THE BLACK PARADIGM
Two friends from the south that touch on everything from Black Media to Black Culture and add a little shade throughout.
THE BLACK PARADIGM
Emotions are Heavy
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Hey guys this episode is very heavy. Me and Ashley were very emotional and honestly over all the bullshit from AI to The tragedy of Cyrus Carmack-Belton please understand that being Black in this country is always a fight. love you guys please take care of your family and let's all stick together.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome back, niggas. My name is TJ, aka TJ with the sauce.
SPEAKER_04Hey you guys, my name is Ashley, aka Ash the Great.
SPEAKER_00And I'm fucking tired. I am I am tired of the bullshit. You know, this is why. Well, welcome, just welcome niggas back to the show. I'm so sorry. Um, my apologies. Our email address is theblackparadigm77 at gmail.com. Once again, for all the niggas, and strictly for the niggas is theblackparadigm77 at gmail.com. And talking about strictly niggas, I am tired of you non-black motherfuckers waking up every day dreaming about us, thinking about us, just obsessed with us. And we'll get into it because you know where we're going with this. I want all of my black children to be safe. I want all of our black children to be kids. I am tired of this. This should not be happening. This I just feel like at some point we just gonna have to start burning shit down. Like we we are just going to like we burning shit down and going after just going after the motherfuckers. Because this right here it's it's it's it's saying it, you have to change it. It's just dis it's disgusting, it's evil, it's it's heinous. This Asian man has had multiple encounters with black teenagers. Multiple. Not one, not two, not three. Most of the people. Why are you in our neighborhood? Why are you, and here's the thing. These Asian gas stations have gotten money from the government to be not placed in white neighborhoods. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You cannot open up a gas station in a white neighborhood. But black, impoverished, oh, you can go, we'll give you money for that. Whatever land you want over there, we'll give you the money. So you can open up a whatever the fuck, a Chinese restaurant, a nail shop, a gas station, you got it. Open up, open up how many you want right beside the liquor store. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I am I I am over the bullshit. They have done this on purpose for centuries. Giving money to other races to come into black neighborhoods, black towns, black cities, and get our profit.
SPEAKER_04Y'all don't respect us. That's one thing.
SPEAKER_00They don't respect us, but you want to take our fucking money. You don't respect us, but you want to use our fucking culture. You don't respect us, but you want to use our music.
SPEAKER_04Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00Use our likeness, our image, our likeness, our image, our words, everything, all of this. And then have the audacity to run around here, especially in the north and the motherfucking west, talking about nigga this, nigga that. There's no niggas to be seen.
SPEAKER_04Not a more nice.
SPEAKER_00Where are the niggas at?
SPEAKER_04Hell, they say it in the north uh, you know, especially in the East Coast and California shit, they say it more than we damn do.
SPEAKER_00I mean, every other sense, nigga this, nigga this. Where are the niggas? Because I don't see none. Not one. But you know what? It's gonna come a day. And and and you know, I this is still ongoing, um, but we're gonna get into it a little bit more. But I all we got is us. All we got is us. That's why I don't ever want to hear a motherfucker say, oh, we're a personal color. Bitch, don't, don't you, uh, don't you dare. Don't you dare. I am black as hell. My history, my history is so cool, whoa, is so beyond whatever they got going on over there. We are black Americans. Okay? Don't put us in nothing with no peop no people of color. Yeah, I think. Well, we go through, no, we don't. All right, my struggle is way different, vastly different from your struggle. Most of your people, you want to be white. You want to attain to white adjacentness. That's what you want. We don't want that. We don't wake up every day thinking about another race of people. Black people don't have to do that because guess what? We are the blueprint. Majority of us don't, yeah. The coons don't either, but they just, you know, they just shh, you know. I mean, it that's why I think the worst thing you could ever be called in the black in in the in the in just in the black culture is a coon. Because it's like, damn. Like, damn.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But on that note, I will go into my mental health. Um, you know, it's a change. Um, changes are happening. Um starting a new job.
SPEAKER_04Um congratulations.
SPEAKER_00And I will say this. Um, fuck Sedgwick. Um, that is the third party um whatever you want to call it.
SPEAKER_04Uh third party HR, maybe?
SPEAKER_00HR, FMLA, all of that bullshit. Fuck them. Um they were no help at all. At all. On my leave. No help. Uh and yeah. I just, it's a big fuck you to them because why are you using AI to approve and deny claims? AI? You're using AI to approve and deny claims for people's mental health.
SPEAKER_03Oh. Okay.
SPEAKER_00That's when I knew it was time to go. I I knew it was a sign. It was, it was just like, it was there, it was the, you know, there's so many people probably going through, but the thing about it is, hire people. Hire people, humans with emotions intact.
SPEAKER_02Empathy, understanding, feeling.
SPEAKER_00Oof. You know, sounds good to me. But you all see, um, because AI is gonna fail. AI is gonna fail. And no, there is the way that these companies are losing money daily and talking about building data centers. They're just they're talking about building a data center over there by the Grassmore Zoo in Nashville.
SPEAKER_04By the fucking and the crazy thing By the zoo. Clarksville has a data center, the Google data center. So yeah. I didn't I thought it was a building. I thought it was just like, oh, Google no.
SPEAKER_02It's the Google data center.
SPEAKER_00I just a data center by the motherfucking zoo. That's if that doesn't tell if that doesn't tell you enough right there, we're a key we're a zoo, which I don't really care about zoos no more, you know, but I'm just saying, animals right there. Toxic chemicals.
SPEAKER_04They'll be the damn. Now, when these fucking zoo animals turn into these fucking monkeys from damn planet, don't say shit to me. When they become sick, AI, I am your father. I am that's what y'all hoes give. I'm gonna be in my granddad's house because I know how to leave the animals alone. I've never liked the premise of a zoo just because, you know, animals in the cave. I've always had my issues with it. But again, niggas, we mind our business. Long as the animals is over there. Hell, most of us don't even like cats and dogs for real. We need to put the window down.
SPEAKER_00We're not, we are not. Listen, we see something over there, leave it alone, honey. Leave it alone.
SPEAKER_04That's why I was right there by KC in Love Island when he said, I ain't a cat or a dog person, bitch. I got plants. Amen, brother. Amen. Right there with you, buddy.
SPEAKER_00I ain't got no pets either. Do I want a pet? I do want a dog, but it's too much going on right now. It's it's too much going on right now, and I need to, you know, I need to focus on strictly TJ. But yeah, uh, fuck Sedwick, fuck AI data centers, uh, fuck AI. Um, and it's crazy because the AI. It's crazy because the platform that we're using uses a uh a little part of AI. Uh Riverside does, but at the same time, we're not using AI every minute, every 10 minutes. Y'all need to stop using that shit too. Because every time we use AI, especially from Twitter, asking what a what's that name? Grok or whatever the fuck it's called.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, uh, Chat GPT. Yes. Uh open. It's just destroying creativity.
SPEAKER_00Search it. Just go into the web, search it.
SPEAKER_04But shit, now you can't even do that now because not AI.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Google, you can't even just do a basic search. It's AI led first. Who the fuck said I wanted that?
SPEAKER_00Exactly. Ciao. But yeah, um, yeah, fuck Cedric, fuck AI. Um, we are here. We're here. And I am excited about starting a new career. I'm excited about working over like overnight. Um, I've never really had a chance to do that before. So I want to see how this goes because I've always in the daytime. I feel like, honestly, I feel like, and I don't know, niggas, y'all tell me this. I don't know if y'all, I sleep better in the daytime. I sleep better in the daytime than the nighttime. I don't know what it is, but I am up. I am a night owl. And so when I was like, you know what, y'all got thirst, they're like, well, yeah, like it's medical. I was like.
SPEAKER_04When you say night owl, I'm talking about that lady in viral on the TikTok. Now whatever she be saying, I mean, no, I I'm I'm excited.
SPEAKER_00I'm excited, especially for tonight, because I'm gonna go see a scary movie.
SPEAKER_04I got me. Shout out to Candace. We got our tickets. We are going tomorrow, right after work. Tonight, baby Love Island, in the cut with Kinzie, Sean, Gabriel, Bea, I'm ready. I listen. Oh, they feel for sure.
SPEAKER_00Because one of my friends said that a lot of the girls look like they just like came out of Forever 21 and, you know, uh Wet Seal and like the dresses, and it's just the outfits aren't outfitting.
SPEAKER_04But here's the that that's I'm not even gonna go with that. Just because they've been doing that. And that that's one. Two, and these you gotta think majority of the people that be on Love Island literally between be between the ages of 22 and 24. They dress like how we used to dress going back to the club and stuff. So I'm not gonna give them a false, I'm not gonna critique them like that.
SPEAKER_00Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. I'm not some of them, aren't they aren't some of them like 30?
SPEAKER_04No. The oldest person is a young man on there. His name's Bryce, he's 29, but typically It's like 20, 20 to 20, like 20, 22 to 26, typically. Okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_00Well, well, well. All right. Um what about you, Boo? How have you been?
