THE BLACK PARADIGM

The Obamas did that!

TJ steele & Ashley Leroy

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What's up, what's up, what's up? It's your boy TJ aka TJ with the sauce.

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Hey you guys, what's up with uh this your girl Ashley aka Ashley Great?

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Y'all, we are here. We are back another week. And I swear to God, if I see another fucking fruit fly in this room, I'm gonna tear this bitch up. I swear to God.

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I swear to God.

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Listen. Shouldn't be a low men and listen, Ashley got the ladybugs. I got the fruit flies. Let me tell you something. The thing about, and I'll say this, the thing about having plants, right? You have to take care of them motherfuckers. You have to make sure because once summer hits, fruit flies and everything like that, they like to get in the motherfucking soil, lay eggs and all of that bullshit, baby. Two things you can do to kill them bitches: hydrogen peroxide, mix it with water. All right, not a lot. The 3% hydrogen peroxide. And then also apple cider vinegar. Not a lot of that either, because you don't want to kill the plants. But yes, if you are having issues with fruit flies in your plants, please use those. They're uh like original remedies. You know, you don't have to get by no stuff, just baby. Get you some apple cider vinegar and some hydrogen peroxide, and we you'll be good.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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I'm like the TJ the Garner.

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TJ the Garner.

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TJ Degarner.

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But niggas, welcome back, man. Um, and yes, email us at the BlackParadigm77 at gmail.com. So here's the thing. I checked that, I checked it, listen, I checked the bitch today, and we got like um like 23, 24 emails.

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Um I think we're gonna look at it. You don't worry, after this, I require you to be able to do that.

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I am going to give you all of the, yeah, so you can, yes, yes. Because a lot of them are guest speakers that want to come on our podcast, and I just haven't, again, haven't had the time, you know, because again, nigga been in therapy, nigga been trying to heal. Now she's like, Nigga been trying to get, you know, get their shit together. You know, I'm back at, you know, my current job. Um, and you y'all know last week I told y'all about my that new job that I started. I said, oh, hell no. Hell to the no. And let me tell you something. I give flowers, bouquets, everything to the people that work in that industry. Because, baby, you have got to be, again, you've got to be a very healed person to be in that line of work. All right. Um, but yeah, what's uh what's been going on with you? Let's go ahead and just get into mental uh health check-in.

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Um I'm I'm I guess I'm in a good place this week. Maybe because we just got a three-day weekend because of the sound like it.

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You sound like you're in a good place.

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Yes, because of Juneteenth, and for Ashley's Corner after we do mental health check-in, I'm going to give you a quick history listen on Juneteenth and go into my spiel. Um, but no, I really don't nothing too crazy happened this week. I've definitely been releasing this throw chakra. Everybody be in this fucking work. Everybody. Um feels good to release, check people every now and again. I feel like I'm in a season of calling my power back, getting my intuition on par, trying to make a way out of no way, but I think one of the things I my new focus, especially for going forth in the month of July, for whatever reason, I just feel July is about protection. With everything that's going on in the world, and a lot of people don't understand what's going on in the spiritual realm and how the veil is thinning and just protecting and praying over myself and the people that I love the most, my friends, and just making sure I curate safe spaces for me to be. That's it. How's your mental health?

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Um, you know, I got another therapy session coming up in a week. I'm so excited about that. Had to get some updated paper paperwork to send to fucking Sedgwick again. Um, like just going through, just going back and forth, back and forth with them has just been like, but I'm I'm I'm at the point where I'm over. Like, bitch, what do you need? I will send it to you. At this point, it's like, I need like, I need you guys to understand, like, when it comes to comprehension and when it comes to let's, you know, telling me what I exactly need, that's what I need you guys to do. I need you to send out, you know, just because the thing about it is, like, you keep on, it's it's it's like a broad spectrum. It's like, oh, you say this, it's like, but what does this mean? Like, elaborate, you know? Let's kind of like put this together, you know, to to to put it in one word. I'm just looking for that one word. What do I need? You know what I'm saying? Um, but yeah, just going back and forth with them. Uh, my therapist is great. Um, shout out to Jared. Shout out to your baby. Black man, a black man. Black male therapist. Yes. Hello. And I listen, I I want every black man and black woman try to see if you can get a black therapist, a black psychiatrist. Yeah, it may uh shit.

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My black woman therapist, shout out to my therapist, Nicole.

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Yeah.

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To have somebody that relates to you takes out a whole nother level. It it takes out the need.

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To overexplain.

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To overexplain the need to have to relate on deeper levels. Because you can relate to anybody's service level, but somebody that has to deep dive basically into your brain to pull out certain things, you don't have to pull out the relativity of it all.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why I just warn when I see a black therapist, when I see anybody on Instagram, Facebook, uh, Threads, and Twitter, those are all the those, and let me and let me tell you this. Those are the only social media platforms I will be on, be on, because Facebook, I only check that for birthdays. So if you're trying to send me a message through Facebook, I probably won't see it. You will be better off sending me a DM through Instagram or Threads. That that's it.

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Threads, I'm yet for whatever reason, I get a lot of old men talking about, hey, sweetie, blocked. Quit fucking talking to me. I would say the one, and then it's like TikTok. I talk to some people on TikTok, but it mostly be scammers. Hi, I can sense your energy. No, the fuck you can't. So I mostly, if you're wanting to send me a message, if you're not sending it to the black paradigm email, or you don't have my direct line, Instagram probably is your best bet.

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Yeah.

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But I am on TikTok a lot. But yeah, I um don't send me the message on TikTok because I'm uh think you're a scammer.

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Of course. Yeah. Um, but yeah, that uh on social media. Um I I've had a really good, really good week um preparing to um, you know, the endeavor that I that me and you have been talking about that I'm working on. We're about to launch next month. Um I'm so excited for you. Thank you. I'm in I'm in a place of, you know, getting more videos for the network out, getting more video, just being back to to how I the way I used to feel, you know? Um and that has a lot to do with, you know, what I cut out, what I'm not gonna let in my space anymore. Um, and then just saying, fuck it. And you know, as Libras, we woo!

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No medium. Tap crazy.

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When a Libra say, listen, when a Libra say, when a Libra say they don't give a fuck, believe them.

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Major believe, okay?

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Yeah. You you know.

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One of my best friends, shout out to Candice, a Libra.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Like, uh be funny.

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But yeah, baby. I'm good. I'm good for this week. Uh, we gotta shout out to the shout out to all the niggas that are doing things for Juneteenth. It's uh, you know, I'm cooking fried catfish for my co-workers tomorrow for Juneteenth. I don't know why I'm in the motherfucking kit uh kitchen cooking. But anywho, uh I'd rather be you than a oh. That part. That part. But what's going on in Ashley's Corner, babe?

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You just mentioned it, and it's an amazing segue. I want to talk about Juneteenth and what it is and what it ain't, okay? Juneteenth is the oldest known commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. It marks today in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that the last enslaved black Americans were finally free. Now, the reason why I wanted to talk about this outside of obviously tomorrow for us, when it'll be past when you see that when you hear this, but we're recording this on June the 18th, so tomorrow is June the 19th. It is now a federal holiday. It's not just another day of work, it signifies the true independence day for black American people. Now, to the non-black people of the diaspora that I'm seeing, I'm seeing a lot of flyers, you know, listen to a lot of flyers in African colors, Pan-African colors. I'm seeing a lot of flyers talking about Joe Love Rice competitions and this is not for you. When it comes to y'all's cultural celebrations, when it comes to y'all's events, black Americans, we respect y'all enough not to throw up an American flag, not to throw the black American flag, not to listen to our music. But y'all, every time a black American wants to celebrate something, it's y'all don't got no culture. We gotta share. We ain't gonna share a motherfucker thing. Juneteenth, the colors of Juneteenth, the flag was designed, I think, in 1997. The colors are red, white, and blue. This is, well, we y'all, y'all should want to find fuck y'all. The colors of the Juneteenth flag are red, white, and blue. It is a holiday based off in Gavelston, Texas, when those fucking troops were told, hey, y'all free. So this is not a pan-African thing. This is not a diaspora celebration. And hell, if you want to be real with it, if you if you want to keep it honest, like let's call it space. I thank Texas for sharing this with the rest of black America. And to be honest with you, people from black people from Texas have been celebrating Juneteenth since its inception.

