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- 0:00Speaker 1: Back at it for another episode of The Blonde but
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- 0:07Speaker 1: the Voice of the Disables, and you know where we're
- 0:10Speaker 1: at WTF Media Studio to sixty five Canal Street. I'm
- 0:14Speaker 1: locked in with my boy with another episode. We locked in.
- 0:17Speaker 1: We're taking this shit to another level in this episode
- 0:20Speaker 1: right here, we're gonna get into the concrete jungle the streets.
- 0:27Speaker 1: S t r ee p T were getting into the
- 0:31Speaker 1: streets with this shit. And it's like, shit is different
- 0:36Speaker 1: now with I ride through Brooklyn, I walke through Brooklyn.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Shit is different from when I was like raising, when
- 0:42Speaker 1: I was growing up, and you feel me like I
- 0:46Speaker 1: feel like the streets now is two point five from
- 0:50Speaker 1: when we was growing up. And I asked myself, damn,
- 0:53Speaker 1: why it's I feel like it's because the way the
- 0:57Speaker 1: living arrangements is how we living like. I feel like
- 1:00Speaker 1: we're on top of each other Brooklyn. I felt like
- 1:04Speaker 1: buildings projects were on top of each other, is no space,
- 1:08Speaker 1: it's nothing to breathe. So I feel like it forced
- 1:11Speaker 1: our kids to jump in these streets like to do
- 1:16Speaker 1: bad shit. I'm one of them. I was raised. I
- 1:20Speaker 1: was raised right. I was raised properly, like my mother
- 1:23Speaker 1: put a blood, sweat and tears to make sure I
- 1:25Speaker 1: have the best. But I felt like the best wasn't
- 1:28Speaker 1: good enough for me growing up in the streets of Brooklyn.
- 1:31Speaker 1: So what did know do? I was heavily influenced by
- 1:35Speaker 1: the gang culture, that red color. I was influenced about
- 1:42Speaker 1: getting that fast money selling drugs and shit. I didn't
- 1:46Speaker 1: have to, but I felt like it was the cool
- 1:49Speaker 1: not it was a cool thing to do. I felt
- 1:51Speaker 1: like it was a respect and I felt shsha, you
- 2:00Speaker 1: want to growing up, I felt like when you're part
- 2:05Speaker 1: of that gang culture, you with that nigga, you with
- 2:09Speaker 1: that man on top. I felt like it came with power,
- 2:11Speaker 1: it came with respect. Walking around with beads on your neck,
- 2:15Speaker 1: walking around with a flag in your pocket, I felt
- 2:17Speaker 1: like you couldn't be touched. You jump people, you beat
- 2:23Speaker 1: people up because it's like it's a sense of power
- 2:26Speaker 1: that you have because you're walking around with this color.
- 2:29Speaker 1: Are you banging this color? When really and truly it's not.
- 2:34Speaker 1: It's shit is not worth it. Look at it like
- 2:37Speaker 1: this the big homies that's in these jels. They doing life,
- 2:41Speaker 1: Double Life, and a hundred years, And we're taking all
- 2:45Speaker 1: this from niggas that's behind them, them walls, them jet walls.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Think they give a fuck about you, Think they give
- 2:51Speaker 1: a fuck about your life. No, they're gonna send these
- 2:55Speaker 1: orders from these jels for you to be in there
- 2:56Speaker 1: with them. And I feel like it's even worse now
- 2:59Speaker 1: with these kids. Back in the days, we had hands
- 3:04Speaker 1: like it was guns, but it wasn't accessible the way
- 3:06Speaker 1: it is now. We was beating niggas up back in
- 3:09Speaker 1: the days. Now these kids got switches guns that's holding
- 3:13Speaker 1: thirty bullets. I feel like the I feel like the
- 3:18Speaker 1: streets failed us. I feel like the music failed us
- 3:23Speaker 1: because I felt like it was normalized when Certified Gatesters
- 3:26Speaker 1: came out by Jim Jones. That's the yeah anybody turned
- 3:29Speaker 1: blood me and the video with him and gang they
- 3:33Speaker 1: got the Red Band. Then they ain't Compton. I wanted
- 3:35Speaker 1: to live that life. So what I did? Are you
- 3:40Speaker 1: united with one of them? They give you everything that
- 3:43Speaker 1: makes you feel like this shit is a family, this
- 3:47Speaker 1: is unity. They make you feel like ain't nobody bigger
- 3:50Speaker 1: than us? When really we were just a whole bunch
- 3:53Speaker 1: of niggas that was running around just being dumb. I'm
- 3:57Speaker 1: thirty four years old, so I'm men have to say
- 3:59Speaker 1: that shit, I was dumb because like, at the end
- 4:02Speaker 1: of the day, you can't retire from this gang shit.
- 4:06Speaker 1: You can't get No. Four one k from this gang shit.
- 4:09Speaker 1: It's either you're gonna end up dad jail or you're
- 4:12Speaker 1: gonna have to be undercover, on the on the low
- 4:16Speaker 1: because you couldn't handle the time, so you gave them
- 4:18Speaker 1: people what they wanted. I feel like we need to Uh,
- 4:26Speaker 1: It's like this shit is crazy. Here hold you. This
- 4:28Speaker 1: episode is different because when you fually look at and
- 4:31Speaker 1: see like the problems of why do a lot of
- 4:33Speaker 1: people sit and turn they they life to the streets.
