Episode 329: Know Your Privilege

[00:00:02] 3, 2, 1, You already know what it is ladies and gents, most of your lover is always Donald Peasley Rashaun here It's another beautiful day here in YC man, shout out to all the other for like, comment, and subscribing Do everything I do every week, we do appreciate y'all if you haven't already, sorry for that Patreon That's a fact, that's a fact, a lot of people signed up this week, right Joey? Shouts to the return guests Yo, when I say, you know what, when I say women on the news

[00:00:29] Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back gang, welcome home I said notification, I hit point your knee, dang it And shout out to the new subscribers, shout out to Danes man Shout out to two other people subscribed this week, I think her name is Preesha? I know Don follow her cause I searched Don's followers for the names That's crazy

[00:00:58] And um, and another dude, so it's working Shout out to y'all, shout out to y'all Yeah, facts, facts, facts So, you know how we start off every week? Joe, what's the Joe goal game this week? Yeah, you got that same energy? It's crazy what a week could change Hopefully when this episode drops it's a little bit different energy But uh, my role is for the week Uh, I got my wife some M4s, I'm happy about that I know you got the T's in me, but I love those sneakers

[00:01:27] So, got them back in the collection, nice and fresh Um, my bud, I'm looking forward to the Knicks getting their act together Um, they have been causing me very much stretch, a lot of stress But, when you a real fan, it comes with it, man It's a part of the game I'm not, I'm not no, I'm not one of these bandwagon niggas I've been here through the dark times So, this ain't little, this ain't nothing to me Um, my thorn

[00:01:55] Shit, we got one, it's just not recorded Yeah, I don't really got a thorn, man This is just the Knicks Yeah, I'm just This is the fact that Knicks is a thorn I'm trying to move on a higher plane, bro Okay I just want everybody to get their shit together That's fair, that's solid That's the same way of saying that But we'll go more in depth as today's episode goes Um, roast for this week would be Roast for this week would be Shit

[00:02:25] I mean, it's a good week It was a solid week It's not like I had a bad week Um I'll see my lady, man I haven't seen her since I got back from California So, um Seeing her was a cool, cool thing She cooked That's beautiful Said she cooked That nigga didn't want to cook, bro That nigga wanted to order food That's my That might be my thought this week Nigga wanted to eat out But, um Seeing her was good You're a freak Oh, man They're a freak, man Um What else?

[00:02:55] Um Not that much work at work That was cool And I also shot some shit for Superman Which was all dope as well Um Bud Looking forward to my birthday, man Every week I I need that Trip to happen now Yo For my people that work at my old job My niggas need an upgrade Oh my god I need an upgrade You bringing a camera with you? Yeah, I'm bringing my camera with you You spoke to Mr. Anderson? I hit the nigga If nigga didn't reply back to me I'm gonna talk to that nigga Um Looking forward to seeing some photos

[00:03:25] That you take too Also Yeah, facts Get back to posting pictures again, dog I'm gonna just I'm gonna just post gym shit Hey, nigga Talk cable Nah, I like the gym content You know I support you Yeah, I appreciate that You know what I'm saying Joe would hate you Nah No, no Matter of fact This nigga Cyrus got me in I told you nigga I told niggas watch out for Cyrus Niggas Cyrus getting hockey Gaining weight I told niggas that Same thing with Kenny Rubik's cousin Yeah I've been telling him Like Paul's what to eat He gaining four pounds

[00:03:54] That's the funny thing about it He told me he's six pounds up Nah I seen Kenny as I was On my way to work This week Oh, for real? Yeah He was working by the L.I.R. by my crib Yeah Kenny getting Kenny getting brolic If Cyrus could do it That means hockey You could do it, bro Hang on for it But he's to He make sure he eat a lot though He told me he's playing Yeah Hang on for it He's sick too I give him that I might lock in with him Um That was my rose bud That was Hawaii Oh, sorry I wasn't supposed to say Where the fuck I was going But whatever Um Thorn

[00:04:24] Was this cold Like this Thorn Was allergies at first Sinuses It feel like fucking shit Like Just pushing through this week Um Forcing myself to go to the gym Because every day I didn't want to go Um Yeah Y'all don't want to sound like a hater But like If running Running in the rain Don't make you sick Nah It's crazy That was like Three weeks ago I know I saw it It was 20 miles Like hell yeah You saw that You gonna see that shit No but that's not what made me sick Is that

[00:04:53] Just working in Certain areas With certain people Like they don't Besties I don't wanna say that But Junkhead bro Niggas is coughing And sneezing We all like We celebrating birthdays this week Somebody had my job At a birthday Niggas is Blowing out candles Blowing out candles Niggas is Oh shit I'm like Boy That's nasty I don't know why I took Till COVID For niggas to realize

[00:05:23] That was kinda Yo you remember When we was potting through that shit The way we wiped down The stuff I hate a lot Niggas Shit that we even touched Niggas We need to get back to that Like we lost some sauce Like we lost some of the recipes From COVID That shit was good practice I was talking to my co-worker About that shit yesterday Literally yesterday She was like I hate to say this out loud But That was like The time of my life Son You was like Fuck There was a lot of good That came out of people No hugs No touch Nobody touch you bro There you go

[00:05:53] Now you online at your pole And somebody right on your On your shit Back up You on my honk Pull this nigga Back up a little bit Back up Kwani what's your rosebud doing Thorne I guess I'll start Wherever my mind is At first Thorne I'm almost out of my Wait is that a thorn Or is that a rose That's a rose That's a rose That's a rose Bud right now I'm almost out of it Looking forward to getting it out of it Yeah so yeah Bud So that's the bud Rose is the good thing right Yeah Yeah

[00:06:26] I'm officially ready to start My new role They emailed me saying Congratulations and all that And Anytime they send me my first case That's when I start What was the last one? Thorne Thorne Thorne is the shit that's sticking you in your side I mean I didn't really go to I didn't go to the gym this week That's about it Come on man I'm trying to get this routine thing going And every week It's just like It's just failing

[00:06:55] Fucking horribly I'm trying to get up I have to The first thing I have to do Is go to sleep at night But I have to go to sleep Yeah I gotta go to sleep before 12 But I keep looking at 2am in the face Like an idiot Every night Therefore my My mornings don't really go how I want it Which throws off my day But I feel you Yeah hopefully That's Me neither Alright

[00:07:25] Go to bed by like 9 or 10 o'clock My rolls for this week I live to see another week Okay My thorn I mean my bud I look forward to finding time to do things I want to do in life My thorn Not having the time to do the things that I want to do in life So time is the Yeah facts I got some shopping done this week so Okay Like food shopping right? No I bought myself something nice I bought myself a couple things nice You know what I'm saying? Yeah

[00:07:55] But uh During this week Uh As I was packing my luggage to go on a trip I get a phone call from Quanny And he asked me a very good question That I wanted to uh I wanted Quanny to present on the pod And uh We could all get into it Is this gonna trigger me? I don't think so Okay I don't think so I don't know how I get when I'm triggered Quanny you wanna ask a question? Well you wanna ask them the question? Yeah so Yeah since we already talked about it Um It stems from

[00:08:26] Forever Subscribe to our Patreon Yeah so if you If you didn't see it Go back and look at that episode So you get to See where this is coming from But I feel like I always land on the Harsher side of things Or it sounds harsher So I was thinking more on the idea Of which y'all Which y'all were saying With the side that Y'all were on Um So I asked him When do you expect A white person to Understand their privilege Or to know their privilege Do you expect Cause

[00:08:55] We were talking about Justin not understanding Things he's 17 He doesn't know Ah ah ah But he's a very privileged Black man So And on the reverse Do you look at a 17 year old White person And thinks That they should know Their privilege Or expect them to Understand the privilege That they have in this Or wherever they're at At 17 Yeah Yes I think cause they Actually reap the benefits Of their privilege Way earlier than we ever do Even Like even Even well off black kids Don't really They still gotta navigate

[00:09:24] As black people in America So even if your parents Are well off And your family's well off Society don't know You're still black Society don't know Who your dad is You're still nigga Yeah So I think white kids Kinda Reap the benefits of Their privilege Way earlier So they're aware of it When they get to high school That's why They solve a lot of your problems By saying yo Do you know who my dad is Like You know what I'm saying Like that's That's how I've seen it I went to My elementary school Was a predominantly white school Where was that? PS 236 in Middle Basin

