WEBVTT - The Rizza Islam Episode 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.040 Ye get Ghetto Boys. It's back and reoded, all in 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.760 your mind, yeah, and a deep throating. This is for 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.720 the streets, the reel, the railroading, the distant franchise, the truth, 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.760 the scapegoating, and they ain't know wing. We speak the truth, 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.279 so they ain't quoted because we wrote it. The North 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.200 South East Coat, the gv my keeping your head bobbing, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.960 it ain't no stopping and wants to be trying by. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:26.320 And then the system is so corrupt they throw the 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.600 rock out of their heads and then blame it on us. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.120 Don't get twisted on code and we danceing for no 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:45.600 butterment biscuits. It's Willie d y'all scar faces and recovery, 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.880 but he's here with us in spirit. Collectively we are 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.320 the Ghetto Boys, reloaded with another episode of information and 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.680 instructions to help you navigate through this wild, crazy, beautiful world. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:02.280 In the studio, brother is isla hey, and my cool 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.880 is just oh yeah, go ahead like your brother, all right, 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:12.600 go right into it. Family, family, I'm gonna go head 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.160 on and give you guys a wanting right now. If 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.600 you have sensitive is if you're one of those people 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.080 who are easily influenced. If you go along, get along, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.880 come on, if you're a coconut, get the hell up 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.360 out of the building right now, turn it off. Well, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:33.360 you ain't gotta leave your build and just turn this 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.800 episode off. Just go somewhere, walk out of the room. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.240 Let's come back later. Man, welcome to the show. Man. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:46.720 I'm honored. Oh man, you fresh out here on your 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.440 tour doing your book tour. Now the name of the 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.960 where's the book? Ah? You know what I didn't bring. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.160 But they can put up on the screen and do that. 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.480 Y's called message to the millennial, Message to the millennials. 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.200 I'll come back really quick. Did I come back to 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:05.520 the book? I want to start at the beginning. Compton, California. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:12.480 That's where your Compton. How is it for growing up 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.760 in Compton and California? With all of the things that 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.119 happens in Compton, California. We know that there's a lot 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:28.160 of strife, there's a lot of you know, disparity, but 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.160 that's also some good things. I know. I actually know 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.919 people that are not game bangers that come from County, California. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:41.600 I know teachers from Compton, California. I know politicians and 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:47.959 business people from Compton, California. Man, how is it? How 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.520 was it growing up in Compton, California for you? Oh? Man, 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.800 I would say, first of all, I was born, so 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.120 at that turning point, you know, certain rides hap me 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.840 man March nine five, So there was a lot going on. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.600 But you know, blood's crips is my family. Uh, someone's 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.040 own drugs, some soul drugs. But I'm the youngest of 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.399 ten children, so I was the baby and they did 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.919 their best to keep me away from certain things, certain 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.840 things I still, of course came into contact with, um. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:21.600 But I will say the love was overwhelming. And I 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.480 didn't know that we were you know, like let's say, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.519 we want food stamps, we had to standard everything, cool 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.400 aid all that that was. It wasn't a stereotype. It 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.600 was real for me. Um. But love my family, man, 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.400 I mean it was you know, we we we lived 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.000 in what was called and it's still called rich Land Farms, Compton, California. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.360 That's the part of Compton that has horses in almost 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.800 every backyard. So I grew up riding horses. Yeah, that's 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.720 that's another thing. Um. You know, a lot of family, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.720 a lot of love. Like I said, it was, it 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:55.040 was a normal thing to see people rolling down the 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.520 street on the regular, riding bikes. We you know, that's 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.119 when we actually went outside before technolology, you know, advanced, 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:03.320 but we you know, again, it was just a lot 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:04.640 of family, a lot of love. And you know the 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:09.640 negatives are they didn't seem negative because I was a child, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.720 so everything was made to seem like it wasn't as 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.200 bad as it really was. Um, but sirens was a regular. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.680 Um fights was a regular, you know, world regular. But again, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.479 love was a regular. So you know, Mexicans grew up 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:27.000 with them black folks over here. And I don't know, man, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.680 I I I just really appreciate the upbringing that I 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.360 had because it was real, and I appreciated everything that 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.320 we had. Yes, we were on food stamps, yeah, but 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.479 we the love was so thick you couldn't tell like 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.600 it was just it was just life, you know, and uh, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.119 it was humble life. Like I said, Moms was raising 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.200 us by herself. And there was ten of us again, 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.080 five boys, five girls, and I'm the youngest out of 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.360 all of them. So life was very simple, I could 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:57.479 put it that way, Yes, sir, And where do you 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:04.920 fall the youngest? I'm the last ques. Right. Damn man, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:11.000 that's man, especially when you start talking about where money, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.440 you know, it could be a problem for us. It 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.719 was five of us and man, when I say, I 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:22.320 don't ever remember having leftovers, Oh yeah, I don't remember 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.200 ever leftovers. Now we fought over food, brother, Yeah, we 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.440 we did that. Moms will pull up with groceries, hunked 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.560 the horn, hop out with her groceries and then we 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.480 go bum rush the car and we all go to 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.960 our different rooms with hot food on the bed and stuff. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:38.400 And she had to come back in the house. Okay, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.920 give me, give me the water and give me the juice. 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.560 You know. It was funny. I remember that. I remember that. Man. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.760 That's that's back then when when food stamps look like 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.440 Chinese money. You had the little book of stamps. She 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.159 had the white and brown, white and orange. Yeah, man, 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:57.680 I remember that. Wow, that's crazy. Were you raising a 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.680 religious household? I was born in the nation. He was 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:06.040 going into the nation, yes, sir, okay, okay, okay. Let's 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.960 let's talk about the nation. What do you think is 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.640 some of the greatest misconceptions about the nation? Let's see 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.479 and so many I'll say, one of them is that 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.560 we hate white people. For example, we don't hate white people. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.599 We don't really hate anyone, to be honest. We hate 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.359 wickedness and evil. We hate the system that continues to 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:33.760 perpetuate the degradation of other human beings period. Right is right, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.920 Wrong is wrong. So that's one misconception. We don't spend 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.680 our time and energy on hating somebody. We definitely, if 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.279 we chose to, what have every reason to hate white folks. Absolutely, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.240 But do we know we don't focus our time on that. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.520 We know the history, we know the president, we know 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.880 the system, and that is what we focus on is 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.600 dismantling that and building up our own, separating from all 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.320 the evil things, building up the things that we need 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.160 for righteous life or righteous society. That's all I would say. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.599 That's that's one big one. You know that. Uh people 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.480 try to use that and oh, y'all hate white people, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:09.280 you hate Jewish people, you hate this, you hate that, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 always this lie. But we hate hate, hate, hate, hate 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.800 when it's simply speaking the truth. If we speak the 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:19.400 truth about something, now it's hate. And we even have 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.679 some black folks, I mean, you hate black folks because 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.280 I told you to put your damn parts up and 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.160 stop shooting your brother. Now I hate black people, you know, like, 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.840 come on, come on, it's it's just really sad. So 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.120 that hate thing, I would say, it's a big misconception 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.560 when all we do is demonstrate pure love, even if 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:41.680 it's tough love, and it's unadulterated, unfiltered, raw truth. And 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.040 if you operate alone truth, you shouldn't be given no label. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.480 It doesn't matter what culture you are, what ethnic persuasion 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.160 you are, what religion you are. If you operate and 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.160 appreciate truth, then no matter who says it, no matter 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.920 who spreads it, you should appreciate it and it's your 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:03.320 respect it right, the word Muslim alone, it invokes like 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:10.360 rage and some people fear and others. Why is that? 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:15.200 And first of all, the word Muslim means to be 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.400 obedient to the creator. That's it. That's a fact, and 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.240 that's as simple as most people don't even know what 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.120 it means. True. But it scares the hell out of 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.640 that run you know, they blow up something. Yeah, why 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.080 is that? Well? Majorly I will say it was due 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.320 to nine eleven in this generation, you know, the last 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.280 you know, nineteen or twenty years after nine eleven, which 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.200 that was the goal was to target and to label 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.200 and mischaracterize Islam as the new boogeyman, as a target, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.320 as the terrorist, as something that everyone should fear, while 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.920 the government usurped and took power and control over the 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.800 resources in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, et cetera. So 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.840 by picking the second large ist and number one fastest 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.960 growing religion on the planet being Islam, which has a 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.520 record of peace. However, they do have a record of 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.800 self defense, which is another major key. They use that 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.600 as the cover you already know. And it's like, I 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:21.000 hate when they did that because the bombing of the 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:27.360 Twin Towers was heavily sponsored on the inside sponsored by Americans, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.360 heavily not all of America, but certain politicians got paid 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:38.720 certain uh Larry Silverstein will start with him, who placed 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.280 insurance on the Twin Towers uh Coincidentally, within a few 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:45.240 months of