeah, man. Shisty up, baby. Put them on. And they're living up for his name. I don't even speak on them. Take all my equipment. Come, come take the mic. Come take the broadcast. Take all my. Take everything. Yeah, I'm straight, man. If I'd have seen four looking like that on the security cam. I went into underground bunkers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Panic room. Yeah, I'd have hit that button. Yeah, man. Yeah. So I guess it has been confirmed that that Pooh Shiesty, his dad, and two other people kidnapped Richard Davis, AKA Gucci, man. Yeah. And forced him to sign them out of the contract. I mean, I understand the sentiment, but that is not how you go get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're just not gonna get it done like that, man. You're just not gonna get it done like 1940s, though. It's not mobsters. The funny thing to me is it ain't that much getting away in the world. You're never gonna get away. No, you don't get away that much. You don't get away. Oh, you don't get away that much. That brother is gonna go to prison. Yeah, he's going for the rest of his life. And his dad. How you get your dad involved in it? I mean, his dad got himself involved. Yeah, that's his dad. Yeah, he got himself involved. It's probably his idea. It probably was that idea, man. Let's go. Take this. Yeah, yeah. We did it back in the day. 75. I rob that, son. Hey, man, back in 82, man. Same situation, man. I just tied up. Yeah, man. Made him sign me out. Yeah, man. I don't see why that won't work. Yeah, they pissed it with him. We can't do it in Atlanta. Anything in Dallas. Yeah, you do Dallas. Can't do it home. Yeah. That was crazy, you know, I mean, grand opening, grand closing. Great, great first day out song. Yeah. Yeah. Won't hear another one. Nope. There never been the first day out by him. It's not funny, man. People see this, and I seen them on my ring camera. Yeah. I ain't got nothing for you, bro. I ain't got nothing. I got nothing for you, bro. All I got is this jersey. That's it. And it's a war, bro. Wiggy You, Trish, Big Ice Cup. I need some videos edited. That's all we got for you. We got. Need some videos edited, man. You be all right, man. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy. I just want everybody to, like, focus in on this part, though, like, of what I said earlier. The original gold standard in America was your black body. And every day, you know, we just had the interview with Talia Wajid, and, like, what a beautiful interview. Beautiful woman. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Great brand. And her career and journey has been about, like, reshaping your identity and reshaping your perspective on your hair and your beauty. That's such a beautiful plight. And she's been extremely successful at it, and her whole career has been about natural hair. And, you know, we went to the World Natural Hair Beauty show, and I just. I think that we have to really, like, get to the point where it is that deep. We always have to remember where this thing started, because look where it's going. It's going into hell. These Iranians is not playing with these niggas. No. And also, like, we shouldn't play with them neither. These niggas are pedophiles. I'm like, we can't keep overlooking that. They just dropped another thing today and showed the Ledger. Shit. That nigga Trump was on Epstein alley 40 times, bro. That's a lot of goddamn visits to one Island. Yeah, 40 times. He was a serial pedophile. You're a shipper. Yeah. At that point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You in the export part of it. No. You a sex tribe. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, everything on the right is a projection at this point. They don't like trans people. They don't like drag people. They don't like gay people. And Brian Noem out here with the triple H's, Nipples going all. No straight ahead nipples for him. Shot a. Like that. He a yo. Shaking them titties in the bed. Bounce that asshole. Shake them titties. Shout out to saucy. Shout out saucy. Man, we putting a lot of cream in the streets. I mean, Brian Knowles got some big ass. Yeah. Big ten, great New York bibs. The milk's gone bad. I mean, it's crazy, son. Imagine, like, the thing is, is that, like I said, we was used for labor trade and sexual gratification. They still use people for these same things. Labor trade, sexual gratification. Brian, I'm in the room getting freaky as hell. When Christy leave. Christy go out to a press conference. No gays, no trans, no Drag queens. Reading books to our children in school. We hate them. If you cross dress, you should be going to hell. And at home, brown at the bitch. Everything she named is at the house. In the crib. She's sleeping next to them. Yeah. Infiltrated. They got her. They got us, son. We putting a lot of cream in the streets. Kristi Noemi, you know what? You get the guillotine. It's over with. Yeah, because your husband. Your husband out here are freaked out. It's a freaky frog. Yeah, he's freaky. Yeah. That didn't go. He went. Irregular boobs. Yeah. Big boobs. He's a bimbo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's the thing you gotta understand, like, how this thing started. If black bodies are the original gold standard. And then the only reason they took the money off the gold standard, once they got rid of us, then they had to find resources. This is what the Gold Rush is all about. Like, they abolish these slaves, we gotta find another. We gotta find another thing to legitimize this money. When they took us out the garden standard again. Then we go to the petrol dollar, which is why world trade was done through US Currency, because it became the currency for exchange oil. So here's the thing, nigga. If we get into this point where he's gonna fuck around and do is fuck up the petrodollar. And then if you can start buying oil in any currency, well, that's over with, that's done. I ain't tripping. I don't even like, I, like. Here's the thing. I agree with Amy Sherrill. Amy Sherrill said on 60 Minutes that nobody is more patriotic than a black American. And I agree. Because we, we are the reason that there is an America. There is no America without black people. Without our labor, without the trade of our men, women and children. Without us being the original gold standard for America, there is no America. And you know, it's our birthright to literally have a stake in this game. And I understand that. That's what John Hope Bryant thinks he's saying. But we need a system that's for us. That's why I, like, I ain't been. Like I said, I ain't been doing play by play. That's America's problem. Nigga, I resigned from America. Huh? Huh? The America that I got in mind ain't got nothing to do with this shit they doing right now. So while while this is a very confusing. This is the WEB Du Bois double consciousness that niggas talking about this is a very confusing state to be in, because while you don't give a fuck about America, whether it burns or not, and it will, it's literally the only course that it could take because it's done too much evil. But I understand the care for it, because, shit, bro, there's so much blood that they misacrifice to get here. But even all the blood we sacrifice, this nigga's still trying to shit on us at every turn. So at some point, we're gonna have to take our hands off. We're gonna wash our hands with this shit and leave them people to