Uh-huh. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, too much. Yeah. Me and Bruce, you know they pick it. She been expensive, you know it's a difference. You know what it is. You know what it's giving. What about you? This is why. Okay. Okay. Okay. Turn it up. Let's go. Yeah. Hey, listen, man. You know what we doing. You're now tuned into. Huh? You're now tuned into. Huh? Me, me, me, me, me. Million dollars worth of you. Game. Oh, we got to. Million dollars worth of you. Game. Oh, man. Cardi B edition, man. It's going down, man. We got her in this. Oh, my goodness. Dang it. Capital H. Capital H. Capital H. Yeah. Let me just say this.  You're so relatable. Of me. To the people, to the regular average human being. Never change that.  Prime example, you in that studio, that clip I see you dancing. Got a tank top on. Some sweatpants on.  That's just regular people, normal people. Your hair, looking like my wife hair right before she about to get it blue-dried and all that. I thought you know, it looked like you was a dry-haired product. The way that hair was looking good. Yeah. And I just took off my braids and it was stank. That's stank. No, it's not. Sorry. It was money so bad. So you mean when women be having braids, they be smelling them a little bit?   I take a long time to wash my hair. Like I spend like a long time with them braids. Yeah. Not a little too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not too much. You had to take them joints out. Take them things out. Let the hair breathe. You know what I'm saying?  Yeah, well a lot of times when women say they got their braids in, I'm just letting my hair grow a little bit. Yeah. You know what I mean? Then they take it out, it'd be nice and silky form. All that. But I just wanna tell you, always stay like that. You know, even when you came in the game, you was real, like you know, a lot of people when you see them, they gotta look perfect. They always gotta appear some type of way. They always- Everything gotta be right.  Didn't matter. Early in the morning. Damn. And it was so like refreshing to see a female that just was comfortable with who she was. And comfortable with where she was going. You know, so I just wanna tell you, always stay like that. We appreciate you. That was a good thinking. I mean, I haven't changed. I just like, I've been a little bit like more afraid to be like, not myself, but like to voice like an opinion. Cause it's like, you know, this generation is crazy. Like everything- Everybody is ultra sensitive. Everybody is ultra sensitive. Like it's like, like, and things have, it's so crazy like, well, one day I became famous. 2016 around the end, 2015, 14. And it's like, wow, how times have changed. Like you can't even say nothing anymore. Yeah, it's up. Y'all so pussy. I'm scared. Oh my God. You do gotta watch everything you say. You do gotta watch everything I say. Like it's unbelievable. Like sometimes I see, I gotta look at this. Is that cool? Am I gonna get canceled for this shit? Yes. Everything. Because I've been canceled three times. Oh honey. Every time I wake up in the morning and say, I'm still here.  What's going on?  I don't really think it's crazy. I just say what I feel. Yeah, but you know what? Like people just, I don't know, people are not living in reality. No. People are not really in reality. Like people are just living in this world. Like it's like, y'all living in a La La Land world.   I think social media made it like that where everybody just, everybody got an opinion, everybody got it. So it was like, and I think it's, you know, it's coming from so many different ways. You know? And everybody want to defend somebody.  And when you, and when you want a status, like you really gotta be cautious about what you say. Yeah.  Yeah, like what can I say then? Cause I am human. But I see people like, cause like there's some artists that people will see as a protagonist. And there's some artists that no matter what, is like a villain. People like they always see me as a villain. So it's like, I can't even say certain things that I want to say. So it's just like, God man, whatever. Like I'm just a villain. And I already accept that I'm a villain.  And do you know what's crazy? Same thing with me, they made me the villain. I'm just, all right. I guess I'm a villain. It's like, all right, what about?  Tia. Tia, I said, Gilly, they made you a villain. It's a good role play. It was like, damn tip, that's some game. I appreciate you for that. So for me, I'm a good dude. I look out for the community. I take care of my peoples. I feel a lot of people. But if y'all got me as a villain, okay, cool. Right. I'm the joker then. And I'm the same way too. Like it's like, I know I'm not a bad person. I mean, I could get bad, but I'm not. And it's like, I do a lot of good things.   How's my motherhood? 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So, but make sure you go to body armor store on Amazon and get you some body armor. Water, the zero sports drink. Just get you some body armor because this is where it's at. Body armor, sports water, sports drink. Get right. Motherhood is good. Well, motherhood is like like these past two months. I've been like, I haven't been in New York. So like motherhood is a little bit hard right now. Like it's like I miss my kids, but it's just like it's like it's discipline to me.  Like the longer you wait and getting work done, the longer it will be to like be at home with kids. So it's like, but motherhood is great. I love, I want more kids. How many more? Two more. Damn. I want two more kids. I need to do some more. So you want a four piece? I want a four piece.  Barbecue sauce, huh? Yeah. Small fry on the side, huh? Yeah, I want my kids. I love kids. I love kids too. I'm trying to get him to have some, you know. You don't got no kids? I think he got a cap gun. No, I don't. Stop lying, Scotty. Oh, button dust come out. No, I ain't got no cap gun. It's gonna happen. It's about to happen. It's about to happen? It's about to happen. We'll see. We want to see it. We want to see it. Let's see it. We want to see a little low ski run on the rail yet. You know what I mean? It's gonna happen.   Shout out to, you know, five million cans, a whip shot. You making moves. How do you stay creative? Five million? Yeah. Five million cans. How do you stay creative in music? Because you got a lot of things going on outside of music. How do you stay creative in music? It's kind of hard to stay creative in music because it's a little weird because now I'm like an over-analyzer now. So now I over-analyze everything. Because when I used to be in the studio, I didn't even used to think. I used to record that show. I'm having a good time. But now that it's like everything is being critiqued. I really... Not even everything is being critiqued, but it's just like also like, I just don't like nothing anymore. Like I don't even like other people's music like that. Like it's like, I don't even like... People be like, who you be listening to?   I don't know, like, maybe because I just over-analyzed or then like certain things to me is like, if I do something, I'd be like, oh, it sounds old to me. Because everything is just changing. The beats are changing. Everything is changing. And then certain things that it's just like, like I love drill music, right? But I feel like I cannot do a lot of drill sound music because I'm an old bitch, like I'm 31. Like I'm 31. Because I'm... 31 is now. You mean, bro? Yeah, but I feel like that drill thing is like, it's like for the... It's like a Bronx 18, 20 year old type of thing. And it's like, sometimes I feel like it's like... Bitch. You be over-think it. I don't be over-think it. I'm crazy. You be over-think it.  I'm over-think it. Sales don't got no age limits. And I'm gonna say this, and I always say this to the artist, especially the big artist, like y'all be having all the h*** on a hard drive. It's already there. Y'all listen to it, y'all skip right through it. It's already there. Y'all already got the hits. Yeah, that is my issue too.  I could listen to like 80 beats. Next, next, next, next. Oh, I kind of like this. Put it there. No, but what about the s*** you already got recorded? You got a lot of bangers already. I don't know, I just get over things. Like the freestyle that I just put like last week and everything, I had that freestyle since like last year, the beginning of last year. Like I had the song that I'm putting out. Like I had it for like a very long time. So all the bangers you already got in the hard drive already. So what are you waiting to put them out for? What is you doing? I don't know. Just over-think it. Let me just tell you something. And this is what I don't understand about rappers in general. When you was getting on, you never over-think nothing. You just was in the studio, it's a vibe, let's go. Once it becomes a super, super business, then people start analyzing everything. And it's like, let's not never forget how we got here. If we had a certain way that we got here, let's take that same train to the next destination. You know what I mean? Yeah, but it's hard to think like that. Because it's like, I always saw myself like this. I don't ever want to like get lost in the sauce. And it's like, girl, you ain't got on like thinking how you think it. But it's like, it's really hard when it's like, you're getting peeled like a banana. Like everything is being criticized about you like a banana.  