Yo, I like to welcome everybody back to a brand new episode of the Cognitive Collage
podcast.
I am your host, Quentin Golden.
My friends and family, they call me QG for short.
And if you feel like that's what we are, you can call me that as well.
Man these past few weeks, or at least the past weeks, been crazy as shit.
So Drake is suing Kendrick for defamation over the Not Like Us song where he calls him
pedophile.
But it's really not so much a lawsuit, not chat at least.
It's a petition that has to be signed or get enough signatures to become a lawsuit.
He's also suing UMG, which is Universal Music Group, who he signed to.
Who Kendrick is also signed to as well.
And I think the suit is saying that UMG did behind the scenes, unfair practices to make
Not Like Us more popular than it actually was.
Bullshit.
Yo, I've heard this song played during a World Series for NBA games, NFL games, HBCUs.
There's hundreds of videos of fucking toddlers dancing to it, which they probably shouldn't
be listening to it, but no, it's organic.
It's a hit.
Like to be so, I don't even know if I want to call it arrogance, but I mean, it's nothing
really, it's a class aside ass.
I think that no way somebody could like something that goes against me.
But I didn't hear none of this shit, or wanting to look into the books and all this other
shit when he was doing all that shit with me.
No disclosure.
I'm not a Drake fan, but I'm not a Drake hater either.
I feel indifferent about him.
Like his music never really been to me.
I mean, I mean, it's cool, but you know, I don't happen to come like throwing some
Drake, but at the same time, like, damn, I can't even say I'm an old hit man.
This nigga's around the same age.
Like he's my generation.
Like, yeah, no.
He just, I don't know, I get the appeal of him because I guess he used to make like vulnerable
music, which made him seem relatable.
It's shit that most, you know, rappers wasn't talking about because a lot of the times rap,
at least from a male perspective is really based in machismo, like bravado, tough guy
type of shit.
And he showed like another side so I could see the appeal and bitches like, so I get
it.
But then he got to the point where I can't say he got out of touch with reality because
I mean, his surroundings became his reality.
Like when you get treated, you know, in high regards, it's what you become accustomed to.
So he's been so used to running shit, I guess.
He oversaturated the market.
Like that's another really big misconception with Drake that I always hear about all these
people we help, respectively.
And again, this ain't about to be like, no fucking shit on Drake shit.
I just want to get the shit out the way.
You get with a person who already has an organic hit without you.
You can recognize as a hit.
You do the remix.
So you say we should do a song together.
You take 100% of the publishing foot of song and you try to tell them, well, this is for
the look.
The song comes out against popular, utilize their style.
It was a song fades.
They reached back out.
I guess try to get a second song going and you just keep pushing.
But only niggas you haven't done that with was 21 Savage in like future.
But JB Blockboy, the Tutsi slide, all that shit.
I watched the interviews where he's like, he reached out and he pretty much like changed
your number type of shit.
Like, come on, okay.
But anyways, yeah, so he's attempting to get a lawsuit going.
And I guess he's trying to take this stand like I'm doing this for all of us.
I'll make the sacrifice.
No, no, no, no.
This is going to do more harm than good for him.
It's going to show that all these number one hits and all that shit wasn't organic.
It was the machine.
But that that apart, that's applicable to any big major artists.
But it's the game.
It's the system.
But now when he felt like he got his ass kicked.
Now it's I'm exposure.
Let's fuck out here.
And more hip hop news.
I hate doing salacious shit.
Like, I don't know.
I hate having these type of conversations, but fuck it.
So when the D.C.
It was going on, I didn't really speak on it too much.
Like, you know, people laughed and made that joke.
And some of the jokes was funny and someone was like, yeah, man, but I mean, I get it.
But if the things they alleged was true, it's victims out here.
Nobody's checking on them.
But the D.C.
It was more so he was like drugging niggas at the party.
He was putting like, I don't know, like, actually, or whatever the equivalent to that
type of shit is.
And so like the baby or whatever the fuck.
It just come to light allegedly.
That back in 2000, Jay Z.
As opposed to rape the 13 year old or some shit like that.
At least that's what this like lawyer, this lawyer is a legend.
