Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: One.
[00:00:01] Speaker B: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Whatever time you're joining us, the cousins. Thank you for doing so. Welcome back to the call your cousins podcast and now tangible group chat of cousins that wanted to share our thoughts, humor, and growth with the world. And everyone's invited. I'm joined today by my co host, P.
Ms. Joy, and the research team.
We got a pretty good episode for y'all today. This is our inaugural live show. So if you're here, thank you and we hope you all enjoy.
So I think.
Pardon me.
[00:00:47] Speaker C: I said, what's up, fam?
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Oh, that's twin, y'all.
Who else we got here? We got the research team here. Hey.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: P Money online. P Money on the line.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: P Money always on the line. Money on the line always at all times.
Yeah, we just some cousins. We just. We trying to get to it. We gonna keep it real for y'all at all times, bring y'all information, bring on our opinions, everything.
What we got going for him today, P Money.
[00:01:28] Speaker A: Well, well, well. I think, you know, we talk about what people can expect from the show.
You know, since we're brand new, we are adding ourselves to the podcast world.
You know, we have a lot of different types of content we like to create that we'd like to bring to the table.
For the most part, you know, we just want to really welcome you guys to the show.
It's. It's fitting that our first debut episode, king deserves Better, came out a couple weeks ago. So y'all make sure y'all go check that out. But, you know, firstly, let's kick it off, you know, with celebrating Black History Month, I feel like, or we are big believers in Black history being 365 days of greatness. Right? And so I think it's important that as you go through our show, you understand a little bit about not only the content that we have, but us as we navigate through all the different areas of life, you know, and a year of just learning, growing, we're going to be uplifting each other up every single day.
So please join us, embrace us.
But our biggest segment, or, you know, I would say the one thing that every podcast that you listen to has covers to some degree, especially among black folks, is the current, you know, what's going on, what's in the news.
Our chat, our cousin chat, is actually based on a real life chat that we have with for generations of cousins. And it really started off with one of our cousins were always going to the chat with. Good morning, fam. Now, I don't know if she just likes to say good morning to people, maybe she's a morning person.
But it would hit without fail, and then it would always then follow up with someone talking about something current in the news or a lot of us are in the sport. Some of us are into black love. Some of us are, you know, on Twitter, some of us on Facebook, you would just see this collective amount of content that would start to unfold. And so, you know, that's kind of what we're talking about. When you think about Good morning, fan, you can always expect for us to go through not only, you know, like I already mentioned, music, sports, we're obviously doing cover politics, things that we debate about not only amongst ourselves, but what's debatable in black culture. And there's a couple other segments out there that we cover. So why don't y'all just tune in? What. What you got, twin?
[00:04:30] Speaker C: What's up, y'all?
I got a few segments that I want to weigh in on. We're not gonna do it every single time, but the first one, booming black business of the day. You know, on this podcast, we want to uplift black people and black businesses and, you know, talk about mess, too. But it's also a positive mission and vision. So sometimes I'm gonna put a spotlight on a black business that I've experienced, and I feel like I love their mission and their goals. What I like about it, a peek into some of their numbers. You know, what how much they. How much a hot dog going for, you know, how many followers they got? So I'll be talking about that. Sometimes we also have twins, tech tips, just various useful technology tips from maybe shortcuts on your MacBook because it's much different than Windows, to even good digital footprint practices. Like, y'all be putting all your business on social media, you know, and the Fed's coming, so I want to help y'all out a bit to. So that if you involved in a cult or something, you know, you can hide that the feds ain't gonna come find you. Also, 40 acres and a mule. We're gonna talk about that later. Since this Black History Month, I'm gonna expound upon that later in the show. And then we have shot o'clock.
So if you got any special occasions, any achievements, any accomplishments, somebody had you effed up or you just had a great day, you know, let's take a shot. Take a shot with me. And then I'm gonna contribute to another segment we have, which I'm gonna let research team delve into. But red flags, okay?
Because there's people out here just living life and ruining other people's lives. And I want to highlight. What's a red flag that maybe somebody don't need to be in your life? No more family, friends, significant other, work, anybody. Any relationship I want to highlight some red flags on so you can find your piece.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: I definitely have something to add. Go, go. But go ahead, research team. Yeah, go ahead, research team.
[00:06:48] Speaker D: Well, hey, y'all.
[00:06:50] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:06:52] Speaker D: The segment that I love to talk about and I'm 10 toes down about on a daily is Living, learning and loving while black. This segment really focuses on black love, black family dynamics, black structure, black history, current old black education books. So everything basically that has to do with being black. Loving while black, living while black, learning while black, which does involve relationships, platonic romantic friendships, how we show up for each other in the world. So, yeah.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: And I'm personally gonna be calling that segment 300 dub 3 of. Yeah, y'all know what we talking about. Living, learning and loving while black.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: Love that. Love that. So we pretty much got something for everybody. Everybody live, literally as you can. Well, you a hear yet, But P is like our revolutionary, you know, super strong. Like.
Yeah. Oh, and I did want to say twin. Very proud of you.
Your words.
Twin. Twin is a little loose with the lips, but we're gonna. We're gonna try to keep it as. As PC for y'all as we can. PC and PG both.
[00:08:23] Speaker D: That is so true. Great job.
[00:08:28] Speaker B: She said effed up, right?
Yeah.
[00:08:31] Speaker C: Take a shot for that.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Hey, go ahead.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: I got the crown with me.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Hey, this is not an ad. It's not an ad.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Listen, this is not an ad. At 11, we're taking that crown.
[00:08:45] Speaker C: We are not sponsored by Crown royale.
[00:08:49] Speaker D: Yeah, it's 5:00 somewhere.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: It's fine, right? Well, it'd be 5:45 somewhere, but actually, wherever you're joining us, thank you for doing so.
All right, P Money.
What's up, man? What's up with this?
Where we going? Where we gonna take them first?
[00:09:15] Speaker C: I feel like since it's still a bit fresh, we can go on and crack it off with music.
What's going on with the Stallion and Cocaine there?
[00:09:28] Speaker A: Why.
[00:09:29] Speaker B: Why is everybody calling Nikki cocaine? I. I think we should put some respect on Nicky name.
[00:09:38] Speaker C: I have personally indulged in the cocaine, and the behavior is kind of given.
It's kind of given that.
[00:09:49] Speaker B: Folks, this. This really is a live broadcast.
No pun intended.
[00:09:57] Speaker C: I forgot already.
[00:09:58] Speaker A: Do not. Barbs do not come for any of.
[00:10:02] Speaker C: Us, Y'all can come. Oh, y'all broads come for me, B.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Okay, so you've had some fun on that little train twin.
What were you going finish with?
[00:10:19] Speaker C: I'm just saying. What's going on? What's going on? I mean, I feel like besides the. The crack, the music wasn't music.
Side note, I have never tried crack, so let's just not. Let's just put that out there.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: What Whitney said about crack.
[00:10:42] Speaker D: It'S whack.
[00:10:44] Speaker C: I don't do crack. I do.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: That's a bar.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. Crack is for pores. All right?
But yeah, it is.
I mean, if somebody with money, why would you cut pure coke with baking soda?
[00:11:02] Speaker B: Whoever's joining us, we are not going to do a deep dive on crack.
[00:11:07] Speaker C: Not. We're not saying if you got the money.
[00:11:10] Speaker B: Cocaine to make crack.
[00:11:12] Speaker C: You do. But why would I if I have money? Can I just stop at the coke?
Anyway, back.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Back to Megan. Nick.
[00:11:24] Speaker C: The music part to me was trash. Besides the drugs or whatever. I love a good disc record. I love a good rap beef, especially amongst, you know, very talented people.
And I just felt like, nah. And it actually made me. We talked about Gag City last week. It made me not want to listen to the album for real, because I'm like, is Nikki not. Has she lost it? Is the talent gone?
[00:11:57] Speaker D: I will say I was disappointed as well, because, like, for hip hop, that's kind of like the basis of it. It's like you go back and forth, y'all have, you know, your bar, my bar, and we. We kind of go tit for tat. I don't know. I don't know if she knew.
[00:12:16] Speaker C: What.
[00:12:16] Speaker D: Was going on, but it was her time to kind of like, step up, be the. The queen that she claims to be. Be this, you know, 10 toes down, I'm about this life.
And she really didn't match the energy. Shout out to Meg, though. She did that.