SPEAKER_04Um, you know, I'm just existing right now. I think I'm trying to get a part-time job because I do want to save for my trip and get some more stuff paid up and out the way and stay busy. I do better busy-wise when I have a um a full schedule. But I want to say this. Um, you know what, I'm gonna save that for Ashley's Corner. But it's a young man that I follow. I want to give him a special shout-out. Well, I got two shout outs. One, I want to give a shout out to my brother. His name is Jay. He started a music TikTok called Rewind and Play, where he puts together these graphics. He talks about songs, music. His tagline is where memories meet music, timeless RB, soul, hip-hop, culture, rewind the past and replay the feeling. Amazing page. I'm very, very, very impressed. So I'm gonna tag him. He has 26 followers and he wants to grow his following. So shout out to my brother Jay. Also, I want to give another shout out to another young man. His name is Spike Lee, but he has a dollar sign in front of his Lee. First of all, amazing content, very funny, very thought-provoking, very sexy, everything like that. But he's very, very talented. You know, a lot of people like, oh, I sing, I do music, I'm uh uh, whatever. His music is really good. He released this EP called Lover's Lore. It's on Spotify. Um, let me double check and make sure. I don't think it's on Apple Music. I didn't check, I just went based off of um no, I just think it's on. No, okay, it is on Apple Music. Love that for me because that's typically my personal choice. But Love is Lore EP, he released his EP May the 12th, 2026. Now, I went into it with no expectations. Love his voice, very sultry, very sexy. I think you can you can listen to someone's music and tell they they're enjoying the process and that they enjoy making music. So my two favorite songs from there are um I Love Addiction and I Love Shea Butter Baby. But, but, but, but if you click and look at his other music, he has a song from 2025 called Lust. He has a few singles. I think there's Blazy Runts and Sleeping Alone. I think Lust and Sleeping Alone are my favorite singles. So shout out to Spike Lee. He is doing his thing. Um, he's making great music. And I just think he's the overall dope ass content creator. And I definitely want to be more intentional on supporting black content creators, black musicians, whether it's movies, music, uh politics, sports, whatever. So, in the words of Issa Ray, I'm rooting for there, right? Black. Shout out to him, King, and you know, let's pray you make it to the top. I think you will. So yeah. Shout out to my brother and shout out to Mr. Spike Lee, and we'll link both of those projects. We'll link my brother's music page and we'll link Spike Lee's a link to the Apple music, and we'll do Spotify too, just so we can give people options.
SPEAKER_00Correct.
SPEAKER_04But my mental health, listen. I had a there was an incident today. One thing I can't stand when I inquire something, I work in case management for social work. I'm not like I always say, I'm not gonna tell you where I work, but I do social work for adult veterans, right? And what I do is I'm not the typical case manager. It's a particular program that I'm under. So I garner clients from different people and different programs, and I branch them. This like a bridge. I'm the bridge program. So before you get fully let out to society on your own, I'm the last stop you see, and I make sure that you're doing good. I'm not gonna be hounding you like the previous programs, but my job is to make sure that you're doing okay and you're getting about it just fine. Sometimes I'm successful, sometimes I'm not. Sometimes it's it's it's my fault because I feel like I don't know how to connect to that person. But a lot of the times I feel like you can't help nobody that don't want to be helped, right? But I'm not even talking about this in terms of my client. I'm talking about it as an internal hire dealing with other coworkers. My shit be on point. How I submit, how I save, how I keep track of what I'm doing and what I'm spending money on. Don't come to me as a leader. Well, this stuff from 2024 isn't correct. Babes, I wasn't here. I don't know what to do. So you want to give me an infraction, a write-up. You know, you want to punish me because of previous people's mistakes when there's audits and paperwork being done. But when you look from when I inquire of this person, everything is correct. Every, I'm mostly like 98 to 96 percentile. Work is great. Thanks, friend. But I can't help what somebody did before me. I wasn't, I started my job November of 2024, November 25th of 2024. And as quiet as it's kept, I was a sitting dunk until January of 2025 because I was getting trained. And half of the time, I wasn't even giving trained. I was sitting there because guess what? It's a holiday season, everybody's off work. So I didn't start making transactions and making case notes and doing shit until January, I think it was the second or third we came back of 2025. So technically, don't fucking come at me with that shit. And I had uh somebody tell me, oh, they're thinking about doing this. And I just, instead of me getting so upset and worried and just pissed off, I literally said, I don't give a fuck. I will quit this, my pride does not run high. I will quit this job today and go work at McDonald's for my fucking peace of mind because guess what? I don't care anymore. I'm not finna get my last summer I was so sick because of this job. I have acquired an autoimmune disease because of fucking stress. You got 25 to 30 year olds having heart attacks and strokes because of stress. I'm not doing that shit no more with y'all. So if you want to fire me, if you want to write me up, if you want to give me unnecessary trainings because of other people's dealings, do what you feel you need to do. And I'm gonna do what I need to do too. So I will say mentally, it felt good just to be like, fuck y'all.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04I did what I deal with from clients, you know, a lot of the times I'm dealing with mental barriers or mental issues, or, you know, working the job, even though it's social work, it's still, I still consider a customer service. Because you have to deal with people. You have to always deal with, oh well, the client is always right. No, this motherfucker's on crack. They're not always right. They're not even thinking with a clear mind. Or this person gets $10,000 a month and still don't want to pay their bills. That is a mental health issue that I can't do nothing about. But that's fine. That's the job I signed up to do. However, what I'm not going to do, and what I'm not going to deal with, is motherfuckers that I worked with that are over me management wise and making my life harder because I'm not going to count out and bow down. Because guess what? I'm not taking the blame for some shit I didn't fucking do or wasn't. Here for. So that's just me venting and just putting it out in the universe and calling another job opportunity to me that compensates me well, that follows the schedule I want to follow, that gives me the benefits that I want, and that I'm happy where I don't have to deal with fucking clients, where I really don't have to deal with the white-led workspace. The white people in my workspace and white management are really getting under my fucking skin and getting on my fucking nerves. But you know what? Today, I adopted, you know what? Fuck y'all.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Right?
SPEAKER_04So if I do get that stressed, like, and TJ knows what I was going through last year. TJ knows how sick I got. He knows what I was dealing with and all the BS at my job because white people can't keep their body parts to themselves. And it just led into a chain reaction of a bunch of bullshit. Like I just said, I will quit that fucking job, walk out of that bitch, and be at Wendy's or McDonald's tomorrow just to get a paycheck.
SPEAKER_00Can I add something, Fran? I I just want to say, first of all, I'm so proud of you.
SPEAKER_02Thanks, Fran.
SPEAKER_00Because I know last year, you know, the stuff that we discussed, right? You were you were you were going through it, and I just wanted to be there, you know, in my job, being complacent, you know what I'm saying? And understanding now, right? That ever since you had that you told everybody that's listening, you know, about your audio, uh autoimmune, it is I want everyone to understand, a job is not supposed to make you sick. Say it.
unknownSay it.
SPEAKER_00Being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, and because some some autoimmune diseases you can, you know, you can get back on track, right? But then some that you're you're stuck with. I believe once you find that job, which you will this year, you will find that job.
SPEAKER_04I claim that, honey.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I claim that for you. Listen, I claim that for the both of us. Yes, hello.
SPEAKER_04You know you don't miss my new job, but you know what I'm referring to.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, yes. Thank you. Um let a job stress you out. When you start getting sick, when you start having to call off of work because you are stressed the fuck out. Not because of the customers, but because of your fucking people that you work with, that's a problem. That is a problem. The people that you see every day that you're supposed to see five days a week, and you walk in and you just like that. Y'all people don't understand. People have strokes, heart attacks. What is it?
SPEAKER_04Um I I like I was telling my coworker and even my therapist a few months ago, I said it was getting to a point where I would get physically ill every morning and go to work with the nastiest attitude because I didn't want to be there. My body didn't want to be there. So when my body starts reacting, first before I do, I'm like, oh, it's it's about to be that time. But it's and Lord knows it's not funny. But I told my mentor and a lady, she's a great friend. I look up to her so much. I'm not gonna say she's just a lady in my job. Hell no. She's an amazing friend. She's in her 50s and this, she's like a work mom, so to speak. Work guidance mom and love her down. Um I told her, I said, you better be glad this ain't 2019 me, because I would have left this bitch a year ago. And because back then you could quit a job next to the through phone interviews, and I'm gonna have another job. I said, You better be, look, you better be glad this ain't 2019, Ashley, because uh, deuces. I'm gonna hit your ass with the oh. It's it's time to go. So, you know, when you get older, priorities change.
SPEAKER_01They do.
