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Speaker 1: Holding Core podcast. What's up, brother, what's going on with you, bro.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you know what, man, dutiful man. We above

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Speaker 1: the surface man, and we have a lot of conversations offline,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things we've been talking about lately

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Speaker 1: that's the that's the age old. Uh divide amongst us

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Speaker 1: So it don't matter if you're rich or not. This

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Speaker 1: promoting well, right, James, And that's what I was going

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Speaker 1: our kids how to live, you know what I'm saying

421
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: in a real kind of way. So we know that

422
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: us as as black people, we're not a monolist and

423
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, just like the music, I

424
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,919
Speaker 1: think it lacks balance, you know what I'm saying. Um,

425
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,400
Speaker 1: But as it comes to like what what what Jay

426
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: is saying, there are people out there that are doing

427
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: great things and positive things, you know what I'm saying,

428
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 1: But for whatever reason, the media that's not appealing to

429
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 1: the masses. They don't want to see that. You know,

430
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: the media don't push that because I think that people

431
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 1: are followers by nature, people as sheep right. So imagine

432
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,440
Speaker 1: if the young rappers and the people that that had influence.

433
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,479
Speaker 1: Imagine if they were talking positive. Imagine if the rappers

434
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 1: started rapping about ship that they wanted to see. We

435
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:16,879
Speaker 1: all know how it is in the hood. We know

436
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,719
Speaker 1: it's fucked up. We know what that life is like.

437
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: But now let's talk about if you change that narrative

438
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: talking about you want to see niggas win, you want

439
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: to live, you know, instead of that's drill and let's

440
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 1: let's kill. Let's step man, let's live, let's get to

441
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: some money, let's raise our kids. That ship could still

442
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: sound dope, right, So niggas gotta make the positive ship.

443
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's that easy, the same way we

444
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 1: came up with the negative ship. Think about it. It

445
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: went from the sixties seventies disco. Remember, everything was about love.

446
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: Everything was about court and abroad and getting some you

447
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:49,679
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, getting some love and some masks

448
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: and you know, hey, sexy, I don't want to take

449
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: you out and all of that. Then it just went

450
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 1: to funk a bit, don't with my niggas all day. Well,

451
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: you know, one thing I remember, man, that my of

452
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: me coming up is that the men I did have

453
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: in my life were always men like. And I thought

454
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: about that one day. I said, well, maybe we didn't

455
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: have social media. Fact, then maybe it was it's always

456
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,360
Speaker 1: been a bunch of dumb ass old niggas. But then

457
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: I thought about it, but then I thought about it.

458
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: I have never meant nobody to act like these dudes.

459
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 1: Have you, James, think about think about think I think

460
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: about it. Have you ever been a foolish as old man? Yeah, yeah,

461
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: I have to. I have to. But the difference was

462
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 1: is it's almost like the junkie ship we was talking

463
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: about right back in the day, if a nigga played

464
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: with his nose and did some ship, he knew uncool.

465
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: He kept it a secret, he didn't broadcast it. Right.

466
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: So even back in the day, you had niggas in

467
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 1: the church, you had you know, niggas with whole families

468
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: that had other families across town. But they carried themselves

469
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:55,640
Speaker 1: with a certain coup, you know what I'm saying. That's

470
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I'm not saying that they are

471
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 1: you know, above, you know, are infallible. They you know,

472
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: they was bullshit. Had been around since since the beginning

473
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,600
Speaker 1: of the time. You know, motherfucker's has always been on bullshit.

474
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: But it's like back in the day, like even when

475
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: the nigger went to the pin. When I was growing up,

476
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 1: if an uncle went to the pin, they just said

477
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: he went down south with other family. You know what

478
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It wasn't a thing like oh yeah ship

479
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: you know hor me sitting down, whoo whoo whoa Because

480
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: think about it, we celebrate when the nigga come home

481
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: after doing ten more than we do when a person

482
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: graduated college college, that's what I chelled. My grandson where

483
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: his you know his problems? Yeah, how to stay working?

484
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And I don't see his

485
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:43,400
Speaker 1: mind with Oh my dad and Jim, You're not gonna

486
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 1: go to school to ever make that statement. You know

487
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If the kids say where your father? No,

488
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: you never so you know they was out. They was

489
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: out to stay working. But when like what you were

490
00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: saying earlier, if if, if reppers changed their message and

491
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: their music, kids won't have a choice because they're flowing

492
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: off the beat already and if they're listening to it,

493
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: you're recondition in their minds to say, Okay, I can

494
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: do this now. If you see young black men dressed

495
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: up sharp with a tie on, the next one gonna

496
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: want to be like that too. That's flying. Yeah. You

497
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: know we don't see that. We don't see our our

498
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: young today in the suit. They think it's hey, they

499
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: think it's bullshit, right right, even if even if you

500
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: think about balance, bro, like you know, I listen, I'm

501
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: not gonna be a hypocrite. I like some gangster ship.

502
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 1: I like some ship with the edge. But even back

503
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: in the day, think about it, bro, One of the

504
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: most memorable songs was what will Smith Fresh print Summertime.

