WEBVTT - Hip-Hop and Humanitarianism 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.320 What's up? Family? Is your girl to Mika D Mallory is. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.160 Your boy, my son general. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.480 And we are your host of street politicians, the place. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.560 Where the streets and politics. 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.360 Means my son Leonard I. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:22.160 Because of our scheduling today, we have our guests coming 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.639 on a little earlier than we thought, so we're gonna. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:25.320 Have to cut some things. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:27.520 And that's okay with me because I have one thing 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.800 in my thought of the day that I would like 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.480 to talk about today on this year show. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:34.760 Well, are you trying to get straight to the nitty 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:35.839 gritty going to. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:44.720 Make some people upset? I believe in holistic wellness. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:47.599 I was a kid growing up. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:53.479 My parents rarely gave us medication because they believe wholeheartedly 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:59.400 in holistic wellness. Right now, when we travel to Africa, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:05.919 we learn that in the garden they grow different types 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.880 of medicines that are currently being used for things that 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:15.319 we use in terms of actual medicine, not just holistically today. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:21.440 Well, the ingredients pretty much the ingredients medicine. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:26.160 So anesthesia is growing in. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.920 The gardens of Africa, specifically in Ghana. And you know 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.440 that if you go to get a leg arm amputated, 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.880 you two quo whatever baby have a not a baby. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.520 But certainly if you have termination of pregnancy, if you 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.680 have any type of search be that requires you to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.000 go under, you have to use anesthesia in order to 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.640 be able to do that. And the sesia can be 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.240 very dangerous too, which is why when we were in 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.040 in the botanical gardens in Ghana, the gentleman said, you 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.240 can't touch it, play with it tasted nothing right until 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.160 and I asked the dumb question, well, how do you 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.360 just have it out here? What if someone puts it 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.680 in their mouth? And he's like, well, why would anybody. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.360 Be eating trees? 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.240 And I was like, oh, okay, see again, those are 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.120 negative or stereotypes that get into your head about Africans. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.920 And it came out of me right there in the 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.359 park in the garden. But if you're gonna get something 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.360 serious surgery done, you need your anesthesia so that you 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:27.600 can not die from pain. I think there are people 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.600 in our society that need to take their medicine, or 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.240 if they don't know that they need a medicine, they 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.480 need to get it. And if there is a holistic 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.280 way to approach their conditions, then they need to go 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:47.000 heavy into that as well. And sometimes holistically we might 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.480 not have the right formulas. 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.440 Or whatever, but you need your medicine. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.880 People need their insulin right once they have diabetes that 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.520 gets to a certain level, they have to be able 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.280 to take their insulin. Yes, you could clean your body. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.240 My mother definitely with her diabetes. Her and my father 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.639 got on an extreme workout schedule. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.920 Seven miles a day, walking in the morning. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.320 They ate better, They did all the things you could 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.720 think of, and they were able to change ther trajectory 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:22.959 of her diabetic situation very much so. But she still 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:27.959 needed her medication to help with some of the other challenges. 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.760 She was seeing things on her hand, you know, she 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.120 was feeling like when she was cooking, it was worms 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.520 and different things because she was having hallucinations because of 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.840 the diabetes. So I'm saying today that there are people 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.760 out here that need to take their medicine. And I'm 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.560 not talking about will Wile Willie who's running up and 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:50.120 down the street, because you know, we often will say, okay, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.160 people need to take their medicine, and we assume were 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.520 associated with somebody who's just you know, out of control. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.440 They look like they tripping, and we say they need 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.960 to take medicine. There are people who are high functioning, depressed, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.240 they have anxiety, they are. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:10.840 Dealing with mental health issues. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:16.000 They're high functioning, they look wonderful, they look perfect, got 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.000 it going on, dressed nice and all of that, but 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:27.840 they're nasty, nasty attitudes, miserable, negative, damn there, ready to 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:34.640 die by suicide, eating disorders. There's a lot of signs 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.640 that people are dealing with mental health challenges that are 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.680 not getting addressed. People do not have the right formula, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.360 and as a result, we are dealing with a lot 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.960 of crazy things. And I of course can't tell the 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.520 story of right now or at all of what it 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.120 is that I experience that made me feel this way, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.719 but it really is on me that we have to 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:03.160 start encouraging people to seek professional help for a variety 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.840 of issues that you may be dealing with and get 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.960 the type of help necessary now. At one point, I 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.919 had a doctor that wanted to put me on riddily 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.920 when I was really depressed, and. 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.120 I chose not to do that. 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.080 But we found something else, and I take that medicine 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.680 and it is very helpful to me to keep me 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.599 balanced so that my anxiety does not take over to 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.440 where I'm aggravating you, aggravating everybody, lending everybody around. I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.120 got an attitude. I'm snappy, I'm not feeling good. I 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.080 can't rest. People need to take their medicine. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.640 I mean, I agree, I agree, you know, I also 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.679 agree that a lot of shit is mind state. 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.760 Right. There are a lot of different individuals. There's some 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.600 individuals that they required that they're not going to be 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.200 able to fix it theirselves. Right, They're not going to 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.800 be able a dollar back. Right. There are some people 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.800 that need to go to or rehab. Right. There are 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.359 some people that don't need to go to rehab. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.400 Some people say I'm gonna kick this ship by myself 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.040 and then completely stop doing it. Some people are sick 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:07.360 that you they've been diagnosed with sickness and they've been 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:13.400 able to holistically change their their trajectory. Other people can't 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.520 do it. So I think it's it's individual based, right. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:18.520 I think you have to know you. I think you 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:21.040 you you have to be able to make proper assessments 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.280 of yourself like and then and then if you, if 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.240 you have the right doctor, then they'll be able to 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.159 make that assessment. Right, They'll be able to make an 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.560 assessment and say, wow, you've been doing what I don't. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.400 Maybe you don't need this medication. You know, maybe they'll 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:34.000 be those. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.640 Pharmaceutical companies are not inclined. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.240 To tell you nothing. Now I'm not talking what the pharma. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.680 Doctors work for. The pharmaceutical companies. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.280 Depends on the doctor that you have, right if if 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.520 you if you have somebody that you you believe in 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:49.800 that's properly invested in you. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.040 I've I've had doctors that have said, don't take that medication. 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.400 You know, doctors that have said, oh, they said, give 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.000 the kids, don't give them that ship. No, we not prescribe, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:00.760 I mean you none of that. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.320 Just let that baby do this and take the baby 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.240 home and give them this and make sure they eat 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:10.160 this way. So there are doctors who are personally invested 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.280 in your safety over then just selling medication. 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.600 So like you know, like you said, there are people 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:17.120 who need it. 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:18.680 There are people who are not going to be at 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.640 a function with all medication because it's the. 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.640 Way that they're wired. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:27.560 I'm myself, I'm a person that's very rarely had medication, 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.160 Like with the exception of me having a toothache, Like 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.480 the toothache was probably the only thing that I've ever 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.160 said to myself, I got to take some painkillers for 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:42.720 because the shit was dramatically or allergies, with the exception 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.440 of me taking xytext because the shit is just my 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.200 eyes is watering to the point and there's no way, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.320 no shit I could do they issue to the point. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.040 With the exception of those two things, there's very rarely 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.920 a time that medication was something that I was into. 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:02.600 Well maybe, and that's okay, suggesting everybody needs medication, and 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.800 I'm not suggesting that they are not again holistic ways 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.600 to deal with your issues, because there certainly can be, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.160 because I you know, one thing I know for sure 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.280 is that when dealing with my son typer activity when 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.119 he was young, the main thing the doctors kept saying 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.520 to me is, if you don't want to put him 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.640 on medication, you have to stop the sugar intake. You 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.280 can't let him have a bowl of cereal at home 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.200 or a French toast with syrup and then send him 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.320 to school, because when he gets to school, he's going 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.000 to be high and then low, and there's all types 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.000 of agitation that goes on in between it. 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.000 So you gotta do vegetables. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.240 You got to start out with an egg sausage, you know, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.920 cup of milk, whatever it is that helps them to 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.520 feel better and not be you know, feel full, but 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:50.319 not be so. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:52.679 Rouled up. 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.120 So I understand that. I'm just saying that there are 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.360 some people who have not even because you made a 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.600 powerful point, made an assessment of what's wrong with them. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.320 They don't even understand the issue, but they just go 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:12.040 out in the world making other people's lives miserable. And 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.960 I just think, you know, it's just got to be 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.120 it's just got to be a better way. So I'm 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:20.480 just suggesting that people find out what you mean. Right 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.120 if you and your family members saying wow, like you're 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.920 so mean, or you're in the workplace and you feel 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.800 like people don't really want to deal with you for 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.240 some reason, or you find yourself feeling like you're always alone, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.600 like in your you know, you're always like at odds 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.600 with the people around you who you should have positive 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.720 for the most part, relationships with, or you know, you 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.800 find yourself constantly hearing from people that you offended them, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.480 or you upset them or whatever. You try to find 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.880 out is there something going on with maybe I'm dealing 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.920 with depression and therefore it makes me negative. Maybe I 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.400 think negatively all the time. That's actually an issue. I'm 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.120 not going to say it's a mental health crisis, but 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.080 it's an issue. You automatically come from a negative place 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.280 when you respond. That's not healthy, right, And a lot 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.040 of people don't even know because we've never been taught 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.959 about the signs of mental health challenges. We've never been 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.880 taught about anxiety. Like white folks know that is a thing. Okay, 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.160 they get medicated for anxiety, they get therapy for anxiety. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.080 Black folks have been dealing with anxiety for eons and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.960 we've never been taught that. We never knew what it 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.280 meant to have hypertension issues as a child. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.280 We never knew. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.560 And we really do need to try to get to 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.360 the core of some of the issues we have. And 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.280 if you need medication, take it. And if your medication 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.360 makes you feel funny, because some people when they take 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:57.080 medicine it makes them feel tired or not themselves, they 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.760 can change it, but you have to be committed to 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:04.480 who trying different things and figuring out what is the 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.400 right formula for me. You can't take one medicine and 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:09.080 be like that's. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.440 Why I'm not gonna do that anymore. 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:12.559 And you have to do your research, but you got 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.679 to be committed to your well being and your men's. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:15.480 Wealth for real. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:17.360 I agree. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:19.959 Well on that note. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.480 Our guest is already here, so let's bring them in 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:31.480 and introduce them. Okay, family, So speaking of our friends, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.920 you know, you hear us all the time with our 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.360 inside outside joke that so many of our friends are 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.920 doing powerful things across this nation, and we bring them 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:41.680 on as our guests. 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:42.080 Why not. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.120 It's our show, So we do it how we want, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.640 and we invite our friends to come and talk about 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.000 the work they're doing. And you know, we have an 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.960 incredible change maker who's joining us today who is a 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.160 friend to us personally as well as a friend to 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:02.559 the community in New Jersey abroad, the entire New Jersey, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:06.640 but of course in Newark. And that's Counselman Do Pray Kelly, 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.480 who is better known to most of us as Do 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.400 It All. So we're gonna get into some special things 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.280 about what this gentleman has been able to do going 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:23.600 from being a platinum selling artist to the first the 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.320 first person to go from being an artist at that 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:32.040 level to being elected to a political office in the 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.480 city of Newark, New Jersey, and so, as I said, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:40.360 he's making waves across the country, certainly across the state 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.880 of New Jersey, but specifically focusing on his activism which 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.320 has turned into his political career in the city of Newark, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:48.800 New Jersey. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.240 Thank you so much, Counselman for joining us today. 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.720 Thank you Samika, Thank you Mice for having me. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.200 I really appreciate all the work that you guys have 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.800 been doing over the years. You know, it's very special 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.560 as needed. So I salute you guys as well and 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.160 say thank you. And before we even begin, man, I 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.880 just want to say, we just got some bad news 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.160 here in New York, New Jersey. I just want to 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.680 say rest in peace to our Lieutenant governor. You know, 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:21.760 Oliver passed away today. I'm sure you both of you 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:26.080 probably met, yeah, you know. And I think she you know, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:31.600 she's all about that woman empowerment and having our black 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:32.600 sisters do their things. 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.640 So I know she was a big fan of yours, speaker. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.079 That's why I just wanted to say rest in peace 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.120 today to her and her family and condolences to her family. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.480 Wow, that's so sad. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:50.160 Yeah, go out to her and who whole state in 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.920 New York City. York, Man, it's. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:52.920 Crazy New Jersey. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:58.760 Yeah, definitely, so let's get all into it. I mean, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.000 I know that folks are going to want to know 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.160 about some of the specific work you're doing there in Newark, 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.160 But I really want to hear first of all as do. 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:10.520 It or I want to hear from Do It All. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:17.920 I'm about that transition, and it was their transitional. It's 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.200 just another stage and level in your life. And you 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.440 still feel extremely connected to the culture, to the music, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.320 which I believe that you do. But what it feels 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:32.800 like to be the first to go from being a 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:37.200 platinum selling artist to now being an elected official. What 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.680 are the great things about it? And what are some 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.200 of the areas that you feel are a little difficult 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:42.840 and challenging. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.320 You know, first of all, I'm never going to stop 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.160 being hip hop ever, you know, I tell people that 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.240 I am with hip hop looks like growing up, you know, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.880 I get to govern in the same. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.800 Blocks that I grew up on. I mean, born and 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.119 raised in these areas. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.040 I get to governose streets where I jumped gates and 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.960 ran from police and was involved in mischief and also 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.040 those same blocks where I learned how to galvanize people 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:17.680 and you know, pass out community events and get involved 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:18.800 in community events. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.160 And it's the same. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.520 Area that myself and Red Men set on my porch 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.160 and we talked about when we were ten years old. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.360 We talked about the changes we were going to bring 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:29.280 to our community. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:33.680 That's why manifestation and words are powerful because we talked 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.000 about that. And it's only really powerful to me just 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:41.680 because in hindsight of actually living it and doing it now. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:46.840 So it's just an amazing thing that I get to 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.200 I get to allow of. You know, I've done some 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.640 things that made my mother have a you know, disgusting 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.760 a face when I was younger and I was able 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:01.440 to see that, I guess the the you know, lack 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.360 of better word, see that frown turn upside down, you know. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:08.120 And and through my work in the community, through my 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.080 work as a hip hop artist. I have to give 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:15.000 a lot of props to my first manager, Hot Feast 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.160 for Reid, who managed Laws of the Underground Muslim brother. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.560 You know, when you think about Laws of the Underground, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.880 we didn't really curse too much in our records. We 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.760 never really called women the B word. 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.720 And you know, which was good when I started the 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:31.040 campaign because they didn't have anything negative to reflect on 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:32.720 from my hip hop career. 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.320 And he really he really kept us on point. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.720 You know, here he has three three black males, three 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.640 black men who come from single mother homes, who didn't have. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.720 Fathers in the house. He became our dad on the road. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.960 And then you know, we got money early. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.320 So you know, especially when you get money, it doesn't 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.720 come with instructions, especially when you never had any money. 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.200 So he was that guy that kind of kept us grounded. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.920 And he would say stuff like this. You know, if 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.160 I said something with a B word in a song, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.760 he would say, oh, that's dope. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.399 Who are you talking about your mother? Your grandmother? And 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.240 I would get defensive, like you me and my grandmother. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.639 He said, well, see just the way that you just 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.280 swoll up when I when I asked, was that about 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:19.760 your mother? 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:21.359 People are gonna if. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.639 You disrespect women, that's how they're gonna feel when they 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.040 hit that word or so he challenged us. But he 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.879 never told us to change anything, you know, he just 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.200 challenged us to be better, to think differently, to change 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:36.879 the mindset. And one time, you know, in this documented 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.439 I've been wearing NORK on my power and clothes for 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:41.760 you know, since I was nineteen. 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:46.239 I'm fifty two now, you know. So it was just like, uh, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.159 I'm sorry, it was you know. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.879 So one day he asked me in the studio, he said, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.119 what have you done for nork Lady got defensive again. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.320 I'm like, oh, I wear NOWK on my hast. I 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.120 got it on my clothes. I always represent on every 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.280 television show. He was like, no, I didn't ask you 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.840 about representing. I asked you, what have you done for 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:09.240 the city of North Lady. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.040 And I really didn't have an answer, you know, And 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.360 it hit me like, wow, here it is. I'm bragging 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.720 about my city and I'm pulling and taking away from 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.560 my city, but I'm not pouring it back into my city, 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.119 you know. And I started to take my hip hop money, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.760 you know, and try everything right, everything from community you know, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.119 the book back drive, the Turkey giveaways, all of the 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.520 low hanging fruit stuff, which is important, but in the 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.680 community world, it's really the low hanging fruit stuff. 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:39.639 You know. 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.400 And I just started to do that, and by doing that, 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.399 it started putting me at the doorsteps of the residents 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.320 and my friends and my family again, and they started 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.480 to see that I was serious, and they asked me 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.440 to be the voice. Just asked me to be the 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.240 voice through hip hop, you know, talk for them and 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.399 use hip hop to get the message across in the 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:01.760 you know, in the community. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.560 And that's what we did, just just through hip hop. Man. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.760 So the neighborhood that I'm from, you know, Rod Diggers 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.880 from there, Queen Latif was from there, Redman's from there, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:15.120 the artifacts, it's just so many people. So like I say, 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.040 it's you know, this is what hip hop looks like 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.320 growing up. It was just a natural transition. And on 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.640 the other hand, you know, people love you until they don't. 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.200 You know, everybody wants you to win, and you guys 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.159 know about it. People when you're doing great things, you 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.720 assume that, oh, we're doing great things, everybody's. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:34.960 Going to be happy. 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.479 And then when you get into it and the other one, 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:43.399 then you start to understand and respectfully, how Malcolm X 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.760 was killed, Howard Martin was killed, because you would think, like, 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:50.240 why would somebody want to hurt somebody that's doing something good? 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:53.960 You know, But you know, you have your opposers, and 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:57.840 people with your opposition and people with different you know, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:02.040 mindsets and different views and ideas that just don't match 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.520 up with yours. So I think, you know, for me, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.960 going from hip hop to community, that's cool. That was 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.680 that's that's easy in the sense I did realize that 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.639 community has a ceiling to it. 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.960 When you're doing community things. 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.280 And when it comes to fostering change and then governance, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:25.480 I had to find my footing, you know. To be honest, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.800 it's been a little over a year. I had to 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.680 find my footing and I'm still learning, you know, I'm 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:35.160 still learning. But the politics is the part that is 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:37.639 I'm not really happy with it. And I know my 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.119 team always tell me stop saying that you don't like 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.240 politics in politics now, which is true. But I still 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.679 don't like the movement of it at times, you know, 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.280 because I don't. I don't come from the politics, but 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.680 the politics is in all of those things. So it's 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.720 a it's a it's not an easy task, but it's 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:58.679 a worthy task. 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.960 It's worth it, you know, I tell people all the time. 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:05.760 You know, my partners, my DJ he lives in a 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.800 beautiful mansion in Miami. My other rap partner, he has 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:14.240 a beautiful home in northern California. I live in one 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.680 of my buildings on right in the hood, right in 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.320 Central Avenue in Newark, New Jersey, and I'm right in 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:21.760 the mix. 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.080 How is that? How does that like? How does that 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.359 feel like? Being amongst the people? 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:28.040 Is that is? 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.600 Do you feel like they receive you better? Do you 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.840 feel like, like, how do you feel living amongst the people? 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.200 I love it. You know, I don't have to be here. 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:39.920 I have to be here. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.400 And you said it's your own building, so. 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:46.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm in partnership with you know. I 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:48.760 don't even tell everybody some of the things that I'm 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:49.800 in partnership with the. 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:51.320 City because we got a lot of haters. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:56.320 But you know, yes, yes, you know it's our properties, 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:59.200 you know what I mean. So we're working, man, it's 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:02.680 us being part of our own community. And to answer 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.879 your question might sound like I love it because I'm 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.840 right there with the people. And it can be difficult 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:12.199 at times because this you're so accessible and you have 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:16.239 to be careful, you know, because you can't think that 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:20.440 everything is good, because history has showed that your own 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:21.920 people would be the ones. 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.840 That to get you up out of there. 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.159 And I mean, like I said, It goes from all 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.920 of our people that we love, our advocates, the people 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.000 who fought for us, down to Nipsey Hustle, you know, 0:22:35.119 --> 0:22:37.680 who was writing his own neighborhood and you would think, oh, 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:39.399 you're safe in your own neighborhood. 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:41.120 So I'm always aware. 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.800 And the way that I interact with them is firm, 0:22:47.119 --> 0:22:48.200 it's fair. 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:50.280 And they know me, but don't. 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.760 I don't take anything for granted, you know, because anything 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:57.560 is possible. I don't have twenty security guards rolling with me. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:22:59.639 I don't have one security guard role. 0:22:59.640 --> 0:22:59.760 Man. 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:01.840 I got a couple of my dudes who when we 0:23:01.880 --> 0:23:04.040 go to certain things that make sure that I'm good. 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.360 The neighborhood makes sure that I'm good, but I make 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:08.560 sure that I'm not in. 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.000 Those places unless I have to be in those places 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:12.560 as well. 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.960 You know, what do you think it's been your biggest challenge, 0:23:17.320 --> 0:23:19.960 the biggest challenge making that trend? What is your biggest 0:23:20.000 --> 0:23:22.760 challenge you feel, and then what is the thing that 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:25.040 you that you enjoy most. 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:26.960 That's a great question. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.520 My big My biggest challenge is navigating through the politics 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.320 my sign and Tamika Mallory has a different opinion than 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:37.199 me on one thing. That doesn't mean I don't like 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:40.679 them or like they're there, what they're doing. We just 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.080 disagree on maybe one thing. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.840 But if that thing is goes against the team. 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:51.119 Of whatever team I'm associated with, and I take a 0:23:51.160 --> 0:23:53.679 picture with you guys, it's like, well, why do you 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:54.639 want to picture with me? 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:55.000 Game? 0:23:55.080 --> 0:23:57.800 My son? You know what I don't I don't like that, 0:23:57.920 --> 0:23:58.760 you know what I mean. 0:23:58.680 --> 0:23:59.880 Like that's a real thing. 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.240 That's a real thing that you're saying. 0:24:02.840 --> 0:24:06.120 It's a real thing, you know, And it's just kind 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:09.960 of learning how to maneuver through the politics of it all. 0:24:10.119 --> 0:24:13.960 That's that's that's my biggest task, you know, when people 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:16.680 are I never had so many people scream at me 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:19.680 or you know, I've had people not like a record. 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:23.200 We still giving each other a pound, We keep it moving. 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.879 They might still buy the record or still come to 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:28.160 the show. I have people say, you know, I ain't 0:24:28.160 --> 0:24:31.800 really feel the record, but when I saw you on stage, man, 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:34.840 it's not that way. In politics, they just you know, 0:24:34.920 --> 0:24:36.880 I was in office for a month and they were 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.240 just hating me, you know what I mean, like some 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:42.080 people and then you got to realize that those are 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.679 five people, or those are people who don't even vote, 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.240 or those are people who don't even do anything themselves. 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:49.480 So you got to learn how to quiet out the noise. 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:51.600 And I had to learn, you know, I used to 0:24:51.600 --> 0:24:55.359 be in council meetings responding everything, well it's that, and 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:57.760 then they you know, I had to learn that I'm 0:24:57.800 --> 0:25:02.879 just fueling them to continue their instead of just not 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.399 you know, just kind of blocking out the white noise 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:08.000 and keeping the receipts for the work that I do 0:25:08.359 --> 0:25:11.879 and showing up and being present, you know, because you 0:25:11.920 --> 0:25:13.920 can say you don't like something, but you can't tell 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:15.040 me that it's not my truth. 0:25:15.119 --> 0:25:16.679 You can't tell me that I'm not president. 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:19.280 You can't tell me that I'm not putting in the work, 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:24.119 whether it we you know, produces a great result, a 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:26.879 minimum result, a small result. You can't tell me that 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.760 I'm not doing things to push it forward. And as 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:32.080 long as I keep the receipts, you know, I'm cool. 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:33.800 And the thing that I do like. 0:25:33.800 --> 0:25:34.920 Mice is that. 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.159 To see the smile, to see the. 0:25:39.680 --> 0:25:43.560 Difference that I make when I do the work. 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:46.760 And I'm talking about from the smallest thing to autism 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:50.400 signs to getting the bus stop moved for miss Williams 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:52.960 because she's elderly and she has to walk in from 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.800 three blocks, but getting it moved to the middle of 0:25:55.840 --> 0:25:58.640 her block just makes it comfort for her to put 0:25:58.880 --> 0:26:01.639 stop signs on a block where a lady in the 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:06.680 motorized wheelchairs is moving along, to actually creating ordnesses that 0:26:08.119 --> 0:26:10.880 help our residents fight against greedy. 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:12.479 Landlords and things of that nature. 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:17.399 So it's so many different things that on the municipal 0:26:17.520 --> 0:26:21.919 level that I love. I really think that the local 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:26.520 politics actually trickle up, you know, because I think that 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:30.560 the things that we do here makes the state react. 0:26:30.800 --> 0:26:34.560 The things that we do here makes the county react. 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:38.120 The things that we do here ultimately makes the federal 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:39.080 government react. 0:26:39.160 --> 0:26:45.720 I think that's one hundred one is well, you can 0:26:45.760 --> 0:26:46.159 answer that. 0:26:46.320 --> 0:26:46.679 Second. 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:52.840 The first question is how how does having a mayor 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:57.560 who supports your vision. I'm sure maybe not all the time, 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:03.040 but he ultimately has an empowerment agenda and he comes 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:04.879 from activism himself. 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:08.960 How does that help you or how does. 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:11.280 That make you feel when you're out trying to do 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:15.840 your work that you're not in opposition to the leader 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:19.399 of your city. Because there are many council members who 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:22.520 are fighting to get things done to change, as you said, 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.919 the city ordinances, the bus stop, all the things you 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:27.480 talked about, which. 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:29.359 Seems perfectly. 0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:34.200 Common sense, right, Like, it's just common sense these things 0:27:34.200 --> 0:27:34.800 should happen. 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:37.440 And then you're up against a mayor. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:40.600 Who does not have the city's best interests at heart 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:41.960 from your perspective. 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:44.240 So tell me one about that, and then I'll ask 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:45.040 my second question. 0:27:45.680 --> 0:27:49.480 I want to say, man, salute, double salute to the 0:27:49.560 --> 0:27:55.880 honorable Mayor j Barako. I was out with Raz, fighting. 0:27:55.480 --> 0:27:58.639 With him when we were just young lords of the underground. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:27:58.879 You know. 0:27:58.960 --> 0:28:01.320 He would call on me to have social media like 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:04.159 that back then, so he would call on me, he 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:06.560 would call on red Man, he would call on us 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:09.320 to galvanize the people. Yo, I'm shutting down the street. 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:11.680 He was just a young activist. I'm shutting down this street. 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:13.840 We're gonna be talking about this. I'm making a list 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.680 of demands. What are some of your demands in your community? 0:28:16.680 --> 0:28:19.560 Because we're giving this to the administration, you know, So 0:28:19.680 --> 0:28:23.120 to see him go from that a list of demands 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:26.720 to actually putting the people in place and feeling check 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.879 doing check check marks, checking off some of those things 0:28:29.880 --> 0:28:33.520 that were on that those demands is amazing to me. 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:38.000 To have an ally and not an OP as they 0:28:38.040 --> 0:28:43.720 say out here, is beautiful. It's a lot of reasons 0:28:43.760 --> 0:28:47.200 why I ran, but I knew that I can add 0:28:47.320 --> 0:28:52.560 value to the administration of who team Baraka is. 0:28:53.080 --> 0:28:55.120 You know who they are, and he knows that. 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:58.880 Even when I lost in twenty eighteen, that wasn't before 0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:02.880 a meeting with him and he was like, dude, I'm 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:06.440 you know, politically, my list is already filled up, My 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:08.560 team is already filled. But you will make a great 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:12.440 council councilman in this city and I will back you. 0:29:12.440 --> 0:29:15.400 You know, he's always been supportive when he was an activist, 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:17.720 He's been supportive when he was a mayor. He was 0:29:17.760 --> 0:29:21.720 supportive of my nonprofit organization, and when he asked me 0:29:21.800 --> 0:29:25.640 to be on his team ultimately he was He's supportive. 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:28.440 I just I literally just came out of a meeting 0:29:28.480 --> 0:29:32.400 with him and him being supportive, me talking to some 0:29:32.880 --> 0:29:35.520 personnel here in the city hall about things that we 0:29:35.560 --> 0:29:40.120 need in our community and me having more tension with 0:29:40.320 --> 0:29:43.040 them or go and not bad at tension, just about 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.360 the process of getting those things done. 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:47.560 And this guy is fighting for me. 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:51.320 This mayor he's fighting for me, like, no, we need 0:29:51.360 --> 0:29:52.560 to get this to happen. 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:54.920 And he's one that stood alongside me. 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:59.480 And fought for a rapper to become an elected official. 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.840 Like he's forward thinking and you're right to me. I 0:30:02.920 --> 0:30:05.520 might not agree with everything with him, but we have 0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:07.080 conversations about it too. 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:07.800 You know. 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:12.120 I'll give you an instance, because I think it was 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:13.160 blown out of proportion. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:15.040 There's George Floyd. 0:30:15.720 --> 0:30:18.080 There's a George Floyd statue on the steps of our 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:23.040 city hall. I am for the George Floyd movement one thousand. 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:26.280 Percent right, and I stand with it and fight with it. 0:30:26.520 --> 0:30:30.000 I just had a different ideology about where the statue 0:30:30.040 --> 0:30:34.520 should be because of the impact. So I said, maybe 0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:36.120 we should have and maybe I should have did it 0:30:36.160 --> 0:30:39.240 a little more privately, you know, but like I'm learning, 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:42.360 But I said, maybe we should put it on our 0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:46.040 new police academy, so when all of those new police 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:49.200 officers come in there, they see that as a reminder 0:30:49.360 --> 0:30:52.200 of what not to do and what to be a 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:56.880 part of. And he came back and said, I respect that, dude, 0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:01.160 but I put it on the steps of our of 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:05.920 our city for a reminder of the people who has 0:31:05.960 --> 0:31:10.360 the power in this city and and and I was 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:13.360 just like, wow, okay, I knew what he was talking about, 0:31:14.000 --> 0:31:16.320 you know, and I was and I respected what he 0:31:16.440 --> 0:31:20.200 what he said. I didn't agree initially aware the placement, 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:23.800 but in reality we both agreed when it comes to 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:27.280 George Floyd, you know what I mean, things like that 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:28.520 man and. 0:31:28.160 --> 0:31:30.680 Crazy because I was I was literally in the off 0:31:30.920 --> 0:31:34.400 in city city Hall having a meeting with MIDI when 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:37.120 you when that happened here sending him text. 0:31:37.200 --> 0:31:38.480 He's like, oh my god, what happened with you? 0:31:38.520 --> 0:31:41.120 And I'm like, what happens? Yeah. 0:31:41.160 --> 0:31:43.120 He's like, oh man, they don't want he don't They say, 0:31:43.200 --> 0:31:44.240 he don't want George Floyd. 0:31:44.280 --> 0:31:48.880 I'm like, no, I don't think. I can't believe. Yeah, 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:52.160 and you. 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:52.720 Talked about that. 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:55.080 You also said something else that I think is powerful, 0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:59.120 and I don't think that we can, you know, sort 0:31:59.160 --> 0:32:03.880 of blossover that there are also people from the state 0:32:03.920 --> 0:32:10.920 of New Jersey who have unfortunately experienced abuse, murder at 0:32:10.920 --> 0:32:13.720 the hands of police and e me placement as well. 0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:17.120 And you know, I don't disagree with that. I think 0:32:17.160 --> 0:32:18.320 that's also true. 0:32:18.360 --> 0:32:22.160 And so perhaps the meeting of the minds is to 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:27.600 create some type of memorial outside of the Academy that 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:32.000 has the names of local New Jersey residents who have 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:36.800 also experienced the same type, maybe not exactly as George Floyd. 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:39.080 We know that George Floyd is bigger than George Floyd. 0:32:39.120 --> 0:32:42.600 I mean, he represents that moment, represents a. 0:32:44.240 --> 0:32:45.960 Moment in history where the. 0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:52.840 Entire world has had to acknowledge the racial discrimination, the oppression, 0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:56.800 the abuse, you know, state sanctioned violence, all of those 0:32:56.800 --> 0:33:00.720 things at once. But there are other people who need 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.120 their voices lifted as well. And I think that your 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:06.600 idea is something that in the next council you should 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:11.640 be pushing some type of memorial outside of the Academy 0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:13.760 that that you know, really looks at some of those 0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:15.520 other individuals and their stories. 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.400 I think the point is that we should. 0:33:18.440 --> 0:33:21.200 And one of the things about politics that I think 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:23.800 upsets a lot of people, makes them feel that they 0:33:23.880 --> 0:33:28.320 don't want to participate, is one that compromise is very 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:31.440 difficult for people in their regular lives, in their regular 0:33:31.840 --> 0:33:35.240 And I know that you know, one of the things 0:33:35.240 --> 0:33:37.720 I was gonna say to you earlier, but you were saying, 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:39.320 you know, you were speaking it was so good that 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:41.960 I didn't want to cut you off. But you know, 0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:44.040 I know that that even though y'all didn't say a 0:33:44.080 --> 0:33:46.800 lot of Curtis words and whatever, you definitely were not 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:48.480 people that need to be played with. 0:33:48.720 --> 0:33:51.280 Right. So now when you're trying. 0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:53.400 To talk to people and they talking crazy to you, 0:33:53.400 --> 0:33:56.760 you kind of like, yo, like like I don't know 0:33:56.800 --> 0:33:58.680 where I'm gonna go with this, Like I'm trying to 0:33:58.720 --> 0:34:03.560 be the counsel person, but but you're trying to take 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:06.240 me to an old thing that I'm trying to get 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:10.440 away from. So that's an issue because in compromise, you know, 0:34:10.640 --> 0:34:14.120 sometimes it's difficult for people to hear one another, to 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:17.160 respect one another, and compromise, and then what happens is 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:22.040 the whole system shuts down, and the voters, the frustrated 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:27.600 voters of our society see the shutdown and they are like, 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:30.440 to hell with it. You shut down, and I'm going 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:33.600 to shut down too. So everybody has a shutdown. So 0:34:33.960 --> 0:34:37.200 the thing I think about Ross or mayor Baraka that 0:34:37.239 --> 0:34:41.680 we appreciate is that he is very good at navigating tension. 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:43.040 Yes he is. 0:34:43.280 --> 0:34:47.440 He is people moving despite the fact that there may 0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:50.960 be difference of opinions and a lot of different issues 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:55.160 because he's dealing with a lot of people coming from 0:34:55.239 --> 0:34:59.359 the most radical to the most conservative side of the spectrum, 0:34:59.800 --> 0:35:01.680 all all of them trying to come together, and he's 0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:02.960 really good at navigating that. 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:03.920 So I think. 0:35:03.719 --> 0:35:09.279 You're in a great city to be your first year 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.919 as a councilman, you know what I'm saying. I think 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:14.239 because there's a lot of other places. If you were 0:35:14.280 --> 0:35:16.799 here in New York under Mayor Bloomberg, you might have 0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:17.440 been in jail. 0:35:18.080 --> 0:35:20.719 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah definitely. 0:35:21.000 --> 0:35:23.200 And you know, I just want to I just like, 0:35:23.280 --> 0:35:25.600 once again, I want to thank them because I don't 0:35:25.640 --> 0:35:28.320 I don't walk like them, I don't talk like them. 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:30.680 You know, I don't even dress like them. 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:34.200 But I can see my inspiration and my influence starting 0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:38.080 to influence the entire city Hall. And that's just it's 0:35:38.080 --> 0:35:40.600 not just me, it's the culture that we come from, 0:35:40.680 --> 0:35:41.840 that hip hop culture. 0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:42.520 You know. 0:35:43.840 --> 0:35:48.600 I got wearing sneakers with suits with from Russell Simmons go, 0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:51.040 you know, and I just did it. I didn't make 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.719 it up, but I tell you this, My mayor now 0:35:53.880 --> 0:35:58.080 does it. Everybody in this building does it. And that's 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.640 just to say that the power of who we are 0:36:01.680 --> 0:36:05.879 as people, who we are in the community, and my 0:36:05.880 --> 0:36:10.319 my my governance now me as an elected official, I 0:36:10.400 --> 0:36:13.120 just pray that that not only to the people in 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:15.960 city Hall, but to the people who are outside of 0:36:16.040 --> 0:36:18.520 city Hall, the people who are in the neighborhoods. Because 0:36:18.520 --> 0:36:21.600 I think when you change your mindset, you change your viewpoint, 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:24.520 you change advantage point of different things. And I just 0:36:24.560 --> 0:36:27.279 believe like when you can change that into love, When 0:36:27.280 --> 0:36:30.040 you love something, you treat it differently, right, you know, 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:33.520 when you love your city, you can change it. That's 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:36.520 what I believe. But a lot of people don't love themselves. 0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:41.480 And sometimes when you don't understand something, you push it away, 0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:44.279 you know, you shun it, like, oh no I don't 0:36:44.520 --> 0:36:46.920 I don't, I don't eat that, but you never taste it. 