SPEAKER_04Um, you know, you have to be responsible, even though sometimes I still feel like that same 24-year-old, even though I know I'm not, I'm 32. So I can't move in certain ways, or I just choose not to, because I do have support and backing, but I'm not gonna put people in the predicament because I hate these people. I'm I'm not gonna let nobody fuck with my money. Like I'm not gonna leave something for nothing. But at the same time, it's just like, all right, bitch, you push me to that point.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Let me go flip a burger or f or or a bag of fry. Because again, the money's not gonna match, but peace of mind is so important.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. It is, and and that's to everybody. Like, if you're out there and you're struggling, and I just want all my people to be happy. Like, I want us to be at jobs where because everybody can be content creators, right? Everybody can be podcasters, everyone can be content creators, everybody can, you know, a lot of people don't. A lot of people don't want to be in the limelight. A lot of people just want a fucking job that pays their bills and they can do go and do whatever they want to do, you know, when they get off. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04When you was like, everybody can't be podcasters, and people, oh, oh y'all on a podcast. Listen, we do this for the enjoyment, but last TJ and I have always stated that we are not rich, we are not getting paid from this. We strictly do this because we enjoy doing this. And I think more important mo the most importantly to me, we enjoy each other. So this is just, I look forward to this time, especially with us not working together and we haven't worked together in almost three years. But we hang out like this is even if, and I'm so glad like he came to my parents Vile Renewal, but even if we can't physically go and be with each other through the week, or I know Thursday, I'm sitting with my booth for a few hours, and this is what we want.
SPEAKER_00So, you know, and let me let me let me reiterate that too.
SPEAKER_04We got jobs, we clock in.
SPEAKER_00Trust me.
SPEAKER_04We have an entrepreneur here, like we we working, okay? We're working.
SPEAKER_00We we we we are we are working, but also let me let me go back when I say that everybody can't be podcasters. We need more black podcasters, intellectual podcasters. That's what I meant to say. Intellectual podcasters. We I don't don't go there, friend. Don't go there, friend. When I see these podcasts that pop up on my fucking YouTube page.
SPEAKER_02We're not gonna name them.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're not gonna name them. Uh, but fuck Myra Gaines, though. I will name that that that nasty. Uh first of all, you're not black American. Stop speaking on black people. I don't even know what you are. I don't know what you you look like a you are, I don't know what he looks like.
SPEAKER_04He looks like I think he's Sudanese. He's like, he's from that region like uh Sudan, Libya. He's African.
SPEAKER_00He's an incel. That's he's an incel. Yeah. Yeah. Stop, stop, stop, stop speaking on black American shit. You are not from here. You don't know anything about our culture. Please. These white people will shoot you dead. And I'm telling you this. You keep on talking about what black people need to do, what black people need to do. You know nothing of the sort. Because you're nothing. First of all, that man's a coon. You're nothing of the sort.
SPEAKER_04He's a fucking coon that wants to be in a relationship with a white man. No matter how much you count how to do it, they will never pick you. When I see You're not gonna be in their clubs, in their private rooms, because guess what? In the words of Viola Davis playing Michelle Obama, you're a nigga.
SPEAKER_01Your nigga.
SPEAKER_04Like, outta here. I just be disgusted. Like, ugh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Like, what is that?
SPEAKER_04First of all, you're uh oh, uh-oh.
SPEAKER_00I was gonna go there, but we do not need any more people like that on a fucking podcast.
SPEAKER_04Don't need the red pill.
SPEAKER_00We don't need the red pill. We don't need any more red pill. If we're gonna have a discussion, let's have an intellectual discussion. Let's talk about what's going on in the black community, black people, and how can we come together?
SPEAKER_04But even with also even if, okay, and I'ma just what's the word I'm looking for? I'm gonna play devil's advocate to that. I'ma just, even if you don't want to go that route, what happened to fun? Because I I truly feel like I love doing what we do because I feel like it's a balance. We do serious, yeah, we do black, but shit, sometimes we just be kicking on here, especially when it comes to entertainment or when we, you know, we in that mood. So there's a time and a place for everything, and I think there is a lane for everybody.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because we can all eat, right? But at the same time, it's just like such a thing.
SPEAKER_00I don't want to listen to a podcast where you are literally deliberately talking shit about black women. That is your whole, that's your whole focal point. That's how you get paid. That's disgusting. I I'm tired of hearing niggas doing that shit. If you're gonna talk about music, talk about, you know, have fun. But when I see a podcast, man, that bitch, that bitch, that bitch, my God.
SPEAKER_04I mean, that's that's it's almost guaranteed if you're talking about a black woman negatively, oh, you think about it.
SPEAKER_00It's always that. It's like, damn, we see why you got seven baby mamas. Sorry. Not sorry. Um, but yes. Yeah, it's the truth. All right. Did we did you finish Ashley's Corner, babe?
SPEAKER_04Oh, that wasn't was that Ashley's Corner? I was just doing my mental health check-in.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, do your mental health check in. Oh no, I mean we'll do Ashley's Corner.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Um, Ashley's listen. Okay.
SPEAKER_02I just feel the need.
SPEAKER_04As a woman, I'm not gonna judge you. And I'm talking to women specific women, this I'm addressing you. As a woman, I really try my best. If I see another beautiful woman, if I see another sister that got that shit on, if I see another woman in her bag, if I see another woman spin that shit with her go-yard bag, you fucking doing it. You're beautiful. Girl, you killing them. There is nothing better than having that reassurance from another black woman. And I say that as somebody who in my section is six of us. Then we do have like um a few of the black girlies from Nashville that come to our office to work out of our office. It's always a kind word. It's girl, that meal you cooked, fire. Girl, I see you handling them clients, you handling business, girl, you looking good, girl, you're brand. It's always a kind word. So even, and I wanted to say that because I know I come on here and talk negatively about my job, and I can be a negative Nancy at times. Fine, I accept that. But at the same token, the one thing I loved about my job, I always have my sister Celine on. So I just encourage you for Ashley's Corner to tap into that as a black woman. I mean, shit, and hell, it's prime month. So I'm talking to girls too. Shit. If you see your fellow sister, hey niece, that's cute. Hey, you look good. Hey, I see you doing your job. Hey, you're doing an amazing job. Hey, I love whatever it is, because having that reassurance, being a black place and a white face is so important, not necessarily for success, but for sanity. Um, having the cold switch all the time. And I know a lot of people when they watched I Love Boosters, especially when Taylor Page was breathing in and turned into Robin Thady, that went over a lot of people's heads. They thought colorism, that not necessarily wasn't just a representation of colorism, that was just black people having to cold switch, how tiring that shit can be. So having that peace of mind in the workplace where, okay, I have to deal with these fucking clients, I gotta deal with these white people in management, but I can be myself with you. I think that is so important to have that. And even if you are a heterosexual black male that's listening, bro, you know, I see you doing your thing, homie. That's a nice shirt, you know, shit, bro. That that protein smoothie with 800 grams of protein looks good. Something. Just say something nice. Be, be the be that peaceful place for, be that, you know what, be that peaceful landing for your fellow black person in your workplace today. Or then they can do it every day.
SPEAKER_00And you know, I I've seen a lot more, like, because just going outside, right, and seeing other black people, you know, when you do, especially for niggas, like when we we when we do this right here, and you do that, it's like, hey, I see you nigga, or I see you little nigga, or I see you, you know, um, or but when I do that, and some niggas don't do that, I'm like, oh.
SPEAKER_04I just what I do now.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Uh-oh. I because I had that situation happen yesterday in public. I saw about six or seven black people in the in the store. I think about five of them when I was like, hey, how y'all doing? They spoke, da-da-da-da. I was in the house, hey, what up, bro?
unknownNothing.
SPEAKER_03I knock all this shit over.
SPEAKER_00And I said, Oh, okay. And I know he heard me. I know he heard me because we were like three three feet away. Your boy was not looked looked up and didn't say a damn thing. Disgusting. And I was like, wow, I was like, you have just to be because for me, seeing other black people, being happy, being joyful, being just themselves, makes me so happy. Whether they're listening to rock and roll, house, techno, um, or or being in nature, like everything is black-coated. And it's for a reason. Whatever we do, whatever we decide to do, our ancestors have done before. Way before. So I just I think it's honestly a testament to us that a lot of us are still locked in through all the bullshit that we've had to endure. The terror, the, the, the, the, the tragedy, the just the bullshit that we have to deal with on a daily basis, and them knowing that they can never break our spirit.
SPEAKER_04So I'm in that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Well, let's get into this show, my love. Let's start with mother.
SPEAKER_00Mother, Regina Hall. Let me tell you something. I love me. First of all, I love all the Reginas, by the way. Regina Kenny, Regina Hall. Like, I love them. We're talking about Regina Hall right now. Because guess what? Scary movie, it's out, baby. And I listen, I just, the range of Regina Hall. Like, let's go through, like, she is a, first of all, queen, but she is like in this film industry, my God, you have Scary Movie, one battle after another, girls' trip, scary movie, the whole franchise, right? Think like a man, the best man, love and basketball. I mean, Little, Malibu's Most Wanted, and that is, I mean, the list goes on about last night, the sheet detectives, Hunk for Jesus. First of all, Hunk for Jesus.
SPEAKER_04That movie doesn't get talked about enough. She did her thing. Her and shout out to Sterling K. Brown. I don't think I don't think we talked about that enough just because the deconstruction, the deconstruction of Christianity in the black American community has to happen at some point. And I think it's slowly but surely happening. But the way that people thought that was just some cheeky comedy, I'm like, y'all didn't watch that movie at all. That movie was brilliant.