She's going to drop a problem. It's like, it got to a point there's like, I'm scared to do everything. Like I'm scared to talk. I'm scared to go on live. I'm scared to post a picture. Like I'm scared to talk about politics. I'm scared to do everything.  Like it's just like, I'm just, it's kind of scary. Like, you know, like I said, right? I disappear for social media for like a month. And then I went on a date, right? I went on a date. I was making out, doing stuff, growing things in the car. And then like when I got to the restaurant, like my lipstick was smudged.  And then like the next day it was everywhere. Like, yeah, she got a nose job. She got a nose job. And it's like, you see this why I don't even like, this is why I don't even want to post. This is why I don't want to talk. This is why I don't want to do anything. Because it's like, it's kind of hard when it's like years and years and years of people just criticizing you. And like sometimes people be like, yeah, but it's like two out of three comments. No bitch, it's like a thousand comments.  You don't know what it feels like. You know what, it's too sad to see this though, Cardi.  And then on the flip side, it's like the world that we in, once you become, you know, popular, once you become a star, you need people to be in your business to stay current, to stay relevant. Because you need them to talk. Whether it's good or bad, but when they talking, it ain't stopping your life.  And even listen, if you were still around the way, they talking about you. They talking about the male man.  They talking about Mike, the cylinder. They talk about everybody, but you need them to talk about you and then being your business is on the state popping, order to stay on the blogs, to order to stay relevant. And that's what's so crazy about it. It's like, actual marketing. Yeah, yeah.  I haven't taken a break of social media. I haven't taken a break to like analyze things and like just see the flowers and stuff.  When was the last time we went out and you just not thinking about, oh, but first I gotta get my glam done. Like it's like, and it's like, you're right. Like I just need a break of myself. I need a break of what people think about me and everything. And then I came back. I came back out with my freestyle. And it's like, oh, I'm having that feeling again. But it's like, you know what? And I'm also because it's like, yeah. But that's what you should always be on. You know why? Because the card that we was introduced to in the beginning was awesome. You didn't give off.   Yeah, I still, I still that, I still that. I look good. I still that, I still that, I still that. So when you get to a certain level, you know, you got to understand that. How I got here, you know, I got here by not overthinking.  I got here by going in the studio and making high records. You know, a lot of times too, a lot of artists fall off because they start going for looking for a different sound. Yeah. When people let you for this right here. They got to show me that they don't love me for this no more for me to go search for some of it. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? So a lot of people fall off because they change and let me go try to do something different. Let me, when it's like, they love you for this. You're right. Like they going to love you for this right here. Four bitches in a hotel room in Miami. That was wild because I had, I had a real day weekend. Them bitches be laying on top of each other.  You was just four deep over there. I was four deep, yeah, four deep. I went out there. I went to strip King of Diamonds and everything. Me and my friends, we still like in a little motel like four rooms together.  But you came, you came a long way. Came a long way. Came a long way. And the one thing you always got to remember, y'all bitches ain't know me back then. Yeah, that's true.  Yeah, so why you think it's gonna stop now? Yeah, it will never stop. But haters is your marketing team, let them work. Yeah. Because they keep your name in the blogs, the popper robs it. I ain't gonna lie, that's true. That's true because it's like, I have not been responding to a lot of things and like every other day, it's like somebody doing something that is like with my name attached to it and it's like, you know what? Whatever, as long as y'all talking about me, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead.  Thank you, thank you. And the reality of it is, they was talking about you back then. They talk about you now, but you're doing a hundred times better than you was from back then.   So you get your life together.   We probably got a chef.  Chef, I was just eating that like, I was just eating that like three days ago. On live too. I was eating that on live. Did your chef cook it? No, I did it myself. I did it myself. I eat Chef, but I'm just saying. Spaghetti and meatballs. You know what's crazy is like, it's like, that's like the new rollout for music, the blocks.  And that's what all the women follow. And the women is dictating this music. They dictate anything like on a fan ship tip. Like it's like, they keep you alive. All these different blocks. You see you on this one, that one, cause it's communities of women that follow them and that be tapped into your life. They be zoomed in. You know what I mean? But they help you in every way. I'm talking about the help, don't fall back.  I'ma let it go. Like I said, hi now. Hi. Hi. Hi. Shit. A person, some people might don't go and see an interview or something you do. They might see it on gossip in the city, on the shave room or your favorite, before I do, whatever. They watch the women is tapping into all this stuff because these is outlets on the aspect of just information. What do women love? Gossip. Gossip. They love it. That's the new way of marketing. Gossip. And these gossip blogs is doing a good job for you. So you should be happy for it. Yeah, you know what? I'm think, I'm think, I'm think, I'm think. Yeah, yeah, be thankful. I'm gonna say them a shout out in it. Like thank you. Yeah, yeah. She said, I'm think, I'm think, I'm think, I'm think.   Like it's like, I was like, y'all think y'all slick?  So it's just like sometimes like blogs do help you, but then sometimes blogs help to poison people, head about you.   I'm on some whatever right now, right now. That's what I'm talking about.  It was, it was really, it was really messing with me. It was really messing with me. I mean like, you could tell that it was messing with me. I used to, I'm very sporadic.   I would write under the comments and I'm like, let me tell you something about your. Like it's like, I was doing, I was crashing out. I was crashing out, but it's like, I ain't crashing out no more. Now you focus, Cardi. Yeah, I'm focused. I see you in the studio the other night, you in Brooklyn, Johnny. Shout out to my man Brooklyn, Johnny up in there. What you working on? How's it turning out? How's it sound? How's it feeling? What's the energy like in the studio? It's intense cause sometimes, you know, I'm a little like, I'm an overthinker now. Like I'm a super overthinker, but I'm putting out my album real soon. Like the next announcement is not going to be no single or nothing, it's going to be straight up an album. And it's just, and that's just like what we working on. We making sure that all the songs are nice and tight. We are about to send the songs to the people that we want to be on the album. And like, I'm ready. Like if it's now or never, like slow fee, don't eat. Period. So who your girlfriend that be correct in you? Like, I don't like this. They be like, bitch, this. What is you talking about? All of my friends though, like all of my friends, like all of my friends are like very like real with me. Like some of them be like, I don't like this. I like this. I don't like this. I don't like this. And they told me about myself all the time. Yeah. That's good. I don't got no kids as bitches. Let's see, that's perfect because everybody gotta have somebody around that could check them. Yeah. And checking is just a form of correction. Yeah. It ain't no, I could check him at any time. He could check me at any time.  We gon' check each other. No, then we not doing that cause we don't, you feel what I'm saying? So for all the artists out there, if you don't got some, especially the guys, if you don't got somebody around that could be like, yo, man, it's crazy here.  We out. You in trouble. Yeah. But everybody's like around me is like that. Like I don't have like kids as workers. I don't have kids as friends. I don't got kids as family. Like they checking me honey. Like they gonna check me all the time. So, but I do the same too. Yeah. Oh yeah, we know. Yeah.   