WEBVTT - Breonna Taylor Episode 1 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.440 Politicians on my son and I'm to make a d. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.200 Mallory and this is the place where the streets and 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:16.560 politics meet. We're so excited about our new partnership. Street 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.439 Politicians is going to have a larger, a bigger, bigger, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:27.240 bigger platform, huge platform, and that's gonna be through our 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.680 great friendship and partnership with Charlemagne the God. We're so 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.040 proud of him and his new venture with I Heart Media, 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.360 the Black Effect Podcast Network. I gotta say it right, 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.720 The Black Effect Podcast networks a lot of words, but 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.279 it's it says all the things, all the things. It's 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.800 black people talking about black issues. 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I know a lot of people think that, Um, 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:22.800 you know, we're just all we do all day long 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.440 is get up, go to sleep doing politics politics, right, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.039 So that's why we called it Street Politicians, so that 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.000 we could talk about things that's going on just on 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:37.320 the streets in the world. This week, we got a 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:42.240 lot of stuff going on. Our organization Until Freedom is 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.280 very very busy, and my son has been running around. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.639 You've been out in the street with Traded Truth, acting 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.200 like y'all the artists or something, doing some type of album. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.760 First and foremost, I wrapped my ass. Yeah, so that's 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.560 first form. You do that sometimes, but you've been running 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.000 around all day at night acting like y'all putting something 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.520 and again, but shout out to my boy trade too. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.000 We literally just got the phone. We're putting together this 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:09.280 album called If You're Scared Stay Inside. It's gonna be 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.640 one of the best albums of this ship because it's 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.280 it's our perspective, like being on the front lines of 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.320 this movement and also being from the hood and having 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.000 merged in that perspective. So we put together a soundtrack 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.239 to the movement, like the soundtrack to the front line 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:27.280 of the movie. Yeah, why does it so? Why does 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.440 it have to be so hard? Like, first of all, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.239 you know, I talk big stuff sometimes, so I'm always 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.560 in trouble because my mouth, you know, so I get it. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.880 I'm not saying that I don't agree. I'm just saying 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.080 that there are some people who may say, why does 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.000 it have to be like if you're scared, stay at 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:45.280 home instead of it being more inviting and friendly for people. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:47.840 But it's usually more than likely it's gonna be a 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.320 scared person to ask you that question. Because if you're 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.320 not scared, then you get why I have to say 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.919 that because a lot of people are scared. So it's 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.359 few of us that orange scared scared of what this 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.960 period to be outside, to be on the front line, 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.120 to utilize your voice, to sacrifice, you know. So this 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.079 is what it is, and this is who we are. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.520 We are alpha males who staying on the front line 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.160 besides our black sisters, you know, protecting our black sisters, 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.600 will in the sacrifice for our black sisters. So this 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.040 is the perspective that we come from. So just like 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.360 in the movement, it's not like if you're scared of 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:27.800 not because we've evolved past that. We have. If we 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.440 bolt past it, now we we with it. If we're 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.880 not gonna be oppressed, we're not gonna let you beat 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.080 us up. We ain't gonna let you harm us, you 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.520 know what I'm saying. But we we don't advocate for 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.160 that type of life style. Now we just will wonder. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.440 We're willing to meet you where you are. Understand that 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.440 the evolution stay inside the evolution of a street hood. Dude, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.160 you know, we're willing to meet you where you are. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:55.000 We don't advocate for anybody, right, but we definitely running 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.760 for me. Well, we talked about you guys being out 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:03.240 here day and night acting y'all put until until I 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.640 hear it, y'all are acting like y'all doing something and 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.200 just using it as a reason for you in Trade 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:15.680 to be in Kentucky moving around meeting people, and y'all going, 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.359 I don't know where you're actually reported this count in 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.200 two days you did, you did, but now you're doing video. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.480 So this is the new thing. So when we're working 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.840 at the table, you in trade somewhere right in and 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.480 talking and everybody got a job to do. That's what 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:33.040 you've said. So we're still in Kentucky, Still in Kentucky. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.720 It's been two months, two whole months. It's rough. It's 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.080 a lot. You left your children, missed my kids. My 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:44.120 son's had a sacking game, and today they both score goals, 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.880 so I owe them gifts. You know, kissing was only 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.760 to him. I need to buy him a puppy. Puppy, Lord, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.080 I'm not buying him because the puppy turns into a 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.120 whole another life that I got to Yeah, he ain't 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.040 gonna do that. He's gonna pick it up and then 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.600 want to start crapping all over the place. He's gonna 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.040 come and get me to do it when his home, 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.280 we're gonna come. I'm not coming. I told he could get. 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.800 He wants something else for his rodblots game, but I 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.279 ain't doing nothing for them. But it's it's difficult because 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.840 it's like, on one hand, we obviously UM made a 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:21.120 decision that I think was best for not just our organization, 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.520 but also just like the stress of taking planes back 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.080 and forth trying to get to Kentucky to stand with 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.520 Brianna's family would have been very taxing UM. And so 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.039 it's like you always give up something like you went 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.159 on one side and you give up on the other. 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.840 Because we gave up the comfort of our homes, our 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.920 families and and all of those things and the things 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.680 that were used to, you know, our cars and all 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.720 of that, to move in together with other folks and 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.240 trying to like figure out every day how not to 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.280 kill each other in one space, which we haven't done bad. 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.640 We've been all right, because I think it's because our 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.000 house is segmented and you can go to your little 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.120 go to your space. I go to mind, which we 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.680 often have to do. Especially when he was having our 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.479 big debate last night about loving relationships. You just walked 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.440 out on us and said you wasn't gonna be involved 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.640 in that conversation because I don't. I don't really agree 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.000 nothing we said at all. Right, okay, so it is 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:25.159 what it is. You know, Tippy Pop doesn't agree with you. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.600 I thought that out yesterday. Okay, shout out to Tip 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.960 that's always agrees she does not. So she just was 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.760 telling the truth. Semika tells the truth. My son makes 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:41.920 up theory and to be like, so we went, that's 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.160 exactly what you don't even finish you like, well, if 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.200 she said it the reason why I happened, and you'll 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.240 be starting like the reason why I listen, that's right, 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:56.279 and then you may finished what she said before you agree. Anyway, 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.880 she would have to finish what you're saying for somebody 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.240 to agree with you. Tippic was like, that's right, what 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.200 she's saying right now, Ye, right there. Don't even finish 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:08.880 the words you left. And so that's one of the 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.720 ways that we've been able to get through it. But 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:14.280 it has been difficult to be away from our loved ones, 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.320 to and to and to be here in Kentucky. But 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.520 then being in Kentucky gave us the ability to be 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.559 able to get up and at the drop of the dime, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.520 be in with the local community, be here for important moments, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.680 planning organized. So many people have flown in to be 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.480 a part of our efforts, whether it be her Roland 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.360 who works with the NBA and some NFL players, whether 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.640 it be Kenny Stills, Tory Russell, who else, everybody don't 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.960 want to Tiffany Lofton from the n double A CP, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 Leslie Redman from the n Double A c p uh 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.800 Dwana Tom, I mean, we just everybody, Stephen Green, who 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.640 is our main man, and it's just been and it's 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.240 so or traded truth. They've been able to fly in 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.680 and stay here to be like implants if you will. 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.080 In Louisville, to help with this fight to keep things going, 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.320 to stand with the local community. And so, um, I 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.720 guess you know, you give up some, you win some, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.920 you lose some, or I don't want to say lose, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.960 because we never lose our loved ones. But we definitely 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.360 have made that sacrifice. And so now, um, while we're here, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.680 what we decided. I think the first month, we thought 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.280 we would definitely be here from August and September and 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.960 we would probably go home, and then we continue to 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.760 stay because we realized that Brianna Taylor is not just 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.240 a woman who was killed. I say that all the time. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.319 She wasn't just killed. She was a person who had 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.240 a very full life. And the things that she cared 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.840 about in her life are things that matter to the 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.200 community that she left behind. So now we find ourselves 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.599 in a situation where we're actually building with the community, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.200 working on our capacity building campaign, helping some of the 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.959 local organizations to grow into train and to figure out 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.320 ways to move forward. In light of the fact that 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.400 this major tragedy has happened in the community and things 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.480 have changed. It's not the same here. Um. So so 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.360 I hurried from so many and we're gonna be talking 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:18.320 to activists and others. Um you know, as time goes 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.520 on as a part of this series that we're doing 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.400 on Brianna Taylor, we'll be talking to a bunch of 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.520 folks that have been involved in the case, but now 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.160 we're on the ground in a different way. And then 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.920 we hooked up with us a state representative, Attica Scott, 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.240 who we also will be talking to on Brianna's law, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.520 which will ban no knock warrants. It was done in Louisville, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.319 which we know Katura Herron from a c l U 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.320 and Hannah Drake and others were able to get no 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.360 knock warrants banned in Louisville, but not in the state 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.800 of Kentucky and then their states all over the country 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.400 that still have the policy where police officers can use 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.199 a no knock warrant, and so we want to make 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.000 sure that that is banned, and therefore we support Brianna's law. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.440 That's the goal, you know, Like you said, we realized 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:08.120 when we came here that although Brihanna was a major 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.800 issue and a major problem that we needed to focus on, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.520 that it was so much more and that Brihanna, you know, 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.440 life meant so much more, and it created not only 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.680 just a conversation, but it created a movement that was 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.080 that was going to spark the world, you know, And 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.719 that's what we realized. And we realized that we had 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.360 to utilize our voice, we had to utilize our platforms, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:35.000 we had to utilize all our resources to put them 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.439 here in Louisville, because right now this is ground zero 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.560 for the movement. What's happening here is going to shape 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.240 the next twenty to thirty years about of our lives. So, 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.800 you know, we realized that we had an important part 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.080 to playing that. You know, we had to be here 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.960 for the family of Brianna Taylor. We had to be 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.600 here for just the city of Louisville, because when we 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.199 got here, it wasn't just us working. It became family. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:05.000 It became like we actually we actually live in Koku 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:10.439 for a minute, took up residency temporary residency, um and 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.440 and I think you know, now as it's sort of 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.640 it's sort of winding down because we've got to hit 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.480 the road, which you know, obviously our GOOTV efforts will 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.160 take us around the country. And as we begin the 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:27.280 process of moving out of Kentucky, it's sort of like 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.120 a bit of sweet feeling because now we've become one 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:35.000 with people who, um, these are some passionate and very 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:42.080 courageous individuals to see people hold down Brianna's name in 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.079 the way that she did. That they have and the 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.480 whole down an actual place in the middle of the 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:52.080 city apart, whether it's Injustice Square apart. It's over a 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.560 hundred years, I mean hundred over a hundred days. That's powerful. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:59.600 Like really, it's now two hundred days I think since 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:04.160 Brianna was killed. Um, and and then on top of that, 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.720 people have been out there protesting since then, and a 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.640 lot of young people. And so it's a bit of 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.599 sweet feeling. But we'll be back. We're not going anywhere, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.280 and we are going to start this GOOTV tour, which 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.760 also includes Kentucky because there is a major Senate race 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:27.160 happening in Kentucky, major Senate Senate. Everybody down exactly. Everybody 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.040 likes to talk with me, not Trump and Biden. I 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.640 don't like either one of them. But then when it 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.920 comes to showing up at the polls, you're not just 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:36.880 going there to vote for the top of the ticket. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.959 Like you said, it's a down ballot issue, and if 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.720 you want to know who's actually in charge of the policies, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.440 it's not so much the president that we need to 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.800 be focused on, although we do need to vote in 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.400 this election like we've never voted before. However, we need 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.280 to be focusing on down ballot elections, vocal elections. And 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.440 one of the people that is running is the person who, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.400 in my judgment, is one of the puppet masters behind 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.520 the scenes for everything that we see happening, all the 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.920 craziness and outrageousness of this administration, and that is Senator 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:16.240 Mitch McConnell mconnell. Mitch McConnell, and Mitch mcconchell is no, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:22.480 and Mitch McConnell is up against uh Is. He's actually 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.680 up for reelection. So in this particular election cycle, the 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.600 people of Kentucky have the right to decide whether he 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.959 goes back or not to Washington. And there's a woman 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.680 her named Amy McGrath who is running against him. We 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.560 are not telling people who would vote for, but what 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.200 we are saying is that if you want to see 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.360 a change, you have to actually do something about it. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.200 So you gotta show up at the polls and for 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:52.120 Our tour will be everywhere from Alabama to Georgia to Florida, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.920 to Michigan to Pennsylvania. We're gonna be all across the state. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.520 But on the thirteenth of this month, we're gonna be 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.560 going along with Brianna Taylor Foundation, the Brianna Taylor Foundation. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.880 I'm so excited about the family getting this foundation off 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 the ground, um and we're going to be with them 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.280 and the UH the Louisville Urban League, which is led 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:19.120 by our crazy dear friend Sadiqa Reynolds. We gotta have 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.440 SAD and we're going to be out taking people to 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.600 the polls to make sure that they get there, that 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.880 they're able to vote and do what they need to do. 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.080 So that's those things are good. Like you know, you 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.200 gotta actually be not just a protester, but you gotta 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:38.320 be a policymaker. Listen, we gotta turn protests into policy. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.400 That's how I go. A lot of people say, what 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.040 are you protesting? Why are you a margin, Because that's 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.920 how you identify the allies. That's how you see who's 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.360 on the same page you are. That's how you create unity. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.400 That's how you say we want this, and then you 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.280 can take that protest and then you turn it into policy. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.720 There is a strategy. Don't question our strategy from your couch. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.240 Don't arm cheer question I was strategy. Don't sit in 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.000 your house in question I was strategy because we know 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.200 what they'll say. They want to be able to question it, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:13.720 but but don't. But you can't said, stop being critics 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.120 without credentials. We don't really want to hear you. If 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.400 you're not doing nothing. Don't tell me how to do something. 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.040 You can't do nothing and tell me how to do something. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.520 If you're doing something, then you can critique by something. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.200 But you can't critique by something if you are doing nothing. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:36.800 I guess that was a bar. I mean, somebody says off, 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.600 So I guess that's one of those opportunities for you 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:45.360 to show that you actually are working on an album. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.440 So as we talk about me wrapping my ass off, 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.600 you know what I'm saying, that brings me into another topic. 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.520 Make the stallion. You know what I'm saying? Who I 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.880 actually love. I think she is just so dope I 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.720 was spoken. She is confident, She represents the black women 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.400 to the fullest to me. You know, in this week 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.120 she gave you a little shot out she did. And 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.520 you know, it's funny because it's funny because I remember 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.480 when Meg the Stallion first came out. You were kind 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.240 of like and then you studied her as you do 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.160 with artists all the time, and he was like, Okay, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.920 she's a fish's gonna be so because you know what 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.200 I'm saying, when you first come out, they always bring 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.840 out girls. And she got a fat on this and that, 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.640 and I'd be like, O, can I hear you want you? 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.800 What else? You know? I'm care You've got a nice body, 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:33.840 but what else? You know what I'm saying. As I 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.600 started to listen to her, she had more when she 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.160 does interviews this content did there's a girl who was 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.160 in college that actually you know that actually told so 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.800 I understand this artistry. And then there's an individual. You know, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.040 when I make the connection to both of them, I 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.000 like who she who she is and who she represents. Yeah, 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:56.040 I mean I'm super excited, super excited. And I've actually 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.280 had dinner with Meg, and so it's not you know 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.840 some people think and folks just yeah, people think that 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.280 people just like jump up, and I mean I never 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.600 went to dinner with Beyonce, but she still put me 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.639 on a song, so I thought that was quite incredible. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.160 But that's Beyonce. It's just a different thing. But with Meg. Yeah, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.840 so but with Meg, you know, um, we had dinner together, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.640 and I learned a lot about her interests, right, and 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.919 how much she cares about the movement and young girls 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:26.320 and the things that she wants to do. And what 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.600 I found, quite honestly, is that it's like it's almost 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.920 like a lot of artists don't know if they should 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.000 or should not when they should and should not because 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.280 they get criticized for doing it and not doing how 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.280 they do what they do it. But that goes into 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.120 like we did the double excel right exactly, the double 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.840 left freshman's class, which y'all told me it was so 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.479 cool because I didn't know what the freshman's class was 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.600 and now I know it was. Actually they're so amazing, 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.639 They amazing and they want to be was dope, you know, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:03.960 five year old. Who lord, it was so many now 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:05.520 you're gonna have to come up with the whole list. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.840 But anyway, um, it was yeah, and that was a 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.280 great opportunity, and that's exactly what we're talking about. And 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.160 it's like, you don't know if you should or shouldn't. 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.320 If I don't say anything and just mind my business 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.320 to stay under the radar, at what point they're gonna 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.480 attack me for it if I do say something? How 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.399 what went and where? And so we were having that 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.720 conversation and then all of a sudden, I got a 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.719 call from Kevin Lows, who actually is on our board 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.560 UM and it's a great friend of mine. His company 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.720 is the management team for Meg, and they said they, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.560 you know, wanted to put a clip of my speech 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.199 in something that Meg was doing. I didn't even know 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.400 what it was, and I don't do this at home. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.879 They sent me a release form and that because because 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.960 of the fact that I know Meg well, not even 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.720 just knowing Meg, I know Kevin very well. I have lawyer. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.080 Looked at it real quick, never listened to it, didn't 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.239 look at anything, don't know what's going on. And I 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:00.280 was like, if it's good and I'm not to be 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.280 in trouble, sign it. Don't ever do that, read it, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.160 pay attention, focus and make sure you're doing the right thing. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.119 But I was like, sign it because it's Kevin. I 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.639 trust him with my life. And the next thing. I know, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.920 people start texting me talking about SNL, Meg the Stallion, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.000 and I'm like, oh my god, this is so dang 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.920 on incredible. And in fact, one of our guests, attorney 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.239 Linita Baker, was the first person to hit me up 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:25.320 and tell me that I was on SNL. I just 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.280 was like, I was sitting there, like I told her, WHOA, 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.760 that's big. That was my response because I was so 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.199 shocked about it. It's a good thing, but you know, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:42.240 it's really over there over there clapping. But that brings 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.840 me to my question of the day, my thought of 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:53.800 the day. You know, I watched the comments sometimes too much, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:58.119 too much, and I see all of these people writing 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.840 that because Meg and her hit song. But you know, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.680 I was in big trouble about why I was. They 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.440 was They went crazy when I said that I supported on. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.399 Let me tell you, they was so mad. And I 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.240 was over there telling them that why is the number 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:18.160 one selling thing in the world. So I don't know 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:21.280 how all of a sudden, when it's been selling from 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.959 artists to artists, been selling from Uji Wally Bang Bang 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.080 to Erica. Kids sold it too. I mean we've been 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.960 selling it. In fact, not only people selling it. Some 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.720 people are using it, but that's a whole different thing, 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.040 um and and the people buying it. That's what I'm saying. 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.159 So like now, all of a sudden, when Meg and 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.120 Cardi do it, because of the fact that it's it's 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.480 so I don't know it's it. It is explicit, we 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.840 know that, but it's also lights Cameron's action. But there 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.200 are young people watching them. But they are young people. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:54.679 But you know what I mean, my thought of the day, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:56.000 and then you could argue with me, and then we 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.720 got to move one. So the thing about it, though, 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:03.240 is that what I struggle with is this judgment that 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:08.400 people have of celebrities. It's just if these folks are 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.240 just perfect individuals who just do everything one way all 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.840 the time. That is not the reality of human beings. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:21.240 Human beings are very multidimensional. Some days we want to twork, 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.840 some days we want to dance, Some days we want 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.200 to sing, some days we want to pray, some days 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:27.960 we don't want to get up out the bed. We 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:32.400 go through different things, right, And the thing that I think, 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.359 or my my thought is that I'm trying to help 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.840 other people to come with me on this journey. Is 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:42.200 why is it that just because Meg is talking about 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.960 why she's talking about savages, She's talking all of this 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:48.240 good stuff for bad stuff, however you want to categorize it. 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.120 She's extremely sexy, she's you know, and and and it 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:56.440 is very explicit at times a lot of times. Why 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:58.800 does that mean that she can't care about her community 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.840 or can't care about like you think that they care 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.440 whether you are a dancer or a ball player or 0:22:05.480 --> 0:22:07.359 a lawyer. When they pull you over in the car 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:09.560