[00:09:55] Oh shit That's before the You know the blacks Infiltrated Yeah yeah yeah Infiltrated Oh you might be A little racist This nigga's a bigot He's African not black From like 6 to 11 years old I could even see that Like The white boys And white girls Who had parents Who were well off And could pay for this And handle that And all that stuff They could You could see it On there In the way they walk Where they talk The way they handle it Even down to their lunch You know what I'm saying Oh yeah I was segregated No No segregation But like

[00:10:25] Compared Like you know I was eating school lunch Where you was getting Da da da da Oh yeah They got around They walked in with food Yeah And you think You think at that age They knew they were privileged Or they understood What the white privilege You don't understand it Until you can understand it But you know You know the difference You can see Across from you Oh you're not like me But not They're not treating you Any differently But they just understand that I can do this Why is 17 niggas don't know that No I do That's what I'm saying That's what I'm saying From 6 years old

[00:10:55] They probably know this shit No I'm saying You don't think at 17 People don't know Oh no I have white privilege This is a little white privilege I think they absolutely 17 years old today Absolutely do I think they are Not even do they They know it They use it to their advantage Like they know how to utilize Their white privilege That's why a lot of them Do a lot of dumb shit Because they know What about you Don You think a 17 year old Knows their white privilege I think so I think so Because even At certain young At young ages White families Will teach you Like yo bro This is who you are This is where we came from And they'll sit there And beat that shit into your head

[00:11:25] Yes we do the same thing But it's totally different I don't even know If they beating it Into their kids hands They do though Do they They do I don't know what The parenting style Of a white A white level of family is I don't know how aggressive They are I know I know There's aggression In black families Like this is what We need to do This is what has to happen I know that for a fact I don't know if white people Are doing the same shit It's kind of like It seems like it's just It's there Like you should know There's no need to There's no need to Hammer it home It's like This is what's for us You know what's crazy My response was a little bit Different from everybody I was like Tell us I told Quanny

[00:11:55] I don't think they know Until they cross paths Where they realize Oh this is where My privilege triggers Because I was like Pass with who or what When they're When they're face to face With the privilege Actually working Or they seeing it Not work for somebody else So I was telling Quanny Yo maybe we're thinking From like a New York Mindset Most of us do Right But like in traveling And being in certain cities And the way they walk through Like Willfully ignorant Or not realizing

[00:12:25] Their Privilege Until you're faced With Some sort of situation That lets you realize I'm either privileged Or it's not working So I don't know I couldn't put an age Because the question was Do you think a 17 year old Should know Right So if If Let's talk Let's talk Omaha, Nebraska Where there's More white people Than there is black Right So you're around You're privileged How do you know That you're privileged

[00:12:54] It feels normal Right They're Right They live A normalcy Until Let's say we have A cool white guy Let's say we got a white guy On our team Right Yeah That's the next episode Say we get a white guy On our team And we're all in the store And he is now experienced Like he's with us But He sees them watching us We get racially profiled And he's now witnessing Why y'all following him Why y'all doing it Yeah Why are you following me man

[00:13:24] And He's like No not you It's those guys And then he realized Oh my privilege Gives me the Ability to not be suspicious Or look that suspicious So I don't know If people realize They're privileged Until they either Experience it Cause if you go Your whole life Like Justin Silver spooned How do you not Cause that was one of Quante's points He was like His dad struggled And his mom struggled To get to where they was at But I'm like

[00:13:54] Justin never saw that struggle So Yes you're privileged But You didn't You really didn't know The opposite side of the track Until you got to a certain age Yeah but the thing about He I would say he knew Cause they Like I said They beat that shit Into his head bro Like yo Yeah I would think You know What I told him was that When he was saying What type of parent style He would have I would assume that His dad told him What it took to get here And what it takes to maintain it And you see it You see me building up on Stores upon stores So I get what he's saying

[00:14:23] Like you don't really see it Until you see it Yeah until you face it Do we really have to see everything To know that we are privileged And to know that we should Maybe go this route Instead of If we know what the opposite is Do we ever have to go To see the opposite To know that we don't want To go over there I feel like sometimes Yeah In most cases So y'all don't think Y'all could learn Y'all should learn From other people's mistakes Oh I absolutely I absolutely believe That's one of the best But sometimes You gotta be a visual learner Sometimes Not with everything Not with everything Not with your future I think

[00:14:53] Not securing your Your fundamental years Of your future I think those are the Most pivotal parts Where you have to make a Make a concrete decision I think I understand What Quanee's saying Cause I don't think Justin didn't know That he was privileged I think he well knew That he was privileged I definitely think he knew He was privileged I said that too I think he knew that Which gave him Some sort of confidence To feel like Yo I can take these chances In life You know you're cushion Your privilege is a cushion If I fall My parents are gonna be there For me

[00:15:23] But the privilege I don't know I look at that That's the only privilege Let me ask you a question Shit You gonna tell your child Everything about your childhood Or Absolutely Or Everything Even the things we can't say on the mic Every layer of it Yes Why Why does he need to know that part So you can see Well I'm pretty sure Life will be completely different For them When I have children Yeah But you gotta know It's better to Get it from the source

[00:15:53] Than the history books And what You'll go on the internet And look up Like oh what's this about Gang culture What's this What if your child Wants to experience it himself At that point That's why you tell him Oh but It sounds bad to you But to him it's like Oh it's the fucking Most exciting thing in the world It's fascinating yeah Well I think Then I can It gives you a better Angle as a parent On how to How to Like if you know I went through that I forgot You wanna You wanna Raise your children in New York Ideally I would love to raise New York children Just because I would hope that New York

[00:16:22] Is still that breeding ground For the way we are And the way we know everything I look at people All over the world And I feel like New Yorkers Just have the best sense of You know everything I got a question Quanny When you When you have children Are you gonna take them To Jamaica And show them Where you grew up in Oh yeah absolutely So they need to see that side Yeah I went to Ghana too Not that they need to see it But I would like for them To see it Nah you gotta You gotta see how How rough this shit could be Out here in the world bro Like My crib in Jamaica Is not rough I went to Ghana

[00:16:51] At two years old You don't remember that shit I don't I don't but it became A normalcy that It was at two It was at six At eleven It was just It was like oh yeah This is home And then you come back To the hood Oh okay like You see the differences You go into a Developing nation Where a majority Of your family is at And then you come back home You realize okay You got a little bit better You have it way better Than they do over here But then I go to school In the white neighborhood And I saw My parents gave me A bit of everything So that goes to

[00:17:20] I'll ask that Because Quanee just said Do you need to see the bad To know that it's bad out there I don't think I needed to But I'm grateful for it Absolutely grateful I fight you need to sometimes bro It gotta It gotta send you back bro It gotta send you back I see how bad it is Nah bro On your phone I don't need to It being on your phone You actually being there Like I'm from a part in Jamaica My parents from a part in Jamaica Where it's like country Some country My niggas in the bush Like these niggas got a Water Yeah We for a water truck And all this other shit Like Niggas These niggas are taking showers

[00:17:50] With cold water I'm like nah I'm gonna go back home bro Like Even me to have that thought I gotta go back home My cousins I'm giving the niggas Hand-me-downs And they're happy with this shit It's like yo bro Like I gotta be grateful For what the fuck I got I went back to where my parents Grew up in Ghana Just the last trip bro And I saw how like How much gravity my mom Still had over there They call like a president Of the neighborhood Right Cause obviously she's made it out She's probably one of the few Yeah And It's still It's still the same place Like it's Structurally it hasn't changed It still looks the same way

[00:18:19] When I was 11 years old Like man this shit Is the same shit But If my parents weren't in there Pumping the money And resources in from America Into their I don't know How they would like Really literally survive All these shit and shit like that It's good to be able to See that as a child And feel like it's Normal It felt normal as a child As an adult I was just like Damn it's real Like it's still real What privilege What privilege do you think You have now That you Didn't appreciate Maybe a year or two ago

