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Speaker 1: another episode the Gangster Chronicles Podcast. Not with my homeboys.

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Speaker 1: iPhone users. Hit that purple MICUs on your phone. You

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Speaker 1: know those lights that you hang up in your backyard,

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Speaker 1: you gotta look at it like this. It ain't just

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Speaker 1: world is designed is a circle. Everything is repeats itself.

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Speaker 1: All the robberies, murders, everything repeats itself, especially in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: Everything is a cycle, and it just repeats itself. Killings, rape, robbery, homies,

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Speaker 1: our I guess second rapper man, you know, casting over

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Speaker 1: actually own inn Scope records, you know n Scope records,

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00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: they own them too. If they own prisons, would it

425
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,919
Speaker 1: be who them? Really? They out this thing and they

426
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: have a motherfucker's sing about kom By y'all and having

427
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: Will Smith making songs and all these happens. The lucky

428
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 1: motherfucker's if they can make money off rappers, football players, uh,

429
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: black entertainers, if they can make money off of basketball players.

430
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: What's the difference they see a profit and merchandise. And

431
00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: black people as well as others have skills. And it's

432
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: unfortunate that we don't own our own ship to to

433
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 1: put our ship out there, like like death Rowing. Just say,

434
00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: if Chill would have just been one businessman, have been

435
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:44,560
Speaker 1: a businessman, death Row would have been up here by

436
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 1: now you know what I'm saying. But everybody want to

437
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: play Bugsy Malone at a certain point in their life.

438
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 1: Everybody want to be um see known or whatever. But

439
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: just like you can't blame Priority Records for me making

440
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: a record and going back and they put it out there.

441
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: But it's me doing it this meet for trying to

442
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: be something I ain't and then getting out there acting

443
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: like I'm a real thug. Sooner later you get tested,

444
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: you find out chaining the thug. Next thing you gotta

445
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: do to prove you see, I see and I get

446
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,199
Speaker 1: all that. And it's not me necessarily blaming Priority Records

447
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: or no record company. Right, But these people are invested

448
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:33,600
Speaker 1: into the prison industrial complex. They own private prisons, and

449
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: they'll let you put this album out there. If you

450
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: was talking about just straight mayhem killing them yes, but

451
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,520
Speaker 1: check this out. There have been incidents where people have

452
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: said stuff that that that has been necessarily violent nature,

453
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:52,439
Speaker 1: but it went against the grain. They get their albums

454
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: pulled off the shelf. So it seems like they stand

455
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,880
Speaker 1: for certain things and let other ship pass because I'm

456
00:24:57,920 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: not gonna let you. I'm not gonna let you turn

457
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: around and say some ship like like some ship that

458
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: we go against on our platform. That's when we're gonna

459
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 1: motherfucker nip you in the bud. We're gonna kill your contract,

460
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: We're gonna shelve your project, whatever you because at the

461
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: end of the day, we, like James said, we don't

462
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: own ship, okay, And a motherfucker dangler contracting your motherfucking

463
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: face for a million dollars you think of broakeass motherfucker

464
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: from Compton or Lone Beach is gonna sit down and

465
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: be like m m no. They're gonna be like, well

466
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: you want me to sign, give me my check, and

467
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna exploit it and they're gonna go invest in

468
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: prisons and whoever they want to as president and all

469
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 1: that motherfucking ship, and it don't matter to them. We

470
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: we look at numbers. It's a profit to us. So

471
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,520
Speaker 1: if you want to go rap about shooting up the

472
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: nigga down the street and pulling the drive by and

473
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: all that, and then I'm checking numbers and I'm going,

474
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: motherfucker want to buy that ship? Why not? Shouldn't I

475
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 1: have a piece of it? Just like you? Just man,

476
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 1: mother funer going to prisons every day? Right, why the

477
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: fund should not get a piece of that. They're going

478
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: to prison every day. Who else is gonna do it? You? Right?

479
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: That's why the people start building private prisons. Fuck that.

480
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: Let me you did it on that game, y'all sending

481
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: water a ton of thousand niggas the prison a year.

482
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: I need to get in on that game. It's so smart. Profit.

483
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money in that. The county jail.

484
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: There's a lot of money, uh housing innation, the county jail,

485
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: especially the story. You know what I'm saying. The prices

486
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: of the noodles and all that shop to shop shop

487
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: to you, no more like a bitch used to send

488
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,439
Speaker 1: you a packet. You had to go through that something

489
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: like this billion floyd the fucking making money and then

490
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,040
Speaker 1: fucking rap record and you gotta buy your cup of

491
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: noodles from the nigger who puts you in jail. I

492
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: for kind of ship is there? My bitch can't even

493
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: send me no draws or socks, no more. I gotta

494
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: buy them straight from the motherfucker who housing me. And

495
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know for beating put it out there,

496
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:20,880
Speaker 1: but I heard, no, that's some cold And I'm sitting

497
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,880
Speaker 1: there thinking about myself, like, man, I know, putting something

498
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,919
Speaker 1: like no, you can't, you girl, go to the swap

499
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: me and get your socks for five ninety nine. Stay right,

500
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: here's no more. You gotta's people putting fifty and sty

501
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: fine college for for what six hours? We goddamn right.