[00:12:37] Speaker C: Shout out to the.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: To be honest.
Well, clearly this.
This. This collective is a bit biased.
Me being unbiased, because I actually. That was misogynistic and I said that, so I won't say it, but I've only heard each song in, you know, bits and pieces.
Personally, Nikki raps much better than Meg. It was disappointing. So pardon me.
[00:13:15] Speaker C: Get you off the live.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: You want to kick me out?
[00:13:19] Speaker C: Yeah, that's not.
[00:13:20] Speaker B: This is your life, but it's my life too, so you can't.
This is a joint venture.
What I was going to say is I think you. I think. I think Nikki's might have been just kind of a warm up. Like. Like, I got something more in a tuck for you, but I'm gonna just give you this. So it's like, I'm gonna get this to the fans, like little scraps, you know what I'm saying?
[00:13:46] Speaker C: No, but see, why are we giving her that grace, though? Because first of all, the whole song wasn't even about you. And you came out with an entire diss record off of one line that maybe or maybe was not about you, allegedly.
So you gotta come out with some fire. Don't be giving me no freaking.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: No, but what I'm saying is it's like if you got one line for me, you got that energy for me, so I gotta. I'm going to come with a whole song about you, because I wasn't talking about you.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: But it gotta be fire, though.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: It don't have.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: It do though. If the. If the song you're responding to is Fire.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: All right, what. What's the most recent. What's the most recent rap beef that would. That was, like, highly publicized in the last 10 years?
[00:14:37] Speaker C: Drake, Pusha T.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: What was bigger than that?
[00:14:46] Speaker C: Nikki and Lil Kim?
[00:14:48] Speaker B: No, Drake and Meek.
[00:14:51] Speaker C: Oh, I forgot about that.
[00:14:52] Speaker B: Wow.
Wow, wow, wow. Anyway, you forgot about that, but what did Drake do? Drake put out a little teaser. He put out that one song before. Back to back, he put out Charged Up. He was like, okay, this is. This is cool. This is all right. You know what I'm saying?
[00:15:11] Speaker C: Pardon me, wasn't that the Pusha T beef?
[00:15:14] Speaker B: No, that's me.
That was 2015 or 16.
[00:15:19] Speaker C: Okay, now I hear what you're saying.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: I'm charged Up.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: But that was a good song, though.
Which one Charged Up? It wasn't like.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: But what I'm saying is.
Anything Drake. Well, I won't say anything, but most songs that Drake makes are going to be good songs. He can't. It's difficult for him to make a bad song that you just won't like at all.
So when he put Charged up, we was kind of. Everybody was kind of like, all right, this is. This is cool. It ain't like a diss. Diss record, but you know what I'm saying? And then what happened? Meek didn't respond. And then Drake came back, what, a week later, two weeks later, with Back to back.
[00:16:07] Speaker C: But Charged up to me was like a 6 and back to back was like a 10.
[00:16:15] Speaker B: Right? So I'm saying like a 2. To me, I'm saying. Right, But I'm saying what I'M saying is Drake and Nikki come from the same camp. Right?
[00:16:25] Speaker C: Right.
[00:16:26] Speaker B: So maybe she's taking a little page out of Drake's book. All right, you know, I'm gonna give him a little look. Just a little. Little morsel.
You know what I'm saying? Let them eat on that for a second. And then I think it's something else in the tuck. That's. That's just me personally.
[00:16:43] Speaker C: I don't think so. And if it is, we don't want to hear it. After hearing Bigfoot, that's how I feel.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: Well.
[00:16:58] Speaker C: And another aspect of this is, though, for real, did we need a diss track from Nikki? Because the song was really about a bunch of ninjas. It was really coming at them. It was just one line for Nikki. And then you really got mad and went on a rant and made a song that was the same as the rant. It's just like it's giving lazy to me. Girl, if you the queen of rap.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: But you got to look at it like this, twin.
I never put you in a song. Well, I don't know that because I don't listen to either of them. That's just me personally. Sorry. Y'all don't. None of y'all come for me. Come for me. The hotties, the bars, whatever y'all call yourselves.
But if you. If you say one line about me in a rap, as big as you are, as big as you, as big as Meg is, everybody's gonna hear it. You know what I'm saying?
So you can't say one line about me, and me not say anything.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: But they gotta be fired up.
Oh, at least a little spark of the match. I just didn't. I feel like you need to listen to both end to end.
[00:18:11] Speaker B: I don't want to.
[00:18:16] Speaker C: I feel like you. Me and BAE was having this discussion, and I was like, you gotta listen to both end to end for you to re. I feel like, to really get the gist, you know what I'm saying?
Why you don't want to dub?
[00:18:33] Speaker B: I just don't have enough time today or tomorrow or this week. So forever or probably ever in perpetuity.
[00:18:43] Speaker C: Wow. To listen to 3 minutes song. Okay, research team P Money.
[00:18:51] Speaker D: Well, I'm not like a. A barb or a hottie, but I did listen, and I was just like, man, this is not.
I didn't think. I didn't think it was.
I didn't think it was gonna go down like that. I thought it was gonna be like a tit for tat. Like, some real creative artistry type thing, like, where we could really build upon it for, like, the culture and really just have some quality entertainment. But.
[00:19:26] Speaker C: I think that's a good segue into. So Meg, you know, they were. They were going back and forth, posting their different numbers and how they were charting and all that stuff, y'all. It's really hard to censor myself. Anyway, all those things. And Meg came out saying she had a new deal, owning her masters. And P and Dub, y'all had a very spirited debate in the chat the other day. Would you like to continue?
[00:19:55] Speaker B: It wasn't that spirited. And it wasn't. It wasn't that long.
[00:19:59] Speaker A: It was.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: You capping again. That's crazy.
[00:20:03] Speaker D: That's what y'all was talking about. Because I was like, lost that cap game. I'm putting y'all on mute because you was that captain.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: Okay, that was a big blue cap. She just was walking around with a.
[00:20:15] Speaker C: Big blue, like, 10 messages back to back.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: Ellen DeGeneres with that big. That big blue cap.
[00:20:24] Speaker C: Wow. Wow, wow.
Really? Because I open my text to, like, 10 messages. That's a. That's a spirited debate to me. Nah, I agree.
[00:20:36] Speaker B: You know how I get in the cousin chat. Like, it could get. It could get spirited. That wasn't spirited.
[00:20:42] Speaker C: Right. You're right.
[00:20:46] Speaker B: I think what. What I personally was a little confused about was her saying it's the first of his kind. Like, in my opinion, obviously we don't know the inner workings of the deal or whatever, but her said the first of his kind. Come on now. The music business been around for what, 80, 90 more than that years?
And what I was saying was, I'm pretty sure Baby Slim, and not Baby Slim, but Baby and Slim as in Cash Money.
They're probably there. Probably.
I'm sure there's an artist out there called Baby Slim. But Baby and Slim, Cash Money and Master P, I'm sure. Pretty sure they had these same deals or something similar to them in the 90s with Universal because they had like something like 90, 10 splits or something like that is from what I've seen, which is why they were able to make like 2, 3, 400 million in such a short amount of time, and nobody else got them deals ever again.
So for me to say, were they with.
[00:22:02] Speaker C: Were they with a big distribution company?
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Yes, of course. Like, you can. You can be independent, but somebody has to. Well, especially back then, somebody had to dis. Distribute your music because it was all. It was all like hand to hand. It was. It was plastic. You had to buy a CD back then.
There were. There were. There was no streaming.
And what I was saying was I'm pretty sure they had these same type of deals back then.
[00:22:35] Speaker A: And, you know, and so I think where the. The debate lie or. Or foundationally was in one.
I think her saying it, Meg, that it was the first deal of its kind was going into what you're talking about, which is the distribution aspect and how most times when getting the. Getting the distribution in a way that is favorable to the artist.
Right? Or. And you guys are talking about males. She's a black woman, right? And the only. Probably. Probably the only one close to that would be Beyonce. Right. And Roc Nation, because I believe she's consolidated now with them. And again, we don't know the inner workings. We're not specialists on this matter. We're critiquing within context what she posted. Right? Which is she had a.