- 4:38Speaker 1: The first thing that people come to mindset is it's
- 4:40Speaker 1: the it's the parenting. But rent so fucking high in
- 4:45Speaker 1: New York City that the mother got to work two jobs,
- 4:48Speaker 1: the father got to do two jobs and work on
- 4:50Speaker 1: the side. So it's not enough time for our kids,
- 4:53Speaker 1: like to spend time with our kids. I feel like
- 4:56Speaker 1: it's not enough programs. I feel like it's not enough
- 5:00Speaker 1: after school activities, not no more basketball. So it's like
- 5:04Speaker 1: what we do we leaving our kids on the corner
- 5:06Speaker 1: with guns, with drugs, with bad influence. Because the music
- 5:11Speaker 1: is way worse than what it is now. Don't get
- 5:14Speaker 1: me wrong, I enjoy it. Well, when you got this
- 5:16Speaker 1: drill ship talk about slying on the ops and all,
- 5:18Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of people don't got ops,
- 5:20Speaker 1: but make they make ops, be honest ship being when
- 5:25Speaker 1: niggas on the next block. Wow, I don't know, but
- 5:29Speaker 1: I feel like it was the cool thing to do.
- 5:32Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know this ship. This episode. I
- 5:35Speaker 1: ain't gonna hold you because like as I'm talking, I'm
- 5:37Speaker 1: thinking about different shit. I'm like, Damn I did that,
- 5:39Speaker 1: Damn I did I really did that. Damn I really
- 5:41Speaker 1: was out there doing this. Damn I did that. And
- 5:42Speaker 1: it's like, damn this ship. Like when you really think
- 5:46Speaker 1: about this, they're like, damn, this was really my life
- 5:49Speaker 1: and and and that ship is crazy to really see
- 5:53Speaker 1: what what you way. I'm gonnap pressed this ship. Now, well,
- 5:58Speaker 1: this was this topic right here than one because it's
- 6:01Speaker 1: a lot of shit that people don't know about me
- 6:02Speaker 1: that they would know. I feel like a lot of
- 6:04Speaker 1: people don't know I was in the gang. They know
- 6:08Speaker 1: now a lot of people don't know if it's all drunk.
- 6:11Speaker 1: They know now. They probably looked at me like as
- 6:14Speaker 1: an angel, like I'm a saint. But I really was
- 6:16Speaker 1: with this shits back in the days. What I if
- 6:20Speaker 1: I could take it back, what I I probably would,
- 6:24Speaker 1: but I probably didn't because I feel like this is
- 6:26Speaker 1: what shape me, you know, like sometimes you got to
- 6:28Speaker 1: go through certain ship to become who you is today.
- 6:33Speaker 1: I feel like that should helped me out a lot.
- 6:35Speaker 1: So it's like then this thigga was make it me work, yo, yo,
- 6:42Speaker 1: And it's crazy. I never thought about this shit before.
- 6:46Speaker 1: I never thought about this and what it's like, what
- 6:51Speaker 1: caused people to join gangs and shit? What makes people
- 6:55Speaker 1: say I don't know d This topic fucked me up
- 7:02Speaker 1: way more than the Forgiveness ship, though, because when you
- 7:07Speaker 1: really think about it, like damn, like it's really no
- 7:10Speaker 1: real reason to join no gangs. It's really no real
- 7:14Speaker 1: reason to be selling no drugs, not when there's so
- 7:17Speaker 1: many jobs out here that's hiring, and I feel like
- 7:20Speaker 1: people just don't take advantage of it. You want to
- 7:24Speaker 1: join the gang, join the basketball team, drain a football
- 7:28Speaker 1: team on track.
- 7:32Speaker 2: I feel like, gang, what about people who say that
- 7:37Speaker 2: they join gangs to protect themselves from other from other
- 7:40Speaker 2: gangs or other dangerous situations.
- 7:43Speaker 1: Is that a good reason to join the game. I
- 7:44Speaker 1: feel like that's not a good reason to join the game.
- 7:46Speaker 1: I feel like that's just a weak answer. You're a
- 7:49Speaker 1: week sol, you're a weak mind, Like joining the gang
- 7:52Speaker 1: not supposed to be for protection. I feel like because
- 7:56Speaker 1: then when you when you join that game, now you
- 7:57Speaker 1: feel like you're the biggest thing. And now it's like
- 7:59Speaker 1: it's just a pattern that's just keep going, because now
- 8:02Speaker 1: you join the game that you're gonna be fucking with
- 8:04Speaker 1: the next kid and making the next kid when they
- 8:05Speaker 1: join the opposite game, which creating more opps what they
- 8:09Speaker 1: say today, which creating more bodies being dropped on these streets,
- 8:13Speaker 1: which creating more people to be like earning a number
- 8:17Speaker 1: to go up state in jails. So I feel like,
- 8:21Speaker 1: like joining the gang, like you're saying you joining the
- 8:25Speaker 1: gang for protection, I feel like you're just a week sold,
- 8:28Speaker 1: You're a weak mind. Like me. After the game, it
- 8:32Speaker 1: was a trend. It was a trend thing. It was cool.
- 8:37Speaker 1: I never joined for protection. I know I could fight.
- 8:40Speaker 1: I know I could defend myself, so it was never
- 8:41Speaker 1: an over a protection thing. Plus when I did shit
- 8:45Speaker 1: and I ran to shit, I never ran back and
- 8:47Speaker 1: got no gang. I always dealt with it. I stand
- 8:49Speaker 1: on business. So I feel like a lot of like
- 8:52Speaker 1: it's different from when I was growing up to now
- 8:54Speaker 1: with these kids. I feel like a lot of these
- 8:56Speaker 1: kids is part of a gang because of protection. But
- 9:01Speaker 1: you don't know that protection is getting your residency out
- 9:05Speaker 1: of somebody's cemetery or earning your forever lifetime stay in
- 9:11Speaker 1: somebody correction facility. I feel like it's a big difference
- 9:16Speaker 1: because nowadays these kids don't fight, they shoot. They scared.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Back in the days, we really put the boxing gloves
- 9:22Speaker 1: on and we fought. These kids nowadays scared to take
- 9:25Speaker 1: ass whippings. I feel like there's really no reason to
- 9:30Speaker 1: be in no gangs. Man should have stupid to be honest, Like,
- 9:37Speaker 1: and I'm around the gangs like opposite colors from me,
- 9:44Speaker 1: and now we chill, we laugh, we joke, and it's like,
- 9:49Speaker 1: like what this gang shit got for us? Nothing but
- 9:53Speaker 1: scars and war wounds and everything else. It ain't worth it.
