Kendrick Lamar is reshaping the hip-hop industry like never before. On this episode of Freedman's Affairs Radio, we celebrate his profound influence and the way he empowers fellow rappers to speak their truths. From electrifying Juneteenth celebrations to the unforgettable Ken and Friends pop-out concert in Los Angeles, Kendrick's performance of "They Not Like Us" became an anthem of unity and resistance. Despite a scheduling hiccup with DJ FaZe, we delve deep into the cultural contributions of foundational Freedmen descendants and their enduring significance.
We also confront the gritty and raw realities of street life in the hip-hop community. Loyalty, survival, and respect take center stage as we explore the harsh energy that drives this music genre. Through personal anecdotes and reflections on the legacy of West Coast legends, we honor those who laid the groundwork, especially on monumental occasions like Juneteenth. This powerful narrative underscores the importance of remembering and respecting the sacrifices of those who came before us, ensuring their struggles are never forgotten.
Finally, we tackle the controversial issue of cultural appropriation within the music industry. Examining the historical context and significance of Juneteenth, we address concerns about representation and the broader issue of cultural gatekeeping. By exploring the origins and evolution of hip-hop culture, we dispel myths and recognize the diverse communities that have shaped it. We also discuss the commercialization of Juneteenth and preview the upcoming Freedmen's Network YouTube channel, promising engaging content on race, identity, and the bold messages that define hip-hop culture.
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Kendrick Lamar is reshaping the hip-hop industry like never before. On this episode of Freedman's Affairs Radio, we celebrate his profound influence and the way he empowers fellow rappers to speak their truths. From electrifying Juneteenth celebrations to the unforgettable Ken and Friends pop-out concert in Los Angeles, Kendrick's performance of "They Not Like Us" became an anthem of unity and resistance. Despite a scheduling hiccup with DJ FaZe, we delve deep into the cultural contributions of foundational Freedmen descendants and their enduring significance.
We also confront the gritty and raw realities of street life in the hip-hop community. Loyalty, survival, and respect take center stage as we explore the harsh energy that drives this music genre. Through personal anecdotes and reflections on the legacy of West Coast legends, we honor those who laid the groundwork, especially on monumental occasions like Juneteenth. This powerful narrative underscores the importance of remembering and respecting the sacrifices of those who came before us, ensuring their struggles are never forgotten.
Finally, we tackle the controversial issue of cultural appropriation within the music industry. Examining the historical context and significance of Juneteenth, we address concerns about representation and the broader issue of cultural gatekeeping. By exploring the origins and evolution of hip-hop culture, we dispel myths and recognize the diverse communities that have shaped it. We also discuss the commercialization of Juneteenth and preview the upcoming Freedmen's Network YouTube channel, promising engaging content on race, identity, and the bold messages that define hip-hop culture.
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Kendrick Lamar set a new standard. He freed rappers to come on up.
Speaker 2:He's the boss.
Speaker 1:He's the boss Now when the rappers are free to say it like it is and say what they feel and teach their people through music and rap and song and dance, the cultural revolution is on.
Speaker 3:And greetings and welcome back to Freedman's Affairs Radio Freedman's Network. I'm your host, vaughn Black, and family. Welcome back. Thank you for coming back and tapping back in with us this morning. And today June 25th, 2024, we're dealing with the mathematics of wisdom power. Wisdom power that is the 25th, and it borns God. And wisdom is right and exact discernment when making a judgment. And we've made that judgment. We've gathered the information and we made discernment and made a judgment. And the power is not just a force or something you know. Power is not just just just a forceful thing or influence, but force is truth, because the universe is predicated on what is true and that is power. Now you hear most of the time people say when you speak, speak truth to power, even when someone lies.
Speaker 3:Lies are predicated on something that was true, because you have to, uh, change it in order for it to become a lie, but it was based on something that was true. So that is the power in the universe, truth. So that said family, that said it's been a lot going on in the past week. We had last week we had the June Wednesday pass, we had the Juneteenth celebration throughout the nation and it's going to be some real interesting things that we're going to touch on here for a short while. We're not going to stay long. I was supposed to have DJ FaZe up here today. I believe he ran into an emergency, so I apologize for that and I don't know if he's going to join me at another. You know, later on, you know, as the progression of the broadcast, he may join me, but something came up and he had to attend something. So that said, we're here, you and I are here. So, and you know I'm not going to leave you and I hope you don't leave me but that said, last week, this past week, there's a lot been going on and unless you've been somewhere buried in a cave or somewhere locked away in an insane asylum, somewhere you've had to heard, you've had to heard about the Ken and Friends pop out concert in Los Angeles on Juneteenth Wednesday. Family foundationals, freedmen, descendants of the freedmen. You know we always say that we are special people. We are very, very special people, but I think we're coming to realize just how special that we are.