Let me ask you a question. When you first came in the game, did you think you was gonna be this big of a star? Like did you ever think that Cardi was gonna be this big because you the biggest? I didn't think I was gonna be this big. I didn't even know like, I wanted to, I wanted to, but I just felt like it was just so far. Like, especially because I was coming up around the time that it's like, there was so many people from my city that was like coming up and it's like, damn, what am I doing wrong? Like, I don't get it. I don't get it. I don't get it. And it's like, I just kept hustling. I just keep, I just kept like going to the studio. And then it's like, I got a little bit too comfortable. And I just felt to myself like, it's like, you know what? I just have to accept the fact that there's the level that I'm going to stay in into like, I met the Migos and I saw like, performing in arenas. I saw what it's like to get a million dollars a show. And it's just like, no, where am I at? It shouldn't be enough. I want to be here. So I just like kept working. I wanted like, I just, I wanted that. I want to go to the, to the jewelry store. And I'd be like, how much is this watch? Forget it.  Like I wanted that lifestyle. So that's why sometimes it is true what it is.  It's like, and you just get comfortable where you at.  It's like, I need this. Like this is where I need to be like, I can't settle for, for this. I can't settle for 15K a booking, 20K a booking. I need to be here in the millions. Like, this is where I want to be. This is where I need to be. This episode of me and I's worth a game is brought to you by New Hampshire and Valka. Now up. Life ain't going your way. Shout out to New Hampshire and Valka.  Shout out to New Hampshire and Valka. You thought that check was coming in there and come your way. Shout out to New Hampshire and Valka. It's just still five times, it's filled to three times for a clean Christmas night. You could drink this straight up. You could drink this on rocks. You could drink this with juice and soda. Or you could just make a classic New Hampshire damn wheel. That's up to you.  The official Valka of Barstool Sports.  My wife that be at the crib with her girlfriends. Throwin' a big with the cocktails.  So shout out to the New Hampshire damn queen. But make sure when you out and about at your local liquor store, this is the way to go. New Hampshire damn Valka. Right. So the Migos really put some game on you.   And that's, yeah, they introduce me for that. And I could imagine that because at that time they was them, them up was bigger than the Beatles. Yeah, I came around with my little chain. I thought I was doing so I was like, whew. But, but you know what? It was all a process. That's all it was. You know, it was a product.  Yeah. And that's all you did.  And in the worst part about about that is a lot of people would have got to the 15K book and it would have been satisfied. Like I'm getting 15K a night. And I'm getting book three nights a month a week. I'm cool. Yeah. Like, no, you like, that just got what? Yup. Yup. 1.5. Yup. That's 500,000 a piece. That's how I felt.  This is what I need. Yeah. And well, did you ever like really believe that you would get here? Like it would really be like you be on this level, you be this big. I don't know. You know when I was a little girl? When I was a little girl, like you always hear like Libras are so lucky. And I'm like, I must be the f***ing Libra. Yes. My wife a Libra. Shout out to two, man. Yes. Your Libras is good people. Yeah, we are good people. We are good people. Yeah, yeah. We're wife material. We're wife material. But I used to say like it's like I'm the most unluckiest Libra in the goddamn world. Like I just felt like it's like every single time like it's like things never went far for me. Like it's like every single time I follow something I just get chopped. It's always like a chop. Every single time I follow something that it's like I wanted to do is like it's a chop or it's like harder than I expected or whatever. So I just always try to like settle for medium. I just always try to settle like it's like, well you know what if I don't get this, I'll be okay with this. But it's like, no, I'll push myself and I'm like, I'm really, that's true. I'm really am hurt. Like it's like, I got a type. They're like, I'm really am hurt.  Like it's like, you know, I got popular on social media and everything, but it's like, like now it's kind of easier like to bust the artist.  Like I was going everywhere for sensing my music. People just want to jump and they want to jump in amphitheaters and everything. And they just want to start up shows. Like, as I know, you got to go to your core. My core is ghetto bitches.  I touched my people before I got here. I important, how important, and I think a lot of times people just think they can do it by themselves. How important is a team? Because, you know, as you came out the door, as you hear, everybody was playing a part in some type of way. You know, Justin, Ashley, Patience, everybody was trying to make sure that you was right. Like how important is your team and how important is, you know, just like finding the team? Like how do you find a team? Like, you know, how do you put it together? A team is everything. And I'm still building a team. Like I'm still building more and everything because I just feel like everything sometimes just become very overwhelming for us. But it's important to appreciate your team because it's like sometimes it's like not everybody could do the job. Everybody could have a title, but not everybody do the title the same way. And not everybody could understand you and like execute your vision. And I'm like, like I said, I'm very sporadic. I do things, sometimes I be like, I wanna do this and it gotta be done by tomorrow and we gotta make it happen. So my team is everything. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed. And I just wanna say this, right?  But the best shout out that I could give you is that your music is here.  You know what I'm saying?  You feel what I'm saying? Because people fell in love with Cardi B. The person and the music. You know what I mean?   She ain't playing around. There ain't no cap.  She's not out here trying to act like something and it was so authentic and it was so raw and it has so much personality in it that that's the best compliment that I could give you that your music is at the top of the game but your personality is even bigger than your music. And that's unbelievable. So I just wanted to let you know that. You know what I mean? And that's why I wanted to let you know, never change who you are. Don't worry about what the people say.      It's entertaining. This is entertainment. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? That's all it says. At the end of the day, you gotta go home to your babies.   This shit's just entertaining. And a lot of times, a lot of the critics, a lot of the comments, a lot of that stuff, you know, they be trying to get you to turn it down because you remind them that they failed and you won. Yeah.   Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I'm just reminding you that you lost. Yeah, that's all. Because you're mad.   But don't feel sorry for it and don't let nobody else make you feel as though, you know, because they lost.   I'm an adult. I'm not where I want to be at life because of me. Because the mirror is the scariest place in life and coming from the hood is the mirror.  It ain't Cardi Farr and ain't these people that won't fall. So you can't let people, you can't take it, take it always the heart.  Because listen, the comments be the funniest part of the Instagram. I laugh, I laugh. That should be funny. People be funny, man, even when they roasting us. It'd be funny. I laugh.   I don't even know you. This could be a 16 year old boy in Nova Scotia. I don't even know you.  When I look at this Chase bank account, them zeros didn't change. Matter of fact, they wanna, I made some money today for the money I got shipped in that month. So for me, it's not gonna stop. When you going, you know, you going to buy the Ferrari Lamborghini, they not, I don't see you there. I don't never see you on the bank. Yeah. I don't never see you on the wire sitting. I mean, I don't never see y'all. So what is you, why am I gonna get y'all? You know what I mean? Keep talking.   You know what I mean? Thank you for being my, you know, cause listen, them comments be your PR too. Yeah. So I'm good PR.    But them comments do a lot of dates. Listen, Instagram is a lot of, you know, them TikTok is a lot of PR. So you know, you gotta let them be your PR. I let them pop it for you, man.  Keep grinning. You know what I mean? That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna just keep doing it. And it's like, I have good faith. And it's like, I have good faith on myself and I got good faith on my music. And it's just like, it is what it is. It's like, yeah. You from the Bronx. Yeah. I asked every person on from New York this question. Oh, that's a rough spot. Why everybody come on here and say the Bronx is the dirtiest part of New York. No, you say that, actually. No, they told me that from the Bronx. No. From New York, Brooklyn. No, Santa Bronx is the dirt. I'm like, wait, how you just gonna pick the Bronx out? You know what? You know, I saw Kaisena say that it's like, oh, like the Bronx is the dirtiest place. But it's like, I, if you think about it, Manhattan is really the dirtiest because it's like Manhattan really got the most rats. Manhattan really does got the most rats. Like it's like, She be shaking the bag. The bags be shaking the night time. Like it's like, The bags start shaking on the side. Like, you from the old Philly. That's the dirtiest part of Philly. They told us like this, dude. The rats are far. Yeah, so it's like, how we dirty, but y'all got more rats. Well, we from North Philly though. We, we from the dirtiest part of Philly. It ain't even close.   