Nature of the Game – Podcast
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In order to understand something you have to know where it came from. All words have a root and a origin and so does this Chip Game! Most people think they have the game figured out but end up losing everything. Others try to limit theirselves and never get to fully enjoy it. The Nature of the Game is obvious and that’s what you’ll hear in the podcast. But, since most of you cats want the answer before the question the game is something you can’t win. It’s a tool to be manipulated but first you got to get the hell out of it!
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You brought the game to us harsh today but it’s something we needed. The way this game is set up is truly for us to fail and some of us are so brainwashed to the point that we don’t care as long as we’re shining amongst our peers who are also victims to the game. Our core values are tainted to where we think that investing in ourselves includes buying things that we can’t afford to flaunt to those who shouldn’t matter to you. This was definitely a wake-up call to me and I thank you for bringing it to us raw and unedited. I hope that listeners will take heed to this podcast. Peace and blessings!
Exactly! We reward ourselves by digging a deeper hole. We celebrate our lives by drinking and taking poison. We think fun is conning people and dressing up to carry out the con. The whole game leads you to destruction and a long life of paying some imaginary person back just to live. It’s modified slavery but no one is forcing you to do anything they are just making you feel that everyone does it this way.
We can’t win this game the way every other slave goes about it. You have to create something outside to buy your own freedom. Then when you have your money right and own yourself you can come back to free your family, friends and kin!
Great podcast Freeman! I have been trying to free myself for a long time from the game. I am still a work in progress but you inspired me to keep going my Brother!
Not much to say here other than this was as real as it gets. This may be too real for some but I loved hearing the rawness of it.
No debt + no need to ball for others approval = Freedom
So many associate success with debt and don’t even recognize it. Big house-debt. Fancy car-debt. Huge wardrobe-debt. Then they wonder how they can never get from under no matter how much they make. More people would rather look rich than be rich, which is why they’ll never be rich.
You sure you weren’t a DJ in a previous life? The intros keep switching and the background music is always ahead of whats coming out on the radio. I think you are radio dj or you seriously should think about being one. I enjoy the music as much as I enjoy the message.
I never thought about it the way you said it. The goal is to keep getting more and more things and to be more and more in debt. So in 50 years of tricking you end up deep in debt losing everything and living off of social security. This made me think. Peace
@Jay – Welcome – No matter how long it takes to own yourself it’s worth the time spent. A lot of cats don’t know what’s going on and will be hoping they have rich children. Just like their parents wished they would become rich too!
@MCD85 – Debt is the new slavery but this time it’s slavery with perks. You get to rent out a rich persons things and look down on the guy next door who doesn’t have the credit to be in debt as much as you! It’s just ignorant.
@Mr. G – Welcome – Naahh no DJ experience but I do like hip hop so good beats always make a lecture sound better! It’s a simple fix and that’s just constantly think about making more and more money and one day soon you’ll buy everything you ever wanted. Then once you have that you’ll just stack money and free your family, friends and kin!
The way out of the game is to start your own business. That’s all you have to do!
I definitely feel you on how people try to look down on you when you get off the plantation. Folks was definitely trippin when I got off for a while. Until they realized what I was doing and the fact that I was still living better than them. Now I’m back on and I’m constantly looking to get off and it constantly amazes me how differently I look at my fellow field hands these days. It’s kinda like in Roots when they had to cut Kunta Kente’s foot off to keep him from running again.
But I definitely can’t agree with you about how people in some bad neighborhood but own their house is better off. Hell nah! Quality of life is a huge priority. There’s no getting around that. For me at least. Don’t get me wrong, I understand how some people feel wonderful and liberated and there only priority in life is to be debt free. But all debt ain’t bad debt. So Carl will not be living in the deepest darkest part of the hood just so he can say he owns his house free and clear. Hell the money I save I’d probably have to spend on security.
It’s not a vow of poverty at all. I’m saying to secure your base before the artificial pressures of the game make you build your house on cards. The value of this fake game is flashing credit cards looking down on cats saying I can borrow more than you. That’s just ass backwards when it comes to money.
Quality of life is very important but you build with stuff that protects you from going backwards. Why can’t you buy that first house for 50K and get your living arrangements squared away. Then go ahead one year later and get the bigger house while you have that as a rental and if all else fails you walk back into that house.
People are using bullshit as stepping stones. They are using access to debt to somehow convince cats with money that it means they are on the ball. Cats got to get out and secure first then jump back in with the freedom to take those risks and build that empire. Otherwise they are risking it all hoping they can make enough money to pay off their huge ass debts before the house collapses. There’s a simpler way.
This is so true. My supervisor was bragging to me about having a credit card with a 10k limit like I was supposed to be impressed. I was thinking in a year I’ll already have more than that in cash so who cares about a gold card.
A lot of people my age I see are screwed in the head and love debt. I was schooling my younger co-worker on cars. He told me his was acting up and he wanted a new one. I told him he should buy a 4k one based on his income. The next day he comes with a 20k car and a 5 year note. Then says well the payments aren’t that high as if that’s supposed to make himself feel better for being a sucker. I just shake my head and think that within 5 years I’ll have property and a lot more than 20k liquid on hand.
