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Summary

Grits and Eggs Podcast - Episode 52: A Deep Dive into Community, Culture, and Resilience

Podcast Information:

• Title: Grits and Eggs Podcast
• Host/Author: Deante’ Kyle
• Description: Deante’ Kyle raw and unfiltered. Talking pop culture, current events, conspiracies, and anything else he can think of.
• Episode: Episode 52 - 40 of 400
• Release Date: February 25, 2025

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1. Introduction and Format Changes (00:00 - 02:00)

Hosts: Deontay, Big Ice, Adri, and Cat

The episode begins with Deontay sharing a poetic introduction, setting an authentic and Southern tone for the podcast. Big Ice announces a significant format change based on listener feedback, indicating a shift towards more solo episodes interspersed with guest appearances. This adjustment aims to cater to the audience's preference for solo discussions while maintaining valuable guest interactions.

Notable Quote:

Big Ice [01:03]: "A movement without a plan is a trend. It's just a trend, baby."

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2. Reflecting on a Recent Live Show (02:00 - 09:00)

Hosts: Big Ice, Adri, and Cat

The hosts reminisce about their recent live show, expressing both excitement and challenges. They discuss technical difficulties with streaming and express gratitude towards attendees and supporters who made the event successful. Shout-outs are given to various individuals and sponsors, highlighting community support and collaboration.

Notable Quotes:

Big Ice [04:20]: "It was surreal, man. It really felt like, yeah, I'm at my purpose. I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing."

Adri [03:15]: "Real pricks. I'mma be straight for a little bit now, Griselda. This is a real stove. God."

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3. Discussing the Crack Epidemic and Its Impact on the Black Community (09:00 - 22:00)

Hosts: Big Ice and Adri

A substantial portion of the episode is dedicated to analyzing the enduring effects of the crack epidemic on black communities. Big Ice and Adri delve into how systemic issues stemming from the crack era have perpetuated poverty, violence, and hindered community development. They advocate for actionable solutions such as trade education, skilled labor, and entrepreneurship to empower individuals and rebuild communities.

Key Points:

• The crack epidemic specifically devastated black inner cities, leading to mass incarceration and community breakdown.
• Emphasis on the importance of alternative pathways out of poverty beyond traditional avenues like rapping or sports.
• Advocacy for reinvesting in the community through businesses owned by black individuals, focusing on essential trades like plumbing, electrical work, and carpentry.

Notable Quotes:

Big Ice [13:00]: "They see the playbook that was put down on them, it's similar to the ones that was put down on us."

Adri [17:04]: "We have to start meeting people where they're at."

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4. Critique of Esoteric Knowledge and Conspiracies (22:00 - 34:00)

Hosts: Big Ice, Adri, and Cat

The conversation shifts towards criticizing what they perceive as distractions from pressing community issues. Big Ice and Adri express frustration with esoteric beliefs and conspiracy theories, such as the Anunnaki and the notion of walking to Africa through the Grand Canyon. They argue that focusing on these topics diverts attention from addressing real, tangible problems faced by the black community.

Key Points:

• Rejection of conspiracy theories that suggest fantastical solutions to systemic problems.
• Emphasis on addressing historical and ongoing injustices rather than engaging in speculative narratives.
• Encouragement to focus on actionable knowledge and community-driven solutions.

Notable Quotes:

Adri [24:00]: "I don't give a about the Anunnaki or who the real Jews are. Focus on our reality."

Big Ice [29:20]: "We need to focus on our most recent affliction, the crack era."

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5. Listener Call-Ins and Relationship Advice Segment (34:00 - 57:00)

Hosts: Big Ice and Adri

The hosts engage with listener voicemails, predominantly offering relationship and personal advice. A notable call comes from a listener named Alexander seeking guidance on starting a community project amidst anxiety and fear of rejection. Big Ice provides constructive advice, emphasizing community involvement and gradual relationship building.

Additionally, a caller discusses marital struggles involving porn addiction and trust issues. Adri and Big Ice analyze the situation, debating the compatibility of the couple and suggesting potential paths forward, including self-improvement and considering divorce if necessary.

Notable Quotes:

Big Ice [61:07]: "Trust me, you got this shit. This one is marital strife."

Adri [73:31]: "You ain’t doing nothing anyway. Put the dick pill down."

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6. Criticism of Guest Submissions and Rap Quality (57:00 - 86:00)

Hosts: Big Ice, Adri, and Cat

The latter part of the episode features harsh critiques of listener-submitted rap songs. The hosts express dissatisfaction with the quality and content of the submissions, offering blunt feedback aimed at encouraging improvement but crossing into derogatory remarks.

Key Points:

• Emphasis on authenticity and community-focused messaging in music.
• Discouragement of content perceived as glorifying negative behaviors.
• Hosts reiterate the importance of aligning artistic expression with community upliftment.

Notable Quotes:

Adri [82:56]: "I don't want to hear that, man. You are not ready to submit music."

Big Ice [85:57]: "Get good at it. Keep practicing."

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7. Final Thoughts and Community Focus (86:00 - End)

Hosts: Big Ice, Adri, and Cat

The episode concludes with a reaffirmation of the podcast’s mission to focus on realistic and actionable knowledge to empower the black community. The hosts stress the importance of collective effort and community solidarity in overcoming systemic challenges.

Notable Quotes:

Big Ice [86:35]: "We just gotta speak to our people as they are, man. Don’t try to use that degree to flex."

Adri [86:06]: "I'm telling you, bro, we entered into the de Honorist."

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Conclusion

Episode 52 of the Grits and Eggs Podcast serves as a platform for Deontay Kyle and his co-hosts to passionately discuss the historical and ongoing struggles of the black community, particularly focusing on the residual impacts of the crack epidemic. The hosts advocate for practical solutions rooted in community empowerment and skilled labor, while critically addressing distractions like conspiracy theories and poorly executed artistic expressions. Through listener interactions, the podcast emphasizes personal accountability and collective action as vital components for societal advancement.

Overall Themes:

• Community Empowerment: Emphasizing the need for collective effort and investment in essential trades to rebuild and sustain black communities.
• Critique of Distractions: Challenging listeners to prioritize actionable knowledge over speculative and esoteric beliefs.
• Authenticity and Accountability: Encouraging genuine efforts in personal development and community engagement, while holding listeners accountable for perpetuating systemic issues.

Disclaimer: This summary reflects the content as presented in the transcript and aims to capture the essence and key discussions of the podcast episode.

Transcript

[Deontay]

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 refuse them cause my no rest fusion she gorgeous as I dab my sons up and kiss my daughter forehead tell them we going 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.

[Big Ice]

Vent yeah, we back.

[Adri]

Oh, we back.

[Big Ice]

Grist and eggs podcast, episode 52. I'm your host, Deontay Cowboys behind the camera.

[Cat]

Big ice cup cat good on the mic.

[Big Ice]

Could be Mike. Ah, as always, email us. A lot of y'all using the grits and eggs pod gmail dot com. I don't mind that, but Suki would prefer if you use deontay. Deontaycow.com speaking of deontaycol.com good merch. A movement without a plan is a trend. It's just a trend, baby. Hit me on that Patreon gritson X podcast on patreon ain't number $8.

[Adri]

$8.

[Big Ice]

Now we got good work coming for you. Now look, this week, episode 51 was Gigi Laflaire. Great conversation with Gigi. Just like kicking it with your auntie with your cool ass auntie Facts. It was a great time. But. But we seen the comments. We know y'all like the solo episodes. So we gonna. We gonna reverse it. Now. This will be out Saturday, visually, Friday, audible. But we're gonna reverse it and we're gonna start putting guests on Saturdays and we're gonna start dropping the solo episodes on Wednesday. So y'all can do them knowledge before.

[Adri]

You go to work.

[Big Ice]

You know what I'm saying? Niggas got to do the knowledge before.

[Adri]

Do the knowledge.

[Big Ice]

Gotta do that before you go to work, huh? Before you go clock in with the white man.

[Cat]

Yeah, they. They heavy on the solo episodes.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, they like you. Hey, good. Congratulations on the grove.

[Adri]

Let's get back.

[Cat]

Let's get back to the roots.

[Big Ice]

Let's get Back to the rules. 657-234-Eggs for all voicemails. Call INS. We still trying to figure out some with the streaming. We didn't have the right cable. I was supposed to do it last Saturday. We're gonna get it Right. All right. And next time, I'm a promise, I'll tell all my patronies out there, all the cousins. My bad. And then they. They. We had to run late. It was. It was a lot of. All right, we couldn't. We couldn't do the live stream, but we're gonna get that popping and we're gonna get the get. Y'all calling in. As you know, we're just trying to figure this thing out. That's all the plugs I got. Oh, Coffee Black circa scent. Huh? Black Sponsors shout out to Coffee Black. Sent me about 15 bags of coffee sent kilos. Yeah.

[Adri]

Real pricks. I'mma be straight for a little bit now, Griselda. This is a real stove. God.

[Cat]

Some nigga Bricks.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Adri]

Just took my twins to Disney, sold a brick outside the Epcot. What he got? And he got the tech in the drop and he.

[Big Ice]

Stone guy is an immaculate rapper. I don't know, Adri. We going have to read. We're going have to revisit that when you come back. Yeah, man. All right. We'll reflect. Jackson show.

[Cat]

Great show. You were overstimulated after the show.

[Big Ice]

I was, man. I. You know, it was a lot.

[Adri]

It was.

[Big Ice]

It's crazy. It's surreal, you know what I'm saying? Like, talking to. We talk to tens of thousands of people a week, right? And not even to mention social media. Then we talking hundreds of thousands of people, comments, views, all that. But, brother, to have 70 people just like, yeah, do the knowledge.

[Cat]

Just looking at you.

[Adri]

Yeah, do the knowledge. Yeah, we. We came for the knowledge.

[Big Ice]

That's it. It was surreal. I was nervous as hell. It's also very shocking to take something from the Internet, from the studio and then do it live. And people show up, man. People showed up for us, bro.

[Cat]

They showed up and they showed out.

[Big Ice]

Shout out to Drinkable Brian, Unhinged Immoral podcast. Jamila Bell and Machiavelli showed up for us. Deja Sade showed up. Keith Dame Keith Dane Keefe showed up, huh? Great fit on, you know what I'm saying?

[Adri]

Great Gucci boots.

