SHNEAKO - SELFLESS NARCISSISM

00:00:00.000 The purpose of an artist is to work back their narcissism.

00:00:13.640 First, identifying the arrogance that comes with their God-given free will, and then dedicating

00:00:18.760 your life to getting rid of it.

00:00:20.200 It's the uniquely human experience of finding the balance of selfless narcissism.

00:00:30.000 Hangin' with my cousin, readin' dirty magazines 0.97

00:00:35.820 We sing to niggas, cause then we ain't know what that should mean 1.00

00:00:39.480 Then we start reinventin' everything that we ain't seen

00:00:42.860 That's when I gave my cousin hate, gave my cousin hate

00:00:47.960 I gave my cousin hate, I gave my cousin hate

00:00:52.020 I gave my cousin hate 1.00

00:00:55.200 And I know these niggas about to judge me now 1.00

00:01:04.200 And I know they ain't about to judge you now 1.00

00:01:06.200 Threw that off when we was hanging now

00:01:08.200 Stay out of my way here

00:01:09.200 I was my cousin not to tell nobody

00:01:11.200 Free out and turn around

00:01:13.200 And people tell me take it to my grave

00:01:15.200 The truth will set you free someday

00:01:18.200 I don't think they understand

00:01:20.200 That I'm not attracted to a man

00:01:22.200 They thought I was getting

00:01:23.200 Two questions, what up?

00:01:24.200 What would you say if you could take anything back from how you got here

00:01:29.580 and all the decisions you had to make, one mistake you made,

00:01:33.700 what would you go back and change?

00:01:35.120 All right, that's a great question.

00:01:36.240 I don't like to think of regret.

00:01:38.380 I don't regret anything because I don't think it's part of your journey.

00:01:40.600 It's all supposed to happen.

00:01:41.760 And even the mistakes you made, I think they build you into a better person.

00:01:45.340 Like when you get hit when you're fighting, you learn to cover up

00:01:47.780 and you learn to not get hit in that way again.

00:01:49.320 Yeah, so would you say to yourself at 19?

00:01:53.200 That's old you are?

00:01:53.780 you're 19 i would say delay all gratification today i didn't want to film a video i just

00:02:01.000 finished a good stream with digital naz if i'm going to be real i wanted to hit up a girl and

00:02:05.340 just chill in the crib and do nothing but i should go to the gym i should make a video

00:02:10.940 and then afterwards i'm going to feel more gratification like yeah you'll get dopamine

00:02:15.420 with a girl you know you can do your thing but when you finish your work that's the best feeling

00:02:19.800 ever so do what you hate doing in that moment and later on it's going to pay off always

00:02:49.800 First to get hard, pray that I don't die

00:02:52.980 But if I die, I'll hear you in the sky

00:02:56.080 Two bites of the quay-quay, don't leave, just egg, man

00:02:59.980 Let's go on a pancake

00:03:01.440 Leave the world behind

00:03:03.200 Leave the world behind

00:03:06.760 Leave the world behind 1.00

00:03:10.280 Nitrous, don't help me, it's just put me in a trance

00:03:13.820 I'm talking about euphoria, I'm not talking about a man

00:03:17.320 Told her don't leave me cause I need you by my side

00:03:20.800 As long as you don't leave me then I'll probably be alright

00:03:24.220 Then I'll probably be alright

00:03:27.820 I think every successful person, maybe everyone really, there's a narcissist in everybody.

00:03:35.220 And I think successful people have identified their narcissism

00:03:38.140 and they're successful because they figured out how to use it to give back.

00:03:42.880 For sure.

00:03:43.380 At least the ones that are doing something good.

00:03:45.080 Yeah.

00:03:45.300 Even the ones that are doing something bad, they're successful because they've shared with the world whatever arrogance they have with their God-given free will.

00:03:54.000 I don't think that there are...

00:03:55.060 A lot of people look at them online and think that they're these huge characters and they're huge personalities.

00:04:00.120 And really, we're a lot more similar than we think.

00:04:03.300 For sure.

00:04:03.800 I was just curious because, you know, you seem like a chill guy, man.

00:04:07.200 Like, genuinely.

00:04:08.140 Okay.

00:04:09.020 Because I'm Jewish.

00:04:10.300 Oh, okay.