A little bit of sacrifice will make sure you never end up like everyone else. 10K credit is not better than 10K cash or even 10K for a bum ass house that you can rent out. You can’t school some cats to the idea of debt because they are saying why not be in debt as that’s what everyone else is doing. You keep campaigning to get cats on your team is only going to make you think the whole world is stupid. I have learned to let people be what they are going to be and be quiet about my angles overall. Telling people that they are stupid or they should spend according to their means is just going to make people look at you like you are the one who is insane.
Tomorrow I’ll explain debt in even more detail. You got the whole world in your hand just like GOD right now, it’s just staying discipline. In a couple of years of building you’ll have a life they can only dream about. And, since you know how to build you’ll never fall.
Like one of my favorite rap group Little Brother says, “That every now and then you got to ask yourself, do you want to win, or look good losin?” You decide.
Damn, Freeman. All I can say. You went old school on this one. Real, raw, street, and uncut. I was at work yesterday and I found out my boss had a stroke after coming from vacation. I was like…what the hell. He’s rich too. All this stress and bullshit can kill ya. Ever since…I ain’t looked at work the same. To many folks sick and dying and I ain’t trying to be next. I was like…why come he just don’t retire and leave…then I thought…he can’t..cause it would fall apart without him. He is the job.
I think you either a pimp or a ho. No in-between. Cats today claim to be smart, but they just smart hoes on a different track everyday. A smart pimp hustled to get out the game, retired, and lived on. Like the smart gangsters..they retired on their terms. How many old pimps and old gangsters do you know? Either in jail, dead, or broke. Most don’t end right. Same with all these folks can’t retire. I still don’t see how the hell you can work 40-50 years and not have nothing. An old ho is even worse. Game recognize game, player. No wonder its called a rat race. We always eating the cheese.
@JNati – Once you know the game you know it, anything other than staying on that track is losing!
@AH – That’s why it’s called Labor Day. For the Suckers who help keep another Man’s Dream going they have to give them ONE day off out of 365! For the cat who doesn’t trust people he’ll die at that desk. For the cats who know how to build we build, set up Suckers to manage it and then we go home. We didn’t make money to be on call all damn day like a Doctor.
Cats think to move up means they are winning the game but truth be told cats get paid to handle more not to handle less. Again the game has you thinking you are making more per hour but the owner goes home and knows for 10K more you’re dumb ass will stay there and even come in on Saturday.
You have to get rid or MINIMALIZE the necessity of money to live your life. So since most of us are closer to the bottom than to the top. We secure the bottom and then Hustle to get the money at the top. But, in the end the risk to open up shop is lessened because the money is not how we eat.
One step backwards in order to go 100 steps forward is the way out!
Wow! Very good podcast Freeman.
We needed that one Bro. Freeman. I work with the youth in my community and I keep it raw with them all the time. Tough love. It’s all good. Thank you
* My all tome fav quote*
“Once a muh fugga get an understanding on the Game
and what the levels and the rules of the game is, then the world ain’t no trick no more, the world is a Game to be played….”
-2Pac (Staring Through My Rearview)
My GRANDKIDS gonna listen to your audiofiles FreeMan.
Keep it comming Big Homie!
Much Respect!
@Eman – Thanks
@Rolando – Cats who are living it respect the truth as they live it. I just prefer to get to the point so we can make the necessary adjustments to win. Tough Love is always better than No Love! Keep doing what you’re doing homie.
@Supreme – Thanks bruh! But, as you have quoted I am taking things I have read and synthesizing them into a form that my folks can understand. The message is more important than the messenger. Bettering myself is my mission in life so I’ll keep teaching what I know to those who do not know.
It sounds like once you realize the two sides of the game (either a producer or a consumer) there’s only one logical course of action. I’ve never thought about it in the way you’ve outlined here; the king needs his castle, his chariot and the means to sustain his kingship. Damn, Freeman. I get it.
If you consider yourself to be King then you need to make sure you protect your Kingdom. So everything that is needed to maintain your Kingdom is part of your road. There is no other side once you decide what you want to be. You have to make sure you carve out your own land, lane and way.
I’m glad you got it.
That being said, how do we live sustainably while not re-creating the same game we’re born into? I mean, it’s clear from the way you put it the game was set up for us to continue playing even before we were born. Is there a way to really break the cycle? Or is all there is making sure our 60+ years on this rock just don’t suck?
Bruh you got to work the plan. In the beginning for maybe a year or two you won’t see anyone around. Then when all your plans to get off the plantation harden and turn into concrete you’ll be able to rejoin the Suckers. The way your break the Cycle is to realize everything on that Sucker road leads to being in debt. You have to take a chance and go with your gut to see what you can do for yourself.
The Solution is… buy things you can own. House, Car, Business and Land. When you get all those squared away and paid off you’ll see that all your money is free money. Then you can trick like the best of them if you want but you’ll never fall from balling like the rest of these cats. You’ll have the empire of 20 different ways to make money while all they had was good credit.