Hip-Hop Is Weaponized Against Us!

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. What's up, y'? All? Pardon me. I was a little late tonight, but I was on the phone. Important phone call. Yes. And, man, I want to say, listen, if you need promotion on any of your products, it could be your YouTube. It could be whatever it is, man. I could promote it for you for only a hundred dollars. Hit my DM at Doggy Diamonds at Doggy Diamonds. Hit my dm and I could get you on my X account, my Facebook account, my YouTube community, my Instagram stories, and my Threads account all simultaneously at one time. Make sure you know, that's what is called going viral when you hit everything at once. So definitely hit me up at Doggy Diamonds and let's make something happen. If you want to get interviewed as well, man, hit me up at Doggy Diamonds. Let's work out some interview. Let's. Let's get some content. You know what I mean? Hit me up. Doggy Diamonds did this. And I'm also going to need y' all to hit. Hit up the Facebook. Is Doggy Diamonds Facebook. That is the page. Official pages. Look up Doggy Diamonds on Facebook. It's going to come up. I need y' all on that. All right, y', all, I'm here, man. How's everybody doing? So I just got off the phone with my bros, man. I just want to say, free my people. Free my brothers. Free Turf Diamonds and free my brother Snipes. One is in Attica, one is in Green Haven, Man. I just spoke to both of them. It felt good. I'm gonna go see them soon. Marcy's finest. And, you know, that's my brothers. That's all I'm gonna say. But freedom. I'm gonna go see them soon. And it just makes me happy that I get to talk to them and them being in there, you know, they had a message for me. And how ironic it is is that one of my bros wrote a book, and it's about not coming in there and what dudes is doing on the street that's gonna get them placed in there. And then I said, yo, bro, it's funny that I'm talking to y'. All. And I got a show that I'm about to do called Hip Hop is Being Used Against Us on Purpose. And he was like, wow, look how it connects. And my bro Snipe, you know, he's responsible. I don't want to say responsible, but, you know, he was trying to help Casanova and taxed on before, you know, they got into their situations, but he Was definitely trying to help them, you know, navigate out here free, you know, because one thing that they talk about is, yo, you don't want to be in here. And I think where we going, where we at as a community, dudes can't wait to get in there. And I'm talking to two brothers, literal brothers, but they my brother as well, but they, you know, they're physical brothers that been in there for a very long time. That's like, yo, nah, you don't want to be in here. So while you out there doing what you do, navigating, and you got an opportunity to do so much, to accomplish so much, don't come in here because we trying to get out there. But y' all trying to come in here, it's ass backwards. And I feel like in our culture right now, dudes is doing all they can to get in there. You know, you don't want to be in Attica. You don't want to be in Green Haven. Especially when you starting to get up there in age. You don't got 10, 20 years to get a system. You don't want to come out of old man. When you can be out here being all you could be, you know, it's nothing like your freedom, your physical freedom. And then think about what you go through mentally. So the fact that you got access to go in the studio and create into just be able to walk down the block, be able to go to the supermarket, we might take that for granted because we got it. But then speaking to them, they don't know what's going on, you know, out here. And. And only way they could get abreast of what's happening is via myself, you know, seeing me on television, you know, in. In the shoutouts. And, you know, all they can say is, yo, they, yo, bro, thank you for keeping the name alive and thank you for. For continuing what we started in shit. 98, 99, you know, and they from Marcy projects, you know, like, dudes know. You know, I'm saying dudes know. But just when you get that, that, that. That time you where your mind changes what you exposed to. That's why I never been on no clown shit or never carried it a certain way, because I always tell people, yo, I got people on the inside that's trying to come home. I don't want to be with them in there. I want to go see them, do what we got to do, talk, talk on the phone to be able to go home. I don't want to be in there with them. But it seems like everything that we're doing just to try to get in there, trying to be in there, and they using our music, they using our social media, they using everything to get us in there. And I believe it's a school to prison pipeline. I think we're being set up. And it's not new, right? So anybody who think that I'm talking about something new is not new. It's just been going on for a while. Yeah. Stanley, thank you. You know what I'm saying? Graduate high school, you get nothing. Get out of jail. Yeah, that's true. So when I look at the culture, me coming up in the culture, it was a lot of trickery going on because we had something called conscious hip hop. But little did we know the people that we thought were conscious was wild too, right? They had a lot of weird behavior going on. They had a lot of shit. That's why it was so easy for them not to do it no more. You know, we had Queen Latifah, ladies first and all of this shit. And we was really thinking that this what it was. But then later on, we started seeing a lot of people. Lifestyle wasn't really matching what they were saying to us. It was almost like it was some gimmick shit, but they wasn't really carrying it the way they was telling us. But I will give credit because at one particular point, it was cool to [00:07:12] Speaker B: be [00:07:14] Speaker A: anti street and hood. You know, you had crackers whack, you had a lot of slogans, but we didn't know the people that was creating the slogans was also the people who was putting it in the hood. You know, so you had Reagan, the Reagan thing, Nancy Reagan, you know, there's a lot of things I really can't say because of the platform and you know how they do me. But we didn't know that the people who was also making the slogans and the messages was also the people that was doing the bullshit. We didn't know that, right? So I remember being in school, Shine Head made a song about crack. You know, everybody was saying crack was whack. You know, everybody was saying crack was whack. Crack was this, crack with that. But then you go to your hood and then you see the vows on the floor. You know, I don't know what they have now. I haven't been around any of that shit in maybe 30 years. I haven't. I haven't even seen it. Anybody who I might know who partake in that culture, I'm not around them. So I Don't even know. I don't even know what's the, the means of anything now. And I don't want to know. You know, I'm not in that no more. Not that I ever was in it, but it was close proximity. When you. In certain places it was in close proximity. And I no longer am. Are, are not in close proximity of anybody that has that lifestyle because I don't need to be because I'm not going to get jammed up or get put in a situation due to proximity. So I just avoid all of that. Whatever anybody decide to do, salute to you, whatever you think. I got to feed my family. So whatever you, whatever it is. But I me, I'm not around that. I know dudes who consider themselves street guys, whatever. I'm not in proximity of that either. You know, I get to retreat and just be in the crib or handling what I'm doing. My nine year old nephew texts me today, he said, yo, let's hang out tomorrow. Who's the damn adult here? I'm the adult. What you mean yo, let's hang out tomorrow? You know, but a lot of things that we thought was cool, it, it hasn't worked for us and it's not working. And you