Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to another episode of the Gangster Chronicles. I'm
Speaker 1: your host, Big Steel with my homeboy, and I'm Big
Speaker 1: j Well with Big Ja. We got a situation going on. Man,
Speaker 1: we have another brother that is killed by the police.
Speaker 1: Man right right. I uh, I was looking at that
Speaker 1: on my phone and I just was. I was discussed
Speaker 1: by it and then listening to the audio of it
Speaker 1: and this man pleading for help and shaying, I can't breathe,
Speaker 1: I can't breathe. He already down, he's already handcuffed. What
Speaker 1: more can that man do with all them officers right there?
Speaker 1: So I think they went way too overboard. They was
Speaker 1: overboard with that one. Yeah, exactly, Man, Minneapolis happened to Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: I'm the man's name was George Floyd. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the charges were for. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they arrested him for. Man at this point doesn't matter, Man.
Speaker 1: All I know is that, Um, there's view the shows
Speaker 1: this officer man with his knees and his man's neck, man,
Speaker 1: and he's saying I can't breathe, I can't breathe, And
Speaker 1: it's a crowd of people looking at this whole incident. Happened, man,
Speaker 1: and go down. Man. It it was just almost real.
Speaker 1: It was almost like not again. Well I didn't even
Speaker 1: think of it, not again, because I'm already knowing this is,
Speaker 1: this is a process of pattern. This ship's gonna keep happening,
Speaker 1: whether they got people with their cameras out video on
Speaker 1: this ship or not. The police, the police is at
Speaker 1: the point where they like, really don't even give a
Speaker 1: fun no more. And for that man to lose his
Speaker 1: life like that and beg for his life, you know,
Speaker 1: talking to him, the people that was had they was
Speaker 1: video on it was telling him he can't he can't breathe,
Speaker 1: blood coming out his nose now. And that that officer
Speaker 1: stayed on his neck and then put his hand on
Speaker 1: his knee as if he was pressing to pressing a
Speaker 1: little harder. So he knew he was killing him because
Speaker 1: could nobody say ship. And then you had another officer,
Speaker 1: the Asian officer that that stood there and tried to
Speaker 1: cover the people with their cameras. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying opposed to two and I think he should be
Speaker 1: charged as well as when he got fired. But to
Speaker 1: block it, not to go to his partner and say
Speaker 1: that's enough. Yeah, exactly didn't happen. Well, all of them
Speaker 1: have to face some level of responsibility, and all of
Speaker 1: them are accountable because what should have happened is on
Speaker 1: top of those guys getting terminated, um four officers that
Speaker 1: were standing around, they should get no less than twenty years.
Speaker 1: And the guy that actually had his knee on this
Speaker 1: guy's neck, he should get life and the penitentiary or
Speaker 1: the death penalty, Jackie, how about to say the death penalty?
Speaker 1: And we talked about this ship on our show many times.
Speaker 1: What made them exempt from being accountable like I would
Speaker 1: be if I killed somebody? Exactly exactly? What's the fucking difference?
Speaker 1: You know? And we all are accountable, man, And you
Speaker 1: know the biggest thing and it uh, we talked about
Speaker 1: this before exams. You've seen this many times before. Man.
Speaker 1: Before we fix this problem, man, we really have to
Speaker 1: fix us as a people. Man. We can say that
Speaker 1: until we turned blue in the face. But if I
Speaker 1: see in and I know a whole lot of black
Speaker 1: men haven't seen this, and we can't talk about nobody
Speaker 1: else if we the main was killing each other. Here
Speaker 1: we are we game banging motherfucker's on the kovid nineteen
Speaker 1: is supposed to be in the house, but they out
Speaker 1: there with their guns doing drive by it still, so
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna stop. That's why I said, kill these
Speaker 1: motherfucker's and be done with it, and then we can
Speaker 1: build some type of structure. But man, we gotta pay
Speaker 1: attention to what these people are doing to us, opposed
Speaker 1: to getting out there rallying when the police do it.
Speaker 1: But but we do it to ourselves every day, every
Speaker 1: fucking night, somebody is getting killed, even at a time
Speaker 1: like this, So how do we make motherfucker's accountable for it? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what it is, man, homicide. Man is like
Speaker 1: a devastating plague this in our community, man, And you
Speaker 1: know it's the same with every city, man, from Compton
Speaker 1: to Baltimore to Chicago. Man, um, out of all the
Speaker 1: homicides man, like I think they said in Baltimore is
Speaker 1: three hundred something homicides last year, you know, l A,
Speaker 1: in Chicago, all high cities, Detroit, but the but the
Speaker 1: majority of these crimes are being perpetted, perpetrated by other
Speaker 1: black people. Man. So we are really the biggest danger
Speaker 1: to us if you count the the times the police
Speaker 1: have killed us not giving them no excuse by any meanings,
Speaker 1: by a loan shot. But if you look at it, man,
Speaker 1: we stand and lose our life at the hands of
Speaker 1: a black man, the odds are way harder than that
Speaker 1: of a police officer. If you looked at the rally
Speaker 1: that they had in uh, Minneapolis, it was more skins
Speaker 1: and white than it was black people at this rally.
Speaker 1: And and at some point you gotta really get tired
Speaker 1: of this bullshit because that's all we do is fucking talk.
Speaker 1: All we do is bark. But but have a rally
Speaker 1: when these dudes go out here, when we kill each other,
Speaker 1: four or five at a time, have a rally for
Speaker 1: for that man life or whatever. Don't just go and
Speaker 1: take off on the on the police. But what what
Speaker 1: the police doing that we ain't doing to ourselves? Exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And that's our point, man, because it's like, you know, um,
Speaker 1: we have a real, a really bad problem and as
Speaker 1: a community, man, that we sit up and kill each
Speaker 1: other all day. Man. But I looked at it. Even
Speaker 1: when this guy was on the ground, as this officer
Speaker 1: had his knee and his neck, nobody threw it rock,
Speaker 1: nobody did nothing. All they did was have their phones out.
Speaker 1: How many people you think rock there when this man
Speaker 1: did you see the video? How many people are out
Speaker 1: there when this man was getting killed? Nobody and the
Speaker 1: and the black guy that said he dude, he does
Speaker 1: martial arts, didn't go over there and try to just
Speaker 1: check on him my phone. Yeah, because of the things, man,
Speaker 1: And I'm being honest, man, I would like to. I know,
Speaker 1: I can almost guarantee you. Man, if I'm riding down
Speaker 1: the street and I see a police officer with his
Speaker 1: knee and somebody's neck and this man is to the
Speaker 1: point it's him dying, I'm at least come over and
Speaker 1: try to push the off, throw off him. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw something, I'm gonna do something to the distract this dude,
Speaker 1: because after a while, if everybody take off on these dudes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they could pull off their guns. But your point is
Speaker 1: your mission is accomplished once he takes his knee off
Speaker 1: the guy's neck. I think we just fucking comfortable of police,
Speaker 1: butality like we've been. You know, this goes all the
Speaker 1: way back to the sixties. The way they used to
Speaker 1: whoop I ass. They're still whooping the ass the same
Speaker 1: way now and and At first it was you had
Speaker 1: a you had a break in it. When when social
Speaker 1: media and all this ship kicked in, now they have
Speaker 1: to think. But now they they just right back to it.
Speaker 1: And and racism play a big part of this ship.
Speaker 1: You know, you got ex cops killing black man just
Speaker 1: for jogging. You got cops uh killing gang members just
Speaker 1: because they can, And it's us not paying attention to
Speaker 1: what the fund is really going on. So this is
Speaker 1: what I see in society. I'd rather do you than
Speaker 1: do this white boy that just killed my brother. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kill another motherfucker because the consequences ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: so heavy if I funk with this white man. Bullish
Speaker 1: it bullshit. Yeah, you know what, man? That the thing
Speaker 1: is about it? Man. And I'm really starting to think, man,
Speaker 1: we don't value ourselves as the people we never have.
Speaker 1: You know what, we don't value salesman, We don't value
Speaker 1: our community. Man. And I know they're out there riding
Speaker 1: in Minnesota right now, and I really hope they're not
Speaker 1: tearing up their own neighborhood, ten of your own ship.
Speaker 1: The only outcome of that is just like the ninety
Speaker 1: two rides, nobody got nothing out of that. Nobody got that.
Speaker 1: You don't gain shipped from that. You're riding on the
Speaker 1: wrong thing. The building didn't didn't, didn't beat the ship
Speaker 1: out of Rodney King. Um the ground are the police called?
Speaker 1: Nothing else? Killed this man? Uh killed George? It was
Speaker 1: a police officer, Yeah, exactly, you know. And that's the thing, man,
Speaker 1: all we known for doing in this country, man, is um.
Speaker 1: You can add them. You can add filming on the
Speaker 1: phone to the list. We know how to march, we
Speaker 1: know how to pray, we know how to um film
Speaker 1: on camera now, but we really don't know how to protest. Man.
Speaker 1: We have so much power as the people, man. We
Speaker 1: we we are so influential as a people man that
Speaker 1: we don't exercise that power that we have, the real
Speaker 1: true power that we have. Man, if you look back
Speaker 1: into um and at times, man, we really had really
Speaker 1: revolutionary brothers in the country, man, like the Black Panther
Speaker 1: Party and all these other people, man that were really
Speaker 1: true revolutionaries. Man. They really went on the line with it.
Speaker 1: They went all the way with it. It wasn't no
Speaker 1: fear in their heart. They said, we gonna get changed
Speaker 1: either by either way. We gonna get changed by any
Speaker 1: means necessary, you know what I mean. And we don't
Speaker 1: have that mentality now. But when it comes to me
Speaker 1: having a problem with you, oh, I'm going all out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do whatever I have to do. If that
Speaker 1: means chicken in your door, I'm blowing your brains out
Speaker 1: and killing everybody else that's in the house, We're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. But when it comes to this, man, we
Speaker 1: need to really unify as a race, man, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about fast. It needs to be a unification of us,
Speaker 1: and it has to be a certain structure to it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I have all the answers. I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying that this show has the answers, and but
Speaker 1: we really need to unify together. Man. We need to
Speaker 1: start making our and you know not and this is
Speaker 1: not going off subject, but me man, like when that
Speaker 1: guy said the other day, well, you're not black. When
Speaker 1: Biden says you're not black if you don't vote for me,
Speaker 1: he really meant that. And that's because that's the way
Speaker 1: we've demonstrated this. Like blacks always come out the parkt
Speaker 1: and say, oh, I'm a Republican, right, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: a Democrat, right, I'm this I'm that I'm a Democratic
Speaker 1: Republicans as all racists, no, you know, and really for
Speaker 1: the longest in this country, we were Republicans for the longest.