Speaker 3:That young man, that young man, k-dot Kendrick Lamar, I always said I liked him. That young man. He has transcended the hip hop industry. He is, he is to say he's on fire is a complete understatement. That, you know, I get a little emotional talking about, even thinking about it. He was out there, they did the performance and, of course, when it got to our anthem they not like us. I believe they had to rewind it five times and they had the whole stadium singing word for word. Let's go to it a little bit. Let's see can we go to some of it. Hold on, give me a second, let me bring it, let me pull it up here. This, I believe this, is the opening you know, we continue to party.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay here it goes. Here it goes, family. I'm gonna see the moment of silence for this.
Speaker 6:Here it goes. Here it goes, family. I'm going to just need a moment of silence for this.
Speaker 6:Psst, I said people man down, call an Amber Lamb, tell him breathe. Bro Nail, a nigga to the cross. He walk around like what's up with these draconian ass niggas Trying to see Compton? The industry can hate me. Fuck them all in the mama. How many opps Really got mean? There's too many options. Finna spast on his body. I'm John Stockton, be sure, asking how to vibe with a guy watching. Sometimes you gotta pop out and show niggas. Certified poogie man. I'm the one to up the score with him Walking down the whole time. I know he got some coal in him, extra shit, fully devouring him. Say Drake, I hear you like I'm young, you better not ever go to cell block one To any bitch that talks to him. And they in love, just make sure you hide your little sister from him. They tell me drugs are the only one that get your hammy and party at the party playing with his nose down and pop.
Speaker 6:It got a real taste. I see around certified number boys.
Speaker 3:Family. That's the crowd. Of stadium full of people. Stadium full of people. That was the first play.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, so y'all ain't gonna let nobody disrespect the West Coast, huh.
Speaker 6:Oh, y'all ain't gonna let nobody mock and imitate our legends, huh. Let's try it again. Psst, psst, let's try. Many options Been a pass on this party yo. Say Certified boogeyman, walk you down the whole time. I know he got some hole on him. Pull on him.
Speaker 4:Extra shit when he's there, throw on him, say break, I need a new system, I need a new system.
Speaker 6:I need a new system. Just make sure you have your new system. They tell me jobs are the only one that get you. And party at the party playing with us and vodka kinda weird taste. Wise, certified number boy. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, never boy.
Speaker 3:Why you turn it like a bitch, you family. I'm gonna pause it there for a moment. I am pretty much overwhelmed at this. On on Wednesday, I couldn't even, I couldn't even, I couldn't even Watch the whole thing, because for me, I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, this was Something I've never seen, nothing like this. And on the day, on that particular day, june Juneteenth, and the only thing I can think about is the fallen soldiers, the ancestors that went through what they went through to get us here. I'm talking about all the way back, all the way back to antebellum slavery, and I'm listening at the crowd behind this young man. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. We're going to get into it further. We're going to get into it further and it's going to get deeper and deeper.
Speaker 6:Hold on, thank you One more time my nigga DJ motherfucking Mustard hold up. You sure?
Speaker 5:No more, psst.
Speaker 6:Who is he? Who is he? No more they see confidence. The industry can hit me, fuck them all. Like how many I should really cut. I mean it's too many options. I'm finna fast on his body. I'm trying stocking, beat your ass and hide the Bible with God. Watch, sometimes you gotta hop out it. Certified boogeyman. I'm the one that up to walking down whole time. I know he got some pull on him. That's good shit. We'll eat up for him. Say Drake, I hear you like him. You better not ever go to jail. Block To any nigga. Talk to him and they in love, just make sure you hide your little sister from him. They tell each other only when they get your hemmy down and party at the party playing with his nose now and Baka got a rear case why?
Speaker 4:Certified lover boy, certified Wap wap. I they not like, they not like, they not like. You think the bank will?
Speaker 6:let you disrespect pot nigga. I think that Oakland show gonna be your last. It come foul. I don't even know why you still pretending what is the aisle? Bird niggas and bird bitches. Go the audience, not dumb. Shake the stories how you want. Hey Drake, they not. I ain't holdin' still deep, I still go further. I promise that there's somethin' Be rested for bitchin' you Ain't no long point. You ball boy. First Gatorade or something. Since 2009, I had this bitch jumping you, niggas a get a wedgie. Be flipped over your boxer. What OVO for the other man's no option. Pussy Nigga, better straighten they pockets. I got fingers all over big cotton.
Speaker 6:Might write this with a doctrine Tell a pop star to get hot. Fuck a caption. No action, Accident that I'm hands on. You. Fuck around. Get polished. Fucking Wayne. Go right, he's in jail. Dustin, I've been getting space chatted like a bitch. Apologize it. I'm glad you both came home. Got the circle neither a larger down the central, nigga, but not because of Venus. Hey, your homeboy needs subpoena. The petal moving clock. That name gotta be registered in place. Don't never watch. I mean you niggas like a little on the rock Me and I'm gonna sit it up. Pick the wrong level on me. I'ma send it up to Pick the wrong label. Homie, I'ma get them Teaching music and I won't pass up how many stock.
