Culture Vultures & Broken Mindsets: It's Time to Change the Game

What if everything you’ve been calling “culture”…is actually conditioning?

In this powerful episode of the Black Sheep Leadership Podcast, we break down the truth about culture vultures, generational ignorance, entitlement, and the cycles that continue to repeat across communities and environments.

This is not a surface-level conversation.

This is a deep dive into:

🔹 The real meaning of culture (and its roots in cultivation and agriculture)
🔹 The difference between external and internal culture vultures
🔹 How generational ignorance becomes normalized behavior
🔹 Entitlement and arrogance as learned patterns
🔹 The cycle of “the oppressed becoming the oppressor.”
🔹 How to identify and break toxic behavioral patterns

You’ll learn how to:

✔ Recognize destructive cycles in people and environments
✔ Shift your mindset from inherited behavior to intentional growth
✔ Identify entitlement and ungrateful patterns quickly
✔ Break generational cycles and lead differently

Because the truth is…

Not everything passed down deserves to be preserved.

And sometimes…

You are the one chosen to break the cycle.

"INFORMATION IS EVERYWHERE EXECUTION IS RARE"

Transcript

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Hey, hey, hey everybody. It's your girl Finn and Renee here back with another episode of the Black Sheep Leadership Podcast. The no fluff, no filter, no fear podcast for the underdogs, the mutt mystics, and the black sheets that's ready to level up in any economy. Now check this out, y'all. Today, we're gonna be dropping a heavy, heavy, heavy episode. So we're gonna definitely have to do this vibe check. Listen to me very carefully. If you are sensitive and easily triggered, waiting on somebody to save you, highly offended about everything. Listen, please get up out of here because today we're going hard in the paint. Alright? Because we're gonna be talking about culture vultures and broken mindsets, the seas we keep planting. Yes, yes, y'all. We have to discuss this one. I'm sure outside of all the e-files that you're being you've been hearing about and um the troubles that's going on um around the Strait of Hormaz and Iran and all these different things. Well, guess what? Something new came up. So there was an incident where a hip hop artist invited his record the record label owner to a studio in Dallas, Texas, and the artist and multiple people decided to strong arm the artist, or excuse me, decided to strong arm the owner to force him to release him from the record label. And it is so many things about that incident that we can unpack, but I had to jump in on this because this is something that I really want you guys to understand the difference between a black sheep and people that get opportunities and they not worthy, but they entitled. Okay, because because first and foremost, guys, listen to me very carefully. If you listen to a lot of this music out here, and it don't just have to be music, as a black sheep, you know, you've seen it where your work is way better than a lot of this subpar stuff out here, right? But because of certain things, these people will get the opportunity, whether it's through knowing someone, or it could even be having a certain look about them, right? Sometimes it could be something that they've done in the past that uh makes that brand more relatable, right? But today we're gonna be talking about culture vultures and broken mindsets and the seeds that we keep planting, y'all. This is gonna be a very, very heavy um episode because I want you guys to understand as a black sheep, we always say nobody's coming to save us, right? Nobody's coming to save us, but I want you to see the huge difference between people that truly they have opportunities and what they do with them, right? And when they revert back to old broken mindsets, and I'm gonna show you guys today how it is even general, it even runs in generations. This is a generational problem, and this issue is heavy. So let's talk about something uncomfortable culture, not the surface level version, not trends, not music, not what's popular. I'm talking about the behaviors we normalize because some of what we call culture is not culture at all, it's actually conditioning, and today we're talking about culture vultures, not just people who take from a culture and and borrow it and do little things, hairstyles and all that, not none of that. We're talking about people who exploit it, distort it, and repeat cycles that they should have been broke ages ago, decades ago. And the reason why we know for a fact that they should have been broken is because when it does not multiply, when it is not fruitful, to where it will leave something behind for the next generation in a positive manner, guys, it's trash, and we need to break it and take it out, not recycle it and pass it down, not recycle it and regurgitate it. So, what is culture really? Because, guys, I really want you to understand because we started throwing that word around a lot, specifically around the time when the Migos um had come out with their album called Culture. I believe uh Cardi B's young daughter name is culture, she's so adorable. And you know, and culture is very interesting, it's funny because it always takes not always, but a lot of times. Have you ever noticed something that has been around for a while? It always takes for like an artist or somebody like a celebrity to hop on it before people will even start to use the word. It's just so weird to me. But, guys, this is proof that we are living in a world full of followers, and I'm talking to you about this in this light because you are a black sheep, you were not born to follow people, you were born to lead. Okay, and so I remember first hearing about the word culture back when I was studying history. Um, I was really, and I've always been heavy into archaeology, it's funny because, and I'm gonna tell