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:48.719 Oh I don't want to go there, but you've never 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:50.960 been there. I don't want to, you know, So it's 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:53.640 we push it away. And I think that a lot 0:36:53.680 --> 0:36:58.520 of people, they really don't understand the process of politics 0:36:58.600 --> 0:36:59.440 in our city. 0:36:59.760 --> 0:37:02.000 So you know, you'll get people coming to the council 0:37:02.040 --> 0:37:03.400 meetings and they're. 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:07.880 Loud but wrong, you know, But I mean they're very loud, 0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:11.920 and the people like yeah, and I'm like, yeah, but 0:37:12.760 --> 0:37:18.640 Google is. 0:37:16.480 --> 0:37:19.720 It's not just it's just your city. It's politics, period. 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:24.200 Rights people don't understand politics. They just think we want 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:25.759 this to go this way, and it should just be 0:37:25.840 --> 0:37:27.000 you be able to snap a finger. 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:28.759 We voted you in and you need to just be 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:29.560 able to do this right. 0:37:29.920 --> 0:37:32.120 And I used to be one of those people, right 0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:35.000 until I started having friends like yourself, having friends like 0:37:35.080 --> 0:37:39.319 Jimiani Williams, who is the Public Advocate of New York, 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:43.480 Natasha Williams who's also city council in Queens, and just a. 0:37:43.440 --> 0:37:46.360 Plethora of other individuals who work in government. 0:37:46.640 --> 0:37:49.160 I started to understand that the things that we wanted 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:51.640 weren't as simple as we thought they were. You know, 0:37:51.719 --> 0:37:53.960 it's not just you snap a finger. We vote you 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:55.560 and you should be able to do whatever you want. 0:37:55.800 --> 0:37:57.879 And when you start understanding that reality, you start looking 0:37:57.920 --> 0:38:01.440 at things different. So I've had those conversations with people, 0:38:01.719 --> 0:38:03.399 you know, and I've had it and then they be like, nah, 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:05.320 you don't and I'm like, no, you don't understand. 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:06.920 Is the process that it goes through. 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:10.200 Yeah, we have to continue to push our elected officials 0:38:10.280 --> 0:38:12.799 and make sure that they advocate on our side and 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:14.919 make sure that they're doing what they said. But it's 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:17.520 not I'm always up to them the ship that you 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:18.640 think supposed to. 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:21.319 So you can't just put all the blame on them. 0:38:21.320 --> 0:38:23.120 But people don't want to hear that when when you're 0:38:23.200 --> 0:38:26.560 living in the community, whe people are frustrated, people are hungry, 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:28.320 they pour it's a lot of things going on me 0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:31.080 and to me just having this conversation yesterday, that it's a. 0:38:31.000 --> 0:38:32.240 Lot going on with people. 0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:35.880 People are in so many different it's so many like 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:40.239 we get calls, DMS, emails, so many different people that's 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.880 dealing with so much different trauma and stress, and you 0:38:42.920 --> 0:38:44.799 know things are not going right and they looking for 0:38:44.880 --> 0:38:45.720 somebody to blame. 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:46.560 You know what. 0:38:47.400 --> 0:38:52.080 A lot of times we get to blame account hold accountability, 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:54.920 just want accountability. But there's also some people that just 0:38:54.960 --> 0:38:57.440 want to blame people too, So there's a there's a 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.319 balance between both of them. Like we get we get 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.320 thrown under the bust of shit that we got nothing 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:05.160 to do with. Like if I if I advocate for 0:39:05.239 --> 0:39:07.920 one person because I know their story, and it was like, oh, 0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:10.759 you're phony because you ain't talk about Jojo who got 0:39:10.800 --> 0:39:12.719 shot here but you're gonna talk. I'm like, well, I 0:39:12.719 --> 0:39:15.120 didn't even know Joe. I didn't even know Jojo got shot. 0:39:15.320 --> 0:39:17.920 How you hold it me accountable? I don't know nothing 0:39:17.920 --> 0:39:19.680 that got to do with Jojo. But but this is 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:22.919 how people start putting things in their mind. So I've 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:25.279 never wanted to do politics based on that because I 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.400 watch what you actually have to deal with, and I 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:29.080 want to be able to say and do what I 0:39:29.120 --> 0:39:29.879 want when I want. 0:39:30.239 --> 0:39:30.799 I hear you. 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:34.080 I love I love the fact I've actually evolved, right, 0:39:34.640 --> 0:39:39.400 but I still want to be able to say, look, yeah, 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:40.920 but I still want to be able to say, you 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:42.800 can't talk to me crazy, I'm gonna take you around 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:44.520 the corner and we're gonna have to get fired. I 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:46.279 want to be able to do that. That's the reason 0:39:46.280 --> 0:39:48.520 why I want to go into the phone to go off. 0:39:49.440 --> 0:39:49.640 Yeah. 0:39:49.760 --> 0:39:54.680 But I think you are an example, though, of why 0:39:55.840 --> 0:40:01.680 more black men should consider running for office to make 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:05.640 the change that they're looking for in their local communities. Right, 0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:11.040 you think about a Congressman Jamal Bowman in New York. 0:40:11.560 --> 0:40:18.080 This man is a teacher, principal turned now a congressman, 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:18.800 and he's. 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.520 Going to go further. I know he is right, and I. 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:24.880 Think and of course there's a side of me that 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:27.960 is in that that that has to push back even 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:31.200 on what I said, because black women certainly need to 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:35.319 run for office more, but the support that's necessary for 0:40:35.400 --> 0:40:39.040 a black woman to win is very challenging and then 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:42.400 for her to stay in position because the system so 0:40:42.719 --> 0:40:46.680 easily comes up against black women, and you know, just 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:48.879 kind of like, oh well, I mean if you think 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:52.960 about the list of black women from Kim Fox who's 0:40:53.000 --> 0:40:58.880 the state's attorney in Wiskim in Chicago, to Maryland Moseley 0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:02.239 in marriag Carland, and the list goes on and on, 0:41:02.360 --> 0:41:07.080 and how they are being ripped to shreds, literally ripped 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:10.480 to shreds. It makes other black women run. But I 0:41:10.480 --> 0:41:16.240 think you, counselmen Kelly, are an example of why people 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:19.720 should run. They need to. But you can't just run 0:41:20.320 --> 0:41:22.920 for your one seat. You got to look at the 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:27.040 entire city because now when counsel will at the time, 0:41:27.080 --> 0:41:31.040 when do it all helps ros Baraka become mayor. Right, 0:41:31.120 --> 0:41:34.080 then you run for counsel and you have other friends 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:36.920 that run for assembly. You start the corner off your 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:39.520 community and be able to make the type of change 0:41:39.520 --> 0:41:41.520 that you're looking to do. So I think more black 0:41:41.560 --> 0:41:45.880 men should certainly gather with that thought process in mind. 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:49.799 No, that's an amazing example you just did too to 0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:53.240 make because that's really what it is. We helped Rise 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:57.600 become mayor, and in turn, he helped me become counselmen, 0:41:58.320 --> 0:42:01.320 you know. And I think that with us going back 0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:04.439 and grabbing each other, and we have a. 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:09.200 Woman council president and Lamonica mcguyver, and he was her 0:42:09.280 --> 0:42:13.000 fifth grade teacher when she was in the fifth grade, 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:15.719 Ras was her teacher. Now she's the president of the 0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:17.200 council and part of his team. 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:22.600 I think that people are not really looking at the succession. 0:42:22.400 --> 0:42:26.200 And we have to prepare for that too, right. You know, 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:29.360 we have nine council. 0:42:29.000 --> 0:42:32.000 Members on here in Jersey and some people, you know, 0:42:32.080 --> 0:42:35.000 in different states, different cities, there's a different body of 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:38.439 municipal council. But here in north we have five, one 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.560 that represents each ward. We have five wards, and then 0:42:41.560 --> 0:42:41.879 we have. 0:42:41.920 --> 0:42:42.920 Four at largest. 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:45.920 So I represent the ward that I grew up in, 0:42:45.960 --> 0:42:49.680 which is about seventy thousand residents. You know, in some places, 0:42:49.719 --> 0:42:52.280 seventy thousand residents is the whole entire city. 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:53.040 You know. 0:42:53.239 --> 0:42:56.040 So I really have a mini city that I have 0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:56.879 to govern over. 0:42:56.920 --> 0:42:59.800 And one thing I can really say is that Mayor 0:43:00.200 --> 0:43:01.520 Baraka allows me. 0:43:01.560 --> 0:43:05.759 To govern over that city, over those residents and all 0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:06.160 of us. 0:43:06.520 --> 0:43:11.720 So when it comes to talking about bringing people along, 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.400 we have to set up a farm system. 0:43:14.680 --> 0:43:17.920 You know. One of the reasons that I am counseling. 0:43:17.400 --> 0:43:20.560 In farm system A farm system. 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:24.719 Farm system, yeah, farm system, you know what I mean. 0:43:24.800 --> 0:43:26.320 So the reason one. 0:43:26.200 --> 0:43:28.840 Of the reasons that I am counseling is because of 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:31.879 a conversation that I had with Tupacs your corps back 0:43:31.880 --> 0:43:35.760 in nineteen ninety two in a motel in Orlando, Florida, 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:36.680 while on tour. 0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:37.680 You know. 0:43:39.480 --> 0:43:41.719 And it's crazy because that conversation. 0:43:42.320 --> 0:43:44.920 I'm on POC Laws of the Underground and Tupac was 0:43:44.960 --> 0:43:48.799 sharing a sixteen passenger van. We wasn't even on tour 0:43:48.840 --> 0:43:51.200 buses yet, you know, and we was in a motel 0:43:51.239 --> 0:43:53.920 where you had to go in the room outside not inside, 0:43:54.080 --> 0:43:56.840 you know what I mean. But just to fast forward 0:43:56.840 --> 0:44:00.759 the story, Pot came to my room, and you know, 0:44:00.800 --> 0:44:02.960 we had an altercation before that day. He came to 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:05.680 my room first of all, like a man to squash it. 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:06.960 You know what I mean. 0:44:07.120 --> 0:44:10.520 So he came to my room and through that conversation. 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.560 Through that we got into this conversation. He said, dude, 0:44:13.560 --> 0:44:17.759 we have to turn millions of record biers into millions 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:20.840 of voters. And then once we do that, and he 0:44:20.920 --> 0:44:23.600 started naming all of the rappers that was popular back 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:25.920 in ninety two. You know, he would say, Common has 0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:29.120 to do it in Chicago, you entrench you and red 0:44:29.200 --> 0:44:30.680 Man need to do it in New it Tresh needs 0:44:30.719 --> 0:44:33.200 to do it in East starch Ice q to do 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:34.759 it in Central Los Angeles. 