SPEAKER_00It was brilliant, and it just, and I knew Regina Hall had range, but when I saw that movie and the way that she had, like the what she endured and how she just laid it out on the fucking table, I was like, oh yeah.
SPEAKER_04So as stated, I know I'm going to go see, I'm seeing it tomorrow with my friend Candice. Shout out to Candice who listened to our show. But it's, I had to pull it up. I'm looking through her film filmography right now. She did a show on Netflix, not Netflix, it was Hulu. Let me find the name of it. Nine Perfect Strangers. She was Carmel Schneider, a fucking nutcase. When I tell you I've never seen her play crazy like that, I said, oh, range. Regina Hall was so scary in that role to me. Because I was just like, oh, she's off. Crazy. Crazy. You hear me?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And then when she dropped that act and was just like, I've been kidding. I was like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, range. And let's not even talk about her hosting award shows and hosting things and just, oh, she's fire.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Amazing. I mean, it's just the just the range of films that she's been in. Like, oh gosh. And what was that movie called? What you said was she like.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, the show uh Nine Perfect Strangers. And I remember, like, shout out to my mom. We used to watch Allie McBeal in the early thousands. She became a main role in season five. We used to love Allie McBeal. Yes. I wish, I wish Allie is Allie McBeal on streaming? I need to see.
SPEAKER_00But that's one of those shows where the licensing and like that was big like that was big production. Yeah. Um, because you know they uh Richina. Allie McBeal. Yeah. Yeah, Allie McBeal, 2001 to 2002. I think that was the last season. Yeah. She was on Law and Order LA, the comedy series Black Monday, of course, and appeared as Neene and Issa Ray. I didn't even know she was an insecure. I forgot, I forgot about that.
unknownMm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00Damn. Yeah, and in 2022, she co-hosted the 94th Academy Awards with uh Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. Yep. Yeah, just range. She's 55. And looks fucking amazing. She just did, she just, hold on. She just did a photo shoot with um oh what magazine? I forgot. Hold on. Let's see. Hold on, let me type in Regina Hall. Magazine.
SPEAKER_04I didn't know she had any fellow shoes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she did. Um. Damn. I'll find it. Uh if I don't find it, I will try to post it in the description. But it was, uh it says New York magazine, but oh my god, the face. Yes, New York magazine. She did a cover. Um, yeah, the veteran actress is enjoying a mid-career breakthrough, but she's still grinding at work. And I know that's right, black woman. So Regina, Regina, Regina, Regina Hall. Um, you are mother, you are legendary, and we are here to give you your flowers, boo.
SPEAKER_04Absolutely. And I cannot wait to see her tomorrow. Reprise her role as um, what's her role in scary movie? Brenda.
SPEAKER_00Brenda. Yes. I knew you were gonna get it, Fred Brenda.
SPEAKER_04I have seen it again in my face. Sing me the TV in this. Is that cute, Sandy? Oh man. Yeah, I don't know what you see the meme is so popular on TikTok where she looks behind the wall. She's like, oh, I'm hollering. That lady is amazing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Um, and talking about another beautiful, beautiful black lady, black queen, uh, Megan the Stallion. Tina Snow is back, you guys. She's back on a boat.
SPEAKER_04No. Tina Snow is back if it's gonna go hard on the hoe. We ain't talking to Meg. We ain't talking to Sugar, my man, my man, bitch. That's all.
SPEAKER_00It's done.
SPEAKER_04Did you see who she finna have on this new project? I saw Carney's name. I saw Doji. I saw, oh bitch. Her and Doji. Oh.
SPEAKER_00She's a what? She's a girls' girl.
SPEAKER_04Clark. In the words of my mom, I love Island. Clark it, baby. Tina, first of all, when she was dancing on that bar, advertising her chicas, Devertitas, and them booty teeks was wham, bam, wham. I was, oh, oh. She looks so damn good. I love you for the Italian.
SPEAKER_00First of all, she looks amazing.
SPEAKER_04Luscious, delicious. All of these things, honey.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you really fucked that up, Clay. I mean, I just I look here.
SPEAKER_04You mean we don't even have to spend much of it. I want your, like the girl said, we need your meniscus on the dead. But you know what, though? Fuck you. Fuck your career. Don't get fucked out of that. Because guess what?
SPEAKER_00It's all about making it.
SPEAKER_04Lost out.
SPEAKER_00It's all about me.
SPEAKER_04Lost out. You lost out of the shit.
SPEAKER_00She was literally, she was wanting to settle down. Settle down.
SPEAKER_04Listen.
SPEAKER_00She made a whole song about you, nigga. And you was just like, you know what? Welcome back, Tina Snow, everybody.
SPEAKER_04Finna go hard on her. Listen, if May didn't teach me nothing else, leave biracial men alone.
unknownPlease. Oh, God.
SPEAKER_04Um, now watching that guy won't bring me biracial man with a white mama. Oh, I'm terrified. Um.
SPEAKER_00I hope that that it doesn't come to that. I hope you get if you get a biracial man, I hope his mama is black.
SPEAKER_04If I get a if I happen to get a biracial man with a white mama, let him be like Vic Minsa, please. He's such an extreme.
SPEAKER_00That is one. There are dime a dozen. But that Vic, that Vic Minsa. Blacker than black with a black baby mama.
SPEAKER_04He ain't got to be a big one.
SPEAKER_00With a black baby mama.
SPEAKER_04Who? And the gold.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00All right, all right, friend.
SPEAKER_04All right, baby. Is it Vic Min? Yes. I think my Vince Stables and Callie love him too, but no, Vig Miss, I was right in Chicago. Fine. Who went up on academics? Say that shit about Chicago now, nigga. Yes. Love him. Zapp.
SPEAKER_00And he'll do it again. He'll do it again.
SPEAKER_04And again. And again. Shout out to MC Deborah, the legend. Happy Prime Month. Be who you are. For your pride.
SPEAKER_00I'm fucking done with you.
SPEAKER_04I got a rainbow cookie in the bag. Anybody want to slice?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_04I love Tyler, please. Okay. If you know that, if you know, you know, you know. We love the girls. We love the guras. We love the dance. We love the dance. Um long as you're not fucking children of animals, you're cool with me. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Well, on that note, um, niggas, I don't know if you've seen this video of Taylor Monroe. Uh, she is the, she went viral for having her mother in the car. Um, I'm gonna pull that video up for y'all can uh listen to it because I want y'all to, I mean, we got 14 million. She tried to play with her mom. Her mama said not today. Not the fuck.
SPEAKER_04I was in my house, please.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_03I never got back to this off. I've never gotten packed to this off. You in that tone.
SPEAKER_04Like, let's be clear here.
SPEAKER_00First of all, you tried to play with your mama while she was driving, talking about have you ever been cracked to this song? Then she said, Mm-hmm. And see, that first of all, that was just to let you know, baby, don't do that. Then you said, have you ever been cracked to this song? She looked at you dead in her dead and said, Have I ever purchased crack?
SPEAKER_04I said, Because let's be clear here. Why are you playing Mama Top? She's not going through that shit with you.
SPEAKER_00She is not. First of all, shout out to Taylor Monroe. Uh she is one of the new, I don't say new, she's been doing this, but that video got her up to 14 million views. And it's just crazy. And ever since then, her and her mom have been doing like just videos because everyone was like, Yo, mama got you. Your mama is crazy. Yo mama, we love your mama. Put her back in your videos. So it's just her, her, her and her mom are amazing. Um, from all the videos that I've seen about them and just stuff like that. And she's funny, she's funny. And if you need some inspiration, go follow her. Her um, let me see, what is her Taylor T-A-Y-L-O-R-R underscore Monroe. M-O-N-R-O-E. Uh, go follow her. She's really funny, but um, yeah, I wanted to get some really good stuff out of the way before we started getting serious. Um, having to talk about this situation, this tragedy that shouldn't have happened. Um, I'll let you open it up, babe, because I feel like I talked about it a little in the beginning. So I'll let you from a black woman's perspective.