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For a long time.

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I didn't find out about Juneteenth as a holiday until I was about 21. Never heard of it, never knew what it was.

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Yep.

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So I've been knowing about it, but I it became a federal holiday, I think, when I was maybe 28, 27, you know, a few years ago, five, maybe four or five years ago, but yeah.

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So they could profit off of it. Yeah.

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That's all it is. All it is.

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That's all it is, yeah.

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So I would recommend, and I haven't really seen any because it's been like the websites like Shein, TikTok Shops, Amazon. There's so many different, you know, get your Juneteenth. If you're gonna buy Juneteenth merchandise, get t-shirts, get something to custom aid, get it from a black business. I know Etsy has a lot of sellers, certified sellers or black-owned businesses that sell actual commemorative Juneteenth t-shirts and celebrations and stuff. Go to your local celebrations in your town. Hell, you know, if you're a black American person, if you want to rest. Rest is revolutionary for us. Look up a documentary, do something to celebrate Juneteenth, because outside of it just being a holiday, it should it should have been celebrated before. Because I don't even take part of July 4th anymore. I could give a fuck less about July 4th. But remember who Juneteenth is about, who is for, because without Juneteent happening, a lot of y'all black and brown people who are not from here wouldn't be here. So Juneteenth is what it is. It is a black American tradition, black American holiday, specifically a Texan Black American holiday. Correct. And the colors are red, white, and blue.

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And that's just crazy that we even have to state if you're gonna buy Juneteenth merchandise, make sure you buy it from a black person. Like that's that you know what I'm saying? That's that's where we are now, where motherfuckers are selling Juneteenth items.

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You can go, matter of fact, I can go on Shein right now and look up the words, let me see, June, Juneteenth dresses, Juneteenth t-shirts, and the shit isn't even right. It's in Pan-African colors. It's just Asian people trying to make a market off of black, trying to make a profit off of black people.

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And the shit is ugly. That shit is ugly, what you just showing me.

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Like, look at this one. Liberation, it's not even in the right fucking colors.

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You know, people just have a lot of fucking nerve, and they try to play with us too fucking much, and that's the problem. And and now, I will say this right before, you know, um, I want to make sure you're done with Ashley's corner first.

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Oh yeah. No, that's it.

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I just wanted to put the budget. Um, I think again, you know, black American people we've been played with for too fucking long, overly too fucking long. Oh screen. Um and now um people are seeing that, oh. They've always known that our dollar has mattered. Always. They've always known that. They just wanted to treat us like shit because they knew they could. Because of the system that are the systems that are in play. But now, see, it's something about us as black people how we have a telepathic um communication like where everyone is on. You know what I'm saying? I don't have to look at Ashley and say something. I can just look at her and I say, Yeah, we gotta go. She knows. And with black people, we that tele that telepathic communication is key to what is transpiring and what is going on right now. Every time I get on the internet, damn, these nail shops empty. Damn, these them good.

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And so you niggas just purposely going into Asian businesses and taking pictures and shit, shame on you. You're the fucking weak link, and you're the bitch, again, Harriet would have left your ass behind.

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She probably would have shot your ass. Honestly, she would have shot your ass. Yeah, yeah. Listen, I'm going with Harriet. I'm going with Harriet, I'm going with Malcolm. I'm going, listen, stop. I just, you know, I saw a video, and I'm going to make this real quick, and we're going we're going to get into a prestigious family that is always being talked about. But um, I'm gonna say this.

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The beginning of class, okay?

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The beginning of class. Um I'm gonna say this. Um there was a video of a black woman. She was um in a nail shop, in an Asian nail shop, and she was like, I kind of like this. She's like, ain't nobody in here, I get all the stuff, da-da-da-da. And then like fifth I guess like 15 minutes ago, she's like, Ain't nobody came over here and you know, done nothing. Yeah, bitch. Because she read the room. Read the read come on now.

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Then she had the nerve to have hit your ass with that nene.

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Then had the nerve to walk out and say, that service wasn't good at all. They know what's happening. They not finna girl, come on now. And so people started, you know, putting, you know, you know, how people would do in the comments and stuff like that. And she was like, no, I was just trying to make, you know, duh-da-da-da. She's the this one world, one girl said, you knew exactly what the fuck you was doing. She was like, you went in there, they didn't serve you, and now you mad. How the fuck are you gonna get mad? It's a boy's father.

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The whole thing with Asian businesses is this, most of the things when they come to their businesses, damn near 80% of Asian businesses are based off a black identity and based off a black need. So for a lot of them Asian companies, that was from what did it for me, those Asian people that were talking shit about the little um uh because Rick Chow got off from shooting, what was his name? TJ Fine's name for me. I want to say his name. I got you. I I'm blanking. I'm thinking about Carmelo. I got you.

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No, no, no, I got you, I got you, I got you.

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Um, I think it's I got you. Okay. Um wait till TJ Fine, because that's important for me.

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Cyrus, Cyrus Carmack Belton.

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Cyrus Carmack Belton, thank you, because I'm, you know, it's been so much going on. Yeah. But to that Asian motherfucker that killed him, killed that child, killed that baby, and a lot of y'all are sitting here saying, oh, he deserved it, or oh, y'all want to flip it on us. Well, what about Asian hate? Fuck Asian hate. What is Asian, what are Asian people doing to speak out against what happened? Because that was wrong.

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Yeah. And I see, and I see some Asian people that are speaking about.

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Very far a few of the people.

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That's what I was about to say. Yeah.

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Because again, y'all ain't listening to y'all owns people. And let's let's be clear. A lot of y'all didn't go to school, a lot of y'all don't know geography, a lot of y'all can't fucking read. Please realize that Asia, the Asian, the Asian diaspora, just like Blackfoot's guy diaspora, there's an Asian diaspora. That also includes India. That also includes Middle Eastern countries. So great, and that includes Pacific Islanders. All that shit falls under the Asian umbrella. If you don't believe me, look it up. Now, I say all that to say this. Y'all shit is based off of us. You had a lot of Asian business owners online talking shit. Well, if y'all don't come, we'll still stay open. Who's fucking buying edge control? Who's buying pink luster paint moisture moisturizer? Who's buying uh sandals or flip-flops in the hair store? Not white people, don't damn, damn sure not Hispanic people, and not y'all. A lot of Asian people don't even wear false false fucking nails. And let's be clear, most white girls didn't start getting their nails done to 10 years ago because the niggas' dick stay was sucking. They wanted to take on our look, but not our skin color. So a lot of y'all's business is based off of us. So you're not finna dis I'm tired of the disrespect. I'm tired of the lack of of service. I'm tired of not doing what I asked you to do. Because let's be clear a lot of these nail salons you go to don't be clean and they really don't know how to do shit. So what I'm not going to do is sit here and allow you to take my black ass money, but you can talk shit about me and my few and my and my children. Because shit, uh Cyrus could have been my son.

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Correct.