you guys something since we're talking about broken mindsets. I wanted to actually get I wanted to be an archaeologist, and because I had a broken mindset, I told myself, I mean, they found everything already, right? That's not nothing they'll be doing, you know, in the 2000s and fast forward, guess what? If I wouldn't have had a broken mindset, I could have had a YouTube channel about cool urban archaeology or whatever, but that's just another example of a broken mindset, how it can really alter. Don't get me wrong, guys. You continue to come back and do the thing that you're supposed to do, just like now. I still reference and base a lot of historical things in my work that I do now. But that was just a quick personal example of when we're talking about broken mindsets. I'm gonna tell you another really quickly, and we're gonna keep on, we're gonna get into this word culture because I want you to understand, like on a deep level, I've started to study etymology, um, and that is the origin of words, and guys, we don't even realize that our words are spells. Did you know that grammar grammar comes from the word grimoire? And grimoire is a book of spells by witches and warlocks. Isn't that crazy? So I've started to study that, and so we're gonna get into this thing about culture because I want you to really start to understand the things that you are saying, and the things that is going on out here, and when you understand the origin of something, then that will truly give you a strong basis on how to change it, even if you're not here to change the world, you might just be here to change your city, your state, your neighborhood, or your family. Okay, but one quick thing on that broken mindset. Do you guys remember if you were around in 1999 when it was about to be 2000? There were people that were selling their homes, their belongings, and everything because they didn't think the world could go past 1999. There were church members that literally were selling everything, saying the world is coming to an end because of a broken mindset. There was people saying that the Y2K that the BBB players and they will not be able to go to 2000, and they were selling everything and being scared, guys. Fear they sold them fear. Why? Because it is a broken mindset. So let's talk about culture. What culture really is the word culture comes from cultivation, agriculture, and you know agriculture means to grow, to plant, to nurture, and to develop over time. Let me say it again. Culture comes from the word agriculture, which means grow, plant to nurture and to develop over time. So culture is not random, it's plant it. It don't matter what culture you put in it. If you want to say, oh, that culture, they always join games. No matter what culture it is, that's a seed. If you say, oh, that culture, they always do whatever, whatever those things are, they always um they go to certain types of events, that's their culture. Cultures are things that have been groomed and seed and watered and and nurtured throughout time with specific people or specific neighborhood, but mainly with a specific group of people. And check this out if it's a seed, that means it was taught and modeled. Okay, let me tell you something. That means it was taught, modeled, repeated, and passed down. So when you look at behaviors, you're not just looking at one person, you're looking at a harvest. Let's stop right there. So let me give you an example. Because, guys, you know, as a black sheep, we're gonna get a lot of crap. It don't matter, we get it a lot of times from our own people, no matter who your people are. Then you might go out in the in the corporate space or whatever. A lot of times you're gonna get some stuff then because your energy feels you just not that person that fit in. Well, let's say, for instance, if you run into some people that uh they just argue a lot, they loud. I'll never forget when I went to a particular um, I had gone to a holiday party. I was invited by some of my Dominican friends, and I had a blast. And the guy there that invited me, he was Dominican. He said, It's loud, isn't it? I said, Yeah, it's a Christmas party. You know, I'm not thinking about it like you know, whatever. He said, That's how you know it's a Dominican party. He said, Ain't nobody gonna be louder than the Dominicans. I said, Wow, he said, He said, I'm for real. He said, That's our way, that's our culture, right? So, what I mean by that, a culture is things that can be associated with a particular group of people. That don't mean everybody is doing it, but unfortunately, because it has been embedded in a lot of your culture and a lot of your people and community, unfortunately, that is what's associated to you guys. You know, we're black sheep, so we're always gonna be different and go against the grain. So people can try to stick different things to us all day, every day. Guess what? It is what it is on that, but we're here to show people and break moles everybody is not the same at the end of the day. But we're talking about culture, okay? So here's another thing, guys. No matter who you are, if you meet somebody that's racist, listen, don't waste your time trying to convince them that racism is stupid. Don't waste your breath. Why? It's a seed. Babies are not born racist. Babies don't care, they just want love and food, right? But you have to be taught, you have to be taught to hate somebody else because of whatever reason, and guess what, guys? It doesn't matter what race you're in, because there's people in cultures that hate other cultures that still tie to their people, but just because they're from a different side of town, or just because they're from a different country, they all speak the same language, they don't like them because of their religion or whatever. These are all cultures, like subcultures within a culture. How many of you guys remember punk rock? That was a culture, it started in London and it made