their own devices. Now, I'll speak on this again after a couple weeks, but I can't give y' all the sauce of the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't give away too much sauce from the show. But, you know, you intrigue. You ain't. You ain't for a treat when we want to talk about resigning from America. That's what the whole First First Cousins tour is about. But, you know, everything can't be said in mixed company. So, you know, I just think it's interesting now, you know, you start to see a lot more people getting hip to, like this whole thing with Theo Vaughn. Theo Vaughn had President Trump on his podcast. He had JD Vance on his podcast. Now, somewhere along the line, Dio Vaughan either did a mushroom trip like he. I think he said he offers antidepressants. Maybe the money ran out, and now he kind of hit like, damn, yo, this government is fucked up. And he on there talking to Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan. Kind of like Joe Rogan bought him paid for, baby. Yeah, if you listen to that. I mean, it's been. He been bought and paid for. Autumn was at the Trump inauguration. You, bro, ain't no coming back from that. Give a how woke you is. Now it's too late. You do that. That impress white people, bro. But I' ma tell you, you with all your influence is what helped create this situation. It's too late to renege. Nah, bro. You gotta go down with your ship. You gotta go down with ship. I don't want to hear this revelation. I told you. I told you. It's already have what I told you Surviving maga. The documentary is coming. Ain't nobody stupid. Nope. Y' all all gonna try to turn coat and act like y' all ain't had nothing to do with this shit. Theo Vaughn had J.D. vince and Donald Trump on his shit. You was at the niggas inauguration. I don't Give a fuck about none of this shit. I don't give a fuck about none of this. I don't give a fuck about this performative sadness that's on your face. Oh, you think we're gonna be okay in this country? No, you not. Nigga's gonna be just fine. Y'. All. Y' all got it. This is what y' all wanted. I hate when people get what they want and they ain't happy with it. That's what you wanted. You thought they was gonna bring slavery back. That's what he thought. That's really, really what it come down to. They thought. They thought, man, we get Trump in there, man, be able to spit on a. We'll get whites only again. And me, personally, I wish I would put whites only on the. Damn sure I would. I would love nothing more than to not give you my money. Yep. It's a different day, bro. I understand what our ancestors fought for, and I. I understand the good nature of those people and what they was fighting for. Because I can't imagine living in a Jim Crow south. And I don't wanna imagine it, and I don't wanna experience it. But also, I would say this to my people. If you going somewhere and you feeling profile, if you walking out of place and they try to accuse you of stealing, take that shit back. Don't give these folks your money. You don't have to validate your existence nowhere. If a nigga don't want your money, fuck em. Go somewhere where that money will be accepted. And all you MAGA niggas that wanna. Bruh, listen, you can't get out no gang. I ain't never heard of that. Blood in, blood out. It's blood in, blood out. Listen, man, y' all like to move around the country like a gang. Y' all need to see a front row of the inauguration. I couldn't see nothing but teeth. Hmm. See nothing but teeth. Yeah. Mullets, skinheads and teeth. Yep. Smiling, happy as a motherfucker. They thought they was gonna bring colors. Only sections back. They thought they was gonna sit in the front of the bus. Well, welcome to the back, nigga. We back. Welcome to the back, baby. Cause guess what? And this seat's taken. Can't sit next to me. Cause y' all getting what y' all wanted, bro. You get what you paid for, bruh. You getting what you paid for, bruh. And this surviving MAGA shit that's on the pipeline that they trying to push artists. Oh, man, I got Trick. Oh, I got. Dude, I don't want to hear that. Go to Argentina. That's where you go. That's where you go. We gonna be all right, man. We always all right. Shit, bro. Listen, bro. What extremes haven't we survived in this country? You gotta remind yourself of that. We were literally the gold standard in this country. Hash marks on a ledger used for labor trade and sexual gratification. So the fact that a Jay Z and a John Hope Bryant even exists, it shows you how far we done come. Now the fact that Jay Z and John Hope Bryant trying to get us to be like them, that's why we gotta start drawing lines. Cause I ain't trying to be no cracker. I'm cool. And I'm not saying having the money inherently makes you a cracker. But the exploitation of others for your own gains and riches, that's not a vibe. It's not a vibe. And I get it. You want to maximize everything in life. Don't got to be maximum maximized for profit. This is the problem in our society. Ain't even got hobbies no more. Don't do nothing for fun. You just read a book. Look, man, it's just. It's this. It's this like two, three hour sound on YouTube. You play that, it's a sound for a reason. I like to play that. Sit on the couch, just do a little reading. Put the phone up. Throw that bitch over there across the road. I don't wanna check. I don't wanna hear no notifications. And just let time flow. We done got away from it, man. We don't know how to sit with time no more, bro. And I think that the bigger thing is that it's like we're addicted. We're addicted to the stimulation as a mass, As a community, as a people. Yeah. As a nation. Just addicted, man. And you just can't. It's gonna be very hard to undo. Addiction is very hard to deal with. But I think that we need to think about our community and all of the extremes that we live through and all the extremes we've been through. I've spoken on the living in the effects, but I want to talk about the extremes that exist in our community. I think oftentimes in our community, you know, like, okay, for example, 404 day. Now what's everybody gonna want to talk about? The shooting. The shooting. They not gonna talk about all these black people that organized all of these events and had beautiful times. Every four or four day event I went to was amazing. I also remembered that I was in Atlanta at some Point. It's time to go home, baby. You gotta go home. You gotta go home. Because the shooting is not the crux of the situation. We talking about a whole week of events that have been nothing but overwhelmingly positive. We have a whole week of events that have been organized, arranged, and executed by black people. And y' all just want to talk about what's shooting. I'm not going for that. Because that's what happens in our community is that we focus on the negative extremes and not the positive ones. We like to talk about our suffering. Other people like to talk about our suffering. Other people like to talk about our ignorance, but they don't want to talk about our invention. They don't want to talk about our ingenuity. They don't want to talk about our innovation. They don't want to talk about our will and survive. Regardless, all the extremes you put niggas through, and niggas still survive and thrive. In your face, you abolish slavery, Right? Slavery was abolished. And then all these successful black towns start popping up. Y' all had to destroy that, like, literally. Literally. You