[Big Ice]

Nah, Great Gucci boots. Gucci earrings to match. The man look marvelous.

[Cat]

He's a handsome brother.

[Big Ice]

He's a handsome brother right there. I mean, perfect 90 degree angle Barber.

[Adri]

Brought out the protractor. Get him right protractor on the headline. Get him right and get a boy right.

[Big Ice]

Shout out to all the barbers out there. Shout out self made cool pulling up, performing the intro. Yeah, yeah. Doing his own set and. And got and. And hit me with The Clippers backstage I showed up fresh signature cut.

[Cat]

Got you right.

[Adri]

Gotta go see him this week.

[Cat]

Yeah, he's a little scruffy.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, I gotta go see him. Scruffy dude in this, but yeah, man. Shout out to Rachel. Oh yeah, Rachel, man. What we got for Rachel?

[Cat]

Damn.

[Adri]

Rachel. Where'd you find this to take it from that?

[Cat]

If it wasn't for Rachel.

[Big Ice]

If it wasn't for Rachel, man, we.

[Cat]

Wouldn'T have been there.

[Big Ice]

We wouldn't have been there, bro. So shout out to the people she introduced us to. Coke Boomaye, Rakin K. Young Jules, AKA Jew Hefner, AKA the paid hipster. The paid hipster. A lot of aliases on that young lady. She's a real spitter.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

Raking Cade.

[Cat]

Phenomenal, dog.

[Big Ice]

You talking about somebody passionate about this hip hop shit. This is a laid back fella, bro. He don't do too much talking. When they.

[Adri]

When we start talking about hip hop and culture, brush that up.

[Big Ice]

He got dead serious about that and cope. Momaya was one of the. One of the best performances I've ever seen live. It's. It's almost like you've seen him perform and perform before. Like he. The way that he controlled the crowd. He just sat up on the couch with us and Real player.

[Cat]

Get up.

[Big Ice]

Veteran gray hair bear. Yeah, the mayor. Shout out to them, man. Shout out to Jackson. Shout out to Alexis Noble at Vibe Studios for inviting us out. We had a great time, man. Shout out to her whole team. Shout out to the young man Rico that pulled up from jsu. Got some flicks in to everybody, man. Jira. Shout out Jaira, Jira. Great performance, great way to open up the show. Great stage presence and his whole team. His DJ was great. Everybody was great, man. Shout out Suki and Tristan for doing they thing.

[Adri]

Suki had the gift shot looking immaculate.

[Cat]

Booming in the gift shop.

[Big Ice]

Booming in the gift shop. Shout out everybody about gifts. Shout out everybody about the meet and greeting and showed up, took pictures with your boy. That shit was love, man. I ain't gonna lie. I have never experienced no shit like that before. That shit was surreal, bro. I'm ready to do it again next time. It's only right we do it in the hometown. We do it in Atlanta, sir. You know what I'm saying? We might even have to bring y'all out a little outside of 285. Bring y'all to Douglasville where we grew up at. Yeah, huh? Good venues out here. Free parking.

[Cat]

You gotta worry about your windows get busted.

[Big Ice]

You Ain't got to worry about that. Niggas break windows like they still steal radios, yo. It's crazy. Yeah, yeah, you ain't got to worry about that. You come Douglasville, Douglas county don't play like that.

[Cat]

No boots.

[Big Ice]

No boots. Yeah, no boots.

[Adri]

No boots in Douglasville. No boots.

[Big Ice]

No broken windows.

[Adri]

Little 20 minute drive outside the city.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

Good parking, great time.

[Cat]

If somebody drive five hours, I'm pretty.

[Big Ice]

Sure they drive 20 minutes, bruh. Shout out to everybody that drove five hours or three hours just to come see your boy, man. Shout out to you. You know who you. Man, that shit was love, dawg. You know, I can't understate it, bro. That shit was amazing, bro. It really felt like, yeah, I'm at my purpose. I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

[Cat]

What you're supposed to be doing.

[Big Ice]

I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, man. I locked in a look.

[Adri]

Oh, Smith.

[Big Ice]

Shout out to Smith.

[Cat]

Smith came through.

[Big Ice]

Smith came through. Serving looks, you know, Smith came through the walk.

[Cat]

She came in late, too.

[Adri]

Gave me a rose.

[Cat]

Gave you a rose.

[Big Ice]

All love, bruh. Shout out to Smith. Yeah, man. Oh, what happened? And our boy Ashton sent us that lighting equipment.

[Cat]

Oh, yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Man of his word.

[Big Ice]

Good man of his word. Shout out to you.

[Cat]

Somebody. Somebody asked me, did I feel famous? And I was like, nah. What I felt was humble. Yeah, I felt very humble.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Cat]

I didn't feel famous.

[Big Ice]

It didn't. It. I didn't.

[Cat]

That didn't even cross my mind.

[Big Ice]

The fame part didn't really. I was like, wow.

[Cat]

Yeah. It was just a humbling experience.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adri]

It was like, yeah. It didn't feel exalted.

[Big Ice]

It felt like, whoa. Yeah, really, really recognize, like, the gravity of this. People are traveling to come see y'all do this thing. People are spending their money, spending their time, and they was all ears, man. And. And you know, like the lady who said, the prisoners are asking to put on the Gris and Eggs podcast every morning. Like, that's amazing. I was going to cry. I ain't going to lie.

[Cat]

Yeah, I seen you.

[Big Ice]

Big cat gave me my flowers on stage. That's what these is. Big Cat, show me some love on the stage. I had to, man. That was surreal, bro. Very humbling experience, but very exciting. Very, like, affirmative. You on the right. We on the right path. You know, we doing our thing. The streets with us. We don't have Instagram booming this week.

[Adri]

Heavy and tick tock heavy. We don't have the social media streets booming. Heavy, huh? Heavy. We heavy in the streets, nigga.

[Cat]

You got some. You got some heavy hitters that start following.

[Adri]

Heavy hitters. Some real punchers.

[Cat]

Yeah, heavy hitters start following.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, we back. We back, man, I'm talking about better than ever. So, you know, we gonna. We gonna stick with these solo episodes, but we definitely gonna make room for the guests. We're gonna probably minimize it down to like about two to two a month.

[Adri]

We.

[Big Ice]

We are gonna feed the Patreon streets. Matter of fact, today, after we get finished with our Topics on episode 52, we gonna talk Kendrick. We're gonna talk 2 Chainz Larry June Alchemist album, and we gonna talk west side Gunnar on the Patreon. So if you want to see my take on Kendrick, I really don't. I do have a take on it, but I feel like everything been said so, you know, for the folks that signed up, that's showing love. We're gonna give you bang for your buck, huh? We're gonna break that Kendrick performance down. And I got some opinions on 2 Chainz Alchemist collab album, and I got some opinions on that Westside Gun album too. So we had. We posted a video from episode 50 where we was discussing the how. How to get out the hood, like, saying we can get out the hood in more ways than just rapping and ball playing. We can get in trades, skilled trades. Education is a positive way out. Some people even suggest the military, though I'm not a big, you know, supporter of that. I do see the application. If you're gonna be the spook who sat by the door, go get that military business going. Also, military is a good, you know, shout out to Keith and a few other people I know that have used it and really, you know, catapulted themselves into middle class and non combat duty. They doing good work. And if you want to be a killer, go, you know, go be all you can be. You want to spend a block, Go spend a block on the insurgents.

[Cat]

All right?

[Big Ice]

Yeah, man.

[Adri]

Huh? What could your. What can you do for your fucking country, nigga?

[Big Ice]

Niggas talking about spinning blocks all day.

[Adri]

Because of Instagram beefs and niggas speaking on your dad, what about your country? Go get that oil. Go get that oil.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, man.

[Adri]

Everybody know Afghanistan rich in poppy seeds. Go get the heron. Bring it back. Big Pharma needs you. Your country needs you.

[Cat]

You can be Frank Lucas, huh?

[Adri]

Frank Lucas had the plug in Vietnam.

[Cat]

You can have the plug in Afghanistan.

[Big Ice]

Do the knowledge.

[Cat]

Tell the Go join the army and be drug trafficker crazy.

[Big Ice]

Nah, that's what we got to do.

[Adri]

We got to do spook himself out the door. The crook who sat by the door.

[Cat]

The Y that sat by the door.

[Adri]

Who sat by the door. That's funny as.

[Cat]

Why in the set by the door.

[Big Ice]

Why didn't I sat by the door? But I seen a lot of people saying.

[Adri]

Oh, we gotta.

[Big Ice]

We gotta stop this. I seen. I seen a lot of people saying.

[Adri]

Oh, we gotta stop this mentality of.

[Big Ice]

Getting at the hood.

[Adri]

You know, we.

[Big Ice]

We should reinvest in the hood. We should, you know, we don't need to leave him like, hey, hey, hey.

[Adri]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[Big Ice]

Relax, okay? You got to speak to the mentality that already exists. You got to speak to the lingo that's already present.

[Adri]

Getting out the hood.

[Big Ice]

I mean, leaving the black people behind. Get out the hood is a mentality. And what people are really saying is, how do I find my way out of poverty, out of abject poverty at that? How can I work my way into the middle class? Or. You know what I'm saying? Like, that is what the. When we say get out the hood, we mean get out the. You know, get off the block. Get off the. Get off the. The trap. Get out of that trap and get. And work your way towards creating some financial stability for yourself. If we get everybody on that page, if we got. If we got our women and men in skilled trades and education and military and entrepreneurship and not still chasing like, this street lifestyle, not still chasing this scammer lifestyle, not chasing the lifestyle that these rappers portray, then we have a lot of viable options to go back and buy up the block because we could pull our money together. And we know that this is honest. People are doing honest work. Black Wall Streets was built by skilled tradesmen, entrepreneurs, and lawmen, people that understood how to run a town. You can't do that with a. I'm just keeping it being. Can't just be estheticians and barbers. Those are going to be needed for the community. But. But it can't. But we can't build the whole thing off of that. You know what I'm saying? Not off of that alone. We need plumbers, we need H vac technicians, we need electricians, we need carpenters, people who know how to build a house.

[Cat]

Brick mason.

[Adri]

Brick.

[Big Ice]

Brick masons. Like, these are things that are actually needed. If we're gonna go buy back the block, we want to renovate the block ourselves, don't we? You know what? I'm saying, like, why go buy back the block and then go do what the white folks doing? Just pay some Mexicans for cheap labor and pay our people to rebuild our blocks, you know what I'm saying? Like it. This is an all encompassing thing. A lot of y'all skip so many steps ahead. Y'all not meeting people where they're at. People are not in a.