00:04:10.880 Yo. 0.99

00:04:11.220 Do you hate Jewish people?

00:04:12.200 I love Jewish people.

00:04:13.360 Are you serious?

00:04:13.800 Yeah.

00:04:14.360 Catch a flat. 0.54

00:04:15.060 no i mean not really okay i i've met real jews all the time what's your name bendy shalom how

00:04:21.220 are you bro of course i've met uh i've met a lot of hasidic jews um i grew up with with jews and

00:04:25.940 i'm part jewish myself that's cool yeah how do you feel about that i felt about what about being

00:04:32.280 part jewish that's great man it's uh it makes sense because i've always identified a little

00:04:37.240 bit with um with jews and the you know i did fiddler on the roof when i was younger

00:04:41.780 yeah the play i was um tevye no not tevye um more to hire so you want to step over here

00:04:49.060 if you have a second to talk um but yeah what are your what are your preconceived notions about

00:04:54.340 about what i believe i think they're a little confused i think the whole world's a little

00:04:58.780 confused right now they're not sure what i make of things well what makes you think i'm confused

00:05:02.800 well you've been on a journey i don't follow you closely but you've been on a journey

00:05:06.520 and i think anyone who doesn't isn't raised with a very strong tradition at some point needs to

00:05:12.160 look for answers and the jews play a significant role in the world yeah they're a small number and

00:05:17.000 it's a little confusing so and there's very large religions that base their whole narrative on the

00:05:22.540 jewish people right so if you're going to make sense of that you have to kind of put the pieces

00:05:26.680 together yeah islam would not exist without judaism we believe the torah was the first

00:05:30.800 revelation of god we're both monotheistic and there's a lot that we have in in common for sure 0.99

00:05:37.260 so what would you think the world should fix with their confusion well they have to understand

00:05:43.340 the the premise of judaism is that god communicates with man and you have to understand what a prophet

00:05:49.140 is and then you can understand what the word of god is and then you can understand all the

00:05:52.980 narratives all the rituals that jews do everything about everything that a person hears about the

00:05:57.120 jewish people they see in the jewish people are based on those primary concepts and if you if you

00:06:02.560 have a like a childish understand that i don't want to uh you know demean anyone but if let me

00:06:08.760 put this down this is getting heavy sure if you haven't been educated on what that actually means

00:06:13.400 like what does it mean that someone's a prophet what does it mean that somebody a messenger of

00:06:16.640 god yeah but how does a person become a prophet how do you know that someone's a prophet or not

00:06:19.980 a prophet well i mean why would the jews reject one person and accept another person uh that's a

00:06:24.620 question why why did um i mean people say the jews rejected the jews reacted jesus correct

00:06:29.900 right sure but why because they well from what i understand it's the the jews expected the messiah

00:06:36.540 to be to be extravagant and to have wealth and jesus appeared as somebody who was humble and was

00:06:42.540 wearing you know little clothing who wasn't wealthy right but that's not what the prophecy

00:06:46.380 though the prophecy was never that it would be a wealthy person what's the prophecy that there

00:06:50.860 There would be a humble man riding on a donkey, and he would... 0.67

00:06:54.280 All the things that the Christians kind of say about the Jewish Messiah are... 0.73

00:06:58.560 There's a semblance of truth there. 0.90

00:06:59.780 The early Christians were Jews.

00:07:01.280 So I don't think that that's why they rejected him.

00:07:04.940 Why do you think they rejected him?

00:07:07.140 A prophet...

00:07:07.900 First of all, they could have potentially accepted him as a prophet,

00:07:11.460 maybe not the Messiah, 0.54

00:07:12.940 but as soon as he started messing with Jewish law,

00:07:15.200 that's when they understood that he wasn't...

00:07:17.900 He didn't necessarily go through the full journey.

00:07:19.880 He may have had some sort of mystical experience, but unless a person really toils and studies,

00:07:26.080 only then do they fully understand the purpose of the law and all of that.

00:07:29.620 You've studied?

00:07:30.540 Oh, yeah, sure.

00:07:31.240 Are you pursuing to become a rabbi?

00:07:33.600 Whatever that means. I'm not an official rabbi or anything.

00:07:36.580 So, can I ask you, how much of the Talmud should we take seriously,

00:07:40.020 and how much of that is true with the stuff that we see online?

