Ep892 Spotting the Enemy

We usually picture our enemies as obvious antagonists—difficult people, direct competitors, or open hostility. But the most dangerous threats to your peace, focus, and progress are rarely that loud.

In this episode, we’re putting on our detective hats to expose the subtle, undercover saboteurs holding you back. The truth is, "the enemy" isn’t always a person. Sometimes, it’s a place you keep returning to, or a frictionless thing sitting right in your pocket.

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Yo, it's your main man Rahim Ra C L Man. We all been taught that the enemy isn't someone that is wearing a what? Villain cape or actively plotting on our downfall, right? But if I told you that the biggest threat to your peace, your goals, your sanity isn't always the people. You feel me? Sometimes it's a place, sometimes it's a thing that's sitting right at your desk. You dig? In this video, bro, we're gonna break down everything that you gotta identify. You feel me? We're finna put on our detective hats. We finna make sure that we can spot an op when we see one. You feel me? Whether that's a person, a toxic um environment, you feel me, a toxic habit that's secretly what just pulling you and sabotaging everything inside of your body, right? Because the truth is the person isn't always screaming at you. Sometimes they're just quietly rooting for your downfall. And the place isn't always a dark alley, you dig? It could be a workplace that's slowly suffocating your creativity. You can't even think no more on this motherfucker. You feel me? And the thing, well, it might not just be an app that you spend a few hours on the day scrolling through while wondering why you're so damn stressed. You dig? So today, man, the enemy could be anything, anywhere, any object. You feel me? So today I want y'all to know, man, by the end of this video, you gonna be foolproof. You feel me? You're gonna have your goddamn enemy radar on. You know, like on Call of Duty, when your UAV comes on, you get to see where all your enemies at. This is the same way you're gonna know how to identify the hidden energy vampires, the thing that pull your energy out of you, you feel me? And more importantly, how to evict it from out your life. Like they gotta go. You feel me? You can't fuck their money. No, you know they got to get out your life, right? So before you'd even get in this video, man, just think about this one. You feel me? Like hit the like button. You feel me? I'm gonna start saying it before and after. You feel me? So hit the like because you're gonna like this one, man. Cause I love it already, right? Let's get into the points, right? Despoting the person, detective, right? Like once you put your oh, hold up. Is that though? What you hear? Once you put that damn hat on, you got it's time to identify what's going on with this moment, and you can identify this with with really just energy if you if you're wise enough. You dig? But these are like the key points on how to just spot the energy killers, you feel me? This for the person, right? The first thing is, man, the backhand cheerleader. You feel me? They celebrate your wins, but always attach it a convict. You feel me? Like, congrats on the promotion, but be nice to get um, must be nice to be lucky like that. You feel me? Like, you you you hear the little small gesture, you dig? Like this is just an example. Like, mm, why they choose you type shit? Like, you feel me? Like, you know how you get those. You dig you you feel it, you know what the fuck going on. You ain't hey, get ass a hug and keep walking. Give them a hug and keep doing what you're doing, you feel me? Because they won't they want that ignorant shit to come out of you. You dig? They know what they're doing, you feel me? They wish it was them, you dig? Like that's all they do. You feel me? They just want to what? Pull you down with them. You dig, and the next person to spot is the what the energy drainer. You leave every conversation with them feeling physically and emotionally exhausted rather than uplifted and neutral. You dig? Every time they come in, you know as well on some bullshit. It's just like that manager that all's wages. What you finna come on? Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm. I'm finna do it, yeah. Uh-huh. Like she just finna ask you some stupid shit. She knows that goddamn well you ain't did yet. She finna ask you that damn question that she knows she could have asked you earlier, type shit. You know how this shit goes at work, but you're gonna always what? Have those people in a job, you're gonna have them people everywhere you go. So knowing that it's finna happen, it should not allow you allowed to happen. You feel me? You know somebody just finna be on some dumb shit doing it on purpose, man. Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm. Go do it. Go ahead and have that business, you feel me? Because they they really want to what pull you down physically and emotionally, they want you to smack the shit out of them. They want that. You feel me? Some of them managed to be wanting you to smack their ass so they can go home and goddamn, you know, go for the screen. You feel me? Like them folks will be be on at their jobs. They've been there too long, they'll do whatever to get a break. You feel me? Think about you working somewhere for 50, 50 years, 50 weeks straight a year. You feel me? Get no fucking break. You man, you get tired of that shit. Some people do whatever they can to get out because to leave work. Some people will find whatever excuse they can to say, hey, no, I can't come. You feel me? You got those people at the job, so man, you gotta what? Be able to spot them enemies, them enemies to you. You feel me? In certain positions, certain people are enemies to you. You dig? So the next one is gonna be the selective supporter. They are loud and present when you are struggling or venting, but suddenly become quiet and distant and dismissive when you succeed. You feel me? And that's that's life. That's how they're supposed to go. You feel me? Like they damn, this motherfucker done really what? They really didn't need it. Nah, I ain't finna call them no more because I used to bring him down all the time. I used to always try to make them feel bad. You feel me? Like, you know, you got them people in your life. You know you didn't have them in your life if you ain't got them done no more because they gonna be there. Because this is part of life. You some people gonna be part of your goddamn and your squad, some people ain't, and both of them with you. You feel me? So you gotta understand the one that ain't with you, they really with you too. You feel me? So it's it goes both ways when you when you smart and you thinking about nothing but what you got going on. You feel me? Like it's this picture I got on my phone, but it's got focus and you know, unfocus. You feel me? And if one of them you see everybody in the crowd, and one of them, you you don't see nothing. You know how a couple was like, I don't hear you what go on like you when you're on that court, you don't hear nothing. That's that mumbo mentality type shit you want to have going on. With me, when you're doing something, you don't hear the dumb shit going on. If you I don't hear what the fuck you got going on, even if you support me, you even if you ain't. I don't give a damn. Because you guess what? God made that promise to you to what keep going and do what you do and stay consistent, man. So don't let nobody stop you, especially on no person, man. And this is the last one, the relentless critic, disguised as they as honesty. They constantly pick at your flaws or ideas under this under disguise of just keeping it real or being a good friend, right? So the critic they disguise it as like man, I'm just gonna be honest with you. You feel me? Like they they they gonna get your flaws or ideas in in disguise them just keeping it real or being a good friend. Like they just wanna be around you just to take everything that you were finna do from you and do it, do it themselves. You feel me? Like they don't bullshit, like they on real gangster time. Like this is the white man that that comes in and and and and um get your rights to everything you ever did, you feel me, without you knowing. You feel me? Like this is him, like that's that person here. Like he now, he is you know gene and with his shit. He like this, he do this shit with like his nature. This is in his nature, so why he do this shit gonna hit different. You feel me? You see how they just did boosting and gave that man all that money because so he can go get his pardon? Like, how the hell did this? You can pay for parting. Niggas like knowing, but niggas, they niggas, oh I'm trying to get up under the table too. Now, like, oh yeah, boy, you got yourself bit. But this is how that type of shit go, like my mind. Like, hold up. Look like two white boys came over here and gave him a contract and made him sign and get half your money back. And I'll just still the play was to get 300 anyway, because he wasn't gonna get the pardon anyway. Like, damn, that's what it sounds like now. That's what the news making this look like now. I'm like, damn man, that's some gangster shit now. When they do their dirt, they do it big. Like for real. So when when you got that type of man person around you, acting like they trying to help you, but really not. I used to book a guy called Please Stop Helping Us. And it's by um, I forgot who it was by, but it's back here. But it's like just please stop giving us all this bullshit, y'all. Please stop giving us all these programs. Like y'all really killing us, trying to think about y'all helping us. It's really keeping us well in line, keeping us under control. Like, and it's talking about all the programs that they put in place to stop, to um stop, bro. Like, man. I don't even think I read the whole book. I think I did. Yeah, I did. I read the whole thing. Yes, it's it's by um Jason Riley. Please stop helping us. Like, how liberals make it harder on blacks to succeed. Like, this is a good read. Like, you wanna know, like, man, a person trying to acting like they trying to help you and giving you this, they really killing you, making sure you sick and giving you all this milk and all this cow products and all this damn dairy. Man, this shit pissed me off when I just think about it. Like, man, please, I don't want no help. Just give me a job, man. Let me work. Let me go to work like you, bruh. And they really, they do take us out the workforce easily. Like, they make it real easy on us, man. They make it real easy on us to stop wanting what go to work. Stop taking their programs like the it says, let me just read the the contents to you. The black man in the White House. Culture matters, the enemy within, mandate unemployment, educational freedom, um, of affirming discrimination. My grandma whoop my ass not knowing that. I don't know that damn word right now, grandma. I know it, but I don't. But yeah, man, just it was a quick read, but I just went through it, and that just really stick, but it just gave me that that title just stuck with me. You feel me? Don't help me. Don't give me that. I don't want one