1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Yo, I'd like to welcome everybody back to the new episode of the Cognitive Collage 2 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:12,440 podcast. 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:13,440 I'm your host, Queen Golden. 4 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:20,600 We're friends and family, Cognitive Collage, and you can do the same. 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:26,600 We all friends now. 6 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:32,560 How do y'all want to start this today, man? 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:39,040 I'll start by saying tomorrow's election day, right? 8 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:43,600 And I don't want to get all political and all that type of shit. 9 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:49,720 But in my heart of hearts, I really feel like this might be the most important election 10 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:51,840 we've ever had. 11 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,040 And I know that's kind of typical to say every time election time comes around, but 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,920 no, this won't show a difference to me. 13 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:04,480 It's just, I don't know. 14 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:09,960 I don't even want to say it to put it out into the universe, but yeah, these people 15 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:10,960 are a rabbit out here. 16 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,040 Like they're just fucking me. 17 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:18,000 It doesn't matter what either candidate says or does. 18 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,560 There is no common ground. 19 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,080 It's a clear divide in the country. 20 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,080 You know? 21 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:32,720 So that got me to thinking, okay, what if this election does kick off a legitimate, 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:39,920 like, civil war type of shit or, you know, just a real divide to the point where, like, 23 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:48,160 the country itself becomes more hostile than it already is on its normal basis. 24 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:54,160 What if it becomes a thing where it's based on survival? 25 00:01:54,160 --> 00:02:00,160 And that got me to thinking about what's my survival kit? 26 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Entertainment wise, because, you know, the standard shit would be canned food and water 27 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,360 and batteries and shit like that. 28 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,840 But let's say you have access to electricity still and you have a DVD player. 29 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:13,840 You know what I mean? 30 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,440 You got like a little mini fridge or whatever. 31 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,120 You can maintain. 32 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:28,200 What's five movies, five albums, and if you could have your top three favorite foods, 33 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:30,720 like what would it be? 34 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,440 And I got to thinking to myself, like, shit, what would my list be? 35 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:43,440 So as far as albums, number one would probably be Stevie Wonder, Music and the Key of Life, 36 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:57,280 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, Nipsey Hustle, Victory Lab, Marvin Gaye was going on album, 37 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,960 and probably Chris Stableton, Tennessee Whiskey. 38 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,400 I know that's not the name of the album, but whatever album has that song on it. 39 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,320 It's an incredible album. 40 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:25,040 And as far as DVDs would go, I would go Malcolm X, I would go Paid and Fool, I would go 40 41 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:33,880 year old Virgin, the first toy story. 42 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:42,960 And then I would probably do Heretic Turn, like the horror movie, which is an absolute 43 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:43,960 masterpiece. 44 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:52,280 And then as far as foods, pizza, definitely pizza, the Giorno or Redburn, but I like the 45 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,960 Giorno, I feel like the personal Redburn is too thin, but Redburn might have like better 46 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,240 sauce than the Giorno. 47 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,160 Sometimes the Giorno sauce tastes sweet and I'm not a sweet guy, I'm a savory guy. 48 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:12,680 So pizza for sure, bologna and cheese, but it has to be Oscar Maya beef bologna, pause. 49 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:26,200 Pizza, bologna and cheese, and then lasagna, like the makin' for lasagna. 50 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,000 With the exception of ricotta cheese, I do not like ricotta cheese, I don't like the 51 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,040 texture, I don't like the smell, I don't like the taste. 52 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:38,080 So whenever I make lasagna, I do not put ricotta cheese in it, I do not. 53 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,520 It's just my like feet, I don't want to eat this shit. 54 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:52,360 But hopefully I don't have to, you know, enact my survival guide, you know what I mean? 55 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:57,120 But I do think about that, like especially like, I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead, so 56 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,720 I watch how like they form the communities and the places that they choose to make a 57 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:08,440 community like The Saviors, it was like an old industrial type of factory that they converted. 