Speaker 4:Do I really have to stock One, two, three, four, five plus five, Double what's up? Here's 69 Freaky ass. Niggas need to stay the essence. Ay, my nigga, I'm outside hold up. La, definitely this motherfucker Ay they not like, they not like, they not like. Yeah, they not like, they not like.
Speaker 6:Ay, once upon a time, all of us was enslaved. Homies still double down, calling us some. Atlanta, what's the mecca Building railroads and train? Bear with me for a second. Let me put y'all on. The white man was used to town fucked to make a rich affair. For 2024, you got the same-a. I'll bring you to Atlanta when you need it. Ah hey, you got a future when you didn't see the Little baby. Help you get your legal 21,. Yeah, you're far street Girl. Make you feel like you're a slime in your Ha ha, ha, ha 21,. Yeah, you're far street.
Speaker 4:Girl makes you feel like you a slime in your Ha ha, ha, ha Yo shit.
Speaker 6:You run to Atlanta when you need a shot Dollars. No, you're not a colleague, you a fucking collar. The family matter and the truth for the matter. It was God's plan to show y'all the Ay where cuzzo's at, when cuzzo's at G, where we go.
Speaker 4:He a fan, he a fan, he a ay Schmack, let me hear you say it. Then step, step, then, step, step. Are you my friend, are we? Yes, then step, step, this step, step, hold on. Yeah, bring my nigga, bring my nigga, hold up.
Speaker 6:Yup, uh huh, are you my?
Speaker 4:friend, are we rocking this step, step, this, step D. Come on, bro Seth. This is Seth D. Come on, bro Yup, come on fool.
Speaker 6:Hey, we ain't never had this. Hold up, yup, we good, yup. Hold up, hold up, we put this shit all together with motherfucking peace. Hold up, come on. Come on, hold up, hold up, we put this shit all together with motherfucking peace, hold up, come on. Come on, hold up. Hold up. What time you at Dance y'all, come on.
Speaker 5:Fuck that, fuck that, yep, love Yep.
Speaker 6:Love Yup TL. Come on, fuck that, this shit making me emotional man. Fuck that. We been fucked up since Nipsey died hold up. We been fucked up since Kobe died hold up.
Speaker 5:Hold up, I'm there, family, family.
Speaker 3:Let the world see this. Right now he's he has invited all of the sets, the gang sets from Los Angeles, the Pyros, the Bloods, the Crips, all of the sets were on the stage. This young man brought them all there on the stage together in peace brought them all there on the stage together in peace.
Speaker 6:We need every section on this, motherfucker. We'll show motherfuckers how we do this shit.
Speaker 3:And he said let the world see this, this young man.
Speaker 6:Yep, come on, yep, yeah, come on. I ain't never seen this.
Speaker 5:Hold up.
Speaker 6:Hold up? What time? Good, get all in, come on, we got a whole motherfucking stage out here. We need every section out, this motherfucker. Huh, everybody spread out, spread out. We got a whole stage. Spread out, spread out, spread out. We got a whole stage. Spread out, spread out, spread out. We need to show everything. Spread out Deeper Rico.
Speaker 3:Family, all of the Los Angeles gangs Watts, compton, all of the sets from the different hoods are on stage. I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 6:Rock and Locker.
Speaker 3:This is on Juneteenth.
Speaker 6:Hold on, nigga. Yep, we're going to do a group picture. Hold up how you want it. Everybody. Step back. Everybody step back this way. Everybody step back this way, step back this way, step back this way, step back this way, and we're going to take a group pic. We're going to take a group pic. We're going to take a group pic this way. Everybody look this way. Come up to the front, fool Schoolboy. Q J-Rock, q Rock Abso. Come to the front, hold up. This is unity at its finest. Eaglewood, california y'all did this. Los Angeles, y'all did this. This shit. Make me prou proud than a motherfucker man. Y'all just don't know this shit. Get me emotional, dog. We done lost a lot of homies to this music shit. Lot of homies to this music shit. A lot of homies to this street shit.
Speaker 5:And for all of us to be on this stage together.
Speaker 6:Unity from each side of motherfucking LA Crips, bloods. Power Rules. This shit is special man we put this shit together, just for y'all I'm talking about.
Speaker 6:At rehearsals, niggas are showing love and respecting each other, and this is exactly how a lot of foreign soldiers want to see it. They can't say we can't do it, what you say. They say yeah, yeah, that's right, that part Hold up, we ain't done, hold up, fuck that, stay right here. We gonna sit out here all motherfucker day. This shit. Oh, oh man, you know what I mean, right, oh man? I don't know if you understand To the world out there that don't know what's going on. I don't know what you, I don't know the individuals on these stage. Man, yeah, come on, man. Y'all don't know how we put this shit together, man, and it's unity. Y'all just don't know, man, everybody on the stage got fallen soldiers, but we right here right now, celebrating all of them this shit is special All talented individuals.
