Yo, I'd like to welcome everybody back to a brand new episode of the Cognitive Collage
podcast.
I am your host, Wayne Golden.
My friends and family, they call me QG for short.
And if you feel like that's what would be coming, you can call me that too.
Ah man, it's been a vengeful week.
Shit, honestly, it's been a vengeful past few weeks of me being completely just honest
about it.
So I think I spoke about this the last podcast, but you know, the Super Bowl came and went,
the Eagles beat the Chiefs, which I'm still ecstatic about.
And obviously Kendrick Lamar did the Super Bowl halftime show.
So initially when it happened, it was some mixed reviews.
But you know, some people just like, they don't understand it.
Some people say, well, why didn't you play your big hits or this other shit?
So there was true symbolism throughout the entire set.
And he was telling the story the whole time.
And I kind of touched on this like last episode, but I'll be honest, I've been like watching
just like different channels and shit and watching like people like really break it
down like the symbolism and everything like.
It's fucking incredible.
I already thought it was amazing.
To have no backtrack, you're not rapping over the top of vocals.
Like that's complete breath control, choreography, performance, timing.
It just it was amazing.
But now to have like a deeper context on a deeper understanding of the context in which
he was like trying to convey.
Absolutely amazing.
Like choosing Samuel Jackson as Uncle Sam, that was in itself.
If you know, and you can look this up, like Samuel Jackson was an activist.
Like initially before all the movies and all that type of shit, he was an activist.
And he was actually one of the paul birds at Dr. King's funeral.
I mean, he was young.
He was like 19 or 20 or something like that.
Like now don't quote me on the age, but he did actually do this.
And I found this out recently.
So I'm like, God damn, I had no idea.
Like real militant put the ass stood on what he stood on.
So to see him now, you know, he's older.
He's evolved.
He's fucking Nick Fury's like so choosing him as Uncle Sam was in itself was just crazy.
It's one of them things where like if you know, you know type of things.
And the more I watch it, it's just, I mean, so like I said, everybody was like, oh man,
why don't you play the big hits?
All this other shit.
What they got to take into consideration is that a few years ago, Dr. Drake did the halftime
show with a bunch of West Coast artists and Mary G. Blas and 50, but Kendrick was one
of those artists.
So he performed.
Good Kid Mask City and he performed Be All Right, which are like two of his biggest hits.
And at the time he was signed to TDE.
So they were getting like a split on publishing.
So I don't know the exact split, but he might have been getting like 40, 50, maybe something
like that.
But now that he has his own label, PZ Lang, the new album is exclusively through his production
company, his label.
So he performed, I think, I think he performed like eight songs, nine songs or something
like that.
And he owned, I want to say, seven out of the nine or six out of the nine.
So it was a way to, you know, propel his new project and it did just that.
I saw somebody say that G and next, the album was pretty much like the soundtrack for the
Super Bowl, which is like a real dope way to look at it.
But soon as Super Bowl was over, like he's the first male hip hop artist in history to
ever do this.
All his previous albums, including his current album sales went through the fucking roof.
So GNX is back at number one.
Damn is at number nine and good kid man city is at like number 10.
And the only other male artist to ever do that funny enough was Prince.
And the reason why, like, you know, I find human ed is when the initial, uh, this record
came out of his response to first person shooter, which was on, uh, the Metro in Future Shit,
um, like that.
He said, uh, Prince outlived Mike Jack, because Drake always referenced himself as Michael
Jackson.
He was like a mega pop star talented, but you know, but when it comes to Prince, he write
all this shit.
He played all his own instruments.
He was, he wasn't for the masses, even though he a game, even though he gained like a cult
like following, like he never was like the commercial darling that wasn't, he wasn't aiming
to be in Pepsi commercials and that type of shit.
So it was more like, I'm a true artist over time of being, I'm a great performer.
Prince Fulett, Kendrick's a fucking amazing artist.
And I guess someone considered Drake to be like a great performer.
So like those parallels, it's funny.
Like I always say that, you know, um, life is a cycle and you'll find like small moments
like this where if you really pull back the ledge, you can kind of see like history repeating
the self type of shit.