58 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,680 And then Rick and the rest of the people at Alexandria, they kind of lucked up because 59 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:22,600 it was like a new development and the suburbs would, you know, they had like, what are they 60 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,600 called? 61 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:31,360 Oh, man, it's blowing me, I can't think of it. 62 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:38,200 They give you energy, they, solar panels. 63 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,080 Damn, why do I have a brain fart like that? 64 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,960 Solar panels. 65 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:50,520 And then they kind of had like some kind of like, you know, independent water filtration 66 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:55,360 system so they could like, shower and use the bathroom and all that type of shit. 67 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:01,520 But if I'm basing it on like, I guess real life or reality, I would probably try to take 68 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:12,480 over like an Amazon warehouse based on the supplies alone or a shopping mall, particularly 69 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,800 like a Bass Pro Shop. 70 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,440 Got weapons. 71 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:22,480 You got small shit you can snack on where you could like sustain. 72 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:31,560 And the weapons help keep like, keep your living space like a strong cold more or less. 73 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,960 Damn, man, I wonder. 74 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:45,360 All right, so I read this article once, it was from the University of Miami and Pennsylvania, 75 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,080 which I didn't know was the thing, but it is. 76 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:55,520 And they dedicated $2 million or it was like $3 million to zombie survival research. 77 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:04,920 And I think to myself, why would, you know, why would a college spend that much money 78 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,400 on zombie research if they didn't believe that it was a possibility that this research 79 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:11,920 would come in handy? 80 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:17,320 The main takeaway from it was they said the best place where you should, I guess, try 81 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:23,000 to survive a zombie apocalypse type of thing would be in the mountains. 82 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,840 They was like, because of the elevation. 83 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:32,600 You know, I guess it would be safe because it takes skill to climb a mountain, which 84 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,040 is something I never want to do. 85 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:42,400 Like whenever I watch stuff about like Mount Everest or, you know, other famous like mountains, 86 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:48,400 like the Siege Mountains or Mount Kilowijero or like, it's like, bro, all right, I get 87 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:49,400 it. 88 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,520 You want to, one, it's a test of the darts. 89 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,880 So it is something to be proud of if you accomplish that feat, but you made it to the top to do 90 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,400 what? 91 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:05,160 The same shit you could do with a drone and just have a good view. 92 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:06,160 That shit kills me too. 93 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:10,880 Now I think about it like what hotels and shit like you want to pay for like the top floor 94 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:16,400 so you can get like, I guess the view of the city or whatever serene surroundings that's 95 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:17,400 around you. 96 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:25,080 But the funny thing is most people statistically are afraid of heights, but that's not really 97 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,080 the case. 98 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,240 Nobody's truly afraid of heights. 99 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:34,320 You're afraid to fall, which is a big difference. 100 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,960 But having a nice view is just like, all right, that's cool. 101 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,560 But what do you really get from me? 102 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:46,320 I mean, like people who like to go to the beach, like I'm not a fan of the beach. 103 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,960 One is how to fuck to is typically crowded the shit. 104 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:55,400 And it's like, what, getting the water, sit on the sand, getting the water, make a sand 105 00:08:55,400 --> 00:09:01,640 castle, barbecue or fucking burger, get sand in between your toes, your ears, your eyes, 106 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:02,640 your butt. 107 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,800 Like, I don't get it. 108 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:11,080 But I guess there's a level of like serenity to it. 109 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:16,560 Like, I haven't been to like a couple of beaches and like, that ain't for me. 110 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:24,080 Like if I had the choice of like going to a beach or like being in like a city or like, 111 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:29,680 you know, but a cool downtown or like just a cool city in general, like San Francisco 112 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:32,760 or New York or Chicago. 