The Matt Walsh Show - December 30, 2020


Matt Walsh tries to understand Tekashi 6ix9ine

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Matt Walsh
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Length

9 minutes

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174.16

Word count

1,666

Sentence count

121

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

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Toxicity

25

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Hate speech

8

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Summary

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Tekashi 69 is one of the most misunderstood rappers of all time. He s a gang member who sold out his crew to avoid 40 years in prison. And yet, he s also a poet, a singer, and a humanitarian.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, this is Matt. What you're about to listen to is from my rap review series where I try to find the deeper meaning in the genre.
00:00:05.860 You can subscribe to my YouTube page at youtube.com slash The Matt Wall Show so you can watch the entire series.
00:00:11.080 Okay, I'm very excited today for the chance to listen to and experience a joint from my man, Tekashi69.
00:00:17.740 He is, for my money, one of the most transcendent artists in the history of Western civilization.
00:00:23.280 As a poet, I put him on the level of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
00:00:26.300 As a singer, he's Pavarotti. As a humanitarian, he's Mother Teresa.
00:00:30.720 And to think he achieved all of that despite suffering that horrific accident where he fell into a giant tie-dye machine.
00:00:37.000 He actually, well, he actually looks a little bit like a bowl of Fruity Pebbles come to life.
00:00:41.080 Or maybe he looks like something out of a Skittles commercial in hell.
00:00:45.120 But I say all of that in a positive way. It's all part of his genius, really.
00:00:48.700 Now, the song we're going to be experiencing today is a classic.
00:00:51.920 It's an oldie, one of the Tekashi69 songs that my dad was listening to back in the day.
00:00:56.520 It's not from Tekashi's newest album, which, by the way, is available now for purchase.
00:01:00.500 It's called Tattletale.
00:01:02.500 Tattletale being a little reference to the fact that he's a gang member who sold out his crew to avoid 40 years in prison.
00:01:10.260 Lots of people think that, you know, he lost street cred for that because he's a snitch and all that.
00:01:14.480 But personally, I think it makes him more relatable.
00:01:17.920 Because I can tell you, I would totally flip on my crew to avoid 40 years in prison.
00:01:22.260 Wouldn't anyone?
00:01:22.760 If I'm going down, I'm taking a whole lot of people with me.
00:01:25.420 If I had a crew, I mean, at all, I would flip on them.
00:01:28.520 This is probably why I don't have one.
00:01:30.120 And I'm never going to get one if I keep talking like this.
00:01:32.260 But if I had a crew, I would dime them out in a second.
00:01:36.040 I would sit down for the interrogation.
00:01:38.380 The detective would come in.
00:01:39.840 And 12 seconds later, I will have told them everything.
00:01:42.680 I got your back.
00:01:44.320 It's a life.
00:01:46.340 She did it.
00:01:47.580 What? 1.00
00:01:48.640 You b****! 1.00
00:01:49.600 It would be that easy. 0.99
00:01:51.060 I don't think I've ever had a friendship that I wouldn't ruin to avoid a lifetime in prison.
00:01:55.740 But in any case, that's just the background on the artist.
00:01:58.020 Now, let's get to the song.
00:01:59.140 This one is from way back in 2017.
00:02:01.840 Like I said, it's an oldie. 0.96
00:02:03.620 But certainly a goodie.
00:02:05.160 It's called Cuda.
00:02:06.860 All right.
00:02:07.360 Let's give it a listen.
00:02:08.440 See, can I just say here, you know, I appreciate this dichotomy.
00:02:24.980 And already we're seeing the nuances of Tekashi 6ix9ine.
00:02:29.040 He's got the puppy.
00:02:29.800 He's being affectionate.
00:02:31.340 In the next moment, though, he's pointing a gun at your face.
00:02:34.020 It's as if to say, yes, I can be sensitive.
00:02:36.640 I can appreciate these more pleasant moments.
00:02:39.120 I can stop to smell the roses. 1.00
00:02:40.340 But I can also shoot you in the head for no reason. 1.00
00:02:43.060 Now, a therapist might say that that's a symptom of a psychopathic personality disorder. 0.99
00:02:47.040 But I say, no, this is just what it means to be human, really.
00:02:49.800 We can all relate to it on some level.
00:02:52.620 Let's keep listening.
00:02:53.540 Okay, now let's take a second to reflect on these lyrics.
00:03:07.220 Now, this is the kind of moment in a Tekashi song where I know that he gets me.
00:03:28.260 You know, he understands where I'm coming from.
00:03:29.800 And I feel a little bit less alone in the universe.
00:03:32.180 Because so often I walk through life feeling, frankly, booted.
00:03:36.560 And often my wife will say to me, honey, you're not booted, are you?
00:03:40.580 And then I say, yeah, I am booted.
00:03:43.020 I am.
00:03:43.920 And she'll say, we've talked about this. 0.98
00:03:45.660 And I'll say, okay, well, if you don't want me to be booted, then get this sucker up out 0.98
00:03:50.040 of my face in that case. 0.96
00:03:52.340 So just a normal marital spat that couples have while walking through Bed Bath & Beyond on
00:03:56.520 a Tuesday.
00:03:58.580 Let's get back to the song.
00:03:59.800 She a skis, uh, really don't need her, uh, busting a lever, uh, she a lil' eater, uh, 1.00
00:04:05.380 get back, kick back, blow your sh** back, uh, rip that, take that, flip that, send that, 1.00
00:04:10.220 uh, two, two, three, hit, where you hold that, uh, skim gang, buck that, spendy for that. 0.99
