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Greed Destroyed Us · The Volume Shift

• Jhalil: That's it. Deion: that shit but it's so crazy because like I feel like we follow a lot of that shit. Like if you look Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: at our communities the same way like that they do it, I feel like we do that to each other. Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: You get what I'm saying? If a person don't wanna see you above them, they do all kinds of like, you know what I'm saying, pull you down type shit, like be telling you, no, that that's impossible and all of these things, like, no, that's that other shit. You feel me? Like motherfuckers start having them sayings like, that's that white shit. You know what I mean? Throwing stuff Jhalil: Hmm Deion: in the Throwing stuff in the pot that that's gonna stir it up. Cause if we already Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: got a thing with white people, it's like to say that is like, now I gotta back off whatever I was gonna do. And it's like, man, that's crazy work. And but I feel like that's the same thing that the people at the at, you know, in in those positions do and should. Jhalil: Yeah, I'm gonna rush it. Damn it. Deion: You know what I'm saying? 'cause why else why else wouldn't it where you want equality? Like want everybody to be on an equal plane, you feel me? Like, and I think the worst thing probably to happen to humanity is like when greed came in. Jhalil: Yeah, for sure, bro. Deion: If you fast forward now, it's like even the men gotta have multiple women. Everybody gotta have all the cars. You gotta have all the money. Like goddamn, you feel me? Like, not even knowing, you know, every time a million is made, that's a million taken away from Million motherfuckers, you feel what I'm saying? Jhalil: Okay. Deion: and there's no care for that. It's like you should have got yours. You know what I mean? but it's like, man, it's so disgusting, you feel me? Like and I feel like everybody Jhalil: I said, Remyance. Deion: can like do their part. You know what I'm saying? Just do you. You feel me? Whatever you you bring to this world, Jhalil: Hmm? Deion: the money factor and all that, cause that's shit. That's what, you know me? You having a Black Friday show and everybody rushing the door. It's like you feel me, like how the fuck? Jhalil: That's why I'm kind of happy that like, I'm like, I ain't gonna say that I'm happy that I had to come up the way that I did, but like, I am, I am proud of that shit, bro, cause it made me realize like what's important and what's not. You feel me? Like now I can sit on the outside of the box and look in, cause it's like, bro, there's no way I'm not, I'm not waiting in line. This has been $500 on some sneaks. I'm not. about to do certain shit. I'm not about to hurt other motherfuckers, step on all these people back just so I can drive a S550 and all that. it ain't that deep, bro. These are things. But it's like that fear, Motherfuckers in America, bro, like people who are winning, bro, they keep that separation because they know, bro, like the more people that get together, bro, that shit gonna die too fast. And it's like, it's on us as the people at the bottom and people that's doing okay, they'd be like, no, bro, this is what we gotta do to make it to that next job, And it's fair on both sides. It's fair on our level too, cause it's like, damn, even niggas in the hood. Like you worried about seventh street. You feel me? Where it's though like, damn, we on fifth street. Let's get money with seventh street. Let's see what's going on on sixth street. Let's see how we can bring third street in. Feel me, Deion: Work. Jhalil: now that shit is quadruple the pot. But it's like, you getting all the funds, you trying to get everything for yourself, bro. And it's like, damn. All that for what? And then it's like, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: you get this shit and then fall into the group of people that you don't even fuck with. It's crazy. Get it, dawg. Deion: That's why I'm saying we take on the behaviors of the masters. why like to be that greedy? if you got blocks, bro, that's your blocks, cool. that's all you need, you don't need like he'd be like, I'ma take over the whole city. Jhalil: Hey, Calm down, Deion: So that takes away from everything else. You get what I'm saying? And then we got this thing that one person gotta be the above and then it's the pyramid going down. You feel me? So our shit is always president, vice pres like you get what I'm saying? So even on the streets it's the same thing. Like you got the boss and the workers and you know what I'm saying? Runners and all these different it's like, nah, like That's where the cat and that they fucked us over. You know what I mean? Cause it's a Jhalil: BLEH Deion: is a life thing, is everybody could be included. You feel me? Jhalil: Yeah, bro. Deion: it don't for one person to be making all the money, making all the decisions, that's crazy. Jhalil: You're real red, bro. That shit definitely is Deion: Yeah, I think okay. Jhalil: crazy, man. That hierarchy attitude, bro. That's part of the reason shit fucked up. It's like, damn. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: Can't even really blame motherfuckers, because that's all we seen through our whole lives. So it's like, at a certain point, yeah, I can understand why the youngins might think that. But it's like, once you start getting the R-E-H and shit like that, bro, come on, man. We got to understand that's not the wave, bro. Deion: Yeah. I give it to a lot of Jhalil: We will never get over that. Deion: the young boys though. Some of them, they recognize no, let's get money together. And there's a lot of like more young boys to me, that I see at least, that's doing good. Like, you feel what I'm saying? Jhalil: huh. Deion: And you know how it always been though, is like whoever making the loudest noise gonna get the attention. So It might seem like you feel me, it's a thirty-three kids in a class, five of them probably disruptive. Yeah I'm saying but you making the whole class as if is the whole class is bad or now the whole school is bad. You feel what I'm saying? The same thing is like Philly is one two point eight pe million people. Jhalil: Yeah, real rap, and that's just Philly. That's not even the whole Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, 12 million, 14 million or some shit. That shit crazy. Deion: And but that's what I'm saying, like ten thousand of the people is is doing wrong. You feel me? Like not the majority, but the way people put shit make it seem like it's overwhelming and this and that. But nah, it's a lot of shit rocking in the city that's good. You feel what I'm saying? And Jhalil: Yeah, for sure. Deion: I say, man, that's what I was saying before we even got on. We can't want both, we can't wanna freely do whatever we want and then at the same time complain about racism and them making laws and all of this type of stuff. You feel what I'm saying? Because it go together. I'm a nigga like, I don't want anybody in my house. You get what I'm saying? you on mute. Jhalil: Yeah, young boy in a bag drawn. But I can hear you that... Deion: wow. I thought something had went wrong before I'm like, what? But yeah, like So All of the stuff that we be doing in the hood that bring the cops. You get what I'm saying? that make them right there. That give them permission to be in our space. you know what I'm saying? Unwanted. You feel me? But if they can justify why they there, it's like, the fuck you gonna say? And then you gonna get people that's from the community, like, all right, yeah, we need them here because We feel unsafe. Jhalil: Okay. Deion: You feel me? bro, it hurt me like to walk down the street and my my people, my aunts, my my grandmoms, my my moms, they be clutching and looking fearful when I'm walking by. I'm like Jhalil: Yeah Deion: not even knowing, like it's so crazy out this drone that no me, I'm the one that's gonna be the protector out this drone. Jhalil: Hey bro, shit bro. Deion: My respect level is that. You get me? So when I see aunties and moms in the store, excuse me, mom, excuse me, grandma, I dress them in that manner because that's what I see. Jhalil: It's great. Deion: You feel what I'm saying? I don't see nothing less. Yeah. So Jhalil: NNNN Deion: it upset me when I see when you you got you like you fearful of me. But I get it. I understand how Jhalil: YAYYYY Deion: it got like you get what I'm saying? I'm like, damn, like we can't have it those way both ways. You feel what I'm saying? We can't be complaining about racism and all that. And you bringing them right here. You bring Jhalil: Gamer shit, bro. Deion: them to the crib. Now when they do something off of fear and being scared, it's almost like it's justified. You know what I mean? And then you can't get no win like that. Jhalil: it up, bruh. I say. Deion: And that and that's what I'll be saying, we agree with that too, because we carry it like that too. As a people, as in the hood, we carry it like that. You know what I'm saying? If a motherfucker don't see you doing something, you can't validate that. You know what I'm saying? If you bring a nigga into the fold and he do something, you get that. Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: Bringing him around. Jhalil: Bro, shit. Deion: But when when it comes to us and them, it's like, no, we don't punish them. We don't say, yo, I'ma look at myself for this one. And be like, yo, you know what? Us drawing in the hood bort y'all here for y'all to be like, y'all can do whatever with us. So I'ma Jhalil: Uh-uh. Deion: I if we cut that shit out, man, that shit, like that's how you take the control back. You feel me? Like. Cause if we ain't doing nothing, imagine you niggas ain't doing no crime. How what you gonna Jhalil: You just gonna be there, like... Deion: You feel me? But now when you do something, it's gonna be like, now you can't use that excuse. Really wasn't doing nothing. you get what I'm saying? And it's less of a fight for you. And then after a while, that shit gonna be like, we we can't like we ain't we can't get no money here. how it is. If the block quiet, no crack, no movement, we can't get money here. What we doing? You gonna pivot. Now you gotta go find another block. So that's the same way. You feel me? You stop giving them reason to come here now. It's like it's too quiet. We wasting government dollars by just having y'all sitting there, ain't nothing happening. You feel me? Jhalil: yeah, it's good. Deion: Now we get the suburban shit. Now you know I like you go to suburban areas showing him cops just be posted. They don't got shit to do. It's not it happened in the show here. No Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: motherfuckers be bored and shit, but they gotta figure out how to spend this money, how to justify Jhalil: you Deion: this budget. Like who the fuck? You feel me? And and then at that point Jhalil: Bro, bro, and there's some areas be like that Deion: Then at that point now you defunding the police without even pushing that like you get what I'm saying? Like You leave for nothing to do, it's gonna start being lusc cops. Jhalil: Huh? Deion: If we well how we gonna pay y'all? There's no crime happening, Jhalil: first. Deion: there's nothing happening, so you know what I'm saying? That's how you delete a nigga like. You feel me? All I'm looked. Jhalil: And in them areas too, where it's where it's nothing going on too, it's like, bro, it's like y'all, y'all like, and I ain't gonna say y'all, I'm talking at people, but it's like them areas where it ain't much that go on in the area, we gotta hold each other accountable. Cause if there's a couple people in the hood doing that shit, now y'all bring all this extra unwanted attention. And then if it's nothing else going on now, it's like, they got a fish. You feel me? And then fishing, now you bringing innocent people into the bullshit. You feel me? And then that's when the numbers get all crazy. well, yeah, this area is this and that, nine times out of 10, bro, everybody going to work. Everybody got more bills than they can handle right now. You feel me? The trap ain't what it used to be, none of that. Niggas not even really interested in that. But it's like, that's the main headline. feel me the streets don't even pay like they used to bro. I don't met so many so many niggas that used to be in the mix ain't nobody in the mix no more bro niggas yo bro anybody hiring? that shit crazy Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: when the trap come to you like that yo bro your business hiring you how I can get it come on bro so this shit definitely changing cause It's not proving to be beneficial no more. That shit probably was beneficial because more people were sticking together. You feel me? Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: you get booked, you come home, your team pass you off some bread. Motherfuckers you did business with, yeah bro, I did this so you can keep your crap and all that. But now since everybody for themselves, bro, that shit is meaningless. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: It's like, it's always a start over. And then it's like, it's putting the stain on the hood, bro. Deion: Word. And I think Jhalil: What it? Deion: people realizing too, man, that shit ain't the way you still got a few people that's doing what they doing, but they gonna see in a a fucked up place that that ain't what it is. And we had to learn. You feel what I'm saying? Like we had to learn. We had to go to jail. And it's so crazy. I was thinking about it the other day. I'm like, damn, they created a place that was like Meant to break us down and fuck us over. But it's like a lot of motherfuckers went in that joint and found themselves because they was able to sit still long enough to read and you know what I'm saying? Like Jhalil: Hmm. Deion: really dig into them. And thankfully, like they ain't have that much of a time that they could come back out and you know what I'm saying? Like apply all of that stuff now. You get what I'm saying? And It's definitely hurtful that a lot of guys, man, been in there since fifty-two. Jhalil: right, bro. Deion: And like they didn't definitely done change. And like they won't get another chance out here. You get what I'm saying? Jhalil: Shit. Deion: But at the same time, for them to create this and then like it still be, you know, outstanding number of people that like drive through it. Jhalil: huh. Deion: It ain't it ain't a view to look at it like, no, Joe is a good nah, I ain't saying Joe is a good journal. You feel me? I'm just saying like all of the things that people then try to do and all of these things out of hate or out of fear and all of this stuff. It's like you still can find God and all of that. You get what I'm saying? Where we shine through like. You know what I'm saying? 'Cause Jhalil: too. Deion: 'cause the like to to To go to jail, you feel me, and give your life up like that. It be mental, you feel me? and you think it's cool, you feel me? And the and Jhalil: Thank Deion: to catch all these hats and all of this type talk, right? And it's like you thinking like that's thorough, you know what I mean? But like when you die, bro. people gonna be shouting and clapping and shit, bro, cause you're not here no more to create any more havoc. You know what I mean? Like, and what you think might be applause while you was here was just fair. People that just ain't wanna go against you because they knew how crazy you was and how you ain't even care about yourself. So imagine what you would do to them. Jhalil: Yeah Deion: They not even going, they yeah, they fake and shit in front of you, yeah, bro. Jhalil: Yes. Deion: But they terrified of your nut ass, like you feel me, and then Jhalil: Right over here. Deion: you check rock, you die, and then motherfuckers gonna be happy as shit you gone, bro. You feel me? Like, you gotta think about stuff like that, like Jhalil: All right, bro. They gonna be happy to walk back down 61st Street. You feel me? Like, where that ass going? It was like, man, I don't know, bro. I just like, I got a mindset, bro. Like wherever I'm at, man, Deion: No. Hold on, one. Jhalil: like it's better to just make that place a better place, bro. You feel me? Like a little bit of thoroughness here and there, a little bit more every day, bro. It'll be a better place, like. It ain't on you to change the world and change people around you, influence people and all that. Bro, influence comes by your actions, bro, and how you carry it yourself. It just takes you to change the world, bro, and everybody else to change them to change the world, bro. This should have been better overnight, man, like we always say. Deion: I'm done with a fire character. Jhalil: So it's like, man, but this is just some fool for thought, man. Cause like we following the wrong systems and policies out this genre, It don't take all this crazy shit to change the world or at least like the strategic plans and all that. Like all it take is some understanding, bro. Like you change yourself, bro. It's