502
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: I used to call my mom gonna collect like a motherfucker.

503
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: Why don't fucking build up? So I ain't don't know

504
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: brand they're making money off of it? Why not? I mean,

505
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: we ain't doing it. Hell no. The only thing we

506
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: do what it's going to jail. We're spending the money,

507
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: give me a contract and makes some fucking soaps and

508
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 1: ship with all that ship, it all falls down on us.

509
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: Let us stop bitching and complaining about how our lives are.

510
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: My life was the way it was because I chose

511
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 1: it that way. I didn't see it no other way.

512
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: So I lived the way I thought was best for

513
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 1: me and that and it got me through, you know,

514
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: understanding a lot of ship. But then as I got older, damn,

515
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: I realized what the funk am I doing, stitting on

516
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: this fucking corner with the same old cats name, doing ship.

517
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: And then when when I lost my brother, man, you're

518
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: doing all of this for nothing. All of this ship

519
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: is for nothing. Everything that I believed in was for nothing.

520
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: And we gotta start thinking like that at a younger age,

521
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: because you the only thing we're gonna do is get you.

522
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: I've been shot four times, they got them still here,

523
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: but I did more than than than my share. So

524
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: for your brother to lose your brother represent the same ship,

525
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: and then to to lose his life and the same ship,

526
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: Fuck you niggas. When you'll talk about loyal to you

527
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: fucking niggas, when you talk about friendship, it's no good.

528
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: Everything I did was for nothing, for nothing, so you

529
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,680
Speaker 1: gotta look at it like that. But it was my

530
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 1: choice to live the way I did the way it was.

531
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: But I had a choice to make. Either I give

532
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: it to the system or take my kids and start

533
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: doing my thing and be there for my grandkids. If

534
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: I'm not there for my grandkids, how can I protect

535
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: my family doing life in prison. It's a waste of time.

536
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: So I had to make a choice, and we all

537
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: got to make choices right now. If if I'm making

538
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: out of the hood and no need to go back,

539
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't have a reason to go back. It's certain

540
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: cats over there that I deal with. Those are the

541
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: ones I'm looking at. You can't take two hundred niggas

542
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: from the neighborhood and think they all won't be right.

543
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: You put them in your house, They're gonna steal from you.

544
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: Because everybody is looking for that moment. They ain't looking

545
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: for for longevity life. They're looking for that moment. And

546
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: that's what's happening with all of these wrapper cats and

547
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: all of these cats out here today. They yet to

548
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:33,040
Speaker 1: understand what life is about, and they think this trick

549
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: bag that we're in, they think this is the only way.

550
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: And then when you get people such as myself trying

551
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: to tell them that this is not the only way.

552
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: It's we have options. So let's stop blaming other motherfucking people.

553
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: Let's stop saying the white people holding me down. I'm

554
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: not a motherfucking slave. I can do what I wanna do.

555
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: I get up eating ship. I'm a slave in prison.

556
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: I want the programming, and motherfucker, you ain't got a choice.

557
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: Are You're gonna stay in a in a motherfucking hole.

558
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna stay in the sale. So at some point

559
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: you gotta learn how to program and that motherfucker, so

560
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: learn how to do it here on the streets. Learn

561
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: Half of us don't even have kids. The homies just

562
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: going to prison, back and forth, back and forth, don't

563
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: even have families, don't have kids, don't have grandkids. And

564
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: then they come home and ship doesn't change. They don't

565
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: know how to use God damn should mean Facebook? How

566
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: do you do that? Like me? I don't do all

567
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: that money and ship. I'd rather stay plain and simple

568
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: where I understand it. When you know, cats come home

569
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: thinking that you're in the program, but you can't because

570
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: it's hard to get out of prison that they're doing

571
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: fourteen years, seventeen years. We don't coming home to the

572
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: system was already against you because you can't get a

573
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: job and work. Now they're changing that. At first, you

574
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: can't come home and go straight to work and live

575
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: like a citizen. So it's gonna keep you down. So yeah,

576
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: the system has a lot to do with us repeating history,

577
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: going back to prison. Uh, I gotta go back to

578
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: the block. It sell dope because every nney days they

579
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: fired me because they my record pop up and they

580
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: fire me. This is what was happening to me. So

581
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: you can't do security work because as soon as they

582
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: find out that noneing, they check, Oh you gotta go.

583
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: You you fail to tell us this and on your application,

584
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 1: and if you're honest, they don't call you back. So yeah,

585
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: we got a lot of that. We have to come

586
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: back to the hood. We have to go back to

587
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 1: the block. And then you got to catch that that

588
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: that make it and make their way out thinking they're

589
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: doing good by putting dope and guns in the hood. No,

590
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: open up something positive and then tell homies to come

591
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: work and that and and if you want to work

592
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 1: and get the funk out of the streets, if he

593
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: want to work for his money, because you ain't gonna

594
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: sunk off no check money like you funk off drug money.

