WEBVTT - Election Season Pt 2 U-God 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:07.360 My bad brother. Man. You know it's like, you know 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:09.480 how the government trying to stop us, you know how 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.479 they just getting poping baby. I think they cut it off. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.479 We having this. It's it's real, man conversation man, because 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:22.960 you who you said X exactly, Man, so you already 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:26.439 know what it is. They ain't a mystery, baby, it's real. Yeah. 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.040 We are in a very man like, um, really weird 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.800 time right now. Man. I think right now with this 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.800 upcoming election that we have, man, it's almost like everything 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.800 is kind of hanging in the balance. Man. I don't 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.040 know if you were a brother that's really in politics 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.479 anything like this, But I'm gonna ask you, man, what 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.159 type of change do you think we need to make 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.519 in this country? Man? Well, that's a hard question right 0:00:52.640 --> 0:01:00.880 because it's it's right now. See, America is a situation 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.679 with the good was like right here and the band 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.520 was down there. It was the good was outweighing the bad. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.559 Right now it seems like the badest starting to outweighed good. 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:20.680 And we're coming to a point right now where's things 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.240 on a global scale or United States scale, is kind 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:27.520 of weird right now. It's just weird because the United States, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.520 it is just the problem with it, not us. Is 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.120 most problems. It's probably either employment, food, clothing, shelter, and 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.400 it's racism ship. M those like the biggest things right 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.520 now that are really weird and just crazy right now, 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.520 you know what I mean. And I'm not I'm not 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.360 I don't give a funk about racism. Man. I'm on 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:51.120 some man ship, you know. I mean, because if you're 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.280 a man, we got our own problems just being the 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:56.280 fucking man more or less, not even being a black man, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.760 just men, period. We got our own fucking problems, you 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.720 know what I'm saying for as being that unappreciated and 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:03.320 the ald type of the things that come with being 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.160 a man. It's very hard being a man. And you know, 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.160 the U as far as I can say, as far 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.400 as like the problems, it's it's a lot that I 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:17.160 can't really getting one sentence, but I definitely would start 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.280 on racism that hasn't stopped. That's a real big issue, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:23.239 you know, far as like our next person might perceive 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.360 the next person to be and off the color the skin. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.120 I mean, I'm just a firm believer in character before 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.040 you you know, you judge a person by skin, You 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.480 didn't call it. Yeah, exactly exactly, man. I think right now, man, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.280 we are under time too to where I noticed, man, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.720 with certain movements. Man, Like we have the Black Lives 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.280 Matter movement going on right now, man, and it seems 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.799 like there are a lot of different groups of texting 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.280 them texting themselves to this Black Lives Matter movement because 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.519 it's a popular movement at the time. Yeah, you get 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:01.160 what I'm going. Uh. I don't know really what these 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.520 groups don't do for the hood though, Man. You know 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.799 you see Black lives people like Black Lives Matter and 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.000 other people, man dig generating. I think all of us 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.480 a massive money brad right now? Man? Is that is 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.519 that money involved in that? Is? People get money in 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.680 Black lives man. So who's getting the chance? For sure? 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.480 Millions of dollars in donations, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.640 Millions And I was in donations And that's not me. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.960 I'm not coming on the dragon those brothers, man. But 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.440 it's like, at the end of the day, it has 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.840 had a purpose, man, because I've noticed a lot of 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:36.800 times man, with these type of movements, Man, um oftentimes 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.800 the people that are left out, man, or the people 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:44.040 that are in the urban areas. Yeah, definitely, because you know, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.080 the hood is always gonna be the last to get 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.320 whatever you got to get. The people with the least 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.280 amount of knowledge of things always gonna be the ones 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.880 getting beat up the most, you know, just you know, 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.480 street situations and having knowledge of of what I mean 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.440 by knowledge is having a skill or having some type 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.440 of thing they make a living besides doing crime. I mean, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.600 because that's basically what it is. But it boils down to, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.160 you know, you know, the hood, you're doing crime and 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.800 survive or you're trying to learn something to to to 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.479 give you for to put food on your table and 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.480 make you turn a living, you know what I mean. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.520 So yeah, we're getting we're getting the last end of 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.880 that definitely, especially to people they don't want to come 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.520 out and learn nothing to to to survive, you know, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:33.000 besides the crime exactly. Man, And we have um I 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.720 think man like with systemic racism. All right, let me 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.480 ask you a question. What is the meaning of systemic racism? 