Latest / Blind But Now I See / FORGIVE THEM IF YOU WANT TO BE FREE
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Back at it for another episode of the Blonde Bynos
- 0:02Speaker 1: Damn blow Seatshell, I am your host, fob sent up
- 0:06Speaker 1: the Hill Ray Charles Blonde Pope. If you nasty, the
- 0:09Speaker 1: official blond step of the Voice of the Sables. We
- 0:11Speaker 1: ain't cut nothing out. We're showing the fuck ups and
- 0:13Speaker 1: everything that episode. I'm in the studio. It's eighty five
- 0:16Speaker 1: degrees bucket low, I'm in here comfortable. You know where
- 0:19Speaker 1: we at two sixty five Canal Street. WTF Media Studio.
- 0:23Speaker 1: I'm not sponsoring, but I'm sponsoring there. If you got
- 0:26Speaker 1: a voice, come in, lock in and maybe you would
- 0:28Speaker 1: be like Blonde Poppy. But we got my boy Wolf
- 0:31Speaker 1: in the studio. You know it. How are you feeling today, man,
- 0:35Speaker 1: I'm feeling good man.
- 0:36Speaker 2: I'm trying to go to the beach before you just
- 0:37Speaker 2: ship it all my dreams and shit talking about how
- 0:40Speaker 2: dirty the fucking beach is.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Like, I want to go to the beach. Gang dirty, dirty,
- 0:44Speaker 1: dirty fuck with the beach. Take a flight to Puerto Rico. Man,
- 0:47Speaker 1: it's right there. Two or three hours.
- 0:49Speaker 2: I'll go to Puerto Rico when I could take one
- 0:50Speaker 2: hour to go to Fall Rock.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Man. I'm just saying that dirty water swimming with chicken
- 0:55Speaker 1: bowls and pampas and all that no chicken bows in there.
- 0:58Speaker 1: It's not the it's not the hoods bro. Just good
- 1:02Speaker 1: enough enough, good enough. See, that's that Texas shit. You'll
- 1:06Speaker 1: know how New York word. I'm trying to get out
- 1:08Speaker 1: of this nature. I'm trying to look alive, you know
- 1:10Speaker 1: how that shit go. But today we got a good
- 1:12Speaker 1: episode today. You know, we've been doing our work, We've
- 1:14Speaker 1: been doing a lot of shit, and one day, you know,
- 1:16Speaker 1: I just woke up and just text wuff and just say,
- 1:18Speaker 1: you know, let's do a podcast about forgiveness, like what
- 1:23Speaker 1: do forgiveness look like? And if you home, you could
- 1:26Speaker 1: email blind Bince NYC at gmail dot com and you
- 1:29Speaker 1: can tell me what do forgiveness look like to you?
- 1:33Speaker 1: But in this episode, it's different levels of forgiveness. I
- 1:38Speaker 1: feel I feel like it's different shades, different scenarios of forgiveness.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna throw out a couple of forgiveness
- 1:47Speaker 1: and I'm gonna see if you in that same boat too, well,
- 1:50Speaker 1: like have you forgave somebody? And what didn't take? For sure?
- 1:54Speaker 1: Before we even get to the big forgiveness or should
- 1:58Speaker 1: we start off with the fucking big giveness fuck it
- 2:03Speaker 1: FOBC No the Hood Ray Charles Blond Poppy, if you
- 2:06Speaker 1: fucked that, Christopher forgives the nigga that shot me, and
- 2:14Speaker 1: I ain't gonna like it. Took a lot out of
- 2:15Speaker 1: me to forgive that shit, because it's like the nigga
- 2:20Speaker 1: took a lot away from me. He killed relationships, he
- 2:24Speaker 1: killed my personality for not well, let me let me
- 2:29Speaker 1: take that back. He had my personality, he didn't kill it.
- 2:32Speaker 1: I'm always gonna be seen, No, but he he had me.
- 2:35Speaker 1: I ain't gonna like he had me, like he stepped
- 2:37Speaker 1: on me and had me down for a long ass time,
- 2:41Speaker 1: nine ten years. I was fucked up. I forgive you
- 2:45Speaker 1: why I could look with you. It was a gifting,
- 2:47Speaker 1: the curse. I'm I'm I'm flourished. I'm a flower. They
- 2:51Speaker 1: call me brother some flower. I'm at peace now. The
- 2:55Speaker 1: Blambanaci Podcast Doing Good. I met people that I probably
- 2:59Speaker 1: wouldn't never if I wasn't in a dark like Wolf
- 3:03Speaker 1: and DJ Chris and Big Will d Rock and the
- 3:06Speaker 1: rest of the gang. Like so you you helped me
- 3:09Speaker 1: out by helping me grow I was so mad at
- 3:13Speaker 1: you for the simple fact that I just got accepted
- 3:17Speaker 1: to the EMT. So it's like I was pumped up.
- 3:20Speaker 1: I was eager, Like I got in trouble with the
- 3:22Speaker 1: law and I was on popation shot. They put me
- 3:25Speaker 1: through hell just to become an EMT. I had to
- 3:29Speaker 1: go get paper signed. They denied me. But shout out
- 3:33Speaker 1: to the Commissioner and the lieutenants and everybody over there
- 3:38Speaker 1: that pushed forward for me to lock in and take
- 3:40Speaker 1: that test. I'm the first person that was on probation
- 3:43Speaker 1: that took the FDNY test, passed it and became a
- 3:46Speaker 1: certified EMT. Nobody did that shit before me, so I
- 3:51Speaker 1: was I was ready for that shit. I was motivated.
- 3:53Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, I'm saving lives. Like before you lock
- 3:58Speaker 1: in with the EMT, you had to do rotations, so
- 4:00Speaker 1: it's like you had to go out with real EMTs
- 4:03Speaker 1: and see how the job, like how the job really is,
- 4:05Speaker 1: to see if you can fuck with it and just
- 4:07Speaker 1: helping people. I set this. Damn this shit is for me.
- 4:10Speaker 1: I start changing my life. I was always fighting. I
- 4:12Speaker 1: was doing a lot of bullshit, but then when I
- 4:15Speaker 1: got shot, I gave up on everything, because it's like, damn,
- 4:19Speaker 1: I really put my best foot forward for this shit
- 4:22Speaker 1: and then I get shot. But then I gotta look
- 4:25Speaker 1: at it like I forgive you because I'm not touching
- 4:27Speaker 1: people in New York City. I'm touching people across the world.
- 4:30Speaker 1: So you didn't You didn't kill me. You just made
- 4:33Speaker 1: me stronger. You ain't knocked me down. I just stumbled.
- 4:37Speaker 1: And it's like, now I just realized that shit, and
- 4:40Speaker 1: I say, say, I forgive you for the simple fact
- 4:43Speaker 1: you might be fucked up today. You might be in jail.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Who knows, you might be dead, who knows you might
- 4:51Speaker 1: be miserable, You might be fucked up, you might be
- 4:53Speaker 1: at your lowest for trying to knock me down. But
- 4:56Speaker 1: I'm still here, and my stephen a voice, I'm not
- 5:00Speaker 1: going nowhere. This ship is just the beginning. So this
- 5:05Speaker 1: episode we be getting into this forgiveness shit. Have you
- 5:09Speaker 1: ever been in a a fucked position where you felt like, damn,
- 5:13Speaker 1: how can a nigga did this to me? Or how
- 5:15Speaker 1: did this girl play me? And you went back and
- 5:18Speaker 1: you forgave them Wolf?
- 5:20Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, But first of all, I want to I
- 5:22Speaker 2: want to ask you a couple more questions. Yeah, I
- 5:25Speaker 2: want to ask you a couple more questions. Hold on
- 5:26Speaker 2: one second, I'm gonna cut this part out, okay, boom. So, obviously,
- 5:33Speaker 2: the experience that you went through is beyond traumatic and
- 5:38Speaker 2: it's crazy because majority of the time when people are
- 5:41Speaker 2: thinking about like forgiving somebody, they they holding a grudge
- 5:45Speaker 2: against them over shit that's not even as complicated or
- 5:48Speaker 2: as severe as what it is that you went through,
- 5:52Speaker 2: not even as severe like niggas trying to forgive niggas
- 5:54Speaker 2: for like stealing five dollars from them, And the whole time,
- 5:57Speaker 2: it's like, now you really went toe to toe with
- 5:58Speaker 2: some shit that could have took your life definitely, and
- 6:01Speaker 2: somehow somewhere you in a place where you've chosen to
- 6:04Speaker 2: forgive this person.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Mm hmm, somehow, some way.
- 6:07Speaker 2: And so my question to you is as a person
- 6:10Speaker 2: who then did it, like you're not just theorizing all like, oh, forgiveness,
- 6:13Speaker 2: it's like a good thing to practice, or like you done,
- 6:15Speaker 2: really did it? You really let go of the trauma
- 6:19Speaker 2: that some people some of that trauma burn people life up.
- 6:22Speaker 2: But like it's forgiveness a form of empowerment or is
- 6:25Speaker 2: it a sign of weakness. I think the reason why
- 6:27Speaker 2: people struggle with it so much is because they think
- 6:29Speaker 2: if I forgive somebody, then they make me weak or
- 6:32Speaker 2: make me less, will make me not as strong.
- 6:34Speaker 1: So from your opinion, is it is it empowerment or
- 6:37Speaker 1: is it weakness? Forgiven somebody is empowerment. I feel like
- 6:40Speaker 1: you take your power back forgiving a person. I feel
- 6:44Speaker 1: like you're not forgiving a person that you stuck on
- 6:47Speaker 1: that shit. Your life is gonna be arvolved around that shit.
- 6:50Speaker 1: You're gonna be moping, You're gonna be beating yourself up.
- 6:52Speaker 1: You ain't gonna really see the power that you have
- 6:55Speaker 1: by just forgiving that person and just moving on with
- 6:57Speaker 1: your life. I feel like me not forgiving it, wanted
- 6:59Speaker 1: a hurt that person back the way they hurt me
- 7:02Speaker 1: so bad, put a like a stopper all my life.
- 7:06Speaker 1: For eight years, nine years, I was fucked up. I
- 7:09Speaker 1: didn't really see my worth. I fucked relationships up, I
- 7:12Speaker 1: pushed people away. I didn't see the real in the
- 7:17Speaker 1: like the definition line to this to this dog shit
- 7:20Speaker 1: that I was really in. I didn't embrace the dog.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Now I embraced that shit. I felt like I'm the
- 7:25Speaker 1: voice that the disabled people was missing, but I couldn't
- 7:29Speaker 1: see that shit why because I was not. I couldn't
- 7:32Speaker 1: forgive that person that shot me. I wanted to get back.
- 7:34Speaker 1: I wanted to suffer the way I suffer. But then
- 7:37Speaker 1: I look at it, like, why why I'm giving this
- 7:40Speaker 1: nigga so much power? All my life? I was fucked up,
- 7:44Speaker 1: I'm on pills, I'm drinking, I'm not happy, I got
- 7:47Speaker 1: suicide thoughts, and it's like, I'm giving this nigga that
- 7:51Speaker 1: much power over me. I forgot who I was. I'm
- 7:55Speaker 1: questioning myself like is this really supposed to be my life?
- 8:00Speaker 1: Every day I'm waking like, damn, I don't want to
- 8:02Speaker 1: wake up today, Like why is the sun shining on me? Like,
- 8:07Speaker 1: and the crazy thing about it is when I hit
- 8:08Speaker 1: you up about this episode, I'm like, damn, it's dark
- 8:12Speaker 1: in here. Like people coming to me, I'm like, yo,
- 8:15Speaker 1: today is for like a dark day. I even text
- 8:17Speaker 1: you today, it's like a dark day to day. They're like, wow,
- 8:20Speaker 1: I feel like no enough shunshine is coming through this
- 8:22Speaker 1: window on me. It feel dark. I got up. I'm
- 8:26Speaker 1: moving around the house. I'm trying to figure shit out
- 8:28Speaker 1: and playing music like Damn. Why today is so dark?