So he's trying to like take Jay Z to court for like civil shit.
So and for those who don't know the difference between, you know, a civil suit and a criminal
like charge civil suit is not looking for is looking for monetary monetary compensation.
It's not looking to send nobody to jail.
They want to get paid.
Criminal shit is, you know, we file these charges been filed against you.
You're going to do some level of jail time or there'll be some like there'll be some
kind of punishment for whatever your actions might have been.
So Jay Z.
Has recently put out a statement and he countered it.
He goes, look, I've never done no bullshit like that.
And this isn't verbatim.
I'm pretty much like some horizon.
He was like, I'm I've never done any bullshit in that type of capacity ever.
So I'm not like these other celebrities, which is a direct quote and kind of a slighted
ditty, but I don't give a fuck.
You know what?
And he goes, uh, you know, if I did all these heinous things, why not try to take me to court
for trial?
Why not try to get me locked up?
Because if I did these things, I deserve to be in jail.
So he's like, I'm going to fight this shit too.
For now, he said if the charges wasn't as serious as they are, this shit would actually
be laughable to me.
So you know, it's in the early stages and we're going to see how it all plays out.
But I mean, Jay seemed confident and not to compare him to Diddy, but shit.
Diddy seemed confident too.
So but diddy, she was more about the Cassie Cassie, like being our ass type of shit that
he was confident about.
I don't think he thought that party shit was going like leak out.
I don't get it.
I don't.
I don't understand any of it.
I don't get it.
First of all, those actions are redeemable, disgusting, fucking trash, regardless of who
do it.
My stance is my stance.
But oh, not even but I want to say that like I got a counter intention.
Like I'm trying to know what I can understand is you work so hard to attain a level of success,
a substantial level of success.
And this is what you do allegedly.
And this isn't like just, you know, towards rappers or entertainments of the black community.
Like, I mean, I want to encompass this shit as a whole.
I'm talking like he's fucking white movie directors, these Jewish directors, these fucking
lawyers, judges, fucking political figures.
Like, bro.
Why?
Life is short as it is.
And you niggas reached the point.
Monetarily, financially, you know what I mean?
Where the average person, the average person concern is having enough to pay your bills,
take care of your family, feed yourself.
And then if you're lucky, if you're lucky, you're a little bit of leisure type of shit
like vacations, you know, build your dream man cave or she shed or whatever the fuck
it is that you went to buy your dream car, whatever, a few of that luck.
These motherfuckers got enough money to fucking fund a small town like easily.
I'm talking hundreds of millions, billions in some cases.
And this is what niggas do.
I'm not a legend.
I don't get it.
And I'm speaking from the blue collar, nine to five worker perspective type of shit.
Bro, if I was to hit the lottery.
I'm not doing no fucking weirdo extravagant shit or just weirdo shit in general.
I'm not getting no fucking submarine.
I'm not fucking taking the hot ad balloon to travel the world.
I'm not doing none of that shit.
I'm gonna get me a nice house built from the ground up to all my specs.
And I want no mega mansion because the maintenance on that show alone is fucking astronomical.
Maybe five bedroom, six bedrooms, maybe five bathrooms, about, I don't know, 5000 square
feet, which seems big, but like I want to finish basement.
I want to hurry down there where I can like watch my horror movies in peace.
I want to set up a fucking industry level recording studio.
You know what I mean?
I want a nice open concept layout, real clean, like Martin or whatever.
Like I don't, I don't like a whole bunch of like clutter and shit.
Like I rather have it spaced out.
I would have that shit and then I would just eat my favorite foods.
Take care of the motherfuckers who love me.
Like I love them.
And yeah, man, I was just living my life.
I'm trying to build like some level of generational wealth, but at least somewhere like I can
leave a substantial amount to give whoever's in my language.
Cause I don't currently have kids, but if I was to have kids, even if I don't, my nieces
nephews, whatever family members that I had a deep revenance for, like I want to be able
to provide for them moving forward, even if I'm not around.
That would be my goal with that level of money.
I'm not talking about some little fancy sneakers and shit, not designer shit.
I hate designer clothes, Gucci and Louis and all that.
