WEBVTT - EP 120: Laws of Distraction 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.720 When I wrote, y'all all across the usc Compton Watts 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.680 Bank to l A, come on the California the Valley. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.200 We represent that kind of county. So if you're keeping 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.840 it rail on your side of your town, you tune 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:22.160 into Gangster Chronicles, Gangster the Goals. We're gonna tell you 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.480 how we go. If I like my nose, will girl 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:27.720 like Pinocchio. We're gonna tell you the truth and nothing 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.640 but the truth. Gangster Chronicles. This is not your average show. 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.680 You're now tuned into the Rail m c A, Bick 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:45.280 James and Bix Fails from the Streets. Hello, Welcome to 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.160 the Gangster Chronicles podcast, the production of our Heart Radio 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.320 and Black Effect Podcast Network. Make sure you download the 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.000 I Heart Apple, subscribe to The Gangster Chronicles for my 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.440 Apple users, hit the purple Mica on your front screen. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.440 Subscribe to the gainst the Chronicles and leave a five 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.440 star rate in the comment. We like to welcome every 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.240 one to another episode against the Chronicles podcast. And I'm 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.080 with my dogs. Yeah, and today we got a special guest. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.800 We have my Homeboyhood post Men professor Milly mailing here. Millie, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.319 what's up, bro man? Everything man, We've been through a 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:16.840 whole lot, this whole entire week man. So we're sitting 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.200 here right now, we've been to discussing. Let's get into 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.960 it still. Let's get into it, you know, this weekend, um, 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.039 and just to set the narrative up for everybody out here, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.240 because I'm sure these millions of people that don't see 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.440 the activities that was going on. James was actually down 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.480 there for a function for the youth, to serve the 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.160 youth of Dallas, Texas. And that's what I understood. Yeah, 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:38.320 it was down there. You know, it was down to 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.160 do a positive thing. Well, first let's let's let James, uh, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.440 let people know what his intention was. What's going you know, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.720 we just jumping right into it to James, what was 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.440 the purpose of of of this weekend? This past weekend? Well, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.560 I got a phone call from mom, can't ask me 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.400 what I participate and talking to these kids at the 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.560 campsite for the weekend, and you know that's right up 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.240 my audey, that's what I want to do. So I man, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.560 I said, yeah, he said, uh, but you don't fly. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.280 Oh no, I don't worry about nothing. So I made preparations. 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.079 I hopped in my car and I went down there. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.200 You know what I'm saying, you know, keeping it one hunted, 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.760 you know. Uh, he asked me what I do, uh 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.800 do the podcast show? I said, yeah, I can do 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.680 the show. I'm down here. And that was right on 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.880 time for me, because you know, I wanted to speak 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.040 to Charleston. You know what I'm saying. I felt that 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.679 I wouldn't getting across to this brother. I had to 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:43.560 phone conversations with him, and uh, you know, just speaking 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:48.480 to him previous thirty minutes ago. His agenda was totally different, 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.920 but Mines was on point. I already knew what I 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.680 was going down there for. It wasn't to jump on 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.959 Chorles and cuts chosen. I was. I was starting no ship. 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.240 I'm going down here for the for the kids. So, uh, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.720 I do the show. And as I'm doing the show, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:13.200 uh my boy, hit me watch the left right side. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.880 Oh boy, put a pistol down there. So he not 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.880 even knowing, I'm already up on the game. So now 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:24.760 I leaning back to my hat. Now I'm paying attention 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.080 to him, and you know now that I'm doing my work, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.359 so you know, when he gets all out ready and everybody, 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.400 he pointed to I can stretch them off the list 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.000 of who I gotta take a posts out of. So 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.480 I'm i'm I'm watching the whole scene. So I'm talking, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:44.280 and this dude started talking and then he just started 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.000 with the bloods and the crypts again. And come on, man, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.000 this is I've told you you disrespecting the day you 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:56.800 you you're doing too much right And when he stood up, 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.520 now I can show him. You know what I'm saying, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.520 you know, left your pistols sitting in the chair right here. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.280 So before he can go back to his seat, I'm 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.120 right there right in his faith like this. So at 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.160 the same time he had me heated by the city, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:20.440 was saying like this motherfucker ain't getting it. But I'm thinking, man, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.440 if I hit this little dude, man, I mean he 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:26.920 little I'm looking down at and you say little, give 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:32.800 us an idea of what little is. He's about one fifteen, uh, 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:38.360 real fragile, skinny guy. And and I was standing over him. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.160 And then I never had an intent to hurt to 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:45.160 do because Huncle always talked to me about this and 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.440 that and that and this of him and he don't 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.840 mean no well, no difference. Well, somebody has to check 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.240 the dude. Somebody has to stop the ship. So I 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.920 see talking to him through conversation wasn't working, just just 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:04.040 befriending the coming stations. So we went there. Uh, I 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.840 sat back down. He started to say something, and I 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:13.960 just knew I couldn't take another peep of his voice, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.840 so you better get up and walk away. So I 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.080 just got up and walked away from the situation. But 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.440 right after I walked down, I went to my car, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.599 went to the trunk, pop me and motherfucking made me 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:30.320 a drink, and uh, I'm cool. You stay ready, you 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.320 ain't got to get Oh, I ain't got to get there. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.279 And you know, people, you know this, this is what 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.080 I did for a living there. I mean, you know, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.480 I told you all before, you know, the gang like 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.359 it was a job to me because you know, you 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.760 just can't go out that from porch and just walking 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.479 around and just not pay attention to what, you know, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.120 your surroundings is. So we peeped the hole surround him 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.400 when we got there. Then I peeped a little you know, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:06:00.279 the podcast show, and you know, I made myself smith. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.960 This is where are people sitting. They can watch everything 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.440 right there, and you know, now and I'm not knowing, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:12.159 you know what I'm saying. So I think at the 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:18.279 end of the day, it turned out to be a 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:23.680 little misunderstanding. Fathers Okay, when they told me he got 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.040 his pistol. Now I'm angry because he got his pistol down, 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.120 I can't let him get nowhere near it. And then 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.320 he funked up and got went by it went by, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.000 it walked away from the pistol. So when he did that, 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.200 I'm in California, nigga, Man, you don't sucked up. So 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.839 and when they're getting close back to that. But the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.240 whole time, I'm you know, I got old Lucy on 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:51.160 my hill, you know what I mean. So it was, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.560 it was, it was, it was crazy. And then they 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.520 down this uh bright Dogan whoo whoo. Man, I met 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.039 that brother. He was one hundred of me, you know 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.200 what I'm saying. But if if that was the purpose 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:09.279 of going down there to man, if anybody knows, you 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:14.800 will not get no points off uh brackpacking or doing 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.720 something to chose Whitey. He is little as mother, He's 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.680 a little dude. And I don't I don't think it's 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.960 worth it, you know how we you know, when we 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.800 was growing up. You don't get points for that. No, 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.360 you don't get no stranger. James, he really don't understand 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.840 this West Coast culture because in this culture you can't 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.760 make up. You can't make a living off of fuck you, nigga, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.880 bitch hole, or even calling me and us men right 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.760 yourself and James, I mean still right in our culture, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.720 what's gonna happen if you call a nigga a bit, 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.920 You're gonna get check off on. And that's and I 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.440 think that's just being a man period, Because it ain't 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.800 too much that riled my nerves. I'd like to look 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.200 at myself as a little too evolved for the bullshit. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.560 But the man called me a big or something like that, 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:07.400 we gotta fight you almost damn. They gotta recog nigga. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:09.560 You gotta really go in on the nigga call you 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.560 a big. You gotta make him stay on that ship. Well, 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:15.720 in Texas, it seemed to be okay for me and 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.840 to talk to one another that way. But we don't 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.240 stand man. I in Texas, those guys don't. They're not 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:27.880 disrespectful like that. For the most, everybody I ran across 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.679 in Texas was one honey, all the people I ran across, 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.240 you know, dealing with with un damn and and and 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.959 and it ain't them. It was just one individual. Yeah. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.000 I wasn't alluding to that. But what I used is 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.920 the ten ninety rule. Tem per cent of anything can 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:50.920 topple of everything. He's part of that tem percent. Well, 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.960 what what pisces me off is that he don't have 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.000 no gang background. So how can you say funk this 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.200 and funk that? So it's kobuky therapy? What? What is what? What? 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.960 Like I said, we had Charleston on the show. His 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:13.520 direction wasn't funk our heritage. You get me? Um, why 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:19.240 did he turn Is this his platform to get bigger recognition? 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.160 What is his platform for wanting to just come out 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.800 and signal out, fuck crips and bloods. I have no clue. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.160 I have no clue where he turned them. One time 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.600 we we do the show, Chawston cool. Then the next 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.800 thing out here? Man, you hear truse If I'm understanding, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.760 he has no no hood affiliation? Right, No, Well he'd 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:45.319 been through like like I it was my understanding. Uh, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.959 Raymond Washington daughter was with us, you know, ray ray 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.880 was there from my understanding. When he went to Nipsey 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:56.160 Hustle's funeral, he was right there with her and and 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.840 they were all kicking it or whatever. But fathers hanging 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.040 in hood and been from the hood, King Baba Louis, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.880 wouldn't his big homie, you know what I'm saying. So 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.959 all the guys that he came out and with our 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.000 hat come down to Dallas to textas, wouldn't the homies 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.280 he just introduced them to certain ship now is to 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:21.480 me he formed a relationship with him, right, But that 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:26.240 don't make you like this hood experts, this gang expert 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.959 where you just oh, these niggas are moved. So now 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.160 every blood in crypt is basically broke niggas living with 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.040 their mama. Niggas ain't got no car niggas. You know 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.920 what I'm saying. Now, you're putting everybody in one basket 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.640 because you can't do that. From what he has to understand, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:44.120 This is what I try to tell him. One like 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.880 me and Glasses, is that you got cryptics police officers. 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.720 You got crypt and bloods police officers. Now you got 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.440 some of them. The nurses, You've got catt driving trucks, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:57.160 I mean ship you see niggas in sports, you who 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:03.400 associated themselves much more. Not that we try to glorify 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.400 the ship being crypts and bloods, but it's what we did, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.120 and we we evolved from that ship. I mean, you like, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.640 you know, entertainers like myself, you get me. We all 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.360 come from different walks and we have grown as men 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.800 to where you don't have to credit that. But that's 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.240 a part of our heritage being being you know, you know, 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.560 James a prime example of that, you know, being one 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.720 of the dudes that's most respected dude in the streets. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.760 Got a podcast, it's popping, got you know, the radio, 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.920 it's other stuff. You evolved past that. But the thing 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.559 what he doesn't understand is that that's a neighborhood. It's 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:42.960 a neighborhood thing too, And you got people in the 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.040 game in every neighborhood. And this is just my observation. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.360 You're correcting if I'm wrong, But in every neighborhood, I know, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.640 it's only really two or three niggas that's really with 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.000 just the you know them them to hear, the just 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.240 the ones that you can't just have absolutely no control. Yeah, 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.000 you know, you got a couple of cats that got 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.960 the homie that got the squad, and you've got the 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.800 other the home he was playing football, basketball or just 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:08.160 going to school. And you you got the niggas who 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.439 are making the big bread. You know, everybody had the 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.560 ballers from the neighborhood. And like you said, there's all 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.640 walks of life from the neighborhood. Uh different factions. Everybody 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.520 got a position and my body, I think that this 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.240 limited mindset is applicable to what we do in the 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.800 West Coast. When he's obviously he's in Texas right doing 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.800 whatever he's doing. He's been out of here a few times. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.880 But a few times he's been out here. Can he 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.559 really have a definition for what we do? It don't do? No, No, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.640 I don't think he he don't have no concept of 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.400 what I the California is. And then the whole thing 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:50.760 about it is he said they emulate California, but you're 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.520 emulate in California because you watch boys in the hood. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.520 Uh min. It's just aside that that was gonna be 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.040 my next point, you know what I'm saying. So this 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.000 is why they say they've been hood winked. Every man 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.800 has a choice, especially at the fifteen fourteen years old, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.120 if you don't want to be a gang banger, say 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:11.240 you don't want to be it because what you see 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:16.840 in the movies, you see violence. You don't see catch 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.920 uh hanging together and making money and and and you 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:25.000 know as one you see violence. So those movies promoted violence, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.120 So why would you want to be a part of that? 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.520 But this is where they was at. So you know 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:34.120 me personally, you know, the brother mush have went through 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.480 something in his life for him to feel the way 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.000 he feels. But all of a sudden, just bad Because 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.640 if you felt like that, you never came to California 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.440 and kicked it. You never came out here and hung out, 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.679 And then now you can't come out here and hang out, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.679 you know what I'm saying. So what I'm saying, I 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:57.160 don't understand what was his his his transition from uh, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.520 you know, wanting to come on the show and come 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.120 out here year that you know, mingo with motherfucker's and 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:09.160 then to turn around and go fuck them niggers. One 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.040 thing that this