Defending FBA Businesses Against Noise Ordinance Violations

To defend your business against false noise complaints and potential racial discrimination, you must shift from a defensive posture to an offensive one by building an undeniable "wall of evidence." As a strategist, I recommend a three-pillar approach: Third-Party Verification, Legal Notice, and Political Engagement. In this case, we will use the Hidden History Museum, but you can apply this to your business and tweak it to the location. Since I don't see Black lawyers coming through on this situation, I will. Let's keep growing and reinforcing the things we build.

1. Execute Professional Sound Testing & Certification

You need a "Certificate of Compliance" from an accredited third-party to silence false claims.

• The Test: Hire an acoustical consultant to perform a Noise Impact Assessment or Sound Survey. They will measure decibel levels at your property line while your music is at its maximum "safe" level.
• The "Cap": Have the technician identify the specific decibel limit at which sound becomes audible outside. Use this to set a physical "limiter" on your sound system so it cannot technically exceed that volume.
• Local Experts: Contact firms like Noise Monitoring Services or eNoise Control, which specialize in Los Angeles Noise Code compliance.

2. Issue a Formal Legal "Notice of Compliance"

Once you have the certified report, do not just tell the neighbors; put them on legal notice.

• Cease and Desist: Have an attorney draft a letter to the complaining businesses. This letter should include the third-party sound report and state that further false reports will be viewed as harassment or defamation (slander).
• Discrimination Warning: Explicitly mention that because your business is in full compliance, targeted complaints against a Black-owned business may constitute a violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which protects against arbitrary discrimination by business establishments in California.

3. Neutralize the City Council & Authorities

Prevent the city from taking action based on lies by being the first to provide the facts.

• Submit the Record: Proactively send your certified sound report and a log of ambient noise in the Arlington/Jefferson area to the Los Angeles City Council and the local LAPD precinct's non-emergency line.
• The "Ambient Noise" Defense: Your report should highlight that the "noise" neighbors hear is the existing high-activity environment of the area, not your business.
• Log Everything: Keep a daily log of your music volume levels and any external noise you hear from other sources to contrast with their false claims.

Draft Letters

• Strategic Notice to City Council & LAPD
• Formal Notice to Neighboring Businesses

FBA Don't Owe Non-FBA Our Attention and Money

There are a number of spoiled people out here still pissed off that FBA didn't go hard in the damn paint acting like die hard fans of people we don't listen to like that. To hell with the super bowl, if FBA don't own it. I still haven't heard a Bad Bunny song in my life, I let his fans have that. We don't force them to listen to our music, and a number of people listen to copy it. You can hear somebody riding buy with a trunk rattling because they don't know how to set it up right, and the music sounds like a version of an FBA rapper in Spanish. Same flow. We don't go at them, but they can't say they aren't sitting up eating off us. Our creation changed Fat Joe's life and instead of moving like Big Pun, this dude tried to shit on us.

One thing they can't do though is force us to support them. Listen to the way that some of these people talk, they think we owe them something and are pissed that we don't bow down. Then you have people out here who look like us, who might be cosplaying like tethers would, trying to shame us. I don't know one Latino who offered me or anyone in my family a lane to go into business with them to open a grocery store. You can look at Fat Joe and point out that he's doing a podcast with Jada, but Joey's clinging on to relevancy after pushing the line. Why didn't he go do a podcast with Math Hoffa or Busta Rhymes? He didn't want to be on that side, because that represents the outside. Last time I checked, he humbled himself quite a bit didn't he?

God don't love ugly, look at what happened to him:

He tried to lie about Latino's contribution to Hip-Hop in August 2022, then turned and sued BDO USA, a company founded by immigrants in September 2022. They were accused of brazenly stealing millions from this dude. That wasn't FBA.

He said what he said about FBA in 2024, that would be his last time hosting the BET Hip Hop Awards, and he essentially killed the award show. They wanted to bring in someone from the outside on a discount and saw the interest dwindle like crazy, but if we can't identify with it, we're out. We don't have to watch and support it.

Look at what happened with Fat Joe's ex-hypeman and the accusations. I don't know how true it is that Joey was laying up with 15 and 16 year old girls, but he was coming at us. He's had all types of stuff come down on him, a number of things were from us. Big Pun's family, Cuban Link coming at him. He said this man left them in a bullet storm.

