Yo.
I like to welcome everybody back to Brandy Rep.
because I'm just collage.
I'm your host, Queen Golden.
We're friends and family.
We're gonna be QG for short.
And if you feel like that's what we becoming,
you can call me that too.
So,
the NSO playoffs are currently going on.
So, first round,
you had the Chargers versus the Houston Texans.
I actually thought the Chargers were gonna win,
but Texans end up fucking them up, so.
It is what it is.
And then you had more important,
the Pittsburgh Steelers versus the Baltimore Ravens.
And the Ravens beat the dogs shit out of Pittsburgh.
It showed that the school was like 28-14,
so it seemed like a pretty close game, but it wasn't.
It wasn't at all.
So then you had Denver versus Buffalo.
Now, if Denver were the one,
Houston would've came to Baltimore.
We would've had another home playoff game,
but Buffalo ended up beating the shit out of Denver.
Denver couldn't get out their own way, so.
Next Sunday, it's Ravens at Buffalo,
which I'm loki happy about.
Because what all this is, is the Mar-a-NVP,
is Josh Allen in the MVP.
Mind you, they already played here-to-here this season,
and the Ravens beat the shit out of them.
And then when it comes to all statistical categories,
touchdowns, pass and touchdowns,
back in passing yards, leasing theceptions.
LeMard hid and showed us above Josh Allen,
but for some reason, it's still a debate.
But, you know, the media's always looking for some kind of
storyline or some kind of, I don't know.
This shouldn't be a discussion, honestly.
Because I feel like if the numbers were reversed,
and LeMard had these numbers and Josh Allen had LeMard's numbers,
they wouldn't be debating it.
But I don't even want to make it like a racy thing,
but it looked, you see what I'm saying?
Ain't noose.
How's everybody out there feeling, man?
I'm feeling pretty good, personally.
A little bit of retail therapy this weekend.
It was pretty cool.
Found some good deals and some shit.
I mean, significant price drops on certain sneakers I wanted a cop.
Like, it's these Nike ad packages or whatever.
And they were selling them for like $1.60,
and some places I saw them for $1.80.
And I was able to get them, if I think, $100 even.
Like, maybe $106 for tax or something, but he's just fire.
Now I got to find a little hat.
I mean, something to go with it, but...
I don't know, man. I just... I'm in a really good mood, you know?
Uh...
I will say that's the reason for the retail therapy.
Well, one, because I had to buy you the spin.
But two, the new job that I got, the pay is extremely well.
I don't like it at all.
And maybe it's a thing of like, I'm still getting adjusted
and all that type of shit, but my old job, I fucking loved.
And funny enough, some of my higher ups from the old job
were reaching out.
They came in and said, what would it take for you to come back?
And I gave my number, and they was like,
good lord, is that what you getting now?
And I was like, yeah.
And they was like, shit.
Uh, yeah, let us talk to the finance people.
We gonna see if we can work it out.
We gonna try to...
If we can't match it, we gonna try to come as close to it as we can.
I was like, OK.
But it's a significant amount of money.
Almost like, because I don't want to be that guy,
but if I told you the number per hour,
because they initially tried to make me sell it,
and I was like, no, no, no.
Because if I come in and do any level over time,
I want to be compensated for it.
They was like, even at this rate, I'm like, even at that rate.
So I was able to negotiate to keep my stuff out and avoid selling.
So I can actually benefit if I work overtime,
or come in for a project, or that type of shit.
But it ain't gonna lie to you,
if my old job can match it, I'm out of there.
And I only been there, uh, this would be week three, coming up.
I will leave immediately.
And it's funny because, you know, uh,
they telling me, like, the issues that they got going on,
and I happen to be, like, certified and licensed
and some of the stuff that needs repair.
So it's some shit I can easily do.
So I'm letting them know that I'm, like, licensed and all that.
They're like, oh, great, man, we can put you on that.
Man, that'll save us so much money
if we can do this in-house, da-da-da.
I was like, yeah.
I guess I'll turn around a week from now,
like, I appreciate everything that I learned while I was here
to give my trees a get the fuck out of there.
But, like, my best friend works at, like, my old job,
so they kind of already put them at, like, a disadvantage, like,
yo, because I can't lie, being at work with my homeboy,
that shit's like being at work with, like, my younger brother,
like, with a cousin and some shit like that.