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Um I say all that to say fuck y'all. Y'all don't commit to anything, and Jay-Z, fuck you too. You're I'm I'm so fucking pissed at him. That was some cool ass shit. And let's not act like anybody's above reproach because he's not. That's cool.

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My thing is this. It's like, why didn't you consult like organizations first before you just decide, oh, I'm gonna run out of the stuff.

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Because it's about money.

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Well, that I mean he don't and he don't need none. He don't need no more.

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His appetite with money is insatiable. His appetite with money is like white people eating us. It's never satisfied.

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I just don't understand. Like, this nigga has so much fucking money. I don't want to. So much money. I and that's why I'd be like, you know, black billionaires, I'd be like, you gotta watch them niggas. Them black billionaires, you have to watch them niggas because their their level of thinking is different. Way different. You know what I'm saying? Like, they are on another pedestal where little shit like what we're like what we're doing, like we going, getting up, going to work and stuff like that, they don't even think, they don't think about going to the grocery store. They don't think about so that's why when people say, oh, I wish I could, your concept of fucking thinking is removed. It's removed because you you have Jay-Z probably has, and listen, love Jay-Z, love Jay-Z's music. But what I'm saying is we're gonna be honest, let's be fucking honest. That nigga has people that work for him, okay?

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A lot of people that work for him.

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A lot of people. Jay-Z ain't gotta do a goddamn thing, okay? So when I saw that, when I saw that headline about him re releasing that album at Target, Target probably reached out to him and said, Hey, we need to get black people back in Target. And Jay Z was like, well, you know, I worked with the NFL. Because you know, at one point the NFL was scared because black viewership was way down. What happened? He partnered with the NFL. So it's the same. It's like, and as you can see, Target, these last these latest commercials and these Instagram ads, they've been promoting black people and black people, like the cologne, like tone, uh that's what that's Cosinets, uh line of uh like uh deodorant and stuff like that. They've been promoting, I think, another black brand. They've been, they've been trying, I'm like, no, we need a fucking apology, bitch.

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We need an apology. I wouldn't give a damn if they dug up Malcolm X and did a collaboration with him. And that's no disrespect to Malcolm X, but I'm just saying it as it is.

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I get what you're saying.

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I will never set foot in that motherfucker again because you know how many black people and black women specifically lost out on like meals, promotions in their fucking jobs.

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Yep.

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I will never fuck Target.

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Yeah. And that's and that's the thing that Crystal was talking about off of the read when they still had that contract with Target. And she was like, I can't say what I had, you know, they had to, they had to edit out a lot of what she was saying because what Target fucking did. And my thing is there were so many, like you, Target. Again, yes, you fired the board and all of this bullshit, but baby, the motherfuckers are still in there. They're still there. There's no formal apology. And guess what? Black people are not stepping foot. I haven't been to Target in almost, I want to say almost a year and a half, Ashley. Maybe, oh shit. I passed it every fucking day. Pass it every day and be like, oop, can't do it.

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No.

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I go to Kroger, I go to Publix, I go to Marshall's, I go to uh TJ Maxx. Uh but yeah, I listen, everything that I have not, I have not struggled to find anything. Target to me was just a specialty store that I went in. Oh, they got this. But the way that y'all did our fucking community, nah, I'm good.

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Never again.

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Yeah.

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But not a worry about me.

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Speaking about excellence and prestigious and the family that y'all motherfuckers can't stop talking about.

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And y'all gonna never be.

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It baby, that he wants to be, he wants to be that fucking orange piece of shit wants to be liked so much like this man, like this beautiful black man right here. Listen, Obama's host star-studded opening of Chicago Presidential Center. When I tell you he had Bill Clinton there, he had Bush. First of all, the fact that President.

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What the hell do you mean?

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What if why does that motherfucker just still look like he wants a piece of candy all the time? He's like, you got a piece of candy.

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Or he be, or he be handing Michelle. That's his baby, honey. Bush gonna be working and sitting there smiling.

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Liz.

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Shit. Bush ain't done that shit y'all talking about.

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Oh my gosh. Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed three former U.S. presidents, um uh dignitaries, celebrities, and the public to the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday in the south side, the south side of Chicago.

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Yes.

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Um, an opening in the works in the decades since the 44th president left the Oval Office. The fact that this man is so loved. You know what I'm saying? So fucking loved, him and his wife.

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Very much so.

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And the fact that this administration will never, never be able to attain the success or the likability of that administration, ever. And that beats at his ass every fucking day.

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And I know he was sleeping.

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That motherfucker was foaming at the mouth today when they was doing all of that. And girl, let me tell you something. Auntie Kamala, baby, yeah.

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Kamala is the embodiment of hmm. Bet you bet you bitches when she chose different, then you the fact she better than me.

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Because I'll walk around this whole bitch and be like, sucks for y'all. Sucks for y'all every day. Every fucking day. Um, but yes, the the couple chose the Jackson Park neighborhood on the south side for the 19.3 acre campus near the Wendy City home um ahead of moving to the White House. Um, yeah, it it it's just it's beautiful. It is a beautiful uh I I want to go. I want to go there. Um Yeah. Yep, yep. Shout out to the Obama, shout out to their daughters, who first of all look good. They look amazing.

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And speaking of one of the most graceful first ladies in history, Miss Michelle Obama. Miss Michelle Obama once said when we go, when they go, no, when they go low, what'd she say? Say it, what does that what's she saying?

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When they go low, we go high.

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I'm here to tell you, Miss Mrs. Obama, I would never disrespect you. When they go low, I take it to the ninth level. I take inferno. Cause I don't play about you. Um To that racist piece of garbage, that white passing Josh Hulkett, he called Michelle Obama a man after a post-fire interview on the White House sifeline. You're a piece of shit. And just know if Trump starts implementing Project 2025, the immigration part of it, you'll be the first bitch to go. Because from the looks of it, you don't look full white either. Because for you to say Michelle Obama's a fucking man, that infuriates me. They do the same thing to Megan DeSallion, they do the same thing to any tall, dark-skinned black woman. They can't do that. They love to masculinalize us.

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They can't, they cannot take a successful, black, beautiful woman that carries herself with just so much just class. They can't take it. Because why was she even on your mind? Like you're sitting here like a big thing.

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That lady's been out of the White House. That lady has been out of the fucking White House for 10 years, and the gag about this is this bitch was born in Campeche, Mexico.

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All they gotta do is make one phone call to Ice. You act up, your ass is gone.

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Like nigga, you're not gonna be.

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Motherfuckers just still motherfuckers that come over here, bro, are just so just wanna attain to a level of whiteness. You will never be that. You will never attain to that. It doesn't matter how much money you make, it doesn't matter the groups that you hang out with, baby. When they start shipping people out to this motherfucker, you're gonna be, you're going to be first in line.

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First.

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First. You sitting there trying to please uh orange, orange shit, and but you're still on the list.

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That looked like uh white trailer park trash on the y'all talked about Obama's. That was the most ghetto-ish shit I ever seen in my life. It was so many fucking beer cans, and there was fights outside the White House. Disgusting. I just know it smelled like money and pennies. Just stacked. I know it's not like hot dog water, Trump shit. This fucking disgusting.

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Wet Dog, hell, you name it shit.

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It smells like a bunch of just incest in Habsburg, y'all. It's nasty.

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I mean, the fact that you but you you had that shit on the fucking lawn of the White House.

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And and I had read somewhere now, alleged, I'm gonna say allegedly, because I don't know if it's true, but I read an article somewhere that it said that he didn't even fucking tell Secret Service. You know how much danger you could have put everybody in that event in?