595
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: You're you're gonna really, you're gonna really spend it the

596
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,920
Speaker 1: right way and then it gives you something. It gives

597
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: you something here saying I've worked for this, you know

598
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So I ain't feeling squander it off

599
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: on on the bs or kicking it with the homies

600
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: and making sure everybody getting loaded. You're gonna take your

601
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: money and you're gonna you're gonna do what you gotta

602
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 1: do with it. But that drug free money, you splash

603
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: that ship. So if if any rapper out there today

604
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: made it and want to go back to the hood

605
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: and say he did good by the hood, open up

606
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: a business. If it's if it's gardening and you buy

607
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 1: two vans and put all the equipment you need to

608
00:33:54,840 --> 00:34:00,239
Speaker 1: cut grass, that's a business. Everybody got along. And if

609
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: you got these guys out here working and they're making

610
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: their money, don't be cheap with them and make them

611
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: seem they we're working for SETI five dollars a week.

612
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna work for this food nor more. Don't

613
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: do your people like that. You gotta be one hunting

614
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: with your people, and you're only giving them that so

615
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: they can have stability. Now now I feel different by myself.

616
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't ain't gonna going any with the only thing

617
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: I gotta go to work. And that's how we changed

618
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 1: that ship. That's how we stopped all of this reco ship.

619
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 1: That's how we stopped the dumb ship. You ain't gotta

620
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: put yourself and that life no more. Yeah. And the

621
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: thing about this reco ship that I don't like, the

622
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 1: Greg pointed out, there's some ship you could have did

623
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: eight years ago. Yeah, especially if they leave in the

624
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: case and and and they steadily monitored you. Like I said,

625
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: if they building the case, you couldn't did some ship

626
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: five years ago. But which is true, because like I said,

627
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: you gotta attest to the something to the ship. I mean,

628
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: I guess it's you know, uh, when you when you're

629
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 1: a young man, you're coming up, you join the gang

630
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: or whatever. You try to prove yourself or want to

631
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 1: be alone because everybody you go to school with, you know, elementary,

632
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: the grade school, you're hanging out, you know that make

633
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: sure you want to just join it. I started banging

634
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,239
Speaker 1: because you know, I didn't have my father in the

635
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: house type of ship, you know, and I went to

636
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 1: school with niggas. We hung every day. You know. One

637
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: of the homies got jumped. I felt like we all

638
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 1: had to be a part of this, this system that

639
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: was gang banging. You know, I didn't go out to

640
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,439
Speaker 1: to to sell the drugs or do that type of ship.

641
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: All I gave a funk about was banging for the neighborhood.

642
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: So as I grew and I started making something positive, saying, Okay,

643
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be this rapper, I'm gonna tell stories about

644
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,839
Speaker 1: what I've been through, what I saw in the neighborhood,

645
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: and you start getting a positive aspect. But did I

646
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: still want to go back to the neighborhood. Yeah? I did.

647
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: I still wanted to even though I'm living fucking an

648
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: hour away and I'm driving different cars and living in

649
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: a different house. I wanted to go to Compton every

650
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: day and hanging the neighborhood because it was something that

651
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: I wanted to show niggas that I didn't I wasn't

652
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: an outsider so to speak. I don't look at myself

653
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: as being somebody different. But that's that's what could have

654
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: got you killed, because exactly if she ate Kent. No,

655
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: it's on everybody's mind. Every time you go to the hood.

656
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 1: You might have that one cat that said man that

657
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: came doing it for me. I'm killing my food all

658
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: day and not the chicken pushots at you are, and

659
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: the homies getting mad, the homies retaliate and get rid

660
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: of him. But ain't thenosous like because he went back

661
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: to the hood, no one. He ain't supposed to be

662
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,879
Speaker 1: in the hood hanging out like that, which was true,

663
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: And there was a lesson that I had to learn,

664
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: and somebody like yourself or O G had to tell

665
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: me like, don't bring your ass over here no more, period,

666
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: and don't come over here no more. And I was

667
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: in the nutshell that was just it. You still want

668
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: to be associated because Ship, now you're just just two

669
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: months ago we was all sitting in the living room

670
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: together trying to scrape up money for motherfucking Thunderburton cool

671
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: aid and filed our sacks and ship, you get me.

672
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: And now six months later, I'm a movie screens and

673
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: records and gold plaques and all that ship. And I'm

674
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: still wanting to because I'm thinking that I don't know

675
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: different than the motherfucker who was here six months ago.