But I just wanted to know why everybody from New York put that on the Bronx. Yeah. I feel it's because- It's a jealousy thing. Yeah, it's because we feel, we're like more a little bit, a little bit more aggressive. And like it's like, I feel like the Bronx is like the last place that has been like really gentrified. Like Brooklyn got like gentrified, Queens got super gentrified, Harlem got the Armenians, Columbus over there. Man, it will always be Manhattan.  Don't the Bronx got the most poppin' as rappers out of New York? I don't know. Like right now, yeah. No, I'm saying like in the history. In the history. Yeah, yeah. I mean, hip-hop was born in the Bronx. Born there, but I'm talking about like, but New York got some big, Brooklyn got some big cats. Yeah, they got some big cats, but like, yeah, but it was born in the Bronx. Okay, yeah, yeah. JZ and Biggie had Lil' Kim and Foxy's mom out there, but it's like, let's not forget what it was born in. Queens got, you know what I'm saying? Like they have to have, they got heavy hitters. No, no, why is it that? I never knew hip-hop was born in the Bronx. Yeah. You don't know, that's why I be saying it. I'm not no hip-hop story, I'm a basketball player. Let me say this though. Why is it that New York girls talk the craziest when they get mad? I don't know. Y'all talk the craziest. I really gotta control that. And y'all tell it, and y'all say father with two Fs. Yeah, y'all talk the craziest. Yeah, father. Like, damn, you went all the way to him. Damn, my dad. I know, honey. I grew the whole family. Your whole family, your whole family. They get the whole family in it, the aunts, the nieces, and they. I'm talking about, it had to be, it had to be like early in going up to New York, 96 or something. I met this girl from Harlem. She, I damn near caught a case, man. She talked so crazy to me one night. I said, I'm going to the jail. I don't get away from this girl. I'm talking about just testing you. Like, I knew you ain't going to do nothing. Like, cause you, cause you would use up. See, like. Yeah, that's my favorite word, yeah.  Like, can you do something?  I'm going to jail.  Like, New York women? Oh my God. Yes.  I want you to do it right now, right now, right now, right now. Got it here. No, they, they, they, no. See? Like, it comes out really fast.    Do something. See, you like, damn, you talking about my grandfather. He been dancing for 10 years.  Brindle baby has mother. Like, damn. Left you whole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm really nasty with them. I'm really, I got a crying mouth. New York.  No, you got to be a different.  Like, it was like. Then the real part about it is they really be ready to rumble. What? Yeah. What's up?  Like, that's one thing we always talk about.  No, he thinks he did too. He thinks he did too.  You think cause you got your little racket out.  Oh, listen, I could put somebody's self esteem down. I can look at you and I got 30 jokes. But that's just, that's just me.  So it's just like, like, it's like, it's like. Wait, when did women even get that from?  I mean, that started in New York. Yes, it did. It started in New York.  They started it now.    Like, it's like, like, it's like, you're just so used to. Damn, we just so used to insults that it's just like, it's just in you. And she not lying because when I had to, when I used to talk on live and I had the girls on New York, I used to ask them, why y'all talk so crazy? They all used to say the same thing. Gilly, you don't know what we go through. These New York is crazy. They mad aggressive and so you gotta be like that. I'm like, okay, cool. So, but they talk crazy to a motherfucker. They're sending you to jail. Cause she like, I didn't got a couple of cases. You know what I'm saying? I push the buttons. All the buttons. Oh my God. She don't want to get you to be in the jail. Then she come visit you. Got your mind right now.  No, no, no, I'm not putting you in jail.  She asked you on the phone.  I feel like, damn, man. That's the core, but she can't go to jail. You got your mind right.   You ready to act right?  That's just crazy, man. All right, so, you know, new single coming out Friday enough. Like, tell us about that. Well, well, you know, I always, I always loved this record. I had this record for a minute. I had this record for a minute. I did this record.  Like, I felt like bitches was trying me. So, like the original name of the song, I call this song Cardi K. Like her name is Cardi K. Cause I was on something like, oh yeah, I'm some Cardi K. I'm some Cardi killer. Yeah. F*** y'all bitches.  Oh, y'all bitches.  So it's like, that's how I felt. But now I'm like, you know what? I just like the record now. Like, I'm not there right now, but it's like, that's how I felt when I did it. I go to Miami, I pull up on a cruise ship.  Oh my God. I've been telling you, I'm a comedian though. I'm a comedian. So it's like, I say stuff like that. Cause it's funny. I like comedy and records. You like comedy. Yeah, we sing. Yeah, that was funny.  Yeah, we sing.   She's stabbing on everybody. But see, sometimes you gotta let a little mother know I ain't the one to be played with. Yeah. Cardi K. One thing I said, see. There was some Cardi Killers.  How you feel about that? How was it? How was the energy shooting at and all that? I feel, I feel, I feel great. I feel really good. Me and Cesar, we talk a lot. So, and I collaborated with Cesar before. I always like flow Milley, like she knows that I've been supporting her record for a very long time because I generally like, I like her music a lot. And it's just, I always see her potential and everything. And it's like, oh my God, I'm so happy she got like a good hit and like a big hit because she got hits to me. But it's like now, like this one is like went like super mainstream and everything. And it's just like, I'm glad that y'all like seeing my, it's like for real, for real. Cause I love her music. Like I love her music and it's a sexy record. I like it. Yeah. Let me ask you this. Did anybody, how you embrace, you know, Flow Milley? And, you know, I see you embrace a lot of people, drill rappers from the Bronx and who embraced you like that coming in the game? Did any female embrace you like, said I'm gonna come wrap my arms around you, show you some love?  But I could say that like when I was on love and hip hop and everything, and I was in the reunion I think it was like my, it was the second reunion. Like me and my sister was fighting, it was bugging out and all that stuff. And then like Remy Ma she like came up to me and she was like, yo, you need to stop bugging out like that. It's like, you think I don't wanna go to Europe right now and do shows?  Like, like I see, I see that you taking your music seriously at, I see that you taking your music seriously. Like it's like, you need to, you need to like get off that mentality. Like that is wack. Like, and like, she didn't have to tell me that.  Cause me and my sister was walling that day. So I could, I could say that. Shout out to Remy, man. Shout out to Remy for that. And that's somebody that was coming from the bottom too. Coming fresh out of jail. So, you know, she lost a lot of blessings being in jail and a lot of things that she could have did. So that was some good game that she gave. And also like, I always wanted to do summer jam. And I remember like when my team got a call that it's like she want to bring me out for summer jam. I was so excited. Like it's like, oh my God, this is my moment. This is my moment. Because I had a record that it was like hot in New York and it's just like the radio or like people are not trying to push this record. Like why is this record not moving?  So it's like, she also did that for me too. Oh, she bought you out of summer jam? Oh, shout out to Remy, a real one, man. Yeah. So that's what's up. Was you scared going to that stage? I was so scared. I was so scared. So, so scared. And then I didn't know that it was going to be like a lot of other female hip hop artists. And it's like, when I saw all of them, I'm like, oh my God. Ah! How did you be now? Like, as you got bigger, how was it? Do you still have that little butterfly when you're ready to go on stage? You still got that feeling or you just be like now? After that pandemic, I'm getting like butterflies now because like, I don't, I don't know what it is. Like I just, maybe because like I'm getting my myself used to it. But before that, I wasn't the only time I get butterflies like if I do like a TV performance. But now it's like, damn, why am I, why am I doing Rolling Loud or why am I doing this show? And it's like, I'm getting butterflies. Like that was even me. Pandemic focused you a little bit. Like people don't really think how much, but it kind of did put you a little bit. Like, it really did. Had a muffle all in the house. They was in the fridge, was in the house all day, just shook. Now I know what was going to happen. Yeah. Did you think you was going to be able to come back as strong or was it a little doubt that it created a lot of doubt? Like around 2019, 2020, I felt like I was being doubted a lot. Like I felt like I was being doubted a lot. And I was like, oh, like I felt like I felt like I was being like putting in the, being, being put like in the bad burner.   