know, they say doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results is called insanity. And I'm looking at how we really, really are programmed to stay in this hamster wheel and all we doing is withering away. And it's the mentality that we have and it has not worked for nobody. Nobody has left the game unscathed. Nobody's no fucking kingpin somewhere. Nobody's not locked up. Nobody. Nobody is not. Why should I phrase it? Nobody didn't get away where they, they didn't get locked up or they didn't get sent to the upper room in this shit. And for some reason, you know, that's the easy way that we want to do stuff. And everybody meets the same fate, you know, we don't know what happened to Frank Matthews. It's all myth. Well, you don't know. You're not going to be the next Frank Matthews. You're not. You're going to jail or somebody is going to smoke you. Yo, fast money, you only going to end up in one place. I don't care what you do. And I feel like through entertainment, because entertainment is more than music. Entertainment is now. Could we even say hip hop media platforms? I don't even think we could say hip hop media because respectfully, is not too many platforms that talk about Hip hop or review music. It's talking about old stuff or made to have banter about the culture. You know, niggas is still talking about Ethan Takeover or Tupac and Biggie. And yes, that's historical, but nobody is even talking about anything current. And that's how you know something is wrong with the current climate. Because if we talking about shit from 30 years ago, what are we talking about now? And music is coming out. But we, we, you know, we talk about Drake, we'll talk about Kendrick. That's how it's been for the last five years. Drake and Kendrick. You wouldn't even think it's no other rappers. And there's not too many platforms that review music. And I don't even think people care about that no more. So people, platforms have suffered because they want to be music related. New album came out. Let me review this album. Let me see what I say. You know, a source, what's the five mic system, the rating system? There is none of that anymore. There's none of that anymore. So people who probably want to do it don't do it because the general audience don't want that, right? So you get caught up in talking about, you know, who got cut, who got that shit ain't hip hop, but it's so called rappers who were rappers in the street, hustlers on the street, then they go to jail and then they get all tied into hip hop and rap. So when we look at our culture now, if you don't have some type of criminality with you, you almost don't get respected, like nobody really cares. You got to be somebody who's affiliated with something. You got to be somebody who going to crash out. You got to be no joke or you got crashes or you a part of some type of scandal for people to care. The music does not matter. It don't. Because that's not. It's almost like it can't be marketing and promoted anymore, you know. And Nate, I want to, I want to talk to you about that because you said nobody's talking about the music because hip hop is in his worst state. You can tell by the way the artists put together their albums and how the algorithm pushes celebrity knowledge, celebrity drama. But see, that became profitable. The music is not in the worst state. It's really not in his worst state. It's what you are getting on your timeline. You know, Apollo Brown and Sky Zoo just dropped a new album. Rhapsody dropped. There's a lot of people who's dropping music, but they don't have that storyline with the music. Two people who was great at starting controversy and doing something to sell their music is Ross in the game. And it didn't work this time. Not to mention they don't have that major push. So it is a lot of dope music. But I think the way we ingest music now. The way we ingest music now is a little different because it is a little oversaturated. Excuse me? It's a lot of it's oversaturated. Not only that, we don't know how to sit with the music anymore. You know, in the hour of it coming out, people saying it's a classic or saying it's a horrible. It was horrible. People don't know how to sit with the music anymore. First listen, yeah, you're going to give an opinion of whether you like it or not. But I know albums that I live with that I went back and listened to, and I was like, yo, this shit was kind of dope. And how many people opinion can you trust about music anymore if they don't come from a certain cloth, right? Because despite what people might think, Hip hop did not start with Bad Boy and Death Row. And a lot of people think it did believe, strangely, as you think it is. So when somebody say, who's your favorite rapper? And if you say Big Impact, that's cool, but it just sounds cliche. It just sounds like, who's your favorite park Big. It's just, you know, it just starts sounding cliche. And that's why I use this picture as well. Because people, it seemed like they love Tupac because of his fiery Persona and how he carried it. But not too many people knew about, like, Dear Mama and Brenda's Got a Baby When My Homies Call and Keep youp Head Up. A lot of people don't know about that Tupac. They don't even know when I clown. I clown around, when I hang around with the underground. That's like. That's lyrical to me. A lot of people don't even know that guy. They just know Machiavelli. They just know Hit him up. They just know that guy. They don't know Tupac Shakur. They know Tupac. They know Machiavelli. They don't know that he had shit, three or four careers. You had the dude doing the Humpty Dance. You had the dude, Brenda's got a baby. Then you had the dude that had the little hat with the little tassel ball on it. You get what I'm saying? [00:17:04] Speaker B: You. [00:17:04] Speaker A: They don't even know about that and whose job is to teach them that? Because now we're in a state where people don't know. They don't know about thug life. They don't know about big psych. What they know about big stretches that he allegedly crossed him. So it's a career that people just don't even know that he had. Then you had the movie God, you know, they just know it's mob and all that. Because that's when the street organizations really got pushed inside of the culture. Like they don't even know that PAC was the son of a panther. You know, they don't even really know. They don't know. They don't know because they can't sell that to the people. Because unfortunately, all we gravitate towards now is misfortune. That's the problem with us. We love the fucked up shit. We want the worst of everything. So if you're somebody who's clean cut and you don't have that story and it ain't no smut on your name or people don't care. Now look how many people that we follow and we know based off a smut. You don't find it ironic? And this is not to single him out, but look what we know Blueface for. But all we really know is one song. But he's popular, he's known and he's somebody that's spoken about. But you only know one record that I didn't like, that many of you probably didn't like. So then now you got dudes streaming, but they never in the studio. Is everything else. Everything else. They use the hip hop to turn a lot of dudes into Custis. Alcoholics be very promiscuous and just think that they have to have this criminal element in order for people to care. So that's why a lot of people was getting boomed. That's why a lot of people is in prison right now. Because what was weaponized against us? I mean, think about the 90s. We didn't even realize that it was a particular time. Some of the pioneers was promoting getting their nose dirty. White Lines got turned into don't do it. But that was a song that was praising, messing with that Tony, we didn't Curtis blow, you know, like they was getting they nose dirty. Then they turn into Custis. And then I felt like they should have really got on the culture. That's