676
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm no different, but it's the perception of it, straight up. Yeah,

677
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: I just think, man, that the system is kind of

678
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: because we do a lot of stuff. I'm with that,

679
00:37:56,920 --> 00:38:00,399
Speaker 1: I'm with self accountability and everything, but it's just really

680
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: tripping me out, man, that you really can't make no mistakes,

681
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: no more that they can. Really you can. You can

682
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: make mistakes, but you got to know how to make

683
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 1: the mistakes. And sometimes the mistakes are consequences exactly. But

684
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: but check this out. We know when we go to jail,

685
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: if you say something, they write that ship down. Ain't

686
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: no computer. They don't send the motherfucker computer down right

687
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: there and and just make it look at you. And

688
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: then now they got all this bullshit. If you're sitting

689
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: there talking, they're gonna write that ship down. But they

690
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: write it down the way they want to write it down,

691
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: the way they hear now, and this ship goes to

692
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: a goddamn d A, and the d A say, okay, well,

693
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of like admitting that we got a caze here.

694
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying is, how did the piencil

695
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,319
Speaker 1: work when the police pull us over in the car?

696
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: Is how to picil work? How you write that chicket?

697
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: Why I pulled him over? How fast you was going?

698
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: A whole not so if you learn how compare attention

699
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: to what's going on. You know, they the dictators, So

700
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: you gotta be a certain kind of way. You be

701
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: a dick. You're going to jail. Are they gonna take

702
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: your car? If you're on the yes, sir, for just

703
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: the ten fifteen minutes you you you encountered you right

704
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: there with them. It all depends on how you act. Man.

705
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: If you act like assh, they're gonna treat you like

706
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: ass So if you say yes, sir, right, I didn't

707
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:30,799
Speaker 1: know what you know what I'm saying, they really ain't

708
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: tripping off you because okay, this ain't that bad. Give

709
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: you a break, you know what I'm saying. But we

710
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: gotta learn how to deal with the system. You gotta

711
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: play the game pretty much the way the game comes

712
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: to you. You gotta learn how to play. If you

713
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: don't understand it, you shouldn't be out in the motherfucking

714
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: streets committing crimes. If you don't understand that ship a

715
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: drive by, a drive by, the police is in the

716
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: motherfucking car and looking for that fast car that speeding

717
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 1: by the driving records is trying to get the away

718
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 1: from the scene. Do five do the regular speeding every

719
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:12,439
Speaker 1: time they drive past you, nigs dug down, they're gonna

720
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna drop past you, not trying to drop the change.

721
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: If they see a woman in the motherfucker's car, they're

722
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: gonna really keep going. So you gotta learn how to

723
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: play the goddamn game. I'm serious, man, Yeah, I mean

724
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 1: you gotta. If you don't understand what you're doing, you're surrounded. Man.

725
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: This is how you phone off and a lot of

726
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: cats get called slipping. Yeah there was James McDonald wisdom.

727
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: Hope you'll be taking notes so great, man. I don't

728
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 1: like to say conspiracy, man, because I'm all for accountability. Man.

729
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I just think some of these situations are designed for

730
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 1: certain people to fail. Man, there's just designed for certain

731
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,800
Speaker 1: people to fail. Because my kids, all of our kids

732
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: grew up a different than we did, you know what

733
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they were way different. I took mind to

734
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: the suburbs, raising the suburbs, being active, made sure I

735
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: was active in their life, you know, sports, everything else,

736
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, like that over the sun grade played from college,

737
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: got another sign that's a semester away from getting his

738
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: bactors already, then two semesters away, and then I got

739
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: a sixteen year old daughter that got her own business.

740
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: So I raised these kids just way different than I was.

741
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: I told him. You know, my pops was telling me ship.

742
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You know we got that.

743
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't no better, But I just raised my

744
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: kids way different. Man. This um, but you've got the

745
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: guy on the other side of the tracks, right, This

746
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: dude is from father in jail. Mother got to go

747
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: to works lea stand with his grandma. She taking care

748
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: of other grand kids too, so she really watching them.

749
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: He wind up growing up around and he grew up

750
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: and that's all he knew. It's like he'd been dealt

751
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: the bad here the beginning. But eventually he gets older

752
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: and change his life, playing basketball, rapp and doing whatever

753
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: it else you do. And the motherfucker comes back and say,

754
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: you know what, back when you wasn't ship and didn't

755
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: have it. You know what I'm saying, didn't have together,

756
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: don't have opportunities, we go to funk all the good

757
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 1: ships you did. We're going back here and go pump

758
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: your ass because of that. That's what it sounds like

759
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: to me. Do you think there's any way we can

760
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: redefine these laws? Man and make him a little bit.

761
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 1: Let's broad Well, they're they're always challenged, you know, these

762
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: because oftentimes the government does overreach, and that's for a reason.

763
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: Doesn't make it right that they do overreach. You know.

764
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: One of the reasons that you overreach is because you

765
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: want to mitigate going to trial, So you charge somebody

766
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: with something where you know he's gonna plead down and

767
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: everybody avoids trial, and just you know, it's just the

768
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: system is designed to operate more efficiently that way, UM

769
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: and not saying it's right or wrong with this is

770
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: just the way it is. So I don't you know

771
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: but that these laws are always being challenged and sometimes

772
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: successfully and sometimes unsuccessfully. So there, you know, you constantly

773
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: have groups that will say, hey, we just think that

774
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: this particular approach to doing things is wrong. It's challenged.

