Been saying Tariq was gonna get caught up with his past, not only the books, but some of the early Mack Lessons podcast was raw.
Everything from occasionally putting hands on women to keep them in line, the pimping shyt/I know he wasn't a pimp, just pimp adjacent and didn't care if the lines were blurred because it benefited his brand at the time...kinda like rappers who never sold drugs but ran with dealers. He even said some shyt like the 2 most oppressed groups in the US were black men and white women on one podcast. He did a lot of caping for white women on his early shows. He didn't pedastalize, but it was some soft-shoeing.
He tries to say all of it was tongue-in-cheek, but he meant that shyt at the time considering his audience. No different than the republican pandering talking points he has now. It's how Tucker Carlson of all people pulled his card. Dude's a fraud. I excused it for years because he's entertaining as fukk, but he's full of shyt.