I don't like none of that shit.
And it's not a thing and not being able to afford it.
Like I've purchased like Louis Vuitton shoes.
Don't get me wrong.
They comfortable and all that shit, but it's just like, I'm good on that.
Yeah.
I'm a nice little graphic tee or some shit from Target or fucking Spencers.
You know what I mean?
I like urban outfit as the day expensive as shit.
I'm an H&M guy.
I go get jeans from Target.
Like I'm a regular dude and shit.
Yeah.
I don't sleep on Walmart either.
I didn't got like hella graphic tees and all that type of shit.
Like, you know, I make shit work.
Now my sneakers is my sneakers.
You know, detail love, fucking footlock.
You know, whoever the fuck sells them.
That's another thing too.
I know I'm all over the place, but so I'm a person who does collect sneakers and I can
say this shit and it's 100% true.
I'm not putting any sauce on it.
I have 200 plus things.
Like this over the years are just like just acquiring like shit.
Like I might catch some shit on sale.
I might catch some shit on clearance or I'll build a relationship with like, you know,
certain stores that I go to and they go, hey, though, such such come out next week, but
we're going to do a raffle for it.
So I go, yo, I'm a slouch of this 20 right now.
Make sure my tick report.
You know what I mean?
Allegedly.
And, you know, I get what I want.
At least, yeah, I get what I want, but I don't chase trends on it.
I have a shit.
But like these like, uh, indie sneakers shops or like boutiques, whatever the fuck you want
to call them.
Yo, they'll have a sneaker.
All right.
We fight even get into that.
I'm clear.
Let's be clear that I'm clear.
The value of anything is the value that you personally place upon.
No matter what these sneakers are realistically that being made over in like Indonesia, whatever
they're being manufactured at, they're, they're using about $10, $15 worth of material, maybe,
maybe 30 if I'm on the, on the extreme side.
And then they'll come in selling for 230, 260, 280.
And if you're unfortunate enough to get whatever limited amount that they supply to the stores,
which is by design, because it creates demand, the second, the second hand stores, you know,
uh, commission, sneakers shops, boutiques, whatever, they'll take that same sneaker that
was 220.
And because they know it's brand is hard to get, they'll charge you five and I don't
know.
We be so thirsty for like validation type of shit.
So we'll, we'll pay that 500.
That's a fucking car payment.
That's a BG and E, which is Baltimore gas and electric for those who's not for Baltimore.
That's a BG and E bill plus your cable bill plus maybe your cell phone bill.
I mean, on a pair of shoes that most of these motherfuckers won't even wear.
They'll just display to be able to say they have.
It makes no sense.
And I was that guy for a while, where I would buy shit and not touch it.
But no, like as a lately, like, you're out there wearing all my sneakers.
Like, I don't give a fuck how fancy it is, how ready I am.
I should.
So the sneaker marketplace is fucked up.
Jay Z done some bullshit potentially.
Rick is like a bitch because he lost the battle.
Like a bunch of bullshit and a real shit that's really going on.
Like there's this guy.
Well, they say they have a suspect now.
He's like, I think in his early twenties and mid twenties or some shit.
He recently killed the CEO of like, I want to say it was like United Health Kid.
I'm probably should do more fact checking besides just jump on a fucking mic.
I just use the style of this shit I don't care.
Check yourself.
But he did it at 6 a.m. in the morning and upper Manhattan.
Like I want to say like, maybe like, 50, 50, 60 streets, 50, 60 streets.
It closed the Times Square.
It's where people congregate.
And granted it was 6 in the morning.
But the dude is like walking down the street and this is Valence Cameron.
This guy comes from behind the car, shoots him in his back three times, kills him.
And then from what I briefly read, the guy who did it knew he would be caught.
So he supposedly have a manifesto that's going to be released to the public at some point
first to read.
And they said the three bullets that he shot him with, they were words engraved on the
cases.
And I don't remember the words.
I'm kind of terrible at this shit.
I should probably research it more.
But fuck it.
I don't care.
Like I said, research stuff.
I had to see who was killed, his name was Brian Thompson.
And you know, I don't know anything about him.
Personally, I didn't know he existed until he died.