113 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,480 Chicago is gorgeous. 114 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,960 Super expensive. 115 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,400 But so is San Francisco, so is New York. 116 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:44,200 I think I lean more towards New York and it could be probably because like I'm a big hip 117 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,200 hop fan and whenever I think in New York, it's a few things that come to mind. 118 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:53,520 Hip hop, fashion, Ninja Turtles. 119 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:54,800 Three things I fucking love. 120 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,320 So I feel like New York and bodies, all of that. 121 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,800 And I have a lot of friends from New York, I have some family in New York too. 122 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,440 And if you've never been or if you've only been once, you haven't truly experienced New 123 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,440 York. 124 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:12,560 Like if you have for like a day or two, you'll just think like everybody's rude and all that. 125 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:13,560 It's not. 126 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:15,080 That's not the case. 127 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:18,000 Everybody has some shit to do. 128 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,000 Everybody has some shit to do. 129 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,000 So they typically be in a rush. 130 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,800 So if you walk in, let's say if you're in like Manhattan, because that's the most populated 131 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:26,800 earlier. 132 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,280 So whenever people think in New York, they typically think of Manhattan. 133 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,320 So they're like, man, you can't drive there. 134 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:32,960 It's not true. 135 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,160 If you go anywhere in the city outside of Manhattan, the traffic is normal as whether 136 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,960 you probably was. 137 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,440 There's plenty of parking. 138 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:42,440 It's chill. 139 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,640 It's like whenever I go to New York, like my preference is like Harlem. 140 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:48,720 I like Harlem a lot. 141 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,280 Brooklyn is cool. 142 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,080 Brooklyn is beautiful. 143 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,080 Queens is dope. 144 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,120 Queens remind me of like Baltimore County, the way the houses are like fully detached 145 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,520 and they have driveways and shit. 146 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:08,280 So like Queens probably remind me the most of where I'm from if you live in a suburb 147 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,280 type of shit. 148 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:14,440 But as far as like the city are concerned, the city that I think is probably the closest 149 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:17,920 to Baltimore aesthetically is Philadelphia. 150 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:23,040 I mean, granted, we neighbors, but the way the row houses look, the only true difference 151 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:25,600 honestly is like what the street signs look like. 152 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,280 Like even to like the way we dress, like I've been seeing this a lot lately on social media. 153 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:38,120 Like there's been this debate about a particular style of fashion that Baltimore has, DC has 154 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,920 and Philadelphia has and who started this, who was the first to wear this. 155 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,680 Who the fuck truly knows? 156 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:48,240 You know what I'm saying? 157 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:53,040 One thing I can say is when people say shit like New Balance, I would lean more towards 158 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:54,040 Baltimore. 159 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,840 Maybe that's just my bias or whatever, but I know a bunch of DC niggas who wear New 160 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,320 Balance and been wearing New Balance. 161 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,320 Truly too. 162 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,360 But as far as the underarm of shit, it's Baltimore. 163 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,360 Easy. 164 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,120 It's a Baltimore based company. 165 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,280 Not that that makes a difference, but they wear that shit here religiously. 166 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:17,720 The thing about Baltimore, which most people was not from Baltimore, probably don't understand. 167 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,560 Baltimore is more than murder. 