[00:18:49] A year or two Yeah Nothing You would have to Extend it a little bit longer Like probably right before college Nigga Employment I thought you was gonna say Your job I mean it's a privilege But like bro What Huh It is a privilege But it's not It's not I was never Like I was aware of that At all times Okay That wasn't nothing That I ever lost sight of Okay so let's do a decade ago Yeah not even a decade I would say like just Yo maybe yeah Maybe a decade Yeah that was college Yeah before Nigga you old Like just

[00:19:19] Damn Just like No no no no no I'm saying like Just knowing You saying like What I took Took for granted maybe Even that I didn't take anything For granted That's what I was gonna say I didn't take anything for granted But just knowing that I would say Before I left for college I created I redid my room Before I left For my junior year Because I told myself I'm not coming back here Like my plan was I'm not coming back To this house Like once I'm done

[00:19:49] With college I'll have my own apartment And I'm just gonna Redo this room To be somewhere I can just crash For a little bit And leave And I felt like that I had the privilege I had that privilege Of being able to do that And then life came And hit me with a haymaker I'm just like I gotta come back here And I had this I'm gonna be vulnerable I was sleeping on a futon bed In my room In my house But I'm like I didn't have a proper bed For years Just because I Created my life Or had plans Of living a certain life That I just didn't fulfill

[00:20:18] But grateful That my parents Had a place Had a place for me And didn't treat me as Oh well you didn't want To be here So get out Oh you let it be No yo I'm not coming back That's why That's why I was allowed To redo my room Like that Nah it wasn't on Some malicious It was just I wanted Because I wanted To redo I'm talking about I lived in my childhood Room for all these years I'm like Oh this looks really childish Let me repaint the walls Let me remodel it We did that And I was like Yo mom I'm not even putting A bed in here I don't plan on Coming back Type vibes You know what I'm saying Not maliciously But always got

[00:20:48] Somewhere to stay You know what I'm saying And I'm grateful that My parents didn't hold me To that all the way Because life hit me With another haymaker So how was your re-approach It wasn't a re-approach My door is always open The door is always open But yeah So you didn't say nothing You just let that fly Oh yeah You didn't say my bad I didn't mean that You didn't say nothing You're not some Privileged shit there Yeah like That's kind of crazy to say I asked for $20 When I got to Port Authority And I started my new life That day Nigga Like 20 cash Yeah bro I had Yo Thanks for Brian

[00:21:17] Brian got me An interview at a job And like I said bro I took off running After that bro My parents had to They I'm the youngest You know You know what I mean That's a privilege That I probably won't Or know how to relate to it What? I don't have to have A talking about that Well about No About my mentality Wanting to strive for more The words That came out your mouth What words? I'm not coming back I'm paraphrasing it I'm talking about My mentality That I wasn't coming back Oh I thought you actually said

[00:21:46] Like I wasn't coming back It is wishful thinking Like you That's the American dream Is yo You go to college Four years You finish You get a degree You You get the job The dream job You move out Your parents' crib You actually should have been out By 18, 19 Right? No that's not how shit worked But Hey man

[00:22:15] I'm grieving for it though I'm grieving for it I got a father Like a year after See I didn't even get that chance I didn't get that chance I'm still there Still there Ten years later That's a privilege too Yeah Especially as As Men Yeah You're supposed to be out the house That's what I'm saying That was always eating at me That's another reason why The mentality is there I'm like yo Ain't no girl gonna want me That's a fact You know what I'm saying 100% Yo why don't we Thank y'all bro I'm serious We gotta fix it Hold on I said this on one of my

[00:22:44] Let's not throw that in a bad Thumb way No no no no That's a real thing But I said this in one of my Earliest Once a Good Guy episodes As a guest I said yo I I was even I was even hesitant to talk to a certain woman Because I didn't have a car Because the way Just the way shit looked at Like was looked at Hey brother Yo Gotta know what you're playing Me as a man living in my mall Oh my god I thought that was the biggest thing in the world One second You're not gonna sit here and tell me That you don't want someone to come here Equally yoked as you If I have a crib And a car I'm gonna want somebody with the same shit

[00:23:14] Yeah but you So Please What Get your shit together Yeah What are you talking about You know how hard it was for me to get my shit together I'm not talking about Then you gotta realize Alright cool It's not It's not where I'm at Let me focus on me Yeah for sure Like Justin should have did And let me get myself right Let me get my shit together Let me focus on myself See but Justin And once again Justin was in that space As a 17 year old kid Where he He didn't have to get his shit together yet You give him seven years after this Yeah Different microscope What do you mean yet He has to get it together now

[00:23:43] He doesn't have to Yes he does He didn't have to Yo Y'all keep thinking Let the nigga fall With the kids No We don't got time for that Nigga we set it up for you to not fall What are you trying to fall for Cause then he can't He can't teach nobody else Yo He can't teach nobody else If all All you doing is getting Passed along Passed along You How Sometimes people need Sometimes people need the experience bro That's all it is I mean yeah of course Sometimes people do But I'm on the side of

[00:24:13] You don't You can just listen and learn It's set up for you Alright So I want to address The Joe part But take it off of Joe With the concept of I don't want The person So I'm not talking about Joe I don't want The The male individual To feel insecure About himself Because he doesn't have Materialistic things Like a car Yeah Or I may not be liked Because I'm still at home

[00:24:43] That's a woman's fault By the way Not fully bro I don't say society But that's cool too Society at home Your man's ever clowned you For not having it Your own crib No For what? Niggas not I ain't trying to tell you You don't have a whole crib Niggas we go to our man's crib Niggas go to my crib I hope your parents I miss your parents Yeah facts Matter of fact That's where we get The village Oh I'm sorry I know If I'm struggling And I see And Don Pop see me Struggling in the street I'm sure Don Pop's

[00:25:13] Gonna come across I ain't gonna be there Niggas that sound crazy I just don't want My child I'll put it like this I don't want my child Feeling the pressure That he's less of anything Because he doesn't have something With the thought Of the opposite sex Right Now if he felt like He was less of a man Cause he not out here Getting it on his own And he felt like Oh he was driven His own drive Is making him feel this way Cool But Don't be quick To go out there And struggle

[00:25:43] Because you wanna Appease Imaginary woman That's crazy to me I would not tell him Alright Yo pops I wanna Let's say Yo dad I'm ready to move out Alright babe Alright babe Why you ready to move out You know I just feel like You know No girl gonna take me serious No girl gonna take me serious Nigga Go to your room Now you're grounded Nigga You sound crazy to me Now if he was like Yo I'm in a spot where You know

[00:26:13] I got my own bread I can afford rent This that and third I wanna start spreading my wings This that and third Alright babe Let me go help you Let's go through the process But if you doing it Just so you can fuck in peace Nah I don't want my son Doing anything Or my daughter Doing anything That's purely driven off the Appeasing the opposite sex Yeah It's a benefit If whatever your drive is Benefits your relationship status Cool Yeah Or you wanna Cause I I remember

[00:26:42] I was in a space Where I was like Yo What can I do to make me more Increase my intangibles As a man I bet I need my own spot I need I got my own car Cool I'm learning how to cook I'm trying to level up my What will make me a better husband But I wasn't quick to be like Nah I'm gonna get out the crib So I can fuck in peace Or Shorty may not like me Because I still live at home And it be

[00:27:12] It be the ones who live at home Judging that you live at home I can understand If short If If my girl got her own spot And he'd be like Damn Alright let me You're on the couch What you mean? No But at the same time That's not love? I just don't I just don't want My son Having his drive Based off of The allure of another woman Because If one That The woman he's seeking That don't work out

[00:27:41] You did all of this for that Nah Let your drive be fueled by you And you only And then the benefits of that Will be Whoever comes into your life Tell me you want independence Before you Yes Before you say you Yes Yes Before you want somebody Dependent on you Yes Yeah I like that Yeah Your independence should be Just for you And then let the Let it reap the benefits Of everything else Yeah Yeah Now we was talking about Privilege What do you think Your privilege was

[00:28:10] A few years ago? Growing up with two parents That's literally That's literally my Growing up with two parents I've told this story before My first My first Dinner At my first Girlfriend's house When I saw them All eating together And shit Like they wouldn't eat Until everybody got home Nigga said Is this family? Yeah So it's kind of And that And that's what I was saying Sometimes you don't know Like she didn't understand So her first dinner