505
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 1: I'm still my favorite. You know what I'm saying. And

506
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: back then, you have balance, You had kids and play,

507
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: you had uh you know, young MC, you have balance.

508
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,719
Speaker 1: You still had the gangster ship, but you have balance

509
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: now everybody, I mean, with exception to Kendrick J. Cole,

510
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean you can count on one hand. You know

511
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Everybody a stepper. Everybody life fucked up,

512
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 1: everybody got it out the mud, everybody got bodies, everybody selling,

513
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: everybody Pablo Escobar, you know what I'm saying. So you know,

514
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: and the youngsters are impressionable. And I used to defend

515
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: this is the thing I could be. I'm gonna be transparent,

516
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: right because I was a rapper. I signed with No

517
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,479
Speaker 1: Limit Records in I was a gangster rapper and I

518
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 1: was living that ship too. I made excuses I did.

519
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: I made it. I didn't get it. I had to

520
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: grow a little bit, but I made excuses for the

521
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: music being as influential as it was, Like I would

522
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: just be like his music. Bro, this is just mute,

523
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, I said to all the rapper ship. But

524
00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: once I got older, I looked back on some of

525
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: my own experiences and I had Cebow on my show recently.

526
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: I even told C Bow. I said, C Bow, I said, Man,

527
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Bro, your your music got me

528
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,959
Speaker 1: and some ship. I said, I was listening to one

529
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: of your songs. I turned my gangster up. You know

530
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. When the song came up, I end

531
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: up getting into a shootout. You know. But I wonder

532
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: if if I wasn't playing that song, I probably would

533
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: have got my ass on, you know what I'm saying

534
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: and just went about my business. So I had to

535
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: be honest with myself to say, even me as a

536
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: strong wheel mature, you know, young adult. I was always

537
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: mature beyond my years and I knew better, but even

538
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: still it influenced my mood, you know what I mean.

539
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: Just like something when I can listen to summertime, when

540
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: I listened to Summertime. I feel good. You know what

541
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I feel like ship. You know, like man,

542
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: life is good, you know what I mean. But ship

543
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: I put on I put on some gangster ship. You know.

544
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: I even shout out to m c A. You know

545
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: what I mean. I put on some old school eight

546
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: music to drive by. I'm on some bullshit, you know

547
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: my attitude Ship. But all that stuff. I want to

548
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: read this letter, man, Man, it has never been debunked

549
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: as being a false letter. I really believe this is real, man,

550
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: because you've gotta understand this hip hop is a big

551
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: gangster rap music turned to a multi billion dollar industry broke.

552
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: Some of that is systemic because look at the people

553
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: that still I'm gonna read. I'm I'm gonna read something

554
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: to y'all real quick. After more than twenty years, I

555
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: finally decided to tell the world what I witnessed, the

556
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 1: which I believe was one of the biggest turning points

557
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: in popular music and ultimately American society. I struggled for

558
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: a long time winning the pros and kinds of making

559
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 1: the story of public as I was reluctant to implicate

560
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: the individuals who were present that day, So I simply

561
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: decided to leave our names and all the details that

562
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: may risk my personal well being and that of those

563
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: who were like me dragging something they weren't ready for.

564
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: Between the late eighties and early nineties, I was what

565
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: you may call a decision maker, was one of the

566
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: more established companies in the music industry. I came from

567
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: Europe in the early eighties and quickly established myself in

568
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: the business. The industry was different back then, since technology

569
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: and media weren't accessible to people like they are to day.

570
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: The industry had more control over the public and had

571
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: the means to influence them anyway it wanted. This may

572
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: explain why in early I was invited to attend a

573
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: closed door meeting with a small group of music business

574
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: insiders to discuss rap music's new direction. Little did I

575
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: know we would be asked to participate in one of

576
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: the most unethical and destructive business practices I've ever seen.

577
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: The meeting was held at a private residence on our

578
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: skirts of Los Angeles. I remember about twenty five or

579
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: thirty people being there, most of them familiar faces. Speaking

580
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: to those I knew. We joked about the theme with

581
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: a meeting as many of us did not care for

582
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: rap music and failed to see the purpose of being

583
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: invited to a party gathering to discuss this future. Among

584
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: the attendees was a small group of unfamiliar faces who

585
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: stayed to themselves and made a new attempt to socialize

586
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: beyond the circle. Based on their behavior and formal appearances,

587
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: they didn't seem to be in our industry. Our casual

588
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 1: chatter was interrupted when we were asked to sign the

589
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: confidentiality agreement, preventing us from discuss us and publicly The

590
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: information presented during the meeting. Needless to say, disintrigued and

591
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: in some cases disturbed many of us. The agreement was

592
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: only a page long, but very clear on the matter

593
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: and consequences, which stated that violating the terms were resulting

594
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: job termination. We asked several people what this meeting was

595
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: about and the reason for such secrecy, but couldn't find

596
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: anyone who had answers for us. A few people refused

597
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: the sign and walked out. No one stopped them. I

598
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: was tempted to follow up, a curiosity got the best

599
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: of me. A man who was part of the unfamiliar

600
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: group collected the agreements from us quickly, After the meeting began,

601
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: one of my industry colleagues, who share remain nameless like

602
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: everyone else, thanked us for attending. He then gave the

603
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: floor to a man who only introduced himself by first

604
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: name and gave no further details about his personal background.