[Adri]

When people say get out the hood.

[Big Ice]

They just trying to get. They just try not to be broke, man. And a lot of people fear that check to check lifestyle. But being check to check, understanding how to budget your money, it don't last forever. If you got goals and you got ambition, you can work towards it. Now, some people, some people are going to be fine with a check to check living. This is capitalism. But I believe that with the right mentality, the person who go out into the street and risk their life, the person who will go into the bank and risk their freedom can, can apply those to trades. And a lot of those tradesmen are felons. So let's just skip the prison part and go straight into the trade.

[Adri]

But to get out the hood mentality.

[Big Ice]

We just have to, we have to start meeting people where they're at. You know what I mean? I think a lot of y'all is just like, okay, I understand this. So this is the next step. No, no, no, no, no, no. We really trying to leave no child behind. This is really the no Child Left behind program over here. We need a majority rule in mentality. I think a lot of times we want to jump into some esoteric knowledge, you know what I'm saying? We want to start talking about who.

[Adri]

The real Jews are and the map.

[Big Ice]

Is turned upside down and hey, hey, guys, I get that. But if we could focus on our most recent affliction. We are living in the effects of the crack era. That is the most recent affliction. That's what's got us in our present condition.

[Adri]

That we got to be real about that.

[Big Ice]

Now.

[Adri]

We talk about this often and we're going to keep talking about it until get it. The crack era has shaped the behaviors, the dynamics and the mentality of, of.

[Big Ice]

Every black person that's in the black community is from the black community.

[Adri]

We know somebody we have been or.

[Big Ice]

Close to in love with, related to somebody who either played a part in the poisoning or got poisoned. We know we got an uncle, a cousin, a brother, a father that went to prison or got killed behind this. We got a mother that was strung out or left out here to fend for herself when her husband got sent away or. Or got murdered or her son and she got to go to work with that grief every day. This is why we see black women.

[Adri]

Integrating into corporate America.

[Big Ice]

Because they watch their mama struggle and.

[Adri]

They watch their mama call her son out of fear that he would end.

[Big Ice]

Up like his father or his uncle. So now he. He's not productive and he end up in the street in the same cycle because he doesn't have any. Any alternatives or ambition. And his mama fear for his life every time he leave outside the goddamn door. Not to mention the police brutality and a police presence. So we got a lot of young black women that said, fuck that. I ain't finna go to work and work two jobs and stress out. I'm gonna go to college. I'm gonna focus on my grades. I'm a lock in. I'm gonna get into that corporate world. And that's what we see as an effect of that. Now, that's a positive effect from a negative circumstance. But we have to be able to acknowledge these things. A lot of black people live in the suburbs and middle class. A lot of black people moved to Georgia. Why? Because the conditions in the hood were the remnants of the crack era. These were the effects. They was living in the effects. And when the money goes, the only.

[Adri]

Thing left is violence. So if we can get on the same page, like niggas trying to skip steps ahead, let's.

[Big Ice]

Let's go back to our most recent affliction.

[Adri]

Let's focus on the 80s to the present.

[Big Ice]

Understand what happened, understand why there's been no political. Strong political movements in the black community. No, no strong. We've tried black power movements and we've revamped these things online.

[Adri]

And we will.

[Big Ice]

And those things will always cycle back. But that. That starts. Needs to be the baseline. It doesn't need to be a natural hair movement. Just. That just needs to be a baseline. Doesn't need to be a black love movement. That just needs to be the baseline. Okay. We don't like being Pan African. Shouldn't be something we have to push. We just have to understand that we have brothers and sisters throughout the diaspora that have that. If you go look at their conditions and you go look at the playbook that was put down on them, it's similar to the ones that was put down on us. Crack is just specific to black Americans. And we can kind of draw a correlation to the Great Migration because pre Great Migration, where we at, we're all concentrated in the South. You can't pull off the crack epidemic if everybody in the south because niggas got land, single family homes, strong knit communities. People flee to flu, flee from the south due to racism. And they went other places seeking new opportunity. And a lot of them found themselves and just as racist as environment, but looking nice on the outside, right? Just as much racism. Not as much overt, not as much rebel flags, not. Not, you know, no Jim Crow, but still racist. Just very slick racism. Not so in your face, you know. Find yourself in these densely populated communities. Find yourself not getting as great an opportunity as you thought you would. But it's something, you got to be called a nigger every day. But they saying it silently. We find ourselves in these dense populations scattered all across this nation. Well, now that we got them separated.

[Adri]

Hit him with that bomb.

[Big Ice]

Hit him with that crack bomb. Because. Because how does a drug travel across this great nation and only find itself in black communities? How? Wasn't no crack problems in Montana. It's a whole great plains up there. Nothing but white folks, Native Americans.

[Cat]

No crack.

[Adri]

No crack. Some reason it only found its way.

[Big Ice]

To the inner city where black people live.

[Adri]

That's something we need to continually address. That's an act of war. That's a war crime. And this is a war crime they perpetuated against their own citizens. And niggas want to talk about who the real Jews are? Does that matter? Does it matter right now? Can we get on the same page about our most recent affliction?

[Big Ice]

You niggas hate talking about problems.

[Adri]

You love esoteric knowledge, huh? You don't want to talk about the crack epidemic and how it affected you.

[Big Ice]

And how it affects your mom and your dad and your uncles and your aunties and your cousins, your brothers and your sisters.

[Adri]

I got a sister afflicted with it right now. We all got family members affected by that. That's the issue with our dynamics. That's the issue with our family dynamics. And we want to discuss it. We want to talk about the dynamics.

[Big Ice]

We don't want to discuss the root cause.

[Adri]

But a nigga will tell you you could walk through the Grand Canyon straight to Africa. Hey, let's jump on that, huh? Did you know? Did you know if you go to Arizona, you can walk down in the Grand Canyon, looney Tunes style. You show up in Nigeria, that's what we want to get behind. Cause a nigga oiled up in his kitchen with a nice six pack. Nigga was oiled up, son. Oiled up, man, look great, great body, great, great abs on that Young man like Ogun had.

[Big Ice]

Believe in them.

[Adri]

Wear the big beads. Wear the big. Yeah, big. Whatever. The big cross.

[Big Ice]

The big.

[Adri]

You know what I'm saying? You know, I got properties.

[Cat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adri]

Spherical crystals got good properties on his chest.

[Big Ice]

Good energetic properties.

[Adri]

Using a sound bowl. Tell you walk from the Grand Canyon to Ethiopia and you like, yeah, we gonna jack that. That's. We on free.

[Cat]

That can't even get in the Grand Canyon.

[Adri]

Get down there. I don't want a. To tell me something. He ain't dead.

[Cat]

Show me.

[Big Ice]

Nah.

[Adri]

Show me. No, go to the Grand Canyon and then. And then go live.

[Cat]

Yeah, go live.

[Adri]

Not go live. Holla at, at and T. You know, go get the white. What's the white name from Verizon. Get that and his crew down there with you.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Adri]

And walk your black ass to Africa through the ocean. Through the ocean. If you. If you go down to the Grand Canyon, I promise you it's something down there waiting on you. Huh? Cuz, if. If you can get back and forth.

[Big Ice]

To Africa, what else can.

[Adri]

That's where Coney 2012 at right now. Yeah, yeah. In the tunnel. Coney 2012, the nigga. What are you doing down here? My soldiers being child soldiers. It's just Kony and It's Coney and 30 child soldiers waiting on you down there, nigga.

[Cat]

Donations.

[Adri]

Nah, word. They got a clone of Dr. Umar down there. He waiting.

[Big Ice]

At ease, my queen.

[Adri]

You and your girl think y'all finna walk to Africa. That's the evil dude.

[Big Ice]

Umar down there.

[Cat]

Yeah, evil.

[Big Ice]

Evil.

[Adri]

Umar, the tether of Umar the tether of Umar, the tether of Umar. He got a blonde Mohawk and blue contacts. Umar Taylor down in the Grand Canyon.

[Cat]

Oh, shit.

[Adri]

But we can't talk about the cracker. Well, we keep talking about it, but what we gonna do? What we gonna do about it? How about we get on the same.

[Big Ice]

Fucking page, nigga.

[Adri]

Niggas, nigga wanna be on the block all day, Dress like a motherfucking. Dress like a motherfucking Q dog. Power Ranger. Just like. Just like the Power Rangers if they had a fraternity. And tell me about how to white man the devil. I already know.

[Cat]

The cuteos.

[Adri]

Oh, shit.

[Cat]

All right, get back right, son.

[Big Ice]

Nah, I'm just saying, bro.

[Adri]

Niggas wouldn't be on the block all day with a bullhorn. Shut up, devil bitch. Yeah, niggas is rude. Jewish. Ish. I told you I'm black. I don't say I'm blackish. Yeah, that's what Kenya Barris do. Devil.

[Big Ice]

Sit downtown and yell at all.

[Adri]

Day because you ain't got no job, but you got a Bible. Now, look, them might really be doing knowledge.

[Cat]

Yeah, they doing.

[Big Ice]

Hey, look, son, I heard say some.

[Adri]

I was like, okay, they do the facts.

[Cat]

They reading scripture to scripture.

[Adri]

They doing the fact. Now them niggas got that.

[Cat]

Yeah, they'll back.

[Adri]

Nah, they don't even skip no line. They don't skip no books. No, no. Let's do the etymology and the genealogy. Yeah, Ashtar was the son of Babar. He was like, oh, shit. All right, all right.

[Big Ice]

They never heard them names before.

[Cat]

Gotta go look it up.

[Adri]

Gotta go look that. I hate that book. That's my worst book in the Bible. I don't give a fuck about these niggas lineage. What the fuck? Jesus on. Yeah, what if I Paul at.

[Cat]

Yeah, what Paul am.

[Adri]

No, no, Paul used to kill Christians. Now he. Now he a Christian.

[Big Ice]

We just get really, really wrapped up into. Y'all have a.

[Adri]

Like that checked up too, huh?

[Big Ice]

Meet that somewhere. Got on all given y'all a check a up. Check that up.

[Adri]

Esoteric knowledge, huh?

[Big Ice]

Telling you the Anunnaki finna come rescue you.