So we get work done in-house,
but we just be geeking in between that shit.
So...
I don't know.
We'll see how that plays out, but...
Man.
I don't be wanting to come on here and talk about, like,
all the drama and chaos that's going on,
but I have to speak on this,
because I used to live in California.
I didn't live specifically in LA.
I lived in a Bay Area, but I have a ton of friends in LA,
and I would, like, you know, catch a flight,
be in LA in, like, 45 minutes type of shit.
I actually took the drive one time.
I actually did the whole PCH,
which is Pacific Coast Highway, for those who don't know.
And I took the PCH from San Francisco down to...
Santa Monica.
But there's been...
This might be historically the worst fire in California history.
And California is kind of known for wildfires and shit,
but, I mean, Calabasas, Beverly Hills, Baldwin Hills,
like, seeing the photos of it, it looks like...
It looks like photos from, like, World War I or World War II
over in, like, those small towns and villages
in those Eastern European countries.
Like, I mean, cars completely burnt out.
Shit. Just...
Like, I saw this one thing where they said
the estimated amount of money it would take to recover all damages
and shit was in the billions, which would be insane.
It was even crazier than that, though, not to put on my tin full hat.
But, like, a week or two?
Well, no, maybe not that early.
Maybe, like, a month before,
the insurance companies out there in California
dropped all fire protection from their policies.
So these people who just lost everything,
there is no...
At least of right now,
there's no...
There's no path to recovery.
If you don't personally have it in your bank account
to move somewhere else,
because you won't be able to rebuild that, like, that's gonna need...
That shit gotta get bulldozed out.
They gotta fucking...
Foundations and shit, like, it's terrible.
Which makes it even worse,
or that it don't look like it naturally occurred.
So recently, I want to say,
maybe in the past three days or four days,
I was in a car with a propane tank and a flamethrower,
and he pulled up to another LA neighborhood
in attempts to start a fire there.
But some neighbors happened to see him.
Guys ran, tackled him, held him,
and that's when the police got there.
And now, they're saying that, potentially,
he's in Cahoots with the New Year's New Orleans attacker,
and the New Year's guy who blew himself up
in a Tesla truck outside of a Trump hotel or something.
And all three guys were American born and raised.
So it's not somebody from, like, outside the border.
It's not, like, some kind of...
No, this is homegrown domestic terrorism.
And we kind of touched on this last episode,
but, you know, with these updated events,
like, it's just...
What the fuck is going on?
Like...
We make the world so much harder than it has to be, man.
Like, it's already hard enough trying to, you know,
maintain yourself from a physical standpoint
so I was like, you know,
you want to make sure that, like, your money situation is in order.
That's hard enough, of course, in itself,
on top of the fact that, like, you know, like, your health,
and you can do all the right things.
You could jog two miles a day, eat completely healthy,
don't smoke, don't drink, nothing.
You'll still get, like, cancer, like,
you just can't call it, you know what I mean?
Like...
You know, I don't want to put my sister's business out there,
but one of her best friends,
he just had a heart attack at work and just died.
And, like, he does, like, physical work,
but he was physically fit.
And he just...
Heart just stopped on the job, like, man.
I had you. This guy's in his, like, mid-40s, mid- to late-40s.
Because my sister's, like, nine years older than me, too.
And I think him and my sister the same age, so, yeah.
He's, like... Excuse me.
He's, like, 48, I think.
I think.
That's terrifying.
Tsk.
As I light a cigarette.
Ah, man.
But, like I said, the things that we can control,
or at least attempt to control,
we just ignore it.
We throw caution to the wind.
We sit out here shooting, fighting, arguing, like...
Even when it comes to, like, the political stuff, it's like, yeah.
Person.
You and a person can be cool as hell at work.
You're, like, the same type of music.
You're eating a food truck together.
You're laughing. You're a joke. You're cool.
And then you find out that he's a Democrat,
you're a Republican, a vice-versa, whatever.
And now you're, like, sworn enemies.
It's like, well...
It's just the government, like, manipulating everybody.
Like, there is no profit in peace.
There's profit in war.
On all levels.
If there was no crime, there would be no need for police.
If there's no need for police due to it being no crime,
there's really no need for lawyers.
If there's no need for lawyers, then there's no need for a judge.