605
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: I think he was the owner of the residence, but

606
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: it was never confirmed. He briefly praised all of us

607
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: for the success we had achieved in our industry and

608
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: congratulated us with being selected as part of this small

609
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: group of decision may pers. At this point I began

610
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: to feel slightly uncomfortable at the strangeness of this gathering.

611
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: The subject was changed. The speaker went on to tell

612
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: us that the respective companies we represented had invested in

613
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: a very profitable industry which could become even more rewarding

614
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: with our active involvement. He explained that the companies we

615
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: worked for had vested medians into the building of privately

616
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: owned prisons, and that our positions of influence in the

617
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: music industry would actually impact the profitability of these investments.

618
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: I remember many of us in the group immediately looking

619
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: at each other in confusion. At the time, I didn't

620
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 1: know what the private prison was but I wasn't the

621
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: only one. Sure enough, someone asked what the prisons were

622
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: and where any of this had to do with us.

623
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: We were told that these prisons were built by privately

624
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: owned companies who received funding from the government based on

625
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: the number of indemates. The more inmates, the more money

626
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: the government would pay these prisons. It was also made

627
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: clear to us that since these prisons are privately owned,

628
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: if they become publicly traded, we be able to buy shares.

629
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: Most of us were taken back by this. Again, a

630
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: couple of people asked what this had to do with us.

631
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: At this point, my industry colleague, who had first opened

632
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: the meeting, took the floor again and answered our questions.

633
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: He told us that since our employers have become solid

634
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: investors in this prison business, it was now in their

635
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: inswest to make sure that these prisons for main field.

636
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: Our job would be to help make this happen by

637
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: marketing music which the most criminal behavior, rap being the

638
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: music of choice. He assured us that this would be

639
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: a great situation for us because rap music was becoming

640
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: an increasingly profitable market for our companies, and as an employee,

641
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: we'd also be able to buy personal stocks in these prisons.

642
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go through this whole letter man, but

643
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: based on the stuff that we've been seeing as a

644
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: late man, based on some of the stuff we've been

645
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: I think it's very plausible that that could have been

646
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: a real meeting, Bro. I mean it sounds plausible. I

647
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: mean because they didn't necessarily name names and get specific.

648
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that could have been written by anybody. But

649
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: it is definitely plausible, Bro. And and it doesn't sound

650
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: far from the truth. I mean, it seems like it

651
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: happened just like that. Well, you know, if you think

652
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: about it, think about think about crack for example, right,

653
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: think about how in our community. Yeah, sure, why couldn't

654
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: they do the same thing with the music, because like

655
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: that's even been able to brow The tongue speaks life

656
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: and death. You read with you, So if you talk

657
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: about death in destruction, if you're constantly putting off this

658
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: just a deafinite destruction, the chaos, I'm walking around with

659
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: my stick, I'm walking around with my boat. You hear,

660
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: that's the ship that's gonna go platinumf you make this,

661
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: make the song that they're talking about. I Love my

662
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: brothers and this man man, you didn't go to go Wood, right,

663
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: and you can put it in the same cadence because

664
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: I heard gospel music. It sounds like secular music, you

665
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And it was until I rode

666
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: in on the lyrics like damn, you're talking about Jesus.

667
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: I thought this was you know what I'm saying, Jody

668
00:35:56,400 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: see you know so um I mean, but like you said, yeah,

669
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: it all feels like a conspiracy. Bro. They give us

670
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: the tools to destroy ourselves. You know what I'm saying.

671
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: We got guns, we got you know, systemic issues, we

672
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: got you know, I'm not gonna say necessarily lack of

673
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: opportunity at this point, but we have to fight a

674
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: little bit harder to get the information and to get

675
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: in position. Um uh. You know, people got you know,

676
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: people lose hope, you got drugs, you got guns. Then

677
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: you have this this culture, this this you know, this

678
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: very powerful influential culture that's that's telling you. You know,

679
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: Fox school, you know what I mean, Like trap, go scam.

680
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Go go break a bit,

681
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, go rob a nigga. You know what I'm saying.

682
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: And you got in the same thing for the young ladies,

683
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, fuck getting the education, fun, getting married, you know,

684
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: be fuck nigga, free fucking nigga. You know what I'm saying,

685
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Get you a get you a rich nigga and break him.