SPEAKER_04All right, so let's lay down the groundwork of what actually happened. Um I have Okay, we have a 14-year-old Cyrus Carmeck Belton. 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton was fatally shot after being accused of stealing from a convenience store. A convenience store owned by an Asian owner. Um, um, so that was the synopsis. I'm finna read an actual article on this. Um I'm just all right. Cyrus Carmack Belton's family attorney says a civil lawsuit will move forward after the acquittal of Rick Chow. Civil rights leaders and and the Carmack Belton family's family attorney says the fight for justice is not over. Less than two days after a Richard County jury found Rick Chow not guilty in the shooting of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton, the family's attorney said efforts to hold Chow accountable are not over. Speaking in a Wednesday morning news conference alongside local civil rights leaders and members of the Carmack Belton's family, attorney Todd Rutherford confirmed the family intends to continue pursuing a civil lawsuit against Chow now that the criminal case has concluded. It was put on hold while the criminal trial proceeded, Rutherford explains. Now that the criminal trial is over, we plan on proceeding. The comments came after a jury acquitted Chow on Monday following a nearly week-long murder trial. Here we go. I was like, where's the other? I'm not finna pay them. The comments came after a jury acquitted Chow on Monday following a nearly week-long murder trial at the Richland County Courthouse. Chow had been charged in the May 28th, 2023 shooting of the death of Carmack Belton outside of the family's former Shell gas station on Parkland Road. Prosecutors argued Chow chased a teenager after wrongly accusing him of stealing water bottles and shot him in the back after pursuing him roughly 130 yards down Spring Street Drive. Defense attorneys argued Chow acted to protect his son after Carmack Belton pointed a handgun at him. During Wednesday's news conference, Rutherford said he remains convinced the jury reached the wrong conclusion. As a 30-year veteran of the criminal justice system, I've never seen anything like it, Rutherford said. I stand here with Cyrus' mother to my right, whom I told over the phone, it's going to be okay. This can't happen. No, he cannot get away with chasing a child 130 yards and shooting him in the back. Rutherford argued the evidence presented during trial supported the state's murder case and pointed to testimony from witnesses who described Carmack Belton running from the child's before the shooting. This was a murder. Oh, okay. And my content went away. Okay, yes, here it is. This was a murder. And okay, yeah. The website is now trying to make me put a card on file, but you get the gist of what happened. Basically, a young black boy walked into the store, a Asian-owned convenience store. He purchased water bottles. They assumed him and accused him of cheating. Um not cheating, excuse me, of stealing. And he was chased out of the store and then shot in the back. Falsely accused. Um and I want to credit WTLA. It is a news channel, I think, out of Kansas, um, for that article. But um I really don't know what to say. It was an all-white jury. And then the crazy part is the man who represented Rick Chow, who helped Rick Chow got off, wasn't black man, a nigga by the name of Sean Kent with a white wife, might I add. Um, that's just ironic within his children.
SPEAKER_00All demonic spirits up in that motherfucker. It's just all, it's just demons. Like an all-white jury, a black man that is representing an Asian man that ran after, not in the ran after, ran after a child and shot him in his fucking back. That family does let me tell you something, and I'm gonna say this, I don't give a fuck who says anything about, I don't give a fuck. That family doesn't deserve peace as long as they own this motherfucking earth. That family, that child family does not deserve a single fucking day of peace. You ran out of your convenience store. First of all, your convenience store isn't a predominantly black neighborhood.
SPEAKER_04Talk about it.
SPEAKER_00A black neighborhood in South Carolina. In South Carolina. And you ran out of your convenience store and shot this child. Yeah. Your family doesn't deserve peace. A single day of peace going moving forward. I don't care what happens to y'all. I really don't. Because at this point, black people, we gotta start. When you take one of ours, it's over. It's in game.
SPEAKER_04And ours keep getting taken away from us.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Because how many more fucking times are we gonna let a non-black person come into our neighborhood, put a store in our neighborhood, put a shop in our neighborhood, take profits from black people, from black people, and then assume that we are stealing, don't come in our neighborhoods then. Leave us the fuck alone.
SPEAKER_04But then I'll hang out with a bottle of fucking water. Like, and this, and that's why I said black, like, outside of black people, empathy don't exist. As hot as it is now, as bad as this economy is, if somebody had the need to steal a bottle of water, let them, because they fucking need it at this point. But that baby didn't even steal the fucking water.
SPEAKER_00Do you know in Asia, somewhere in Asia, they have little black dolls that they are pulling off the body?
SPEAKER_04But in China, it's that shit. They're using it to stay on it, to paint it white face, to cause violence to and people and like, oh, nobody's obsessed with black people. Oh, for real? Y'all are obsessed with causing violence to us. And this is and again, I know it's controversial to say, but it's true. It'd be so funny to me when you think about the Jap the Japanese, because we know what's happened in Japan, but I in this for the second conversation, we just say Asian. But y'all love colonizers so much. Y'all forgive white people, y'all love white people, but y'all hate us. But we didn't bomb Nagasaki or Hiroshima.
SPEAKER_00And they colonize y'all.
SPEAKER_04They literally colonize y'all. Because let's not act like they don't call Japan the white people of Asia for no reason.
SPEAKER_00Hello. But let's not forget about India. They came over there and took y'all motherfucking spices, don't even use them, don't even know how to use them. They came over there and colonized the hell out of y'all countries.
SPEAKER_04If y'all look at India, especially when you look at the a lot of the museums in Britain, because I lived over there. I I studied for a semester in Grantham, England. When I would go to London to just look around, go to the museums and stuff, a lot of those crowns, paintings, architecture came from India and Africa and every other black and brown country there is imaginable. But people always got to smoke for black Americans.
SPEAKER_00Because what is their history? Their history is African. It's it it all of those museums have African artifacts. African artifacts, Asian artifacts. What I mean, come on now.
SPEAKER_04But in this, going back to Cyrus, when I first heard this case, I immediately thought about Latasha Harlands, who was a 15-year-old black girl. I think it happened in California. She was shot by a Korean woman, convinced her owner, because she thought she sold something. And literally both of them babies got no justice because she got off in the 90s too. So I just, I'm in a point now where I'm not going to know there, there is a black. I don't really go to the hair store. I order my shit offline, but if I need to go to the hair store, I'm going to find a black one. Well, which we do have a black hair store. I'm going to make sure to link. And if I don't shout it out this show, I'll shout out the next show. But I'm not getting no more weed from y'all.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_04I'm not ordering no more hair from y'all because again, y'all make money off of our shit. And y'all have locked us out and colonized our own industry so bad to where y'all make it hard as hell for black people to own convenience stores or to get the connection with gas or the work of the hair. I best I'm going fucking with y'all for my nails. So it's just like, but the crazy part is though, as much smoke as y'all have for black people and, you know, just the anti-blackness of it all, I haven't heard, there's been two, but I haven't seen not one Asian person condemn their community as a whole for how they're acting and as a whole for the shit they do to black folks. But black people were always, that's why when that half Asian girl was in uh the H Mart and she made the comment about, oh, you know, I hate to see white people in Asian stores because they, you know, black people, we understood what she was saying, but I'm not, I'm not defending her. Let her community do it. Because again, when it comes to defending us, nobody ever says shit. It be cricket. So it's just like, I'm so fucking sick of Asian people too, as a whole. Um, I love y'all's culture. I love y'all's, y'all's, you know, cuisine, but it's just like, fuck that. Y'all don't respect us. So I'm not putting no more money in y'all's pocket.
SPEAKER_00I'm not putting it. I mean, honestly, this is this is ridiculous. This is no one is going around. Like, I know that they, I guess they, you know, vandalized the store and stuff like that. And, you know, the police and the, you know, the government had to put like barricades around the store. Bitch, no peace. No peace. We're gonna make it so bad for you and your family that you are getting up out of this neighborhood. Because who the fuck do you think you are? You can come up in here and shoot a black child. And he was a child, by the way.
SPEAKER_04But see, again, we've talked about that. They adultify and parentify our kids so much, they don't even see our black youth as babies.
SPEAKER_00They don't. Because they don't see us as the thing about it is, and I want everybody to understand this, is not the fact that they don't see our kids as babies. They don't see black people, period, as humans. They don't see any of us as humans. So, with that conscious, that's why I'm telling black people, we have to lock in. When we feel something's off with a certain type of person, with a non-black person, you that is a feeling. That is a feeling. That is that is the ancestors, that is the spirituality that's trying to tell you these people are no good. When you sense that in a moment, you need to act on that.
SPEAKER_04These and when they disrespect you the first time, me done. I ain't never said that all the time. They ain't no buy. Bitch, fuck you. I'm gonna have to buy from you.
SPEAKER_00Let me tell you something. That happened to me two years ago. I, in Nolansville, in this store, uh, went in this gas station and I was looking around. He said, Are you ready to buy? I said, No, I'm not buying shit. That was the first, first of all, no, I ain't buying nothing. I was gonna get gas. I said, uh-uh, I'm good. Went to Costco and got my gas. Who is you talking about? Are you ready to buy? He's literally, and you know how they have the, they're looking, they're overseeing everything so they can see everybody or whatever. Are you ready to buy? No, not from here.
SPEAKER_04I already, I always think about that scene from Don't Be a Menace. You know that I was there looking and hurry up and buy, hurry up and buy. But and the and the Asian woman is trying to rush him to buy something, and then the Asian man is watching him, the white man goes straight to the fucking register and take all the money out that bitch. Yeah. Y'all be so busy trying to chase us and look at us, they be stealing from money, y'all too. So it's just like, leave the first sign of disrespect. But it's just like, I'm keeping my black dollars in my pocket. And again, black people, we don't understand as a whole how much buying power we truly have.
SPEAKER_00Oh. If we if we stop stuffing.
SPEAKER_04If every black American person are then buying at the four day, we will change trajectories.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Let's let's stall them out like we did target. And that's and fuck Target. I ain't been back to a target, but I never was a Target, but fuck Target. I don't never I will never go on that bitch again for the fucking principle. So yeah.
SPEAKER_00And now they're trying to bring, they're trying to bring a little, uh, they're trying to bring more black brands into Target. Bitch, we don't care.