Look at what happened with Essence Fest, tethers were talking all types of shit about FBA, and wanted us to keep that running off our support. They owe money after turning it into Immigrant Fest. Any smart businessman would know that it's a horrible idea to fix something that isn't broken. Do a Fest for your people afterwards on a smaller scale if the turn out won't be as strong and get some of the residuals from that. It would trickle down and the immigrants who are loud and proud when it comes to us and ours can put their money where their mouth is. Tethers are good at talking, but won't build shit in their homeland, and won't support shit to either in their homeland either. Regardless, we can go a different route when it comes to a festival. 

The Brown Sugar Festival in Clewiston, FL was something we went to growing up. We just have to make sure that while we open the door for others to enjoy our festivals and support them if they choose to, it's never a wise thing to start giving up spots for people to start filling slots because that's when they try to flip what we've created.

This happens a lot of the time because they want representation and want to see more of themselves in our events, but the problem is its OUR event. They have the ability to go and do their own, but they usually want to try and funnel us and our money into their stuff. That's not our job, and that's where you see a lot of this anger coming from Non-FBA people about this half time show shit. 

Our people have bigger fish to fry and a bitch cannot and will not make us sit down and watch something we have zero interest in because they feel like we need to support as non-White people.

What race is listed on Bad Bunny's license while they try to play that game?

They want us to be their audience, their customers. Meanwhile, we're focused on getting to this money. I'd just say don't go blowing it, stack your bread and invest in things that will grow even more of it for you. Stay safe out here, don't let someone convince you that you're better off not carrying something, and stay on code. Keep praying the worst on our enemies, and pray that their weapons have no effect on us, pray for our health, pray for our success, pray for the betterment of our lineage as I continue to do daily. This only takes a shot at the opps who want to affect us in a negative way. Everybody else, just leave us be and stay out of our way or you know what it is, that's a choice to insert yourself.

Look at what happened during the 19 virus and people started avoiding Asian restaurants, they tried to force people into those restaurants. I believe Jason Black covered that at the time. They don't pour into our businesses on GP, so keep this in mind.

We're seen as competition to a number of these people. Look at how a number of them lost it over Black Panther and them wanting representation. Acting like a desperate hoe trying to get attention, but when they got Blue Beetle, they didn't get that energy from us. We didn't care, and they didn't either because it was the lowest grossing film in DC Extended Universe. They want us to make their shit hot.

Look at how they got caught in the Los Angeles City Council, those weren't allies, those are opps. They're no different than the Mexican Mafia who firebombed Black people in Ramona Gardens out there in Los Angeles to get Black people out of the neighborhood. Might be tied to them too. These eight anti-Black Mexicans will be release between 2026 and 2037, and they should be deported soon after for their terroristic hate crime.

I continue to call for Tithes to be shifted away from these slimy pastors and into FBA businesses and endeavors. We will see and feel in a positive way. A number of people are finally catching on, and I can't wait to see when this happens. Speaking of slimy, I'm lumping Dr. Umar into this too. This clown is STILL trying to get us to split up our reparations with these other people.

This damn fraud has already taken advantage of a number of people, he's everywhere else except working on that school. He's never been married, has kids out of wedlock, but he's always preaching and begging like these damn pastors.

This dude has abuse allegations, allegations of misconduct, got labeled a conman and pimping "culture" for personal gain, and the list goes on. Now he's trying to create a group to RIVAL our FBA lineage because the Foundational part has gained a lot of traction. Why? It's usually the same with him, he's trying to get money out of someone, but we don't owe him our attention and money either.

Just last year a woman with a special needs child, said he took advantage of her and got her to take care of mom. I won't say that intentional demonization isn't real, but do your research on this dude. Listen to the way he talks and don't line yourself up to get played by people like him either. We don't owe him, he owes his children and he owes the investors of that school. He wants our reparations dumped on non-FBA and where is the crowd of non-FBA to help him finish that school? If he's entitled to any reparations, he can split his up just like anyone else who feels the same way he does.

Watch How This Plays Out: Illegal Oscar Vasquez-Lopez killed Dr. Linda Davis while fleeing ICE

This criminal goes by the name of Oscar Vasquez-Lopez. He wasn't supposed to be in the United States, but he thought he was above the law. You can't just go set up a new life in any other country without doing it the right way, and the same people defending him and others who aren't here legally, would argue us down if FBA ever tried to go to another country this route.

A passport bro would catch hell before Oscar Vasquez-Lopez, and they have passports moving within the laws of the countries they move to. They aren't in these countries illegally, and they aren't committing other forms of crime in these other countries in the process of being there. Furthermore, they aren't evading capture, and they aren't killing the citizens.