686
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: You know, sell it, don't give it for free. So

687
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:57,320
Speaker 1: now you've got them raising prostitutes basically. So, um, it's crazy,

688
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: just how we And again I don't want to sound

689
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: hyper critical, but um, I think because I understand the

690
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: context of entertainment, but the entertainment is killing us. You know,

691
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: we are the entertainment. We are the entertainment you know

692
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: to the overall majority, you know, and they're profited off

693
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: of it more than we are. That's just and and

694
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: and you know, again, I don't want to be a

695
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: hypocrite because I enjoyed some of the ship, but I

696
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: just think that when we start trying to live it out,

697
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,360
Speaker 1: that's the problem. It's one thing for it to be entertainment,

698
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: but because you've got to think about it, rock and

699
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: roll and acid wrapping all that stuff. You had hardcore,

700
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: other genres that were hardcore, but their fan base wasn't

701
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: living that out. You know, they wasn't going out flattering

702
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 1: you know, sacrificing whatever the A. C. D. C's of

703
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: the world was doing. But we're actually living this ship out,

704
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: so you know, I don't know, Yeah, we're actually living

705
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: this stuff out big time throw in when you think

706
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: about it, like like like really just think about it, right,

707
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: the influence that music has over just a side now

708
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: and our children. Right, you had kids in the suburbs,

709
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,200
Speaker 1: man whose parents have worked hard to get him up

710
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: out of there. The first thing they wanted to go

711
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 1: do when he heard in the w A was, Man,

712
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: I want to go to content. I want to go

713
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: see what the hell is going on down there? You

714
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: think what I'm saying. So it's it's very enticing, dog like,

715
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: like the Games of Lifestyle is very enticeing and attracted

716
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: to a person looking in on the outside of it, right,

717
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: you know. But you you think about it, man, we're

718
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: losing our young people at an alarming rate. It's very

719
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: to me, it's a it's a very concentrated effort man,

720
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: to just get rid of Black America at all costs,

721
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: it seems like to me. And if people can't see that,

722
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: they vision blurry, because I'm gonna tell you what they

723
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: want to do. They want to keep us stuck with

724
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: these just images on televion. You know, these just negative

725
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: images were constantly being fed our own imagery back. So

726
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: now you got grown as men online acting like buffoons

727
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: because they don't have no other means, and they figure, well,

728
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: that's the way I'm appau able to make a few dollars,

729
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So now they just uppen

730
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: it up. Man, You see this one, this this you know,

731
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: I don't even want to say his name, just for

732
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: fear that he's gonna start coming away with the bullship.

733
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: But you see, buddy, don't pull the gun on the

734
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: motherfucker through the interview and don't kind of other ship.

735
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: And I can just see the time coming to where

736
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: he meets since the mind's playing with the wrong one.

737
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you now, you come when are

738
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: set trying to pull out a down you you you're

739
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: not gonna make it out of there. Yeah, that's real.

740
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: I wonder how much of that is cap though, you

741
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know, I wonder, But even

742
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: if it's not, you have a whole bunch of people

743
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: that's looking at like this. It's only a matter of

744
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: time before somebody really comes with a gun on the

745
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: show and just blame my motherfucker right here on the

746
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 1: thing on the live or some ship I'm telling you

747
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: was coming. Well, hopefully it's not on our ship. Yeah, yeah,

748
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: like that. Mhm. It seems like it's gonna happen with

749
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: everything going on the way people are disrespecting grown men.

750
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, somebody's gonna run the wrong person, and you know,

751
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: bad things happening. You know, I don't I'm not gonna

752
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: try to promote it, but you know, you can see

753
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: it coming with all the ship, you know, with all

754
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: these guys being killed, that's real ship that they know

755
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 1: makeup ship, that's real ship. So with that man violence,

756
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: but you know, you know, knowing, we gotta look at

757
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: it like this because when I was growing up, I've

758
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: seen it all you've seen. You've seen the PCP prostitution

759
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: for for young women today or runaway black female, it's

760
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: the prostitute. She don't see no other means, no other way.

761
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 1: We got young men running around here being pimps because

762
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: they don't have no better way. So I think we

763
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 1: we were quick to clean to what works for us

764
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: at the time, how we can make money opposed to

765
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: going out and doing the right thing. You see what

766
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So it's it's more than rapping music that's

767
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: sucking us up. You know what I'm saying. We are

768
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,760
Speaker 1: so easy to be influenced by others, approached our own people.

769
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: We are quick to do each other just because somebody

770
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: else's personal game. Should I say? I hope you'll understand

771
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: where I'm coming from. We lost a lot of leaders

772
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: because there's that one we cat that you know, the

773
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: police funk with that went baman, you know, funked up ship.

774
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: You know when you're talking on this ship man, you

775
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: you you, you tend to just go through all kinds

776
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: of ships. So I'm trying to light fun sugarcoating. We

777
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: have sold each other also, goddamn bad, We used to it,

778
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. When let's go all the

779
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: way back to slavery, all the way up to now,

780
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: we sell each other out by any means necessary. So

781
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 1: it's more than just wrap that's sucking us up. Rap

782
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,719
Speaker 1: plays the biggest part of it, I say, because if

783
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,279
Speaker 1: you can get rid of every young black man and

784
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 1: he can't be productive or produce family children, then yeah,

785
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: we're killing ourselves slowly, but surely we're wiping ourselves out

786
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: and don't even know. And and ship this is gonna coach.

787
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: You kill a black man if you don't have to

788
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: pay a fine, because we're gonna be extinct, like motherfucker.

