1
00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:05,120
Speaker 1: What's it's way up with Angela Yee.

2
00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,560
Speaker 2: I'm Angela Yee, And you know, first off, let me

3
00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,600
Speaker 2: introduce my girl. Erica Ford is here and you're a

4
00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:20,720
Speaker 2: life camp for life. What she says that, but I'm like, well,

5
00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,680
Speaker 2: I don't believe is well, Eric.

6
00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,720
Speaker 1: And Beanie Siegel is here.

7
00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,520
Speaker 2: This is like I sitting down now on way up

8
00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:31,040
Speaker 2: because I wasn't there when you were on the break

9
00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,519
Speaker 2: when you came to the Breakfast club. So it's a

10
00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,120
Speaker 2: pleasure to have you in the building, all right. And

11
00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,600
Speaker 2: then we have Gregory Jackson Junior by the way, can't

12
00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,160
Speaker 2: forget the Junior Party, and you are the Deputy Director

13
00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,720
Speaker 2: of the White House Office of Gun Prevention, of Gun

14
00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,440
Speaker 2: Prevention and Special Assistant to the President. So and this

15
00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,800
Speaker 2: is something that Joe Biden actually implemented last year.

16
00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,000
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, we about six months in right at

17
00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,720
Speaker 3: this point, so excited to be here. Also, you know,

18
00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,800
Speaker 3: this is my this is my big mentee right here

19
00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,880
Speaker 3: tour excuse me, Erica Ford, so excited to be here

20
00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:03,360
Speaker 3: with her.

21
00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,040
Speaker 4: Right, I'll take that.

22
00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:08,160
Speaker 1: We should be learning.

23
00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:12,119
Speaker 2: From the mentees, right And Beanie Seagulls So now you

24
00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:17,319
Speaker 2: are also working on this gun prevention campaign, and so

25
00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,480
Speaker 2: tell me how this all happened, because I want to

26
00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:20,520
Speaker 2: see what the synergy is.

27
00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:21,440
Speaker 1: How this all started.

28
00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:29,640
Speaker 5: So beans was trying to shoot me one day.

29
00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:33,640
Speaker 6: Camera, Yeah, with a camp. I think it just was destiny.

30
00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,920
Speaker 6: I can't really pinpoint exactly how it happened. We got

31
00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:43,440
Speaker 6: both got a mutual friend, mister Marvin Bang. I'm an express.

32
00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,440
Speaker 6: I've been working with Marv for like the last couple

33
00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,160
Speaker 6: of years this, you know, trying to figure out what

34
00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:49,680
Speaker 6: I'm gonna do.

35
00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,640
Speaker 4: I know, I didn't want to just be.

36
00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,960
Speaker 6: An artist and that was just the end of my

37
00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:04,760
Speaker 6: legacy rapper. I think I had a lot to give

38
00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:10,320
Speaker 6: to share, you know, beyond just music. And you know,

39
00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,280
Speaker 6: he introduced me to Erica and we've been locked on

40
00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,959
Speaker 6: a hit very since. It was just like, yes, this

41
00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:18,919
Speaker 6: is what I need to do.

42
00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,040
Speaker 2: If there's somebody I'm gonna listen to when it comes

43
00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,160
Speaker 2: to this, it's Beanie Segull.

44
00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:22,520
Speaker 1: Okay.

45
00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because I think it's also important to

46
00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,240
Speaker 2: meet people where they're at and for them to understand

47
00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,800
Speaker 2: why gun prevention is such an important topic for us

48
00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,600
Speaker 2: to be discussing, because it has gotten very political, and

49
00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,040
Speaker 2: that's what I'm gonna throw it to you, Gregory Jackson Junior.

50
00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:40,120
Speaker 2: You know, because you are working with the White House

51
00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,560
Speaker 2: and this is a new position. Like you said, it's

52
00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,280
Speaker 2: only a six month old position. So tell me how

53
00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,680
Speaker 2: you ended up getting involved in while you were tapped

54
00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:49,880
Speaker 2: to be part of this initiative.

55
00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish it was an exciting story, but for me,

56
00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,560
Speaker 3: it started when I was shot in April twenty thirteen.

57
00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,000
Speaker 3: The bullet that hit me hit two arteries and nearly

58
00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,800
Speaker 3: cost me my life. But when I was in the hospital,

59
00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,040
Speaker 3: I'll never forget turned on a TV and watching leaders

60
00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:06,760
Speaker 3: in Washington saying they couldn't take action because I was

61
00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,000
Speaker 3: shot three days after the Senate failed to pass the

62
00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,480
Speaker 3: background check book. And so you know, I went through

63
00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,720
Speaker 3: six different surgery, six months of recovery, but was committed

64
00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,160
Speaker 3: that if I got back on my feet, I would

65
00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,920
Speaker 3: literally do all I can in this work. And so

66
00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,200
Speaker 3: I started local, doing mentorship work, supporting the youth in

67
00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,680
Speaker 3: my community. And then my family friend Tray was shot

68
00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,280
Speaker 3: and killed in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I realized that

69
00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:31,520
Speaker 3: it's not about one city, It's about what can we

70
00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,160
Speaker 3: do for every community, And so that's why I pivoted

71
00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,160
Speaker 3: started working at the congressional level to push forward bills.

72
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,280
Speaker 3: We passed the first bill on gun violence in twenty

73
00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:43,680
Speaker 3: nine years. And when President Biden was elected day one,

74
00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,680
Speaker 3: I was on the horn with his team, Erica and

75
00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,520
Speaker 3: I did a big call with a bunch of other

76
00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,200
Speaker 3: activists that first week and said, here's what we need

77
00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,840
Speaker 3: to see done. Here's the change we want to see.

78
00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,760
Speaker 3: And of those requests, nearly all of them have been advanced,

79
00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,600
Speaker 3: but the biggest one was that you needed that. We

80
00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,680
Speaker 3: needed them have a team to work on this every

81
00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,920
Speaker 3: day because gun violence happens every day. It's not just

82
00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,320
Speaker 3: about mass shootings. It's about our folks did the impact

83
00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,800
Speaker 3: it every day. And so that team was assembled and

84
00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:11,840
Speaker 3: they turned around and said, well, Greg, we want you

85
00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,120
Speaker 3: to serve on it. Uh and Erica advice on it.

86
00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,200
Speaker 3: So uh so we're here. And that's how I got started, right.

87
00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,320
Speaker 2: And the Beanie Seagull you had this story. I remember

88
00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,320
Speaker 2: when you got shot and that was in the news

89
00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,040
Speaker 2: and people were not sure you know what was There

90
00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:28,480
Speaker 2: was all kinds of rumors at that time about what happened.

91
00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, I heard I died and all that, well, uh yeah, and.

92
00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,160
Speaker 1: You could have died at that, you know, in that instance.

93
00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,599
Speaker 6: Yeah, they said I caught it once or twice and

94
00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,640
Speaker 6: doing surgery but came back.

95
00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:47,480
Speaker 4: And that was just that incident.

96
00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:53,360
Speaker 6: So yeah, I just I just I'm at I'm at

97
00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,720
Speaker 6: a point right now where you know, I had to

98
00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,720
Speaker 6: back up from the industry, the so called industry that's

99
00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,400
Speaker 6: out there, and just you know that that that space

100
00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,080
Speaker 6: that I was in in my life with the music

101
00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,919
Speaker 6: that I was bringing out and putting out. And you know,

102
00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,240
Speaker 6: a lot of us, when we don't have information, we

103
00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,800
Speaker 6: tend to run with whatever narrative that's going on in

104
00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:22,400
Speaker 6: society and in our world as entertainments. It's like, uh,

105
00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,880
Speaker 6: we don't got we don't got there those positive, positive

106
00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:27,720
Speaker 6: messages through.

