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ITV #192: From FBI Targets to Community Leaders: Rizza Islam & Trae Tha Truth Tell the REAL Story · Inside The Vault with Ash Cash

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's Malcolm X, until it ruins the bank account.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the next few days, my plans was to go on the bank if I had to defeat my kids.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If money was the motivation, I would have shut up a long time ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Better you are, the better the community will be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe I bought like maybe 15 acres right outside the house and then when I bought it I was buying it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To where if anything feel I always had something far back home, but it was a small investment because they built the Tesla factory.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what my land and I was double the triple right now, so you are losing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you refuse to invest in yourself.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Ladies and gentlemen, round of applause for Mr. Tray, the truth.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Ladies and gentlemen, round of applause for Lisa Isla.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know you want to watch this next video, but listen, if you are an entrepreneur, business coach, business consultant, or a small business owner who has a story, and wants to learn how to create multiple strings of income from your story, I need you to text me right now, my book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: to six, four, six, six, six, eight, seven, four, one, five, two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have been an author for over 12 years, I've written 10 books, four of them have been best sellers, and I've sold over 100,000 books, but I've also helped a lot of my clients, take their expertise and put it into a story, then create multiple streams of income from that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So text my book to six, four, six, six, eight, seven, four, one, five, two.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I, let's go back to the video.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I need more energy to know how you're feeling.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so I'm excited.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We have a very revolutionary panel today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, family, we are about to dive into a conversation that is bigger than business.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's about movement, mission, and legacy today's panel is to do for self-revolutionary entrepreneurship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's all about the power of economic independence, ownership, and activism through entrepreneurship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We are joined by two incredible leaders.
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[SPEAKER_04]: First, we have trained a truth, a legendary rapper, philanthropist, and community advocate out of Houston with over 15 studio albums and 30 mixed tapes has collaborated with some of the biggest names in hip hop, while never losing sight of his mission to serve the people,
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[SPEAKER_04]: founder of Andrew by Nature and the force behind Tray Day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's been recognized with awards from Billboard, B.T.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and even the city of Houston for his impact.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Ladies and gentlemen, round of applause for Mr. Tray, the true.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Next, we have Mr. Risa Islam, an international activist bestselling author researcher, and youth leader with more than 25 years of community service, known worldwide for speaking truth to power.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He has been fearless in addressing social injustice, health, freedom, and government corruption.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Here's also the founder and CEO of intellectual power and peace paths providing health solutions that impact lives across the globe.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ladies and gentlemen, right over the floors for reason is love.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, I am as cast, your financial motivator, and together we're about to explore what it really means to do for self in today's world.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm just going to start this way, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: So if you are both really just talk about at what point,
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[SPEAKER_04]: and your career did you decide that you would use your platform for good, for change, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Because a lot of people have their platforms, it's usually just monetary, but both of you have been very instrumental in using your platform for the community for good.
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[SPEAKER_04]: At what point did you make that decision?
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, I would say, what thing I learned throughout my career, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What social media came?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched the good and the bad side of it, right, and what I was able to do was, it actually started a lot during disasters when I was getting out trying to save people and getting the information out that certain areas really need to help, certain people really need to help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I used my platform to magnify and bring awareness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I seen what that can do, you know how many people would not know
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[SPEAKER_00]: Somebody could be right next to it and went to a traumatic situation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our whole neighborhood could be right out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They'd be so in their own world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the only thing they made look at is social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when I started bringing away this and showing what was really going on in these trenches, and in the hoods, and in different cities, you have people that's right next to it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, I didn't know that was happening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or how can I help now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's just kind of planning to see, you know, and made it a way to
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know how they say, what the devil meant for bad, God can turn the good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you use it, you know, you use it for the process just to get the people help.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Love that, love that, random applause.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're the reason.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Same question.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll say, I've always been doing this work since I was nine years old.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So most people who start on social media, they start on social media.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been working in the community since I was nine years old in Compton, California.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So everything from drug abuse being locked up in prison, game banging, that was in my family.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Born to raise in Compton, California, youngest of 10 children, older sisters on crack cocaine on ski, a row of brother got murdered by somebody over drug deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is what inspired me to do the work since I was a child.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Then doing the work in the community, I brought that on two social media.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So when people see your brother, that's really me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a character, this is not a joke, this is life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said, if I'm going to help more people, then I'll use this as a tool, as our brother was saying, magnify, bring awareness, and also provide solutions, because this is where people's attention is now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Matter of fact, there are some people who don't even like going outside.