the bombing, he put in the insurance policy 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.640 acts of terrorism to be covered. You know, like you 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.880 have flood insurance, you have earthquake insurance. He put acts 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.840 of terrorism in the insurance policy just a few months 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.719 prior to the bombing, and therefore uh he purchased the 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.800 building for a little over three billion, but it was heavily, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.760 heavily contaminated with asbestos, so much so to where it 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.000 was deemed uninhabitable. So why would you allow people to 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.680 inhabit that building? He purchased it put acts of terrorism 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.120 in the insurance policy. Once the building's got hit, he 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.160 got a major insurance payout of over four point two 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.040 billion dollars, so he made over a billion on top 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.840 of what he already spent as an investment initially. I 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.920 mean that when I say nine eleven is a major conspiracy, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.480 not theory, but conspiracy fact. It is well documented. There 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:32.720 over twenty three hundred engineers and architects who have called 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.720 for the reopening of the files on nine eleven because 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:42.000 of the heavy amounts of contradictions, scientific contradictions, engineering, architectural contradictions, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.240 all of it. It made no sense, everything from the 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.079 very physics itself of a building being hit and rather 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.960 than exploding, it imploded straight down inside of itself and 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.640 a demolition format. And Building seven, not too far from 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:57.840 the twin towers, also went down the same way, but 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.280 it wasn't hit by anything. So there are a lot 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.680 of things that have been brought out. Dealer with nine eleven, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:08.199 and again nine eleven was used as the springboard to 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.520 push this hatred towards Islam, when traditionally on the planet, 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.319 we know, yes, there has been some horrible things that 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.560 people have done calling themselves Muslims, just like there have 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.480 been some horrible things done by people who call themselves Christians. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.600 But we already know if you do things that go 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.320 against the principles of your faith, you ain't that You're 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.200 a devil to some devils who call themselves Christians, devils 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.800 who call themselves Muslims, devils who call themselves Jewish people, 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.200 devils who call themselves or whatever. But that ain't Islam 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.600 because Islam means peace, and that was not Islam. That 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:46.959 was something that devils do. Wow, yes, sir. What kind 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.840 of student were you? Oh? Man, you know what, that's 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:53.320 an interesting question. I couldn't stand school. I could not 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.480 stand school. I didn't get straight a's, I would say 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.679 after I don't know after tenth grade eight, man, I 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:06.240 was bees and seas. I did play sports, um not 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.840 in high school actually for the most part. Or you know, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.800 I played pop pop warna football. I did play that 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:16.880 in Lynnwood. You already know who our receiver in corner. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.240 You know sometimes safety but yes, I did that. But 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.199 in school, I couldn't stay in school. I never liked 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.719 the traditional schooling, which is why for the most part, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.240 I never had traditional schooling. Um. I was raised in 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.760 African spirituality. In school, I went to Winnie Mandela Children's Institute, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.680 so I was raised understanding the African principles, understanding the 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.920 history of who we are as a people, all of that. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.360 I was born the nation of Islam, so I was 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.280 praying Arabic before I knew how to pray in English. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.040 And I went to mother uh Since Claire Mohammed School, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.560 and I went to m UI known as Mohamma University 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.839 of Islam when I was younger, both in Compton, California. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.840 Then as I was being raised, I went to Whinny 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:59.360 Mandela Children's Institute. Grew through that. I loved that because 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.319 that gave me the knowledge of who I am, who 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.560 I was, and who we were in the history, everything 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.600 that we built, all of that. So when I started 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.520 going to you could say traditional schooling to a degree. 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.720 I went to Opportunities for Learning, which is a charter school. 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.360 When I started learning certain things in these books now 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.360 all right, now this is white washed fake history. It 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.600 was making my brain hurt because I'm like, no, that 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.640 ain't true. Hell no, that ain't true either. Hell is this? 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.480 I mean it was contradicting the foundational principles and things 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.800 that I was learning before. And you know how this is, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.719 you know, it's it's very This is how it is 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:35.760 when we try to teach people the truth about you know, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.280 let's say the color of Jesus, Santa Claus, the tooth Fairy, 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.160 all the kind of things. Right, if they knew this 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.280 to be true, they're going to have an issue fighting, 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.199 you know, to really learn the truth versus what the 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.560 lie is. Well, me, I was struggling against that lie 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.080 because I knew the truth. So it's the opposite for me. 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.719 So I didn't like high school for the most part. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:00.000 I couldn't stand it because I was being in doctrine 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.959 did when I used to be educated, you see what 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:07.280 I'm saying. So it was difficult. So were you challenging yours? Oh? 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.040 Hell yeah? Brother? Look man, look they couldn't stand me 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.480 at times at times because I was like, I don't 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.400 like this. I would just tell my teacher I don't 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.600 like this. By the time I got to college, brother, 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:24.240 you know, first year in Compton College, I was just like, okay, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.760 you know you're still teaching that Christopher Columbus discovered America. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.600 I mean, come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, killing me right now. 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.480 This is two thousand and two thousand and eight. I'm like, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.560 what is this. I didn't graduate from high school technically, 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.520 that's another thing. You know. I finished my credit, you 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.280 could say, in community college, Compton College. But I had 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.280 a problem through high school up until college and into 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.480 college because it was too much indoctrination. There's too many 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.600 lives that I knew were not true. Why are you 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.880 were talking abou Christopher Columbus discovered America. We know that 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.880 that's not true. Why why does everybody not know this? 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.120 But this is in college they're teaching this. I'm like, no, 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.480 that's not true. It minute. First president was not George Washington. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.440 What are you talking about? If you want to say 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.720 that the Constitution? Okay, man, fine, you can say that, 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.920 but then okay, articles of Confederation. They were at least 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.280 six presidents prior to him before that. I mean, you know, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.160 it's like, what are you talking if there was just 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.640 so much that I was like this is what they're 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.560 teaching people in this country. Well, it makes sense why 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.160 we're all crazy as hell because you lie in everybody, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.880 white folks, black pools. Everybody's being lied to and condition 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:29.800 that made into zombies. Like what is this is what you? Man? Brother? 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.640 I was. I had a very big problem in school. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.480 I just tell you that, how are you able to 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:39.920 circumvent the game culture? In content? Were you able to know? 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.880 That's that's what I was saying. I actually, Um, there's 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.920 certain things you can get around and away from, and 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.760 then there's certain things you have to go through. No 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.840 matter what, you can try to get around it if 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.120 you want to. I'll say it this way. Um, I'll 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.360 learned how to crip walk F five. Um, I was 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.760 being applaud of a crib walking at five or six 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.160 and seven. My my brothers was you know laughing hear 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.560 me on and you know my siblings and and and 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.000 all all of their friends. Um. I smoked weed between 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.680 the age of eight and nine, maybe nine and a 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:13.480 half is when I quit all that. Go ahead, take 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:19.080 a man. I can tell you a lot of stuff. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.720 I was introduced too early, very early, man. I mean 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.000 I was introduced to to the idea of sex around 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.320 what seven or eight, you know, that's that's when pornography 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.680 was on VHS tapes. I was introduced that way. Uh, 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:34.880 shoot fighting and you know, having my you know, my 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.120 brothers made me fight my own friends so that I 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.880 could learn how to fight all that, all this stuff 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.800 before I was a preteen, before I was eleven years old, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.440 all this stuff so that the gang banging. Really I 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.880 wasn't a gang banger because when I was too young. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.920 But there were certain parts of the culture that I 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:54.880 was introduced to, came in contact with slightly, you know, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.480 like I wouldn't even lie to try to exaggerate. I 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:01.400 only had slight touches with certain things. Um, one of 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 my brothers taught me how to how warre cars. First 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.240 car I learned how how wire was my mom's car. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.600 Sorry Mom, if you're watching this, I don't know if 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.400 I've told you that. But first one man and then 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.280 the second one. So ge Rise used to go on 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.919 those um hub caps and brothers they send me on missions. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.480 Go take the hub caps off of this car on 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.879 this house, you know, and go take that and go 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.680 hopping this window, go get that. You're just a little things. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.080 You know I was. I didn't did all that stealing 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.680 all that. I got banned from a the liquor store 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.439 down the street off of a laundre. They put my 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.240 picture up on the wall. Okay, this is when I 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:42.560 was about I think about ten wontingful. Man. Look I'm 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.280 telling you, I got my little my little baby, you know, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.720 criminal record, you know in the industreet. But they put 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:49.320 my face up on the wall and they said do 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.399 not let this child in here. I remember that because 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.280 I went in there and try to steal some some 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.320 little juices. Was there was some juices hot Cheetos is 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.320 before they were car flaming hotchee those that were hot 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.320 cheet those and some other stuff. Man, I think I 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.480 try to steal on the pickles and the ziplock back. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:07.800 They had some of that, and I had it in 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:09.760 the hoodie and I tried to get out real quick, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.000 and then they stopped me and they shook my shirt 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.240 and all this stuff came out and it was like 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.359 get out of here, get out of here, and they 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:16.760 put it up there. And that's when people knew who 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.000 your mama was. I knew who your auntie was, your 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.000 your father, they, I mean they knew, So they put 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:23.399 my face up there and I couldn't go to that 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:26.720 store no more a man. Yeah yeah, I had a 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.399 little little pieces of it, But I was never like, 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.119 you know, never carried a gun, you know, none of 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.760 that kind of stuff. What was in you that made 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.280 you not go down that route? Because it seemed like 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:44.159 a natural transition when you're already fighting and you know, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:49.280 like I guess part time banging or whatever, you're stealing 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.639 out the stories and stuff like that. I mean, it 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.480 seemed like a natural progression, you know, when because often 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:59.840 times we are who we are by conditioning that fact. 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.600 So if you grew up in a certain type of 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.560 environment and that's what's happening in that environment, you kind 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.080 of get acclimated. What made you decide that this is 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.960 not going to be my life? I can tell you 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:17.840 to be honest. It was when my mother and I 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:23.520 moved m Compton. My stepfather had gone to jail, my 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:29.159 older brother had been taken to jail. Um my oldest 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:33.679 brother was killed by one of his friends, m and 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:37.200 then my oldest sister she was on drugs. All these 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.399 different things happened, so the family, piece by piece was 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.480 taken apart. And that at a certain point it would 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.400 just me and my mother, and we moved from Compton. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.360 We lived with my aunt for a certain period of time, 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.280 then we lived with my mother's friend for a certain 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:55.679 period of time in another city, and then we moved 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.280 to another city. I believe it was Paramount at that time. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.040 We lived there for a number of years and I 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.160 was brought to a literacy program. It was after school 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.840 social betterment program that she was working at and she 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:12.159 had me go there, said I can get help with 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:14.520 my homework, you know, get out the environment a little 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.320 bit and get some some mentorship, you could say. And 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.080 again I was that's me coming fresh up out of 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:23.840 the environment. So I'm thinking it's cool. You know. I 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.360 had a real bad cursing problem, horrible stuttering problem. So 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.200 I used to be cursing, had people thinking that's funny. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:32.040 You know. I was a little class clown. That was 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.800 That was me. Now I was a little bad loud, 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.480 my little get that little to get that I was 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.080 that one, okay, Like I don't care who you was, 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:40.840 I would curse you out real quick. That was me. 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.879 Terrible mouth. Now going through this program, that's what helped 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.119 me getting help with my homework, my math, my reading 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.480 um and not being in the environment like that anymore 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.479 on a consistent basis, I had to progress. I had 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.920 no choice because I was put around other people who 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.040 were working on themselves, working on their reading, working on 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.960 their homework, working on community, community communication skills, all these 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.560 different things. So it was being taken out of the environment. 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.160 I was still in Competon, but I wasn't living there. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.080 We were living in Paramount and I was going to 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.560 a program in Compton. So that's I would say, what 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.200 helped to change it. And being given those tools, being 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:25.399 given those principles and those morals. Because I was in 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.080 the mosque from when I was a child up until 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:30.720 maybe six or seven, so I wasn't in the mosque 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.880 after that for years after, so I wasn't around the brotherhood, 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.240 I wasn't around as sisters. I wasn't you know, around 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:40.120 you know, the nation like that at that point. So 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.679 now I'm at this program, but I'm still getting some 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.280 good things, some morals and some principles, etcetera. And that 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.680 is what helped me to progress until came back full 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:51.919 circle back to the mosque and became heavily active. So 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.960 it was that kind of progress. Okay, so I get 0:21:55.000 --> 0:22:01.800 the educational progress. How do you go from better to 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:08.840 rapid speed speaking? You one of the fastest in the game. Man, 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:13.600 how do you do it? Oh? Man? Um, practice, practice, practice. 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.280 When I was in that program, not only was I 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.439 in the program as a student, I transition from being 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:20.480