Hellscape City: Memphis
Hood Politics with Prop
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Since our President has chosen to speak so ill about many of our US cities, specifically calling them hellscapes, I figured I would find people I know that are from there and live there and ask them "Is your city in fact a hellscape?" Today we talk to Cxffeeblack about his beloved hellscape: Memphis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | All right, y'all. |
| 0:09.8 | Politics with Prop. |
| 0:11.2 | So I'm starting a series here |
| 0:14.6 | that's not going to be like every, you know, |
| 0:17.7 | it's not going to be back to back, |
| 0:19.1 | not like a mini series, like, you know, behind the police or something, but just something to come back to. |
| 0:24.0 | And one of which is, I just want to walk y'all through the American Hellscape. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm going to walk y'all through the American Hellscape. you know all these cities that our president is telling us are just unlivable just horrible places for people to live and work and survive like you, you can't even wear your watches anymore, you know. |
| 0:57.2 | And my biggest thing about hearing stuff like that is, like, I mean, have y'all, |
| 1:04.4 | like, have y'all been to the cities that he's talking about? |
| 1:07.0 | Like, do you know anyone that lives there? |
| 1:08.8 | Like, why would you just believe that? I feel like it's such a fixable problem, you know anyone that lives there like why would you just believe that i feel like it's |
| 1:12.1 | such a fixable problem you know but it's also if you like i said like how this show works like |
| 1:19.5 | if you understand the hood you grew up in inner cities you understand politics people have been |
| 1:22.8 | saying this about us whether you black you Latino or you from the inner city this is these are the things we've |
| 1:28.3 | lived with forever where it's just like you have this narrative about it just pull up like just come |
| 1:35.0 | through act like you got some home training you know and you will be treated well right you know so |
| 1:42.3 | anyway so to kick this off i wanted wanted to start in Memphis. How you have, am I saying it right? Are you close? I'm close. It's too, I got too much L.A. in me. No, one of my favorite things is when, uh, when Prop gets into his like Southern dialect bag you know what i'm saying yeah because my |
| 2:02.3 | grad's my granny because you know our granny granny granny for the i feel it every time i'm like oh yeah |
| 2:06.9 | we're talking about his grandma like it's going to yeah it's coming out i love it bro yeah everybody |
| 2:12.8 | everybody at la they granny from the south like that's we's, we're all like, you know, transplants from there. |
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