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Speaker 1: be cribs, bloods, whatever. Shout out to Killer Mike. I

426
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: love when he was in town. He came and stopped

427
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: buying holiday at you. How do you get all those

428
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 1: worlds too to marry. A lot of that has to

429
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 1: do with women being able to nurture, being able to bring,

430
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, people together. But how do you do that

431
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: as a female g when what's the youngest age that

432
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 1: you kind of start with? In these programs, I tell

433
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: them my work with kids from five to eighty. If

434
00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: if you need help, I'm there. In the summer camp

435
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: we do. I've been doing a summer camp for the

436
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: last except for with the COVID, but before that, I've

437
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: been doing a summer camp with five year olds to

438
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 1: eighteen year olds to some twenty year olds, you know.

439
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,199
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it has to do

440
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: with interacting. You know a lot of these kids aren't

441
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: as bad as we think they are. We see what's

442
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: going on. A lot of it has a lot of

443
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 1: it come from home. You know. Some of these kids

444
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: are hungry. Uh we don't have no mode. Uh Medid's

445
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: and Big Mama's you know. I mean we have very few.

446
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: Let me take that back, because there we have very few.

447
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: And you know, I always say, uh, praying grandmothers is

448
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 1: what saved us. But the blessing that guy had on

449
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,960
Speaker 1: my life, he was preparing me for everything that I'm

450
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: going through, everything that's happening, it's all Oh, all the

451
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,199
Speaker 1: glory to God. He knew before I did, you know,

452
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 1: the banging, the reputation. And I think kids they accept

453
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: you more when you walk the you know, when you

454
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: walk into life that they're trying to live, you know.

455
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,679
Speaker 1: I think that's what a respect may come from. You know,

456
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 1: it's not somebody that come out of a big building

457
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: with a suit and tie on. Are are are looking

458
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: at them like they you know or nothing. You know,

459
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: I'll tell them, mom, no better than them. I was

460
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: where they would you know where they were at, you know.

461
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 1: And I always explained to him, you know, Uh, God

462
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,719
Speaker 1: saved me to be able to help you, you know.

463
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 1: And I think just love. I don't know if it's

464
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: if it's God gave me that extra neutering whatever. Because

465
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: I've been a foster parent and be legally and before legally,

466
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: I've raised a lot of kids a lot of kids

467
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: grew up in my mom home. A lot of triple

468
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: O G s and O G s grew up in

469
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: my mom home, you know. And then I've had a

470
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: lot of trips. Tell me when we were doing intervention, like, oh,

471
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 1: you saved my life, you saved my life. Some of

472
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: it I don't even remember. But if I did, then

473
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more happy, you know, to know that I've

474
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 1: helped somebody, that I saved somebody life. I have a

475
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: lot of girls tell me that up or if it

476
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,399
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been for you, you know, I would have

477
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: been out there in the streets. I just I feel

478
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: like if I could save the world, I would. I

479
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: know that's not my job, you know, uh, but I

480
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: just feel God has annoyed it to build in and

481
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,400
Speaker 1: I've asked for a respect, you know, with my homeboys.

482
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: You know, you know, I said, that's the healing spot,

483
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 1: the building I'm in, you know. So if you see

484
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: somebody here that shot your sister, mother, cousin, brother, give

485
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: me the respect of not coming over here trying to

486
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: do anything or whatever, you know. And God has really

487
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: been blessing me in those areas and any blessings that

488
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: I have any blessings that I get, it just come

489
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: from God. I don't even know what'll be going on sometime.

490
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: I just know that, you know, there's blessings or whatever.

491
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 1: And you have to be real with the kids, you know,

492
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,400
Speaker 1: not sit there and tell them you know what they

493
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: want to hear. You have to be real with them.

494
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: And also, like I said, I think it just has

495
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: a lot to do with growing up in my era.

496
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: Knowing that I've been there, you know that I walk

497
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: them shoes. I've I've seen people walk them shoes. I've

498
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: seen people get killed in front of me. You know,

499
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm just it's just a blessing from God and uh

500
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: continue uh you know, He was preparing me for a

501
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: journey that I had no idea. Like I said, I

502
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 1: I thought I would be a cook, you know, I

503
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: mean cooking, you know, because I sell tacos. The crypts

504
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: will tell me all you was the taco lady. We

505
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: were standing all kind of girls over there, you know,

506
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: to get tacos because they couldn't come over there at

507
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 1: that particular time. You know. So it just knowing that, um,

508
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: I've been there. You know, It's not somebody that came

509
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: in trying to tell a story or or talk about

510
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: that lifestyle. A lot of the kids I know that

511
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: they know that, you know, or they heard their parents

512
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: or father somebody talk about you know, talk about me

513
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: and my family and my brother and you know, uh

514
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: my brother as well. That you know helped a lot

515
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 1: of people, and my mom a lot of a lot

516
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: of them was raised up in our houses. A lot

517
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: of these babies. I've raised kids that are burying their kids.