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They stay right here on social media.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For some people, it is the first time they've been outside in a long time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: because of how controlling this apparatus is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's really why I did it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Was to magnify, bring awareness, and just to continue helping the people the way I was doing prior to social media.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I love that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sure you turned your music into a mission with initiatives like Angel by Nature and Tray Day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you talk a little bit about both those initiatives?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, for sure, you know, the brand is ABN.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I felt like you have different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: walks the life that support me for different reasons, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have from the rap side, you know, and the streets, you have the assholes by nature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then you have some odd elders and some of the kids that watch how moving, how many people that I share my blitzens with, that want to rip it to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what led to us forming an angel by nature as the same as ABN.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was just creating different ways and different lanes within that brand for people because now it's a blessing, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because you have so many different walks of life that stand with me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I can walk in the room and some of the grandma's like, man, that's that guy that you know what I'm saying or I can walk in the middle of the room.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's like, man, that's the big home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then you go with the keys and it's like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we watch a lot of stuff that he goes through on social media, TV or whatever, that may be he motivates us, he basically damn their race, just watch and what he got going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've always just found ways to try and make everybody feel part of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's why I have the Angel by Nation, everything else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the Angel by Nation as a whole was just, you know, that's my nonprofit like so everything
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[SPEAKER_00]: going out there and hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or being on the front line fighting for my partner, George, Floyd, Brown, and Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just all different things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just make sure that I tie it in the one and they understand that no matter which one you represent, with me, you still get me as a whole.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Love that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then how did a trade day come about?
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[SPEAKER_04]: And get you explain what trade day is?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's huge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so trade day is, that's my holiday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In Houston, I believe I have either seven or eight holidays, meaning
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[SPEAKER_00]: those holidays that the city used in the mirror that everybody recognized as, this is the day we represent trade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I had one in Milwaukee too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a trade in Milwaukee.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did a lot of stuff out there too, but... You know what, random applause for that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He has his own day, like his own holiday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of people think when you say you have your own day, you know, we can make our own anybody to make their own day like mine is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: is really a holiday and what they did, they wanted to make it a day in Houston to celebrate me for all the work that I do and just making about me, but what I did was reversed and made in the day to celebrate the city, so for a trade that you know, I'm making sure me and the team, we make sure kids get their schools, supply, school, clothes, scholarships, we give away free cars, we take care of the elders.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I fly a hole bunch of celebs, it'll matter if it's A plus down to F plus, everything from comedians, rappers, everything, but what I do when they come instead of making it just about party and during the days that they're there, because now trade their whole week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have to get out there and we gotta get out there and help the people, whether it be the homeless, whether whatever it may be, the goal is to bring them there and
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[SPEAKER_00]: really so what it is to give back because if I plant this seed with them they can go back to their area that I may not go to because I may not even have been to their city or have a reason to be there and they can go do this exact same thing like a lot of people don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_00]: me and Nipsy was brothers, we was close, you know, he came to some of the first trade days to where he would tell me, hey, that motivated me to make sure and go back because I got people I take care of here as well that I want to do that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that'd be the whole goal as a whole just to instill the trade they'd be in about me as to magnify to motivate people to help all the people who can't help themselves who really need it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You come under attack a lot, so I mean like you've had over 20 different, you've been banned 20 times over 20 times and you risk your reputation and censorship to speak the truth.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How do you both balance personal success and community responsibility?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my, I would say my responsibility is the community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I do what I do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's make this very clear, like our brother was saying, if money was the motivation, I would have shut up a long time ago.
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[SPEAKER_01]: about things that were going to be taken over social media, right, because that's counterproductive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If money is the gold, then I'm supposed to be monetized here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I should be talking less about that and shucking and driving and dancing, making everybody comfortable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not the point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The point is, the community needs to be aware and formed and provided with solutions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they know exactly what the hell is going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they know exactly what the enemy is planning, what they're doing, and how they can get out of it potentially.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been heavy to say the least, because when you decide to step out here and do what is your purpose, that's another thing I wonder about to be mindful of, this is not a game, all right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So don't play with this type of work.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not for the grand, it's not for Facebook, it's not for YouTube Snapchat, Twitter nor TikTok.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When the enemy sees that you are real, he will show you how real he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So be careful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank y'all for the few who planned.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because we got to make this clear, man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, a lot of people, they see things on social media, not realizing the majority what you see in this fake.