- 9:59Speaker 1: If I could doing peace Riley to help the kids out.
- 10:02Speaker 1: I definitely would because I feel like I could say
- 10:04Speaker 1: the kid, It's like, man, this gang shit is corny.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Were taking orders from big homies that don't want how
- 10:09Speaker 1: to be big homies. A big homie should have been
- 10:12Speaker 1: like Nigga going to go to school. Big homies should
- 10:15Speaker 1: be telling you how to get a job. A big
- 10:18Speaker 1: homie should be standing on business having you doing dumb shit.
- 10:21Speaker 1: They end up in jail or dad. I feel like
- 10:25Speaker 1: joining it like gangs out here in these streets. You're
- 10:27Speaker 1: just hurting families because not for nothing. I could be
- 10:30Speaker 1: beefing with a nigga down the block. But our moms
- 10:33Speaker 1: go to the same church, My moms work at the
- 10:35Speaker 1: same job. My moms go to the same grocery stores.
- 10:39Speaker 1: My moms communicate and talk to each other. But what
- 10:42Speaker 1: I'm beefing with you? For a lot of times we
- 10:44Speaker 1: be I'm beefing with a nigga that I was in
- 10:45Speaker 1: kindergarten with nigga. We got class pictures together. I feel
- 10:52Speaker 1: like the shit is corny. I feel like not for
- 10:55Speaker 1: nothing beef and twenty twenty four is unnecessary. I feel
- 10:59Speaker 1: like there's no reason be beefing with the next niggacause
- 11:01Speaker 1: at the end of the day, y'all both in the
- 11:02Speaker 1: same predicament.
- 11:03Speaker 2: Well, what if you feel like he beefing with the
- 11:05Speaker 2: next man because he because he took his friend of
- 11:07Speaker 2: his life or something like that.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Uh, you could get back, doesn't mean your friend gonna
- 11:14Speaker 1: come back. Mm hmmm. That pain is still gonna be
- 11:17Speaker 1: in y heart. And then now you take that nigga life.
- 11:23Speaker 1: Now you gotta target on your back. Now, now you're
- 11:27Speaker 1: dodging the police and you dodging the niggas because you
- 11:29Speaker 1: know you got that him on your waistill. So it's
- 11:32Speaker 1: like it goes back to what I said, you ducking
- 11:36Speaker 1: that that penitentiary? Are you ducking that graveyard? Sometimes you
- 11:42Speaker 1: gotta just and then not for nowally dying over nothing
- 11:47Speaker 1: when you asked him white, oh, what you killed him
- 11:50Speaker 1: for or what you part of that beef for. They
- 11:53Speaker 1: don't even know this shit that happened before we was
- 11:56Speaker 1: even we was able to even leave off the block.
- 11:59Speaker 1: This war been going on before we even jumped off
- 12:02Speaker 1: the steps the porch. So you just encourage the beef,
- 12:06Speaker 1: but you don't even know where shits them from. Shit
- 12:09Speaker 1: ain't worth it. No gang's worth it. To be honest,
- 12:14Speaker 1: back then, I was happy on it. Now I see
- 12:17Speaker 1: the little niggas they piece each other. I walk past.
- 12:20Speaker 1: I'm bigger than that. I'm past that. Now I'm pushing peace.
- 12:25Speaker 1: I'm for nothing. It is like ask anybody in these
- 12:29Speaker 1: in these streets of Brooklyn or anywhere, I guarantee you
- 12:33Speaker 1: we use in the same class together. We did plays together.
- 12:37Speaker 1: We was on the same basketball team together. Our mother
- 12:39Speaker 1: was in the same stands root in front of each other.
- 12:42Speaker 1: Our father's probably had conversations in the park playing basketball,
- 12:45Speaker 1: all different types of shit. Well, I'm beefing with you
- 12:47Speaker 1: for you like my brother, you really like my brother.
- 12:53Speaker 1: I'm beefing on with you over our color or what
- 12:55Speaker 1: block you from, or what project you're from. Is this
- 12:59Speaker 1: shit really worth it? It's really not. It's really not
- 13:06Speaker 1: all right here. Man, It's cold blue. They crip. I'm
- 13:11Speaker 1: on the opposite side. But that's my best friend. Once
- 13:16Speaker 1: we see like this gang shit didn't mean nothing the principles.
- 13:18Speaker 1: I feel like these big homies set us up for failure.
- 13:23Speaker 1: Speak on that some more. How we set up for failure.
- 13:27Speaker 1: I feel like these big homies set us up for failure.
- 13:29Speaker 1: Why they put all these bullshit negativity shits in our
- 13:33Speaker 1: head to really react on a fucking color that's in
- 13:37Speaker 1: a cryon box. It's like, what is it doing for us?
- 13:40Speaker 1: It's not putting no money in our pockets. It's not
- 13:43Speaker 1: making us smarter. A lot some people know the gang
- 13:45Speaker 1: book way more than they know a textbook. I don't
- 13:49Speaker 1: see your big homie telling you did you do your
- 13:51Speaker 1: homework today? Did you go to school today? Are you graduating?
- 13:54Speaker 1: They don't give a fuck about that. Why because they're
- 13:57Speaker 1: not shipping. They don't want you to be shipped. The
- 14:00Speaker 1: cycle keep goesing on people that are big homan. I
- 14:04Speaker 1: don't want to be. I'm not your big homie. Don't
- 14:06Speaker 1: refer to me your big homie. I'm not like big bro.
- 14:13Speaker 1: Yeah I'm big bro because I'm gonna tell you, don't
- 14:15Speaker 1: do the bullshit, go to school, not for nothing like Russia.
- 14:20Speaker 1: I don't came from when niggas, you know, back in
- 14:24Speaker 1: the days. I don't know if you got did it
- 14:25Speaker 1: in Texas, but when people used to have crates and
- 14:28Speaker 1: you used to play basketball in the crate or in
- 14:30Speaker 1: the garbage and shit like that. Oh, for sure. Like that.