- 8:30Speaker 1: Why because I'm sent up here and I'm hoping off
- 8:32Speaker 1: For damn, how would life be if I could see again?
- 8:36Speaker 1: But then when I sit down and I go through
- 8:39Speaker 1: my moments, and then I hear my son come out
- 8:40Speaker 1: there and say farther, I'm hungry, I snap back and
- 8:43Speaker 1: I say, nigga, I ain't gonna let you have this
- 8:44Speaker 1: power over my life. When niggas called me like, yo,
- 8:47Speaker 1: see know what's up with this flyer. I ain't gonna
- 8:49Speaker 1: let this nigga have power over my life. When I'm
- 8:52Speaker 1: sitting it there and I'm reading these the comments and
- 8:54Speaker 1: these d ms and everything else, and there like people
- 8:56Speaker 1: appreciate me. Nigga, you ain't gonna have this power on
- 8:58Speaker 1: my life. So by me forgiving him, I took my
- 9:01Speaker 1: power back. Like for the first eight years he had me,
- 9:06Speaker 1: I was beat down. The nigga was in my dreams,
- 9:10Speaker 1: and what nigga, you know, dreaming about a nigga like
- 9:13Speaker 1: that nigga was in my dreams. He had me. He
- 9:16Speaker 1: had me like with a rope around my neck. I
- 9:18Speaker 1: wasn't going nowhere, Nah, I cut that shit off. I
- 9:21Speaker 1: cut that noose off my neck. I got, I got
- 9:24Speaker 1: my power back. So it's nothing wrong with forgiving a person.
- 9:28Speaker 1: You don't got to fuck with a person, but to
- 9:30Speaker 1: forgive him. Like perfect example, I sagn Cash a guy
- 9:34Speaker 1: shot a couple of years ago and him, you know,
- 9:37Speaker 1: he was talking whatever and he he called me one
- 9:39Speaker 1: day and I'm like, bro, what's wrong with you? Why
- 9:41Speaker 1: you sound like that? And he was like, yo, I
- 9:43Speaker 1: feel pussy, bro? I said why, he said, yo, the
- 9:47Speaker 1: person that shot me. I was in a I was
- 9:49Speaker 1: in a spot where the lounge and he said, for
- 9:52Speaker 1: that moment, I just wanted to go get it. I'm
- 9:55Speaker 1: saying it then, I'm just listening, he said. But you
- 9:57Speaker 1: know he apologized, boy apologized and every thing, and you
- 10:00Speaker 1: left it like that. I said, Bro, you shouldn't feel
- 10:03Speaker 1: sorry or bad. You shouldn't feel pussy behind that. I said, nigga,
- 10:07Speaker 1: you lived to see another day. Bro. You got two businesses, bro,
- 10:12Speaker 1: and you shaking and you grinding in the clubs with
- 10:15Speaker 1: me on top of your business. You ain't trusted overnight,
- 10:17Speaker 1: I said, you would have had that gun and you
- 10:19Speaker 1: would have reacted. Now, you trick yourself out of your
- 10:22Speaker 1: own life because now your daughter depend on you. Your
- 10:25Speaker 1: mother depend on you, your nephew depend on you. You're the
- 10:28Speaker 1: head of the family. So you're gonna let this nigga
- 10:30Speaker 1: right here trick you out of your life. It's hard,
- 10:33Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. It's definitely hard because I don't
- 10:36Speaker 1: know what I would do if I was in front
- 10:37Speaker 1: of the person that shot me and tried to take
- 10:40Speaker 1: away my life. So I can't say and say that.
- 10:44Speaker 1: I might walk to him and say, Yo, nigga, thank
- 10:46Speaker 1: you for helping me see my potential, thank you for
- 10:50Speaker 1: helping me see I'm bigger than what I really was.
- 10:53Speaker 1: So it's like, Nigga, don't let that nigga trick you
- 10:55Speaker 1: out of your life. Nigga, keep flourishing, Nigga, keep grinding,
- 10:58Speaker 1: keep going. Nigga, you cast or it's only one of you,
- 11:02Speaker 1: you living, you living? Your daughter could call you and
- 11:06Speaker 1: then he like what no one knows. I always call
- 11:08Speaker 1: you for that motivation. Thank you, bro wow, because I'm
- 11:11Speaker 1: not gonna tell my nigga yo, go go and get
- 11:12Speaker 1: it in and come back and for white then I'll
- 11:16Speaker 1: be Then it's like, can you forgive me that I
- 11:18Speaker 1: gave you this dumb ass advice to go to jail?
- 11:21Speaker 1: Can you forgive me that your mother and them out
- 11:23Speaker 1: here fucked up? Nah? Sometimes a lot of this shit
- 11:26Speaker 1: is not worth it. To be honest, I'm living, I'm breathing.
- 11:31Speaker 1: I just can't see the walk still is The walk's
- 11:33Speaker 1: still the same. So it's like, why is I'm tripping
- 11:36Speaker 1: over that? And I forgive you, bro? Like I slept,
- 11:39Speaker 1: I sleep better that night knowing that I don't got
- 11:42Speaker 1: you on my mind and you you're not heavy on
- 11:44Speaker 1: my heart no more. I got other things to think about.
- 11:47Speaker 1: My mom is clear. To be honest, it's like, like
- 11:51Speaker 1: like I said at the beginning, it's different different forms
- 11:54Speaker 1: in different situations of forgiveness. Like I forgave the nigga
- 11:58Speaker 1: that shot, I forget gave my father, I forgave females,
- 12:03Speaker 1: I forgave friends. Doesn't mean I gotta fux with you
- 12:06Speaker 1: like that. I can fuck with you to a distance. Yeah,
- 12:09Speaker 1: that's a fact. I think.
- 12:10Speaker 2: I think that's some people don't think about enough. Like
- 12:13Speaker 2: just because you forgive somebody don't mean you gotta continue
- 12:16Speaker 2: to be around them and let them mistreat you.