She had a rough time getting out of her. Her deals previously. Right. And shout out to Roc Nation for helping her through that process. Right? Because I think that that's the important part was that she was recognized for the talent she was and the big business acumen that she possesses and was able to not only navigate herself out of that situation. I mean, that's where her last album came from. She owed them that album. And she had to, you know, and she, you know, so it. So I say that. To say that you're seeing somebody take ownership and agency over their creative work, and that is very rare. So once. Let's go ahead and just congratulate her, leave the debating to those who are in that field and are trying to figure out how the heck did she get that deal in the first place. But more importantly, that there is room for black creators, specifically black women, to have ownership retain their masters, have pure transparency on what they're doing from an artistry standpoint and how they're putting their product out because they. The only other person I know that is a woman of color that may be independent is Young Ma.
I think she's the only other one. Yeah.
Yes. And so, you know, so. And I mean, that's. That's why when she's saying that, I don't think Meg would just say something like that. She can't. Right? Like she has so much pugly scrutiny around her that. And then also that goes back into the, you know, the nastiness of how her hiss and Bigfoot beef plays out. Right. Is where we don't understand why beef has to be toxic. And we will in the show Cover areas of mental health and family black. You know, family trauma specific to black people because of, you know, situations like this where it's like, what is triggering you to say these things about another black woman? That's how I walk away from it. That's how it lands. And I think you brought up a good point. Twin is I love. I love Gag City. And now I don't want to go there. I don't.
[00:26:00] Speaker D: I'm good.
[00:26:03] Speaker C: Let me. I don't need to be here.
[00:26:04] Speaker A: When I heard a cocaine loose a little bit. Just. No, it's just when I heard a cocaine bear start babbling on a beat. By the way, by the way, no bars by jt. I don't know who actually owns that beat, but it was so disrespectful to even get on J.T. shout out to JT. We love you. To get on her no bars beat, because why did you just get on that beat and just ramble? Okay, Rambo.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: And like I said, I definitely was thinking the JT Money, but thank you.
[00:26:40] Speaker A: No, it's. It was jt.
[00:26:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Jt. Other City girls. But that's what I. You know, I feel that I cannot confirm or deny if the Barb was there, but I can confirm. I heard. I heard a cocaine bear. I did hear that.
[00:27:02] Speaker C: I did.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Now that. Now that. Now that we brought that up. Wow. We got two famous rappers named JT from the crib.
[00:27:11] Speaker C: Oh, wow. I never noticed that. And that's our cousin name.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: Oh, nobody cares about our cousin. Cousin.
[00:27:21] Speaker C: You're right. We do.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Right? Right.
She just. This one over here. Twin be off the chain with it, but let's go ahead and keep it moving.
[00:27:30] Speaker C: Wait, wait, wait. I just. I just wanted to read this because to me, this is the difference between them old deals and this one I'm doing research team job.
Okay. So it says the agreement research team.
[00:27:46] Speaker B: Back in during Black History Month. That's crazy.
[00:27:51] Speaker C: I love you.
[00:27:51] Speaker D: I didn't want to say anything. I appreciate you having my back, cuz I was like, wow.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: Y'all know what happened when that crown come out? That's. We're talking to.
[00:28:03] Speaker C: Started it off with the. With the cognac. Okay. This agreement will enable the Houston native to maintain her independence as a musician while also having access to the music company's robust global services, ranging from radio promotion to marketing worldwide. Basically, that translates to the artist being able to use Warner Music's distribution and resources moving forward, all while still retaining full ownership of her masters in publishing. So to me, I feel like perhaps the global aspect and like, you know, the reach of the deal might be a bit different than those past. Again, I didn't research those, so don't quote me on any of this, guys. But to me, it's the global and the reach of it that makes it, like a bit different from those other ones. But just reading that out there, so we all on the same page.
But you're right. So let's segue into we still in new music. We can just run through new music. Last time my guy, BG came home. What's up, bg?
He got his new song, say My Grace. I listen to it.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: I love bg.
[00:29:16] Speaker C: I like it, man.
[00:29:18] Speaker A: My dog.
[00:29:20] Speaker C: Welcome home, bg.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Welcome back, bg.
He came from a good time in music.
Well, we were all fairly young, you.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: Know, I was not. I was. Not that I. I would say.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Nah. When he went in, we was grown. Yeah, but saying he come from that late 90s cash money, I'm saying he come from that era. That's what I'm saying.
[00:29:46] Speaker A: Sir, sir, sir. My first round, the first rap album I ever purchased with my money was Lil Wayne, the Block is Hot. Previously, before that, I wasn't allowed. Yes, the block is hot.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: See, I knew you was my cousin because the first album that I ever purchased with my money, actually I bought two at the same time. I had my step pops take me to Best Buy and I bought, right, Little Wayne, lights Out. So the one right after blocking.
[00:30:21] Speaker C: The first one I bought was the Block is Hot too. Pete.
[00:30:24] Speaker B: I don't know how I got lights out. I was 10 years old.
And Trick Daddy, Thugs, Thugs R Us, same time.
Why he let me buy that at 10, I don't know, but shout out to him. Shout out. Shout out. Appreciate it, Pops.
[00:30:42] Speaker C: Shout out to Pops. What about jt, y'all? He got the new song. I kind of like it, but are we really messing with JT right now?
JT Money, Justin Timberlake.
[00:30:55] Speaker B: Another jt. Look at that.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: I don't. I don't know.
[00:31:02] Speaker C: I don't really mess with him after Janet Jackson, even though we've kind of blown over that. I ain't like that. But it. It is a nice song, though.
What y'all think?
[00:31:15] Speaker B: No, what song are we talking about?
[00:31:18] Speaker C: Selfish.
[00:31:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I think it's Fire.
I don't know who wrote it, but it's a good song to me.
[00:31:26] Speaker C: Every bit of you.
Something like that.
I like it.
[00:31:32] Speaker D: One more time.
One more time with the high note.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: That one, it.
[00:31:39] Speaker C: That was it.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: No, that's Exactly. Y. You sound just like him. That's crazy.
[00:31:43] Speaker C: Wow. Thank you.
Thank you so much. I've been taking my vocal lessons. Well, then we can go ahead and segue into Usher Bow. Okay. I heard Ura, baby.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Well, well, hold on. I want to give a shameless plug to club Shay. He just had a phenomenal. Shannon. Shannon. I hope somebody hears this, because, you know, I go out of there. I'll go out with. I'll go out with him.
He had a great month. And, you know, who's ever doing his show, they're doing a fantastic job. And he. He did a great interview with Usher. So, you know, we want to promote other black creators, so, you know, we can go ahead and just make sure y'all check out Club Shay. Shay Shay on YouTube as well. He did an excellent interview on Usher because Usher been in the game so long, y'all. Like, I don't even know how we're gonna get 13 minutes of excellence. But I ain't watching that game. I know that I ain't watching that game.
[00:33:01] Speaker C: I just want to see the Usher show, and I feel like I saw somebody. People are sleep on Usher, and they. They. They don't know the catalog. Okay. Somebody on Twitter was like, name a Usher album other than Confessions.
[00:33:14] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:33:16] Speaker C: I just. I feel like it's a lot of Usher disrespect going on. Like, people saying, oh, he just be crooning what he finna give us for the Super Bowl. Y'all wasn't in Vegas. I'm just. I just know that y'all were not at the Vegas show, baby, because that man put on the show. I don't see Usher, like, four times, and every single time, it's a banger.
[00:33:42] Speaker B: All right, so twin. How long was the Vegas show?
[00:33:45] Speaker C: I don't even know. Maybe like, two hours, three hours.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: He was singing solo for two plus hours.
[00:33:54] Speaker C: Maybe he brought Miguel out for half a half a song. The other time, it was just him.
[00:34:00] Speaker B: So how he gonna.
How does he squeeze all that catalog into 13 minutes, bruh? It's gonna be fire. Because we know. We know Usher. Ursha, a performer.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: I mean, his catalog is vast, so he ain't gonna get through all of them.
[00:34:17] Speaker B: Yeah, it is vast. And honestly, this. This should have been coming to Usher. Like, he should have been at the Super Bowl.
[00:34:24] Speaker C: I agree.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: Which is crazy, especially with them embracing black cultures as much as they are more than ever right now. Like, he should have been at the Super Bowl, Ben. But it is what it is. You get it when you can get it? So.
[00:34:40] Speaker C: And now he's getting his flowers and that album gonna be fire. I listened to like four or five songs off of it. The ones he. He gave us a little snippet ruin. Baby.
The voice is pure silk on the track. Okay? I just. I stand for Usher, if y'all can't tell.