789
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: You can't kill us, you know what I'm saying. But

790
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: I mean we we sucked up man. And just listening

791
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: to that letter, that letter tells a lot. When you

792
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,919
Speaker 1: go to prison, brother, you're working for a twelveth cent.

793
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: You're working for thirty four cent the top nights, dott

794
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about labor. You're working in the laundry,

795
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:02,919
Speaker 1: you cleaning, washing ship that don't consist of penitentiary ship.

796
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: But you folded and you're doing you you making searchs,

797
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: you're making license plates California people, you got all that

798
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,640
Speaker 1: ship is prison ship? And how much money do they

799
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: make for making that ship? But you're only getting uh

800
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: twenty pass in an hour to press a thousand plates today?

801
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. So it is slavery. You

802
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. They're working your ass. Just think

803
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: you got twenty five years and you mastered this ship.

804
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: You can work the machines and every machine. They got

805
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: a top notch sneaker working the machines, teaching every other

806
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,760
Speaker 1: motherfucker that come in there how to work their machines

807
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: and make the Mason place how to work those lines

808
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: of machines. Just think how much that you you will

809
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: be paying to come on the prison yard and cook

810
00:43:56,040 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: the it mayste it it makes in the cold part

811
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: of Barty James. It's not like in the cold part

812
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: of Bottle Bro's not like they can take them skills.

813
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: They had them prisoner card and just get a job automatically. No,

814
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: something home would be a little cooks or whatever. But

815
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you is, as you was reading

816
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: that letter, you can just hear just the like this

817
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,919
Speaker 1: ship is. That's for real. That letter is for real. Yeah,

818
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: I believe it's authentic. I believe in that lets it

819
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: is and it happens. So are they making more prisons

820
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: to to make more money. They make money because they're

821
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: getting in the cotton and all other kinds of ship.

822
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: And you go out and work for it. You got

823
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: inmates that go and fight fires. You know what I'm saying.

824
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,759
Speaker 1: That's the camp that's free. You putting your life on

825
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: the line. Fighting fires. You got inmates that work the yard,

826
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: and and like like SMC sending those abaseball you out

827
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:02,399
Speaker 1: there picking up garbage on the the beach. Mhm. See

828
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You're used for a whole lot of

829
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: things that they get a whole lot of money for doing,

830
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: but you only get a cent, See what I'm saying. Yeah,

831
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 1: So so let me ask let me ask you guys this.

832
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: So I mean, with all of this being said, right,

833
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: and and the information is out there right, So at

834
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: this point, I think the culture, you know, at least

835
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: for the most part or even of us, we know

836
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: to play right because because because of the Internet, because

837
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: we're all able to be connected, you know, unlike back

838
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: in the day where you know, you had the newspaper magazines,

839
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: if you didn't read or nothing like that, you wouldn't

840
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: know the information, right, So why do we choose to steal,

841
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: you know, play the destructive game? If we know the play?

842
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: We literally know that Okay, they got these prisons built

843
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: for us, they can't wait to put us in jail.

844
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: We know the dope game fucked up. They can't then

845
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: infiltrated that we can't get money like that. We know

846
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: if we're a rapper. We know they're looking for the rico.

847
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: We know you know what I'm saying, So we know

848
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: all these plays are set in motion to funk us up.

849
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,959
Speaker 1: Why do we keep getting Why do we keep playing

850
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: into it? What's this pollution? Why? Why? Why? Well? You

851
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 1: keep playing into it because you don't You don't see

852
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: another way out. You don't have an alternative. You don't

853
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,280
Speaker 1: have an option. If I had an option from okay,

854
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: I can go to Texas and may thirty dollars in

855
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: our were supposed to sitting in the hood doing nothing,

856
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 1: I would have took that. But we don't have that.

857
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: We can't tell them cats come do this, get out

858
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: of the game bag and put the guns down there.

859
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: They didn't try they didn't try this. But it don't

860
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: work because once you go home, man, you you you

861
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: you in the hood, and when that happened, everything else

862
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 1: is still moving in a circle around you and you're

863
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: trying to be right. So you know, if if, if

864
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: if we had something to get rid of something, and

865
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: we had a choice to do this or that, I

866
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: think a lot of a lot of these young cats

867
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 1: that do it, you know what I'm saying. I think

868
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: a lot of cats will make better choices than with

869
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:18,719
Speaker 1: it making a day, because I nine times nine times

870
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 1: got a ten. If you got podcasts doing the smashing graph,

871
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: three of them don't want to do it. Three of

872
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: them don't want to do it, but they found on

873
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: those two. But those two is the ones that's really

874
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: out there, and that's that's promoting the situation. You can't

875
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:39,080
Speaker 1: save everybody. All of us ain't gonna be saved. You

876
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: already know that. So you know, we get locked up,

877
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,440
Speaker 1: we get a trade, but it ain't gonna do no good.

878
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: I got life in prison. I got all these certiicapates

879
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: in myself, but I can't use them because I'm never

880
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:57,959
Speaker 1: getting out. What's the purpose. A lot of lifers don't

881
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: want to work. So it's of choices and the things

882
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: that we don't have, bro Dad, that keeps us stagnated.