why a lot of the pioneers and shit. I don't really be respecting like that because I felt like, you know, they kind of let the culture down, but they want to walk around with their chest out like, yeah, I'm this, I'm not. Yeah, but you also was a fucking crackhead. And you won't admit that you was a crackhead unless you were in certain spaces. And you watching the cycle continue. You watching the alcoholism, you watching the women. You watching watching people squander their money that you didn't get a chance to get. So it's almost like you mad and bitter and you want to be looked at as some pioneer or the founder of some shit that everybody is flourishing from. But you watching people go down the same path that you went down due to getting caught up. In drugs and alcohol. Then it got regional and this region is known for this, and this region is known for this and this region. And yo, I love regional music. That's another problem, that there is no more regional music. You know, you have music, I remember, I like Mac Dre. I was listening to Mac Dre and Keith to Sneak and Mack Mall and Mac Minister. I was listening to all of that. I ain't gonna hold you. I was listening to that because that let me in on what they were doing, where they were at. You had west coast, but you have North Hollywood, you have South Central la, you have Compton, you have different places. And I felt like when music was regional, I would get to know what was going on in that area based off the region. Now it's just one big sound. But the songs that we loved, we wasn't really supposed to know and sing as kids. You know, a lot of shit was pushed on us and we didn't realize it. You know, when you. And this is not to. And again, I'm not. It's just not singling nobody out. But when we think about, you know, when you heard songs like Gin and Juice, you wanted gin and juice, you know, and then from the gin and juice days, we could see corrupt in 2026. And how did that work out for some? You know, we had badass. We had a lot of people who were passing away for health related reasons in their 40s and barely turning 50 from health related reasons due to having bad kidneys and livers and all that. And that was all of that drinking and smoking. And nobody don't say that shit is just normalized. And it's really not then, believe it or not, in the culture, you had a steroid epidemic. Look that shit up. Now you got an Ozempic epidemic. But it's all used through our culture and people promoting fast results of everything. And it's not working. It's really not BBL culture. It's. And it's in a. And they putting it through the music in the entertainment. Because the minute you see somebody winning or got on with it, first thing you want to do is say, yo, we could do that. That's why everybody got a podcast. When a lot of people are not, I don't want to say capable because anybody could talk, but everybody's not really a good orator as well as they think they are. But they got the opportunity due to popularity. And I could say a lot of people who have podcasts, there's more people than you know, they shit trash. They don't even. They just popular. But nobody listens to them unless they say something that people want to argue with. So that's what I think what they call a now engagement farming. I don't like none of those buzzwords though. But pimping came into it. Pimping came into the music. And not saying that these things didn't exist, but it was a particular point where music had a message. Music was about having fun and music was just dope. Somebody was just rapping. Dudes are just rapping. Goody Mob Soul Food, one of my favorite albums. Goody Mob Soulful, one of my favorite albums. But look what's going on. Shout out to Gip. But every time you see Gip, he's talking negative about Jay Z and Jay Z and that that became the new media to. Whereas some of the OGs and people who are legendary, you don't know them from their legendary status anymore. You know them from talking in podcasts and shows. And people will be like, I don't like this guy. Or people feel this way about a guy. Don't even know that that dude is a legend in hip hop. But a lot of dudes lost their legendary status by talking too goddamn much when they used to let the music talk for them. Some people don't even know that they did this and did this and then they music get done and people throw different drums over they. And you think that this is the new song, but you don't even know that that's his son. So is now in order for people to get celebrated, it becomes how can I say and do something to get attention? And that's hip hop media now. And it's really not hip hop media. It just gets called hip hop media because a hip hop person has a show. So you automatically say it's hip hop. But it's not because now you have artists that are afraid of to speak about hip hop because they feel like if they say something, then they're going to burn a bridge. Media is not about having bridges. Of course you're going to have your go to people that you're biased to. You might have Ahmaud, Rashad, Michael Jordan. You might have had Howard Cosell, Muhammad Ali. But now people are not being honest in the space because they don't want to burn the bridge or offend nobody. That's not what hip hop media is. Hip hop media is pointing people in the direction of good music. And you got the right to critique music if that's what you want to do. But sitting in seats where you trying to be everybody friend and you, you, you know, the podcast dudes is interviewing each other and then interviewing their friends. That shit is not helping nothing. It's really not. And then if you can't get no dirt on a person and they not talking about a person, then it don't go viral no more. Now people will come in here and say, yo, who we going in on? Who we talking about? You know, and. And when you. And when you look at what happened then, everybody was a hustler. And I know from the hood that used to get punched in a jaw, get. They get they, they, they, they, they, they. Pharmaceuticals taken from them. But it seemed like a lot of people could go in the booth and be whoever they want to be as long as they can sell the image and the idea till somebody come and expose them. We are in an exposed culture. We are in an exposed culture. That's just where we at. Like, no matter what's happening, if somebody come and say, yo, he this down the third, everybody will listen to it. And then you got to prove that you're not what a rumor or gossip is. You got to prove it. People don't even got to prove nothing about you no more. They just got to say it. And everybody be like, yo, I heard that's just where it's at. So the music don't matter. There is no media. There is no video shows. There really is no venues. There is nothing. Because everything pertaining to social media is about criminality and fronting. Dudes are Instagram rappers. Dudes don't even put out music no more. They rap for Instagram, they in the studio for Instagram, and the music don't ever come out. And respectfully, if I follow an artist or I mess with an artist, [00:29:42] Speaker B: I [00:29:42] Speaker A: follow you for your art. I don't think you cute. I don't think you attractive. I don't Care about your outfits, your cars, and none of that. That's for, I guess, crazed fanatics that's into your lifestyle. But I'm not into another man's lifestyle unless it pertains to the music. Unless it pertains to going in the studio and showing your creative process or giving us ideas. Because I love the stories of how the music. That's just me, right? I just. I just love the stories of how things was made. Like, yo, what was going through your mind? One time I asked Coogee Rap, yo, how you write that shit? [00:30:26] Speaker B: How you. [00:30:27] Speaker A: How, yo, he just said, yo, I just get a six pack of Heineken, drink it and go crazy. And I'm like, damn. A lot of the major studios is closed down. Dudes got