Speaker 1: We have to make our vote means something, man, and
Speaker 1: what that means. We need to unify and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: the person that's gonna get our vote is gonna be
Speaker 1: the person that meets these demands. I look at this different.
Speaker 1: Regardless who the black man vote for, the situation remains
Speaker 1: the same. I don't give a funk who you put
Speaker 1: up there. It's the white man that you're putting up there,
Speaker 1: and some of them you just can't trust because it's
Speaker 1: all about politics to these motherfucker's. They don't give a
Speaker 1: funk about you and me. They don't get about the
Speaker 1: game bangers killing each other. So what the funk I'm
Speaker 1: gonna vote for? Everything stayed the same. Their motherfucker's keep
Speaker 1: getting rich and we stayed pold. So I mean, I
Speaker 1: ain't even fun the politics. See all with James, you
Speaker 1: can't say the politics because that's the same stuff that
Speaker 1: puts these people in part. That's why we're in a
Speaker 1: position that we get James, but we can't keep saying
Speaker 1: fuck the politics. That's why they're able to keep getting
Speaker 1: away with the stuff that they're doing. Man, we need
Speaker 1: to really and and it's all and it may never
Speaker 1: happen to me in your lifetime. The way we are,
Speaker 1: it's all about we gotta unify. That's the only way
Speaker 1: we have strength. Man. We need to come together. Man,
Speaker 1: we need to start. And don't get this the wrong
Speaker 1: way when I say bearing arms. Man. But did you
Speaker 1: see man with those people in Kentucky in these different
Speaker 1: places when they wanted to get they they want to
Speaker 1: be shut in. They want this coronavirus. They was marching
Speaker 1: up today. Um, they was marching into their political office. Man,
Speaker 1: with their guns and everything else. Did you see them
Speaker 1: dues in Detroit? Man, they want plan They had their
Speaker 1: guns over their shoulder and they want up. The man
Speaker 1: had told them people what they want. They want playing
Speaker 1: they got with the white guys. Yeah. Now, And I
Speaker 1: like the flip ship. What if it was thirty black
Speaker 1: men that walked up to the same steps with their guns,
Speaker 1: the army would have been there and we had to
Speaker 1: drop that ship and we had to surrender. We'd had
Speaker 1: to give up. The way they politic is, it's all
Speaker 1: right for that white boy to do it, just like
Speaker 1: a white man teaching his son how to shoot a gun. Sure,
Speaker 1: a black man teaching his son how to shoot the gun.
Speaker 1: It's sucking wrong. So it's a double standard. Asked fucking
Speaker 1: world out there, and we don't get it until we
Speaker 1: understand it. I understand it now. We're fighting something, we're
Speaker 1: talking about something we would never be able to win.
Speaker 1: We we had never conquered this situation. It's gonna always be.
Speaker 1: But the only thing we can do is understand and
Speaker 1: pay attention to the what's to to what the fund
Speaker 1: is happening to us. We're given away our lives and
Speaker 1: we're taking lives at the same time. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, we're done if we don't stop and
Speaker 1: fix that. Now, we we do have enough. We do
Speaker 1: have control where we can stop the police from doing
Speaker 1: what the funk they're doing. We can police them motherfucker's
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying. You know, just imagine this, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. If you notice, and not
Speaker 1: to put too much you know, hood business out there.
Speaker 1: It's some neighborhoods and lost angeles that the police don't
Speaker 1: come through acting the food with that stuff because they
Speaker 1: know they can get busted on, and they act a
Speaker 1: certain way. You know, it's certain neighborhoods and Compton, Am
Speaker 1: I right a wrong Compton? While it's in different places
Speaker 1: the way they know, if I come in here doing this,
Speaker 1: somebody gonna let loose and this motherfucker's so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come through with utmost respect. And I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: just like you said them thirty brothers, thirty black brothers.
Speaker 1: Marks on the stairs somewhere the army gonna come and
Speaker 1: knock them down. Now, what happens if thirty more shot
Speaker 1: after that? If we keep coming, not just there, but
Speaker 1: in l A two, we keep coming until they say,
Speaker 1: because the thing is man, sometimes man the only way.
Speaker 1: Sometimes man, war is necessary in order the institute changed. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm believing war and a whole lot of us. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about brothers like me that lived the street, living
Speaker 1: the hood, understand what war is. But we we we
Speaker 1: we are wars against each other. Now, let's let's reverse that.
Speaker 1: If our war wasn't against each other. And I'm not
Speaker 1: promoting the violence, but what I'm saying is something we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to stand up and and protect ourselves because
Speaker 1: ain't nobody else is gonna do it. Just like with
Speaker 1: these cops that killed George, they only got fired. Man,
Speaker 1: these motherfucker's should be accountable for murder. They killed him.
Speaker 1: That man is set on his neck killed him. This
Speaker 1: is murder. So they don't give a funk about our lives.
Speaker 1: You lost your job, take your ass home and go
Speaker 1: find something else to do. But he still get his
Speaker 1: goddamn pension. He's still able to take care his family.
Speaker 1: The whole motherfucker nine. That's a waste to get. That's
Speaker 1: the fucking line. Kill him because I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: it's a whole bunch of them guys. Man, I don't
Speaker 1: know the particulars of this case, but I bet you,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet you everything I got, man, that
Speaker 1: these guys are still gonna get their pension. Like you said,
Speaker 1: they still gonna get paid. They still get administrative leave
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and they probably get early retirement.
Speaker 1: You know, early retirement. They're straight. They just getting, you know,
Speaker 1: sit at home and kick it pretty much. Don't wait.
Speaker 1: This score affect them as they get some jail time,
Speaker 1: and that's what we need to fight for. We can't
Speaker 1: continue to let people get away with this because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. A dog has more rights in
Speaker 1: this country than not do as a black man. If
Speaker 1: I went out here now we in Hollywood. If I
Speaker 1: went outside now on Hollywood and somebody saw me dragging
Speaker 1: the dog by the thing, I would get a million
Speaker 1: white people jump out of the car. Head. You can't
Speaker 1: do that. Oh hell, were raised loose, and I'm serious,
Speaker 1: it would be all kind of protest. Is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you something with these white folks, And I'm not praxious.
Speaker 1: I don't have nothing against white people. I don't have
Speaker 1: nothing against white pop. But I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 1: You do something bad one of them, Oh hell, go
Speaker 1: break loose, they go stop spending money with you, they
Speaker 1: go up doing everything else. They got Michael, they got
Speaker 1: Michael fix As putting zero four damn dog. And I
Speaker 1: don't I don't mean to cut you out on but
Speaker 1: the same ship I've been saying on this show for
Speaker 1: the longest, and this ship just it's a it's a cycle. Here.
Speaker 1: You got a man jogging get killed. Look how long
Speaker 1: it took them to to arrest them. To mother Pucker's
Speaker 1: but if just say, if that motherfucker if two white
Speaker 1: boys running and jogging and Compton down my street and
Speaker 1: and they got killed. Every motherfucker they got a profile,
Speaker 1: got a card on, it's going to jail, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna get that murder to us. How many motherfucking white
Speaker 1: boys do you see that did thirty seven years, twenty
Speaker 1: five years and they let them out the majority our
Speaker 1: black men falsely accused. So, man, this ship is on us.
Speaker 1: This ship is on us. It's gonna keep happening to us.
Speaker 1: And it's a cold as conversation. And and my only
Speaker 1: point is, man, black man, brothers, y'all need to stand
Speaker 1: the funk up and let's stop this bullshit against each other.
Speaker 1: And then, I mean, and see what the fun is
Speaker 1: going on? Look at our president, which, like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna vote because it don't matter who was
Speaker 1: in office, the same ship has gonna happen. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get the same goddamn ship. These motherfucker's think because you
Speaker 1: got twelve hundred motherfucking dollars a stimulus check, that this
Speaker 1: motherfucker's are doing something for us. Man, They're giving us
Speaker 1: some motherfucking bone. And then not to appreciate it. We
Speaker 1: go by motherfucking TV this, I tell you, and that's
Speaker 1: the older And see, James, that's a whole another conversation, man,
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna tell you the biggest thing they did. Man. See,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, man, what happened with Lyndon B. Johnson? Man,
Speaker 1: Ben thinks Johnson? Man, you know what was the president
Speaker 1: of the United States? Right? He said, Man, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you what he said in the short form, right,
Speaker 1: without going all into it, he said, if we give
Speaker 1: these niggas welfare and some free ship, just a little
Speaker 1: something to make him think they into something, because what
Speaker 1: do you understood with Lyndon Johnson understood? He understood that
Speaker 1: the black man this country was starting to get a
Speaker 1: little political called right, the devote meant something. So what
Speaker 1: are he said he saw earlier on? He said that
Speaker 1: if we give these niggas a little something, you know, welfare,
Speaker 1: public housing, you know, public houses and stuff, we get
Speaker 1: their vote. And you know what he said, and this
Speaker 1: is the truth. They got him on tapes in and
Speaker 1: he said them niggas would be Democrats, vote Democrat for
Speaker 1: the next two hundred years. And that's what they've been doing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the first thing they did. They
Speaker 1: they systematically man took the man out of the home. Right.