518
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: That's what's so hurtful and sad to me. I've raised

519
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: a lot of these kids and a lot of these

520
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: young ladies and and now they're burying their kids. And

521
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: it's like, like it's so hurtful to me too for

522
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: them to have to bury their kids. It's the mindset.

523
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: You know, You've got to change their mindset. And I

524
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: tell people have good organizations and you see a lot

525
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 1: of guys and stuff doing good things, but you're still

526
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: saying cause are you still saying blood? So you're not

527
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,360
Speaker 1: changing their mindset. You know, you just you're helping them,

528
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: But you have to change the mindset. You know. You

529
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: have to show them, you have to build that trust

530
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: and and let them know like you know, I'm here

531
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: for you. Money is not always about money, you know,

532
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: it's it's the love, you know, the new neutrin, you know,

533
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: coming from a place where they might be missing the

534
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: love from home. You know, Mama might be chasing boyfriend

535
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: and daddy so they ain't getting the love they need,

536
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: or daddy might be chasing somebody else, so they need

537
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 1: that love, you know. And I I'll tell all the

538
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: homeboys come back. If you grab three, you grab three,

539
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: and somebody else grab three, you got a basketball team,

540
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: and then the other ones can grab three, and then

541
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: y'all can play against each other. You know, it's always

542
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 1: something for them to do, and it's really no interacting.

543
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: Everybody is on the phone with their head down. You know.

544
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: I tell my grandkids, hold your head up. You in

545
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: that car. You know, you don't know people out here,

546
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: but everybody if you're at the dinner table, if you

547
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: take them out to eat, if it's a party, everybody,

548
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,640
Speaker 1: or if they see somebody getting beat up, you see

549
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,160
Speaker 1: it all on the internet because everybody instead of help,

550
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: and you know we were growing up, you help, you

551
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: help your people. You know, everybody pull out the phone

552
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: a record something like come on now, you just you

553
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: just made an interesting point that is very true, and

554
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: those are survival skills. You know that you learned that

555
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: kids are just not learning. So I'm glad you know

556
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: because it literally can make a difference between life and death.

557
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, people still saying blood and cous

558
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: and and still being affiliated, but still trying to change

559
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: their life into a different direction or be a positive influence.

560
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: What I've noticed, uh, Cynthia, is that a lot of

561
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: homies you know, really want to help kids, and they

562
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,479
Speaker 1: really want to know. I've had this conversation with with folks,

563
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 1: but they still, you know, because it's a part of

564
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: their conversation blood this blood that they still have a lord,

565
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: especially talking about older you know, they have a loyalty

566
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: to what they know and all that they've known. I

567
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: just want you to elaborate on that, like how do

568
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: you disconnect from that but still be connected enough to relate,

569
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: you know, to a kid. So, in other words, if

570
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: somebody is still saying blood because it's a part of

571
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: their their their conversation, are you saying that if you

572
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: are going to help children, you have to like completely

573
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 1: change your life or do you recognize that people can

574
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: help in their own way, but they may be different

575
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: in their journey of transition. I'm not. They don't necessarily

576
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: have to. I mean when you help with somebody, I

577
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: just say, change their mindset. You know. I talked to

578
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 1: my brother and he always he say, you know when

579
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: these young casts come in here here and you know

580
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: they was coming in uh you know he was incarcerated.

581
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: Thank god they freed him, but you know, being incarcerated.

582
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: He was like, man, you stand up there and talk

583
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 1: to him and they blood me to death. He said,

584
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: I know who I am. I have I blood you

585
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,560
Speaker 1: one time. Because when you know who you are, you

586
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: ain't got to prove it to nobody. You know, they

587
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: know who you is. They know these names. You know,

588
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 1: they they know who you are and where you're from.

589
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: But what you're trying to do is change because because

590
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: if they're on the job, you can't go to the

591
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: boss and say blood, let me get right care because

592
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: then he gonna either look at you and say you

593
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: know what you know? So you have to change their mindset.

594
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: It is you know, you can live in an area

595
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: and I mean we was blood blood all I like, like,

596
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: you know, like my language was who my kids told

597
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: me every other word through because I've really been working

598
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: on it. But I'm still working on it, so keep me.

599
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: I've been getting my cuss so that ain't changed. And

600
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that. But if I can't help nobody

601
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: with no cussword and just say happening. But you keep

602
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: me for though? Why no they tell me I cuss,

603
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: but I you know when i'm I don't. Yes, it's

604
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: not like you know blood this I can tell them.

605
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: You can. Wrappers say you know, you know where you're from.

606
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: But sometimes what about when you're on the other side

607
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: of town where you're not supposed to be and you

608
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 1: slip up and you say that you know now it's

609
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: it's just so so different from you know, when we

610
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 1: were growing up. It's so different. You don't have the

611
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: law to you don't have the unity because most gangsters

612
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: that sagging, it's snitching, you know. Uh, I mean snitches

613
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: can live in the neighborhood. They can run with you,

614
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: hang with you. Like everything have changed. And I know

615
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: they say that was doing your time, but uh, with

616
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: with experience come wisdom, with wisdom come experience, you know,

617
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: like it was our time. But apparently you guys are

618
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: lost this like they in a big time council and

619
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: they don't know what's going on and somebody have to

620
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: come back and help them and save them. You know.

