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Speaker 1: Hey tell the people where are you from? Um Los
Speaker 1: Angeles neighborhood Anthons Park? So you from Athens Park? Yes,
Speaker 1: I know Athens Park very well. And you have a
Speaker 1: reputation as a person not to be played with back
Speaker 1: in the day. Yes, that's absolutely true. And see a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that women sometimes can be
Speaker 1: the most dangerous people, you know what I'm saying, Because
Speaker 1: you're dangerous as a mother, especially you know the pretty
Speaker 1: ones you know like that, and I'm pretty sure you
Speaker 1: don't been able to use that to your advantage. And
Speaker 1: as far as you know, getting a little different situations
Speaker 1: popping and everything, which we're gonna go into too much
Speaker 1: detail like that, but growing up in Athens always that
Speaker 1: to us a bunch of childhood a little bit well
Speaker 1: my childhood, my mother was on drugs my whole life basically,
Speaker 1: my dad was in the penitentiary for a majority of
Speaker 1: my life up in Top was twelve and he got
Speaker 1: killed six months after he got out the penitentiary. So
Speaker 1: from there I was just like one of those kids
Speaker 1: that was defiant, bad, fighting all the time. But me
Speaker 1: being grown now looking back, it was really because I
Speaker 1: couldn't read and I couldn't write, so at school, instead
Speaker 1: of you know, paying attention to the teacher, I was
Speaker 1: being disrespectful, fighting in the classroom because I didn't want
Speaker 1: the attention to be on me that I couldn't actually
Speaker 1: read and write. So I was a typical kid growing
Speaker 1: up in the inner city with a parent on drugs
Speaker 1: and a parent that passed away young. So you know,
Speaker 1: it was just a lot going on. So instead of
Speaker 1: me being on a positive note, I just used all
Speaker 1: my fears and just took it out violently. So you
Speaker 1: lashed up, which sounds like another person I knew for this.
Speaker 1: I mean all of us to live their life. And
Speaker 1: every time we do a show, I tell everybody it's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of mees out there, and it's some
Speaker 1: women out there that lived that rough life that was
Speaker 1: tougher than some of the brothers that the homies that
Speaker 1: was out there. You grew up in the hood. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's the situation of being the product of your environment
Speaker 1: I made. Basically, if you ain't got that start, you
Speaker 1: give me. A lot of people be thinking that the
Speaker 1: places we grow up, you have choices, you feel me,
Speaker 1: I didn't look at it like that. I had no choice.
Speaker 1: By the time I turned to out thirteen, it was
Speaker 1: game banging. There was no other choice, especially if you
Speaker 1: don't have structure. In my mom's wasn't on drugs, but
Speaker 1: my pops was. You know, if you came from that era,
Speaker 1: you probably had somebody in your family member that was
Speaker 1: on drugs or whatever. And then Moms was, you know,
Speaker 1: a hard worker. She'd go to work, you know, eleven
Speaker 1: at night to seven in the morning. So at night
Speaker 1: to seven in the morning, I think I was in
Speaker 1: the streets down on the block every day trying to
Speaker 1: get my hand on fifty pack to double up and
Speaker 1: all that ship man, because that's what that's what the
Speaker 1: o gs was that he wasn't telling, you know, Nikka
Speaker 1: go to school or what the niggas was like, nigga,
Speaker 1: here Nikka makes some money. They didn't here go to
Speaker 1: this heat, nigga, let's go exactly. Was the Big Homies
Speaker 1: like more influenced for you then um for me? Growing
Speaker 1: up with the Big homies, I really wasn't in the
Speaker 1: circle with him. I was more on the outskirts, but
Speaker 1: I had a smart ass mouth. That's why I got
Speaker 1: my name Booboo from anthes it's got a smart mouth.
Speaker 1: So I was doing more stuff like moving way different
Speaker 1: stuff over you know, back and forth from different states
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I wasn't in this conversation circle with them,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't more of a go to school or
Speaker 1: whatever because they wasn't there like that. For my big
Speaker 1: home is, it was just me and the young guys
Speaker 1: that I grew up with because it was just me
Speaker 1: and two of the home girls amongst all of our peers,
Speaker 1: which was guys. So but the big homies wasn't too
Speaker 1: much around that. I can really just be like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they used to pull up and no, it was me
Speaker 1: standing them from afar and hearing their conversation and just
Speaker 1: going off of that. I used to I used to
Speaker 1: go through anters through a party and every time we
Speaker 1: went to the party, the girls would well like us
Speaker 1: and we wind up arguing with the anthems because them
Speaker 1: they said, y'all ain't coming over here to get our women,
Speaker 1: and I know how they were and not. And I've
Speaker 1: seen the women in action over there and they was
Speaker 1: with it, and uh it's rough, I know it's rough.
Speaker 1: And and you know most people, you know, they could
Speaker 1: talk about the hood, they could talk about being in
Speaker 1: the streets, but being out there twelve doing your thing
Speaker 1: because I mean, you ain't got no choice right to
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do to to fit in and
Speaker 1: to you know, like really get it. So it had
Speaker 1: to have been rough and it's hard. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So what was the the what was
Speaker 1: your bottom line? What age was your bottom line? Where
Speaker 1: you said I gotta get my ship together. Um, when
Speaker 1: I got prayed you with my daughter, my oldest, that's
Speaker 1: when I was like, I gotta stop this because based
Speaker 1: on the fact that I've always thought that nothing is
Speaker 1: too much ever gonna happen to me and my mind,
Speaker 1: then that didn't messed around and stuff that happened to
Speaker 1: my baby, So that right there was like, we're not
Speaker 1: doing that. So that was the start of me changing
Speaker 1: my life when I was pregnant her. That's cool. Your
Speaker 1: children have a tendency to divert us to the right path.
Speaker 1: It should be in most cases. You know, when you
Speaker 1: have a child come in your life, you usually decided
Speaker 1: to start you know, I'm had to straighten up because
Speaker 1: I got somebody depending on me right now. Sometimes that's
Speaker 1: not always the case, because I'm gonna tell you the
Speaker 1: eighties was real turbulent, and I assume that's the eighties
Speaker 1: that you're talking about. You know what's turbuling for everybody
Speaker 1: at this table. We all had the brother a relative
Speaker 1: that was on crack crack just ripped through our communities
Speaker 1: and just ruined it. I saw, dudes, it was ballers.
Speaker 1: You know, you had to do that. You looked up
Speaker 1: to the road down the street. He had to just
Speaker 1: you know, to do some quarter on and he was
Speaker 1: sitting up high, had the sound system. The next thing
Speaker 1: you know, all it ain't there no more, just like
Speaker 1: everybody else. He walking down the street, reregulant cats cars
Speaker 1: and you know, stealing people's VCRs, mocked the house. You know,
Speaker 1: that was just what it was back then. So you
Speaker 1: got to shout in your life right now. Was it
Speaker 1: hard for you to escape the clutches of the hood
Speaker 1: at that point? No, it wasn't. Because her dad, it's
Speaker 1: like a O G from Java Street. So I basically
Speaker 1: moved from my mom and moved with him and had
Speaker 1: two more kids by him. So it really I didn't
Speaker 1: have that strangeous relationship like busting out windows and tripping
Speaker 1: and tweaking. So I never stayed edgy like that, where
Speaker 1: Hill like I'm still with one foot in the game
Speaker 1: Bang World, one ft trying to be a mom. It
Speaker 1: was like I actually was able to take both feet
Speaker 1: and be a mom and just figure out what it
Speaker 1: is that I wanted to do. And I did a
Speaker 1: lot of reflecting them, but I didn't know that that's
Speaker 1: what I was doing. But I basically made it to
Speaker 1: where I'm not my mom to my daughter because I
Speaker 1: played sports to school and I was a tomboy growing up,
Speaker 1: you know, like more the boy activities of person and
Speaker 1: lipstick was never my thing. It was, you know, in
Speaker 1: the mud with the guys playing football, and I played
Speaker 1: basketball and I did good eighth, ninth, and tenth grade
Speaker 1: playing basketball. But she never came to not one of
Speaker 1: my games, never did anything, and she didn't have nothing
Speaker 1: to do but be in the house. So to me,
Speaker 1: it's like you don't even support me, and there's nobody
Speaker 1: here cheer me on. And on top of that, when
Speaker 1: I sit in the classroom to get these grades at
Speaker 1: least to a c R, I D so I can't
Speaker 1: play sports. I don't even know what's really going on
Speaker 1: in the classroom because I don't want nobody to hear
Speaker 1: me read because I can't read. So it was a
Speaker 1: lot of turmoil that I went through, but I just
Speaker 1: know God was with me the whole time. So when
Speaker 1: my daughter, it was like, I don't want her to
Speaker 1: feel the way I felt and not be there. So
Speaker 1: my main focus with her was whoever she is, whoever
Speaker 1: her little spirit is, that's what we're gonna stay with
Speaker 1: because she's always been on honor row since like elementary,
Speaker 1: and I made her stay right there and be that person.
Speaker 1: You know. Now, she's aggressive. She get it from my
Speaker 1: mama on top of her daddy is not a joke.
Speaker 1: But she tried to veer off, but I had to
Speaker 1: will her back in, like she didn't really want to
Speaker 1: be like me, because I would say I never took
Speaker 1: her around that environment. I never had my kids like
Speaker 1: in the back seat of the car when I pull
Speaker 1: up in the parking lot, even though I would go
Speaker 1: to the hood here and there throughout the first two
Speaker 1: younger little lives or whatever, but they was at my
Speaker 1: mom house, so they never seen that. They would just
Speaker 1: ask me questions like Mama, why are you time you
Speaker 1: go to the store, blah blah blah. You know, but
Speaker 1: they never was around, so she didn't know the other
Speaker 1: side of me, even though she made heard me talk
Speaker 1: or see me get angry with somebody, but she didn't
Speaker 1: know that. But it was just natural for her to
Speaker 1: be aggressive. And I started saying that, like ninth grade,
Speaker 1: like you, it's nothing to be a little bubble West Centennio.