883
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 1: Where we're at, Yeah, go ahead. Still, I think it's

884
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: a big par e. James knocked down the hold chunk

885
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: of it because I was gonna say some of that,

886
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: and I believe it's our hubrish too. Court. I think

887
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: that we just seem to have this thing in our

888
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: mind that we go go on this mission. And we

889
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: go get away from it, and we've never pictured nothing

890
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: happening to us. We don't have and anything else we

891
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: see it happened a million times to everyone else. But

892
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: we seem to think that we've got a different way

893
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: to reinvent the wheel all the time, like like you know,

894
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 1: we've seen We've seen the homie get busted up the

895
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,959
Speaker 1: block twenty times and get walked down the street button

896
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: naked and embarrass you know, the niked is the biggest ball,

897
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: and they make sure they embarrass him all the time

898
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: when they take them down. I started his house, button naked,

899
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: little thing, just blowing all all in the wind and

900
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,439
Speaker 1: just you know, getting smacked on the back of the head.

901
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: But we think, oh yeah, now I'm about to come

902
00:48:57,719 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: take that over, and I ain't gonna get crack because

903
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do something different. And then you see us

904
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 1: as doing the same damn strow without the thing. So

905
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: we keep seeing the same ship, but we keep thinking

906
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: that we just go have different results all the time.

907
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: And I think it's our own air against our own

908
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: vanity and are and just being truly lazy because and

909
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: everybody wants something for nothing, bro, don't nobody ever want

910
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: to go work for it. We always think it's a lick.

911
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: Everything in the damn lick. Though. Life ain't about a lick,

912
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. Life is about you working hard,

913
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: dog and getting off your ass, and you want to

914
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: go try to achieve something. But we want to easy.

915
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,879
Speaker 1: We think everything is easy. That's why when you talk

916
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: to most kids, they want to be like, I remember,

917
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 1: you used to want to be a professional athlete dog

918
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: just for the three of the competing against the best

919
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: of the best. Right now, it's like you get a

920
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: lot of guys to come safe for the money, and

921
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: ain't nothing wrong with that. Guys want to be rappers

922
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: for the money because they want to change their people's life.

923
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: It ain't for the love of the culture, for none

924
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: of that. It's because they want to get well. That

925
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: the average king excuse the average kid and nine years

926
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: old saying I'm not doing nothing. I ain't got to

927
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: go to school. I'm just gonna be a wrapper. I'm

928
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: gonna make rap something, be rich. That ain't the way

929
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: to think of nine years old. That's real. Come on, man,

930
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: we just gotta change it and something. Just these cats

931
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: with these these mentalities, man, it ain't good for us.

932
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: We're backwards. We're going backwards. That's real, that's real. I

933
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: think too. I think some of it, man, is just

934
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: a lack of hope too. You know what I mean

935
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,200
Speaker 1: When I go back to my own experiences when I

936
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: was young, and you know, I was raised on love,

937
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: not survival, you know what I'm saying. So it's like,

938
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: but even you know, you start smelling your piss around

939
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen, you start doing ship and I can remember

940
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: me doing crash out ship, and but I always still

941
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,839
Speaker 1: have hope, you know what I mean. Like like you said,

942
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: like you just said, Jake, you said that if five

943
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: niggas is doing a smash and grab, three of them

944
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 1: don't really want to be doing it. Um. I can

945
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: remember some of the ship we was doing when I

946
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: was fourteen fifteen, Like we hit a gun store, different

947
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: things like that. I was with it, but I wasn't

948
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: with it to the extent that, Okay, this is all

949
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: it is for me, you know what I'm saying. Like

950
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm gonna go to prison, I'm gonna running yard.

951
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,359
Speaker 1: Like you know, always still had hope. And I think

952
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: that I think maybe helping some of these kids, uh

953
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: find that hope and find a purpose, I think because

954
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: once they established a purpose and a dream, like because

955
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: I was always a dream. So I really believe that

956
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: once you have a dream and you establish a purpose,

957
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: you intend to make different decisions. And you gotta be

958
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: able to see that ship even when your circumstances is

959
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: fucked up. I know it's easier said than done. You

960
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 1: might have a kid that got you know, vote a parent,

961
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: locked up, parent on drugs, you know, and they just

962
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: trying to fell for themselves and they just trying to

963
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: survive from day to day, and all everybody around you

964
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: is doing negative ship. Um, and I know what that's like.

965
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: But you know, I think it's just being able to

966
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: interject some hope into the community and in unity, you know,

967
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: even amongst our culture. I really believe that. I don't

968
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: think man can unify us. I think that's something above us.

969
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: I think that's only God could do that. You know

970
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: what I mean, because just by by nature, we are

971
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: you know, we're we're we're we I mean, listen to

972
00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: I know the evil of men's hearts, because I know

973
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: the evil in mind. You know what I'm saying. We

974
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: all got it some of us just can control it

975
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: and modulate it better. When you can be honest with yourself,

976
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,080
Speaker 1: no matter how uncomfortable that ship is, then you can

977
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: address it and do the work, you know what I mean.