Speaker 1: They told the woman, we're gonna give you two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month for every kid that you put push
Speaker 1: out of you. Right, we'll give you some food stamps,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna let you pay a hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: month to live somewhere in SEPs of dollars houses. Right,
Speaker 1: to keep you lazy, exactly, to keep you lazy, to
Speaker 1: keep you depending on what it usually happens, that woman,
Speaker 1: she more unlikely she gotta do this land piped to
Speaker 1: a good He was father of her children, and so
Speaker 1: she got them sneaked in there. The first time that
Speaker 1: dude does something the first time he come home late,
Speaker 1: or she get piste off, or you gotta go, or
Speaker 1: either he gets caught. Now he's gone. Right, So you
Speaker 1: got the government, they don't took the place, because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you nowadays, man, the government is taking care
Speaker 1: of people's kids, right, Yeah, the government is taking care
Speaker 1: of people as the kids, right, you know. So so
Speaker 1: this boy and it's a system. Man. So you got
Speaker 1: a kid that grows up, man up under a woman,
Speaker 1: and no offense of that, because there are plenty of
Speaker 1: women to do a great job raising kids. Man, they
Speaker 1: grow up to be strong young men. Right. But on
Speaker 1: the second hand, it ain't no male figure in the household,
Speaker 1: so they took that away, right, So this stuff ain't
Speaker 1: just happened overnight. Man. We we are victims of self hatred. Man.
Speaker 1: I even see some of the younger kids, man that
Speaker 1: walk around. If somebody is too dark, they're making jokes
Speaker 1: about them. If somebody is light skinned, he's soft. We
Speaker 1: all black. It don't matter which shade with with with
Speaker 1: tone you are. We are all black, nonscience black niggers
Speaker 1: look purple though. Yeah, but but but still game. You
Speaker 1: didn't know what I'm saying, though, You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It's really a lot of like like even that man,
Speaker 1: that's that, that's like that, that covert racism, man, like
Speaker 1: amongst us. You know what I mean. We just don't
Speaker 1: like each other. Man, We don't like each other. We
Speaker 1: don't like ourselves. Man. We we know him. We are
Speaker 1: taught to hate, to hate our own race. We have
Speaker 1: been taught just on the street, from a street perspective.
Speaker 1: Every game member out there has been taught and told
Speaker 1: something to hate the next cat or to hate the
Speaker 1: next hood. You know what I'm saying. And the and
Speaker 1: they play this against us. They've been playing it against us.
Speaker 1: And then the cold thing about it is we bite
Speaker 1: into that ship. We bite into it. We believe that
Speaker 1: that dude ain't no good because police said that that
Speaker 1: dude with Joe homeboy. We believe that, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, instead of us just sitting back and then
Speaker 1: cats come to you and say, man, I, we don't
Speaker 1: know nothing about it. Bull ship. We're gonna take the
Speaker 1: word of the police. Oh your home boy just told
Speaker 1: me what you did. I see this on forty hours
Speaker 1: every day. He just told us what happened. And we
Speaker 1: all see it every day. The same thing. We create
Speaker 1: jobs for the police. The more we kill, the more
Speaker 1: police they officers they bring it. You see the day
Speaker 1: they don't give a funk. I watched uh Chicago p
Speaker 1: D or some ship whatever it was. This goddamn police
Speaker 1: lady was at least three fifty. She can't catch me
Speaker 1: what the funk she doing being a cop. They're just
Speaker 1: giving them jobs so they have they don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about ship that we were about paying bills. She don't,
Speaker 1: she don't need a job. They hand cops at forty
Speaker 1: six years old. Motherfucker's too old. But they're giving them
Speaker 1: jobs to keep them stable. He funked up. We funked up.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And and my my biggest
Speaker 1: thing is that everybody out here has to see that
Speaker 1: they're taking our life. They're taking our lives. The police
Speaker 1: don't give a funk about our kids. What what do
Speaker 1: it take two police officers to body slam and beat
Speaker 1: a twelve year old little boy and then handcuffing. No,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be trained in this type of ship.
Speaker 1: I've just seen on on the on the video. Uh
Speaker 1: and uh St Louis. They was at a rally. This
Speaker 1: lady is sixty seventy years old. Police choking the ship
Speaker 1: out of it? Do it take? Do it take? No?
Speaker 1: But do it take a cop to do that to you?
Speaker 1: Because it's it's it's fucking frustrating because that could be
Speaker 1: my mama. You feel me right there and then right
Speaker 1: down and next to him is a black police officer.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm said, Come on, man, you gotta
Speaker 1: have some type of pride and and and what you are,
Speaker 1: not where you are, but what you are exactly. And
Speaker 1: you know the thing he was, man, one person I
Speaker 1: gotta give properts to hear. You'll talk about Regie's dad
Speaker 1: all the time, right, and how he was in the community. Man.
Speaker 1: We really need man, We really really needs to happen. Man,
Speaker 1: we can't because I've heard people tell their kids or
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna never be a police officer. If that
Speaker 1: you can't be no police officer. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: One want No, that's the exact opposite. We need more
Speaker 1: and more young brothers from the community to go be
Speaker 1: police officers. Man to police the community in which they
Speaker 1: come from. You know, I'm dude, you know how many
Speaker 1: black men have been denied? Have you seen that sign
Speaker 1: Sherman Black say we need you. Man. My cousin Tony Uh,
Speaker 1: I think sixteen years in the military, came and wanted
Speaker 1: to be a police officer. He had to be a
Speaker 1: correction officer because they denied him. They denied him. That's
Speaker 1: in firefight everything that you see that has to do
Speaker 1: with with the police, firefighters. Uh, in the medical field,
Speaker 1: the whole nine. The majority is whites. Ain't too many
Speaker 1: motherfucking black people. We don't control ship and some of
Speaker 1: the black cops that you see, I got my ask
Speaker 1: worshen more about the black cops and coming down. Just
Speaker 1: everything is rolled fucking play. And you know, when I
Speaker 1: was growing up and I'm a raising from Cleveland, hell, man,
Speaker 1: we had cat Nam Woods. That was our community police officer. Right,
Speaker 1: he's a black dude, and he had a Puerto Rican
Speaker 1: do man. It was his partner. Man. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you how many arms he broke, how many fingers he broke. Oh,
Speaker 1: they didn't arrest nobody, right, but if he comes you,
Speaker 1: he would whoop your ass. But you know, and that's
Speaker 1: the problem right now today they do. They got the
Speaker 1: right to do what they want to do to you.
Speaker 1: They saved by any means necessary. That's bullshit because they
Speaker 1: got away the situation when nay on the spot right there.
Speaker 1: It don't take this big gass officer to to put
Speaker 1: a choke hold on a twelve year old kid. I
Speaker 1: don'na give a funk how bad he is or how
Speaker 1: mad he gets, he should be able to to uh
Speaker 1: subdue that kid. A sixty year old woman, black woman,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have to pick her up embody slammer to
Speaker 1: the ground to arrester if if you do what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is that that that's a coward ass bitch. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And police officers has the same
Speaker 1: untility as us when we mad at our girl and
Speaker 1: step out and and and start hanging out. I'm ready
Speaker 1: to take my aggression out on something, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be somebody. Unfortunately, they patrolled the black neighborhood. Half of
Speaker 1: these cats don't do ship and then they just say
Speaker 1: stop you just to stop resisting like the best skin
Speaker 1: cat that that was against the gate. You can see
Speaker 1: what the fun you want to say, But look how
Speaker 1: they did. He this something. The bit he was at
Speaker 1: a black officer, I mean, uh, female officer with him,
Speaker 1: he felt that it was only right that he started
Speaker 1: just swinging like a motherfuck like a madman beating ship out.
Speaker 1: This dude well swinging. He didn't hit him. He was
Speaker 1: throwing the blows, but he didn't contact every punchy blew.
Speaker 1: But the point is that's not the mentality you're supposed
Speaker 1: to have as a police officer. You hit a server
Speaker 1: and the check not to tell me now, not to
Speaker 1: kill me, not to not to do me like that.
Speaker 1: But I'm wrong. If I swing back, I'm wrong. If
Speaker 1: I swing back and and and you hit back, then
Speaker 1: now they're right. Now they can say this is what
Speaker 1: he did like that one guy. I seen it again. Uh,
Speaker 1: this black man, he didn't have no gun in his hand,
Speaker 1: but he was running from the building. He had his
Speaker 1: hands up like this and he was running towards the police.
Speaker 1: Police just unloaded on him, took him out. The mother,
Speaker 1: the man on the ground, and he's still popping him. Man,
Speaker 1: they do that that they show you that they don't
Speaker 1: give a funk about your life, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's unfortunate that that that all the bad ones,
Speaker 1: they give all police officers a bad name, and there's
Speaker 1: some good ones out there. Yeah, let me play Devil's
Speaker 1: advocate man with this right here, right, And I don't
Speaker 1: agree with this, but we had our own chie right.
Speaker 1: I used to have this mentality, right, he used to
Speaker 1: have this, um. He used to have this mentality. Um
Speaker 1: that you had the police our neighborhoods harder because you
Speaker 1: was more than likely to run into some resistance, so
Speaker 1: you had to come out there not playing like you
Speaker 1: heard Rechie saying, if you made him chase you, he
Speaker 1: was whooping your ass when he comes. You've heard him
Speaker 1: saying on this very show right there. So do we
Speaker 1: now like and it goes back again to us because
Speaker 1: you've got some dudes out here that ain't know all
Speaker 1: the way right right. You got some guys out here
Speaker 1: that ain't know all the way right in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Do we have to be police harder? Do they have
Speaker 1: the polices like that if they did take the line
Speaker 1: of where they say, you know what, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: these guys a break and you know, do our job
Speaker 1: the right way, would they lose their life out there? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, just being one hundred straight across the board.
Speaker 1: You have cats out there such as myself when I
Speaker 1: was out there that didn't give a funk about the
Speaker 1: police that that was going to run. You had guys
Speaker 1: shooting at the police because I'm not gonna get caught.
Speaker 1: They have a cold job. They have a cold as
Speaker 1: job to do a dangerous job. But the ship that
Speaker 1: you see, they're killing people without weapons. They they killing
Speaker 1: people with the choke hold, they're killing people with with
Speaker 1: We're just just the ship that they're doing. They ain't
Speaker 1: chasing them. Mofucking how many how many times you see
Speaker 1: the man get killed dumping on the police and they
Speaker 1: just added like that. The last time I show that's
Speaker 1: when those those guys robbed that bank and had on
Speaker 1: all that that arm Yeah, that's that's the last time
Speaker 1: I've seen it. And you've seen how they fold under
Speaker 1: pressure then, but I haven't seen him. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, man. I think that if we and this
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, people, it's not all about violence
Speaker 1: right now, there's that violence is the last last resort.
Speaker 1: You don't never want to go there because that's the battle.