Speaker 1: That's not so I had to snatch her spirit out
Speaker 1: and give it back to her, like get it together.
Speaker 1: You're gonna stay the honor role kid, period and in
Speaker 1: the military now ye. And she graduated from Centennial a
Speaker 1: row with a three point six g p A and
Speaker 1: I graduated couldn't even read up the party. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of women in the hood that that have
Speaker 1: that game banging mentality that didn't make it and was
Speaker 1: having kids, but was having kids by one homie, another
Speaker 1: homie or another guy from another hood and just weren't
Speaker 1: able to be mommy. It's not that easy to just
Speaker 1: focus on on your kids. But you still hood, so man,
Speaker 1: we are plugged you because you don't see that all
Speaker 1: the time. You don't see it all the time. So
Speaker 1: I guess some of us is lucky, someone much is blessed.
Speaker 1: Usually you get that following the footsteps type of ship.
Speaker 1: To be able to get your kids to go on
Speaker 1: a different path to what they saw, what they had
Speaker 1: to you know, hear about it is always challenging. You
Speaker 1: give me, yeah, but I raised minds. They only have
Speaker 1: two options. They either gonna do what I say do
Speaker 1: or are they gonna do what I say do. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna be negotiating. We're not doing none of this
Speaker 1: because you're my kid, and I know what I don't
Speaker 1: want you to do, and you're still in cartoon land,
Speaker 1: or like these two, the two oldest, y'all just now
Speaker 1: really getting out a cartoon land. Y'all still kids though.
Speaker 1: I mean, of course they say eighteen you're grown, but
Speaker 1: eighteen you're really not mentally grown. So my thing is,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna do what I say do, or you're gonna
Speaker 1: do what I say do. We're not gonna sit there
Speaker 1: and negotiat if you can go outside at ten o'clock
Speaker 1: at night, you can't. Period. You're not gonna be saying blood.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be doing none of that because I said,
Speaker 1: you're not period. It stops right there. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people have that open or with their kids and
Speaker 1: think it's cute. I really don't trip onto now he's
Speaker 1: cutting you out of game, banging on you. Not mine. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because our kids. Certain things we do with our kids.
Speaker 1: Our kids tend to believe that, Oh, that ain't my parents,
Speaker 1: that's my friend. You know what I'm saying, because I
Speaker 1: see most homies and most females in the hood can
Speaker 1: sit on the porch and get high with their kids.
Speaker 1: And once you start getting high and drinking with your kids,
Speaker 1: now your child is ready to cuts you out what
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Can you be man and
Speaker 1: knocking me the mouth because you're talking to you like that.
Speaker 1: You don't disrespected yourself about getting high with your kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So half of it, it
Speaker 1: ain't the kids fault, it's the parents, folks. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: actually always say that, like the kids say about sixteen
Speaker 1: the nineteen twenty years old, it's our fault. And when
Speaker 1: I say by ours, I don't want the ladies to
Speaker 1: be offended, but majority of us are single parents, so
Speaker 1: you have to put the blame right there where the
Speaker 1: kids is at all the time. You can't be like, oh,
Speaker 1: well he not there, the daddy not there. I mean
Speaker 1: you can't say that because he should be there if
Speaker 1: percent of the time. Absolutely, but it's our fault. Like
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta sit your ass down, shut up and
Speaker 1: think of what it is you need to do different moves,
Speaker 1: different because your kids are watching, and if you don't
Speaker 1: take that time out, then it's your fault. No difference
Speaker 1: than if one of my kids right now turn out
Speaker 1: to be something crazy, that's my fault, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, of course their daddy or they daddy
Speaker 1: was in their life for I was waiting for eleven years.
Speaker 1: I left after eleven years and I've been a single
Speaker 1: parent by myself. He choose not to deal with his
Speaker 1: kids for whatever reason. I'm not that bitter baby mom.
Speaker 1: I don't do the bitter bitch building. I don't do
Speaker 1: the child sport and all that. I don't do nothing.
Speaker 1: My thing is I had them, I wanted them. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to help me, that's fine, but you
Speaker 1: should be around. But since you're not, whatever the case
Speaker 1: may be. But if they were to go left, it's
Speaker 1: my fault because he's not there. I can't be like,
Speaker 1: you know, he in there and that's why he acted
Speaker 1: like that. No, but I'm here. Why didn't I stop
Speaker 1: him from acting like that? With James McDonald stem age.
Speaker 1: So that's just my thing. You get a lot of
Speaker 1: the oh, well, the father was absentee, so you expect
Speaker 1: the kids to turn out in a horrible position. But
Speaker 1: then you'd be like, but if you got a good,
Speaker 1: strong mama, then because my mom was a single parent,
Speaker 1: even though I attempted, you know, I fell victim to
Speaker 1: the gang banging ship and the drugs selling. But because
Speaker 1: of who she was, it made me wake up quicker.
Speaker 1: You get me. It made me go, I need to
Speaker 1: be doing something else. You give me. Myms are struggling.
Speaker 1: She's a down South woman, come from Gulfport, Mississippi. She
Speaker 1: working two jobs. It's me, my brother and my sister.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And it ain't hurt fault
Speaker 1: that I wanted to go hang out with the niggas
Speaker 1: down the street and start serving and gang banging. Because
Speaker 1: she was doing everything when she was pulling up on
Speaker 1: the block, you was able to do that. Get your
Speaker 1: motherfucking ass in this motherfucking car. And then we'll see
Speaker 1: me walking down the street with the hood hit up
Speaker 1: all on my sweatshirt and I just seen a walking in.
Speaker 1: Did show motherfucking ass in the car? You ain't no
Speaker 1: gang And then get out in front of all the niggas.
Speaker 1: You see this one. He ain't no motherfucking gang banger.
Speaker 1: You give me. So I'm telling me everything I tried
Speaker 1: to attempt. I'm giving a funk. If I was in
Speaker 1: the middle of the hood on the street where the
Speaker 1: motherfucking niggas was tolden straps and nigga, she pulling up
Speaker 1: like you opened the door. Uh, you hitch your motherfucking
Speaker 1: ass in this car. So from that type of ship,
Speaker 1: it made me just one day go maybe I need
Speaker 1: to be doing something else, because first of all, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of put him up on around the block. That'sh
Speaker 1: It is embarrassing, like a motherfucker jump out. So but
Speaker 1: when you got a good, strong mom, then you shouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to go when they turned our funked up
Speaker 1: because dad's not around. Should I'm here putting in all
Speaker 1: the efforts. My influence should be in these children. So
Speaker 1: now we're not going that round and and if you're
Speaker 1: living in the hood or living in those environments, it's
Speaker 1: an extra harder because when they walk out the door,
Speaker 1: God fucking influences everywhere. And let's face it, the kids
Speaker 1: want to be that motherfucker you're perfect, I work, I
Speaker 1: got everything going, but for some reason, they still want
Speaker 1: to be that. So you have to try to curve that.
Speaker 1: Even with my son, I didn't raise him in Compton,
Speaker 1: never took him to the hood, never took him the
Speaker 1: dragnew never took him to whatever. And at a young
Speaker 1: age when we did go pull up in Compton, I
Speaker 1: think it was he used to be scared to get
Speaker 1: out of the car. Yeah, it wasn't his verment. It wasn't.
Speaker 1: But as he gets older, he watching videos, listening to
Speaker 1: music and he wants to have to break that. Shouldn't.
Speaker 1: You're gonna grow up in on motherfucking content. So I
Speaker 1: had to try to tell people all day that's why
Speaker 1: I run a lot. They'd be like, oh, you do
Speaker 1: your son this, you do yourself to check it out
Speaker 1: here on Game Bang. He don't claim the hood, he
Speaker 1: don't sell drugs. He ain't been a juvenilehol someone run
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker. Yeah, exact. And that's one of the
Speaker 1: things I tell you know people all the time, especially
Speaker 1: these younger parents, Your kids are going to be who
Speaker 1: they are based on the effort that you put into them.
Speaker 1: If you're letting them just come home and just run
Speaker 1: them up and do what they want to, you can't
Speaker 1: be too surprised when they're sixteen you find out, man,
Speaker 1: your sell have been out there popping people who have
Speaker 1: been out there robbing people, don't about the selling them
Speaker 1: doping kinda what'd you say? Who? Wait? But not really.
Speaker 1: My two sons went to college. Didn't say they hands,
Speaker 1: don't wear it rings, none of that. Ship never would
Speaker 1: be like me. But I got a daughter, my daughter
Speaker 1: in prison right now. I was her father. Her mother
Speaker 1: was in prison for nine years. I had my daughter
Speaker 1: the whole time. I didn't let her stay with her
Speaker 1: my mama. I went and got my daughter this mine
Speaker 1: and raised my daughter. I told my daughter, you don't
Speaker 1: never want a man like me. You see what I do,
Speaker 1: You see how things is, You don't you don't want
Speaker 1: a man like me. I told her to be different.
Speaker 1: I told her everything. But when I let my daughter
Speaker 1: go back to her mama, to sea, was replanting her.