- 12:18Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Look at it like this, right, somebody that
- 12:21Speaker 1: did you wrong, you ain't forgive them. Every time a
- 12:24Speaker 1: situation come up similar, the first thing that you do,
- 12:26Speaker 1: you go back to that person that fucked you over,
- 12:29Speaker 1: And the only thing you're gonna keep saying this, I
- 12:31Speaker 1: will never let another person do this to me. I
- 12:32Speaker 1: will never give this shit a chance. The whole time,
- 12:35Speaker 1: you can be missing out on your opportunity. You don't
- 12:38Speaker 1: know if this person really liked that last person. So
- 12:41Speaker 1: it's like, what's wrong with just jumping out there to
- 12:43Speaker 1: see where it's gonna go? Do you think I base
- 12:45Speaker 1: my life off of that? I won't be fucking with
- 12:47Speaker 1: a lot of people. Do you think I give anybody
- 12:52Speaker 1: own opportunity to see if they're gonna float with me
- 12:54Speaker 1: or you're gonna burn and get the fuck out of
- 12:56Speaker 1: my way? You gotta separate to everybody. Not the same.
- 13:02Speaker 1: I came in with trusting, like, let me see how
- 13:04Speaker 1: far I can trust you. I came in just so
- 13:07Speaker 1: for you taking initiative, running in the whole way. When
- 13:09Speaker 1: I'm leaving you this, that and the third, I'm like, damn,
- 13:12Speaker 1: I trust you man. You never been through no serious shit,
- 13:14Speaker 1: but just your energy, your vibe, your order. I trust you.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go like what like I tell you
- 13:20Speaker 1: can call me for anything. Nigga be locked in? Why
- 13:23Speaker 1: not do you think that?
- 13:28Speaker 2: Do you think that holding on to a grudge makes
- 13:32Speaker 2: you better?
- 13:33Speaker 1: Yeah, one thousand percent. Holding on a grudge gonna hurt
- 13:36Speaker 1: you more for the simple fact you can't never see
- 13:40Speaker 1: what's in front of you because you're worrying about what
- 13:42Speaker 1: the person did to you yesterday. That shit gonna hunt you.
- 13:44Speaker 1: It's gonna burn you whole time. You You might be
- 13:47Speaker 1: walking past goal and cash and everything else, but you
- 13:50Speaker 1: better off of what this person undid to you. You
- 13:53Speaker 1: gotta live your life. Sometimes you gotta just forgive a
- 13:55Speaker 1: person and just walk forward. That person ain't killing you,
- 13:59Speaker 1: the person ain't hurting you. That person ain't stopping you.
- 14:02Speaker 1: A person ain't stopping your emotion, So why are you
- 14:05Speaker 1: gonna give that person your power? And it's like, I
- 14:08Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people do that shit. Like
- 14:10Speaker 1: I love my sister to death, but I feel like
- 14:12Speaker 1: she's one of them. Shout out to her, I praise her.
- 14:17Speaker 1: PhD is coming, but it's some things she gotta let
- 14:20Speaker 1: go of how life was with her and her father,
- 14:26Speaker 1: Like we don't know our father's situations of how they
- 14:29Speaker 1: was raised or how they was growing up and all that.
- 14:31Speaker 1: So it's like we can't expect them to be perfect.
- 14:35Speaker 1: My father was not perfect. I had oh I forgave him.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Though I love him to a distance. I love him.
- 14:43Speaker 1: It's my father. I hold respect for him. By the
- 14:47Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm not gonna disrespect him another
- 14:48Speaker 1: of that shit. I just don't want to deal with him.
- 14:50Speaker 1: If I don't want to deal with them, Nah, I'm
- 14:53Speaker 1: gonna respect you because then you're a man. You're my father,
- 14:56Speaker 1: and you the reason that I got life here today.
- 14:58Speaker 1: You feel me. So it's like, while I'm tripping over
- 15:00Speaker 1: that for if you're still holding on that grudge to
- 15:03Speaker 1: your father not being there or being the best father
- 15:05Speaker 1: to you, the best thing I can sit and tell
- 15:07Speaker 1: you is let go. Maybe a conversation is due. Maybe
- 15:11Speaker 1: you need to sit down with your father and asks
- 15:13Speaker 1: him why, because you never know what going Sometimes we
- 15:16Speaker 1: got fucked up baby mothers that'll tell you anything about
- 15:19Speaker 1: your father, and that's why your father not there. Sometimes
- 15:21Speaker 1: your father may not know how to love you the
- 15:23Speaker 1: way you want it to be loved. But nobody never
- 15:26Speaker 1: sit down with that man and tell that man, I
- 15:27Speaker 1: want to be loved like this. I want this, I
- 15:30Speaker 1: miss this, I never had this? Can you give me this?
- 15:33Speaker 1: Sometimes allude simple conversation can help out. And on top
- 15:37Speaker 1: of that, we never know what our father's been through.
- 15:40Speaker 1: Some of our fathers was raised on their own, so
- 15:44Speaker 1: they don't They don't even know how to love one way.
- 15:48Speaker 1: They never had that love for their mother, They never
- 15:49Speaker 1: have that love for their father, So how can we
- 15:52Speaker 1: hold them responsible to loving us the way people want
- 15:54Speaker 1: to be loved. Sometimes the mother is more powerful for
- 15:59Speaker 1: the simple fact that that they had their mother their father,
- 16:01Speaker 1: so they know how to be loved. They know how
- 16:05Speaker 1: like you feel me. They get the hugs for the
- 16:08Speaker 1: good knights and the kisses and do good in school
- 16:11Speaker 1: and being there. Our father's probably never had that shit,
- 16:13Speaker 1: so how can they give it to us? So that's
- 16:16Speaker 1: why I learned to forgive, because like even talking to
- 16:19Speaker 1: my father and telling me his father wasn't shit. His
- 16:21Speaker 1: father didn't do this, he did and it's like, all right, cool,
- 16:24Speaker 1: I understand now. It's like you maybe you followed in
- 16:28Speaker 1: his footsteps, not knowing that you did that because this
- 16:31Speaker 1: is all you knew. This is the only path that
- 16:33Speaker 1: you've seen your father go down, so you took it too.