[00:28:40] At my house Went totally different That I never told that story With her first dinner At my house It was like Alright food is prepared And she was like Wait we not waiting For your dad to get home? Nigga no I don't know what time to get Is you hungry or you not? Are you getting fucked? So then My mom was in the kitchen We was in the dining room We not all sitting At the same table Yo you trying to eat This food or not You know what I'm saying So that's when I That's what I was trying to say Sometimes you don't know Your privilege

[00:29:08] Until you meet A crossroad where You realize Oh shit I got something Different And you got to live with it too Yeah Living and experiencing it Yeah And then it opens up Your mind to Oh how other Other people live You know what I'm saying So That's why I was like I don't know if I could put At 17 or whatever age That was Ironically that was 17 But I don't know If I could just Put a stamp of age Like yo By every 17 year old You should know Your privilege

[00:29:38] Because what if You never come across With a situation Where your privilege Is heightened Or you know Your privilege You know So You I was saying That yo I was I was in Spokane And All you see Is just White people Snowflakes What's going on y'all If you listen to this episode Don't forget to subscribe To our Patreon If you want to join the Patreon You can sign up for our

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[00:30:37] You know Talking to chat You could give us Live feedback You could see how All of our recordings From start to finish The bloopers Even the part where Joe tells us To cut that part out Subscribe to our Patreon Where we drop every Monday And Thursday I don't know if The 17 year old That went to the All white school And there's no black people Around and their community Is all whatever Whatever Know that they privilege

[00:31:06] Or the person Who grew up With a silver spoon And leaves their table Leaves their dishes On the table On the table And somebody come pick it up Know what it's like To you know Wash dishes As soon as Yeah So I just don't know If you know your privilege If your whole life Has been privileged From the time You walked on earth How do you know That's a privilege That's normalcy That's normalcy Right Until you see Some abnormal shit To make you realize

[00:31:35] Oh my normal And your normal Is different Yeah So that's why I couldn't put 17 on it Because 17 in New York Yeah probably Yeah we see a lot You see a lot Right But then Middle America And You see too much Yeah Northeast I mean now It's different With technology Of course That's who the phone You got mad access But when you When you feel the privilege You be like Damn You know what I'm saying Like I have the privilege Of Knowing one of the Top lieutenants

[00:32:04] In NYPD Right Right That's a relationship That's a relationship That I have With him That if I ever Get in a jam I'll let the jam Happen And then I know Who my first call is Yeah I'll just go through The process But I'm not But You get pulled over You may not have That privilege You got I'm calling you What do you mean You know what I'm saying Shit I can't even tell a story I feel like you have Yeah My man's got jammed up His first call was me He said Yo Call your lieutenant friend

[00:32:34] I called my lieutenant friend The lieutenant friend asked me Yo What precinct is he in He made one phone call The lieutenant friend called me back Yo Go pick up your man's Right now He lucky But at the same time That's a privilege You know what I'm saying But somebody else That he got That he was in the bookings with Don't got that Don't got that He gotta wait till Monday That was a Saturday night Going into Sunday Avoid the bookings We'll love it You know what I'm saying

[00:33:04] So I think You don't You don't know you privileged Until you experience Your privilege working for you And seeing it not working For somebody else And that's where That's where I think I realize The empathy That I have With What comes with privilege Y'all are aware There are people Without any privilege at all Right Yeah facts Okay How do they How do they navigate Like People are like Less fortunate people For it too Fortunate

[00:33:33] Not even We not even We not even Going to say that Like y'all Fortunate just without privilege Cause your privilege I mean You got third world countries I'm talking about In In In Flatbush There's people who Just don't got privilege What would you say Is like no privilege though That's my thing though Like you have nothing Like you Yeah you got life Your privilege will be allowed If What if they blew their privilege All three of us Agree that having two parents Was a privilege Right So let's just strip one One parent They got This person has one parent

[00:34:04] And that one parent Has three kids Shit Woman A woman taking care of three kids That's all that person knows So there's A lack of privilege In familiar structure And There's no lineage Of Of work Where it's like Oh I can pass this on To any of these three kids They don't have any Of this privilege The survival mode Is being passed down That's all it is All that's being The only privilege you have Is that you know how to survive Yeah And that sometimes Is not That's not I don't even feel like a privilege How does

[00:34:33] How do we look at that individual In comparison When we think about these things At 17 years old You understand their circumstances Bro Like we weren't all dealt The same cards in life Bro All five of us in this room Weren't dealt the same cards I mean it all led us To end up being around each other Which is dope But It's the choices that we make That come with that You know I understand somebody's choices That's why I don't If somebody does Something Illegal

[00:35:03] To make ends meet I try and kind of start At the root of it Like where they Where they're back against the wall And they tried That's what led them to this path You fucking up the community But you know You pick yourself You pick yourself over the community I get I understand that I understand that I've been in I know who my best friend was Before we met We walked The same walk of life We made

[00:35:33] Every day Every day We go to the store together Played basketball together Video He's the one who introduced me To video games Privileged motherfucker Right But he Went this way I went that way You know what I'm saying And I understand why he went that way though I I get it That But You know Does he understand his privilege? I think so I think it gets to A certain point Where you can't deny Your privilege too

[00:36:02] True And with white people I think No matter There are some No matter how old they get They won't admit That they're privileged Really? Yeah That's crazy Some of the people that y'all say It's normal too Yeah I feel like You have to figure out I feel like If you're When you're growing up You're getting older I think it's Good to understand Who you are in the world So Even if you don't Know Or have experienced Your privilege First hand I think that you should At least know That I have some type of privilege

[00:36:32] I am white I am a white person In this world What do white people Alright What do white people Deal with in this world? Oh We don't deal with all that It's a bit of privilege here I think I think people should do that Especially growing Adults So I don't know I don't know I get what you're saying But I feel like We'd be given I don't know I'm the youngest person in here I was closer to 17 Than y'all were right now So I feel like I'm You knew your privilege at 17? I didn't have much privilege Hell yeah Nigga Hell yeah Nigga

[00:37:01] I was living in Jamaica I came up here My mom filed for me To come up here Major privilege Got the fuck up Got up out of here No no no no And from there I want to know If at that age I know hindsight Is 20-20 But did you know I don't have my privilege Of I'm choosing To go away for college I'm choosing to go up there And I'm going to dorm And all that shit I'm choosing to do that I'm choosing to I made a choice To not stay in the city For fashion And I went upstate For finance or whatever So I think that was Wait fashion was on the table For you back then? I got

[00:37:31] Yeah I was in FIT But I just chose to not go You knew that? I knew that You knew that? You knew that? Come on Come on Come on Come on Keep things to yourself You said that As if we don't You I'm saying Like I had that privilege Of being like Nah I'm going to just go up This is what I What I saw on TV That's what I wanted to go through Okay I was going to ask you So when you were in Jamaica Did you see America as a getaway? I was in America back and forth Every summer So I was privileged Like I was saying My older family Is from the countryside

[00:38:00] My newer More recent family Is in the town So Yeah I lived in Nannyville So I had a house Three floors Right I walked to school And walked home Yeah bro Yeah I went to private school In Jamaica I knew who my dad was I understood What was going on My dad was Yeah bro No Not like that I knew who my dad was He was somebody So Big mom I understand Yeah I understood What was going on And my thing is That people around you Also treat you that way Or let you know Like Cause

[00:38:30] If people around you Know your parents Are somebody And they're doing something They're going to let you know That village that y'all say Like yo Your parents is this Don't do that Blah blah So you'll know From early So you learned that Early Yeah And I ain't take it for granted I knew what the fuck Was going on Yeah me being a baby Of the family I had that privilege Of my older siblings Being cool Yeah I'm seeing shit My brother was respected In the streets And then my parents Were highly respected In the Ghanaian community So I had I knew all the privilege Like if I'm like I knew who I was In that aspect Of just being safe

[00:39:00] Secure And just I was just about to ask you Did that allow you The runway to be reckless Because you knew It was a lane You know It was a lane for it Yeah Not a runway though That's crazy But it was You gotta That's a decision still Right Even as an 11, 12, 13 year old You still gotta make decisions I was telling Kwanee that One of the examples Of like being in the same household And the two different privileges Was me and my sister Okay The first Seven years of my life It was a one bedroom apartment That we was in

[00:39:30] And My mom found out She was pregnant She was like Alright She told my dad Yo we gotta get a crib We gotta crib My sister grows up With her own bedroom Her own room Fully furnished Never knew what sharing To this day My sister don't know What it is like To share Shit You know what I'm saying Did you Did you really Yeah Oh because of the apartment Yeah Yeah

[00:39:59] Two big ass adults In a bed 100% So you know what I'm saying Or I had to sleep There was nights where I'm getting bigger as a kid So I'm like I'm on the couch You know what I'm saying So So my sister So when So when we move in And like My sister First Christmas Not first Christmas Like as A Christmas that she can remember Big ass tree Nigga There was no tree We didn't have space for that Back in 46

[00:40:29] And Lennox Clarkson There was no tree for that You know what I'm saying This Gift wrapped in gifts It was like Nah Here So like Her Her view With my parents Oh And another thing I told Quanio My mom stopped working To raise her I guess it's a girl's thing But when When When it was me My My parents was rotating shifts My dad was Uh 7 to 3.30 My mom was 5 So there was

[00:40:59] Like maybe a gap Where I see both parents So my mom Grew My sister grew up With my mom The entire Her entire life That makes sense I went 7 years That makes mad sense Seeing my mom On a night Half a shift Half day And then when my mom Became But by then I'm 7 I'm 8 You know what I'm saying Like I don't I ain't really Yeah Not that I don't need you But like I already developed What it's like To have you Part time That was your normalcy

[00:41:28] Yeah Right So our normal Like Is different So like Wow My sister Does my sister Do I think My sister know She's privileged In that aspect I don't think so I don't think so Because She's an adult Because No Because she never heard it Nobody told her that No You never told her that No Y'all never argued I'm like Yo I would have I would have Give her a 50 No No Me and her Well Her and I Don't have that relationship And I don't think That's a crazy jab To throw In

[00:41:59] They call me the baby All the time Well technically you are I am No I'm not technically I am But still I don't think I'm I'm I'm just guessing I don't think My sister will Ever understand So there's never Been a scenario Where she's Ever gotten in trouble Or anything In life And niggas have to Explain to her Hey listen You have all this Because of X, Y, Z Before you got here It wasn't any of this No Never You see that part That part I can only guess Because I don't know I don't know What happened I'm asking

[00:42:29] That last half Before you got here No I would Fan duel that one That I don't think My pops Or my mom Has ever told her Yo before you got here Sean had to sleep On the couch And I think it is She needs to find that out I think it is The I think you do have to Tell your kid What life was Before you got here I can't wait to tell My kid that Me and my sister Used to move The living room table To the side And lay a sheet down To sleep With the air conditioner On Because the air conditioner

[00:42:59] Couldn't reach to Our built room In our one building Apartment To Kwani's point You gotta know Does your kid Have to know that Absolutely Know that me and my sister Is sleeping on the floor They don't have to Come on bro

[00:43:28] So don't think I'm tripping When I tell you Turn the Flush I mean put the Toilet bowl down Not a microwave Open Yeah facts Facts But now I was even Telling Kwani The last point that I Made when I was Telling Kwani The privilege that I Didn't understand Was like All the hard work My parents did To maintain Oh yeah Everything Yeah man And to never make it Feel like it was Falling apart Cause I'm like Yo bro I just came home From a trip

[00:43:57] Kwani called The night before I came home From a trip Kwani called me While I was packing For another trip Nigga between packing I'm trying to sweep I'm trying to Clean the countertops Pack the clothes I'm looking at the Clive You got no kids So boom And I got no kids So what I was saying Was I can't imagine I couldn't It's not until That like I was fully on my own That I understood Like oh damn Like Even though y'all Was rotating shifts

[00:44:26] Y'all was still Doing other things You know what I'm saying So that's when I was fully able To tell my parents Yo It's not that Like My parents would do Something for me I would say thank you Of course But the thank you Felt a little bit more Cause I now know Oh sh You must have been Tired too Cause you worked Overnight Right Came home Got me ready for school Cooked Made sure my food Was ready for when I got home from 135 And then you left To go back to work The more The more

[00:44:56] I deal with it bro The more I don't yell at my parents But listen The thank you Now hits different The thank you Was just oh Thank you for making me This homemade burger Right Now that I'm a little bit Older And I'm on my own It's more Not just thank you For the homemade burger Thank you for sacrificing Your energy And this that And the third Huh No you don't have to Do none of that But you don't have to Like Yeah You It's not that you Didn't have You prioritized My well being Versus yours

[00:45:25] And thank you So the thank you Hits different So that's why I was saying The perspective The perspective A lot of Different type of parents The perspective Of knowing your Privilege And actually Experiences something That makes you realize Your privilege Is two different things Yeah I was privileged But I ain't really Feel it until I didn't have That privilege anymore And sometimes That's what it takes I'm lost because It's like How can you say All that But then you're

[00:45:54] Going to look at a kid That's just Doing anything Okay And then just like You know why I can answer I'm going to answer That right now That would be the Most confusing part to me My thank you Is a little bit more Fruitful now At 32 I don't think I could have gave That same thank you At 17 But you At this age You know that And you understand that So then Once you do have This kid And it's now In your I guess You're now in that Place to do it How do you then

[00:46:23] Just want to just Let him just roam free And just Do whatever Like go Well based off of the show Alright based off of the show Nothing showed me That he faced Any type of adversity Where he realized His privilege Wasn't getting him far He still had The privilege of I think the basketball I think the basketball Thing was probably The only thing That's when he had to Actually fight When niggas would Let him off the bench Right I think that's all But he still had The privilege of

[00:46:52] Actually not getting cut After that Yeah not getting cut You know why Cause some parents Spreading that bread So I don't think Anything in that show Showed me that He realized He wasn't privileged Bro Like Even the part That everybody loves Where the dad Is talking to him About how to handle Yeah Heartbreaking He didn't realize That he was privileged I don't think so I still don't think He knows I still don't even Think he knows He's privileged

[00:47:22] I just think He reached the benefit Of The village That he grew up in And he might not get there But he could recognize It for I think he could recognize It for others He could recognize He recognized Keisha Because he He know where he live at But he go to Compton To play ball And he go to play ball Vacations on an island For the summer And you don't know His privilege But if I'm not mistaken They were doing that yearly Right So if Exactly Go back to normal If it's a normal thing To you

[00:47:52] Versus Alright boom I remember where I remember my first vacation My first As much as I traveled My first vacation Wasn't really until I was I went with my Significant other's family Nigga I'm I'm like this The world Look crazy Bro The world Look crazy Matter of fact I ain't even gonna front The first time

[00:48:21] I was on the flight Back from my first Trip to Chicago Nigga I cried Deadass I cried Like the whole way Back Cause that's when I realized Like yo I really just got up On a random Fucking Whatever day Of week that was To go to Go to one of the Cities Of the team That I love Saw Saw Saw them play live Saw every Champion Yo bro Went to Michael Jordan's Restaurant And then Caught the flight Back home

[00:48:50] All in the same Day Yeah Yo bro I cried Cause I realized Yo what a Fucking privilege How many people Can say They woke up One morning Went to another City Did all of that And came back And then went To work Like yo What you did Yesterday Nigga I went To go see The Bulls Play Went to Michael Jordan's Restaurant Went to The first Jordan store Nigga I'm in there Just wild Odd bro So like Your privilege Comes It's like An awakening And maybe Justin doesn't Get

[00:49:20] Justin doesn't Have that Didn't have That awakening Yet I mean When he works At CBS I'm pretty sure He's gonna Have that Oh He first Seen that Check That check That check Don't wake His ass Up There's awareness And then The fuck You mean I work 40 hours A week I got 500 That's a poor Texas Oh my god But I was gonna Say there's There's awareness And then there's Acknowledgement Being aware Of your privilege Is one thing You ain't gotta Acknowledge it That's like You gotta put That's real work That's real Like What you Want to know