Speaker 1: Mama ain't ready to be a mama. She had two kids,
Speaker 1: but she doing her. She on some gangster ship. Tell
Speaker 1: me if my daughter wanted to be on some gangster ship.
Speaker 1: And then my daughter wanted up claiming the Southside, and
Speaker 1: now she in prison. And then everything I did, everything
Speaker 1: she needed, everything she wanted it, I gave it to it.
Speaker 1: So when you say, if a baby girl would have
Speaker 1: stay with you with my biggest mistake, letting her go back,
Speaker 1: and just like that little one out there when she
Speaker 1: come home, I'm not gonna repeat history, and letting him
Speaker 1: go back makes sense, you feel me, I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: him antili teen. Then I know I've raised a young man,
Speaker 1: a man, you feel me. So he's nothing like me.
Speaker 1: He tried, but nothing like what I used to be.
Speaker 1: And that's what all of us do. Everything my parents was,
Speaker 1: I'm nothing like just like you said, I'm nothing like that.
Speaker 1: So it all depends on it really do depend on us.
Speaker 1: But options are limited with everything, like A said, everything
Speaker 1: that when you walk out the door or when you
Speaker 1: go to school, all this ship you see you want
Speaker 1: to do it? Yeah, exactly, my little brothers and then
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to get up to go and smoke weeds.
Speaker 1: I'm fifty some years old. I ain't never smoked weeds.
Speaker 1: I just didn't see the why when I get high
Speaker 1: and not know what the you're doing and where you at.
Speaker 1: You gotta partition to ship. This ship is real out here,
Speaker 1: especially in the eighties, so they didn't understand that ship.
Speaker 1: So to hang out and function with him. I'm a
Speaker 1: drink and I was old English drinking my buckle back
Speaker 1: in the days. You know what I'm saying on some
Speaker 1: one hundad. But it all depends when you become a parent.
Speaker 1: I was in prison with my first time in eighty one.
Speaker 1: No I went to prison and any six, my son
Speaker 1: was two, and that was the worstest feeling to him,
Speaker 1: coming to prison and walking around the goddamn visiting room.
Speaker 1: That's my daddy right there. I can even be proud
Speaker 1: of me and I'm in prison, and I went back
Speaker 1: to my shell after the vision was like, damn, I
Speaker 1: had to revampt this ship. So when I got out
Speaker 1: of prison, I haven't seen him penitentiary since you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And that was from my kids. So
Speaker 1: my son won't have to walk that fucking vision room
Speaker 1: and say, damn, that's my dad. But he problemed me
Speaker 1: though I'm in prison. He don't know ship about it,
Speaker 1: but he probably that's my daddy. That's my dad. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Kids they don't want much but
Speaker 1: our attention, especially boys, because I remember my pops and mean,
Speaker 1: it was cool. Now we got a real good relationship now.
Speaker 1: But I remember my pops something, and I can remember
Speaker 1: all this now I'm fifty years old. I remember back
Speaker 1: when I was six that he's supposed to come and
Speaker 1: pick me up. And I'm over here, I got my
Speaker 1: clothes and stuff together, and I'm waiting for my daddy
Speaker 1: and I'm just in the living room waiting. You know,
Speaker 1: one hour ago, by two hours go by. My mama
Speaker 1: kind of trying to tell me, let me put your
Speaker 1: clothes in the closets. They beat them when your dad come. Now,
Speaker 1: I want to keep it right here, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to miss him to you point where you fall
Speaker 1: asleep crying. And this nick ain't showed up here. So
Speaker 1: I just knew that I'll never go. I'm agle keep
Speaker 1: my word with my kids at all times. They don't
Speaker 1: mean I'm giving them everything that they want. But that
Speaker 1: means if I tell them something, they can come on it.
Speaker 1: If I tell them, hey, we're gonna go to the
Speaker 1: park this day and do this. So I always kind of,
Speaker 1: I think something in some cases, kind of overly tried
Speaker 1: to be that perfect father just because of the way
Speaker 1: my my dad was, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: never even looked at it, like because my mom's in around.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't look at I didn't have them episodes.
Speaker 1: So like, remember, dad ain't around. I'm like, sure my
Speaker 1: mom was there. She did every fucking thing. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't like you see people say like, well,
Speaker 1: my father wasn't around. So it kind of sucked me up,
Speaker 1: and I used to wait for him. I used to
Speaker 1: be like that nick coming, don't get a twisted, don't
Speaker 1: get twisted. I'm taking me the football practice. You know,
Speaker 1: mom's taking me to school. I mean, I get what
Speaker 1: you're saying, because you you you you loaned for that,
Speaker 1: like my dad. But I never had that feeling, you
Speaker 1: know what. I don't even know if it was longing
Speaker 1: for him, dog. I just know I saw other kids
Speaker 1: doing ship with their dad. I saw that my cus
Speaker 1: and father was in the home. My my other cousin
Speaker 1: father was But I'm gonna tell you what, but my
Speaker 1: saving grace was I was walking down the street one
Speaker 1: day and I was always taller and bigger than everybody,
Speaker 1: and there was a dude out there. He was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you play football, and I was like, no, I want
Speaker 1: to them. So he said, okay, come to this park
Speaker 1: this day. So I go up there. Man, they're getting
Speaker 1: my equipment. Ain't know you know this the seventies. Ain't there,
Speaker 1: ain't nobody's signing, no permissions, live or nothing. They just
Speaker 1: know we got this tall dude. And I was out
Speaker 1: there just getting broke off. The first day. I didn't
Speaker 1: know what was going on. But then he started teaching
Speaker 1: me stuff right, and I actually was pretty good, but
Speaker 1: it used to like really hurt me. I see all
Speaker 1: these parents and the stands coming to get their kids,
Speaker 1: and I was just out there by myself. To this day,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I played the whole season. I
Speaker 1: ain't never pay no money, ain't never you're nothing. I'm
Speaker 1: just at the games. Coach, come pick me up, meet
Speaker 1: me off here. Nobody asked no questions, and I wind
Speaker 1: up going to colleagues like that, you know, off of
Speaker 1: football because somebody took an interest in me, which is
Speaker 1: why later on I started my youth program just to
Speaker 1: try to get back. I think, like eight said, dog,
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, black women women period, they make the
Speaker 1: hood go around. They are the strongest in most cases
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Because the thing is this, you you
Speaker 1: always hear about daddy's leaving, but when you hear about
Speaker 1: the mama leaving, it's like, oh, for real, you know,
Speaker 1: that's just not natural. Mothers are just like our mothers
Speaker 1: in the hood, go through some stuff. They raised, you figure,
Speaker 1: they're raising the hard head and they got home. They're
Speaker 1: raising the hard heare in most cases right, and they're
Speaker 1: making it happen when they're own. They're paying the bills
Speaker 1: when they're own. Stuff like that. Sometimes I'll be wondering,
Speaker 1: how did these women, like, how do they do that?
Speaker 1: Like it's almost impossible, because y'all make the impossible happen.
Speaker 1: So I gotta applaud all y'all black women out there.
Speaker 1: It is taking care of kids on your own, because
Speaker 1: it's hard. Oh yes, it is. They gotta ply out
Speaker 1: the ones who come from the struggle though, because you
Speaker 1: got you got some who have have advantages or advantue
Speaker 1: know parents, both parents home, They don't live in the
Speaker 1: funked up environments. They get this college scholarship and they
Speaker 1: get to go off. And then some of these mama's
Speaker 1: come from where we come from, gang banging and drug
Speaker 1: selling and nigga's going to the pin and getting killed off.
Speaker 1: Now I'm left with two kids. Ain't got no baby
Speaker 1: daddy around, or he just took off and wanted to
Speaker 1: go funk with somebody else, or or motherfucker. Was just
Speaker 1: a lot of us had kids young, and the sisters
Speaker 1: in the hood that's go get it, girls that already
Speaker 1: had that background and hustling and telling that I can't
Speaker 1: give up because I want something. And you had something
Speaker 1: that chip care of yourself better than the chip care
Speaker 1: of the kids. Didn't you have those that you know
Speaker 1: how when you when you when you get to get
Speaker 1: nold and to get to like a little yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: waiting out to the end of time and ship because
Speaker 1: I got to flip this for the kids or whatever.
Speaker 1: So like I said, when you come from where we
Speaker 1: come from, and you're on the woman's status, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because you gotta deal with a whole
Speaker 1: lot of yeah. Yeah, yeah, And that's what and that's
Speaker 1: what I want to get back to. Mama Boom. You're
Speaker 1: going through all this stuff, right, you got a kid
Speaker 1: right now? Did you graduate in high school? Yes, so
Speaker 1: you gradualate to high school. What did you do after
Speaker 1: you graduate in high school? Oh? That a little year
Speaker 1: after high school. I was turned all the way up.
Speaker 1: I was doing a whole lot, That's all I'm saying
Speaker 1: about that. I was turned to the max back in
Speaker 1: the hood. Yeah, yeah, why, I mean, I was still
Speaker 1: in eighteen nineteen, so you know, I was still turned up.
Speaker 1: That was before my daughter, So I mean I was
Speaker 1: like out of state. I was. I was doing a
Speaker 1: whole lot of stuff. I was doing the equal to
Speaker 1: a boy, to a male like all that. And then
Speaker 1: people be thinking that most chicks that grew up in
Speaker 1: the hood, they have like a sexual background with the
Speaker 1: knicks in the hood. Not all of us. It's very few.
Speaker 1: It's maybe like two or three of us per hood,
Speaker 1: but not all of us went that route. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, I was just turned to answer
Speaker 1: your question, and I was just turned all the way
Speaker 1: to the max. No, we go go into what you've
Speaker 1: got going on today, which is incredible, But I got
Speaker 1: I want the people out there to see the transgression.