its way to the states, but it was a subculture. I believe it was subculture of heavy metal. Okay, but like I was saying, guys, we don't have to waste our time when we see certain behavior patterns with people unless you find it to be valuable and profitable and a great investment of your time to help someone. Because remember, when you're dealing with certain things, you're dealing with something that was nurtured, it was a seed. If you start to look at everything as a seed, you understand, man, that's just not that person that's doing that. That's something they was taught, and then you got to think about man, if it's that strong, that's a root, you gotta dig it out. See, if you've ever been in supply chain, you'll hear a term called root cause analysis, and basically root cause analysis is where you ask the question why five times for what to find out what is the root cause of the problem because we don't want the soft level, right? So let me give you a great example in LA on the West Coast specifically, I have met multiple people that were in gangs right, or they're just now affiliated with gangs, right? And when I tell you that majority of those folks that I talk to or have encountered, guess what? Their dad was in a gang, their mom was in a gang, some of them, their grandmother was in a gang, their uncle was in a gang, their uncle, their dad's brother, everybody. It's like four or five generations, guys, that was in a game, even though we've seen what this causes, you still have people coming from generational stuff, and that is what we're talking about when we say a culture, that's a root. You want to have kids now, and you got six different generations of people that was in a game, even if you just said those are different decades, like different generations by 10 years. If you got four people behind you that was in the game, that's 40 years of gang growth in your bloodline, and now you want your child to come up, you don't want them to be a part of that. You know, you finally realize it's nothing but death and destruction, so you don't even want them to be a part of that life, and you start to have trouble when you're trying to change it. You know why? Because it's a root. When something is a root, a root problem, like a root canal, people don't like root canals. Why? Because the dentist's about to go deep, he's about to dig and scale. People would rather you just take the teeth out and just throw it to the side. They don't want a root canal because the root canal is gonna get deep to the problem, and then they're gonna put some new stuff on top of it, but it's so uncomfortable when they get down to the root because that's the level where when you really want to make change, you got to get down to the root. So, like I said, guys, a lot of times when you see different behaviors in people, you are now looking at the harvest, you're looking at the product of that seed that has been sown and nurtured and grown year after year. This is why I get so upset when I see some of our young ladies out, you know, half-necked. Don't get me wrong, guys. We were all young when we went through our thing, but some of these girls just don't have no class at all. And with all the um technology that we have, it's crazy because even if you grew up somewhere where it was just unfavorable, the fact that you got a mini computer in your hand, you could still grow up a certain type of way to a different standard if you wanted to, right? But I get it, it's sometimes harder said than done, but it can be done. But like I said, guys, you're looking at that product of the seed, not just the environment, it gets deeper than just being an environment, but the environment does play a huge role on it, right? But a lot of this stuff that we're talking about is generational ignorance, okay? So let's go deeper because some of us have these seeds that should have never been planted, but they were, and instead of being corrected, they were normalized. That's what I was just talking about, guys, like this gang stuff, right? Generational ignorance is when dysfunction gets passed down as a tradition. Okay, now let me give you a perfect example of that incident that I was telling you guys about earlier that I when we first started this episode. So last week, sometime, I believe a particular rapper, um, his name is Pooh Shystee. Okay, he set up his um the the record label owner and wanted to strong arm him to get out of the record deal. Okay, now here's the crazy part, guys. This guy, number one, there's so much to unpack with it. Number one, the guy had just got out of prison for doing some bull crap. Okay, now we're not gonna even talk about the judicial system and the penal and all. We don't even we're not even discussing that. That's a whole nother episode, right? Even if we wanted to get on that in general, okay. But the fact what we're gonna look at is the people involved. The fact that this man got released from prison, I believe it was five years early, it was something early on some stuff that he did. Now, listen, let's stop right there. Black sheep, if you get a chance to get ahead of the game, an opportunity to get ahead of the game, we're gonna take the ball and run the play. But what you must understand, guys, is two things that go on. Number one, the creator will always give you an opportunity. The creator will always give you a chance, but number two, on a worldly level, sometimes who we know, who we're connected to, depends on that money level. It just depends on certain things. Sometimes we get favor, and we get to get, you know, we we step into these different opportunities that we have, right? But what I want you to see is this right here. No matter how you get the opportunity, what it's really about is how do you treat the opportunity? Are you gonna fumble it or are you gonna take the ball and run the play? And this Guy, number one, we already see he fumbled the opportunity. That's number