621
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: It's it's like when you have a baby, you gotta

622
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: teach you to crawl, to walk, to do these things.

623
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: So if you want to help them or if you

624
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: want to help save their life, you know you can

625
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: tell them. I mean address him as homeboy, homebly or whatever,

626
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: because then if you somewhere else and you're saying homeboy

627
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: at home and you know, then if you used to

628
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: saying that, then you won't be somewhere and saying blood

629
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: or because you know, I just feel like if you

630
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: gotta if you know a big name, you know, you

631
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: could be like, oh that should not he's a blood.

632
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: But should don't have to. I just you should at

633
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,080
Speaker 1: the example, should you know, I'm cool with should that's

634
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: that's like my bro. But uh, I just say, like

635
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: you don't have to say, uh, you know you shouldn't

636
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: come address him? Are are myself? You know when the

637
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: kids come in, uh and they talk to me, the

638
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: first thing I do I get on them about sagging boy.

639
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to see your butt. And then how

640
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: you sag and skinny jeans. Come on, that's the worst

641
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: thing in the world. You know. Uh, they're not you're

642
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: you're not a gangster. How you gonna hit the gate?

643
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: If if time commit you know you you lost are sagging,

644
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: you know so Uh A lot of these gang members

645
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 1: are the guys and gangs are some of the most

646
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: smartest intelligence guys. People don't know that, yeah, if you

647
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: because they're so busy judging them because they got tattoos.

648
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: You know, we're living in the judgment or world. We're

649
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: living in the name brand. We got name brand, dummy.

650
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 1: Some of them can't even spell their name, but they

651
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: got on all this name brand. That's not gonna get

652
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: you nowhere. You know, you you wanna build. You want

653
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: to have something to look forward to, you know, not

654
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 1: just live. I'm gonna say second and second nowadays you

655
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: know it's not even day for day a second and

656
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: second and I just want to see them live and

657
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: let them know that it's more to life than just

658
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: uh giving your life a freely because that's what you do.

659
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: You know, you you limited. You can't go nowhere. We

660
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: took some kids to Vegas. You know, they still asking

661
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: to go back took them to Uh, I've been taking

662
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,959
Speaker 1: them the sea world and you know, you look at

663
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: them and you see the smile on their faces and

664
00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: you know this is what they you know, they're happy,

665
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: you know, like Dr Drake paced for my snow every

666
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: year because my thing is some people, some parents have

667
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 1: never been able to ford to take their kids to

668
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: the snow, So why not bring the snow to them

669
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: where a lot of kids will get a chance to enjoy.

670
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: You know. The reason for me doing a lot of

671
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: the things that that I do there, it's like summer camp.

672
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: We do, Simon says mother may I read like green,

673
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 1: like dodgeball. You know, it's because the kids interact with

674
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: each other more. You know everybody old school game. Yeah,

675
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 1: and I'm very old school, and my kids even say that,

676
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: like like you you I'm not. It's not that old

677
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: school is just trying to teach you that you have

678
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: to do more interacting, you know, because if not, you

679
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: don't even you're sitting across from somebody you don't even

680
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: know nothing about. Because all y'all know is you. You

681
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: you either matter. You're on the phone, you know, and

682
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: you texting and texting and talking. Nobody is talking to

683
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: each other. You know, everybody got their phone. I didn't

684
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: win out with with with my daughters to eat something,

685
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: and everybody got their phone out. This is what we eat,

686
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: this is what we and then I see on Instagram

687
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: face but in the bathroom, it's like everybody. And you

688
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: came up in a time where that was definitely I

689
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: don't want you to know where I am all the time.

690
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: You made it into the point sounds like you talk

691
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: to these kids a lot about social media, and I'm

692
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,360
Speaker 1: gonna ask this and then I want to get to

693
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: the programs that you're you're doing and then I'll let

694
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: you go. I'm just excited to have you on because

695
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: the wisdom I want to know the game, and I

696
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: know that the wisdom to me is just amazing. I

697
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: can suck it up all day. Do you think there's

698
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: enough for women and female gang bangers? There's always somebody

699
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: out there talking to the to the guys and the men,

700
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: and there's this unspoken you know, female role. You know,

701
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: we touched on it earlier, but there's a there's this

702
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: unspoken you know, what it means to be whether you're

703
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: a sympathizer a female gang member where you're dating a

704
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: dope dealing with you, but a female in the streets,

705
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: do you feel there's a big gap missing as far

706
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: as the organizations that we lift, you know, to say hey,

707
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: you know, let's save our black men. We get it,

708
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: We know that they're in endangered species, if you will,

709
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: We know that black men are certainly you know, targeted

710
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,760
Speaker 1: on every every level of the game. But I feel

711
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: there's not enough like the shined on women like yourself

712
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: that can speak to other women on you know, some

713
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: of the things that they're going through, and I feel

714
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,240
Speaker 1: they kind of get overlooked and and it's sad because

715
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: these are mothers, sisters. There's so much influence that the

716
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: woman has in the streets that people just don't realize.