I can't say the same for Oscar Vasquez-Lopez, who killed a Black woman after he was stopped by ICE. Instead of staying there and complying, he decided he'd flee the location where he was stopped to escape capture and possible deportation. Big bad Oscar Vasquez-Lopez was flying at a high rate of speed disregarding every single life on that road to continue living life under his illegal status in our country.

While running the red light at a high rate of speed in a pickup truck without a valid drivers license, he crosses the path of Dr. Linda Davis who was on her way to work in the Savannah Chatham public school system. The crash that this illegal was able to walk away from with non-life-threatening injuries, resulted in this Black woman being pronounced dead. The principal said she was killed just outside of the school grounds, meaning big bad Oscar Vasquez-Lopez could've ran into a bus and could've killed children walking to school, riding the bus, or being driven to Herman W. Hesse K-8. It could've been a booster seat in the image below or your child's backpack.

Dr. Linda Davis was a Wife, and a Mother of Four children. They want her killer to get a slap on the wrist because he's an illegal who was avoiding capture.

While they protest ICE and make excuses for him, they're also glossing over the fact that his ass shouldn't have been here in the first place. That's the first domino. They weren't behind him attempting a PIT maneuver, and unlike us, when he was driving away they didn't unload a pistol on him claiming self defense. They look for any reason with us, even when they can't find one they try to weave a lie in to justify it. He had time to back up and everything. I would've rather them do Oscar Vasquez-Lopez in, than him doing her in.

Would I put it past them to have sat up and watch this woman die instead of saving her? Not at all, especially if she was on the organ donor's list, but if he weren't here she wouldn't have been in this damn situation in the first place. If he were here legally, he would've had to take a drivers test and do things the legal way. When things are done the illegal way, one bad turn leads to another, and in this case it was a first-degree vehicular homicide.

Look at the videos for yourself: https://www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/savannah-teacher-killed-crash-by-man-fleeing-ice/

Watch how this plays out. Watch how they try to pacify us while talking around Dr. Linda Davis, until they can USE HER to take aim at ICE and the Trump administration. I'm not here to defend ICE or Trump, but I will not sit up and defend an illegal doing things like this.

She will never make it home again to see her family, because he refused to take his ass back home.

He tipped the first domino by being here illegally, no matter how they try to spin it.

If they say that he wanted a better life, tell them that we built this country and are still fighting to get a better life without it being sabotaged.

Will Maxine Waters pop up at the funeral of FBA victims and tell their family that they better not blame people like Oscar Vasquez-Lopez? Oscar's wife didn't show any sympathy for Dr. Linda Davis. She wouldn't give a damn if these bootlicking tap dancers were the ones killed by her husband either.

Will Lamonica McIver pop up at the funeral of FBA victims and put her hands on the victims family if they blame people like Oscar Vasquez-Lopez? She's looking at a bid for crashing out at an ICE detention center. All types of horrible things happen in prison, but how many times has she put her freedom on the line to make sure the conditions up to par for Brothas and Sistas locked up?

They're here because of what they can get, things that FBA don't get without a fight. Mayor Karen Bass like many others see it in their heart to sacrifice our tax dollars to help out illegals because we are expected to understand that they need money and food to live her, illegally. Meanwhile, there are homeless FBA out here. The same people smiling in her face wanting you to bless them with a job that gives them access to shit on you and your family, want you to shut the hell up when it comes to things you need. They crash out for people who shouldn't be here though. Don't give them room to lie in your face, and don't give these God Damned pastors the ability to push them in your face either. These are NOT our leaders, they cosplay as such, but they're anti-FBA with a black face.

They're out there protesting now, talking about some damn "ICE OUT". Illegals need to get out.

"Abducted by ICE Families torn apart! Shame", meanwhile FBA families have been torn apart for the longest. In this situation Oscar Vasquez-Lopez tore Dr. Linda Davis' family apart, and SHAME on everyone trying to gloss over her death like it's law enforcement's fault that he's here illegally. It's his fault, but everyone fighting to let it go on are just as much to blame.

For the record, to hell with Kate Oakley who thanked God this Black woman was there to take the hit for her and her child. That was a tacky and nasty thing to say.

Protecting the FBA Legacy from the “Songbird” Trojan Horse and others like him

We need to have a serious conversation about the individual known as Paul Birdsong. At a time when our community is focused on our own specific interests and lineage, this individual has emerged as a dangerous liability. I applaud everyone not allowing him to slither in, but there are too many foolish people at risk of falling for someone talking a certain way. 