Speaker 3:Where you at All right. All right, we're going to leave it there for right now. We're going to leave it there and we're going to speak on it a little bit. You know, this was something Like I said. I've never seen anything like this. If you know anything about the history of California, all of the blood that was spilled, lives lost, all of the blood that was spilled, lives lost no-transcript. This was from the ancestors. We ain't going to never let nobody tell us that we are not a special people.
Speaker 3:Yes, the gang culture has done some horrible things in the community, but, as the minister said in the opening, that it is time for a revolution. It's time and I believe it is because not only did he do this, they went to the hoods to make the official video for the uh, they not like us. Uh, uh, this, this song, they. They went to the hoods, to all the different hoods, and shot pieces of video to put the video together for that song. And and from all reports that I got, it was all love. I mean he, people just mobbed the streets everywhere. They filmed at everywhere. They shot the set at it. People just mobbed the streets and, like I said, it's it's overwhelming for me, because what it may mean to me may mean something different to someone else, but I think we all on us on the same accord with this. I'm proud of those brothers and I'm an East Coast guy Brooklyn, new York City and I'm letting you know we stand with your brothers out there in the West and we support the movement.
Speaker 3:This came on a perfect time. This came on the heels of the microphone check and we're going to talk about that a little bit. This came on the heels of that where people are trying to hijack our culture away from us, and I want to. I hope I can find an article where there was some, some Mexicans, some, some South Americans out there in California saying they they felt underrepresented. Let me see Can I find that piece. Hold on, let me put my glasses on. See can I find it.
Speaker 7:Hold on, give me, give me two ticks hold on like the mexican people were underrepresented there last night family.
Speaker 3:Listen at this foolishness.
Speaker 7:Listen, just listen I can see that too, man, but and a lot of people are telling me that I sound like bitter or something like I'm not a rapper I don't know what to describe.
Speaker 8:I don't know like what to what word to use to describe the way you sound, but you sound like very crazy because you saying you feel like Mexican people were underrepresented Because you didn't see no Mexican rappers performing at a june june teeth concert thrown by kendrick lamar bro. Why should mexicans be performing at that concert? Like, why do you feel like it should be mexican rappers performing at that concert? Oh, gz was at that concert. Oh, gz is lucky he was at that concert. Now what?
Speaker 3:excuse the audio, this dude, who, whoever this is he got some dog or some animal in the background and you're hearing it through the audio. But try to stay focused.
Speaker 8:Mexican artists from Compton or Los Angeles is really mainstream. What Mexican artists, bro? Can you name me one? Can you name me a Mexican rapper, rapper from comp in los angeles, los angeles county? That's really mainstream. That deserved a spot up there. Oh, gz was up there, bro, but this is a concert, a juneteenth concert, bro. Now kendrick lamar through you saying you feel that it should have been more mexicans performing, bro, like every black artist in la, wasn't up there. It could have been more artists, black artists from la, that could have been at that concert, that could have been at that stage, that could have been performing. Bro, juneteenth is a black holiday.
Speaker 8:We're gonna skip around Mainstream Mexican rapper from Compton, los Angeles or anything like that. Let me know. Now let's go.
Speaker 7:I think OGZ was the only person that didn't pop out. Or were you going to say he's the only Mexican that performed Both? Did he perform? Was he supposed to perform? He did perform. Yeah, oh, he did, and I didn't see him perform because I caught it late. I saw the clip. I saw a picture of someone posting that he performed. Do you think it had something to do with it being Juneteenth? I don't understand. I thought Juneteenth was like on the 16th or something like that. It was on June 19th. It was Juneteenth. Yes, sir.
Speaker 8:Listen, listen, yes, listen, listen now like look how he sound. He want to be a part of something. He feel entitled. He said mexican people were underrepresented at this juneteenth concert. When he don't even know what juneteenth is, bro, he, just like you, don't even know what juneteenth is. Come on.
Speaker 7:I respect it. Do you think that had something to do with it? Had something to do with what? The fact that they threw the show that day or that there were no Mexicans on stage? There you go. Do you think it was supposed to be like? First of all, let me start off by saying congratulations to Kendrick Lamar and all of the wonderful individuals that performed last night. Yes, I'm up, so I'm not trying to go racial with it, but I will say we're just picking each other, like picking each other's brains apart, although it was Juneteenth and I believe that's in remembrance of the massacre. I don't want to be wrong, but is it in Tulsa or in Selma? I don't even know wrong, but is it in Tulsa or in Selma? I don't even know.
Speaker 3:Or a place over there. Now, family, this is what we mean. That while we have to gatekeep the culture and delineate and get these folks away from us, all these tethers and these people that don't care nothing about us. But here you are, you're complaining about there's no Mexicans representing, uh, the stage. They not on the stage representing. It wasn't a Mexican, it wasn't a single de Mayo or none of that stuff. Why does we can't have? It seems as though we can't have anything for ourselves.
