Behind the Bastards - Introducing: Hood Politics with Prop S3

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

Hi, Bastards Fans! Take a listen to the trailer from the new season of Hood Politics with Prop.  About the show: The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived junior high, lived in an urban city or understand gang life, you can understand geopolitics. Join rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene. This 2024 election year is going to be wild, BUT Prop is going to be right there with you helping you understand all of it. Check out new episodes of Hood Politics every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. Listen here and subscribe to Hood Politics with Prop on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yo, West, West everybody. My name is propaganda or prop for short. I mean, I'll answer to any of it. I'm gonna give you some game real quick. I want to put you on in my podcast called Hood Politics. Black people always want to do something real quick. Anyway, let me tell you where I'm coming from. I firmly believe that if you understand hood life, gang life, you understand geopolitics because politics is gang banging in nice suits. Let me tell you what I mean, dig this. We're gonna cover all kinds of hot topics that are in our news and in our daily zeitgeists and even concepts that maybe take a little more to understand.

Kind of like how the January 6 insurrection could be understood as like the hood boss given a green light. That was clearly a green light? That was clearly a green light. Kinda like how Vladimir Putin's foreign policy is basically two-pock stance, which is, I ain't a killer, but don't push me. Now I'm saying, how the GOP had to make a calculus

when Trump was leaving office to be like, am I gonna ride with the boss or ride with the set? Because boss is coming go, but the hood lasts forever. It's all politics, it's just hood life. It's gang banging. You understand it. And if you don't, I'll show you how. Our politicians tend to talk to us like this like alien language. And it make you feel like you supposed to just trust what they saying. But I think inside all of us were kind of saying to ourselves,

I don't know man. I don't know if I trust y'all. Because what I'm experiencing is quite different than what you say and I'm experiencing. What you doing is so much different than what you saying you're doing. Somehow another deep down inside of us, we like, no, I don't know if I understand this, but this kinda looks familiar to me.

I wanna lean into that feeling of familiar area. Okay, little background on me. I'm from South Central Los Angeles. I moved all over the L.A. surrounding areas and before I did musical time, I used to teach high school. And when I was in the process of getting my teaching credential in history and social science, I kept stumbling over the last part of the test, which was the economic part, and it wasn't that I didn't know what I was talking about. Because economics in my mind are real simple because I'm from the hood, it's scared money don't make money, right?

Don't spend money you don't have, right? But I didn't understand their terms. I am of the belief that most of us are like that. Where we know what we're talking about, we just don't know the way you want us to talk about what we're talking about. But again, if you understand hood life, you actually understand all this stuff. Can I give you some more examples? Well, I'm going to anyway. How about this? If a person wants to expand their business to a neighborhood next to them, huh, you gotta pay for that. You have to pay that block to be able to sell there.

But if you feel like you being charged way too much and that neighborhood wants to sell a product on your block, you're going to charge them a high price. You're going to sell on my block. It's going to cost you. So what does that mean for the consumer? Well, it means that it costs the seller way more than it normally would. So what they're going to do, they're going to keep the price the same. No, they raised the price. All of a sudden, what you used to be able to buy for $10 now cost $20. So it's like, who's being punished here? Turns out that's called a tariff. And what I just explained was a trade war. You looking around like all of a sudden the cost of aluminum foiled and tripled, why is because we got beef with China? We had a trade war with China the government

done raised the tariffs on aluminum everybody in the city already understood it you just didn't know that's what it was called here go another one you know Vietnam war Korean war those called proxy wars turns out a proxy war is real simple it's just two dads that kind of don't like each other and their sons are on rival pop Warner teams turns out mixed McConnell's moves are actually real simple. He needed his judges. Trump was just the lick. Are we really ever confused as to why despite this not being in your own best interest you always vote along party lines? Well because the hood comes first as the great prophet of our time Kendrick Lamar said, Democrats, Reblood of Kins, it's all the same, ride or die, loyal to yo soil.

I could go on for hours and I'm going to. Philobusters. Seize fires, workers unions, it's all there. You actually already understand this stuff. Here I can't stress this enough, you don't have to be just from the hood to understand this. If you navigate to eighth grade, if you ever had to figure out which of the lunch tables you can sit at during lunch, you understand geopolitics.

So join me every week. This what we're gonna do. We're gonna go through the news, maybe go through a concept that's going on in the news, maybe something that takes a little more background to understand. I'm gonna show you how you could use what you already know to understand what you think you don't

We're gonna laugh. We're gonna have fun. I don't take myself too seriously But I do want you to feel empowered these people ain't smarter than you They just use a different language. Yo, if you feel a real froggy go ahead and check out like some of the old episodes They still in the feed. You know, I'm saying kind of get yourself a primer as to what's going on in here I'm trying to of get yourself a primer as to what's going on in here. I'm trying to tell you all something Dig this because politics is just gang banging in nice suits So tap in with me weekly. Who politics will prop catch me on the iHAR radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts you