The Black American STREET SH!T Has Died! | The ThoughtCast™ | Ep.5 (Part One)

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I I you know, we have a lot of changes in the world, Like the world is changing, things are changing, people are changing, the culture is changing. A lot of things are changing, and a lot of the changes I'm not so comfortable with. But then some of them I am one hundred percent here for like, I am absolutely positively one hundred percent here for quite a few of the change actually, and I just wanted to do a little bit of a concentrated It's not really a deep dive. It's kind of more of a concentrated dive that was inspired by a recent conversation that I was a collect collective of recent conversations, y'all know me. I like to just rip the bandaid off and just get straightened directly into it. Man, the streets are dead, man, The streets are dead man. If anybody's paying attention to the modern landscape of. The streets, you know what I mean. And when I say the streets, I'm talking about the underworld element of our culture. The streets. You know, the streets shit things that take place in the street. And when I say in the streets, we you know, we mean, you know, crying, things that you know, people do for money, the hustle, like money making making Mitch said, and paying the fools. The hustle. I love the hustle man. Yeah, like the hustle man. This stuff is dead man. The streets are The streets are dead. Coming on the heels of the recent UH information about the Wire's l case and seeing the people who were, you know, talking to the police and cooperating and so on and so forth. Just like the things that you see, you understand when you get to have age on you like me, you look at things and you get to seeing stuff and you're just like, ah, man, this ain't the same. Adrian and Problem Brunner had a song called Slammer, one of my favorite songs in the world in life and to be honest with you, But in the song he had a line he said, niggas be telling a be college, niggas be telling like man, the streets dead. The streets are dead. And a lot of the people who were glorified street figures, you know, during the time of me growing up and being a young adult and whatnot. You know, all of the people who were doing things in the street, and they were glorified for doing things in the street. You look at them now and like they are no longer in the street. They're out the street, like they ah man, they somewhere chilling put up those who are fortunate enough to still be living and still be free. Right y'all. Remember back in the day. When people used to people used to get convicted and they used to go to the pantentiary and then they would get back out and they be right back to it like light of fluid be they get right out and get right back to the same old two step. Now I start like that no more streets is different, like the streets is dead, it's over, and it's so that the streets are so dead. And I was having this car I literally and I'm trying not to do too much talking because you know, I'm not a I'm not a I'm not a street cat at all by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a square. But I still don't do you know, certain things you don't say, certain things you don't discuss, so on and so forth. But having a conversation, and I am puzzled. In the year of twenty twenty five, I am puzzled when I see people who are still so hell bent on being in the street and doing illegal things in the street. And I'm looking at it and I'm like, man, do you understand, Like, no, bro, like it's twenty and twenty five, like you, especially for you youngins, like y'all youngins can get them, y'all youngins can like really like get get one of those backpacks and start live streaming and just walking around the street recording yourself and make a fortune, Like you can go outside and literally fall into money. Legally, you can legally fall into money going outside, and y'all are gonna come out and literally still throw rocks at the penitentiary. And I'm just baffled by it, man, Like I'm I'm so baffled by it that people who sell drugs in twenty and twenty five, I look at drug dealers like I look at drug dealers like a payphone. You feel me, Like, when's the last time you've been riding down the street and you actually saw a payphone. That's how I look at drug dealers in twenty twenty five, people who sell drugs like in the street, like the illegally, like people who are engaging in the drug trade. I look at you like a like you you're a payphone and I need a quarter, Like you are a quarter payf a fifty c payphone. You understand what I'm saying. So even if I were to come across you in the street as a payphone, I still gotta get not one quarter, but two quarters, like you a fifty cent payphone. I'm looking at you all kinds of Cockaye, you understand what I'm talking about. People don't even have have changed in their ash trays in their cars no more. You want to know something different, Cars don't even have ash trays anymore. When's the last time you got in a car and it was an ass tray in it? You feel me? Cars don't even have ash trays anymore. That's how outdated you are. Like you are a payphone, a fifty cent payphone where I need two quarters and nobody has change anymore. The last time you was walking around somebody and you heard change jingling in their pocket. I got one cousin who always got changed in his pocket. He the oldest, youngest motherfuck I ever seen in my life. He keep a pocket full of change. My cousin just Blaze, he keep a pocket full of change like Just and he'd be like, exact change you need, you need twenty seven cent, Just will have a quarter and two pennies for your ass he will pull out of his pocket. But outside of Just, I don't think anybody in the world has any use for a payphone that you need two quarters to use. And that's how I see drug deal people who like, literally, I'm talking about drug dealers in twenty twenty five. Oh man, you outdated, bro, And we're gonna come back to that conversation. So let's put a let's put a we can put a what do you call it, We can put a bookmark there, and we can come back to the conversation. But I really wanted to just kind of run through the fact that, you know, man, the street, the street shit is dead. It's two ty twenty five and the street shit is absolutely, positively, one hundred percent dead. And I'm glad about it. We're gonna have a moment of silence for the streets. We're not gonna be silent, but benue, street shit is dead. All that running around doing crime, all these crime families, linking up with your cronies, running around pulling kick those selling dope, robbin and shooting and killing and robin and shooting and killing in