[00:49:50] Or you'd Rather just Be ignorant To it But you know The crazy I push you In control You do not Want to lose Control You gotta Be aware Of it Gotta be I need the Privilege But no But see See This I'm only Thinking Because this Stems from Kwani's Original question Do you think A white person Knows I don't think So I don't think They will know At 17

[00:50:20] I don't think They get that Awakening Matter of fact I feel like They've been Blanketed To feel like Because if they Realized they Were privileged Right At that early Of an age In my opinion If they're more This gets into My whole humanity Concept If they realize They were privileged They will realize Everybody else isn't And if they Really cared about Humanity But he's right Though That's not the real world That's not the real world It will never be

[00:50:49] Okay then So They didn't Don't They didn't You got all this Love for humanity And all this shit I don't believe In humanity though I'm letting I'm letting I've been Because now It goes back To what the parents Are teaching them though At that point It goes back To what the parents Are teaching them They're drilling at I believe I definitely believe Well this Before that I think that We negate The whole Child experience These niggas Go out to preschool Kidner garden Whatever Middle school High school They learn shit Themselves I think they learn They can learn

[00:51:19] Their own privilege Being in these spaces With other kids That's interesting Because It is just speculation Because we don't know What the other side Of the tracks are like I'm not talking About them guys That's a good point Yeah I'm not talking About them We're not ever Going to be in the same So that's why It's hard to gauge That's why It's hard to gauge But we can have A conversation about These people that we know The city white people People that we would Have a better understanding of I don't know about Middle America So I don't ever

[00:51:48] Have anything to say about So alright So if we just keep it New York based I don't think You don't think They know they're privileged Yes but I don't think Maybe But I don't think They are Forwardly racist But privilege Don't have nothing To do with racism For me at least I'm just talking about Privilege Privilege is about Knowing what you can And cannot do And taking advantage Of the canons I'll put it to you Like this I bet

[00:52:17] One of my exes She was a I don't even want To say nanny Because she wasn't I forgot her role Caretaker No no no no Because she was like She was like A home executive Home health aide With the husband No not a health aide A home executive For this Wealthy family Wealthy family A nanny No no no no Because it wasn't just A lot of her shit Didn't have nothing To do with the kids It was a whole family But a nanny Is doing shit Around her house Okay so it's a whole family It just sounds like

[00:52:47] A glorified Like a glorified Fucking person If you're listening That was quantity Where it's not mine We're making a lunch For this shit Bring that up at lunch She took care of the crib For a wealthy family Okay That's it Um Her kids The daughter Knew her privilege No The daughter knew The privilege Right No I'm gonna say Let me say this Both kids knew Their privilege The son

[00:53:17] Was What you would say Willfully To the privilege Was he younger He was the oldest So he operated life Like I don't give a fuck I don't care My dad is my dad Yeah My mom is my mom Right Talk to them Yeah I'm in trouble Do you know who my parents are Yeah Where the daughter Was I guess Taught like Yo Even though we have this privilege That we have to be kinder To the world And she's a woman Yeah

[00:53:46] We have to be kinder To the world Not everybody has this Like Um So boom Perfect example The I don't wanna say the age But the The little girl had A birthday party No A friend's birthday party And they were all supposed To bring gifts So The daughter wanted to go to Uh F.E.O. Shorts No What Nah Nah Nah They were all She wanted to make sure Build a beer That all the other friends

[00:54:16] She knew all the other friends They were all part of this wealthy They lived on What's after 5th? Park Park They lived on Park And I just took a guess I swear I don't know But they lived on Park I know they live on Park Um But One of the girls Was bringing like A Louis Vuitton This This person was bringing that This person So she wanted to go to Uh Suck it?

[00:54:45] And bring But it was like No No We're not gonna do that We're gonna get a gift card She was trying to go to Hermes Yes She was trying to Yeah They were trying to out You know Do each other As far as gift wise But she was saying like Yes We have it We can We can We can do all But we won't Because That is not how this works So The But the son don't operate like that You know what I'm saying? But he's the first

[00:55:15] He's the first one He's the first one Perfect example He uh The dad is like Yo Don't wear your good sneakers to school He said okay He said okay I won't He comes home Y'all know I'm not lying He fucks up his black pandas The pandas At the time The pandas You know how great The crazy The pandas The father goes Yo I told you Don't fuck up Don't take your good shoes to school He's like these are just pandas Just pandas dad Relax Relax You'll buy me another one Yeah

[00:55:45] Real shit I believe it And he don't understand That those are good shoes You see what I'm saying? So the privilege Or not even that they're good shoes It's that they're highly touted Like there's people who wish They could have them There's people who wish They could wear them Not when your whole school Got them Got them Yes pandas dad Just chill So that's what I was saying The walk of life Is different Because the school At that time Is like They literally are like Pinterest kids

[00:56:13] Whatever the new fashion craze is That's how they all dress And they're young Copy So They don't understand That privilege Of like Yo We save our good shoes On good occasions You know what I'm saying On Saturdays Facts You don't wear them To run You don't scuff them And they I'm still like that And then you put them back In the box When you're done I'm still like that So Exactly So It's small things That I feel like It's not until you get Like a certain awakening

[00:56:42] That you realize Oh I'm privileged Or you see your privilege In different phases That's why I'm not sure If I could put it at 17 Everybody How old is it I sound like teenagers 15 years old Nah I think he He I think he was now If I'm not mistaken He was Yeah cause he's going away He's going away for school For high school Now? Yeah Oh going away Yeah he's So he's probably 12 Yeah 11, 12 Yeah so he's leaving I know he's leaving Middle school Copy

[00:57:10] And that's another thing He's going away for school In high school That's insane Or in school Wait so wait The daughter's younger? Yeah The daughter's like what Seven? Yeah You're talking about Hermes? Yes That's what I'm saying Got it That's what I'm saying That's what I'm saying They work You can't be mad Not mad She's not giving out Hermes She's getting it from somewhere This is the area I like the pivot That the parents made Like yeah but no You can't have old kids like that Yeah Yeah Yeah If Jacob and John Jumped off the bridge

[00:57:40] Are you going to do it too? No No How are y'all going to be Are y'all going to be those parents That stop y'all kids From doing fun kid shit? No never Have a blast Are you talking about Fucking up their sneakers And all that other shit? Yeah like Like some sneakers No it is some sneakers You're right It's okay And hopefully When I have children Well I know And I think we all know The difference between Some good sneakers And some pandas Good Good thing that We're their parents I feel like they also Have to be relative To something But I will make No These are your outside sneakers Bro I'm not even playing with you

[00:58:10] But that See that's all relative Because I mean we're We're speaking from a space of Nigga Giselle Went around in them Goofy sneakers I'm looking at Kedida like Yeah no Yeah we know If Jordan's Jordan's Adidas All that shit is Just Yeah but then Okay So the fact that We're saying that There's somebody That our age right now That would say Oh we're speaking For privilege Because their parents Couldn't afford Jordan's To put a point where we're And that's okay And that's why I was having a conversation About That's not okay Nigga I'm not gonna Apologize for the shit

[00:58:39] That I got And I'm not gonna get That's perhaps privilege But another thing Okay I've seen I've seen I was even having That conversation about Like um The kid talking about We wore the pants At school Like Nigga we Some of us Was like yo bro We're not wearing uniform And we had the ability Our parents buying us Fucking clothes Every night Nigga I had people In my class Nigga wore the same Fucking shoes Three four years straight Yeah one time I was sharing With my sister bro It's unfortunate Facts You're sharing my brother Am I gonna Take up the The fault of that No But that's not My responsibility But that's not What you was asking

[00:59:09] That's not where Alright so So what's The difference for you Saying that And a white person Saying that That's us There's no difference They got their privilege They're good Like there is no difference So why do you want them To acknowledge their privilege I ask you if you think That they can acknowledge it Because you said Him at 17 He shouldn't be able to And I completely disagree I think that he can Because of The circumstances around him Not anything else Yeah But I definitely think That we should all Know our privilege And we should all Use them Oh I will Trust me

[00:59:39] Yeah bro Use them to your advantage As long as you're not Hurting anybody In it Then you're good What privilege Do you use every day My charm What you talking about Me Hurt is subjective What you mean If I Alright Hurt is subjective Because I'm a clarifier I'm a clarifier His privilege Right And I'm Physically hurting somebody No If you feel If Like you said I had I could wear them shoes I had This shoes