home studios. It's just that again, all types of music is suffering because of, like, respectfully, why do we ever need to know that Chris Brown was a blood. I don't think I never needed to know that. It's not going to make me like his music even more. It don't make me connected to him. Because now dudes are not even making music for people who don't drink, smoke. Not into criminality, not in a part of a street organization. It's like you gotta buy into this image of this person and perpetuate this image with them to even like the music anymore. It's just certain shit we don't need to know, you know, It's a lot of shit that we don't need to know. And I just think that the music [00:31:48] Speaker B: now [00:31:52] Speaker A: houses all of this information. That's it used to be about what's going on in the street, right? To invoke change and be anti the system. Our niggas is doing shit in the music to get you in the system. The prison or the morgue. The prison or the mall. And then we'll look at NBA. Young boy, he's always, you know, he's young. He's always getting bagged. We look at the slide for Dirk and then be surprised when he's in jail. I mean, Sly for Vaughn. That was a hashtag. Sly for Vaughn. And they'll be like, free him. I thought y' all wanted him to slide. What happens when you slide? You go to jail. So Ross will be the fakest nigga because he was a CEO. So fuck him because he fake, because he was really a CEO. But nobody will look at the accomplishments outside of thinking like the criminal. Nobody will say, yo, Ross is a businessman. He got a lot of. Wing stops and checkers and this big ass. Nobody looks at that. Just that, yo, he fake. Nobody say, yo, bro, what does your portfolio look like? Is he a fake? Yo, I can't listen to him. He fake. And even when we look at the verbiage, what is a real nigga anyway? What is a real nigga? Because they appear to be real, they say the right things or they know how to carry it. So the perception is that they real. And you got dudes who don't take care of their kids, do all types of shit that is some fake shit. But you don't know that. So you assume that they real because they carry it a certain way. That's bugged out to me now. And then we do put an age on the culture, but we shouldn't put the age on the culture. We should be putting the age on the activity in the mentality. Because when you a certain age, you don't know better than that. Now you don't know better than that. It's so crazy now that I'm on social media and I'm seeing women that are not real. They are AI women and dudes is in the comments, wild. I'm like, yo, that's not even a real woman. You got perception and you got reality. Nobody wants to deal with reality. Everybody want to deal with perception. So people are trying to create perceptions so you could buy into their perception. Reality is reality. Reality is real. And I think it was first called reality rap, right? They didn't want it to be gangster, they wanted to be a reality rap. But it ain't even real no more. You said I never was about Co. He tried to deny it and play Scarface. Let me tell you something about Cos and I saying this is his case, you know, Cos are some of the most corrupt people. How you think all the shit get in there? So, I mean, one thing that we don't do with one another is we don't give people room to grow. What you said in 2007, you better still be saying that. In 2026, you better still be that. And you'll watch a nigga age 25 years in front of you and you still want him to be what he was when he was 17. We don't. And then we watching dudes who are so called successful, but what they really are is professional trolls on social media. And we like it. You're not allowed to grow up in black culture, period. You not allowed to grow up. You're not allowed to grow up. You have to be that little nigga forever. You got to live in that mentality. You got to keep that mentality. You're not allowed to you. Because one thing is two things that people don't want to be. In black culture. Three things. You don't want to be broke or called broke. [00:37:23] Speaker B: Right? [00:37:23] Speaker A: Dudes will overcompensate to show they're not broke. You don't want to be old, [00:37:32] Speaker B: and [00:37:32] Speaker A: you don't want to be known as a hater, even though it's more haters than you think. It's. It's dudes who. Because now you got these haters that are covert. That's the worst. Dudes see me. I'm expressive. How I feel. You know how I feel about shit. I've never hid my thoughts. You got dudes who will make a fake page and say something. You know how crazy you got to be to get an email and make an email account. Just to fucking make an account. Instagram or Twitter just to hate on some not crazy you got to be. When you could just not say nothing. Or if you don't like something, like it under your name, don't like it under your name. Say, say who you are. Say who you be. You're tough, right? You know how crazy you got to be to be a troll, that you see somebody and they bother you so much that you gotta leave a negative comment. We're not talking about disagreeing on ideology or disagreeing with what was said in the video. Because when you. When you disagree, if you. If you don't have an issue with the person, you know how to disagree. Get your point across without being disrespectful. Look how disrespectful people are under an alias and that. Yo, I'm telling y', all, that be the who you think is not. Remember when they caught, like Kevin Durant with a burner? This is. This is a multi millionaire top five basketball player in the world that had a burner account. So if he's doing it at that level, what you think? A lot of people disgust me. Like, I just be like, I just don't fuck with them. Anything that I don't like, anything that I don't like, I don't ingest. I don't look at shit to say I don't like it because I already don't like it. People I don't like, I don't fool with. I don't fuck with. People I don't fuck with for nothing. For no. I'll give it a. Listen up, yo. I don't follow them. I'M not into what they doing. That's it. Whatever they doing. Hey, I don't wish. I don't wish them bad. I don't wish them well either. I don't wish nothing. I don't care. Care. But people in this day and time will really monitor you and they don't like you. That's crazy as hell to me. And then when you get they weird ass out of here, you block them or unfollow them and make them unfollow you be like, what did I do? I ain't you weird. Social media explains so much. And that's sad because the people that you once might have respected or you once might have had a perspective of social media just straight up and down exposes people. And Lord Stryker, you said in 2026, we can't dictate who can and can't be a rapper anymore. We never was able to dictate that they had the power to do that. What we did via streaming, via direct to consumer, which is a good thing to me, is we was able to take the power back and have people mess with us or not. Like me was streaming. I have a different ideology on streaming because I'm streaming now. So how can I not like streaming and be streaming? I'm streaming right now. This is live 1122 right now. So how could I be against streaming but be streaming? It's just a way to do things. Anything could be utilized. But if you doing it the way he did it, she did it, they did it, then you could be doing something wrong. So you find your way. So one thing I'm never going to do is complain about systems in place because you'll get drowned out and left behind. But I just got to do what worked for me, how it worked for me. I got to do what worked for me, how it worked for me. But the point that I'm making is that the record labels was the one using the against us and we keeping it going when they don't have no control anymore. We don't have to do what they was telling us to do and make us do them. We don't have to do that. We don't have to do that. Should hip hop have a pension for older rappers or. Hell no. When you get money, save your goddamn money. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses and the com is in front and do something smart with your money. There's no pension. That's when they had control. They no longer have control. But what they did was they partner with the streaming Platforms. So you think that you independent, but you don't even know that even they use the streaming platforms as distribution. They use it too. So it's about us doing the right thing. When we get a chance to speak, when we get a chance to talk, what are you really saying? I know I get drowned out a lot in shit, and I don't care. Because a lot of people will say, you know, I'm not caught up in illusions. I'm not in court. I'm not caught up in people who bought views and followers. I'm not caught up in that. And I refuse to get caught up in it to prove that. Because you know how easy it is to buy a million followers if it's like that. I'd rather know that I have an organic following than to know that I paid for something. Because then it ain't organic. That's a goddamn YouTube BBL. So when you see these inflated numbers and you. Y' all still falling for inflated numbers, that's still fall for that. So when people be like, look at your views and you. Is this real, though? Hey, if I did 8,000 on this video and 35,000 is real, with all the shit that I put out in this culture that they've been trying to sound as me for that long, is real. Hey, Israel, that's all I say. Hey, is real. That's all that matters. Is real. I'd rather know that I got organically than to think that I gotta cheat to compete. And a lot of people bought subscribers and followers. They did. But if you think that is real, who am I to expose people? Yo, this is what you think. Just like you think she got a fat ass and the shit is fake or is her fat. I'm not here to try to convince nobody what's authentic and what's fake. Because authenticity don't matter to people. People like fake shit. There's nothing you can do about that. People nowadays can see something plain as day and still say something else. And that's cognitive dissonance. People will see something and they'd be right in their face and they be like, nah. But my thing is, look at it like this. Yo, bro, there's no way to spend this. It is what it is right in your face. Yo, you could show improve. Like when I did the shows, I had Peter Guns shout out to Peter Guns. I had different people comment on different shit about what I said about hip hop. Now they think their thing was. [00:46:31] Speaker B: No. [00:46:31] Speaker A: Hip hop started in the Bronx. It started in the Bronx. It started in the Bronx. I don't give a fuck if it started in Queens. Bronx, Brooklyn. The point was that I thought I made perfectly clear that it wasn't started by Kool Herc. That was the point that I'm making. But look what people would take. Because what you want people to hear, they don't always hear that. And that's not my job to make you hear certain shit. That's not my job. That was the point I was making. So if you missed the point and you want to argue where it started at, when I showed improve to y' all that they was break dancing in the 40s and rapping in the 30s, how are you arguing with me? When I showed improve? I don't care how you feel. Documentation be conversation. And I showed showed that. But you'll still argue with me. I can't make you understand. That was reading comprehension. When you was little, when you read something, they tested you on what you read. Same thing when you took the driving test. They gave you quick Q and A. How people answer is how they answer. I can't make you get the right answer, but there's a right answer. And if somebody show you something, how can you doubt what you just saw? Because of how you feel. That's why they say facts over feelings. Nobody cares about facts no more. It's just how they feel. And we look at these elite people in the culture, and they became multimillionaires and billionaires. And it had nothing to do with music. Music was just the face. Music was used as the popularity thing because they had the voice. So they say, yo, look, we'll use your popularity via the music, and you'll be the face of liquor. Now, remember, we thought Diddy owns Ciroc. We thought that shit. Remember we really thought. We really thought that you had the Ciroc boys. You had a French Montana flavor. We really thought this. So us with that warp thinking, yo, we got to support our own is black owned. It's fucking liquor. Are y' all talking about we gotta support black owned liquor? But niggas, if you come out with fubu, will say, yo, that played out. But polo don't never get played out. The older the Polo, the better it is. The older the Polo, the more the better it is. It's vintage. But if you wear fubu, which was once owned for us by us, because, right, they're gonna buy everything. There's nothing you can do with that. They're gonna buy it. But if you come out with anything that was once black owned, it'll Get a date put on it'll nigga had on South Pole. But you could have on a certain cologne. And all the cologne we wear is by mook designers. It's just the truth. I mean, I love cologne. I love cologne. Even some of the oils is dupes of the cologne. But that's all that ain't dudes who write in exact. But we love cologne. Just like we love the clothes of the people that we so call don't agree with their lifestyle. But we wear their clothes. And then we have somebody that's us wearing. I mean, that's from our communities that make it. We'll say, that shit played out. The older the Polo, the better. Even when they come out and say, yo, we don't want y' all niggas wearing that niggas is still wearing. And even the polo, the dudes that I knew that was rocking Polo, they stole it. They boosted it. [00:50:50] Speaker B: They stole. [00:50:52] Speaker A: Wasn't going in Macy's or Bloomingdale's or Nordstrom Racking. Oh, look at this polo shirt. It wasn't. That was like, yo, I'm taking this. I'm banging this. Because banging used to be called stealing, you know, so with our. We see like that played out. It was so many Don Dada. It was Inichi. It was so much that was ours [00:51:21] Speaker B: that [00:51:23] Speaker A: just got played out. Or they was forced to sell, you know, they was. They was. They was forced to sell. Because when you try to do shit on an independent level, we won't sell. We won't support our shit. We'll just be like, yo, that shit played out. Walk away. I could name all the clothing line that I knew that was made by us. And then the deep. I know people who stitch their own. Then when they go to manufacturing. Remember Starberry had the 15 sneakers. Wasn't wearing them. So I bought four pair. I was like, four pairs of sneakers for like $60. I'll take it. Looking at me. Got on the strawberries, yo. According to him, these strawberries is made in the same factory as them Jordans. [00:52:19] Speaker B: Hey, [00:52:23] Speaker A: I'm weirdy. Starberries. Straight like that. Now you got dudes wearing sneakers from Walmart. But because social media and trend said I say Avia, maybe it's a via, but I say Aviation now is wearing Avias from Walmart sneakers. [00:52:45] Speaker B: $30. [00:52:49] Speaker A: Who said that? That's cool. What happened to one of those, You know, so they use the music to push all this on us. And then it's like a mentality that everybody's developing and the dudes Think they have to be a hustler, they have to be a gangster. The women think they have to be a dot. Or they gotta say they genitalia and music used to be so many different sounds of music that we had our taste, right? Because you know, you had as much as you had nwa you had PE you had Tribe, you had the Jungle Brothers. But then when you think about the Jungle Brothers, that was wild too, because one of them, respectfully named was Baby Africa Bambada. Don't look him