[Adri]

Look in the sky every day, huh?

[Big Ice]

Look on the ground, nigga. Look on the ground. That's your uncle right there laying on.

[Adri]

The ground, still smoke crack. Step right over him, looking in the sky.

[Big Ice]

My ancestors are coming from the sky. They'll be here any minute now. The prophecy has been fulfilled. Looking up dates and times, going crazy like Jim Carrey in the number 28.

[Adri]

Numerology got you out your body, huh? State of psychosis they were supposed to.

[Big Ice]

Be and came back.

[Adri]

Yeah, nigga, if Jesus ain't come back, they ain't coming either. Niggas don't want to. Niggas ain't trying to fuck with earth.

[Cat]

Leave them niggas down the way down here, man.

[Big Ice]

Niggas ain't fucking with that, man.

[Adri]

Huh? They would have never gave their people crack. And Unaki ain't even. They never thought of that.

[Big Ice]

I'm just saying, man. Let's focus on our recent affliction, the things that affect us, all the things that can be tied to our current conditions. Let's learn more about the MOVE group and what they did to make Philadelphia Police Department throw a bomb on them. Let's focus on our recent history.

[Adri]

Let's look back at great leaders who tried to speak out before Khalid Muhammad. Let's look back on niggas who was really doing the knowledge in these last 30 years, in the last 40 years.

[Big Ice]

Let's focus on that.

[Adri]

Do we gotta go back 2000 years and find out who was in the Tribe of Judah? How the fuck is that gonna help us? What you gonna get? You put in two weeks notice. You're gonna get a purple and gold outfit. You're gonna be in the west and yelling at. Huh? That's what that's doing. The knowledge.

[Big Ice]

I'm just saying, man. It's strength in numbers. And if we can get them to. To put the. Put the Bible down and pick up a book. Put the Bible down, use them numbers.

[Adri]

No, the Bible's good. We're gonna put that on reserve.

[Big Ice]

That ain't going nowhere.

[Adri]

They got that everywhere. You get a Bible in jail, get a Bible in a hotel, they got that everywhere. You can do knowledge on your. On your. But can we get the community together?

[Big Ice]

Can you protect the community?

[Adri]

Can you protect us from the police? If you going to be outside all day, protect somebody. Stop yelling at. Damn. I'm trying to go to work. I'm trying to go. I'm trying to go to American Deli. Give me a little ten piece.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Adri]

Huh?

[Big Ice]

Yelling at you, yelling at me.

[Adri]

Look at this mixed.

[Big Ice]

Sir, Sir.

[Adri]

Look at mulatto. God damn, bro.

[Big Ice]

What y'all trying to hit? Yeah.

[Cat]

What's up with y'all?

[Adri]

First of all, my parents black.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Adri]

Nah, N. I see the. I see the devil in your eyes. All right, all right, my bad. Let me get off this block before I pull the switch out on the Hebrew Israelites. Show them what tribe I'm from. I'm from the Y tribe.

[Cat]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Adri]

30 your up. Fuck, nigga. I'm from the 30 tribe. It's me and six that had the same fit on for three days. Ski mask ain't been washed once, bruh.

[Big Ice]

Funky inside that stink inside of that wreak, huh?

[Adri]

But them wreak havoc. Do what I say. So that's my tribe. Sick, dirty young, that grunt.

[Big Ice]

Swiss cheese. Yo, can we focus on our recent afflictions? Why you think them young like that ain't had no daddy, ain't no uncle? Why stop blaming. Let's stop playing the blame game.

[Adri]

I don't like that.

[Big Ice]

Oh, it's black man fault. It's white man.

[Adri]

No, it's the white man fault. Now that's one thing I will agree with the Hebrew Israelites. Have you heard of the CIA? You heard about their work? They do their job, huh? You go to work, you do your job.

[Big Ice]

They do theirs very well.

[Adri]

They do it good. JP Morgan got caught with 200 tons of cocaine that was on the news for one hour. The CIA do their job and they banking on you blaming each other? Well, shit. The black woman feminizing these young men.

[Big Ice]

Then what's the argument?

[Adri]

Well, where was the men at? Well, we was in prison due to the system. Okay, let's stick there.

[Cat]

Let's stay there.

[Adri]

All right, all right. Now we getting somewhere.

[Cat]

Now we cooking.

[Adri]

No. Okay, we cooking now. Let's focus on the system. Yeah, let's focus on that system. Stop looking at your. Your brother and your sister and focus on that system. Every now and then, you rub right up against the truth and keep pushing. These think they better than me?

[Big Ice]

Tell me.

[Adri]

Yeah, women have money because they use government great as they should. If the government gonna steal their man.

[Cat]

They should feed them at least.

[Adri]

At the very least. But feminine feminist movement.

[Big Ice]

Feminism, like, God damn, bro.

[Adri]

Can we get to a point? Look what? The common denominator, the three letters. Who took out your leaders, huh?

[Big Ice]

Who?

[Adri]

Who, who?

[Big Ice]

Who knocked Fred Hampton off?

[Adri]

Who knocked off Malcolm?

[Big Ice]

Who knocked off Martin?

[Adri]

Let's lock in. Let's lock the in, huh? We can talk about the Jews. Who the real Jews is. We could get it. We can get to that.

[Big Ice]

Once we get through the 80s, once.

[Adri]

We get through the crack era, then we're gonna go back through the 70s and the black Panther movement and civil rights movement. We're gonna do knowledge there. Then we gonna go through Jim Crow, we're gonna do knowledge there, and we're gonna leave some breadcrumbs all the way. Then we're gonna go to reconstruction. As soon as they freed the slaves, we're gonna go do the knowledge there. Then we're gonna keep walking through slavery. Then we'll find our way back to the twelve tribes of Judah, and we'll find out who the real Jews is.

[Cat]

Didn't the Jews want to knock Jesus off?

[Big Ice]

Hey, man, look, I ain't no scholar, ain't no.

[Adri]

Ain't no theologist.

[Cat]

Jews wanted to knock them off. I think they went to Caesar like, yo, we got some problems down here with this.

[Big Ice]

I said I seen. I seen y'all.

[Adri]

You get lost in the sauce.

[Big Ice]

I seen a. Tell me on Tick Tock.

[Adri]

Whole chest. Hitler was trying to save us from the Jews. Okay, all right, all right. Don't like that. Not interested in that page. Gotta block that. We gotta block that.

[Cat]

Gotta block him.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Adri]

I don't know what this. This doing too much knowledge.

[Cat]

He in too many back rooms.

[Adri]

Yeah, yeah. He's moving around too much. That ain't seen the light in a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a lot of yarn in his house.

[Cat]

Yeah, he been outside.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Adri]

A long time. Facts. A lot of yarn. A lot of thumbtacks in that. This is psychosis, you know what I'm saying? Once the. Once that arrive at the. The Hitler was doing us a favor.

[Big Ice]

Train.

[Adri]

Once that train start dropping off, we gotta blow up the bus station. Yeah, we gotta blow it up. We gotta get rid of these. The niggas that Dr. Umar can't say.

[Cat]

Nah, they can't save them niggas.

[Adri]

Let's stay relevant. Let's stay. And let's speak in a language that our people understand. Let's stop using academia as a way to shun. Stop.

[Big Ice]

Stop trying to be better than black people. You still gonna be a nigga, huh?

[Adri]

The white folks like you a lot, don't they?

[Big Ice]

Then pat you on the head. They do all that type of. Let you, their wives and all that type of. You marry their daughters, all that type of. They let you do all that. Join the country club, you know what I'm saying? Because you just let them get away with the slick. Cause you by yourself, you dolo. You isolated. You on an island. An island called Nigger.

[Cat]

I'm not black. Emoji.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, okay, okay. Nigger Island. Nigger Island.

[Adri]

He's on the nigger island. It's crazy. Don't find yourself on that island, man. That ain't the island we was telling niggas to get put on, man.

[Big Ice]

Nah, nah.

[Adri]

We trying to put niggas on the.

[Big Ice]

Island for being nasty work.

[Adri]

Not for being coons. Huh? You wanna be a token? Come down to Nigger Island.

[Cat]

Nice palm trees.

[Adri]

Good water. Great water. The ice. Colder. The ice is cold. Plenty of milk on that island.

[Big Ice]

Good milk, good coconut water.

[Cat]

Nice drinks out there.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, great drinks, man. Little umbrella in your.

[Adri]

Ain't this living? Yeah.

[Big Ice]

Show up on Nigger island, first thing.

[Adri]

You get a conch. A conch is crazy around that dancing. Like Cab Calloway. He's showing hands.

[Big Ice]

Oh, don't end up on Nigger island, man. I'm telling you. Dangerous place to be.

[Cat]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice]

A lot of you live there. A lot of you got time shares, right? On Nigger island, it's hard to get.

[Adri]

Rid of a timeshare. Damn near impossible. Damn near impossible to get rid of a timeshare. Hey, yo. Oh, my God.

[Cat]

A timeshare on island. You're never leaving. You cannot forget.

[Adri]

This is like Hotel California. You can come, but you can't leave.

[Big Ice]

Can't get out of here.

[Adri]

Nah, woo woo.

[Big Ice]

Don't find yourself on nigger island, boy. We just gotta. We gotta speak to our people as they are, man. Don't try to use that degree to flex. Try to use that degree to teach. And if you. And if you feel like what you saying and translating, can't holler at me. I know how to translate it. I know academic speak. I know street speak.

[Adri]

Y'all know what I do over here, huh?

[Big Ice]

We don't shut people out.

[Adri]

You ain't better than nobody because you.

[Big Ice]

Got no degree, fool. You're just a smart idiot.

[Adri]

Ah.

[Big Ice]

Remember who you are, man. Lock the in. You affected by these conditions too. It ain't no escaping your skin.

[Adri]

Sammy tried that.

[Big Ice]

See, our boy Sammy Sosa tried that.

[Adri]

They don't rolled out a new vibes cartel. Last time I seen that, he was light skinned. Who this dark skinned? Who this new? Who this?

[Cat]

He had no business. Green.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Cat]

Butcher cream inside.

[Adri]

The melon come back.

[Cat]

Yeah, it come back, huh?

[Adri]

That's like. Like Botox. You got to keep it up. Yeah, it's in the knuckles, boy.

[Cat]

The knuckles. Yeah, the knuckles and elbows.