one. You get an opportunity to get out early and go back to work and do some stuff. Right? So let's talk about what happened. So this guy was on house arrest, y'all, invited the record label guy to Dallas, Texas, and at his studio, and are in Strong Arm, the um the owner of the record label. Now check this out, guys. The guy who fumbled it up, the guy Pooh Sheisty and his dad, and some other folks, but and his dad is the two people I want to focus on here. The rapper dude and his dad went to a staples and printed off, and most people are assuming it was a contract. Okay? Now you got a leg arrest, what you call it, a house arrest thing on a monitor brain, monitor, monitor anchor, or whatever it's called. You got that on your leg. And you out here at Staples, you got the uh contract, you and your dad. Okay. They go back to the studio and do the stuff they did basically was bring out guns and everything. And it was a couple of white folks there, black folks, but I believe a couple of people there were retired federal agents or retired police officers. And so obviously they got all the guys in charge. They got all the guys that was involved, it was nine of them. Okay, so that's pretty much what happened. But let's unpack this because when I'm talking about generational ignorance, how is it that this young man just got out of prison? This man is not even 35 years old yet. You just got out of prison, and you pull him, you you have put together a move, right? You've put together some boo-boo, some bobo shit to try to get out of your contract. And guess what? You got your dad with you that won't even steer you in the right direction. Why? Because it's generational ignorance, guys. You know, a lot of the people online that was talking about this, they were so focused on did the artist, the uh label owner, did he snitch? And that was Gucci Mane, if you know about this particular thing, it doesn't matter. This incident is so it's so crazy to me. Because the reason why I wanted to make this recording is because the response that the people are saying online lets me know, y'all. People are majoring in the minor things, and as a black sheep, you don't have time to get involved, and there are certain ways that people respond to certain things, it lets you know, not just them not being on your level, but you don't need to deal with them. I'm gonna give you an example, another example. When that guy, Charlie Kirk, got deleted. Listen to me very carefully. I didn't hardly even listen to what he was saying. It was a couple times I got on, and then people was highlighting, saying that he was this and he was that. Guess what, guys? The man was at a college campus not armed, he did not deserve that. Okay, people gonna say what they want to say. I don't care about all these different opinions and everything because at the end of the day, we all got a checkout date. So when I meet people that are racist and say stupid things, guys, there's enough shit to shovel around everywhere, okay. But that guy did not deserve that. But guess what, guys? I would go to people's pages and they was like, That's what he gets. That's what he he was saying, this and that, and that's what he gets, guys. What the hell? So, guess what? When people were saying that wrongness, and don't get me wrong, you're always gonna have people to say cool ass things, but from the mouth, it flows what's in a person's heart. You can't change what's in a person's heart, you can influence so that seed, but guess what? When people show you certain things, get the hell up out of there, guys. There are certain even conversations online. Sometimes I want to indulge because I was uh going not necessarily back and forth, but just for a lack of a better word, I was going back and forth with a YouTuber online about this particular scenario, and the main thing that I was saying is it is really a testament of character when a person bites the hand that feeds them. You really know what you're dealing with when a person bites the hand that feed him. And the first thing this young man said was, Well, the hand that was feeding them was too greedy, but you didn't even have a shit, you didn't have none of it before you met the hand that was feeding you. Guys, do you see how this entitlement mentality has come in? This young man literally said, If he the the hand that fed him was too greedy. Here's my thing: if you really want to be the boss, pay the cost to be independent. See, people want to say they got it from the mud, they want to say they're a hustler, they want to say they this and that, they don't want to pay the price, black sheep. As a black sheep, you already know we're gonna pay the price and we're gonna pay it plus tax. But you need to be able to recognize the way people are moving because people will look at your blessings and get jealous and act like you owe them something for multiple reasons. Number one, being a culture vulture, thinking that you owe them something. Number two, I want you to understand is a lot of things you see is generational ignorance, and it was so it was appalling and it was so sad to see so many grown ass men on top of that, guys. It was men that were steady concerned, they were continue to be concerned if the owner snitched on the guy and his dad and the other guys. Let me tell you something. If you that dumb to be out with an ankle monitor and your dad didn't even say nothing, listen, love, you deserve to be behind bars. Why? Why do we need the ignorance on the street for? You didn't even stop your son that just got released from being incarcerated. Here's another thing you may or may not have told the woman in your life because there was a young lady that spoke up about it. I don't know if she was the guy poo-shice the girlfriend, but she was having her commentary. Let me insane the reason why. You know what? It don't even matter why, because number one, there's always ways that you can do things without doing something