Those hip-hop guys, they got it right.

That genre is black.

I’m not sayin’ there are no good white hip-hop artists.

I’m sayin’ that genre is black.

Period. Dot.

And of course, everyone thinks they’re all thugs.

It’s gotta be reduced. The messages they send, the slurs were bound to come, especially when those men held on to what they made and did not let go.

And those slurs came, and they keep coming. Because what a black man, or a black woman, has to say has gotta be degraded or the worst is gonna happen.

People will start listening.

Not just black people.

All people.

And then all hell will break loose.

You gotta think that to keep the twisted shit in your head copasetic? You think that.

Think they’re all thugs.

Those guys’ll show you a thug.

Do you some real damage.

They’ll throw their wallets at you.

I hope they stay sleepin’.

I hope they remain in their cocoons and think they got the upper hand.

’Cause there’s only one thing more powerful than words.

And that’s money.

So, they think they got it under control to keep their fists tight around the throats of those they’ve been strangling since recorded time. They think this is not a threat to that power they wield…

You put one with the other, money and message.

And you got a revolution.

Google it, sister.

What genre of music is being consumed the most right now?

[Lifts chin]

Higher than pop. Higher than rock.

Hip hop.

And Kendrick wins a Pulitzer Prize.

[Taps finger firmly on the chair]

That is a revolution.

[Clears throat, shifts in seat]

Gettin’ back to the matter at hand, Preach also didn’t go to Shawn in the beginning because he didn’t know if Shawn would say yes.

His father and grandfather were jazz and blues musicians. Shawn was brought up in that, and I hope you’ve heard some of his solo stuff. He was serious as fuck good at it.

Then Preacher asked, and lucky for us, he said yes.

[Off tape]

It is now known that McCade’s mother and father had something to do with Williams’s arrest.

[Sits back, takes time to answer]

All I gotta say about that is, when a white man points a finger, doesn’t matter he’s trash, he’s white. He’s got clout. And if he’s pointing a finger at a black man…

[Shrugs]

I have not been privy to the arrest records, court documents. Self-preservation, man. I know I read that shit, I’ll lose my mind.

But like I said, when the McCades were done with the Williamses lookin’ after their boy, they had ugly ways to slap them back.

Just sayin’, Preacher did not avoid that state because he ain’t a proud Cajun.

He is.