automatically a better block. You mean? Hey, dog. Deion: And that's why I'm saying for us to go through all of the things that we then went through, right? And to believe to yourself like this is who I am. It's like, no, bro, you not no killer, bro. You not you not that. You don't go against your people like that. I understand the difference between circumstantial. Jhalil: huh. Deion: environmental stuff. You get what I'm saying? That may shape you if you accept it. So if you're saying Jhalil: I'm good. Deion: you accepted this role and this just who you're gonna be, then I alright, cool. You feel what I'm saying? But don't say that just just who I am. Jhalil: Yeah, bro, all niggas gotta do is pull up a picture when you was five years old. And Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: yeah, look at that. You feel me? Because we all were smiling. Deion: man. Jhalil: We all was missing T. all was, we ain't have it all, but we was proud every day. So how you change from that to this? And that's the shit Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: that you gotta identify and rectify within yourself, bro. And be like, damn, where the change occur? And you start to dissect shit and change yourself, bro. Cause None of us was born on that shit, nigga. Our moms, grandmoms, pops, uncles and all that shit, they all told us, bro, do good in school, stay out of trouble, treat people Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: how you wanted to be treated. Like, our people was raised Deion: What am I? Jhalil: as a gentleman and all that shit. Like, how I think it's just three, 320. You Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: feel me? And then now y'all just, like, on Sabbath Street, like, that shit might seem thorough and cool and all that, but it's Deion: Hold on, baby, I'm on the pot. Jhalil: not. That shit not thorough at all, bro. Y'all niggas look crazy, especially when you get to a certain age and you on all this, it's like, what is you doing, bro? Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: Right, bro. think it's eyeballs in the wrong way. You feel me? Be the opposite by doing something else that nobody else is doing. You feel me? Stick out that way, bro. Not by shooting niggas and doing all this crazy shit. I understand a lot of this shit is environmental and situational and you know where you are, but, bro, you gotta have... enough willpower to be like, all right, bro, I understand this shit going on right around me, bro, but I gotta be better than that shit. We Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: all do, bro. real shit, dawg. Just cause I don't know niggas that's in the mix and doing all that shit, bro. These niggas is our brothers for real, for real, bro. Niggas all look the same. Niggas wear the same clothes. Niggas do the same shit. So it's like, come on, bro. We accountable for each other, bro. all that, like what you, what they used to say, what you eat though, make me shit. Remember what used to, yes it do nigga. right, we got the same Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: outfit on. I'm the good man, you the bad man. You do some shit they gonna think it's me. You feel me? Come on, bro. Deion: Where Jhalil: Just on the opposite side, if look like you, bro, I do some good shit and they mistake you for me now, you mean? Come on, bro. So it's like, fuck all that, bro. Deion: Well Jhalil: It's not just, this not like a personal type of job, bro. And that's treating it personal, treating life just personal. it's just all about you and shit that you gotta do for yourself and all that. These is the reasons why we in these positions now, bro. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: That's all we think about. We on some selfish shit, bro. Deion: But it's cool to be selfish 'cause l everything in life is about the individual. The problem with that is the if you don't care about yourself. Jhalil: Yeah Deion: Now you projecting something way different, the stuff that we was just explaining. you feel me? You getting you being selfish in a in a manner, right? Like, because you don't like yourself, your circumstances, the way of life for you, you making it bad for everybody else. That's the selfish. Jhalil: Yeah, that's the selfish part. Deion: You get what I'm saying? but at the same time, the selfish could be the same defined. If you love yourself, you're gonna do the same thing for all everybody in your community. You know what Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: I'm saying? So it's just a switch, just a volume shift, you know what I'm saying? Like just a shift that Jhalil: Right, bro Deion: that we just need to make, you know what I mean? Because and don't look at it no other way. We gotta make the shift because of the stuff that happened to us. It's no other, you know what I'm saying? So it's no fault to be like, damn, I'm a fucked up person. I don't want you to think like that because I know when you are thinking like that, you stay in them thoughts and you be like, fuck it, if I'm already a fucked up person. Like you get what I'm saying? But if you understand that and everybody don't understand, and that's why, you know, everybody living accordingly. Jhalil: Gaaaa Deion: So, we say a lot of stuff man, he should be like, but it's like we really don't be knowing. But that's Jhalil: Yeah, bro. Deion: why, you know, that's why the value shift gotta exist because like the people that do know, gotta be brave enough to say it and to give it. You get what I'm saying? That's why I'm saying, that's why I said before, like. The giving that we need to be giving shouldn't be three thousand dollars, bro. Jhalil: the earth. Deion: And then at the same token, you're gonna talk about people that can't afford it to change. And then you wonder why they not changing. You see what I'm saying? So it's like, yo, if I'm trying to better damn I gotta make this amount of money, I done fucked up for so long that I can't just start making that type of money or dramatically. You feel me? So women be looking at men like. We all the same. You a man, you should be working it. I fuck my life up early. I can't just go make a million right off the job. nah. You ain't Jhalil: Roo right bro like Deion: just go to nursing school just now and then start making nah, you ain't women ain't had to go through none of this stuff. That'll put in jail, that'll set back. Maybe they had pregnancies and stuff like that. That was cool, but You still manage to go to nursing school, you still manage to go to cosmopology. Whatever you did, you feel me to be making the amount that you making. So you thinking Jhalil: Alright. Deion: you thinking it might be sweet, it might be just, you know what I'm saying? It's not that. Everybody can't just get up. Jhalil: And niggas can't even afford college, everybody don't get scholarships and all that shit, bro. You know how many people be fighting for the same scholarship? Deion: Where Jhalil: real red, bro. that shit not even... Man, it's not reality that everybody is gonna, be able to take that same passage or that same road, bro. it's just not reality. Deion: Word. But I I just say to people it's like when you think like you just like not being bothered by something or you like I got my job and you know what I'm saying? Like I'm working and you think like everybody else should have the same motivation or inspiration, whatever, like, but our lives not the same. So you can't mix match with shit. you ain't go through what people went through, so you can't imagine you because it went straight through for you. You feel me? So you don't Jhalil: Yeah, bro. Deion: know that that stuff didn't happen to people. Or if stuff done happened to you and you kind of dealt with it. So you like, all right, well, I got through these little hurdles and stuff like that. Cool, Jhalil: You Deion: you probably was made to do it. That's great. I'm just saying you gotta have a little empathy, sympathy, grace for and for everybody. You feel me? Because it it just ain't the same paths for everything. And I think with grace, it'll allow for people to feel motivated, inspirated enough to go do something. That's going Jhalil: Okay. Deion: better themselves. But without the grace, it's like we just be coming at each other. And you don't know if I'm already fucked up, you coming at me ain't gonna help me. You feel me? Jhalil: Hey, bruh. Deion: how am I feel good enough to get up and go look for a job tomorrow? You just beat me down with everything. You get me? Like, you just told me like I'm not a man because I don't got X, Y, and Z. Jhalil: thing. Deion: Not even including the 10 years I might have spent in jail, or I might have been in the streets, or I might have been fucked up. You feel me? Because I made poor decisions early on. Now I'm trying to get it together. I'm kinda at point A. But I'm 30. I'm 35. I'm 40. You know what I'm saying? And it don't just like I said, it don't just happen like that for me. I gotta go get it. But just Jhalil: Later. Deion: get help don't hurt. So you you're not helping me by putting me down like this, getting on the internet, talking all these. All these men suckers like that ain't helping nobody. that's making niggas dig deeper in the hole that they already in. Cause they like, damn, if you feel that way about me, I might as well stay the same, like. You feel me? And think about if we looking at the young boys the same way. Damn, y'all some fucked up young boys, y'all ain't throwing shit out here. Like, all right then. If we ain't got shit to look for or live for, like, fuck if we gonna just keep doing the same shit we we doing this shit is comfortable for us we already doing it but you know what I'm saying so that don't help Jhalil: Okay. Deion: if we gonna try and stop something that ain't how you help you feel what I'm saying Jhalil: You Deion: but we gotta dig into each other damn with your history like what is is blocking you from doing what you need to do why is it you get what I'm saying Jhalil: Yeah, people don't understand they don't understand trauma either. we we throw the word around and people got the idea of what they think it is and all that. But you don't know, some trauma is way deeper than others, bro. you feel me? and sometimes that shit is like trauma can be hereditary, bro. Even if your grandparents and your grandpop and your mom and all that went through certain shit, bro, it seeps into your upbringing as well. So it's like certain things, bro, we just replicas of our parents. We just a different creative form with all the memories, all them feelings, all that. You feel me? So it's like for us to just think like, well, no, bro, just because I got a good job, you should have a good job, but damn. My man lost both of his parents at four years old. He don't even remember him. Deion: Hmm. Jhalil: He was in the system and foster care and they treated him fucked up. They treated him different than the normal kids or whatever. And people don't be understanding or digging deep enough to understand these things. Trauma Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: affects everybody different, Especially according to what type of traumas you've been through. Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: So that's just another reason. We gotta give some grace bro and have some understanding. Just cause you went through some shit that don't mean the same person went through that same type of shit or had the same outcome as you or none of that. Man, Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: that shit could have really damaged them to the point where it's like, damn, they really wake up and feel like, damn, I'm not good enough. You feel Deion: Right. Jhalil: me? People overlook them people. But when you think about the actions and Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: certain shit motherfuckers do, the crazier it get, bro, the deeper the trauma be. You don't just wake up and be like, yeah, I'ma go kidnap niggas. yeah, I'ma go kill niggas. I'ma go burn shit down. you don't just think about that. come on, bro, that's not natural. That's not relative to a mind, bro. Real shit, unless Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: there's something wrong with your fucking brain or you went through trauma or something like, you mean? Deion: Shit, do the quiz. Do the quiz, right? how many people would do X, Y, and Z if they was good and like if they was okay? Money-wise, mental everything. Like what the quiz will say, you feel me? Like, I'm I'm guaranteed the majority be like, nah, no. Like, you feel me? Like, there's no need. the hood had everything it needed, it wouldn't be. And we know it because I done seen it in history. Most projects and stuff that started in the city, they started excellent. You know what I'm saying? It was black people doing their own thing in their own space. You feel me? Jhalil: Okay. Deion: The bothering came from when the outside tried to put in put in things and take away Jhalil: I'm gonna be right Deion: things. Now I'm taking away the resources inside. Now it starts creating all this havoc. You feel me? Jhalil: Mmm. Deion: Then I throw drugs in there. You feel me? Then it really start creating more havoc. You know what I'm saying? So I'm knowing, bro. I'm knowing without all this stuff, my people is is the best people, bro. Right. Jhalil: Bro, just look at how we treat each other for real, for real. Like, it'd be the craziest times, bro, where like the shit that's not caught on camera. Like, there's so much thorough shit going on that don't get televised, bro. And they only televised the negative shit for a reason, bro. But it's like, damn, that shit had you avoiding your own neighborhood. Whereas though, like, damn, if you walk down the street to the community center, you see that they do this on Mondays. They got this on Tuesdays, on Thursdays, they take the kids' hair. On Fridays, they take the elderly people to the movies. You would never know. You feel me? Real shit, bro. It's young boys now that go over elderly people crib and do adult coloring books and shit like that with the elders and all that, but you will never see these type of things, bro. They'll give you a little snippet of it on social media. but it's usually people who don't look like us. Whereas Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: though, damn bro, let a black mom, let a black grandma see you fucked up out here looking like us, you feel me? They gonna ask you if you want something to eat. They gonna give you they last two or three dollars. You feel me? They gonna help you the fuck out bro, but that's not televised. So people Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: think it don't exist. but when you come to the hood, that's where you find that at. You not about to find that in the suburbs. In the suburbs, they got the same mentality like that people be having. no, bro, Deion: Right indeed. Jhalil: well, if we got it, you should be able to have it. You feel me? They got that type of mentality. The hood is totally different. Yeah, you get that little small side with shit real, you don't go around there. But that's only 5 % of the whole neighborhood. Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: The other 95 % is livable shit. You can walk through anywhere. It's people that's gonna say hello to you when you pass, hold the door, whatever. You feel me? Come on, bro. It's definitely thoroughness, bro. I don't give a fuck. I see a motherfucker out at the gas station or whatever. Bro, you tell me you hungry, bro. I got it. bro, I'm gonna help you get something to eat, bro. I don't give a fuck. that's not gonna be my last money. That's not gonna be my last meal, none of that shit, unless I die. You feel me? Like, come on, bro. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: So it's like. Deion: But it's the greed, right? The greed. Jhalil: Alright, bro. Deion: You imagine like greed being that strong, right? Like whereas the even the poor. It's trying to be greedy, you get what I'm saying? Like, I it's so greedy. Jhalil: That's all you got? That's all you You only got two dollars? Like damn, you ain't got more? Said nigga, you ain't got nothing. You know, shut the fuck up. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: I'll give you two lumps with this two dollars, bro. You better cool off. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: yeah, man, that shit crazy, bro. It's like this greed, man. That shit is a disease, bro. all this shit Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: that's not good for us, bro, and we hanging on to it, and it's causing us harm and emotional harm and physical harm and all, that's diseases, bro. real shit, there's Deion: Mm. Jhalil: nothing different than that in parasites or that in cancer or that in whatever. You feel me? Deion: No. Motherfucking parasites or shit. Jhalil: That shit crazy, dog. That's why I'm... I just try to be the good man, you feel me? Because I know it like, shit, if I die, somebody got to judge it and be like, well, you did this. I seen you Deion: Any fellow. Jhalil: was on some nut shit that day and you did this. Like, bro, I want to be like Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: more on the good shit. I know that for me personally. I don't want to have all this bad shit, little bit of good shit, bro. Deion: Yeah Jhalil: Not saying it's a heaven or hell or none of that, but still, bro, that's just me as a person. I'd rather be thorough than be un-thorough. That's like a crime. You are. Deion: Mm-hmm. But that's why Jhalil: day. Deion: I'm saying we gotta eliminate that all that thinking. Like, you feel me? Cause the motherfucker be like in the hood. It's like, how you say it. we be on that, you feel me? I fucked my thought up, damn. Jhalil: Yeah Deion: And then you're I'm like, damn. I was about to say something cool and shit, but fuck why we'll do that. But anyway, you know, it's it's just too much of that unclean thinking and shit. And for us not to like question nothing, it just leaves us in a space of just blindly doing any and everything. You feel me? Somebody gotta push the pause button and say, yo, this ain't the fucking way we gotta be. Even though we don't got shit. Even though we thought Jhalil: Rrrrr Deion: we still don't gotta act this way. We still don't gotta like do the type of things that's gonna be detrimental to us. You feel me? Like. If I don't like myself or if I don't like my people and that's in me through memory and blood and slave and all that, that's where the fight got come in. You ain't gotta fight with me. You feel me? We need Jhalil: a little red. Deion: to fight that. And we need to even recognize that that even exists. shit. You mean to tell me I'm wildin' out here because of the X, Y, and Z? and I can change that. Yeah, you can change Jhalil: Hey, bruh. Deion: that young man. you ain't know before that you can just stop doing this shit. You thought about it, but because of the the rules and everything that go along with shit, you thinking it ain't no out. Jhalil: Man, you signed the contracts to this shit or something like, come on, bro. Deion: You what I mean? Like, ooh, we ride and die on this shit. No, like, cause truth be told, and you can just look at it. Cause if I take two of the young boys that's doing shit and remove them and put X, Y, and Z, it's gonna be different. Cause you can't do all the stuff you was doing in this environment, in that environment. Jhalil: Bro, shit, bro. Deion: So I'm already knowing if you got a chance, you'll stop. You feel me? I man, I see the young boy Cash Capri, shout out him. You feel me? all the young boys in the biddy does like doing their thing and they really ain't on the other shit. They getting Jhalil: Dang it, bro. Deion: money and then it it it might look like they on that type time, but like they not. And they done been there so they understand it. You feel me? they understand these these young boys, a lot of them, they be like, man, they putting smut on us for real. Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: You know what I mean? it's like if you catch the if you catch the film at the time when I'm reacting, then you gonna make it seem like it was all on me. But you ain't see I was minding my business and then you bought that to me. I wasn't bothering shit, you feel me? So I do got a right to protect myself. See what I'm saying? So when they catch it, it look like you're saying like a nigga just out here doing whatever. And it's like, no, these the results, these like a response. This a reaction. You know Jhalil: BLEH BLEH BLEH Deion: what I'm saying? It's like, no, like, gotta give these youngins a credit and all that. You know what I mean? Youngins is getting filthy money, you feel me? they getting paid. They living their life. Jhalil: I fuck with the young boy on with the young boy raw, bro. Like, raw, raw. Young boy got the little banger, you feel me? That shit. Like, I ain't gonna lie, bro. I like the shit that he on. Like, even history, he be talking about some real shit, bro. It ain't no violent shit. It's on some get money shit, bro. Like, it's on some self-improvement shit, bro. And I can respect that. coming from young men, bro, that's what I like to see. Feel me? These is the young boys that yeah, let's put some shit together. you mean? Cause y'all got that influence, bro. And that's another thing about being young and just, just getting out of school, just going to college, just getting out of college, bro. that shit give you a certain glow. You feel me? and you, you got the rock at that time, bro. So that's the best time to use your potential. Cause that's when it's like flourishing the most. Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: You feel me? it's like, it be bullshit that come too, but it's like, you gotta take that energy and run with that shit, bro. You can't just be around the same things, doing the same shit. People not gonna appreciate that, bro. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: We in the time of like instant gratification too, bro. Like, like a lot of people think that like gratification is supposed to be instant. Like you feel me? all right, well yeah, I got. I went to work that day, I'm trying to get paid today. I want to get paid tomorrow. Like, I want my flowers now. I've been doing this for three months and all, but that's just not how this universe should set up, bro. That's not how life set up. Life is set up for like different stages throughout the whole job. So if you thinking everything about to just happen at one time, bro, like you gonna let yourself down. Because it's going to be times you get it, times you lose it. Sometimes you run it up triple, somebody might steal it, whatever, bro. But it's within. You feel me? So it's like, Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: we gotta keep these things in mind too, bro. Everything, most of the shit that come too fast, bro, it's not worth it. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: the shit that's really worth it, bro, you gotta really build to that shit and go get it. I told you, dog, I was going back and forth because I'm like, damn, I've been doing business for so long. I felt kind of crazy going to get a job, but it's like, damn, I Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: still got my business. I move my shit to the weekends. I don't work on the weekends, still do the business, and I got a decent ass job. I'm doing science shit. I'm in the life sciences field, bro, a 0.2 % of- black men in America job, bro. I'm part of 2%, well, 0.2%, not even 2%. You feel me? So it's like, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: damn, like that, that y'all feel kind of crazy. Cause it's like, damn, I really snapped a little bit. I ain't just, you know, shoot below Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: my means and all that, but maybe doing the business and doing all this is what led me to that next opportunity in my life. You feel me? So it's like, of course I couldn't see it at the time. You can't just look at just bread and all that shit, dawg. Certain shit just supposed to happen to push you to the next level. Deion: Yeah, we're Jhalil: shit. Deion: see that's the greed we need to have, right? where we putting each other on and putting them in in places like that. You feel what I'm saying? Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: you're gonna be greedy, get the money, really spread that shit. And Jhalil: Agly. Alright, bro. Deion: instead of one busting through the door, you got ten thousand, a hundred thousand, you know maybe f five hundred thousand motherfuckers rushing the door. Jhalil: Yeah, bro, and another tip, man, like look into these little programs that they be having, bro. Like, these Jones that like, they pay you to train, they pay you to like, to learn about the Jones, and that should be automatic hire, automatic in the field, all at 3.99, bro. Like these are some of the best opportunities, bro, and they hide them like that. You feel me? You won't see it on national TV. You won't see it on a commercial at the Judge's office. you won't see none of that shit. Really gotta look and see. real ramp, I did a couple of them. You know me, bro. I ain't got 14, 15 certifications, bro. And out of most of them classes that I took, it was something waiting at the end. So I had the opportunity to choose which field I wanted to go to. And it's like, that's Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: something, that's a perk for now with these. when we was coming up, bro, you just had to go to college. that Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: was the only option. Nowadays, bro, with so many different options, bro, most of