775
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get ahead, sometimes you don't make any progress

776
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: at all. But you know, the system is what the

777
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: system is, and it it has to have these checks

778
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 1: and balances, and obviously it always needs to be reevaluated

779
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: to see if it can be improved. But I actually

780
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: think it is usually improving. Then, you know, I think

781
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: that again, like I think that the UM the way

782
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: it's done today is better than the way it was

783
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: done twenty years ago, and hopefully in twenty years from now,

784
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 1: it's going to be even better than it is today.

785
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: So it's time. Time just changes ship. So what guesses

786
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: will always be some kind of collateral damas. That's kind

787
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: of what you're saying. Yeah, I think so. I mean

788
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: the system is organic. I don't know that it's necessarily

789
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: like designed to the like what you might be suggesting.

790
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: I think it's just organic. It's all these different components

791
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: colliding and and people get hurt collaterally in those collisions,

792
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: you know, but everybody, you know, if there is all kinds,

793
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: if everybody is either community based or individually based, just

794
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: holding each other accountable and holding each other up, most

795
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: certainly that's going to improve the sentence. But then the

796
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: system actually fail you too, because they know it's been

797
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: some cases where they know you're not guilty, but just

798
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: because it's election time, they booked your as. They give

799
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: you all this time, They give you more time than

800
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: they would give another for for marijuana. For half of these,

801
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: I know, a lot of cash have morked out of

802
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: that motherfucker with five years for murders, I agree that

803
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: this system is very arbitrary, that it's not consistent across

804
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 1: the board, and so that that is absolutely something that's

805
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: it's you've seen that for a long time. Right, certain

806
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 1: ship is designed. I feel certain mass are designed because

807
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: they attract. And then it's it's gold. Because if if

808
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: a white boy you were murdered, he got money, he's

809
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: gonna beat that ship. But white boy murder, there's broke,

810
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: you're going to prison. If that applies to I see,

811
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: that's right. I don't. I don't necessarily necessarily draw the

812
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: race distinction, but I definitely drive No, I'm talking about

813
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: white a white If a white guy that's broke, and

814
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 1: that's why they say black or white white. If if

815
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: what they call poor trash white guy but commit a murder,

816
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: he's going to jail for that murder. But if a

817
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 1: white guy with money and that that means he could

818
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: he could buy these lawyers and and spend all of

819
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: this money. If he's spend a lot of money, you

820
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 1: gotta be a chance of getting out of That applies

821
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: to everybody, you know what doesn't do. If you have

822
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: money and you can provide that first rate defense, then

823
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: you're most likely going to get you come out. And

824
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: that's another That's another thing that I think is is disturbing.

825
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: It's disturbing that you can be easily guilty and that

826
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: yet buy your freedom. Right. Well, I think I think

827
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: everything is designed. Everything I watched Western movies, Every crime

828
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 1: that that's committed today was committed in the eighteen hundreds,

829
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: every crime, bank robberies, no cart, no horse steve. In

830
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: these days, it's still in horse power. But I think,

831
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: I think, you know, everybody's just got to really look

832
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: at life for what it is and where you want

833
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: to be. Do you want to exist in life or

834
00:46:57,320 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: do you want to be a partner life? You want

835
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 1: to I don't want to just exist. I want to

836
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: be a part of life, and I want to be

837
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: able to everything that that that I learned from my grandpather.

838
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give it to my grandson, everything that

839
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: I took from my father. My grandson and never see

840
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: none of that. He ain't gonna have no part of that.

841
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:23,959
Speaker 1: And that's that's me knowing what's right, and that's knowing

842
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: me knowing what's wrong and applying it and given And

843
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: this is how I stopped him from want to be

844
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: a met. This stops my grandson from want to be

845
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: like his cus to cycling because you know, it breaks

846
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: it and that's all we all we gotta do is

847
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: apply itself, you know what I'm saying, Because we don't

848
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: didn't wrong, I didn't did a lot of people. We've

849
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 1: we've learned how to disassociate from what we thought was

850
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: everything to growing up and figuring out this is what's everything.

851
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 1: He family struck your and being able to show that

852
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: you are a better person than the person that you

853
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,360
Speaker 1: thought fucked you up. You give me. So that's just

854
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: in the nutshell for you and your kind of like

855
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: E did did you you and pursued opportunities opposed to

856
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: have an opportunity presented to you. Is that I started.

857
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,880
Speaker 1: I started rapping because I fell in love with rapping

858
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: because I took a trip to Mississippi and was introduced

859
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: to rap music. So when I came back, it kind

860
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,880
Speaker 1: of intrigued me because I was always one of the

861
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: motherfucking kids at school who was intrigued with the other

862
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: side of life. Even though I game bang, I used

863
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: to watch soul Train. Even though I game bang, I

864
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: used to read books and I just still go to

865
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: school and get grades, even though I was banging like

866
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: a motherfucker. I just had a MoMA at home who

867
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: was from Gulfport, Mississippi, and with wood the ship out

868
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: of my ass with a switch and the funding yall,

869
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: and I want to give with this claimer too. If

870
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: y'all heard some candy in the background, don't send me

871
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: no look funked up as in boxes stuff. He didn't

872
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,800
Speaker 1: candy on the show that was and that wasn't candy.