- 14:32Speaker 1: People had hoop dreams back in the days, playing on
- 14:35Speaker 1: them garbages and crates, or playing football in the middle
- 14:37Speaker 1: of the streets. Now you see them with a flag
- 14:40Speaker 1: and it's like, damn, bro, you could have made it.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Yeah what happened? Yeah? And then when you look, you
- 14:45Speaker 1: see that that doofy no good, dirty ass nigga that's
- 14:49Speaker 1: standing there behind them, pulling them back. Now, you had
- 14:52Speaker 1: a mission to due. You gotta drill. The dude, got
- 14:55Speaker 1: that work to move. I said that, you nigga, You
- 14:57Speaker 1: being the one that saying, say, nigga, throw that football,
- 15:00Speaker 1: shoot that basketball, hit that baseball like that could be
- 15:04Speaker 1: I take it out the hood. Go get some money
- 15:06Speaker 1: the legal way. But know what it is though, in Brooklyn,
- 15:09Speaker 1: nobody can't be better than you. That's the mentality that
- 15:12Speaker 1: people have. Nobody can't be bigger than me. This nigga
- 15:17Speaker 1: got a scholarsh. I'm gonna find a way to tear
- 15:18Speaker 1: this shit out. You got that man out of contract.
- 15:22Speaker 1: I don't got it. I'm gonna find a way to
- 15:24Speaker 1: fuck your life up. Now, come on ride with me
- 15:27Speaker 1: in the car with this gun. We got some work
- 15:29Speaker 1: to do. Oh, we gotta we gotta send money to
- 15:32Speaker 1: the big homies at some time. You got we got
- 15:34Speaker 1: the drugs to sell. Shit just don't be worth it, bro,
- 15:39Speaker 1: And that's the mentality that a lot of people have.
- 15:41Speaker 1: You can't be bigger than me. You gotta be at
- 15:43Speaker 1: a level with me. You gotta be under me. M h.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Everybody around me always tell them FOB family of bosses.
- 15:51Speaker 1: We all bosses. But make sure you're able to float.
- 15:54Speaker 1: If FOB was the ever fall, because I'm gonna make
- 15:57Speaker 1: sure I float, if I and if I drow, make
- 16:02Speaker 1: sure your brain float. I don't. I want my niggas
- 16:05Speaker 1: to be better than me. I want my son to
- 16:07Speaker 1: be better at me. I want the niggas around me
- 16:08Speaker 1: to be better than me. Why because it's a friendly competition.
- 16:12Speaker 1: I'm gonna see you at the top, Brom. I gonna
- 16:15Speaker 1: beat my niggas down and had them in the corner
- 16:19Speaker 1: like nah. I feel like it's enough money, it's enough fame,
- 16:23Speaker 1: it's enough everything out here for all of us. A
- 16:25Speaker 1: lot of people don't see that shit because it's like
- 16:29Speaker 1: the monds that people have. If it's two thousand dollars
- 16:33Speaker 1: on the table, I'm not gonna take a thousand you
- 16:36Speaker 1: take a thousand, I gotta take a thousand and one.
- 16:39Speaker 1: You gotta be left with the ninety nine nine. I
- 16:42Speaker 1: gotta have more than you. And I feel like that's
- 16:44Speaker 1: what's wrong with the world today. That's why I feel
- 16:47Speaker 1: like what's wrong in our community is today, Nah, I
- 16:52Speaker 1: can't afford them and Mary's and you got them, I'm
- 16:55Speaker 1: gonna take them that nigga, just work hard for these bands.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Why you can't do the same shit he did. I
- 17:03Speaker 1: feel like nobody don't want to work no more. Nobody
- 17:04Speaker 1: don't want to do Nobody don't want to do the
- 17:07Speaker 1: work no more. I feel like that's what's wrong with
- 17:09Speaker 1: our community. It's fucked up. As sad as I say,
- 17:14Speaker 1: it's fucked up, and I'm scared because my son growing
- 17:16Speaker 1: up in this world. So it's like I'm stuck between
- 17:20Speaker 1: a rock and hop place because it's like I stopped
- 17:23Speaker 1: myself from wearing the design and ship and want to
- 17:26Speaker 1: dress a certain way and be fly because out there
- 17:28Speaker 1: is the wolves. I feel like if I'm dressing my
- 17:31Speaker 1: son up like this, I'm throwing him to the wolves.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Is that fair? That is not fair. It's like I
- 17:40Speaker 1: feel like my son dressing the way he's dressing, I'm
- 17:42Speaker 1: creating more problems for him. Bad enough. He's a black
- 17:45Speaker 1: kid growing up in the streets of Brooklyn. People gonna
- 17:50Speaker 1: look at him. He thinks he's better than us because
- 17:52Speaker 1: he got this. He got that now, and then you're
- 17:55Speaker 1: gonna try to hurt my son. And then you got
- 17:57Speaker 1: the cops on the other hand, that's going right down
- 17:59Speaker 1: the block and cell he got this, he must be
- 18:01Speaker 1: selling drugs. Let me pull them over. I feel I'm
- 18:06Speaker 1: more scared for my I'm more scared for my son
- 18:08Speaker 1: to walk the streets than me, and I got shot
- 18:11Speaker 1: three times. So it's like, damn if I do, Damn
- 18:17Speaker 1: if I don't. I can't tell him, no, I'm not
- 18:20Speaker 1: gonna buy you this ship. Why because it's people that's
- 18:24Speaker 1: gonna try to take it in and they'll kill you
- 18:25Speaker 1: for this ship. Because he ain't gonna see my son
- 18:28Speaker 1: never been through nothing, hall, he never witnessed nothing in
- 18:31Speaker 1: hard You never see no traumatic shit, so you don't
- 18:33Speaker 1: know how that ship is on the outside, right, So
- 18:37Speaker 1: it's like, damn if I do, Damn if I don't.
