WEBVTT - Lil Durk Follows The Fools Path 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.720 Gangs, the chronic goals. It's not your average show. You're 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:06.400 now tuned into the real. 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.720 Welcome to the gainst the Chronicles podcast, the production of 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.080 iHeart Radio and Black Effect podcast Network. Make sure you 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.959 download the iHeart app and subscribe to Against the Chronicles. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.200 For my Apple users, hit the purple mic on your 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:30.760 front screen subscribed Against the Chronicles to leave a five 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.760 star rating. The comment, man, you know what, well, I 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.160 wanted to talk about I was thinking about some stuff, right, 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.279 and I said, man, it seemed like it's a lot 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.280 of people that just love to get praised, like just 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.520 for the wrong stuff though. Mmm, like you got casted 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.800 and go to jail. Man, it's like they almost come 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:50.840 home or want to be praised, you know, from going 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.400 to prison right right, you got cast that might have 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.480 been a long stretch and they come out and they 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.800 kind of glorified almost like you know what, Well, actually 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.720 it ain't never to cares to do the long stretch. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:04.319 He's always the dudes to go in to jail for 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:05.160 a year or two. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.640 Well, ship should like that always been uh, you know 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.800 that's been like to some dude, some niggas, that's the 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:15.800 right of passage. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:16.560 You get me. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:22.319 So you got there, understand who. You gotta understand who who 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.560 who it is. And like I said today, a lot 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.040 of shit is a you know, a lot of shit 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:33.640 is glorified to be you know, TVs and cameras make 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.600 shit an extra nowadays. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:41.720 So well, well, think about this, bro, I would say, Look, 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.039 Dirt is making some pretty good money for himself. Well, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.240 Dirk probably a millionaire. I'll be remiss to say without 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.280 counting nobody's pockets. And I don't know what that man 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.760 got more do I care, But I'm pretty sure he 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.280 doing well for himself or for his family or whatever. 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:55.240 Mmh. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.040 He just pretty much do all that shit away. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:04.800 Well, you know, sometimes, like I said, some dudes, you know, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:06.040 the image of. 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:07.440 The neighborhood is everything. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.160 So or I guess some niggas think they just that 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.320 you know, in with motherfuckers that. 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.560 Niggers ain't gonna tail or snake. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.840 You know, we let by that cold, you get me, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.040 So it ain't nobody gonna tail or not. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:25.840 And you know we lived by the cold. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.960 Or think about it like this, whatever he did or 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.280 didn't do, you know, that's what the court alogue decide. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.440 You know, we're not the judge and the jury. We 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.200 don't know what happened, you know. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:42.200 I wish the brother the best, you know, but whatever 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:45.959 it was that he did, it didn't bring his homeboy back. No, 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.120 he just made matters worse. 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:49.399 Man. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.560 And I don't think people. I think people a lot 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.360 of times. Man, I don't even want to say when 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.720 people young. I just think people in general now just 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.919 do dumb stuff. I think they really crash. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:02:59.840 Out, eh. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.240 And I don't think they really put too much thought 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:03.680 into doing stuff before. 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:09.160 They do it, right. That's that's that's the muddle nowadays. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.560 Like you said, ship a lot of youngsters, you know, 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.320 don't know the way. And you know, money is a 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:18.800 lot to motherfuckers. You feel me, You know, some niggas 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.840 feel you know that that dollar sign is everything. So 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.760 nigga offered me some shit, nigga, and I'm not, you know, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.480 And you know, you niggas is running around flossing and 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.600 Rose Royces and chains and all that. And you're still 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:35.160 a young nigga on the block, hungry shit. You know 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.400 that little the little funds is gonna go go make 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.640 you feel it's gonna go far, you know, But in 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.680 the long run, you gonna be the motherfucker that they 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.960 knocking on their door. And that's what I say. You 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.880 gotta watch out what you do shit, you know, because 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.320 the end of the day, if a nigga get caught up, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.240 he definitely gonna come pointing the finger, you feel me 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.920 if he ain't in that position you're getting. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.600 Let me ask you this, bro, you jumped in the 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.880 rep game real young, like you was a kid pretty 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:09.160 much definitely did you have any pressure. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:09.600 From the neighborhood? 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:12.720 What's the deal? It's your boy, big steal. On this 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.440 episode Against the Chronicles podcast, me and MCA try to 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.599 figure out why the average kid in the hood wants 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.039 to be the neighborhood ghetto god despite the consequences of 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.200 being death, prison, betrayal and all that other stuff. It's 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.320 Against the Chronicles. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.960 Oh, you always have pressure to do shit, you get me. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:37.280 You know, you just have to, man, you know, you 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.960 just out there, you know, hope hopefully you're able to, 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.479 you know, make it through certain situations. But you know 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.320 a lot of us, you know who get in those 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:50.400 uh who get in those positions. You know, your face 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.320 with a lot of adversity. Man, when you still claim 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.520 in the neighborhood and you only come up and then, 0:04:55.720 --> 0:05:00.279 like I said, it's always gonna look. You know, the 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.279 grass is greener on the other side to some niggas, 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.640 you know, not knowing what struggles you're going through. You know, 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.400 money woes, family taxes and all that shit or whatever. 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:14.520 They don't look at that. So you know, when you 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.159 get faced with that adversity, you have to you have 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.040 to choose which route you want to take, because, like 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:25.080 I said, at the end of the day, if something happens, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.960 nine times out of ten, niggas gonna come pointing the 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.599 fingers and saying, hey, we got it from or they 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.480 bought it, or he gave it or supplied it, or whooped, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.320 he whoomped. You know, and now you you were part 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:39.120 of the conspiracy. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.040 You know what you said, the key word conspiracy. Do 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.560 you think we put too much Do you think we 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.880 give too much credit to neighborhood status today? 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:54.440 You know, I don't know what you know, the youngsters 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.560 feel today or what the neighborhood codes may be today. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:57.919 You know. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.640 Uh, like I said, I'm always saying, and shit was 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.480 different than what I went through as a teenager as 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:11.000 far as neighborhood choices and whatever. But with with like's 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:17.200 camera action. You feel me, it's glorified a thousand more percent. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.159 You get me. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.960 So that's what the youth and the young the young 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.320 homies have to deal with. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:24.080 You get me. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.920 Nowadays, a nigga puts you on black nigga can't just 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.120 say something about you. Nigga puts you on blasts on YouTube, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.400 on a channel. You know, anything, shit go far today, 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.760 So it's kind of hard to deal. 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.040 With that, especially when you only trying to come up 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:40.720 for yourself. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.640 And I think, you know what, I think that makes 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.520 it even worse. I think it's special. You know, we 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.320 see it now even with the podcast stuff. You have 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.479 a cat that's trying to ain't and it ain't just 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.200 a say a part about it. It ain't just the 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.760 young niggas, it's the old niggas too. They're trying to 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.160 make a name for themselves. So they go say whatever, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.039 you know, whether it's true false, a little bit true. 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.200 They don't care. They're trying to get They trying to 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.960 get their name, you know, they're trying to get their name. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:05.360 Poper. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:11.040 Well, yeah, that's the but see that's that that's the 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:18.400 difference of what niggas felt as back in the days. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.800 As far as now, everything is commercialized and monetized right now. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.080 So you know, if you say it's to the fact 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.440 of og in that position, then they strictly on. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.480 You know, I'm trying to get paid. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.520 You get me if I know stories or whatever or 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.400 hear rumors or in your window, then you know, why 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:38.720 not me? 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:40.000 You feel me? Shit? 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:40.600 Why not me? 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.840 Makes some money off off the bullshit? 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.680 Yeah, And I think you gotta have some man, all 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.239 money and good money, man, because the one thing about 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.480 it you had to run across these people definitely. 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.200 You know, you go put yourself in a position if 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.280 that's where you want to go, So you have to 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.200 be able to you know, you're trying to run it 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.200 like a journalist or whatever they do. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.080 You know why. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.640 You know, I'm just delivering the questions, man, I'm just asking, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.200 you know, but with certain situations nowadays, you know, some 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.400 people can't take criticism or whatever it might be. So 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.119 you have to understand what you might be getting yourself into. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.960 You feel me, And you know what I decided man, that. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.640 I really don't want to be that dude man to 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.760 put you know, don't get me wrong, I like joking 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.960 and stuff, and you know, we do some stuff we 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.280 got to report on. It's just big, right. But I decided, Man, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.840 I had this whole thing, like an hour loan, like 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.120 interview man with this chick I ringing across. There's one 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:47.240 of the girls that sueing Diddy right right, And I decided, Man, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.840 after a while, after just deliberating, Man, I don't want 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:51.800 to be involved with this stuff because I don't know 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:52.960 it's true, and it's. 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:56.000 Not true exactly, you know what I'm saying. So I 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:56.600 don't want to. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.040 I don't want to kick another brother when you because 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.880 you can think about what's going on right now. Black men, 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.960 especially men are some means and it got some success 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.280 under they've built and got some ms under they built. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.400 It's like we under the tech right now. Bro. 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.360 Yeah, you have to be careful man. 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.000 That's that's why I try to stay, you know, out 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.240 of the line like a ship, because it's easy to 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:26.480 get yourself in the bullshit that you can't get out. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.960 And I feel with this longevity that that a nigga 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.520 been able to sustain and you know, I've had my 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:41.440 you know, situations as a youth and whatever, and to 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.120 be able to be around now and to observe and 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.200 see shit and to be able to avoid a lot 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.920 of drama. Man, you know who wants that? 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:52.960 Yeah, you know. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.760 And even with us, man, we've been fortunate we don't 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.719 have some of the biggest names on the show. We 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.400 don't have people to get a lot of risk respect 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.840 you know for us as well, We got respect for them. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.280 On the show, right. And I just thought about it. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.120 I said, man, you know what, Yeah, you might get 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.720 some clicks and some likes and some views and stuff 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.959 like that, but then what happens after that? 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.120 Exactly, Shit, you put yourself in that position, like I said, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.800 and then then it goes to the factor where you 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.920 have people starting to pick sides. And when you in 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:33.559 this game of trying to stay relevant, you need everybody, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.840 you know what I'm saying, A part of the a 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.560 part of the plan. And when you alienate motherfuckers because 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.880 some people don't like bullshit, you get now you're having 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.199 you got people picking and choosing which route they want 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:50.280 to take as to you know, everybody can join along. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.680 And man, that shit is straight. Man, they're cool. Don't 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.960 get in no bullshit. It's always straight narrow. They don't 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.360 be trying to trick niggas up and all that as 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.439 opposed to being a part of that. Now you lose 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.840 in a certain motherfuckers. These niggas are messy and shit 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.000 and they always on some bullshit bringing up cr You know, 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.680 some people like it and some people don't. Like I said, 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.240 now you got motherfuckers picking and choosing when you can 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.319 just have everybody who just wants to join along because. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:17.400 The shit is a good situation. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.200 Yeah, well, you know, I think you can be an 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:24.240 edgy dude man without without jumping in the pig p 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.440 and so to speak, you feel me definitely, you know, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.600 without jumping in the pig pen. I just really think, man, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.200 Like I almost feel bad, Like I don't know how 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.560 Derek Hills. He's not no little kid man, but I 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.480 know his career was really like he was on the upswing. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.079 He has started doing bigger stuff, you know, I said, man, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.760 that's a shame. And you know how hard it heal 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:47.160 was to sustain in the REP game. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.520 Bro. It's really hard to stay relevant, man, And you 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.760 know when you get something like this happening, man, it's 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:53.680 like a career killer. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.400 You know, like I said, we not knowing the outcome, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.920 you know, all kind of shit can happen because of 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.880 what somebody says, so just gotta follow it. But just 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.280 to be in that position you get me and having 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:14.040 to be locked up and can't be with your kids 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.280 and your usual program, it fuck shit up, you know 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.640 what I'm saying. And just to have your name tied 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:25.000 into the shit, you know, uh, kind of destroys what 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.560 you know. Those corporate motherfuckers was, you know, was easing 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.120 up wanting to deal with a motherfucker now you know, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.240 you get people to back off when you get into 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.040 type of situations. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.840 Yeah, because they gotta. They almost had to back off, bro. 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.880 You gotta think about this, right. They got to back off, bro, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.840 because it's so much money at stake, right exactly, and 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.040 they got so much other stuff going on there, and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.200 it's like it's hard to go back and get that situation. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.520 Even if you get proved to be innocent and get 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.920 exonerated or whatever, you can't. 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.760 You can't go back and get it no more. It's gone. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:12:59.760 Once it's gone, it's. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.480 Gone, exactly. There's no there's no let's go back, you know. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.679 R you said, when it's gone, it's gone, so uh, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.560 I know it's you know, it's it's it feels good 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.000 to keep that, uh, that representation of of you know, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:17.240 being with the homies and you know, trying to uplift 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.720 the homies and and and doing what you're supposed to. Well, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.280 you know, what's the code of what your neighborhood and 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.319 what intends when you say you claiming and doing that lifestyle, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.319 and this is what it leads to, you know what 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.840 I'm saying. Because if you say you in it too, 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.280 if you know what I'm saying, if that's your position 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.679 that I'm still with the niggas where I came up 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.480 from and whatever, then you're gonna be expected to do 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:41.080 certain shit. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:42.679 You know. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.800 It's like you look at the thing with we're young thug, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.560 the whole thing he got going on. This dude don't 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.800 have been in trial man pretty much three four years 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:56.320 right right, that's three or four years that he got gone. Man, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.760 no show money. And when you hot and you're getting 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.280 that show money, it's like you almost changed up. So 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.400 he missing out on millions of dollars right now, right 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:07.760 and study paying more money. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.520 You know, you got to pay an attorney and stuff 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:10.360 like that, right, So. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:15.800 He got huh, definitely you ain't you're not making too 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.079 much money when you locked up, and then the little 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.840 money you is making everything is doing because shit attorney 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.160 fees be flipping. Okay, that shit was for the last 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.920 six months. Now I need retain her for the next 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.440 six months. 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.040 Exactly, so you figure all this money. Man, you know 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.200 he was he was doing. He was one of the 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.280 ones that was doing good for himself too. You think 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.480 about it now, and a lot of his homies is 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.720 taking pleading deals because it's almost like, do I run 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.600 the risk, even though I may be innocent. Do I 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:49.360 run the risk and try to fight this thing, or 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:50.920 do I just want to get it over with now? 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.080 He almost better off taking the at this point a 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.240 plea deal because he figured, for hell, if I can 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:00.320 get nine years like the homie I don't know already 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.120 done three or four, you feel, I mean, that's got 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.760 five more left. I can get out and have a 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.280 piece of career left over. I just think, because you know, 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.240 that's one thing that I do know. I don't know 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:10.600 so much about the dirt stuff. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.280 But they said, you know, thug was out there getting busy. 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:20.040 Like I said, when you when you put yourself, when 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.800 you put yourself in the positions and shit to where 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.920 you know you want to be the forefront and you 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.520 want to be real authentic with it. Shit, that's it. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.160 You put yourself in a position. Now now you got 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.960 to ride that wave. You can't turn around and and 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.480 start going, shit, I'm gonna take a plead. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.200 That's for the other motherfuckers to do. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.800 That's why he's still sitting there, you know what I'm saying, 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.720 because he feel I'm gonna be the example to what's official. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.000 Yeah, for real, for real. And it's like, you got 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.320 that choice to make, man, And really it's almost easier 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.200 to make the first choice a to just say, you 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.400 know what, man, I'm gonna keep my nose clean. But 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:09.120 I just think, man, that the desire to have that 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.760 hood fame almost have passed the rap shit. 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.200 I mean, but something like I said, when you come 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.600 from that lifestyle, it is more desirable sometime, you know 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:26.000 what I'm saying, to be more respected in the hood, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.920 and then you know, fuck this rap shit. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:29.840 You know what I'm saying. 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:34.280 Uh, the real shit is where the niggas come from, 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.080 and that's where you get respected. 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:36.760 You feel me. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.200 So a lot of niggas who walk that lifestyle. Like 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.120 I said back in the days, that's the right, a 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.840 right of passage for some niggas, going to prison, doing 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.840 your couple of years, coming back to the hood with 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.080 them stripes on your motherfucking chest. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:51.880 You feel me? 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.440 Now, let me ask you this eight when you was 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.240 a young dude, because because you know, you want them 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.680 dudes that don't been fortunate man stood test of time, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.880 so to speak. Right, do you think it was a 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.439 time when you was a youngin that being from Tragon 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.280 you meant more to you than being MC eight. 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:15.119 I mean definitely. I mean shit, I didn't. I didn't, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:21.080 like I said, I didn't really glorify the MC eight ship. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.760 It felt, you know, niggas was going around the world 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.640 and the country and doing all that shit. But it 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.320 was better to come back home and ride the streets 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:33.560 of Counting and be recognized by the niggas on the 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.000 block and people in the city. You feel me, That 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:42.159 felt more, You know, that felt like you had you, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.880 you had represented. You know what I'm saying, And that's 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:50.639 that was always first with a motherfucker that I'm representing 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.040 the city, fuck you know, everywhere else. For the fact 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.320 that I get to go around and people know that 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.840 I'm from Compton and I'm still in the city and representing, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.600 So yeah to some people. You know when you get 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:07.639 into that mind state. Definitely for some niggas who claim 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.679 in the neighborhood, damn right, did. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.280 The Press river become like a headache because you know, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.560 you got people even with me, even with this, we 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.080 don't maturity. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.639 You get me, like I said, I used to be 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.040 the same like some of the niggas are today. You 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.919 can't tell a motherfucker nothing. It's the neighborhood, it's the 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.760 city where we're from. It's about nothing else. But then 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.199 as more as you mature and you see life and 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.400 you go around and you do other things, and you know, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.040 you start getting cool with niggas you was beefing with 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.480 and all that, you start seeing that there's more to 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.879 life than certain shit. Now you saying that you would 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:51.159 trade it for anything, but just the fact that I 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.600 could have you know, it could have been different. But 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.040 you have to go through those motherfucking situations and those 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.000 trials and tribulations, especially when you grow up in certain 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.760 in areas. You get me like, had you grown up 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.640 in a different environment than who knows what the outcome 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:09.440 may be there might not have been an MC eight 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.159 if the situation was different. But because of what I 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:17.160 lived and what I seen and experienced as a young 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:22.119 kid growing up in Compton, then you know that the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:23.680 product is what produced. 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.600 You gotta think about this or right, we only got 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.280 like as you get older, you start seeing, man at 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.200 time just go fast as hell, right, so we only 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:39.600 have our youth for like this long right, and when 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:41.879 you look back, I even think about some of the 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.800 stuff that I did. Right now, I say, man, you 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:46.600 know what, I kind of wasted time a little bit. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:48.760 I wasted a little bit of time. And I think 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:51.240 as you get older, you start being a little bit 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.280 more ingreedy with your time. Right, You don't want to 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.800 get caught up in no dumb shit. You don't want to. 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.200 You know certain people that you even people you got 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.720 love for. You may say, you know what, I really 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.520 ain't got no time to hang out with so and 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.240 so because he you know, this is what he owned. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.240 I'm not into that no more. You feel me exactly? 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.240 I think definitely, Man, you for sure have to make 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.120 wire's choices because the time just goes so fast. 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.400 Man, Like I remember when I remember when. 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.880 I remember when me and the homie was serving right, 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.320 and I remember when he got locked up the last 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.800 the next time I saw him, we was prone ass. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.320 Men, dog right. 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:35.480 I mean it goes quick. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.520 You give me, the years start flying by and you 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.280 start realizing, like, damn, you give me, I wasted a 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.399 lot of time, and then there was a lot of 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.679 shit you probably wish you could have accomplished that. You know, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.800 I was fucking up in a lot of bullshit, but 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:53.400 I didn't know anything because I didn't have a guidance 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:56.400 of knowing or you know, once I got a family 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:01.400 and got older and seeing things differently, you feel me because. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.360 I'm gonna tell you the tightest stuff we can do, man, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.040 is like really we need to start honoring cast it 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.359 and nothing that. I don't never want nobody to give 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.240 me praise to being a father because that's what I'm 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.440 supposed to be doing. We're supposed to be fathers to 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:16.239 our kids and do the right thing right. But I 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.919 think that's the thing we need to really start, like 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:23.639 give another brother's props on man, taking care of your family. 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.480 That's that's real g ship right there. Dogs taking care 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.200 of your family and making sure they don't your sons 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:31.600 don't come up in the same situations you when you 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:33.080 know you came you might have went through. 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:38.119 Right, well, you know that that be that's supposed to 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.120 be the goal, right, Don't let you you know, don't 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.360 let your your your your fucking don't let your offspring 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:49.800 go through you know, the terrible situation because you know, 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:53.840 let's just face it, us, my our generation growing up, 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:56.439 we had a little hard you feel me, let's not 0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:59.399 It wasn't easy growing up as a kid, and you 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.560 probably figured like, damn, life ain't gonna never get better, 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.960 you know, living in Cleveland, I mean living in Ohio, 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.000 you know, me living in you know, poverty in the 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.919 ghetto and counting. There was probably times to where you 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.600 just was like, this is this is life? 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.600 Right? We got me as gonna get out of there. 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.320 At one point. 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:25.159 Exactly like I don't know what ambitions you had or 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:29.000 what I don't know, but before all those dreams and ambitions, 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:30.120 it was shit. 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:32.520 This is what's this is what's going down. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.960 I'll be real with you, bro. I had dreams and 0:22:35.000 --> 0:22:38.160 ambitious men, but that stuff seems so far away. Man. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:39.920 I was trying to just get through the day where 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:41.840 I was at you feel what I'm saying, Like I 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.720 would have like dreams sometimes to think about like man 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:48.840 and my dreams is just so basic, even as basically 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:49.640 as I want. 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.520 To create without no roaches or no rets, right, I mean, 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.400 like I said, a kid, a kid with dreams, those 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:02.520 eight nine, ten years year old, eleven twelve. Like it 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:05.000 was times where you was like, nigga, this is this 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.040 is what this is what's finna be life? 0:23:07.680 --> 0:23:07.840 Right? 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:11.760 Yet your dad went to work and whatever, or your 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:13.040 mom's did whatever. 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.680 We didn't have the best car or the best place. 0:23:16.480 --> 0:23:20.560 And you know, and you know old food was whatever, 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.879 and but you didn't complain because she was like, nigga, 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:25.920 this is what's this is what's happening. 0:23:26.359 --> 0:23:28.719 Yeah, you want to know the crazy part about that stuff? Man? 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.960 I remember I used to be feeling embarrassed around the homies, 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:33.800 Like if my mom came to pick the nigga up 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:36.639 in the bucket or whatever dog, and you think about it, 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:38.320 they got the same shit that you got. 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.560 It you embarrassed, Like what is you embarrassed? I remember 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:42.960 my MoMA. You remember them gremlins. 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:47.760 Yep, my mama had a gremlin. That mug was purple dog, 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:50.800 and she would come and pick me up. Right now, 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.320 I remember somebody had to. I remember I got in 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.320 a car trying to drive the car and back the 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:00.520 car the driveway and tore the door off the thing. Right, So, 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:03.920 my pops had put some plastic man on the motherfucker and. 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:06.520 Putting some bricks on top of it. Moms are pulled 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:08.159 to the bus stop talking about she gonna pick me 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:10.960 up from schools, but the blowing niggas on the bus 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:13.800 looking they climb this shit. Man, I'm like, damn, Mama, 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:15.920 why you pick me up in that piece of shit? 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:19.800 But that was what it was, though, Bro. I looked 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:21.520 back at it now and think about it. Man, what 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:23.280 was I trying to front for them dudes? For them 0:24:23.320 --> 0:24:26.320 niggas didn't have shit either. They didn't have a motherfucking thing. 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:28.560 But that's that's just what it was. 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:32.440 You just felt like you had a little bit under 0:24:32.480 --> 0:24:36.119 it than everybody not knowing shit. Their motherfucker's struggling, just 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:39.159 like they live around the corner. Shit, you feel it 0:24:39.520 --> 0:24:40.880 around the corner for real. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:43.280 And I remember, you know if the homies come over, Dog, 0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:46.399 you was hoping the ropes didn't come out of a 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:48.520 wreck don't run across the floor. You feel what I mean, 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.320 but you go over they crib. I stopped feeling bags. 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:53.680 I go over they crib and they got more roaches. 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.600 Than we do exactly. So I mean, so. 0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:02.000 Everybody, you know, certain people went through certain situations and 0:25:02.040 --> 0:25:05.680 that's what you dealt with. And like I said, at 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:10.520 some time, you felt this is life, man, So I'm 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:11.560 happy about it. 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:13.239 I can't complain about it. 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:15.840 And then you start, you know, as you get older, 0:25:15.880 --> 0:25:19.919 into your teens and you know, you're seventeens and eighteens, 0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:23.919 and you start, you know, if you start doing that 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.359 hood life shit, then you don't give a fuck about 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:29.240 nothing else because to you, this is this is life. 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:32.040 And so nigga, we was able to sell some little 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.639 crack pieces and piece up on drink and weed and 0:25:36.119 --> 0:25:39.479 you know, maybe fucking on some broads or whatever, and 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:41.040 that was that was life. 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:44.960 Yes, really, you know one thing I'm glad about though 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.399 I did start serving when I came out to California, 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.040 I'm glad I really didn't get into an Ohio man, 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:55.360 because they was going hard like everybody I knew. Man 0:25:55.520 --> 0:25:58.920 almost became like little young king pinions. But it wasn't 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:01.160 a happy anything of that. I remember hearing about little 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:03.399 homies back at the crib homies that was my age, 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:06.600 having like one hundred two hundred thousand racks up under 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:11.119 the mattress dog and just and driving and driving, you know, 0:26:11.960 --> 0:26:16.119 driving nice whips and stuff. Man, driving on motherfucking what 0:26:16.240 --> 0:26:18.879 was the name of the motherfuckers, the ninety eight O's mobiles, 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:22.280 Just having an Olds Mobile, just sitting on rims with 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:25.120 the pied negg up and then take that you feel 0:26:25.119 --> 0:26:27.960 what I'm saying. And they just doing it big, right. 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.679 But all them dudes, man did real time. Man, Some 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:32.760 of them dudes just now coming home over the past 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:33.280 few years. 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:33.480 Bro. 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:37.200 Yeah, because them drug loss back when we was coming 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:38.440 up was vicious. 0:26:38.840 --> 0:26:40.040 Get real vicious. 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:44.920 They was real vicious. So you know you was getting shit. 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:45.920 You was getting. 0:26:45.720 --> 0:26:48.840 Thirty years and shit and crazy time back then. 0:26:49.359 --> 0:26:52.359 You know some of the homies who was getting caught up, nigga, 0:26:52.400 --> 0:26:55.680 he was getting fifty five seventy years. 0:26:55.320 --> 0:26:56.359 And crazy shit. 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:56.800 You know. 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:02.960 So but like I said, it was everything to some niggas, 0:27:03.040 --> 0:27:07.320 you know, being representing the neighborhood and being known from 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:11.640 the hood and you know, having the attention of everybody 0:27:11.800 --> 0:27:14.600 you know, that was success to a motherfucker. 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:15.280 You get me. 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:17.880 I'm just trying to figure out why, because I'm gonna 0:27:17.880 --> 0:27:20.760 tell you, Like I just said, I had homies. Man, 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:23.680 who's my age, dudes who was seventeen that had two hundred, 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:27.639 three hundred thousand dollars dog cars, and they get to 0:27:27.680 --> 0:27:29.600 the point they ain't even staying with their mama no more. 0:27:29.640 --> 0:27:32.640 They got apartments, dog like maybe two or three apartments, 0:27:32.920 --> 0:27:35.199 and they just doing it big. And you hearing about them, 0:27:35.320 --> 0:27:37.520 you know, like, man, damn he not such and such 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:40.520 down he doing this. He showed out doing this. 0:27:40.600 --> 0:27:42.639 The homy ran through the hood and through fifty thousand 0:27:42.680 --> 0:27:45.399 dollars out the window with everybody. You feel what I'm saying, 0:27:45.480 --> 0:27:49.439 And it's like we really glorify that stuff when we 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:52.560 were kids, dog, that's what we want. I remember, man, 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:54.679 at one time, Man, I wanted to be the biggest 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:55.360 d boy ever. 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:55.720 Dog. 0:27:56.240 --> 0:27:59.240 Yeah, Because like I said, it's hard, you know, for 0:27:59.359 --> 0:28:02.359 a young for a young kid who living in that 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:09.080 situation in poverty, you can't really you can't really bamboozle 0:28:09.240 --> 0:28:12.560 me with the with the with the with the story 0:28:12.680 --> 0:28:16.600 school books of how heroes are supposed to be. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:19.280 You're getting a. 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:22.320 Kid growing up in poverty. Hero is the nigga who 0:28:22.400 --> 0:28:25.119 hit in the corner with the fat chain on in 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:28.640 the new car with the rims, and you know that's 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:33.760 the hero. You get me, because what is that motherfucker doing. 0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:37.160 You get me the motherfucker who hard worked and went 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:39.920 to school and whatever, and they got the name and 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:42.840 they sitting up in the suit with the picture and everything. 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.760 The nigga like that ain't putting no food on the 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:51.000 table right now. That ain't helping with the poverty situations 0:28:51.040 --> 0:28:54.960 I'm in, or or you know, just family. Just toe 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.960 up and you get me. And sometimes you ain't even 0:28:58.000 --> 0:28:59.800 got to be on it. There's a lot of kids 0:28:59.800 --> 0:29:03.120 who go through sports and shit like that. You hear 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:03.880 the stories. 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:04.520 You get me. 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:07.600 We was homeless, nigga. We was living in shelters, but 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:10.400 I was going to practice every day. You're getting me. 0:29:10.680 --> 0:29:13.280 I could have been out there slanging and doing some 0:29:13.400 --> 0:29:19.080 crazy shit, but I decided, fuck it, my my my 0:29:19.200 --> 0:29:22.240 claim fan gonna be sports. You know, we got a 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:25.440 lot of choices and different choices you know nowadays, back then, 0:29:25.560 --> 0:29:28.200 I don't you know, not to say we didn't, but 0:29:28.800 --> 0:29:31.360 one thing. We had too many choices growing up in 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:33.440 the city. Feel Oh no, you know what. 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:36.360 That's why I said I'm glad when I decided to 0:29:36.440 --> 0:29:38.360 jump off the court because I stir the death was 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:40.600 a little bit at the crib, but I was on 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:41.760 my way out here right now. 0:29:41.800 --> 0:29:43.400 I think that once. 0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.040 I did get out here, even though I had that 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:48.160 desire to be the biggest deep boy ever, I still 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:50.560 kind of had football to keep me focused, you feel 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:53.560 what I'm saying. So it was like it was like, Okay, 0:29:53.600 --> 0:29:55.560 I'm out here for this. I can't mess that up, 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:57.880 you feel what I'm saying. I still had that opportunity, 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:00.400 that dream was in the reach, so I think that 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:03.320 kind of diverted me a little bit. And then by 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:05.440 the homie going to jail that who was really my 0:30:05.560 --> 0:30:08.360 connecting everything, it kind of like left me on struck 0:30:08.400 --> 0:30:11.440 and it really just forced me to focus more on football. 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:11.959 Right right. 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:13.320 I think about it now. 0:30:13.560 --> 0:30:16.680 Had I really had I really focused more on ball 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:18.560 dog instead of running the streets, I think I could 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:19.360 have did a lot better. 0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:23.720 Man, I think about that sometimes, you know exactly. 0:30:23.560 --> 0:30:26.520 Had I stayed focused, Because see, the thing was when 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:29.240 it came time for me to leave Long Beach City College. Right, 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:32.480 I had big schools, like I had the Miami Hurricanes. Dog, 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:35.200 I had the Virginia Tech. I had Virginia Tech, I 0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:42.080 had Miami, I had Oregon. I might have had Michigan 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:44.720 or Michigan State. That was so long ago. I had 0:30:44.760 --> 0:30:47.040 different people offered me scholarships, but they wanted me to 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:51.040 graduate in the spring, and I couldn't come out that 0:30:51.120 --> 0:30:53.880 summer because I messed up so bad my first year. 0:30:54.000 --> 0:30:57.720 Not too bad, but you gotta remember I was skipping classes. Man, 0:30:57.880 --> 0:31:00.720 I was doing this. I just enough just to be 0:31:00.760 --> 0:31:05.960 elisib bro right, and had I handled my business, there's 0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:07.760 no telling what I would have went. Because I think 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:10.080 about it now, I'm like, man, the Mexican State Nigga 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:12.400 had ten or eleven sex. If I'd have did that 0:31:12.440 --> 0:31:15.840 for the Hurricanes, if Virginia Tech or Michigan or something 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:18.440 like that, I ain't no telling, man, where I could 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:19.400 where the boy could have. 0:31:19.360 --> 0:31:22.440 Win, you know, exactly, ain't no. 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:23.719 Telling where the boy could have win. 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:27.160 But then I think again, sometimes, man, stuff happened just 0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:28.320 the way it's supposed to happen. 0:31:29.520 --> 0:31:33.280 Yeah, That's like I said, life is is you get 0:31:33.320 --> 0:31:35.400 put in the position and then it's up to you 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:36.960 to follow the path. 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:37.320 You know. 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:40.520 Sometimes it could get rocky, sometimes it could get you 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:44.440 know whatever. But that's that's your life plan. Man, You 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.760 feel me, And that's that's how it happened. Any other 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:49.760 way it could have happened would have been different. Who 0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:51.640 knows where motherfucker would they ended up. 0:31:51.760 --> 0:31:53.480 Oh man, I think about that too. 0:31:53.560 --> 0:31:56.120 You know, had I went to one of those other schools, 0:31:56.440 --> 0:31:58.520 I may not have been with my wife, dog, I 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:00.719 may not have my kids. I got no, I wouldn't 0:32:00.760 --> 0:32:03.800 trade them dudes, that girl and them two boys from 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.640 none in the world exactly. 0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:09.160 So you know, you get put in positions and sometimes 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:11.440 you have to go. Like I said, I tell people 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:15.160 all the time, sometimes motherfuckers go through it easy and 0:32:15.240 --> 0:32:18.080 you know, you wake up and overnight success and you 0:32:18.200 --> 0:32:22.160 be whatever whatever. But that fall be kind of hard 0:32:22.320 --> 0:32:25.239 when you don't know how to go through adversity and 0:32:25.280 --> 0:32:28.240 all of that. So sometimes we have to take that long, 0:32:28.400 --> 0:32:30.760 hard road just to get to the end of the shit. 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:34.160 You feel me, Oh yeah for sure, man, because they, 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:37.520 like you said, man, stuff feels what it is. You 0:32:37.560 --> 0:32:40.640 know what I wanted to ask you, right, we came 0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:43.360 up in that time in the nineties, man, and it 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:45.200 was so much you feelure you had the move, you 0:32:45.240 --> 0:32:49.400 had Scarface, right, you had all of these movies. Man, 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:52.320 they kind of like I ain't gonna say they glorified everything, 0:32:52.600 --> 0:32:54.280 but they made all that stuff look. 0:32:54.160 --> 0:32:55.959 Cool, man, exactly. 0:32:56.680 --> 0:32:58.440 They made all that stuff look like it was the 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:00.760 thing to do because it was probably because it wasn't 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.720 too many options for us. Like, I'm not gonna lie, bro. 0:33:03.800 --> 0:33:06.400 I never saw myself being a doctor. I never saw 0:33:06.440 --> 0:33:10.240 myself being a lawyer. If I didn't play professional football, 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:11.840 I didn't know what I was gonna do for a 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:12.720 long time, bro. 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:19.640 Like I said, you get those dreams. You get those 0:33:19.720 --> 0:33:20.440 dreams as. 0:33:20.280 --> 0:33:23.040 A kid, you know, or whatever it is, you know, 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.680 feeling like you want to do whatever, and a lot 0:33:26.720 --> 0:33:28.960 of it. You know, I'm gonna be a doctor, lawyer, 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:31.120 I'm gonna be a professional football player. 0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:31.840 You know. 0:33:32.040 --> 0:33:36.480 We have those aspirations as a kid. But like I said, 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.000 sometimes you get the path crossed. You know, you get 0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:42.320 to the crossroads and you don't know which way you 0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:47.600 supposed to go, so you you take the roads you think, 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.800 and it might get a little bumpy, you know, not 0:33:50.920 --> 0:33:53.480 just saying you ain't gonna reach your destiny. But shit, 0:33:53.920 --> 0:33:56.760 sometimes the roads are different from everybody else. 0:33:56.840 --> 0:33:57.000 Man. 0:33:57.080 --> 0:33:59.560 That's how I look at it. Shit, the way I 0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:02.640 came mouth is, Hey, that's the turn I was supposed 0:34:02.680 --> 0:34:03.000 to make. 0:34:04.240 --> 0:34:08.160 Yeah, you think about like you all, I don't know 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:10.040 if you see it or not. Dog you want them 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:12.480 dudes that defied the eys man, that became one of 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:13.799 the crazy this shit doog. 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:18.959 I mean, it's it's it's work and you don't even 0:34:19.000 --> 0:34:21.040 look at it like that. Like I said, when I was, 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:23.839 you know, doing what I do, I just did it 0:34:23.880 --> 0:34:27.000 because I felt, you know, this is the path I'm 0:34:27.040 --> 0:34:32.080 supposed to be taken. Had I done anything differently, or 0:34:32.480 --> 0:34:36.480 or wrapped about anything differently, or went through anything differently 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:40.320 as a youth growing up, you know, with my parents 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:44.120 and poverty and living in different sections, and you know, 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.200 and it's just what it is. 0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:51.160 What it is, like sniff something wouldn't There's. 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.319 Been situations to where I could have been just like 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:57.879 any other nigga got shot killed, you know, been a 0:34:57.920 --> 0:34:59.920 martyr for the neighborhood or whatever. 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:02.600 Because there was a lot of us who went through that. 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:05.759 You know, there was a lot of niggas that you 0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:08.000 probably felt who was gonna live forever? 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:10.879 And you wake up and they gone, you get me. 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:16.400 Just bro And and it's unfortunate because there are some 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:21.319 dudes that you wouldn't you know, you wouldn't think in 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:24.120 your life, you know what would har I'm a fly, 0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:27.279 you know what I'm saying. Niggas was just cool as 0:35:27.280 --> 0:35:30.760 a motherfucking fan. Niggas was from the hood and everything 0:35:30.960 --> 0:35:33.720 was whatever it did. But you would never think niggas 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:37.640 would be in those positions and shit, And unfortunately that's 0:35:37.680 --> 0:35:39.360 the life that that happened. 