Abdul Syed is not officially DSA,

but he is very much DSA coded, is what the millennials or the Gen Zs would say.

He is walking the line in terms of, you can't say I'm DSA.

He's Mamdani-like.

Well, Mandani is like, I am DSA.

I am in that, right? In New York, they're able to say, I'm in that.

If you ask him about Palestine and Israel, he'll say something like, I also want Egypt to not have aid.

uh if you want some snacks and things he ain't bringing you no snacks okay he virtual he can't help you with that but he will he will keep you holding down what you i i got the end of what you were saying to ray but i want you to keep going because i do think this election comes down to that disconnect where people thought i could participate in the economy and they're

We got to put our cards on the table here of where we're coming from as parents.

I mean, I grew up going to private school my entire life from first grade on PWIs.

My sister and I went to this sort of storied sort of junior Ivy League school called Milton Academy where there was literal Ivy on the walls.

And I sent my kids to the best private schools that we could get them into around New York City.

I have always believed that, especially as a black person, I needed to be accessing the most the best education I could possibly get.

And generally I have been led to believe that that's going to come with a steep price tag, but that is the cost of getting the extraordinary education.

And you use the word phenomenal for some public schools in New York city.

What do you think about that, Tori? I mean, you know, what she's saying about

Your thoughts on all of this?

Well, where to begin? I mean, you can't just say free Palestine in America.

I thought we were able to say what we wanted specifically on political issues.

But I think at the heart of this, the phrase free Palestine is read by some people as a provocation, a slur, something to be triggered about.

And we're like, no, no, no. We're literally just saying, let's free the Palestinian people.

That is not anti-Semitic.

That does not mean all Jewish people are this or that or anything.

Was it in your bingo card as somebody who has covered hip hop and has covered music for as long as you have, Trey, for Macklemore to be the hero that we were looking for in the pro-Palestine movement?

But for those who are not as deeply embedded in it as [laughs] I have unfortunately become, what the actual hell is going on?

So, okay.

The first thing that I thought when I heard that Cheyenne finally got a degree was that she had conspired with this person to give her a quickie degree so then she would shut us all up.

I don't think that's what would hap-- that has happened, and that would be more nefarious than what has actually happened, right? I wanna call a spade a spade.

What I think happened is this brother, Dr. Jacquel Pitts, decided to confer a degree upon her with his university that just started in May.

It is an honorary degree that pretends to be an earned degree.

He keeps calling it an earned degree.

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Can you kinda give us a reset on where we stand right now with all these protests going on globally, not just here in the US?

Oh, my God, I mean, the entire world is against the Iran war.

Uh, the, the polling in, the polling in England and in Europe is lower than it is here.

About 60% of Americans oppose doing this at all.

About 60% of Americans oppose how we're doing it.

The numbers in Europe are even lower than that.

That's part of why they're not getting involved.

Who could stop them from annexing Iraq.

... on them, their own.

Yeah.

Yeah, so it's an interesting moment for that.

Uh, you know, y- yes, she has not been welcoming to the others.

She has been super competitive and trying to eat up all the space.

I think she's part of this sliver.

It's been, like, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen percent of Black people who are willing to vote for Trump, but that's about the percentage that have been willing to go Republican for a long time.

You know Don, don't you?

... absolute psychopath in every way.

Let's, I mean, let's start with this baseline, that Puffy has been a horrible person for a long time, and I believe a lot of the SA and violence charges that are levied against him, he has been known to all of us as a sex addict for a long time, somebody who does not really care about other people and will roll over other people to get whatever he wants, typical of what it takes to become a leader in this capitalist society.

Um, you know, has been an egomaniac, has been...

I did a video on YouTube, Uh, I Know Why Diddy, uh, Diddy Is Broken, and I think there's something broken inside of him that goes back to way back.

And actually, let me tell you a story from his childhood that I think sort of sums up some of who he is.

He had a paper route as a kid.

A lot of us in Gen X had paper routes.

That ******* this.