Speaker 1: What happened in the hood to make you say, I'm
Speaker 1: done with this ship. I'm about to go get my
Speaker 1: life together and just get it going. Was it one
Speaker 1: incident that was a series of incidents. Um, it's one
Speaker 1: in particular that I'm going to speak around and I'll
Speaker 1: be specific, but um, it was just the see that
Speaker 1: how the hood don't take care of you when you
Speaker 1: do something and now you in need and they don't
Speaker 1: take care of you. Have a friend that's something like
Speaker 1: that happened to and they just didn't step up to
Speaker 1: take care of the situation. And it's like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: we're females. And the thing about the females, my opinion,
Speaker 1: is not only are we fighting for the guys to
Speaker 1: respect as we're fighting for the following females to respect
Speaker 1: us to something that you guys don't have to do.
Speaker 1: Y'all just fighting for each other to know. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll nigga, i am who I am, and I'm the
Speaker 1: big nigga or whatever. But the women are fighting both battles,
Speaker 1: the men to prove that point to them as well
Speaker 1: as the female too. So it's just it was just
Speaker 1: a lot going on. And then then not too much
Speaker 1: after that, I got pregnant. So I'm like, okay with
Speaker 1: that happened with my home girl. And the only reason
Speaker 1: I wasn't there is because I was doing something else
Speaker 1: that day. Not because I said no, because I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been the same situation because we very clear. But
Speaker 1: to see how that fan out and how the support
Speaker 1: wasn't there, and we're talking about a female that did
Speaker 1: something for the hood and for the hood, not to
Speaker 1: you know, help, I just was like, no, this is
Speaker 1: not it's not gonna work. And you in your biborhood,
Speaker 1: you was kind of considered to go to home girl,
Speaker 1: like something needs that. You know, you was looked at
Speaker 1: as a person that wasn't no winning of course. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So okay, y'all just want to put that out there,
Speaker 1: and so what did you do? What did you decide
Speaker 1: to do after this? Like what was your next step?
Speaker 1: Did you just say that I'm done with this ship,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to college somebody? You know what I did?
Speaker 1: Was I started working really actually once I got pregnant
Speaker 1: with my daughter, then I just stopped going to the
Speaker 1: herd so much. And UM, once I had her, I
Speaker 1: actually taught myself to read by reading to her when
Speaker 1: she was like months old, and in my mind is like,
Speaker 1: she don't know if I'm saying this correctly or not.
Speaker 1: So I just started reading to her because I was
Speaker 1: going to school for medical assistant. And then I started
Speaker 1: reading Donald Goin's books, and I've read all fifteen books
Speaker 1: of his, but I was reading them to her, and
Speaker 1: I just taught myself how to read and just kept
Speaker 1: going from what I was doing and started working UM
Speaker 1: and assistant living with elders with all times in dementia.
Speaker 1: So that's what I've done for like fifteen years. We're
Speaker 1: working with elders with all times in dementia. A little
Speaker 1: bit it with going back to the who my foot
Speaker 1: in there, like the first couple of years of course,
Speaker 1: fighting and all that stuff, tearing up, terrorizing the hood,
Speaker 1: but not on ten, maybe like on seven maybe eight,
Speaker 1: without ten, and just gradually just came into who I
Speaker 1: am now. But it took different stumbles. It took heartbreak,
Speaker 1: it took me not understanding why is this happening for
Speaker 1: me to get to where I'm at now. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's been a long road. I'm there and I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm still getting it. Like I said, some of us,
Speaker 1: it just takes that extra climb, especially where we come from,
Speaker 1: it takes us a little extra climb to get And
Speaker 1: then sometimes that's good for you to to witness some
Speaker 1: of the pitfalls and ship because then that makes you
Speaker 1: a better motherfuckering a long run, because then you know
Speaker 1: what not to get into, you know what not to
Speaker 1: get involved in. Then you've got lessons to tell other motherfuckers.
Speaker 1: You give me follow this path that I followed, and
Speaker 1: you might. You might make it out of the bullshit
Speaker 1: that you you end. So, like I said, everybody go
Speaker 1: through fucking transitions. It's it's more than the transition, because
Speaker 1: this is something. It's a cycle. You're in the hood
Speaker 1: and you put your life on the line for the hood.
Speaker 1: You do things for the hood, and then at the
Speaker 1: end of the day when you need it, they're not there.
Speaker 1: You might have certain individuals that's gonna pop up, but
Speaker 1: the hood has one Because if I go out and
Speaker 1: do something for for the homie, I did it for
Speaker 1: the hood. I ain't do it just for one individual.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people out there just like
Speaker 1: she said that. But now you gotta see my book,
Speaker 1: go to jail. What happens you and jail ain't nobody
Speaker 1: said that, you know, snaps and no money. The average
Speaker 1: chat that dies on the street of Compton or l A.
Speaker 1: They're gonna celebrate that birthday for the first year, and
Speaker 1: then you forgot about just the homie though, And that's
Speaker 1: what people don't know, understand. And once you break from that,
Speaker 1: then they don't like you because you broke from that.
Speaker 1: That's the crazy part because most people that break from it,
Speaker 1: they break from it for a reason, you know, something
Speaker 1: that's from with them selves. And it's like, I never
Speaker 1: said forget the hood. I never said that. I never
Speaker 1: felt like I don't funk with y'all no more. I
Speaker 1: still funk with y'all from the heart, but just not
Speaker 1: in physical like I'm around you, right, And it's like,
Speaker 1: just by you changing, they feel like you don't you're
Speaker 1: not the same person. No, I'm not. I'm growing. I'm growing.
Speaker 1: This is my way of growing. I'm not saying the
Speaker 1: way that I'm growing. You should do it. And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to pressure you to be like me. No do you,
Speaker 1: But I'm stepping in a different path, right What should say, James? Like?
Speaker 1: It's motherfucker's who you like right now? Still stuck like
Speaker 1: a motherfucker the drinking. You know. One thing that tricks
Speaker 1: me out though, is um And this is just noth
Speaker 1: in l A. This is all over the country. They
Speaker 1: used to just shovel us through school. She said, she
Speaker 1: couldn't read, and you just got passed one. You show up,
Speaker 1: you don't cast. No fucking rookies. They like, hey, they
Speaker 1: got her. They make sure she passed. The body here
Speaker 1: this was the little cast. Don't understand. And I want
Speaker 1: you to listen to me. My my nephew, Duty was
Speaker 1: going to school. He was going to Wayley and they
Speaker 1: kept letting him pass every grade. What the fun? What
Speaker 1: did you do? Let me? I swear to God, were
Speaker 1: in the little council meeting because he was bad as
Speaker 1: a motherfuckers. She said, just pass him so we can
Speaker 1: get rid of and then grade just to get rid
Speaker 1: of me. So they're not thinking about you, right, your education? Right,
Speaker 1: those folks are in the wrong place because they don't
Speaker 1: give a fuck. They're coming to get that check. Go home.
Speaker 1: You got some good teachers out there though, Yes, that
Speaker 1: that that wanted you get your education. But if you
Speaker 1: have more im the ones that want to ship, you're good.
Speaker 1: But you don't have it, so it's up to you.
Speaker 1: Didn't get it like you got that change that changed
Speaker 1: the psycho though. If you get a motherfucker who really is,
Speaker 1: If you get a motherfucker that just go let this
Speaker 1: motherfucker go pass, you're gonna be wondering in two years.
Speaker 1: While I think it just shot up everybody on the block.
Speaker 1: Whatever you're gonna be like, Damn, he was just in
Speaker 1: my classroom. I figured that was gonna go to path.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta reach that type of mom you do.
Speaker 1: I'm a proud to that, Gus. When the person learns
Speaker 1: how to read, When the individual learns how to read,
Speaker 1: it's almost like you give them freedom, though, because you
Speaker 1: open up the whole world up to them. When the
Speaker 1: people learn how to read, you open up a whole
Speaker 1: another world to them. And so did you eventually move
Speaker 1: out the neighborhood. I moved away when I was with
Speaker 1: their dad, but I moved back and I'm still back
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. But I mean, I just like you
Speaker 1: say when you open a book to where you open
Speaker 1: your mind to read. Hell, I put myself back in
Speaker 1: college and you know, I graduated with my business degree.
Speaker 1: What it is the two thousand nineteen, the same year
Speaker 1: my daughter graduated from the twelfth grade. So you know,
Speaker 1: thank you. So it's like one of those things like
Speaker 1: what people don't understand if you read and research, and
Speaker 1: I don't understand why people are still stuck being stupid
Speaker 1: when you got the Google at your fingertips, Like it's
Speaker 1: so easy now, like back in the day we have
Speaker 1: to go to the library and shiftle through books. Now
Speaker 1: you just google it, and it's like, y'all still stupid.
Speaker 1: That's a choice, yeah, exactly, because you can self educate yourself.
Speaker 1: Because some of the most brilliant people I know. I
Speaker 1: got a partner that's a billionaire, didn't graduate from my school,
Speaker 1: but it had a desire to learn. He hesyched out
Speaker 1: here from New York, not a dude on damn every
Speaker 1: piece of property. It is because he learned how to read,
Speaker 1: and he learned how to speak, and he learned how
Speaker 1: to ask questions. He needed to know you know, he
Speaker 1: just was curious about it. Took him a while, but
Speaker 1: this dude, this empire, working the goals gym, selling goals
Speaker 1: gym membership. Still eventually you know, buying his first apartment unit,
Speaker 1: buying the second one. Now he in a bigg ass house.