0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:41.960 You know what, I call them dudes, man. I used 0:35:41.960 --> 0:35:44.200 to have a name for them. I call them ghettle guys. 0:35:44.239 --> 0:35:46.879 Man catch This seemed like they were just And. 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:51.080 The one thing, man, that that really made me start 0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:53.319 thinking is I figured out, especially once I came out 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:56.719 here to La Man, I see every neighborhood, got to 0:35:56.760 --> 0:35:58.640 get them, got every neighborhood, got that. 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:02.319 One cat you catch and it's usually just one. Right. 0:36:02.640 --> 0:36:05.480 They just seem like he invincible, He got all the money, 0:36:05.840 --> 0:36:08.640 he kind of hold the hood down. He liked by everybody. 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:11.279 But then once you see him gett knocked down, you say, man, 0:36:11.320 --> 0:36:12.239 they knocked him down. 0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:13.560 Anybody get knocked down. 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:18.640 Yeah, that's what the that's what the surprise about shit be, 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:22.960 Like anybody could get taken down and you don't You 0:36:23.040 --> 0:36:26.640 don't realize that till after you know, you see it, 0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:31.080 because like you said, some dudes have the the mentality 0:36:31.200 --> 0:36:33.879 of the or the moral compass of this motherfucker gonna 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:34.960 be around forever. 0:36:35.320 --> 0:36:38.799 You know what I'm saying. Can't nobody fuck with the 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:39.640 homie and shit? 0:36:40.040 --> 0:36:43.560 They just vicious and everybody know the nigga and you 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:47.360 know he's untouchable and the next thing you know, damn, 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:49.080 like what the fuck happened? 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.480 And it's all if you notice adust always they get 0:36:52.560 --> 0:36:55.520 touched by somebody who wasn't even affected like that, you 0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:59.440 wind up here anybody like what Like I remember one 0:36:59.520 --> 0:37:01.520 homie man and that was back in the hood. Man 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.879 that was like mister big Man. He got smoked by 0:37:04.960 --> 0:37:05.759 his broad thog. 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:07.520 Yeah. 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.759 You hear a lot of crazy stories of how you know, 0:37:11.719 --> 0:37:15.800 not everybody got killed by dry buys or whatever. You 0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:19.160 niggas died because of all kind of shit, you know, 0:37:18.880 --> 0:37:22.880 you know, girls setting them up, niggas getting robbed, you know, 0:37:23.480 --> 0:37:27.440 bad drug deals and shit, you know, life was everything. 0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.319 You got it all. You know what I'm saying. There 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:34.880 was nothing that was missed. Believe me, man, I know. 0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:38.919 I got some cousins man who wasn't as fortunate as 0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:42.040 I was, because I was very fortunate to be able 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:44.680 to have a little skate rock, right. I got cousins 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:48.960 man that wound up doing major time man for Heroin 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:49.879 and stuff like that. 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:52.000 Man, it was really out there getting to it right. 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:56.480 It was playing a dangerous game, you know, because you. 0:37:56.440 --> 0:37:58.399 Know when you messing with the h man, you get 0:37:58.440 --> 0:38:00.520 a lot of time man like that someone. 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:01.200 It's enhanced. 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:04.040 Man. It ain't like you telling nothing else. Man, You're 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:06.560 getting attempted murder charts and all kind of stuff. 0:38:06.600 --> 0:38:10.000 Man. Yeah, every everything bring different shit. 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:10.279 Man. 0:38:10.320 --> 0:38:11.880 That's why I said you got to be careful when 0:38:11.920 --> 0:38:14.839 you choose the lifestyle, because then you got to watch 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.799 out because you know, you never know who prays on 0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:21.200 your downfall. You know, a lot of time, it's a 0:38:21.239 --> 0:38:23.919 lot of niggas that's right up under you. Because I say, 0:38:24.040 --> 0:38:27.280 you know, regardless of what you think you may be doing, 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:28.560 you never doing enough. 0:38:29.239 --> 0:38:32.160 Man. I'd yeah, for real. 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:35.600 There's probably a few dudes who you know, you you 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:39.200 sitting up with and you know you're flossing that money, 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:41.920 and you know you're doing interviews with money on the 0:38:42.000 --> 0:38:46.160 table and pulling up with jewelry and fancy cars. 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:52.080 You know, it's the smile in your face a situation. 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:55.240 It's a nigga gonna stand right in your face, puff 0:38:55.320 --> 0:38:58.560 on your weed, drink on your drain, give you adapt, 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:01.279 pat you on the back, and then gonna go home 0:39:01.360 --> 0:39:04.040 and be like, which way can we do? A motherfucker, 0:39:04.840 --> 0:39:07.480 because at the end of the day, I don't got 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:08.240 what that nigga. 0:39:08.320 --> 0:39:13.160 Guys, I'm gonna tell you something. Man shot up to 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:18.080 the homeboy Man till I think you remember you remember 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:20.560 my homeboy that came out here, Man from Ohio. He 0:39:20.600 --> 0:39:21.920 came out, He came up to the show and just 0:39:21.960 --> 0:39:24.439 set up there. He didn't come on with nothing for shure, 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:28.319 He just he just got home. Man. A few years ago, Man, 0:39:28.360 --> 0:39:31.840 and the catch rated on him. Man was a dude. 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:34.560 We grew up with bro the ship. 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:39.919 Well, it's it's always somebody that they can probably get 0:39:39.960 --> 0:39:44.359 to and sometimes unfortunately, as some motherfucker that's right next 0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:46.040 to you, you get somebody. 0:39:45.640 --> 0:39:47.680 I don't want to be accountable because I'm gonna tell 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:49.520 you what was so cold about. But we were so 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:52.600 cold about the Homie Dukees. Man was he was off 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:55.120 the game, bro Like he was done. He had kind 0:39:55.120 --> 0:39:58.040 of like stacked his chips up. Dog had bought him 0:39:58.040 --> 0:40:00.600 a couple of garage, just had some busin is this going, 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:02.360 had a couple of houses. You know, he had his 0:40:02.480 --> 0:40:06.960 money straight right right, he was done, And he kept saying, man, 0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:10.200 because it come a point to where when. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:12.359 The fez is on you, they started talking to you. Right. 0:40:13.719 --> 0:40:15.759 They had told him like, man, we almost had you, 0:40:15.920 --> 0:40:19.160 we almost has you. So we had this one nigga 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:19.719 that we knew. 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:19.920 Man. 0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:22.239 He was like he was hustling too, but he was 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:25.040 kind of like he wasn't on the same level as 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:26.399 the homie was, but he was. 0:40:26.320 --> 0:40:29.200 Doing this thing right. He had started calling him out 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:31.520 the blue, like, man, I need to get to him, 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:34.399 you know, because as much as people be talking, man, 0:40:35.520 --> 0:40:36.719 it ain't that easy. 0:40:36.480 --> 0:40:39.319 To come up on birds dog like that. No, it's 0:40:39.400 --> 0:40:42.600 not unless you just know somebody. Dog, it's not easy. 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:44.680 You know, you could be making your money and never 0:40:44.760 --> 0:40:47.279 touch a bird. You feel what I'm saying, right, So 0:40:47.560 --> 0:40:50.080 he kept asking Homie the Homie said he had this 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:53.040 feeling like, man, I shouldn't be doing this. 0:40:53.080 --> 0:40:55.120 I shouldn't mess with this nigga. This niggain't never did 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:57.080 nothing like that, you know what I mean? And why 0:40:57.200 --> 0:40:59.600 is he ask me for this now? You know? So 0:40:59.640 --> 0:41:02.480 the home, he was like, man, no, no, no, kept 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:04.640 telling him no, no, no, and he kept saying, Man, 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:07.439 he remember the day like it was yesterday. He said, 0:41:07.480 --> 0:41:09.719 all right, Man, I got you. He went and made 0:41:09.719 --> 0:41:11.759 that phone call when a guy that said he went 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:14.319 over there, right, he said, he even sat in the 0:41:14.360 --> 0:41:16.840 car for about thirty forty minutes just kind of like 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:20.520 just kind of like like I should just turn back 0:41:20.560 --> 0:41:23.319 around and go home. You feel what I'm saying, right, 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:25.359 And he as soon as he went up there, man 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:26.399 and knocked on the door. 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:28.439 Man, he said, it seemed like the police just came 0:41:28.440 --> 0:41:30.200 out of nowhere. He said, Man, I didn't even see 0:41:30.280 --> 0:41:32.400 him coming. It was like they came up off the floor, 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.120 off the ground on my ass. And next you know, 0:41:35.200 --> 0:41:37.960 he was like, man, I knew this was gonna happen. 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:42.240 A nigga that we grew up with. Though he because 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:46.920 he couldn't handle he got caught up in some other stuff. 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:48.239 And gave it Homi up. 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:53.000 Well, some guy, that's how the scenario go. You know 0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:55.560 you can too. You can sing that song for a 0:41:55.600 --> 0:41:57.839 lot of people, you know, saying that shit. 0:41:58.440 --> 0:42:02.120 That's the ultimate rad shit though, that's the ultimate you 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:02.640 gotta be. 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:06.359 One thing I always say at eight, I ain't never 0:42:06.560 --> 0:42:07.960 I tell the people all the time, I ain't never 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:10.319 been no game banger, and I ain't gonna sit up 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:12.400 here and say I was need no need, no brown 0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:15.400 enough shit like that. Right, But the one thing I 0:42:15.480 --> 0:42:18.319 always did, man, I was always accountable for what I did. 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:18.640 Right. 0:42:19.239 --> 0:42:21.600 I wouldn't go never telling nobody's dog to get out 0:42:21.600 --> 0:42:24.759 of a situation. I guess I look at people like 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:27.520 that as people have a clear a character flawed Bro. 0:42:28.160 --> 0:42:31.239 Whatever you do, Bro, you gotta stand on your own stuff. Man, 0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:32.960 you gotta you gotta you know, you gotta eat your 0:42:33.000 --> 0:42:33.799 own shit dog. 0:42:35.800 --> 0:42:38.160 Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean if you want to 0:42:38.200 --> 0:42:42.440 put yourself in those positions, Like I said, we got we. 0:42:42.400 --> 0:42:44.880 All got choices, bro, we all got choices to make it. 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:47.799 It's like if I make this choice and decide, man, 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:49.560 hey we gonna hop this gate ache. 0:42:50.000 --> 0:42:52.080 I'm making the choice just like Hugh he is right now. 