Speaker 1: We're not go in because they're gonna bring the army
Speaker 1: and whoever else in here. Right But the thing else,
Speaker 1: at some point we have to um, we have to
Speaker 1: let them know we're not taking no more. And this
Speaker 1: is just some breaking news. Man. I just got this in.
Speaker 1: Man shouts out to Brian man Or, our producer or
Speaker 1: video editor. He can sent this in. Man. There's a
Speaker 1: big demonstration out here going on in l A man
Speaker 1: behind that fine with Georgia Floyd. Yeah, George Floyd's death.
Speaker 1: From here, it is right here. Hundreds of people marks
Speaker 1: through downtown Los Angeles and the Black Lives Matter protests
Speaker 1: over the death from George Floyd in Minnesota. The march
Speaker 1: resulted in a violent confrontation with police and shutting down
Speaker 1: to the one oh one Freeway near downtown and estimated
Speaker 1: five hundred to a thousand people participating the events starting
Speaker 1: near city Hall and then marching through downtown. It appears
Speaker 1: that the event was not clear what city officials in advance,
Speaker 1: as there was a minimum police prisons in the area.
Speaker 1: Now you look at that right there. That's the way
Speaker 1: it should be, James. If something happens because see one incident,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter where that if it affects us everywhere.
Speaker 1: Something happens in Detroit, it affects me and you out
Speaker 1: here right his impact over everybody right in l A.
Speaker 1: They out here marking now because of something that happened
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This should be happening all over the country.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you what would happen if stuff
Speaker 1: like this happened all over the country. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you forget. You want to go tear oft Compton,
Speaker 1: don't go tear at Watts march right up to Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: marks to where where it's at, right there, and we're marching.
Speaker 1: We're coming. You do something that, you do something that's
Speaker 1: out of pocket to one of ours, we're coming. If
Speaker 1: they know that's gonna happen, they're gonna start thinking, let's
Speaker 1: get stuff right, let's make proper rest, let's do stuff
Speaker 1: in the right order. If we don't, they go raise hell.
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you, you're gonna do something to
Speaker 1: a Jewish dude. The whole Jewish community is gonna raise
Speaker 1: hell at the end of the day. The only thing
Speaker 1: we bring this conversation, the only thing we bring to
Speaker 1: the table when ship like this happened, is we're angry.
Speaker 1: You feel me when the little girl was killed. Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: still go to that store and by their ship. What's
Speaker 1: your name the titia. Yeah, people still go to the
Speaker 1: store and buy every boy and buy from them. The Chinese.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, in Chinese. In China, they're beating the
Speaker 1: ship out of black people right now, snacks them out
Speaker 1: their homes and everything else. So we still were still
Speaker 1: shopping at their stores and and and buying. Motherfucking we
Speaker 1: even they got damn Chinese food. The motherucker's can tell
Speaker 1: you that's cat and we're still buy That's how bad
Speaker 1: we are. That's how bad we are. So they can
Speaker 1: even be honest with us and and we still fall
Speaker 1: for the bullshit. Don't get dope. This is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We gotta get better with our shelves. We gotta understand
Speaker 1: where the funk we're going and where we want to
Speaker 1: go in this world. In this world, these motherfucker's going
Speaker 1: to the moon. You think how many black motherfucker's been
Speaker 1: up there. I want to go. Yeah, you know the thing.
Speaker 1: You know, and this has happened, man um, And I
Speaker 1: don't want to make this a thing man, to where
Speaker 1: it's just about because, like I said, I don't hate nobody. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't hate nobody because of color, man um or race,
Speaker 1: of creed, right a religion. I know you feel the
Speaker 1: same way, man, But like I said, Man, a dog
Speaker 1: gets more respect in this country than we do. If
Speaker 1: I went outside, like I said, and they saw me
Speaker 1: choking the dog, it would be fifty people running out
Speaker 1: their houses around this neighborhood. Man. Somebody would try to
Speaker 1: jump on me, man, because of that dog. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you, man, and I know this is probably oh man.
Speaker 1: Instead of sign displayed at the McDonald's and trying to bread,
Speaker 1: black people are not allowed inner. Just one instance of
Speaker 1: a growing problem. You know, they had a sign up
Speaker 1: for the McDonald's and signed a man saying pretty much that, um,
Speaker 1: the coronavirus came here because of black people, so y'all
Speaker 1: can come to the restaurant. There was going early in
Speaker 1: the morning snacking black people out their cribs. Man saying,
Speaker 1: y'all gotta get out of here. Y'all got the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: That's my point exactly. But they here and black people
Speaker 1: don't have the same temperament. Black people ain't thinking like that.
Speaker 1: Let's go whoof they asked, since they're doing us like that,
Speaker 1: and black people have been accepting as woman's and death
Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. This is what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to tell you. Motherfucker's just gotta be tired to try
Speaker 1: to living like that. You know, we got some rich
Speaker 1: black people, but you ain't gonna get in there and
Speaker 1: go nowhere and came by and let's their motherfucker's tell
Speaker 1: you all right, I mean the white man they run
Speaker 1: this ship. This is their ship. But we can we
Speaker 1: can be, we can better ourselves. So it don't take
Speaker 1: no white man, it don't take it. Don't take no
Speaker 1: fucking uh social workers. Uh, motherfucking shrink of whomever. They
Speaker 1: can't tell me ship. We we we can do this. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you we could do it, man. And it
Speaker 1: starts by organization. Man, it's like, um, I noticed, man,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it's a lot of young men
Speaker 1: out there walking around with no guidance right now. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna say that could be an excuse, but
Speaker 1: I think we got Rixie on the phone right there. Hello,
Speaker 1: let's call let's call it. I'm in jail monitory call now,
Speaker 1: Hey Reggie, what's having a big dog? Oh? Man, we're
Speaker 1: just sitting up there, man, Me and Sjames sitting the
Speaker 1: penning on work. Okay you need it, man, um me
Speaker 1: and mac uh Matt, Matt coming up here next week.
Speaker 1: So it's just me and James in here. Man, we're
Speaker 1: talking about I didn't murder another one of the brothers. Man. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw that. I saw that. Yeah that that dude
Speaker 1: going to jail. He uh, he kept his foot on
Speaker 1: that too. Long. I mean, you know, once the hairdcuffs
Speaker 1: come on, the fighters over. What up, Jamey, Hey, what's
Speaker 1: happening with your reg? Oh? Oh man, I've been I've
Speaker 1: been laying on the couch like an old fat lady
Speaker 1: waiting for you to call me. Okay, okay, I called
Speaker 1: you a couple of times, shout your phone, go to
Speaker 1: wait now or but down they comes up with a
Speaker 1: two or two other soff you see it? Like, sure,
Speaker 1: you answer it? Okay if if my phone goes straight
Speaker 1: the voice man, that's your Grandshong said that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so sad. So Reg what what what are you thinks?
Speaker 1: I know you don't have So I really want to
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on this man, because I was telling
Speaker 1: James Man the data had put us for them. Miss
Speaker 1: guys nick Man, he needs to get the death penalty.
Speaker 1: He needs to get the jail for risk his life.
Speaker 1: Well he's gonna get the death on me, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a jail for a long time. And in
Speaker 1: that city, he ain't gonna have to pass some more
Speaker 1: bad checks because that city, hopefully he got some kids
Speaker 1: where he couldn't leave that that money to him. You
Speaker 1: know kids who preferred to have their dad. But um,
Speaker 1: that's that watch that. I mean that that compass. Obviously
Speaker 1: I've met you from the history of in his path
Speaker 1: and that's w I always try to tell everybody he
Speaker 1: got to report it because one time ain't nothing gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Two times something probably don't happen. But three times the
Speaker 1: department start to listen. Let me ask you do you
Speaker 1: think do you think he was prejudiced or he was
Speaker 1: just ay you come man, no, man, cost don't they
Speaker 1: don't be presu They just see people as cooks, um.
Speaker 1: And so what happens is, you know, because I'm experiencing
Speaker 1: in here, they just they don't look at you know,
Speaker 1: the thing like it's prejudice. It's just stam against the world.
Speaker 1: And until you get get dealt with like he's about
Speaker 1: to get deal with, and and and till things keep happening. Uh,
Speaker 1: they say they are just trained that way. It's just
Speaker 1: in their dna um to be that way until they
Speaker 1: take the ant to jail. When you start going to
Speaker 1: jail and just keep happening, trust me, they you change
Speaker 1: your tomb, man, your tomb change on the ship like that.
Speaker 1: So you you know we did at show him this ridge.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna take? Because whether we
Speaker 1: stopped resisting or not, the same outcome, it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You can be anything. They say he was resisting. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen the whole tape because I heard the take
Speaker 1: cut off and I haven't seen the whole tape, but
Speaker 1: I heard it. There's some part where he was had
Speaker 1: comfortant that he didn't appear to be resisting. Um, so
Speaker 1: I won't go with that job. I used to take
Speaker 1: the dance on. That's waiting to see it all and
Speaker 1: all of that. But I watched the video. He had
Speaker 1: his he had his his knee on his neck. The
Speaker 1: man started bleeding out his nose. The man was was
Speaker 1: was begging him and let him up for for some water.
Speaker 1: He was complaining of he was in pain and that motherfuck.
Speaker 1: He didn't pay attention to nothing. He didn't want to
Speaker 1: hear nothing. So the man died right up under him,
Speaker 1: and he still wouldn't let up. Yeah. I heard the
Speaker 1: paramedics for there and treating him and he still had
Speaker 1: hi put on his back. Yeah, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going with him. So he said him make ship his
Speaker 1: motherfucker dad, that's what that was. That rings you know
Speaker 1: what I was telling James, Man, I told him when
Speaker 1: I really fistic see about this, I would never tell
Speaker 1: somebody to go fight the police. Man. But like after
Speaker 1: a while, man, we gotta take the stands. Man. We
Speaker 1: can't do nothing like you saw holding salestones. I can't
Speaker 1: do that, y'all. We cannot do that. Hey, Um, I
Speaker 1: gotta do account. I sucked up and called right before
Speaker 1: account and uh they're about to make up do account
Speaker 1: of ergency account. I gotta get off the phone, but
Speaker 1: I don't call back in exactly one hour if y'all
Speaker 1: still there, Um, and then were good? Can you more
Speaker 1: appreciate y'all? Y'all keep it going. But I gotta gonna
Speaker 1: be killed. And man, I can't wait to pick you up.