Speaker 3:Everyone wants a piece of what we're doing. Why would you want to even be involved in that? It's a Juneteenth celebration. It has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with your culture. If you wanted to come to the concert, come to the concert and if you looked in the crowd, there was a lot of Hispanics and white people in the crowd, black people in the crowd. If you want to come and celebrate and have a good time at the, at the show, fine. Why do you have to be on stage? Because you want to take credit for something you have nothing to do with? The same thing.
Speaker 3:We've been back and forth the last year and a half, almost two years now, with the microphone check thing, with the Puerto Ricans and the Jamaicans, and this one and that one, everybody wants a piece. Everybody wants a piece of something that they had nothing to do with. Juneteenth does not concern you or your lineage or your culture, why this dude didn't even know what Juneteenth is. He thought it was on the 16th. Then he's gonna further put his foot in his mouth and say, oh, he think it was in commemoration of the massacre and I think it was Tosla. Like, like what, what are you? Are you kidding me, man? Are you kidding me? When you find out what the deal is, you're going to feel so dumb. But you are dumb. You are dumb. And we asking man, these folks, why don't you leave us alone, dr Colon the colonizer, leave us alone, please.
Speaker 3:Oh, we was there in the beginning of hip-hop, so what? You were there. You were there taking notes from us talking about the puerto ricans. Can't stand us see, the whole thing is. And lord jamal broke this down. Lord jamal broke it down and I'm gonna get into that too, because krs, just I don't know how old the video is, but I'm going to find that and play it. But Lord Jamar checked him hard and he broke it down this way. The reason why these people are so infatuated with taking credit for hip-hop, the culture and the genre is because they can't stand the fact that something they love so much came from people that they look down on. This is why they can't accept the fact when we tell them look, y'all didn't have nothing to do with the creation of this thing. You were there you witnessed it.
Speaker 3:Some of you, a few, very a handful of you witnessed it and some, you know, participated in the in the um, moving the culture forward, but you didn't create it, you didn't help create it, you didn't inspire anything. We got absolutely nothing from you. And then, uh, uh I don't even want to get into this this, uh, toothless dude, this n, this mc shan dude. The statements he made about um, new yorkers in those days in the, in the back in the 80s, getting our style of dress from puerto ricans. Man, are you out of your mind? If anybody told you back then, you dress like a puerto rican, that was. That was not a comment, it was a diss, it wasn't a comment. So how?
Speaker 3:The very word fly came from our vernacular. The word we use this is fly, that's fly, yo, that's fly. That. That word came from our vernacular, vernacular. They weren't using that in Jamaica. They wasn't using that word. They wasn't using that word in latin america, puerto rico, any of those caribbean islands or places. He wasn't using that word. That word came from our vernacular. But anyway, let's, let's, uh, oh, boy, like I said family, like I said family, this was something huge and it has the West Coast buzzing. I'm hearing there's a feeling out there of euphoria. The people out there are so proud and we're proud for you here on the East Coast and I'm sure the South speaks and the Midwest and all those places speak the same that we are with you, wes, and we want to see the revolution, and it's a great thing. This young man, this young man leading the way, snoop crowned him. Snoop said that he is the king, he's the new king of the West, and I concur. He's the new king of the west and I concur.
Speaker 9:But anyway, anyway, family, we're gonna take a little short intermission and, uh, we'll be right back this is the 50th anniversary of hip-hop and we still have a lot of discrepancies as far as the origins of hip-hop, a lot of claims, who did what? Who was the first this, who was the dissonance such. But at the end of the day, we we need a definitive story, all right, and that story can only be told by the founders of this culture.
Speaker 2:Like everything, was being driven and influenced by young black American culture, like the slang, the style of dress, the initial music that we chose.
Speaker 3:Look at all the furrows you got. You know Money Makin', manhattan and Money Earning Mount Vernon and Crooklyn, the Bronx was the boogie-down Bronx.
Speaker 11:We was partying up there. I am Coke LaRock, the first MC of hip-hop First cast to pick the mic up. I introduced rapping to the turntable because when I came with it nobody in the world was doing it. I'm right after Rudy Ray Moore.
Speaker 1:They want to come in the mix. They want to say we started no, no, you didn't, no, you didn't, no, you didn't. What can't be known as hip-hop was solely an African-American creation.
Speaker 3:What would you get out of some Jamaican toast? What is that? I've never heard of a rapper use a Jamaican toast or a Jamaican flute as a rhyme. I've never heard of it and I don't know where that myth came from.
Speaker 9:My name is legendary Kane Trixie from the Bronx BX from the West Side. I am the first breakdancer. That narrative that hip-hop has had three founding fathers that's been rolling for the last almost 30 years, which isn't true. You don't have just three people who created hip-hop. Hip-hop was created by a number of different people.
