0:00

I've heard some cold things come out of a gangster's

0:02

mouth. Some of those were just because

0:05

that particular person is just soul

0:07

was seared from

0:11

the trauma of living in the war zone their

0:13

whole life. But one of the coldest sayings

0:15

you hear out of a gang member, at least in my mind,

0:18

is the phrase, thus

0:20

die daily. Things

0:23

die every day. It sucks

0:25

because it's true theis

0:28

do die every day. But

0:31

that is somebody's baby. I mean, that's somebody,

0:33

that's somebody's like life

0:35

cut short, somebody playing done. But

0:38

the thing they're trying to communicate is that, like,

0:41

it sucks, but it happens. And

0:44

at the end of the day, the hood come first, the

0:47

set last bosses

0:50

come and go. Hood comes first,

0:52

Hood politics, y'all comes

0:59

first.

1:12

So today we're in one of the this bizarro

1:15

world which were already would have been a bizarre

1:17

world because this is what they called the lame duck

1:20

season. President

1:22

as new president has been elected depending

1:25

on who you ask, But we're gonna get into that um

1:29

and the

1:31

sitting president has a

1:34

job to continue to govern. I mean

1:36

you're supposed to um and try

1:38

to like tie up some loose ends that

1:41

would be if politics was not gang

1:43

banging, it would be really that simple.

1:46

Just tie up some loose ends, finish up your work.

1:48

You know, you got projects you want to make sure, like are

1:51

setting stone, you know, start

1:54

cleaning up around the house because you gotta move out.

1:56

You know what I'm saying, handing over keys,

1:58

you know, giving log in information, you

2:01

know what I'm saying, like what's the WiFi code?

2:04

Just like you know, I mean it's

2:07

you rented there. This is a rented spot.

2:09

You feel me like you do

2:11

your best with the with the with the thing, but

2:15

you know y'all own this house. My make feel

2:17

me like you just a charge for now

2:21

house belonging to us. That

2:24

would be if this wasn't gang banging. Since

2:27

it's gang banging, you got some scores

2:29

to settle. You feel me like you

2:31

ain't supposed to just be sitting around. You understand

2:34

what I'm saying, like you gotta make sure the people around

2:36

you so that your legacy don't

2:40

ever get wiped away. Because again, the

2:42

hood comes first. They just died.

2:44

Daily presidents

2:47

come and go, elected officials come and

2:50

go. I

2:52

say all this to try to lay out for

2:54

you the calculus that the

2:57

GOP is working

2:59

through right now. Some of y'all might be a little confused

3:02

as you're watching what

3:04

I would say, some in

3:07

house beefing when you got like to crip

3:09

hohoods fighting against each other like sixties

3:11

and eight trades, Like, uh, I know that's

3:13

that's a deep cut. But you know, if

3:16

if you know your hip hop, follow me like this, Uh

3:19

Nipsey Hustle was a was a ruling sixty

3:21

crip and school Boy Q was

3:23

an eight tray crip. You know

3:25

they I mean they right around the corner from

3:27

each other, but they never really got along. There's a whole video

3:29

with Monster Cody, who was another like O g uh

3:32

L a gangster, kind of explains where it started. It started

3:35

over a party. It was stupid, but either

3:37

way, they've been beefing for decades. But

3:39

they're both crips, right, so if

3:41

we were gonna look at look inside

3:44

were blood of kins over there and sort

3:46

of see really what's going on in

3:48

their house. It's the calculus I was trying

3:50

to tell y'all um last week,

3:52

where you have to decide

3:55

either you're gonna go down with this boss

3:57

right or you're gonna set yourself up

4:00

for the next guy

4:03

that's gonna take charge, because

4:06

the Republican Party gonna last. I

4:10

mean, Trump has moved it in a lot

4:12

of ways. I think

4:15

he's caused an identity crisis, but

4:19

the party lasts. The

4:22

Party's gonna outlast any other

4:24

person that's sat on top of it. So

4:28

you gotta make your calculus you're gonna I mean, are

4:30

we are we playing a long game here, We're playing a short

4:32

game here. So

4:35

we're in a situation where this man

4:37

is convinced um or at least he's

4:39

publicly convinced. I have

4:41

my doubts about what's happening inside the

4:44

White House itself, because I know gangsters.