717
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: You know, people don't realize that that pillow talk is

718
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: cold like a man coming home. And even if she's

719
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 1: not banging, she's still involved. She's still you know, she said,

720
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: you know, don't trip on that, don't it because a

721
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: lot of things that men do is let's just be

722
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 1: honest for the attention of women, money, women, girls, how

723
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: they how they act, who they who, if they showed

724
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: her tough and how tough they are, and a lot

725
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: of times, at least in my experience. You know, if

726
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: a woman is like, oh, don't trip on that, you know,

727
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: don't don't leave it in the long to deal deal

728
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: with something else. He a clown or you know whatever

729
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: that influences a lot with a man. Men may not

730
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: admit it, you know, but they talk to their woman,

731
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: They talked to their sisters, they talk to their home

732
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: girls and say, like, I know, females who really are

733
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,479
Speaker 1: the nucleus you know, of their of their organization. Whether

734
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: people agree with what they're doing or not, that is

735
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 1: a real, I think issue that is not raised enough.

736
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: And I just I don't want to make that point

737
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: because we're in Women's History Month. What are your thoughts on,

738
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: you know, the programs and and the different opportunities that

739
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: are specifically aimed at women you know, in the streets

740
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: and how they can be you know, better mothers and

741
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: and and stop gaming and are they sailed dope to

742
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, either they hold the sack. They hold the

743
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: sack and they might sell say like, don't get it twisted.

744
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: Women out there doing all of it across the board.

745
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: Do you think there's a missing component for not enough

746
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: of that for for women. I think it's not enough.

747
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: I think they feel like because we're a woman or women,

748
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: that we're not tough enough, not realizing Harriet tub and

749
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,719
Speaker 1: say them that and she she was a woman, so

750
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 1: you know they need to go way back then because

751
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: she's a woman. You know, actually some of us are

752
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: probably even tougher because we can I mean, you know,

753
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: it was a time that we can carry the gun

754
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: to police can search us. We you can take us

755
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: to target practice, and you know we because they were

756
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: always looking for men to do these things. But you know,

757
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: women are, uh, we're just as tough. We just you know,

758
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: like they said, we we get overlooked a lot, but

759
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: we actually the toughest. I don't think a man could

760
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,959
Speaker 1: have a would be able to go through the pain

761
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: we have of a baby. Uh you know, we carried administration.

762
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: We're like we just we do it all. We have

763
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: to be a mother even when the father walks away.

764
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: You know, we have to be a mother and be

765
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: strong when we get them phone calls that your son

766
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: didn't make it? Are you or somebody? You know it's

767
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: we We get overlooked so much till I think it

768
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: makes some of us even stronger and more determined to

769
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: do what we do because people figure like, oh, she

770
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: a woman, she can't do this. But I didn't see

771
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: women not you know, so they don't need to get

772
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: it twisted, you know. Um, I just think they feel

773
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: like because we wear a dress, A lot of us

774
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: wear paints too, you know, and a lot of us

775
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: can tie these dresses up between the medals, you know.

776
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: So but I do think that that we have been

777
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: I know, it's a lot of women that's trying to

778
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: come out and trying to do things. And uh, and

779
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: if they're doing it for the right reason, then uh,

780
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: you know, I tipped my ponytail to them or some

781
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 1: of them, some of them doing it just to be

782
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: doing it or whatever. You know, you have to be

783
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 1: deep in and feeling from the heart for you know,

784
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: for me to know that, uh, to understand where we're

785
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: coming from. And like you said, a lot of men,

786
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: as they call it, pillow talk what they come to

787
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: us women for a lot of that vibes. They talked

788
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: to us for a lot of our you know, me

789
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: and my brother we're best friends. And this this they

790
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: grow hardest, heck, you know. But uh, and even a

791
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: lot of my homeboys. You know, I talked to them.

792
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 1: They came to me and whatever I hadn't seen a

793
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: lot of breaks cried, they cried to you. You you

794
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: mediate all kind of ship. If the home is just

795
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: tripping and arguing, they come to you to say, Okay,

796
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: y'all you're tripping. I mean, it's so much that the

797
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: woman is involved without me getting that's it, without me

798
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: getting into breaking down the details. But you know what

799
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. There's a lot I think. I think

800
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,919
Speaker 1: they think because there are some young girls that got

801
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 1: put on, you know, through sex. You know, that's that's odd.

802
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 1: They got put on through ways that it's different. You know.

803
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 1: Then what you know, right because you came from that's right,

804
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: because you came from a generation of no, you got

805
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: put on through sabbing. Are you doing? You putting their work?

806
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 1: You know? But the younger girls they're doing something different.

807
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: And I know some sense they got more women and

808
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: the dudes, now some of them got put on by

809
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: some of the big home girls and put them on,

810
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: you know. And then you got some men that you know,

811
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: they bring their girlfriends in areas different ways. But so

812
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: I lead a leader there. But you came truly from

813
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: the female g generation that no, you got put all

814
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: based on what you brought to the table as a

815
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: gangster period. So I feel there's a missing conversation. You

816
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,759
Speaker 1: know that I'm always you know, putting you out there

817
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: to say. You may not realize that I'm sitting it here.