978
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: So I think just hope, you know, any youngster listening, man,

979
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: just just you gotta have hope, man, because when you

980
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 1: lose that hope, you don't give a funk what happens

981
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: to you. And when you don't give a funk what

982
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: happens to you, then you ain't gonna give a funk

983
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: about nobody else. If you don't care about dying, you

984
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 1: don't care about going to jail, That's exactly what's gonna happen,

985
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Because you can't care about

986
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: the next nigga life. And I know how that is,

987
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: you know from experience. J I'm sure you can. You

988
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 1: can attest to that, you know what I mean, because

989
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 1: when you don't care about you, you don't see humanity

990
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: in the next nigger you like. You know, I could

991
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: care less, you know what I mean. But I think

992
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: when that's checked, you know, along with like I said,

993
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: we got the information the same way that the youngsters

994
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: can get the information, which makes them feel empowered that

995
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,840
Speaker 1: they know more than us and they know everything. You

996
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: can get the same information to empower yourself and really

997
00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: apply because knowledge is power, but applied knowledge is you know, priceless.

998
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I think it's addressing that hope. Man.

999
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part of it, because they'll

1000
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: make different choices if they just exactly when you know

1001
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: what all of this flows into. And I know we

1002
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: don't have much time left, but I want to touch

1003
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: on this. All of this stuff is actually all this

1004
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: stuff actually like goes full circle because Blacks have really

1005
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: we don't trust on another, We don't respect one another,

1006
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: and we nor do we trust one of those I'm

1007
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something I saw the other day. I

1008
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: was inside of one of my buddies. He got a

1009
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:12,719
Speaker 1: T shirt shop right over in bail Flower. Man, you

1010
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 1: know I was up there. I was up there to

1011
00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: buy a few T shirts. You know, if I'm gonna

1012
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 1: go buy a T shirt, I go to this shop

1013
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: and I'm support him. I saw his brother in there,

1014
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: Hey man, let me get a discount, and the girl

1015
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: behind the counters telling them like, hey, this is what

1016
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: it is. It's five nine. But man, you know, but

1017
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: I can't get a dollar off two man, I don't

1018
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: know what's wrong with y'all. Y'all can't give us a discount.

1019
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: And I asked myself, brod Checkers, would you walk up

1020
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: to Macy's and asked him for a discount. If we

1021
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: go up to Macy's, Man, if the price tag says

1022
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: n dollars on there, we gonna pay them mark day

1023
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: nine eighty and they taxes or whatever, and we go

1024
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: get the funk on. And a lot of times not

1025
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: even gonna ask for the receiver, go and keep the receipt.

1026
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: Ain't tripping. But if it's one of us, if we

1027
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: walk in we see somebody behind us look like us,

1028
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: we want to ask for discounts. We want to ask

1029
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: for this. We want to ask for that man just

1030
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: purchased the ship and respect They shot like you would

1031
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: the next man's. We can't get along with each other.

1032
00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: I remember James said something before man a long time ago.

1033
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: We had to stick together. Let's not be like everybody else.

1034
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: Man shoot a ship, stand niggas wound up tearing up

1035
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: some ship. You know, we we we our own worst enemies, bro.

1036
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 1: And it's sad to me it's like it's really sad.

1037
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: And I'm hoping that one day I can see the

1038
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: day man that I could see brothers just working together,

1039
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:34,640
Speaker 1: supporting one another and not and not tripping like porch.

1040
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: You gotta um, you gotta energy. What is it like?

1041
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: It's a health it's a fitness thing, right, say it again.

1042
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: I said you gotta fitness shape that you're doing right? Yeah,

1043
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 1: I got my own supplement up to muscle sports. Yeah, yeah,

1044
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: you got supplement. If you are out there selling that

1045
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,320
Speaker 1: supplement out the trunk of your car, I guarantee you

1046
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 1: if a white person coming by the most people, but

1047
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna be that nigger, right the black person if

1048
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: you say he's gonna give it to you, the white

1049
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: person go give it to you. The Mesican person can

1050
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: give it to you, But the one nigger don't come.

1051
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Speaker 1: He go in. You're twenty. It's where you can get

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00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: two jars for twenty. Yeah. Now you just ain't making

1053
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,359
Speaker 1: your price for no reason. Bro, You got everything putting there. Okay,

1054
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 1: it cost me this much to package this, It costs

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00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:27,800
Speaker 1: me this much to do this and the third, and

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00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: you gotta pay yourself a little something. So you've got

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00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: your thing figured out already. You can't afford to give

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00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: somebody just too And Niggers just seem to think, is

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00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,719
Speaker 1: it's a black person selling it, then we're just making

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00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,280
Speaker 1: up our own prices. So USU us making the profit.