107
00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:34,480
Speaker 4: The music no more. Everything is just straight aggression and toxic.

108
00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,760
Speaker 6: You don't have that happy medium where you could talk

109
00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,359
Speaker 6: about those things and then you can also get a

110
00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:42,240
Speaker 6: flip side, right, you know what I mean, This is

111
00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,599
Speaker 6: what happens if you do this, because you know, one

112
00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,839
Speaker 6: don't exist without the other. Right, how do you know

113
00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,599
Speaker 6: evil without good? You know good without evil? I think

114
00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,600
Speaker 6: I always did a good job in my music and

115
00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:59,680
Speaker 6: portraying both sides, but I'm here to be on the

116
00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,760
Speaker 6: ground with Erica. You know this is this is my mentor,

117
00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,760
Speaker 6: I'm her mentee. Now you know how they say when

118
00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,120
Speaker 6: the student is willing to learn, the teacher will come.

119
00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

120
00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,600
Speaker 2: Sometimes things happen for a reason and you get put

121
00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,600
Speaker 2: into a position that could feel like why is this

122
00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:17,200
Speaker 2: happening to me?

123
00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:18,479
Speaker 1: But then there's a bigger purpose.

124
00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:18,800
Speaker 4: Oh.

125
00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,800
Speaker 6: I always knew that if you listen to the music

126
00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:22,960
Speaker 6: when I told you and fill it in the air, Yeah,

127
00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,000
Speaker 6: I go through it, so you wouldn't do it after me,

128
00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:27,880
Speaker 6: but ask for me.

129
00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,360
Speaker 2: Twenty five years since the Tooth came out too. By

130
00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,000
Speaker 2: the way, congratulations. That concert looked like it was. Everybody

131
00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:35,800
Speaker 2: was talking about it.

132
00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know my girl Gigi, who's from Philly,

133
00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,159
Speaker 1: she's on lip service. She was like, yeah, now we

134
00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,080
Speaker 1: all going to c Beanie seagoing.

135
00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,239
Speaker 4: She told you you missed it, right.

136
00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:44,719
Speaker 1: Yeah she did.

137
00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,800
Speaker 2: I didn't even know because she told us after she Yeah,

138
00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,440
Speaker 2: she told us after that she went and she was

139
00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,200
Speaker 2: talking about how crazy that was for the city. And

140
00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,280
Speaker 2: that has to feel great that twenty five years ago

141
00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,720
Speaker 2: you put out a project that you could put out today.

142
00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:59,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it still would hit the same.

143
00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,400
Speaker 4: That's why I think my music is. I think I

144
00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:02,840
Speaker 4: like it.

145
00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,960
Speaker 6: I get that a lot from people like YO, you's

146
00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,839
Speaker 6: before your time. It's things that you know on certain

147
00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,720
Speaker 6: records and songs that I do, and it's like people

148
00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:17,640
Speaker 6: like YO, that's going on right now. So I think

149
00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,160
Speaker 6: that's just honest music. When your music is honest, like

150
00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,200
Speaker 6: you can always say, I ain't gonna make music forever,

151
00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,120
Speaker 6: but I'm gonna try to make for other music.

152
00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,200
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, okay, I like that.

153
00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:33,960
Speaker 2: And then you know, and obviously we know that you've

154
00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,920
Speaker 2: had some infamous like right now, there's some some hip

155
00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,960
Speaker 2: hop beef going on and yeah, stop it, you know,

156
00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:43,640
Speaker 2: and I'm.

157
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:44,600
Speaker 4: In a whole other space.

158
00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,080
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going with Drake, Kendrake, Rick Ross,

159
00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,480
Speaker 2: all of these different things happening. I know you've said that,

160
00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,320
Speaker 2: you said that you're gonna do AI, yes and use

161
00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,920
Speaker 2: that to help with your voice. But then what's been

162
00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,760
Speaker 2: weird is that there's all these like tracks that have

163
00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,760
Speaker 2: been out that people feel like this is AI.

164
00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:03,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is real or not some

165
00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,920
Speaker 1: of it was AI. Well, I'm gonna use AI for

166
00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:08,840
Speaker 1: myself beneficially.

167
00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:10,400
Speaker 6: Right, I'm gonna go in and record everything, and I'm

168
00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:13,840
Speaker 6: gonna use the AI just to bring back that that

169
00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:17,360
Speaker 6: sound that when you listen to my music, you'll get

170
00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,480
Speaker 6: to hear that voice that you grew up one that

171
00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,080
Speaker 6: you all doing too.

172
00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,680
Speaker 1: You can't do it without doing this either like that.

173
00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:29,240
Speaker 6: But but I'm embracing my voice now.

174
00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah you should.

175
00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:31,200
Speaker 4: I still want to do both.

176
00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,160
Speaker 6: It's because the reason why I want to do it's

177
00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,000
Speaker 6: gonna be a lot of music that I'm gonna do it,

178
00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,319
Speaker 6: and storm can I tell them? I don't even know

179
00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,400
Speaker 6: I could. It's gonna be myself now talking to my

180
00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:45,000
Speaker 6: younger soul.

181
00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,800
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a lot of knowledge. I feel like that's good.

182
00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,600
Speaker 4: In that right there.

183
00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:51,719
Speaker 1: I can't that's a lot of knowledge I can see.

184
00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,679
Speaker 4: I'm not some sort did I give them too much?

185
00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:55,880
Speaker 1: Oh man?

186
00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:57,760
Speaker 2: I feel like there's gonna be a little AI beanie

187
00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,440
Speaker 2: seagull running around and I feel like, but that's an

188
00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,000
Speaker 2: important conversation even with what we're talking about here, but

189
00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,560
Speaker 2: light camp, you know, with gun violence, like talking to

190
00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,800
Speaker 2: if you could go back and talk to your younger self,

191
00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,560
Speaker 2: you know, I remember you even talking about how you

192
00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,680
Speaker 2: were disappointed with jay Z when he was saying, you know,

193
00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:19,320
Speaker 2: in court or whatever, and he said that you know,

194
00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,400
Speaker 2: you were a little he couldn't produce a liability.

195
00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:25,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what, yeah, liability.

196
00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,040
Speaker 2: But when you look back at your younger self and

197
00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,360
Speaker 2: talk to your younger self, you can see why when

198
00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,400
Speaker 2: we would think that.

199
00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:35,760
Speaker 5: In the industry right now, was it all not a liability? Right?

200
00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,240
Speaker 5: When you look at what is happening in the industry.

201
00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:42,000
Speaker 2: Right I feel like it's worse now with social media

202
00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:45,040
Speaker 2: and people amping up beefs and saying this person's talking

203
00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,200
Speaker 2: about you and they may not be.

204
00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,640
Speaker 6: Well, my liability thing. I'm just was a man that

205
00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:53,760
Speaker 6: just held everybody accountable.

206
00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:58,240
Speaker 1: I've seen it, yeah, I mean, I mean if.

207
00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,480
Speaker 6: We do that, like look at an in a sense,

208
00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,439
Speaker 6: all right, they said it's a liability for holding people accountable.

209
00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,120
Speaker 6: But if it was more of us that held people

210
00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,559
Speaker 6: accountable than the people that we're holding accountable, they would

211
00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,439
Speaker 6: know to be a certain way, act a certain way.

212
00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:18,119
Speaker 6: I just was on man time.

213
00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,080
Speaker 2: You know, the music industry. Though I think it's hard

214
00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,959
Speaker 2: for people who are on man time. The music industry

215
00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,640
Speaker 2: is not. It's not being able to move in that space.

216
00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,440
Speaker 2: I feel like people who are very like, hold you

217
00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,640
Speaker 2: accountable people. It's harder for them to maneuver around that

218
00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:38,280
Speaker 2: because they're used to people having like morals and it's

219
00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:41,080
Speaker 2: not really like that in the music everything and.

220
00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:44,280
Speaker 6: That music business is a facade. That's my peel over.

221
00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:45,319
Speaker 6: It's a facade.

222
00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,679
Speaker 2: And sometimes if you don't know that at first, you

223
00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,599
Speaker 2: have anticipation, you have expectations.

224
00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,880
Speaker 6: Well, that's where I was at. I'm thinking everything is that.

225
00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,480
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, what's going on? I grew up listening

226
00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:58,719
Speaker 6: to this and I'm thinking this person this way and

227
00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:00,720
Speaker 6: there are nothing like that.

228
00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,760
Speaker 2: Right, and it's like wow, yeah, we have to learn.

229
00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,559
Speaker 2: Well no, but it's an experience. It's a learning curve. Yeah,

230
00:11:08,679 --> 00:11:10,559
Speaker 2: you know, you come in thinking things in one way

231
00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,120
Speaker 2: and then it's another way. Like Erica, how hard has

232
00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,040
Speaker 2: it been for you to get into this position where

233
00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,160
Speaker 2: even the work that you've been doing for so long,

234
00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,920
Speaker 2: that you've been doing with no money at first, for

235
00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,160
Speaker 2: people to I feel like things have been changing and

236
00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,160
Speaker 2: it's a slow process.

237
00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:25,760
Speaker 1: Policy is a slow process to get things done.

238
00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,120
Speaker 2: Change is slow, and you know, for you to be

239
00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,840
Speaker 2: putting in the work early on knowing that that's not

240
00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,200
Speaker 2: an easy thing to do because a lot of times

241
00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:38,080
Speaker 2: it's no financial nothing comes with it, no support comes

242
00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,720
Speaker 2: with it. You're doing work basically for free and also

243
00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,080
Speaker 2: not getting any type of like appreciation for the work

244
00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:45,880
Speaker 2: that you're trying to do. And now it feels like

245
00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,280
Speaker 2: change is slow, but it is happening, right, Yes.

246
00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:51,319
Speaker 5: And just to sit here and listen to the two

247
00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:55,400
Speaker 5: Greg and Beans both say that I'm their mentor. Right.

248
00:11:55,520 --> 00:12:00,200
Speaker 5: We have beings who is an artistic genius. Right. We

249
00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,120
Speaker 5: have Greg who is a political beast working in the

250
00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:09,400
Speaker 5: White House. And so it's the diversity of where you

251
00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,800
Speaker 5: put your energy, right, who you're holding accountable, right, and

252
00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:19,640
Speaker 5: how that impacts the next generation because both of you

253
00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:23,800
Speaker 5: know when you talk about the industry, the industry destroys souls.

254
00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,120
Speaker 5: They try to take a piece of you out in

255
00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,520
Speaker 5: order for what they want, the business of what they

256
00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,160
Speaker 5: want to grow, right. And so most of the music

257
00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:39,240
Speaker 5: that gets pushed into the ears and minds and hearts

258
00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:44,280
Speaker 5: of our kids is music that destroys them. Right. A

259
00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,120
Speaker 5: lot of times there's no balance, right, And so you'll

260
00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,720
Speaker 5: see n La Chopper talk about why we can't just

261
00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,559
Speaker 5: have fun, right, Why is it I gotta be less

262
00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,400
Speaker 5: than a man to have fun, like why? Right? And

263
00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,480
Speaker 5: then also when you look at what is happening with

264
00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,840
Speaker 5: a lot of artists, right, these cases, right, these raids

265
00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,439
Speaker 5: and so on and so forth. Right, none of these

266
00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,880
Speaker 5: people ended up that way on their own, right, Like

267
00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,520
Speaker 5: we can sit here and you know, I'm a black woman,

268
00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:24,080
Speaker 5: and so I'm not condoning any any attack on another

269
00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:29,000
Speaker 5: black woman or anybody, right, But what happened to these

270
00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,319
Speaker 5: people's when they were kids? Right? When you look at

271
00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,680
Speaker 5: shootings that happen in communities, these people are getting shot.

272
00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,120
Speaker 5: And when Beans got shot and almost died, what help

273
00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,600
Speaker 5: did he get? What therapeutic help did he get? What

274
00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,880
Speaker 5: support did he get? And on the other side, Gregg

275
00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:50,520
Speaker 5: and the White House when he got shot, what help

276
00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,800
Speaker 5: did he get? None? They didn't get none.

277
00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:53,720
Speaker 4: Right.

278
00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,760
Speaker 5: And so then when those trauma and pain that they

279
00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,440
Speaker 5: have grows in them and it impacts their decisions, we

280
00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:08,040
Speaker 5: blame their decision, not the system that created where the

281
00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:12,240
Speaker 5: decision came from. Right. And so you know, and I

282
00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,520
Speaker 5: hope this is not going over people's head, right, because

283
00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:17,920
Speaker 5: there's some who we're trying to put in jail. We're

284
00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,560
Speaker 5: quick to just cast away folks. And I'm never the

285
00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,560
Speaker 5: person to cast away folks. I work with everybody, and

286
00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,520
Speaker 5: I work because I know that people like my father

287
00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:30,600
Speaker 5: was killed in the Vietnam War, and I know the

288
00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,880
Speaker 5: impact that had on me and my brother, right, And

289
00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:36,200
Speaker 5: I know that all of these little kids who go

290
00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:40,280
Speaker 5: into this industry as innocent individuals trying to make a living,

291
00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:42,600
Speaker 5: but then they realize they got to do something else

292
00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,120
Speaker 5: to make this money or for their music to get played. Right,

293
00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,760
Speaker 5: And those things are real, right, those things are real.

294
00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,320
Speaker 5: And so when we see on our TV screens and

295
00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:58,840
Speaker 5: our news screams what's happening now, like, it shouldn't be

296
00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,360
Speaker 5: a surprise, right, and we shouldn't condemn people so fast.

297
00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,800
Speaker 5: We have to look at what creates those individuals, right.

298
00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,960
Speaker 1: Right, No, I agree with you.

299
00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000
Speaker 2: I've had an opportunity to sit down with a lot

300
00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:14,920
Speaker 2: of the younger artists and have conversations with them, even

301
00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:17,760
Speaker 2: off camera, about things that happen in their life that

302
00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,000
Speaker 2: they may never want to share publicly, about what goes on,

303
00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:23,600
Speaker 2: and then to see the decisions that they keep on

304
00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:26,360
Speaker 2: continuing to make. But it's like who's around you, you know,

305
00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,440
Speaker 2: and what help are you being given? Are you being

306
00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,320
Speaker 2: cut off from people are you being told you can't

307
00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:32,680
Speaker 2: do this, you can't do that, and you know, even

308
00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:35,080
Speaker 2: family that's around. And then there's people that work in

309
00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,240
Speaker 2: the business that want to benefit and profit off of you.

310
00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,560
Speaker 2: And sometimes it is more profitable when people have be

311
00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,640
Speaker 2: for their you know, writing certain making and creating certain

312
00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,800
Speaker 2: kinds of music that they now have to live up.

313
00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,360
Speaker 3: To, you know, But we're the ones paying the costs,

314
00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,640
Speaker 3: you know. And to some people it's music, but for me,

315
00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:58,040
Speaker 3: it's looking at my mentors, like Beanie. I listen to

316
00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,040
Speaker 3: Beanie on the school bus, like looked.

317
00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:00,400
Speaker 4: Up to him.

318
00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:02,960
Speaker 3: Never thought I would ever meet beans right, and he

319
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,160
Speaker 3: almost was shot and killed. And I think about all

320
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,600
Speaker 3: the people I looked up to as a young man.

321
00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,960
Speaker 3: You know, my mentors are now my ancestors. You know,

322
00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:18,920
Speaker 3: we lost bank Roll, Fresh, Young Dolph, Takeoff, Little Snoop, Tupac, Biggie,

323
00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,080
Speaker 3: the list goes on and on and on, Nipsey, And

324
00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,440
Speaker 3: it's like these are people that we as young black

325
00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,640
Speaker 3: men and black folks in general, we look up too.

326
00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,200
Speaker 3: We celebrate and we watch this this crisis of gun violence,

327
00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,680
Speaker 3: just literally chew them up and spit them out. And

328
00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,760
Speaker 3: if they make it and This is huge. I mean,

329
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,360
Speaker 3: this has been the number one cause of death for

330
00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:39,800
Speaker 3: black youth since two thousand and six, gun violence. But

331
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,280
Speaker 3: yet we haven't seen the policy. We haven't seen the action,

332
00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,280
Speaker 3: we haven't seen the resources, the dollars. And I think

333
00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,120
Speaker 3: we're turning the corner now because so many survivors are

334
00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,600
Speaker 3: standing up like beans, like myself, like Erica, and that's

335
00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,320
Speaker 3: where the change is happening. But for too long we've

336
00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,160
Speaker 3: been looking at this as entertainment and not realizing that

337
00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,040
Speaker 3: it's wiping us out.

338
00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want to talk things that have been

339
00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,240
Speaker 2: done because I always feel like it's important to make

340
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,840
Speaker 2: sure that we discuss how can we help and how

341
00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,600
Speaker 2: can we help find solutions instead of saying this is

342
00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,880
Speaker 2: what it is, you know, because people will say, well,

343
00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,080
Speaker 2: nothing's being done. Well, the White House hasn't done anything.

344
00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:16,280
Speaker 2: This administration doesn't care about our black youth. So what

345
00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:17,800
Speaker 2: are some things that are being done and how can

346
00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:18,479
Speaker 2: we support that?

347
00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,800
Speaker 5: Ready, so go back to the first executive order?

348
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, the wait the first executive order on April eighth,

349
00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:30,480
Speaker 3: which was Eric's birthday, So happy birthday of the year

350
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,679
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one, we moved forward the first series of

351
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,720
Speaker 3: Executive Actions on gun violence. It focused on programs for

352
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,000
Speaker 3: community violence intervention programs like Life Camp. How do we

353
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,200
Speaker 3: get more dollars? Opened up ten billion dollars for programs

354
00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 3: like life Camp before that executive action across the nation.

355
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,360
Speaker 3: Before that, there were zero dollars federally. So we went

356
00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:53,520
Speaker 3: from zero to ten billion dollars in the first few months.

357
00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:54,160
Speaker 4: Right.

358
00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,720
Speaker 3: That also included resources for youth that have been impacted

359
00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,000
Speaker 3: by violence, for folks coming home from prison. But thinking

360
00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,320
Speaker 3: about how do we provide resources for those who are

361
00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,160
Speaker 3: most at risk was the first step. Knowing that those

362
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,760
Speaker 3: who are most vulnerable or who at risk frankly, or

363
00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,200
Speaker 3: who we got to start with, how do we help

364
00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:12,000
Speaker 3: get them out of that cycle of violence and make

365
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,080
Speaker 3: sure they have the treatment to support the interventions they need.

366
00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,480
Speaker 3: But since then, we passed the first bill on gun

367
00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,240
Speaker 3: violence in twenty nine years, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,

368
00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,160
Speaker 3: and that created the nine eight eight suicide Lifeline. If

369
00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:25,960
Speaker 3: you look at a ride Wave concert, you see it

370
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,800
Speaker 3: in the background. This bill created that. It included investments

371
00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,199
Speaker 3: for fourteen thousand school based mental health professionals. That's a

372
00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,040
Speaker 3: thirty five percent increase. We turned gun trafficking into a

373
00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:41,000
Speaker 3: federal offense. We've already prosecuted over three hundred traffickers. We

374
00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,119
Speaker 3: shut down one hundred and fifty two gun stores that

375
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,879
Speaker 3: were breaking laws and violating the law in order to

376
00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,760
Speaker 3: sell guns to youth and other folks who frankly were prohibited.

377
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:52,400
Speaker 3: But we also looked at how do we get upstream

378
00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:54,919
Speaker 3: and make sure that we're not just cracking down on

379
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,320
Speaker 3: our youth and that young brother who maybe has a

380
00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,480
Speaker 3: gun to protect themselves. But how do we hold the

381
00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:04,160
Speaker 3: dealers accountable, the traffickers accountable, the manufacturers accountable. We put

382
00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,359
Speaker 3: two ghost gun companies out of business, right so we're

383
00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:10,520
Speaker 3: thinking about how do we hold the whole industry accountable

384
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,959
Speaker 3: while moving literally billions of resources into life saving programs.

385
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:16,920
Speaker 3: And the one big thing we did just two weeks

386
00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,639
Speaker 3: ago is we looked at, okay, how are legal guns

387
00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,639
Speaker 3: getting into the hands of our youth, how are they

388
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,359
Speaker 3: getting into the hands of domestic abusers that are prohibited?

389
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,520
Speaker 3: And so we tracked the gun trafficking. We looked at

390
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,600
Speaker 3: twelve thousand cases from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one,

391
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,960
Speaker 3: and we found that the main source was unlicensed private sellers,

392
00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:38,440
Speaker 3: people who are selling online on online marketplaces, at gun shows,

393
00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,560
Speaker 3: and these are people that without fe felonies right that

394
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 3: are doing buying these guns illegally giving them the traffickers,

395
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,600
Speaker 3: and those are moving into places like New York. And

396
00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,280
Speaker 3: so what we did is we looked at that source

397
00:19:49,320 --> 00:19:52,080
Speaker 3: and we changed the policy to make sure that twenty

398
00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,240
Speaker 3: thousand of those unlicensed private sellers now have to be licensed,

399
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 3: they have to do background checks, recognizing that that's the

400
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,600
Speaker 3: source of where the guns are coming from. And that's

401
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,360
Speaker 3: what this administration is doing. We're not just looking at,

402
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 3: you know, the brother who's struggling on the street. We're

403
00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,919
Speaker 3: looking at who's profiting off of this, Like who's sitting

404
00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,119
Speaker 3: on a yacht right and putting weapons from the battlefields

405
00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,280
Speaker 3: into our backyards, you know what I mean? Like that's

406
00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,560
Speaker 3: that's who really needs to start to pay the costs

407
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 3: because we're already paying the calls. We're paying it with

408
00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,200
Speaker 3: our bodies, We're paying it with our dollars, We're paying

409
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,600
Speaker 3: it with our family, our kids, our futures. Frankly, and

410
00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:28,119
Speaker 3: so I always push back. You know, we might not

411
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 3: have been on the you know, on this show talking

412
00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 3: about it.