don't know what to do if you're not bothering us. And this is where. This is why my understanding of white people is that white people are parasites, bruh. But we'll save that for the show. Yeah, Big cat, what's going on, baby? Hey, man, we're coming off tour. Yeah. Sold out. Yeah, we rocking. We're giving the people what they want, man. They're enjoying the experience too, man. Yeah, they love it. And you know how we always rock, man. It's always quality over quantity. Any day of the week, Rave reviews. Yeah, man. I feel like they're. They're. They're enjoying. They're meeting new people when they come to these shows. They're meeting, like minded people. They're educators. I mean, educators. They're meeting people in their profession. I think this is a good chance for them to network. It's been a good vibe, man. I'm enjoying it, man. I'm loving it. Yeah, man. I think the thing is, like, this is what goes back to the extremes, right? The extremes of our intelligence versus our ignorance. We have some of the smartest fucking people coming to our shows. Yes. Some of the most decorated scholars, some of the people that have survived hella things and still came out on top entrepreneurs. And, you know, of course, the sorors and frat bros pull up. All the bros. They pull up, the bruhs, they pulls. But I think it just showcases, like, the vast beauty of Our community. And community is like such a powerful thing and it's a beautiful thing. And that's where our focus needs to be right now. Yep. You know, let America deal with its international problems that it started. We're gonna deal with. We're gonna deal with the micro, we're gonna deal in the local. We're gonna get to know our neighbors and we're gonna build our communities and we're gonna focus on ourselves. Now here's the thing about that, okay? We know we gotta learn from our past mistakes. Instead of complaining about the past, learn from it. Okay. Always like to say, well, we. Every time we build something that they try to destroy, well, sound like. Sound like we need to start working on the fence. Yeah. Huh? Start working on some defense. Cause a lot of stories of people defending their homes that they don't tell you about. A lot of white folks, a lot of clan members died fucking with niggas. They just don't tell you about that. And when they couldn't go through and ravish it personally, they used the government. They use extremes, like eminent domain, shit like that. You know what I'm saying? So I think the thing is that we've always existed in. We've always existed in extremes in this country. Yes, we have. And I think that it's, you know, we need to balance it out. We can't focus so much on the negative extremes while ignoring the positive ones. And we need to stay somewhere in the middle. We need to stay somewhere in the middle and we need to let our children understand that there's one side of that coin they gonna fall on. Because things they do like to make things, one thing or another with us. That's how you control, you know what I'm saying? You keep it control. Because without nuance, context, then it's all propaganda. If you don't add the context and the nuance to a situation, then you just pushing the propaganda. Right? And so we understand the beauty of our community. We understand the things that we have accomplished in this country. And the only person that has to understand it is us. Them. They over there creating problems for themselves and they want us to bail us out. Bail them out. Not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. So the more that they focus on themselves and they problems that they created and stop trying to call on us for it, we gotta hone in on not only issues in our community, but the things we can fix. We can't fix our attitudes with one another. We can't fix how we communicate with one another. We can learn to go out of work for one another. It's a beautiful thing, bro. We can do this. But I think. Just remember, bro, Just remember where we came from in this country, bro. Like, it can't be overlooked, and we have to also imagine a better future for ourselves in this country. But I'll get into more of that during the live show, man. Bro, it's been a tight week. It's been a tight one. It's a quick turnaround. Quick turnaround. Go to Jacksonville this week. Yeah. Let's see, then. We got that Charlotte show. Yep. Man, these things hitting back to back, bro. Back to back. So they hitting back to back. They're just getting this ready. This is. This is just a sparring session. Yes. This is just training. Yeah, yeah. This is orientation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna get nasty. It's gonna get ugly. Yeah, we're gonna get outside. Yeah, we outside. We better be outside. Hold on one second, y'. All. I'll be right back. We back. All right, man. We going to get into these emails and these voicemails in a minute. I just want to talk about something real quick. I've been getting a lot of. I've seen a tremendous amount of success in the last year since I. It's. It's. It's just at a year. It's just over a year since I quit my job and decided to pursue this full time. And it's been. It's just been an amazing journey, bro. Like, me and Big Cat are extremely grateful. I'm not even gonna speak for you. I'll let you say your piece in a minute. But I would just want to say, like, I'm extremely grateful. I want to say thank you to everybody who watches, everyone who listens, everybody who is a part of the Patreon, anybody who's bought a piece of merch, a ticket, anything, and supported us. To be honored by the city is a beautiful thing. To be honored in all of these different spaces that I've been honored in, you know, with the root was amazing. You know, we just got featured in Ebony magazine. Yes. Yeah, man. It's been an amazing journey. Sometimes it's hard to stop and just bask in it. You know what I mean? Because you just. On the go, on the go, on the go. And, you know, we just in a building process of, like, not only consistent growth, but just impact. And I think that's the thing that I think about the most, is the community and the impact that we having. It's easy. We can get up here and just talk bullshit. Every week we can get up here and laugh and joke and not have nothing much to say. But I always want to focus on saying something that we could take back, you know, saying something that you can share with your people. I think one of the most beautiful compliments that I get is that people will say, man, my mom told me to start listening to you, and I've been locked in ever since. Or my dad or, you know, or an adult, like a parent will come up and be like, man, my son or my daughter shared this with me and we've been locked in. Or couples will come and they say, man, we watch this together every week. You know, this is strengthening our bond and our relationship, you know, and the fact that we are in people's homes. Yeah. And people's hearts. You know what I mean? I think that's been the most important thing for me. It's the most gratifying part of it all. But it's been. It's been a tremendous year. And I want to just get to the point where I, like, really, really and truly believe this is just the beginning. Baby. It's just getting started. Big cat on his journey. He a DJ now. Yeah. But, you know, I think one of the things that you have to deal with on your way is that, you know, when you start seeing success, people will change on