[Adri]

Knuckle elbows. Just like a baby. A new moon. I was just about to say the same thing. You can't hide from being a nigger, man. You out there on N Island with your bleaching cream.

[Cat]

Oh, shit.

[Adri]

Bleaching cream and sunscreen. But look at your knuckles, nigga. Sammy tried that. Sammy was going toe to toe with Mark McGuire. He was like, I'm a cracker too. Show him some Bobby. I know black. I white man hit the ball like a white man. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth is really Muhammad Ali. Look at that Babe Ruth in the face. Look him square in the face. Tell me that nigga ain't the greatest.

[Cat]

Yeah, for sure. I know nigga strength.

[Adri]

When you see nigga strength. Yeah. Yeah. That nigga used to eat. Eat a cheeseburger, drink a beer, knock a home. That's nigga shit. That's nigga strength right there, baby. That's nigga shit, bro. That's nigga grew up on the farm. Yeah, yeah. He just passable little Sheriff Crawford.

[Cat]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adri]

Had a good in his head, big ass nose. There ain't no Jewish nose. The nose.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Cat]

That's the side. That's the side.

[Adri]

Left hand just knocking home.

[Big Ice]

Big bats.

[Adri]

Big ass bats. Fred Flint stole bats. Yeah.

[Big Ice]

Ready?

[Adri]

It's the game over, man. I'm trying to get on these, man. Dave Rud. That's why I call them Babe. Yeah, Named A candy bar out, and it's chocolate.

[Cat]

Try to go up to Harlem.

[Adri]

Try to go to the Cotton Club. Niggas at the Cotton Club, Babe Ruth. Why you think. Why you think? The Baby Roof bar, Chocolate. They're trying to tell you they could do the knowledge. You niggas love esoteric knowledge, right? That was a black dick. Big, Big bat. Big D. Big fat, big dick. Oh, my God. Oh.

[Cat]

Oh.

[Big Ice]

Oh, my God.

[Adri]

Oh.

[Big Ice]

All right, we gotta take. We back. All right, guys, I'm just saying let's lock in, man. Let's get on the same page about things. Let's address our problems and let's find solutions in a common place. Let's stop. Let's stop. We aren't. We. Are we at home plate? Stop worrying about getting on second base and let's get the first base together. A lot of you niggas get on first base, start trying to steal bags, trying to show off. It ain't that deep, man. There ain't enough. You. You can't think your way out of a condition. It got to be a collective effort, because it was collective effort to put you in one. So you can read all the books you want, you can get as many degrees as you want, and them still your people in them conditions, and you can think you better than them, and you can live the rest of your life in them. You can isolate yourself and you can live without community. But it takes a collective effort to get you out of condition that it took a collective effort to put you in. So let's focus. Let's lock in 40 years. 40 years. 20. 20. What is it? 19? 20. 85 to 20. Fuck 20.

[Cat]

85.

[Big Ice]

We'll be dead trying to put niggas back on crack. But let's lock in 40 years. Last 40. 40 years going back to 85. And. And let's really pay attention to what's going on out here. Is that. Is that 80 years?

[Cat]

What? 20. I mean, 1985.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, that's. That's 40 years. That's 40 years. Let's lock in.

[Cat]

Because I was born in 89.

[Big Ice]

Yeah.

[Cat]

I'm 35.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, and I'm 30. Okay. Yeah, the last 40 years.

[Adri]

That's the knowledge. That's. That's the. Like.

[Big Ice]

That's the place we should operate in because it dictates so much about where we at now. There was so much economy laws. There was so much community laws. There was so much family laws. There was a lot of dynamics, laws.

[Adri]

A lot of lives lost, a lot of minds lost. We lost a lot in 40 years. And we trying to get it all.

[Big Ice]

Back by hustling and doing LLCs and being CEOs.

[Adri]

That ain't how you gonna get it back.

[Big Ice]

Cause what you're doing is you go back and you trying to exploit your community. Cause a lot of y'all do business like crack dealers.

[Adri]

You look at your community as custos as.

[Big Ice]

As clientele.

[Adri]

No, these are people. And these people work hard for their money.

[Big Ice]

I understand inflation, but goddamn, a haircut.

[Adri]

Ain'T $100 not to. I don't give a fuck how rich your clients is. Nigga, a haircut ain't 50 is pushing it. But I. But I understand the economy. 50 is cool, but a haircut ain't no hundred dollars shouldn't cost motherfucker $500 to get their hair done. And you talking about, bitch come and come with your hair washed. No, that's not how we do this.

[Big Ice]

Stop hustling.

[Adri]

Y'all niggas got business mentality like crack dealers. You think if you buy, if you open up a restaurant, you compete, treat the patrons like shit. You're in the service industry. You think you had to be nice to people as a. As a waitress. Think about how nice you gotta be the motherfucker now that you own it. Cause motherfucker destroy your Yelp reviews. Won't nobody come to your shit. You get in the service industry, and then you don't want to do service. This doesn't make sense. We're hustling backwards. You could talk to crackheads crazy. They're feigning for it. Nobody wants that burger that bad. Nobody want that salmon that bad. Them lamb chops ain't that damn good. They ain't got nerve. No price. Market. Market price. No, no, no, no. Gratuity already. Nah. You wouldn't have to add gratuity automatically if y'all niggas had knew how to do service. Stay out the service industry if you don't want to serve your people. We not clientele, we not custos, we not J's. Nigga, we not feigning for the motherfucking French 75. We not feigning for that.

[Cat]

I'm not feeding for it at all.

[Big Ice]

I'm cool on that.

[Adri]

I don't need the dawn that bad. I can go to the liquor store if I want to get drunk.

[Big Ice]

We coming in this place to patronize your business because it's a black owned business. We want to come in here and catch a vibe.

[Adri]

We want to come here and catch no fucking attitude. With you. Cause you own this bitch. Yeah, you own it now. Now act like a motherfucking business owner. I ain't saying let niggas handle you, but goddamn. Don't handle me. I'm spending my motherfucking money. Who the fuck you think you is, nigga? Y'all getting out of pocket. That's why we need to address the last 40 years. Because the crack epidemic took a lot.

[Big Ice]

From us, including our customer service.

[Adri]

Including the way we treat each other. Cause let a white person walk in your black business and this fucking red carpet appears all of a sudden.

[Big Ice]

God damn fried chicken.

[Adri]

Right this way, son. Nigga. Turn right back into the motherfucking 30s.

[Cat]

Don'T it turn right back in the symbol.

[Adri]

You don't talk to them folk like that. Come on, man, tighten that up. We got a lot of work to do and what we lost in 40 years. And n wanna talk about who the real Jews. I don't give a fuck.

[Cat]

Really care.

[Adri]

I don't give a.

[Big Ice]

About who the real Jews is.

[Adri]

Give a. I don't give a. About the Grand Canyon and how to walk to Africa. I don't give a About the Anunnaki. I don't give a. Who gives a. This ain't no. I could prove. I could prove them put crack in our neighborhoods. I could prove that this has afflicted us. I could prove this destroyed our communities. I can prove this shit killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions of black men or incarcerated. I can prove that shit. I could prove it was a lot of mothers left out here to do this shit on their own and integrate into the corporate world to take care of their kids. I could prove that I had to stay home all day with my motherfucking sisters and being watched by and a lot of young black girls had to become mothers themselves at young age. I could prove that Anunnaki. Kong, get the out of here with that, man. Don't give a about no spaceships. Don't give a about that. Y'all be worried about dumb cause that sued you because you're trying to detach from the reality. And the reality is three letter organizations destroyed your community and left you in the remnants. And you living in the effects of it. And you don't know how to. You don't know how to wrap your mind around that. You don't see a way out. You feel hopeless. Let me look in the motherfucking sky, man. Get that shit up out of here, bro. I'm only on that bullshit. You ain't gonna save nobody like that, you might as well go back to Jesus. Niggas wanna sit here and talk down, talk Jesus all day. We had community when we was in the church. Ain't no fucking community looking in the motherfucking sky for no anunnaki. Nigga, I don't know no nigga. Stay nowhere near the Grand Canyon. Y'all niggas be focusing on dumb shit. Cause you detach em from reality. You disassociate because the work is hard.

[Big Ice]

Community is hard.

[Adri]

Getting back to base and get back to square one and loving yourself again. Starting with loving yourself and then having to love your brother, your sister, the way you love yourself. That is hard. Opening up a restaurant and not treating your customers like their clientele is hard. When only times you see niggas get money is by treating their customers like. Because the niggas is addicted to crack. Do the hard work. It's hard to go to school and learn to trade and learn how to be an electrician. You gotta apply your mind. But you was always getting kicked out of school. That's hard. Teacher was always picking on you, putting you out of class. We know those statistics. We know why you don't like going to school. But that's the shit the government required you to do. Go do something for yourself. Find something that you interested in. Do something with your hands, nigga. Do something with your mind besides destroy. Learn how to build something. All you niggas want to do is destroy shit. And you think that's something to brag about? Nigga, you already living in destruction. You gonna knock down some old. You ain't gonna find out how to start putting the bricks back together. You don't want to see what's underneath that rubble. You just want to keep breaking shit. Then go to prison for six months. Six years. Come back up, pack the fuck up, wall your body up and start telling niggas about the Grand Canyon. I don't even want to hear that shit, man. Y'all be. Y'all need to be addicted to esoteric. That's how you end up in cults that dumb. Do knowledge that you can really see. Stop letting play with your imagination. Because they disassociated from reality and they. And they're charismatic. I'm gonna keep it real. I'm charismatic. I. I throw you for a loop too. I'm keep you rooted in reality. Because I actually love you.

[Big Ice]

I don't want your money.

[Adri]

You want to show me some love on the money. $8 on the Patreon. Buy some merch. I ain't selling no courses. I ain't selling nigga no fairy tale, nigga. I ain't trying to move a to the doctor.

[Big Ice]

Huh?

[Adri]

Leave it. Leave. You leave your kids, leave. Leave your whole family. These niggas ain't ready to do. They're not ready to break out the matrix. Babylon is falling. Now you in the doctor. Homeless, ain't took a bath in weeks. Fighting on the beach. You look crazy. What Nick call himself? What do you call himself? First of all, Diana, what's that name? Nature Boy. Yeah, man. Ain't Ric Flair. As soon as the told you his name was Nature Boy and it wasn't Ric Flair, you should have ran for the heels. Nah, this going on YouTube.