413
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:31,639
Speaker 4: The way we should.

414
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 3: But we've been had our head down doing this work.

415
00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,479
Speaker 3: And above all of that, you know, the president, you know,

416
00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 3: had the vision to not just hire political activists and academics.

417
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 3: He hired survivors like me, you know, to lead that charge.

418
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,639
Speaker 3: And people always joke like, Greg, you got locks, how

419
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 3: to heck you get in there?

420
00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:48,720
Speaker 4: You know?

421
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 3: But but I'm like, look, you know, I represent the

422
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 3: people that we're fighting for, and the President saw that.

423
00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,159
Speaker 3: And so not only did we pass the law, he

424
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 3: entrusted people who have been impacted to make sure those

425
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,840
Speaker 3: laws help save lives. And last thing I'll say is

426
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,200
Speaker 3: last year we saw a thirteen percent reduction in homicide

427
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 3: and we can't quite celebrate that because if you lose somebody,

428
00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,440
Speaker 3: it hurts. I lost my mentee de Marcos this past fall,

429
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 3: So I can't celebrate, you know, that percentage when I

430
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 3: know DeMarco family hurts.

431
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, but we're.

432
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,439
Speaker 3: Getting there, and so we're gonna keep building on that.

433
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:18,119
Speaker 6: Yes.

434
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,359
Speaker 5: Yeah. And also we have Eddie Buccanero who's in the

435
00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,520
Speaker 5: Department of Justice, right, and that's a when because Eddie

436
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,800
Speaker 5: Buccanero did sixteen years, if I'm not mistaken, worked on

437
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 5: the front line in Chicago, and now he's in the

438
00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 5: Department of Justice, deciding the language where money goes, changing policies,

439
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 5: and you know, connecting the Department of Justice to real

440
00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 5: groups on the ground and real understanding. And it's a process.

441
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons why we're here together is

442
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 5: because it takes all of us, right, the different worlds,

443
00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,000
Speaker 5: to come together to impact that mindset that a lot

444
00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 5: of people talk about, Like I ain't really about voting,

445
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,400
Speaker 5: but you are concerned about getting arrested and going to jail.

446
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 5: And that's a da that gets voted in, that's a

447
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 5: judge that gets voted in, right, And so we have

448
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 5: to be in the process. And although Clean Slate Act

449
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 5: pass and people have the right to vote, they're not registered.

450
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 5: And so we want to get people registered. We want

451
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 5: to get people to understand the importance of coming out

452
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 5: to vote, not only in this next election, but all elections,

453
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,120
Speaker 5: so that we can begin Because when I first started

454
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,440
Speaker 5: a politicians said to me, like, why should I work

455
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,399
Speaker 5: with that audience Because they don't vote, they don't donate

456
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,360
Speaker 5: to our campaigns. I have no reason to be interested

457
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,959
Speaker 5: in those volks, right, And so we have to build

458
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 5: up our political net worth right, so that we can

459
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 5: impact the decisions of what is being made and also

460
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 5: just be a body that really can begin to not

461
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 5: only just break the cycles, but build new cycles. Right,

462
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 5: because we can't talk about we could sell two million records,

463
00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 5: but we can't influence two million people to make a

464
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 5: right decision. Right. We can't change the way our young

465
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,879
Speaker 5: people are acting in these streets to not go to jail,

466
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 5: but really be productive and owned businesses, like how you

467
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:14,240
Speaker 5: own several businesses right, and do things with their name

468
00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:17,400
Speaker 5: and their personalities, like like Beans is doing. Or work

469
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 5: in a white house like Greg is doing right, or

470
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,239
Speaker 5: just use your voice to advocate for people like I

471
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 5: did right, And so there's other things that folks could do.

472
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 5: The idea of death and going to jail should not

473
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,400
Speaker 5: be a thought process for our young people. It shouldn't

474
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 5: be an option. It shouldn't be a thought process, and

475
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 5: it's our responsibility to make sure that that happens. I

476
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 5: don't accept the thing of OG's saying that I can't

477
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 5: tell these young people what to do. I can't tell

478
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,960
Speaker 5: them nothing. Or if they get into a certain somebody

479
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 5: gets killed and they set I can't talk them off

480
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 5: that ledge. We can't. You know we can. And if

481
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,760
Speaker 5: you're a real man, if you're a real woman, you

482
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 5: have a moral responsibility to help save these young people's lives.

483
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 4: Right.

484
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,879
Speaker 5: You can't turn your back and close your eyes and

485
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 5: think that you don't have nothing to do with it.

486
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 5: And that's why I want to continue to challenge artists.

487
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 5: I want to continue to challenge people who are influenced

488
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 5: because if you can't influence real change and the way

489
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,159
Speaker 5: and let us step in andto what we're supposed to do,

490
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 5: because like, it don't make no sense, right, it don't

491
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 5: make no sense. And there's a lot of people in

492
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,240
Speaker 5: this industry that you know, you're taking up a lot

493
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 5: of airspace, but you're not pushing people in the right

494
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 5: direction to do something. And you know, we have to,

495
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 5: we have to save our children.

496
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 2: Because it don't because listen, people will paint a narrative

497
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 2: of us in our community when we could be letting

498
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,880
Speaker 2: people know who we are ourselves and using our voice

499
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 2: to let you know what it is that we demand,

500
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: what it is that we need, and who we really are.

501
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 2: Because I think sometimes you know, people who are not

502
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 2: in this space, they have a view of who we

503
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 2: are why we do what we do and what's happening,

504
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:48,879
Speaker 2: and we need to be the ones that are like

505
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 2: making decisions and painting that narrative of ourselves that's a

506
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 2: true and real one. Yes, you know, I think that's

507
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 2: really important. And you know, a lot of things that

508
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: you said when we talk about I mean, I can

509
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 2: never understand why people don't want to do things as

510
00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 2: simple as a background check, Like people would be against

511
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 2: that when it comes to gun violence or semi automatic weapons.

512
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 2: Some people feel like why would the average person need

513
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 2: to have a semi automatic weapon, you know, And it's

514
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: even things like that that people are like, no, we

515
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 2: want to have our rights, our right to bear arms

516
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 2: and have not have those types of restrictions when these

517
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 2: things are really important to be able to implement and

518
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,199
Speaker 2: make sure that people can also have guns safely, be

519
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: able to train in how to use their guns, making sure,

520
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: like you said, you know, a background check is done.

521
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 2: I don't see why that is even an issue in

522
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:38,640
Speaker 2: some places.

523
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 3: Well it's law now, you know. Right now, Almot, nearly

524
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 3: everybody's selling guns has to be licensed and use a

525
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 3: background check unless they're a personal collector. So whether people

526
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 3: support it or not as law. And so now we've

527
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 3: got to follow through on that law, hold people accountable

528
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 3: to it, and then also think about the behavior and

529
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 3: like what leads to someone even picking up the gun

530
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 3: in the first place. You know, Fortunately, there's there's more

531
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 3: guns in this country than there are people, with four

532
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 3: hundred million guns already in our communities. So the sales,

533
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:10,680
Speaker 3: you know, we're doing our best to crack down the sales,

534
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: but the guns are here. So how do we start

535
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 3: to change things to make sure that our young folks

536
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 3: don't think that, hey, I gotta shoot first and fight later.