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You know, he just he just does what he wants to do. That him and that whole fucking administration does just like when JD Vance went on a fucking view and Whoopi Goldberg asked him about, you know, why are y'all treating black Americans like this and black people and all of it? He's like, what are you talking about? In a world of in a world of um what's that woman? Um what's that woman's name? In the world of um, not Candace Owens, uh, but what's that white lady's name?

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Erica Kirk.

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In the world, I was gonna say, in the world of Megan Kelly's, be a be a Sonny, be a Sunny host. Girl, do you see did you see that picture? She they took a picture with JD Bench and Sonny was off off to the corner. Like, bitch, I'm not getting close to you.

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Look absolutely disgusted. She they told her, if you don't take this picture, you're losing your job. That's the only reason why she was in that picture because she looked disgusted.

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I'm here because I what? I'll get fined. So I don't get fined. But yes.

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My daddy dance, go fuck a couch and go put a dress on. Shut up.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Um, but congratulations to the Obamas.

SPEAKER_01

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, the most prestigious family to me. And this is that's my opinion.

SPEAKER_01

That's facts. They're one of the only families in that office who kids didn't have a scandal, but they knew the sad thing is they knew as black people how much they had riding on them.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Michelle Obama was the ultimate and most active and just most respected for shit. Most people wanted her to run for president. And had she would have ran, I would have, she would have definitely got my vote.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But she, I know Michelle's, I ain't doing this shit with y'all.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And speaking of, you know, just successful black women, you know, back to our vice president and BP uh Mamala, that's what I call her, BP Mamala. Mamala. I think if she wants to run, this is my only thing with Kamala, because I think with her being in the administration at the time, right, she couldn't do everything she wanted to do. I say this. If you ever get a chance to listen to us, vice president, I'll say this. You have to lock in with black media. You have to lock in with the Breakfast Club, you have to lock in with Hollywood Unlocked, even, you know, Don Lemon, these independent sources of news.

SPEAKER_01

That's that's the key now. Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes. Because these legacies, these legacy stations are nothing's black. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Everybody's getting bought out.

SPEAKER_02

So Fox just bought Tubi, by the way. Fox just bought Tubi, yeah, I know. Something that was, you know, again, started by black people, and y'all used, y'all put a whole bunch of black TV shows, black movies on there.

SPEAKER_01

It gave away for independent black movie makers, even if the shit was bad, still give a platform. Oh, wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I want to make sure that shit is true though.

SPEAKER_01

That's what just I, if y'all ever see me spewing some nonsense or then sew it out, y'all know the Illuminati got me. Just I'm just saying that on record. If y'all ever see me up here spewing nonsense, spewing Candace Owens type, Candace Owens type rhetoric. If you ever see me up here cowtown, just know the Illuminati got me and pray me out of the second place. I need a black person to come find a teacup and get my ass up out of there. Just know that.

SPEAKER_02

Well, hold on. Let me let me back up real quick because Fox bought Tubi in 2020.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know what 2020 is.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, no. They bought it the year of 2020. Oh. So they've been, so yeah, they they just, I guess they gotta hire Fox Corporation, acquired Tubi in 2020, making it a key part of his digital strategy. So live, so what something popped up yesterday where I guess Fox and Tube, I guess they maybe it was because of the shares or something like that. I'm gonna do some more research, but yeah, something like posted up on my uh on my feed the other day. But yeah, um Fox 22. Oh, Roku. Fox acquired, bought out Roku.

SPEAKER_01

My throat got so dry.

SPEAKER_02

Fox purchased Roku. My bad. Fox and Roku explain their plans for the future of Tubi and the Roku channel. Girl. At the end of the day, we'll have more information on that, but everything just getting bought up and just everything's gonna be one fucking company soon enough.

SPEAKER_01

And the crazy and and I mean shit, it kind of already is when you go through the bare bones of who owns what, it's all tracked down to one family, one person. Um not to mention BET has 0% black ownership.

SPEAKER_02

But now they have a board of the former owners on that board. What I read, it's like they have like the board, it's a new board of directors for BET. But if it's gonna be my thing is this, if you're gonna have a new board and you're gonna bring in, you know, the older, um, the people that started BET, at least them give give them percentage of the fucking company. Because they're not gonna do that. I know they're not gonna do that because it's, you know, I was so mad at Bob Johnson.

SPEAKER_01

Well, honest, even like when we was younger, when you would see Deborah Lee, I used to love seeing Deborah Lee at the BET Awards or the Steven Jacksons and black people who ran the fucking shit. Like I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I know, I know. It was it was such a it was such a good time. It was, yeah. Um getting back into some really good news.

SPEAKER_01

Another black person that we are proud of.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, Sierra Miller is a cover girl. Here's the one product the Summerhouse Star is using for a Sunkiss look exclusive. I mean, she let me tell you something. Summerhouse Star Sierra Miller is the newest member of the CoverGirl family. This is big. This is like this, I mean, because CoverGirl, they don't really, you know, they just don't put too many people on their brand.

SPEAKER_01

They're very strategic with who they pick. Correct. It's gonna be a long partnership. And to be honest, like, I've been when I hear CoverGirl, Queen Latifah.

SPEAKER_02

Like, you it's you think you automatically think about Queen Latifah.

SPEAKER_01

Automatically, like it's just so I don't know. I just feel like Sierra Miller. And I don't like to play the comparison game, but I'm just saying this for lack of a better example for me. To me, she's getting the Olandria treatment. Even I never watched Summer House, but I would see clips of her even before the big scandal. I always thought she was a star. She was fucking beautiful. And I knew she was bigger than that show. Even like now, she's hosting After Sun with the.

SPEAKER_03

I was just about to get this, get to that, but you Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And I don't know. I mean my friend have a conspiracy. Me and my god sister, excuse me, we have a conspiracy theory. I feel like Ariana Maddox, you know, even though she's legendary and I love her down, maybe she wants to do something else. Maybe I could see Sierra stepping into hosting Love Island.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, because Ariana took over from um uh the girl that uh played on uh uh what's that what's that what's that show? Modern Family.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Maybe it's time. I mean, Ariana has hosted it for what, like three, four seasons already?

SPEAKER_01

Can I say something?

SPEAKER_02

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01

About Ariana Maddox.

SPEAKER_02

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01

This is the black paradigm. And I'm lover of of most things black. But all things black, right? Ariana Maddy's that motherfucking white woman. Whoever her stylist is, that motherfucker don't miss. That's one of the best dressed white women I have ever seen in my entire life. Regular celebrity Ariana Maddies, you're not fucking with her.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, she said she a after that whole debacle on Vanderpunk rules, after she, her, you know, stuff with a cheese grater.

SPEAKER_01

Baby, all right. That's why, and you know what? I'm not a white woman or a white person apologist. That's why she understood Serena when Serena popped out on Cordell last, because Ariana Maddox was just like, but you already fucked him anyway. Go fuck yourself with the cheese grater. Shut the fuck up. Ariana Maddox? Oh, I said, Oh, that's a different type of bitch.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that she is.

SPEAKER_01

I used to love Vanderpump. I used to watch Vanderpump Rules.

SPEAKER_02

They fucked that whole and we we already know we we've talked about everything like that, but yes, her stylist does not miss because I've been seeing, I'm like, damn, okay.

SPEAKER_01

She was Ariana was one of the best dressed people on Vanderpump Rules.

SPEAKER_02

She was. She was.

SPEAKER_01

That white woman does not miss. That's all I gotta say about that.

SPEAKER_02

But well, congratulations to um Miller is promoting. I'll tell her what she's promoting for Covergirl, is promoting the brand's new True Blend Sun and Sculpt Bronze and Glow serum to help everyone achieve an effortless and cool look.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna buy some just because.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Um, Miller's upcoming projects include what you just said, co-hosting Love Island After Sun and competing on, yeah, she's gonna be on Dancing with the Stars.