168 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:21,880 Granted, that's what get the attention. 169 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:26,560 That's what makes the news, the statistics or that shit, but it's really not that. 170 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:27,880 Baltimore is a beautiful city. 171 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:29,640 It's historic as shit. 172 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,160 It's super culture. 173 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:35,480 It's a lot of cool art shit going on here. 174 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:37,680 Like the music scene is dope. 175 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:39,680 The way we talk is unique. 176 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:41,760 The way we dress is unique. 177 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:47,880 And again, this is probably all coming from a bias place, but honestly, I love Baltimore. 178 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:56,080 And I think the reason why the violence is the way that it is is because, all right, 179 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:01,760 I don't know if it's like this everywhere else, but speaking for Baltimore, as far as 180 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:08,160 taxes are concerned, when you buy a home, when you pay mortgage as opposed to the rent, 181 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:13,760 the taxes that they take from your mortgage, they use that money from your mortgage, the 182 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,240 taxes on your mortgage, to fund the schools. 183 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,440 Now, if in the inner city, nobody's really own a home and they rent, now the schools 184 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:29,080 have to be provided or the monetary needs of the school comes from the taxes that's 185 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:33,040 taken out of people's paychecks who live in the city. 186 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:42,400 But the same thing, fire departments, police department, like civil shit like bridges and 187 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,480 potholes and all that shit also comes out of that tax money. 188 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:54,920 So when the crime rates are so high, they can justify allocating that money more towards 189 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,120 the police department and not the schools. 190 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:04,720 And there was in lives the problem because there's so much crime because of how bad the 191 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:06,520 schools are. 192 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:11,880 And it becomes like a thing where like, all right, you go to school, the class is overcrowded. 193 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:16,480 It's 30 students, 35 students per one teacher. 194 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,080 And now this teacher got to try to devise a lesson plan to hold the attention of these 195 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,640 35 kids, 30 to 35 kids. 196 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:30,800 And they have extreme home lives because they're lack of education. 197 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,520 So now it becomes a thing where it's a lot of myths. 198 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:41,400 It's a lot of myths as far as like, Baltimore go and like the, you know, there's no good 199 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,160 fathers in the, that's bullshit. 200 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:49,400 The way the system is set up is that, all right, okay, if you don't have the highest 201 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,360 level education that you could have, even if you finished high school, there's only 202 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,480 but so much opportunity from an employment standpoint. 203 00:14:56,480 --> 00:15:02,120 Now, after the young lady you dating is in the same boat, you're already at a disadvantage. 204 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,800 So now it becomes a thing where like, all right, we just started a family, but we really 205 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,000 can't afford to eat and pay for where we live. 206 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:14,560 So then you had programs like Section 8, but the caveat with that shit is they typically 207 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,600 don't approve somebody for Section 8 if it's a two-parent household. 208 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:22,800 So now you got to sneak the father in and out of the house that's supposed to still 209 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:23,800 like a home. 210 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:25,400 You know what I mean? 211 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,640 So I love what resentment is built. 212 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,200 And like, if he get caught there when he's not supposed to be, you could lose those 213 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:34,200 benefits. 214 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:40,320 So now as a mother, you got to decide, yo, do the kids have shelter and food stamps to 215 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:46,360 eat or do I want to, you know, maintain this family and struggle? 216 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,160 And most people like take the ladder, they going to take the, you know, the food stamps 217 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,240 and whatever little financial benefits and the housing that come with it. 218 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,240 So now the man is out on the street and it becomes a thing of he left his family. 219 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:03,760 No, the way the government is set up, they view it as, all right, if he's there, he 220 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,600 should be providing. 