818
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: But I said all the time when I talked to

819
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: Big Still, you know, gainst Chronicles podcast, because he's always

820
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 1: talking about you know, getting out and having events and speaking,

821
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: and I'm always saying, you gotta make sure that a

822
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 1: female's voices there, and he'll say me, and I said,

823
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: but I can speak to it from a girlfriend's standpoint,

824
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: I can't speak to it from you know, literally banging.

825
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: You need to make sure you have somebody like you,

826
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, part of that conversation. I can tell you,

827
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: you know, my what it was like for me, you know,

828
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: and the choices I had to make, and when you

829
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: know I've done things that I know I'm supposed to

830
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: have a felony for. I know when I was supposed

831
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: to lose my life, not just guessing. You know, when

832
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: you got when you've had a your head, you know

833
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: you were supposed to die. Was no confusion about you know,

834
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: when I tell people I know that I'm I'm living,

835
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: I know is that I can tell you to day

836
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: that I was supposed to die, you know, so I

837
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: get my perspective. But I also know that I didn't

838
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: live your life, and I pay homage to you. And

839
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that, like they say, that we can

840
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: see you instead of you you. I am just completely honored.

841
00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 1: You know by this. A lot of people may not understand.

842
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: I do a lot of West Coast interviews a lot,

843
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: but it really is what frame my life. It's why

844
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: I talk this ship on the mic the way that

845
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: I do. You know, it came from being around strong women,

846
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, and only being the only female most occasions

847
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 1: around guys, you know, and being happy to talk that

848
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:45,320
Speaker 1: ship and you know, backing up and everything else that

849
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: comes with it. So I couldn't run from a fighter's

850
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: they tell you better stand there, you better stand there,

851
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: and if you run, you know all you know, what's

852
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: it gonna let me what? You know, That's what we

853
00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: had to do, you know, That's what That's why my

854
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: sister was so tough, because she came up up under us.

855
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: You know, she's the baby, she's my baby, sister so,

856
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: and then everybody hung at that house. I mean from

857
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: from the beginning to the end, everybody hung there, you know,

858
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: everybody like everybody hung there. You know. I had crip say, boy,

859
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: when we used to be riding the bus up Rose

860
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: plans a big home. Me say, don't y'all even look

861
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: over the house. They say that, like I hear the

862
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: different stories, you know, and the make you laugh now,

863
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: and I'll be like, oh, they'd be like, but see

864
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: you cool. Oh, you know at the end of the day,

865
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: when seeing so many and you know, my brother, my

866
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: nephews and people you know, actually getting killed, you know,

867
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: laying out dead, and uh, send a lot of things

868
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: that I've I've seen that was as another thing part

869
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,240
Speaker 1: of me that made me want to change as well.

870
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: And my mother actually did this and I didn't realize.

871
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: And people say that, remember your mom. This is because

872
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: my my mother worked at the watch Heel Foundation and

873
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: she was a neighborhood health agent where they took food

874
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: to you know, people and stuff in the projects and

875
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: even everywhere. And then she used to, Uh that's how

876
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: we met Tookie and Jamale and them. Because my mom

877
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: started trying to stop this stuff way back so that

878
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: it was at our house, you know, Tookie, Jamaal and

879
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: Icky number one like it was, you know, they all

880
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: were you know, uh at some point in time all

881
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: came to our house. You know a couple of times. Uh,

882
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 1: you know, my mom and Bob Simmons at the Big

883
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: Red House, they were they were close, you know. Uh.

884
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: So my mom did a lot of the work and

885
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: I didn't even trip and tell somebody was like you

886
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you did a lot of work. You know.

887
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: I just I always have to give God all the

888
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: honor and the glory for just being so good to me, because,

889
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: like you said, feeling like you were supposed to lose

890
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: your life at a certain time, I've seen it. I've

891
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: I've experienced it, and I'm like, it's it's it's I

892
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: mean when I look back on and I think about

893
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: my life, I sit down and something. At a lot

894
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: of times to the day, I'm always thinking God, I'm

895
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,479
Speaker 1: always talking to him because I mean, there's so many

896
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: people have left here and I was like, oh, I

897
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: remember when that happened to me, and I'm for this.

898
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: And you know, even with my sister, my sister she

899
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: started getting real crazy like you know, my brother, you know, Um,

900
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: I mean just I do sometimes I I do. I

901
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,359
Speaker 1: always talk to him or whatever, you know, because he's

902
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: been really good to me. And I feel like these

903
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: babies need to live, you know, they need to know

904
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,879
Speaker 1: that there's a another part of life and killing each

905
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: other and how do you just you know, you they

906
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: say that, you know we did at the homeboys did it,

907
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: But y'all don't actually know what transpired during that time.