SPEAKER_01

Oh girl, listen. She's she's done years everywhere.

SPEAKER_02

Here's the thing. Uh and we I talked about it a couple episodes ago. She has to leave Summer House and reboot Summerhouse Martha's Vineyard. Something I you know what that would give, though?

SPEAKER_01

Baldwin Heels for 30 year olds and older millennials.

SPEAKER_02

There you go. They have to reboot, they have to reboot Summerhouse, Martha's venue because we I fear you're the next Carlos King. Thank you. I fear I just feel like it needs to be.

SPEAKER_01

It's perfect. It's perfect. It's perfect.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god. I just thought about the movie the uh The Inkwell. You remember? It was based out of Martha's venue with TJ, shut up. You did that, baby. You Carlos, give my boo give my boo call. Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02

Shout out to Carlos King, though. I love that nigga.

SPEAKER_01

Carlos King. Oh, that would eat so bad.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, shout out to Sierra Miller. You have to do that.

SPEAKER_01

Will you come to the premiere, Sierra, when you do this? Thank you. Welcome to your event. Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Um, moving on to another really good story. Uh, Little Nas X says he's feeling better after rehab and bipolar diagnosis. So, as you can, you know, we talked about it on the podcast episodes ago. Um, the pop star Little Nas X has said he is doing much better and feels less fear in my heart after a mental health episode that uh culminated in his arrest last August.

SPEAKER_00

Dang, it's been that long.

SPEAKER_02

It's been that long.

SPEAKER_00

Sheesh.

SPEAKER_02

In a moving, because you know that video where he was walking down.

SPEAKER_01

I remember was it just in his drawers or something?

SPEAKER_02

He was in his drawers and he was telling people like the party is this way, I want to see you. Like he and I knew, I knew then when I saw that video, I was like, this boy is going through something. Like, this is not a game. He's not fucking promoting the album. He is really going through something. Someone needs to help him. Whoever his closest friends are, his family, they need someone who needs to help him. Um so in a moving three-minute video, you can go look at look at it on Instagram. It's on his Instagram page. Uh, the musician shared that he has been in rehab for a few months, after which he returned home to Atlanta to be with his family. And a lot of times, you know what I'm saying? We talked about that. People moving to LA, staying in LA, a lot of times you have to come back home. You have to get readjusted, you have to get reacquainted.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. I just, you know, me and you talking off air. I'm not going to say everything I think about that. But first of all, I want to, I want to show reverence and just, I'm so happy for him. First of all, Realize X has always been a handsome and bright young man.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Um, I hated, I hated what he did, whatever he was going through, whatever challenges that he may have, but he looks wonderful now. He seems better. But let me just tell you something. Places like LA are metaphysically designed to chew you up and spit you out.

SPEAKER_02

Correct.

SPEAKER_01

So many people move there for drinks. Some people make it. A lot of people don't. But that town has a spiritual vortex on it. And I'm just going to say that. So as black people outside of us needing to be one with the earth, needing to be outside, most of us are native to the South.

SPEAKER_03

Correct.

SPEAKER_01

Coming back home, knowing what you know, getting back out there, sometimes it do you good. And, you know, I'm a firm believer that environment is everything. I really feel like my next job or my next, I will thrive. Some environments that I'm in are so negative, I feel like I just are is stagnant or I'm going crazy or I'm getting big or my face is whatever the hell it is. Environment is super duper important. So for him to be as young as he is, not only to want to get help, but to actually get the help, apply the help, and to get back to his roots. Sometimes being around home is all you need. But in addition to the mental health help, I'm so proud of him. I'm so proud of that young man.

SPEAKER_02

Shout out to Lil Nas Edge. Shout out to him.

SPEAKER_01

I'm praying whatever he does next, I do feel like if he chooses to release another musical project, because he's hit so many amazing pieces at a young age. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

He's a Grammy winner. He is a Grammy winner. Like he's achieved so much. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01

His music is really good.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

I do feel like if he does choose, if he goes back into music whenever that might be, which I hope he does, I think he's going to have a lot of vital things to say.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I'm proud of you, Lil Nas X. You keep going. You're not, you know, life isn't perfect. You're not perfect. We all make mistakes, but to see you come from this, it's very inspirational.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Shout out to Lil Nas X. You can come on the podcast whenever the fuck you want to come on this podcast, and we can kiki.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, we can. And you're gonna, and I'm gonna treat you like my girl did in the bath. You won't sing something for me. You're gonna sing on top.

unknown

You're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you. Oh, God. All right. Uh talking about just like Lil' Nas X and everything like that, moving on to a person that also took kind of like a mental health leave uh Casa Net. He is now open.

SPEAKER_01

I did that in his ass.

SPEAKER_02

I'm I I he is now opening up streaming university again. Here's the thing about Casinet. And I'm just, it's like a double-edged sword for me. Because on the one hand, you know, you took a mental health break, you, which everyone deserves to. Everyone deserves to take a mental health break. You started reading, learning, comprehension, all of that. Love that for you. But then it's like you open streaming university up. And I I know it's for a good cause, but at the same time is looking like you already had the people that you wanted in Streamer University. And so you're just uh I I feel like, and I hope this is not what this little nigga is doing, because I anybody that aligns himself with Kevin Hart to me is already an attention-seeking whore. Woo! All right, well, there we go. I mean, you listen, at the end of the day, I hope he's not gonna use all of these, like use this for content because there was a video that was posted up, which I mean he already did. I'm I don't know what the why the fuck I just said that. There was a video posted with him and Armand Wiggins. Y'all know who Armand Wiggins is. Armand Wiggins, Armand Wiggins, Armand Wiggins.

SPEAKER_01

Um just you fucking doing that trigger me. Like, say the fucking video, sir. I fucking know it's the Armand Wiggins video. God damn.

SPEAKER_02

So Armand Wiggins was, you know, he was applying to Streamer University. And my thing is this people like Armand Wiggins and and and others, like you don't need to be, this is for people that are trying to get started in streaming, like that haven't made a name for themselves. And that's, I feel like this streamer university. Armand Wiggins, you have graduated. You don't need to go to Streamer University.

SPEAKER_01

And the thing, the thing that kills me is too, everything now, because a lot of people are saying, oh, they hate this season in Love Island. And I know it doesn't correlate, but the only reason why I love this season, Love Island, most of them on this season actually work real jobs. Oh you had somebody who worked in a hardware store, somebody that was a nursing assistant. You have somebody that was um What's that dude that just got kicked off?

SPEAKER_02

The one that said he's not.

SPEAKER_01

He was a public like so it's just like, you know, I truly feel like like you said, Kai had the people he was gonna select. This was just kind, and then it's just I think the thing that bothers me the most. Especially in the Atlanta, it got shut down after 20 minutes. You had all them people out there. The shit that some of these people was doing just to get clear, you had somebody show up in a fucking diaper. You had people racing and and it was these little boys, they was all cross-dressing to get Kai's attention. You had this group of girls that like had on like G strings and shit. It's just like clout is a hell of a drone. And to you niggas that's in your, and I'm not saying don't chase your dreams, because I'm sitting here with a microphone talking shit too. But it's just like I saw people as old as 40 and 50 just doing foolish things. Like, bro, don't you got a job?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Cause this, because me and TJ, we make it our business. We are regular, dagular, strangular fucking people that work jobs.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we have we have full-time jobs, y'all. Like we, this ain't like this, this ain't no shit like we and on, and um, let's be honest. We're not crystal, we're not kippured, we're not like we're we we we have jobs. Like we have jobs. This podcast is for us to it's enjoyment. It's enjoyment, it's a key key. Yeah, if it don't when it hits.