00:07:43.200 I've read, I don't know if it's true, that they say that Jesus is in hell,

00:07:46.240 and that's what it says in the Talmud. Is that true?

00:07:47.660 Yeah, sure. But you have to understand what these things mean.

00:07:50.760 Is this not true?

00:07:52.240 This is the challenge. This is the challenge in general with religion, and this is what's unique about Judaism. 0.98

00:07:57.400 Judaism is filled with metaphor. All religion really is, but Judaism is very rich with metaphor,

00:08:02.060 and it's part of the ancient way that the prophets would communicate. It's what Moses taught the people.

00:08:06.840 So even him going up to Mount Sinai, right, is an allegory. It actually happened in real life.

00:08:12.540 But it's an allegory for a person that raises their level of consciousness.

00:08:15.380 You're climbing your own personal Mount Sinai

00:08:17.660 There's messages to take from the stories

00:08:19.580 It's not just that

00:08:20.840 Have you ever done psychedelic drugs?

00:08:24.460 Yeah, I have

00:08:24.900 I wouldn't recommend that

00:08:26.220 Neither would I

00:08:27.500 And I'm not equating that with prophecy

00:08:30.040 Or the types of experiences that we're talking about

00:08:32.460 But you understand that there are altered states

00:08:34.800 That a person can enter

00:08:35.620 Absolutely

00:08:36.140 So just as a person can enter an altered state with psychedelics

00:08:39.380 There's many higher versions of that

00:08:41.220 Through fasting

00:08:41.980 Through fasting, through prayer

00:08:43.500 and not everyone's able to reach the same level.

00:08:46.240 You have a certain level of intelligence.

00:08:47.840 You meet many people that don't have the same level of intelligence as you.

00:08:50.560 Absolutely.

00:08:51.000 And you try to explain things to them.

00:08:52.620 There are certain things that they'll never be able to get that you just get.

00:08:55.600 Okay.

00:08:56.240 So part of the Mosaic concept is that he was the greatest prophet that ever lived,

00:08:59.820 which means that he was the smartest.

00:09:01.160 Jesus.

00:09:02.140 Moses.

00:09:02.680 Okay.

00:09:03.100 In our tradition, right?

00:09:04.120 Right.

00:09:04.320 He's the smartest man.

00:09:05.700 He's the most pious man.

00:09:06.920 He went through the desert all those years.

00:09:09.440 He grew up in royalty.

00:09:10.740 He's accumulated all of the knowledge that there is,

00:09:12.500 and now he's trying to give it to a nation.

00:09:14.540 So if you're trying to teach people,

00:09:15.840 and you have a variety of people that you're trying to educate,

00:09:18.220 you have to find a way to break things down to the smallest common denominator.

00:09:22.580 That's what it means to take the Torah, the Word of God,

00:09:25.580 from the top of the mountain, the highest level of potential understanding.

00:09:29.360 And explain it to the masses.

00:09:30.320 Yeah, you have to bring it down the mountain. 0.95

00:09:32.640 So all the rituals in Judaism, 0.99

00:09:34.560 all the things that you see Orthodox Jews do,

00:09:36.200 or that non-Orthodox Jews don't fully understand,

00:09:38.420 because they were never educated on, 0.62

00:09:40.020 All of that are very abstract, lofty things that are trying to be brought down to the masses.

00:09:45.860 And the beauty there is because the Jewish people are one nation,

00:09:48.920 when everyone's doing the same ritual, regardless of your level of intellect,

00:09:52.680 your level of piety, your level of worship, your level of revelation or education,

00:09:57.780 you can all participate in the same ritual together.

00:10:00.060 Well, how unified is it?

00:10:01.140 Because I see some do the chickens that they kill in the street.

00:10:05.200 Sure. 0.99

00:10:05.680 And some Jews are pro-Israel. 0.76

00:10:07.080 Some of the Hasidic Jews, I see a Palestine protest.

00:10:09.020 They say they're excommunicated.

00:10:10.640 It doesn't seem like there's one nation.

00:10:12.760 Okay, I mean, everyone has their issues.

00:10:14.600 I'm saying in theory that the concept of the religion

00:10:16.620 is that you take lofty things and you bring it down.