4:46

Now, who knows what's gonna happen between

4:48

the day I'll record this and the day it comes

4:50

out. So this is Friday

4:52

the thirteenth that I'm recording. As of today,

4:55

Trump is still saying this race

4:57

ain't over, and he's pushing I'm

5:00

sorry, y'all, but it's just it's

5:03

these are the facts. He's pushing verifiably

5:05

false statements right about

5:08

the legitimacy of this

5:11

election. I know because his own

5:13

department at Homeland Security,

5:16

his his old his own administration

5:19

is like, look, put some respect on our name.

5:21

We did our job. This the most

5:23

secure election

5:26

we'd never had. We remember

5:28

two thousand and sixteen. We remember when the Russians

5:31

told us like like we was chumps.

5:33

You feel me, Like, we remember all that, So look

5:36

respect on our name. We we

5:38

did our part. You know. Now,

5:40

if you won't recount, you got the right to do

5:42

that. But my name get Look we

5:45

did our role. Don't don't you put

5:48

that on me? Ricky, Bobby, what the what

5:51

the Department is saying? But the

5:53

question comes if you're an elected

5:55

official, like if you're a senator,

5:58

you're down battle it. You're

6:00

looking at this election and you're

6:02

seeing what I'm trying to tell y'all,

6:05

which is the hood comes first. Because

6:07

what these ballots are showing me

6:10

is that the

6:13

people chose to set over

6:16

the boss. How

6:19

do I know that? It's because the

6:21

Congress didn't flip. That

6:25

means that people had mixed ballots. They voted

6:27

blue here and read there. They

6:31

said to themselves, look, we

6:34

still believe in small government. So

6:38

I want this senator, I want

6:40

this legislator, I want

6:42

this governor, I want these

6:45

laws. But I'm

6:48

cool on this Nick. They

6:53

chose the hood over the

6:55

boss, and I

6:59

have no choice but to respect that. I

7:02

respect it. So if

7:04

you down ballot, you

7:08

gotta do this calculus. You gotta say, Okay,

7:11

it's not like this boss, this Trump

7:13

guy don't have a

7:15

legion of fans who are willing

7:18

to go down in the in the ship

7:20

with him. You also gotta be bugging

7:22

because you know, like he

7:25

actually could pull off winning. Are

7:27

they staging a coup? Well, now you can't

7:29

really call it the coup because the army is not involved,

7:32

because that's kind of like you need you need the military

7:34

for something to be a coup. I don't think

7:36

it's that, but yeah. I

7:38

also, now let me

7:40

say this, there is a legal way for old

7:43

Trumpet to state president. You just it's

7:46

pretty convoluted, but and quite

7:48

a long shot. But essentially,

7:50

you'd have to sew enough disbelief

7:53

into our last

7:55

election into the election enough

7:58

to get the courts to say and you gotta throw

8:00

out audise like electoral votes because

8:02

you just can't trust it. You can't trust it, and then

8:06

make the states select new electors,

8:08

right because remember, electoral college is like there,

8:12

dudes, they're just dudes that the state chooses.

8:15

It's you get. You take

8:17

the amount of senators and the amount of

8:19

just basically the yeah, the amount of senators and representatives

8:22

you have in a state, you add them together,

8:24

and that's how many electors the state

8:27

gets there. So they're just dudes. The

8:29

president could pressure states

8:32

to select new electors and

8:35

then those guys can basically

8:37

pick whoever they want, and

8:41

then it's very possible that that one state

8:43

sends two different choices

8:46

like went red and blue. And

8:48

then it's up to the Congress to figure out

8:50

which one of those electoral

8:52

votes that you believe

8:55

or listen to. And

8:59

the person who get to decide that is the person

9:01

that presides over the Congress, which is the

9:03

Vice president Mike Pence gets to pick which

9:08

elected to listen to. So there's

9:10

a way, but it's a long shot.

9:13

But there is life after him.

9:15

So you have to do this calculus to say,

9:18

I'm not necessarily scared of Trump,

9:21

but I'm scared of his followers. I'm

9:25

scared of losing the neighborhood.

