

Hood Politics with Prop
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived junior high, lived in an urban city or understand gang life, you can understand geopolitics. Join rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene.
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Oct 3, 2025 • 17min
Tap In: Y'all Don't Want It with Jasmine!
For some reason far-right activist and Trump loyalist Laura Loomer came for Rep. Jasmine Crockett on social media, and Jasmine with all the class and Blackness she could muster... clapped back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 1, 2025 • 35min
It's Giving "Blacks Rule"
In 2015, a man in Mississippi told the police he experienced a hate crime. That hate crime was someone burning the Mississippi state flag and spraying painting BLACKS RULE on his driveway. At no time in this history of Blackness have we ever used the phrase "Blacks Rule." But now we have these Tyler Robinson text messages, and "anti-ICE" writing on the shell casings of the Dallas shooter's bullets... I don't know fam, it's giving "Blacks Rule" energy. Sources: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/us/wwk-dallas-ice-facility-shooting https://www.wlox.com/story/29644391/man-discovers-burnt-ms-state-flag-racial-graffiti-in-front-of-his-pascagoula-home/ The Beautiful Endling Live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022 --- Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 26, 2025 • 14min
Tap In: Bad Bunny Es Artista America No Sabia Que Nessecitaba
Bad Bunny is the Artist America didnt know it needed. This week he streamed his concert from Puerto Rico bc due to the ICE raids, he chose not to tour here in the contiguous united states. And calling good is the biggest understatement. Come see the Beautiful ending live: https://www.elysiantheater.com/shows/beautifulendling1022 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 24, 2025 • 57min
I Get All the News I Need From the Barber Shop Again: Emergency State of the Blackness Meeting with Derek Minor
Between Taylor Townsend gettin yelled at, Young Thug snitchin and black folks being conflicted about our participation in anti-Trump rallies, we needed to have a mid-session meeting.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 19, 2025 • 15min
Tap In: I Bet You Was Praying
The Governor of Utah was praying that Charlie Kirk's shooter was "not one of us" and boy was that a prophetic statment. Is that not just like America? The problem is never you, huh? The poem today is Almost, Pt 1. Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 17, 2025 • 39min
My Baby Ain't Never Hurt Nobody: An Inner-City Guide to Processing Conflicting Feelings
Our world is still reeling from the violence of last week, and processing that can be very complicated. What do you do when a monster of a man dies?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 12, 2025 • 11min
Tap In: The Snake Is Eating Itself
This week was.. dark. The Supreme Court says racial profiling is okay, a women was stabbed on a train and a school was shot up within minutes of Charle Kirk being murdered. The song this week is Mayan Ruins: https://music.apple.com/us/album/mayan-ruins/1835385848?i=1835385858 Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 10, 2025 • 59min
Rewind Selecta: The DOJ Curbed Google
In light of the ruling of the Department of Justice in the case on Google's monopoly, let's look back on how we got here in the first place. Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 5, 2025 • 16min
Tap In: CDC?! What We 'Posed to Do Now?!
The track this week, "If You Could Ask An Endling" poses the question of how did you get to extinction and what could we do to avoid it. I can't help but think of the erosion of trust in experts as displayed by the firing of the CDC director. Get the album here: Spotify | Apple Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 3, 2025 • 42min
To Live and Die in LA: What's Crackin' Foo? You Gon Squabble or What? - The Gerrymandering Question
On Jay-Z's birthday, Cali has to decide if it's gonna pass the gerrymandering act or nah. Do we break our code this one time or is it because of our code we have to do this? https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/154day-presprim-2024/historical-reg-stats.pdf Follow Hood Politics: https://x.com/hoodpoliticspod https://www.instagram.com/hoodpoliticspod/ Follow Prop: https://x.com/prophiphop https://www.instagram.com/prophiphop/ https://www.tiktok.com/@prophiphopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.