SPEAKER_01I don't care. I won't be there.
SPEAKER_00I will go to their website and get it. I'm not going to Target to buy. It might be more convenient, more convenient for us to go there. But no, no, I will order off the website and wait three, four days to get it. I'm not doing that. Because you, Target, you you knew exactly what you were doing. You profited off of black people more than shit, Walmart did when Black History Month and everything, you profited. You made profits off of our culture. And then you got scared and said, Well, we really not with y'all. Cool. You showed us who you really are. Guess what? We'll show you how much money we have.
SPEAKER_04And do that to the same thing with, because again, when it comes to Asian people, especially with the market convenience stores, them. If they're not like Korean or or Chinese or Arabic, because let's not forget, let let let's learn geography. They still kind of have the Middle East in India as Asians.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_04Right? So them gas, them gas stations, them convenience stores.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_04Fuck them. Nail salons, who you see in there most to get in there. White women don't get their nails on like we do. The gag is all along, white women really went wearing press on. It was us keeping them nail shots open. Fuck them. When it comes to them hair stores, find a black one. I don't know then I don't know the name of it now, but we have one in Clarksville. I'm gonna specifically shout out. I'm trying to find some Nashville black ones. Fuck them. When it comes to our hair market, I wish we had more black vendors that sold weave extensions or whatever. Fuck them. Stall them and starve them out.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And that's what I'm saying as black people. It is 2026. We know the power that we possess. We know the power that we have.
SPEAKER_04And we know the power of the black dollar too.
SPEAKER_00Exactly. They need us. And don't you ever let these motherfuckers, these non-black people, tell you that you are anything else but the fucking blueprint. Because they know. They know it. They know it.
SPEAKER_04And not only just that, I think the bigger conversation outside of I want to send my love and condolences and it's gonna be a long road ahead for Cyrus's parents and his family.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Because to see his mom get up there and say that speech, that was heartbreaking and heart-wrenching. Mom and it really was. Um I feel like overall I've gotten desensitized to that type of stuff. But I did get misty eyed when I watched her speak. Um because again, I just think it speaks to the sentiment of just being tired of being sick and tired. But this is why I say, especially as a black American person, do not fucking call me a POC. Because there's no such thing as POC as unity. No.
SPEAKER_00It's not my struggle. They have their own shit going on and we don't have to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_04And I don't want no parts because again, when it's time to show off for black people, y'all be fucking quiet all the fucking time.
SPEAKER_00Y'all sit up there and say, and I'll say this. Y'all will sit up there and talk about everybody else's struggle, everybody else's certain situation. You will talk about the Holocaust. You'll talk about uh uh but when it comes to chattel slavery, oh, we can't see. We don't know what's going on. We and that shit happened over here. That happened here.
SPEAKER_04I got you another example. Even when the pandemic had first started, when that white man was going to them Asian massage parlor houses and killing them Asian women, how the fuck we got brought in that?
SPEAKER_00Because they always bring black people into it.
SPEAKER_04Because we're the women's it wasn't even us killing y'all.
SPEAKER_00It was like we're the scapegoat.
SPEAKER_04We get blamed for white people's shit all the time. We didn't know y'all, white people did.
SPEAKER_00If you don't want to get in trouble, blame it on a black person.
SPEAKER_04And as quiet as it's kept, the only reason why y'all are the Asians of today, because the original Asiatic man looked more like me with squinty eyes, not the light-skinned yellow that y'all look like, was because of white people and genetics and epigenetics of that. So like Kendrick Lamar, my good brother, like he said in um like that nigga, fuck the bit three, nigga. It's just big me. I but I've I ever I've been on that shit since 2024. I y'all show me who y'all was in that goddamn election. Everything, and I know we're talking about Cyrus and his life, but again, this is political too. Again, tonight's broadcast with every time y'all show where y'all stands, the gap gets wider and wider for me. So rest in peace to Cyrus.
SPEAKER_00Rest in peace to Cyrus and his family. Um and I hope that they get, even with the civil lawsuit, I hope they get, you know, nothing to me would be, you know, just even, you know, money, whatever. But they don't have their son. They don't have their son. Their baby is not here anymore. And that's why I say whatever happens to them, them, them people, I hope they don't get a one day of peace on this fucking earth. And I mean that. Because you're not gonna sit up here because we're tired. We've been tired, we're overly tired. I don't even think tired is the word anymore. The fact that you have to walk around.
SPEAKER_04And it's a crime, we still don't have a hate crime bill in this country for black American people. Had this happened and been the opposite way around, they would have had a hate. Asian people would have demanded a hate crime bill that fucking day. If I'm not mistaken, I think there is some type of hate, because Asian hate, Asian hate, fuck that. I don't give a fuck.
SPEAKER_00And that's why I was like, you know what, y'all. I'm not like that that whole I'm you know what?
SPEAKER_04Fuck that. I'm not even gonna explain myself because I know I'm not a violent person. I'm not calling for violence to be put on anybody, regardless of race, but it's just mighty funny how it's always all these names for everybody else, and you know, your skills and reparations and and reparations and and reservations and abolish ice and and stop Asian hate and oh you're you're anti-Semitic. No, we're not.
SPEAKER_00Black people don't know shit about it.
SPEAKER_02Uh-uh. Nope. Noted.
SPEAKER_00Noted. Noted. And that's that's what we're gonna leave. We're gonna leave it.
SPEAKER_04What's understood does not have to be noted.
SPEAKER_00Got you. Um, yes, prayers to um the family of um Cyrus Belton, and I hope you get everything that you deserve. Um, yes, and we will leave on that note. Um we got cooking. I know I think. Oh. Um, so I thought this was funny. I thought this was uh funny, really, um, because it kind of just plays on um where we are as influencers in the culture right now. It is from DJ Petty Umk5. And he said, can we bring back taste? I'm tired of seeing the same 10 to 20 influencers be deemed the face of things they're not interested in.
SPEAKER_03Oh.
SPEAKER_00He clocked that. Um, invite film nerds to movie screenings. Yes. Yeah, imposter, hello. Invite fashion nerds to fashion shows, invite music nerds to listening parties, invite the art majors to the galleries.
SPEAKER_04Oh, send me this.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna send it to you.
SPEAKER_04You just invite motherfuckers because they look good or because they got a big following, and the motherfuckers can't even pronounce the shit that they want to see. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00No, you're good. Stop inviting these freeloaders to events they don't care about so they can build more entitlement around open bar and free food. We need to bring in actual curation and leave it to the curators. These scene kids got the game all the way confused. Mm-hmm. When I read that the other night, I said, My God, today. Because every time I see an event host hosted by someone or the, it's like the same motherfucking people are there that don't want to be there. They look bored, they look out of place. And they just go back to the city. And you can tell.
SPEAKER_04Because why am I seeing, you know, I look and see some stream. Why is that bitch at a why did she get invited to a fucking tart dinner and she don't even wear makeup or she's not in the the bitch just slept with with 20 niggas and she got a thought like, great. Woohoo. Or you have like like it or, you know, a a release of a cool product, or you know, I was why it was something a few years ago. I forgot what the product was. When we said art, it made me think about this. It was a they had like an art gallery, a part of a product release, and some of the people that they were there were video game streamers. I'm like, why? Meanwhile, it's so many colleges with amazing art programs that you can invite you know, invite people who have degrees in art curation or who open museums or who are artists like.
SPEAKER_00Who actually study this for a living, that do this for a living.
SPEAKER_04When I think when I see certain influencers that, you know music, I'll be like, these motherfuckers couldn't even tell you to sample. They don't care about bridges or or welly or well-written courses. Half of you motherfuckers can't even read, and you're worried about being an influencer and getting free product, and just and y'all go to these events. It's that's why I love smaller creators. It's a black creator. I want to give her her tens. Her name is Zora Zaneta, I think I'm pronouncing it right. She is a beautiful black plus-size woman creator in Nashville, and she's been getting invited, and she goes to a lot of influencer events. But here's the thing: first of all, the fact that she's in a room and me and her look alike, I love that for her. But she goes, she owns these spaces. She looks like she genuinely enjoys herself. And you can tell she loves Nashville. She loves her city, she loves being there. She's just a normal girl who's been getting, and I love to watch her do stuff. She's not just standing there and all they do is this. I'm standing next to this celebrity bitch. Are you having fun? Are you even happy? Like, what's going on? So I and you know what? And I hate to bring Beyonce. I hate to say it, I truly hate to say it because I know how the girls like to tussle. That's one of the my favorite things about fucking Sacred and Rihanna's Fenty brand, who they invite to their events be on par and on cue, and they involve regular people. Cause again, you got my and and and and let's get up, let's get out of this notion, all influencers they sell products. No, the fuck they don't. Majority of these influencers get boxes of free fucking product. It's the regular people with nine and fives that's purchasing. That's like, hey girl, this is what I use to get my spray locked in. We'll use it. Like, fuck these things. Think about it.
