WEBVTT - Peace Treaty 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.240 You're tuned into The Gangster Chronicles. Well, James McDonald and 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:09.600 Allen Tomanso on the digital Soapbuch Network material witness on 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.399 an aggregated battery, I was a hang gun and um 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:18.720 they believe this might be in retaliation to our testimony. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.320 Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Welcome to another 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.480 episode of the Gangster Chronicles. And you're listening to Alex 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:30.160 Alonso from Street Gangs dot Com a k a. Street TV. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.720 And I'm sitting right here with my co host James 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.680 McDonald and we're missing our third co host. We're gonna 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:37.800 shot him out. 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We got an amazing, amazing, amazing episode 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.240 coming to you right now, James. We got some cats 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.360 in here, man, that have probably a hundred years of 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.200 history combined. Are going to come to these streets. These 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.240 guys over hundred years. I'm I'm I'm estimating over a 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:06.560 hundred years of street experience. Sitting right here in front 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:12.720 of he was going wide doing time when I was 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:17.160 a weighty boster. I'm assuming that these three brothers that 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.080 are sitting right here with us have at least thirty 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.480 thirty plus years in the streets. That's over a hundred 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.400 years a little more than that. So let's go ahead. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.399 Let's go ahead and introduce these brothers. All the way 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.840 to my right is little Doc from six nine that's 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.280 doing some phenomenal work right now in going into and 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.560 then we got two brothers from eight seven kitchen. We 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:43.520 got Pork and Smokey over here. What's our fellas? Hey man, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.560 I want to thank you guys for coming down to 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.359 be on another episode of The Gangster Chronicles. And I'm 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.160 glad that James has a little history with with with 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.840 two of the brothers at least, well I have history 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.120 with with both sets, is that right? But the seven 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.600 sixties goes I had a problem with one guy, uh 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.079 I had mentioned. I know you probably don't want his name, 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.359 but he was he was a motherucker. He don only 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.520 want to gave me problems. Uh with the kitchens, I 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.720 said every time on my on on this show, how 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.720 I was involved in and on that side of the 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:24.080 town as well as in Compton. Uh. Uh Still, Bill, 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.840 we grew up together babies, and the only thing that 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:33.720 divided us is been from different different neighborhoods. Uh Runt 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.760 was my ride to die, which is a no Kitchen cript, 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.600 and I would die for him. He's from the Munson family. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.440 You gotta shout out the months we did our thing 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.760 and and and these guys here. I was just I 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:51.280 was just telling smoke about the bush dances. So I 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.080 go that far back. So I do have a history 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:01.760 with Kitchen Crip. Uh My sister married uh Am Yeah, yeah, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.280 and uh you know, I wanted to tell y'all when 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.960 when when Mario was shot. You know, I got like 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.720 seven bloods to go to the goddamn mar Luke Kenny 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.200 giving blood and we all sat in that chair and 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.360 gave him blood. And they asked me, and it's quit, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.039 why are you doing that? Because the family, you know 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:24.320 what I'm saying, and and that attachment there, you know, 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.320 sometimes it broke us up because we was from different places. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:32.159 And then when uh Run was killed, I was like 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.360 like devastated when he got killed. And I pretty much 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.160 hated everything, but I always stayed in contact. Was we 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.280 in China in eighties seven? No, it was it was 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.720 somebody else from Kitchen. We was in there and they 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.240 tried to kick us out of the damn day room. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.000 It was somebody, But anyway, man, I appreciate y'all being here, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.240 and we we got a lot of history here and 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.600 I'm ready to let's get it going. Well. These three 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.120 brothers is I called treat activists. I don't know what 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.039 you guys call yourselves, but y'all doing some incredible work, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.120 work that a lot of people didn't think was possible. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.440 I mean, I don't even know where to start, man, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.600 but I guess let's just start with your all. Your 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:18.520 transitions from being bangers from your neighborhood to now peacemakers. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.880 That's a huge transition, and I know it doesn't happen overnight, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.400 So let's start with your pork. Well, I've really been well, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.000 I've really been involved trying to make things right. When 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.080 I was with Arkansas called Mad Dads a long time ago, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.640 and it kind of failed, but failed below the waist 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.800 and um, But this time were not that we stand 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.880 hooking up with Doc and a couple other brothers. I'm 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.400 really older now and I understand I'm within on now, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.080 you know. So it wasn't none of that. Oh No, 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.320 we lost community homies. We would never be able to 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.000 do this, you know what the back what we did 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.359 was see doc for example, been talking to my homeboy 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.000 Kitching Mo for a while when they was in the 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.560 pain together. And when Kitchen Moo got out of he 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.599 was talking about it because he made it. He made 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.960 a statement on the video that when you were locked up, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.080 it ain't the same as you are on the streets. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.640 So East coaches and he was hanging with kitchens. Um 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.720 with kitchen East Coast was hanging in jail. So when 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.800 he got out evolved that you know, he wasn't gonna 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.239 go against another coast because they was kicking it in jail. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.800 And for you people don't understand that when you go 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.880 to prison, cripts hanging with cripts, bloods hanging with bloods, 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.040 regardless of the beachs or whatever, and you gotta come 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.600 together some kind of way in there, and that's how 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.920 you survived, all right, Smoke. How did you get into 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.240 the work, basically? Um, I got into the work a 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.839 while ago when you mentioned Mad Dads, I'm the person 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.800 who who started Mad Dad's in l A. You know, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.640 there was a group of brothers I found out about 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.960 in Omar, Nebraska, which made me find out what they 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.359 was about. And so I got with some brothers in 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.440 l A and we started and we started up doing 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.679 the Mad Dads. And Porky was right there with me, man, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.599 every step of the way, you know, because he's like 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:03.960 you know, he's like my little brother. You know what 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.200 I'm saying. I met him go back so far, you know. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.120 But uh, I've just been I was. I was tired 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.960 a long time ago. This was right after the right 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.640 before the riots, Rodney King riots, you know, when we 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.600 started the Mad Dad's. Uh, So I was. I had 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.640 been tired for a while, you know, because I had 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.160 been a father for for for a long time. You know, 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.000 I'm a father of team kids. Whoa so I got 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.080 you know, I got eight boys and two girls, man, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.520 and so uh, I wanted to see my kids men 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.360 grow up in a better environment. And so I know 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.040 I have to change my lifetime, you know what I'm saying. 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.200 So I was, I've been working on that for a while, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.040 you know. And I remember when um, I hollowed at 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.960 you at the restaurant over there in the hood. What's 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:47.720 the name of that spot, um Bobo Bobos. We was 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.120 at Bobos and uh you was talking a little bit. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.920 We got a little bit about the work that you 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.680 were involved in or not, you know, believe it or not. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.280 A couple of people hit me up and said, man, 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.880 the kitchens ain't doing none of that stuff. Some of youngsters, 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.400 of course, And we're gonna talk about dealing with the 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.640 youngsters at um at some point in this episode. But yeah, man, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.040 you're always gonna have haters. Man, yeah, alright, we'll hate 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.080 those hide behind the counters. Ain't gonna show you in 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.400 your faith are writing stuff that you never go see. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.760 But when they play big part of this because you 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.560 got to to two neighborhoods that came and and is 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:25.040 this all sixties, I mean East Coast that's when it 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.160 I put it for all autonomous. Well we're gonna get 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.640 to that in a moment. But so you got all 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:33.719 of it then all the kitchen, I mean, this is 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.280 a big thing. So you had a little homies that 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:40.240 really don't know the history of neither side. They just 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.800 we had we had a we had a uh you 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.200 know in here, and he explained it kind of well, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.120 you have gang bangers, and you have gang members, you 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.880 have catch that Jodan hood but don't know nothing about 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.600 their hood, but them in the wars that give you 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.240 more friction? How you how you how you keep them 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.240 out the way to keep this like one hunted because 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.760 this is positive. Well, everything right now is a working progress. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.400 Everything is working progress right now. For example, before when 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.760 Doc and let's talk that the United we stand me 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.319 and we met Smoke and a couple of more O 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.400 G hunboys got together. We've been talking about this for 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.280 like a month and a half before we even did it. Yea, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.760 we had people they want to do it. But over 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.240 you know, we we sat down. It wasn't dead like okay, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.679 Porky said, they go do Nah. I had to go 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.000 all the way to everybody had some harm dead to 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.360 him all the when we talked. We had like three 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:37.520 folk major meetings before we really sat at the table 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.240 and we came to the point and it got to 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.480 happen time for real. Alright, little Doc, how did you 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.240 get into the work. I'm assuming you got into a 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.560 relatively young but you had these conversations in prison, which 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.120 is really part of the work. Yes, sir, I started 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.880 uh Man Kitchen Moe. We was talking up in prison 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.240 together about coming out to the streets because we we've 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.400 seen what was and then in prison, you know, we 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:06.920 just two real you know, crips talking, you know, rivalries, 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.240 but men kitchen more, never being came at each other, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.720 game banging because he grew up in my hood too, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.000 so we always was friends. So we never came at 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.680 each other. And what we did in prison, we saw 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.640 how we was just up in there getting along, you know, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.720 like it stops right here though. But on the streets 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.480 we're trying to kill each other and have it at 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.920 each other. But then we hit the county jail, we're 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.120 still trying to have it each other. Then we hit 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.000 the prison yard. Just like I can't do that. Explain 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.320 that to the millions of listeners of the Gangster chronicles 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.600 around the world who don't understand that where you added 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.960 in the streets, you added in the county, but as 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.120 soon as you hit that level four, everybody's united on 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.120 racial lines. Explain it don't have to be a little 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:54.160 forward period. Well, I've heard on level ones that people 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.160 don't really program like that. On level one level that's true, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.199 that's true. Like if you if you're on the level one, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.880 two and three, sometimes it can be like the county 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.120 jail because the streets. But at a level of folk 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:10.120 prison one eighty you locked in, you know, like I 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.520 didn't hit Pelican Bay, Calipatri High Desert. All level folds 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.520 one eighty yards and you're more scorched in. They don't 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.840 give you a lot of space in the day room. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.880 They don't get a lot of space on the yard. 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.679 They put gates between the yard, so you won't have 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.560 a lot of yard as as you would like on 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.079 the one and two and three, so you must they 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.040 cut the yard off and run a gate between, and 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.240 then they say, well, we'll put you guys on this yard, 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.960 this one and two building, get yard together, and this 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.240 yard here on the other side of the gate, three 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.040 and fold building get yard together. Whereas a one, two 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.800 and three yard prison, everybody come out to the yard 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 all four buildings, and then you know you have a 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.720 lot of game bang and still going on. But the 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:54.360 level of four, everybody is mostly like people that then 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.320 basically just don't give a month like you have to 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.320 be real respectful to people at a level four prisons. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.839 If you don't want to get a knife ran up 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 in you, then don't be walking around trying to be 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.800 disrespectful to people. You know, you don't even you know, 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.520 all day long, people is hid. Excuse me, my brother 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.560 could out, you know, you know, because we all kill us, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.160 so you gotta respect another killer. You don't want to 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.000 say nothing wrong, and the cat just bring it to 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:24.920 you because you was disrespectful, the lightest, lightest little disrespect 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.560 to get you a knife for in up and let 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.240 me ask you about respect. Someone told me they was 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.840 on a level four and the bathroom was directly across, 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:33.839 but there was a track field between the bathroom and 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.160 the track field and the way you go to the 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.880 bathroom in terms of respecting everybody as you walk around 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.320 that whole track field and then you go into the bathroom, 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.240 is that something that is uh? Is that strict on 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.800 the level four? Well? No, not really like a level 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.640 of folk. You really just walk the track, you know. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.640 If you're on the track, you walk the track. If 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:55.000 you when they had weights, if you live in weights, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:59.640 you're playing handball, anything, then you shoot over to the restrooms. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.240 You know. Basically a lot of homies used to be 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:06.600 like you know Northeiol's South Side, you know, Black Sports, 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.960 B GF, C, C O, Blue note, all of those 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:14.160 prison organizations and then those who are uncut. That's just 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:17.240 straight crips and bloods. It was like, don't go walking 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.080 across the enemies. Like if you have south Side meskins 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.160 kicking them right here and it's thirty of them right 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:26.280 here that state car, then you got to go to 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.560 the restroom and they right there by the restroom take 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.520 two or three homies with you while you're pissing. They're 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.400 watching your back just in case they say, oh, they're slipping. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.760 He over here taking a piss. Let's let's get let's 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:43.040 get this. He's slipping, and they run some iron up 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.880 in you. And that's where all the unity comes in 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.559 that you're talking about what you would have enemies set, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.120 but he's probably watching your back while you're taking a 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.920 piss exactly. So you you now you're up in here. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.480 You're on the streets like as a us in kitchens, uh, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:02.120 coming together, trucing and up in the prison system. I 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.160 got porky and smoke telling me you gotta you gotta 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.280 pitch dock. I go ahead, we got you do a thing, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.800 and uh, you know they're gonna watch my back real quick. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.200 Even though with robberies on the streets and that type 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.840 of relationship made you into a more h give you 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.320 a sense of pride for as your people not want 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.120 to go back to the streets and just say, oh, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.440 that go porky from kitchen, that go smoke people, kitch, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.760 I'm gonna kill him. You more like, what's up with you, hommie? 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.920 And then he like, what's up with you? Boy? Like 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.760 what you're doing out here? Well? I make the or refinery? 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.160 Yeah they hired you. Got a number on how I 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.080 get in there. I'm trying to work too. You know, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.040 y'all gonna talk and mingle because you know where you 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.200 come from and where you've been, so you know, you know, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.280 it's a different game now. It seems like that's where 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.200 the whole gang trups and really is. It's rooted in 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.800 the relationships and bonds that you guys make in prison 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.920 and then bring it to the streets. It's like a 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.320 maturity thing. You know, you you you become a man 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.480 at a level fold because you're gonna you're gonna be 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.360 a man because if you come in there as a boy, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.360 you're gonna leave out of man. What happens to an 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.200 eighteen year old that hits the level four? You know 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.640 he frashed out, never been the prison before, and he 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.040 won a gang bang. That's what he's not gonna do. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.160 He gonna get some mine, you know what I'm saying. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.440 They're they're gonna run some mine and you're gonna get 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.000 chalked up in there. You're gonna get talked, You're gonna 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.400 get you know, either, you're gonna come in there and 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.480 you're gonna program bro, because they're gonna let you know 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.880 this is not the county jail, Bro. And then then 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.760 my homie being up from East Coach Crept, I might 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.800 have a homie that when pork and smoke come up 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.080 in there and they say they just getting there, blanket 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.560 and everything. They're going to get house. They're walking our 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.280 building when we sleep at it and ourselves our build it. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.640 And they might walk in and we're like, where y'all from? 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.400 Cause and I'm porting from kitchen, I'm smoking from kitchen. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.440 And then we shake their hands, we greet them. I'm 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.360 a little document. What's up? You know? Your your rooms 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.200 over here? Humming, We get the water over here. We 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.040 don't touch these shot whatever we've been separated for as 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:14.200 Messican blacks and whites. We let them know that So 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.400 when the little young homies that want to be game 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.040 banging and acting ignorance still and trying to be young 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.840 and a teams still acting like they want to game ba, 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.720 you know, we tell them to, you know, shake their hand, homie, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:26.840 and he can be from East coach crypt he might, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.640 little homie, but I'm gonna tell him to do that. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.080 And now if feet shaking and half ash shake it, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.200 or he tried to act funny, then I'm gonna let 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.920 him do that in front of smoking and port and 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.720 then we're gonna pull him to the side, take them 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.840 up in the cell and be like, why you do that, hommie, 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.440 Why you disrespect me like that as your g homie. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.400 All through them, the enemies. But we want to up here, homie, 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.720 we need them. That man might say, your life when 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.520 the rides up, bro, and then we'll suck him up 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.240 for them. Now that's deep right there, getting the youngsters 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.480 and check. But you know it's confusing to a youngster 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:03.040 because he was taught to bang on the enemy. He 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.440 was taught we don't like these people, we hate them. 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.720 And now all of a sudden you're telling him, no, no, no, 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:15.560 he's cool. Now the circumstances and like you just said, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.200 this man might save your life. You know what I'm saying, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.840 If if it just if it was divided, when the 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:27.840 white boys take off, you know, when the Mexicans come you, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.200 you might lose. You know what I'm saying. Anything can happen. 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:36.560 So that's what we need on the streets, that structure 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.920 that these junctions listening to the big hommies, they gotta 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.840 understand where the fall in line at. You know what 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.440 I'm saying. You don't have that to day because they're 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.520 doing what they want to do. They're not respecting no jeeves. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.919 You know what I'm saying. In some hoods, maybe you 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.080 know the call this thing. He said that because I 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.879 don't know, Man, is something about our hood. You know. 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.720 It's like me and Smoke all the armies. We the 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.040 keys get passed down, the keys get passed. We start 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.600 getting in our fifties, it's time to pass the keys down, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.080 but we pass them down to level heads. I've seen 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.840 something that was real, real that just blew my mind. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.520 And know the work I'm doing right now. I have 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.840 two of our homies got the keys from both sides 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:25.760 eight seven one six, and they talked. They came to 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.159 the meetings united, We're standing. We had a meeting. It 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.280 was so cold I had to turn I had to 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.040 get out and walk out. Man, I'm like, damn, they 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:37.080 understand and they data ones. But of men, smokey go 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.199 over there. They know we still who we are, but 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:44.120 we ain't out there with y'all no more. And y'all 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.520 gonna respect your big homies. If not y'all, they're gonna 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.680 handle it. And that's the way we did are so 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.160 so forth. It's been going cool. Even when we had 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.199 the truth, it's been going cool because we put it 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.600 in two young dudes hands. We met us in the 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:06.600 coaches and they young homies mad and so for being respect. Respect, 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.040 that's what it's all about, man, Respect, you know what 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.040 I'm saying. And and see that's the thing with a 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:14.600 lot of the young homies don't respect a lot of 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.120 the big homies. How to how the whole thing that's 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.080 got out of the whack because a lot of the 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:22.560 big armies kind of left the little homies out there 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.480 to see him for themselves. You know what I'm saying. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:26.919 And that's why me at fifty nine years old, I 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 still keep a relationship with my little homies that represent 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.640 the neighborhood. You know what I'm saying, and they respect 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:32.960 me for that. You know, I ain't got to be 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.280 over there under them. I got two or three jobs, 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:36.399 you know what I'm saying. I ain't got to be 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:37.960 over there checking on them. I ain't got to be 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.240 over there worrying about what they're doing and making sure 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.679 they're safe. But because I care, and because I know 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.879 a lot of them gang banging because they saw me 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:47.679 doing it, you know what I'm saying, And so I 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.440 feel responsible now that I know, I know what's way 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.520 I posted. They pust a really go to be an 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.879 example the example I am. Now. I want them to. 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.360 I want them to grow old like me. I want 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.400 them to have grandkids like me, you know what I'm saying. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.560 But they going the where they're going, They're not gonna 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.280 get this age, you know what I'm saying. And so 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.960 that's what my thing is about. You know, I think 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:09.480 it's it went crazy because some of the big homies 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.359 went to the crack and it's hard to respect, to 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.680 respect the big homie. But then they look at you, 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.080 one of the big homies that that still dress good 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:25.600 still doing this thing and respect itself. They have to 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.520 respect you them the ones should be scared of that's 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.520 still doing anything and it's still coming to the hood 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:33.280