So it was just amazing.
Like it's the most dude's Superbowl halftime show of all times.
I mean, that's like literal like psychology think pieces on it.
Like it's, it's fucking amazing.
Like shout to Kendrick Lamar, shout to PG Lang, shout to TD, shout to Automate.
Like I can't lie.
I'm not going to get too personal on my own behalf, but you know, I've been going through
like some shit lately.
So I was in the midst of putting out a project of my own reasoning.
And I mean, I have a ton of songs on my hard drive and I've been writing a bunch of new
shit, but I just haven't had the passion to like really record.
I might record some shit here and there.
Just I don't forget the cadence or like just to get an idea out real quick.
But as far as like fully locked in from sun up to sundown, I'm back to back songs, which
is typically my MO.
I haven't had that like that drive, but honestly, this Kendrick shit got me feeling beyond
motivated.
So this weekend I'm probably going to be locked in and like really get some shit done.
So what else going on in this new season of America?
Oh, so the elong muses are fucking pieces of shit cycle path.
But everybody already know that.
He was doing some kind of like press conference, but he did it from the Oval Office.
Now, for those who don't know, like, whenever there's any kind of like press conference
or anything held in the Oval Office, it's always the sitting president who speaks.
It's never like somebody on that cabinet or a delegate or some shit like that.
And I'm not even sure what elong muses position is.
He might be the head of the Department of Treasury, I guess I don't, I don't fucking
up.
I don't research none of this shit.
I get on here and basically freestyle.
So maybe I should start like researching shit more, but whatever's so Trump is sitting
at the desk looking like a fucking deuce.
Elon's up there with a fucking all black make America grid again hat.
And he has his son with him.
His son name is X and he's like four years old.
So as he long is like speaking, Trump's just sitting there.
So somebody like raised the value of the audio or the video.
So he long son, while Trump is sitting there, he goes, you're not really the president.
So Trump is just looking straight ahead, like more or less ignoring them.
And then a few seconds later, like Trump finally spoke and said something and you can
hear Elon son with the volume added.
I mean, I raised up where he goes, shut your fucking mouth.
So initially I laughed at it.
Like I'm pretty sure a lot of people did.
But when you really take a step back, that's actually terrifying.
Not the kid cursing because that's what kids do sometimes.
The fact that kid didn't, it didn't come to that kid to say those things themselves.
That's not like he sat there and he thought to himself, this guy's not really the president.
No.
Kids usually follow behavior.
They mimic what they hear and what they see.
So if like our financial institutes, job markets, different departments, as Elon is like running
all this shit from a financial standpoint and his son is saying to the sitting president,
fuck Trump by the way.
But he's a, he's standing there with the sitting president for the child to look at the president
and go, you're not the president.
That's not the original thought.
That's some shitty to hurt his father say, probably talking on the phone with somebody
or just in general conversation.
And then when Trump does his press conference, Elon Musk is probably sitting there like,
man, I wish we shut his fucking mouth.
So when he starts speaking in person, the kid, which I'm assuming, but if I had to bet,
I would make a high bet on this.
He's mimic what his dad says, man, shut your fucking mouth.
Which speaks to the fact that I've said this for a long time and I don't want to get like
ultra political, because lately I feel like I've been speaking on a shit ton of politics.
But honestly, that's the shit that's been running the news cycle because it's so out
of whack.
Like this shit feel like a simulation.
Like it's so much shit going on right now.
But like, I don't know.
You know, I have a literal, literal farna being in control of like out day to day lives.
It's fucking terrifying, especially one who's a fucking billionaire.
And I get people go, oh, you know, Richard's rich, a million, a billion.
No, it's a big fucking difference.
And I'm going to give you a perfect example how much of a difference a million from a
billion truly is.
So if you take a million seconds, right?
You count a million seconds.
It would equal out to 11 days.
And I think like five hours.
If you count to a million, a million seconds.
So if you go one Mississippi, two Mississippi, a million times, you will be doing that shit
for 11 days straight.
A billion, a billion seconds is the equivalent of 31 years and seven months.