He's a legend to me, okay? And even at the. The. The Vegas show, it was just so ATL y'all strippers on the stage. And he giving us that silky voice while he's ass in my face. And I was just like, you know what? That Usher, he know what he doing.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: You know, he talked about that on.
On Shay. And you know what it made me realize the reason why I brought up Shay was because y'all know how last. Last time we was on the mic was talking about Cat in the Foolishness, and then we were talking about Usher and how Vogue tried him.
[00:35:40] Speaker B: Cat in the Foolishness or Cat in the Truthfulness?
[00:35:45] Speaker A: That's debatable.
[00:35:46] Speaker B: All of it.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: But, I mean, the viewership that came out of that was incredible. So it did what? It did what? It did what it was supposed to do the math. Math there.
But, you know, I think with Usher and what he's going to bring to the table and how Shannon allowed for him to have the space to talk about what he's going to do. Usher said exactly that twin where he was like, I don't remember ever going to a show feeling that way or feeling that intimate with, you know, the audience and just having a good time. Like that doesn't even exist anymore. And it's true, because clearly with how you see it, how it sells out, even when he was in Paris and how he gets creative, it's just one of those things where you're like, he's giving a product to the people that you can't go get. You can't just go like last. I think last night Drake and J. Cole started their new tour.
And you're not gonna get that with Drake. You're not. Drake ain't even. I mean, I love Drake and Cole, but neither are that sexy. Like Usher is sex walking around, skating around, smoking a blunt like he is. So he embodies black culture and black men in a way that, like, you can taste it, you can feel it, you can smell it, you know, And I'm really looking forward to seeing what he does at the Usher Bowl.
[00:37:25] Speaker C: I agree. And I. And I was debating on going to a party, but I don't know. Ninjas be talking and drunk and Stuff I need to be full, fully engaged into the Usher Bowl. But that's a good segue into the culture piece. And let's just go ahead and I'm gonna skip a bit because research team, she gonna have to leave us in a bit. Let's talk about. First of all, y'all. I've been watching Love and Hip Hop, okay? Now, I know y'all know that ain't really my. My stilo, but for some reason, I just felt like I just needed to watch some mess to get away from the mess that's in my life, baby. This show is so. It's just. It's beyond. So I feel like a good segue into 3L dub is. Is Shay Johnson and this fable. Baby girl. Girl, what's your girl doing? Girl?
[00:38:16] Speaker D: First of all, she's not my girl, but I do have the guilty pleasure of watching loving hip hop, Miami, L.A.
atlanta.
And I think she been on probably all of them, honestly. She's like, whoa, those are her roots.
[00:38:41] Speaker C: Do you remember Bucky?
[00:38:45] Speaker B: Absolutely not.
[00:38:47] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:38:48] Speaker D: Okay, well, never mind.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: I'm gonna just. Yeah, I'm Step Out Money.
[00:38:51] Speaker C: Did you watch Flave?
[00:38:54] Speaker A: You know, I don't. This is all VH1, right?
Yeah, I don't subscribe.
[00:39:00] Speaker D: Oh, wow.
[00:39:01] Speaker C: Okay.
All right, well.
[00:39:04] Speaker D: Okay, well, for those who do.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: Sorry, guys, I need to discuss.
[00:39:13] Speaker C: Because I went down this rabbit hole last night and I was just like.
[00:39:16] Speaker D: Oh, no, not the rabbit hole. Yeah, she started out on Flavor Flav, and then she was like a side chick to Scrappy when he was with Erica.
It's just been. It's just been a lot. But her current ex. Future, I don't know what they are present day. But the father of her child, because I don't like to say baby daddies or baby mamas. The father of her child allegedly has a whole entire family elsewhere.
She's already had one child by him.
And in the latest episode, the. Or the last episode, she revealed to her mother that she was pregnant again with baby number two.
So here's. Here's, you know, clutch your pearl, guys. She said to her mom, she didn't tell her mom to get, like, a bad reaction because her mom was like, why would you go and do that?
She was like, well, I don't even know if I'm gonna keep it. And I was just like, wow. Like, you're really.
[00:40:19] Speaker C: You're showing five months pregnant, girl.
[00:40:21] Speaker D: I was gonna say, I don't. I don't know what the time frame is or what the laws are now, but she Looked pretty.
She looked pretty far along there.
[00:40:32] Speaker C: So some red flags, okay?
[00:40:36] Speaker D: Oh, Lord.
[00:40:36] Speaker C: Just for the people.
[00:40:38] Speaker D: Go ahead.
[00:40:38] Speaker C: Because I started from back in August, girl, I had to catch up.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Wait, sorry, I was having. What y'all talking about?
[00:40:46] Speaker C: You still talking about the love and hip hop? The people.
[00:40:51] Speaker B: I'm trying to. I'm trying to say about some of my sinks.
[00:40:56] Speaker D: What you think?
[00:40:57] Speaker B: Don't let me see Ashanti. Look, look. Super pregnant.
I just heard the pregnancy thing.
[00:41:03] Speaker A: Boy, that is so off topic.
Duh. Where did you go? Where were you?
[00:41:12] Speaker B: I told you. I told. No, I told you. My coffee got cold. I had to go get.
[00:41:18] Speaker C: Wow. I'm sorry.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: Here, here.
[00:41:19] Speaker C: I'm over here drinking cold tea. Anyway, red flag number one, people, if you got to give somebody 365 days to marry, you just leave, okay?
Just leave. And then when the man talk about he want to get you pregnant again, but he ain't ready for marriage. Because Jamaican men, they don't know about that. Just leave, girl. It's not giving baby number two. And red flag number two is you're not gonna disrespect my mama at all. But family at my baby party.
[00:41:58] Speaker B: I apologize, y'all. Twin getting a little animated. You see. You see her mic going in and out? She done elevated the voice.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: Get excited.
[00:42:07] Speaker C: I get excited. That's red flag number two. Can't nobody disrespect my mama, okay? And that's the part that really made me ever. My stomach.
What if somebody's screaming at your mama, talking about, f this, F that. I gotta fight you myself. I don't care if you six'five or whatever. I didn't like that. And then I found out she having baby number two.
Girl. I mean, we knew you wasn't well because you.
But she posted that picture of her flat stomach, and I was confused.
Anyway, people are unwell, and I will be tuning in for the foolishness.
[00:42:49] Speaker D: Long story long.
[00:42:52] Speaker C: I will be there. Okay? And that's also way into.
[00:42:56] Speaker D: I was gonna say, speaking of unwell.
Speaking of unwell.
[00:43:02] Speaker C: Speaking of unwell, people in red flags.
[00:43:07] Speaker D: Blue things.
[00:43:09] Speaker C: First of all, I didn't even know he was in jail, y'all.
[00:43:12] Speaker D: Yeah, child, that. I think that may be best for him currently. You just, you know, give him some time to think. But I know y'all saw the face tattoo.
[00:43:24] Speaker C: I saw.
[00:43:26] Speaker B: Where was the face tattoo?
I did see it, but just for our listeners.
[00:43:34] Speaker D: Oh, okay. It was on her. You right? It was on her.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: On her cheek.
[00:43:38] Speaker D: Like her whole. Like her eye. Her cheek. Jaw. The whole thing of Blueface's face pretty.
[00:43:45] Speaker C: Much taking up the entire right side.
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Blue fate. She had a blue face.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: She put a new. She put a new blue face on her face.
[00:44:00] Speaker C: She had one on her neck, right?
Got that covered up, and now she put it on her face. But people were saying, maybe it's fake.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: What y'all think either way, like, even if it is fake, like the clout generation, like, this is.
This is. Wow. Even if it's fake, like, you just. You're doing that to take a picture and post it on. Stop it.
[00:44:26] Speaker C: I think he put some voodoo on her. Shout out to my voodoo listeners, don't put no voodoo on me. But he had to, because. Huh?
[00:44:37] Speaker B: And y'all saw that people is a religion or culture.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: It's.
[00:44:43] Speaker C: It's a practice.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: It's a spiritual practice for sure. But. But I don't.
[00:44:50] Speaker B: I mean, we know that from the crib for sure.
[00:44:53] Speaker A: I think. No, I think. Dub, you bring up an excellent point, which is the clout, right? And clout is a interesting cocktail with ignorance, and that is what they have cooked up.