internet, the Internet has done a lot 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.960 of good things, right, but it gave everybody everybody is 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.040 not meant to be on the camera, you know, or 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.440 or have access like that you know, we was coming up, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.320 we didn't have no YouTube and all that, so it's 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.880 like everything was kind of seen that face value and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.040 live in the real time. It's like now, so you've 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.640 got people that the attention can be addictive. Sometimes you 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.640 look at the trend the way stuff is trending. You 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.680 had to do the Tennessee that's a YouTuber that was 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.000 putting the frank and somebody prank and somebody shot and 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.560 killed him. You had the other young brother out here 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.720 that we don't know what was behind, you know, Andy Red. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.920 You had him to where he got shot. And that's 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.560 not counting Bob down there in the in the jungles exactly. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:54.240 And it's just so much stuff. It's real destructive and dangerous. 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.360 Now that's why I tell these young influence. I get 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.000 hit up all the time by cats. How can I 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.040 do this and do that? I tell him first of 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.640 a former identity, on something that's authentic, not off the 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.920 back of being the shock jock stuff. Because the shock 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.240 jock stuff is making you so far. I can name 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.280 you ten niggas that do cameom win in the past 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.640 eight months that popping here and and disappear because you 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.520 have to continue on with the funny and the menagerie. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.240 When you start something, bro, if you start off that way, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.720 I can't come on here telling everybody to suck my 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.440 dick and doing this and that cuts of people out 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.520 in the next week preaching a message of positivity and peace. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.520 It's just gonna be two MW points. There's gonna be 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:33.800 two MW points. And with these cats. Got to understand 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.080 is that it's real life. Here's people as serious. Bro. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.880 I told you know, shout out the um, shout out 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:40.960 Duke Berry. But I told them cats a few months 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.560 ago when the one video came out talking about the army, 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.880 I said, man, listen, I said, this cat is getting 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:48.800 into some stuff dog that he don't know where you're 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.640 getting into us a whole another ram. It's a whole 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.920 another ram. And I know as far as our Gangster 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.680 Chronicles platform I take, but we do very serious. That's 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.960 why I tell people off the rip. I'm cool with 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:04.200 everybody out on never things from somewhere. James is from somewhere. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:10.600 Ain't from nowhere. But you understand, you follow what I'm saying. 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.480 You food what I'm saying, Oh big ja, what what 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.360 should be our objective moving forward and what the outcome 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.120 should we be looking for. Man, we should be looking 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.320 we we really need a uh away out. We need 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.080 to find how we can all get together, like like 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.440 like that brother came down there. You gotta you got 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.760 a mob, dude, and you got a car park there. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.640 You know, you got two guys and they pretty much 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.280 on the same page. You know. He called me on 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.360 the phone said, brother, I don't think you should take 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:47.600 a wrong approach. I think you should be easy with 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.600 this cat because he, you know, a cannon, so I 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.440 know he wouldn't coming down there to be like offen 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.760 the gun holders. Dude. You know what I'm saying. All 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.120 you gotta do is get him. It wouldn't nothing like that. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:04.320 So plus, as as black men, we're growing up. You 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.040 can see we're coming out of it because you see 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.560 you see bloods and crips hanging together all the time 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:12.280 now and then you just and they ain't on no 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.760 selling dope. You got you got them working together, just 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:21.080 real ship. So we gotta reach these young men that 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.119 that I don't believe that that this ship don't change 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.800 because everybody got to walk out that motherfucking do every morning, 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.959 every morning we haven't been through so much in so 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.160 many motherfucking years. You know this ain't no brand new ship. 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.040 This ship has been here since the early photies, the 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.520 late fifties. That our parents was gang bangers, you know 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.440 what I'm saying, Our uncles, you know what I'm saying, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.080 And they're just trickling down and it's just getting worse 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.400 than worse. I got a deeper question for a hey, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.600 being that you grew up in the eighties, right, You 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:58.199 come up through the neighborhoods, and you was actually you 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:02.879 was actually in that cop then phenomenon, right, and you 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.280 saw a lot of things and you actually rapped about 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.439 because I've got you as a lyricist, right, and you 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.879 actually were speaking about the situations and scenarios that you 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:19.160 witnessed day to day. But today's rapper have it's emulating James, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:24.080 emulating you, emulate myself and telling these stories and that's 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.840 becoming the driving force of the w the Charleston White 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.280 and a lot of these other people when the story 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.800 is misconstrued and the story is not accurate, but they 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.000 make it seem like they're the ones that's doing it, 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.040 but doing well. Let me ask you this right here, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.960 and you text on the powerful point. But but no, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.240 this has got something to do with that. If you 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.960 listen to this right here. Growing up in the hood, Yeah, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.960 boy was a year my peers didn't know what was 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.919 in store. A little here already a kid came with fags, 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.119 trying to pay my dudes learn the tricks of the trade. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.560 He was describing every little niggai I knew, not just 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.680 out here, but across the country. A dude coming of age, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.680 and he started to seeing all the homie over here 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.960 got the second time men get mine now well, growing well, 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.840 growing up in the era. I grew up in Um. 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.560 Like I used to tell people as a kid, like 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.720 lionels age, I'm pretty sure we all had dreams of 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.679 being something different than we work, depending on where we 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:30.240 grew up. Um. I grew up in Compton. Uh started off, 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:34.120 you know, I had the normal household, mom and dad, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.119 father work, mom's work. But when they split and moms 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.159 went by herself. And now I'm growing up in the 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:45.119 neighborhood and I'm the age of nine and ten and eleven, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.160 and I'm seeing the drug dealers on the corner. I'm 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.679 seeing the dudes come through doing dry bys and dudes 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:58.840 getting killed. That still fascinated me to a point of 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:05.040 these are my choices, you feel me. Um, not that 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.239 that I wanted to pretend to be or you know, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.159 I just felt as a youth growing up in Compton, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:18.040 that was the road I had to take because that 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:22.280 was it. You get me. Single mom in the household. Uh, 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.840 she was all trying to work and supply ship. But 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.960 then I was left to the vices of the streets. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:31.479 You get me, Um, Moms wasn't you know, giving me 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.399 allowances and ship like you know ship, You see what 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:39.280 typical motherfucker's on TV so to speak. Uh, kids getting 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:43.280 allowances and getting to go to whatever whatever. I didn't 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.159 get all of that. So when I saw the drug 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.760 dealer on the corner, or I see the niggas belling 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.399 impacts with their rags out their back pockets and ship, 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:55.560 that gave me the sense of family, of wanting to 0:20:55.640 --> 0:20:59.440 be long. So that's why I wrote those songs. I did, 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.879 and I participated in gang banging and selling dope and 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.600 all that because I felt that that was a no 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.320 way out situation. At one point, did you realize that 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.840 the streets was undefeated and you need to change directions 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.359 because the streets that you think about the streets as 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:25.439 a total, it's undefeated. Definitely. Um well, I guess to 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:30.080 the point to where when you start um doing for 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:35.040 yourself and becoming a family dude or you know, getting 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.440 the mind state of I'm seeing a lot of dudes 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:40.159 still get killed going back to those things that you 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.480 grew up within, the value in that and those lessons. Definitely, 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.800 I started seeing like from the time I was youthed 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.320 to about what time, because I was still hanging in 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.560 the neighborhood at twenty five years old. You get me. 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.440 I still I still money even though I was I 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.199 felt like Nipsey So Nipsey Hustle wasn't the first one 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:04.280 to do that. Oh no, No, I still at the 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:08.920 point of where I was shipped. But I'm coming off 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:14.280 tour and I'm going straight to the neighborhood because what 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.240 else did I know? I mean, I didn't know ship else. Yeah, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:19.840 I got the house, I got the cars, I got 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.200 the jewelry, I got all that ship and Nigga's telling me, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.720 why the funk are you over here? You get me? 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:33.360 But I'm still feeling like I gotta have that connection like, like, 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.480 it's important for me to still have that connection to 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.520 the neighborhood because I didn't want people to think that 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.000 the ship I was writing about or experience with some 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.920 ship I was doing from afar, like I grew up 0:22:46.920 --> 0:22:50.040 in that ship. But it came to a point to 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:55.120 where now I got kids, you get me, Um, I'm 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.399 hanging in the neighborhood every day. You know, it's still 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.719 the same ship going on. I'm give a fuck if 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:04.560 I'm the nigga that's wrapping and still whatever. It's still 0:23:04.680 --> 0:23:07.520 niggas from that past life that still look at me 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:14.600 as nigga you affiliated. So even let's work, even though yeah, 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:18.160 even though I'm like okay everything or whatever, you still 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:22.760 got the a. Man, we need dope, we need guns, 0:23:23.320 --> 0:23:30.560