The nation was taken by storm when it was announced that real estate mogul Donald Trump won the election to become President of the United States. Slink Johnson and Soren Baker analyze the situation in the latest episode of The Grey Area.
Black Jesus says that even though the revelation that America’s next leader will be someone who has created division and strife across the country, he says there is a bright side to what will happen culturally.
“We gonna have four years of excellent, excellent fodder,” he says. “Excellent water cooler at work, excellent memes and songs and parodies and satires. It’s going to be quite a time coming up the next few years. I mean, c’mon, think about it, pop culture has always taken jabs at politicians, at politics in general, so just imagine what Trump is going to give, how much inspiration Trump is going to give so many artists.”
Baker agrees and says that this is nothing new, but a continuation of history.
“Some of the best rap came during some of the worst times of the last 20, 30 years in America,” he shares, “so I can only imagine that’s going to continue and we’re going to see some of that live its way through television and film as well.”
The comedian says that people might not know what they are getting into by electing Trump, which might turn out for the best.
“I didn’t vote for the dude, but I believe in our country’s process, Democratic process,” Johnson says. “It is what it is. To be honest with you, Soren, wouldn’t be surprised if Trump actually does some shit we’ll be like ‘Damn, ok.’ I wouldn’t be surprised that he does something great for people. I wouldn’t expect it, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
“I think Trump is not necessarily pro-white as much as he is pro-rich, pro-money, pro-establishment. Even a guy like Trump didn’t get that rich not dealing with any black people. You had to deal with people of other races, other ethnicities along the way in order to amass that type of fortune, so I’m not saying he’s gonna like anybody, but you’d be surprised, let’s give the guy the benefit of the doubt.”
Both reference YG‘s “Fuck Donald Trump,” which garnered huge momentum nationally as the LA rapper performed it in every state he toured in. The cut is from YG’s Still Brazy album.
“I really like it,” Johnson says of the track. “It was refreshing to hear YG become a little more political, just on the album period. You got a couple of songs where he addresses some social issues and things of that nature, so if having Trump in office will awaken a large group of people to problems that are plaguing us today, if it awakens us enough to want to do something about it, hey man, I’m with that.”
Baker agrees and expresses curiosity at what will happen from here.
“I just hope and I’m interested to see how people are going to do it because pain unfortunately inspires a lot of great art,” he says.
Feeling empowered, Johnson takes a moment to announce his own run for presidency. He says he’s going to represent a new segment of the population that hasn’t sat in the Oval Office.
“Anybody can be president, so vote for Slink Johnson 2020,” he states. “I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a Republican, I’m not a Libertarian. I’m not with the Green Party. I represent the Gangsta Party. I represent the Urban Party. I represent the people in the streets. Holla at me and let me lead you to greener pastures.”
Baker chimes in to add some diversity to the ticket.
“I’ll be the vice president Slink,” he shares. “I’ll represent the white vote.”
Johnson promises that he’s going to use the four years until his run to do “intensive research” to discover real solutions to America’s problems.
“I’ma figure out how to lead us to greatness and greener pastures,” he promises. “…Our platform is going to be education, drug reform. See, we gonna quit looking at drugs as a criminal matter. Drugs is going to be handled as a health issue, as a social issue. I’m standing on education. I’m all for children and children’s rights. I wanna see put all this money that we put into these new prisons, put the motherfuckers in the schools. Let’s quit trying to fix these broken-ass men and we raise some strong-ass kids from the beginning.”