00:10:19.560 Yeah. 1.00

00:10:20.000 So the challenge, whenever someone comes to the Jewish people

00:10:24.580 and tries to introduce something new,

00:10:27.700 they have to understand that whole system.

00:10:29.380 I mean, Jesus clearly, I don't really like to talk about Christianity.

00:10:33.440 It's not my faith.

00:10:34.920 But when you read his dialogue,

00:10:36.900 He clearly is alluding to some of these concepts

00:10:39.380 Whether it's the bread

00:10:41.560 There's a lot of things

00:10:42.700 And the truth is, in Judaism itself

00:10:44.700 For the last thousand years 0.90

00:10:46.320 A lot of the things that Christians understand 0.67

00:10:48.520 Jews also understand

00:10:49.440 Like we just celebrated Passover

00:10:51.240 That's about getting rid of leavened bread

00:10:52.960 Jesus says the same thing 1.00

00:10:54.860 He says don't eat the bread of the rabbis 0.99

00:10:56.780 So they're playing the same playing field

00:11:00.140 So do you believe that he's in hell?

00:11:01.920 He's a what?

00:11:02.480 Do you believe he's in hell?

00:11:03.560 So this is my point

00:11:05.140 when the rabbis talk they're very very very wise men that spend their entire life

00:11:10.580 dedicating to scripture yes so they they're trying to take very lofty things and bring it down

00:11:15.600 now the talmud is they're kind of like the boys club it's them between themselves okay and it's

00:11:22.440 not really designed so it's not meant for us to read you can read it right but it's sort of like

00:11:26.580 a gated community it's a secret language yes okay gated community yeah yeah like williamsburg

00:11:31.140 exactly yeah so for you to walk into one of their their things listen to a lecture and think you're

00:11:35.300 going to you're going to understand you're not going to understand now if you if you assume

00:11:38.820 they're bad people that's why i'm asking you right no no i'm saying if not you if somebody

00:11:43.620 if somebody were to assume that they're bad people they might hear things and go oh these people are

00:11:47.060 terrible if they assume that they're wise and noble people then they might have a more uh you

00:11:52.340 know they might take the time to understand what's being so you're saying people should automatically

00:11:55.620 assume that what's wise and noble people i'm just saying that that based on your preconceived ideas

00:11:59.940 of someone if you hear something that's said privately you might have a different response

00:12:03.740 so let's say for example them saying that jesus is in hell if the way i understand it is that there

00:12:09.320 was a jewish man who if the story is accurate he loved god with all his heart and he wanted to

00:12:14.860 bring the redemption and the jews were clearly going through a hard time and were about to enter

00:12:18.280 something terrible and he gave himself over to that now what happened in history was that he

00:12:23.240 became a mascot for another religion which even if the sages of that religious believe in one god

00:12:28.340 and believed that there's nothing but God

00:12:30.200 and that the Son of God is a metaphor,

00:12:32.360 the masses took it literally.

00:12:34.240 The masses believed in the Trinity as basically idol worship, 1.00

00:12:37.060 as the Muslims call out, right? 1.00

00:12:39.320 So now our idea of hell is that your soul is eternal, 0.98

00:12:43.320 my soul is eternal.

00:12:44.660 Yeah, it's funny because you don't really believe in hell,

00:12:46.400 but the Talmud says Jesus is burning in hell.

00:12:48.260 That's kind of a paradoxical...

00:12:49.220 So that's my point is that every one of these things

00:12:51.460 requires a lot of study, what it actually means.

00:12:54.160 If his soul is eternal,

00:12:55.840 and if you're responsible for the impact you have in this world right even he says on the

00:12:59.980 mount that you judge a tree bites fruit and all that right so if you're judged by the impact that 0.68

00:13:04.100 you have in this world not just your intent but what you actually do so then him being in hell 0.73

00:13:09.980 can mean when when there were millions of jews if you want to yeah quickly please keep talking

00:13:15.800 sure when there were millions of jews killed in the name of him you can imagine what kind 0.52

00:13:20.080 suffering that causes a soul nice to meet you bro so what's your nice what's your belief about 0.69

00:13:29.980 islam because it's monotheistic we don't worship men so what's your why do you not believe in the

00:13:37.300 religion of islam yeah so everything in the judaism are very lofty ideas that are broken 0.66

00:13:42.280 down and they need to make sense across the board from the top sages to the masses islam did a good

