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Yo, West West. Everybody my name is

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propaganda or prop for

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short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it.

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I'ma give y'all some game real quick. I want to put

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you on to my podcast called

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Hood Politics, and black people always

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want to do something real quick. Anyway,

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let me tell you where I'm coming from.

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I firmly believe that if

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you understand hood life, gang

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life, you understand geopolitics, because

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politics is gangbanging in night suits.

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Let me tell you what I mean. Dig this. We're

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gonna cover all kinds of hot topics that are

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in our news and in our daily zeitgeist, and even

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concepts that maybe take a little more to understand,

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kind of like how the January sixth insurrection

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could be understood as like the hood boss given

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a green light that was clearly a green light.

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Kind of like how Vladimir Putin's foreign

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policy is basically Tupac stance,

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which is, I ain't a killer, but don't push me. You

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know what I'm saying. How the GOP had

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to make a calculus when Trump was leaving office

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to be like, am I gonna ride with the boss or ride with

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this? Because bosses come and go,

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but the Hood lasts forever. It's all

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politics, it's just hood life, it's gangbanging.

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You understand it, and if you don't,

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I'll show you how our politicians

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tend to talk to us like this, like

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alien language, and it make you feel

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like you supposed to just trust what they're saying. But

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I think inside all of us we're kind of saying to ourselves,

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I don't know, man, I don't know if I

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trust y'all because what I'm

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experiencing is quite

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different then what you saying.

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I'm experiencing, what you're doing is

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so much different than what you

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saying you doing somehow or another deep

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down inside of us were like, no, what, I don't know if

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I understand this, But this kind of looks familiar

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to me. I want to lean into that

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feeling of familiarity.

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Okay, little background on me. I'm from south

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central Los Angeles. I moved all over the LA

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surrounding areas, and before

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I did music full time, I used to teach high school

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and when I was in the process of getting my teaching credential

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in history and social science, I kept stumbling

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over the last part of the test, which is the economic

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part, and it wasn't that I didn't know what I was talking

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about because economics, in my mind are real

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simple because I'm from the hood, scared money, don't

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make money, right, don't

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spend money you don't have right, But I

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didn't understand their terms. I

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am of the belief that most of us are like that,

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where we know what we're talking about, we just don't

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know the way you want us to talk about

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what we're talking about. But again,

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if you understand hood life, you actually understand

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all this stuff. Can I give you some more examples?

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Well, I'm going to anyway. How

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about this. If a person wants to expand

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their business to a neighborhood next to them,

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you gotta pay for that. You have to pay that block

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to be able to sell there. But if you feel

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like you're being charged way too much,

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and that neighborhood wants to sell a product on

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your block, you're gonna charge them a high

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price. You're gonna sell on my block, It's gonna

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cost you. So what does that mean for the consumer?

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Well, it means that it costs the seller

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way more than it normally would. So what

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they gonna do? You think they're gonna keep the price to say?

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No, they raised the price all

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of a sudden what you used to be able to

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buy, but ten dollars now cost twenty

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dollars. So it's like, who's being punished

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here? Turns out that's called a tariff.

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And what I just explained was a trade war. You're

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looking around like, all of a sudden, the cost of illuminum

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foiled and tripled. Why is because

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we got beef with China. We had a trade

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war with China. The government done raised

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the tariffs on aluminum. Everybody in

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the city already understood it. You just didn't know that's what

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it was called. HIC go on another one. You know, Vietnam

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War, Korean War, Those are called proxy

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wars. Turns out a proxy wars, real simple.

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It's just two dads that kind of don't like

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each other and their sons are on rival.

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Pop Warner teams. Turns out mixed.

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McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He

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needed, as judges, Trump was just the lick.

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Are we really ever confused as to why,

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despite this not being in your own best

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interest, you always vote along party lines?

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Well, because the hood comes first, as

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the great profit of our time, Kendrick Lamar said,

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democrypts, rebludikins. It's

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all the same. Ride or die, loyal

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to your soil. I could go on

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for hours, and I'm going to

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fill the busters, cease fires,

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workers, unions, It's all there.

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You actually already understand this stuff here.

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I can't stress this enough. You don't have to

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be just from the hood to understand this. If

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you navigate an eighth grade, if

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you ever had to figure out which of the lunch

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table you can sit at during lunch, you

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understand geopolitics. So join me every

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week. This is what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through

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the news, maybe go through a concept that's going

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on in the news, maybe something that takes

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a little more background to understand. I'm

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gonna show you how you could use what

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you already know to understand what you think you

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don't. We're gonna laugh, We're gonna have fun. I

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don't take myself too seriously, but

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I do want you to feel empowered. These people

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ain't smarter than you. They just use

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a different language. Yo. If you're feel in real froggy,

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go ahead and check out. Like some of the old episodes,

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they still in the feed. I'm saying kind of get

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yourself a primer as to what's going on

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in here. I'm trying to tell y'all something.

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Dig this because politics is

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just gang banging in nice suits. So

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tap in with me weekly Hood Politics

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