537
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 3: You know, that's that's not the that's not gonna save anybody.

538
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 3: That's not gonna you know, get us anywhere. And I'm

539
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 3: proud that there's so many people speaking up, you know,

540
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,159
Speaker 3: like Beans is out here pushing this.

541
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 4: Quavo came to the.

542
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 3: Vice President's house and literally talked about this and brought

543
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 3: take Off's mom. You know, we're seeing so many voices

544
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 3: step up and say, look, this is not cool, Like

545
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 3: this isn't it's beyond that, Like living should be cool,

546
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 3: and then how you live is what we should be

547
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 3: excited about. And so this White House is investing in

548
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,160
Speaker 3: those strategies, like, we're putting the resources down recognizing that

549
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,919
Speaker 3: that's what was missing before. We didn't invest in the communities.

550
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 3: We expected the justice system to handle all those problems

551
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 3: and those challenges, and that's not going to work.

552
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 4: You know.

553
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 3: We got to change behavior by investing in ourselves as

554
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 3: the community.

555
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 6: No.

556
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 2: Erica had said something earlier about getting shot and then

557
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: not getting help after that, right, so, you know, Gregory,

558
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 2: for you and for you Beannie.

559
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: Did you guys since then?

560
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: Have you gotten any help or spoken to anybody or

561
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 2: done anything to say okay? Because that's a traumatic experience

562
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: and no matter what, that's something you'll never be able

563
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: to forget. But how do you deal with that and

564
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,640
Speaker 2: move forward and cope with that? Have you ever been like, Okay,

565
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 2: I need to talk to somebody about this.

566
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 6: I'm actually the work that I'm doing with Erica and

567
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 6: greg is is part of my therapy now, just being

568
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 6: able to share the experiences that I went through and

569
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,119
Speaker 6: telling people like this is not where you want to go.

570
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 6: You don't want to go. You can lose I don't

571
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 6: like just okay. The ultimate thing is you can lose

572
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:57,640
Speaker 6: your life, right right, And that's it. But if you survive,

573
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 6: life is altered forever. And to some people who don't

574
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 6: have the will power to like go on and push

575
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 6: forward through life itself, they in for a rude awakening.

576
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 6: When you can't do the simple things is put your

577
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 6: put put your pants on correctly. You need help even

578
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 6: dress yourself, to wash yourself, to feed yourself. You know

579
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 6: you you're in a position where you can't go out

580
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 6: and work and be productive.

581
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 4: That's that's part of the mental thing.

582
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 6: You know that that it's going to impact you and

583
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 6: weigh down on you. Well, ultimately you can be alive,

584
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 6: but at the same time you're dead. You don't want

585
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 6: to go through that. So that's what I'm here to do.

586
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 4: You know.

587
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 6: I want to be able to be the eyes for

588
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 6: people who can't say, be the lags for the people

589
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 6: who can't walk, you know what I mean, and let

590
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 6: them know I'm listen this me, Beanie Seguel. I'm telling

591
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 6: you this. This is not somebody who's just you know

592
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 6: what I mean. I've been through it and every aspect

593
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 6: is nothing you can tell me.

594
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 4: I've been through it.

595
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 6: And man Erica had a discussion one day and we

596
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 6: were talking, you know, uh, the closest to the problem

597
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 6: and closer to the solution. I've been on both sides.

598
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 6: I've been on both sides of it. I've been here

599
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 6: and I've been on the other side. So that's those

600
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 6: two conversations that we were talking about earlier and me

601
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 6: now talking to the younger version and.

602
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: The forgiveness that you've talked about too.

603
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, most definitely you got to you got

604
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:58,479
Speaker 6: to what you gotta be able to forgive. Not only that,

605
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 6: you gotta be I mean the person that shot me,

606
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 6: I ain't bitter about it. I was y'all wanted to

607
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 6: go out and it was easy for me to do that.

608
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 6: But it's just I'm just glad that the space that

609
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 6: I was in in my life then wasn't this space

610
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 6: that I was in in.

611
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 4: My earlier years.

612
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 6: So it allowed me to fall back and process because

613
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 6: that's a I was being tested. I was being tested

614
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 6: to a lot like Okay, you say you want to change,

615
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 6: you want to do this, Well, let me see. Then

616
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 6: this happened. Then I fight through that, and then I

617
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 6: wake up on this side of the pillow like I

618
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 6: can't do that, Like you know, I got to handle

619
00:30:52,600 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 6: this situation. I'm Beanie Seagull, I'm a broad Street bully character.

620
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 4: Man.

621
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 6: Then I get through that and then something else. All right,

622
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 6: you went through that one because you never gonna stop.

623
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: Getting tested over and they.

624
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 6: Keep coming and keep coming. I'm just I'm glad I

625
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 6: can see it now when it comes. You ain't getting me,

626
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 6: and I don't have no audience. I changed my whole

627
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 6: audience in life because a lot of people out, like

628
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 6: I said, character, they performing for people, not only on

629
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 6: the stage, they performing for people in life period. My

630
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 6: audience is when I turn the key, when I come

631
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 6: to the house, and how my children perceive me. How

632
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 6: my wife perceived her husband as a man. They my

633
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 6: children perceived my mother perceived her son. How she can,

634
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 6: you know, hold their head up like that's my son

635
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 6: and know her son is not a character, you know.

636
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 6: And when I'm going how my children to celebrate me.

637
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 6: My father taught me this, you know, my husband taught

638
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 6: me this. I watched my son go through this. That's

639
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 6: what it's about. You starting the household. That's my audience.

640
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 6: And I just bring the things that I prayed I

641
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 6: could bring, the things that I go through in my

642
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 6: household that I teach my children that I teach my daughters,

643
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 6: you know, bring it to the.

644
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: World, right use those same people that are happy to

645
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: do something stupid will be.

646
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 6: And I learned never take advice from people who's not

647
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 6: going to suffer the outcome of that decision. I learned

648
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 6: I don't never got to be nowhere. I don't want

649
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 6: to be So when you do that, I see how

650
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 6: you looking at me, like, wow, is this didn't see

651
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 6: what talks? No?

652
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 4: But this is real though, you know, because it was

653
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,120
Speaker 4: a journey.

654
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 5: Beings a lot of people. I know this is it's

655
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 5: a show. But you spalked the question inside of me

656
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 5: because a lot of people be like yo, I can't

657
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 5: tell them what to do Erica, Yo, you can't tell

658
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 5: them like yo, when when their friend gets shot or

659
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 5: they people get shot, you can't tell them what to do? Like,

660
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 5: So what inside of you like made you do all

661
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 5: of that? Like what what's like? What is it that

662
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 5: a young person needs to look at or another street

663
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 5: cat need to look at to to to allow them

664
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 5: to say it's okay to to do what you did.

665
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 6: I mean, just like I said, just change your audience.

666
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 6: Change change your audience. You man, just learning that right now?

667
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 6: We're in a society where whereas they say toxic, the toxic,

668
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 6: that that's the new thing.

669
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 4: Toxic.

670
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 6: You got women out here that's saying the savages, you know,

671
00:33:53,600 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 6: and just learning that. Uh, you know, sometimes it's hip.

672
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: To be square and it's great to have something to lose.

673
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: That's how you know.

674
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: It's when you have something to lose and you don't

675
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: want to lose that you have to think a lot

676
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: harder and a lot longer before.