Speaker 1:I am the grandfather, the godfather of the graffiti culture. I am the first element of hip hop.
Speaker 9:The roots of hip hop being Jamaican absolutely false.
Speaker 4:My name is MC Shaw Rock. I am a founding member of the MC slash rap culture.
Speaker 9:Cassette taste was the internet of our time. It just traveled around by hand.
Speaker 2:I know for a fact that the B-Boys dance started from the gods, the five percenters that would be at the jams back in the days who were acting as security, if they get the real truth of how it all was created, then so many lives would not be able to be in existence and we're back in family, we're back in.
Speaker 3:Before I continue on, before I continue on, before I continue on, I want to address something real quick. I want to address two individuals in their comments. Right Now, I played for you the parts of the pop-out concert with Ken and friends, k Dotners and his folks. I played that for you, right, and you heard that stadium. You heard that was the forum in Los Angeles. You heard that place. Right Now, I want to ask Buster Rhymes, trevor Smith, busted lies. I want to ask him you.
Speaker 3:You made the statement we ain't got no culture, right. The statement we ain't got no culture right In America. We ain't got no culture here, right? What was that? If we ain't got no culture, why are these other Spanish folks want to be a part of what we're doing. If we ain't got no culture, we not going to them asking them why can't we participate in their celebrations and their functions? They come into us complaining about why we not letting them. But we, the ones that don't have no culture, though, correct.
Speaker 3:And also also the young content creator, kai Sinat. He another one that bumped his gums and said we ain't got no culture. Also the young content creator, kai Sinat. He another one that bumped his gums and said we ain't got no culture, black Americans ain't got no culture. Well, what is that? I just played. If that ain't culture? We are the culture. Don't y'all ever get it twisted. Family, don't ever let nobody tell you we ain't got no culture. We are the culture. When people think of America Culture, they talking about us directly. We are the culture. I just wanted to address that. But then I want to go into this thing, lord Jamal, hold on, I want to address that.
Speaker 2:We see the DNA, but nowhere do you see the DNA of Puerto Rican culture. Puerto Rican culture. I'm not talking about Puerto Rican individuals, I'm talking about Puerto Rican culture. This is, lord Jamal, jamaican culture. I'm not talking about Puerto Rican individuals.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about Puerto Rican culture.
Speaker 2:This is Lord Jamal, jamaican culture. Those things did not influence hip-hop, regardless of how official motherfuckers sound saying it.
Speaker 3:What's up everybody? This is the world-famous.
Speaker 10:Ed Lover and you are watching forgotten kings tv, that's right fair use fair. Use fair use tv, come on son here's krs1.
Speaker 10:Listen at it today, people want to downplay the latino role in hip-hop. They are so stupid. Hip-hop cannot, would not have existed without, specifically, puerto Rican. Cubans were here, haitians were here, dominican Republic was here, everybody was here. All of South America been in the Bronx, okay, but Puerto Ricans, in particular, sided with the black folk here and the Jamaicans were coming in as well, and this group of Puerto Ricans, jamaicans and American blacks made them Not American blacks.
Speaker 3:That's a lie.
Speaker 10:Not Puerto Ricans, not Jamaicans. All of them Made the culture. It's them Mean to culture. This is the Puerto Rican peace these dudes was breaking and seeing.
Speaker 2:Now, when I look at the DNA of hip-hop, when I look at the double helix of hip-hop, what I see is soul music, funk music. I see people that parents that might have come up in the South who moved to the North, specifically the New York City area, and whose children came up in that post-civil war I mean not civil rights, not civil war that post-civil rights era with that northern attitude, that attitude that was like motherfucker, I wish I was around during slavery times. I wouldn't have let motherfuckers with me, like when Roots came out, when we was like I wish I was around during slavery times. I wouldn't let motherfuckers with me. Like when Roots came out when we was young, it was like I wish I would.
Speaker 2:That's the energy that birthed hip hop, those kids that watched Roots and all that type of shit. That's the energy that birthed hip hop, bro, and that's the DNA you see all in hip-hop. And so we hear it musically, with the type of samples that we choose or chose to play at that time, with the breakbeats that we chose at the time. But we also hear it in the language. Okay, we see the dna of the five percent nation very much inside of hip-hop, with terms like peace and cypher, and, and, and god and son, and, and you know what I mean. All kinds of shit.
Speaker 3:we see the dna this is what he said.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean you see the dna of um puerto rican culture. Puerto rican culture, not talking about puerto rican individuals, I'm talking about puerto rican culture, jamaican culture. Those things did not influence hip hop, regardless of what, how official mother sounds saying it. I'm sorry, I hate to hurt your heart that the thing that you adore in love is something that black american youth created. I'm sorry, I'm sorry that that hurts your heart for some reason. I don't know why it hurts you so much, but this is a fucking fact.