to jeopardize your freedom and other people's lives. That was so caveman and archaic what they did. You can tell they didn't have a vision and didn't think about it, and it's sad because it was generational ignorance there. Not even the woman, nobody had enough sense to say, hey, let's put this guy in chat GPT, let's put it in claw and see if there are any loopholes, is there anything that I need that I can do to get out of this? You know, a lot of artists got into different types of record label deals a while back, and one of the ones that they were really talking about was called the 360 deal. I'm not an artist, and I'm so grateful that I'm not, you know. But even if I was, I always like a lot of people just call it underground music. Me personally, I just like to, I'm not a control freak, but when it comes to my artistic endeavors, I just like doing things on my own. And that really came about when I started seeing how many singing groups, people that were involved in groups were always having troubles. Every single time I sing it'd be a good group. Remember, Destiny Child started off with five and then they ended up with three, right? Even the Jackson Fives, and they were all related, they had problems. Remember the Migos before Takeoff uh met his unfortunate, untimely end, right? He um um they broke up, right? You see it all the time with groups that do it all the time. Okay, this is why I never wanted to be involved with it. There was a couple of times when I even wanted to do collaboration, but it just didn't. I'm like, wow, because people see, people are not, they don't want to collab, they want to still dominate when it's supposed to be a partnership, when you're supposed to be able to let each other's stuff shine, right? But anyway, guys, what I want to get back on this, it was just so sad that people were more focused on did the record label owner snitch than why the father didn't even stop his son from doing something so dumb. You know why? Because his dad didn't have no sense either. This is what you call generational ignorance, and when I was telling you guys, I hopped on, and the man and the young young man on YouTube was like, Yeah, he's too greedy. So I just asked him one question, and then guys, I got bored with it because one thing I've learned is never argue with ignorant people, don't even question it, don't challenge it. Let them do what they want to do and believe what they want to believe. But there are certain things that people say, and it just lets you know if they are even worthy of your time to even have a debate. But all I asked this young man was this let's say, for instance, if his YouTube channel reached seven figures, and this whole it took him about two years, and he've been posting consistently, putting all the content up there. You know, you start from ground zero, and so many things have happened within a two-year span. You've lost people, but you stayed dedicated and you've posted now. Along the way, before you met that before you got the meal, but you were doing really well, you met someone, and you saw, like, okay, you know what? Boom, you take them under your wing and you give them guidance, and you give them a contract of whatever kind, whatever it is, but the contract definitely gives them access to way more than what they had before you. And how do we know that? Because if they had more and was doing better, they would never sign in the first place. So, no matter what a person says, Well, they're doing this now, guess what? You weren't doing it when you signed it. Okay, so I asked the young man, I said, if you brought someone in and you took them under your wing and you got them on a contract or whatever to help them blow that thing up, but obviously, you're gonna you're the owner of the contract, you're gonna get the highest cut. I don't know why people think an owner will be getting a lower cut with the or equal cut with the person they're bringing on board. I understand that some people are like, Well, my value is way up here. Well, do it on your own, do it on your own because just because you are the star does not mean you have all the business sense, and clearly we see this guy don't even have any type of sense. So I asked a young man, I said, after you've done all this posting and you brought this new YouTuber on, he only got like you know, maybe a thousand subscribers, and probably not even that. He don't post, there's no rhyme or rhythm. So you bring him on and you show them the ropes and show them how to get going, and with all of your influence, you really start to help him go boom, boom, boom. Next thing you know, he feels like he's about to do it bigger than you. He ready to bite the hand of the sensei. So he likes, yo, I don't want this contract no more. Or we need to re renegotiate. And listen, guys, there's nothing wrong with renegotiating, excuse me, or requesting to do it. However, remember, just because you make a request don't mean it'll be honored. See, this is why before you sign anything, they always tell you to read it, to think about it. But see, people don't have a vision, they're thinking about right now, they're not thinking about the next generation. It's me, me, me, me, me. Everybody is all about me. Okay, so all of a sudden, the dude that you brought on, or the girl that you brought on, they're talking about renegotiating and all of this. There's nothing absolutely wrong with that. But you like, well, no, because we signed this contract and we're gonna go through this particular deal, and then I'll just cut you loose, right? Now you never know. Here's the thing when somebody just because somebody tells you no or maybe or whatever, you never know. Let them think about it. But guess what? Even if they tell you no, there's still other ways that you can get on. There's still other ways that you can do your thing. So, what was crazy is like I said, guys, these folks didn't have nobody in their court to