When The Method Gets Patched

[00:00:00]Hey, man, the gig might be up. The Post Malone method is looking like 2008 Shaq now. Now, for starters, if you don't know what the Post Malone method is, let me break it down for you. This is when a non-black person uses Black American aesthetics or Black American culture to build themselves up, and then once they get to the threshold that they're happy at, they pivot and usually go back to their Caucasian roots. Now, this term is coined after the Post Malone because he's one of the most recent people we see do this in real time. So, he popped up like around 2015 hit song White Iverson. Now, in the music video, man, he had the braids, he had the gold teeth, he had the chains. And as the years progressed, he ended up pivoting fully to country music. Also, he started to say little weird dog whistle things like, "I'm a musician, not a rapper."

[00:00:43]And this is just a way that these people love to downplay our art forms. They say rap isn't real music, it isn't this, it isn't that. It's a whole lot of BS, man.

[00:00:50]Rap is literally rhythm and poetry. Now, to be fair, even though it's named after the Post Malone, people have been doing this method before him. Another example is John Cena, right? When he was first coming up in the WWE, they had him rapping, had him with the gold chains, they had him, you know what I'm saying?

[00:01:04]Basically looking like a two early 2000s rapper. Then they had him start to pivot towards that like all-American figure, started talking about America a lot.

[00:01:13]Miley Cyrus started doing this, too, when she had her music career, right?

[00:01:16]She was um on the stage like twerking and [ __ ] I mean, the examples go on and on. And look, this method doesn't just apply to people. Nickelodeon, when it first came out, it was black as hell.

[00:01:26]There were countless TV shows centered around black teens, black families. And a show in particular that we all probably remember, at the end of every episode, they would literally have rappers or R&B stars perform there.

[00:01:38]Black people literally built up this network, and then they pivoted to what we, you know what I'm saying? The the Nickelodeon we know now. So, this method is real, bro, and a lot of people don't like to admit it, but hey, black people in the culture, we build [ __ ] up, and then they just like to forget about us and downplay our relevance. Now, like I stated it on, though, this method is kind of dying out. We all know Post Malone is pretty much a country artist now. And with that being the case, I mean, I ain't really been listening to his stuff. I don't know how good his career has been doing, but I seen this interesting post about him. So, this was back May 1st. Update, after experiencing low ticket sales, the first month of the Post Malone/Jelly Roll Big Ass Stadium Tour Part 2 has canceled the first month of shows. And the crazy thing, too, Jelly Roll also did this method as well.

[00:02:21]Now, because of this, it seems like Post Malone is trying to go back to rap. Post Malone teases return to hip-hop music. I mean, I listened to the song, it sounds all right, but it's like, bro, why you why you trying to come back to rap now?

[00:02:33]Why? Why you just ain't stay, you know what I'm saying? Continue to make your country music. Top comment, somebody said, "The country songs aren't paying the bills anymore, so he wants to be a culture vulture again. Hey, he can keep his ass in country. We good over here.

[00:02:46]Some of us are waking up, dog. We are starting to realize that we got to start gatekeeping. People can easily just come into the culture, pick from it, exploit it, make money, and then in that same breath, a lot of them like to claim that we don't have culture. So, gatekeeping is necessary at this point. All the other cultures do. Now, don't get me wrong, man, we still be having some idiots that aren't on code. If you go on TikTok right now, you could probably find a video with a million likes of a white dude singing a Young Boy song or a white girl singing some type of Gorilla song. And the comments will be like, from some black people saying, "Oh, you invited to the cookout." Basically, egging it on. And it's like, why is the bar so low for us? Now, I want to say this, bro, I do believe that culture is meant to be shared, but with black American culture, as we see time and time again, that isn't what ends up happening. We'll end up popularizing something, and then they'll end up talking down onto it, calling it ghetto, calling it this, calling it that. Then, the years down the line, the same people that were talking about it are now doing it and claiming that they didn't invent it. This is what happens all of the time, and this is why, once again, we need to start gatekeeping. Now, not all non-black people that indulge themselves in the culture are vultures. I always shout out to people like Paul Wall because you do have certain individuals who literally grow up around black people. So, this is just how they are.

[00:03:57]So, I hate that the vultures end up making it look bad for the people that's really kind of down for the culture.

[00:04:03]Like so, for example, man, this is uh black American culture in Asia. This is crazy. You know what I'm saying? This is basically like a HBCU type of dance.

[00:04:13]Um you know what I'm saying? This is what they're doing over there.

[00:04:15]And it it it's just crazy. And like I say, when I see stuff like this, it'd be like, "Damn, a lot of people do talk [ __ ] about the things that we do then they end up emulating it." Look, I like this video right here. Um he looks like a thug, so unprofessional.

[00:04:29]He got the braids and a chain.

[00:04:31]And um you know, that's what they're going to say about us. But when they do this [ __ ] it's cool now. You know what I'm saying? That That's That's all I be saying, bro. Y'all got to keep Y'all got to keep it fair, man.

[00:04:40]You You got to keep it fair.

[00:04:42]Look at us, bro. You know what I'm saying? We Look, K-pop Look at this [ __ ] bro. Like I hold I got to go back, bro. That's crazy. Look at them, dog.

[00:04:50]Look at them.