you. People will turn their back on you. People will say, oh, well, this podcast I got too big now. I don't want to listen no more. But I don't want to focus on the numbers as much as I want to focus on the impact. Because when you see people in the comments saying, I needed this, you know what I'm saying, Or podcast changed my life. When you see young brothers, young sisters coming up or leaving comments or DMing me or emailing me saying I got into the trade because of y', all, man, it's just. It's unbelievable, bruh. You know what I'm saying? I did have that delusion mindset of, I know this is gonna be big, you know what I mean? Because I had already seen what impact I was having on social media in just two three minute clips. But to be able to start it out from a 20 to 30 minute podcast to, you know, at one point, we were just trying to get that hour. Yeah, just trying to get that hour. Yeah, man. So now it's, you know, 90 to a two hour show depending on, you know, how long, how many topics I got and what we doing. You know, it's just been a beautiful thing. And it's been, you know, we formulated a very strong team. We've taken advantage of all opportunities. I don't shy away from going on other podcasts. I think that's important. I think when I watch the other side of the podcast game, the comedy podcast game, and how they came to prominence is because they were sharing their spaces with each other. And I think it's very important to share your space, especially in these spots like this. It's important for other podcasts to collaborate. It's important for creators to collaborate and the fans of these shows and the followers and the listeners and you know, the day one people, they love to see you when you collaborate with others. And I think collaboration is a very important thing. But I think more than anything to my success thus far, I'm just extremely grateful and, you know, I want to have another strong year, you know what I'm saying? I would say this is year one, you know what I'm saying? Because building it up, it took a good year and a half on the visual side of it. And then like I said a year ago, I was able to quit my job. So this is just year one of me doing it full time. And it was an amazing year. It was a come up for sure. But I would hope this year, Cement, cement Stamped, stamped Ain't going nowhere. Yeah, man. How you been feeling, big head? I've been feeling great, man. Got a lot of love in Birmingham, man. Got some. Gave my flowers in Birmingham a little bit, man. Stan gave me my flowers. Another dude who we didn't know was in the crowd gave my flowers. You gave me my flowers. We was taking the pictures, man. This young brother with the dreads came in, remember he had like a blue suit on, short set. He was like, bro. He shook my head. He said, bro, I like what you're doing. I like how you becoming more vocal, you speaking more. You're coming out your shell. He was like, bro, your time coming, bro. And I was like, oh, man. I was like, thank you. It is, yeah. I was like, thank you, man. And you, I mean, you keep up with the DJing, man. I mean, that's a whole lane right there. It is. It is a lane, bro. You might be the DJ for four or four day next year. I might. You know what I'm saying? I might, you know, ice cub cat440. I'm only doing a 25 and up crowd, quiet start. Yeah, yeah. R b, r b 4. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man. You know, I'm proud, bro. But more than Anything, you know, I'm pre. I appreciate you. Hey, man. I appreciate you, man. You know, I think one of the things that dude said, he was like, you know, sometimes people don't know how to be like that number two guy. You know what I mean? And it's like we always talk about these duos, these Kobe's and Shaqs and Jordan, Scotty and shit. That how we been running it, you know? Sean Kemp. Yeah, man. Sean Kemp, Gary Payne. Been doing our shit. Yeah, man. But I'm appreciative of you, bro. I love you. I love you too, man. But yeah, man. I think the thing about being successful at anything is like, knowing what you good at. And so if you listen to the people and when the crowd speaks, if you listen to people that I grew up with speak, they'll tell you like this. Who I always been. And I think the thing is, you gotta get as close to the thing that you've always done. You know what I mean? The thing you did when you was a kid and the things you would do for free. Those are the things. And I ain't saying you have to monetize every aspect of it because we did this for free. You know what I mean? You know, this is a thing where monetization has to become available for you. Yeah. You can't just monetize it cause you want to. Yep. People ain't gonna give you ads just cause you want it. You want it. Yep. YouTube ain't gonna monetize you just cause you want it. Same thing with all these other platforms. But you gotta stick it at the things that you feel like you are really good at. And the things, you know come natural. Because those things that come natural to you, those are your purposes. You know what I mean? I'm in my purpose. Big Cat is in his purpose. And you know there's gonna be. There's gonna be a space where Big Cat gonna be the number one and somebody gonna have to play their number two. And if it's me, if I gotta be the hype man, I'm gonna be right there like. Like my boy Dougie Fresh. That's right. That's right. A Flavor Flav. Flavor Flav. Yeah, man. You know what I'm saying? I'm gonna go Flavor Flav on them. Yeah. I think it's important. I think it's important to just kind of sit down and acknowledge, like, how far we came. Cause we was in that Mike Will. We was in Mike Will birthday party. Birthday party. I remember the first. That was crazy. Yeah, I quit my job. We're going to Mike birthday party. What? We're going to who birthday party. That was crazy. The thing that me up is that he did his birthday party there this year, and they sent me. And they sent me some clips or I don't know. I forgot why we didn't go, but either way. But I started seeing clips of it. I was like, man, that was just a year ago. That was a year ago. Yeah, man. A lot. Larry June had this song I used to listen to all the time. 60 days. And he was like, a lot can change in 60 days. Yeah. And I. You know, I was living by that. Like, I wanted. I would just focus on the next 60 days. The next 60 days. And before you look, you look up. It's been 365 days, and everything done changed. Yeah. So I just want to encourage everybody out there to just focus on the next 60. You know what I'm saying? Focus on the quarter. Don't try to focus on the year. Because I wasn't thinking about no year. First of all, I was scared as fuck. Yeah. That's the thing. A lot of people don't know. It was times I would be texting Kevin on stage, like, man, you ever feel like you ever just wake up scared as fuck that it's all gonna go away? He's like, all the time, nigga. It's part of it. It's not traditional. Yeah. And it's extremely vulnerable. Especially like having a public image, you know, that can be a little fickle. People decide to change on you, bro. People. If people wake up tomorrow and be like, fuck you, then that is what it is. Yeah. So I think that, you know, in the moment that we living in right now, I'm just grateful. We gonna take advantage of these opportunities. We gonna save our money. You know what I'm saying? We ain't gonna just blow it. Nah, I ain't gonna do it. We ain't