Speaker 1: This dude don't got high school to plumber, but he
Speaker 1: taught itself. He didn't let the world dictate to him
Speaker 1: that you're just gonna be. This is who you are, right,
Speaker 1: you know, So I'm gonna let you continue on with
Speaker 1: your story because this is really like I want to do. So.
Speaker 1: So you graduated with your degree in business, right, what
Speaker 1: you do after that just just Whatn't you know what
Speaker 1: that right there? That was like two years ago, and
Speaker 1: that was like another moment in my life where I
Speaker 1: was going through stuff. There was a lot going on
Speaker 1: at that time, and I got my heart broke. So
Speaker 1: I just backed away from guys. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: say not, I don't think no, no like girls that
Speaker 1: you know, you bunch of woman. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: don't be in my deal with that. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that we are very beautiful. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm the one that will compliment another woman.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But I don't want y'all like that who broke your
Speaker 1: her because now we want you going into that all
Speaker 1: want you to find because I ain't your mom. But
Speaker 1: lady'all gonna see Mama's fine. Mama ain't going that round
Speaker 1: to why she chose not to? You asked the question
Speaker 1: why she chose not to deal with that? So I graduated. Actually,
Speaker 1: when I walked the stage, it was like a turner
Speaker 1: point for me. We meet my kids and two of
Speaker 1: my friends. We drove to Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona for me
Speaker 1: to graduate out there because I graduate from the University
Speaker 1: of Phoenix, and so we drove out there and it
Speaker 1: was just so much going on, a lot of narcissistic acting,
Speaker 1: you know, from the other person. It was just so much.
Speaker 1: And once I walked to stay age, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: did this. Even though I was going through a lot
Speaker 1: in my personal life, I still made sure my last
Speaker 1: three grades on my my last three what is what
Speaker 1: do they call it? Um? Y'all supposed to help me?
Speaker 1: Y'all last three year and it's thank you. So the
Speaker 1: last three years I had b pluses in the A.
Speaker 1: So in the midst of all of this, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: I just really thought to myself, like, girl, you could
Speaker 1: do this. Its like, what is your problem? Why are
Speaker 1: you still scared of yourself? Because I've been scared myself
Speaker 1: for many because back and Down used to wrap and
Speaker 1: have flows. Don't get it twisted, you know. And I've
Speaker 1: done a lot of different things where people just be like,
Speaker 1: that's what you should do, that should gift, and I'll
Speaker 1: just be scared to show other people who I really am,
Speaker 1: just depressing myself, suppressing myself. I mean. So after that
Speaker 1: I walk into stage, it was like I can do this, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, then my daughter graduated, then my son graduated
Speaker 1: from fifth grade, and it's like, you know what, let
Speaker 1: me step away from men because I'm letting this relationship
Speaker 1: go and let me reflect and figure out who am I,
Speaker 1: what do I want to do? And that's how the
Speaker 1: nonprofit came about. That's how the motorcycle club came about.
Speaker 1: That I have my own little motorcycle club. So I
Speaker 1: just started creating different stuff until were like two years
Speaker 1: later and I'm still not dealing with men, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but I'm saying that to speak to women
Speaker 1: that think that every time you break up from something,
Speaker 1: you go move into something else. Don't do that. Give
Speaker 1: yourself time and space to be clearing your head with
Speaker 1: who you are opposed outside the pin you know, a
Speaker 1: pillow talk, be who you are. Sure you don't have
Speaker 1: to validate shelf by saying I got a man now,
Speaker 1: because it's a lot of things that I've done. Not
Speaker 1: to cut you off, sorry, it's a lot of things
Speaker 1: I've done in this two years. It's me. This is
Speaker 1: what I've done. This is not no me and him
Speaker 1: or he helped or this is me everything now. Of
Speaker 1: course I was on the rail station eight eight point
Speaker 1: nine with DJ e Man, so that's like a piece
Speaker 1: of one of my plugs with some of my interviews
Speaker 1: and then other people, so I made like three people
Speaker 1: that helped me. But other than that, this is me
Speaker 1: these two years, my nonprofit, my motorcycle club. I did
Speaker 1: an interview with a Sweden lady about a year ago,
Speaker 1: so I have an article over in Sweden. Um. I
Speaker 1: actually did like a little small soundtrack for the UK.
Speaker 1: That's a movie soundtrack that's in the UK. This is
Speaker 1: me everything that I'm doing, me talking, sit down and interviews.
Speaker 1: This is what I want to do. I'm at the
Speaker 1: point where I'm gonna be me and that's a period.
Speaker 1: And what is this Because you've got some big stuff
Speaker 1: going on? Yeah, and I'm excited. Can we break the news? Yes? Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: So with everything that's been going on in my community,
Speaker 1: I'll break it down real fast. Within the last two years,
Speaker 1: within the apartment buildings that I grew up in South
Speaker 1: Bayville apartments, has been four murders within two years. It
Speaker 1: started out with the murder with them with the police
Speaker 1: killing the guy named Ryan. It started out with that,
Speaker 1: and a week later I believe they was at his
Speaker 1: visual and one of our homeboys got killed. Then okay,
Speaker 1: move it to the end of last year. Another one
Speaker 1: at home where he's got killed in the apartments. Then
Speaker 1: February fifteen, friend of mine, she got killed in apartments.
Speaker 1: So I went to the council. What are y'all gonna do?
Speaker 1: Because I'm like I told them, y'all have two options.
Speaker 1: You're either gonna help me help my community, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna help me help my community. No, it's not an
Speaker 1: option no more. It's too much going on, and I
Speaker 1: don't never see y'all. What about the counseling for these
Speaker 1: babies over here? You got babies in these apartments that
Speaker 1: got PTSD from this violence that's going on over here,
Speaker 1: And ain't nobody talking about counseling. Now we know us
Speaker 1: as people, we don't do counseling. I think that's one
Speaker 1: of the dumbest things that we think, because we should.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we need an outlet, sometimes we need somebody else
Speaker 1: perspective to change our mindset sometime. But I went to
Speaker 1: the council and I was just, you know, on their
Speaker 1: head about you need to help my community. I'm still here.
Speaker 1: I talked to the parents with my nonprofit Live Your Life,
Speaker 1: our mentor and council team Girls and Young Women at Risk.
Speaker 1: So I'm hearing what's going on on top of my
Speaker 1: mother still lives in those apartments, so I'm hearing what's
Speaker 1: going on, and it's like, y're not doing nothing. So
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, let me stop talking
Speaker 1: about it, because we've been talking and we've been marching
Speaker 1: since before Marl Luke King, we've been running since before
Speaker 1: Harriet Tubman do something about it. So yes, let your
Speaker 1: eyes know that I am on the city council or
Speaker 1: running for the city council for a community outreach, a
Speaker 1: representative man, let's give use. Yeah, we need coming from
Speaker 1: coming from there the same environment ships stepping up and
Speaker 1: trying to improve the environment. Especially when you know you've
Speaker 1: got people dropping like flies in the same spot that
Speaker 1: that's that's that's a hot spot, when you got children
Speaker 1: growing up over there. It just seems to be just
Speaker 1: fucked up that nobody's stepping in and trying to solve
Speaker 1: the problem with what's going on in this particular area.
Speaker 1: We got we got solved this ship. But you gotta
Speaker 1: look at it too, like this, what she doing is
Speaker 1: important because she from the hood. You know what's going
Speaker 1: on in the hood. And that's how we police our
Speaker 1: own ship. We gotta get people that that came from here,
Speaker 1: because now I can counsel him, I can tell you
Speaker 1: why you fucked up? Came nobody from Beverly Hills coming
Speaker 1: tell me a mother, it don't happen, So I mean
Speaker 1: dismissed me. When when you want to put all these
Speaker 1: white people that come from from uh Orange Grove and
Speaker 1: on these other different places and they part of the
Speaker 1: Council of the city, the mayor and all that. Omar Burley,
Speaker 1: Omar Bradley was a cool motherfucking mayor because he knew
Speaker 1: the people and he made ship work. But then you
Speaker 1: you find people that didn't want him there and found
Speaker 1: petty ship to funk with him. But we need black
Speaker 1: men and black women from the neighborhood to grow the
Speaker 1: funk up. Let's get that education and let's take some
Speaker 1: of these positions. Yeah, that's what I say to a
Speaker 1: lot of people. And I've had people like, why do
Speaker 1: you want your darter in the military, And you know, everybody,
Speaker 1: we got the statistic thing going on that like everybody
Speaker 1: wants the military getting murdered and all listen, No they
Speaker 1: don't like who told you all that? But my thing is,
Speaker 1: like I sat down my dart and let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about pros and cons of everything. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: if you stay here and you find you a job, like,
Speaker 1: what what is your job experience? Right now? You fresh
Speaker 1: out of high school, your Honora kid, you play basketball,
Speaker 1: You was a captain of the basketball team. You know
Speaker 1: you are a real treasure. So what are you gonna
Speaker 1: do with yourself? What you're gonna be making boxes or
Speaker 1: something like that. So yeah, but my thing was, Okay,
Speaker 1: you don't have a scholarship to go to college, so therefore,
Speaker 1: if you go to college, you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: that back. They're not talking about that. That's not about
Speaker 1: find that your financial aid goes on to pay it back.