221 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:10,640 But if he doesn't have the education to get a good enough job to provide, he's forced 222 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,720 out the house. 223 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:17,760 So in turn, if you don't got the highest level of education, what do you do? 224 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:23,640 Return to the least path of resistance, the easy button, which is the streets. 225 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,920 Being a street nigga ain't a hard thing. 226 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,800 I'm not saying that it's not a dangerous thing because it is. 227 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,040 It's extremely fucking dangerous, but it's not hard. 228 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,640 The key to being a street nigga and a good one is a fear or a lack of fear for consequences. 229 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,280 If you don't give a fuck about Don and you don't give a fuck about going to jail, the 230 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:42,280 streets is the streets. 231 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,480 You know what I mean? 232 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:49,000 So most people don't want to be in the situations that they end. 233 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:56,280 I mean, if you gave them the opportunity to get up and get out and do something positive 234 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,800 and they can make money in the process, they would absolutely do it. 235 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:00,800 Don't get me wrong. 236 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,360 I ain't speaking for all because there's some niggas who just like, man, fuck that 237 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:04,360 work shit. 238 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:09,440 But most hood niggas that I know, the second that they got an opportunity to better themselves 239 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,840 and get a job, they jumped at that shit. 240 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,560 They wasn't too cool for a job. 241 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,480 You just want to have something meaningful because most niggas are like, man, I ain't 242 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:19,480 working on fast food. 243 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,120 And they catch a gun charge or a drug charge or whatever, some felony level shit to where 244 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:25,480 now they can't get a regular job. 245 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:33,160 So when they are released, yo, all right, employment is like a contingency of your release from 246 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:34,160 prison. 247 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,760 Like you have to have a job or a violation, parole type of shit. 248 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,520 So now don't save street niggas, tattoo tears and shit. 249 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:40,520 Them niggas is flipping birds. 250 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,640 And when I talk to them niggas, yo, they happy and they proud of being flipping burgers because 251 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,840 they ain't nobody trying to be in jail. 252 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,160 And that's, I know I'm going off the rails, but that's another thing I don't understand 253 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,800 about jail. 254 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:58,640 You niggas make that shit harder than it has to be because it's too many chiefs and not 255 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,800 enough not enough Indians. 256 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,240 And yo, I think I run the phones. 257 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:07,120 Oh, this is our phone right here. 258 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:08,120 Can't nobody else use it? 259 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:09,120 Nigga, this is our bathroom. 260 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:10,540 This is not our bathroom. 261 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:13,380 All right, no booths don't use those just to tell you, that shit is stupid. 262 00:18:13,380 --> 00:18:17,700 If anything, and I'm not still no idea it's government in case you're listening and you 263 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:20,600 think I'm trying to fucking start a movement or some shit, I'm not. 264 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:25,080 But what I'm saying is hypothetically, that's important. 265 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,500 Hypothetically, if niggas was in jail, and go, yo, what you in here for? 266 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:30,620 Oh, tax evasion. 267 00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:34,160 Hey, yo, this nigga over here is like collar criminal. 268 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:35,360 He knows some financial shit. 269 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:36,980 Y'all learn young bill. 270 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:39,220 Now jail's not that bad. 271 00:18:39,220 --> 00:18:41,940 It's basically college and free housing. 272 00:18:41,940 --> 00:18:44,660 But still, who the fuck would be away from that family, 273 00:18:44,660 --> 00:18:47,660 not have the ability to get up and fucking just go outside 274 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:50,620 and take a deep breath if you want, or drive to the store, 275 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:53,860 fucking order some KFC, you know what I mean? 276 00:18:53,860 --> 00:18:57,980 Popeyes is better than KFC, but you know what I'm saying. 