[01:00:09] That shoes Those jeans XYZ And a nigga Only had championship sweats Just because I can acknowledge that Doesn't mean that I feel bad about it I don't feel bad about it It's just What am I gonna do about it You don't have to pick That emotion My genius It's just sad I'm unfortunate I wish you could do this Yeah Niggas I wish you had this drip It's great If I could help you I would Yeah But like Am I gonna feel bad Yeah Like What am I gonna feel bad about What are they gonna feel bad about No

[01:00:39] I can But like I think you should feel bad about it In the general sense This is the reality But not for you individually Like damn Like You can feel sorry for everybody Then you just have that You have that cloud over you Like damn Yeah damn nigga I can't Everybody's fucked up You having a greatest day ever You got this You got that You got mad shit flowing And you just Send a little tweet Nah shit going great right now And a nigga say Damn Shit going bad for me Okay I'm so sorry You got this You got this You see the sauce

[01:01:08] I'm so sorry You see the sauce Niggas just talking Niggas got these mics And they just You want to be nice I'll be with Kwanee All the way here And then he do that You disagree No I just I just want to know Nah I'm with you I wouldn't do it like that You don't have to No no I'm not saying You're a platinum Okay But it's like What am I supposed To say to you What am I supposed To do to you That's what I'm saying That's my privilege I use everyday What exactly What am I supposed to do

[01:01:37] That's my everyday I'm using that bro Handsome I got my shit I got this Everyday bro Hey brother Godspeed I'm a well dressed black man I'll see you at the top man Hopefully I pray I pray I pray you make it brother I pray you do If there's room There's room for everybody That's the thing See Now you lying There is There's room for everybody That's bullshit though That's bullshit There's room for everybody There is not But everybody Is not everybody That's not a That's not the truth Everybody isn't

[01:02:07] The whole population Everybody don't got The hiking equipment To get up there bro It's room for everybody I guess it's a It's a half quote It's room for everybody Doing what they supposed to do I'll say that Not the niggas That's just Willy nilly Doing bullshit If you're doing What you're supposed to do It's room for you Man niggas out here bobbing And you know What the question is Y'all are quiet Y'all are quiet And y'all Do y'all disagree You don't fuck With your delivery on it That's really what it is It is Hey man Hey man Do you disagree

[01:02:37] Delivery is just crazy So stop it girl But dude We don't I acknowledge that I agree with what you're saying I just want the delivery I would not let it fly like that But internally Not even internally So you I I feel like there is a different way Kodro just tweeted Yo I just got my job finally And a nigga saying Damn son The job market is still tough I lived it I lived it yesterday That's literally what I'm asking I lived it yesterday My man just wrote On the timeline Watch him ins

[01:03:07] Nah I usually But My man just wrote That he was laid off From his job The first thought That came to my mind Was my nigga I've been there I've been there While I am Sitting here Solving Wingstop's problems That's tough But what I did was As a friend I reached out to him I wished him The best of luck Cause you understand I know who he is His character And who he is I have no doubts That he will be Right back

[01:03:37] But that don't stop me From saying Can't wait for this check hit What is the difference Than what I just said You hit it with the Best of luck See what the top Is crazy See what the top Is crazy That was the thing So the nigga So the nigga So the nigga Cojo just dressed it up And he did Yes That's what he said The delivery is better The delivery is better Time shit Time shit Delivery is better Delivery is better Delivery is better Nigga said I'm going to holler at you I'm going to see you When I see you

[01:04:06] That's what he said Yo What you want a nigga Do you want a nigga To relate When you down bad Yes I don't want to Depends on who's around Yo bro I don't need no I don't need no I don't I don't either I'm just saying I need solutions Nigga Yeah Solutions Give me some But I'm got it for you But I'm got it for you At the moment Yeah cause Not saying he did this But imagine he like Oh that's appreciated

[01:04:37] That's what he did say But like But like okay To me that's enough Acknowledgement That's double acknowledgement You acknowledge my My good regards to you I acknowledge that's your situation And I gave you I wish you the best Truthfully I've been to it for four years Nigga I ain't even had to say that Niggas know Oh man I say it enough I feel like you have so much to say Nah you won bro You gracefully bow out Bro But do you disagree You didn't answer

[01:05:07] My delivery's off And my delivery's off What do you say I just I wouldn't even take that approach What approach would you take What approach do you have At least Let's start Other people's Other people's problems You're my praise I mean yeah That and How can I help If I could help You know what I'm saying Risky We're not talking about Your mans though We're talking about Anybody I mean Anybody It's the same If I see somebody On the street

[01:05:37] Homeless I hope if I was in a situation Somebody would do the same thing Facts If you want If I got cash in my pocket And I know All I need to do is What's gonna take me An extra 20 minutes To stop at the bank To retake out more cash Than I gave them Yo Here But we're just feeling bad About it coming into play That was my thing I'm not gonna feel bad I'm gonna do whatever it is to help But I'm not gonna feel bad Now you just said you wouldn't You said what do you want me To do about it Oh you're talking about Somebody giving Like an actual thing If I could just give somebody A dollar or whatever Yeah but

[01:06:06] I'm talking about like Somebody You got your job You did this You got your apartment And somebody saying Like the little opposite Somebody you don't even know You literally Damn man I'm telling my parents Yeah like What are you supposed to do For that That's what I'm asking about You know what's crazy You know You know what's interesting About that That's why I keep A lot of shit quiet Okay That's why I don't That's why I remember last year I used to That actually happened to me On the timeline I would do like My purchase of the month I started off the year And if you notice I stopped

[01:06:36] It's not because I stopped purchasing things He didn't y'all It was just Somebody was like Man this nigga Showing off I'm like nah Let me stop Because I don't want I don't want I don't need to do that You know what I'm saying Get your money up Broke you Nah that's not What I was saying at all That's not what I was saying At all If you wasn't doing that What is that person's Opinion about it matter Because you wasn't even Doing that to begin with You right But then I don't want I don't want It's his privilege Of being able to show it Every day Like you don't have But his niggas looking like Oh shit

[01:07:06] I didn't want I didn't want that To come off As if I'm Trying to flex on anybody You know what I'm saying So sometimes That's what makes me more That's why I'm way more private Than I've been The catcher's gotta be This is for Motivational purposes only Yeah and even that It just It just may not Motivate somebody You know what I'm saying So I just And you know what But I was crazy God told me Earlier this year Yo bro That's why you gotta Stop posting shit Cause niggas think They can just ask you For money

[01:07:36] Maybe I forgot That's just Don't really So yo bro Just stop So I really just Stop like Of course you know You can get whatever Horse That was freaky My bitch Holy shit Dude I think So you can get Any way you want It's crazy Anything you want bro That's crazy But nah That's why I kinda like That's why you don't See me post on the gram Like that Yeah but I'm not Trying to That's You're not doing it for them Fuck them

[01:08:06] He's thinking about He's thinking about Humane He's thinking about Everything's close friends now Yeah But the poor YP was like Yo who you hiding from bro And I'm like I'm not I'm not Hiding from nobody But at least These I know These people that I got And my close friends Won't look at Anything that I do I don't know I'm jealous You're doing it For the nigga I don't get that For the nigga Gojo I would be Very disappointed

[01:08:51] But nah Even I think my history Has shown My history has shown If I know anybody in need Whether we close or not I'ma help Yeah come pull up for dinner Nah that I probably won't do But it's like You know what I'm saying I don't know I I just don't ever want Like Me to come off Like I'm better I don't want nobody Thinking I'm better than anybody I know for a point I dealt with that for a very straight You know The niggas is calling me arrogant Sometimes you better than niggas bro What the fuck I don't care

[01:09:20] You're not talking to them bro I can't You're talking to your Niche group of people He copped this month Let me see Hold on What's that Oh that shit look good He put me on that Yeah like I mean When Kwan used to have his fashion page Like I used to be on there Like hold on I'm not worried about the niggas Where the fence at Niggas I'm trying to I'm talking I'm not worried about the niggas Looking at my shit I don't want I wouldn't want Me personally This is I'm only speaking And this is This is not me