That's the difference.
So this nigga has that amount two to three times over.
But he's making decisions for us.
The nine to fives, the people who got to get up and go to work and bust their ass for just
enough to hopefully maintain your bills and feed yourself and your family.
This motherfucker who could lose $50 million and not fucking skip a beat.
It wouldn't affect him at all.
He's deciding who gets to have school loans and shit.
That's terrifying.
And in order to get on Trump's campaign, like he's flooding over money.
So the Jeff Bezos, so did fucking Zuckerberg and all these other fucking mega billion
billion and motherfuckers like so they can have a clean runway.
So whatever things they were trying to get done with Congress or the Senate or somebody
would put a stop to it or put up some kind of roadblocks or lack of a better term to
stop them from having this free run that shit that could be detrimental to society, to
the world as a whole.
But because they got the House, they got the Senate, they got Congress, it's all Republican.
Trump's at the head.
He's been hitting him with money.
So whatever little ideas they have, why the fuck would he oppose?
Man, they lying in my pockets.
So the people who has the power to make decisions don't have the people best interest at heart.
They not even thinking about us on some real shit.
That's terrifying.
Because when the markets crash and all this inflation and turfs and all this other type
of shit, they're not affected at all.
We are.
We're already seeing signs of it where if you go into like a grocery store, a card in
the eggs for 12 eggs, maybe $2, $3 if you get a good brand.
I was in the market every day and it was a dozen and a half.
That shit was like $10, $11.
I spoke to one of my homeboys in New York.
A card in the eggs in New York right now, he said it's $22 for 12 eggs.
He said they go into the corner store and you can buy how you would buy like a loose
cigarette as opposed to the entire pack.
These motherfuckers are selling loose eggs for $2 a piece.
I initially heard this on a drill button podcast.
I laughed thinking it's a joke or like they're being like hyperbolic.
They're not really.
No.
So I called my homeboys in New York and I go, yo, I was watching, I was watching the
J.B.P. and they get these.
He's like, no, bro, that's real shit.
I'm like, get the fuck out.
He's like, bro, I promise you, it's real shit.
It's like he goes to stores like a day or two later.
I'm not even thinking about them.
I get random ass pitch and mail, open it up and he's showing me the price tag on the
eggs.
I said, get the fuck out of here.
These niggas is selling eggs for $2 in Bodegas.
Like this shit is insane.
The world is scary, man.
Oh, speak enough.
Lease on a positive note.
There's this research center or this medical research company and career and they developed
basically the cure for cancer.
What you would think would be the biggest story on the news, but it's not.
But I guess they inject you with whatever they created.
It takes the effect of cancer cells and more or less make them kill themselves.
Biggest one for anybody that upset you that type of garbage.
Or, I mean, and then there's a secondary company.
I want to say out of Switzerland where it takes the cancer cells.
It merges with like a normal blood cell and then that normal blood cell now converts the
cancer cell back into a normal blood cell.
It's almost like age in the reverse.
That's monumental.
That should be the biggest story, but it's not.
It's all of this.
Magus shared and all this other shit that doesn't matter, but does matter.
The world is in a weird space right now.
But like, oh, on top of that, bro, since, uh, fuck, I want to say in the past month,
there's been eight plane crashes.
What happened today?
Also, I'm recording on Wednesday.
So as soon as this recording is done, I'm going to bounce it down, put it out tonight.
My day's been so busy.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
I haven't had really had a time because I typically record like on a weekend, mix it,
edit it, put it out on Wednesday type of shit.
But I got so much on my plate.
I just been running around just getting shit in order.
Like, honestly, if I can be a little personal and speak on a positive note, I'm smoking
this life shit right now.
I'm not going to lie.
Like, add some hurdles.
Not only did I get over the motherfuckers, I hit the finish line, double back and then
bury the hurdles.
So if I decided to travel that path again, I wouldn't even have to like fucking skip
but it won't jump a hurdle.
Like, I'm really getting shit in order.
What's got me feeling like creative again?
So I don't know, man.
I feel good.
Like this would be episode 23 and I record once a week.