- 18:38Speaker 1: I never got nephews that growing up in these ships,
- 18:40Speaker 1: So it's like shit is scary because our generation was bad,
- 18:45Speaker 1: but the generation behind us is even fucked up. They
- 18:50Speaker 1: shooting just to shoot, They're killing mothers, they killing babies.
- 18:54Speaker 1: In that picture of my son generation, you're gonna think
- 18:57Speaker 1: this ship is grand death for though niggas running down
- 19:01Speaker 1: killn and and it's sad to say it. I feel
- 19:06Speaker 1: like there's no solution to this ship. I feel the
- 19:10Speaker 1: shit is gonna keep growing and growing and getting bigger
- 19:12Speaker 1: and bigger.
- 19:13Speaker 2: You think there's no way to stop it.
- 19:15Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think it's gonna be a longer
- 19:17Speaker 1: way to stop. There's not enough money in Brooklyn. Sad
- 19:21Speaker 1: to say not enough money in Brooklyn. Wow, how much
- 19:26Speaker 1: is your average your apartment in Brooklyn? Two thousan twenty
- 19:34Speaker 1: five three thousand to accommodate a three family like a
- 19:40Speaker 1: three bedroom right now? Yeah, your mother got a bus
- 19:43Speaker 1: hot ass out there just to make sure the rent
- 19:46Speaker 1: is paid, the light building, all that shit pays, which
- 19:48Speaker 1: you mean that's taken away from the time that she
- 19:52Speaker 1: gotta spend White kids, that taken away from them. Joined
- 19:56Speaker 1: that these kids want these pants, that these kids want
- 19:59Speaker 1: that they watching it artists and they want to dress
- 20:01Speaker 1: like them, and all that that shit. They don't She
- 20:03Speaker 1: don't have the money for that ship. She barely had
- 20:05Speaker 1: money to put on the table for them to eat.
- 20:08Speaker 1: So what that makes that kid do? I'm gonna I'm
- 20:10Speaker 1: fed up from this ship. I'm gonna go outside and
- 20:14Speaker 1: guess who want that going on? Them gangs? Now you're
- 20:18Speaker 1: looking at the gangs. They got the newest jo ing zone,
- 20:21Speaker 1: they got the chain zone, they got a pocket full
- 20:23Speaker 1: of money. This this that I want that? So they
- 20:26Speaker 1: what that kid gonna do? You're gonna drain the gangs
- 20:28Speaker 1: and this shit is gonna keep living on and on
- 20:30Speaker 1: and on. Right, how long two Key Williams been Look
- 20:34Speaker 1: how these big gang like gang started in the seventies,
- 20:40Speaker 1: sixty fifties. Look look what it is today. What is
- 20:45Speaker 1: it about.
- 20:47Speaker 2: The streets and like gang culture that you want young
- 20:51Speaker 2: kids to pay attention to? Because I think a lot
- 20:53Speaker 2: of the time when you're young, it's like you're too
- 20:56Speaker 2: busy being in the moment, You're too busy living. You
- 20:58Speaker 2: don't really got the wisdom yet to like take a
- 21:01Speaker 2: step back and see the big picture, like the whole picture.
- 21:04Speaker 2: Because maybe if you step back and you can see everything,
- 21:07Speaker 2: then they'd.
- 21:07Speaker 1: Be like Oh, this is what's going on. This is
- 21:09Speaker 1: what it really is, but they can't see it because
- 21:11Speaker 1: they two in it. I would tell her care pretty much,
- 21:15Speaker 1: you're not living when you went the game. You're not living.
- 21:18Speaker 1: You survive, You're trying to survive. It's a big difference.
- 21:21Speaker 1: Living is when you're walking down the street. You don't
- 21:23Speaker 1: got to worry about nobody gunning, trying to gun you down, No,
- 21:26Speaker 1: none of that because you're not part of nothing. You're
- 21:28Speaker 1: not socializing. What the nigga that didn't shot at us
- 21:31Speaker 1: the other day? When you win a gang coach are
- 21:34Speaker 1: you're trying to survive. It's a big difference. Every day
- 21:38Speaker 1: we outside, we're trying to survive. We're trying to beat
- 21:42Speaker 1: the odds of getting killed. Like matter of fact, for instance,
- 21:48Speaker 1: my best friend J six, he's been there for thirteen
- 21:52Speaker 1: years now before he died. I ain't never think, uh,
- 21:58Speaker 1: trauma can happen to us. I never thought we can
- 22:02Speaker 1: be like we could die. I'm keep it real. I
- 22:05Speaker 1: never thought we could die. I feel like we was
- 22:07Speaker 1: untouchable because it wasn't normal to me. But then getting
- 22:13Speaker 1: a call and saying that he's on Broadway and they
- 22:18Speaker 1: shot him that shaild fucked me up, and like just
- 22:23Speaker 1: going and seeing the police and all, I'm like, damn,
- 22:25Speaker 1: this shit ain't supposed to happen to us. He was
- 22:28Speaker 1: untouchable going to the hospital and they said he's he
- 22:31Speaker 1: didn't make it. That shit made me look at life
- 22:34Speaker 1: totally different. And then it's like the way the streets like,
- 22:40Speaker 1: oh he was a crip fuck that nigga, ain't you blood?
- 22:44Speaker 1: I look like this is my real friend. No color mattered.
- 22:49Speaker 1: So it's like I feel like you surviving out here
- 22:52Speaker 1: in these streets. And then when you think about, like
- 22:54Speaker 1: what you died for, You died for nothing for. You
- 22:57Speaker 1: died because somebody couldn't take ass for me. That's what
- 23:02Speaker 1: he died for, because niggas can't take ask with me.
- 23:05Speaker 1: And you're saying, say to yourself, it wasn't worth it.
- 23:09Speaker 1: I felt like he he definitely was gonna be great.