rappers, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? We gotta be very strategical with this. Gotta be very, very strategic. Came to play around with. Cause you got a blowing shit, and then God gonna show you you don't want to be back in that truck, baby. Hey, man, back at the airport, man. One thing about me, baby, I ain't trying to be on them 18 wheels no more. Ain't trying to be outside. But you know, this thing is. This is a comp. This is a pursuit that is gonna breed opportunity, man. And I think anytime you are in your Purpose. And you'll know it when you're in it. Cause you'll see it. Like, I'm gonna tell y' all how I knew this was it. It's because I have been trying that rapping shit for years. That's it. And no matter how good I was at it or how good people thought I was, that shit wasn't clicking. It wasn't moving the needle. Soon as I started content creation, my shit started taking off. That's how you know. Cause you need to see results. You know what I'm saying? If you're doing something all the time, all the time, you've been doing your something for years, you haven't seen any results. And you gotta be real with yourself about what those results are. If you ain't seeing no results, man, it might be time to pack it up. You know what I'm saying? That's just real. If you've been making music for years and years and years, you ain't had no viral clip, no videos over 10,000 views, no videos over 25,000 views, man, it might be time to pack it up, baby. And I ain't gonna say the trade. I'm just saying use your creative pursuit in a different way. Maybe you not using your voice the right way. I wasn't using my voice the right way. You know, I wanted to use my voice in music, but that was too limited. That ain't what my ancestors said. They said, nah, nah, baby. Nah, baby. We gonna go and speak for this community. Yeah, we gonna go address America and it's evils, nigga. You know what I'm saying? We gonna go talk shit about these white people. Do you think your ancestors clash? Oh, Do your ancestors clash? Yeah, God damn. I think. I think. Yeah. Shut up, cracker. Know what you talking about. Tell them to develop the land. Yeah, shut up, cracker. Always trying to develop some shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. Just start a podcast. I like it. I like the raps. Shut up, cracker. But they Scottish, though, so they kind of cool. They cool. They Scottish. They cool. That's why I get that drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Goddamn Scottish side. Drinking beer, drinking liquor, man. Every now and then I be wanting to throw a kill, though. Yeah, I hear them bad parties, bro. I think you should go kill. I think she goes that she could kill Big ice cub. Yeah, man. Yeah, she killed. Do you think your ancestors class is the craziest thing I've ever said to me in my life. I want to say something about that, too, because, you know, now niggas Go to come. The haters go to come. His mom is white. First of all, here's the thing. You not gonna give the credit of raising me to some fucking white woman that gave me a way of birth when my mama and all of her goddamn beauty and melanin raised me up. And you gonna take 28 years of my life that she raised me before she passed and credited it to a white woman that gave me away at birth. We not doing that, Twin. Remember it. Also, I'm not offended by a bitch. It's not working. Try. You're gonna have to try hard. You're gonna have to come with something better. But do your ancestors clash? Not. Cause on one side, I got ancestors. Yeah. And on the other side, I got forefathers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They gotta clash. I ain't gonna lie. I know they do. Because sometimes if I look out when I'm driving, like, in the countryside, and I see a whole bunch of open land, I'm like, man, I could. You could what? Start thinking about what I want to build on. Oh, shit. We should develop it. Yeah, start thinking about developing. Oh, let's develop it. We must develop. We must build. We must. Such beauty, nature. Let's destroy it. Oh, look at those meadows. Look at those trees. We should destroy it. We should destroy it. Spill. Condos. You know what's missing? A Walmart. Yeah. This is my. This is my answer. But. Shut up, cracker. Yeah. Put a garden out there and make sure your kids got a house. Yeah, man. Build something for the family. Build something for the corporate America, everything. We gotta deal with these forefathers every day. Every day. A real double. WB ain't know nothing about this. You know what Atlanta's missing? A wawa. See, I see anytime. I see, like, 20 acres of open land. Yeah. My mind just start. It just went, oh, you just want to develop. Yeah, that was dumb as. Hey, all right, we gonna. We gonna. We gonna get these emails going, man. I'll get up with y' all in a second. Hold on. Give us like, five. I mean, I'm saying five minutes, but, like, as soon as I hit the button, we're gonna be right back. So maybe we got a commercial break. Maybe we gotta add. Who knows? We should develop it. We back. All right. We are busy. Yeah. And we're back. We going to get into some of these voicemails. Big. Are you ready? I'm ready. Yo, D. Yo, Cat, what's poppin? It's Jack Swift again. Okay, couple of things. I'm watching the thing. I do not want you to get it confused. So the anthropomorphic animal characters, Br Rabbit was created by us, then it was taken, then he was in. And those stories were taken and whitewashed by George. By that Joel Chandler Harris. Don't ever let people believe that, like, Brer Rabbit is. We. We created Bray Rabbit. And Bray Rabbit, just like, along with the dozens. Is about making fun of the master in his fucking face. Yeah. Nah, we was talking about specifically like. Like, the. What was it? It's called Looney Tunes. Right? Looney Tunes, Yeah, whatever. Them. We talking about them. Yeah, I'm talking about Bread Rabbit. And I took that episode out the color cartoon book, and I. It. You know, I left out a lot of context from that book, but I was just trying to make a specific point in that moment. But I know. I know exactly what you talking about, so I'm gonna let you cook. Okay, y', all. So don't get it confused. Joe Chandler Harris had his Uncle Remus books, but then W.E.B. du Bois came around and took them stories back and put them in a proper context from, like, from. The book is called the brownies. W.E.B. du Bois, the Brownies. So I don't want us giving wrong parts of history, making it think, like, if we see Bray Rabbit. Because Nick Cannon did a Bray Rabbit cartoon, which I thought was cool, but he, you know, he a. He a tom. So it is what it is. But, you know, he. We were just talking about all the time. He's a coon. We know. We know. We know what. We know what Nick is. But I just didn't want that because I'm flipping Bray Rabbit right now, turning, like, trying to get people to understand these stories. So I just didn't want that to be like a. Like a. Like a thing where we get it confused. Rare Rabbit is not blackface. Rare Rabbit belongs to us. Those were stories to uplift, and those were stories to make fun of the master. So remember that. W.E.B. du Bois, the Brownies book. All right, y'. All. I love y'. All. Appreciate that, brother. Appreciate the correction. Yes, sir. Or. Or any. Anything where we just creating any confusion. I appreciate that, dog. What the. Whoa, now, D. Mash. The was down with your brother. I can't deal with these New Orleans