up. All due respect. All due respect. And then we looking at the pioneers of the culture, we start realizing what they was into was custies was doing all kinds of shit. And we didn't even realize that all of this shit was being sold to us. And then they get deep because some of the groups that we love, if we really, really listened to, there wasn't really no message or lesson in the music. It really wasn't. And we love some groups, we love what we think they stand for. But when we really, really listen, it wasn't what we. It's not what we really think. Nah. But artists like the Jungle Brother, Dayline Tribe, they not was missing in hip hop. It was easy for them to go away. Now, I don't really know too much about Daylight, personally. I know that they are EPMD and Daylight Soul is my top two favorite groups. Sometimes it alternates, but like I said, Q tip with zulu, zulu nation, 100% fight, rip zulu nation, jungle Brother, Zulu Nation. Yo, when you look at what they really into, nah, that is missing. Yeah, they keep that shit away. It really ain't that. Because hip hop in the 90s was preparing the children for today to be all drugged out. So we say, yo, these little niggas is doing it. So is them. So was they. They was doing it in the 90s too. They were doing it in the 90s too. What was happening was it was made cool, right? Because the dudes who was talking about getting high, look how many fucking songs was about getting high. But you thought it was weed, so it was okay. Now, this shit that they prepared the people for, is that the same shit they were smoking in the 90s? No, it's not the same shit. Me being a black man growing up, I remember having a headache and wouldn't take a aspirin. Remember when they used to have to force you to take aspirin or them Flintstone vitamins or them children aspirin? Them orange tasting, you would not do it. They forced you to take coughment. They used to have to force you to take cough medicine as a kid, you would spit it out. Now it became recreational. Here, come take your vitamins. If you couldn't chew them shits, you wasn't. Yo, you wasn't taking that. Even when you chewed it, it might had a little medicinal taste. I think grown ass men is eating gummies candy that so called vitamins or creatine. It's candy. Look at the label. Look what you eat. Yeah, the fear. I talked about that earlier. White lines. That shit wasn't an anti drug song. They made it an anti drug. And then I'm glad Tam behind the mic is in here right now. Because y' all have no clue what they was doing to the women since the 70s and 80s. Y' all have no clue. You would think that it was glorillas and sexy reds and them. And some of the women was just rapping. You have no idea what they was doing to you. Some of the stories is crazy. And it was some of these dudes that you would call pioneers. But it was all pushed in the music because a lot of things got normalized. A lot of things got normalized to. Whereas if somebody say yo, they said to such be like, oh, that ain't. She knows she wanted it. You know what I'm saying? The is just crazy now. So now when it became about who you stab, who you cut, who you shot, how many years you did in jail, how, how many times you got shot, whether who got goons, who got the most goons, who got this. That shit really did a number on us. And all I'm saying to y' all is that we don't got to carry it like that no more because we don't got to listen to them no more. Now we in a space where we could do what we want. We could really do what we want. We don't have to. They can't market and promote that to us no more. Because we can do what we want. And we have the ability to at least not if change it. We could form some type of balance alternate. You know, if you drink the same, if you use the same toothpaste every day, after a while that ain't gonna work. If you use the same deodorant every day, it's not gonna work. You have to switch it up. But it hasn't been no switch. It's like a decline. And the people who have who we think so called have the power to switch. They not doing that because they are part of the corporate structure. They are capitalists. They into making money. If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. I watch people in power positions who they embrace in the YouTube space. See, I've been deemed as uncontrollable. I've been deemed as somebody who's going to tell the truth in a room. So, not that I'm going say something wrong, because think about this, right? Like, when I think about myself, [01:01:07] Speaker B: I [01:01:07] Speaker A: haven't lost any endorsements for anybody. I haven't. You ain't never seen me boom nothing. You ain't never seen me do nothing. That was criminal. You never seen me do that. But people who come from that state and that space and speak to that, some of the corporate people endorse them and love them because they know they're going to keep it going. Do I come from a lot of shit? Absolutely. But like I said, I could speak to my bros. That's inside right now, and they like, yo, bro, I'm so proud of you. Look where you came from. You carrying it flag. You using the way. That what we need to do. You know, I got bros inside writing books. That's a part of stopping a lot of that. Come all the way in the street. That nigga's in the street is you. How you. How you free? And you want to go to. You want to. You want to go to prison? You want to die? I asked people that. I'm like, yo, damn. Really think this is cute. That was different when you 17, 16. You don't know any better, but at what point do you know better? And you know that you're being used as a porn, but as long as you get chains and whips. Chains and whips. Chains and whips. And sign this contract and you need a deal. Yo, how is it that everybody is signing deals and nobody like they deal? So was the deal really good? How you bragging about your deal and you think your deal makes you better than the people on the underground are independent and then you don't even like your dealers. I'm trying to get out this deal. No, you thought the deal was the barometer. You thought the deal is what made you better than everybody else is independent against the. The majors, against the industry. Yeah, you know, they wanted me. They signed me for this. Down the third. And then you complaining you can't even release music. I can release whatever I want when I want. You can't. But that deal is what you thought made you better than everybody. And then you don't even want to be in the deal. Then we find out you don't own shit. So how does that really working for you? Because they was able to give you a little bit of money and then you fuck that money off. And then you can't even earn right now. And then if you don't have a certain message in the music, how they gonna market and promote you? They're not spending millions of dollars on radio. FM radio, terrestrial radio. Does not matter. Respect to all my radio DJs that that I grew up with and is from. But it don't even matter no more. If you listen. If you were played on the radio and you have to tell me that they played you on the radio, what does that tell you? That means I don't listen to the radio. Why do you have to tell me, yo, they played my shit on the radio. I should be telling you, yo, I heard you on the radio last night. How it used to be I give a shit about the radio. We got music on demand. We want something, we hit a button and get it. 488 wave on all day dsps by doggy diamonds out right now. 488 wave. But now we at a state where people could be in their independence but they want to go under something because they think what you under gives you validity because you are part of the system that you supposed to be fighting to get away from. Yo, I got a deal. Yo, I'm talking to a and oe gonna get on. How the fuck you a grown ass man to get on with who respect? And this is respectfully, I'm not telling nobody to give up their music dreams. Cause I damn sure