- 23:11Speaker 1: He was. He was retarded, but he was that person
- 23:15Speaker 1: that you needed to when you're having that bad day,
- 23:17Speaker 1: you're gonna laugh. You want joke. Thirteen years he gone,
- 23:22Speaker 1: his life didn't even start yet, Like shit never worth it.
- 23:29Speaker 1: My son jac rested so and it's crazy I can
- 23:32Speaker 1: sit here and name so many dead homies, and it's like,
- 23:37Speaker 1: what did they get Now they get their kids behind
- 23:41Speaker 1: this ship, they taking care of it, this ship taking
- 23:42Speaker 1: care of their kids.
- 23:46Speaker 2: I don't I don't think can you speak to that, like,
- 23:49Speaker 2: can you speak to like if you got kids and
- 23:53Speaker 2: you in this gang ship, Like, one thing you gotta
- 23:54Speaker 2: know is that this gang ship not gonna take care
- 23:57Speaker 2: of your kids once you're gone.
- 23:59Speaker 1: One thing for your tool things for certain. When you
- 24:02Speaker 1: decide to take that red pill, that blue pill, whatever
- 24:05Speaker 1: pill it is out there, the land Kings, or whatever
- 24:08Speaker 1: the case may be, just know you are feeling your
- 24:12Speaker 1: kids for the simple fact the day you put them
- 24:17Speaker 1: cuffs on, or the day that somebody take your life,
- 24:21Speaker 1: you're just leaving your kid in the world to survive,
- 24:24Speaker 1: to find for theyself, which means the cycle just gonna
- 24:27Speaker 1: keep going because your kid going following your same foot steps,
- 24:30Speaker 1: that same game that you was part of, that you
- 24:33Speaker 1: died for nothing for gonna be right there holding your
- 24:36Speaker 1: your kid here and making it feel like be all
- 24:39Speaker 1: for you when they just signed your kid up to
- 24:42Speaker 1: follow your same foot steps, to be behind them walls
- 24:46Speaker 1: to die too. I'm not ashamed to say it. One
- 24:51Speaker 1: thing for your tooth. Things for certain. My son never
- 24:53Speaker 1: seen none of that shit like my soign been on
- 24:59Speaker 1: the honor row for eight years in a road. Bro,
- 25:02Speaker 1: I'm on his ass when he does something that a
- 25:05Speaker 1: father in the streets are like, yo, that laughing, like
- 25:08Speaker 1: that shit is cool. No, it's not cool. Me not
- 25:10Speaker 1: doing this. Bro, You're a king. You're gonna be better
- 25:14Speaker 1: than me. I made the mistakes in my life, so
- 25:17Speaker 1: you won't. I pretty much. When I was out here
- 25:20Speaker 1: doing what I was doing, I was just straighten out
- 25:23Speaker 1: the road for my son to walk. So all the
- 25:26Speaker 1: crooked words the streets and I'm fucking potholes and all
- 25:31Speaker 1: that shit. I feel like I fixed the streets enough
- 25:33Speaker 1: up so my son could walk and I don't got
- 25:35Speaker 1: to worry about none of that shit. So that's why
- 25:38Speaker 1: I'm on his bag about it. Did you do your
- 25:39Speaker 1: own work? That's why I went to school court and
- 25:41Speaker 1: say he did sign. I'm on his ass, I threatened him,
- 25:44Speaker 1: Yeah I do, but you would not. I'm not losing
- 25:47Speaker 1: my son to the streets because then I don't give
- 25:53Speaker 1: a fuck. I let him do what he do. My
- 25:56Speaker 1: son GoF for bid life get taken well, I'm gonna
- 26:00Speaker 1: just sit there and look on soci media and everybody
- 26:02Speaker 1: just put him up or he went out like a
- 26:03Speaker 1: g your resting piece to such and such. Gang Ah,
- 26:08Speaker 1: that shit is calling you, brocause to be honest, after
- 26:11Speaker 1: them ten days, nobody gonna put you up no more.
- 26:16Speaker 1: After a month, nigga, they moved on to the next person.
- 26:21Speaker 1: After a month? What they doing They forget about you?
- 26:26Speaker 1: Because really, because really and truly when you daddy and
- 26:29Speaker 1: you gone, yeah, they going with your shirts, rest in
- 26:33Speaker 1: pieces such and such. He was a real nigga. Yeah,
- 26:36Speaker 1: you're gonna get your Facebook fame, everybody tagging the page.
- 26:39Speaker 1: I'm crying, Damn bro, this shit, this ship broke my heart.
- 26:43Speaker 1: You're gonna be you know what I mean. They're gonna
- 26:44Speaker 1: drink their dog HOLI yo, they hennessy. Yeah, they gonna
- 26:47Speaker 1: smoke like yo. Bro, I'm just blunt for you. But
- 26:50Speaker 1: when that month is gone, they gonna be going to
- 26:54Speaker 1: The memory is gonna be going too. They ain't getting
- 26:57Speaker 1: a cloud off you no more. They might revisit it
- 26:59Speaker 1: when you're in a come the day you die or
- 27:01Speaker 1: your birthday come, but man, they moving on with their
- 27:04Speaker 1: life then giving a fuck about what happened last month,
- 27:07Speaker 1: Like this world is just like it's for the moment.
- 27:11Speaker 1: I feel like niggas live in a moment. Half the
- 27:13Speaker 1: niggas that saying say that was my bro. You just
- 27:15Speaker 1: met them niggas last week. I feel like this this
- 27:19Speaker 1: shit is stupid because even now, like I don't post
- 27:23Speaker 1: my man J six, he died thirteen years ago. I don't.
- 27:26Speaker 1: I feel like I don't gotta post him to validate them. Yeah,
- 27:29Speaker 1: hit my heart. I got his name tattoo. I got
- 27:31Speaker 1: him tattooed on me. I can never get that back.
- 27:34Speaker 1: But the people that went the cloud and they write
- 27:36Speaker 1: on the facebooks and they put it up on Instagram, this, that,
- 27:39Speaker 1: and the third is like and then you're really saying
- 27:41Speaker 1: asks like what do you miss about him the most?