SPEAKER_01

When it when it hits, you're right.

SPEAKER_02

But my thing is, I just don't like seeing people that are in their 30s and 40s trying to attain the clout because clout is a hell of a drug. Cloud is a hell of a drug. It can, and I'll tell you this clout will always, always show who you really are. Child, show what you'll do for a dollar or two. Exactly. So that's my whole thing. You said it got shut down in Atlanta after 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_01

So he posted the location. I think it was at the State Farm Arena. It was like a two, by like 225, because it was so many people recording the film direction. So you brought all it, it was shut down. The uh APD Atlanta Police Department put that shit down.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01

It was crazy because people were fighting, people were smushing people, you had people getting rushed, you know, to the ambulance.

SPEAKER_02

They thought it was a fucking bad. Oh lord. I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_01

You had all the people there, you didn't even see a court, you didn't even see 10% of the people. Because this was content. I you can't tell me otherwise.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Well, Kai, I hope.

SPEAKER_01

Because at least with Drewski, Drewski should be organized.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah. Um, Kai, you gotta, you just, bro, you and your team just gotta work on organization and getting just like, if you're gonna do this, if you're gonna try to see people, then at least pick some people out of the roster. You know, I don't, this doesn't need to be a baddies uh call session, all of that bullshit.

SPEAKER_01

And I think the people that I think that he selected for streaming, you had big or decent sized fucking followers. So it's everything now is if it's not about aesthetics, it's y'all, y'all are really gonna aesthetic me the fuck out because I still have to. Y'all aesthetic y'all stuff out of a fucking personality. Like, am I talking to an AI chatbot or what?

SPEAKER_02

Motherfuckers running around here talking about, oh, that nigga got uh really white teeth and da-da-da-da-da-da-da. But can he hold a fucking conversation?

SPEAKER_01

Like, I seen this guy on uh TikTok. He has about maybe like 200,000 followers, and then what I was just scrolling to my FRP and his video came up. This nigga whole personality was bedazzled jeans and having 3A hair. Sir, what are you even fucking talking about? Like this, or or just like just be your. But then again, and I'm gonna be a hypocrite, I just hypocrite, I was uh hypocritical of my own self. You got so many white people, looks maxing, who are just popular for being fucking mediocre. So that's what y'all want to do, that's what y'all want to do. But I just hate the whole pot even like when you look at certain reality, you can't even get on reality on baddies. You have to have a big following. So y'all doing these tryouts are just to get fucking content. And to that one bitch who left her fucking baby son in the car while for 12 hours while you audition the baddie, you got arrested and they took your son from you in front of you. You're fucking stupid. Or just like that black girl, I didn't pay my rent this month. I I booked a hair apartment with um arrogant Tay to go to Streamer University. You that's some dizzy door ass shit. I swear that's why we'll see birds in the sky no more. They all on the fucking ground. People don't got common sense. We don't have no fucking common sense.

SPEAKER_02

Well, Kai, um I I guess congratulations to what? Is this the second time he's done streaming university? Second, third? I don't know. Okay. Well, we can move on.

SPEAKER_01

I feel so far removed from, and the crazy thing is, I feel like I'm like, when I think about Kai Sonat, I be feeling like I'm in my 50s, like, what the fuck are y'all little niggas doing? I don't streamer platboy max and and what's the little white racist one? Aiden Ron. And the crazy thing is, I don't think I'm maybe I'm like five or six years older than them, and I just be like, yuck. Like, what the fuck? I mean, it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_02

Dean the Great and A B, all of these people. My thing is this. Yeah, my thing is this. There is real life shit going on right now. We are taught laws are being written to suppress black voting, to suppress the way that we vote, to suppress how we live our fucking lives. And we are, mind you, that me and Ashley are talking about a podcast, we're on a podcast, right? Mind you, we are on a podcast talking about current events, but also there has to be a balance. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

My whole thing is this, and I don't know if Cosinette, if he's doing this, amazing. My thing is this. You know, you got hundreds of thousands of people that are coming out to see you. Get them to motherfucking register to vote, nigga. Get them to register to vote, nigga.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, is that so like what like come on? What are we doing here? Thank you. See, that oh, see, that's why, that's why you need millennials. Because we we see, we see this shit.

SPEAKER_01

You remember we used to get incentives to do shit like, hey, you come out, register to vote, or you get this is skinny's, I don't know. I mean, it built our civil, our civil responsibilities.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. To vote. That's true. Yeah. So and I'm not saying that Kai hasn't done, I don't know what he's doing at the stream, you know.

SPEAKER_01

Because he's not obligated, but again, it's just it's so.

SPEAKER_02

But at the same time, if I'm if I'm a black man in this fucking country, whether I'm uh a migrant, anything, if I'm black in this fucking country, guess what? It's gonna happen to me. It's going to affect me, my family, and anybody that fucking looks like that.

SPEAKER_01

You don't have the money to not have that care. And that ain't me being shady because shit, I ain't got it either.

SPEAKER_03

But yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You know what I'm saying? And it's just like, I think about it like this. They had to beat them.

SPEAKER_03

Because we're regular dental people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

The Black Panther Party had to beat James up to make say a lot, I'm black and I'm proud. So let's not act like we've had to beat black people, black famous people in the submission to actually care for the community that they divulge from. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

SPEAKER_02

Well, moving on um to uh talking about immigrants uh coming over here. Um, I mean, David Oh, how do you say his name? How do you pronounce his name?

SPEAKER_01

David O, I don't give a damn.

SPEAKER_02

Well, he was on a podcast with uh Godfrey, and you know, Godfrey, you his mask's been slipping as of I. Yeah, yeah, you know, he was like fact. He said some like facts or whatever. Godfrey, I'm gonna keep one eye open with your ass because you have been saying a lot of you never trust no Jargerians.

SPEAKER_01

That shit pissed me the fuck off.

SPEAKER_02

I know it did, I know, I know. But this person that is that came from the UK always the black British person.

SPEAKER_01

Y'all are not being mad.

SPEAKER_02

You have to change your accent, you have to add a little bit of subservience and a little bit of slavery. Now, of course, he'll fucking apologize because you know the blowback was fucking insane, right? As it should be. Um, and I think they actually deleted a lot of those clips as they should.

SPEAKER_01

Um, I got them on my phone. It ain't never gonna die.

SPEAKER_04

But why are y'all always talking about black Americans?

SPEAKER_02

And let me let David let me just be very clear. You're talking about how to get a Southern accent. I'm a nigga from Nashville. I don't speak like I don't speak like a nigga from Memphis. Nashville and Memphis are two different cities, nigga. Two different cities. In the same state. I don't speak like a nigga from Chattanooga, I don't speak like a nigga from Knoxville, okay? And we're all in the same state. So when you talk about a fucking Southern accent, you mean accents. Because you got niggas from New Orleans, you got niggas from Atlanta, you got niggas from Miami, you got niggas from Texas, from Houston.

SPEAKER_01

You got niggas from the Carolinas, Mississippi, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, the Southern state has a different dialect and accent.

SPEAKER_02

And that's the that's the beautiful, the beautiful thing about being a nigga from the South is that you already know. Oh yeah, I can tell a nigga from Memphis the way how he speaks. We don't talk the same, but we know where a nigga from. I can tell a nigga from that's from Alabama, from Birmingham, just like from two minutes talking to that nigga. I can damn sure tell a nigga from Atlanta or around Atlanta. They don't even get me started with New Orleans.