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:56.319 If you get away dog and I get caught, I'm 0:42:56.400 --> 0:42:58.560 filed for telling them what. Man, You know what, man 0:42:58.600 --> 0:43:01.279 A actually got more than man he you know he 0:43:01.360 --> 0:43:05.160 got he laid up over here. You know that's foul, bro. 0:43:05.320 --> 0:43:08.080 And I saw that that did to the homie. Man, 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:11.359 I think that hurt him more than him just getting cut. 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:12.960 Like man the homy told on me. 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:18.920 Yeah, favor, I said, especially if you. 0:43:20.360 --> 0:43:23.520 If you consider the motherfucker a certain type of person 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:26.920 or a friend or a homie or whatever. But like 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:31.759 I said, you never know what you know. Trust is 0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:35.080 a big word and it goes far with certain niggas. 0:43:35.239 --> 0:43:36.680 And a nigga can tell. 0:43:36.480 --> 0:43:39.160 You all day oh man, you know, blah blah blah, 0:43:39.239 --> 0:43:42.239 and they can turn their back on you in the 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:46.879 last one. The second, you gotta understand what what being 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:50.800 true to a motherfucker he is. And last everybody can't 0:43:50.880 --> 0:43:54.759 come along when it's time for you know what, it's 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:58.480 time for retribution of the paper and putting yourself in 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.320 a better position in life. There's gonna be some niggas 0:44:01.320 --> 0:44:03.640 who's jealous of it, you know what I'm saying. So 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:06.839 you just have to watch who you fucking with and 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:11.719 that goes back to childhood days to motherfuckers. You need 0:44:11.880 --> 0:44:16.200 to you know tomorrow. You know everybody ain't trustworthy. 0:44:16.560 --> 0:44:18.560 Man, Friends, a few associates many. 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:21.440 That's something that my mama used to tell me every day, Friends, 0:44:21.440 --> 0:44:24.359 a few associates, many, just because you know somebody I remer. 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:27.320 My mama tell me one day stop calling everybody your friend. 0:44:27.760 --> 0:44:32.360 Exactly. I don't do the shit I need motherfuckers. And 0:44:32.400 --> 0:44:35.520 I be like, no, that y'all's just an associate that 0:44:35.560 --> 0:44:37.880 ain't my friend. I don't call niggas like that. You 0:44:37.960 --> 0:44:38.520 feel me. 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:42.960 Because I'm gonna tell you, man. And it's like I think. 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:47.480 In every neighborhood, man, you can count five brothers man 0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:50.520 and got the same story and just being betrayed by 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:53.120 somebody that they thought they was just real cool with, right, 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:56.919 And you still got people that think they go jump 0:44:56.920 --> 0:45:01.480 in this shit and get different results. Bro, I tell people. 0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:04.120 I should tell my sons, man, I tell the homies. 0:45:04.160 --> 0:45:06.919 I tell everybody, y'all. I say, man, the streets don't 0:45:06.920 --> 0:45:08.360 have no love for nobody. 0:45:08.400 --> 0:45:11.040 Bro. Oh definitely, hell no. 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:14.760 You taking a chance right then and there, you better 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:16.200 believe that they it don't. 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:20.240 So you just better watch it back and watching you associate. 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:23.279 With Yeah, that's that's that's for real. That's for real, man. 0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:27.359 I think the biggest advice that you can give somebody man, 0:45:27.480 --> 0:45:28.040 if they listen. 0:45:28.080 --> 0:45:30.560 It's a lot of people don't like to listen. Go 0:45:30.600 --> 0:45:33.400 to school, man, Get you an education, man, if you 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:35.359 could learn you a trade or learn you a trig. 0:45:35.400 --> 0:45:36.280 It's all that other stuff. 0:45:36.280 --> 0:45:40.960 Ain't hitting on nothing, dog, don't nobody make it out. 0:45:41.200 --> 0:45:43.560 Yeah, it's it's if you can get to a mother, 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:46.239 if you can get to you know, the generation and 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:49.200 and talk to them and convince them that you know, 0:45:49.280 --> 0:45:52.480 there's a better situation out there. You know, it might 0:45:52.520 --> 0:45:55.720 not be what you like, but it's always something better. 0:45:55.880 --> 0:46:00.360 You feel me. Then taking those chances of those situations 0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:03.560 to where you gotta trust somebody with your life or 0:46:03.560 --> 0:46:08.640 your freedom, you feel me. And unfortunately, like I said, 0:46:08.640 --> 0:46:10.960 there's just some niggas out there who just don't give 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:12.280 a fuck you get. 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:12.960 I think, man. 0:46:13.080 --> 0:46:15.360 Like the question I asked at the beginning, Man, I 0:46:15.360 --> 0:46:17.040 don't think me and you need to one to know. 0:46:18.280 --> 0:46:21.120 Why does the bulls shit have such a lord of people? 0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:21.439 Dog? 0:46:22.040 --> 0:46:25.919 It's like it's a question, man, because you know people 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:28.000 who don't got told on. You got you know, people 0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:30.120 who don't got murdered, You got people who all this 0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:32.719 bad stuff I'm having to I can't think of nothing 0:46:32.760 --> 0:46:33.880 good to come out of none. 0:46:33.719 --> 0:46:34.359 In the hood, dog. 0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:39.319 I mean, there's a products. You know, we come out 0:46:39.320 --> 0:46:44.160 of the neighborhood. So that's the positive aspect. There's a 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.160 lot of black you know, men and young men and 0:46:47.680 --> 0:46:50.759 you know women, you know, the sisters. We come out 0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:56.240 of the hood as products, and we can be faced 0:46:56.280 --> 0:47:00.520 with adversity, gains and poverty and not having the other 0:47:00.600 --> 0:47:05.040 men have. And that goes to show you. You know, 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:09.200 dudes like I made records and movies, and you know, 0:47:09.640 --> 0:47:14.000 there's just sports people, the Venuses and the Serenas and 0:47:14.160 --> 0:47:18.040 all the sports people. That's your positive aspect of coming 0:47:18.080 --> 0:47:20.120 out of the hood because a lot of us start 0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:24.520 from the situation of what you see niggas go through 0:47:24.680 --> 0:47:27.680 gang banging and drug selling and whatever, and it's hard 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:32.960 to stray from that lifestyle. You know, I didn't have 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:35.560 the pops at home who was able to be like 0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:39.200 you know Venus and Serena parents who you know, nigga. 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:42.640 You know, I unfortunately had to go through the route 0:47:42.640 --> 0:47:47.680 of the hood and and you know, doing that that lifestyle, 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:50.520 not just saying that it was you know, to me, 0:47:50.680 --> 0:47:54.040 it was everything. I didn't look at it as as 0:47:54.040 --> 0:47:57.680 a flaw or a fucking It was just, you know, 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:01.200 a lot of us have obstacles we go through, and 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:04.320 for people who don't come through the game banging lifestyle, 0:48:04.680 --> 0:48:08.080 your obstacle might be something else. You feel me coming 0:48:08.160 --> 0:48:10.600 up as a teenager and trying to get to the 0:48:10.640 --> 0:48:15.360 point of where you you know that you know you 0:48:15.360 --> 0:48:20.040 you you you becoming a great man or a great product. 0:48:19.560 --> 0:48:21.319 Of the neighborhood. You get me. 0:48:21.520 --> 0:48:24.480 The guy used to sell dope, gang bang, claim the hood, 0:48:24.920 --> 0:48:26.560 blah blah, is x y Z. 0:48:27.200 --> 0:48:31.840 And then at the end of the day, my sons 0:48:32.000 --> 0:48:35.000 ain't gonna come through that. You get me. 0:48:35.840 --> 0:48:38.359 He's not gonna have to claim the neighborhood and sell 0:48:38.560 --> 0:48:41.680 crack and you know, get shot at or shoot at 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:46.640 motherfuckers and go through that lifestyle to crawl through shit 0:48:46.880 --> 0:48:49.759 to come out on the end knowing that you were 0:48:49.840 --> 0:48:54.600 always a greater, you know individual, You was always a 0:48:54.640 --> 0:48:56.640 good man or a young man. 0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:57.239 Uh. 0:48:57.760 --> 0:49:00.960 And it was I'm glad I was fortunate enough that 0:49:01.200 --> 0:49:05.640 I went through the shit that I could turn around, 0:49:06.000 --> 0:49:09.400 and once I came out on the clean side, I 0:49:09.440 --> 0:49:10.440 could turn around and. 0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:11.840 Go, oh no, no, no. 0:49:11.640 --> 0:49:15.120 No, no, no, no you no. And I don't give 0:49:15.239 --> 0:49:19.719 for you know, in whatever circumstance that might have caused. 0:49:19.920 --> 0:49:23.319 But who gives a fuck because I'm already went through 0:49:23.320 --> 0:49:26.560 the shit. So if I can, I'm gonna save you 0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:28.279 from the shit you get me? 0:49:29.680 --> 0:49:31.960 Yeah, you know what, man, you got brothers man. 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:35.239 And the cold part about it is, Man, some of 0:49:35.239 --> 0:49:38.000 the most brilliant people are no come from the hood, 0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:41.239 dog like. I know some smart dudes eight where if 0:49:41.239 --> 0:49:43.960 they would have put that on, if they would have 0:49:44.000 --> 0:49:47.360 directed the energy like towards some positive man, I swear 0:49:47.400 --> 0:49:50.560 they'd have been Fortune five hundred leaders and CEOs and 0:49:51.480 --> 0:49:54.479 you know, just big time people. Man. Because I knew 0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:56.879 some really brilliant dude. Man, I had a homeboy back 0:49:56.920 --> 0:49:57.440 of the crib. 0:49:57.520 --> 0:49:57.840 Man. 0:49:58.520 --> 0:50:00.880 That dude was so smart, man. And I really believe 0:50:00.920 --> 0:50:02.560 that this dude could have gotten in the harbor to 0:50:02.640 --> 0:50:04.680 yeah or something like that. Man, he's probably been a 0:50:04.760 --> 0:50:08.680 president of something because he always he always had a scheme, 0:50:08.880 --> 0:50:11.120 and his schemes would be working. Dog like this dude 0:50:11.200 --> 0:50:13.640 one day was telling me about Man. You know, if 0:50:13.680 --> 0:50:15.480 we did this, man, we could probably get a couple 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:17.800 hundred thousand dollars. I was like, man, you're crazy. You 0:50:18.000 --> 0:50:19.000 want an attentiary. 0:50:19.640 --> 0:50:21.560 But there would be plans that were that would be 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:24.080 really like like he had his well thought. 0:50:23.880 --> 0:50:29.279 All plans Man, definitely, And there's a whole bunch of 0:50:29.320 --> 0:50:31.360 people like you think about it now, like Man, you 0:50:31.440 --> 0:50:37.839 think about cats like Harry Yo Man, cats like Freeway Rick. 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:42.000 When you serving on the level that them dudes is serving. Man, 0:50:42.040 --> 0:50:43.960 you can't be no dumb ass dude. 0:50:45.080 --> 0:50:47.560 And no, you got to be very articulate, and you 0:50:47.680 --> 0:50:53.000 gotta be smart, and you can't just be naive to 0:50:54.320 --> 0:50:57.640 regular ass life. You have to be very intelligent to 0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:04.200 be able to deal with certain different niggas, different motherfucking situations. 0:51:04.560 --> 0:51:09.399 You know that comes with being you know, intelligent and 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:14.759 knowing that drama and situations are gonna get you to 0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:18.280 a certain status and being able to deal and communicate 0:51:18.680 --> 0:51:21.640 and be business minded is what's gonna have a gang 0:51:21.640 --> 0:51:24.319 of motherfuckers wanting to fuck with you. So you got 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:27.360 to be very intelligent when you get when you reaching 0:51:27.440 --> 0:51:29.279 that type of status, you give me. 0:51:29.840 --> 0:51:31.680 I want to get here. You on the show Man, 0:51:31.760 --> 0:51:35.239 because that dude, think about it, that dude discovered, like 0:51:35.680 --> 0:51:39.239 gave Denzel watched in his first acting job, bro had 0:51:39.320 --> 0:51:43.520 limousine businesses, owned all them big ass buildings downtown is 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:44.680 worth billions of dollars. 