whether it was reports on the news about inner city gang violence, interactions with the police

in people of color, whether it was rap music telling hood stories, and then people reporting

on said rappers talking about hood stories, industry plants, as in rappers or artists who really ain't

lit at life, but the industry put them in to make a lot of money. Commentary from the outside,

conservative media, whatever it was, black people standing in front of the cameras telling

us what we should do about our communities.

Latino or Arab or whatever the case may be, people making these,

drawing these conclusions about what we should do with inner city life.

Or even pretending like they went through it.

We have a collective saying about their credibility.

He wasn't outside.

The politics. Listen, man, if you wasn't outside, this is what we mean.

When we were all younger and I mean, it's just one of those like old tropes like, you know, you had to go home when the streetlights came on or when we was all at the kickback or when

there was some sort of issue and we had to go to the back

alley and square up with somebody like if you wasn't there if you didn't really live through this

it really shows it shows in your commentary it shows when you clearly don't know what you're talking

about and it's clear only to us who were outside. Now I say all

the time that like, I never gang banged a day in my life, but I had to learn how to navigate the

situations that I was absolutely affiliated. I came from a part of town, a part of family that were

rather active. I chose hip hop. I chose graffiti. I was, you know, standing under

light poles at three, four in the morning, battling fools, fools pulling guns because they was losing.

I was tossing my bomber jacket on top of barbed wire, you know what I'm saying, to hop the fence

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