[01:09:50] I would have said this If we weren't on the mic I don't want anybody To feel like My wins Make them feel like They losing in life bro You thinking about That's You got That's a big thing But I don't share But see here's the thing I don't share the wins Nor do I share my losses But you wanted to You wanted to share your wins You wanted to share the things That you copped Niggas ain't know how Where I was this time Last month Matter of fact I just realized That I made a year here Last Last Sunday Last Saturday We recorded here

[01:10:20] Was the year that I made When I first opened these doors But Niggas ain't know What was going on Prior to that So that's why I ain't show When I first moved in Let me tell you I get that rollie Think so I got a headache I'm blocking him You don't gotta see this man brother It's okay It's your social media It's your phone

[01:10:49] It's your bills You pay them I never can't tell you What to post But tell you I'm gonna feel this way If you post Huh Yo Look at those jeans I just copped Look at that watch Look at these buffs Niggas This shit hard You see them I know right Yeah Look at this Roomba I just got Look at this You're dragging it I'm saying bro Who's gonna be like If you mad about that Yo Go get off Get off the net You seen another nigga Get something Make you feel a certain way Get off the net Go get some stuff You might feel a little better

[01:11:19] When you see somebody else Get in Yeah cause What you talking about Somebody might feel Get some stuff The niggas you talking to Might feel good Oh my nigga back Ah he posting Word And you over there like I don't like that shit At all You online Alright so boom Yo You online Niggas don't know What you have to do To go get that shit True True True My pops always told me That true My pops was like Don't look at no nigga You want that

[01:11:49] Cause you don't know What he did to do that And my dad My dad Would throw out The extreme wild To just get me To focus on me Yeah I'm surprised When niggas do it Yeah My pops would let you know Yo that nigga Suck dick for that bro You want that shit too You want that shit too Like no But um So say like We on Say we all on the timeline And there's a nigga Like oh why me I I will see that And I'm like Alright this is not The time To be like

[01:12:18] Wait a nigga what Oh why me Like say he gonna Say he tweeting Oh why me Whatever oh why me is Oh why me I can't find a job Oh why me My girl Me and my girl Oh why me I don't wanna Say a nigga say Oh why me I don't wanna live I ain't gonna be like Yo life is marvelous Right now Nah bro You look at it like Damn I don't wanna Yeah I don't wanna kick it in I don't wanna kick it in I think that's extreme Do y'all know him? Do I know him? Why don't I ever see this tweet though? Yo do I know the person tweeting this? Good point though

[01:12:47] Alright let's say in this example Give me a Yeah we part in here In this example I know him You know him? Yeah Hold it down hold it down Leave it for the next day Leave it for the next day Cause life's still sweet Life ain't stop being sweet Cause this nigga tweeted some shit bad Can't do that brother But shit's still sweet You get engaged And your man's over there You're not gonna post your engaging pictures Cause they not fly nigga Nigga can't find a girl for nothing Tell me a lie right now Tell me a lie right now I read that nigga from that post

[01:13:17] I'm sending messages to that nigga direct Like nigga nigga look at this A nigga could be heartbroken His joint just left him This nigga's cuffed and happy Tell me a lie right now You're not posting shit Get your money off All you're gonna see is the fucking The thing The passports Right after They just posted Niggas focused Niggas focused Niggas focused on his Euro trip Girls who get engaged You think they care about them single girls nigga? Yeah Everything is this

[01:13:46] That's it nigga Everything is this Hubby did right Yeah Bro one more You know that's interesting You know what's the show man What if What if What if Like the The girl in the friend group Yeah One of the friends Going through a breakup One of them got engaged You gotta eat that It's tough It's literally It's literally not about you Stay out the group It's quite literally not about you right now Cause we in here celebrating We not Stay off the net Hey that makes you That makes you a hater then Doesn't it Not even No it does Hell yeah it does No not a hater Hell yeah You just can't deal with the reality right now You just got to You a hater No

[01:14:15] You can't deal with that reality No no no no I don't think Have you Cause you're not It's not direct to the person Yeah It's the situation She may just Your actions gonna show you hating a little bit It may get misinterpreted as hate I guess all of this Yeah I don't think your friend Will be hating on the fact that The man that you've been with all this time Decided to marry you Made you an honest woman I love that term It's just So what were you before

[01:14:45] Lying ass But it's serious Like It's not hate It's just It's understanding My circumstance Is affecting my emotions right now Facts Not you Facts You know what I'm saying You compartmentalize Yeah A lot So people be fake So people be creating Like they got haters Oh No no no Niggas got haters Nah There are There are people out there Who fake Who lie to themselves About their being hated Oh delusional haters Yeah

[01:15:16] That's a lot of ego shit Yeah That's Yeah That's what that starts I don't think I have any haters Truthfully You think you made it When you got some I don't think I have any haters I don't even do anything What is it hate? That's the thing about haters though They'll find a way though Nah If a nigga find a way Then Hate nigga Please Hate me more I don't want haters though From a matter of point in my life I don't want haters though I'm good with that Hey man You're a villain of somebody's story Somebody hates you That's a fact Somebody You gotta be okay with it

[01:15:45] If a nigga hates you Just for doing good Do more good Yo You know what it is Do better What's wrong And that's the That's the privilege right Because I don't even think They hating on you per se You just represent What they don't got It's even worse Nigga No What you want me to do That could be anybody Right Then what you want me to do It mean nigga That got what you got That'd be hating too Yeah Nigga That might got I took a longer time To get it You might be hating That it's taking you A short amount of time To get the same shit All my privilege Got it

[01:16:15] You had to work harder Because you didn't have The privilege that I got You know what I'm saying So That's a factor too Before we get out of here I do want to talk about A privilege that That I have To have a community of friends Yeah Yeah I thought he was going to say That he was strong I don't want to bring that one up I have a community of friends And also Being raised by my brothers Or my parents where I work Yeah I don't know how I would follow the eight Without them As a younger sibling I know that

[01:16:44] Because our older siblings With our parents On the off days Like that shit is crazy I usually talk about My parents a lot Like sometimes But I don't talk about I don't tell my brothers How much like Yo bro Y'all raised me bro Like Like I know my parents But I don't know How I know my brothers Like I think I know how to fight Because of my siblings I know how to like Navigate What areas to walk through How to like How to talk to people Nigga even Knowing like How to split a group of people In public I know because of my siblings Like You ain't getting that From your parents sometimes Yeah facts You know what I'm saying

[01:17:14] So You know It's It's I That's a privilege And it's funny Because there was a situation That happened the other day I won't go into Well alright So my So my sister's phone Sent out an emergency alert To all her emergency contacts I'm sleeping It's 6 in the morning I get a call from my brother Yo we're ready Da da da da da Like yeah I don't know Right No she was She was where she was And You know I didn't panic Because I knew where she was Who she was with I didn't panic But he was panicking

[01:17:43] But she wasn't picking up her phone He was calling Calling calling So my first instinct Is like I'll go drive Wherever she is Where it's showing us that she is To go make sure she's safe No matter how far it is I'll get up and go Finally get in contact I find out that she's okay I turn right back around He's still not convinced Hold on to see her face Yeah And I'm just like Nah it's not necessary She finally picks up the phone Speaks to us And they over there Going at it Like yo nah I don't believe it I don't trust it Da da da I'm like Y'all two fight I'm going to sleep That's the privilege

[01:18:13] I have as a younger sibling And let my older siblings Y'all not about to do this Bro it's six in the morning I got work Y'all can fight You know what I'm saying But I understand my Understand my place Them at the older siblings I had to step back At the baby of the group And let my My two older siblings Handle the issue But that's a privilege That Ray got as As the girl As the girl Yeah As the girl to help brothers Yeah very protection You know what I'm saying Facts So I think we We don't think about Our privileges a lot But we know we are grateful though So Yeah

[01:18:43] That's important As long as you know As long as you have As long as you're grateful Yeah You may know your privilege Don't really see it Or acknowledge it But as long as you have Gratitude Then I think you You're a decent human being Yeah Well you know Catch you out the top See you there You already know what it is Man It's Don Pease A.K. Don the camera guy You can follow me At Stay Focus LA On Instagram and Twitter Don't forget to like Comment and subscribe Old Things What's a Good God Coming out every Monday

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