Speaker 3:No one's it hurts their heart because, like he and he broke it down so eloquently, like he said, and I'm quoting him it hurts their heart because they look down on us, you see, and then when you ask them to explain, well, what was your, what did you create, what was your contribution to the creation? They can't, never explain. No one can never explain that. No, not one of them. Fat Joe said it 50-50 and ran out the room, never explained. Who are the Puerto Rican pioneers? Who are they? Because Charlie Chase, whip-a-whip, ruby Dee, who were the first Puerto Ricans of stature to be in the culture and to be contributing, and we used to love those guys and they said it themselves no, this belongs to them. The creation of this belongs to the blacks.
Speaker 3:So then, when you hear that, a lot of them will say well, we all still black. You know, we all still black. Well, if we all still black, why are we having these conversations? Why is the constant challenge to take the culture away, the creation of the culture away? Why, if we all the same? Back to Ken K, they not like us and I'm sorry that hurts. You were the first students of the of the culture and that's something that I think to be very proud of. But anyway, anyway, back to it. Uh, I wanted to, um, to add a little levity to the uh, the intensity of this thing, because in the beginning I was too emotional I could. That's why I was letting the videos play. Let's hear a little bit more from um, from, uh, lord jamal, and then we're gonna go to. I want to, I want to play something for you said y'all wasn't there.
Speaker 2:No one said you wasn't there. Sure, you were there, but if I'm building a house and you watch me build a house, does that mean you built it too? No, when the doctor births a baby, is the doctor the father or the mother of the child because it was present at the time of birth? No, like, it's ridiculous. Like, only the people that were there during conception are the parents. Okay, so all of this shit about we were there, we were, yeah, you were there, but there's a difference between a creator and a participant.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, just like we say Kool. Well, they say Kool Herc is the godfather of hip-hop. Fine, fine, I got god sons. I got god children, daughters, god sons and god daughters. I'm God sons. I got God children, Daughters, god sons and God daughters. I'm not their parent. So fine, if Kool Herc is the Godfather of hip-hop and he was born in Jamaica, okay, all right, good for him. Anyway, I wanted you to hear a little something. Hold on, I want to play a little something for you and we're going to get ready to depart from you. Hold on. Well, two things I want to go to. I'm going to play Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Here it is, here it is.
Speaker 1:Did you see that Kendrick Lamar concert on Juneteenth. This is God for you.
Speaker 1:Very important African American historical day. Perfect timing. Kendrick, hey, I got none against. Drake Started from the bottom. Now we're here. You never were at the bottom, drake. You're a middle class kid. You're on Degrassi Wheelchair, jimmy, stop it. I smell some shit going on. Is authenticity coming back? Is the pendulum finally swinging back from all that mumble bullshit? Is hip hop actually coming back? Oh, my goodness, dmx is so happy right now. Listen, I'm going to tell you right now.
Speaker 1:Everybody was there. I mean, you had LeBron James, you had Russell Westbrook, james Harden, sza the Weeknd was there. The Weeknd was there. I don't think he likes Drake and they're both from the same country. Oh yeah, tyler the creator was there. Dr Dre did some stuff on stage. Everybody was on stage. West Coast artists, everybody was in the building.
Speaker 1:Man, he rapped Not Like Us five times and everybody was rapping with him Five times. That's the song that has changed the landscape of hip-hop. Right now he is not playing. He has something against him. Yo, listen, this battle, rap battles have always been around. All right, let me tell you something. Sometimes you need revolution. You need revolution in the art form. You know you need bloodshed for revolution, lyrical bloodshed. This reminds me of Batman and Bane. You know, kendrick Lamar is Bane and Drake is Batman. Yeah, ah, you think hip hop is your ally. You merely adopted hip hop. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I became a man, and by then it was blinding me. I'm here to fulfill hip hop's destiny. I was wondering what would break first drake, your spirit or your buddy?
Speaker 3:that was uh, that was the comedian godfrey, and I thought that was fitting for uh, for the occasion. I thought that was fitting for the occasion. Um, that was funny. That was was funny. Oh, man, man, man, man man. I want to go back to Juneteenth because there was something that Charleston White said that was interesting Fair use, by the way, something interesting. He said about Juneteenth that I slightly, I kind of disagree with him on it. Let me play the clip and then we'll talk about it a little bit and then we'll get out of here, hold on, hold on, just a second family.
Speaker 11:Them giving us a date for Juneteenth. They acknowledged you guys were our slaves. And not only that, you guys found out two years later. So we're going to celebrate that y'all found out two years later. That's a spit in the face To celebrate the end of slavery. And that wasn't the end the day we found out. We found out two years later.
Speaker 11:Now this is what happens. Now you got Juneteenth shirts and Walmart Target they benefit off this. Now we don't. Church and Walmart Target they benefit off this, now we don't. You're not going to see a bunch of black people being able to sell out of these Juneteenth stores and Juneteenth posters like they do for the 4th of July. So now the capitalist wins off this, not black people. We was already celebrating the holiday. We're already celebrating it, so we lose. I'll never celebrate the day again, already celebrating it, so we lose. I'll never celebrate the day again. I never celebrated again because it meant much more to me when the white man didn't confirm it and validate it for me I kind of I'm kind of feeling what he said.