And then it's like, I did it again with up and like, it's like, if I did that when I felt like I was at my lowest, I guess like I could always do it again. Like I could do it again. I just got to like focus up and I'd be scared to put up.  You got it on a hard drive.  I'm going to put it out. Like you put enough out and you already done that.  Well, like all other songs you already got done. You know what I mean? It's sit down with your team and just listen to it.   I'm telling you, like after this, I'm going to put out, I'm going to put out my album and that's it. Like, take this. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Love it. That's about it. I'm sorry. That's a real New York practice. I'm going to put this album out and then take this. Yeah. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry.   But damn, man, she threw my box. You off the hook. Enough is enough. You hear me? Sorry, sorry, sorry. That's my favorite line in the song, too. Just by the way, one, two, that's a hell of a lie.  So what's up? What's up with acting? So with the movies? You know what? I was supposed to do this movie called Assistant Living. I was supposed to do this movie. I got to get back to that. But I have been getting offered for years, for years to do like an eight-mile type of movie about my life. And I'm really into that. Like, I really want to do that because I feel like I know people know me, but people really don't know me. And I feel like it's like certain things that it's you wouldn't be able to imagine. You got to see it. You can't even put it on a book. You got to just see it to understand it on the screen. So it's like, I want to do that. Like, I've been getting those type of offers for years and it's like, I'm ready to sit down and tell my shit, talk my story.  Well, I can't play a flat chested me.  After she already blew up. No, no, no. I got my titties on the 19th. Oh, you did? I got my titties on the 19th. I got my titties on the 19th. So it's like, probably like, it's like, that's when I spring off and it's like... Here I am, bam. Here I am. That was crazy. You think it's going to be hard to find somebody to do you? I'll probably find out the wrongs. Like, there's a whole bunch of them. There's a whole bunch of them. She got to have the voice. I mean, my voice is very unique. But I feel like there's a lot of people that... So people are... I guess people got to go to the wrongs. There's a lot of girls that talk like me. Like, I'm not the only person with this accent. There's a whole bunch of them out there. It is. There is. There is, there is, there is. Because that's a unique vocal tone you got right there. That's a very unique vocal tone. Who on your wish list did you do a song with? Who on your wish list did you do a song with? On my wish list. Like, whoever comes comes. No, no, you got somebody. I know you got some people on that list.  And they going to find out right here today.  I didn't know you wanted to get in. There's some people that I want to do like a song with. But I just feel like I don't have that worthy song to like give it to them. Especially because it's like, I'm more, I'm like... I do more rap than like certain songs that I like. So it's like... Who? Like for example, like I love Rihanna music, but I don't do music like that. Like I sound kind of stupid trying to sing like that, trying to sound like that. Like it's like, you can't sing like that. So it's like, if I ever get like that perfect record, like it's like, I cannot wait to like, I feel like this song, I know she going to like it.  Take this thing out of my face. And then Rihanna, anybody else?  Yeah, that would be so dope. I don't know. I always wanted to do a record with Shakira and like, it's like, wow, it landed on my lap. It really landed on my lap. So I got a record coming out with her next week. Yes. It landed on my lap. It's like, ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!  I'll fly to Colombia if you want me to. Like, I go there right now. How did it happen? How did it come apart? Um, well, I saw her in Paris and like, I talked to her and I don't like being in Fridge's Faces of Buzz. Like, I have to tell you that like, my sister, like she did a talent show where she was in first grade and she won doing your song. Like, I just love you so much.  And then like, her team reached out to me and I'm like, ah! Shakira, Shakira! Ah! I was gagging. Gagging, gagging, gagging.    She ain't excited. That's Cardi B.  You like Shakira.  That's a big thing. You know what I mean? Because a lot of people lost, lost how to be a fan of somebody. You know what I mean? Like, you see people now, even with us, we'll go somewhere and a young boy will be like, yo, they're following Kelly. Like, we don't hear him. It's like, bro, why don't you just don't speak, bro? You know what I mean? Like, we see Big Daddy Kane in the airport. He lost his mind. Big Daddy Kane was about to slap him in the airport. Yes, he was. I was just giving the legend his price. No, you was drawing. He was looking at you like, nigga, it's five in the morning. It's you too. I love you. R. A. W. Terrorist.  It's five in the morning. So, but when we see people, we still fans. I was with my wife and I seen Nas at the airport. I was like, God, I love you.    I just was so happy to see the nigga.   Like, you know what I mean?  They listen to your music every day, but they don't, they, they, they too cool. So for you to be, oh, I'm up here. I'm really winning in life. And I'm excited that Shakira called me. They say a lot. Yeah. You know what I mean? You still humble. You still, you know what I'm saying? They say a lot.  I'm cold, but I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm sick. I'm gonna take the cold. I'm gonna take it. At the end of the day, you got the new album coming out. You only gave us two people which is good. Shakira, you made it happen. What's the name of the album? Can you say something? Can you say? You can't? No. I'm going to be honest with you. I still don't have the name of the album. I'm like struggling with that. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. One, two, two. You know what's so crazy? I was in the studio with my engineer, right? And then I was like, how about if I name it something real simple? It's like, is this what you wanted? But we from New York and from the Bronx. So we crack the jokes. And he was like, you imagine if you put, is this what you wanted? People would be like, no. No.  That's true. Scratch that. Scratch it. Scratch it. So that's the thing. But I just want it to be so simple. I imagine they're my own guys. My name is Belkalees. What's that? Your real name? That's my name. Say it again. Belkalees. Belkalees. I never heard that. We both got one. Belkalees. We both got names that I only heard from. My real name is Ferrar. Ferrar? Yeah, Ferrar. F-A-R, posture, F-E-D. See, you never heard of that, right? Yeah. I never heard of Berkalees. You see, Berkalees, I never heard of that. You see? So imagine being raised in the Bronx, and then you go into the studio and... Belkalees. Belkalees. This is how I am. This is how I am, how I am. They were saying that as well. I tell you, that's what I mean. Where did Cardi B come from? Where did Cardi B come from? Because, well, they used to call me Bucardi. Oh, okay. Because my sister's real name is Hennessy. So they used to be like Bucardi. Oh, so that was the hood, right? Hennessy Bucardi. Yeah. Hennessy Bucardi. Y'all could have been a group. I don't know. We just...  That's what we were. No, y'all wasn't. That's what we were. Okay, but he was up in the Bronx. But they used to call me Bucardi because my sister's name is Hennessy and everything. So I just, like, sliced it down. Because my Instagram name was like Bucardi 11-something. And so I was like, nah, this is Bucardi's name. Only Bucardi could have this name. So it's like, I put it down in Cardi. That was the best thing you ever did, huh? That's what's up. That's what's up. So single is out. Enough is enough.     That's what... That's how simple I want it to be.  Last be on earth. That's the new single. I'm in the new album. Got some big features on there. We not gonna release them yet. I know. Gil, no. Cardi, no. You don't. She got Shakara. No, no, no. I miss Shakara's album, though. Oh, you miss Shakara's album? I miss Shakara's album. Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful, too. Shout out to Shakara, though. But I got some good features. Oh, yeah. You can get who you want. And how did the dance come about? All right. Break it down. Some young boys said he stole it from the Bronx. Oh, she stole some of my dance? No, that's what it... I'm gonna try to slip. Some Harlem guy, I saw it on the Bronx. He's like, yeah, she stole my dance. She stole my dance. She stole my dance. And I was like, I really got it from, like, this wrong rap. Like, you know, from D-thing. Like, from the drill rappers from the Bronx. And it's like, okay, whatever. But I really got it from the Bronx, like, from my place. We love that drill rap. I really do. I love it. I love it. I love it. It's so messy. It's messy, honey. I love it. I love the drama. Give it to me. Well, Cardi, we just want to thank you. It's been a long overdue. We just want to thank you for pulling up. You know what I mean? We appreciate you. We appreciate you. Keep glowing and growing. Keep being great. Keep kicking. Don't let up on them. Don't overthink. Remember what we told you? What they think? You got to turn your...  I turned it all the way off. Turn it off. Turn it...  Oh, turn it on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.    Right. Oh, they talking. Push the button. Man. Let me look at my house for a minute. Because I can't get all of it in one view. I think I give a... What you talking about? My kids got a beautiful life. Just 2015, I was in the Bronx. Yeah, that's you. 2024. Wherever I want to be at. Don't listen to them. Whatever you doing, you doing it well. Keep being great. Me and I's worth a game is always family. Cardi, young legend. Going down in all of them. Stop saying you old, young. You 31.  No, I'm not. You know what? Having two kids make you feel old. Come on. Having two kids make you feel like goddamn responsibilities. God damn, I gotta wake up sometimes.  Make you feel old.  And I've been outside since I was like goddamn 15. I've been horny going for it. It's like, you know what I'm saying?  I'm 41 in dog years. Like outside years. I'm like 41 in dog and outside years. That's crazy. That's crazy. We going in like this. This dude crazy. This dude crazy, man. It is just like that. Right.