[Big Ice]

Named Nature Boy.

[Cat]

Nature Boy.

[Adri]

Your teeth supposed to be yellow. No. You dirty.

[Cat]

No, no.

[Adri]

You're dirty. You're dirty. Shut your dirty ass up. Sick of this, man. You fall for scams and all the time because you want to detach from reality, bro. Because living. Living life is hard, huh? It's hard being on the thumb of capitalism. That hard, that rough. You gotta have a plan. You gotta have some discipline. You gotta have some ambition. You gotta be willing to see things through. Not take no shortcuts, not cut no corners. You gotta trust the process. You niggas don't want to trust the process. You want to detach from reality and live in bullshit. No more of that bullshit, bro. Ain't no more of that. Shout out, my nigga, Dr. Umar, but we gonna open our school. Shout out to him. We'll never see this in a building. Yo, he's outside. Outside in the snow. Talking about no snow bunny. Get. Get in the house. Get in the house. Doctor. Damn doctor. Get in the house. Why we always outside or in the car? I'm starting to get concerned for Dr. Umar. No be dripped out. Good drip on him today. I seen that nigga had the Pan African Philly hat.

[Cat]

He was outside.

[Adri]

He was outside in the snow. Come on, man. If some shit don't add up, it don't add up. Do the math. Two plus two gotta equal four. Stop trusting. Cause they got an aunt tattooed in the middle of their forehead. Don't care nothing about that, huh? Cause the eye of Horus on his. He done painted eye of horse on now this know everything. Man, that ain't. Look, man, wasn't doing that. Like that wasn't painting on the eye horse and wearing a white tee. Come on, man. All this is facade put on a character. They know how to hustle. They crack dealers, too. All you know how to hustle. All you new know how to do is hustle and they trying to hustle you. That's what they see the black community as, something to come up off of. Talk about black people spending power and then try to exploit you. And they ain't leaving you with not nothing rooted in reality getting you hyped up off of fabrication, fairy tales, hyperbole, allegory. You can hype you in the girl you ain't even know about the Grand Canyon, huh? Go down there and meet evil Umar.

[Big Ice]

And it's gonna be a rap for you.

[Adri]

Evil Umar, he's still outside. He in the cave. He in the cave waiting for one thing. That nigga like is outside. He like the outdoors. He like the great outdoors.

[Cat]

That the real nature, boy.

[Adri]

Umar, new knowledge, new knowledge on him really being in nature. Black queens forever.

[Big Ice]

Snow bunnies never though real rap.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

You're my young men to my young men. Pay attention to the advertisements. Pay attention. What they trying to sell you?

[Cat]

Dick pills and gambling.

[Big Ice]

Dick pills and gambling. Prize picks and dick pills. That's it. They only want you thinking about your dick. Don't even worry about. We'll get it hard for you. Don't worry about your money. We'll spend it for you. Don't you like. Don't you like basketball? Yes, we'll spend it for you. You don't want to take a gamble on stock market. You ain't got no money for that. I don't fuck with the stock market. I fought with no gambling. Can you save money?

[Adri]

God damn. You ain't no corporation.

[Big Ice]

You ain't no LLC nigga. You are an individual. How about you save $10,000 before you.

[Adri]

Start talking to me about stocks? All these doing is hustling. All they doing is hustling.

[Cat]

That's it.

[Adri]

You tell a that work at the warehouse.

[Big Ice]

They invest in stocks.

[Adri]

Use the stocks that you own. You like Nike won't. You invest in like. Shut the up. Shut that up, man. I want to hear that, man. All you doing. We are affected. You know what the new epidemic in the black community is? Is out here full of trying to hustle, trying to leech off of you see in a disarray and trying to take advantage. They seen the play the government put down. They say let me put my hat in, huh? Let me put my hat in there.

[Cat]

Let me get rich off that.

[Adri]

Let me get rich off of that. Let me get rich off a desperation. What was it?

[Big Ice]

It? It was.

[Adri]

It was Amazon. It used Amazon links before. Yeah, yeah, Let me do that. I sell products for Amazon. Amazon don't need your help to. Bail's got $100 billion. You think he needs you to help him sell some food? Look like he got it taken care of. Nigga got robots. You think you helping? Come on, man, get off the. Man get off the, bro. Niggas is on.

[Big Ice]

Bullshit.

[Adri]

For real. I don't got time for that. You know what's real? I get in truck. I go out there, man. I take a product from A to motherfucking B. I see the houses getting put up. I'm delivering the lumber. I come back next week. House. It's a house. I can see it. Can't see that shit y'all niggas talking about, man. I'm gonna be a day trader. Get a fucking job, man. Stop playing, man. Get a trade, man. You a day trader. You ain't got no money. The fuck what you trading time. You do that on the clock. Is sitting there gambling all day. Dick pills and gambling. Dick pills and gambling. You ain't gotta worry. We're gonna get your dick hard for you. Don't worry about it. Then what's the inverse of that whole bunch of on here telling you women ain't the prize. You the prize. That's how you end up on red pill. Dick peeled up. No, in her. Rock hard. In the house. Rock hard.

[Big Ice]

No pussy.

[Adri]

That's how you end up at N Cell. That's how you end up red pilled out. Cause you dick hard. You ain't got a brain. You ain't got a blood circulating to your brain. That's what they expecting. No blood circulating to your brain. You listen to a nigga named Brad tell you you can work out three times a week. I'm on the carnivore diet. I trade.

[Big Ice]

I don't give my money to bitches. Niggas is lame.

[Adri]

You niggas is lame. You niggas is lame. You niggas is lame. You niggas is falling for the oldest game.

[Big Ice]

You niggas is lame.

[Adri]

You niggas is lame.

[Big Ice]

You niggas is lame.

[Adri]

Get off the couch, nigga. What my boy said. You ain't doing nothing anyway. Put the dick pill down. Put the prize picks down. Anything Joe Budden trying to sell you is bad. Joe Button prize picks is easy. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. You know, it's easy popping an ambient and waking up at your neighbor house. Butt ass naked. Sick of you fuck niggas, man. I'm telling you, bro, we entered into the de Honorist. Deontay is sick of these fuck niggas, bro. I'm sick of these niggas, bro. All you niggas want to do is slang bullshit. Fuck you 22 on dick pills for, man. If you don't go do some push ups and drink some beet juice and the shit out that girl, bro. And stop playing. You taking dick pill and you ain't got no pussy.

[Big Ice]

Crazy.

[Adri]

And you listen. You and homeless Honey packed up. You and homeless Honey Pack. Honey Pack Don Julio finna each other it, man. The girls ain't coming. I guess I gotta. One of y'all ain't gay, man.

[Big Ice]

Insane work.

[Adri]

Pretend we in prison. Let's play a game. It's called. It's called penitentiary.

[Cat]

You ever been in Nick Island?

[Adri]

Oh, how you play? That is when you and the homies take a shot and then the honey pack and each other, man.

[Big Ice]

Y'all gotta tighten up, man.

[Adri]

I. I ain't taking that serious.

[Big Ice]

That Listen to DJ Academics. Jesus Christ.

[Adri]

Huh?

[Big Ice]

Slap the out of DJ Academics right now. You can make that go viral. And I mean it.

[Adri]

I don't never listen to a. I would beat up. This gonna tell me I mush that wouldn't even. I wouldn't even punch him. I slapped the out of him. That's what you do to out here.

[Big Ice]

Listening.

[Adri]

You could beat up.

[Big Ice]

They want to threaten me with the switch?

[Adri]

How about you switch?

[Big Ice]

Your mindset is lame out here, bro.

[Adri]

Popping dick pills at 22, gambling. Didn't want to say ain't no jobs.

[Big Ice]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Adri]

I just. You just can't do it on your phone.

[Cat]

You gotta get up and get out.

[Adri]

God damn. Go listen to fucking goody mob. Get up, get out. Get something. Niggas ain't listening. I seen a rainbow yesterday, Nigga don't stick to the lakes and the rivers. You used to, my nigga, huh? Go reach back. Niggas was trying to motivate you to.

[Big Ice]

Get out the house.

[Adri]

I nigga, can't get you off the phone. Damn. Watch me on the phone, then clock the fuck back in. Nigga. Listen to Gary Vee, that retarded ass nigga. If you got spoons in your house, sell the spoons. You got about $500 worth of shit in your house you can sell right now. Gary, I'm poor, okay? I don't have memorabilia.

[Cat]

Nigga, it's not fine china, nigga.

[Adri]

Yeah, I'm not gonna have knickknacks. Nigga. We had to sell the china cabinet to get granny God damn wrong with this Gary Vee. Oh, I'm the black community. They're hustlers. I come from the black community. Go. Go to vaynermedia right now and see if you see a. Yeah, you don't. Just him and a bunch of crackers lying. Damn. What. What about the media tag at? I ain't seen them do no advertisement. I just see this old want to keep telling me about his daddy wine business and how he got it out the mud. You got. Your dad had a business? Oh, he was just doing 3 million a year. Just.

[Cat]

Just 3 million.

[Adri]

You ain't no hustler. Cause you was a up. You tell niggas and F's in school. But my mom, she gave me grades. Shut your ass up, man.

[Big Ice]

I don't want to hear that, man.

[Adri]

Tired of you niggas, man. Tired of you in your courses. I'm tired of you niggas in your bullshit. Sign up for my. I got an ebook right now, day trading 101.

[Big Ice]

I don't want to.

[Adri]

I don't want to hit no links. I want to hit on links, bitch. I don't want your only fans link. I don't want your day trader account. I don't want none of that shit. Damn. You can't tell me right now. If you can't tell me right now what to do in a minute on this motherfucking reel, I don't want nothing to do with it. Sick of you niggas and this bullshit, man.

[Big Ice]

We gonna get to some of these emails, man. I'm tired of yelling at you niggas today, man.

[Adri]

We gonna get to some of these. Go to Nigger island if you want to. Fuck it. Fuck it. Fuck it. Why not just go to Nigger Island? Why not, man? It's a spot waiting for you, man.

[Big Ice]

I'm gonna give some of these emails so we can talk Kendrick, man. On the patreon ass, man. Hate these, bro. I hate this and I hate that. Fall for it. Try to go back and forth in the comments with me.

[Adri]

But listen to Tony the closer.

[Big Ice]

Shut your ass up, man.