name that you give me for free. Thank you. You feel me? Thank some shit for free, and there's really a a big ass fee behind it. You feel me? So you just just watch that shit, y'all. Like this the person like sh is an enemy. It's easy. In my mind, this should be easy to part of the enemy. Nigga wanna be around you too much, nigga acting weird. Fuck nah. Spot him. Like, hell no, spot him got him. Like, hell no, nigga do some dumb shit around you. One time, got to still go. No, you grown. Fuck nah. You do that shit on a regular, huh? Nah. You feel me? Like, you gotta be in on how to recognize shit. Like, I I I peep that shit cool. I let niggas sing. I give my but I be getting my mental strikes. Like one, two. I ain't even gonna tell y'all that nothing. Like, I'm scared. I don't even know what homie no more. Fuck you on. This all I'm gonna do. Like, fuck that. But the next one is man spot in the place, man. When you in a when you are in a place, a toxic fucking environment. And this shit here, now this is what I don't like. I don't like no toxic environment though. My youth above it. You feel me? The continent, the cognitive fog zone, right? A physical place, like a cluttered room or a Pacific Osper where you focus immediately and it drops, confusion or anxiety takes place, right? So, like, where I saying, like, you go anywhere. Like, I'm like right now in my room, it got to stay clean. Where we stay at, it got to stay clean. Where the family at, where anybody I know at. If I'm in that sits in that bitch, I'm finna clean up. I'm finna make some room in this bitch. I'm finna shit. Can this get out of the way? Can it like I'm finna move, I'm finna rearrange and shit. I'm finna make sure my seat looking clean. You feel me? I'm gonna sit back and relax. If I'm finna go sit my body in any place, I'm finna what? Make sure that I'm comfortable. Like you see some shit toxic, man. Don't be sitting around that shit. Some shit stink. Don't be sitting up breathing that shit in. You breathing in fucking toxins, you breathing in goddamn fecal matter, you breathing in goddamn um toxinemans, like a lot of shit that you breathing in and it's killing you when you breathing in dumb shit. So don't be sitting up breathing that shit in, man. Get the fuck out of that damn environment. You smell shit, looking shit dumb. Don't sit in that shit. They do this shit to our environment on purpose. Like they come put these factories and shit, these um AI buildings in our environment. They come put these damn factories, they come put the damn fuck the grass up, fuck the environment up. They don't give a fuck. So, and when you man, you you know the toxic environment looks like physically, period. You feel me? And this is another like per like example of a toxic environment, the association, a location that triggers immediate negative memories, a bad habit, or identify you with your outgrown moment you stepped inside it. You feel me? Like, you know, going back to the hood on ain't no what the fuck you going back there for? For what? You ain't going to help it, you need to stay out of it. You feel me? Type shit. Like anything you mean, you what the fuck are you going over there for to feel bad? But why you want to feel bad? Like, come on now. You don't go top taking your mind and your body to these places. These are the enemy now. Anything that makes you feel down and and and and not want to be around, it's the enemy. That's the op. Like, you ain't gotta be just a thing, a person, you feel me? It can be an environment that you go in, just man, I don't know. I got still. Like, I can't think of what I don't mind. I don't mind going nowhere. No shit, like you feel me. I'm not, I had a good childhood, so I don't gotta worry about no nothing. I want some, oh shit. Hell no, I don't want to go over there. No, I'm cool. I ain't did nothing to me. I bet they hey, I'm on some, I bet they won't type shit. You feel me? Like, nigga, that's my mindset. So, man, but if you got location triggers, man, don't go over there. Anything to identify with bad habits, you finna go over there and start back smoking or some shit. You finna go over there and be wanna drink or fight. No, don't go over there with that shit. No, hell no, don't go over that period. Feel me? No, don't take yourself back over there. You can you're not walking over there no more. You know, you can find everybody over there, and they uh yeah, no, you don't need to be over there, bro. You feel me? So the next one is gonna be the friction trap, a workspace or environment designed so poorly that it creates constant resistance, making it unnecessary or difficult to start or finish your work, right? So when you doing something and you trying to finish some shit up, you you can't be at home doing your work, go go to the library, go somewhere else. You feel me? Go find another place where you can go chill and and make sure things is right for you because this is not the place for you, right? And the next one is gonna be the complacency um incubator, a place that feels too safe and comfortable, actually discouraging you from taking risks growing and seeking new opportunities. You feel me? This can be staying in the same house too long, this can be staying in the same apartment too long, this can be coming from stay in the same position for too long. You feel me? You've been here too long. It's time to change the environment so you can grow. So you can, you feel me? Like what they say, like a fish can't grow in this tank because the tank ain't big enough. You feel me? Sometimes you gotta outgrow what you're doing, and that's how life goes, man. If you know