Speaker 3:We don't need them to validate anything for us. We are freedmen foundation, we're people, we are very special people. We don't need them validating anything for us. So I kind of halfway agree with what he said. I'm not going to say I'm going to stop celebrating, I'm not going to never celebrate it again. For me, it's not about the celebration. You know, people get together, cook out and fireworks and music and fun and we enjoy each other and there's nothing wrong with that. For me it's a day of reflection. It is reflecting On our history and when I start the YouTube channel which is coming soon the Freedmen's Network is coming soon to YouTube I will be dealing with those things history and stuff like that. It won't be any political things or anything like that. It'll be mostly historical events and historical sites we'll be talking about and I'm looking forward to it. But yeah, so I halfway agree with him on that. Um, we're gonna get ready to to depart from you. Uh, what else? Oh, yeah, yeah, it was a busy week. Last week it was everybody's talking about the, the um.
Speaker 3:It was a debate with tarik n Nasheed and Myron, gaines and Sneako and about six or seven other cats, it was about eight, nine of them, and Tariq went in there and took all of them by himself and he just mopped the floor with all of them. Just mopped the floor, you know, because these guys, myron Gaines, and these guys, these guys are buff Gaines and these guys, these, these guys are, um, they are buffers of white supremacy and um, they are, they are wannabe white supremacists. They're not white supremacists, because they could never be white. They'll never be accepted by the Anglo-white society. So they come from uh, different places. I think Sneeko is a Philippine and Haitian and I think Myron is a Sudanese or something, and those other guys they're tethers also, they're from foreign lands also, but they their, their whole thing is talking down on black society, american black society family. We get it coming from all different ways, but the revolution has started. The revolution started.
Speaker 3:Tariq went in there by himself and just put the beats on every one of them, just drug them, and easily. He was doing it with ease. They was arguing with each other. They were arguing with each other, trying to get their points across. They were bumping into each other like the F Troop or like the keystone cops, and uh, it was. It was fun. I listened to it. It was fun. Shout out to my man, mike tv. Shout out to him that's my brother right there. Uh, we're gonna um depart from you and we're gonna leave you. We're gonna leave you in the words of my man, malik Respect life, love justice, cherish freedom, treasure the peace. Come back next week and sit with us for a little bit and we're going to try our best to give you something to walk away with, to think about. That is our mission in here Peace, peace.
Speaker 6:Peace. Make sure you hide your lil' sister from em. They tell me Chubb's the only one that get your hand-me-downs and party at the party playin' with his nose now. And Baka got a weird case. Why is he around? Certified lover boys, certified pedophiles WAP, wap, wap, wap, wap. That fuck em up. Wap, wap, wap, wap, wap. I'ma do my stuff. Why you trollin' like a bitch, ain't you tired? Tryna strike a chord, and it's A minor.
Speaker 5:They not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us. You think the?
Speaker 6:pay gon'. Let you disrespect pop, nigga. I think that Oakland show gon' be on that. Stop, nigga. They cold foul. I don't know why you still pretendin' what is the owl? Bird niggas and bird bitches. Go the audience, not dumb. Shape the stories how you want. Hey Drake, they're not slow. Rabbit hole is still deep. I can go further, I promise. Ain't there something to be? Rest, that's for bitchin' you. Malibu most wanted, ain't no lawboy, you ballboy, fetch Gatorade or somethin'. Since 2009,. I had this bitch jumpin' you n. Hit a wedgie, be flipped over your boxes or a hoe in your fold. The other vaginal option pussy Nigga. Better straighten they posture.
Speaker 6:Got famous all up in contact. Might write this with a doctor. Tell the pop star quit hiding. Fuck a caption. Won't action. No accident. I'm hands on he. Fuck around. Get polished. Fucked on Wayne girl like he was in jail. That's conniving. Then get his face tatted like a bitch apologizing. I'm glad D Rose came. Deserve from neither from Alonja down to Central nigga. Better not speak on Serena and your homeboy needs subpoena. That predator moving flocks. That name gotta be registered and placed on neighborhood watch. I lean on you, niggas, like another line to walk. Yeah, it's all eyes on me and I'ma send it up to park. Ay put the wrong label on me. I'ma get them dropped. Ay, sweet chin music and I won't pass the ox. Ay, how many stocks do I really have in stock? Ay, one, two, three plus 5,. Ayy, devil is a lie, he is 69. God, ayy Freaky ass. Niggas need to stay the ass inside. Ayy Roll they ass up like a fresh pack of Zonk. Ayy, city is back up. It's a must. We outside ayy.
Speaker 5:They not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us, they not like us.