What's going on guys root of the now here coming back at you with another Python tutorial. Let's get idle fired up Let's see what we can do here now before I jump into a new script or a new program I'm gonna say in the interactive shell and show you what we're working with today And then we can go create a new file and do our own thing But now we'll be looking at list list data types They're a lot like arrays in fact arrays into their name for them But it's really the idea of holding multiple values inside one Variable where you can index things with numbers and retrieve information back and forth and that sort of thing now I remember these are denoted with these two braces or these two brackets and for me. I'm just gonna set up one that is a An ascending integer Array so we get one two three four five and I'm actually going to set this to be a vowel a variable here array can equal One two three four five so now if we check out array We have obviously one two three four five and the function we're going to be looking at today is called reverse Now if we type in our variable name and use our dot selector if you do control space You can see all of these functions that we could be running with and in our case We're gonna check out reverse so let's type in our two parentheses And if we do control backslash inside those parentheses you can see the variables and the values They're gonna have to pass in for arguments now in our case We're kind of lucky reverse doesn't take any arguments, but what it will do is it will reverse the array So if we run this we don't get in the output because it's not returning anything to us because this function doesn't return anything instead It really does a modify the original array. So if we look at it right now, we have five four three two one Now I myself don't like this. I don't like it when the functions actually manipulate the real variable So I'm just gonna have it return to us when we when we try and create it today But obviously you can set this up if you'd like you can go into more in-depth research and try and figure out How to do this, but I don't like to and I don't think it's I don't think it's something we should even bother looking at But hey, let's try and take a look at this all on our own because see remember We're taking a look at one two three four and five and we're reversing it So in our case five takes position of one Four will take the position of two and three will take the position of where it's at because array has an odd number of elements or items inside of it So let's try and create this. It's a pretty simple function, but it looks like it might get a little bit tedious Let's try it though. Let's create a new script here. I'm gonna call mine file dot Python Get a new shebang line started Create a class We don't need these comments here, but I do because that's just my personal programmer style to find a constructor the init keyword wrapped in two underscores Both on either end passing yourself keyword as always because you should always do that when you're um When you're creating a function inside of a class if name is equal to main now outside Outside the class in our global scope We can do a conditional statement and test if this is the current script that we're running And if it is we can create an instance of our base class and call it roots now everything inside the constructor will happen Automatically because that's just what happens with constructors whenever you initialize an object like root in our case It'll run everything inside the constructor. So let's create our array variable. Let's do array and Now it remember it's a list. So we have one two three four and five Now if we print out array, I'm going to concatenate some new lines on here. So we have to turn this into a string and add on new line new line just so we see what we're working with here and we get one two three four five So if we now run a array reverse We run this nothing's gonna happen and even if we printed something out here It'll tell us none because that function doesn't return anything all it does is modify the original variable like I was saying So we don't have to print anything out here We can just run the function But then we should take a look at our array variable and I'm not gonna concatenate anything on here So we don't have to convert this in with a string data type. We run this we get five four three two one It's gone in reverse now. So let's try and create this all on our own. I'm going to remove these lines here and Define a new function outside of our constructor. I'm gonna call mine reverse We need to pass in the self-cured as always and then we're going to need obviously the array that we're gonna be reversing So now we need the array length So we can loop through the thing with an index so a re-length It's gonna be an integer data type integer data type and then we can use the le end function to get the length of any object So we'll pass in the array here And then we can we can begin to loop through it. So for I in The range If I can type in correctly, holy crap for I in range and then a re-length So it'll count up until the length of the array here And now what we're gonna do is we're gonna add what we find into a new array So before we loop we can set up a new array and that's gonna be blank for now And now a new array can equal array Remember what we're adding should be in a new array can plus equal because we're adding on to it We're appending new array can equal a List data type so we have to have our our braces around it our brackets and now you can use a ray Pass in with I Now when we're done here, we can return when we're outside of our loop we can return the new array that we've gotten So let's take a look at what we're building here. We have successfully Loops through the list though with an I variable that's going to index and what's gonna increment each through each number Or each element inside the list and it's going to index each thing So we're gonna start at zero because that's what the range function does when you don't pass anything into it And it'll do I zero Let's see I 1 2 3 4 Now the thing is we're trying to count backwards though So if we're adding a new array, we aren't reversing anything here all we're just doing is adding it all together So what we should do though is try and turn this into the negative value So that way we can count backwards because negative 1 is 5 negative 2 is 4 negative 3 is 3 negative 4 is 2 negative 5 is 1 So let's let's give this a go. Let's see what'll happen here. Let's print out Print out a self reverse remember you have to use your self keyword because the function is inside our class here We can pass an array and then we're done now we get one five four three two Whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a little weird right one is that that first index Right, so it should be over at the end not at the front. We get five four three two That's in the right order, but one is just out of the blue here Now remember this is because One is at index zero and when we do that if we do negative zero it's still going to return zero So a new array plus equals zero. I'm sorry array zero is going to have one So we get one five four three two what we have to do is make up for this one variable So what we can do is we can start counting from one at a railing and then we're done We can add on and we're done looping anyway We can do new array plus equals the array value or the list value of array index with zero So now when we run this we get five four three two one because we've started counting at negative one Oh, sorry, we've we started counting at one, but when we add this to an array We're looking at that negative value. So we get negative one negative two negative three negative four negative five except we're not getting that because it's a part of this less than that length here and Now we can add on that final piece here that array zero so essentially we're turning this all Reverse and then we're adding on that bit that we would have missed So now you can see we have five four three two one now There's a lot of interesting things you can do with this function if you wanted to you could potentially set up a start and end For when you're reversing and that sort of thing Yeah, you could decide if you want to reverse more elements and just then just one section that sort of thing But knowing how this works is going to be crucial for your understanding of when you might want to use this function That sort of thing, but hey, thank you guys for watching. I hope you enjoyed this. I know this one was a little bit It's interesting I mean you're indexing with a negative value and you have to make up for the fact that you have one That's just sort of extraneous and out there, but hey, I hope you guys enjoyed this Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening and I will see you in the next tutorial