these, these free programs, these free education and training programs, bro, they just Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: want to see your potential. You bring that potential in there with you. You bring that info with you, young boy, young sis, like you, gonna go places, bro, because that's what they need. Deion: I don't need the Jhalil: They got them quotas to hit. They gotta invite us in. So there's no need Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: to keep fighting over shit that's not gonna get us nowhere, bro. We need to be putting each other on. So yeah, man. Deion: But at the same time too, Can't be jerky rat. You know what I'm saying? Jhalil: Yeah, we're right getting that joint started bullshit and fucking it up for everybody Deion: where and that's what it go back to right what you eat go make me shit like Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: yeah you fucking it up you know don't get it again if you ain't ready get in the game Jhalil: NNNN Deion: right hand so evaluate it you feel me where you gotta get your mental right first and then you know what I'm saying everything else will fall in place. Jhalil: huh. Deion: You get what I'm saying? I'm good, bro. I understand, financially I'm not whatever. You know what I mean? And I battle with that, right? damn, well am I a man, this and that? But at the same time, it's like that don't take away all my credentials and all of these other things that, you know what I mean, I got. At the end of them all, it's like I'm at peace. You feel me? Like. And to have peace as more than bread, 'cause you imagine you pour and then you get all Jhalil: you Deion: this bread and then now you don't got no no peace. What I mean Jhalil: You're looking for where to go spending real quick. Deion: You feel me? No, it's just more money, more problems, right? Now you dealing with stuff that you wouldn't even dealt with. You ain't had money. Well when you Jhalil: Yeah, it's true. Deion: was poor, nobody bothered you about money because you ain't now Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: you got money, you got everybody at your door and you still try and continue to get more money and stay focused in that. You get what I'm saying? But now you got you didn't open that door. And that's why I'm saying about greed. And the feeling of entitlement and everything else that go along with it. You feel me? down that one person got everything, you making it like everybody come to the castle to get get approved by you. You know Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: what I'm saying? And so when you have it like that, you think about it, right? My Oskino and like made it, and then he still came back to the hood. Lot of niggas was in your mean because it's like they seeing money right in front of but it ain't theirs. Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: You know what I'm saying? And yo, we starving back here. Why you just got an opportunity to, you know what I'm saying? But gratefully, O'Skeening Jhalil: Mm hmm. Deion: knew that and he gave back where he can give back, where it didn't hurt him at the same time. You get what I'm saying? Cause that's another thing too, cause one person make it, they can't afford to like do everybody. You feel me? So you gotta have some type of width that once you do get the setup, you could scale to the point where he at as well. You know what I mean? And then Jhalil: Mm-hmm, real rap. And bring other people who wanna help, bring that same type of mentality, bro. If you help a couple motherfuckers that you know gonna do the same thing, bro, that's gonna help a few motherfuckers that ain't gonna be jerking rap, that's really gonna build shit up, bro. That's the move, bro. Real shit, but it start with that self-growth too, bro. It come a time in a man life I can't speak for women. You feel me? So I ain't taking nothing away from women, but I'm just saying as a man, there's like certain thoughts we have and be like, damn, bro, I got to turn this shit up. And then when we say that, bro, that's just saying like, yo, bro, I got to grow. Like, want some real shit? I got to learn something else. I got to do something else. I got to be something else. And like, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: once you accept that, You feel me? it'd be hard to accept it. when we just stay in the same areas where it's no change is happening. Feel me? But sometimes it's vital to switch up your environment for a while. Even if you go somewhere else and come back. You feel me? even if you, it's a short period, but still bro. I encourage people Deion: I think. Jhalil: to do different shit. Like dog, I go hang at the cigar bar now. You feel me? My Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: old head owned a cigar bar. One of the only black Jones in dollar word, bro. You go in there, the only place like a man could just go there with nothing to fucking do. You feel me? And you are running. Deion: Different conversations. Different conversations you get introduced to like different people who Jhalil: Real shit, bro, you run into a millionaire, you sitting next to a millionaire, they like, we all just chilling, watching the game, smoking a cigar. That one, a one conversation could change everything for you, bro. It can be with knowledge, it could be with information, it could be, do this, or it can be like, yo, you looking for an opportunity, but it's like, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: it comes with changing your job, bro. Like the shit that you wanna be, you gotta see. if you can't see it, bro, it's gonna be kinda hard to be it, dawg. So I ain't saying yeah, you gotta try to get on every body weave or whatever, bro. But when you, when you wanna see better for yourself, bro, you gotta think about it damn, I wanna be a get money motherfucker. You gotta think Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: about where the get money motherfuckers hang. They not on Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: the bar, they not at the bar, bro. They not at the same joint that you will go to. Deion: Or they is, Jhalil: Bye. Deion: but it's just in a different light, right? Cause the same that the the way you define one thing is the same both ways. You feel me? So if you looking at drug dealers and niggas in the hood like that and they getting money, then yeah, that's what you see and so you going for it. But like you saying if you switch like what you see, then you gonna be in that lane too. You get what I'm saying? Like And there's no is no it fucks me up because the thing that defeats or depletes us is that vision of us doing something that we perceive as weak or lame or weird or you know what I'm saying? because the man working and all that, he don't got that toughness and all yeah, he don't need to be dealing with that because it don't come with that life. You get me? Like you confusing the lives. You looking at the street shit and then you you try and get to this side, but you see in that as like weak because of all the trauma and stuff you going through in the streets. You thinking you gotta be tough and this, you gotta carry shit a certain way. And that's the only thing I say to Rod, like I can see that he's still dealing with that. Cause he ain't Jhalil: yeah. Deion: if he ain't he ain't a person that just goes straight into like just being this cool, quirky kid. He gotta put in this little thing that still say that he tough or he from the hood. I don't like that for him. And I'm upset, you feel me, that people gotta go through these different battles within Jhalil: Mmm. Deion: themselves. You get what I'm saying? Just to be liked or just to be, you know what I'm saying, to do what they crafted to do. You get what I'm saying? So the song is a boobanger. Get what I'm saying? But it's like he included stuff that was like why Timmy guys keep spinning with the mask on. It's like You stream youngin, you ain't really in I it's nowhere in the like we s you stream twenty-four seven, bro. You feel Jhalil: Yeah Deion: me? you ain't ain't none of that happening where you streaming at and all that. And that's why I say he battling because the true him is like, yeah, she got me outside and I'm used to inside streaming. So you know that see it. Like you seeing it. But at the same time, you know your U versus you is having it because you battling with that other stuff. Like, still gotta be a little hood. Like, no. Cross the street all the way, younger. You feel what I'm saying? It ain't going like you putting thoughts in your head, if I cross the