277 00:18:57,980 --> 00:18:59,340 I don't know. 278 00:18:59,340 --> 00:19:02,940 I think the bullshit is so glamorized that, you know, 279 00:19:03,820 --> 00:19:06,580 they start out as not having a choice in the matter 280 00:19:06,580 --> 00:19:10,260 to a point, and it turns into weighing the struggle 281 00:19:10,260 --> 00:19:11,420 as a badge of honor. 282 00:19:13,340 --> 00:19:15,460 I mean, and I guess it is some commendable shit 283 00:19:15,460 --> 00:19:17,140 to be able to go through something traumatic 284 00:19:17,140 --> 00:19:18,540 and come out on the other side of it 285 00:19:18,540 --> 00:19:20,100 and say that you were able to survive it, 286 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:21,900 but for me, it's even better 287 00:19:21,900 --> 00:19:24,020 if you never go through the traumatic shit. 288 00:19:24,020 --> 00:19:26,820 Now, some situations we don't have a choice in. 289 00:19:26,820 --> 00:19:29,540 I mean, you might be born into them circumstances, 290 00:19:29,540 --> 00:19:31,500 but a lot of the times, most of the shit 291 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:34,500 that niggas find themselves like wrapped up in 292 00:19:34,500 --> 00:19:36,580 is, you know, self-inflicted, 293 00:19:38,180 --> 00:19:40,980 because it's just, most niggas got that, 294 00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:42,300 it can't happen to me. 295 00:19:42,300 --> 00:19:44,420 Shit, ain't nobody gonna do nothing. 296 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:45,940 I don't have that mindset. 297 00:19:47,140 --> 00:19:49,100 I know, I prepare for everything 298 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:51,740 because I know that anything can happen. 299 00:19:51,740 --> 00:19:52,580 You know what I'm saying? 300 00:19:52,580 --> 00:19:54,300 And this ain't me giving no tough guys' loose, 301 00:19:54,300 --> 00:19:55,540 but trust and believe, 302 00:19:56,980 --> 00:19:58,740 ain't nobody putting their fucking hands on me 303 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:00,380 and walking away. 304 00:20:00,380 --> 00:20:02,460 And if you think you're gonna come to where I live at 305 00:20:02,460 --> 00:20:06,420 and do some tough guys' shit, you better have your fairs 306 00:20:06,420 --> 00:20:08,980 in order, but that's no here to at. 307 00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:12,580 What I'm saying is, 308 00:20:13,500 --> 00:20:15,620 people make shit harder than it has to be, 309 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:18,340 but back to like Baltimore being a beautiful city, 310 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:19,820 it truly is. 311 00:20:19,820 --> 00:20:21,340 The shit that really fucked the city up, 312 00:20:21,340 --> 00:20:23,180 so there's an area in West Baltimore 313 00:20:23,180 --> 00:20:24,980 for those who aren't familiar, 314 00:20:24,980 --> 00:20:26,940 it's called Pennsylvania Avenue. 315 00:20:26,940 --> 00:20:31,940 And back in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 316 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:33,940 it was predominantly black. 317 00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:35,300 It still is predominantly black, 318 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:38,780 but they had their own butcher shops 319 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:41,220 and you know, 320 00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:43,300 dry cleaners and tailors, 321 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:46,100 but we had arts and theater and shit like that. 322 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:48,300 That's where people like Billie Holiday got this stuff. 323 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:51,060 That's a place where people like Duke Eleton 324 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:52,500 would come play. 325 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,420 It was almost like the equivalent of what 326 00:20:55,420 --> 00:20:59,180 the Renaissance of Harlem was in the 1930s and 40s, 327 00:20:59,180 --> 00:21:02,100 like with the Cotton Club and shit. 328 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:02,940 And 329 00:21:04,820 --> 00:21:08,140 you know, when Dr. King was assassinated, 330 00:21:08,140 --> 00:21:10,180 naturally like they ride it 331 00:21:10,180 --> 00:21:11,620 because they didn't know what else to do. 332 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:15,260 So they fucked the area up, like you know, 333 00:21:15,260 --> 00:21:17,940 but it's out of hurt, it's out of like, damn, 334 00:21:17,940 --> 00:21:19,060 y'all didn't kill Malcolm, 335 00:21:19,060 --> 00:21:21,780 somebody who was like, man, you know, 336 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,500 the definition of manhood, 337 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:25,740 the definition of I ain't going for that shit. 338 00:21:25,740 --> 00:21:27,060 And then you kill Martin, 339 00:21:27,060 --> 00:21:29,220 who was the, hey man, turn the other cheek, 340 00:21:29,220 --> 00:21:30,980 let's put golfers, let's be peaceful, 341 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:32,500 we can coexist. 342 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:34,460 And that let people know that 343 00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:37,660 whether you were positive or rather you were militant, 344 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:40,980 they would kill you no matter what. 345 00:21:42,260 --> 00:21:43,260 You know what I mean? 346 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:45,540 But when that shit happened, 347 00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:48,820 the city ride, they burnt down a whole bunch of like shit. 348 00:21:48,820 --> 00:21:50,420 And most of the owners of the shit 349 00:21:50,420 --> 00:21:52,460 were non-African-American. 350 00:21:52,460 --> 00:21:54,180 So, or I can't even say that 351 00:21:54,180 --> 00:21:58,140 because a lot of that shit was like, you know, black-owned type of shit. 352 00:21:58,140 --> 00:22:00,300 You gotta think this is the 60s. 353 00:22:00,300 --> 00:22:02,740 So they were just like, insurance companies like, 354 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:06,380 whoa, you know, this wasn't an act of nature, this shit, 355 00:22:06,380 --> 00:22:07,740 it wasn't an act of like awesome, 356 00:22:07,740 --> 00:22:09,580 this was like something afflicted from the community. 