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00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,320
Speaker 1: Me go make sure you get extra one. We just

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00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 1: out here to make sure you straight. It's like we

1063
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: need to knock that shi off bro right. And as

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00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 1: we talk, guess we've been having this just just talking

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00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 1: do it seems crazy how we how we have to uh,

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00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 1: the way we talk about nigga or that that's the

1067
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 1: real nigga, that black motherfucker. How we how we identify

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00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: ourselves with each other. I mean, we all black, but

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00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,960
Speaker 1: do a tribute all. Sometimes it do me, but I'm

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00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: comfortable with saying that stupid mother, you know nigga. I

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00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: don't think yet, I don't. I don't know how to

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00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: put it. But the way we the way we introduce

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00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: oselves to certain people, the way we talk are just

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00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:35,640
Speaker 1: general conversation with each other. You know, it'll make you

1075
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, you're different. Well, I think, Sames,

1076
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: we've always had these colloquialisms and it's a little different,

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00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: Like you know when you're the hood. What your friends

1078
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: you would say, that's stupid ass nigga, but you don't

1079
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: necessarily mean it that way. But I truly believe the

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00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: older I get is I'm starting to really separate. I

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00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: don't want to be called a nigga, first of all,

1082
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: because I'm a black man. I work for this ship

1083
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: I have. I'm not all trying to get over nobody

1084
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 1: and not respect everyone. Nigga don't respect no motherfucker, but

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00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: they don't even respect itself, right, And I do think

1086
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: saying right, I do think we need to be more

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00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: conscious of how we identify ourselves. Right, That's what I

1088
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: was trying to say. You know, we can get lost

1089
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: if we if if because it's disrespect to each other.

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00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If I if I just

1091
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,439
Speaker 1: met Court, what's up my nigga? You know what I'm saying,

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00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: that's not you know, if we change the narrative on

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00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: how we are with each other and people see that,

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00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: people ain't gonna think like that, you know what I'm saying,

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00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: And it just goes back to everything that we've been

1096
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: talking about. So just like with these young cats, they

1097
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: got to learn how to groom themselves. They sold their mind,

1098
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: their hearts, you know what I'm saying. And I can

1099
00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: honestly say that if, if, if, you can take a

1100
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: bad situation and turn it into good. You know. But

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00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: a lot of kids need to learn patients. You know,

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00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: I didn't have patients when I was younger. I know,

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00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: y'all didn't. You know what I'm saying. We need to

1104
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:14,160
Speaker 1: learn patients. We need to learn day by day. Don't

1105
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: try to get everything in one day. You can't get

1106
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: it that way. And every day is not promised to us.

1107
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: So we gotta live a certain kind of weight every

1108
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: day because tomorrow ain't promise and that's a for sure man.

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00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: So you know what, man, I think we all just

1110
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: need to just sit back and reflect a little bit, man,

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00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: and just be more like even like James said, the

1112
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: way we address each other, because I'm really making it

1113
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: a really I'm really making a really consulted effort not

1114
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: to use that word right as much because I'm like

1115
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: everybody else. You know, you get comfortable with class man,

1116
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: it's dumb ass and thinking this and that. Let's start

1117
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: acting like black man. Let's start acting like black you know,

1118
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: because my thing is this when I'm modem public. I'm

1119
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Speaker 1: a representation for y'all too, just like y'all the representation

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Speaker 1: for me too. Like folks se y'all acting a certain

1121
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: kind of way. Yeah, there's some of them. They already

1122
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: got their mind made because they've seen so many of

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01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 1: us out there misrepresenting man that they think everybody is ignorant, right,

1124
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: And that's not the case, man. But I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming to hold us and don't agree in court y'all.

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Speaker 1: Make sure y'all go subscribe to my man show, the

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Speaker 1: Holding Court podcast, one of the best podcasts online. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Appreciate that, ain't I got a

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Speaker 1: quick question? Um, just on another note, so I just

1130
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: noticed on here we all big right, big still big

1131
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: j big court. But I want to tell y'all, man, listen,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all ingratiate me and you know, having me

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01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: on the platform. Bro, I got a lot of respect

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01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,080
Speaker 1: for both of y'all. I love what y'all been doing.

1135
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Speaker 1: I was, uh and still am a big fan of

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01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: the show, you know, and now to be you know,

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01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: I'm really grateful and honored to be able to be,

1138
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, amongst y'all doing this, So I appreciate y'all,

1139
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, having me on the shout out to the O. G.

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Speaker 1: M c A. You know what I'm saying. You know,

1141
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: he's getting his bag doing his thing right now. But

1142
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Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate you all, so salute to you.

1143
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: You know. Let me join y'all for sure, and we

1144
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:14,479
Speaker 1: got and we gotta and we gotta link the chorus

1145
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Speaker 1: show in there, y'all. Make sure y'all subscribe to my

1146
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Speaker 1: man stuff. Tell them Big Steals thinks you all right,

1147
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Speaker 1: and we out of here. Well, that concludes another episode

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Speaker 1: of Against the Chronicles podcast. Be sure to download the

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Speaker 1: and rating. Executive producers for The Gangster Chronicles podcast of

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01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: Norman Steve, James mcdownald, The errand M C. Tyler, our

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Speaker 1: visual media directors Brian White, and our audio editors Taylor Hayes.

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