908
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: All you know, it's what you might be hearing from

909
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 1: somebody that was watching in the window that didn't know

910
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: that couldn't gang bang, you know. Again, like I said,

911
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: the window washers are now the shot callers. You know,

912
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: they never banged a day in their life, you know.

913
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: I just you know, I always urged anybody to come

914
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: back and try to help help these kids because it

915
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 1: takes a village, and I'm just one part of the village,

916
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: you know, come back and help these babies live. You know.

917
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: I talk to some of these kids and have a

918
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: friend that as mental health and he comes in when

919
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: I have the kids and and they just start opening

920
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: up to him, you know. And met a little young

921
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: lady the first time I met are like I wanted

922
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: to snatch her. But but then when she starts sitting

923
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: down telling me, girl a smart, straight a student, but

924
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: her problem was at home. You know. So a lot

925
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: of these babies are going through stuff and and a

926
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: lot of them are being judged, and then they get angry.

927
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 1: They're mad, you know, they're mad. They some of them

928
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: are just mad. Some of them just out here following suit.

929
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: But a lot of them are mad. You know, they're mad.

930
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: Whatever they're mad for, they're mad, you know, and they

931
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: need somebody to talk to them. And they don't want

932
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: to hear from the site that read a book. You know.

933
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: As a lot of the people come to me that

934
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: looked me up and say I'm a gang expert, I say, well,

935
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: we'll make your gang expert, you know, not a dropping roll,

936
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: because that's what our kids did. This right, so hard.

937
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: You know, what's your experience because no book on this

938
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: earth can tell you about that's right, man. That's so yeah.

939
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: My post when I said that, somebody said you know

940
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,439
Speaker 1: a lot about the culture, and I said it ain't.

941
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: I said, no, mat matter of fact, that's literally what

942
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: I said on my post. I said, it's not about

943
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: knowing about that's somebody who read and I lived it.

944
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: It's a difference when you get to sit down with

945
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: a big home. It's just a lot that I just

946
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: want to tell I'm not gonna take all of your time,

947
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: but I want to say that that I definitely want

948
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: to reach out to you on mental health for the

949
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: homies because that's exactly how that is set up, and

950
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: it is designed so that people can have access to

951
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 1: appear and a professional. And that's a project that I'm

952
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: doing because the mental health that we need, you know,

953
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: just to deal with the trauma, even myself, you know,

954
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,480
Speaker 1: telling that story, what it's like to be traumatized, our

955
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: salty young you know, how do you deal with that?

956
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: How do you how do you try? How do you

957
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: make that into something positive? Your eyes have seen a lot,

958
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: and that's why people don't know that you and I

959
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: are looking at each other, and I wanted to look

960
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: into your eyes just because I understand that your eyes

961
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: have literally seen a lot, and how you know, how

962
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: do we manage that and how do you take that

963
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: into you know, making that something good. Especially with women,

964
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: they need to know that it is somebody out there

965
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: like you, because they just they just don't see it. Um,

966
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: it's just not available to them. You are a legend

967
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: in Compton, California, all over not just Compton, over California, period,

968
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 1: all over this country. But there's still a lot of

969
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: people that don't know about you, and I want to

970
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: do my part. So before we get out of here,

971
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: tell us just a little bit about your organization of

972
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: programs that you do. How people can you know, connect

973
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: the website, you know, don't they get involved if there's

974
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: a I know you talked about some annual events that

975
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: you do every year, but tell us a little bit

976
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: about that, because we want to make sure that that

977
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: we get that plug in. So for our annual events,

978
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: anything pertaining to the kids, what Christmas give a toy

979
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,160
Speaker 1: giveaway during Christmas time, we do the actually I'm getting

980
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: ready from my Eastern basket giveaway. We do uh backpack giveaways,

981
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: and sometimes just do an event like set up a carnival, uh,

982
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: you know, for a carnival for the kids to come through.

983
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: But anything that's pertaining to the youth, I'm right there.

984
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: Clothes giveaway, uniforms, shoe giveaway, any anything for the kids. Uh.

985
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: Every year, you know, every year I do that. We

986
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: do Turkey giveaways. We do a free food giveaway every Saturday.

987
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 1: We were doing Bible study. The pastor he moved to

988
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: another church, so either we'll get another pastor we can

989
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: go over there where he adds. We do mentor and tutoring.

990
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: We was doing after school until COVID came a lot

991
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: of things that we were doing every day or daily.

992
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, COVID stopped us any anything that we

993
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: can do for the youth. We do backpacks for the homeless.

994
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: Anything we can do to help somebody, that's what we do. Well,

995
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my part to keep pushing the line

996
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: in politics politics until something happens. I want to thank

997
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: you for coming by, you know, to allow me an

998
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: opportunity to pay homage to you. And I want to

999
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: say this. It's a couple of things you said as

1000
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: we close. This is really important that I poured this

1001
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,959
Speaker 1: into your soul. And you said, you know, I thought

1002
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: I was going to be a cook. And I want

1003
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,919
Speaker 1: you to know you are a cook. What a cook

1004
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: does and what a chef does is take a little

1005
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: bit of this and a little bit of that and

1006
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: they turn nothing into something. And you have been able

1007
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: to do that not just in competent California, but in

1008
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: America and all over. You've been able to touch hearts

1009
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: that have been broken, You've been able to touch people

1010
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: that have been forgotten about. You truly are the goat.