SPEAKER_00Think about it. They're not even, and then a lot of times, and what I've heard, just being in Nashville, that these influences will say, Oh, well, if you want me to, you know, post it on my Instagram, that'd be, you know, $500 or $1,000. To post a picture at an event that I fucking invited you to with free food and free and the beverages? Beverages? In the words of Candace Diller, I offered you a beverage.
SPEAKER_04You know what? I don't like to tell it, but she ate that. She ate that. She did it.
SPEAKER_00She said I offered her a beverage. Shout out to Candace Dillard from the Real Housewives of the Topic. Like that. How dare you? Like, how dare you come to my event and ask me for a payment so you can post a fucking picture on Instagram.
SPEAKER_04That's what we came to, child. And again, but see, and yet again, I don't want to come off as like a hater or because again, make your money. I'm all, especially for the black influencers and creators, we always go through some, we go through so much more than our counterparts. We always have ideas taken from us. We're never compensated fairly. So outside of the race pay gap, there's a gender pay gap. So it's again, make your money. I'm not hating, but it's just like, damn. Make it make sense. Cause I'm not inviting fucking why the hell am I inviting somebody like um, you know what? That's messy. That's not nice. Okay, I'm gonna just shut it. I'm not gonna be enriched. I'm not gonna go up through my Pisces bag today.
SPEAKER_00But Oh God. We love what you do though.
SPEAKER_04The you know, because you messy. You really messy. Um because even when I just think about 10 years being on the NS, not only was it so much fun, motherfuckers wasn't using AI to make club flyers.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_04You know, motherfuckers wasn't using AI prompts to people were genuinely just real. Like, this is what I'm doing.
SPEAKER_00This is what I'm gonna get into.
unknownHuh?
SPEAKER_00Can y'all go back to Canva? I'm I'm I'm sorry. I'll just please go back to Canva. Adobe, like let's put some, let's put some work in. Okay, let's put some work in. I don't want to see these AI videos, the AI flyers, because all they look the same.
SPEAKER_04I'm not fucking going. Because I'm assuming like the same. And then it's just like the bigger conversation, and I know, oh, it's not that deep, it's not that deep. Y'all gonna, it's not so deep y'all self into a fucking robot body because when I look at these AI flyers or these AI picture challenges that be on Facebook and shit, it pisses me off because I'm like, and y'all wonder why, especially with Gen Z, everybody has the same makeup look, the same hair. Everybody won't look the same.
SPEAKER_00Generic.
SPEAKER_04When you look at these AI pictures, it be the same human face.
SPEAKER_00It's generic.
SPEAKER_04It'd be the same features. Everybody don't have a perfect body. Not everybody has the same lips, not everybody have the hair, the same hair to it's just like, guys, come on. Y'all are making it this way.
SPEAKER_00And you can tell, by the way, just not only with the flyers, but with like marketing. Everything seems so fucking generic now. It's just like you see a poster and you're like, I've seen that before. Like, and these are corporations. I don't even think these companies have advertisement budgets, honestly. Because it's just like, well, we'll just, I mean, they have budgets, but I'm just saying the budget is very, very low.
SPEAKER_04Like one of my favorite stems is a stem from the early thousands. It's the fantanas, please. I was in elementary school. I think the black one was yellow. She was the black, she was off of the second Friday. She was down it in Friday. She was a fantana. That was my favorite commercial. I remember you lent liquor orbit guns. I know what flow looked like from Progressive. I know what the look Geico Man. I think about the caveman. Oh, Geico Car Shark. Say 15%. Like, you these Gen Z can't tell you that we don't have memorable commercials. Even when I think about Fruitopia. Listen, when I think about what is it? Um, I have a structure set up and I need cash now. Call J Whitworth. Whitworth. 877 Cash 7.
SPEAKER_03Niggas ain't write jingles no more.
SPEAKER_00No, no. And McDonald's used to have some of the best commercials. They infused when they used to, of course, black culture, when they infused RB, hip-hop, and everything, they had the best commercials.
SPEAKER_04You remember that black dude who was singing that whole song because his girlfriend stole his 10-piece chicken nugget? I used to holler. Did you hear me? Oh my god.
SPEAKER_03One of my personal favorite Christmas chicken, fresh lettuce, three cheeses, fresh dress, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_00I'm cutting my video off. And we're not letting that go, Mary. And we're not letting that go, Mary. I don't care how mad you get. Fuck it.
SPEAKER_04Yes, it's a good.
SPEAKER_00It ain't funny. You got paid.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you what um Brandy said to me.
SPEAKER_00Shout out to Mary J. Blige, though. I love, I love it. I know she cussed me the fuck out, but I listen.
SPEAKER_04Even when I think about like I was in eighth grade when Chris Brown before the incident happened, double your pleasure, double the fun, it's the right one, but double makeup. You were.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_04Yes. Yes. Before, and when that shit happened, they snatched that shit off of the biggest.
SPEAKER_00They snatched that shit right, yeah. And that was a good, that was such a good commercial.
SPEAKER_04Or when I think about like my other favorite. And I used to think this is when I was in church. You know, I was a church teenager in the team ministry. The Jared commercial, he can only be chimney. The lead commercial used to sing my heart out, please.
SPEAKER_00Subway, $5, $5 foot law. And it used to be. We can't even have $5 foot laws no more.
SPEAKER_04Nigga, listen, dollar menus ain't even dollar menus because I went to McDonald's. I said, oh, why is a double cheeseburger $4.99? Oh, bitch, wait a minute. But even talking about, you remember the sun drop commercial? Mm-mm, good. Drop it like a lot. Drop it like marketing sucks ass. They took some people out of here. And it's not only that, they took the city.
SPEAKER_00It was the human connection. It was the human connection that made the marketing so valuable and so you good.
SPEAKER_04Real people. Because baby, I went on the internet and found education connection. It took my test something of getting my classes online, getting my degree in my own time. Education connection for free. Is my college for free? Get connected for free with education. I'm Millie Rocking to that shit. That was a hit. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was a hit.
SPEAKER_04Or you're sitting on your couch not doing anything. You could be going to college. Bitch, Everest College. What? Or my personal favorite? ICDC college. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Yes, marketing was the 90s. And I swear the 90s and early 2000s, like that's some of the best marketing. And it was just, again, human connection, no AI, no generated no. Everybody had an idea.
SPEAKER_03Real people.
SPEAKER_00Real people, emotions.
SPEAKER_04Nobody, oh, we can't use it. They're not ecstatics. Girl, please, everybody remember that beautiful, thick pine saw lady with the gap of her teeth, smelling yellow pine saw. That was a real, you could find that lady in your church. You knew who Miss Andy was who was advertising Popeye's chicken. You knew who my favorite, my sugar to my heart, who was advertising honey bunches of oats with her little glasses, the silver rim, and she had a gap tooth. Don't play with me, beats.
SPEAKER_00Black women advertising. Clock in. Well, let's move on to our black business. And I will say, I ordered, because I told you I ordered the more crunch? Yes. It got delayed, but it is on its way. Um, because I feel like your boy is selling out. Um black business one-on-one uh guys, more crunch. Uh these pretzels, I have not yet tasted them, but Ashley did on a couple of episodes ago, and she, you know, hell, if you listen to the episode, it was good.
SPEAKER_04And I ate every damn more.
SPEAKER_00Baby, she had the variety pack. She had the cinnamon sugar, the garlic ranch, the Maryland crab, the sour cream and the sour cream and onion, and then the buffalo. So, yes. Shout out to Mr. I mean, yes, shout out to Mr. Moore. Like, he is doing it, and yes. Yes, he is. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04And I mean, even with your, and I'm and I know for a fact, I know what you're gonna answer to this. Even with it being delayed, there's mar Mr. Moore is so communicative, like, very professional, and he delivers amazing fresh product.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he does.
SPEAKER_04Oh.
SPEAKER_00He does. Amazing. Because I got an email saying that my batch would be fresh.
SPEAKER_04Period. Because baby, every pretzel is gone. And I'm gonna order me some more.
SPEAKER_00Well, it says right here on the website. Hold on, it said current batch is full. Reserve your spot in our June 1st production run. Okay, so you can, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Going to mine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um do you have your pretzels? Because I got mine. Um for my black business, and again, I want to shout out to um my brother's page, replaying with wine, and then we're gonna tag that. I want to shout out to Spike Lee, because outside of just black businesses, I want to give a shout out to black content creators or black musicians or whoever doing their thing. But most importantly, get y'all black asses out. It is the opening weekend to scary movies. Yeah. The wine ins are Hollywood royalty, right? Yeah, they never give us bad product. So let's go support this family and remind them hoes why it had to come back to the or to the originators, right? Hello. I'm so excited. Um, yeah, so that's the yeah, I think that's the only movie out right now. Well, only movie that came out this week, I think, with like a black lead or a black movie, but go see I Love Boosters.
SPEAKER_00If you have not seen I Love Boosters, it is still in a lot of theaters.
SPEAKER_04Hey, hey, hey, hey, somebody said that Beyonce ass beat. I said, bitch. Watch Beyonce sample for act three.