Then the court system itself collapses.
Can't have that happen.
So as much as they go, we need to stop.
We're going to toughen up on crime.
They don't want that.
There's no benefit to that.
So they keep people at odds.
They keep creating circumstances where people feel like they
trapped with no way out.
So I got to do this extreme shit to survive.
And, like, most of us out here, we aren't living.
We're surviving.
And, like, you know, personally,
I feel like it's even worse in the black community
because we've been...
We've been mistreated for so long
that when you finally do get, like, a small leg up,
the people around you won't congratulate you.
They'll feel like, wait, you're supposed to be fucked up like me.
Like, they'll kill you for being successful.
In certain areas of demographics and all that type of shit.
But then at the same time, the people who do gain,
do whatever it means they gain,
they don't reach out to the next person and go,
bro, let me show you how I did this so we can create wealth.
I'm going to teach you, and then you go teach him,
and then he'll go teach, you know, each one, teach one
so we all can learn.
But niggas are just like, now you broke ass,
niggas ain't on my level, da, da, da, da.
And if a nigga truly feels that way, and he's starving,
he's hungry, and he can afford a gun,
even if he can't have what you have,
it's the mindset of, at least you don't got it no more even.
That shit is wicked, man.
Like, with the Kendrick and Drake beef, so...
behind the scenes, you know, allegedly,
Drake was like reaching out to, like, real street dudes
in California, like, promising money
and Bitcoin transactions and all this other shit.
And, but Kendrick is so well respected out there,
and he's affiliated with some people who's well respected.
You know, that shit more or less got shut down,
but Kendrick said in the song he got a new album called,
like, GNX, it been out for like a month or so now,
but he says it on the intro song,
and he's like, whacked out morals, or mirrors, mirrors,
whacked out mirrors, and he goes,
uh, if that money got in the hands of a crash dummy,
uh, damn, I don't know if I'll ever beat him.
If that money got in the hands of a crash dummy,
I could have lost my life and burdened the ones who love me.
That shit don't sit right with me.
Oh, that shit don't sit well with me.
Before I take the truth, I'll take you to hell with me.
But it's like, all right, yeah, you didn't push me
like, oh, this shit over a rat battle.
Like, it's, it's weird, man.
It's extreme.
Like, even with a guy like Nipsey, Nipsey Husser,
Nipsey Husser did great, you know what I mean?
But even when he got killed, the circumstances behind it,
like, you know, I've been seeing multiple interviews.
I saw one from his brother, which I tend to believe the most,
but, uh, they were shooting a video in his neighborhood,
mind you, he took a strip law that used to be damn near dilapidated,
and he made it look like it belonged to, like, Rodeo,
Beverly Hills or something, but he brought it back to the community
so people could see that it was possible.
He's hiring people in the community.
They got restaurants, they got clothing stores,
they got, but he's hiring the community.
And then, you know, guys that were considered rivals,
he's sitting there having dinner with them like,
yo, I'm gonna give you the blueprint of how to build this
in your community.
They each one teach one thing.
So, he was doing, the last video he ever did was with, uh,
DJ Khaled and John Legend.
And it was something called Hire,
or for like, uh, DJ Khaled out of some shit.
So, I guess, dudes in the neighborhood got wind that DJ Khaled
was gonna be there, and they more or less was gonna try to extort him.
So, Nipsey and them got wind of it like, nah,
bro, look, he's here as a guest of mine.
Y'all don't play that shit with me,
y'all ain't gonna do that shit with him.
And Black Sam, like, it was a big,
big kind of like, little tension behind that shit.
And then you got the dude, Eric Holder,
who actually did the murder.
So, uh, there's a legendary Roller 60 Crip.
I don't wanna say he's one of the soundest,
but he's, he was right there, like, the introduction of it,
named Big U. He has a niece.
Big U's niece is the mother of Nipsey's oldest child.
So, you know, Big U and Nipsey had, like, issues in the past,
but it seemed like they got past it at some point, they resulted,
but like, it was like physical altercations,
shoot out in the parking lot of the shopping center,
they end up buying, it was deep.
But there's a video of Eric Holder, or Shitty Cuzz,
and Nipsey's baby mother hanging out in her house,
in the kitchen, chilling, whatever.
And I got to mention that, uh, Nipsey was, like,
going through a custody battle for the older daughter
between him and, uh, his first baby mother.