- 16:36Speaker 1: I was just the one that break the curve. I
- 16:38Speaker 1: was the one that just broke the curse. Cause it's
- 16:40Speaker 1: like if you was hurt by your father and I
- 16:43Speaker 1: was hurt by my father, my son would not say
- 16:45Speaker 1: I'm hurt by my father. It's a curse. I feel
- 16:48Speaker 1: like sometimes it's just that conversation that people just don't
- 16:51Speaker 1: have because they pride is in a way. Got to
- 16:54Speaker 1: gotta come out of that pride shit and sit down
- 16:56Speaker 1: and tell people how you feel because life is short.
- 16:59Speaker 1: You met, you might not never be able to sit
- 17:01Speaker 1: down and have that conversation. If they're gone, you'll never know.
- 17:04Speaker 1: There's a lot of answers that won't be questioned, Like
- 17:06Speaker 1: you gotta gotta get that shit off your chest. I
- 17:08Speaker 1: feel like you can't forgive until you get closure. What
- 17:13Speaker 1: is closure? Closure give me mean anything to how you
- 17:17Speaker 1: feel like? My closure is I'm not going something and
- 17:21Speaker 1: my father had the restaurant. I'm going in there. He
- 17:23Speaker 1: sat there here, tell me, oh, I love you, or
- 17:27Speaker 1: I took care everybody else feel me before yours and
- 17:30Speaker 1: before mine's. And I want to do right by you.
- 17:32Speaker 1: I want to do this. I want to do that.
- 17:34Speaker 1: It's like, I see, like you really didn't know no better.
- 17:40Speaker 1: So it's like just you looking at me being a
- 17:43Speaker 1: father that I am. That's my closure. It's like I'm
- 17:47Speaker 1: teaching you how to be a father when you're supposed
- 17:50Speaker 1: to been teaching me how to be a father. Of
- 17:52Speaker 1: him deaf, I don't hold nothing against him. I still
- 17:55Speaker 1: text my father. I'm just checking up on you, man,
- 17:57Speaker 1: making sure you got it. Why I feel like I
- 18:00Speaker 1: got the power now when it's like you know, growing up, yo,
- 18:05Speaker 1: you you hear your father and your father say something
- 18:07Speaker 1: that's like them words. You value those words because it's
- 18:10Speaker 1: coming from your father. You cherish them words because it's
- 18:13Speaker 1: coming from your father. Now, when my father hear me
- 18:15Speaker 1: speaker's like he cherished that shit, I'm showing him something. Boy.
- 18:21Speaker 1: It gets no better than that, bro. I mean, you
- 18:23Speaker 1: can't never forgive a person until you get closure. So
- 18:26Speaker 1: what you mean you got to let go everything that's
- 18:28Speaker 1: inside of your heart. You gotta put it on the
- 18:31Speaker 1: table for order for you to sit and say I
- 18:34Speaker 1: forgive you. So if you still mad at your father
- 18:36Speaker 1: did not come to your third, your first grade graduation,
- 18:40Speaker 1: you gotta put it on the table to really move
- 18:43Speaker 1: on in life. If you mad that your father didn't
- 18:45Speaker 1: buy those sneakers, or you mad that your father left
- 18:47Speaker 1: you on that stoop and then pick you up and
- 18:49Speaker 1: you just send them, man, you gotta let that shit
- 18:51Speaker 1: go to order to sit and say I forgive you.
- 18:55Speaker 1: Like me, my father wasn't there for the first seventeen
- 18:57Speaker 1: years of my life, but I put that past as
- 19:00Speaker 1: him and I accept whatever type of love he gives me.
- 19:03Speaker 1: Now I forget for him. I'm not tripping. I'm not
- 19:07Speaker 1: tripping over nothing. I'm thirty four years old. I'll be
- 19:10Speaker 1: thirty four years old. What I look like still harping? Oh,
- 19:12Speaker 1: he wasn't there. He didn't teach me my first back shoot,
- 19:15Speaker 1: how to shoot my first basketball. He wasn't there when
- 19:18Speaker 1: I had this play and all that. Nah, I forgive you, bro,
- 19:22Speaker 1: I let it go. I forgive you. How can we
- 19:24Speaker 1: make history? Now? That's what I feel like more people
- 19:27Speaker 1: should be thinking about. How can we let go the pass,
- 19:31Speaker 1: put it on the table, get it out the way,
- 19:33Speaker 1: clear to dust, clear the air, and how can we
- 19:36Speaker 1: create more history like history that we both is in,
- 19:41Speaker 1: not shit that I'm hearing the people talk about you
- 19:43Speaker 1: over here and you hearing about what people talk about.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Let's career history together. And I feel like a lot
- 19:48Speaker 1: of people don't have closure because they can't let go.
- 19:51Speaker 1: They're still stuck on it. And then don't say it.
- 19:53Speaker 1: Say you forgive a person, but then when you get mad,
- 19:55Speaker 1: you bringing that shit back up. That means you didn't
- 19:56Speaker 1: forget if And a lot of people say, do that shit, bro,
- 20:01Speaker 1: I witnessed that shit. It's like, you forgive me, but
- 20:04Speaker 1: you're still bringing up the ship that I did to you.
- 20:07Speaker 1: You forgive me, but you still mentioning that I didn't
- 20:09Speaker 1: show up. I wasn't there for you, So you don't
- 20:12Speaker 1: forgive me, don't forgive me your words like it's coming
- 20:15Speaker 1: out to your mouth. Oh I forgive you, but do
- 20:17Speaker 1: your heart really forgive me? Can you let go? I
- 20:22Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people hold onto ship like that,
- 20:23Speaker 1: And I forgive you for what you did, but you
- 20:25Speaker 1: don't show it. Your words is not acting your actions.
- 20:28Speaker 1: So how you don't forgive me? It sound good? But
- 20:32Speaker 1: sure do the work. I feel like a lot of
- 20:35Speaker 1: shite be bullshit, bro, You really forgive a person trust
- 20:39Speaker 1: and believe it's not gonna be on your mind? What
- 20:41Speaker 1: they did to you is not gonna like Nigga that
- 20:43Speaker 1: shot me. I forgive him. He's not on my mind
- 20:45Speaker 1: no more. I'm having fun doing what I'm doing. I
- 20:51Speaker 1: I'd be a damn fool if I sit there and
- 20:54Speaker 1: keep talking about this man that shot me. I mean,
- 20:57Speaker 1: I ain't forgive you, bro, I mean it's still hurting.