Speaker 1: Account money like it go there. So if you don't
Speaker 1: have financial aid, I'm not rich. I cannot see you
Speaker 1: to college. I'm still in the mud trying to get
Speaker 1: it out. The mundy. The military it's a way for
Speaker 1: her to see different ships that a lot of people
Speaker 1: are scared of, the military ship. I was about to
Speaker 1: take the military route. I mean until I started motherfucking
Speaker 1: wrapping and was blessed with the gift to start writing
Speaker 1: and pinning ship down. It's not a lot of choices
Speaker 1: for when you in that motherfucking route. So we don't
Speaker 1: even talk about it. It's like we don't even bring
Speaker 1: the military to the tail because that we were taught
Speaker 1: as as black people. That's that white men and ship.
Speaker 1: You don't go to the military. Funk, that ship Nigga's gone.
Speaker 1: It's always that with with with the way we were
Speaker 1: talking and then you see in the movies when they
Speaker 1: paint the pictures, soon as you step on the motherfuck
Speaker 1: boom is over with about it. But if you think
Speaker 1: about it, you have uncles. Are are people you know
Speaker 1: have been to the military. They have a decent life,
Speaker 1: the ones that wasn't at war. And then that's another thing.
Speaker 1: If you're not trying to be g I George, g
Speaker 1: I Jane, then you can go and you can make
Speaker 1: a life out of this. You could be a barber,
Speaker 1: you could be the maintenance man. You don't have to
Speaker 1: go and be in combat. How would you feel if
Speaker 1: you wanted to be a police officer, I would applaud
Speaker 1: them be it, because I need you in position to
Speaker 1: make change. What were we talking about? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm said. We outside doing all this yelling and talking
Speaker 1: about this is what I want you to do, but
Speaker 1: nobody is either putting themselves in position or teaching theirs
Speaker 1: to be to be at the table to talk about
Speaker 1: these issues. I've said the same ship when it comes
Speaker 1: to the police and people who police the neighborhoods, you
Speaker 1: should have motherfucker's who know the neighborhood. You know the
Speaker 1: people you're dealing with. Why are you gonna send uh
Speaker 1: the dude who went to school and bird Bank and
Speaker 1: ship and then you want to send him down mother
Speaker 1: to his Motherfucking attitude and mentality is already fuck it
Speaker 1: as opposed to a nigger who grew up here and
Speaker 1: and know the streets, know the niggas, know what the
Speaker 1: position is, and so that way you have a better
Speaker 1: relationship to deal with the niggas who are still on
Speaker 1: the block banging or whatever. You feel like how Reggie
Speaker 1: Wright Singer was. But the thing is, this is how
Speaker 1: I feel about the military. Right. There are limited opportunities
Speaker 1: for our young people out there. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: you tell somebody and this is what I fromtly believe.
Speaker 1: I believe some jobs or traps. Yeah, like you know
Speaker 1: you tell a kid, they go to McDonald's to make
Speaker 1: you some money. Right, so they ain't nothing wrong with working.
Speaker 1: So this ain't it? Not that somebody you know they're
Speaker 1: doing it. But I believe people need to try to achieve,
Speaker 1: you know, they needed in the house. Yeah, because I've
Speaker 1: known homeboys that the left home that was funck ups.
Speaker 1: When did the military come back home with different people?
Speaker 1: They got structure in their life Some people just need
Speaker 1: a program. Some people just gotta have a program. They
Speaker 1: gotta have Okay, I'm gonna be here at eight o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning before I'm gonna go do this. And
Speaker 1: you get people to go the military, they come home
Speaker 1: and have great careers. They go. When I was playing ball,
Speaker 1: the dorms I was living in when I was going
Speaker 1: to do Mexico State, had a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: just came up the desert storm and they was going
Speaker 1: to school. Now the government was paying for them to
Speaker 1: go to school. One of them runs a hotel in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas now the other ones and you talk doing
Speaker 1: these things. So there are opportunities out there for people.
Speaker 1: And one thing that we got to stop doing is
Speaker 1: making our keys, especially our black kids, feel limited to
Speaker 1: what their choices are. Yeah, yeah, we need more black
Speaker 1: police officers from the hood. You've got you and that
Speaker 1: comes from the neighborhood. Why do you want to be
Speaker 1: a police Why you don't want to do that? You
Speaker 1: you can call if he was in the academy. Here'd
Speaker 1: be worse than a snitch. Here'll be worse than anything else.
Speaker 1: Why do you want to be a guy named police officer?
Speaker 1: It's your career. Why you want to be a nurse,
Speaker 1: and why do you want to come on? We we
Speaker 1: we break each other down and post it, live at
Speaker 1: each other exactly. We believe we can't be in that building.
Speaker 1: We can't work in that building. Why because mother others
Speaker 1: we can't. That's why I'll be in my house telling
Speaker 1: my kids the total opposite. I'll be in their brain
Speaker 1: watching my kids. Now. People be like when I say
Speaker 1: if you like you, yeah, because if you say the
Speaker 1: same thing over and over and over from childhood all
Speaker 1: the way to a teenager, this is embedded in their brain.
Speaker 1: Like like I tell my daughter, you're not gonna be
Speaker 1: a stupid smart kid. They don't even make sense for
Speaker 1: you to be smart. But at he's stupid. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna do that. No difference than my son right here
Speaker 1: now he's very well, very good and building things. He
Speaker 1: can build a drone almost from scratch. You know, he's
Speaker 1: very good now. But my thing is to empower him
Speaker 1: to let him know just because you're not doing the
Speaker 1: typical guys are doing, then that don't mean you week.
Speaker 1: That means you you're stronger mentally than they are because
Speaker 1: you're doing what they're not doing what people say, the
Speaker 1: opposite of a post of monkey see monkey do. So
Speaker 1: I just believe people just got to empower their kids
Speaker 1: in the house. It starts. Everything starts in the house.
Speaker 1: My insecurities started in the house. My not being able
Speaker 1: to talk and get support started in the house. Now
Speaker 1: Here it is people like, why she's so angry? How
Speaker 1: ab I been bad since seven, eight, nine years old?
Speaker 1: Because it was me figuring this out, you know. Now,
Speaker 1: my mom went a bad Mama wouldn't say that she
Speaker 1: was on drug. It was never went from pillow to post.
Speaker 1: She was just in the house. She never supported anything
Speaker 1: I done, you know. So it was just like me
Speaker 1: and if by my side, fighting and getting into it.
Speaker 1: My mama would come outside and make me come in.
Speaker 1: How she wouldn't come outside and take up for me
Speaker 1: and I see what's going on. So I got to
Speaker 1: the point where I could be fighting right outside of
Speaker 1: my mama bad gate and wouldn't make a sound, which
Speaker 1: was support system down. Though you know what, I really
Speaker 1: don't have one because I don't deal with my family.
Speaker 1: So it's me literally, this ship is me. Well, you
Speaker 1: gotta support system, No, you gottaus Yeah, you got us.
Speaker 1: I have about three people, Like I said, three people,
Speaker 1: that's my support, sy and you're running for this position,
Speaker 1: you gotta have somebody that got you. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: on social media because I haven't I haven't posted it yet.
Speaker 1: I've been waiting to drop it here. So but I
Speaker 1: have people as far as in people to support me
Speaker 1: that mostly the people don't even know me, you know.
Speaker 1: But as I would say, like a somebody that like
Speaker 1: a group of people that's around me, like you know,
Speaker 1: then weekly or whatever like that, and now I don't
Speaker 1: have that, get some of your girls over there in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood to to help you out and give them
Speaker 1: that a little record. I'm going to put the information.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put the information out there and if
Speaker 1: they want to help, then they will let me know.
Speaker 1: Because when people don't understand our local office, our local
Speaker 1: government is the one of them packs us the most.
Speaker 1: So when people be making a big deal about who
Speaker 1: the president of the United States is gonna be, that
Speaker 1: really don't hear us. You don't have no effect on
Speaker 1: don't have no impact on our communities. If the your
Speaker 1: local city council person, your person is there, that's gonna
Speaker 1: make that media impact in your community that you can see.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely they definitely we need to support you.
Speaker 1: We need for you to win because you're actually from
Speaker 1: the community that you're going out there to represent. And
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of seeing folks come from other places. Yes, stakeholders.
Speaker 1: They want to be like like put to put it
Speaker 1: out there. We might be the media. We're going to
Speaker 1: vote if Chris Rocking win. She damn yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the ship right there. We need to her girl
Speaker 1: with Tesla, Yeah, Tesla for girl, got home, girl testing
Speaker 1: for girl shout out to test. But Tess is a
Speaker 1: political analyst and she knows all about that world and
Speaker 1: she tells us about all importance because she keeps telling
Speaker 1: somebody at this table that's with us. She wants him.
Speaker 1: She got me watching and you know the way, but
Speaker 1: the way she she breaks down politics because a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't get involved in politics because they don't
Speaker 1: know it's I don't know. But once they learned ain't
Speaker 1: doing a gangsterism and you know what, all you can
Speaker 1: do politics in the hood, then you can do. You
Speaker 1: just got to educate yourself on certain terminology and certain
Speaker 1: things that that's the same thing. If people saw are
Speaker 1: sisters up today, come from from the mud to now
Speaker 1: trying and doing shit. It's a big statement. I was
Speaker 1: I was telling you about Cynthia. Oh yeah, that's my boot.
Speaker 1: There's so many women out of here, such as yourself,
Speaker 1: mama Boot. That's that's ready for change. We gotta get
Speaker 1: them all together and then just go. Man, that's what
Speaker 1: we need to do, because like I said, they're the
Speaker 1: backbone of our communities. The black woman is the backbone
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood. And they go through so much stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like you got so many strong women, like you know,
Speaker 1: you see women they get and they keep a smile
Speaker 1: on their face, but they don't lost kids, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: lost loved ones and it's just been a life of losses.