And he won the case.
He got full custody of his daughter.
So, you got that shit, the DJ Khaled shit,
there was some old tension with Big U.
Pretty much the attack was, like, unprovoked,
and the crazy part about it, right?
They had, like, an OG from the set who'd been down
for like 10 years, 12 years, half of the long he was down.
He was coming home.
So Nipsey reached out to him,
or he reached out to Nipsey, he was like,
Nipsey's like, yo, come to the store on Sunday,
I'm gonna give you one of everything so you can be fresh.
And he was like, I'm gonna put a couple dollars in your pocket.
So, Nipsey got a bodyguard from the set named J-Rot.
Uh, he happened to be talking to J-Rot,
like, yeah, I'm gonna shoot down to the store
because so-and-so just came home and we'll look out for him.
So, J-Rot was like, all right, we'll bet, bro.
Let me get dressed, I'm gonna drop my daughter off
at her mother's house and I'll be in the U to...
He goes, nah, nah, bro, it's the hood.
I'm gonna just shoot up there, I'm gonna be up there
in like 30 minutes.
Nip, go up there to the store, meet up with Dojo,
just came home, dapped him up, gave him clothes,
gave him $50,000 in cash.
Like, yo, your family need to see you,
how they remember you on some just, like,
trying to be a good dude.
So, Eric Hoda walk up,
they say he looked like he was, like, hot as fucking mind.
And he goes, he asking Nip, yo, you hear that new song I did?
And Nip was like, nah, bro, he pulls it aside.
Hey, uh, you know, some shit is floating around about you
that you should address because you don't want people
to think that about you, it could be potentially dangerous.
And according to the niggas who's out there,
the dude, like, totally just brushed that shit off, like...
So, what man, you gonna get in the studio?
And Nip was like, look, and to that get addressed, bro, look,
he's like, yo, you can go get your paperwork
and show me that that's not the case,
we can hit the studio tonight.
And then your Eric go, all right, walks off.
About 20 minutes, 30 minutes go by.
Nip and I already gave him the clothes, gave him the money,
he's like, all right, I'm getting out of here.
He's about to leave.
This guy's out there with his kids.
Oh, shit, yo, we love you, Nip.
Yo, can get some pictures with you?
Put his arm around the dude, take a picture with him,
then he leans down and he takes a picture with his kids.
As soon as he's about to take...
As soon as he's finished taking the pictures with the kids,
he's about to walk towards the car,
and then Eric, or shitty cubs, can walk him back up
to the Nipsey Stops.
I guess assuming that he's about to show them the paperwork,
and then when he got about, like, 15 feet from, 10 feet from,
he just pulled the gun out and just shot Nipsey to death.
Like, bro, that shit is devastating, like...
But, oh, I don't know.
You know, I don't know.
This is all secondhand, obviously.
I wasn't there, and I don't know anybody on a personal level.
Although, I had met his brother once when I was in LA.
I think Nipsey's like on tour, like on tour,
or something at the time, and Sam was like running the store,
and I came in and got a shirt, so I got to meet Sam and shit.
Solid dude, cool brother looking in the eyes when he talked to you.
Firm handshake, like real man shit.
But, um, I always wanted to meet him,
but I never got a chance to, but I definitely met his brother.
And I met his father, actually. His father was in the store that night.
But...
It's sad, man.
Like, you know, it's the old saying that,
yo, you could be your worst enemy, which is true.
But the flip side of that is that you can be your best friend,
and I think if people, like, took the time to love themselves,
they wouldn't push out hatred towards others so much.
You know what I mean? Cause, like, you would feel comfortable in your own skin,
but, you know, it becomes a thing of, like, the haves and the have nots.
And then when you're from a certain area,
and the successful person is also from that area,
y'all went to the same schools, right? The same courier, y'all.
They caught the same buses.
And then something just, you know, that fucking negativity demon,
like, attaches to you and so whispering, like,
why them and not you?
And then you start listening to that shit, like, yeah,
why them and not me, man? Fuck them niggas.
Or it might be, like, a young lady in a community that you, like, fond of,
and then you learn that, like, she even did something with him before,
she liked that nigga and she's comparing y'all.