He was too out there with it, but there are others trying to form other lil groups and want us to be a part of it. Not just to help them fight, but also to popularize their brands like Destination Smokehouse, and social media platforms like TikTok who exploit our culture. So it's not just this dangerous Birdsong clown who isn't lining up a bunch of Hispanics while he's talking crazy to law enforcement. It wouldn't surprise me if the dudes standing alongside him are agents from a branch of law enforcement. 

A Brotha by the name of Moses McCormick got split up from his brother, Mark, when they were going after the Ohio government for corruption. A honeypot split them up, she's a tether with ties to the FBI and Moses is dead under mysterious circumstances. His brother saw his body and said he had blood everywhere, which doesn't line up with someone having a damn heart attack.

So you have to be careful out here. Things can happen in a point in time where you think it's cool and then you look back on it wondering how you could be so blind towards such a ridiculous play. Just like this situation, how in the hell did someone like a damn Birdsong end up leading the pack when it came to those Black men and that bootleg Black Panther Party? How? It doesn't smell right does it? They'll line you up, get the credit to use for future aspirations like Kamala, shit on your people and then ask you to vote for them. Vote for them while they say "Nooooooooooooooooooooooo" to our reparations, hoping the cosplay would be good enough. Don't be a fool for the devil.

Here is why we must be offended, vigilant, and clear in our rejection of Birdsong's tactics:

1. The "Black Panther" Trojan Horse
Paul Songbird was using the name of the Black Panther Party as a shield to push an agenda that is not ours. While he claimed the mantle of a Panther in Philly, he tried using that platform to prioritize other communities and issues—specifically protesting ICE and immigration—while using FBA symbols to do it. We did not give him permission to use our history as a "Trojan Horse" to put us on the front lines for everyone else but ourselves. The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus are doing the same with these groups meant for our betterment. What does that smell like?

2. A History of "Identity Hopping"
This isn’t just about Philly. We have seen this man move from state to state, changing his story and his affiliations like a costume. He's a veteran cosplayer.

• In Lansing, Michigan: He was on the news claiming street affiliations and naming specific corners. We know that the streets don't move that mouthy on camera because it puts their lives and freedom at risk. Birdsong would know that was a no no if he was really out there like that because it would make the block all the way hot. Them folks would've snatched him up awhile back with the way he was talking, along with the people he was basically lining up for RICO charges. Do you smell the stench yet? I don't know who those dudes are up in Philly, and I don't know anybody up there who knows them.
• In California: He was reportedly run out for the same type of "cosplaying."
  Now, he has suddenly rebranded as a "Black Panther" national chairman? A person who jumps from gang culture to political revolutionary overnight is not a leader; they are a liability and if it was true that he made that shift for real, it would still be risky. His past would affect the present of the Black Panthers because these White Supremacist demons would try to put his past on all the Panthers.

3. Intentional Endangerment and "Agent" Tactics
Songbird’s behavior—daring law enforcement to "do something" and making aggressive threats on camera—is not how we protect our people, and he isn't one of our people. FBA are arrested even when we are innocent; to have someone talking crazy to police while standing near Black people is a clear setup. Does he do that around anyone else? Who are his people? This feels like a deliberate attempt by a political entity or an agent to spark a conflict, justify martial law, or mark FBA individuals for law enforcement targeting. If you stand with him, you are marking yourself for a loss of freedom or life. Don't be a fool.

4. Respect for the Lineage
The Newton family has already spoken out: they were pursuing legal action because he is not a Panther and I see he switched up the name. I would still pursue legal action because he demonized the Panthers during his time cosplaying as a national chairman. Enough of us know that Paul Songbird is NOT FBA, but do enough of us care while trying to lead the pack of something related to us? He is an outsider who does not respect our community and he should not be able to make any moves within our community. If he were doing business so that we could benefit from his community just like they benefit off ours, it would be different because that's an avenue to generate legit income. Not this BS he's pushing here, this is something else. 

If he cannot treat us with the respect of a human being and a distinct lineage, why is he using our symbols and trying to push the line to get in so bad? If he wants to talk crazy, he should do it in the name of his own community, not ours and rep things tied to them with his loud, proud, and dangerous agenda.

We are not toys to be played with. We are a community that has survived through strategy and wisdom, not through loud-mouthed performance for the cameras for agendas unknown. Do not let this snake use your face for anything he's trying to push or his political masters.

Protect your peace. Protect your freedom. Stay away from Paul Songbird and other cosplayers who carry that smell of deception.