say, man, let's put this on Chat GPT and see what's a clever way to get out of this contract. Explain this contract to me like a five-year-old. Nobody. So you went in there like it was 1991 with no cameras everywhere, with a leg monitor on, like it was gonna take the police more than uh three hours to find you. Right? You go in there with some game plan from 1992, guys. This is what I'm saying to you. You have to be very careful about the people you are around and you are looking up to. Because a lot of people that look savvy, they look like they got it because they don't. Why? Because just because you got the muscle don't mean you got the mind hustle. A lot of people and they get upset about it, black sheep, because a lot of times, black sheep, they call us lame, green, and naive. Then they get mad because we the one that's running the plate and we run it into the end zone. Don't believe me. Let's talk about chameleonaire. Chameleonaire was a rapper, I believe, in the 2000s. Um maybe around 2005, between 2005 to 2010. Well, long story short, guys, the guy only made what one or three songs. But the main song was They See Me Roll and They Hate In. It was called Riding Dirty. Well, guess what, guys? He made so much money off that song and ring tones, and it could have been one extra song, and he was a decent rapper. But guess what he did, y'all? He did what a black sheep would do. He took the money from that, and he did a few things, but the main thing is, guys, he invested in technology. He was one of the first investors in Uber. Guys, that's a black sheep move. See, we're not just we're not looking like we got our sense together and all of that, and looking gangster, looking like a thug, or looking like whatever, and not using our brain because it's not what you look like, but we are about strategy, guys. That's why I tell you on this podcast, we are about strategy, we're not out here doing making moves just for the moment. Because when you do, you fumble the opportunity, and it's so sad because that young man did that move. Now you got your whole family under the spotlight. Now, no matter what you say about that guy that owns the record label, him and his family straight. They good, they was good before they met you. Now, only thing you didn't did, you didn't raise all red flags up. Now we know how you do, we know how you moving. And guess what else? Not just from that record label owner, from the feds. You know, when the feds get on you, they own you. So now you got all this stuff going on at your house with your kids, and I can almost guarantee you, when they put a picture of the guy's house up there, I was thinking in my mind, black sheep, because black sheep, we go through so much crap before we get our stuff. We a lot of times we might get plays and fumble them in our younger days, and sometime in your older day, guys, there's no judgment here. But let's be clear, as a black sheep, we get our shit out of the mud, all of it. Even if somebody does give us favor, once we get in the door, they give it to us then. Right? So I was looking at the young man's house. He had all of the uh cars in the yard, he had been walking around with the jewelry on and all of that. Guys, I can guarantee you that man didn't even get none of that until he signed to that label. I was looking at the house, I can almost guarantee you the house was probably paid for, but it didn't happen until that young man signed with that label. But you out here biting the hand that feeds you when the person that gave you the opportunity did more for you than your own dad, your own father. Yeah, your father gave you life, but this a whole nother young man gave you an opportunity to change your life from crappy, from from whatever, whatever you was on to better, to be able to get it on track, and to be a mentor to show you, man, you ain't gotta stay in the streets. Because, see, a lot of times people love to bring up your past, black sheep. Y'all know they do, but one thing about it when you have changed your life, don't let people keep on trying to bring you back to the past. No, love, I don't live there no more. You can stay back there if you want to, but I don't even have a reference for that no more unless I'm mentoring people, right? And so I want to tell you guys listen, this was very important. I had to do this episode because black sheep, we're always giving people a chance. We're giving people a chance a lot of times, and they are unworthy, they don't deserve it. And I what I want you to do is I want you to start really, and you may not be a believer, but I really want you to start praying, meditating, whatever you do, but I'm talking about the believers, pray on it, man. Before you start giving people opportunities and chances, because people sometimes, unfortunately, the main people that you help will get jealous of what you're doing. The main people will get jealous of what you're doing and will think they deserve your piece of the pie. So let's talk about these culture vultures. So in my book, the 33 degrees to misfit mastery, guys, I broke that down for you. I was talking about the culture vultures because there's multiple types, you gotta know this, okay? And there's you there's four types. I thought I only did two, but I broke it down real to simplify it. It's actually four types, but I'm gonna talk about the two main types today. Number one, this first type is a type that, and I don't really care about this type, but this is just a type that borrows different things from different cultures, right? Some people can say, Oh, they borrow braids from this culture. I don't really care, but guess what? You understand what I'm saying? Where people borrow different things from different cultures. So, I'm gonna give you an example. When Kanye West started wearing the preppy look, the blazers and everything. Me personally, in the Midwest, there's a lot of Catholic schools. I felt like he got that. Uh, and