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What up with it? Part two.

Let's just jump back into the combo with me and my home girl Bridget.

Talking about Crabs, 18th Street, youth street, my aunt curling, urn, you got to really love your mother and your father.

D.C., question mark asylum, Waleigh, Odyssey. I really love D.C. Citizen Co. The dude that produced, this one thing has got me tripping, got this one,

and Crazy in Love, DC and Chuck Brown, Junkyard band, Backyard Boys, DC.

DC. Dish.

Sheesh.

Yeah.

Okay.

So that's all the joy.

You told me a lot about the frustration as far as like really not being seen as like somebody that the rest of the country needs to take serious.

Can I add one more frustration? Or I want to have a call. It's it's kind of based into the joy. All of the things that you just described about the uniqueness of D.C.

And how you need to experience it.

My concern is twofold.

One, that we have a whole lot of folks new to the city who are not experiencing this.

And that, two, that just the demographics of our city are really changing due to things like gentrification, lack of affordable housing.

And these things that make D.C. a city that is worth coming to that make D.C. special, I think are threatened, right?

Yeah. So these city, and again, not to say that cities like New Orleans are doing everything right, but they have identified that they have a unique culture that is being driven by black and brown folks that needs to be protected because people want to come to the city to enjoy and take part in that culture.

And in D.C., I worry that a lot of the talk of preserving that culture is not meaningful, right?

They will knock down places where black and brown folks live. They will put up condos that nobody can afford, and they'll call it the Ellington

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