SPEAKER_01

And to sit up here and say what the fuck you said, nigga, you're known for playing the black American icon. You played Martin Luther King Jr. in 2014 in Selma, who was a black man from Atlanta, fucking Georgia. You're also known another one of your most known roles. A year earlier, you played Louis Gaines in The Butler.

SPEAKER_02

I'm just at this point, it's like Shut the fuck up. We know the obsession with black Americans. We know the obsession with just black culture. And at this point, black people have to understand that yes, we are the blueprint. When it comes to this shit, we are the blueprint. And everyone is obsessed with what we do and what we say. But at some point, at some point, we gotta start putting belt to ass.

SPEAKER_01

Talk about subservient. Any this is coming from an African nigga who y'all colonized Britain, Britain, your wife, who was a white woman by the name of Jessica, production company together, and it's called Euro Europa Saxon as an Anglo fucking Saxon? Get the fuck out of here. That's subservient if I've ever seen it.

SPEAKER_02

I was done with that nigga when he executive produced Anita Simone Biopic.

SPEAKER_01

Clock it. That big.

SPEAKER_02

So I mean, so this little shit right here that he was done, like that, that's who he is.

SPEAKER_01

It's giving, it's giving tether behavior.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Oh, moving on from this bullshit. Um what else we got going on? Chloe Bailey and Timberland. Finally. Now I I like this. I really do. That finally too uh go ahead. No, you go ahead. You go ahead. How you feeling, friend? How you feeling about the collaboration?

SPEAKER_01

I'ma say this. As much as I don't like Timberland, it's so refreshing to see him work with humans again. Um I'm excited. The the the song, the snippet that we heard sounds fucking amazing. One thing I don't want him stop. It's like every every female artist he works with, he tries to bring Aaliyah back from the dead. I really hope he because Chloe's a bomb ass fucking producer as well. I really hope that he allowed her, he produced her to be Chloe. Because I think this project is gonna make or break her. Even though I loved her last project, I think she's an amazing talented artist. But for whatever reason, people do not connect with her music.

SPEAKER_02

I think when you say people don't connect with her music, I think it's all about her team. I think it's all about where she is placed. And I think people still think when they see Chloe, well, where is Hallie?

SPEAKER_01

She has the Nomani problem to me. Yes, mad fucking talented, has everything beautiful, can sing, can dance. And then Chloe's clay, she's a fucking producer. Yeah. And she's produced hits.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. So I really want this project. I'm going to listen to it. I want this project to work. But what you said about Timberland, yeah, because every artist that I've seen since the death of Baby Girl, he has tried to recreate Aaliyah or have some version of Aaliyah. And it's like, I know he holds her to like that's the standard. You know what I'm saying? But at the same time, it's like let her be her own person. Yes. Yes. So when does it come out? Uh it comes out. You know what? Um, it comes out. Hold on. Chloe Bailey into a little mixtape. When does it drop? Hold on.

SPEAKER_00

Um did she say it dropping?

SPEAKER_02

Well, it's coming. I know. Here, I'm just gonna go, I'm just gonna go on her page. Fuck it. Yeah, I'm just gonna Instagram page.

SPEAKER_04

Instagram.

SPEAKER_02

Chloe Bailey. And Chloe Bailey is so beautiful. Like June. Oh shit, tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, coming on Juneteenth. Oh, I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_01

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, we gotta get that. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, go stream that tomorrow, you guys. Um, I mean, by the time y'all hear this, it'll already be out. So uh but yeah, moving on, shout out to Chloe Bailey. You are welcome on the podcast whenever you feel like coming on at Tu Boo. Um, Black Business 101, already gonna state my business. It is a premiere destination here in Nashville, motherfucking Tennessee. It is called Prince, Prince's original hot chicken. Um per Nashville, Tennessee. Um, they have three locations here in Nashville. Um they have one at Antioch, they have one at the um Broadway, and then they also have the original, um, not the original, but they have another location here. Hold on, let me see.

SPEAKER_04

Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_02

So that's the original Knownsville Pike.

SPEAKER_01

And then I used to go to all the time.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, Known's Pike is the original. I used to go to the page. And then they have Yep. And 4060 Cane Ridge Parkway in Antioch. And then the other one is Broadway, Nashville. So, yes, Princess, you know, hot chicken, it's amazing. It is a Nashville staple. Yes. Shout out to them, the OGs. The OGs.

SPEAKER_05

Still black owned.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, still black owned. They do, let me tell you something, they do a lot of work for the community, and it is not easy running that business. It's not yeah. What's your black business, baby?

SPEAKER_01

I want to give a shout out to the King Beauty Supply Store. It's on 101 Burrow Way Suite 101. It is a black-owned hair store. So all your hair extensions, your hair products, your nail products, she shell, bask and lather, waist beads. This is a quality African clothing, quality shoes, everything. This is a black-owned business with a 4.9 review. It's off a Tiny Town Road, but it's King Beauty Supply Store. Beautiful customer service, beautiful inside out, and I will be going to her from here on out.

SPEAKER_02

I love that. I really do. We gotta support our black businesses. I'm going to next week look up a nail shop and just spa for here in Tennessee. If you live in the Tennessee area, Nashville area. So I want to start looking up more black businesses because again, we're not playing at all.

SPEAKER_01

Never playing.

SPEAKER_02

We dead ass.

SPEAKER_01

Dead ass?

SPEAKER_02

Deadass? Dead ass. All right. What is what you listening to, boo? What you watching?

SPEAKER_01

Okay, what I'm watching, it is a Love Island Summer Baby. Shout out to Miss Anaya Harvey and Miss Trinity, the two chocolate girls on Love Island. I'm cheering for you bulls, but I'm a Love Island girly. I want to give a shout out to the beautiful sibling band Infinity Song. They released their self-titled album named Infinity Song. The music video for her.

SPEAKER_03

I love all of them.

SPEAKER_01

I love all of the older sister who released her own albums. They are just all beautiful inside out. I love them all. I also want to give a shout out to Miss Britney Spencer. Her song, June uh Sober Thoughts, that came out June the 5th. I've been listening to it. I think Britney Spencer.

SPEAKER_02

She's amazing. And she's really so gorgeous in person.

SPEAKER_01

I've added her to my siren category. There are a few female singers. I have Sade, Inya, Lana Del Rey, Beyonce. But Britney Spencer, I can hear her sing and get lost in a trance. And I really hope that one day she taps into like alternative RB, but she doesn't have to because she is a country artist through and through. But like I think she has a voice just to do anything she wants to. I love her.

SPEAKER_05

Correct.

SPEAKER_01

Um I want to give a shout out to two of my favorite artists, Kirby and Duran Bernard. They did covers. Both amazing covers, and I think they did a great job making those songs their own. I want to give a shout out to Carisha. I don't care about saying Young Miami has a song of the summer. My mama keeps on my spin that shit.

SPEAKER_05

Spin that shit.

SPEAKER_02

It's done crossed over to the to the it's done crossed over to the white girls, white boys, the agent. And like it's that song has crossed over. Yes. It is, it is, it is a crossover hit.