[00:04:51]I'm telling you, bro, they It's just the fact that it's the people that's doing it, bro. They don't They It is That's That's all it is. And since we on the topic of like gatekeeping, the reason why I really think we need to start doing this is because a lot of the cultural [ __ ] is just It is It's all in the open now. Take for example, Boyz n the Hood and how in John Singleton's movies, whenever you hear that saxophone, you know some some some You know some bad finna happen. When I tell y'all that trend got taken to the ground and these people have been using it in a wrong way and it's like it's been irking me, dog.

[00:05:19]>> Y'all don't understand the saxophone trend and it's really upsetting me and my homegirls. So, the saxophone is supposed to mean something bad is finna happen to you. I'm seeing videos where people like, "Oh, if I start hearing the saxophones, everybody better watch out."

[00:05:30]Watch out for what? You finna pass away if you hearing saxophone. When you hear saxophones, that means you are about to get packed up in a second. It comes from typically black movies where a character is about to get packed up and they start playing that music to show, "Uh-oh, some some bad finna happen." You don't hear the saxophones if you the one finna crash out. Other people would hear the saxophones. So, that don't make sense.

[00:05:49]And y'all always doing this with like black phrases and sayings. Like, y'all did the same thing with crash out. Crash out is a verb. You do a crash out. You are going to crash out. You don't become a crash out. You are not a crash out.

[00:05:59]It's not a noun. And then on top of that, y'all using crash out when y'all really just mean you're going to cause a minor disturbance. Crash out is supposed to mean something that gets you booked and fingerprinted.

[00:06:08]>> Once again, yeah, bro. Like, all of our slang, bro. Wying, unk, you know what I'm saying? All that [ __ ] is just is now Tik Tok or Gen Z slang, bro. It gets lumped into one and the creators, we it gets lost, bro. This is what happens.

[00:06:21]This is what happens.

[00:06:21]>> people calling themselves crash outs. It really seem like we cannot have nothing.

[00:06:25]Next thing you know, it's I'm finna be in the pit, goofy ahh.

[00:06:28]>> When an African American wears a bonnet outside, it's labeled ghetto. But when it's a white person, they're labeled as comfortable and for >> I want to pause already, but this is a poem. She going eat with this, man. But also, this kind of reminds me of what she said with the bonnets. But there's a new trend of like the black girls they're doing the edges like with the swoops and things. And I've been seeing so many people come out calling ghetto.

[00:06:47]Even some black folks themselves talking down on it. But when I tell you, I have already been seeing them folks indulging in this trend trying to do it. And once they popularize that [ __ ] they going to be eating it up. But when the black girls been doing this [ __ ] y'all want to talk [ __ ] about them.

[00:07:02]I I swear, man. It it is crazy, bro.

[00:07:04]>> their hair. When an African American voices their opinions, they are loud and aggressive. But when it's a white person, they're seen as seeing things from a different perspective and just being expressive. And when we tell y'all that the man is in charge of us is crazy, y'all call us all types of names until what he does has an effect on you.

[00:07:21]We walk into a store, you automatically think we're stealing. We confront you, and now we're being rude. And we can't even walk into a bathroom. Yeah, you claim slavery ended years ago. And what a coincidence, they took the culture, but they'll never have to suffer the consequence. And don't you find it >> That's the problem, bro. A lot of y'all want to wear black as just a style, I guess you could take off, you know what I'm saying? We can't we we can never stop being black. A lot a lot of the times it just be a phase for a lot of them, bro. It's a rebellious They parents don't like black folks, bet.

[00:07:49]I'mma go talk to a black person. I'mma I'mma act black.

[00:07:52]And then when I get out that phase, I'mma calm down and come back to what You know what I'm saying? That that's how it be.

[00:07:56]>> Funny that they take everything we make.

[00:07:58]Like for example, that Tik Tok trend, "Hey, I'll go get saxophone." And y'all never had to experience them.

[00:08:03]Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Let me rewind because it seems like it's just not clicking. Like we don't know that y'all copy us. Do we look blind to you? And yes, it is that serious because how can you hate us so much and then still wind up being a hypocrite?

[00:08:18]Because the moment it sits on me, it becomes loud. It becomes wrong. It becomes everything you were taught not to be, but you took everything from me.

[00:08:26]You want the rhythm, but not the roots.

[00:08:28]The style, but not the story. The look, but not the label. And to justify your guiltiness, you love to label us as unable. It's your favorite stereotype so you could throw your racism under the table. And then after that, you put on this Christian facade pretending to be faithful.

[00:08:42]I just read your whole race down, didn't I?

[00:08:45]White people claim racism isn't a thing, but my own 3-year-old brother has to be explained why you have to watch out for these white people because 99.9% of them are actually insane.

[00:08:54]So, no. Smiling in my face isn't going to fix that pain that's been brought on to us for decades. How black people have to work twice as hard just to get something that whites get on a regular day. How y'all get mad because y'all tried so hard to put us at the bottom and we rise 10 times as much in your twisted and sick society.

[00:09:12]Oh.

[00:09:13]>> But hey, man. That's it. I got a perfect video of this on my main channel, man.

[00:09:16]It's called The Price of Cookout Invitations, man. I highly recommend y'all check that out.