357 00:22:09,580 --> 00:22:11,820 So they never, they never cut people 358 00:22:11,820 --> 00:22:13,900 wearing them insurance checks and shit. 359 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:18,380 So to this day from the 60s, and now it's 2024, 360 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:20,540 they had buildings that still dilapidated 361 00:22:20,540 --> 00:22:25,140 and burnt out from the Dr. King assassination riots. 362 00:22:25,140 --> 00:22:27,340 And it could have been far worse, 363 00:22:27,340 --> 00:22:30,700 but at the time there was a kingpin by the name of Lil Melvin, 364 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:33,140 who passed a few years ago. 365 00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:36,540 Funny enough, a lot of this shit from the series, The Wire, 366 00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:41,620 especially like season three and four, mainly three, 367 00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:44,260 a lot of those like shit where they showed the police cracking the code. 368 00:22:44,260 --> 00:22:45,940 That shit was based off of like shit 369 00:22:45,940 --> 00:22:48,180 that Lil Melvin was actually doing, like, 370 00:22:48,180 --> 00:22:50,860 he had a genius level IQ, but, you know, 371 00:22:50,860 --> 00:22:52,660 he had a stronghold on the community. 372 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:55,260 So when people out there riding while now, 373 00:22:55,260 --> 00:22:58,380 he put the word out, he cut that shit out, and they did. 374 00:22:58,380 --> 00:23:01,540 And then they salvaged what they could of, you know, 375 00:23:01,540 --> 00:23:04,980 Pennsylvania Avenue, but it became what it became. 376 00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:08,420 So, but now the city is on a roll up swing. 377 00:23:08,420 --> 00:23:10,820 So you got the University of Maryland 378 00:23:10,820 --> 00:23:13,340 and whatever that development group was called. 379 00:23:13,340 --> 00:23:15,740 And then you got the John Hopkins like development group. 380 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:19,780 So the thing that kind of divides East and West Baltimore 381 00:23:19,780 --> 00:23:21,740 and that side is how this Martin Luther King Boulevard. 382 00:23:21,740 --> 00:23:26,380 So everything to the West of Martin Luther King Boulevard, 383 00:23:26,380 --> 00:23:29,660 the University of Maryland been purchasing and renovating 384 00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:32,780 to the 10 and like housing projects and putting up like, 385 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:35,740 you know, luxury high rises. 386 00:23:35,740 --> 00:23:38,900 Like, and it makes the city look beautiful, but it, you know, 387 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:42,540 it moves the people out of the community because they can afford to stay. 388 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,460 And then everything to the East of Martin Luther King Boulevard, 389 00:23:45,460 --> 00:23:49,300 particularly when you go over to the bridge past Mercy Hospital. 390 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:51,180 That's when the East side really started in the oil industry. 391 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:52,300 Not that shit. 392 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:54,220 John Hopkins been purchasing everything 393 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:56,740 and they've been doing that for like well over a decade now. 394 00:23:56,740 --> 00:24:00,420 So the city is starting to look beautiful, 395 00:24:00,420 --> 00:24:02,300 but it raised the cost of living and shit. 396 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:05,900 So I don't know, man, it's complicated, 397 00:24:05,900 --> 00:24:08,540 but I feel like a lot of this shit is by design. 398 00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:12,380 Like none of this shit is old by chance or coincidental. 399 00:24:12,380 --> 00:24:15,860 Like, no, this shit has been going on for a long time. 400 00:24:15,860 --> 00:24:20,380 So the city is fucked up because the school system is fucked up 401 00:24:20,380 --> 00:24:23,380 with the school system being fucked up. 402 00:24:23,380 --> 00:24:27,620 You don't get the level of education to maintain meaningful employment. 403 00:24:27,620 --> 00:24:30,620 So then, you know, you got to survive. 404 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:33,020 You got to survive for your family if you had one. 405 00:24:33,020 --> 00:24:35,820 So the streets is the least path of resistance. 406 00:24:35,820 --> 00:24:38,140 And it can usually take that route. 407 00:24:38,140 --> 00:24:41,100 But then once, you know, it becomes generational, 408 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,220 like, damn, my dad went to jail. 409 00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:43,980 You know what I mean? 410 00:24:43,980 --> 00:24:46,220 Now he go to jail, or you go to jail, 411 00:24:46,220 --> 00:24:48,300 then you have a kid, that kid eventually go to jail. 412 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:52,020 It's like, damn, bro, it just becomes a cycle. 413 00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:54,740 And you got the rare cases where, like, people break that chain, 414 00:24:54,740 --> 00:24:57,340 but it's easiest than it done. 415 00:24:57,340 --> 00:24:59,900 So the city became what it became, 416 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:02,460 one because of lack of funding that started with the school 417 00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:06,460 system was turned into, like, domestic shit in the house. 418 00:25:06,460 --> 00:25:08,180 And, you know, we are where we are now. 419 00:25:08,180 --> 00:25:12,700 But I really feel like it's on the upswing, you know. 420 00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:14,820 I feel like the city is getting back to, 421 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:16,020 well, I can't even say getting back 422 00:25:16,020 --> 00:25:18,340 because this is the only thing I've ever known. 423 00:25:18,340 --> 00:25:22,140 And prior to me moving out of state and moving back, 424 00:25:22,140 --> 00:25:24,500 I would hear people from out of state, like, kind of bad, 425 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:25,100 my bottom one. 426 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:27,940 I'm like, oh, man, fuck, nigga, y'all don't understand. 