EP 87: Providing For the Hood + The Story of Joe Pullem (Feat Offset Jim)

Hella Black Podcast

Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham

Society & Culture

5 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode we sit down with Oakland Rapper Offset Jim and talk about why it's important for him to give back to his hood. We also talk about the story of his great grandpa, Joe Pullem - who defended himself from a racist Lynch mob and killed over 12 of the people who tried to kill him.

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0:00.0	Episode 87 a Hello Black. On this episode we sat down with Oakland rapper
0:04.0	Offset Gym to talk about why he feels it's important for him to provide
0:07.5	resources for his hood and we also talked about his family's revolutionary history
0:11.4	in Mississippi.
0:12.8	Tapping with our Patreon, Patreon.com,
0:14.8	such Hell Black pod, and support Hella Black,
0:17.7	a podcast that follows the Black Radical Tradition. So this past Sunday you donated 500 meals to people's breakfast Oakland.
0:40.0	A hundred turkeys too. 100 turkeys.
0:43.0	Yep.
0:44.0	Hygiene packs.
0:45.0	Hoodies.
0:46.0	Hell of shit.
0:48.0	Why you feel it's important to do that type of shit?
0:51.0	I feel like it's important because it's people younger
0:54.7	than me looking up to me and I'm just trying to set the tone for the whole
0:58.5	neighborhood trying to really bring everything together trying not to not to divide everything, keep everything together. Trying not to not to divide everything
1:04.0	and keep everything together and just so the people that's under me could look at
1:08.0	my steps and follow them and you know doing something positive showing them that we
1:12.0	can we can do something positive in the neighborhood.
1:15.0	Leaving that legacy for niggas too. Definitely, definitely.
1:18.0	So what does it mean for you to like be able to get back to the you know the hood that raised you?
1:22.0	You feel me.
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