will never give up mine. This something embedded in me. I used to walk down the street and wouldn't step on the damn crack because the crack was the snare. And if I stepped on the snare, then I was offbeat. And I'm walking in a 16 triple and measuring. That's how crazy I was about music. That's how crazy I was about music. If you step on that snare, you offbeat. The snare is 1/8. The high hat could be 1/16. But then you doing velocity hollow. But the boom boom. You have to walk in the 16th, the 1 16th or the 1 16, triple it. If you step on that crack, you hit the snare, you offbeat. That's how crazy I was about music. I was up when car alarms used to go off. I would hear and I'd be like, I'm beatboxing. Then don't let two call arms go off. And then for a few seconds they was in sync, right? They would be in sync, and I would fuck with them. Look at this. What the. Could this weirdo talking about just the freeze the week he was crying to a podcast full of alcoholics about FBA being hip hop. Now he's saying hip hop is being used against us. First of all, don't block them. Please let me address you really, really quick. And how am I a weirdo? Well, you know what? I'm glad you said that, because now we get to put you on the. On the big screen. Oh, this explains it. This explains it. Look what you into. You into dick eating? None of that content is on yours, but you on there critiquing other people. All right, so I'm glad that you said that. I was explaining to a podcast full of alcoholics that it was fba. So I think maybe you think it comes from Kemet. Look, he said, how has doggy been around music for so long and only want to start crying about hip hop origins in 2026? Could y' all tell this clown something? This ain't just starting in 2026. You just don't know what you talking about. How about you say that? But. But let me. Let me clarify something for you. A table full of alcoholics. First of all, we wasn't drinking. You know I don't drink, right? So you think people are not capable of having a conversation unless they drink? I wasn't drinking. And I'm not saying hip hop is fba. I showed him proof. But I'm glad that you are casual and you could just. And I'm only. I'm only now talking about hip hop origins in 2026. When I reacted to my video the other day, I reacted to something in 2024. So what are you talking about? Just because you don't know. Just because you don't know, you can't speak. This is not a combo for you. And I've had this conversation. I could. I could show improve. But who the fuck are you? You don't even create your. Right. This shit is called drink Champs, you dick sucker. But I don't drink. Because you know why? Because I walk in the room as me, and they respect me as me, just the way my audience and my people respect me. You could even see in my goddamn Twitter. Hold on, hold on. I want to show y' all something real quick in my Twitter bio. Because just because you a dick rider and you put LOL and shit, that don't lessen the blow because you still a bozo. Look, look what My Twitter bio says. It says I promote sobriety. I've never spoken to my audience about drinking and smoking. This is what we talking about tonight. So just because your dick sucking ass came here late, just because you came here late and you are a professional critic, you calling me a weirdo. But you don't even create content. So now that I said all of that to you and you lack proper understanding of who I am and what I am now, you can get the fuck out of here. But see, this is the census of people, mentally, you could be talking about. Because what does hip hop being FBA have to do with it being used against us? That's what, we know that and it's against us. But this nigga think he, he thinks he's. He thinks he's a pharaoh from ancient Kemet, Egypt. And then you go to Egypt right now and it's run by the Arabs. You got to put a turban on to go to Egypt. Now when ketic science predate Islam. But that's where he think he from, knowing his name is Charles from somewhere. And this is how, this is how crazy is. They think they from somewhere else. But when you say, yo, I'm right from right here in America's and so is my family, they want to laugh at you. But this think he from a place he probably never even been to, [01:11:18] Speaker B: is [01:11:18] Speaker A: quick to say they from somewhere. And they moms be like, please, oh, you don't eat poke no more. You was raised off poke. You know, this, this is. Yo, this what I'm saying. The mentality of people, it never ceases to amaze me. I was on a show called Drink Champs sober. Yeah. The Breakfast Club don't eat breakfast. You know, so this is, this is, this is just where we at mentally. So when we speak, right? That's why I like the, the intimacy of my chat and my audience because it's a selective few that kind of get it, right? It ain't about a lot of people getting it because everybody not gonna get it. See, when you hear certain things in your life, and I've had, and I respect a lot of people who told me, listening to me, yo, bro, look how many nights, right, we have of some of our members coming here and say, I'm three weeks sober. I have DMS from people that I wouldn't even put out there who will say to me, yo, bro, I don't drink no more, I don't smoke no more. Oh, you know what? I'mma do something that I never even did for y'. All watch this. Let me. If I could hold on. Let me. Let me find something really quick. Rest in peace. The fat man scoop. I was never going to put this out there, but this is your influence. This is your influence. When people watch me be £300 and I stop eating the wrong, stop drinking and change my life, this is your influence. Rest in peace. To fat man school. This is. You can see this is him. I'm play something for y'. [01:13:50] Speaker B: All. Yo, my nigga, what's up? What's going on? It is 1:30 in the morning. I happen to actually be cleaning my house and fixing my studio, listening to one of your YouTubes. And I am a big alkaline person, so the majority of my food is fruits and vegetables. Today I decided that I was gonna have some parmesan cheese and, like, some, [01:14:17] Speaker A: hold on, [01:14:24] Speaker B: Tomato sauce, like a keto thing, right? So I'm cleaning my house, getting ready to eat, like, in about 30 minutes or whatever, and I wind up listening to your podcast, right? So I'm listening to this on YouTube and you going on and you going in on with Mac and cheese. I don't eat all that. I don't drink soda. I'm. I'm really with the shits. Like, I drink water. I'm. I'm on it like that, but I just want to have a. A snack break. When I heard that, I just said this and went and grabbed the arm. [01:14:59] Speaker A: It was 1:30 in the morning. He's about to eat spaghetti, and he's listening to me and say, I just got an orange. So things like that is why I do this. That's why I do this. Because you never know who's listening, and then you never know who you reach. That was a message between me and him, but I be wanting to show and prove that we hit a lot of. We reach a lot of people. We reach a lot of people. We reach a lot of people. Don't think that what we say falls on death is. Of course, some people are not ready to change. They not ready to change, So they not ready to hear it. And I play my response to him because who knows what I. I'm crazy. Who knows what I said? Good scoop. Stay on your path, man. You know, reward yourself, but you know what the goal is, and the end goal is the angle. Sometimes it's going to be bumps in the road, but you don't want to be something that you caused, right? If you out, you know, you might indulge in certain things, but I don't do it. Because discipline is the key to everything. So stay on your path, bro. You came a long way. And. I got to take this damn thing off. Soon be going to be calling you small man school pause in real time. So don't ever think that what we say. And this is the point that I'm making tonight. We could