- 20:59Speaker 1: This sign. I don't hurt me no more. I don't
- 21:02Speaker 1: cry my child. I cried enough that I could start
- 21:04Speaker 1: my own river. I could create my own ocean that
- 21:06Speaker 1: you could swim in if you want to. But it's like, nah,
- 21:10Speaker 1: I forgive you. If I could forgive the man that
- 21:13Speaker 1: shot me three times, left me there to die, then
- 21:17Speaker 1: you could be able to forgive anything that's moving in
- 21:19Speaker 1: this world. It's like it's not that serious. More people
- 21:23Speaker 1: going through serious shit out here and holding onto ship.
- 21:26Speaker 1: This man almost took me away from my child. This
- 21:29Speaker 1: man almost took me away from my mother. This man
- 21:31Speaker 1: always took me away from my siblings, my dream. He
- 21:34Speaker 1: almost took my life, and I forgave him. And you
- 21:37Speaker 1: can't forgive your father, you can't forgive your sister, You
- 21:40Speaker 1: can't forgive your best friend over dumb shit. It's like,
- 21:43Speaker 1: come on, we gotta do better. People they'll do better, Like,
- 21:50Speaker 1: come on, I feel like he snatched everything away from
- 21:52Speaker 1: me and I forgave him. Still, it's like nobody we
- 21:58Speaker 1: could go on the streets with a microphone in the camp. Well,
- 22:00Speaker 1: let's see. I mean, people can forgive people still holding
- 22:04Speaker 1: on shit that happened first, second, third grade and these niggas,
- 22:07Speaker 1: God damn sixty, What did you do?
- 22:10Speaker 2: What did you have to do to get to a
- 22:12Speaker 2: place to forgive somebody who did something so crazy to you?
- 22:15Speaker 1: What did I have to do? I had to do
- 22:17Speaker 1: the work on myself, That's what I had to do.
- 22:20Speaker 1: I had to do the work on myself. It's like
- 22:22Speaker 1: I was so busy worrying about him, I lost I
- 22:26Speaker 1: forgot who I was. So once I started doing the work.
- 22:30Speaker 1: When I say doing the work, meaning I started enjoying
- 22:33Speaker 1: my life again, I started laughing, I started joking. I
- 22:36Speaker 1: like I was fucked up. I was fucked a dad.
- 22:40Speaker 1: But once I started taking that control of my life
- 22:43Speaker 1: and not laying to somebody else, leader like, it was
- 22:46Speaker 1: no blind Poppy, it was no Voice of the Disables.
- 22:49Speaker 1: I was crystalpher in that wrong waiting to go. But
- 22:53Speaker 1: once I started doing the work on myself and I
- 22:55Speaker 1: start smiling more and realize the sun always going and
- 23:00Speaker 1: shine even when you're in the dark. Man, night couldn't
- 23:03Speaker 1: stop me. Nothing couldn't stop me. No, Lie, I couldn't
- 23:07Speaker 1: let my past determine my future. I couldn't. I couldn't
- 23:12Speaker 1: let the destruct. No, sometimes you gotta destruct, like self
- 23:16Speaker 1: destruct before you rise. I feel like when he shot me,
- 23:21Speaker 1: I self destruct just to get rebuilded. Like I rebuilt
- 23:25Speaker 1: myself and that's why I am today. So it's like,
- 23:31Speaker 1: and it's never that serious to you. Hold it on
- 23:33Speaker 1: sithn I forgive a nigga that tried to take my life.
- 23:36Speaker 1: You can't forgive over somebody that stole out of your purse.
- 23:39Speaker 1: You can't forgive that somebody that stowed your men or
- 23:42Speaker 1: stole your woman. Man, that shit don't be serious. You
- 23:44Speaker 1: can forgive, you just don't got to fuck with them.
- 23:46Speaker 1: Doesn't mean a person that shot me me and him
- 23:47Speaker 1: will be in a club drinking together. He won't never
- 23:51Speaker 1: do that. Doesn't mean I'm like, yo, bro, take my number.
- 23:55Speaker 1: We could talk about it now. We ain't gonna never
- 23:56Speaker 1: do that either. He don't owe me no conversation. I
- 23:59Speaker 1: don't owe him no conversation. All that I'm saying say, Bro,
- 24:03Speaker 1: you tried it, You tried it, You wasn't successful, Brom.
- 24:09Speaker 1: Themb bullets went through my soul. It just rebuilt me.
- 24:12Speaker 1: And I can move on. I could turn my back
- 24:14Speaker 1: on me and walk away. You could try. I can't die.
- 24:18Speaker 1: I can die. I won't die, because not for nothing.
- 24:21Speaker 1: The day my eyes closed, my words still live on.
- 24:24Speaker 1: They could go to that blind and I see YouTube.
- 24:27Speaker 1: They could go to my Instagram. They could go to
- 24:29Speaker 1: videos and me and the clubs people got a lot
- 24:31Speaker 1: of videos out of hit me out here. My voice
- 24:33Speaker 1: gonna always live on while I'm tripping over you. Now,
- 24:38Speaker 1: I know what it is. People are bigger when you
- 24:41Speaker 1: keep talking about it. So if I keep talking about
- 24:45Speaker 1: him and I keep expressing my frustration, he only gonna
- 24:49Speaker 1: get bigger. But if my voice is silent by him,
- 24:52Speaker 1: and I'm using my voice for science positive, nigga, just
- 24:55Speaker 1: a mouse to me. Hurt people, hurt people. Yeah, I
- 24:59Speaker 1: don't know how that means was raised. I don't know
- 25:02Speaker 1: what that man was going through that day. I ain't
- 25:04Speaker 1: making no excuses about it, but hurt people hurt people.
- 25:07Speaker 1: He hurt me. I could have came at that hospital
- 25:10Speaker 1: and retaliated. Now it's like he hurt my family. I
- 25:14Speaker 1: heard his family. We even and then a cycle just
- 25:16Speaker 1: gonna keep going. People gonna end up in jail, people
- 25:19Speaker 1: gonna end up dad. Nah, I broke that cycle. Why
- 25:23Speaker 1: I could pick up and call any one of my friends,
- 25:27Speaker 1: Like I stopped my friends from jumping out the window.