street all the way, people won't think I'm a sucker. But if you think like that, that's what's gonna start occurring. You see what I'm saying? So you don't even feel like you need you wanna cross the street all the way. Because what you putting in your thoughts is is projected. You feel what I'm saying? So Jhalil: Yeah. And who's to say, like, who's to say too? Like, bro, motherfuckers who cross the street, that don't mean that you want some sucka shit. Like, bro, Deion: How do you Jhalil: just imagine, bro, like, all right, on some shit like us, bro, niggas cross the street, start getting money, start doing all of these other things. Like, you don't lose that edge, bro. If anything, that shit probably get sharper. Because it's like, bro, now I got money now. you feel Deion: Yeah, yeah Jhalil: me? If need be, it can be a war. I got the funds for that. You feel me? So that shit don't make you like no less, but it's like, come on, bro. Deion: But when you from here and you got a bunch of energies that's that don't like themselves and then you like yourself and you don't you, you you really Jhalil: BEEEE Deion: are, you kinda, in your mind you are out. You feel what I'm saying? That's why I'm Jhalil: Let's f***ed up bro. Deion: saying, when Oskino make his money and he go back to the hood, he already knows. In order for me not to be an op, I got to share. Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: If not, I'm a target, bro. Jhalil: Hey, raw shit. Deion: You know what I mean? And it's only because we all poor. You get what I'm saying? So the the impact on greed, like spread it this type of lifestyle. You know what I mean? Because if it was spread it evenly, I don't think a lot of this stuff would be in play. And you can freely go ahead and do your music and do whatever and Say the things you want really say. You get Jhalil: Mm. Deion: what I'm saying? And I'm I'm happy they brave enough to even do their little dances and shit like that. To Jhalil: Alright, bro. Deion: even broadcast it live that you even gone through it. You might not be saying it, but me as a a mature person that that went through this stuff and probably still battling certain things, you feel me? I can identify when I see it. I'm like. yeah, he he bad he won get on that's what I'm saying, Meek the same way. You can tell Jhalil: Later. Deion: he got this eighty drum but he helping people get off ovation. It's like bro, come on bro, make it make sense. Jhalil: You love the 80's drum, bro. Deion: Yeah. You heard me? Jhalil: You definitely Deion: But everybody can't pick up on identifying stuff like that. You feel me? But that thing that we got in the hood is I'm not gonna be a bitch is is what continue that type of thing. Cause and it's it's tough, bro. It ain't just you know what I mean? It's it's a lot, you really looking at what people think of you and how they perceive you Jhalil: Thank you. Deion: and all of that. But the one thing that I'm learning. Is how you perceive yourself is how everybody else gonna perceive you. So if you fight in that battle Jhalil: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Deion: with whether you a bitch or not, everybody gonna be able to see that. It ain't you can't hide certain stuff. You get what I'm saying? everybody. Jhalil: Ehhhh Deion: Come on, bro. Like, you're not tough like that. But at the same time, the people that can voice stuff like that, you try to leave them so far back. That they can't interrupt your little world, you feel me? so Meek know what he's doing, you feel me? he ain't gonna be around no people like O Skeeto that can expose how he really is. You feel me? Jhalil: I'm dead. Deion: But at the same time, it's like, bro, if you eliminate fighting that battle within yourself, then you can be with anybody. Jhalil: Yeah. Deion: Nothing gonna hurt you. You get what I'm saying? And I think that's the biggest thing that OB trying to tell me, bro, stop all this bullshit. Cause look what you're doing. You Jhalil: Yeah Deion: creating all of this static between us. And all you gotta do is just be your thorough, genuine self. Like, I know you would approach my shit for real. But you got all of Jhalil: Good. Deion: these stinking thinkings in your head that made you like do some foul shit or do some. Diabolical shit that you wouldn't normally do. You get what I'm saying? niggas trying to overly Jhalil: You say great. Deion: impress women and all of that. You know how that should be, bro. You like, bro, you don't talk to none of us like that. How dare this woman come around and nail you? Bro, I'm saying, Jhalil: We'll be right back. Deion: Titan, you'd write the fuck up, bro. Don't ever. Jhalil: And that's why I like that now, within the city, bro, it's like, it's like half and half. Half everybody still fuck with me, you feel me? But then the other half is like, nah, bro, he be doing some nutt-ass shit. And it's like, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: that's it crazy, bro. But that's the effect of that shit. you man, cause people don't know you personally. it's some people, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: of course, you feel me? But everybody as a whole don't know you. But when you go to... Exposing certain shit and acting certain ways is like people can see through that shit, bro Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: It was like, yeah, man, that's all right. Deion: That's what I'm saying, especially about people that really know bro, if you grew up in the same neighborhood I grew up, you watch me, bro. it's like gonna be a lot of people, right? That when we get on, bro, and we start being noticed, it's gonna be a lot of people yo, that's the old head that used to Cause they gonna know. You know what I'm saying? And if I got a a history, my shigum, that's the that's the old I used to see him walking down the street with a with a can O E is like you get what I'm saying? or E all this type stuff gonna be presented. You get what I'm saying? Jhalil: you Deion: And you can't run from that. Embrace that sh was what you was like. All right, that that Jhalil: Okay. Deion: was what I was, but now I'm here now, like you feel me? I don't live on that. you feel me, you won't catch me doing it again, that's cool. Jhalil: Be real soon, bro. Deion: Feel what I'm saying? But when you deny it, it looks weak. When you try to hide it. Jhalil: Yeah, you can't deny that shit. Deion: Yeah, when you try to hide it, it's like, yo, bro, I see this shit plain in sight. how dare you? The audacity for you to keep trying line. Or to keep trying to upkeep a certain image and all that when it's not like you clearly see it ain't working, bro. Think about his. his career and what it could have been if he ain't indulged in all the bullshit. Niggas called Jhalil: It's Deion: you Twitter fingers, bro. come on, bro. That's and I'm not, I'm not, I'm I'm using meek just cuz, but it's a lot of meeks. Hey shit. You mean? We meek. Yeah. We got our battles and all that as well. We just not famous and and and known all crazy for you feel me? For people to to dissect and and and and and go into it all all crazy. You feel me? but it all be the same. Jhalil: It was the same shit with Drizzy too, bro. Like Drizzy, Deion: All be the same, bro. Jhalil: was on some chill shit, make the music for the, you know mean? For the emotions, for the feelings and all that shit. But then he got with 21, he started popping, talking all his gangster shit. You feel me? It just didn't fit. then you got in a little, you know, in a little... Rap scuffle with Kenny, bro. And it's like, you lost that John, bro. Keep it a been. You lost that little John. Yeah, you bounced back. He ain't finished you or nothing. Like, know Drizzy still that nigga, but now he's back to being, you feel me, Drizzy. Like, all that other shit, though, bro. Like, you always gonna get humbled to, like, where you supposed to be, bro, or which you really are, I'ma say. Not where you supposed to Deion: Okay. Jhalil: be, but who you really are, like. Deion: But that's why I'm saying they battle in that, because like other than that, you would be honest, like, all right, yeah, that was that, you know? And if you really Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: drizzy like you say you are, Iceman like you say you are, like, you would take that shit and carry it like you Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: know what I'm saying? Because I am Iceman, niggas like, yeah, he he he you know what I mean? Like Devin Devin Devin Haney and shit, them they can't accept the the loss. You feel me? Jhalil: Mm-hmm Deion: it's like, all right. And this pop well, he got back up four times like nigga, he got cranked. Three. three times. You Jhalil: You Deion: gotta accept that shit. all right, he got creamed. What's gonna make him weak is the the stuff you doing. Nah. The stuff that's gonna make him like, is like, yeah, nigga, I did, now I'm coming back and I'm knocking shit. You get what I'm saying? But But to go into their that victim woe me type sh it's like, man. Jhalil: Yeah, you fucking it up, bro. And it's like, that's what you do, bro. Like, you in this sport where it's like, that's what you do. You win something, you lose something. That's part of the game. You feel me? Like, don't be on the NBA team and then, like, you win all these games, you lose one game, and then say that they was cheating. Like, even Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: if they was, nigga, suck it up and just continue to cook. That's what you do, bro. It ain't no... Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: It's the same thing with this life shit, bro. Yeah, niggas got bucked. Yeah, niggas used to get cooked up. Yeah, all of that. You feel me? But now look, I Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: ain't about to be at these motherfuckers at my job telling them my whole shit, but at the same time, I'm not about to be acting like I'm something I'm not either, real shit, dog. hey man, that's... Deion: Word. That's what I'm saying, that's why I was saying about jerking wreck. You you you so far from home. Why you acting like that? Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: You get what I'm saying? bruh. Like these people don't need none of that. Jhalil: Bro, shit, bro. I be a regular person at work, bro. I go out on break, smoke a black. I'm dumpin' some gangsta shit in the will. I come back, hey, how you doin'? Like, I'm on some regular person shit, you know mean? Like, I don't gotta, yo, what's the deal? Cause like, yeah, I'm from Philly. I'm from, I'm doin' this and doin' that. bro, this is work. This is not high school, you feel me? This is not Deion: Yeah, it's Jhalil: middle school. It's not the block, bro. It's like even Deion: Okay. Jhalil: when I'm chill on the block, even if I'm like, nigga, I'm still gonna be Jahlil, bro. you feel me? I'm not about to be nobody else. I'm not about to be acting super tough or none of that. I ain't, that's just not it, bro. I'ma be my normal self every time, even if I got hold it the fuck down, I'ma still be myself. Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: It's like that's the most beneficial when you go outside of yourself and all that shit, bro. That's that's when you lose these these battles, bro. Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: Yeah, man. Pull from yourself, dawg. Like, that's the nitty gritty of this shit, dawg. You ain't gotta look on outside and then try to be that outside shit and all that, like, unless it's for bettering yourself. You feel me? But all that shit that we had to go through, Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: bro, that was stepping stones, man. There's no need to, once you got through it, try to step back and go to them same steps and step back up again, like. You moving ass backwards, bro. Deion: Yeah. And I just say this, right? I remember I realized that I lost, I was defeated, when when people got to act and then like that drew me into it. I I realized I I you I spent so much years after that. You know what I mean? that I lost my life, my whole journey that I was supposed to be on. You feel me? damn, I just chocolate, cool kid, you know what I'm saying? Love to laugh and play and shit. You feel me? imagine a lot of us and then these certain things occur and it like Took me a whole nother path, you feel me, where I lost all these years. And that's why I was saying earlier, the get back ain't just a hop, skip, jump, and you right back in it. You feel Jhalil: Mm-hmm. Deion: me? time is a thing you can't really get back. Even the illusion. Even though I'm I'm stating it in the illusion that we live in, cause time, we can juggle that. We could, that's a debate. Whether it even exists or not. You feel me? 'Cause a lot of people tell time based on the sun and the stars and all these different things and you don't need a clock, but for civilization that we exist in, we need the clock and time, right? But you can't get that time back. You know what I'm saying? or we can You can look at it like, all right, let me re-evise. Right? Because ain't nothing really changed in the in the time manner. Right? Because if today you did this, right? Next week, if you wanted to change it, but you like, I can't go back to that time, you can recreate. whatever it is right then and there, you get me? But if you don't, then it's gonna be like five more years later. Jhalil: NNNN Deion: So where's though you just you ain't even start again yet? Jhalil: Bro, shit. Deion: You know what mean? So you can't keep depending on time and saying it like Because you wasn't aware and understood at this time, that was that time. It probably wasn't a time for you to do it. But now that you do got the understanding, you got to activate it right then and there. Not wait a little more time. Then you look back at this time and you like, I just was thinking that I was gonna do that. But I like, you get what I'm saying? And that's a lot of our struggle. Jhalil: BLEH Deion: what I'm saying and I don't even know if we all supposed to like be able to you know do whatever you know I'm saying live lavishly like I don't know you feel what I'm saying Jhalil: I think that shit just come like, I ain't gonna say it just come, but it's like, I think that's something like the shit that we want, bro, it take building. it take, you gotta build that shit. you gotta get ready for that shit. You gotta prepare yourself for that shit. Cause it's like, all right. 10 years ago, bro, just imagine if we would have got millions of dollars 10 years ago, niggas still getting high, niggas still doing this, niggas still in the mix. like what good would that have been? You feel me? Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: Like, but now it's like with the maturity and like understanding how processes work and how life really work, bro, it's like, this would be the perfect time. So it's about like... putting them systems in play, like we always talk about, and it's about sticking to them, Jones, bro. We gotta get rid of all that shit. all that shit that we be thinking about, all that stink that we be having on us, bro, we gotta get rid of that if we gonna get ready for this next fees. Which brings, wealth, real connections, community building, all of those things, bro. We gotta be our real, true, authentic selves in the growth form. If not, it's not gonna work, bro. But I do believe that anybody can. But it's like, it's not gonna be easy. Like, life don't play that shit, bro. If you ain't ready for something, you ain't getting it. Like, motherfuckers be out here ready for Deion: Yeah. Jhalil: jail, and that's what they be getting. You feel me? Like, they just be out here getting theyself in the shit, where it's like, damn, you ready to die? Nigga, you gonna die? Like, that shit not playing with us, bro? Real shit. But it's like once you set it up, once you structure yourself, it just happened. you can be like, damn bro, I'm on a block. I only make $120 a day. Just imagine a motherfucker put that $100 up every single day for 10 years. Like that's a wealth mindset. Cause it's like, damn, you didn't did it so much. You're not even thinking about it. It's automatic. Now you look at it, damn bro, that's $983,000. I wasn't even paying attention to it. So it's like, Deion: Mm-hmm. Jhalil: it's a setup thing. But dog, Deion: Yeah, yeah. Jhalil: I ain't even going loud, man. We got, I gotta wrap it up soon, man. Gotta eat dinner, go to sleep, man. Gotta get up in the AM, dog. Deion: Yeah. We Jhalil: Hey, man. Deion: ain't even dropped the intro to this job, but the out Jhalil: We ain't drop the intro at all. We got right into it. Deion: But yeah, thank y'all for tuning in, you know what I mean? If y'all like what y'all heard, you know, leave it in the comments, you know what I'm saying, and keep shifting the volume, you know what I'm saying? Jhalil: Real red, Invite us to your lives and all that too, man. Something keep us engaged too as well, bro. y'all can engage with us, we engage with y'all as well, bro. we not bigger than the program. It's a community join, Deion: Hello. Until the next time, keep shifting the volume. Jhalil: Mm-hmm.