- 27:45Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know they just missed because
- 27:46Speaker 1: he was part of their gang. Shit is calling him
- 27:50Speaker 1: you gotta do better, You gotta do better, and not
- 27:53Speaker 1: for not not even even it's not even the mothers.
- 27:56Speaker 1: I feel like the men in this world gotta do
- 27:57Speaker 1: better because I feel like, as a man in this world,
- 28:01Speaker 1: you see your next door neighbor's son doing some bullshit,
- 28:06Speaker 1: address that ship, check that shit. Don't just walk past
- 28:08Speaker 1: and saying and say that's none of my business. Like
- 28:11Speaker 1: sometimes you got kids in your community, to take them,
- 28:13Speaker 1: start a basketball, toeing them and keep their mind occupied.
- 28:17Speaker 1: Y'll come in a little homie like, let me put
- 28:18Speaker 1: my arms around you, like sponsor these kids, be these kids,
- 28:22Speaker 1: sponsor or. Let me show you something different, something that
- 28:26Speaker 1: you never seen before, like music. Come on, let's go
- 28:29Speaker 1: to the studio. Let me show you something. That's why
- 28:31Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of these record labels and shit,
- 28:34Speaker 1: and me and Drell talked about it. I feel like
- 28:36Speaker 1: they should put their hands around a lot of these
- 28:38Speaker 1: kids because they influence these kids in these streets. Nah,
- 28:42Speaker 1: I'm not gonna teach you how to drill, be a drill,
- 28:44Speaker 1: little to drill or pick up the switch. I'm gonna
- 28:46Speaker 1: tell you. I'm gonna teach you how to press these
- 28:48Speaker 1: buttons to make magic. Let me teach you how to
- 28:51Speaker 1: work this studio. Let me teach you to let me
- 28:54Speaker 1: teach you how to make a beat. I feel like
- 28:56Speaker 1: a lot of people don't do that shit at It's
- 28:59Speaker 1: a lot of park like that never made it. Nah,
- 29:02Speaker 1: let me put my hands around you because I feel
- 29:04Speaker 1: like you got the potential. Let me let me. I
- 29:05Speaker 1: fucked up in life, so let me let me. Let
- 29:07Speaker 1: me give you games so you won't fuck up. Let
- 29:10Speaker 1: me show you how to shoot that basketball, let me
- 29:13Speaker 1: show you this crossover. But instead we see these kids,
- 29:17Speaker 1: we say what up? And we keep you pushing, knowing
- 29:18Speaker 1: that they're doing wrong. I feel like we're not doing enough.
- 29:23Speaker 1: I feel like instead we just walked past, and and
- 29:26Speaker 1: when we walk past, it's like, damn, we could have
- 29:29Speaker 1: saved that life. Now it's gone. Now you at the funeral,
- 29:33Speaker 1: you're going to show your love and your respect, knowing
- 29:34Speaker 1: that you could have probably avoided that shit. I feel
- 29:39Speaker 1: like as men, we have to we have to do
- 29:41Speaker 1: better as men, like we the leaders right, like we're
- 29:45Speaker 1: supposed to lead. I feel like men ain't leading in
- 29:50Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. The women is you see a lot
- 29:54Speaker 1: of these NBA draft getting drafted and all this other shit.
- 29:57Speaker 1: The mother is there about the fathers? I feel like
- 30:01Speaker 1: we gotta lead coaches in these schools, these principals, these
- 30:05Speaker 1: deans don't look at this these schools as a job.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Look at it as you're here to save these kids.
- 30:11Speaker 1: And now that's why I gotta give a shout out
- 30:12Speaker 1: to jeff Tomas Jefferson, FDNY. They saved me. That's when
- 30:16Speaker 1: I feel like I ain't gonna lie. They saved me.
- 30:19Speaker 1: I was in the SHTAOTD they you turn around. I
- 30:20Speaker 1: was fighting, but they put their arms around me. The
- 30:24Speaker 1: principal showed that he cared about me. I had a
- 30:26Speaker 1: white principal, but he showed that you got a gift.
- 30:31Speaker 1: Mister Green, the EMT, he cared about me. Yo, come in,
- 30:33Speaker 1: look at this like I'm rolling in through the hallways.
- 30:36Speaker 1: He pulled me inside the MT class. First time I
- 30:39Speaker 1: got introduced to EMS was childbirth. I'm watching them. I'm like, damn,
- 30:43Speaker 1: that shit nasty, that shit coming out of that. He's like, yo,
- 30:46Speaker 1: just come, like just come, just come, just come. Until
- 30:49Speaker 1: I picked that shit up, I became an EMT. So
- 30:53Speaker 1: I feel like like the teachers, the principals, the pastors
- 30:57Speaker 1: and all. I feel like we all have a hand
- 30:59Speaker 1: that you can stop and change the world. But we
- 31:02Speaker 1: gotta do it and not look for a check behind it.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Once I check, come out your head. I feel like
- 31:07Speaker 1: a lot of kids to be saved. Bro, I'm willing
- 31:10Speaker 1: to go on the tour to talk to the kids
- 31:13Speaker 1: that's in the gangs. I don't want to talk to
- 31:15Speaker 1: the kids that's on the honor Road. I don't want
- 31:17Speaker 1: to talk to the kids that's preppy and all that.
- 31:19Speaker 1: I want to talk to the kids that's in the streets.
- 31:22Speaker 1: I want to I want to do a tour with
- 31:23Speaker 1: different schools. I want to talk to the kids that
- 31:24Speaker 1: feel like drilling is their only option. I want to
- 31:27Speaker 1: talk to those kids and let them know, like, man,
- 31:30Speaker 1: life ain't good. I got shot. Where are you all
- 31:34Speaker 1: at now? Everybody going? I was just for the moment.
- 31:41Speaker 1: My real ones are still here. But I just shows
- 31:44Speaker 1: who when you're in a hard time, you won't really
- 31:47Speaker 1: see who there for you? Who are not there for you?