0:44:34.880 --> 0:44:36.920 I'll do it in Baltimore and Oakland. 0:44:36.960 --> 0:44:39.120 And he just started naming all of these people and 0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:41.920 he started to talk like a twenty twenty one year 0:44:41.960 --> 0:44:45.120 old and I've never heard talk like that before, you know, 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:48.360 and saying that we have to be accountable and start 0:44:48.480 --> 0:44:50.719 youth organizations and youth groups and. 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:54.440 Protect our women and protect our senyers. I mean, he 0:44:54.520 --> 0:44:55.439 was blowing my mind. 0:44:55.480 --> 0:44:57.400 And then he said, you know, we have to do 0:44:57.440 --> 0:44:59.600 something that we might not want to do because you know, 0:44:59.680 --> 0:45:02.799 all rappers were against politicians. He said, we we might 0:45:02.880 --> 0:45:05.680 have to become legislators. Almost didn't know he was talking 0:45:05.719 --> 0:45:10.080 about it. I was legislators man we rappers. He was like, yeah, 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:11.799 but if we don't. 0:45:11.600 --> 0:45:14.040 Make the laws for us, or if we're not at 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:17.600 the table making laws or nos and colds for us, 0:45:18.040 --> 0:45:21.080 then they will make it for us, and it won't 0:45:21.120 --> 0:45:22.560 be for us. 0:45:22.719 --> 0:45:26.359 Before us, you know, and talk to you for the 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:28.000 rest of the son. 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:30.520 But we could definitely stay and told to you tonight. 0:45:30.560 --> 0:45:33.719 But I just want I just want to show what 0:45:33.880 --> 0:45:37.239 hip hop is. It's so big and the culture of it, 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:39.960 Like just looking at the connection of you and Ross. 0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:42.839 People don't know that Ross is so loves hip hop 0:45:42.920 --> 0:45:45.719 and he actually has a hip hop album that you 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:48.279 guys could be that I've watched you know, see what 0:45:48.280 --> 0:45:50.920 I'm saying and listening to his little You know that 0:45:50.960 --> 0:45:54.640 he's so influenced by the culture. And now it's time 0:45:54.840 --> 0:45:58.239 for the culture that influences this world to dictate and 0:45:58.320 --> 0:45:59.400 govern this world. 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:02.680 And that's what it is showing. It's showing like and 0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:04.480 it's not just that it's just government. 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:07.239 When you look at Newer, it is a model for 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:10.520 governments all around this world. Like the way that you 0:46:10.600 --> 0:46:13.359 guys deal with violence and the way that you deal 0:46:13.440 --> 0:46:16.000 with community is a model for the world to look at. 0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:19.520 I'm not just saying it shows the culture. When you 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:22.640 are culturally competent and you have respect in your community, 0:46:22.760 --> 0:46:27.759 when you take community leaders in community credible messages and 0:46:27.800 --> 0:46:30.880 you connect those back to the communities that they're governing, 0:46:31.120 --> 0:46:34.520 you will see the change. So that's something that inspires 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:36.880 me when I watch you guys. It inspires me to 0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:38.880 do the work that I do because I know the 0:46:38.920 --> 0:46:41.319 work that I do. Even if I'm not one of 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:44.000 those government officials, I'm inspiring someone. 0:46:44.000 --> 0:46:46.520 Who's going to be in the next who's going to. 0:46:46.520 --> 0:46:48.120 Be there, They're gonna say, Okay, I've seen what my 0:46:48.160 --> 0:46:50.200 song does in this community. I want to take that 0:46:50.239 --> 0:46:52.239 and I want to put it in these political offices, 0:46:52.520 --> 0:46:53.680 even if it's not what I do. 0:46:53.760 --> 0:46:55.680 So I just want to say, what you do. 0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:59.520 And where you come from is so motivational, inspirational for 0:47:00.080 --> 0:47:00.640 a lot of us. 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:03.360 Man. So continue, you know, continue to do what to 0:47:03.440 --> 0:47:05.760 work you do. We salute you. You know you my brother. 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:08.239 I'm gonna be my brother with you all the time, 0:47:08.320 --> 0:47:10.120 working with you all the time. I just want you 0:47:10.200 --> 0:47:13.200 to give us, you know, one last word that you 0:47:13.239 --> 0:47:14.560 would give us before you leave. 0:47:15.239 --> 0:47:17.000 Before I leave, I just want to add on to 0:47:17.040 --> 0:47:19.200 what you're saying. I know you guys gotta go. But 0:47:19.400 --> 0:47:21.719 just talking about Nork being a model and having a 0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:25.240 leader like rash Jay Baraka in the seat who does 0:47:25.440 --> 0:47:29.040 things that really push our city forward. Today, we just 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:32.759 in our pre counsul tomorrow we'll vote on it. But 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:37.080 he bought the Temple of Hip Hop to North New 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:41.440 Jersey and gave it a home. Hart One is now 0:47:41.560 --> 0:47:44.880 opening the school of the Temple of hip Hop. And 0:47:44.960 --> 0:47:47.040 I've seen him try to open this in Harlem. I 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:51.120 seen him try to open it in the Bronx. Rasbarakas 0:47:51.160 --> 0:47:54.040 gave this guy a building. The Temple of hip Hop 0:47:54.160 --> 0:47:57.360 is now located in North New Jersey southward. 0:47:58.520 --> 0:48:02.160 That amazing to me. We got the teacher here. 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:05.560 That's gonna be running programming out of our city. That's 0:48:05.640 --> 0:48:10.439 an international hub now in New Jersey. That's like, that's 0:48:10.520 --> 0:48:13.320 just for me. That's just like bringing Prudential or Mars 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:16.960 or you go to the building one of those corporations. 0:48:16.960 --> 0:48:22.239 He just bought a solidified value to our city and 0:48:22.280 --> 0:48:24.480 the teacher with Karas One in the Temple of hip 0:48:24.480 --> 0:48:25.440 Hop that are gonna do. 0:48:25.719 --> 0:48:26.760 Many great things. 0:48:26.800 --> 0:48:30.440 So man, Noork is definitely becoming a model for a 0:48:30.440 --> 0:48:34.399 certain man, you know. And one last thing too, mice, 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:37.560 when you talk about our men in our communities. I 0:48:37.640 --> 0:48:40.400 just started this thing called Men Talk Sundays, where we 0:48:40.480 --> 0:48:43.480 go into the parks and I grab all of the men, 0:48:43.640 --> 0:48:46.040 all of those and I guess that's why I still 0:48:46.040 --> 0:48:49.160 have certain relationships with them. I go to these communities 0:48:49.160 --> 0:48:51.319 and I tell them, I need you to come talk. 0:48:51.960 --> 0:48:55.400 I need you to what. It was inspired by one 0:48:55.440 --> 0:48:56.920 of the big gang banger. 0:48:56.680 --> 0:48:59.480 Here who I have a relationship, was mad at me 0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:01.920 because I wasn't returning his phone calls. 0:49:02.040 --> 0:49:05.120 But he don't understand. I'm just really busy. So anytime 0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:07.680 somebody has an issue, I go right to him. So 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:10.040 I went right to him. What's up? What's the problem 0:49:10.080 --> 0:49:12.239 with Nah, dude, I don't want you to get no 0:49:12.280 --> 0:49:14.279 big head but being no, it's not that. 0:49:14.840 --> 0:49:16.640 But look, I want you to come with me for 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:18.200 the day now. I want you to work with me. 0:49:18.840 --> 0:49:20.360 I want you to build with me and see what 0:49:20.440 --> 0:49:23.439 I do. And he came with me. We went to lunch, 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:26.560 yet we had an amazing conversation. But with that conversation 0:49:26.719 --> 0:49:29.600 showed me was that we need each other. I learned 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:32.680 something through that conversation by him point into me. I'm 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:36.080 pouring into him, and it inspired me to grab all 0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:38.200 of the dudes from the neighborhood put. 0:49:38.080 --> 0:49:40.200 Them in the park. I have Red Man as my. 0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:43.200 Keynote speaker talking about facing your fears. And when I 0:49:43.239 --> 0:49:46.279 said this man did amazing people like you have Red 0:49:46.280 --> 0:49:50.120 Man as your keynote speaker. Yes, yes, he has experiences 0:49:50.120 --> 0:49:53.600 about facing fears. Anybody you know can't tell another man 0:49:53.640 --> 0:49:54.799 about his experiences. 0:49:54.960 --> 0:49:57.480 So I put Man when I tell you he inspired 0:49:57.880 --> 0:49:58.640 these brothers. 0:49:58.680 --> 0:50:01.880 Man, and I say that because August twenty seventh is 0:50:01.920 --> 0:50:05.279 our next men talk Sundays in the Park and a mice. 0:50:05.360 --> 0:50:06.000 I would love you. 0:50:05.960 --> 0:50:08.680 To be my keynote speaker for that day. If you available, Man, 0:50:08.760 --> 0:50:10.880 August twenty seven and we can talk definite. 0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:11.439 We're gonna try. 0:50:11.960 --> 0:50:15.520 I'm gonna try because August August, either August twenty sixth 0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:16.560 or twenty seventh. 0:50:16.280 --> 0:50:19.640 I do my annual day in my in. 0:50:19.600 --> 0:50:22.279 The Bronx, so it's Merriam day I usually do my 0:50:22.400 --> 0:50:23.280 annual days. 0:50:23.560 --> 0:50:24.720 I had to push it back. 0:50:24.600 --> 0:50:26.200 To either the twenty six or the twenty seventh, so 0:50:26.239 --> 0:50:28.640 I'm gonna decide if I do it on the twenty six. 0:50:29.160 --> 0:50:31.439 What happened and I ain't available that day? 0:50:32.160 --> 0:50:33.759 She looked right, say a thing. 0:50:33.880 --> 0:50:35.000 I just, I just. 0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:38.200 It might not work. 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:41.520 So I don't even get one day if that don't go. 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:45.360 Definitely, definitely, because I'm actually doing the men's Talk inside 0:50:45.520 --> 0:50:48.120 in September. I'm gonna do it a big I want 0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:50.759 to hold about five hundred men where I'm sitting down 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:52.120 with five hundred minute We're. 0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:53.520 Gonna we're gonna iron out. 0:50:53.440 --> 0:50:56.120 And we're gonna decide how we're gonna govern our communities, 0:50:56.160 --> 0:50:58.719 how we're gonna take back our communities, how we're gonna. 0:50:58.480 --> 0:51:00.560 Love on our young kings, how we're gonna raise that. 0:51:00.800 --> 0:51:03.000 How we're gonna show them with real right to passages, 0:51:03.080 --> 0:51:06.959 what manhood manhood really is. So it is a line. 0:51:07.000 --> 0:51:08.560 You know, the work we do is definitely in a line. 0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:11.400 So we're gonna figure it out. We'll figure it out, definitely. 0:51:11.440 --> 0:51:12.440 Man, Thank you so. 0:51:12.560 --> 0:51:15.759 Much for being with us today. You know we just 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:17.360 need to go. We got to go to Nework and 0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:18.759 sit down and talk. 0:51:18.880 --> 0:51:21.120 As we have in the past, do. 0:51:21.080 --> 0:51:23.680 It again because there's so much to be said, and 0:51:23.960 --> 0:51:27.480 I think, you know, I'm having prophecy moments here I 0:51:27.520 --> 0:51:30.759 think you really do need to be doing videos and 0:51:30.840 --> 0:51:34.399 things encouraging people to run for office and telling them 0:51:34.440 --> 0:51:37.400 your story, right like short clips of videos. This is 0:51:37.400 --> 0:51:40.520 what I did first, second, third, this is how I 0:51:40.560 --> 0:51:42.600 did it. This is what you need to be involved 0:51:42.640 --> 0:51:46.239 with in your community prior to running. Because there are 0:51:46.320 --> 0:51:48.520 people who ask me all the time I want, but 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:51.799 I just don't know what to do and how to 0:51:51.840 --> 0:51:54.680 do it. And I think coming from you, because you know, 0:51:54.760 --> 0:51:58.440 people are attracted to success, So coming from you, who 0:51:58.480 --> 0:52:01.520 is successful at selling music, I think you will also 0:52:01.560 --> 0:52:06.359 be successful as selling getting our people nationally to be 0:52:06.440 --> 0:52:07.080 more involved in. 0:52:07.680 --> 0:52:09.799 And before you go, I have been doing that. 0:52:09.920 --> 0:52:12.640 So I started my election tour last week and I 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:14.799 started in Charleston, West Virginia. 