man crazy. I seen 504. I was like, I'm a with it. But nah, man, you ain't going to start out calling me know, even though I know how you say I'm a. Like three minutes long. N. We let him rock. Let him rock out. All right, Whoa now, D. N the was down with your brother. I said, what's that with your big jock shrap cat? Nah, bro. Let me start josing, bro. But nah, bro. When I find out your name with Jack, I'm looking like 80, bro. That look like a jock. I'm with that. But nah, bro. What's down with y' all boys, bro? See, I got good intuition. I gotta trust my shout out to all my New Orleans. We're gonna listen to that off camera. Yeah. I want to hear what you got to say. Yeah. I don't know what you going with that, but we're gonna listen to it on camera. Deontay, Kyle, Big ice cup cat. How y' all doing? My name is Khadijah. I'm a big fan of the podcast. I listen to y' all non stop every day, all day. Even my. My daughter, she woke up in the morning and to God be the glory. But anyway, I just wanted to give y' all y' all flowers. I love the show. I. You know, I used to subscribe to a lot of. Maybe not subscribe, but I used to. It used to wear me down hearing so much negative talk about black people, black love. How black women aren't getting married and black love is dying. And where's all the black love? I'm getting married June 7 to the most beautiful black man that I've ever met. And I just want to tell everybody that black love does exist. It's everywhere. It's within me. It's in my household. I see it all the time. I'm raising my daughter in a beautiful black home. My parents have been married over 30 years. His parents have been married over 30 years. Beautiful black people. And, yeah, I love y'. All. Bye, Love, baby. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? What I was expecting was. Was an invitation. Yeah. June 7th. We pulling up. We going to come. Yeah. Crash the wedding. Figure it out. All right, let's get one more in there. Right about here. Okay. See, when I see the double and triple voicemail, I'm like, All right, hold on. I think I seen one up here. Okay, we got one. We got one. Yo, what up? Big fan of the podcast. Can't wait to see y' all in Jacksonville. Just wanted to say, bro, I feel like I got a real good conversation for y'. All. I feel like I can argue with anybody that crack cocaine and the black church did more damage to the black community than slavery. I tell you, Nothing did more damage to the black community than slavery, bro. Lasted like 250 years. Yeah. So it's going to stop you right there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying now? Yeah. Dan, slavery doesn't have to be the thing. We don't have to keep looking for things that was worse than slavery. Yeah. Nothing worse than slavery. Nothing is worse than slavery. Yeah. So we just gonna find another voicemail. I don't know what my brother talking about. Nah, there's nothing worse than slavery. Yeah. I'd rather smoke crack than be a slave for sure. At least I'm free and I'm having a good time and I'm happy to have and I'm gonna live forever. Yeah. On me. Hello, this is Monique. I'm calling from Baltimore. What's up, Deontay and Big Ice Cup Cat. I was at your first show on Sunday in Charlotte and I just wanted to say I'm so proud of you guys. I was so impressed. It was a room full of young people. I was so excited. I came from Baltimore. I met another young lady, she came from St. Louis, another one from Ohio. You bringing the young people out, they were just like so informed and so dedicated. I'm just so proud of you guys. You guys are so handsome and I'm so proud of you. And when you come to Baltimore, I will see you there. Thanks, Bye. I think we met her at the meet and greet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She met Raleigh too. She met Raleigh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, man, thank you for pulling up. You know what I'm saying? We bringing the folks out, man. Bringing them out. But the young folks that be pulling up, they be radical. Yeah, they be ready. And that's what I was doing. I'd be loving to see. I wanted to ask for podcast advice. Wanted to say, firstly, I love your podcast platform, but I wanted to ask what steps and resources freelancers, etc. You need to help grow out the podcast. What was the plan campaign used to grow the audience to this point? What strategies you use over time and found success with. If needing to pay for your time for this information, I'm willing to do that as well. Well, the cash app is Dollar sign Grits and Eggs podcast. If you just want to send something but you don't need to pay me. Here's the thing. This, our growth has been completely organic. The only ad that I've ever paid for was just recently I used the Facebook ad to promote the Birmingham show because it was the only show wasn't sold out. And you know, like, hey, we at this point you trying to sell them tickets. It's Time to run an ad. Yeah, yeah. So to help grow out the podcast, I always focus on the message more than anything else. I focus on not salacious shit, not hooks, not just engagement, but like something that would help, something that could add to a conversation. But let's go. Before the podcast, I built a brand online as a content creator first. So I would say that it's going to be very hard to build an organic audience if people don't know who you are. So most people that start podcasts are in a celebrities or a celebrity space or connected to media somewhere where if they show up, they'll, you know, they'll be. They're backed by Spotify, they're backed by Pandora, they're backed by Apple. And it's easy to get that push, you know what I'm saying? But I would say for me, it was important. For me, you know, the goal wasn't a podcast. You know, I was just getting on there. I didn't know where it was gonna come from. I just told all the homies that I'm gonna be big on TikTok because I seen other people that was kind of talking in the same vein as me, but not necessarily. Maybe just not. They don't speak like me or they don't have my, you know, I knew I had a perspective to offer, so I was like, man, I could do this shit. I'm gonna be big on TikTok. I was like, watch. Give me a year. Year went by. Did it. So first of all, you gotta believe in it. You gotta be willing to put in the time and the work. Then when I got to a point where I did have the podcast and recognize that I need the visual aspect for it to promote it, you keep all your clips under three minutes starting out. Sometimes shorter clips are gonna perform better just because of the attention span of people. But I always just focus on messaging and what conversations I wanted to see had online. So instead of worrying about, like I said, a hook, instead of worrying about just getting engagement from saying some rage baity shit or something salacious, I just stayed consistent at my message and I chopped all my clips. At first, I didn't do anything fancy or extravagant. I didn't have crazy transitions, I didn't use subtitles. I didn't do none of that. I just focused on what conversations from my show I wanted to see had online as a way to promote it and bring people back to my YouTube to subscribe. That was it. Strategy wise. Yeah, I didn't really have any strategies either, man. It's just like, it's just, it was just quantity. That's when I got I. I knew the podcast was quality. So when I tried to hit them with the quantity online, it was