Speaker 1: But they still they're strong and now they're taking care
Speaker 1: of grand kids and stuff like that. Y'all go through
Speaker 1: a lot of ship. Yeah, it's a lot of ship.
Speaker 1: And the only way the world, the world almost is
Speaker 1: constantly disrespecting the black mam. No, it ain't the world, man,
Speaker 1: Come on, that's that's the We disrespectus. Petus like someone
Speaker 1: sisters disrespect us, and I can I can go from
Speaker 1: from point A to point B. Sister the parliament. If
Speaker 1: I ain't working, we had this conversation yesterday. If I
Speaker 1: ain't working and they can't pay that bill, she ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lift me up. She ain't gonna say I got
Speaker 1: it babe. This month, she's gonna get your sorry. As
Speaker 1: something that's talk, that's that that goes back to the
Speaker 1: grand The grandmother does something no grandmother was was hallever.
Speaker 1: Grandmama's just died too early. Now when these kids now nowadays,
Speaker 1: your grandmama at forty three, forty five years old. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So it's it's totally different. Let's
Speaker 1: just say we heard ourselves, and we gotta stop blaming
Speaker 1: motherfucking everybody else. We got to stop blaming the slaves
Speaker 1: and ship. I ain't no motherfucker because we do words.
Speaker 1: Games fixed that ship. Since I don't get older even
Speaker 1: the music and I come from the music industry, you know,
Speaker 1: you know every other word we call our bitches, holes
Speaker 1: and stuff. I don't. And the females we out there
Speaker 1: loving it. And it pissed me off. When I walked
Speaker 1: down the street and I see some young girls walking
Speaker 1: and they called each other a big short big and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like like I had to ask these
Speaker 1: girls one day, why are y'all disrespecting each other? Like that?
Speaker 1: You just look at and it looked at me and
Speaker 1: they laugh. H you know whatever. But no, it ain't
Speaker 1: about being over. We gotta start respecting ourselves before we
Speaker 1: If we expect the rest of the world to respect
Speaker 1: us as people, we gotta start respecting ourselves. Yeah, anything,
Speaker 1: I think the start of it is for people to
Speaker 1: educate themselves. That would be the start of it. Because
Speaker 1: if you start looking at all these holidays that everybody
Speaker 1: just sold just geared up to to celebrate, if you
Speaker 1: look at what it founded on and what years did
Speaker 1: it start, Like where were we ask people at that time?
Speaker 1: If you start to understand that, you're starting to stand
Speaker 1: these holidays are not for us. We have specific holidays.
Speaker 1: But my thing is, you've see all the Christmas and
Speaker 1: all of this, and the Fourth of July and all
Speaker 1: of this, everybody out the outfits or whatever. But when
Speaker 1: Mark Luther King Day come around, it's like you you
Speaker 1: may see a post here and there, won't you get
Speaker 1: your kids all geared up for Marl Luke King. We
Speaker 1: actually seen that he actually did exist. We actually have
Speaker 1: video and his wife and him, his kids, his kids
Speaker 1: still alive, like he actually exists. But y'all, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna put that much effort into celebrating him as you
Speaker 1: would a Santa Claus. Okay, exactly, So what's your examit
Speaker 1: for when you win this post, when you win this position,
Speaker 1: what is your first plan of action? My first plan
Speaker 1: of action is to bring more awareness to my community,
Speaker 1: um as well as get more youth centers open, you know,
Speaker 1: because like it's a lot of part the recreations they've
Speaker 1: been closed for a long time, so I'm pushing that
Speaker 1: to get that open. These kids need something to do
Speaker 1: opposed to being stuck. And then you got COVID so
Speaker 1: they're not going to school. So it's just a lot
Speaker 1: of boat up energy from these kids that they need
Speaker 1: to be able to exercise. Play cames. You know, we
Speaker 1: used to play cames. They don't even know about cameras.
Speaker 1: The girls don't even know about Devil Dutch. You know.
Speaker 1: It's just a lot that has been taken from them
Speaker 1: based off these falls. So my main focus is the
Speaker 1: kids to get recreations centers open as well as start
Speaker 1: to um implement different activities for the elders. You know,
Speaker 1: you got grandma and grandpa sitting at home all day
Speaker 1: with nothing to do. I don't know, gets zoom going.
Speaker 1: My thing is a look out for them because like
Speaker 1: I said, I've been working with elders with all times
Speaker 1: in Demensia for fifteen years. So that's the area that
Speaker 1: I know how to work with the elders with. And
Speaker 1: another thing is get some of these um these counseling
Speaker 1: facilities within the area open and running, like people need
Speaker 1: somewhere to go to vent and get something back from it.
Speaker 1: Some resources funding in the neighborhood. You got these parts
Speaker 1: that I really don't have too many young boys playing
Speaker 1: football because the parents can't pay for it. We need
Speaker 1: to start funding at least like ten of these kids,
Speaker 1: because you have real good kids that's in a in
Speaker 1: a neighborhood that that's good as sports. They are active kids,
Speaker 1: but they mama preferred to not put them in sports
Speaker 1: because of money issues or whatever issues. So we need
Speaker 1: to we need to see what's going on with these
Speaker 1: elders and these kids. Too important, too important units in
Speaker 1: the community for sure. And let me ask you this
Speaker 1: and This is what I asked everybody on every show.
Speaker 1: What would you say to the thirteen through sixteen year
Speaker 1: old girl that's at home, that may be in Compton
Speaker 1: right now, that may be in Kansas City, Missouri, maybe
Speaker 1: in Chicago, Illinois of Brooklyn going through the same stuff
Speaker 1: that you went through. They want to make a change,
Speaker 1: you want to do better. What what advice would you
Speaker 1: give them right now? I would give them the advice
Speaker 1: that it's someone out there that's talking to you that
Speaker 1: you're not listening to, because I have people like teachers
Speaker 1: and different stuff that wanted to talk to me, but
Speaker 1: I was stuck in my head with game banging or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I would say for them
Speaker 1: to under the figure out what do they eat, sleep
Speaker 1: and breathe every day? Do you like to sing? Do
Speaker 1: you like the wrap? Do you like the right? Do
Speaker 1: you like to read? Do you like to dance? Whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you do, let that be what you do.
Speaker 1: Do not let nobody else tell you that what you're
Speaker 1: doing is dumb or you shouldn't do that. That would
Speaker 1: be my main thing. Whatever it is you want to do,
Speaker 1: do it and stay focused and get as much information
Speaker 1: as you can on it. She sounds like a counselate.
Speaker 1: The lady we talked to that same exact same thing
Speaker 1: she said, exactly, find something you're into, find something that
Speaker 1: you like doing that sky is the limit on. I
Speaker 1: got a cold question for you, being a single mom
Speaker 1: raising two boys and a daughter. What do you tell
Speaker 1: your sons? What's the key things that you tell your
Speaker 1: son not to do? My key thing that I tell
Speaker 1: my sons is don't follow nobody. Follow your own head.
Speaker 1: That's what God gave you a brain for. Be who
Speaker 1: you are. That's what the key thing I tell them,
Speaker 1: And go do your damn homework. M That's it right there.
Speaker 1: You can't know how can people find you to support you?
Speaker 1: What can people go see your exenda if they want
Speaker 1: to get that Mama Booth. Somebody out there listening. We
Speaker 1: got a few people to listen to this show, and
Speaker 1: they want to get in contact books you and they
Speaker 1: want to you know what I'm saying. They want to
Speaker 1: hilight you, not like you know I'm talk They want
Speaker 1: to support your movement. How can they get that? They
Speaker 1: can get at me? My I g is Mama boo
Speaker 1: one three two m O m A b O one
Speaker 1: three two or my YouTube channel. Mama Boo boo m
Speaker 1: O m A B double o B double o. Yall
Speaker 1: heard it right there. That's easy. That's easy, and we
Speaker 1: really appreciate you coming on the show to day. You
Speaker 1: know what I want to talk to you about. You
Speaker 1: got a motorcycle club too, Yes, what's name of the
Speaker 1: motorcycle club? No? Anti venom? No anti venom. That's a
Speaker 1: hard right there, that's a hard talked about it. So
Speaker 1: you actually ride the yes, So don't let me ask
Speaker 1: you this though, this one I always want to know
Speaker 1: because me and shames. You know, we got some stuff
Speaker 1: going on right now with another show that we're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm talk about a little bit later on to break
Speaker 1: that news. I don't want to chinx it. But so
Speaker 1: let's say you meet to dude and you ride your bike.
Speaker 1: You look your man right in the back of your
Speaker 1: bike down. I'm just asking so that would never happen. No,
Speaker 1: that's dumb because I saw a duke right in the
Speaker 1: back of the bike with a girl before. He's about
Speaker 1: the sorry cat right now, I'm I let my my
Speaker 1: youngest right with me now. He's getting a little taller,
Speaker 1: but he loved riding with me. But other than that,
Speaker 1: don't let me ask you this. I got to ask
Speaker 1: you this because you know you're about to be a
Speaker 1: future city councilwoman and all this. You've got all this
Speaker 1: incredible stuff going on. What kind of guy? Because I
Speaker 1: know you said you don't think about no dudes right now,
Speaker 1: But what kind of guy is Mama but looking for?