873
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: I got pleased with that ship, and I told you

874
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: I wanted you to see this. This is the guy

875
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: that that uh I went to Texas and have his brother,

876
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: And this is why I said I do this just read.

877
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: You ain't got to share it. If you don't want to,

878
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share. I'm gonna lead a brother's name out

879
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: though for his privacy. Okay, what's up, big James, This

880
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: is down, Dallas. I just wanted to reach out while

881
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 1: I hacked you on my mind. I feel like you

882
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: made all the difference with my brother. He seems to

883
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: be on the up and we are closer than we've

884
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: been in damn near a decade. Things changed for the

885
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: better after you came in the picture, So I want

886
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,400
Speaker 1: to check in and make sure you're straight. I know

887
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,320
Speaker 1: from personal experience that the go to person most of

888
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: the time don't have have nobody to go to. I'm

889
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: here for you. And if it's if it's my means

890
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,839
Speaker 1: I got you straight up, it's probably millions out there

891
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: like my brother needs you. So whatever it takes to

892
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: get you through the day, you got meet and say support.

893
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: Get back to me when you can. That's the cold stuff.

894
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: Send it to you yesterday. And and what happened was

895
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: it made me feel like what I'm doing is right

896
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: just talking to people. No, that's just what I am.

897
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: Somebody will I thought I hit something, but not bad.

898
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:35,919
Speaker 1: So so everything that we talked about, everything that we say,

899
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: I took that the Dallas and I'm talking to him.

900
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm not talking at him. I'm talking to him, and

901
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling me, you know what's right and what's wrong.

902
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: If anybody knew what's right and wrong, I do. You

903
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,320
Speaker 1: know you don't have to be a gang member. You

904
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You should want better. If you

905
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,360
Speaker 1: didn't want better, your brother wouldn't be getting at me.

906
00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000
Speaker 1: So I think it was worth getting in my card

907
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: and going down at you. This guy. It's been six months,

908
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: five months, and he's still on the right path. He's

909
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: still he's doing good. He he working. Him and his

910
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: brother is tight now when at first they won't even talk.

911
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: So I really believe that we can reach each other.

912
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 1: You just gotta be willing to listen, and you gotta

913
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,680
Speaker 1: be ready to change. If we're not ready to change,

914
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: then we we fall on deaf ears. And if we

915
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: don't understand that bullshit, then this will be for nothing. Yeah,

916
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: that's incredible, and I want you to go a little

917
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: bit more in depth about that story. These were somebody

918
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: that's some listeners of the show that reached out. He

919
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: was he was his brother was a listener, is a

920
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 1: listener of the show. And he just hit me one

921
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 1: day when I was selling the T shirts and put

922
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: my number out there. So he called me and I

923
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: asked me could I I got five minutes? I said,

924
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: With all the texts and everything I get, I try

925
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: to answer all of them and I and I take

926
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 1: all calls. So, yeah, brother, what what's going on? So

927
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: you explained to me about as a brother. So you know,

928
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: at that time, his brother was going through some you know,

929
00:52:19,120 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: some dangerous ship and probably wouldn't have been here. So

930
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: I said, well, wait, yeah, and give me how that is.

931
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: So long story short. He gets on the phone and

932
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,320
Speaker 1: he said, Mom, I don't go by the name, but yeah, games,

933
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 1: so what I'm saying here, but what's going on with you?

934
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: So I'm talking to him for about an hour or so,

935
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: and and it was a little tears here and there,

936
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, bro, but it's all good. But

937
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: I've been through the same ship you going through. You

938
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I didn't have We don't

939
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: have to react just to get a reaction. So after that,

940
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 1: I said, about a month later, the brother called me again.

941
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 1: Man he had shootouts and he did, Man, I think

942
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose my brother. So I told him, don't

943
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,320
Speaker 1: say no more. Don't tell him I'm coming if I

944
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 1: do my show Wednesday and getting on the freeway after

945
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: we've closed our show me and when he got on

946
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: the freeway and I went straight out there to him.

947
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: And when I got out there, I met up with

948
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 1: the brother and then we was waiting for his brother

949
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 1: Jay to come. So we're sitting back waiting, so they

950
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: all conjugating and then I walked out to the store

951
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: and walked up to him. The first thing he was like, God, damn,

952
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: you did all of this for you come to Texas

953
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 1: for me. You come to Texas for me, man, I

954
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,960
Speaker 1: come to Texas for your life. I come to Texas

955
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,959
Speaker 1: to help you. I come to Texas for your brother.