And you know, and honestly, I want to wish her some help and some love and some care, because that is a very toxic situation that we oftentimes in the real world, not the sorority world, I mean, not. Not sorority, the celebrity world, that doesn't exist, right? Where it always ends badly. So, yeah, because I. I just. I cannot understand why you tattoo a face on a face that doesn't land.
It don't land nowhere. No matter how I try to justify her doing it, it does not land anywhere. And if the landing point is clout, then that makes sense. That's the only place they really can live.
[00:46:16] Speaker B: It can't be anything more than clout because obviously we come from a time of, hey, if you love somebody, you just. You tell them you love, and you might get a little name tied or whatever, but getting their face tattooed on your face, Come on.
[00:46:34] Speaker C: But what is the clout part?
[00:46:38] Speaker B: Why is it on social media?
[00:46:41] Speaker A: Right?
[00:46:41] Speaker C: But, like, how does that get you clout, though? Or is it just attention? Like, do we feel like she just wants attention at any cost?
[00:46:50] Speaker B: No, no, this is. This is how these particular individuals make their money. They make their money from clicks and views and all this stuff. So if it's fake, okay, I'm a tattoo of fake blue face on my face, which, I mean, even after that, you've seen somebody else, like a super fan, a super blue face fan, which is crazy. Like, how you never mind tattoo his Face on her butt cheek or something like that. Which is.
[00:47:21] Speaker C: Well, wait.
[00:47:25] Speaker A: Because the same thing happened with the. With the face name of.
Who's that guy that was sleeping with that. That. That only fans girl and she went crazy.
[00:47:36] Speaker D: Does not narrow it down.
[00:47:37] Speaker A: But she. But she put. She put Zion. Remember? She put his name on her face?
[00:47:42] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She like a week or two. You're right.
[00:47:52] Speaker A: Yeah. No, it went on for like six weeks.
Yeah, she.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: She was mad that he. That he got another only fans a pornography woman pregnant and kind of put her to the wayside or something like that. It was something like that.
[00:48:16] Speaker C: Let's. Let's just all put our hands together in prayer, okay? And pray that the cocaine bear joins these people in a self journey on improving and not bringing toxicity to the rest of the culture. Amen.
And that's a not a good segue, but. RIP to Carl Weathers, man, what a horrible way to start Black History Month. Okay. I love my dude in Predator. Okay? That's my movie. I don't see that movie about 10 times. Rocky, the Mandalorian. Rip my guy, man, we love you.
[00:48:58] Speaker B: Yeah, that was. That was an awful, awful 76.
I remember Buddy is Chubbs from Happy Gilmore. That's F you. Duh. What you have to point it out.
[00:49:12] Speaker C: Okay. We were just gonna move on. Like, that was a smooth transition.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: That's Chubbs that had the fake hand. And Happy Gilmore, that's where I knew him. That was my first recollection of it.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: Carl.
[00:49:24] Speaker B: Yes. Rest in peace. He taught Happy everything he knew.
[00:49:28] Speaker C: He did.
Rip dude. Now your girl got caught in the relationship. Ms. Willis, the D. A.
What y'all think? I thought it was a lie. First I thought they were just trying to sling mud on my girl name.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: We put it in the.
We put it in the chat weeks.
[00:49:50] Speaker C: What you think, Pete?
[00:49:52] Speaker A: We definitely put it in the chat weeks ago.
And yeah, I can't call it. I don't know what I, I, you know, I had. Y'all already know. I don't like the prosecution of black men when it comes to their lyrics.
So I have already a lot of issues there. And then roping them into RICO charges. I'm biased in the sense that you can't go. I don't understand. And I'm gonna keep saying this over and over and over again.
I don't understand how Donald J. Trump is walking around free and young thug is a flight risk.
At least if y'all was gonna have him going to jail, why he can't show up like everybody else and keep giving us good music because at the end of the day, if you watch the trial or you cover it. And Meg the reporter has been on the case. Shout out.
I think her name is Megan Cunningham, something like that. But made to report. Everybody know, as she said, it's been a mess. She said it's a mess.
And you know, a lot of times in these prosecution cases, it's so political. And that's my there. That's where my issue lies, to be honest.
[00:51:26] Speaker C: Yeah. Well, I hope it doesn't tank the case too much because you know how they do. They don't like her anyway. So I mean, it's not a good look. So I'm just hoping it's still a positive outcome, you know.
[00:51:40] Speaker A: Well, the positive outcome would be free and thugger and doing a mistrial, period. So that's literally what should happen. But we'll see.
[00:51:54] Speaker C: That ain't gonna happen. They. They not even releasing non violent people because they want to keep their prison labor up. But I'm not even going to get into that part. Look, we're going to pray for our dude.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: I think this is a very deep, deep, deep. There's so many caveats. Yes, right.
She shouldn't have did that.
[00:52:17] Speaker C: Agree.
[00:52:17] Speaker B: I'm gonna just say it straight out and like there's, there's reason to say that there was nepotism in there. Obviously they're not related or whatever, but in my opinion, this is, this is Dub's opinion. Hey, duh.
I don't think there's any room for favoritism in the justice system.
Personally. It don't matter who, who, who they got locked up, locked up or who they want to get out. That's my opinion. Like, I think it should be by the book and you know what I'm saying. But that's me.
I agree. You should not have anybody that you are personally involved with working on a case with you.
[00:53:07] Speaker C: Yeah, it's not a good look, it's a terrible look because how do you prove like.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: And it's. Right.
[00:53:16] Speaker C: Conflict of interest. You can't. How do we know what y'all were talking about when y'all was in the bed?
[00:53:21] Speaker B: Right. And it's not that he's not the best person for the job, but we don't know that he is.
[00:53:29] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:53:30] Speaker B: It makes it seem like he got. He was put in that position. Obviously he's not the main prosecutor in the case because Fanny is.
[00:53:39] Speaker C: Well.
[00:53:40] Speaker B: But as help. It makes it seem like he's just there collecting a Check. We don't know what he's doing, so that's my opinion.
Dub a dub. But that's me.
[00:53:55] Speaker A: I feel you, bro.
[00:53:57] Speaker C: Well, let's just hope that it doesn't taint the case too much.
It's Black History Month, y'all. Tyrese said he wish he was born Latino.
[00:54:10] Speaker A: Tyree.
[00:54:11] Speaker C: I think that was an appropriate moment of silence.
[00:54:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Tyrese say a lot of stuff, so we gonna.
He says so many things at this point in his life.
[00:54:23] Speaker B: Okay, here's a real question for y'all. When was the last time Tyrese was right or in his right mind?
[00:54:33] Speaker C: That's. That's a valid point. That's a valid point.
But do we think he is unwell? Because I don't know if he's giving drugs.
It's just giving.
[00:54:45] Speaker B: Misguided don't always mean drugs, though.
[00:54:50] Speaker A: No, that's what I'm saying.
[00:54:51] Speaker C: Do we think he's unwell or what's. What's happening?
[00:54:55] Speaker A: I think he's.
He's gone down. So he's down there with Alice and the rabbit and.
Yeah, you know, he. He might have ate a couple things on the way down there, but I think misguided would be the most appropriate thing to say, and a lot of people are. So I'm not gonna single out him because so many people walk around misinformed. Misguided, for example, you know, when we think about how over the course of this year we're going to cover politics, so many people are misinformed. The misinformation is just incredible.
And so I just. I think that when we're looking at it from that kind of lens, I have a little empathy there, because to say he's not in his right. Right mind, it would suggest that he has mental health issues, which I don't know. And I can't diagnose anyone. And I'm not going to put someone in that. That box. But the. The comments themselves probably are taken so far out of context because he doesn't. What platform does Therese have? He don't sing no more, which is where I kind of liked his face.
And, you know, yeah, I liked him as a singer. He doesn't. You know, I liked him as a actor, and he doesn't really live in those spaces anymore.
[00:56:35] Speaker C: That's true. Yeah, that's true. I saw him on R B Money, and he definitely has opinion. I think sometimes, I think being in the game for. For so long, especially starting out young, I think it can kind of warp you a bit.
But I don't know. I'm not famous or rich. So good luck to. To all involved yet.
That's correct. You're right. Yes. I don't want to be famous. The famous part, I don't know about that, but I'll take the rich.
So I would like to transition. Since the last one was terrible, I'm gonna just go ahead and straightforward into the next segment.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: I was gonna say, Doug, you gonna let her handle the next transition?