SPEAKER_01

And the last thing, I it's it's a young white man. If you like, what is his name? James Blake. James Blake released the project in March. I love James Blake. But his song, Walk Out Music, there's another artist named Nick Hawking. His album is called I Can See, and I'm actually going to send you this. When I say every song on this album makes me, he's had three releases from this. It's I Can See. My favorite is Real Here Now and Water. Every last one of those songs makes me want to cry. Damn. So I just Nick Hakeem everything to me. And I would say older music that I've um delved back into. I gave Tyler the Creator's Igor another listen the other day. I was at work and I think um Earthquake came across my playlist. Um and I just was like, oh, I just want to listen to this album again. That album, and I went to that concert. I had front row seats. Shout out to Michelle. I we went to see Igor in 2019. It was before the pandemic. I saw him with um Blood Orange and Gold Link. One of that's my top five concerts I've ever been to. Igor was such a masterpiece through and through. I think it was one of, it's one of the and I have shout out to Gabby who bought that for me for my birthday on vinyl. That is one of the modern, one of the best fifth top 50 albums in the last 20 years.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Igor will be talked about. But see, Tyler the Creator, he's one of my favorite artists. TJ knows I'm a Tyler the Creative stand, but like I love Tyler Creators, too. He does not really, everything he released has a purpose. And it's just, I love his stories that he shares through his music. I want to give a shout out to another artist who's a black woman that I want to take the pop scene. I've talked about her before. She released a song May 29th called Ottaboy. Love her. She's very um I don't want to compare her, but I think her message is, yeah, I'm that bitch. I'm sexy, I'm young, I'm beautiful, I'm a black woman, but that's not stopping me doing anything. And I think she signed um, she signed the Def JM Records, but I think she's under the umbrella of Issa Rae's music company, I think. And the last person I'm gonna give a shout out to, white women, they getting all my praises this week. I don't know what's going on with that, but shit, watch out now. Oh, I know. I have been diving into Madonna's discography. Secret is my favorite Madonna song, but the power of goodbye, take about, rain, human nature, erotica. Madonna really was a fucking legend.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I even though she looks like a damn alien now, I'm I love Madonna.

SPEAKER_02

I I I'll say this about Madonna. Madonna came out when, you know, you had Wendy Houston, you had Madonna, you had Janet Jackson, you had you had legends, you had people that had megastars.

SPEAKER_01

That's what drives me so crazy. You have the blueprint, like, and and nobody was the same back then.

SPEAKER_02

Nobody was the same. Everybody, and I don't I'll say this. I feel, and this is what I feel. I feel everyone is chasing a trend when you can create your own. You know what I'm saying? I just feel like it's just a bunch of fucking Instagram, um Instagram tactics. Like I just like every like, I don't know. I think I I think about this. I love what Sabrina Carpenter did with her album, her let her last album, because it was an escape from, you know, it was this espresso, you know, this it was just like this.

SPEAKER_01

That was the first thing that really stuck in the wild when you think about white, like just pop.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Even when I think about like Mona Leo singing espresso, like everybody loved that. That was that album was one of my favorite pop albums within the last 10 years.

SPEAKER_02

I agree. Oh and even Mona Leo with the uh black, I mean, she I mean it's just people doing, doing what they love and and makes them happy, you know, that stands out.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I almost forgot Maya, the singer Maya, she released the album called Retrospect.

SPEAKER_03

Correct.

SPEAKER_01

It's like um, it's giving 70s but modern. First of all, Jordan Lucas, I see you. You love your RB star that's in her 40s and up, and that's still sexy. I love the song she got with Jordan and Lucas called Ain't Another, but they go together. Huh?

SPEAKER_03

They go together.

SPEAKER_01

No, but you know, he's he in his music video, he had Regina Hall, you know, he was linked to all of that. Jordan Lucas Jordan Lucas loved him as sexy like cougar. And I love that for him. But he's fine though. I've I've seen Jordan Lucas in concert. He gives a really amazing concert.

SPEAKER_02

That's good. Because some don't.

SPEAKER_01

Um oh, let me mute myself.

SPEAKER_02

No, I'm not gonna go in, friend. Um, I have been listening to a lot of the Megan thee Stallion. I've been listening to Don Tolliver. Yes, a lot of Don Tolliver.

SPEAKER_01

He's so talented. Oh, I love Don Tolliver.

SPEAKER_02

Very talented, very talented. Um, I've been listening to some Doja Cat, her newest album. And I it's just that album, I, you know, me and you were in the car and we were the Yes. Yes, yes. Um, been listening to it again because some of the songs have just hit me again. Um and then uh I think that is it for music wise. I will say, um I have when we talk about white women, I will say I have been listening to Tate McCrae.

SPEAKER_01

Tate McCrae, she's like Tate McCrae. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_02

I wanted to like her, but I I think I think some of I think a lot, some of her songs are just really good bops. Um and it's just like, okay, cool, I like this. You know, you know, uh put it on when you're cooking or put it on when you're driving somewhere. Like I just she has a couple of good bops.

SPEAKER_01

Um but I will say that Tanache loved down, love her Zal.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes. Tanache is amazing. Shout out to her. I need to order some stuff from her. Um, I wonder if she still got her cannabis line.

SPEAKER_01

Well, speaking of Tanache, that made me think about Narmani, because they was both the artists, and you know, Narmani just left RCA. And I think she might be hinting, she might be hinting at some new music.

SPEAKER_02

So As she should. RCA did not know what to do with her at all.

SPEAKER_01

They don't know what to do with any black female artists.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, all right. And uh so the movies that I'm the movies that I'm uh have seen and watched, um, I think I talked about this last week. Go see Obsession, go see Um Backrooms.

SPEAKER_01

That was so good. I saw that.

SPEAKER_02

Um, I'm going to see Toy Story 5 tonight. Love that for you. Yeah. So I I the thing about it is I don't know if I've seen the last one, the Toy Story 4. I don't know. But you really don't, honestly, you really don't need to see Toy Story 4 was so good.

SPEAKER_01

I saw that one.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Um I know I saw I saw one, two, and three. I'm just I'm trying to picture me seeing the fourth one. But anyways, I'm seeing the fifth one tonight at nine o'clock. Um so yeah. Um watch some good movies. What series have I watched? Um I'm gonna start Widow's Bay on Apple TV Plus. Um, it's a really good show. I've seen some previews and trailers for that, so I'm gonna watch that. It's kind of like a horror/slash comedy. Um, but yeah, that's it. I'm feeling I'm feeling good.

SPEAKER_01

I love that.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I'm feeling good. Um I'm gonna cook this catfish tomorrow morning. I gotta wake up, go to Publix, get this fucking catfish, cook it. I'm gonna be smelling it's just something about you smelling like fucking cat.

SPEAKER_01

You better take you a change of shirt.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, trust me, baby. I'm listening I ain't even gonna spray no cologne, no nothing on when I'm cooking. Nothing. I'm gonna wait till I get to work. Um, and honestly, I might just cook the fish, then take my shower, and then go to work. That's probably what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna wake up early because they open at 7 o'clock. I gotta be at work at 9, so I got an hour and so to cook this fucking fish. But niggas, happy Juneteenth. Um, for the niggas and the niggas only. Um, even though the white people get to celebrate it or whatever.

SPEAKER_01

It should be made to work. Somebody has said black people should dress like black slaves and just chase white people on the asset. That's the most unhinged shit I've ever heard. What is wrong with people?

SPEAKER_02

I mean, it wasn't it wasn't unhinged when they was doing that shit to us. So, you know, and you have to, but listen, we have to start understanding, like, slavery was a law. Like, so when people say, well, that's the law, well, shit, slavery was laws too, nigga. Doesn't mean it's right. Ooh. But we'll get into that conversation next week. Um, our email address is the blackparadigm77 at gmail.com. Again, for the niggas in the back and in the front, our email address is the blackparadigm77 at gmo.com. My name is TJ aka TJ with the sauce.

SPEAKER_01

And my name is Ashley, aka Ashley Grant.

SPEAKER_02

And this has been another Blackety Blackity episode of the Black Paradigm. We'll see you guys next week. Peace out.

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