[Adri]

Didn't Meek Miller his like no, y'all.

[Big Ice]

Don'T respect like that, y'all.

[Adri]

That'd be the y'all to get off a.

[Big Ice]

If he was really out here helping.

[Adri]

And and that happened, that'd make you.

[Big Ice]

Stop listening to A. That's really giving you the game. Come on, man. Don't know which way to go. Hey, Deontay, big ice cup. Big fan of your work on YouTube and tick tock. And I'm proud of you for being you because it's helped me realize that it's okay to be me. Hey, shout out to you.

[Cat]

Do the knowledge.

[Big Ice]

Do that knowledge. I'm emailing y'all because I need a helping hand leading me in the right direction. But I'm trapped in my head 25, 8 and I can't find a way to get out of my head and into a bag. I tried enrolling into my local community college to get a trade there, but I feel like all they want is money and to leave me broke. And I've been applying to jobs since 2022 with no availability. I type all that to ask what pushed you in the right direction when you were lost. Thanks for reading and I wish everyone the best. Hey, check me out, bro. Everybody wants your money. There ain't nowhere you gonna go in the United States of Elon Musk, and they ain't gonna want your fucking money. All right? The thing about a trade is once you get. Once you get applied and once you start applying that trade, you gonna make the money back. I would say if you are at your local community college. What I did is went to my community resource center and nine times out of ten they have grants available for trades that would be welding, that could be electrician, H vac, plumbing and CDL work. I've seen grants for all of those trades and that was in a small town in Alabama. So I'm pretty sure wherever you are there they have it available. They will get you enrolled yourself, they will get you enrolled themselves, they'll schedule your start date and all you got to do is follow through by showing up and running the course. It sound like you just have a big fear of either failure or success, and that's common. Sometimes we fear success just as much as we fear failure because we don't know anything in between. But trust me, like, you gotta. You gotta jump. You gotta jump off the pot. You know, saying that school, all they want is money. Everybody know that. But trade school, it's a little bit more of a low barrier of entry. Okay? You get your trade, you'll be shit. If you. If you do get into your trade, you'll be able to pay back whatever you pay for school in three months. Trust me. And nine times out of 10, if they give you a grant, as long as you employ it for a year, you got that scot free anyway. Only thing you probably got to pay for is licenses and certificates. So jump off the pot, bro. No matter what you do at Every turn, they're gonna want something from you, whether it be your time, whether it be your money. But you gotta weigh the risk of what you willing to do. If you have the ambition to make it work, then you'll make it work. But ain't nothing ain't. You ain't gonna get no free rides out here. So lock in. Try to go back up to that trade school at the community college. Start small, start somewhere, but set an obtainable goal. Okay, going to a trade school, that's an obtainable goal. Just go get your cdl. That's an obtainable goal. It's a lot of attainable goals. High percentage barriers of entry. All you got to do is choose one and stick with it. If you try to change your mind later, at least you got the ball rolling. And oftentimes, once you get that ball rolling, you start understanding that every field has its own specialties and its own branches. You can branch off to. You go to school for welding. Then you start learning about marine welding. You start learning about all the different types of welding that you can do that can bring in a lot of income. Or you go, you. You get your cdl, then you learn about sand pulling out there at the oil fields. Make buku money. Same thing goes with welding. Same thing with H vac. Everywhere they build in the house, they need H Vac, and they building them houses like a motherfucker. I do it every day, so just choose something and stick with it. And I would say give yourself permission to make mistakes, but also give yourself two years on whatever you choose. You got a lot of life in front of you. How old you say you was? 22. You didn't say how old you were, but either way, you seem like a young man. You got time, man. You got two years to invest into something. Give yourself two years and see where you at. A lot of things can change in 60 days, so imagine what'll happen in two years. Just stick with something, man. We believe in you. You got this shit. This one is. Oh, okay. This one is marital strife. Hey, Deontay. And Big Bookie Het Cat. This is length, lengthy to preface. Love the podcast y'all really be doing. Y'all on the camera. Got me out here doing the knowledge. Keep up the good work. Sorry if there are some typos. I'm typing off my phone. Me and my wife are having problems in our marriage, and due to other circumstances, we are both pos. Possibly contemplating divorce or a radical lifestyle decision in the future. Any advice for me? Pretty young guy, 24, about to be 25 in July. My wife and I have been together since May 2020. Got married in October 2022 while I was in the Navy. I still am stationed in Jacksonville now. Our first relationship, we had ups and downs like any other relationship. But I had a crazy secret I was keeping from her. I was freaked out. I was watching porn every day. When I wake up, I beat off. I go home, I beat off before I shower, I beat off. It's crazy. Buy OnlyFans, have some videos downloaded for when I'm underway. Twitter, bookmarks, everything. Yeah, porn addiction, brother. It's not freaked out. She had a bank statement and questioned me about the only fan charges. I was embarrassed, so I lied about it and successfully gaslit her. Not my proudest moment to add some context as well. At the time and even up until recently, I was steadily gaining a lot of weight. My body image and self confidence was declining. Moving on. After the bank statement, I canceled all my only fans but was still watching porn every day until she went through my phone while I was sleeping. Everything came to light. That was late July 2023, not even a year into our marriage. I was doing her bad. She laid down some boundaries and said divorce was on the table if I didn't clean up my act. So I did stop cold turkey with everything related to porn. It was difficult, but coming up on almost two years clean in a short five months. There was a span of four months between May 2024 and August 2024 where we weren't having sex because I felt so out of my body. I was £367 in the military. It was getting hard just to walk around with my legs and my ankles. Shit would ache. So I didn't feel comfortable having sex with her, which I communicated in passing, but really didn't have an explanation for her. The hardest part is all of this is me trying to gain her trust back after what happened. And I understand that takes time and effort on both our parts. But it's been the little things since we moved to Jacksonville that have been really causing some missteps. I'm more of a you help me, I help you type of guy in relationship. I could be Mr. Provider on certain occasions, but it's not sustainable for me in the long run. My life. My wife has. Oh, my wife misconstrues this as 5050 or tit for tat. And I get the impression that sometimes I'm just a bank account. I'm supposed to go to work and die on a boat or something. For example, we got a rescue named dog named Riley in June and she was having a trust some trouble adjusting to her new diet. So she threw up a few times inside and out on different occasions. One time I was getting ready for bed and climbed in, turned on and was turning the lights off when my wife came in and asked me to clean up her throw up off the patio, low key. I was annoyed because I was already in bed, but I relented and went to clean it up but was upset she didn't try to do something before she asked me for help. That was just the way I was raised. If you're going to ask for help, at least try to attempt first on your own. I said something about this to her and it led to a huge argument. I have more examples, but this is kind of long. Things like the examples above are happening more often now. She's saying she can't do it anymore and I'm taking it as she quite possibly wants a divorce. How should I proceed? It seems like I'm just be completely honest with you. It seems like that's the only option. This doesn't seem like anything repairable because if y'all don't share like a moral ethic, like if it's 50, 50 or Tiffany, first of all, if you're in a relationship and it's not a reciprocal relationship and it's like you do something for me, I do something for you, that ain't gonna last long nowhere because then there's no, there's no thoughtfulness in it. You know what I'm saying? You're not just buying flowers just to buy flowers. You buying flowers and hope she gonna do something else. Now I, you know, think about the, I mean, if it's your dog, you know what I'm saying, then yeah, go clean up a throw up. If it's a dog y'all got together, she could have cleaned that shit up. She could have, yeah, but that's not here or there. It seems like y'all just don't share the same perspective. I mean, y'all are in the military, y'all got together and you got married within two years. That's crazy. You don't even know a person for real in two years. You gained a lot of weight, you have a lot of self confidence issues and you had a porn addiction. I mean, these can all be alarming things for somebody. So you have to understand her perspective as well. Sex is very important for young people and sex is very important in a marriage period. So you are not very Forthcoming about your reasoning on why you do things, and then you just expect her to understand. And I also think that. I just don't think y'all are compatible. It doesn't seem like y'all are two compatible people. I don't think a divorce is the worst thing that can happen in the world. It may hurt, but honestly, in a marriage, from my perspective, I've always been a provider first type man. That's how I was raised. I've only seen men provide. I. I understand that it can be a thankless job at times, but hey, when you providing and you know you got your old lady staying home with the kids and taking care of the household and making sure all your clothes washed, that's a hard job too. So if y'all are both working and y'all should both be sharing the responsibilities and y'all don't have to worry about 50, 50. I think y'all niggas need to get off the Internet and stop letting the Internet dictate to y'all how you should behave in a relationship. And y'all should really talk to each other and see what works best for y'all. Because it seems like you don't want to do nothing if nothing's being done for you either. So it seems like it's two selfish people trying to figure out how to navigate being selfish and selfless at the same time. You know, nobody wants to give more than they can take, and that's a problem.

[Adri]

Usually.

[Big Ice]

If she's presented you with a divorce option already, she's pretty much made up her mind she could live without you. If she's saying she can't do this no more, like this is something she's already thought about. Y'all have been through too much in such a. In a five year period. The first five years, it shouldn't be like this. You know what I'm saying? You got problems, but God damn, you know what I'm saying? So if there is no infidelity, you know, infidelity is usually the thing that kind of like send things off the rails. But if there's no infidelity and y'all acting like this, then there's just no compatibility. And you need to be willing to let this go while you're young. Instead of holding on and further damaging yourself and your self esteem, work on yourself. You already got the porn thing out the way. Don't fall back on that. You know, you in the Navy. Work out. Use the resources available to you to get your eating under control, to get your Go to therapy, use the resources, but get out this marriage, you know, because she want out and you want in. And this doesn't bode well for you mentally or you just went in because you're comfortable and you still got some self esteem issues. So you just want somebody to be there and that's a sign of codependency. The natural course that this is going to take is y'all ain't gonna be together. So you can either end it now or wait till it gets all the way messy. But you got to pull the cord on this because this doesn't seem like. I mean, it just doesn't seem like y'all are compatible. It seemed like y'all turn a fling into a thing.

[Cat]

Yep.

[Big Ice]

So best of luck to you, brother. Good. Good job on getting off that porn, though. We got voicemails.

[Adri]

Ah.