Speaker 1: Sure we can fight me and know I've been in
Speaker 1: the month. So get that car ready because it should
Speaker 1: be within the month man, that you're coming home. I
Speaker 1: mean the month I call a man that was gonna
Speaker 1: be home and then next month. Yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was a way Reggie right right there, everybody, Um, guys,
Speaker 1: been good. He could be coming on. He's supposed to
Speaker 1: be coming home pretty soon. You'll heard that right there,
Speaker 1: said in the end of the month. Yeah, not next month.
Speaker 1: M that what he said next month. But I've been
Speaker 1: I've been telling Reggie we're gonna fight when he comes home.
Speaker 1: We're coming to get him. We're gonna go up there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get him, and me and Reggie gonna have
Speaker 1: to uh, we're gonna have to duke get out. Well,
Speaker 1: you got to start running some track of something. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna heard that on that. I'm say, you gotta start running.
Speaker 1: Get your cardio together. Man, Man, i gotta get tired.
Speaker 1: As motherfucker. I'm still gonna fight. So we gotta say
Speaker 1: that energy man for these police out here, man, it
Speaker 1: ain't even that on some real ship. If if if
Speaker 1: we get the understanding each other better than what we're doing,
Speaker 1: and and monitoring each other and paying attention to what's
Speaker 1: really happening, that's all the way from Donald Trump, that's
Speaker 1: all the way to the police. Everybody out here know
Speaker 1: that racism exists. You know, everybody out here know that that.
Speaker 1: You got that as w P, Supreme White Power, you
Speaker 1: got the Aaron Brothers, you got all these different organizations
Speaker 1: you know of racist motherfucker's you know, you've got racism
Speaker 1: and the police station. We just got to understand that
Speaker 1: all of that's around us. So now how do we
Speaker 1: how do we maneuver around that ship? Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what's the crazy thing? He was, man, And I know
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys are probably on the police
Speaker 1: for us. I'm from a while, man. I only have
Speaker 1: one counterman with the claim man in my life, right,
Speaker 1: I've never had a white are in one of the
Speaker 1: Arian gangs. Do nothing to me in my life. Everything
Speaker 1: I fight I've ever had always been I guess another brother. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because we don't want to see each other with nothing.
Speaker 1: And if we see if I see what you got,
Speaker 1: and I know, well, I'm just too lazy to get
Speaker 1: out there and go get it, then I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to get it from you. That's
Speaker 1: the easy way for us, Like a lot of us
Speaker 1: look at wrapped as an easy way out. That's a fix,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I mean, we just gotta
Speaker 1: learn how to just just like hard work like our
Speaker 1: grandfather's you know what I'm saying. Uh, My mom's just
Speaker 1: her with five you know, she worked at General Motors
Speaker 1: and she she took it in every day. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, regardless of how we how we the
Speaker 1: ship that we did when she was going to work
Speaker 1: and all that other ship. And you know we don't
Speaker 1: have that today. You know, some of our some of
Speaker 1: the mothers, is hanging out with their kids, kicking and
Speaker 1: drinking and doing this. We need to bring back the structure,
Speaker 1: whether it's daddy and the motherfucker or not. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, I was one that truly
Speaker 1: blamed all of my anger and unimosity out on on
Speaker 1: on my daddy. You know what I'm saying, because that's
Speaker 1: how I felt, That's how I grew up. But just
Speaker 1: listening to my my grandfather and you know, telling me
Speaker 1: that you gotta be this way, you gotta learn how
Speaker 1: to do this, You gotta know how to do something.
Speaker 1: Regardless of so I can pretty much do any motherfucker thing,
Speaker 1: but I still went that route. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is we got choices. Wait till you
Speaker 1: get in your forties to make those choices. We need
Speaker 1: to do it now we are they're killing each other
Speaker 1: for nothing. Well that's that's what I say. James when
Speaker 1: I say that we need to organize, man, and again,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep repeating this. I would never tell nobody
Speaker 1: to go out and fight the police. That's a battle
Speaker 1: you're not go in. But we have to be way
Speaker 1: more structured and what we're doing, man, it has to
Speaker 1: be more like, you know, the thing else somebody does something,
Speaker 1: the guy gets killed. For me to go out there
Speaker 1: and bust tending windows out in Long Beach Boulevard ain't
Speaker 1: gonna do a thing. It ain't gonna bring them back,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? We have to really learn
Speaker 1: how to protest. If we go protest. When I say protests,
Speaker 1: that means um, if it means boycotting certain certain stories.
Speaker 1: If it means um not supporting this right here and
Speaker 1: doing this and making making our voices heard. That's how
Speaker 1: you that's how you make an impact. Because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you one thing. I got a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: Jewish friends, right So I'm not saying this. I'm not
Speaker 1: anti Semitic at all. I have nothing against Jewish people.
Speaker 1: But you know one thing I admire about them. If
Speaker 1: something happens wrong, they would boy cocked your ass and
Speaker 1: what not supports you, and it's unified. It's not like
Speaker 1: because I remember what was the guy um Gucci? Who
Speaker 1: was that? What was that Gucci that did the racist
Speaker 1: the racist stuff? What designer was that? Somebody helped me
Speaker 1: out coming Hill figures? Yeah it was okay, okay, so
Speaker 1: it was Gucci. Did you know I saw a bunch
Speaker 1: of black people man for a whole month, or I'm
Speaker 1: not wearing no Gucci next month. Everybody had the Gucci
Speaker 1: belt so on, everybody had their Gucci scarves on, everybody
Speaker 1: had their Guci bags. It would be not no Gucci
Speaker 1: in my house because that and that's just what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tell you. We accept it at some point.
Speaker 1: We don't stay mad loan. We accepted when they do
Speaker 1: it to us. We accept that ship. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you saying we don't. We don't say fuck it just
Speaker 1: thinking we said fuck it today and stop going into
Speaker 1: these liquor stores and a nown liquor store in my
Speaker 1: neighborhood with black owns. Just just say fanstance. We stopped
Speaker 1: going to these goddamn looking stories, say we stopped eating
Speaker 1: Domino pizzas and all that ship. Somebody in this mom
Speaker 1: probably saying, damn you asking for too much. That ain't
Speaker 1: too much, that's not too much. You starve their ass out,
Speaker 1: they leave, You get the same goddamn building, open up
Speaker 1: the store, and and and now we have some black
Speaker 1: owned ship. But there's other ways to do it exactly though.
Speaker 1: But man, we we really have to let our because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, man, black people, African Americans spend
Speaker 1: more cash in this country than any other race by far,
Speaker 1: and there's using money that we don't even have. We
Speaker 1: go to bill brands support them up. You here brothers
Speaker 1: rap about um and you know that's one thing I
Speaker 1: gotta give jay Z. And then they said, forget rapping
Speaker 1: about all these You know, they saw we was they
Speaker 1: was increasing sales and stuff, you know, champagne, more wedd
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. They said, why are we Why
Speaker 1: are we talking about all that? And we're not getting
Speaker 1: the money from it. You know what I'm saying, We
Speaker 1: need to really start man um letting our making our
Speaker 1: economic presence feel. We need to start making our our
Speaker 1: presence just felt period, man, because the things we have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of powerful people in this country, man,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people just choose to stay quiet
Speaker 1: because they don't want to mess stay money up. That's
Speaker 1: not the mentality that's gonna work. Man, That's not gonna
Speaker 1: work no more. We have to start one thing to
Speaker 1: see people talk about jay Z. One thing I say
Speaker 1: about jay Z, every major calls, it has been about
Speaker 1: he's been in the mix Am I right? A wrong?
Speaker 1: He's been a mix up and he's put his money
Speaker 1: behind it. Man, we all have to start. Man. Everybody
Speaker 1: is not meant to be no soldier, right, but it is.
Speaker 1: We have to stick together man at some point, because
Speaker 1: like I told you, it's not even about being a soldiers.
Speaker 1: Is about politicking yourself. Is is about understanding how far
Speaker 1: we have came and then just really realizing our situation.
Speaker 1: We're stuck in the fucking mud. How do fun? How
Speaker 1: do we get out of the mud? How do we
Speaker 1: get out of it? Out of this rut w in?
Speaker 1: We gotta stop allowing people to do it's any kind
Speaker 1: of way and accept it. You kill my kids, it's
Speaker 1: only right there, we kill your kids. You gotta have
Speaker 1: some type of mentality like that. I don't care what
Speaker 1: everything that happened to us, We accepted all the way
Speaker 1: to murder all the way to prison. Everything you go
Speaker 1: to prison is the same ship in prison that you're
Speaker 1: getting on the street. You know, it's we we we
Speaker 1: just caught in the middle work. Everybody hate black people, Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 1: You know what, man, And I say, Man, And I
Speaker 1: think it's the thing, man, because they may look at
Speaker 1: us and say man, when they hate each other. You
Speaker 1: understand what I mean. They hate each other. They do everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, they do everybody that way. Because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you like this, man, people do what they are
Speaker 1: allowed to do. And I'm a firm belief in that. Man.
Speaker 1: People do what they allow. If they know that a
Speaker 1: certain yeah, if they know that a certain group is
Speaker 1: gonna raise Hell, they don't bother They don't bother man.
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you, man, I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of what other ethnic group it is. Man, the Jewish people, man,
Speaker 1: even the Italians. Man. Certain groups when they raise hell,
Speaker 1: they make their presence feel and they don't go in
Speaker 1: their neighborhoods. You ain't gonna see no Italians running through
Speaker 1: Bencent hursts, throwing bricks in the windows. They're not gonna
Speaker 1: do it, but they are gonna make they're gonna let
Speaker 1: it be known that they don't like what happened. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We need to stop spending money
Speaker 1: with certain people, man, We need to start spend breaking
Speaker 1: bread with certain people. And the thing else we get
Speaker 1: a brother that tries to establish a brand of first thing,
Speaker 1: we want to say, Oh, that's too much money. Let's
Speaker 1: make a deal. But you're not gonna walking to the
Speaker 1: foot locker and ask them for fifty dollars off in
Speaker 1: their shoes. If they say it's the three hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: we accept them. Do it. But if it's a brother,
Speaker 1: if it's you're selling shoes, James, and you're selling shoes
Speaker 1: for two hulls a pair, Oh there's too much money.