00:13:47.780 job building a religion for the masses but for someone who studies the depths of the law like

00:13:52.320 myself it got rid of all the tradition it got rid of any basically all the treasure that is the 0.91

00:13:57.820 torah and its laws it got rid of like what well there's no for the jews there's no sabs no kosher

00:14:03.120 nothing no we have halal food halal food is as similar as kosher i understand but the my point

00:14:07.940 is that there's details in the law that are containing deep abstract truths about the nature

00:14:12.060 of reality let's put it this way yeah if moses communicated with god himself and god gave him

00:14:19.040 the secrets of reality you understand reality i don't understand reality you understand reality

00:14:22.560 as much as i try to okay i mean it's but it's absurd what's going on in this reality yeah so

00:14:26.920 if there was a man who was the greatest prophet that ever lived much greater than you and i

00:14:30.420 and god gave him the secrets of reality you think it was just as simple as i am god don't kill don't 0.76

00:14:35.620 steal i mean it's pretty i could come up with that so you think islam is just as rules and it

00:14:39.900 doesn't explain more nuances it well that's why i'm asking you it took this is in it's hard to

00:14:46.160 give it over because the maimonides one of our greatest sages said about islam that they were

00:14:51.120 the most brutal oppressors of the jewish people he lived under islamic rule and what about the

00:14:55.560 ottomans ottomans were no i understand that there are exceptions but this is just his testimony and

00:14:59.720 before 1948 you guys were coexisting pretty well in jerusalem i understand well

00:15:03.100 there's different narratives you might disagree right right but the point is that this is his

00:15:09.040 his testimony and he was he was the sultan's uh personal doctor he was doing pretty well objectively

00:15:14.060 but that was his testimony what he said about jesus was that it was a mistake um and that the

00:15:20.560 messiah will come and he'll correct the mistake meaning fundamentally they don't necessarily have

00:15:25.080 such a terrible flaw in their beliefs but the trinity was idol worship and the messiah will

00:15:30.620 come and kind of correct their thinking what does it mean to be the son of god what does it mean to

00:15:34.580 be born of a virgin what does it mean all this stuff that they believe that were taken too

00:15:38.480 literally, and turn it to paganism, in theory

00:15:40.620 could be explained and corrected, and whatever

00:15:42.520 can't be corrected, as soon as people

00:15:44.540 understand God, they'll let go of. With Islam, 1.00

00:15:46.800 he called him 0.98

00:15:48.440 a madman, which is a 0.86

00:15:50.600 very offensive thing to say about someone's 0.98

00:15:52.380 profit for billions of people.

00:15:54.740 Who's called a madman in Islam?

00:15:57.980 Maimonides

00:15:58.340 called Muhammad 0.96

00:16:00.400 a madman. 0.96

00:16:02.280 And that could sound very disrespectful. 0.98

00:16:05.140 But my

00:16:06.780 point, I don't disrespect madmen.

00:16:08.480 I think that madmen are people that have, that are exposed to reality more than the average person.

00:16:12.820 Right.

00:16:13.240 Or maybe they've gone through more suffering than the average person, and they don't know how to cope.

00:16:16.700 But they don't necessarily have, what's the difference between a madman and a prophet in Judaism?

00:16:21.060 Somebody who has a high level of intellect.

00:16:23.200 You know that Muhammad Peswadam had a high level of intellect?

00:16:25.260 Hold on, hold on.

00:16:26.020 High level of intellect and refined characteristics.

00:16:28.500 Okay.

00:16:29.200 So, which means that they have to, by nature, be kind and loving.

00:16:32.160 And all of these.

00:16:33.220 Which he was.

00:16:33.560 Merciful.

00:16:34.060 It could be, it could be.

00:16:34.920 But this was his testimony based on his tradition.

00:16:37.260 Right.

00:16:37.360 But the main thing, the main reason why he's not accepted is because in the Jewish tradition,

00:16:43.500 Moses set up a very specific religion, and each law contains secrets of the universe.

00:16:47.380 If you take the prophet aside, what is there, my camera's about Dyson, so I have to ask

00:16:51.360 you like two questions.

00:16:52.760 Take the prophet, what do you disagree about the religion of Islam?

00:16:56.000 In theory, it's a fine religion for the public.

00:16:59.020 I feel bad that it...