do a lot more with what we got if we realize what we got. What we got is voices. We got outlets, we got music, we got things. But they look what they told us we got to do. Look what they fund their money to. And this is if I could get a date for y'. All. Hold on one second. October 18, 2023, almost to the day. You see that? Look where we at in a week or two. October 18th. Look how, look, look how again, everything is perfect. Everything is in alignment. Everything is perfect. Everything is in alignment. Who knew that I would play that tonight? Because of the. The person coming in talking about, I'm complaining, you know, because it's a bullshit as narrative out there. Oh, he's bitter, he's mad, he's. Yo, this is what people call you when you tell the truth. The lie is the most bitter pill to swallow. But people will eat that lie pill every day. The truth people rather have a beautiful lie than the ugly truth. When you keep it real with people. When you keep it real with people, it's funny how they don't like you for telling them the truth. It be that people need to hear. It be shit that people need to hear. And if you say it to them, they get mad at you. They want you to lie to them. They want you to pamper them. They want you to pacify them. This is what's been going on in our culture for a long time. They want you to tell you. They want to tell you. Drinking gin and juice, everybody got a cup, but they didn't chip in every. Everybody I smoke, I get high. Look, respectfully shout out to Keith Murray. We thought he just smoked weed, right? Look at him now. Look at him now. We see him in some places tripping, but we remember him in the 90s getting high now. I guess he graduated. If you had known then that he would turn into what he is now, would you condone it? That's the point. I'm saying this shit has ruined a lot of this shit has ruined a lot of lives. But you only see the glamour and glitch. You only see the best part of everything. But then we can't wait to laugh. We can't wait to damn where we dancing and Partying to the bullshit. And then when the end result. End result, because there's only one result, we all surprised. We watching dudes aging 20 years and like five years, and they've been getting high since the 90s. And drinking system, you know what the fuck that do to your bodies. Or with women and doing all types of shit. Dudes on all types of medications and shit like that. Just because you don't know that don't mean it don't exist. Because that's the conversations that nobody don't want to have. Nobody want to have honest conversation. Everybody want to act like it's still up. And I'm going to be real with y', all, right? I'm an end on this note. I know why a lot of dudes are so angry and upset. You want to know why? Because me watching Tick tock, not saying it's writing exact, but me watching social media and what some of these women got to say. A lot of y' all got ed. You can't even pipe your wife or your girlfriend or your girlfriends. You can't. Mario got ed. That's why y' all so mad. That's why dudes is frustrated. Y' all eating that from the gas station. Y' all was taking them bum ass pills and now your up. Now you up. So that's why you mad that you see a nigga coming through, skin glowing, and you mad at me. That's why dudes really, I'm telling you, that's why dudes be mad. Just look at what these ladies are saying. They could be like 27, this broke. Ain't no coming back. You don't know nothing about that. Ashwagandha Black sea ain't giving it all away. You don't know nothing about none of that. You don't know nothing about none of that because you still putting narcotics in your body. That's fucking with that. But you can't stop getting high. Yo, man, this you. You can't sustain something unhealthy for 30 years. You can't even listen to something, nigga once your motherfucking teeth start falling out. And then you see niggas like, pull [01:22:38] Speaker B: up [01:22:40] Speaker A: and I'm like, that should do that to your jibs. Nah, I ain't doing that. That's why a lot of is, man. I'm telling you, be mad. Think a joint don't work. This is being real. That's what the ladies are saying. Is young, too. You hit 70, whatever. You know, whatever. But you in your 30s and 40s, and you just, You know, she's called your manhood. Your manhood don't work. You can't even walk up a flight of fucking steps. I'm just saying don't be mad at me. Don't be mad at me. Don't be mad at me because I'm on. I talk about sobriety and eating healthy and shit like that. Don't be mad at me because I'm not. I don't have no fucking prison stories for you. Because anything that you talk about what you did you should be talking about in past tense. But you think in this culture, you got to talk about it right now. Right now. So what the is going on, man? You got. You got motherfuckers talking about a lot of wild shit that you did to you. This is what I'm saying, fam. It was a particular point. I'm telling you, growing up, I would not. I would have a headache. My grandmother could not get me to eat those orange children's Tylenol. I wouldn't do it. Now you got doing that for recreation. What the is going on through your mind? But when I say get counseling, when I say talk to somebody, you know, then is. Is acting like, nah, I'm good. You're not good. Yo, why you in my chat talking about Africa? What the hell Africa got to do with anything tonight? See, that's your problem. You don't pay attention to detail. You talking about some shit that don't got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. Nothing to do with what I'm talking about. You just talking about what you want to talk about. You talking about plate tectonics. You talking about Africa. What that got to do with what we talking about? That's the problem. That's the problem. Y' all got the attention span of a fly. This at a baseball game yelling touchdown. The is wrong with you? We ain't talking about no continents and no geographical places. And you talking to yourself. That's what I'm saying. The is wrong with you? I. I put up a video about rap snacks, and I was showing the stuff that was in rap snacks. Y' all was mad at me. Why you getting on to this black owned. Black owned don't mean good either. That's the. That killed me, too, when we dealing with. That's. We gotta stop with this black owned shit, too, because it's a black face on it. Because we thought Ciroc was black owned, right? Anyway, it's after 12. I ran my mouth to y' all for an hour. I Didn't mean to keep y' all that long, but it was just something that was on my mind every now and again. When shit is on my mind, I'm going to talk about it. Whether I got 7,000 people in here or seven. But this is what you use your thoughts and your words for. And don't ever let nobody think. Your words is falling on deaf ears. Deaf ears. Because they're not. Never let nobody. Like I displayed to y' all tonight, I never played that for y'. [01:27:10] Speaker B: All. [01:27:11] Speaker A: But never let nobody think what you're talking about. If it's important to you, you have a lot of like minds or somebody that might experience that. Don't ever think what you're saying. If you have a place to talk, speak. You never know who it's going to resonate with. You never know. And I don't even follow Fat Man Scoop. And he wasn't following me. He just DM me like, yo, I'm just listening to you right now. It's 1:30 in the morning and it's like, damn, how the bro end up passing away from health related issues. And it was very sentimental to me when he passed away because I seen him on his journey and his path to correct his lifestyle and he even spoke to me about it. So with that, I hollered, y', all, listen, man, if you need promotion for anything, holl at me. Follow me on Facebook. Doggy Diamonds, as well as you need promo for everything. I did play the audio. Okay, my bad. If you need promo for anything, hit me up at Doggy Diamonds. I'm out of here.