00:04:15.340 Okay, I do have to say just one note here.
00:04:18.600 Probably you don't want to take a job as a cameraman on a Tekashi 6ix9ine music video,
00:04:24.980 because you're going to have a lot of people pointing probably loaded guns right at you.
00:04:29.240 I mean, there are a lot of basic gun safety protocols that are being disregarded here.
00:04:33.580 If you don't know how to handle one of these things, you got no business carrying one.
00:04:40.300 So that is a concern.
00:04:41.920 You know, I just wonder how many cameramen perished during the making of this video.
00:04:45.800 Everybody's dancing, jumping up and down, drinking God knows what, probably high,
00:04:49.500 and they're literally singing about killing people.
00:04:51.860 And meanwhile, they all have loaded guns, and they're pointing it at the camera that you're holding.
00:04:57.920 I just, it seems like a hazardous combination of factors.
00:05:01.680 I hope they have workman's comp, is all I'm, it's really all I'm saying.
00:05:05.200 But you know what?
00:05:06.000 However many cameramen died, they didn't die in vain.
00:05:10.740 They died for the sake of true art.
00:05:13.720 Let's continue.
00:05:25.500 Okay, N-words running out their mouth, but they never pop out.
00:05:30.080 I got the drop on your spot, everybody watch out.
00:05:32.980 All my N-words on 50.
00:05:34.600 So you know he hopped out.
00:05:36.300 Mobbed out, ops out.
00:05:38.140 We gonna show what we about.
00:05:39.440 I think what Takashi is saying here is, what he's saying is that man is a creature which reaches beyond himself,
00:05:49.940 which cries out for something greater than himself, running out their mouth, right?
00:05:54.560 Meaning the words, as you are deep in prayer, spring forth from your mouth, running, streaming.
00:06:00.540 But words are just abstractions, just symbols.
00:06:02.740 Takashi is saying, you as a person, on the other hand, you are bound by physical laws.
00:06:07.600 You are attached to your mortal coil, and you cannot pop out.
00:06:11.360 You cannot hop out.
00:06:13.400 You cannot overcome that limitation.
00:06:15.820 I got that drop on your spot, Takashi observes.
00:06:18.600 And it's so true, because we are all, as it were, dropped onto our spots.
00:06:22.620 We are all plucked out of eternity, dropped into this physical frame, and we can but obey its limitations.
00:06:28.720 But Takashi 6.9 is really asking us to reflect on this fundamental tension between man's desire and man's limitation.
00:06:35.700 Honestly, when I listen to a Takashi 6.9 song, and when I look at him, I'm reminded, you know, a lot of C.S. Lewis, the mid-20th century Christian apologist.
00:06:44.340 Very similar in many ways.
00:06:46.260 And something C.S. Lewis once said was, if I find in myself a desire which nothing in this world can satisfy,
00:06:51.260 the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.
00:06:54.960 And I imagine Takashi 6.9 had that passage in mind when he wrote those lyrics, because very similar themes are at work here.
00:07:02.020 Let's keep listening.
00:07:02.980 You can talk hot on the internet, boy! 1.00
00:07:05.960 That's that goofy s**t! 0.99
00:07:07.060 We ain't into that, boy! 1.00
00:07:08.580 Black Van, pull up to your mama crib, boy! 1.00
00:07:10.980 Tie her up, drive that s**t off a bridge, little boy! 1.00
00:07:13.820 Okay, listen to this again. 1.00
00:07:15.620 You can talk hot on the internet, boy. 1.00
00:07:18.700 That's that goofy s**t! 0.99
00:07:20.320 We ain't into that, boy. 1.00
00:07:21.620 Black Van, pull up to your mama crib, boy! 1.00
00:07:24.260 Tie her up, drive that s**t off a bridge, little boy! 1.00
00:07:27.040 that's um oh okay that's just him threatening to kidnap your mother and 1.00
00:07:33.480 drive her off a bridge i think that's all that is there
00:07:36.160 so that's that's that was the point of that line i guess um let's just let's just keep let's keep
00:07:43.260 going
00:07:43.460 okay let's uh
00:07:56.960 let's collect ourselves here and and and focus in on that final line of the song
00:08:02.040 he says we post up we don't do the race you go and die today stunning it takes my breath away
00:08:11.120 just this line alone is poetic and biting and rebellious and and satirical what he's saying
00:08:18.100 here is that we post up like fence posts you know we erect fence posts walling ourselves in hiding
00:08:23.780 from the reality of our own mortality we don't want to enter into the race of human existence 0.99
00:08:28.160 because we know where that race ends and indeed that it ends to enter the race is to approach
00:08:34.500 every moment near the finish line but the kashi says you go and die today he says today maybe 0.91
00:08:39.240 not today literally but but one day on a day someday you will die so he says embrace the
00:08:44.740 finitude confront your life in its brevity and live it with fervor and honesty paint your hair
00:08:50.600 in rainbow colors and your teeth and get together with your homies and dance dance
00:08:55.880 takashi 6 9 a scriptural scholar in his own right he's pulling you can tell directly from the book
00:09:01.060 of isaiah which says and behold joy and gladness slaying oxen killing sheep eating flesh and drinking
00:09:05.660 wine let us eat and drink for tomorrow we shall die that's exactly the truth so live now for tomorrow
00:09:13.060 you shall die or in fact today you might die especially if you're high on crack and dancing 0.85
00:09:18.800 with a loaded gun and i think that's the lesson we really take away from this something for us all 0.89
00:09:26.400 to think about as we go about the rest of our day which may be our final day thanks for watching
00:09:33.660 everybody