and we also call it swagger jacket, he got that look from a lot of the Catholic schools, right? Because a lot of the Catholic schools and people, and don't get me wrong, during that time, there was a lot of prep. We was really rocking the prep hard in the Midwest. But again, I truly believe that it came influenced from the Catholic schools because they had the blazers on with the plaid and all of that, right? So we could look at that as swagger jacking or some like culture vulturing, right? Whichever one, guys, it's all and fun. But the ones that I want to talk to you today about, this is the one that people don't want you to discuss. See, when you see all these people out here protesting, if you start talking about what we're about to get in right now, they they'll get pissed off at you. So I had to bring it on this podcast because as black sheep, I want you to have the full picture, I want you to have the eagle-eye view of what's going on out here in the world. And when I truly believe when you have ultimate ultimate clarity, you can make your mess, your next move, your best moves back to back to back to back. Because as black sheep, we love giving people a chance. Why? Because nobody gave us a chance, and when they did, they made us pay for it every time, right? Um, as black sheep, sometimes, depending on where we are in our journey, we tend to be so um uh trusty. We we trust people a lot, you know. And we just don't even be knowing what they own. And unfortunately, it's like sometimes we find out too late, you know, that they're they're a waste of time. Okay. And it's not always like that, but I just wanted you to know sometimes it is like that, though. You know, and you want to be ahead of the game to know if it is or not. So let's talk about these culture vultures. The second type of culture vultures are the ones inside of the culture. These are the people that exploit exploit their own people. What do I mean by that? If you go to certain cities in America, let's talk about Chicago and Illinois. Those folks showed up for the No Kings Day. Remember, do you guys recall that No Kings Day? But one week before that, a young guy, a young man that was working for the UPS truck, was shot in the head by gang members because he was looking for his truck. And literally, in that city on the south side, people are living in terror. Like you got some folks from the Middle East over there just moving in. But guess what, guys? How many protests with thousands of people have you seen? How many? None. None. You know why? Because it's okay. This is what you call culture vultures. Because we want to highlight somebody else's mess, but we're not gonna highlight the crap that's going on within our culture because they want to normalize dysfunction, people profit from your ignorance. Here's another thing: even with these political parties, listen, the more you stay ignorant to what's going on with politics, the more ignorant you are. What do I mean by that? Simply, if you don't understand by now that the political parties, regardless of the labels, people switch labels all the time. If you don't understand politics past and beyond a party label, you do not understand politics. So, what do I mean by that? So we're living in a time now where, and I even had a client where some of the folks were saying, you know, they was like, Well, who are you voting for? They kept it a quiet little thing. And I'm like, What's going on? Like, you know, they're like, Who are you voting for? And that particular year, I don't know if I voted or not. I believe I did, but let me just tell you what was going on. They're like, Well, who are you voting for? They're all quiet and everything. And I'm like, What's the big deal? What's going on? And they're like, Well, you know, they said my client name because we referenced them by their last name. They said, Well, you know, the P, um, they're Democrats. And, you know, they don't like people that don't vote as Democrats. And the other folks that was now keep in mind, this was one of my celebrity clients that built homes for, like I told you, the top, one of the top three RB singers in the world, definitely in the US. Okay, they built their home and continue to do it. They these folks build homes for all types of folks. Well, anyway, I'm like, what? So one half of the company, they're Democrats, and then you have a few people that are, you know, the Republicans or whatever, and they're like looking at me like, don't say anything about who you're voting for. All of this weird stuff. And I'm like, what is going on? But I was working on a pro on a project at that time where I could not understand why it is that people get offended if you vote, like, let's say, for instance, if you say you're liberal and you want equality, right? Majority of the time, or you're for the poor and all of this, right? Now, majority of the time, those people will say they're Democrats and all of this stuff, and they'll say the Republicans are for the rich. They always say this, right? But then when I got to looking up, uh they said Democrats is for equality and all of this. But then when I got to doing the research and I found out that the Democrats were the ones that had legalized slavery, they were in charge of the Trail of Tears, as well as the Jim Crow South, which was in the 50s and the 60s, right? And and multiple assassinations. I'm like, what the hell is going on here? And then I started to continue to do the research, and I found out that people will switch sides, they'll switch sides and they'll change names. Like there was a group called the Whigs, and there was a group, guys, that was all for they were like anti-Masons. When you do your research on this, if you don't, you will profit, people will profit from your ignorance, they will have you going back and forth and bickering, and you won't even know it. This is why you gotta study the origin of stuff so you can really understand what's