Speaker 1: Why don't you let me get two four hundred? Like
Speaker 1: I said, we do each other so ugly, man, because
Speaker 1: everything has to be a discount. Everything has to be
Speaker 1: a hook up, right. You know. I've had you know,
Speaker 1: even with this network, I've had situations to where I'd
Speaker 1: be in negotiations with people and when they find out
Speaker 1: I'm the owner of the company, they usually think it's
Speaker 1: one of the white guys. Ground When they find out
Speaker 1: I'm the owner, all stuff gotta change around, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: this is the business. She was ready to give jass
Speaker 1: up to this because you thought it was in but
Speaker 1: now this is me. You don't want to do a
Speaker 1: fair deal, you know what I mean? So you know
Speaker 1: that that's just our goals, man, You know, we just don't.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, man to figure out the way you how
Speaker 1: to turn it around. I'm just saying that. Can't nobody
Speaker 1: out there tell me we can't fix ourselves individually? Can
Speaker 1: nobody tell me? Know him, see his problem, but he
Speaker 1: just won't do nothing about it. Can anybody say that
Speaker 1: to me? Because if I want to fix my problem,
Speaker 1: I'll be still head how and I'll be still doing
Speaker 1: the stupid as ship on that I've been doing. But
Speaker 1: I understand where that would have got me, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And we do it for nothing. We
Speaker 1: do it because they say it's cool or we believe
Speaker 1: it's cool. Game bangon is is. It's not worth it.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it at all, especially at a time
Speaker 1: like this. If we see people killing us, that's when
Speaker 1: you stop and turn your gun the other motherfucking way.
Speaker 1: And I'm just being real about it. If they take
Speaker 1: it and take it out. They want to take it
Speaker 1: the ship. We need to stop doing. We ain't gonna
Speaker 1: stop doing because we got the look of stoes, we
Speaker 1: got the weed and and we got those motherfucker's with
Speaker 1: that men chality, that thing. That's what we should be doing.
Speaker 1: Let's go killing niggers because they got red on. Let's
Speaker 1: go killing motherfucker's because they wear blue. That is totally
Speaker 1: not the situation. This ship we're doing. We're doing it
Speaker 1: because we're stupid. We don't understand. We ain't looking for
Speaker 1: nothing in life, nothing good. Wait, well you know what
Speaker 1: the hills man, we sell ourselves away too, cheat man,
Speaker 1: we show for nothing. Well, you know, because it's like
Speaker 1: I was just set up and observe these brothers, and
Speaker 1: I guess right now, if you're want unemployment, for example,
Speaker 1: you're getting the extra six hundred dollars. I saw a
Speaker 1: couple of brothers saying with man, I'm not going back
Speaker 1: to work because I make more money. Were unemployment to
Speaker 1: sit at home, then I will be at the job.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like, so you mean you go
Speaker 1: forfeit your job to get They're like, they're not going
Speaker 1: to give you this money forever. And then I go
Speaker 1: back to work. You know. It's like, so you would
Speaker 1: rather just sit up on your ass than go to work.
Speaker 1: You think you're taking advantage of the system. You beat them,
Speaker 1: and I can ship back and do nothing for six months?
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, man, you know the thing, they got
Speaker 1: you at home, shitting at the house and working from home,
Speaker 1: and they're giving you this extra fucking money to do
Speaker 1: it fucking ship at home. But the thing is, though, James,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna last forever. And that's what you know.
Speaker 1: You're going back and that's a trick. But but no,
Speaker 1: you got brothers actually plotting on quitting their jobs. Like
Speaker 1: they just go send you this money and their in perpetuity,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And then it's like, um,
Speaker 1: we that up, Brown, I got something, my damn throu
Speaker 1: They ain't looking at longevity, They're not looking at the
Speaker 1: big picture. It's like this the thing it was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but man, I have to
Speaker 1: you know, I got bills. I gotta bust my ass.
Speaker 1: I gotta come up here. I know, if I want
Speaker 1: to get paid, I gotta come do shows. I gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta do these reads. When we get these reads
Speaker 1: and everything, so I have to go do it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I don't know nobody that would
Speaker 1: love to just sit that they create and collect money.
Speaker 1: But that's not a real world people like that. It's
Speaker 1: especially yeah, but that's what I'm saying. And it's like
Speaker 1: the reason I say that, Man. It ain't nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with getting under ploymer, right, but you have to strive
Speaker 1: for more. It's like, you know, my thing is this.
Speaker 1: If you do have this time and you at home,
Speaker 1: a lot of us have immense talent, Man, think of
Speaker 1: something that you can develop on your owner where you
Speaker 1: don't have to depend on those jobs so you're not
Speaker 1: in this situation no more. Think of something else that
Speaker 1: you can do. Because I'm gonna tell you one thing, man,
Speaker 1: I see a lot of people. Man. I hear people
Speaker 1: say all the time, Oh, the Hispanic people are taking
Speaker 1: our jobs. The Hispanic people ain't taking enough. Man, they
Speaker 1: work hard. I'm gonna tell you something. We don't our
Speaker 1: kids don't want to work at McDonald's no more. We
Speaker 1: won't do for the yeah, exactly. You know, like, um,
Speaker 1: the guy that cuts my yard, man, I've seen him
Speaker 1: go from having us in the house next door to
Speaker 1: hours to where he has the whole neighborhood now and
Speaker 1: he has this sign working in the next city over.
Speaker 1: You know, I see people. I've seen people man that
Speaker 1: that wake up every morning religiously. They't a little pick
Speaker 1: up truck we put trash out. They're back there searching
Speaker 1: for the cans. Man. They're not waiting on the handout,
Speaker 1: because they know when they come to this country, they
Speaker 1: see the opportunity and being here, right, they have freedom,
Speaker 1: they have certain liberties. So they say, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be rough. I'm had to wake up every
Speaker 1: morning at six o'clock and go rummicks to trash to
Speaker 1: pick up cans and everything, and I'm gonna turn them in.
Speaker 1: But you got some people doing that making a couple
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a day, man, And that's good money, you know.
Speaker 1: But we're not gonna do it because you know what
Speaker 1: we would rather do. Oh shoot, James, you got some
Speaker 1: money on man, Let me hold Let me hold five dollars,
Speaker 1: Let me hold this. You know what I mean? We
Speaker 1: just would rather sit up and live off the fat
Speaker 1: of the land. Man at work, And it ain't no
Speaker 1: sex thing. Nothing is free, man, Like I said, we
Speaker 1: gotta blame that on our shell. But we just we
Speaker 1: just think we're taking advantage of the system when the
Speaker 1: system is designed for you to think like that, um,
Speaker 1: the you know, the housing and all of that other ship,
Speaker 1: while ain't they give it to you because they know
Speaker 1: that chick gonna bring in the dude and he's gonna
Speaker 1: lay up in that motherfucker because he ain't got to
Speaker 1: pay no rank because the rent is cheap. They paid already,
Speaker 1: show he cool. Instead of instead of taking the opportunity
Speaker 1: to to save your fucking money and do your thing
Speaker 1: there body stupid ship, yeah exactly, instead of kicked out
Speaker 1: the motherfucker you back to normal. You ain't got no money,
Speaker 1: So that just makes us lazy when we could just
Speaker 1: lay around. Well, you know the whole thing, man, it's
Speaker 1: kind of a form of socialism almost, man, Because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, man, the biggest thing, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take you the biggest danger we're facing now. Okay, they've
Speaker 1: sent people twelve hundred dollar checks. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I didn't quality I wish i'd have got one. I
Speaker 1: didn't qualify for it. But they sent to everybody these
Speaker 1: twelve hundred dollar checks right, people getting these twelve hundred
Speaker 1: dollar checks. Oh, man, they're happy. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you know, sex things, free money, though, Man, it's always
Speaker 1: kicks everything. I'm gonna tell you what I really think
Speaker 1: they're setting us up for. Man. They're setting us up
Speaker 1: to come under some form of socialism. Man. I haven't
Speaker 1: quite figured out what it's yet, man. Because the thing else,
Speaker 1: if I pay your bills for you, James, if I
Speaker 1: um pay the rent in your house, if I put
Speaker 1: the food on your table, and you know, right now
Speaker 1: it seems like it's cool. But what if I tell
Speaker 1: you a man. You know what, James, I'm paying for
Speaker 1: your rent right now. I'm paying for your rent every month.
Speaker 1: What happens a year from now when I come to
Speaker 1: your house and I show up with the authorities and say, man, James,
Speaker 1: I heard you got the extra bed room in here,
Speaker 1: this family moving in with you? And you say bullshit, no, no,
Speaker 1: not yes, they are this my house. You're standing to
Speaker 1: my roof and I'm feeding and taking care of You're
Speaker 1: not gonna say nothing. If you resist, you will get
Speaker 1: kicked out of here. We move somebody else in there.
Speaker 1: That's when I'll be looking at my courage like Malcolm
Speaker 1: X with that that car binge, then that my dad.
Speaker 1: You mother fucker's coming up. You're talking about moving a
Speaker 1: nothing mother mind. Yeah, but that's what socialism meals. Though. Man,
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't think that's gonna happen. No, but listen, Jamet,
Speaker 1: listen to me. A lot of people didn't think it
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. They didn't think it was gonna happen
Speaker 1: in Cuba. You know what I'm saying is how many
Speaker 1: people got that stimulus check and and don't got a job.
Speaker 1: They know they ain't evenna get their money back, especially
Speaker 1: for month. Oh well, yeah, you know, it ain't so
Speaker 1: much about the money, James. Right now, it's about slowly
Speaker 1: getting people depending on the system. Like I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you right now, I know people that the generations have
Speaker 1: been on welfare. I can sell you some people in Ohio. Man,
Speaker 1: nobody in the family has never worked. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: Daughters having babies at seventeen. The mom almost encouraged that girl.
Speaker 1: You know, if you had them two kids, that's another
Speaker 1: six hunder ducks in the house. You got generations from
Speaker 1: Grandma's to the daughter to the other daughter. They all
Speaker 1: up under this one house, shock enough, pushing out babies
Speaker 1: left and right. That's different baby daddies, man, and they
Speaker 1: stand up in the same roof man, nobody everybody. Now,
Speaker 1: to me, that whole lifestyle, man, in that way of
Speaker 1: living is just you might as well be dead to me.