677
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 5: You make I see a lot of artists they got

678
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 5: a lot to lose doing dumb ship.

679
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 6: Dumb stuff, but they willing to do that. They willing

680
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 6: to do that because they don't they they don't see

681
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 6: nothing else.

682
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 5: And you will say celebrities, are they under attack or

683
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 5: they got to watch out? Or like is it really

684
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 5: celebrities or is it black men? Or is it you know,

685
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 5: people of a certain income, Like you know, we're quick

686
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 5: to say, like we're under attack, But what is it

687
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 5: that you're doing? Like what what are you doing? Why?

688
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 5: Why is.

689
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 4: You know?

690
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,280
Speaker 5: It's like I think that we really need to revaluate

691
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 5: who we're who's the audience and who are performing for? What?

692
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: Give what energy you're allowing to control you.

693
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:07,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I believe under attack. Now I think the veils

694
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 6: is just getting lift up off of people. That's what

695
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 6: I truly think. Yeah, it's time for cleansing.

696
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 3: I mean, look for real though.

697
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 5: We having a lot of subliminal conversation.

698
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: He said that just now. I had ten questions, but

699
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: I was move on.

700
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 6: But people don't want to talk about those things up.

701
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 6: I ain't going there.

702
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, because that's that's what I was talking about earlier.

703
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 5: But you know that's why I said, I know this

704
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 5: is going to go over people heads.

705
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 4: I can't be afraid.

706
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 5: Man.

707
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 4: Take that.

708
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 5: Take that.

709
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 3: Reality is reality is though. You know when I got shot,

710
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 3: like I was bleeding to death and went in and

711
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: out a few times.

712
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 4: And when you.

713
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 3: Dying, you dying alone. You know, when you go in

714
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 3: that surgery room, you go alone. When they give you

715
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 3: that oxygen or anesthesia, you alone, and it's just you

716
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 3: and God trying.

717
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 4: To fight through those moments.

718
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 6: No big homies, nothing, ain't no fun.

719
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: There's no nothing, there's no fame likes, it's nothing. It's

720
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 3: just you and your will to survive and God's God's grace.

721
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 3: And that's a big wake up call. And unfortunately, too

722
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 3: many people get that wake up call too late, and

723
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: they come out of it with emotional trauma. They come

724
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 3: out of with physical trauma. I mean, gun violence is

725
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 3: the number is the number one reason why people are

726
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 3: newly handicapped, so they come out in wheelchairs with you know,

727
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: canes bags. I mean, for me, I couldn't walk for

728
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 3: six months. You know how crazy it is to have

729
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 3: somebody pick you up and carry you to the bathroom.

730
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 3: It's a grown man for three months, you know, to

731
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 3: not even be able to eat your food by yourself.

732
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 3: You know, That's that's the reality of what happens, you know,

733
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 3: and it may look cool on TV or sound good,

734
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 3: but it's a whole different world when you got to

735
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: deal with that on.

736
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: Your own, taken for you.

737
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 3: For me, the the first the main person I needed

738
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,240
Speaker 3: to forgive was myself facts.

739
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 4: You know.

740
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 3: I was so angry that I was in that situation

741
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 3: and similar beings. I wanted to go get this guy,

742
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 3: But then I also realized, like, hey, I put myself there,

743
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 3: you know, and did I did I start it that?

744
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 4: You know?

745
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: It wasn't my fault, no, But I could have avoided

746
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 3: that situation. I could have made this decision different that

747
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 3: decision different. I mean, six months of being stuck in

748
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 3: a bed, you go through every emotion, but the biggest

749
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: thing you go through is frustration and guilt and you

750
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 3: beat up on yourself. And so for me, forgiveness was

751
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 3: recognizing that, look, I was giving another chance. Maybe I

752
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 3: made a mistake, but maybe this is a blessing and

753
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 3: this trauma can be power and not just pain, not

754
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 3: just hurt.

755
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 5: Uh.

756
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 3: And so what am I gonna do with this? Am

757
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 3: I gonna dwell in it and spiral into a darker place?

758
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 3: Or am I gonna own it and try to make

759
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 3: things better for other people? But that forgiveness was key,

760
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: And then for me that took three and a half

761
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 3: months to even get to that point. Wow, you know,

762
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 3: And that's what unfortunately, a lot of our folks are

763
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 3: going through. I mean, every year one hundred and forty

764
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 3: thousand people are shot or killed the Saint. This ain't

765
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: just beans and greg this is these are hundreds of

766
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,200
Speaker 3: thousands of people, now millions of people since I was shot.

767
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 3: So this is a lot of folks going through this trauma.

768
00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 3: But again, it's by time you're there, the damage is done,

769
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: and a lot of folks can't come back from that.

770
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 5: Right and just to go to your point of success

771
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 5: that from that point to now. There's also millions of

772
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 5: people whose lives we saved. There's hundreds of thousands of

773
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 5: people who you know, are not incarcerated, who have gone

774
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 5: on with their lives and doing successful things. Will put

775
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 5: their gun down, picked up cameras shooting cameras now, or

776
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 5: picked up yoga mats, picked up you know, books and

777
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 5: wrote books and plays and directed movies and stuff like that.

778
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 5: And so there is that ability to have that success

779
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 5: across the nation, you know, And so we want people

780
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 5: to humble themselves, right and if you need help, like

781
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 5: you know, it's not easy doing it by yourself, and

782
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 5: so allow us to be part of your team and

783
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 5: help you make the decision that's going to help you

784
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 5: save your life and your children's lives. You know, we

785
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 5: have a national platform, it's called the Black and Brown

786
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 5: Peace Coalition, and so folks can text fund peace Peace

787
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 5: fund fund to five to one five five five five

788
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 5: to one five five five and just be part of

789
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 5: our national team. You know, if they have an organization

790
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 5: in a different city. We bring people together in the

791
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 5: ecosystem to help get part of this money that Greg

792
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 5: was talking about in the different cities or just get

793
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,720
Speaker 5: access to you know, we just did Gaming for Peace.

794
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 5: A young kid in Georgia won fifteen thousand dollars right

795
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 5: just playing video games. Because we want to meet them

796
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 5: where they're at right and so we're going to be

797
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 5: doing doing Gun Violence and Awareness Month in June. We're

798
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 5: going to be doing a Gaming for Peace again. We're

799
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 5: looking to have a festival at Shay Stadium, Shae Stadium.

800
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 5: You don't notice yet, but we're looking to have a

801
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 5: festival at Shaye Stadium. So you know, let's get together

802
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,959
Speaker 5: make this happen, you know, because we want to get

803
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 5: to that population that feels that they don't have hope.

804
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 5: There's no reason to vote, there's no reason to do

805
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 5: the right thing because everything points to negative. They don't

806
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 5: know how to talk their friends off the ledge or

807
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 5: their girlfriend or they son, you know, and they're having problems.

808
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 5: Like we want to bring folks together to show them

809
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 5: that there is access to hope and it is a

810
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 5: way to change your life. And one of the things

811
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 5: that I'm going to be doing now that I stepped

812
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 5: away from the day to day work at Life Camp

813
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 5: is sharing the wisdom that I've learned over the last

814
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 5: thirty six years, and teaching and working with people and

815
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 5: mentoring people on how to succeed in this field and

816
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 5: how to grow whatever it is you're trying to do,

817
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 5: and connect the people to the right things and bring

818
00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 5: people like you and other folks to the the ground

819
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 5: so that we can prosper off of our collective reach,

820
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 5: you know, and really change your conditions of our people

821
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 5: from Detroit to Memphis, to Atlanta, Georgia to Philly, who's

822
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 5: getting ready to get beat by the New York Knicks

823
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 5: in this playoff season.