going on, guys. That's why I started telling you about today how I'm studying etymology because I want to know the origin of the words that I'm using. Okay, and so when we're talking about these culture vultures, you got people inside the culture, right? So, for an example, they'll like I said, they'll cover up all the gang violence, but now we want to go out here and argue about Donald Trump, right? You will have people that'll say, Oh, you'll have people that'll say, Hey, we're here to um, we're we're we're peaceful loving people. We're coming in from our country, and we just want a uh an equal opportunity, and we don't want to bother anybody, right? But then those people will come to the country and be racist against other people, but they're leaving their actual home country because their country is full of violence, but they don't come to America or another country and be arrogant, guys. This is what I'm talking about when we're talking about the inner culture vultures, okay? Inner culture vultures, people within the cult your culture that just do all types of things that is not about growth, it is not for growth, it is for own selfish gain. Okay, and and what I'm telling you guys is this when you encounter people like this, the main signs that you will see is the entitlement and ungrateful mindsets, okay? Because, like I was telling you guys, when you bite the hand that feeds you, that's a mindset. Somebody passed that down to you. A lot of people kept on saying, Well, his name is Prue Shyste, but who taught you how to be shisty? Who taught you how to cross the person that brought you up? There's nothing wrong with being better than them. You should want to be better than a mentor, but who taught you how to cross your the person that put you on? Here's the other thing, too, guys. I wanted to say this is how you know it's a disease. Because for a person to think they're gonna do all of that, and you think you're gonna have good luck out here, you think you're gonna have good karma. You gotta have to deal, but you think somebody's gonna really want to work with you? Yeah, other culture vultures. That's who wanna work with you, but anybody else that has character, they're gonna be like, What? You did that to what they gave you a chance, and you why you want to do that, guys. Then they were saying the dudes got online and bragged about getting the jewelry. But guess what? That man can go buy more jewelry tomorrow. Meanwhile, you back behind bars, you and your dad, guys. This is what I'm talking about with these different broken mindsets. As a black sheep, make sure you are auditing your circle. Make sure you are looking out for people that are entitled, they give you any signs of entitlement and ungratefulness. Look at the patterns, don't even talk about it no more because we're in a time now where people reject accountability, they want to blame everybody else, they want to disrespect growth, they mock discipline, and they repeat the cycles proudly. You should have seen some of the information that I'm sure you've seen some, but this was all letting you know as a black sheep. If you go look it up and just look at some of the titles, the head titles, and click on it. Don't even give them too much of your time. But I want you to go and just see the mindsets, guys. It was even other older dudes that were saying, now is Gucci, is he a rat? Because according to the streets, if you snitch, there's no malls in the street. But guess what, guys? This was a man that was at least 52 years old. That is the ignorance that he was spreading out there. See, there was a sociologist or economic uh economist from Brazil, and his work, one of his famous lines was the oppressed becomes the oppressor. And listen, guys, we see the pattern over and over and over again. They always, you know, a lot of times it comes from the people that have been overlooked, disrespected, and held back, and it is so sad because they turn around and do the same thing to others, and a lot of times it's to the people within their own community that they feel is under them. See, unhealed pain will create recreate the system that it came from. That's how the cycle continues. That's why now, guys, we have to start breaking the seed, right? If culture is cultivation, then cycles are crops, and some people are getting the harvest from things they didn't even plant. But what I want you guys to understand is it's your duty to break the cycle. You may have not planted the seed, but you are responsible for what you allow to grow in your life. I want to challenge you as a black sheep, and I already know if you identify with the black sheep, you don't want the crap that people try to pass down to you. You saw it already. But I want to challenge you. Become a savage about breaking these cycles and these chains. I don't care if you gotta hang out with new people, even if you still in your neighborhood. Hey, listen, go in the house. Hopefully, you have a patio or a backyard, create a whole new world in your place until you can move. Do not become susceptible, do not come become a product of your environment. Do not let it overtake you and your family. I'm talking about you gotta become King Kong in this thing to break the cycles, okay? Because this is where black sheep are different. We don't just inherit culture, we question it, we refine it, and we rebuild it. Because everything doesn't deserve to be passed down. Some things need to end, and it ends with you. Now, listen, if you're not here to repeat the cycle, you're here to break it. Okay, listen to me very carefully. Share this episode with somebody that you know that really needs to hear this truth. Because there's a lot of things being passed down to generations, and it's time for someone to step up and say, you know what? Enough is enough. And as always, it's your girl signing off with the Black Sea Leadership Podcast. No fluff, no fear, and no filter. Talk to you soon.