Speaker 1: But if they wanted to get rid of you and
Speaker 1: then just bring you down, what if they just stopped
Speaker 1: giving uh money like that welfare cup welfare off period,
Speaker 1: then what happened? The motherfucker's gotta get up and get
Speaker 1: a goddamn john because eighty percentities motherfucker's can get up
Speaker 1: and work. Anyway. A lot of people don't want to work, James,
Speaker 1: because it's just like you said, if you give, if
Speaker 1: you give some people, now, it's not like everybody. Because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, I'm not gonna see there
Speaker 1: being just blash. I'm not talking about our whole entire race.
Speaker 1: Because we got some hard working brothers and sisters out there, right,
Speaker 1: we got a lot to fix with us. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a whole lot to fix. And I don't think
Speaker 1: with with with we're speaking on it. I mean ship,
Speaker 1: I ain't I ain't never said I was a perfect motherfucker.
Speaker 1: I never said that. Um, I've always said we have issues,
Speaker 1: and we got we as black people got issues. And
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes that would be the quickest thing we
Speaker 1: run to is the race, race card ship. But that's
Speaker 1: not our case. We're talking about how they take advantage
Speaker 1: of us, how it's so easy for them to kill
Speaker 1: us and and and get get off with just a
Speaker 1: slap of the is man. They have to take account
Speaker 1: for the ship that they do, just like us. Now
Speaker 1: we have to stop killing each other. That's the first
Speaker 1: thing we got to know to bring it to them.
Speaker 1: And you know, having these kids that's doing it don't know.
Speaker 1: And I can say it's gonna be hard because I
Speaker 1: lived in their shoes for a long time. Why ship
Speaker 1: was going on in the world. I'm out here doing
Speaker 1: the same ship that these dudes are doing right now
Speaker 1: because we don't. We ain't giving the funk about that
Speaker 1: type of ship. We're drinking. We want a party, we
Speaker 1: want to do us and at that at that age,
Speaker 1: we ain't thinking about no motherfucking police. We ain't tripping.
Speaker 1: So how do you take that that mentality and then
Speaker 1: then go back in the hood and let them see
Speaker 1: what what we see today. That's that's what we gotta
Speaker 1: figure out. Yeah, you know, and I think James, it
Speaker 1: starts off because see, and this is what I tell everybody, man,
Speaker 1: if you really want to institute change, man, you have
Speaker 1: to be the change that you want to see happen.
Speaker 1: You have to work on yourself for It's like, um,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of friends man that tell me like,
Speaker 1: oh man, you got it so easy. You gotta good
Speaker 1: you got this. I say, Man, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: worked hard. You I wish you knew what I went through,
Speaker 1: the had a little bit that I have. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's a headache sometimes and man all the time, because
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a prime example, and I swear to
Speaker 1: God to you, I'm a prime example of what bullshit
Speaker 1: is and and and and what you get when you
Speaker 1: wipe the bullshit off somebody. I mean, we all have choices,
Speaker 1: but we have to understand that the way we live
Speaker 1: in is room. You know what I'm saying. If we
Speaker 1: don't ever understand that part, then we're just gonna be
Speaker 1: fucked up individuals. Man. It's just not gonna work for us,
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna take one person. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: take five dred people. It's gonna take a whole lot
Speaker 1: of us to get that point across to everybody that's
Speaker 1: sitting next to us. And they need to start in
Speaker 1: the churches and church they need to They need to
Speaker 1: start where black people conjugate. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They need to get the big homies just hanging in
Speaker 1: the park with thirty motherfucker's and say check this out, Homi,
Speaker 1: this is what this ship is. Now, this is where
Speaker 1: we're going with it. You know, these these gang troopers,
Speaker 1: these meetings, gotta step our game up. We gotta really
Speaker 1: get out there and and and and and and pass
Speaker 1: this word and get get these brothers to understand, man,
Speaker 1: we're helping these people demolish us. Exactly. We were help
Speaker 1: and we we we are the biggest asset. Not when
Speaker 1: it comes to if there is some kind of um
Speaker 1: and I refused to think, man, that this is just
Speaker 1: some big grand agenda across the whole entire police department,
Speaker 1: because I have coach with police officers and got a
Speaker 1: couple of police officers to the friends of mine. They're
Speaker 1: good people. They don't like the stuff either, but it's
Speaker 1: just so rampant right now to where it's like even
Speaker 1: they get scared sometimes, you know what I mean, to
Speaker 1: where it's like, man, what was these cats thinking? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they're making my job or not.
Speaker 1: Because when I go to the community now, everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: look at me like I'm the enemy just right off
Speaker 1: the rip, right because I've met some cool police officers man. Like,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I was saying, the fire
Speaker 1: police officers man that I meet for him, it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's always that one dude that's a little extras. It's
Speaker 1: a whole lot of good ones out there, and it's
Speaker 1: and it's like I said, we look at it as
Speaker 1: if if if this one is shifty, then all of them,
Speaker 1: you know, one one sport apple suns up the whole much. Uh.
Speaker 1: In my case, that's not true. I know a lot
Speaker 1: of good police officers out there retired and still working.
Speaker 1: But I mean they hands is full too, especially one
Speaker 1: thing they can't do is go against another police It's
Speaker 1: then your job is really fucked up. You can't get
Speaker 1: out here in the streets and do your job. So
Speaker 1: everything and everything that we do, which all of these
Speaker 1: cash and understand is a protoculture. Every motherfucking thing we
Speaker 1: do as soon as we wake up in the motherfucking morning,
Speaker 1: we do something the same motherfucking way. We get up,
Speaker 1: we pull up on our pants, we brush our teeth,
Speaker 1: we're going there and get something to eat, we lie
Speaker 1: to motherfucker's cigarette and taking ship. Whatever the case might be,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. It's the same thing. And motherfucker's
Speaker 1: just really got to understand, man, that that we're losing
Speaker 1: and it's getting worser and worser, and then at some
Speaker 1: point in one day it's gonna be too late for
Speaker 1: us to stand up with our motherfucking guns and say
Speaker 1: we need to take a stand. It's gonna be too late.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be too late for us to to run
Speaker 1: to Fairy Khan and ask for guidance. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: too late to run to our Martin Luther King's the
Speaker 1: other day in shape. We need help, We need y'all
Speaker 1: got to help us do this. We need to get
Speaker 1: on that ship. You know what. The scariest part about
Speaker 1: it deals though, Um you gotta remember, man, I know
Speaker 1: we're getting older now, man, because Martin Luther King Malcolm X,
Speaker 1: those black leaders that we have for so long ago. Man,
Speaker 1: fairy Kind is eighty years old, I believe seven or
Speaker 1: eighty years old. Who was the next leader. And I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about no punk ass rapper. I'm talking about, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a football player, who was that next black leader? Man?
Speaker 1: To really this go like, where's our black leadership that
Speaker 1: you understand what I mean? It's like, you know, if
Speaker 1: you go back to the sixties and the early seventies, Man,
Speaker 1: we had m Martin, Luther King, Man, we had Malcolm X.
Speaker 1: We had all these great black figures, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean that spoke for us, that kind of like
Speaker 1: you know, spoke for us, man. But now we don't
Speaker 1: have that, man because we stuck on bullshit kind of like, Man,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe that's the problem because in the hood, we
Speaker 1: ain't looking at the those type of figures to be
Speaker 1: our leaders. Our leaders was with the big homies in
Speaker 1: the hood. Our leaders was the homies that sitting on
Speaker 1: the porch, are sitting in the seat and just shooting
Speaker 1: the ship with you. Now them them our leaders. Then
Speaker 1: when the motherfucker's that can stop all of this ship
Speaker 1: that's going on in the neighborhood. Now, I'm not looking
Speaker 1: for Morn Luther King. I'm not looking for Malcolm X
Speaker 1: to talk a certain kind of way. I want to
Speaker 1: hear your language. Your language is the same type of language.
Speaker 1: I understand your language, your language because I speak it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I hear Mark Luther King,
Speaker 1: I hear Malcolm X. But they didn't. They not. They
Speaker 1: think ain't ain't ain't hood. You know, the thing and
Speaker 1: the way. That's what makeing Malcolm X so powerful because
Speaker 1: Malcolm X was a thud. I'm gonna had to keep
Speaker 1: you one, honey. That's that's how That's how it was.
Speaker 1: You know, he was a thug. So I think that's
Speaker 1: why he resonated with the people because it has to
Speaker 1: somebody like I'm not talking about um. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with it. There's nothing wrong with the college educated man
Speaker 1: out there righting for people. That's one aspect of it.
Speaker 1: But you adent right, we do have to have someone
Speaker 1: to emerge from the communities man and be a voice,
Speaker 1: because whether you face it or not, you kind of
Speaker 1: a voice. Not for a lot of people, A lot
Speaker 1: of people listening to what you say, a lot of
Speaker 1: people contact you and say, hey, you've listened, because I
Speaker 1: truly believe leaders are leaders ain't creative. Man, they've chosen
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I think they just they
Speaker 1: just pop about the bush and it's time to just
Speaker 1: like me. I felt that if if I can talk
Speaker 1: to reach one up, one person, any individual out there
Speaker 1: that that that living or live the life I lived,
Speaker 1: or trying to be that that gangster, it ain't worth it.
Speaker 1: If I can reach him and I can get him
Speaker 1: and he can tell me, Man, you changed my life.
Speaker 1: James is good. That's why I get up every Wednesday
Speaker 1: and come here because it's working. Everything I've axed for,
Speaker 1: everything that I got on my knees and pray for,
Speaker 1: it is working for me. And I have people validating
Speaker 1: that every fucking day through messenger, through through a text,
Speaker 1: through a phone conversation. So I'm man, I'm just so
Speaker 1: like exactly, and you became the change that you wanted
Speaker 1: to see, you know what I'm saying. You started first,
Speaker 1: and now it's restling with people. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: it's a lot of um good brothers. What was the
Speaker 1: brother we had on one our early shows, Chico Chico?