00:17:00.160 But you're chosen.

00:17:01.740 What does it mean to be chosen?

00:17:02.880 I don't know, I'm asking.

00:17:03.580 Okay, chosen means that we were at Sinai, and God revealed something to us.

00:17:06.880 and that anointed the best of us and that's why you know everything that you see about jews in

00:17:12.680 the world if they are pious religious jews they're some of the sweetest most angelic people 0.99

00:17:18.420 that you'll ever meet and the other ones are people that are confused and go off in the world 1.00

00:17:22.580 it's almost about to die i have two questions do you believe that there's sort of there's

00:17:27.300 racial supremacy within judaism that's the wrong construct because jews have every single race

00:17:32.460 within them. The Jewish tradition... 0.87

00:17:34.680 I've heard in the Talmud they don't accept

00:17:36.400 black people as part of the Jewish... 0.91

00:17:38.100 Moses married a black woman.

00:17:39.620 And there were black rabbis that were in the Talmud themselves.

00:17:42.340 And last question, do you support what Israel's doing? 0.83

00:17:45.020 Again, the Israeli 1.00

00:17:46.380 state is run by secular Jews and they don't have 1.00

00:17:48.480 all the wisdom and the tradition. I think it's 1.00

00:17:50.440 a trauma response that the Jewish people are dealing with.

00:17:53.620 I personally believe

00:17:54.600 that it should be a God-run state.

00:17:56.340 But the only way that that can happen is once people

00:17:58.500 actually understand what Judaism is,

00:18:00.620 secular Jews don't feel so embarrassed.

00:18:01.900 i think most secular jews literally feel embarrassed about being jews and it's they're

00:18:06.140 going through like a an identity crisis and it doesn't help having people attack them on the

00:18:10.860 streets yeah so it doesn't help my camera's about to die but it was great to speak to you likewise

00:18:15.340 i hope that maybe your conception of me changed if you do you think i don't have any negative

00:18:18.380 conceptions of you that's great um and hopefully we could all come together and the craziness that's

00:18:22.700 in the world right now yeah i would like to see that well i want to say one thing that you god

00:18:26.940 has chosen you for whatever reason we talk about chosen people every person is chosen for a mission

00:18:30.780 God has definitely chosen you for something, okay?

00:18:33.100 You have a huge platform.

00:18:34.560 You have some sort of special heart.

00:18:36.320 You're a seeker.

00:18:37.560 And you also have probably demons like all of us that you're fighting.

00:18:40.820 Absolutely.

00:18:41.460 And I think you need to think hard, like, long and deep about what God...

00:18:44.720 That's all I do.

00:18:45.220 Yeah, okay, great.

00:18:46.340 That's what I'm doing on this walk right now.

00:18:47.560 Walking in the club.

00:18:48.460 I guess I don't want to say it's from the Jewish ancestry, but it resonates.

00:18:54.140 God has chosen you for something.

00:18:55.820 And I hope that you keep seeking because even though it's not going to maybe make as good

00:19:00.360 viral material the as the clickbait stuff but there's deep deep introspection that you can do

00:19:05.320 and even let's say the conspiracies about jews or maybe you've heard about the noahideism

00:19:09.480 you haven't heard moses when he came down the mountain also had laws for all of humanity

00:19:13.680 and what that means is that if your battery's going to die i can't give it over right now

00:19:19.720 but that but the idea is that there's there's lots of truth and i hope you continue to find it

00:19:25.560 and maybe you play a role and actually bring in the redemption i hope so what's your name

00:19:28.560 Mendi. Menachem.

00:19:29.500 Menachem. Great to meet you.

00:19:31.020 God bless you.

00:19:31.740 And how do I say goodbye in Hebrew?

00:19:33.960 Shalom.

00:19:34.700 Shalom, brother.

00:19:35.560 Shalom.

00:19:36.100 Hope to see you again soon.

00:19:37.180 God bless.

00:19:37.860 All right. God bless you too.

00:19:39.240 If you want to learn more about Judaism, you can do this off camera.

00:19:41.660 I'd be happy to connect to you either myself or with someone else. 0.97

00:19:43.840 Yeah, let me take down your number.

00:19:44.720 Sure.

SHNEAKO - April 05, 2026

SELFLESS NARCISSISM

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