So for the past 23 weeks, I've been consistently putting out a podcast and I'll check my numbers
here and there and I do good numbers.
I do decent numbers and shit.
But like I said, man, like I'm not really looking for like any type of fame or anything
out of this shit, especially not fame.
Man, if a little money come along, shit by all means, but I'm not looking to be, you
know, walking number one on any streaming site.
I don't care about that type of shit.
This shit feel like therapy to me.
This is for like all the motherfuckers who have like, you know, weird thoughts like I
do.
Like, all right, let me give you an example of what I mean.
Like I'm the type of person we have some shit could happen like 10 years ago and I might
have tuckled about it in a moment and then I'll just be like driving and I'll randomly
see some shit that'll trigger that memory and I will laugh and I got fucking tears in
my eyes about some shit that didn't happen like 10 years ago that I just randomly remembered.
Like, excuse me.
I remember like one of my first department, I was living on Utah Street downtown Baltimore,
so I was down street from like Lexington Market.
And for those who don't know, Lexington Market is like a store called Baltimore.
They used to actually like sell slaves from there.
Like they would bring the slaves in at like sales point, which is like on the water and
it's probably like a few miles away and they would bring them up to Lexington Market in
like the 1700s and sell them.
Again, not to be grim, but just a little piece of history.
But in this day and age, that shit look like the dawn of the day.
This is like junkies everywhere.
The only time it looked clean is when they decided to do some kind of like marathon or
some shit and then city officials or whatever come through the day before, completely clean
the area, pick up all the trash, sweep the streets, rid of all the fucking normal drug
dealers and junkies and other shit that be down there.
Why people come through do that run and a day later after that run shit is over.
It's right back to being a zombie.
But anyways, I used to live down the street from there.
So Lexington Market.
Like it's like a bunch of little small like food vendors inside of there.
So I'm living down.
I'm living down there on Utah Street.
So I get up one Saturday morning.
So I'm gonna get some breakfast.
So I walk down to Lexington Market.
So they usually have like an upstairs sitting area.
So I give me like a little, it was like a little breakfast plan that would like, damn,
I'm drawing a fucking blank on this shit.
Oh, French Toast.
Turkey bacon, scrambled eggs, cheese, whatever I was having.
Something that eat my business.
So these two crack kids in there and like the one, the male crack kid told his girlfriend
crack it like, bitch, I don't feel like you love me like you used to.
So she goes, man, I don't fucking love you.
I never loved you.
I loved you because you always had them drugs with you.
And now you all know fucking drugs.
He's like, bitch, you the one that put me on the drugs.
So they yawking back and forth.
My Andrew is like fucking seven in the morning.
And I'm just sitting there and just like a neat French toast.
Wash knees.
Two crack kids go at it.
So she goes, you don't even like when I make love to you no more.
And he's like, bitch, you go look at your fucking teeth.
So like her front tooth was like chipped.
And he's like, man, when you suck my dick, it's fair like scissors.
Yeah.
And at the time I chuckled, but I just kept eating my food.
I didn't even think about it.
So the other day, like I'm driving down the street and I see this like, I see this picture.
I mean, the sign for this hair salon that's about to open or whatever.
And the logo for the salon is like a pair of hands would like holding the pair of scissors.
And as soon as I saw the scissors, I just in my head, I heard a crack hit.
Bitch, your teeth is like scissors.
And I'm in the car losing my fucking mind.
I'm crying tears laughing over some shit that happened about a fucking decade ago, but I'm
in the car losing my fucking mind.
So when I say like my brain is so scattered brain like that, or like I give you another
example, if I'm walking down the street and let's say I see like a barcode on the ground
and his barcode might have came off like a wrapper, but I don't know where it came off.
It's just a barcode.
My brain goes, most people just see the barcode won't even acknowledge it to step over my
brain to see it.
And then I'll start walking.
Then I think I wonder what package in that barcode came off.
I wonder what factory that that bag of whatever was produced from that had that barcode on
it.
Who owns that factory?
I wonder if that family on it is corporate.
I wonder who's going to be the beneficiary of whoever owns the factory.