1011
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 1: And when I say go it is not just thrown around,

1012
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,080
Speaker 1: you know, lightly, when we say the greatest of all times,

1013
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: because that's something that people love, throwing around lightly. But

1014
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:43,280
Speaker 1: you are the goat because you're about the shepherd's business.

1015
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: And because you're a woman of God, you understand that

1016
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: when it's all over, we will have to atone for

1017
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: what we've done. And it said the Bible says that

1018
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: when you are called, because we all are, it's just

1019
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: a matter of time. It's not a matter of if,

1020
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: it's a matter of in. And when you have to

1021
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 1: be before the throne, he said he will separate the

1022
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: goat from the shepherds, and the shepherds will be the

1023
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: ones who were about the shepherd's work, and he will

1024
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: ask when you did of these things? You did them

1025
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: unto me. So the fact that you reach back to

1026
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: the homeless, the fact that you reach back, you know,

1027
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: to those in prison, the fact that you give people,

1028
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, other options those are the things that he said.

1029
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: When you did these things, you were done unto me,

1030
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: the least of these. So I want you to know, SI,

1031
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: so that your work is incredibly important. And I know

1032
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: you hear it all the time, but I just wanted

1033
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: to get it on the record that I, you know,

1034
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: said it to you, because there's a certain responsibility that

1035
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: we have on this microphone to make sure that not

1036
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,799
Speaker 1: only you know, are we telling stories, but that we're

1037
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: also making making it known, you know, of the importance

1038
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: and paying homage. That's really important to me, not just

1039
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: because as Women's History Month, but I try to live

1040
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,360
Speaker 1: that history every day. You know, living history is so important.

1041
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: We have the talk about who's out here doing right

1042
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: now to give them the flowers, you know, while they're living.

1043
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: So I just want you to know that since that

1044
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 1: you are a cook, you are a chelf short or

1045
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: to cook, whatever you wanna call, because that's the only

1046
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: way that you can that somebody can get bloods and

1047
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:18,760
Speaker 1: cribs him and you, I mean enemies to come together

1048
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: for the good of those that love the Lord, which

1049
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,440
Speaker 1: is the least of things. So I want you to

1050
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: know that so that you can understand that God still

1051
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: had a plan for you when you was making those

1052
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: tacos and he was putting the cheat and they was

1053
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: coming over on the other side of town and coming

1054
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: to get it. They're coming to get that word from you.

1055
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: Now you feel you know, you're you're literally feeling the

1056
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: soul and and anybody can need physically, but who's feeding

1057
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: the soul? And so that's what you're doing. So he

1058
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Speaker 1: did make you a cook. You just didn't know that

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00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: you'll be cooking like this. You didn't know that this

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00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: would be your journey. And so that's why we have

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00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 1: to give him all praise, like you said, all through this,

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00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: all praise and people who don't like it on my show,

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00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: oh where a log off, because that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: When when you've made it through, you only know it

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00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: got to be the most high. I can't be nothing

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Speaker 1: thing else about the month. And if you don't know that,

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00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: then you haven't been through enough. So that's the bottom line.

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00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: So you can certainly, uh, you know, I certainly agree

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Speaker 1: with you on that. So thank you so much, sister.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. For those that don't know, we've had

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Speaker 1: a lot of technical dement My producer is going to

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Speaker 1: edit it all out. But I want to put this

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Speaker 1: on the record too, that there's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: technical difficulties throughout this interview, and that is because Principalities

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00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: is aware, always aware, you know, of of the good

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00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: that we're trying to do, and so we have to

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00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,760
Speaker 1: continue to keep pushing the line. If the technology fails,

1078
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:35,440
Speaker 1: we loll back in. If they tell us no, you know,

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00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 1: in the streets, we we keep on going. If if

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00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: a child says I don't want to hear from you,

1081
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 1: you keep on going. You keep loving, you keep praying,

1082
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: you keep hugging, you keep reaching out and setting some

1083
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: folks straight. That's necessary to you know. Every now and

1084
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: then I gotta, you know, sometimes you gotta get this

1085
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: stuff like and do what we call a discipline. So

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00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: I just want you to know that, uh, and know

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00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 1: that everything you're doing is in purpose and reason. And

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00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: just thank you for allowing me to talk to you

1089
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: and and look in your eyes. And again, anything I

1090
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: can do to elevate your story, please always send me.

1091
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: You know, you can DM me at any time if

1092
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: there's an event that you know I can help promote.

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00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,000
Speaker 1: I'm only one person I gonna do so much. But

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00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: I do want to do my part. And we use

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00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 1: that a lot as excuse people say I'm just one person,

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00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: I can't do it, but we don't even see them

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00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: doing their part. So I want to do my I

1098
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: want to do my part, you know, whatever that is,

1099
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: to continue to to elevate your story and to make

1100
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: these men recognize your story to because they're gonna start,

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00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,359
Speaker 1: they're gonna go start putting some of these home girls

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00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: at it to stop acting like they were doing this

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00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,799
Speaker 1: by themselves because you wasn't so right. So I thank you.