- 31:49Speaker 1: Free hooding time. I'm saying it backwards. Stand up, nigga.
- 31:54Speaker 1: My man doing nineteen years in jail for murder six kids?
- 32:00Speaker 1: Is out here? Who lost?
- 32:02Speaker 2: Here?
- 32:04Speaker 1: The kids? You're doing your time, but who's really losing?
- 32:09Speaker 1: Your kids losing? But now Christmas is coming, you're not there.
- 32:14Speaker 1: Birthdays is coming, you're not there. Graduations is coming, you're
- 32:18Speaker 1: not there. They first heartbreak, you're not there. So I
- 32:24Speaker 1: guess what? And they and a lot of these kids. Mind,
- 32:29Speaker 1: it's gonna let my father wasn't there. Who the fuck
- 32:31Speaker 1: is him to tell me what to do? Then? Or
- 32:35Speaker 1: you might have those kids to sit and say, oh,
- 32:38Speaker 1: my father went out like a g they're gonna they
- 32:41Speaker 1: praise him in this gang world. In this gang world,
- 32:44Speaker 1: I'm gonna following his footsteps like the movie South Central
- 32:49Speaker 1: Bobby Johnson, what the jelly for? Murder? Right right? And
- 32:53Speaker 1: then look what look with his right hand man. Dad
- 32:55Speaker 1: took his son and you want this money? Go still
- 32:58Speaker 1: out of go still live? Radio was out, the cars
- 33:02Speaker 1: got shine it back and then look at it. The
- 33:04Speaker 1: results got my son in here to try to kill
- 33:07Speaker 1: him in and shot him in the back because he
- 33:08Speaker 1: stole his ship out the car. But they're supposed to
- 33:12Speaker 1: be the big homes, right. Nah. A man doing nineteen
- 33:17Speaker 1: years and jail his kids ever called me, I'm I'm
- 33:19Speaker 1: gonna be there the best I can. I'm not gonna
- 33:21Speaker 1: say and tell you, oh, I'm gonna give you these
- 33:22Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you to give you these drugs. Selling
- 33:25Speaker 1: whatever you sell, you keep. Nah. That's like I'm just
- 33:29Speaker 1: like just reliving the cycle all over again. I'm creating
- 33:33Speaker 1: a monster. Nah, gotta give these kids opportunities. And that's all.
- 33:37Speaker 1: I'm here to give these kids opportunities. That's all. That's
- 33:40Speaker 1: that's my job, that's all I'm trying to do. Just
- 33:43Speaker 1: give him my opportunity. Not just my son, but my
- 33:45Speaker 1: nephews and people, the kids that's around me that look
- 33:48Speaker 1: up to me and talk to me. I just want
- 33:50Speaker 1: to give him opportunity.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Man. First of all, thank you for sharing all this
- 33:56Speaker 2: game and all this wisdom, bro, because I think somebody
- 33:59Speaker 2: is deaf gonna benefit from hearing this. I think a
- 34:02Speaker 2: lot of the time when it comes to just being
- 34:05Speaker 2: young and black, it's like it's the lack of exposure
- 34:08Speaker 2: why you don't got something, you know what I mean,
- 34:10Speaker 2: Or lack of exposure.
- 34:11Speaker 1: You can't do something because you.
- 34:12Speaker 2: Don't even know, you don't know what you don't know.
- 34:14Speaker 1: But knowledge tried.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Yeah, but knowledge is power though, and so like coming
- 34:19Speaker 2: from your perspective, because you know, one thing about youth
- 34:21Speaker 2: is they don't really respect shit from niggas who hasn't
- 34:24Speaker 2: even walked in the lifestyle. And you coming from a
- 34:27Speaker 2: perspective of somebody that has walked from the lifestyle, and
- 34:31Speaker 2: I think your opinion matters.
- 34:32Speaker 1: Just that much more because it's coming from wisdom. It's
- 34:34Speaker 1: not theory. Like it's not like a teacher being like
- 34:36Speaker 1: you shouldn't do this. It's like, nah, I look like you, nigga.
- 34:39Speaker 1: I live where you live, Nigga. I come from where
- 34:41Speaker 1: you come from, and I can tell you personally one thousand.
- 34:45Speaker 1: It's saying being black, you gotta target on your back already.
- 34:48Speaker 1: For being black. Every day you walk in the streets,
- 34:50Speaker 1: you got to target already, So why would you create
- 34:52Speaker 1: more targets? You black and you you're a black man
- 34:57Speaker 1: growing up in this world, you gotta target on your back.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Ord Listen, man, I think I think you said everything
- 35:04Speaker 2: you needed to say. Bro, I think it's good. Let's listen.
- 35:07Speaker 2: If there's one more thing you want to say to him,
- 35:09Speaker 2: try to wrap it up, make it concise, make a
- 35:11Speaker 2: poignant for him.
- 35:12Speaker 1: But like, what do you want the kids to know?
- 35:14Speaker 1: And then we can what's take them home? Every day
- 35:17Speaker 1: you wake up, every second that you breathing, make it count.
- 35:24Speaker 1: The great powerful wallow twenty years in jail, sad on
- 35:29Speaker 1: your tombstone. They got the day you was born and
- 35:32Speaker 1: the day you died. It's a dash in the middle
- 35:34Speaker 1: of them. Two dates. Make that shit break down, be greatness.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Make that fucking long gas line that's in between them,
- 35:41Speaker 1: two dates, make that shit stretch, because they're gonna have
- 35:44Speaker 1: to motherfucking make a whole magazine about all the great
- 35:47Speaker 1: shit you did. Put the flags down. It ain't worth it, man,
- 35:50Speaker 1: were pushing peace. I am FOBC no the hood Ray Charles,
- 35:54Speaker 1: the Blonde Pope. If you lasty, the official blond step
- 35:57Speaker 1: of the Voice of the Disabled, the Voice of the Streets,
- 36:00Speaker 1: And I'm out of here.