just two clips a day every day. Sometimes it was three. I used to post at 10, 2 and 6. I used to post every four hours now. And you know, over the last like six to eight months, I was posting that 10 and 6 because I noticed two o'. Clock. Two o' clock clips don't do as well, but sometimes. So I say my like 2 o' clock space for something I want to promote or, you know, just like. Or collab with another podcast. Sometimes I do a post two o' clock clip and that should've go crazy. So it's like, you know, I don't know the rhyme or reason behind the algorithm. I know that you need to stay in the motherfucker. That's it, you know, so just keep posting. Get on a. Create a posting schedule for yourself. Figure out what works for you. Try out different times, try out things. Like I tried 9am it didn't work as well. And then I tried 11am and that worked okay. But one time I posted at 10:00am and that bitch went viral. I said, okay, 10:00 clock is my spot. I used to post at 5, then I would post at 7, 8. And one time I posted at 6 and that bitch went viral. So I just kept that spot. Like that was just it. And everything I post at 6 o' clock is not gonna go viral. Everything I post at 10 o' clock is not gonna go viral. But I just figured out what worked for me and I stuck with it. So if you missed the window, the 10 o' clock window, make sure you post before 11. Like, I just do shit like that at this point. We've grown the platform big enough where I don't have to be as strict around the rules. Like, I have enough followers and following that, I know, I know a good chunk of people gonna see it. And also it depends on what you put now, whether your audience resonates with it or not. If they don't share it or comment on it, then it ain't gonna hit the algorithm either way. So I don't have like some complex rhyme or reason, so I wouldn't even sell you no game on that. I was just, I had. I was focused on messaging and I stayed consistent on posting. That's it. Like, I know for like a year that's how I came up on TikTok. Like for a year I just Was like, I'm gonna post every day, three times a day. And I would take a day or two in between every now and then. But yeah, man, I was posting like a motherfucker like my first year, bro. I probably posted a thousand goddamn videos now. You did? Yeah, I was on that. But yeah, that's it. It doesn't have to be complicated. There is no magic to this, bro. From my perspective, I think the thing is just put out quality and put out quality on YouTube and put our quarantine on social media. All right. Advice please. Deontay and Big Ice Cup Cat. Hope y' all brother is doing well. A reason I really, I really do appreciate. I love your show. It's educational and it's humorous at the same time. I try to put anyone I can onto it, especially within the black community. So I have a concern I like to share regarding my girlfriend. She is very religious and deeply rooted in Christianity. It was the wrong button. Say what I wanted to do this one. It ain't that much getting away in the world. No, you don't get away that much. No, you don't get away that much. Something wrong with him, bro. Yeah, okay. She is very religious and deeply rooted in Christianity. She has been since she was a little girl attending conferences and other church related events. I, on the other hand, believe in a higher power. But I'm hesitant to dive into Christianity due to many questions I have about religious religion and its historical ties to white supremacy. I also don't believe that if you're a genuine. I also don't believe that if you're a genuinely good person, whatever that means to you, you should be threatened with burning for eternity over sins you didn't personally commit. I agree. Like I said, she is deeply committed to her faith. And we're talking about donating thousands of dollars annually to the church. Oh, she's. She's given. She's. Yeah, she. She's donated Thousand dollars to the church. She's donating thousands of dollars to church. My perspective is that that same money could go towards buying the dozens of jackets for the homeless or something equally impactful. Anything other than just tithing just to feel a sense of moral superiority. But who am I to judge? Yeah. Yeah. Because if you was judging, you would be a Christian. Maybe it's just me, but ultimately she wants a Christian man to lead her and I'm struggling to understand that and how to help her understand that we are enough as we are. At the end of the day, I believe we're all divine. Stop. Just Stop. At the end of the day, I believe we're all divine beings and how we choose to hold ourselves accountable for our actions between us and, and whatever how our power we believe in. We've been together for five years and I don't want things to end this far, far in. But the likelihood of me joining the religion is slim to none. Any advice? Thing. You got to get out of there, bro. It's like, you know who she was when you got with her. Yeah. If she wants a Christian man to lead her, that means basically you need to convert to her religion or y' all not going to be together. Yeah. So if you're not going to convert to her religion, then y' all just not going to be together and that's okay. Let her go find her Christian man and you find an, an equally non denominational spiritual person to be with. And I understand that you love her and everything, but like it's religion, bro. You know, people don't just give up religion. And it don't seem like you've been doing any impacting on her faith at all over five years, you know what I'm saying? You supposed to converted her by now. N. It's over with. She planned to come. She's gonna convert you. Yeah. And you don't want to be miserable. You don't, you don't want to go to church every Sunday knowing you don't want to be there. It's just miserable, bro. I mean, you tell, you talk about church, you got to go to goddamn Bible study. Yeah, she. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thousands of dollars to the church annually is a little crazy. The bake sale. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, Yeah, I. I think, you know, unfortunately you're gonna have to get up out of there because this is the thing about religion. It don't stop. They don't. Yeah. And then her family probably religious too. That's. Yeah, she's been a religious since she was a little girl. I mean, her family definitely religious. Yeah. And I mean she definitely don't watch this podcast. Yeah, she don't watch this. She ain't with that. She ain't with this. So. Yeah. So I would say. Yeah. You know, y' all gonna have to have. Y' all gonna have to have a tough conversation, but I think, you know, she's not going to let that go and, and I don't think you are either. So. Yeah, man, you know, it's unfortunate, but I don't really see it ending any other way besides somebody been into the other's will and neither One of y' all seem like y' all are willing to do that, and neither one of y' all should have to. Exactly. So just. Just, you know. You know, there's other fish in that sea. All right. This one is happiness or security? Well, always. That's just. That's just the. The limit of life, ain't it? Yep. My name is TC. I'm from Los Angeles. Oh, well, TC is. My name is TC. I'm from los angeles. 