[00:57:31] Speaker C: Right? You know what? Go ahead. Go ahead.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: Oh, it's just. It's hilarious because you just, you know. You know how he get. Sometimes he goes in his little. He probably left. He's probably in another verse, a multiverse metaverse. Right now.
You will be having full conversations with Duh, and Duh will leave the conversation and not be there. So that's. That's a real thing. But I think we can trust you with.
[00:58:04] Speaker C: Wow.
[00:58:05] Speaker A: The next bit of black history facts news.
Good. Yeah.
[00:58:13] Speaker C: I did want to give a bit. I know we're talking pop culture, but I want to bring it back to the. The culture. Black people. It's Black History Month and drop a bit of knowledge on us. So one of our segments is called 40 acres and a Mule, and it talks about overcoming broken promises by white people and learning to thrive on our own. So it's going to give us a peek into, like, black mental health and how things affect us and how we can build our own generational wealth and, like, the interconnection between health and wealth. Because I feel like that's kind of a disconnect between us. And I got something.
I have a topic to talk about that I feel like we'll highlight that, but I want to give a brief background onto how I came up with the title, because this was kind of news to me. So we all know that we were promised black people 40 acres and a mule after the Civil War, right?
That obviously never happened. But this idea actually came from 20 black leaders from a Savannah church. They met with the Union General, and I forgot the other dude or the Secretary of War, they met with him and decided, hey, y'all, y'all owe us some reparations. We need 40 acres and a mule. So this wasn't even come up with by white people. It was us. It was us looking out for our own people and being like, hey, bro, y'all owe us. And so they agree, you know, and then Lincoln got assassinated, and Andrew Johnson came in, and he was basically like, f that.
So we became sharecroppers, which I don't know if we all know. But that was basically slavery, just getting paid pennies. We didn't really get a share of the crops that we were supposed to, you know, and I feel like this, it denied us stability and the ability to establish ourselves financially and have some assets and be self sufficient. And it really had significant impacts on our mental health and our ability to trust anybody at all, specifically white people. And so I'm calling this segment this so we can, as a family, help each other and close the gap between, you know, mental health and how we start to create our own spaces.
Because white people ain't gonna do it. They weren't even gonna give us no reparations. And so with that being said, I would like to bring up Keith Lee going to the seasoned food truck in Dallas.
[01:00:54] Speaker A: Yeah. So twin, I love this segment and I can't wait for us to continuously expand the conversations around it because as you know, being a historian of post reconstruction era of the Civil War, what happened in America, you know, you're outside absolutely right. This was a real revolutionary idea from, and generated from black leaders themselves. But more importantly, it really came from the concept of approximately 4,000 acres of formerly owned confederate land and how they really wanted to kind of redistribute that to four former black slaves. Because in reality, if you think about it, and I can't wait for us to really dig into the trenches on this, it really, you know, came down. So they were already. When you, you have people in chains, right? It's like if they were in, in pens and then you give them their freedom, well, where are they going to go? And for the most part, depending. You had obviously the extreme areas of slavery. We're talking about the most brutal, brutal and brutal and brutality measures that were taken. But then you had on the flip side, some areas of slavery that was no form of slavery or enslavement is okay first and foremost, but it was more of a co working network and that's how they met at sharecropping, right? Because in reality it's almost like they did the math and did the math, them being the Southerners and they was like, oh no, no.
[01:02:56] Speaker C: It was like, no, bro.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: It was like, nah, we, we can't do it. And so because even when they, when they, they being the whites, that they took this agreement to the 40 acres was given in the order, but really not even the mule, the mule was actually promised. So it's this whole notion of black people once given their freedom, right, Always being given the short end of the stick. Given, given Shortcomings of what they are, what they are worth, what they deserve. And more importantly, you had a nation that had no idea to do with people who had been, you know, disenfranchised, removed from their country, removed from their identity, and they had no plan for them. But you look at that time in post Civil War, and you really understand that slavery, however, was. Had become so much of the brutal side, so inhumane, that there was no.
There was no choice. Right.
[01:04:09] Speaker C: Right.
[01:04:09] Speaker A: For us to go to war. Because at the end of the day, you're having this.
These exploitations of black people in a way that is so egregious and just.
It's interesting that even when we think about politics today that they aren't talking about it enough. When a politician says, well, slavery isn't real and it didn't exist and racism isn't real. And it's just. It's quite.
It's quite disturbing, to be honest, because it's American history, right? Like, if you go along the areas of where the major battles were fought in the Civil War, it's like a thing, right? It's. It's a whole thing that, you know that democracy.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: Was that in the chat. Sorry, go ahead.
[01:05:09] Speaker A: You know, you know that, you know that democracy literally was saved to some. To some measure. But, you know, not to really get off topic, but I think I want viewers to understand that you taking us as a collective, taking the time to really understand what these things mean, what was the history behind it? What was the root? And then the. The pitfall of not having any accountability towards it after is really important because like you said, after Abraham Lincoln was killed. Well, assassinated.
That guy was a sympathizer of the South, Andrew Johnson. So Andrew was like, oh, no. Because he did the math. He did the math. And essentially the land that was all confiscated. Good old South Carolina, good old Georgia, and good old Florida went right back to.
No, no, Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln.
[01:06:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:06:12] Speaker B: Sweetie, I thought you were talking about who assassinated.
[01:06:18] Speaker A: No, we already established dub that you kind of sometimes. We're glad you're back. Welcome back.
[01:06:25] Speaker D: We're glad.
[01:06:26] Speaker C: Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.
[01:06:31] Speaker A: But, you know, I think this is a great segment. I can't wait for us to really get into the weeds of it, especially during this election process of 2024, because it's important. And like I said, this is American history. This is not black history. Okay. This is American history and it's well documented. So when your local politician and you're in the south says egregious Things that.
There was no slavery. Well, then, please tell me, what was General William T. Sherman's Special Fields Order of Number 15 issued on January 16, 1865?
[01:07:15] Speaker C: Come on with the facts.
[01:07:18] Speaker A: That's all. That's all. When people. When people come for us, it's American history. You can go look it up. It's in the. It's actually in the history books now. Not like the ones that they're banning. No, like in D.C. like Washington D.C. your taxes pay to preserve them. These histories.
[01:07:39] Speaker C: Yeah, it's there, and I feel like it's important because not only do white people not know, I think a lot of black people aren't really that familiar with a lot of our history because we be talking about reparations. They owe us reparations. They didn't want to give us that in the first place, and they made sure that they didn't.
[01:08:00] Speaker B: So reparations is a hot word.
[01:08:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:08:03] Speaker C: And it's like, do y'all even know where that came from? We are never getting reparations ever. Let me say that again.
[01:08:12] Speaker B: Ever, ever, ever, ever. And I have something to add to that. When. When you.
[01:08:17] Speaker C: Go ahead, go ahead.
[01:08:21] Speaker B: Did y'all see the article about the city of New York securing $183 million for Holocaust descendants?
[01:08:31] Speaker C: Wow.
[01:08:32] Speaker A: Yes. And you know what? I'mma curve. Yeah, I'mma curve it. Because.
[01:08:40] Speaker B: I'm not saying they deserve it, but I don't think they deserve it from the American people. That's my opinion.
[01:08:48] Speaker C: Okay.
[01:08:48] Speaker B: I'm gonna be called they deserve it. But. And if. Yes, if the American people are giving it to them, then we deserve it as well.
[01:08:55] Speaker C: Right. I'm not trying to be anti Semitic or anything, but. No, America needs to make whole the people that they specifically effed over. Native Americans who don't even exist anymore.
[01:09:08] Speaker B: And black people, like, why are we getting Native Americans? Is us, too.
[01:09:13] Speaker C: Yeah.
Like, America needs to make us whole again before we even start talking about any of that, I think.
[01:09:21] Speaker A: But see, I think one. So it is accurately prescribed, because I'm sure the lawyers and everyone involved made sure it was a number that felt justly right for that community, which is acceptable. But I think what you guys are thinking of it and out of historical context, prior to war two, you had World War I, and before that, you.
The Civil War. And when we're thinking about American history and people being.
Having human conflict. Right. And so I think that it feels so far behind because, like you said, twin people are just not really educated on the Civil War. They have no idea of how many lives were lost. It was one of the deadliest wars in U.S. history.
