I had some friends and family were I would bring up some ideas to get some paper, but they usually crack a joke or get in they feelings
This is a defense mechanism that black folk
in particular use to far too often to cover up for inferiority, ineptitude, or flat out ignorance. And the shyt is celebrated. Easily the thing that annoys me the most about the "community" in terms of identifiable behavior.
An oldhead/expert/well off black person can be trying to give game, and without fail some bum ass nikka, or hoodrat ho, will have a joke on deck in the middle of the conversation. Like honestly if the conversation is over your head/too much or you aren't interested, just get the fukk on or shut up, but no one needs that remedial humor when folk are genuinely trying to learn something. shyt starts at home with poor/absent parenting, and infects other children when these half baked kids get sent to school.
Misery filled suckas do anything for some company, hence crabs in a barrel syndrome