[E]

Hello. Deontay. Hello. Big Ice, Big Gulla, Gullah, Big, Big Taylor, Port Cat. My name is Alexander. I am 22. I'm from. I'm from New England. Just graduated college recently. Data science, engineering. Shout out to me. Yeah. Oh, first I just want to shout out the podcast you guys are doing. Really, really cool stuff. Shout out to. I've just learned so much about hip hop, particularly, like hip hop in the South. I was. I wouldn't call myself a hater, but at least someone who is uninformed, someone who is still like Lil Wayne. I'm sure he's great. That kind of energy, you know, I mean, I've learned so much about. Yeah, Lil Wayne and T.I. and all of these other really cool groups. So thank you so much just for the information. Thank you for, like, the context. Thank you for the history that you guys have given on black culture and all of these uplifting messages and energy that I can, like, bring to, like, friends who are in my life might not be exposed to that kind of stuff. Thank you. Thank you 100 times. Thank you so much. This is very specific. Thank you for putting me on to Adri. I really, really enjoy Adri's videos and I really enjoyed your episode with Adri. I think she's a really great, like, I guess maybe force in like the hip hop online sphere. So thank you for that specifically. Yeah, thanks a lot. As far as my advice. Yeah. So like I mentioned, graduated recently.

[Big Ice]

Ish.

[E]

I've been struggling to find a job and I. I've been doing what I can while I can. So, like, I'm at home. So. All right, how can I build skills and then how can I try to build community where I'M at. While I'm still here. So I had an idea recently to try to start trying to. Sorry. I wanted to. I had an idea for a community project that I wanted to try to start in my neighborhood and I finally gotten to the point where it's like, all right, time to stop theorizing and like actually start going outside and talking to people. And I just got hit with that wave of ah, don't do that. Like just like internally that kind of apprehension and fear. So first maybe just would love a little support. You just like words of support for someone who like has an idea, wants to try to bring it to people, but just doesn't. Loki doesn't have other people around him saying like, oh, you should do this. Oh, this is a good idea. This is really cool. And just is very nervous about like talking to new people and just talking to people who. I don't know whether they're going to be interested or not or whether they're going to like view this kind of thing positively, whatever, all that stuff. But just, just feeling like, like I. I'm not sure if I'm ready for that. That'll kind of just that whole sphere of a little, A little, A little positive, you know, imagery or you know, would be. Wouldn't be nice for that. As far as the actual advice I want to ask.

[Big Ice]

You got a little long winded. You only got three minutes. But I, I think first of all, shout out to you, bro, that's love. Yeah. Showed a lot of love, a lot of charisma. I could tell you, like kind of probably a naturally funny guy.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

I think if you, if you're being honest to have an idea and then just to present it to people is going to sound salesy. And that's not very. People aren't very receptive to like just your ideas. So what you need to do is build up some local notoriety. The way that you do this is you frequent black spaces. So if there's a place where they do slam poetry or live music, if there's a black owned coffee shop, black owned bookstore, you find black spaces and you visit them frequently to the point where people know your face, you sitting in. You know, you say you in New England. I don't know if you in the Boston area, but you know, they have rich black communities up there, like historic black communities in Boston. And wherever the concentration of black people is, you need to frequent those places. That's how you build community. You build a familiar face. You start talking to people. Naturally you in social spaces People are gonna talk. I wouldn't say present your idea right away. I would say present yourself. That's the only thing people need to know about you. Once they know a little bit more, naturally the conversation will lead into what you're interested in. And then you could present your idea in an organic way. Just going out and saying it to people is gonna be like, what this nigga, the feds? Like, what the fuck? It's gonna feel off, you know, and it's also gonna feel like you come in with an agenda, and nobody likes that. I would say, you know, immerse yourself in a community that you wanna be a part of. Immerse yourself in a community where you have the idea centered around and get to know people in those spaces first and understand that if you have an idea, somebody else does, too. So there's probably already people doing organizing and community work. Try to get yourself involved with them first before you try to take the lead. Learn how to organize, learn how to do community work and what that looks like from people that are practitioners. And you're going to be fine. I mean, you definitely have the passion. You have charisma, of course, you have anxiety, which everybody has when you go into new things. And that's natural. But the only way to, like, really deal with your anxiety is to overcome and persevere. So just put yourself in the spaces where these people are, and then give it time. You know, just because you have this great idea right now doesn't mean you have to be rolled out tomorrow, you know, for six months even, to go visit places to the point where people know you by your first name. Naturally, the idea of community is going to come up around black people.

[Adri]

Naturally.

[Big Ice]

That's when you. That's when it's your time to shine. Right now. Sit back, immerse yourself. Get, you know, integrated, get yourself comfortable. You know, build trust, build relationships. Then you go from there. Shout out to you, though, bro.

[F]

Yo, yo, what up, what up, fam? Hey, man, look, I told y'all before I was binging since December. I was able to watch anytime I want. Like, every time I get home or every time I go to lunch, smoke my little lunch break. I was turning it on this the first time I gotta wait so I'm waiting till the drop so wondering when is it dropping? But I think I remember you saying you were starting to do Wednesdays. So today is Wednesday, but what time we dropping? Because I've been. I got up like, five. I didn't see nothing. Like six, nothing seven, nothing. It's 11 o'clock. I'm wondering what time we dropping. You know when you binging.

[Big Ice]

All right, son, son.

[Cat]

Fenie for the work.

[Big Ice]

Maybe you needed a break.

[Cat]

You need some time.

[Big Ice]

It's all good, bro.

[Adri]

We back.

[Big Ice]

We back, brother. All right. Trying to put some cream in the.

[Adri]

Sheets before it's before it's for the streets.

[Big Ice]

All right, so it's Kirk, bro. Kirk and black Wall street is his song but he needs advice before. What's up Deontay? Big ice cup. Huge fan of the pod. Love the messages on black unity and community being pushed on your platform Semi long message alert but I'm promise to get to a point a need advice also for the song submission. All right, we got you. Me and my girl both 32, been dating for almost two years and now I want to take the next step with her because our relationship is going well. We communicate on point. She respectful about her paper. She just wretched enough to go off on a but ladylike and company events too. We read this.

[Adri]

Did we read that?

[Cat]

I don't remember that.

[Big Ice]

Held her down bills two degrees. You remember that? I think we read this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you're a piece of. Hold on we'll play your song though.

[Cat]

Is it him though?

[Big Ice]

It is. Yeah.

[Cat]

Because the baby she wouldn't have had a baby.

[Big Ice]

No 7 year old special needs.

[Adri]

Yeah, yeah.

[Big Ice]

You're a piece of. But we're gonna play your song. Yeah. This my time to speak my piece because not doing this for so long has been a pit on the leash Gorilla in a coupe I know they want to contain the beast but making up for lost time so I can make ends meet earn my keeps it's fine if y'all want to stay sleep I'm still pushing out game that I.

[Adri]

Know.

[Cat]

That wasn't it.

[Adri]

You did all that build up to that bullshit.

[Big Ice]

That shit was ass, bro. Long build up to a bunch of bullshit.

[Cat]

I just want to say one thing. Yeah, that's the one with the special needs.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Piece of shit on and off the track. Fuck you.

[Cat]

First of all, that girl almost died.

[Big Ice]

Yeah. Her first time having a baby. We heard this at the live show. Everybody hates you. Yeah. Including us. Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. On your mentality and your music. This is. Let me see who this is. That guy.

[Cat]

Yeah, man. That girl almost died the first time she.

[Big Ice]

Yeah. This nigga's bugging, man.

[Cat]

Now he gave me an ultimatum. Have my baby will be breaking up. What he said.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, man. That nigga's bugging, man.

[Cat]

Bugged out, man. That girl's traumatized.

[Big Ice]

I mean, yeah, naturally, right?

[Cat]

Yeah. He almost died giving birth, bro. What you think?

[Big Ice]

That nigga's a piece of him.

[Cat]

Yeah. And then she got a special needs son. That's a hard time. That's a hard job on his own right there.

[Big Ice]

That. That's. That's the work.

[Cat]

Yeah, that's the word. How about be more supportive?

[Big Ice]

How about get out the fucking booth, nigga? Yeah, get out the booth. Get in the community. Go work with some special needs kids so you can see what she enduring. Yo, relative relatively new listener. Love the pod, Love the takes. Recently started making music. Recently started making music. Recently started making music.

[Cat]

Okay.

[Big Ice]

Wanted to send some songs. These are the first songs I ever made. Oh, brother.

[Cat]

Here it is.

[Big Ice]

Fool me, fool me Friday freestyle.

[Adri]

Break yourself, fool what you did to my curt watch. When do you climb that fool before you get blasted on with what? You ain't got nothing, man, this looking.

[Big Ice]

Fly for the reaper talking crazy he.

[Adri]

Get hit with that heater on a.

[Big Ice]

Freaky lady Word up to Karisha rapping.

[Adri]

Like the punch Got a uppercut feature pop up at the party hold up, Keeper street.

[Big Ice]

Great beat selection. You are not ready to start submitting your music. You need to get in that booth, get that pin moving for at least another year. Stop some in music. You're not ready for this.

[Cat]

Because if you send some like that again, we're gonna put you. We're gonna add you in the group chat with Roots.

[Big Ice]

Yeah, and.

[Cat]

And what's the thing, matter of fact, that all you.

[Big Ice]

All y'all go on island. And that's where you get your raps off.

[Adri]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

You're not ready. Great beat selection. I hear you got the. You. You're clearly inspired by somebody. You understand flow. You not talking about shit. I'm not trying to hear that shit. The quality is bad. You are not ready to submit music. Get in the booth. Just don't.

[Adri]

When you just start. Nobody who gives a fuck what anybody.

[Big Ice]

Thinks, get good at it.

[Cat]

Yeah.

[Big Ice]

Know you're good first.

[Cat]

Keep practicing.

[Big Ice]

Keep practicing. Get your. Get your ass back in the gym. And that other piece of shit, Kurt. Don't never send nothing back to this podcast ever. Okay? We're not the people for you. Nah, you. You, you. You are a selfish motherfucker. Okay? Selfish ass nigga.

[Adri]

All right, that wraps up episode 52.

[Big Ice]

How you feeling?

[Cat]

I feel good, son. I'm not in front of the camera, but, you know.

[Big Ice]

You ready to do this, Patreon?

[Cat]

Let's do it.

[Big Ice]

All right. Man. We're going to transition over to this patreon, man. It's been real. It's episode 52. Until next time, Chris Nicks.

[Cat]

What you going to say?

[Big Ice]

Stay off n.