The irony.
But like, I don't know.
I've been seeing a lot of people like make jokes about him being killed.
Like society is so wish you all she would that shit.
But they go, yo, yo, you can't joke about the dead.
You can't speak on the dead.
But that's not true.
Mother fuckers do it all the time.
It's who socially acceptable to speak on or not speak on.
You know what I mean?
Because if I made a joke about, I don't know, Whitney Houston passing away or some shit
like that, which I wouldn't.
But if I did, hey, man, you can't say that about Whitney Houston.
Man, she's dead, man.
You can't speak on the dead like that.
All right, say it play.
But then if I turn around and talk shit about Hitler, like, yeah, man, that nigga deserve
to die.
Are you right?
Yeah, I pick and choose.
It's either all bad or it's all good.
Oh, no.
Okay.
There's duality with everything.
You know what I mean?
If you ain't going to speak about, if you want to speak on the dead, you should be able
to do positive and negative because you need both.
Oh, you should have the ability to do both.
But society and society that you can't.
But like I said, they've been the rules for those they like, for shit they do to be acceptable.
And then, you know, man, I'm about to get into some more other shit.
But yeah, so I'm just watching people like make jokes about this doodle died.
Are they joking because he was rich and feel he deserved it or because they feel the United
States health care is so fucked up and that he somehow played a role in it being fucked
up.
You know, he could just be a figurehead.
You know what I mean?
Like he might not even embody all that shit.
Like that's another thing too that I think people don't really understand, especially
when it comes to like from a political in a political realm or in a corporate like sense.
It's rare that you have one person at the top who makes all the decisions.
It's usually like, you know, boards.
You know what I mean?
You go to boardroom as members of the board.
There's a collective vote.
But I think that typically happens if you allow your company to go public where like
other people can like have like vested entrance type of shit.
But if you're private, like like Mark Cuban, I mean, he owns he owns a lot of shit, but
he's most known for owning the Dallas Marics and being one of the founders of the CBCO
Shark Tank.
But as far as the Dallas Marics go, I guess we'll be in the same vein of the Dallas Cowboys
with Jerry Jones, where you can just fucking, you know, you make all the rules, you have
all final say because you own it.
But if it's something like UnitedHealthcare, I'm sure he wasn't the guy.
And I could be wrong, but I would assume he wasn't the guy that stopped going, hey, make
all prescriptions more expensive than normal.
Hey, don't.
It maybe was, but maybe I should do more research, but I don't believe that to be the case.
And I don't know.
Some people like the laugh at his death is like crazy.
But then on the flip side, if it's a favorite musician or some kind of like public figure
to everybody, like have an affinity for and then like, all right, I want to say it's a
money go three months ago, it was like one of the singers from the group one direction.
Like, I don't know, he like killed the cells.
He shut off a balcony on vacation and killed the self.
But then later came out that I think he was like under the influence of some kind of like
control substance.
Like it could have been prescriptions.
It could have been straight up coke and meth.
So I don't know.
But you know, I would say people make jokes about that.
And he was like, Hey, hey, man, don't say that.
He was a bright young star.
Lost his life.
Which is probably true.
I don't know about one direction like that.
I mean, I know of that existence, but I never listen to one direction.
Maybe if I was like in Target or some shit, names like plans or shit, I ain't know it
was them, but I don't have one direction in my fucking Serato or my fucking Spotify
I've seen that shit.
But I saw people try to make a joke about them or about that guy from one directional
dot.
He said, Hey, he fell.
Guess which direction?
That's not funny.
That's funny.
But then the CEO who has like kids and a family and all his other shit, like their family
got to see the public like pretty much celebrating his nigga death.
And I'm pretty sure most motherfuckers didn't know who he was until he died.
Unless you worked in that like field or use some kind of like insurance like, you know,
employer, some shit, I don't know.
I don't know.
I think I hate the fucking false sense of morality that everybody has.
It'd be bullshit.
You know what I mean?
Like, awesome real shit for the most part.
It's all man for that.
So far, when I say that, I can mean all man for that self.
I mean, like group factions type of shit.
Like, I can't speak on other races and I'm never going to speak down on mine.