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell y'all right now, she ain't in
Speaker 1: the play with so don'na be coming to her DM
Speaker 1: What kind of what qualified? Just like anyway, what kind
Speaker 1: of man qualifies to call himself mama booze? Man? Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't give out cheat sheets. They got to figure
Speaker 1: it out. Yeah, because if you tell us somebody I'm
Speaker 1: looking for x y Z, they're gonna be x y
Speaker 1: Z and today take a minute until they take the Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me tell you what they gotta do for number
Speaker 1: one day. Y'all gotta look at their sons and then
Speaker 1: go to their sons and say, man, can I date
Speaker 1: your mama? Your mama's a cute woman. I want to
Speaker 1: be friends with your mother. I mean, that's just respecting
Speaker 1: the home front, you know what I'm saying. We don't
Speaker 1: know if I was a single man and getting the
Speaker 1: one with kids. I would definitely talk the son first,
Speaker 1: because boys are very protective for their mama. Boys are
Speaker 1: super protect one of sons from baby mama's from from friends.
Speaker 1: Women I've been with for seven years, women I've been
Speaker 1: with for five years, and their kids still call me pops.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, my birthday Saturday before last, one
Speaker 1: of one of my ex her daughter, Toya. That's my baby.
Speaker 1: She she made a picture for me with my brother
Speaker 1: and my mom's So you know, I still a little
Speaker 1: more on the death. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1: But get at the sun and then maybe you got
Speaker 1: a that mama, I can't be you can't come with
Speaker 1: that crazy ship because you know that should beat you up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she looked like and I just like, now, I just
Speaker 1: don't play with people at oh, I have no toylerance
Speaker 1: or man with nobody. So a guy that don't come
Speaker 1: from the back, mus I know you probably don't like
Speaker 1: no square as dudes. I'm not telling you anything to
Speaker 1: that I don't give out cheese. She didn't give no
Speaker 1: cheese or nothing, because it might be the perfect dude
Speaker 1: out there thinking like I really like her, and he
Speaker 1: got a job. He got this stuff going on, he
Speaker 1: good man, So you ain't gonna give no hints something.
Speaker 1: He just gotta figure it out. He shouldn't h if
Speaker 1: he if he, if he listened to hook me up.
Speaker 1: I got the cheat sheet right now. All you gotta
Speaker 1: do money is being man. When you when you were approach,
Speaker 1: all you got to do is say I heard your
Speaker 1: voice on you know, against the chronicles, and wo man,
Speaker 1: I would love to just take you off for a
Speaker 1: five minutes of a conversation. That five minutes turns into
Speaker 1: twenty that the next time we chalk is thirty. You
Speaker 1: just gotta have conversations, No nonsense. I do not play
Speaker 1: with people at all. I don't have time to play
Speaker 1: with people. That's right. I have things to do and
Speaker 1: kids to look after and all that plan. I'm not
Speaker 1: playing no games. I don't have no baggage that's coming
Speaker 1: with me that's gonna jump out and start playing. I
Speaker 1: don't have none of that. I'm like, good to go
Speaker 1: when everybody get ready to go. We applied you on
Speaker 1: being a good mother. I applied you on coming from
Speaker 1: where you started to where you're at now and and
Speaker 1: raising three good kids, all of us are not blessed.
Speaker 1: All of us are not blessed. Exactly exactly. I know.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I I want to let
Speaker 1: you know is that you do have a support system
Speaker 1: here better. I don't know if we're the biggest show
Speaker 1: in the world, but we got some you know, we've
Speaker 1: got some people that listen to us and stuff. So
Speaker 1: we definitely go be helping you push your extenda. This
Speaker 1: ain't the one time thing. We don't look just anybody
Speaker 1: coming sit in these seats and here with us. We don't.
Speaker 1: We don't do that because I'm gonna tell you, these
Speaker 1: two niggas right here is hard on people. I tell
Speaker 1: they they asked me who the fund is that? So
Speaker 1: if some of y'all, y'all everybody called me all the time,
Speaker 1: who who the hell is that? And if somebody they
Speaker 1: want they usually hitting me and say holler this, probably
Speaker 1: they wanted to get somebody on the show with your
Speaker 1: show just like mine. They say no, because you made
Speaker 1: sure you called Mama Book. I said, yes, I did.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure sure I don't want no beef
Speaker 1: with Mama Bo. Right, I'm on my team, my team,
Speaker 1: and when we really appreciate you coming on with us today.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate being I'll just appreciate the opportunities.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you all right now, y'all go
Speaker 1: see you in the video. She has a very nice smile,
Speaker 1: but you could tell she's not bullsh and your mama
Speaker 1: hard ain't she your mama? What that asked before? When
Speaker 1: your times are right, that's what it is, and that's
Speaker 1: why you give your man right now? Why you good
Speaker 1: man right now? So thank you. And I wanted to
Speaker 1: say for you guys that no nonprofits in your area.
Speaker 1: To support your nonprofit because I don't know what you'll
Speaker 1: be thinking. I don't know if you think the food
Speaker 1: and picking up the food just falls out the sky. Uh,
Speaker 1: support your local nonprofit because right now, like I say,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it out the mud and I'm feeding the
Speaker 1: homeless within my community. But you'll have to understand this
Speaker 1: is coming out of my pocket, which I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that a negative because I'm going to do it. I'm
Speaker 1: getting it out the mud and feed my community. At
Speaker 1: the same range, what's of your nonprofit? To live your life?
Speaker 1: Live your life, y'all support this sister right here, that's
Speaker 1: one thing. And I always tell people every show, we
Speaker 1: can't sit up all the time, and you know, wine
Speaker 1: and cry for change, and then when somebody comes and
Speaker 1: tries to present that change to us, we turn a
Speaker 1: blind eye to it and we give each other the
Speaker 1: hardest time. Sometimes. Whenever you see a brother and sister
Speaker 1: that got a nonprofit, you're the people all. I ain't
Speaker 1: giving no money. I don't know what they're doing with it.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, because y'all want to spend money
Speaker 1: on plenty of dumb ship and yeah, and if any
Speaker 1: nonprofit that's actually doing something, believe that majority of that
Speaker 1: money is coming out of their pockets, eat leave that
Speaker 1: now unless they didn't hit it big and got a
Speaker 1: huge sponsor for the most part. No different than with
Speaker 1: Cynthia None. I was over there with her and shout
Speaker 1: out to my girls sent but with me watching her,
Speaker 1: majority of that was coming out of her pocket from
Speaker 1: the easter baskets and everything. So you guys have this
Speaker 1: misperception at It's just like we have donors and people
Speaker 1: donating or whatever. No, right now, I am getting out
Speaker 1: the mundy and I'm still passing out these hygiene products
Speaker 1: every other week, and I already know because I had
Speaker 1: a youth football program me and my wife did. I
Speaker 1: can't just say me because it was people to help
Speaker 1: me run it. Me and my wife Rest in peace
Speaker 1: to my homeboy, Big Bruce from Compton. But a lot
Speaker 1: of that was coming out in my pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: the uniform kids. Because it's expensive to run of youth
Speaker 1: football program. It's expensive to even to run a basketball programs.
Speaker 1: You've got kids that don't have parents. So you wind
Speaker 1: up becoming a sere mother and father. Because if I
Speaker 1: had kids on my team and we in Vegas and
Speaker 1: they can't eat, I'm not gonna let you start. I
Speaker 1: ain't gona go for my kids. So it's like, come on,
Speaker 1: I would train my kids like, hey, today when we
Speaker 1: go to this McDonald's, I don't need you ordering the
Speaker 1: double corter pounders and shipped now. I can't get you
Speaker 1: that you order this right here in the You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? You know, because I got a story
Speaker 1: really before we go. I always believe in taking some
Speaker 1: of the younger kids and the team, you know, the
Speaker 1: little young black a Mexican kids on the team, taking
Speaker 1: the place they ain't been before. I wanted to learn
Speaker 1: how to use the property, learn how to use civil
Speaker 1: wear and stuff like that, because some of them have
Speaker 1: never been to a restaurant before, not a real restaurant
Speaker 1: like McDonalds and tackle Bill, not a restaurant. I took
Speaker 1: this one kid for a restaurant one day, right and uh,
Speaker 1: they asked me if you wanted sparkling and steal water,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't paying attention to it. This dude said sparkling.
Speaker 1: So they studied coming out to the table. Point is
Speaker 1: water out the bottle and stuff and I'm kind of looking.
Speaker 1: I get the bill in my of here two day one,
Speaker 1: I said, man, don't order a damn thing. And I've
Speaker 1: told myself to work with this partner. I said, you
Speaker 1: didn't charge some twohunther dollars some water. We could have
Speaker 1: bought some champagneers of ship, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And so Mama Blue, I appreciate you. What you're doing
Speaker 1: is very very important for our community. But I'm doing
Speaker 1: it because I want to do it. This is what
Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to help my community.
Speaker 1: Is like my biggest thing is to be to someone
Speaker 1: that I needed to be to me. So that's where
Speaker 1: I met with these young girls like all this twerking
Speaker 1: and thinking that you have to sell your body and
Speaker 1: dealing with all these different men and not getting the
Speaker 1: appropriate education. That is not where it's at because I mean,
Speaker 1: with all the game banging that I did, I mean,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the most I'm gonna get out of
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get retirement or pension, so I'm get
Speaker 1: a big funeral. But in between what what am I
Speaker 1: really gaining out of that? Exactly? And you know, one
Speaker 1: thing I want to tell you all young people out
Speaker 1: there is HIV and AIDS to steal out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so be careful, strap up, strap up. And that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm done with enough preaching right now. We'd like to
Speaker 1: thank you guys for tuning in with us, sitting in
Speaker 1: with us again. Thank our lovely guest, Mama Boom. We
Speaker 1: appreciate you falling through. You know what I'm saying. Make
Speaker 1: sure y'all tapped back in with us. Next week we'll
Speaker 1: be back with more of this good ship we got here.
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