0:51:44.719 --> 0:51:46.719 Now, Dog, he had all that stuff first. 0:51:47.239 --> 0:51:49.480 Right, you know, he was just doing a lot of 0:51:49.480 --> 0:51:52.040 big stuff, man, and got cut for his legal his 0:51:52.080 --> 0:51:53.160 illicit activities. 0:51:53.200 --> 0:51:58.400 Dog got caught up. Shoot, help start different records, you know, exactly, 0:51:59.120 --> 0:52:00.000 just a cold dude. 0:52:00.120 --> 0:52:02.200 Man. I want to have him on the show Man 0:52:02.239 --> 0:52:04.200 to just really talk to him, man, because that man 0:52:04.280 --> 0:52:06.000 spent thirty three years playing on walls. 0:52:06.080 --> 0:52:10.520 Man, and and people like that have stories to tell 0:52:10.560 --> 0:52:15.319 of intelligence, you know, and stories of importance. You know, 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:20.000 even though the lifestyle my nigga came through, those stories 0:52:20.040 --> 0:52:24.080 are valuable to help the youth understand, you know, what 0:52:24.280 --> 0:52:27.320 circumstances that he had to go through to put himself 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:28.360 in that situation. 0:52:28.960 --> 0:52:31.520 And you know, you might have looked at it as 0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:32.040 you know. 0:52:32.520 --> 0:52:37.120 Positive, you know, like you said, being able to turn 0:52:37.160 --> 0:52:40.839 around and understand that, you know, trying to start legitimate 0:52:40.960 --> 0:52:45.640 situations is at the end of the day, is the 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:49.960 quests you feel me to get out of the lifestyle. 0:52:50.360 --> 0:52:53.000 To try to change your lifestyle for the better is 0:52:53.040 --> 0:52:54.719 what it is for at the end of the day. 0:52:56.120 --> 0:52:58.520 You know what's cold o man? Shut out a snoop man. 0:52:58.560 --> 0:53:02.520 I guess some I heard the hereos the CEOO like 0:53:02.560 --> 0:53:05.200 the chief operating off to the new death Row records. 0:53:05.200 --> 0:53:05.640 Man. 0:53:05.920 --> 0:53:08.439 Hopefully, you know, hopefully that takes off of them, man, 0:53:08.520 --> 0:53:10.560 because it's good to see cats come home and get 0:53:10.560 --> 0:53:12.080 an opportunity to do something. 0:53:11.840 --> 0:53:15.600 Positive, definitely, you know, And we got a lot of them. 0:53:15.880 --> 0:53:20.200 We got a lot of you know, uh uh individuals, 0:53:20.239 --> 0:53:23.200 you know, our brothers, like you said, who are very 0:53:23.239 --> 0:53:26.120 intelligent and smart to begin with. That's why they were 0:53:26.160 --> 0:53:31.120 able to have these empires and these enterprises and you know, 0:53:31.320 --> 0:53:33.319 like my boy Kyle Lee, you know what I'm saying, 0:53:33.360 --> 0:53:36.680 my boy Virgil, you know, be able to come home 0:53:37.320 --> 0:53:42.200 and legitimize the situation and turn it into something legit, 0:53:42.680 --> 0:53:46.320 and you know, to be able to have the opportunity 0:53:47.440 --> 0:53:49.880 as the other motherfuckers, do you get me? 0:53:50.200 --> 0:53:54.080 They try to watch Versus, right, they tried to really 0:53:54.120 --> 0:53:56.799 watch Versus. Virgion was the first one, you know, we 0:53:56.840 --> 0:53:58.840 had them on the show before Version was the first 0:53:58.840 --> 0:54:02.719 one really to have most stories multiple locations, definitely. 0:54:02.840 --> 0:54:05.600 You know, like I said, his story is important too 0:54:05.719 --> 0:54:09.239 because of what he had to go through and what 0:54:09.440 --> 0:54:13.279 you know, what's what's very popularized today. You got all 0:54:13.360 --> 0:54:17.640 kinds of entertainers and sports motherfuckers getting into it. They've 0:54:17.680 --> 0:54:20.319 got dispensaries now exactly. 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:22.919 They got dispensary because he was the When you think 0:54:22.920 --> 0:54:25.040 about it, he was the cookies before it was the 0:54:25.080 --> 0:54:29.080 cookies exactly. And I think that it's important. And then 0:54:29.080 --> 0:54:30.600 the stories I want to start telling. 0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:32.560 Man, so over these next like for the rest of 0:54:32.600 --> 0:54:35.399 this year, Man, I really want to work on man 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:36.200 getting cats. 0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:38.120 Man, it's doing something positive. Now. 0:54:38.200 --> 0:54:41.640 Man, I'm so sick of hearing about people glorifying dudes 0:54:41.640 --> 0:54:43.360 who are not doing nothing just as they've been in 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:46.720 jail in a rum day life. Like, how's that glorifying something? 0:54:47.719 --> 0:54:50.440 Well, because that's the generation in the code of like 0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:54.319 you said, even back in my days, like I said, 0:54:54.360 --> 0:54:56.440 somehow it was the right of passage to go to 0:54:56.520 --> 0:55:00.360 prison and then to come back to the neighborhood. You 0:55:00.840 --> 0:55:04.239 felt vindicated, You felt you know, you had really put 0:55:04.239 --> 0:55:08.200 your stamp on you know what you saw, what which 0:55:08.360 --> 0:55:10.880 was was true life to you and that was the 0:55:10.920 --> 0:55:16.279 neighborhood and gang banging and representing the block. So it's 0:55:16.320 --> 0:55:18.919 just it's it's it's like that today with the youth, 0:55:18.960 --> 0:55:21.600 they gonna glorify. Oh man, my nigga put in work, 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:23.200 my nigga. Woot the wo woot. 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:25.319 He won't. But you know, at the end of the day, 0:55:25.640 --> 0:55:30.280 when you behind the bars and your life is on standstill, 0:55:30.880 --> 0:55:34.520 you know it's not you know, you're forgotten about at 0:55:34.520 --> 0:55:37.120 the end of the day. So let's just see how 0:55:37.160 --> 0:55:40.600 many of you know his true people you know, stick 0:55:40.640 --> 0:55:44.320 with and ride with him and uh, you know, endure 0:55:44.400 --> 0:55:46.400 some of the fucked up shit that they have to 0:55:46.440 --> 0:55:47.760 go through on this journey. 0:55:48.760 --> 0:55:49.000 Yeah. 0:55:49.040 --> 0:55:51.920 Man, when you start thinking about man, start thinking about it. 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:56.000 I can't even imagine doing no time like that. Thirty 0:55:56.000 --> 0:55:59.640 three years a long time, bro, Hell two years a 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:02.040 long time to me. You know, I don't want to 0:56:02.080 --> 0:56:06.360 spend a second of my freedom being gone, exactly. I 0:56:06.360 --> 0:56:08.359 ain't trying to spend a second of it, man, So 0:56:08.800 --> 0:56:10.800 I want to I want you to really start thinking 0:56:10.840 --> 0:56:13.000 over the next few weeks, man, cats, I want to 0:56:13.000 --> 0:56:17.000 try to reach out to here of yo, I wouldn't 0:56:17.000 --> 0:56:20.200 mind going to go sit down with Virgil again. And 0:56:20.280 --> 0:56:22.439 what I want to talk to Virgils about this time 0:56:22.600 --> 0:56:25.640 is like, really because Virgil is expert on how to 0:56:25.640 --> 0:56:26.399 get into the game. 0:56:26.440 --> 0:56:27.760 You feel what I mean. It's a lot of cats 0:56:27.800 --> 0:56:31.000 that want to get into the dispencery game but don't 0:56:31.040 --> 0:56:31.640 know quite how. 0:56:34.200 --> 0:56:36.160 For sure, let's get it cracking. 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:38.960 Yeah, did you when the last time you talked to him? 0:56:40.480 --> 0:56:42.840 I talked to Virgil about a week and a half ago. 0:56:44.320 --> 0:56:44.880 Yeah. 0:56:45.280 --> 0:56:47.160 Is he still because the last time we talked he 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:48.680 has some stuff going on in Africa? 0:56:49.600 --> 0:56:51.960 Yeah, he just he'd be moving. You know, that's how 0:56:52.040 --> 0:56:54.719 niggas do. They trying to set up ship worldwide and 0:56:54.760 --> 0:56:59.879 everything else. But he always available. I just got a calling. Yeah, 0:57:00.000 --> 0:57:00.600 that would be the. 0:57:02.840 --> 0:57:05.000 Coming you coming from the community eight. 0:57:05.640 --> 0:57:07.879 It seemed like a rap is still the number one 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:12.600 away that you know, young people in the neighborhood try 0:57:12.640 --> 0:57:15.759 to use as a means to escape. What would you 0:57:15.800 --> 0:57:17.600 tell the young dude today trying to come up the 0:57:17.640 --> 0:57:18.760 neighborhood by hip hop? 0:57:20.080 --> 0:57:25.240 I couldn't tell you because everybody follows a different path today. 0:57:25.440 --> 0:57:27.960 You know, back in my days, we knew what it was, 0:57:28.080 --> 0:57:29.800 but today it's all kind of shit. 0:57:29.960 --> 0:57:33.720 So you know, what you said. It's easier today, are harder. 0:57:34.600 --> 0:57:37.800 What to make a record, it's it's a record. 0:57:37.480 --> 0:57:40.560 Man, But to really just do something that's impactful, because 0:57:40.600 --> 0:57:42.600 you know, that's the one thing I know this man, 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:45.800 just being a dude that don't been the executive in 0:57:45.840 --> 0:57:47.000 this stuff for many years. 0:57:47.080 --> 0:57:47.200 Year. 0:57:47.240 --> 0:57:49.840 It's easier to make records and stuff like that. Dog, 0:57:50.680 --> 0:57:52.680 and it's easy to do a lot of stuff, man, 0:57:52.800 --> 0:57:56.120 but is it really easier to make an impact. It's 0:57:56.160 --> 0:57:57.880 because it's so crowded right now. 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:00.880 Shit, you wouldn't know better to me, my nigga. 0:58:01.280 --> 0:58:04.320 That's why I stay in my lane and whatever it is, 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.040 it isn't don't try to check. 0:58:07.120 --> 0:58:10.560 You would have to answer that one yourself. You the executive. 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:14.439 You have to give advice to that, you know, because 0:58:14.480 --> 0:58:18.440 you want to hear my advice though, because I'm I 0:58:18.440 --> 0:58:22.040 don't like to see some negative first alone. 0:58:22.160 --> 0:58:24.120 And you let a nigga do what he gotta do 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.959 and let him run his course. You feel me, That's 0:58:27.000 --> 0:58:31.280 just what it is. Yeah, you know, because that's just 0:58:31.480 --> 0:58:33.200 telling everybody. 0:58:33.440 --> 0:58:36.560 Whether it's rapping, doing this podcast stuff. I'm gonna tell 0:58:36.600 --> 0:58:38.720 you what I do know what I can tell people. 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:44.000 The money is not there in podcasting like it once was, 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:46.520 and it's not gonna be for a long time. The 0:58:46.560 --> 0:58:49.440 ones that's getting money now probably go continue to give money. 0:58:49.480 --> 0:58:52.480 But as far as you having something new, unless you 0:58:52.560 --> 0:58:54.680 really make the investment and putting there and do it 0:58:54.720 --> 0:58:57.200 the right way, it's probably not gonna work out for you. 0:58:57.280 --> 0:59:00.400 Is too many people doing this stuff right now, exactly, 0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:03.920 and it's like it's only so much bandwidth thog. It's like, 0:59:04.440 --> 0:59:07.360 you know what this remind me of. You remember when 0:59:07.400 --> 0:59:10.000 people first started hustling. Everything was cool, but then after 0:59:10.040 --> 0:59:12.440 a while the block was just crowded. It was the 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:14.480 same people trying to rush the same car. 0:59:15.240 --> 0:59:17.560 That's why we that's why I diiggas had to start 0:59:17.600 --> 0:59:20.720 making choices of what they was gonna do. You know, 0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:23.920 you gotta start making choices. I need to do something else. 0:59:24.360 --> 0:59:27.400 I need to start making records. I need to go 0:59:27.600 --> 0:59:32.720 get a job. You know everything you know, I don't 0:59:32.760 --> 0:59:33.000 know what. 0:59:33.680 --> 0:59:37.240 Why do you think it's so hard for people? 0:59:37.240 --> 0:59:38.960 Because you know, you said go get a job. A 0:59:39.000 --> 0:59:40.560 lot of people are like going to go get a job. 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:41.560 It's something bad or. 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:46.160 Something's it's frowned upon because you know, especially if you're 0:59:46.200 --> 0:59:48.640 trying to impress the motherfuck And if you're on the 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.160 ego of trying to impress and get you a bitch 0:59:51.280 --> 0:59:55.080 or whatever like that. You know, certain certain females, you know, 0:59:55.200 --> 0:59:58.800 require certain shit nowadays, and they tell you you get me. 0:59:58.960 --> 1:00:01.560 I'm gonna get this fake ted easy's fake ass. I'm 1:00:01.560 --> 1:00:04.360 gonna put this hair in my ship. I'm gonna glorify 1:00:04.560 --> 1:00:08.760 myself up. Now you gotta make you gotta be having 1:00:08.800 --> 1:00:12.000 millions of dollars to fuck with this. This costs right here, 1:00:12.800 --> 1:00:16.000 and and they mean it costs. It's gonna cost you 1:00:16.080 --> 1:00:21.120 some trinkets, some trips, and some motherfucking some trinkets, trips, 1:00:21.120 --> 1:00:22.960 and some motherfucking takes this ship. 1:00:23.400 --> 1:00:24.960 You know what you want? 1:00:26.000 --> 1:00:28.560 She want to eat, she want to flow some little ship. 1:00:28.720 --> 1:00:31.840 You need her a nice person, some diamonds and ship. 1:00:32.120 --> 1:00:36.000 And if you can't compete with that, then you you 1:00:36.000 --> 1:00:40.360 you frowned upon, which is, you know, unfortunate for some 1:00:40.640 --> 1:00:43.760 you know, young gentleman. But that's what the situation is. 1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:50.920 That's one of you man. 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