SPEAKER_00I said, y'all are you know she will.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's right. I was okay. Listen, I don't know. That was bad. But you know what I mean. Beyonce's gonna take a I think when I first heard that, I thought about Tears of a Clown, how she mm-mm mm-What? Do you think about a girl like me? And Independent Woman Part Two. I was like, oh, that is a Beyonce S beat.
SPEAKER_00Shout out to Kiki Palmer and Taylor Page and just like acting. Yes, just shout out to like I just feel like Kiki and Taylor Page, they do, you know, they choose roles, right? That they know like it's different. Because everyone was like, oh, I love boosters, it's gonna be just about no. No, I love boosters, had so many Easter eggs in it. Very layered literally whole very layered. It told you a story, and we're gonna do, we're gonna do a whole kind of like movie, you know. Uh we're gonna have a discussion next, next, uh, next week because I feel like everyone has seen I love boosters. Um, and we're we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about it.
SPEAKER_04I want to shout out Tara Young. She was in Is God Is, and if you Can see that if you're still in your theater, please go see that. But she was also in I Love Boosters because she played one of the I'm not gonna, you know, we'll talk about it. But she was also she had a small role in that movie, but it was very impactful. So she's looking uh yeah, I was like uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh I know it ain't I know it ain't common.
SPEAKER_00I know that your your girl. I'm done. Oh guys, go watch that Kiki video of her and her son.
SPEAKER_04I have you seen it what's she found on that counter and she did this double tank. How the hell did you get up there? I said, not Kiki, please. She's so funny.
SPEAKER_00Kiki, stop it. She said, how did you get up there? He said, My cereal.
SPEAKER_04I said, He said, You should be eating cereal. You you you mess around. You want to interview with all these magazines? I'm eating my cereal, girl.
SPEAKER_00Listen, she that that listen, what's his name? Leo Leo Dis?
SPEAKER_04Leo, Leo this, but she calls him Leo.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Leo said, she said, are you ready for them to leave? He looked at y'all. He turned back, he said, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04And you know what? Kiki, I don't, I I typically wouldn't say this, but give that bald white man a chance. John Evans, honey.
SPEAKER_00From Hot Ones, yes.
SPEAKER_04I love that.
SPEAKER_00Honestly, you know, we wouldn't typically encourage.
SPEAKER_03Certain pink.
SPEAKER_00He seems like he is, he could be a husband, like um, what's that black woman podcaster who's married to that white man? She came to Nashville. I think you've seen her. Who's the the black podcaster? She's married to a white man and they have like a daughter together. His name is Ben. She's like Ben, Ben.
SPEAKER_04Yes, yes, Amber and Ben. Amber and Amber and Ben, yes. She was like, who got a white husband? I love it.
SPEAKER_00It's giving it's giving, it's giving that. It's giving that type of couple. Yes. Okay. Because you know.
SPEAKER_04He was showing all 32 of them. Teeth, baby, and her mama. When your mama said, Oh, I love, hey, you already know what it is. So yes, baby.
SPEAKER_01I'm done.
SPEAKER_04And oh, shout out to Amber Wallen and um Jasmine. Their podcast on Bob Bob the Dragon Queen's network is fucking phenomenal. I be hollering. I can't, it's, you know what? Let me look it up. It's escaping me the name of their show. But I love their podcast.
SPEAKER_00Jasmine is fucking funny. Jasmine is so Jasmine is funny.
SPEAKER_02Bruh.
SPEAKER_00When she was at home on live and someone said, What are you cooking? Baked beans, she said. She said, You see me with a full full thing of fucking lettuce. And you said, What am I cooking? Baked beans.
SPEAKER_04She said, sir, she said, sir, are you slow? I said, you know what? This is uh it's called Quit Playing with Jasmine and Amber. Love them down.
SPEAKER_00Love them down. Yes. Her studio. All right. Well, we did the black business and I kind of we kind of integrated to the twice the fire. Um, is there anything else, boo?
SPEAKER_04Oh, well, twice the fire. Listen.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I am still listening to Hero of the Band. I'm still in my rock. I'm still in my EDM.
SPEAKER_04Are you still in your paradox bag?
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_04Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Um, but yes, I'm still in that, in that bag, that rock and roll, hip, uh, not rock and roll, sorry. Rock and roll, yes. Not hip-hop, but rock and roll and um EDM and techno bag. Yes.
SPEAKER_04So what I have what have I been listening to? I talked about him at the top of the show, but again, shout out to Spike Lee's. Lovers Lore EP is out. It's on Apple Music and Spotify. We're gonna put those down below as well. I want even shout out to Blood Orange. He's an alternative artist. Love him. His name is Dev Hines, but he musically goes by Blood Orange. I love all of his work. And I've seen him in concert twice.
unknownAh!
SPEAKER_04Love him. So, um, SX underscore honey, SX Honey, I loved it. Um what about I have been listening to Everything Pink about Mona Leo. That song hasn't even been out a full, like, I don't think it's been a full seven days, and it's already like in my top songs. I've listened to I because I'm a pink girl. Love pink. I know you are, baby. Shut up. Literally, like pink, pink, pink.
SPEAKER_00Mona Leo, Mana, Mona Leo uh commented on Megan the Stallion's video and was like, she's back, and Megan the Stallion said, I love you. They need to soce, Cardi, of course, Cardi was gonna be on there. Uh, but uh Dochey's gonna be epic and Mona Leo. Oh, yes, I need I'm eating.
SPEAKER_04Oh, girl.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god. Okay, yes.
SPEAKER_04Black, Love is the new gangster, love it. Um my favorite song off there. I love the collaboration with AZ, I think it's AZ Chike. He was on Kendrick Lamar's album and Leon Thomas. Love that song.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04And I'm still kind of pissed off at Yantha, but Ash and the Blunt, I do like that collaboration with him. And O'Deal, love him and um O'Deal on On Me and Out of Out of Body with Him and Quinn. Those are my favorites.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_04But I've also been tuned into a lot of Missy Elliott's discography, in particular Under Construction, whole album amazing. That was like the big album with gossip folks, work it. Um I love Can You Hear Me? The Working Remix with 50 Cent. Love that down. And speaking of rock bag, it's hip-hop rap, but it has a rock undertone. And it was in Is Got Is, but it's been on my list. When we do our next playlist, I'm adding it. It came out in 2011. It's guillotined by Death Grips. When I heard it, I said, oh, no fucking way. They included that in the movie. And it's just like to have that, oh my God. Okay, I want to talk about an album that I don't hear a lot of people talk about. It came out in 1994. We all know who Arrested Development is. Their biggest song being Tennessee, they were a rap group from Georgia or based out of Georgia that Take Me to Another Place. They had Everyday People, Mr. Wendell, but their second album, and I think I'm saying it right, Zinga Lamar Dooney. Love it. If I butcher that, I am completely sorry. But um, Love That Down. And another artist that I shout out all the time, her name is Kirby. Kirby is a beautiful black woman from Mississippi, and she be sang, okay? So her album, and I want to, she released a song called Lose Myself back in April. Love that song. But Miss Black America, I need y'all to listen to that. Um, her my favorite song, I love the whole entire album, but her uh collaboration with Big Crit, Miss Black America, she got thick and country with the sexy Yaquim Alice. I love Nasty and I love Reparations featuring the Tennessee mass choir. So and she has her last song on there is called Afromations, and she has a song called Jump in the Broom. Kirby, y'all just don't respect her enough for me, and I love her down. So please, please, please, please, please. This project is almost a year old, but it's one of my favorite projects. Miss Kirby, Miss Black America. Love her, Zal.
SPEAKER_00Shout out to Kirby. Oh, yeah. I am, I guess I'm just like, I'm excited. I'm excited for the night. I'm I'm about to, my movie is at what, 9:30. Um, so in Dobe, I'm excited because I have not seen a scary movie directed, produced by the Wayne's family in so fucking long. And I know that it's rated R for a reason. Because this, listen, this is critics was like, oh, it's a 27% on Rotten Rotten Tomatoes. That's good for me. That means they didn't like, they didn't like the jokes. And they don't get it.
SPEAKER_04And but it's not for them.
SPEAKER_00It's not for that part. Because those critics were probably, you know. We don't give a fuck.
SPEAKER_04No did. No.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna start saying no. No did all right, niggas. Well, do you have anything else left, boo-boo?
SPEAKER_04I do not. Um, again, last thing I want to say is rest in peace to Cyrus Carmack Belton.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_04Um, we will be praying for you. And if we hear any updates, we will be giving y'all updates.
SPEAKER_00And I meant what I said about the family too. I I I absolutely meant a hundred percent. I hope they don't have any fucking peace. That's what I said.
SPEAKER_04He's referencing the chow family.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04That's the things you need to do.
SPEAKER_00Oh, they they these niggas know. They knew exactly who I was referencing. Uh, but yeah, but thank you for making that. Yeah. Um, guys. Um, we will see you next week. My name is TJ aka TJ with the sauce.
SPEAKER_04And my name is Ashley, aka Ashley Great.
SPEAKER_00Oh, and niggas, our email is the black paradigm seventy seven at gmail dot com. Again, our email address is the black paradigm seventy seven at gmail dot com. We will see you niggas next week. Bye bye.
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