But you know, I'm going to just say this to us black people shit.
Like we stick together when it's convenient.
Not what we supposed to.
Like even when like shit happened and we ride and all that type of shit.
I've never understood the mindset of, yo, we going to tear out shit up.
Why?
The insurance companies ain't going to give niggas no payouts.
But I guess on the flip side, they go, man, most of these areas on black on, which is
an issue within itself.
But in the meantime, in between time, it's the niggas can change that.
That CVS, whatever convenience store you just burnt down.
What about the elderly people who live in that community who don't have a ride?
Who don't have a car, don't have a grandchild, a niece and nephew, a living child, who can
come take them to the store.
You just fucked them over.
And why the motherfucker's with the power and the money.
Them niggas stand back from a distance, watch us burn our shit down, shrug their shoulders
and then go to that safe communities and do all that shopping and sleep peacefully.
And I'm not advocating this ain't no fucking dog whistle.
This ain't no call to arms, but if it's some shit worth riding over, yo, go fuck up the
shit where they spend money.
One, it'll let them niggas know.
Yeah, this shit can happen to y'all too.
And two, make the government come out of pocket and repair that shit.
And if they spend enough money, they'll probably go, all right, we got to do some shit.
Like, we got to at least listen to that grievances.
But if you burn down a corner store, set some cars on fire where you live at, them niggas
don't give a fucking on the sector.
You got to think.
If we down, if we in West Baltimore and shit, we in Sandtown, we in Park Heights, we in Emerson
Village or East Baltimore, you on Greenmount, you up the hill, wherever the fuck you at.
You burn that shit up.
And you think the niggas in Towson give a fuck?
You think the niggas in the Rundle Mills give a fuck?
Hell no.
The niggas in Columbia don't give a fuck.
It don't affect them.
It affect us.
So I don't know.
Like I said, like we stick together when it's convenient, not when it's necessary.
And also real shit we all we got.
You know what I mean?
And I ain't preaching like separatism because like I got my fucking to my family who's white,
who's Filipino, who's Dominican, all the fucking shades of fucking people that can exist, exist
within my family tree.
And I ain't talking about like four generations ago.
No, I have cousins who are half Filipino and black.
I have cousins who have half white and black.
I have cousins who are half Dominican, but like, you know what I mean?
This ain't a fuck everybody with black people shit, but it's just like, yeah, we know what
we need to do.
And I think one of the biggest problems is like we've been programmed or some, excuse
me if this like term is out of place, but it's too many chiefs and not enough Indians.
It's too many niggas who want to be the head niggas in church.
Like, yo, sometimes we got to identify who the leader is and then follow suit.
One of the greatest quotes I've ever heard was in order to be an effective leader, you
have to first be an effective follower.
You got to know how to take rules and apply them.
So then when you're in the position to give out the rules, you know how to do it and you
can correct niggas who ain't doing it the right way, but this should sound too much
like, you know, some shit the government would disagree with or like tap my phone for some
shit.
So again, this is the conversational purposes only.
I'm just speaking my fucking mind.
I'm not, this is not a call to arms.
It's in a dog whistle or that shit.
But man, fuck the government nigga.
That's how I feel.
Yeah.
I mean, I understand the importance of it and I understand how it works and how it's
supposed to work.
And that motherfuckers effect is in it work.
It just doesn't work for us.
It's not that it can't.
It doesn't want to.
Like, oh man, I could really get into some shit.
I ain't doing all that.
I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
So with that being said, anybody who's hearing this, I hope whatever goals you're chasing,
you get one step closer to achieving them goals.
If not obtaining a goal all together and keep in mind, once you attain whatever goal
that you set, you got to reset.
So all right, you wanted to be good at the violin.
Now you are.
Don't wrestle in your laurels.
Like, pick a new goal, learn the guitar, learn whatever.
And you can apply that to anything.
Work for us, personal shit, trying to like build a talent, whatever.
Whatever you're chasing, continue to chase it.
Once you achieve it, don't settle.
Chase something new.
I hope everybody here is safe, productive.
I want everybody to see positive, put your best foot forward and live life, man.
Peace.