Speaker 1: You know, I want to have him back on again.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that's doing incredible not trying to do
Speaker 1: what he's doing incredible stuff for the community. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing. You've got people that's we do have brothers
Speaker 1: that's not talking about it, man, but they're doing it
Speaker 1: like Chico that's doing it. You know, that's really you know,
Speaker 1: making the change for theirselves. And what I'm saying, just
Speaker 1: for instance, the way Chick go it is getting the
Speaker 1: mmates out of prison and and and converting the older
Speaker 1: guys and now they're working men. They're looking at the game,
Speaker 1: bang and ship and he got bloods and crips uh
Speaker 1: and doing brickmates in or whatever the case might be.
Speaker 1: Those are older guys. What I'm saying is what we
Speaker 1: need to do is doing reversal from what Chico doing.
Speaker 1: Let's get the younger guys. That's why I say, let's
Speaker 1: open up shop and teach these young cats how to
Speaker 1: do breaks. You know what I'm saying. You start off,
Speaker 1: you come here, you're doing four hours, whether it comes
Speaker 1: to eight hours. They used to do it in the schools,
Speaker 1: but they took it away. So what if we're doing
Speaker 1: it now. We're doing the same thing that Chico doing,
Speaker 1: which is great. But we're going to the kids. We're
Speaker 1: going to the kids. We're walking into these juvenile uh
Speaker 1: systems and we're teaching them right there. Now, they got
Speaker 1: a better alternative when they when they think about getting
Speaker 1: about the lost Madrinas, you know what I'm saying, they
Speaker 1: see a different directions. But I mean, we could talk
Speaker 1: about that type of ship all day. This is why
Speaker 1: I say ship don't get done because it ain't nothing
Speaker 1: but a conversation. And these people you gotta figure way
Speaker 1: around them when they put a stop to it. They
Speaker 1: don't want us to to teach our own people how
Speaker 1: to live right. Yeah, and it has to become more
Speaker 1: in the conversation. Man. I promised myself. Man, you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm a praying person. I believe in prayer and
Speaker 1: also believe in works too, because faith with our works
Speaker 1: is useless. You just you know, getting on your knees
Speaker 1: for nothing. I told my I've made a promise man
Speaker 1: to God. I said, Man, when I get opportunities, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to bring as many qualified people as
Speaker 1: I can. People us brothers that want to make a
Speaker 1: change theirselves. I'm gonna find something for them. To do,
Speaker 1: whether it beating them by getting behind the camera, whether
Speaker 1: it being them being in front of a camera, whether
Speaker 1: it be a person that when once we can start
Speaker 1: are going back on the road, they could come on
Speaker 1: the road and do some road management stuff. UM. As
Speaker 1: far as showing young brothers that want to get in
Speaker 1: the business. They might not like your nephew for example,
Speaker 1: it may not be quite ready right now, but kind
Speaker 1: of mentor them to show them how to do what
Speaker 1: they want to do. Because he may come in and say,
Speaker 1: you know what I decaid, I don't want a podcast necessarily,
Speaker 1: but I want to produce one, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And we have to, man, we have to start being
Speaker 1: that change that we want to see people become. We
Speaker 1: have to give our brothers, you know, opportunities, just like UM.
Speaker 1: I was talking to Um Junior from on the line
Speaker 1: and he thanked me. Man. He was like, man, this
Speaker 1: is big to me and me stuff like that don't
Speaker 1: be nothing because it's just me just doing out the
Speaker 1: genius of my heart, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 1: didn't expect nobody to give me no praise or no
Speaker 1: bunch of thank you or nothing less. You know, Let's
Speaker 1: get the work and this goa work out. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I say the same thing, But you
Speaker 1: gotta look at the opportunity that you give. And I said,
Speaker 1: I said all the time, Man, how do I tell
Speaker 1: you I appreciate it? Because if I would have never
Speaker 1: did the podcast, I've still been I might have been
Speaker 1: doing some other ship or just doing interviews. But I
Speaker 1: don't think I would have ever got tired of talking
Speaker 1: or are being you know, James, I forever would have
Speaker 1: been Marbel James, you know, doing those interviews. That's how
Speaker 1: people that's their perception when they see me talking here.
Speaker 1: I'm not morm James. I'm James mcdownald. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And the opportunity is good. So I mean,
Speaker 1: you do more than what you want to give credit for.
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's very much. I tell people all the
Speaker 1: time that's why I don't do interviews. People ask me
Speaker 1: every day to do interviews and stuff. I don't do
Speaker 1: them because it's about the thing about me. It's about
Speaker 1: the team. It's about us that we've built and you
Speaker 1: know it works in Unison. Like I tell Brian all
Speaker 1: the time, I can't do what I do with our Brian,
Speaker 1: I can't do what I do. I can't do what
Speaker 1: I do without young mouth, without crazy Bone. It's a team.
Speaker 1: And in order for the body to move, the legs
Speaker 1: gotta be you know what I'm saying, The legs and
Speaker 1: the head and everything else and arms gotta work in community,
Speaker 1: un And that's a good thing because all this ship
Speaker 1: we're talking and all that ship we're saying, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm dealing and just to be around straight black men,
Speaker 1: you know it, ain't you have your problems, but you ain't.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't feel degreed, you don't feel the animosity,
Speaker 1: you don't feel no hatred like I gotta go pop
Speaker 1: this nigger neck. Me and me and Reggie we get mad,
Speaker 1: But that's the part of that type of ship. Go
Speaker 1: and you really don't have I can't get ten black
Speaker 1: men in the room to be on the same page
Speaker 1: and understand each other and are are my whole thing?
Speaker 1: If if I want to eat, but everybody got to
Speaker 1: shit at the table with me, we all gotta get it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, ain't know there is no
Speaker 1: need to to being to being a working by me
Speaker 1: where we gotta fight. Yeah, for sure, it's not necessary
Speaker 1: at all. And that's the thing, Man, I believe greed
Speaker 1: is the biggest like oh, look ahead and smoke, man,
Speaker 1: Greed is our biggest enemy. Man. And and the more
Speaker 1: we realize, Man, I've always had the um the ideology man,
Speaker 1: that teamwork, make the dream work. If you as a team. Man,
Speaker 1: if if we make a hundred dollars, Man and we
Speaker 1: all got twenty of piece, we're good. You feel what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So, So the thing is, that's the mentality
Speaker 1: you have to have, Man, what saying I mean? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we could do these shows, we could teach,
Speaker 1: We could teach, but it's making sure everybody learned and
Speaker 1: understand you know, the game. And if we all learn
Speaker 1: and understand the game, there is there. That's just something
Speaker 1: else we didn't conquer. We didn't took over the podcast game.
Speaker 1: It's black men actually knowing what the fun they're doing
Speaker 1: in here teaching. Man. I didn't. I didn't learn shipped
Speaker 1: from my pops, my props. Ain't they never taught me
Speaker 1: one thing. It's my granddaddy. I give my I give
Speaker 1: credit to my grandfather. Without that, I've probably been just
Speaker 1: uh not knowing how to put a bike together that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I give credit to my grandfather and he
Speaker 1: taught me well. And I think we could take the
Speaker 1: same thing that your grandfathers and some cats, these cats
Speaker 1: that did have a father taught them, and just teach
Speaker 1: it to these kids that don't have it. So we
Speaker 1: as black men need to stop saying and and speaking
Speaker 1: on all these excuses we don't have, because to me,
Speaker 1: it's a responsibility. And I say this to anybody, man,
Speaker 1: nobody owes you nothing. But if you were a brother
Speaker 1: out there and you have certain resources and if you're
Speaker 1: keeping them all to yourself without putting nobody on, shame
Speaker 1: on you. Shame on you. But that ship don't last long.
Speaker 1: You know, he ain't shame on you, and the same
Speaker 1: on you. You know one thing I do want to
Speaker 1: address before we go. I don't get a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of it, but I get a whole bunch of people
Speaker 1: asking me about what happened with Alex. Well, Alex just
Speaker 1: shouted too and I can't be mad at him to
Speaker 1: to move on into other adventures. Adventures. So if Alex
Speaker 1: wanted to do what Alex wanted, Alex has grown. Man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And I just hope whatever
Speaker 1: he's doing, he happy with what he's doing exactly. We
Speaker 1: don't have no eel wheel tours him. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say this. This will be the first and last time
Speaker 1: he addressing it. We have no eel wheel against Alex. Um.
Speaker 1: Alex is doing what the hell is he doing? And
Speaker 1: we wished him much success, Reggie, as you heard just
Speaker 1: on the phone, he would be back. Um, when do
Speaker 1: you say, to the end of next month and the
Speaker 1: next month hopefully hopefully little fingers crossed in the next month.
Speaker 1: And that's it right there. We don't have nothing else
Speaker 1: to say. And that's the thing Black people, everything about
Speaker 1: controversy all the times. Sometimes people just move on not
Speaker 1: at all. It's all good. And Alex, I wish you
Speaker 1: well more power, you know, but I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody got their own path and will and
Speaker 1: I and I think if if if you jump up
Speaker 1: and choose to go left it yeah, you know, but
Speaker 1: you know, um, but there's a phrase to dine on self.
Speaker 1: Be true. Just like he has to be true to himself,
Speaker 1: we have to be true to ours. And with that,
Speaker 1: thank you for sitting with us through this other episode
Speaker 1: of a gangster Chronicles. Make sure you subscribe to the channel.
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Speaker 1: we out of here. Oh wait a minute, And I
Speaker 1: got this guy I met the other day Monday. Um.
Speaker 1: His name is Jose Rodriguez. Uh. He's a friend of
Speaker 1: one of my club brothers, my brother, my own boy,
Speaker 1: my brother die Nightmare. He hooked me up with him,
Speaker 1: you know, do with the guys, a fan of The
Speaker 1: Gangster Chronicles. And you know the way he spoke on
Speaker 1: the show is you know, I gave him a T
Speaker 1: shirt uh Monday, and he was just, I mean, people
Speaker 1: really like what we're doing. And I told him I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him a shout out. So Jose, Mr Rodriguez,
Speaker 1: this one for you, Nightmare. We out my neg I
Speaker 1: wanted to do something else too, Go check out Nino
Speaker 1: Cappuccinos podcast that he got going on right right, And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to find a link to his podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's up on everything, but UM
Speaker 1: go check out Cappuccino. I see he's been making his
Speaker 1: moves out there the thing. Make sure y'all support that.
Speaker 1: Check him out, but were out of here though later