427 00:25:27,940 --> 00:25:30,140 But then I got a chance to live in an environment where I'm like, 428 00:25:30,140 --> 00:25:34,060 oh, shit, people really live like sitcoms and shit. 429 00:25:34,060 --> 00:25:36,580 You go to the mall and at the food court, 430 00:25:36,580 --> 00:25:39,660 there's the jocks at one table, the cheerleaders at one table, 431 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:41,780 the Dungeons and Dragons kids at one table. 432 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:45,860 Like, oh, shit, this shit is based on real shit. 433 00:25:45,860 --> 00:25:50,940 And, you know, I wonder if I was born somewhere else, 434 00:25:50,940 --> 00:25:53,060 like what I had the same personality, 435 00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:54,100 what I have the same outlook. 436 00:25:54,100 --> 00:26:00,300 Probably not because I would think that, you know, 437 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,500 your atmosphere kind of plays a role 438 00:26:03,500 --> 00:26:04,980 into who you develop to be. 439 00:26:04,980 --> 00:26:07,780 But that's not even necessarily true. 440 00:26:07,780 --> 00:26:08,140 You know what I mean? 441 00:26:08,140 --> 00:26:10,860 Because I know people who were born and raised in the same house, 442 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:13,340 went to the same schools, had the same circumstances. 443 00:26:13,340 --> 00:26:17,420 And their lives just went in the like polar opposite direction. 444 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:20,060 So it still comes down to like personal choices. 445 00:26:20,060 --> 00:26:22,820 But I don't know, man. 446 00:26:22,820 --> 00:26:24,780 Like, I love Baltimore. 447 00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:26,940 I love it wholeheartedly. 448 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:30,940 But, you know, if the zombies come, 449 00:26:30,940 --> 00:26:34,420 they got out of the survive. 450 00:26:34,420 --> 00:26:36,620 That's pretty much just what I was trying to say from this whole shit 451 00:26:36,620 --> 00:26:39,260 is just like when the zombies come and they might be self 452 00:26:39,260 --> 00:26:44,260 of this election shit, this shit could be the catalyst to like 453 00:26:44,260 --> 00:26:46,580 civil war slash zombie shit. 454 00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:51,020 Like, I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about. 455 00:26:51,020 --> 00:26:52,820 But I kind of do. 456 00:26:52,820 --> 00:26:54,820 Ah, look at that. 457 00:27:00,340 --> 00:27:02,060 Yo. 458 00:27:02,060 --> 00:27:05,180 If I could be a zombie, I would love to be a zombie. 459 00:27:05,180 --> 00:27:08,940 But I would want to like maintain like a level of consciousness. 460 00:27:08,940 --> 00:27:11,820 So I could pick and choose like who I bite and shit. 461 00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:14,700 They are not going to bite you. 462 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:16,220 I could tell you haven't watched the day. 463 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:17,060 I ain't gonna bite this man. 464 00:27:17,060 --> 00:27:19,020 He he smells salty. 465 00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:20,500 You know what I mean? 466 00:27:24,820 --> 00:27:28,300 And after just to pick back up the zombie shit, 467 00:27:28,300 --> 00:27:30,660 I was thinking about like, you know, if there is an afterlife, 468 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:32,460 like what if you got a choice? 469 00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:35,100 Like you get to choose if you want to be like reincarnated. 470 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,260 You get to choose if you want to be a ghost. 471 00:27:37,260 --> 00:27:40,060 There's some great beyond some other shit. 472 00:27:40,060 --> 00:27:44,780 If those are optional, I 100% want to be a ghost. 473 00:27:44,780 --> 00:27:46,900 Because I wouldn't even try to be like the scary haunted ghost. 474 00:27:46,900 --> 00:27:50,060 Like, like I'll just do some shit where like if you watch 475 00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:52,100 on TV, I'll be sad of a hundred. 476 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:54,740 And then like if you laugh at a joke, I would laugh right after 477 00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:55,940 you just to make you whip around. 478 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:57,100 What the fuck was that? 479 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:00,060 I do shit like that. 480 00:28:00,060 --> 00:28:01,900 I'll just say like the shoestrings, I just sneak it. 481 00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:04,260 So you like, what the fuck? 482 00:28:04,260 --> 00:28:07,340 Yeah, but I wouldn't be like no scary haunted type shit. 483 00:28:07,340 --> 00:28:09,580 I was just, I'd be a weird ghost. 484 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:18,620 I heard somebody saying people are nothing more than slush puppets 485 00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:19,860 with ghosts inside of them. 486 00:28:19,860 --> 00:28:21,140 I say, yeah, that shit is dope. 487 00:28:21,140 --> 00:28:23,220 I like that shit. 488 00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:24,420 Weird. 489 00:28:24,420 --> 00:28:29,180 But anyways, I hope everybody out there is. 490 00:28:29,180 --> 00:28:31,100 Have a safe and productive week. 491 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:32,740 Any goal that you're working towards, 492 00:28:32,740 --> 00:28:35,700 I hope that you get one step closer to it. 493 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,460 If not achieve it all together. 494 00:28:38,460 --> 00:28:40,700 You know, if you want to challenge anything I said or 495 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:46,100 comment on anything I said, you can reach out to me on Instagram. 496 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:47,900 My Instagram is QGMusic. 497 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:52,140 That's QGMUSIC. 498 00:28:52,140 --> 00:28:56,660 And yeah. 499 00:28:56,660 --> 00:28:59,660 Peace.