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00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: I thank you so much, and I know, you know,

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00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: it just means a lot to me. I'm kind of

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00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm at a loss for words. You know, it's different

1107
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: when you grow up in a paru hood. It's different

1108
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: when you sit down like with an original poor you

1109
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's different because because they was

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00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: just saying it. But it's different when you when you

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00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: have a chance to really talk about you know what

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00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: it meant, you know, for for you then and what

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00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,760
Speaker 1: you're making it now. And that's my prayer. I hope

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00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: that you know, all bloods and crips can realize the

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00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,880
Speaker 1: same organizing strength that they had then to to to

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Speaker 1: push a line that we can bring that to politics.

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00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 1: That same g coolde could apply to politics, and that's

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Speaker 1: what I want to do. I know the nonprofits are important,

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00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: but we need the politics too because it's the politics

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Speaker 1: and the politicians that decide if your organization to be

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Speaker 1: funded and if they can cut a check and who

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00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: can bring money. So we have to do I'm certainly

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Speaker 1: doing my part to get folks. Hey, let's start running

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Speaker 1: some folks for mayor. You want to run for mayor,

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Speaker 1: let's start running. Maybe you need to run for mayor Compton.

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Speaker 1: You know, well, I'm done with this just sitting back.

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00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: You know, it's time to start putting some gees in place,

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Speaker 1: because once you put some geese in place, I promise

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00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: you all this ship we see will be cleared up

1130
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:48,640
Speaker 1: a sac and because it's gonna be straight gates the moves.

1131
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: So please let me know if you ever want to

1132
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: run for mayor, let's let's get it going city council something,

1133
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: because you deserve to have a state and decide, you

1134
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: know how things move in your city. You've earned it

1135
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: the same way you said you feel that you owe

1136
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: the city that can be applied to in politics because

1137
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: you owe the city. But guess what the city, oh YouTube,

1138
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: And and so by doing that, let's put you know,

1139
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: position people in leadership positions. And if it's not you,

1140
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 1: and if it's somebody, you know, let's get them going.

1141
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: Let's get them train, let's get them going. You have

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00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: nothing literally to lose. I'll tell people, even if you

1143
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: lose the race, you still have you still can bring

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00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: a thousand people to the polls to say, listen, I

1145
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: got a thousand riders with me. That's just the same

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00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: thing as just having a gang or set. And because

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00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 1: you are able to organize people like that, they will

1148
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,439
Speaker 1: listen to you, they will take your demands a little bit,

1149
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, more serious. I tell the Harmies all the

1150
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: time in Inglewood, every blood you know should have a

1151
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 1: contract at the new Inglewood Stadium for the simple fact

1152
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: that it's building Inglewood. If we organized the same way

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Speaker 1: that the streets is organized, O G B g's y

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00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,799
Speaker 1: gs and you gotta set that's moving forward. If we

1155
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 1: did that same thing in politics, I guarantee we'll take

1156
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: it to a whole another level. And that's what my

1157
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 1: mission is. I'm trying to get, you know, as much

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Speaker 1: people that that know that have lived that life, at

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Speaker 1: least for me. I'm not asking people to be, you know,

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00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: experts and politics. I'm just asking that we started seeing

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00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: things a little bit different. So because having a city

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Speaker 1: council person that that got love for you, because they

1163
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: know where you come from, They're gonna make sure you

1164
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: know that your organization is funded. They're gonna make sure

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00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:18,520
Speaker 1: that you have the resources to continue to stay open.

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00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,439
Speaker 1: And we can't do that until we start getting people

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00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: to run on these local levels. So you let me

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00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: know when you're ready to run for mayor so we

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00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: can go here and say Cynthia for mayor, because I

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00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 1: know we can get at least two three thousand folks

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00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: that don't take a lot and don't take a lot

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00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: to win these races. I'll tell you when you start

1173
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: looking at these seats, it's like ten I was talking

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00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: m c A. Butter, I said, let's look at Compton.

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00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: Let's see. When I was talking to Still, I said,

1176
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: when you really talk, you only talking about like people

1177
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 1: to go to the post because everybody don't vote. So

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00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: I know the homies got the type of influence to

1179
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: shift things. So you let me know when you're ready

1180
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 1: to run, sugar, because that might be your next. That

1181
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: might be your next Cynthia for mayor thank you so much?

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Speaker 1: Like that sound all right? I really enjoyed myself. I

1183
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: mean it was an honor and a pleasure. And anytime

1184
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: you need me to come on, you gotta keep on

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00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: elevating you, all right, ch'all, thank you so much for

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00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: listening to a straight Shot No Chaser. Women's history month

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00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: living legend Cynthia none living. We want to give her

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00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 1: flowers right now. We don't want to wait on history

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00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: to pass us before we pay homed, especially to the

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Speaker 1: home girls from the West. Until we meet again, y'all.

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