956
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: Your brother like you. And he gave his brother look

957
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 1: started crying and everybody got misty out of I mean,

958
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: it was like a touchy situation there. And we went

959
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: and set out in eight and we just we just

960
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:06,200
Speaker 1: like broke bread like like you never had before. And

961
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: here he is talking to a good dude that he

962
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: listened to on the ready on the TV, saying, Okay,

963
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: you say all the right good ship, but here I

964
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 1: am in your face telling you all the right good ship.

965
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: So I'm telling him ship that he had n't done

966
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: because I've been there. You couldn't have done this without

967
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: going this way, you know what I'm saying. And after

968
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: we love Texas, I kind of let him marinade and

969
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: let him, you know, let the brothers get together and

970
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: inform their relationship without me being in a way. I

971
00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: called down then, and how your brother dog? He good man?

972
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:44,320
Speaker 1: We're good. Everything great. Okay. So I get this text

973
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:49,479
Speaker 1: yesterday and I'm reading it. My sister started crying, like, brother,

974
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: you really like that's that one you say, That's that

975
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: one you saved. So it makes me feel good because

976
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: I know I wouldn't ship it. I can still say

977
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: it today. I ain't ship I'm just starting. I'm just

978
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: breaking the ice, you know what I'm saying. So I

979
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: got a lot of proven I got a lot of

980
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: ship to do. But I don't mind because I did

981
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: a lot of bullshit, But I don't mind picking my

982
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: way through it and doing this here and helping, you

983
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So if I can get another one,

984
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: and another one like me can change you, I can

985
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: die him all. I'm good. Yes, you know that you're

986
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: just giving it back. Man. I think that's really important

987
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 1: because I think man like, like you know Greg was

988
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: saying with the reco Act, he was saying that it's

989
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: just it's therapist, the most perfect thing we got right now,

990
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: right despite the shortcomings. Man, I just think that we

991
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,759
Speaker 1: really got to get um go back to the days

992
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: of listening to cats like James, and really, if you're

993
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: listening to what he's telling you. He's telling you how

994
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: not to get caught. U. Well, we gotta go. We

995
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,719
Speaker 1: gotta get to the point where we gotta start loving

996
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: and instead of hating each other. And we hate each

997
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:11,960
Speaker 1: other for the smallest ship. Uh, pinky ring, Go get that,

998
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,320
Speaker 1: go to work and get it yourself. There's amount of

999
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: cats out there hate what you got. There's a lot

1000
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: of us out there just envy for the wrong reasons,

1001
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,800
Speaker 1: you know. And if we stopped that boys ship and

1002
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: start congratulating and stop snatching motherfucker's when they're coming up.

1003
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't give a funk. If you made a million

1004
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: dollars selling dude, I made that, don't come and bringing

1005
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: my house and kill me for it. We gotta learn

1006
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 1: how to build ourselves. That's a man. That's a man.

1007
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: It wasn't too fifty years old. I realized I was

1008
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: a man, you know what I'm saying. So, I mean,

1009
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,920
Speaker 1: we got a lot of guys out here of age

1010
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: like me. We ain't ain't we ain't men. We ain't

1011
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: acting like black men. We all we we we quit

1012
00:56:56,200 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: to accuse. Fuck accusing somebody get our did get it

1013
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 1: and get it the way you you you see you

1014
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: can hold it, you can keep it. Let's not be

1015
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: envious of motherfucker's that's all. That's that's and that's the

1016
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,959
Speaker 1: that's that's better for everybody. You know what I'm saying.

1017
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: You want to be a grown motherfucker, You want to

1018
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: be an adult, you want to show lessons to the youth. Whatever.

1019
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: You just got to learn how to not be envious

1020
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: to the next man and then then fund the color whatever.

1021
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 1: It's just we gotta learn to just stop being envious

1022
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 1: of a nigger who don't got or got more. Period.

1023
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: That's just it the nutshell. Yeah, man, that's if you

1024
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: don't know how to get Yeah, that's it. Get up

1025
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: and get out and get something period. Man. You know what,

1026
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 1: I guess some ship we would never get to the

1027
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: bottom up. Man. It just seemed just just really strange

1028
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: to me. Man, But that's another episode. The gains the

1029
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: chronicles do stuff on that, you stuff on that reco

1030
00:57:55,920 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: or they going right back to it if it is

1031
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: right back, just it really sucks me up that you

1032
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: could do something wrong six years ago and it just

1033
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: so happens these mothersfuck You can kill the motherfucker twenty

1034
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: years ago if they fid down today, y'all asked going

1035
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,919
Speaker 1: to mothers. You know what, the man, what's the easy

1036
00:58:18,040 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: soul for this? As you say, okay, depending upon what

1037
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: he's doing now at this stage of the case, depending

1038
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: we do, you can't. You shouldn't be able to go

1039
00:58:26,080 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: back no more than two years. Ain't gonna do that

1040
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 1: ship you know they do that sometimes, what the case

1041
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: is or something like that, you give more slapping the

1042
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: motherfucking back. And what if it's if it's what if

1043
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: it's yours and your people that were affected by that?