9:28

I can't have a neighborhood flip on me if

9:30

I just start talking reckless about their favorite

9:32

dude. Because again,

9:35

if you know how Senate works. Their

9:38

terms are six years. President's

9:40

terms only four. You're gonna outlast

9:43

him anyway. I still gotta

9:45

work with these people. So

9:49

you gotta figure out the calculus. How do I say,

9:51

I'm not gonna go down with this fool, because I know the hood

9:54

comes first, the hood gonna lasts forever. At

9:56

the same time, I can't turn the neighborhood

9:58

against me. Now when I say the hood,

10:00

like, this is what I'm trying to understand what I mean

10:03

hood and neighborhood. When I say the neighborhood, I'm talking

10:05

about the people that live in the neighborhood.

10:07

When I talk about the hood, that's just it's

10:10

a shorthand for the gang.

10:12

That makes sense the name of the gang. But

10:15

the neighborhood is the

10:17

people that are in it. So when you're saying, look,

10:19

I can't have the neighborhood turn against me. You can't

10:22

have the literal people inside the houses

10:24

say you're not allowed to slang on this corner

10:26

no more. You can't have that happen.

10:30

If they chose that they like this

10:32

dude, they ain't gonna rock

10:34

with you, and you can't. You can't set up

10:36

your activities, you feel me. So

10:39

you have to make sure that

10:42

you don't lose the

10:45

support of the neighborhood. But at the same

10:47

time, you can't torpedo on your

10:49

future by going down with somebody

10:52

that inevitably is going down. It's

10:56

calculus, and it's a hard

10:58

calculus, and I think we're watching it play

11:00

out on screen. Now

11:03

that's the calculus from the Mactro perspective. The

11:05

hood comes first. Now the calculus that if

11:08

I'm using my gangster intentders are happening inside

11:10

the White House. I think there's a couple

11:12

of things going down. If I understand

11:15

how my bosses work, they

11:18

don't losing

11:20

its fine. Quitting is not getting

11:23

your ass beat. That's not that's

11:26

not acceptable. If you go out, you go out

11:28

in the blaze of glory. You feel me. You

11:30

you you go out, you go out like

11:33

like Escobar. You understand what I'm saying, Like,

11:35

no, you gotta come in here and get me. That's

11:37

that's the way gangsters go down. You know,

11:39

you have to break, if you, and then it's

11:41

like you earned it, if you, if you, I gave

11:44

I sent you my best, my hardest warriors.

11:46

We shot it up and shot as hard as

11:48

we could, and you got the best of me. Well, damn

11:50

you earned it. I'm not gonna just

11:52

walk into your hands. You're

11:55

tripping with bosses work right,

11:59

But they also understand again, you gotta set up for

12:01

the future if you if you want to live

12:03

through this thing again, you can't

12:05

go out like no punk, right,

12:08

So you have to have an

12:11

exit strategy. Trump's

12:14

extra strategy is, well, they cheated.

12:19

I would have won if y'all ain't

12:21

cheat. I mean, I know that's a strategy

12:24

because that's what he's still saying about the popular vote.

12:26

Four years ago, y'all brought in illegals

12:29

and dead people to vote. I

12:31

won the electoral College. I

12:33

would have been a popular vote if y'all ain't

12:35

have all these illegals vote. Y'all don't remember

12:37

Trump saying that, which is crazy because

12:39

he lost by two million more votes this

12:42

time, which means that his

12:45

his immigration policy still allowed,

12:47

according to his logic, two million mo

12:50

illegals to come vote against

12:53

him. So, I mean, you gotta

12:55

watch your words, big fellas. So the strategy

12:57

is you got to create it out because you

13:00

can't. You can't kill the storyline. I'm

13:03

gonna set up shops somewhere else. If

13:05

I got my ass beat in my last hood,

13:08

you can't set up shop nowhere. What's

13:11

the shop he's setting up? Well,

13:14

some of them saying he's setting up to run in. Some

13:17

of them saying he's setting up for his kids to run.

13:20

Some of I'm saying, which is the one that I'm

13:22

thinking, is like, Oh,

13:25

it's business. I'm gonna live down

13:27

in mar Lago. I'm done with New York because

13:31

I got a pending case in New York. Y'all

13:33

think we forgot this. Think you think we ain't

13:35

forget that. He got a pended He got a case

13:37

in New York, so

13:41

he read it for the law. You understand, I was saying,

13:43

So you got a case of New York. I'm gonna go down to Florida.