So and that's why when as we continue to go through these issues of democracy with the rise of Trumpism, let me tell you something, if it goes down again, something of that kind of magnitude, where you're having that type of conflict between nations and a nation within itself is basically what you're describing when you say they need to make us whole too is, well, we can't even get them to be accountable to what, what happened. That's the difference between what happened in the Holocaust and what happened to us in the Diaspora. So the first step is getting everybody on the same page because at the end of the day they made sure everyone was on the same page, they being the survivors of the Holocaust. Because as a human issue, it could never happen again on the scale that it happened, how fast fast it happened.
Ever, ever. Right. But it probably would have never happened, right. If people knew what happened to Africa.
But Germany and all the European powers were very much involved in what happened in Africa because as we know, In World War II we had to fight them out of Africa. Right? So there, I mean, it's a deeper conversation that requires so much more layers of understanding. But so yes, we can see an article like that and we can go, man, as a black person, I completely feel unseen. My ancestors feel unseen, unheard. Our voices are not there, are muted. Right. But now you have to just keep the conversation going because little things of, with even the diaspora and how that impacts us in America, we don't know on a conversational basis. No clue, no, no one. You start asking 10 to 20 people what they know about what happened in slavery and they can't tell you. That's why you can have, you know, a presidential candidate go around keeps and say ridiculous things that slavery never happened or it doesn't exist. Right. Because people can't talk to it, they can't speak to it. Where when you look at the Holocaust and you see the photos and you see the images, you can't deny it wasn't real. Whereas not to say there is not that evidence in the diaspora and slavery in America, which there is, but the scale at which people are going to accept it is never going to be something until we as a people continue to hammer down the fact that it is a fact, these are facts this happened.
I don't think it is in the form of reparations. We're never going to see those. But we, we can, we can, we can, we can revolution. We can be a revolutionary people within.
[01:13:50] Speaker B: That's a bet.
[01:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah. And I don't think people really understand that, like, we can be a. A. A body, a movement for real.
[01:14:03] Speaker C: We have our own. We had our own black Wall street, which I ain't gonna get too deep into it because we got a special Black History Month episode on the 22nd, y'all. February 22nd. Come listen. We're gonna be talking our stuff.
But I. I agree, P. And I think that's a good segue this time, Dub. Into something that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. First of all, let me just say I love Keith Lee, and I love what he's doing for the culture. And probably from a different perspective, I feel like he's highlighting good businesses, but I feel like he's also, without even trying, highlighting some of the issues that we have in our black community when it comes to business. And this latest thing that happened, I was just like, this is why we. I feel like this is why a lot of black people become successful and then just going about their way and don't be trying to help other people, because. Keith Lee visited Sweetly Seasoned Food Truck in Dallas. For those of you who don't know. Okay. He gave them $4,000 total and told them how to divvy it out. There was someone volunteering. I think her name is Shirelle. Don't quote me on that. I forgot her name.
And her brother was cutting hair in the parking lot. Keith Lee told them to give the brother a thousand dollars. Don't quote me on the numbers. A thousand to Shirelle, and then I think 2000 to the business, whatever. And he did that at another location as well, another restaurant just given. It was a pay as you go restaurant, and he just gave him $4,000. You know what I'm saying? I love that. Please empower our businesses, especially the ones who are addressing food scarcity, you know, in our communities. But the lady who. Who is now permanently closed. It's Sweetly Seasoned, decided that, oh, this entire $4,000 is going to me and my son, not the people who was helping me out today and the people who Keith Lee actually told me to give the money to. And I just thought that was disgusting because she was doubling down, and so was the sun. And the only reason she divvied out the money and came back and gave an apologies, because Keith Lee was like, yo, that's not what I said. You heard what I said. This is what I said verbatim. And how to divvy the money. And it's not right. What y'all doing?
Not a lady. Business closed and you on live begging people to come out because you still out there, girl. You blocked your own blessings. And this was another black man trying to help you out your food truck with, with the unprofessional sign written in Sharpie, he's gonna help you out, girl. And you being greedy. Talk about, oh well, they not part of my family and they wasn't a part of this from the beginning. What?
And this is part of my problem with black businesses. We don't see scalable opportunities, we don't see the long road. We just be trying to look for a quick buck and that's it. What you about to do with $4,000, girl?
[01:17:17] Speaker A: Do you think it was a, a good question? I have to ask is, do you think however it will one shout out to Keith Lee, we would love to talk to you, holla at us, pull up on us anytime because you know what you. Like you said, what he's doing is something that God put in his heart. When you give your time and your energy to the well being of the collective, that's what's going to happen. The dark, the, the ugliness of it is going to come out. That's because he's doing, he's doing good. Right? That's almost like if you are a person that's a Christian, you believe in Christianity, that's what Jesus did. Jesus ain't coming out here and everything was roses, he was spitting game and he was, he was putting flashlights on the corruption. Right. And so I would say, not to say that Keith Lee is anything Jesus like, but that's just an example of what happens when you are doing something for the betterment of humanity and for society as a individual. Because God put that in your heart to give and you on the opposite end of that, choose to not do what you're supposed to do with it. It comes to light almost every time. At some point in time it's going to come to light. And so I think that when you think about $4,000, in all fairness to this woman and her son, that is a lot of money for people right now.
Yeah, this country right now got people real broke, broken, hungry.
The inflation is out of control. I mean it is the worst. It is so economically disparaging when you think about the wealthy and the non existent middle class which has been disappearing for, for at least a decade. And so when you say something like, well, it's just $4,000 to the extent to her and her son that probably was like personally.
[01:19:17] Speaker C: Yes. And that, and that is what I'm saying. I'm not saying that that is not personally a lot of, I mean, give me $4,000. I mean, that's a lot of money. What I'm saying is $4,000, when we're thinking strategically in business, ruining your business over $4,000 is not worth it to me.
[01:19:40] Speaker B: And did I hear you say that the business is now permanently closed?
[01:19:45] Speaker C: Yeah, that's what I read yesterday.
[01:19:47] Speaker B: See that. I think that, I think that's kind of a story in itself. Like you closed. Keith Lee came to do all this for you, highlight your business and all this stuff, and because you did something wrong, now you closed.
[01:20:04] Speaker C: Right.
[01:20:06] Speaker A: Well, I mean, it sounds. My understanding of what Keith Lee does is he goes to businesses that are not that. I mean they can either be family owned. Right. Super established, but they're not like they're never a chain or anything of that nature. So I, I don't think per. Business closing is. Yeah, yeah. I don't think it's of that much subsequence other than they may open up next month. Right. So that's why I'm saying is I think that the $4,000 was her, was a lifeline. Because why would you risk if the bit. If she got the money knowing she was going to close anyways? Which that's what it seems like that she was going to have to close her doors anyways?
[01:20:55] Speaker C: No, I don't think that's what I'm just.
[01:20:57] Speaker A: I don't, I don't know what happened. Right. So I'm saying from the perspective of why, what, what could be, you know, you always want to give someone some kind of grace. Right. When something like this happens. Because like you said, at the end of the day, we see this time and time again in black culture where somebody's blessed with something and they don't know what they're supposed to do with the blessing. Now they don't inadvertently block they blessing. Done hurt their main thing.
It be a business, a relationship, a family member, something. And then ultimately because of the scrutiny they get from the public, they end up backtracking. I mean, we see this constantly over and over and over again. And that comes from the advocacy of the person that's being victimized in that situation, which is why they had to give the money back. If that, if the, the, the individuals that were victimized here didn't speak up. Right. Try to keep it player, then it would have been, you know, they would have never seen that Money, Right? And so that's why I say I really try to look at. Okay, what could be the reasons why? Because like you said, it's not great business practice at all as black people.
You sent it. You can't want to just run over your brother and your sister with lawnmowers, right? That's what our issue where we were talking earlier on the live in regards to Nicki Minaj, like, girl, why are you running down black women? Stop, Stop.
[01:22:31] Speaker C: That's what I'm saying.
[01:22:33] Speaker A: You cannot. There is no friendly beef in running down somebody with a lawnmower because they. When you do that, they are never the same. And so, like you just said, as a best bricks, best business practice, when you do something like that to people who they now become victimized, how does that experience traumatize them moving forward when trying to earn and make money for themselves in a space where they love, where they're happy and they're in there and they're fulfilled? Right? Because nine times out of 10, a lot of times when he goes to these places, people do this because it's their passion. And y'all know I run into all these kind of businesses all the time, and I.
I deploy capital for my own personal money all the time. Because if you're doing something that you personally love and you're passionate about, I'm going to. I don't care if I ever see that again. I just want to help. I want to make sure you can keep that going, period. So, you know, that's why I say, when you think about the $4,000, I really got kind of stuck on that. Because when we think about the economics of America, currently, people are hungry. Be they hungry. It's bad out here, you know, and people don't do.
[01:23:52] Speaker C: But I can't give you grace for stepping on your own people who are trying to help you and elevate you so that you're not out here hungry just for a quick check, like, and these are people that helped you. And for you to be doubling down saying, well, you ain't always here. That don't matter. I'm here today. I brought you the followers today. 30, 40 people pulled up today, and I was here helping you. So I can't give you grace. Yes, it's hard out here, but it's hard out here for everybody. So are we all just supposed to just step on each other's toes just to make it? Because when the real culprit is white people and rich people hoarding wealth, I can't give you grace there because you wouldn't have had 50 people in your parking lot today had it not been for me. You would, you wouldn't have came up.
[01:24:41] Speaker A: Right.
[01:24:42] Speaker C: If it wasn't for me.
[01:24:44] Speaker A: Right. And I think, I think you're, you're giving the, the math. You know, as a math person, you're given the math. A math part. But I think I just, I'm starting to. When we think about how we're going to revolutionize the way people think, we have to have space for it. What, what I'm saying, you know, when we're talking about how are people going to move forward because all they're going to keep doing is doing it over and over and over again. Right? Because they don't see it's the backtracking that really upsets me. Right. Is when they backtrack and say, oh, we didn't mean. It was a, it was a miscommunication. No owner. What you did take ownership.
[01:25:29] Speaker C: Correct.
That could have saved your business. You know what? I messed up. I really appreciate all the people that came out here to help me, you know, whatever, give a heartfelt speech. She still had an attitude in the video. I've been trying to call her to come get her money, but it's like you, you didn't want to give it up, so you didn't even learn a lesson. And you, you did not see the partnership as valuable. And this is what ruins a lot of our businesses is a lack of long term planning and strategic thinking. Yeah, I'm up now, but when I blow through this $4,000 in the next month and now I got no business. Now what right?
[01:26:12] Speaker A: And then you, you bring up even exceptional part to it is. And this is the, the premise of 40 acres and a mule is the strategic thought behind it and long term vision and planning. They had no plan to do. They had nothing in, in the box. There was nothing in the tank. When it came to the blacks. When they let us go, they had nothing in the tank. And furthermore, they thought we couldn't be in.
They thought that we needed the plan too. That's the worst part where. That's why even when you think about how the creation of 48 came about came from black leaders. They freed us in name and deed only.
Right? And this is what you're, you're talking about is y'all out here and how y'all are dealing with people. Black people are dealing with people in business. Y'all need to get free of this scarcity mindset and walk into a Place of abundance, like Keith Lee. Because if you walk in a place of abundance, you don't go around holding things from other people. You. You walk around with your hands open, and you walk around giving constantly. I mean, there's no endlessness to it. And what you find when you even get around the super wealthy. Right. Is that's exactly what they do. They operate at a place of giving.
The Gates foundation gives. Melinda gives almost half of her stuff away, all of her money every year.
[01:27:51] Speaker B: The true meaning of abundance. You have more than you need.
[01:27:55] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:27:57] Speaker A: And so that's why. And right. And so that's why I say when we think about grace in situations like this is when you don't have what you need, child.
[01:28:08] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:28:09] Speaker A: You are telling what you gonna do.
[01:28:11] Speaker C: And I want us to just stop, I guess, the wrapping it up. I just want us to stop operating from a place of struggle and move into the abundance mindset. Yes, I have $4,000 today, but how can I use this $4,000 to get me to a hundred thousand dollars at the end of the year? Maybe I don't make it that far, but maybe I'm making 20k.
What you say, D?
[01:28:34] Speaker B: Let me hold a dollar.
[01:28:38] Speaker C: Like, that's just. That's all I'm saying. I'm not saying 4k ain't a lot. I could use 4k right now, but I want us to. To start to move from.
Oh, I see a dollar and let me grab it real fast. Versus how can I use this dollar to make me more dollars down the line?
So I had another question, but we're gonna. We're gonna leave that for. For the next time. I think we gave the listeners enough. I'm gonna bring back shot o'clock again and end it. Let's take a shot. Black people, we not struggling no more. I mean, we are, but we can move into a place of abundance if we start thinking strategically and we allow each other to help each other out instead of stepping on each other and taking advantage when we just trying to help because we are effed up. None of us got 40 acres or a mule. Okay.
[01:29:32] Speaker A: I just. I just want y'all to know.
Yeah, I was gonna say I want y'all to know that the decibel level for twin right now has reached all the way into the red.
[01:29:46] Speaker B: Y'all gonna know when twin worked up.
[01:29:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
So I'm, you know, I'm taking my shot today.
In line with that. Ask for help.
Because at the end of the day, you know, being down bad, everybody has a point in Their life where they're struggling. And if that's in your mindset and you have it, and you have it and you don't know how to give, or you don't have it and you don't know how to get it.
Stop, breathe. Thank God for what you do have, which is your life, and ask for help. I promise you, God will help you. I'm a true believer in it. That's the first step in thinking of abundance, thinking in that mindset. Because at the end of the day, the birds, if you're Christian, these are biblical principles. The birds wake up every morning. They don't worry about where they're getting their next meal from.
Most plants and animals, they get their nutrients. Nutrients from the universe, from the earth. Okay. They don't get up. You know, you never seen a flower just get up, struggling.
I mean, unless they ain't got no water. Right? But, like, I mean, you guys understand the concept is if you just ask black people, I. I assure you that's the first step in moving forward into an abundant mindset. What you got, Ada.
[01:31:13] Speaker B: As far as.
[01:31:16] Speaker C: You taking your shot on.
[01:31:18] Speaker B: Oh, I got straight black coffee. In honor of Black History Month.
[01:31:25] Speaker A: Me too.
[01:31:26] Speaker B: My shot is going to be in honor of our first live. I think this went. I think this went lovely. I had a blast today. I hope everybody listening had a blast as well.
Shout out to us for, you know, take taking this leap. This is. This has been an endeavor for us.
[01:31:45] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[01:31:48] Speaker B: And, you know, the viewers. The viewers don't know. Maybe. Maybe there's a couple people that do know.
Just trial tribulations, the renditions. But this is what you do when you go through or when you're trying to start something new and fresh and get. You get your. Get your feet off the ground. So shout out to the shot to that for me.
[01:32:10] Speaker C: Not to that. Shout out to y'all. Thanks, fam.
Let's just let the listeners know our next. We have a special Valentine's episode.
[01:32:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we're gonna. We gonna be on Mike's 1, 2 and 1, 2. And for black love, you know, I do believe it exists, like them fat M M's. So. Hey, you know, the peanut ones. I like a little dark chocolate, too. So I really, really can't wait for us to talk all things. Yeah. Black love.
[01:32:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[01:32:39] Speaker A: Because it does exist as one. As one of the cousins that doesn't have. Has not experienced it yet. But the ancestors have promised me that my big love is on its way. So I am not worried. I will not stress. I will not strain. I will just be open to the possibilities. And so I can't wait to talk about black love. And I can't wait to wrap up the rest of the month with y'all. So thank you guys again for tuning in. We really appreciate y'all taking the time to dial in. It's crazy because, like you said, dub on a live. We get to see people popping in and popping out. And we just appreciate y'all for even, just.
Just even seeing the social media, you know, seeing our Instagram and our Twitter and just coming in and hollering at us. We really, really, really do appreciate it. So please follow us to stay updated and stay tuned. We are on Twitter at call your cousins. That's C a l l y o u r C o u s I n s and we're on Instagram at call your cousins pod. That's C a l l y o u r C o u s I n s P O d And yeah, this is our YouTube at call your cousins. That's C A L l y o u r C o u s I n s and any feedback, listen, we would love to hear from y'all. Share your story with us. Ask us, ask your cousins. Join the conversation. Hit us up in a community at our email address, which is C a l l y o u r C o u s I n s p o d gmail.com and with that, we'll catch y'all later.
[01:34:24] Speaker C: Love you.
[01:34:26] Speaker B: We cousins, but we are cousins too, so, you know, tap in. Y'all be blessed.
[01:34:32] Speaker A: Y'all be blessed. Peace.