Hello and welcome to today's episode of the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Iraq ups pressure on the United States to withdraw all forces. Protests across Chicago after the release of body cam footage of police shooting and an armed child. Shock survey finds overwhelming support in the United States for vaccine patent waivers. And in our video section today, we take a look at the scheduled withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. In our first story, we take a look at Iraq, where the government has increased its efforts to get a definite timeline for the US troops withdrawn from the country. According to Iraq's public broadcaster, the government led by Mustafa Al-Qadimi wants all foreign troops to leave Iraq before the national elections, which are scheduled to be held in October this year. On Thursday, the Iraqi news agency reported that senior officials in the foreign ministry met the US ambassador earlier in the day. It was part of a series of meetings sought by the technical military committee to expedite the process of foreign troops withdrawal. The committee was formed by Prime Minister Qadimi last week under the command of Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah. Reflecting on the previous talks held on April 8, Qadimi had tweeted that Iraq deserved to live in peace, security and prosperity and not in conflicts and wars. The presence of the US forces and bases in the country has become a constant source of trouble due to almost routine attacks by various militias. The new Joe Biden administration in the US had started negotiations to set a timeline for full withdrawal. After the third round of talks on April 7, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fahad Hussain issued a joint communique stating that the mission of US and the coalition forces has now transitioned thereby allowing for the redeployment of any remaining combat forces from Iraq. The lack of a timeline is often speculated to be linked to US apprehensions about the security of foreign missions in Iraq. However, Qadimi has stated that the Iraqi forces are capable of providing security to all peaceful missions in the country, asserting that the Iraqi forces were primarily responsible for the defeat of the Islamic State. The US also wants the presence of non-combatting forces in the country for quote-unquote training and advisory tasks. It is yet unclear whether militias opposed to foreign presence in the country will agree to any such arrangements. In our second story, we take a look at Chicago where people have responded with outrage after the police watchdog released body cam footage of the shooting of a teenage child. The footage released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability or the COPA on April 15 showed the 13-year-old Adam Toledo seemingly unarmed, shot dead while being chased by the police. Toledo, a boy of Mexican origin, was killed on March 29 in the Little Village neighborhood. The incident occurred when the police arrived at the scene, responding to emergency calls, reporting multiple shooting incidents in the area. In the footage released, the police can be seen chasing Toledo along with another person, later identified as 21-year-old Ruben Roman. In the footage, the police officer responsible for the shooting, Eric Stillman, could be heard shouting orders at Toledo for him to drop something he had reportedly held in his hands. As Toledo responding to the orders stops with his empty hands, raised and turns around to very clearly surrender, Stillman fires a shot that hits him in the chest. While the police calls for an ambulance, Toledo dies at the scene. The entire incident from the beginning of the chase to the shooting happened within a span of 19 seconds. Toledo had less than one second to respond to police orders before being shot. In-body cam footage from other officers present at the incident along with CCTV footage from the alley where the shooting took place, it was seen that Toledo threw away her handgun before turning around to surrender. While Roman has been charged with various charges of unlawful use of firearms and endangering minors, Stillman or other officers involved in the chase are yet to face any disciplinary action. In a press conference held by Toledo's family, a dean-wise artist, the lawyer representing the family, said that the videos speak for themselves. The footage flew in the face of various claims made by the authorities to justify the incident. The Chicago Police Department claimed that Toledo posed an immediate threat to the officers present at the site without specifying the sort of threat. In a statement during a bond hearing for Roman the Cook County Assistant States Attorney James Murphy even went on to claim that Toledo held a gun in his right hand as he turned to the officers, the state's attorney's office. Later had to clarify that Murphy failed to fully inform himself before the court hearing. Demonstrations and vigils were held in different parts of the city including Little Village where the incident took place and the headquarters of the fraternal order of police, the city's police union. One demonstration also led to a brief interruption of traffic at the city's iconic Michigan Avenue. Protesters carried banners that also alleged a 48-hour cover-up referring to the 48 hours that it took the police to inform Toledo's family of his death. The release of the footage comes just days after another police shooting incident in Minneapolis and the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin charged in the killing of George Floyd last year. The Washington Post documented 990 cases of fatal shootings by the police across the United States last year. This year so far that number stands at 265. In our next story, we take a look at the results of a recent survey that found overwhelming support for patent rights waiver for COVID-19 vaccines. According to the shock survey conducted by the Progressive International and the data for progress, more than 60% of United States voters across party lines would support President Joe Biden to endorse the demand by over 100 countries at the WTO to waive patent rights for the vaccines. The survey shows only 28% of all voters in the U.S. oppose the move. The survey indicates that 72% of Democrats and over 50% of Republicans would support the move, which can reduce the cost of vaccine production and increase access to poor and developing countries across the globe. Commenting on the findings of the survey, General Coordinator of the Progressive International, David Adler, said in the statement that there is a popular mandate in the United States to put human life and economic recovery ahead of corporate profits. The proposal to suspend patent rights was first proposed by South Africa and India in October last year. However, the United States, Canada and the European Union have opposed the move citing the interest of the innovators. Last month, more than 100 countries wrote to the WTO to waive the intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines. Due to patent rights, countries are barred from producing several leading vaccines. These countries claimed that waiving the patent rights will end the unequal access to vaccines and facilitate the increased production of the cheaper versions. This will also help poor and developing countries to get access to vaccines and immunize their population faster. Due to the patent's regime, the majority of countries are currently dependent on buying expensive doses from companies in the developed world. Patents have also added to the shortages of production. According to studies, 86% of all vaccinations across the globe so far have taken place in richer nations, whereas a share of vaccination in low-income economies is just 0.1%. The World Health Organization, the United Nations and several other international organizations have raised the question of unequal access to vaccines due to hoarding by rich countries and supported the call for a patent waiver. Members of the US Congress have also started a signature campaign in support of the dimad, with lawmakers like Bernie Sanders having already endorsed the measure. According to the campaign, people's vaccine, more than 170 former heads of states, governments and Nobel laureates have written to Joe Biden asking him to support the patent waiver. In our video section today, we take a look at the news of the US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. On April 14, the US President Joe Biden announced that the country, along with its NATO allies and operational partners, will be withdrawing all its remaining troops from