- 25:29Speaker 1: Like my right hand man, he was with me when
- 25:31Speaker 1: I got shot, and it killed him every time that
- 25:34Speaker 1: he came across that block and he just wanted to
- 25:37Speaker 1: jump out the window. And I'm just like, yo, bro,
- 25:39Speaker 1: it ain't worth it. Got kids, Bro, what can I
- 25:42Speaker 1: What can I tell your kids if you were in
- 25:43Speaker 1: jail for jumping out the window. For me, a person
- 25:46Speaker 1: that's alive, the person that's breathing and moving, I got motion.
- 25:49Speaker 1: I'm with my child. It ain't worth it, bro. Now
- 25:52Speaker 1: we're gonna kill people with conness. We're gonna kill people.
- 25:55Speaker 1: What the shit we doing with motion? Nah? I started
- 25:58Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm quite sure they probably be like, damn, bro,
- 26:01Speaker 1: we tried. That's the same nigga. We probably shot by motion.
- 26:05Speaker 1: So hurt people, hurt people, don't then we gotta break
- 26:08Speaker 1: that ship. Hurt people. If a person hurts you, man,
- 26:13Speaker 1: just rise, just grow, just like don't don't have the mentality.
- 26:18Speaker 1: I gotta hurt back, cause this shit is gonna keep going.
- 26:21Speaker 1: It's like like like play. Ain't like cats and mice
- 26:25Speaker 1: they bouncing back and forth. Man, that shit is corny.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Now we older. Now we're trying to be pushing peace.
- 26:32Speaker 1: I'm pushing peace like that. That's how I look at it.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Ass Like, Man, if I ain't beefing with nobody, the
- 26:38Speaker 1: only person I'm beefing with is myself. Every day I'm
- 26:41Speaker 1: laying on that couch and I'm not doing what I'm
- 26:42Speaker 1: supposed to do. I'm beefing with myself when I'm slacking
- 26:46Speaker 1: off of what I'm supposed to be doing, or I'm
- 26:48Speaker 1: not bucking studio time and all that shit. Man, I'm
- 26:51Speaker 1: beefing with myself. So it's like, why would I put
- 26:54Speaker 1: my loved ones in and rest to try to get
- 26:56Speaker 1: back to you? And and another thing too, her people
- 27:00Speaker 1: hurt people. Right now, I would have went back and
- 27:02Speaker 1: hurd him. It wouldn't have give me back my vision.
- 27:07Speaker 1: So what did it solve? Now we're on the investigation.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Now I'm in jail because I'm guilty by association. Right now,
- 27:17Speaker 1: my son got to come see me on that visiting floor.
- 27:21Speaker 1: No hell, No, I refuse for my son to see
- 27:24Speaker 1: me and stay green. I refused for my son to
- 27:26Speaker 1: be talking to a tombstone. I broke the cycle. I'm
- 27:30Speaker 1: pushing peace. Call me positive city. No now like because
- 27:35Speaker 1: back then, no Lie, I wanted to get back. I
- 27:39Speaker 1: wanted to feed every every shell and a gun to him.
- 27:42Speaker 1: I did, and if he died, I wanted to dig
- 27:45Speaker 1: him up and feed him most shells. I didn't care
- 27:48Speaker 1: because you hurt me bad. But what would I got
- 27:52Speaker 1: out of it? Because I still want to be to
- 27:53Speaker 1: see that dark clouds still would have been over me.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Why because I still when it felt like I still
- 28:01Speaker 1: feel like shit. Because I'm an adult now, I'm the
- 28:04Speaker 1: king of the shit. Like I told you before, I'm
- 28:06Speaker 1: the king of the dog who can move like me,
- 28:09Speaker 1: not Rach Chearl, not Stevie Wonder. I feel like my
- 28:13Speaker 1: story is bigger than this. They had medical complications. My
- 28:18Speaker 1: shit got snatched away from me, and I made the
- 28:19Speaker 1: best out of it. Nah hurt people, He could hurt
- 28:24Speaker 1: all the people he wanted, he tried, he hurt me,
- 28:27Speaker 1: he blessed me. You will never be free until you
- 28:31Speaker 1: let go what they did to you. No matter what
- 28:34Speaker 1: it is, mentally, physically abuse you, it doesn't matter. Just
- 28:39Speaker 1: let that shit go and gain your freedom, because right
- 28:43Speaker 1: now they got you locked in that closet, they got
- 28:46Speaker 1: the lights off, They got the power because you didn't forgive.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Take your power back and be free. That's all I
- 28:54Speaker 1: can sit and really to sit and tell y'all, because
- 28:57Speaker 1: they ain't nobody in this world that can sit and
- 29:01Speaker 1: say they got the power. We see you know I'm free.
- 29:04Speaker 1: I ain't mad at nothing, I ain't tripping over nothing.
- 29:07Speaker 1: I'm always stepping. So be free. Man, be free, man,
- 29:14Speaker 1: be free. Free, Let go of it. Wake up in
- 29:17Speaker 1: the morning. You look at that phone, you look at
- 29:19Speaker 1: that contact, Text that person, say I forgive you, but
- 29:23Speaker 1: don't text the man unless you really mean it, Unless
- 29:26Speaker 1: you really mean it. I forgive you that man that
- 29:29Speaker 1: cheated on you. I forgive you, that man that puts
- 29:32Speaker 1: his hands on you. I forget you. It takes a lot,
- 29:37Speaker 1: but you want to grow. Gotta forgive. Your father wasn't there.
- 29:43Speaker 1: I forgive you. Your mother was on drugs, your parents.
- 29:46Speaker 1: I forgive you. You feel like a person that showup
- 29:49Speaker 1: when you needed them the most. I forgive you, and
- 29:53Speaker 1: I'm not forgiving you for you. I'm forgiving you for myself.
- 29:57Speaker 1: I gotta grow.