And then my brain to keep doing that shit until I tell myself to stop.
Like that shit drives me crazy.
But on the flip side of it, it kind of helped me as far as like music.
So when I'm writing, I never get right this block.
So if I write a line, if I look like I'm thinking, it's not that I can't think of the next line.
In my head, it's like four or five lines that pop in like instantaneously.
And if you ever see me like, like I'm pondering, it's not that I can't find the rhyme.
I'm trying to pick the one that I want to use.
But that should help like in school and all that type of shit.
So whenever I really get into something, like I'll start off just like researching for a
couple of hours or like for a couple minutes, which turns a couple of hours, which turns
a couple months.
And then I'll never even tell nobody that I'm looking up shit or researching shit.
And when they will just have like a random fucking conversation and you'll say something
and it'll trigger whatever it was I've been studying about a year ago.
And I'll give you every fucking fact I've ever learned about the shit.
And they're like, damn, I didn't even know you was into that type of shit.
I go, I'm not.
And they go, well, why do you know it?
I go, but I'm going to add the reader.
I read once a day.
So like, I don't give it some article.
If it's a fucking news snippet, I try to read at least one thing a day because I feel like
I try to learn one thing a day too.
So if it's something simple like a recipe, a new way to tie my tennis shoes and a new
way to get to work or anything, like I feel like we should try to pick up at least one
thing every day.
It don't have to be some fucking grand thing.
Like I'm going to learn how to do origami today.
I don't have to be that.
It could be something as simple as like, all right, here's a random one for y'all.
And for anybody who don't believe me, you know how like you put spaghetti into like
Tupperware containers and you'll get that fucking orange kind of looking residue on it.
Yo, still, still, uh, still that container with warm water and a little bit of soap and
take, uh, take a napkin, sit the napkin inside of that water and then just start wiping around
the run.
All of that residue will absorb into the napkin and it will make your Tupperware look brand
brand.
Brand those shit like that.
So right now the book that I'm reading, uh, it's a book called the blood meridian.
This is probably some of the most graphic shit I've ever read in my entire fucking
life.
Like if you squeamish, got a weak stomach, it's about like the old West, like doing like
the Great Western expansion and how just ruthless that, that time of life was.
It's my more like, I wish they would make a movie of it, but if you, if you take shit
out of the story, it kind of takes away the integrity of the story, but they would never
make the move.
They, they can never make that movie.
Like it wouldn't be released in theaters or straight to DVD or Blu-ray or streaming or
whatever the fuck platform niggaz use is way too graphic, but it's an amazing story.
Like it's beautifully written.
The detail is incredible.
Like, so if you have, and it's an old book, but if you haven't read it, read the blood
meridian, it'll turn your stomach, but it's, it's fucking amazing writing.
But I took up enough of your time.
And like I always say, I'm here for a good time, not a long time.
So with that being said, I hope everybody stay positive, stay productive, stay focused,
whatever goal you have or whatever goal you chase, and I get, I hope you get one step
closer to it, if not achieving it all together.
And if you do achieve that goal, set a new goal, chase after that, don't settle, don't
ever settle.
Life is short.
Even I believe in reincarnation.
We still get one time around at least in this frame with this name, with this family.
So bask in it, enjoy it.
You know what I mean?
No goal is un-tainable.
There is nothing that's impossible.
Chase everything that crushes your mind.
Fuck it.
It's no redoes.
Unless it is reincarnation, but you probably won't remember it.
But I think that's kind of what deja vu.
Anyways, if you want to challenge anything I said or further discuss anything I said,
I can be reached at Instagram slash QG music.
That's QGMUSIC.
Once again, that's QGMUSIC.
Hit me, man.
You know what I mean?
Let me know what you think.
Am I talking out of my ass?
I'm talking some bullshit.
Do you agree with what I'm saying?
Do you want to challenge anything I'm saying?
Shit, if you just want to have a dialogue.
Oh, next episode, I'm going to tell you next about a Dulce experience that I had that's
fucking legitimate and undocumented.
But I say that for the next time.
With that being said, peace.