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:40.760 You know what that is? What that means? I don't 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.239 know what that means? You know what, man, I guess 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.200 it means. Man. What I get from it, man, is 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.280 this generation, generational racist, and it's been going on just 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.159 for years and years on top of each other. Maybe 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.880 maybe there's nothing proper definition, but that's what I gathered 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.760 from it. Man. I think all of this stuff, man, 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.720 I think lots of times. Man, Like you said, are 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.039 people theories from lack of knowledge? Right, Yes, I think 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.760 a lot of times. Man. I think the welfareh shade 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.400 and us we as a people sometimes we our own 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.040 works enemies. Man. I think we need to start waiting 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.880 for somebody. I think we need to start waiting for 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.200 people to coming and rescue us all the time. You know, 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.360 that's what people thinking because because I know, ain't nobody 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.560 coming to rescue with our people's and if bucks don't 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.760 realize that ship now, this is a this is to 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:38.919 see what's happening in our faces. Sometimes you can somebody 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.479 can put something right in front of your face and 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.920 you still can't see it, and it's like it's obvious 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.240 right now that no one's coming to help. And like 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.839 I was saying before, you know, when we first started talking, 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.800 is that if you ain't got a knowledge on how 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:53.800 to make a living, because that's basically what it is. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:56.000 You know, when you're in the ghetto, in the hood. 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.560 You you poor, and you have no ways of making 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:01.560 a living besides well fair, relying on the government, whatever, whatever. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.560 So now it's time for you to get up and 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.440 understand that. You gotta get up and find a way 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:09.560 to make a living and go out there and try 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.760 to grab it, try to try to go for it. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:13.880 If you ain't going out there trying to go for it, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.880 don't get mad at the next man who's going out 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.919 there grabbing and trying to go for it, whether whether 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.279 he's hustling, banging, whatever he's doing. He got to go 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:22.880 out there and get it, and he's trying to better 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.120 himself the only way he know how. I mean. So, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.520 but that's not the only way to do it though. 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.240 Crime is not the only way to do it. It's 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.080 other ways to do it. You know, you gotta go 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.120 get that knowledge. You've gotta become electrician nerves, whatever the 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.440 case may be, put full on your table to make 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.040 you comfortable. That's what she was trying to do in 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.600 the hood. And right, no one's gonna give it to you. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.640 No one's gonna give you a free ride of knowledge 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.000 to go. You gotta go study, You gotta go get 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.680 those books you gotta go pick up that ship. You 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:53.000 gotta move your ass. That's only way you're gonna get it. Yeah, Man, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.240 you made develop point right there. Man, Me and you 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.479 pretty much on the same age. Man, we grew up 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.160 in the same era. Yes, Um, I don't know if 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.760 you remember. Back in high school. Man, back in the day, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.159 they had two different programs they had when brothers learned automotives, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.400 brothers had woodshot flash, they had different trades. See, I'm 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.520 a firm believer in both of my sons. Yeah, both 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.320 of my sons went to college. Man, they want to 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.600 you know, the university rather, but I don't think that 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.520 direction maybe for everybody. I think they need to bring 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.920 those programs back, man, where the brothers learn how to 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.480 six stars, learn how to lay time, learn how to 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:38.760 you know something, Yeah, something besides crime, because you know 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.680 you're in the hood. You're gonna sell that coke, You're 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.960 gonna pick up that dope, You're gonna pick up them guns. 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.400 You're gonna bang, you're gonna stick, you're gonna rob, you're 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.680 gonna jukes, you're gonna scheme, you're gonna do everything. You're 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.680 gonna do everything in that environment. Because when you pour, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.080 you have no fear. You got no fear when you pour. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.120 That's that's that's how it is when you're growing up 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.760 in the hood, new niggas, little niggas, and you ain't 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.000 got nat scared ship. When you have a certain age 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:05.840 and you know how to use four team from the 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.600 ages from twelve all the way up twenty two, you're monster. 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:14.000 You know what I'm saying, Well, you know, yeah, exactly 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.240 because you know you know what the police are right 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:22.680 that young black mandle ages um fourteen eighteen, they did 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.000 the most dangerous animal on the plenty because they have 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.720 nothing to lose. This is this is what I'm talking about. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.760 This is exactly what I'm talking about. And we are 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.800 magnifying that ship right now. And like I told before 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.120 on my podcast, you know how they're talking, I'll talk 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.800 to But now I'm not here for you to believe 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.000 what I have been through and all that. I'm talking 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:46.120 from experience, and I'm here to spark the brain for 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:50.160 these little young dudes. That's my job. I ain't headed 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.880 for your validation or b I know. I'm I'm a JA, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.560 I'm a triple old J. I'm going on quadripple, right now. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.160 But at the same time, I'm here to spark a 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.600 little younger. So they're gonna and like, yo, from this 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.200 age group. From here, you're gonna be crazy and don't 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.800 understand that you gotta move wisely. Besides using the anger, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.000 that frustration, that fitness has to be projected, this in 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.760 another another way that you can you can utilize that 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.880 energy on a positive note. You know what I'm saying. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:20.880 I might not be able to save three thousand, but 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.320 if I saved two or three, I'm cool with that. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.000 That's what it's all about. Man, tell me this. Man. 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.040 When I saw you at the podcast, man trying to 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.160 treat me out a little bit, I said, okay, here 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:37.000 we go. Man, you got raw? Did that come about? Man? Well, 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.480 you know, I thought I dropped the book and um 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:42.480 and uh. And I've been doing the things with my 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.320 clan for a moment and we've just been doing our thing, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.040 and I just said, I know, my my manager, my 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.200 got got with some good people's my man, Kevin and 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.240 Jeff and Michelle and only they came in. We had 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.800 we had some conversations, and I just said, you know what, 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.959 it's time for me to start dropping the dropping these 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.320 rules man, And I mean, and I come from a 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.800 father center background where we we we grew up knowing knowledge, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.120 wisdom and understanding, was and culture, freedom and power, farming 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.719 and equality and building, destroy and guard and boring. We 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.920 grew up. We grew up a different mentality. And it's 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.439 needed right now, you know, I mean, because it came 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.439 a time where that ship was pushed aside, you know, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.000 the powers that be pushed that to the side, because 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.880 that was awakened and a lot of my people's and 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:32.400 to the side, and they exploited more gang related situations 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.240 and situations. But I'm here to replenish that and put 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.880 that back in the air and put that backwards. Need 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.040 to be there, because like I said, I can't get ten. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.600 I take one, I take one strow it. I take 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.760 one strowdent, one nice student that that that want to 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.640 learn and that that want to be soak abnounced with 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.880 like a sponge and want to be guided in the 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.960 right direction to become great, not to be come some 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.480 savage and pursue the happiness what I'm saying. And like 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.400 I said, when you pull or you don't even know 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.120 your savage what I'm saying you because you you waited 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.040 about eating and getting that food and putting that plate 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.160 on your table and getting the things that you think 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.480 is are important at the time. When you when you 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.080 grow up, you can realize the things that you wanted 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:15.520 fourteen and fifth, fourteen and eighteen, it's not really important 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.120 as when you hit twenty five and thirty. Man, you're 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.120 gonna look at yourself later on, like what the fund was? 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.760 I thinking? Man? Even even if you pop off NIM 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.560 you're sitting in the camp, by the time you come out, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.560 you're gonna realize, like, what the fund was? I thinking 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:34.160 back there exactly, man. And that's the thing man, youth Man, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.400 you know what I'm saying, um with with our youth today, Man, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.720 they're more worried about living in the moment and everything. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.640 So it was important man for brothers like us to 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.920 come and spread knowledge, man, instead of doing an opposite. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.719 You understand what I'm saying. Uh, you know you look 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.280 at it. He started with the music. Man. If you 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:56.040 remember in the eighties, man, everything was pro black man. 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.080 You know, we had a really dope pro black positive 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.880 movement going on. The man, everything was about like you know, 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.680 you had groups like Publican and me. You have sisters 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.080 like Queen lat for mc light man. Now we have 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.679 fum And I'm not knocking these younger brothers man, these 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:12.720 younger brothers and sisters were doing what they do man, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.520 Like you said, I think it's our people parents for 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.839 a lack of knowledge, man, And I think they just 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.959 they just become a part of the problem almost because 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.760 they don't know no better. So I think it is 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.880 up to instead of brothers like us. Dragon. You will 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.400 never hear me dragging one of these younger cattes, one 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.280 of these younger sisters, because I don't think they I 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:36.120 think it's up to us to really educate them. Mh. Well, 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.280 basically the bros, you know, the brods exploiting their sexuality. Man, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.760 they look good, they got fat ASTs, they got paid 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.680 for titties. Whatever they did, you know, you don't, you 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.520 know whatever, Whatever whatever they did, they're doing it to 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.880 exploit what they got and that's how they feeding their families. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.200 That's how they're doing they duck disl and I ain't 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.480 mad at them what I'm saying, but I just hope 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.559 that the music that they transplanted, that these little young 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.800 girls don't think that that's the them, Like yo, don't 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:06.599 think that you are spot school. Wha you ain't huh, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.280 You ain't got no maids. You gotta go get it. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.840 You gotta go cook in that kitchen. I'm sorry to 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.120 tell you you you you ain't got nobody to clean 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.240 up your house. So you're gonna have to clean your 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.040 house up, girl, you know what I'm saying. And plus 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.319 they you know a lot of these women, they get 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.719 these big titties and these assets. What they attract men. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.080 But what you're trying to do that for? Yeah, you 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.400 want many jump on, jump on you, jump on your coach, 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.120 you know, jump on your couch and your coach whatever 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.559 you wanna call it. And I'm saying so yeah, man, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.320 it's it's it's a never ending cycle. We're gonna fight, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.240 you know what I mean, because people misinterpret certain things 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.240 like that's actually real life. No, it ain't real life, man, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.640 that's not real life, man. I mean a lot of 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.480 people don't know. You know, if you notice, man, it 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.880 was real pervasive to music. Man for a minute, man, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.839 where everybody was a drug dealer. I think when you've 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.520 really been on the corners, man, you can't look at 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.240 that stiff and left and say this is reality. But 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:05.319 what happens, man, people see you know, rad co hip 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:09.599 hop culture. Man influences the world almost you know what 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.880 I'm saying. Kids see something on the music video, Man, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.600 they think it's real, and they go out and try 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.559 to attempt to do these things that they see and 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.600 they find out the hard way that it's not real. Man. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.360 And that was one of the things, Man, I loved 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.680 about your book. Man. It was just real gritty. It 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.880 was real gritty and raw. Because even though you were 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.080 describing you know, new York City, man, not New York, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 you know New York, state of New York, the same 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.800 thing was going on in Compton, the same thing in Detroit. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.240 Let's say one thing about that right now, This this 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.560 is some some crazy ship. This This is how new 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.680 that no matter where we go, that we're the same. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.520 Right when I was young, I was eighteen years old, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.440 you know, I went from New York with the California. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.480 When I went to New York to California, dudes were 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.720 in the same and do rags as niggas in New 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.280 York was wearing it was wearing the same clothes. And 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.080 I said to myself, you know, it just hit me 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.520 like Yo, it's the same every goddamn where you go. Bro, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:15.800 it's the same fucking ship. It's like just because you 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.240 know in Compton you don't have sky spaping projects. Y'all 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.720 got the jungle, y'all got certain spots. You know, it's 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.760 the same thing, same fucking thing, man, It's like, and 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:33.200 it's amazing the similarities that black men in those parts. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.800 You know, it's the same Bro's it's the same struggle, man. Yeah, 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.640 we're going the same struggle. Man. I happen to be 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.600 good friends, man, like with um Freeway, Rick ross Man 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.240 the real one or was the real one, the real 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.320 Rick ross And uh, you know cats like Ghosts Man, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.120 who was rolling with Hereio and all those guys back 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.440 in the day. You know, they kind of ran the 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.400 same circles. Man. And if you look at this story, man, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.560 you know about the just whole thing with the contrast 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.160 and everything like that. Man, you just get into the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.640 conspiously of everything. Man. Crack really knocked down our best 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.080 and our brightness. Man. I had o gs in my 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.760 hoods met it was like Superman. So you don't see 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.400 these these he rolling hood figures that we got in 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.880 the hood, just rolling in the street down the chats 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.920 and the Cadillac man with the pinky ring on apograph 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.400 for the money. They was kind of living to get 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:28.760 to American dream. And you see these cats, um slow 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.880 ascension man down to where they don't have a car 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.640 no more. Then they don't have jewelry no more. Next thing, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.840 you know, they're pretty much don't turn into a vagrant. Yeah, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.440 it was crazy, man. So