robin and shooting and killing. Get down. It's over with, man, Like it's really truly over with for you. You better keep your little ass in school. The streets are dead, man, And I feel real good about it. But I wanted to give you all I got, Like I really got like ten. But I'm gonna give y'all, like four my four reasons. I'm gonna give you four my reasons. This is kind of off the top, but four reasons why. The streets are officially dead in two thousand and twenty five, and the only people who are out there in the street are the young, crash out people who don't. I don't know. They don't care nothing about life, you feel me. They don't care nothing about life, and they don't They just here to essentially crash out. Period. Them the only ones that's out here. But the other than that, the streets are dead. The first thing, man, is the fact of the whole entire world is under surveillance. We are under constant surveillance, right like, the whole world is being monitored like never before, you feel me. We are being monitored, and we have been sold the monitoring by way of smart devices, convenience, and pop culture. So we have these smart devices, we have this culture around the smart devices. We have this connection to social media. Connection is the wrong word. We have this addiction to social media. We have these things that we have just implemented in our life like never before. My father, when my father passed away, my father passed away was two thousand and nine. My daddy passed away. My father passed away without a cell phone in a year of two thousand and nine, and he was really intentional about not having a cell phone, to the degree that he had got a couple of cell phones. I purchased them one and he refused to constantly and consistently carry a cell phone. In two thousand and nine, he didn't carry a cell phone. And to think that we are in this space where people will people will leave their children before they leave their cell phone. You understand, people will walk off and leave their babies in a stroller before they leave their cell phone. And so it was just incredible. It's incredible that, you know what I mean, we've been sold this, this this new world of having you know, a cellular device, and not only is it a cellular device, but it also happens to be a supercomputer, right, and it's a supercomputer that has the ability to track your geographic locate, to have to track your geographic location with pinpoint accuracy. It also has the ability to ping your location and usage off of towers in the area. So no matter where you go on God Greens, God's green Earth. They can track You can be tracked because you have your cell phone and your cell phone is connecting to the towers based on your respective service. On top of the fact that you have the social media sites where when you sign off and when you create an account, you put in your email address, and they have all of that fine print that nobody reads, you know, that fine print. Be fucking with a nigga, that fine print that we nobody ever reads. We just check the box so we can hurry up and get to the app and set up the app. And so each and every one of those social media platforms they have that fine print and they have that box that you check, basically sacrificing all your personal information, your likeness, your images, your media, your sacrifice. And all of that to the gods. Yeah, so we incorporate that in our lives like it's nobody's business. And so surveillance is at are all time hot. Is like, man, you can get on a computer and think that you're doing stuff excreetly, and it's so funny when people get online and break the law and do things from their computers thinking that it's macaroni time, only to get caught because they were able to be tracked down because they were traced by their IP address. Like that's how serious their surveillance, he is. You can get somebody's IP address and get there every bit of information. I was being trolled. This is a fight week for Canelo Alvarez versus Terrence Bull Crawford. So I got a Conelo Alvarez story. So when early on, when I was first really you know, was making my way with regard to being a pundit in the sport of boxing. I was talking about boxing. Now, I had a problem with Canelo Alvarez because he tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Conelo Alvarez, being the Mexican born fighter, has a tremendou this league strong fan base with a good number of the Mexican fight fans. So I had one fight fan who took it upon himself that he was going to personally just destroy me, I guess, and run me off of the Internet and run me off from talking about the sport of boxing. So he would he would bother me, He would heckle all my all my videos. He would if I wasn't really doing a whole bunch of live then, but he would come and leave comments in my videos and he would catch a live every now and again. He come in alive, get banned, create a different channel, and come back in, so on and so forth, and then he was he started he followed me on all of the social media platforms. Like how I tell y'all to follow me on all the different social media platforms and y'all don't do it. Well, this this, this, this, this troll. He's a Mexican American troll. He did it. So he followed me. Then he started harassing me, and he started making mention of my kids, and you know, he was just doing them absolute most so when he inboxed me one day and he said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're still talking shit. Like that's what he said to me. He said, hey, good morning, bitch, you're still talking shit. And I don't know what it was about that interaction, man, And I was still I was still working. I was actually on my way to the university at the time, getting in my car, getting ready to do my on the move segment that I used to do every morning. And I don't know what it was about that interaction, but I decided I had enough, and so I said, man, let me, let me get him together real quick. So now the thing that I you know, I have people, There are people who love me, which is why you can't really bother You can't really bother folks. And it would be who of people to leave folks alone, Like, just leave people alone, because you don't know who people are, nor do you know who people are connected to. Right, So in this in this new world where everything's under surveillance and everybody can get any piece of information about you, it would be who of you to just leave folks alone, right, So you gotta be careful. So I've decided I had enough, so I went on and I reached out to my folks. I have people who have specialized skills, abilities and accesses where they can they can find they can find a lot of information