13:45

I'm gonna golf. I'm gonna set up this news station.

13:47

I'm gonna take down Fox News. That's why he started

13:50

trolling Fox News. I'm gonna take down Fox right,

13:52

and I'm gonna ride off into the sunset

13:55

and continue to make this pretend money. You know what

13:57

I stand up saying, do it? Say you gotta you gotta,

13:59

you gotta set it up. I can't, but I can't just be

14:01

like, damn my loss, now, everybody

14:03

come follow me. No, you can't do that.

14:07

You have to be like, nah, they

14:10

they shot it up. They shot the place up, and

14:12

they stole what they got. But you

14:15

know what, we're gonna continue to continue to be keepers

14:17

of the flame. That's the calculus. If

14:19

I'm using my antennas, that's the calculus.

14:42

Lastly, I think there's a lot to be said about lessons

14:46

we could see about how power works in

14:51

a system that is so cutthroat,

14:54

so gangster that it's only

14:56

the you're basically just playing king of

14:58

the hill. Ok. And

15:01

I think what we learned is this is that when

15:03

you on top, you can't

15:05

really punch down because

15:09

again, you won't always

15:11

be on top. And

15:13

your little worker bees, your

15:15

little cronies, they're doing calculus,

15:18

they're working their own angles,

15:21

and if you just abuse them as tools, at

15:23

some point they're gonna start

15:26

not taking your ship and

15:29

be like okay, cool, this's okay cool,

15:31

and they just they just biding their time. And

15:33

I feel like that's the lesson we're seeing

15:37

with Fox News. Fox

15:39

News was Trump's

15:42

microphone for a long time, but

15:45

then he started doing all this on

15:48

the microphone, and

15:51

eventually Fox was like, okay, okay,

15:54

uh, we see what's

15:56

happening here, And they had their own little inner

15:58

turmoil between the nion shows

16:00

and the news shows, because the opinion

16:02

shows are still, you know, pushing

16:06

the same narrative, the Tucker Carson's of the world,

16:08

you know what I'm saying, that Sean Hannity's of the world. Like they're

16:10

still like, you know, riding for

16:12

the boy. But then the the news stations

16:15

themselves, like the newscasters

16:17

are being like, uh, we're not gonna

16:19

airtive is. You ain't got no proof of this

16:21

stuff. We can't just be coming on the show

16:23

saying some reckless Nah,

16:26

there's life after you. Fox

16:29

News has existed before you.

16:32

There's life after you. Foxes, like

16:34

the Hood come first. We

16:37

there's an end to your era and

16:40

we need to survive after you're done. I'm not gonna

16:42

go down with you. It

16:44

was cool, we got what we needed, but

16:47

we're good. I think the Senate is kind of doing

16:50

the same thing, y'all.

16:53

Gotta remember somebody

16:55

like a Mitch McConnell, which somehow another

16:57

still got his his

17:00

seat in is proof to me

17:03

that Mitch understanding the hood comes first. I'm

17:05

playing this game with you. I've

17:07

been playing this game with you this whole time. People

17:10

like Lindsey Graham, they they hood

17:13

comes first. There was like, look, I

17:15

let you pick on me as long as you want. I let you.

17:17

I'll let you. I'll let you do what you want to do. Meanwhile,

17:20

you didn't gave me twenty

17:23

judges. I

17:25

feel like when they got their Amy Coney Barrett,

17:28

they decided, all right, look we got what we needed from

17:30

him. It's all good, We're done. The whole

17:32

time Trump thought he was using them low

17:34

and behold. They

17:36

knew what they was doing the whole time. This mug was transactional.

17:39

They hustled me because I was like, man, who

17:42

is bewitched? Y'all? Like why is

17:44

you doing? Why are you letting this man? Why

17:47

are you letting this man steal your whole

17:49

narrative? Oh? They wasn't letting

17:51

him doing anything. They

17:54

they was playing the game because at the end

17:56

of the day, Yo, the hood comes

17:58

first. So that's

18:01

the g O P. There

18:03

were blood of kints. If

18:05

you want to understand this last election

18:08

cycle, that's

18:10

your answer. Who it

18:12

comes first? Yo?

18:24

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18:27

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18:30

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18:32

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18:58

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19:00

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