2025 State of Blackness Address, Pt. 2
Hood Politics with Prop
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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It's the official 2025 State of Blackness Address. Today we look back at a year in Blackness. Diddy, 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj going MAGA, Stephen A. Smith, D'Angelo's tragic passing. All that and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:06.4 | CoolZo Media. |
| 0:10.5 | Blackness. |
| 0:11.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 2025 State of the Blackness Addressed, part two full year. |
| 0:34.1 | It has been a year for the diaspora, y'all. Wow. Oh, wow. A lot of ups, a lot of downs, a lot of fun, |
| 0:44.8 | a lot of pain, a lot this here, New Year's Eve. |
| 1:06.6 | It couldn't have been more perfect, but we could reflect on his goodness when I talk about it, Lord. |
| 1:15.5 | My soul cries out. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm being silly. |
| 1:20.1 | All right, y'all. |
| 1:21.7 | The year 2025 started off very interesting, actually very painful with the LA fires like we talked about before |
| 1:33.4 | this was the you know kind of recap from from from last week and in the first half of the year |
| 1:40.8 | you know with the Palisades fire in California, what I'm not so interested |
| 1:45.9 | in, it's Al-Tadena. Out-Tadena being an historically black area, we've covered multiple times this year, |
| 1:53.8 | and why it was so important. So just us losing sort of our black affluence and was trying to |
| 2:00.7 | hope to rebuild, rebuild the city back |
| 2:04.2 | in a way that it was and capitalized. |
| 2:08.0 | Capitalism capitalized. |
| 2:10.2 | And yes, it's being sold to investors in a way that continues to erase our cultures. |
| 2:18.8 | That was a crazy way to start the year. |
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