36 years old and I am got a career. Life crossroads. I grew men. I grew marijuana on a big scale in northern California for six seasons in my early 20s. These girls were in the middle of nowhere. And my partners and I basically built the infrastructure from the ground up. We also grew food, had small amounts of livestock. These years were the happiest years. These years were the happiest I've ever been in my life. The last year, one of our properties got raided by the local government. Find the property owner. $500 every day. Oh, 500. $500 a day. Every day. The marijuana plants were in the ground. And the other property just had too many logistical issues to be viable for the first year. So I decided to move back to Los Angeles. Los Angeles. And ran through 100k in cash in less than a year on my girl's expensive purses and fancy, fancy restaurants. Started working in security and moved up twice to a director. Yeah. I mean, after you get rated. Yeah. Like, so basically you killed your income. Yeah. And then you took what money you had left and blew it. Yeah. On bags and restaurants. Is your girl still with you? Current situation. I've been approached for another promotion. It will lock me in for at least another five years. I've always been unhappy at work. The money pays rent, bills and a little extra, but it's unfulfilling and not stimulating work. Question. The goal has always been to get back into growing my own food and living without the need to go to the store. I don't want to be off grid. I still want Internet and tv, but I don't want to need anything I can't produce myself. I stacked a little bit of paper, but I've lived comfortably on a new property. But the struggle is part of the intrigue. Rather now or later. I need a bank loan to outright by land. As long as. As long as a water well is present, everything else I can build. Do I stay unhappy in Los Angeles at this job with the new product promotion to stack more but possibly get stuck even longer on the endless carousel that is the nine to five or go struggle where failure is defiantly possible. But be happy and the reward is great. I have no children and females come and go. Well that answers the questions about there you go. So yeah, they definitely come and go when you just blow money on them. Yeah. And then you have no money left. Yeah. I would say you need to be a little bit more fiscally responsible just right off the top. I'm not opposed to leaving Los Angeles every time I'm in la. I'm ready to go, I'm ready to get the fuck out of there. I can't imagine living there that plays a fucking. It's a beautiful city. It's a beautiful city. Beautiful city. I enjoy it, I love it. I'm ready to go. I'm just ready to go. Very expensive place. Yeah, Hella fucking people, a lot of people and you know, just not somewhere I would see like sustaining my life for who I am. Cuz I'm just country like I rather just be in the south. Yeah. Atlanta is enough for me. Here's the thing, I'm not the type of person like I'm not your dad, so I'm not going to tell you like go where the health care is and you sure thing and woo woo. I had to take a risk so I would encourage you to take the risk too if it's going to make you happy. I think you already have the experience. You seem like a very hands on person, a handy guy. You don't have any kids and you don't have a wife so you're basically gonna be out there on your own. And I would think in a situation like that where the only person you got to take care is yourself, I would say go for it. Yeah, why not go for it? You know what I mean? You like you have nothing to lose, you can always get back into security. Yeah. Just, just do the right thing. Like when you leave, just do the right thing so you maintain that connection in case you need them. But if you don't ever see yourself turning back, that's great motivation to go out and make it happen. So I would say go for it man. I mean I'm not advocating Nobody staying on 9 to 5 if they not happy and you got a way out. Yeah. Also like, like I said, you don't have any. Like if you had kids I'd be like you gonna have to lock in at that job. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? But you got no kids bro. You just go do your thing, bro. This is what life is for, living Living. Go live. Go live. Big Cat, where we at? We living, baby. Big Cat, what's today's math? Manics is the fifth, baby. That's power refinement, baby. Once one is refined, run is divine, baby. And once you got power in the culture, you know where you come from, they can never take that away from you, baby. Yeah, man. Well, it ain't that much getting away in the world. No, you don't get away that much. No, you don't get away that much. Go develop it. You got the village Scottish. You're doing it the right way, though. Yeah, they had that weed on this camera. He's ready this. Yeah, yeah. Blowing 100k is blowing me. Yeah. That's wow on bags and expensive restaurants. I want to bought about nothing. So you better lock in. Yeah, we got locked in. I just lost everything. Yeah. Because I got to put a down payment on a crib. Yeah. And have somewhere to live. Right. I don't know, man. You know, we all do different things and it's also, you know, it's kind of flair. I mean, I'm pretty sure he had a great time. He probably did. I know he had a great time. I mean, imagine. Imagine one of the best is like 15k, right? You got 100 cash. Yeah. You spent 15k, you got 85k. I'd have hurt me. That would have hurt. That hurts. That hurts. That hurts. Because it seemed like it's gonna last forever, but we got to know it's not. It's not. Not in LA. Not 100k. No, no. I'm only much on fuel. I need to spend a every year. Well, guys, this is episode 136 of the Grizzly Podcast. Again, if you're not a member of the Patreon now, $8, you need to go. I need you over there because I'm gonna get on stream in a minute. So I would love to see more people over there on the stream. I would love to hear from more of you on the phone. 657-234-Eggs at 657-234-3447. Deontay Kyle. Deontay Deontay Kyle.com for all your advice and email. No, no, no, no. That's for booking. Deontay deontay kyle.com for booking and inquiries. Advice at Deontay Kyle for all your advice segments. Deontay Kyle.com for everything else. Follow Big Ice Cupcat. Yeah, man on Instagram and Tik tok at Big Ice Cup Cat. Follow me@deontay kyle.com what he talking about sorry, delusional. I took a little medicine before start and deontay.com hold on. What? What? That's my instagram and tick tock deontay.com like hype the video. You know what I'm saying? It's just hip hop. It's just. You know what I'm saying? It's just my. It's just rasp, man. Turn me up, man. It's just rap. I just want to rap. My side. Yeah was my F. Was yeah they say without the proper labor, faith don't stand a chance. I put my faith in faith and stand on fertile land. I planted seeds Adeline De Turning the trees before rest in peace teas get printed to me unless impeded. Matter of fact, that got me thinking back when Mr. Love was tending to his garden schooling me to annuity before he grabbed his clubs to go golfing. And it's no coincidence that do still had the caddy back when woods were still the best. Don't let me roll off course here Georgie Pops was dropping gems while I was lighting Sigs. But you know, I too was listening with Mo you see, that's the best that I can do. Wisdom is the application of knowledge. I was picking up what he was putting down just wasn't applying it. I ain't denying it. Nah, maybe I was too busy trying to find the balance between religion and science. 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