WEBVTT - Listen Up Youngsters 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:05.760 Yeah, gett boys, it's back and rehoaded all in your mind. Yeah, 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.559 not deep throating. This is for the streets, the reel, 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.680 the railroaded, the distant franchise, the truth escape building. And 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:14.840 they ain't know when we speak the truth, so they 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.280 quoted because we wrote it. The North South East coat 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.880 is the g b my t keeping your head bobbing. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.440 It ain't no stopping and wants to be dropped head 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.920 by And then the system is so corrupt they throw 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:28.800 the rock out of their heads and then blame it 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:33.000 on us. Don't get it twisted on code and we 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:38.840 danceing for no buttament biscuits. It's really d your scar 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.680 faces in the building. Collectively we are the ghetto Boys reloaded, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.240 reloaded with another episode of information and instructions to help 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.200 you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world in the studio. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:56.240 Ghetto ghetto ghett old boys sound like a sampling. Yeah, 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.360 what's up home? What's going on? Well? Oh man, way 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:04.000 too much? Talk about way too much? Manum you what 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.160 you want to start that? Because boys a good one, 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.440 you know. I want to start on these youngsters. Man, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.080 I want to start on these youngsters. So you saw 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:24.480 a situation right right, right, youngsters? All right, come on, 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.880 you saw the situation that happened with the youngsters ran 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:32.520 up in the mall and came out with all of 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:37.920 Louis Vuitton. Are you serious? I didn't see this a 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.120 couple of weeks ago. So the snatch special, yeah yeah, yeah, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:46.399 he go and he grated Louis take off. The security 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:50.720 guy is just standing that, you know, Littlettle Maybury's security guard. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.720 He's just standing in that top flight just watching everything. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.680 And then when people take off, then he go get 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.840 on the walking behind him or whatever. I can't stop you. 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:05.000 But I and one of one of the women who 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.800 I think she was an employee, that she called them animals. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.480 She said animals, animals, animals. Um. But you know, I'm 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.720 not offended by her saying that though, because they were 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.160 they were acting like animals. Yeah, they were acting like animals. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.240 You know, I'm not I'm not offended by that. UM. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.920 I think it's important for us to call a strike 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.320 a strike and a ball a ball. You know, it 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.600 doesn't matter who it is, it doesn't it doesn't matter 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.840 what the uh the skin color is. If you're acting 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.880 like an animal, you're acting like an animal. Um, a 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.880 lot of people. But I want to say this though, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.040 I saw a lot of people that was just really outraged, 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.120 Like I mean, it was a different type of outraged. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.000 It was like, they need to die, we need to die. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.880 They they need to put them on the jai that 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.679 was stolen. Yeah. But but well here's my thing, man, 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:11.440 and ye and it's just bad. So imagine being and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:21.600 put in a situation where they constantly dang on fruit 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:26.200 before your eyes, and every time you reach the grab 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.799 of fruit, they pulled away from you. Every time you 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:36.520 that here, you're sitting there and you're starving to death. Man. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.720 But but all those people really started to death. I mean, Willie, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:42.760 I don't know this situation, man, but I just know this. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:45.280 I do know this, and I'm not giving nobody, you know, 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.480 I'm not giving them a pass for the fun up 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:52.320 ship they did. Man, But god damn, I mean, you 0:03:52.360 --> 0:04:00.600 know what fixes all this ship? Right? Opportunity money? You 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:06.080 know what I'm saying. Imagine if everybody had employment that 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.560 paid a livable wage. You know what I'm saying, Like, Okay, look, 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:14.240 let's let's let's take you and I for instance, All right, 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.000 like we ain't out there robbing and and trying to 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:24.080 take from no fucking body. Why and not only because 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:29.279 we know better, but why we have opportunity and we 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.600 got a little little money. Imagine if you don't have 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:37.960 no fucking opportunities and no money, I mean, and and 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.720 then I'll give it. Man. Yeah, I can't go night 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:52.040 of our uh pain and self inflicted. You know what 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.919 I'm saying, Like a lot of ship that's going on 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.839 with us is going on because of us, But we 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.320 still got another fifty that helped us to the situation 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.480 that we need in the first place. And it just 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.039 didn't start with us, and it just didn't start with 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.560 our parents, and it just didn't start with our children. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.599 And ship been started. You see what I'm saying. That's 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.200 the part that cannot be ignored. See a lot of 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.960 times when you say what you just said, I'm sure 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.160 there's people in the comments going crazy right now the 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:27.360 man's blah blah blah, and and you started off with 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:32.640 saying that they were wrong, right, the most missed that part. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:37.039 Promise you they missed that part. You know, all they 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:41.680 heard was and you know, imagine not having opportunities and 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.479 blah blah blah. That's all they heard and did you 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.080 tell your story with it? So so I broke this 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.200 down to me. Man, you got two lions in the 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:54.119 wild living their life, and somebody wants to come along, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.080 and they captured the two lions and they put them 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.200 in the cage. And then every day they come by, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.400 and they feeling every day they're coming by, and they 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.120 feed them every day, and all of a sudden they 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.960 stopped feeding them, and they come by a week or 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.240 two later and one of the lines is gone. Do 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.159 you blame the line for eating the other line? Or 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.520 do you blame the motherfucker who stopped feeding them, who 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.560 took them out of the natural habitat and stop feeding them? 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:28.360 Like who's the blame? So are you saying that the 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.640 system feel like we're putting a situation. I feel like 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.920 we're putting a situation where we have to do ship, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.680 you know, and some people, and like I said, Willie, 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.279 some people just do ship out of Uh. They don't 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.000 have to do the ship. They don't have to do 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.360 what they're doing. But imagine not having any options. I'm 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.400 just weighing out the skin where here's the thing. Uh, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.760 I don't I don't believe that are young people that 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.880 they don't have options. I think they have more options 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.279 than we ever act that. That's so many ways for 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.920 young since to make money these days. It's it's crazy. 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.240 It's just it blows my mind. Here's the power. Really, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.640 day a new youngster becomes a millionaire because they put 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.960 the work in and they hustle. Okay, but what about 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.160 the ones that don't know about the you see, it's 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:14.240 it's it's all about informing them of other options, you 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.840 know what I'm saying. But I do believe that there 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.240 are some that's like that. There are, you know, that 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.800 is a certain sector of kids that are like that. 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.240 But for the most part, these kids see these other 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.680 kids getting money. They see what they're doing. They see 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.400 them on their Twitch, they see them on uh YouTube 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.640 making videos, you know, they see them, you know, selling 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.600 their little water or whatever. They see the other kids hustling. 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.200 A lot of them, the motherfucker's just don't want to 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.200 put the work in. And that's the bottom line, bro. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.360 A lot of them they're entitled and they don't want 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.920 to work. A lot of them just don't want to work. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.560 Let me, let me, let me get let me offer 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.400 some some some support. You know to my theory, right, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.400 I lived in Aserbaijan, you know for ten years. I'll 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:07.840 be like, okay, I lived in for ten years. When 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.600 if anytime you come to, if you come to as 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.160 a brain, right now, if you get off the plane, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.000 I can guarantee you right now. Well, if it's whatever time, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:21.360 five am, you're gonna see a line of a series 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.360 and Russians line in the streets. They got on suits. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.720 The suits are not in great condition, but they have 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.439 a sense of pride. They're hanging out the line of 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.479 streets like like uh Mexicans, a line of streets in 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.640 in in Texas. You know how they how how they 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.760 be at the gas stations and stuff, waiting for a job. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.120 But the but but that's the reality, that's their reality. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.600 The reality is they have suits Z one and they're 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.520 waiting to get a job, and they're waiting to get 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.640 any kind of job, whether it be digging a ditch 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.920 or something clerical. Listen to what I'm saying. The point 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.400 is when I first moved there, as ib Young was 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.360 considered a third world country. Alright, the all brought it, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.280 brought it up to standards, but at that time it 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.280 was considered a third world country. However, I lived in 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:19.240 the city of Baku. In Baku, that's Baku is Uh. 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.160 Population wise, it's very comparable, comparable to Houston, like somewhere 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.720 in the enable five million. Right at the time, four million, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:34.199 they averaged about at that time, they averaged about one 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:41.960 murder per month at that same time rate around that time, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.240 Houston was averaging about twelve murders a week. Okay, this 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.800 place was what. These people were way poor than whatever 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.440 we think it's poor in Houston. These people literally, some 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.880 of these people literally had dirt floors. I know, I 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.000 was that been in some of their houses. They had 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:05.240 dirt floors. They wasn't murdering each other in record numbers 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.719 because they didn't have They still got up and went 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.280 and bust the ass and dealt played the hand that 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.160 they were dealt. Let me tell you something else. One day, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.600 I'm on my way home and we witnessed the fight. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.320 I got my whole family with me and we witnessed 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.480 a fight as we're passing by the neighborhood, one of 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.280 the neighborhoods, and I tell I asked the driver, I said, 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.960 say man, I said, what's going on? And uh, you know, 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.120 he said, I don't know. I don't let you note. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.880 So he dropped us off. He go back and investigate. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.160 He comes back and say, okay, So the guy beat 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:45.400 up his girlfriend, and then so the people in the 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.800 neighborhood beat him up. So we saw the whole neighborhood 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.440 whipping this dude ass. The dude beat up his girlfriend, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.520 the whole neighborhood was whipping his ass. Look he's with 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.520 throwing rocks at him. Uh. Men and teenage boys was 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:04.320 punching them and kicking them. Old ladies, old sitting there. 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:09.240 Some ladies had it is something. Old ladies had broomstick 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.280 handles and hitting his ass in slow motion like this. Look, well, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:18.199 I'm not gonna hitting his ass and slow motion. The 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.080 pointy is that they have a sense, they have pride, 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.360 and they have a sense of dignity, right, and they 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.880 respect one another. They respect one another. But at the 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.160 same time, they don't have the culture that we have, 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.559 the media that we have that drives every day a day, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.120 every day, all day that you gotta have this stuff 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.679 or you ain't nobody. Do you agree that we've been 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:48.000 stripped of our Uh, we we've been stripped to all 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:58.040 of that like we don't have a sense of pride, Broun. 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.600 When you when you get to that point, you know, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.640 is that when that struggle getting real, you have a 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.120 sense of prise. Right I do. But but but I'm different. Okay, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.920 well that's but you're different. But it's a lot of 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.840 us that are this situation. A lot of us different, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.400 and a lot of our situations are different. You see, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.440 and and now and there are people who don't have 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.200 what you and I have do who still have pride. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.000 Remember before I agree with that, remember before we got 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:29.280 to talking about kids. Remember remember remember before we got 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.800 we weren't always adults were at some point we were kids, 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.360 And at some point we got a sense surprise because 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.360 we we we wanted to have more in life and 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.080 we wanted to get to a point of where example 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:46.360 we had example. But there's always been examples, bro where 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.000 there's always been examples. Look around if they hadn't a man, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.560 because I want to never known that ship exists? Was 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:56.000 that an example? You know? There's always an example like 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.559 here's here's this day I didn't co J Prince. If 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.360 I would have never seen that ship, I would have 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.880 never knew that was possible. We'll look here. So you 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:09.400 so you did you have television and some ship that 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.720 you had to stick fucking up cold hangers and put 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:14.840 fall on the wire? Did you did you did you 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.439 see something? Did you see some examples of people having 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.760 the ship that you wanted? I saw the prices, right, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.679 I saw the stories, and then we went outside. I 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:28.199 saw cartoons and I saw the news. I didn't really 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:32.600 see you know, I wasn't watching Dynasty. But you're saying 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.760 that you needed you needed to see it in the 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.199 physical form. I saw the ship. You needed to see 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.320 it in the physical So when you saw the physical 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:40.679 for farm, you knew it was reach. I knew. I 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.360 knew it was an attainable Okay, we'll check this out. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:52.880 Uh I will I will argue that, will you sign? 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.240 I will argue that that's funny? Uh I argue I 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.880 would argue that today. I would argue that today the 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.040 kids see more than you and I ever did check 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.280 this out. Check this out when I was when I 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.880 was uh at ten years old, I started cutting grass 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.160 with my with my with my godfather, not by myself. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:17.319 Go ahead, I was cutting grass in river oaks and 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.200 Memorial and and braids. Would right now, I used to 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.760 be pushing those lawnmows, and I would look through the windows, 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:30.920 not peep, just look glance through the windows, and I 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.280 would see these hot homes. They were prestine, the beds 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.720 were made, the floor floors clean, everything was neatly. Willie, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.440 that's white people. Will hold on. That was that was 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.720 that was mostly white people. Yeah, but go ahead, but 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.120 you don't know, you don't. You don't have to you 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.120 don't have to see. I didn't. I didn't have to 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.360 see a black person doing it. But that's you. You 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:52.960 know what I'm saying, like, you can't. You can't put 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.320 that on everybody. I'm not putting on I'm putting it 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.640 on me. I saw that. I saw I saw people 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:00.240 living the life, the lifestyle that I wanted, and I 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.720 went after it when I saw it. When I was 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.680 when I was had that fucking glance around my neck 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.080 and I'm riding and I'm pushing and I'm where and 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.840 I'm all fucking I'm pushing this down low on, working 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.560 my ass out, and I hit the backyard and this cat, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.840 this chick is just laid back by the pool sipping lemonade. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.800 I was like, I want that ship. I want that 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.640 and I'm gonna get it. Right, I was like, I 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.880 want that, and I'm gonna get it. And I went 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.120 and got it, and I knew it wasn't gonna pop 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.360 up magically for me. I knew I was gonna have 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.960 to go out there and go get it. So, well, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:39.480 you being older than me, right, so, but but much 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:43.280 older than well. You know I'm I'm older than you. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.440 I've been the most ship. But listen, you know that's 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:54.480 your that's your fault. That's your fault. So if me 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.960 my my my thinking is, Okay, I see a bigger 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.640 ass house and I go to the backyard congrass, and 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.000 I see a white woman laying out. You know that's 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.640 a that's that's different from me. I don't think I 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.480 saw a white Why was that different? Because it wasn't black. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.120 And I ain't never seen no white folk before. But 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.400 you ain't never seen no white people. I ain't. Man, 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.480 let me when I'm dead, as fucking serious. I think 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:21.760 I don't have been eight or nine years old before 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:27.080 I saw a white person in person. So you never 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.440 went to like a grocery store outside of the hood 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.360 and nothing like that. You never went to when I started. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.680 When I. Well, I may have seen white people when 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.480 I was, you know, going through my ass when his ship, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:40.440 but I don't remember none of that ship. My first 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.080 recollection of a white person when I was when we 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:48.160 moved from from South Acres over on Stellar Link. That's 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.800 when I started seeing the mixture of Chinese Cambodians grass 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.120 over the Sell Link. Also, yeah, that that's a Jewish community, 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.520 so it was a lot of money in there. Now, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.880 I feel you, but I'm talking about the apartments on 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.280 Link Valley, so that that's everything you saw. Cambodian, you 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.120 saw Vieting, Themese, Chinese, and my first time seeing uh, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.320 Cambodians and Vietnamese and Chinese. That's the first time I've 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.760 seen that ship, right, Um. And then I had a friend, 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:18.160 white friend. His name was David Cochrane and I haven't 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.080 seen him since we was cheated. But that was my dog, 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.240 you know, we we we we we didn't know the 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:27.080 difference you know between at that time probably about eight 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:31.240 or nine. Okay, and where is David? Now? I have 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.480 not seen David in years, and I just got a 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.440 true friend. He wasn't he was definitely a true friend. No, 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.080 he wasn't a true friend man that that ship will 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.000 Willie David moved back to that Fort Worth of some ship. 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.400 Clifford David, have you got your ears on? Man? Contact 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.160 me on Facebook. Okay, you know what I'm saying. That said, 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.439 I made that connection. Just not man, re uniting old friends, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:03.040 don't get But we never looked at people like we 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.080 wasn't supposed to be around them, you know what I mean. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:09.280 We all played football together, you know, we all uh 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.400 fought together, and and and and roller skated together. Man. 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.480 But that was our life. We never dreamed or imagined 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.960 having life outside of our little circle. Really liked. It 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.720 was us and then it was it was it was 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.560 you know. My mom used to call us middle class 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.480 when we when we when? When? When? When she moved 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:37.800 with my father, Um, but my stepfather, but I called 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.800 my father, so let's just say my father. So they 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.480 were making the combined income of some decent money. So 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.840 we had a cool apartment, man. And then they eventually 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.159 bought a hot well and eventually rented a house, and 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:53.440 they eventually bought one. But it was always in the 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.840 It was always in that line of just regular people, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.320 you know. And I I never got a chance to 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:06.800 see oh shit. You know, even even when rap first started, 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:08.840 you know, we never thought of I didn't never think 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.040 about the big houses, in the in the nice cars 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.040 and ship you know. I always thought the gold rope 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.040 and the fucking uh. You know, I thought that symbolized 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.320 success when I was coming up. So had it not 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.440 been for what I've been through or what I saw, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.040 I would have never ever took that next step to 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.680 get to that level because I would have never known 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.760 that it was attainable had I not seen it right here. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.639 And I can, I can. I can understand that because 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.320 but I just wasn't that type of dude. I always 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:44.439 felt like if if a human could do what I 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.320 could do, it, it didn't matter to me if they 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.000 was white, black, whatever. If I saw another human being 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.080 was able to do. If I saw a human being flying, 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:52.800 I swear to God our mother can try to fly 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.520 without any type of wings or no type of mechanical device. 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.879 I try that ship man, because I just feel like 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:01.760 I can do any thing the next person can do. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.240 I just I don't believe that that that another man 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.560 is better than me, and I don't believe. I never 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:12.720 believe that, well, I don't believe I don't. I believe 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.720 that too. Everything is attainable. But I had to chase 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.440 the blood. Now I get you, because there are some 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.960 people that have to see. There are some black people 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.600 that have to see black people do, just like there 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.520 are some Hispanis people that got to see a Hispani 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.800 person do it before they believe it's possible. You know, 0:20:28.080 --> 0:20:30.359 I get that, I I do. I do. I really 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.560 do get that. But do you know when they really 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:36.520 fucked us, Willie? They really fucked us coming out of 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:41.640 high school with these trades, with the certificates that made 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.399 us a license to that that that allowed us to 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:48.240 be licensed plumbers or license electricians, or carpenters or ship 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.119 like that, metal shop workers. They sucked us because they 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:55.080 took that out of the schools, knowing that we did 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.000 a lot of work with our hands. Do you remember, 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:58.760 I don't know if you had uncles, but well I 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.520 know your head uncles. But you know my uncle's worked 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.280 like uh with construction companies and ship man with my 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.120 grandfather when he was a plumber, and they would get 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:09.680 up in the morning and they would go do their 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.040 plumber and ship and my uncle Eddie, he would play 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.520 the base on all my ship. Hey, my fucker would 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:18.080 come home full of cement. But every fucking weekend. Man, 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:21.000 he had a big ass bank roll. Bro and and 0:21:21.000 --> 0:21:23.280 and nowadays, I don't see no black people where I 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:25.639 see a couple now. But I didn't see for a 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.520 long as time. I didn't see no black people on 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.840 the side of the road. For a long as time. 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:35.159 I didn't see no black people doing electricity, doing plumber. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.439 When when I built my fucking house, bro, all I 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.320 saw was Hispanic people working on that house. And I 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.239 didn't know. I didn't. You know, my mindset is not 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.040 like it is today. You know, like it's if I 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:53.440 put my money up and we have to hire contractors, 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.679 then then we have to hire black people. We have 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.600 to because that's the only way we gonna be able 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.520 to come up. We gotta employ each other in these situations, man, 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.359 that open up for us. Man, otherwise we're gonna stay 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:10.119 We're gonna stay on the bottom. Bro. Man, do you 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:12.399 know I just got my boy David Cole, and Uh, 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.679 I love David Cole. I've been knowing David Cole a 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:19.359 long motherfucking time. Bright David Cole. Uh sent me a 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:25.400 reference today for a black roofer. Uh, I just had 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:28.000 to hire somebody today. Shout out to Johnny Hollands J J. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:34.080 Hollands builders contact him there you got bad motherfucking black boys. 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:44.280 Remote podcast will be right back after the poet. I 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:48.000 just started UH foundation. And my mom's name, my mom's 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:52.520 name is Marvelous. And I started the foundation to bridge 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:55.600 the gap between the young and old, the rich, poor, 0:22:56.200 --> 0:23:01.080 the hopeless and the hopeful. So it's calm a marvelous bridge. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.960 And one of the things that we're doing. One of 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.640 the things that we're doing UH is we are bringing 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:14.800 back vocational courses for the young people. You know, so 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.719 fourteen year olds, by the time they start high school, 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.040 before they can start getting in their brain that they're 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.840 gonna run the streets, before the streets start getting to them, 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:24.800 they already learned in the trade, and they already know 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.680 they got out early on, they got out. So we're 0:23:28.680 --> 0:23:33.720 teaching them h VAT. 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