0:52:14.880 --> 0:52:15.920 An election tour. 0:52:15.880 --> 0:52:19.520 Talks about how arts and entertainment can foster change in 0:52:19.600 --> 0:52:22.440 community through policy and politics, you know. 0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:24.800 And I started in Charleston. 0:52:25.360 --> 0:52:31.640 I have Tampa, Orlando, Milwaukee, Winston, Salem, and Charlotte coming 0:52:31.719 --> 0:52:32.240 up next. 0:52:33.840 --> 0:52:35.920 We're doing that's what we need and we want to 0:52:35.920 --> 0:52:36.839 help you promote it. 0:52:37.120 --> 0:52:39.759 We got to go because we've got to end this show. 0:52:39.840 --> 0:52:43.440 We would never end if we let you continue to stay. 0:52:44.280 --> 0:52:48.879 Gyms. Thank you counselmaning Man Real. 0:52:48.920 --> 0:52:50.040 I'm definitely a supporter. 0:52:50.880 --> 0:52:54.560 Thank you, Counselman. Do pray Kelly who is better known 0:52:54.800 --> 0:52:55.719 as do it. 0:52:55.680 --> 0:52:59.200 All all right and Mike As we're gonna be all 0:52:59.200 --> 0:53:00.080 we're gonna talk about it. 0:53:00.600 --> 0:53:04.440 Yeah, definitely we can get you all right all right, 0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:09.680 kn't peace Man. 0:53:09.760 --> 0:53:12.800 Shout out to my brother duprey do it oh. Kelly 0:53:12.880 --> 0:53:15.160 Man one of the realist dudes. Man one of my 0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:17.719 favorite hip hop artists. If you don't know Lords of 0:53:17.760 --> 0:53:20.400 the Undergrounds, a lot of y'all young dudes probably don't know, 0:53:20.800 --> 0:53:21.719 but go look it up. 0:53:22.080 --> 0:53:23.920 You know, they got some of the dopest music. 0:53:24.560 --> 0:53:26.760 He's one of the dopest artists man, And just watching 0:53:26.760 --> 0:53:30.279 his evolution is inspirational to me, you know, with the 0:53:30.280 --> 0:53:33.160 work he's doing, you know, not only just the work 0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:35.959 he's doing, the way he's doing the work. He's doing 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.280 it in his authentic self. And a lot of people 0:53:38.320 --> 0:53:40.640 don't understand that. A lot of people think that you 0:53:40.760 --> 0:53:43.040 have to look a certain way, sound a certain way, 0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:47.560 you know, you have to capitulate to a certain narrative 0:53:47.680 --> 0:53:48.560 in order to do the work. 0:53:48.600 --> 0:53:49.000 And he's not. 0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:51.480 He's not that individual like he says, he walks in 0:53:51.520 --> 0:53:53.000 there with suits and sneakers. 0:53:53.000 --> 0:53:54.200 He got his newer cat on. 0:53:54.680 --> 0:53:57.680 He comes, he brings the culture of hip hop with 0:53:57.760 --> 0:54:02.120 him into you know, the Councilman's So he's motivational to 0:54:02.160 --> 0:54:04.400 me because I always want to be authentic in myself. 0:54:04.440 --> 0:54:07.160 I always want to bring the streets of the New 0:54:07.239 --> 0:54:10.080 York City and the Bronx and and bring the real 0:54:10.200 --> 0:54:13.480 voices of my community into any space. And I don't 0:54:13.520 --> 0:54:16.719 want people to think that you have to sound or 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:19.319 look a certain way. So he's motivational to me. So 0:54:19.400 --> 0:54:22.279 shout out to him for the work he's doing. You know, 0:54:23.360 --> 0:54:25.359 we we we had a good interview. So I don't 0:54:25.360 --> 0:54:30.920 really I don't really have a I don't Maybe you don't. 0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:34.560 I have plenty of I don't get it, but we 0:54:34.600 --> 0:54:35.319 can save one. 0:54:35.560 --> 0:54:36.920 I mean I do have a I don't get. 0:54:42.480 --> 0:54:47.200 I just don't get how they had a fight that 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:51.400 was heralded as the biggest fight in the century. 0:54:53.239 --> 0:54:55.480 One of the boxes looked like he was an amateur. 0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:58.560 And there's no no disrespect because I'm an aerospence fan 0:54:59.200 --> 0:55:01.400 and I think he's a dope boxer. But I'm just 0:55:01.400 --> 0:55:04.120 trying to say I don't know, I do not get 0:55:04.200 --> 0:55:06.719 what happened. Like there's been a lot of things I said. 0:55:06.719 --> 0:55:08.560 If you look at my Instagram page, I said, I 0:55:08.560 --> 0:55:09.040 think he was. 0:55:09.080 --> 0:55:10.520 High because he looked high. 0:55:10.880 --> 0:55:13.759 I was heard what you was talking about, you know, 0:55:13.920 --> 0:55:14.800 my challenges. 0:55:15.320 --> 0:55:17.040 Yeah, I was just like, man, he just looked high 0:55:17.040 --> 0:55:17.279 to me. 0:55:17.800 --> 0:55:21.080 And then somebody, one of my friends who's also an 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:24.480 aerospince fan, sent me something that said that, you know, 0:55:24.520 --> 0:55:26.200 he was hit by he was thrown. 0:55:25.920 --> 0:55:28.200 Out of a moving car at one hundred miles an. 0:55:28.120 --> 0:55:30.480 Hour, so he was he was he had he was 0:55:30.520 --> 0:55:33.600 in serious injury, and he boy, he came back to fight, 0:55:33.640 --> 0:55:36.120 and you know he's and he's had a few fights since. 0:55:36.400 --> 0:55:37.560 But they're saying that he's. 0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:41.080 Dealing with neurological you know, injury, and they can tell 0:55:41.200 --> 0:55:44.480 based off that. So this was what some quote unquote 0:55:45.120 --> 0:55:48.759 neurologists were saying on the incident. I don't know, but 0:55:48.880 --> 0:55:51.920 I just don't get. Like I've been watching boxing my 0:55:52.000 --> 0:55:54.319 whole life. My father used to have me sitting in 0:55:54.320 --> 0:55:57.280 front of the TV watching boxing matches my whole life, 0:55:57.600 --> 0:56:03.040 and I've never seen someone who was that top tier 0:56:03.280 --> 0:56:07.440 of a fighter lose that bad. I just never and 0:56:07.440 --> 0:56:09.960 and it's not taking nothing away from Budd Crawt, because 0:56:10.040 --> 0:56:13.680 I have already said that I felt Bud was the 0:56:13.680 --> 0:56:15.640 better fighter. I thought Budd was gonna win the fight. 0:56:16.200 --> 0:56:22.040 But the way that Erospence fought or didn't fight, to 0:56:22.120 --> 0:56:23.360 me was just mind boggley. 0:56:23.840 --> 0:56:26.680 So I don't get it. Maybe people can whatever it is, 0:56:27.239 --> 0:56:31.399 he's either high, he was either dealing with some neurological 0:56:31.520 --> 0:56:34.359 or he really just needs to retire. But a lot 0:56:34.360 --> 0:56:36.560 of people talking about, oh a rematch. 0:56:36.840 --> 0:56:39.839 I do not want to see that Erospence that walk 0:56:39.920 --> 0:56:43.240 into that that ring fight again ever, So. 0:56:43.360 --> 0:56:44.680 I'm not interested in seeing that. 0:56:44.760 --> 0:56:47.160 I want that man to because if he goes in 0:56:47.200 --> 0:56:51.040 there with that level of fighting again, he might really 0:56:51.160 --> 0:56:53.200 really because he was his face was really he was 0:56:53.239 --> 0:56:55.360 really beat up bad. If he goes in there and 0:56:55.400 --> 0:56:57.759 fighting like that again, he can really tell with some 0:56:57.800 --> 0:57:00.600 real brain damage or something. So I don't even want 0:57:00.600 --> 0:57:02.359 to see him fight like that again. I don't want 0:57:02.360 --> 0:57:06.040 to diminish his legacy with him. 0:57:06.440 --> 0:57:09.120 That's powerful just to say I don't because I thought 0:57:09.120 --> 0:57:10.480 you were gonna say you don't want to diminish the 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:11.520 value of boxing. 0:57:11.920 --> 0:57:15.279 No, his legacy. He's too good a boxer he's too good. 0:57:15.360 --> 0:57:17.480 I've watched some box and I've seen him. He's one 0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:21.080 of the most aggressive, punishing, like the way he fights 0:57:21.280 --> 0:57:24.680 to fight like that, it diminished because people was mad 0:57:24.720 --> 0:57:27.320 at me because I put my top fight five boxers 0:57:27.880 --> 0:57:29.840 right now and I didn't put him in people's like 0:57:30.120 --> 0:57:33.000 and I was like, because the way that he fought, 0:57:33.120 --> 0:57:36.480 it took him completely right until he does something else, 0:57:37.080 --> 0:57:40.439 like if I never seen him happen, you know, I'm saying, 0:57:40.520 --> 0:57:43.440 that's what happens, Like you lose. That fight was the 0:57:43.480 --> 0:57:46.520 worst fight I ever seen any top tier fighter ever have. 0:57:46.720 --> 0:57:49.800 Like I've seen top tier fighters lose that wasn't supposed 0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:52.439 to lose, that got upset. I've seen Mike lose. I've 0:57:52.440 --> 0:57:55.080 seen you know what I'm saying, Wilder lose. I've seen it. 0:57:55.200 --> 0:57:58.320 But they was all in the fight, like even when 0:57:58.360 --> 0:57:59.680 they were lost, they was fighting. 0:57:59.760 --> 0:58:01.920 Like you could tell some of them got a little slower, 0:58:02.160 --> 0:58:05.000 they got older, but they didn't. 0:58:04.720 --> 0:58:06.960 Get beat beat beat feet like that. 0:58:07.080 --> 0:58:09.960 I've never seen something like that where the man probably 0:58:10.040 --> 0:58:14.200 landed maybe three punches of significance, like nah, not an 0:58:14.200 --> 0:58:14.760 eight round. 0:58:14.680 --> 0:58:16.000 How many rounds did they fight? 0:58:16.520 --> 0:58:17.640 They fore eight rounds? 0:58:17.800 --> 0:58:21.560 He got knocked down three times and then in they 0:58:21.560 --> 0:58:24.400 four nine rounds, they four nine rounds, he got knocked 0:58:24.400 --> 0:58:26.880 down three times and then the knife round they stopped 0:58:26.880 --> 0:58:27.120 the fight. 0:58:28.080 --> 0:58:30.960 It's pretty sad. I mean, you know, I didn't watch it, 0:58:31.000 --> 0:58:32.360 but I saw it. Sure the it was a lot 0:58:32.360 --> 0:58:35.160 of chatter about it on the internet. But I do 0:58:35.280 --> 0:58:38.680 appreciate that you said, you want the man's legacy to good. 0:58:38.720 --> 0:58:44.760 He's and some of our leaders. There's a similar conversation 0:58:44.920 --> 0:58:47.760 that happens as you see. You know, look at now 0:58:47.840 --> 0:58:52.080 what has happened with Reverend Jesse Jackson, who's now passed 0:58:52.080 --> 0:58:58.040 the baton to uh the to reverend doctor Freddie Haynes, 0:58:58.120 --> 0:59:03.000 who is my dear other, our friend and Freddie, and 0:59:03.160 --> 0:59:05.360 let me say that said that again. Now, you know, 0:59:05.880 --> 0:59:09.240 we talk about making sure you preserve your legacy. You see, 0:59:09.280 --> 0:59:12.640 even in this moment where Reverend Jesse Jackson has passed 0:59:12.640 --> 0:59:16.760 the baton leadership of Rainbow Push Coalition, which is his organization, 0:59:17.480 --> 0:59:21.960 to our friend and brother, doctor Freddie Haynes, the third 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:26.120 out of Dallas, Texas. And we know it's very clear 0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:31.240 that Reverend Jackson is dealing with severe illness. He's not 0:59:31.720 --> 0:59:34.400 the same as he was when he was younger, or 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:38.080 even just five years ago. He's changed, you know, because 0:59:38.080 --> 0:59:42.120 of his condition. And I think it was important because 0:59:42.160 --> 0:59:44.560 he's talked about passing the baton in the past, and 0:59:44.600 --> 0:59:47.400 we all have that, we all, every single one of 0:59:47.480 --> 0:59:50.720 us who has ever led something, whether it be a company, 0:59:51.280 --> 0:59:53.880 even your toy that you had when you were young, 0:59:54.240 --> 0:59:57.360 a shirt that you love, you hold it so dear, 0:59:57.680 --> 1:00:01.000 but you look crazy now the you've grown to a 1:00:01.080 --> 1:00:03.520 big woman's size and you still trying to wear this 1:00:03.720 --> 1:00:06.080 same shirt that used to do it for you at 1:00:06.160 --> 1:00:08.840 the club when you was young, and now you outside 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:10.880 with your stomach hanging over and people looking at you, 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:13.680 and you're embarrassing yourself. So you have to learn how 1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:17.120 to pass things on to the next person that's gonna 1:00:17.200 --> 1:00:19.240 take care of it and love it and treat it 1:00:19.280 --> 1:00:22.960 the same way that you had to preserve your own legacy, 1:00:23.040 --> 1:00:25.800 even more so than theirs. But it's to make sure 1:00:25.880 --> 1:00:28.920 that you don't have yourself out here looking crazy because 1:00:28.920 --> 1:00:31.160 you still trying to keep up with the old you, 1:00:31.320 --> 1:00:33.120 and the old you is not the new you. And 1:00:33.200 --> 1:00:35.440 I think, listen to what you said, I know nothing 1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:39.160 about the boxer you spoke of but I think that 1:00:39.240 --> 1:00:41.960 what's most important is your health. You know what I'm saying. 1:00:42.040 --> 1:00:44.560 I think we have started putting our health first and 1:00:44.600 --> 1:00:48.400 not taking opportunity first, and then trying to figure out 1:00:48.440 --> 1:00:50.560 how to back into the health. And I know I'm 1:00:50.600 --> 1:00:53.000 speaking as a person who doesn't always listen to that, 1:00:53.320 --> 1:00:55.280 but I think this is an example of that type 1:00:55.280 --> 1:00:57.960 of situation pretty much. 1:00:58.440 --> 1:01:01.880 And with that said, thank you for coming out. 1:01:01.920 --> 1:01:07.000 We love you brings us to the end of another episode. 1:01:09.280 --> 1:01:12.200 Thank y'all for being with us. We love you brings 1:01:12.280 --> 1:01:15.000 us to the end of another powerful episode. 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