- 29:58Speaker 2: That's the pain, that's the part, bro, Like for I'm
- 30:01Speaker 2: not forgiving you for you, I'm forgiving you for myself,
- 30:04Speaker 2: for giving you for myself. It's so it's so fucking weird.
- 30:07Speaker 2: How like holding on to the grudge of what somebody
- 30:10Speaker 2: did to you. It's only fucking your shit up. It
- 30:12Speaker 2: don't got shit to do with them.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Really, not real shit, Because like relationships, a person hurts
- 30:17Speaker 1: you so bad, you're gonna go into your next relationship
- 30:18Speaker 1: with the same mentality. Oh my god, this nigga hurt me,
- 30:21Speaker 1: This woman hurt me, cheated. So how can you see
- 30:24Speaker 1: the potential of your new lover if you don't let go,
- 30:29Speaker 1: if you don't forgive, you're just carrying that you don't forgive.
- 30:33Speaker 1: How can you really see the like nobody's perfect, But
- 30:37Speaker 1: how can you pick out the perfect moments and like
- 30:41Speaker 1: potential in your parents if you don't give them, If
- 30:44Speaker 1: you just don't forgive the ship that they did to you?
- 30:46Speaker 1: Oh my God, I forgive my father. My father is
- 30:49Speaker 1: a great ass cook the restaurant, to know her head
- 30:51Speaker 1: and everything else. It's like his words say it. I
- 30:54Speaker 1: want to believe it. It's just he just don't like
- 30:58Speaker 1: I believe his words. I just feel like he just
- 31:00Speaker 1: gotta do. He gotta just make the actions work with it. Actions,
- 31:04Speaker 1: make the actions work, and then when your actions start working,
- 31:07Speaker 1: it's gonna match up to your words. So we locked
- 31:10Speaker 1: in and then he'll forgive himself instead of beating himself
- 31:14Speaker 1: over he not being there for me. God, do the work.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Gotta forgive. I mean every time I like, even in relationships,
- 31:23Speaker 1: a man get loud, you was in domestic violence doesn't
- 31:27Speaker 1: mean he gonna put his hands on You're just having
- 31:29Speaker 1: a little altercation. Forgive you your past relationship, trust and
- 31:33Speaker 1: believe you're gonna be okay. You're gonna be okay. We
- 31:36Speaker 1: just forgiven, like no lie a man like me. I
- 31:41Speaker 1: hit people up and we had conversations. I told him
- 31:44Speaker 1: how I feel like my right hand man. My right
- 31:47Speaker 1: hand man, we bump has a lot over a lot
- 31:49Speaker 1: of ship. He didn't agree with what I did. I
- 31:50Speaker 1: didn't agree with what he did. What we be taught
- 31:52Speaker 1: I forgive you. That just make our relationship even stronger.
- 31:56Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to be vulnerable. I feel like a
- 31:59Speaker 1: lot of people have a hard I'm being that bro. Yeah,
- 32:01Speaker 1: for sure.
- 32:01Speaker 2: Vulnerability is like not easy because and again it's they
- 32:05Speaker 2: scared to be vulnerable because they're still holding on to
- 32:07Speaker 2: the fear of what happens, Like I can't let it
- 32:09Speaker 2: happen again, can't let it happen again.
- 32:11Speaker 1: I don't want to feel stupid or not a sign
- 32:14Speaker 1: of weakness. It's not a sign of weakness, it's not
- 32:18Speaker 1: Sometimes not being vulnerable, you could definitely lose the biggest
- 32:23Speaker 1: like love of your life. The like, just just be vulnerable,
- 32:29Speaker 1: because sometimes being vulnerable the best conversations coming out of it,
- 32:33Speaker 1: the solutions be solved. So it's like, man, this don't
- 32:38Speaker 1: trip over it. Man forgive. That's the word of the day.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Man forgive you wake up this morning, just take your
- 32:44Speaker 1: time and say, all right, this person stole from me,
- 32:47Speaker 1: but I don't know why she stole. That person might
- 32:48Speaker 1: being hungry, but they just we was scared to tell you.
- 32:52Speaker 1: You can text them, I forgive. Oh why did you still?
- 32:55Speaker 1: Like conversations? Forget? Like all that should come together. Man,
- 32:59Speaker 1: just forget. It's forgive. I forgive. I forgive the nigga
- 33:05Speaker 1: that shot me. I forgive my father. I forgave relationships,
- 33:08Speaker 1: I forgave family members. I just forgive because why who
- 33:14Speaker 1: won't stop me? And I refuse for what they did
- 33:18Speaker 1: to me? Stop me? I forgive a like a lifting
- 33:27Speaker 1: off your shelters. I'll tell you this podcast shit is
- 33:31Speaker 1: like therapy. You can't talk about shit like this to people.
- 33:34Speaker 1: They look like they did. They'd judge you with being
- 33:37Speaker 1: in front of the cameras and the mic and all that.
- 33:39Speaker 1: That shit makes me feel good, man, I forget.
- 33:42Speaker 2: Yeah, Man, that's a great that's a great topic. Great strubject.
- 33:44Speaker 2: I think you killed it bro real.
- 33:45Speaker 1: So if you home, d M me the BLA NYC
- 33:50Speaker 1: or you can email me BLA NYC at gmail dot com.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Like sending your like moments that you've been in that
- 33:58Speaker 1: you had to forgive, or send little like send a
- 34:02Speaker 1: voice note. I want to hear y'all voices to the
- 34:05Speaker 1: d ms on the block and I see and maybe
- 34:07Speaker 1: we've played on the episode and see how can we forget?
- 34:10Speaker 1: Help you forgive that person or or something, whatever the
- 34:13Speaker 1: case may be. But another episode was another one bro,
- 34:17Speaker 1: Thank you bro. Another one in the books. But until
- 34:22Speaker 1: next week, I am FOBC not the official Blonde Stepper,
- 34:25Speaker 1: the forgiven. The work took a long time to happen,
- 34:33Speaker 1: but I did it, and I'm the voice of the disables.
- 34:36Speaker 1: I'm always gonna step big intil next week. Blonde Stepper,
- 34:40Speaker 1: Blond Step