crack really destroyed our communities. Man, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.040 I don't think we go and I think those effects 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:47.520 are long lasting. Bro, there's a lot of brothers who 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.480 got sent to prison and seil in prison. Yeah. I 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.760 talked about that ship all the fucking time. I said 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.440 to myself, this nigga, Ronald Reagan and these motherfucker's man 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.680 the dudes, and they don't shovel so much ship in 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.560 the hood, man. And it was like a trap because 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.800 who's gonna turn down that brand at the time. So 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.639 for sure, if you Paul, he was poor, he was broke, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.520 he wasn't gonna turn down that man. Nichol was just 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:15.040 making millions of dollars used and they sucked motherfucker's up 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:20.000 into that ship and next thing you know, the whole yo, man, 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.320 we're looking the whole thing, man, and he and nobody 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.919 was held accountable for that ship. Nobody. I think it's gone. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.720 They dad, whatever the case may be, and the errors 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.320 over and it's like, no one's how commal for that 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.520 man outside of slavery. Bro, it's the second biggest crime 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:44.439 against hu manity man because it's right there, Bro. They 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.399 set it up man, because they used the drug proceeds 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.480 from our neighborhoods Laian want to fund that war that 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.840 they was fighting. It was funding the war, right, some ship. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.720 We ain't had nothing to do it. We didn't have 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.040 nothing to do with. So you think about if they 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.160 did that. Man. I've seen this personally. Man, I've seen 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:07.360 brothers find boxes and glocks and Compton man Um railroads, 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:12.640 you know the railroads, the train stuck on the track door. Yeah, 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.080 you know, some kids walking through the hood, man, they 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.200 see to train direct doors open the stuff they actually 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.240 going to spot. They see some boxes right, some machine 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.160 guns being farm man. So I think it's definitely man, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.399 and I know you can appreciate this, Man. I believe 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.480 it's definitely man of conspiracy. Man against the black superman 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.560 or dog. I'm gonna tell you something field ship, man, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.200 I used to think, because you know it's like now 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.560 I can't be Yeah it is, brod yes, it is. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.840 It's set up like that. And that's why I was 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.280 trying to tell you. That's why I'm here to tell him. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.280 Let them know, like all that ship you're going through 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.120 in the hood, it's a set up. It's a set 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:53.440 up for you to fail. Set up as you pick 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.399 up that gun, you pick up those drugs to set up. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.480 Already got it lined up, already got your phones, they 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.359 already got your TV. It got a thing lined up 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.280 ready right now. And you don't think you're getting away 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.560 and none of that ship, because soon as you get 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.520 to a certain level, they're coming to get you. Man, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.280 I'm gonna tell you, and let you rock on the 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.320 low level, say you a little three and four olds, whatever, whatever, whatever, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.000 But soon you start getting the man's, then three and 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.960 four or five man's, they're coming. Bro, I'm gonna tell 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.600 you something. If you ever go all these young cats 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:28.400 need to go read somebody's to severy papers and see 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.760 how deep the rappid hole goes when they kicked you. Man. 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.480 It's almost like they document the whole time from when 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.280 you started hustling. It's like they go back the whole 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.600 history on Tuning eight team if you was doing this 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.520 and that he was meeting with sex and sex and 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.200 second section. So they building this thing, like you said, 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.040 they'll let the small people get away moving out, see 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.720 and then you're moving his own here and they're not 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.520 tripping off of you. Let me build that thing because 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.760 you think about it's almost like they're letting you say, 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:55.840 they're letting you get your serve on. Man, you know what, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:57.800 they're gonna get it back with you being in the 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.600 camp exactly the shoot to keep a dude in there, 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:03.639 you gotta stand something right because if crazy, you do 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.160 the math right, you made you had good five six 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.000 year running the streets, you know, maybe had five or 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.280 six seven years running the streets. They're gonna sit you 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.840 down for about good ten right, maybe maybe may sit 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.720 you around for five depending on what the crime you 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.400 commit whatever whatever, make but the average average time is ten. 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:24.560 They're gonna get it down from you. It's a hundred 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:28.359 and fifty a year for just you you even being 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.920 in that cell for sure, so times that hundred times 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.639 ten years. Do the math, so for sure, and you 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.639 know what what else too? You know, did you know 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.919 that the Commons series gener rates billions of dollars the 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.600 phone companies, the phone calls you can use that car 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.399