1044
00:58:43,040 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: What if somebody had suffered on your end? Now? Are

1045
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 1: you willing to let that guy off the hook in

1046
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: two years? Man? You know what? You know that motherfucker

1047
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: gotta go and and and everybody got to think about it.

1048
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,920
Speaker 1: If it don't happen to you, don't matter. But if

1049
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: it happens to you, now I'm affected by but a

1050
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: serious seriousness. When I say only go back two to

1051
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: three years, I'm talking. I ain't talking about murder. I

1052
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 1: ain't talking about you could kill two people, got youn't

1053
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: got a grace period. I'm being good now. I changed myself.

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Speaker 1: I've been out of prison for thirty years, thirty one years.

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Speaker 1: If I killed somebody. You don't think they've been leading

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Speaker 1: with me. Okay, well you've been out of prison thirty

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Speaker 1: one years. Yeah, goddamn, they be not said this country,

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Speaker 1: you got a pass. It's all the same thing, man,

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Speaker 1: But there is you know, there's they do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get it's different on the charge exactly exactly. This

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Speaker 1: motherfucker successful. Now he ain't selling drugs on the corner anymore.

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Speaker 1: He's got business because I'm he and all that. So

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Speaker 1: when you're initially started investigation, okay, he's a personal interest

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Speaker 1: right here. But then you see over time you should

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Speaker 1: have to say, okay, raise they do depend on the crime,

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Speaker 1: like their statute of limitations on things. There's certain crimes

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Speaker 1: with robbery that you know after a certain nine years

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Speaker 1: he can't charge you with it. It's five years ago

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Speaker 1: that even though they still got their way of doing it,

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Speaker 1: like go Jen, you found not guilty of murder, but

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Speaker 1: they find you, uh, they check everything you got because

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Speaker 1: they say, yeah they turned the one just follow a

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Speaker 1: Simvil case on and yeah you had something to do

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Speaker 1: with the fucking murder. But if I got found not

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Speaker 1: guilty of it, and it's gonna award that because he's

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Speaker 1: the I'm pretty sure that most of them sit up

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Speaker 1: and look like, yeah, this motherfucker done it, but in

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Speaker 1: the criminal case it wasn't found not But you can't

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Speaker 1: take your personal feelings in the courting room. You can't.

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Speaker 1: I believe that my damn self. But it happens nine

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Speaker 1: nine and ten at the time. You give me, mother

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Speaker 1: fucker walk right in the court and be like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well he was found not guilty, but we're gonna we

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Speaker 1: feel he had something to do with it. And in

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Speaker 1: a civil case, all they give a funk about is

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Speaker 1: if you can prove or the reasonable doubt that this

1087
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Speaker 1: motherfucker had something to do with it, get a motherfucker's

1088
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Speaker 1: fifty million. That's how we're gonna break them. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: hurt him like that, fucking because and most of the

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Speaker 1: times when you see cases like that and a motherfucker

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Speaker 1: on some high profile murdership and they get found not guilty,

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01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: mother fucker's just come back and find a simple case. Sometimes,

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01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 1: my fucker to find a civil case before the criminal case,

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01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 1: Like just give me the bread and I shut the

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01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: funk out. Big change, a little, big change, gotta take

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Speaker 1: this trip, man James on his way, Get up, get

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Speaker 1: up out of here. We got a lot of exciting

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Speaker 1: stuff happening, man. Um, you know, shout out to the

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Speaker 1: folks in Australia that's been hitting us up. Shut up

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Speaker 1: to our people and Dallas we got were about to

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01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: hit this road the first of the year. Man. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: this um pandemic that we in start to clear up

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01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: so the stuff can be big, you know, maximize. But

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Speaker 1: we're going to road and now we're looking forward to

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Speaker 1: that man, and and it's just crazy everybody reaching out.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate the support we've been getting on the show. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been incredible so far, you know. So they're

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Speaker 1: really inspiring though. Right there, James, that letter you got,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome man. I'm really happy for you. And it

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Speaker 1: made me feel good. Thank you. That's the resonates man.

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Speaker 1: That makes me feel good. And now we're talking to

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Speaker 1: these guys in Texas. I hope we can go to

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Speaker 1: Texas with the guys that we got on the line

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Speaker 1: to go down there and and say for the stop

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Speaker 1: to this ship. You know what I'm saying, y'all gotta

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Speaker 1: stop just killing each other. And I hope they list

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Speaker 1: so y'all be tuned in on Mondays, we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: talking about it. Um. I hope everybody get on board

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Speaker 1: with that. And and if you want to love each

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Speaker 1: other to save each other, it's act like we can

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01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: talk to each other and get along with each other

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Speaker 1: and everything will be good. Go subscribe to The Gangster

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Speaker 1: Chronicles if you gotta. If you're out of don't user.

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Speaker 1: Hit that purple microphone that's on the front of your phone.

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Speaker 1: Stop inbox. You ask me how I find it. It's

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Speaker 1: that purple. Is that purple microphone on your phone? Click

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Speaker 1: that find against the Chronicles podcast, subscribe, leave a comment,

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Speaker 1: and man, we out here. Jill