824
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 4: I don't want to talk football, you know what.

825
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 2: I do want to go back to something you said

826
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: though earlier. I know the veils being lifted about, but

827
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 2: I know for you haven't been in the business. You've

828
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: been around a lot, You've seen a lot. So is

829
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: any of this like shocking to you seeing everything that's

830
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 2: been coming to light in the music business and different

831
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 2: people haven't been, you know, charged with things or stories

832
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 2: coming out.

833
00:41:54,239 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say this right, I don't really want to

834
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 6: speak on nobody personal issue. I don't wish nothing to ill,

835
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 6: but I will say this to the people who are listening,

836
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 6: and learn a lesson from behind. Whatever it is, guilty,

837
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 6: not guilty, it's a lesson. Look for the lesson when

838
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 6: you're choosing a certain lifestyle. Whatever it is, fine, fine,

839
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 6: what you're asking me. For the people that's watching, you know,

840
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 6: it's a lesson behind all this, it's a lesson behind it.

841
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 6: Watch what you actually chasing. Be careful, don't get caught

842
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 6: up and go down a rabbit hole of chasing success.

843
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 6: That's it, man, Be careful in a nutshell for everybody.

844
00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 6: Be careful who you idolize, what you idolize, because it

845
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,320
Speaker 6: can get very dangerous.

846
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 2: As we see, as you say, as we see you know,

847
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of times the information is there,

848
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: like there's people who have said things and like look,

849
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 2: we just were looking.

850
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: At Shine and how he's like, look, guys.

851
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 6: And I ain't talking about them little sound bites we

852
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 6: ain't talking about to InformATE themselves. Learn a real lesson

853
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 6: behind this because a lot of us, especially the youth,

854
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 6: we glorify the wrong things. Of course, we need money

855
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 6: to survive and to eat and all that. But after

856
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 6: you acquire so much, then what's next. And that's where

857
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 6: people get trapped off in they're looking at everybody next

858
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 6: you know what?

859
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 5: Also what what? What I was trying to say earlier,

860
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 5: also is that regardless, I'm not gonna say regardless, And

861
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 5: the fact that I got to like sit here and think,

862
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 5: oh this, you know, this society is so sick. It's sick, right,

863
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 5: And so at what point in people's life did they

864
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 5: become a problem. Most of the people's life became a

865
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 5: problem when they changed their lives or not right, but

866
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,959
Speaker 5: when they started to talk about empowering black folks, right,

867
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 5: And what made that person right? We could look at

868
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 5: the act, but we never look at the puppet master

869
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 5: behind the puppet that made the act right. These people

870
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 5: didn't just fall out the sky and end up like this.

871
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 5: And we keep going after and I'm not, you know,

872
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 5: condoning any negative behavior in any field, but what made

873
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 5: that person like that? Because in all fields there's something

874
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 5: bigger creating that monster, and we never deal with that,

875
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 5: and so we always keep allowing it. And it happens

876
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 5: only to us because it's a business. Is a business

877
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 5: on incarcerating us, killing us, allowing us to run this

878
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 5: labor like you know, we were slaves at one point

879
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 5: and if it's up to them. When they were talking

880
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 5: about make America great again, right, then they're talking about

881
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 5: going back to a point where we were labor like

882
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 5: we were the conic, like we we don't count with

883
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 5: three fiars of a man with everything that doesn't count, right,

884
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 5: And so understand as Beans was just saying, what you're

885
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 5: looking and they can't decipher it. They don't have the

886
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 5: intellectual power to do that at this point because they've

887
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 5: been fed so much garbage. They don't know how to

888
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 5: filter through the garbage. Right, They don't know how to

889
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 5: do that. Grown men and women don't know how to

890
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 5: do it, much less kids. And so we could look

891
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 5: at the headlines about shine right and look at how

892
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 5: and what created a shine right? What and think created

893
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 5: a diddy? What created an art Kelly? What created these

894
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 5: brothers and sisters who pick up these guns at twelve

895
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,920
Speaker 5: and thirteen year old and shoot at the d right,

896
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,319
Speaker 5: There's so many situations in our community, but what created them?

897
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 5: Let's talk about that, and let's deal with that, because

898
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:51,760
Speaker 5: those are just if so far, those are like every

899
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:56,440
Speaker 5: twenty years is another one, right, right, And so you

900
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 5: know it's deeper, it's deeper than our eyes can see.

901
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 5: And we need to go deep. We need to at

902
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 5: some point, let's go deep. And let's not that's not

903
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 5: what do they do, like cancel, like stoff, canceling like really,

904
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 5: sit down, sit down, We ain't babies. Stop canceling people

905
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 5: because you don't agree with them.

906
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't think that canceled thing really well.

907
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that temporarily get canceled, you know.

908
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I do. I think I don't think

909
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: that's a real thing.

910
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 2: It would be like a little temporary uproar and then

911
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 2: it goes away, you know, or more times than not,

912
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 2: there's very few people, very very very few, So they

913
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: get yeah, they get permanently canceled.

914
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:40,000
Speaker 6: You know.

915
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 5: It's there's some people we need to cancel, and it's

916
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 5: not I know, but cancel the people that need to

917
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 5: be canceled. We cancel each other, the victims of a

918
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 5: bigger picture.

919
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: Right all right, Well listen, Erica, like I said, life,

920
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 2: cancel life, say what you want. But you know, gaming

921
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 2: for Peace, let's talk about that coming back up.

922
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 5: Yes, So this June, we're gonna online this year. For

923
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 5: two weeks ago, we had five hundred and twelve people

924
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 5: register and the final four came to York College, young

925
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 5: man from Georgia. Like I said, one fifteen thousand dollars.

926
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 5: We're going to do it again, doing Gun Violence Awareness Month.

927
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,879
Speaker 5: It'll all be online so people all over the United

928
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 5: States can register. We really need those young kids in

929
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 5: the communities who really are hopeless to join, and so

930
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 5: it's gonna be virtual. So fun piece to five one

931
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 5: five five five. You'll get the information, join them. What

932
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 5: we're gonna be doing the gaming for peace.

933
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: Both.

934
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 5: We got a lot of stuff going on. We got

935
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 5: music bars, can we get some bars? Got some new bars?

936
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: Okay? Oh, g Beanie talking to young Beanie.

937
00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 5: We like that Greg might have some boss from the

938
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 5: White House. We go into the White House. We're doing

939
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 5: a meeting at the White House. Hopefully Angelia, you'll come

940
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 5: with artists, entertainers, influencers or just around how we can

941
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 5: continue to have these conversations and impact communities in their

942
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,840
Speaker 5: local areas because all politics are local. But we want

943
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 5: to get our community, our peers involved in this political process.

944
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 6: And so to the artists that's out there, if y'all listening,

945
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 6: tuning in, we definitely need y'all support. If y'all real

946
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 6: and and really want to help this cause, contact Erica

947
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 6: so we can get this thing going.

948
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 5: Fun piece to fund, yes.

949
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 2: Right, fun piece to all right, Well, thank you guys.

950
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all so much. We'll keep it going and

951
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 1: I make sure we keep us updated, you know, before June.

952
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, thank you you

953
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 6: W