Which is an unfair thing, because if I'm just a regular dude
and this nigga is, like, super talented and he didn't, you know,
capitalize on his talent and I haven't discovered mine
or capitalized on mine, how the fuck can I compete with that?
You know what I mean? That's like when I watched these, like, little videos
where, like, you bring somebody out and you pop up the balloon
and you give an explanation of why you popped the balloon or didn't pop it and shit.
I watched one other day where this dude was, like, 6'3", 6'4".
He was in really good shape. This nigga was a doctor.
And he owned, like, his own, like, he owned, like, two businesses
and some shit on top of being a doctor.
No kids, no jail record, no drug use, nothing.
And one woman, like, she popped the balloon immediately.
And then when they asked her why they should do it, she was just like,
um, I need a boss, so then they asked her, what does it do?
And he's like, I'm a doctor and I own two businesses.
And then she had, like, a stupid shitty face, but then she goes,
I like niggas who get it out the streets.
Yeah, I can't see my face, but I just made a face like, you stupid bitch.
Like, that's so dumb.
But, I mean, it's a blessing. You know what I mean?
But then there was one girl who was just like, yeah,
she didn't pop a balloon yet, but she was just like,
oh, you sound, that sounds fire.
So then she goes, hey, do you do any drugs?
And he was like, no, she's like, not even from, like, a recreational standpoint.
He was like, no.
He's like, so you don't smoke a little weed?
He goes, no, I don't.
She pops the balloon.
One of fucking six foot something doctor in shape who owns businesses with no kids,
no drug habits.
You popped the balloon because he don't smoke a little weed.
I saw that shit turned it off and say, yo, we doomed.
But they'll be the same once it turned around and go, it ain't no good men out here.
That shit, that shit is stupid, man.
Like this.
I don't know why my focus is just I'm fucking just dumb.
But anyways,
it's something else that I wanted to go into, which I actually think is a really good discussion.
But I'm looking at my time and, you know, I try to keep my podcast under 30 minutes.
Just, you know, as I always say, I mean, for a good time, not a long time, but.
All right, fuck it.
Well, I ain't gonna go super deep into this almost be like a preview for the next one because I'm gonna open my next podcast with this.
But why is there double standard with an original date?
So I saw like,
I think it was like Tim Duncan, they were naming all these athletes who had like white wives, Patrick Mahomes, all this shit, right?
And I'm seeing like, you know, these woke with a quote black women, you see?
And that's the problem.
Like, they don't want to build, they don't want to build a black family.
They don't want to build a black family.
They just make things white women as bones just like stop it because Eve, the rapper from filming, she has a white husband.
Serena and Venus both had white husbands.
Shit. Maya Angelou had a white husband.
That nigga died and then she married a second white dude.
And they all held in high regards to straw black women.
It's not that y'all couldn't find a good black man.
They couldn't find a but even that conversation, I feel like it's divisive.
But, you know, but honestly, in my opinion, love who you want.
It don't matter.
Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, whatever, whatever the case may be.
You know, because of what gender they are, whatever, whatever the case.
Love who you love.
You only get one go around and this, well, that's not necessarily true because I believe reincarnation.
But again, another topic I don't want to dive into because I'll be here longer than I need to be.
But yeah, we're going to get into that next time.
I actually may have a guest on next time to speak to that.
But anyway, I hope everybody have a blessed productive life.
Bless productive week, whatever goal you chasing out.
You get one step closer to that goal.
If not achieving it all together and once you achieve that goal, don't rest on your lows.
You know what I mean?
Reset, make a new goal and, you know, achieve that.
And then once you achieve that reset me, get another go and, you know, keep going.
So everybody is safe, healthy, positive.
Hey, man, we get one life to live.
You got to live it.
You know what I mean?
Like time is in promise.
Yeah, I mean, so.
So everybody is seeing this, man.
I just, you know, I wish everybody the best.
Because that's the thing.
Even if I don't care for you, if I don't like you, you don't get along, whatever the fuck.
I still wish you the best.
If you haven't success doesn't hinder mine.
You know what I mean?
Me wishing bad on you don't make shit work out for me.
So I hope everybody achieves.
And if you achieve some shit that I might once thought couldn't be done, you just prove to me that it's possible.
I might not be able to do it the way you did it, but it can be achieved because you're the evidence that it was achieved.
So I wish everybody the best, man.
And with that being said, peace.
Thank you.