how to grow things, man, it's gonna outgrow your ass. Period. Somebody gonna get the weeds start growing out their ass because they stand in the same place too damn long. You dig and the last one's gonna be, man, spotting that thing. You feel me? That thing, man. The thing could be anything. The freaks on this time suck. Any app, device, or tool that you open out of pure muscle memory rather than conscious intent, vaporizing hours of the day. That phone, we know that. Every time I think about my I try to hurry up and get off Instagram, bring me when you're on here, get off. You feel me? Skip, you need everything you need to do today. Like, get off this bitch. Like, real talk. You feel me? I'll try to get on the bitch in the last end of my day. Then I'll try to get a fucking book over that. Like that phone is fucking dangerous, bro. You really just can waste all your fucking time. Me out the nickname that damn thing say vaporizing your whole day, vaporizing shit. Literally, smoke, you might well smoke your day away. You feel me? If you ain't gonna do nothing, I'm finna go read, I'm finna go write, I'm finna go run, I'm finna go get something done. Fuck that. It's something I can do. It's something I can be doing right now. You feel me? Like, ain't no way. And that's it's so easy to get behind. So be counterproductive, man. Items you turn from um the um, all right, this is the counterproductive comfort, right? Items you turn for a quick trips, like junk food, excessive screaming, or in post shopping, that actually leaves you feeling worse afterwards. Like, you know, some shit. If you finna go, if you gotta go get them and do some shit, don't do it. And if you gotta order some shit, don't do it. Like, man, stop it. Relax. This is the enemy. You know they the enemy because this what it every time you do, you don't feel good after you've done it. Like, try to think about the feeling that you finna feel after you've done that shit. Like, nah, fuck it. Like, let me get through this moment. What can I do to get through this moment? It's some shit that you can do. Go, go read, go write. You feel me? Go draw. Go put it on paper. Go do something else that's positive with that time right quick. I promise you, you'll become way more happier than that after that hour over, after that 30 minutes over. So just find that time. Like a hidden tax tool, a tool or subscription you pay for either with money or with mental bandwidth. This demands maintenance and stretch that you value it actually provides. Like the hidden tax, like you every time you dynamic plan for some shit, you say, Let me break this down to myself first. A tool or subscription you pay for either with money or mental bandwidth. This this demands more maintenance and stress than the value. Okay. So it's basically saying you paying with your money and your time. This thing is if if it's pulling from if it's taking your money in your time, this is the enemy. Basically, you watching YouTube and you paying for YouTube. This shit is taking your money in your time. You you popping, you, you um paying for Netflix and you paying for um and you watching it all day. This shit is taking all your time. If it's not, if you doing it all day. You feel me? Ain't nothing wrong with YouTube if you watching it for 10 minutes a day. I gotta watch YouTube every day. I'm finna get up every day, watch Dave Rams on YouTube. You feel me? I'm finna get up every day and I'm finna goddamn and watch something positive on YouTube. You feel me? Like this my mindset, you feel me? Like, I'm finna turn on YouTube for my kids, like, but you gotta know is this sabotaging for your what brand, for your mind, for the uh if you if you're doing this, are you doing this too much? Are you getting an hour or two in a day of this? Are you watching something positive? Are you watching something that's not so entertaining, something that's exercising your mind, making you think and making you pause and and write it down, type shit? Or you just sitting there just watching and laughing and and not breathing real life into yourself. You feel me? Like right now, I'm breathing real life in myself because I'm doing something that is what necessary for me to grow, necessary that I want to see me have been grown in the fruit. You feel me? Like, I know this is step one only. You feel me? After step one, I go to another phase. I'm now I'm in this type of environment. Now I'm in this type of environment. You feel me? So as I change the environments, I gotta have that cap on my head at all times to spot the things that are not helping me out at the time. If this is not helping me, I'm not doing it. If this, if this, I ain't got time to be chilling. I ain't got time to be doing nothing that ain't really uh of good nature because it's what bringing me down, man. So man, focus on what you gotta focus on, man. Keep your mind on the right things and spot the enemy, man. My videos get longer and longer, and I don't know what's going on, but it is what it is. I think it's just because if I want it, you can get it out and gotta get it out of this system, man. Once you get it out, it come out to y'all so the world can get it. One day the whole world can watch every video that I ever posted. Like, they're gonna go, damn, he got a lot of videos, man. All these videos are gonna have over a million views. Like, that's how you gotta think it, how you gotta feel this the faith you gotta have, man. So y'all start playing your time, y'all start playing your life, man. Spot the enemy. You feel me? Like, I'm finna I ain't gonna talk about it, just gonna do. Let's get it, let's go, man.