Afghanistan before September 11. However, experts have pointed out that this itself does not signal the end of US presence in Afghanistan. Reports have stated that the United States military will remain in Afghanistan in the form of special operations and CIA personnel along with manned attack aircrafts and roads, among other things. What does this sort of presence mean for the future of Afghanistan? On April 14, US President Joe Biden announced that the US, along with NATO allies and operational partners, will be withdrawing all the remaining troops from Afghanistan before September 11. This year will be the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks and 20 years of direct US presence in Afghanistan. The withdrawal of all foreign troops was part of a deal signed between the Donald Trump administration and the Taliban last year in February. Though the deal set May 1, 2021 as the deadline for the withdrawal, the US is most likely to miss it now. The US-Taliban deal signed last year had also imposed certain conditions on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The two main ones were intra-Afghan talks and non-cooperation of the Taliban with Al-Qaeda in ISIS. However, according to reports, the Biden administration has decided to withdraw the troops anyway. The US, which had more than 100,000 troops in the country in 2011, has gradually reduced it to around 2,500 troops due to the rising cost of the Afghanistan war. Most of the troops were withdrawn during Donald Trump's presidency. While Biden and other NATO countries have announced that they will be withdrawing troops, it does not mean an end to US presence in the country. Reports have stated that the United States military will remain in Afghanistan in the form of special operations and CI personnel, along with manned attack aircrafts, drones, etc. Air strikes alone have caused a heavy number of casualties and destruction. According to figures released by the US military, US and its allies dropped 81,638 bombs and missiles on Afghanistan between the years 2001-2019. Data from 2019 to now has not been made public. Even these figures do not include several categories of air strikes, meaning the actual numbers are much higher. More over only a fraction of the deaths and damage caused by these strikes is reported in the media. It is estimated, however, that at least 31,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in total in this war and 360,000 civilians have died due to indirect causes from the war. Redrawal of ground troops alone cannot signify the end of war in Afghanistan when such possibilities continue to exist. So, what did the US achieve in all these years that cost so many lives? The US has failed to realize one of its main goals of destroying the Taliban. It is leaving the country after what is definitely a defeat. The Taliban, in fact, is stronger than it has ever been since 2001. The US had also stated that it will defeat drug trade by ending the circulation of opium and heroin from Afghanistan. But in the past five years, Afghanistan accounted for 84% of global opium production. Meanwhile, certain sections are demanding that the US presence in Afghanistan must continue for the sake of the advances made in women's rights, such as education. The truth is, in pre-Taliban Afghanistan, half of university students, 40% of the country's doctors, 70% of its teachers and 30% of its civil servants were women. Today, after 20 years of US occupation, in half of the country's provinces, fewer than 20% of teachers are female. In many provinces, fewer than 10% are females. Only 37% of adolescent girls can read as compared to 66% of boys. More over 54.4% of Afghanistan's population lives below the poverty line. 98.2% of workers earn around $3.10 a day. Over two-thirds of the country's people lack access to clean drinking water and the literacy rate is a dismal 38.2%. The presence of the US has done nothing to help Afghanistan and its people. Now the withdrawal of the foreign troops is happening without any sort of peace process or structure in place for future governance, as talks between different parties have failed to reach any conclusion. Meer Rahman Dharmani, Speaker of the Lower House of the Afghan Parliament, has stated that this could mean a possibility of the return of civil war.


Thank you for joining us today. Hi, my name is Shouying Xin. I am a data analyst at Penn State University Libraries. I'm joined by my colleague, Cynthia Botali, the former head research informatics and publishing at Penn State University Libraries and the current director of scholarly communications at the Association of Research Libraries. We are excited to talk with you about some recent work we have launched at Penn State University Libraries around support for data analysis, data analytics and visualization. The research informatics and the publishing was launched in 2018, and it reflects the analytical and the publishing services the team provides. Broadly, the department includes Center for Black Digital Research, Digital Humanities Services, Research Data Services, Open Publishing Services, the MAP and GIS, and the Data Learning Center. We provide training, consultations, reference transactions, project support, and infrastructure. In addition to people and infrastructure, we have launched an advanced analytics and visualization digital lab in January 2020. The lab is equipped with computers and a number of specialized software for community members to use to conduct data analysis and visualization projects. We dig into the Data Learning Center a bit more. We provide services for data analytics and visualization, statistical consultations, data management, data archiving and preservation, data geospatial mapping and analysis services. This is data and the information that's showing where our services have mostly heavily engaged in the last year. As you can see, we have mainly worked with graduate faculty, undergraduate students, postdoc and staff for their thesis and dissertation work or research projects, class projects, grant development or cost development by providing quantitative analysis including data analytics and statistical analysis. We also provide technical support, qualitative analysis, data management and data curation services. This pie chart on the left is showing that we have mainly worked with researchers from liberal arts, agriculture, health and human development, engineering, education, science, medicine, etc. And we have provided a lot of support for using software tools for researchers to analyze and visualize their data for their project. Compared to the consultation services we provide, the reference services we provide have been focusing on data management, quantitative analysis followed by quantitative analysis, technical support, information discovery and open publishing. And again, we have mainly worked with graduate students, faculty, staff and undergraduate students. Our data analytics and visualization service is one of the newest service offerings that came into development after a comprehensive and institutional wide landscape analysis of the existing support for data science, including big data analytics. And we continue to collect data on services, identify gaps and partner with colleagues such as the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. And the data analyst at Penn State University Libraries who provide workshops, one-on-one consultation and a guest lecture for using data analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL Server and its business intelligence suite, Microsoft's Access and Excel and some other BI tools. We also provide support for big data analytics tools such as Google Cloud Platform or GCP, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services or AWS. This is an example visualization we have created using Power BI based on COVID-19 data. The scatter plot animation is comparing confirmed cases versus mortality in each state from March to September of 2020. The next visualization is a dashboard with interactive videos such as map bar launchers to show confirmed cases versus mortality rate. When we click a location on the map, the other two videos will update accordingly to show data just for that specific location. Lastly, we want to thank these units and individuals for the support of the data analysis, data analytics and visualization initiatives at Penn State University Libraries. Thank you for your time. Have a good day.


DSCI is actually a really really great hub. I think I was thinking today before I came to the event that the last time I was at the DSCI event was probably because that was about a year ago. I think that was the best event I've been to regarding supply chain and I've been to quite a few because there's tons of knowledge sharing, very good breakout sessions and for someone like me coming from more of a service provider technology developer side it really helps to see how supply chain professionals and executives think in terms of where they want to go and how they want to transform their businesses. And because we're in the business of innovative technology there's a lot of cross-pollination happening here so I really enjoyed both of the events. I wish I could have stayed even more but yes in terms of how DSCI can help further I believe we only scratch the surface so we're looking forward to more events definitely.