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[SPEAKER_01]: People and things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when the enemy shows up in person, that's when people start changing a tune.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, you know what I'm thinking?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm too much interested in this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go over here and do some a little more safe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the balancing has been difficult because when the FBI shows up to your house three times,
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[SPEAKER_01]: When a government comes after you and offers you a plea deal and throws a case on you and lies on you for 10 years and calls you every couple months off your plea deal you're going to do going to service much time and you're going to service much time over total lies and you have to battle with them going through four attorneys all at the very end of it to come out out at 10 years for them to say we don't have enough evidence to move forward at this time in your case get dismissed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The gangsters are the ones who don't take bleedies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So why is this young brother from Compton with glasses on?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Who people try to make fun of?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And today's saw I'm actually two feet taller in person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, damn, you didn't take no pleading.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, because I will not talk to something I did not do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know I didn't do that, but because I was exposing what these bastards were doing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They tried to do what they always do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: reputational damage was what they attempted to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the people know the truth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So his question was how do you balance it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've only recently learned how to do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Recently, my wife, who was here, is a soldier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She's a part of that balance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And when I say soldier, I mean, a little to relieve military training soldier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we balance in quite well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the last thing I
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[SPEAKER_01]: The most amount of Elijah Muhammad said do for self or suffer the consequences.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So at a certain point, outside of being an educator, outside of being an activist, and all these different things that we do, finances play a part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they attack your finances if you have them, they attack your businesses, if you establish them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So you're brother Hat to establish business, based on what the purpose of helping the people is and creating solutions for the people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I have those, because in order for you to really fight this enemy, you must be independent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You must be independent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't get out here and speak against Masa and he couldn't your check, because you're not going to talk with too much bravado.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your masculinity will be questioned all the damn time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know he in Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the point is,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Do not do this as a game, it's not a trend.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As I mentioned the FBI, I'm also on the White House, this information doesn't list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also on the FBI watch list.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also on the Department of Homeland Security watch list here in Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How to help it that happens?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even live here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a number of other lists.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So my point is if you do what you do, make sure it is your purpose, because your purpose is what will never quit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You will always love it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how much they attack you, no matter how much they try to discredit you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No matter how much they try to smear you in front of the people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The people will say, nah, that's my man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's my brother and what y'all saying there's a bunch of BS so I balanced it that way and again I do my best to have fun too But I mean like really exposing this enemy is truly fun to me I hate the system white supremacy I hate this we can say 10 in government.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want y'all to know I'm a real one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a joke Yeah, I really am one of those I'd say the same thing in front of white people and they clap louder to some of y'all do
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my, wow, I respect that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So that's how I do my best to balance the grip.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I appreciate that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Brother Trace.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So with all of the, you know, giving back, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I know a lot of people want to give back to their communities, but a lot of them have to choose, right?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like Brother Reza mentioned, you know, you have to have finances.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How do you give back so much, but then also focus on the economics and your businesses and things in our nation?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, just wing it man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how we make it happen, but but God find the way every time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of times people don't understand that giving back isn't always just financial.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, sometimes I mean, I've witnessed a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I give examples during Harvey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I showed up and to this undocumented area, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And nobody went over there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see, people getting hit all the round and showed up over there with you halls full, feel with supplies, whether it be diapers, food, just everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'd never forget one of the dudes told me, you'd like, man, he said, I thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said, I thank God for sinning you, but I thank you because if you wouldn't
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the next few days, my plans was to go on the bank if I had to feed my kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm saying that to say, sometimes it's just a moment of caring, you know, I'm saying that just being there or being that ear or just taking the initiative to show you not alone, that's more before they give back the money because money coming, go, you know, I'm saying so definitely from from that standpoint of it just being there for the people as
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of which my team be mad at me because a lot of times I have money coming in I'm dissonant right back out you know but I feel like it's needed you know and for me it makes me have to hustle more coming from the who you know we have different traumas that we don't really understand right and I'm saying that to say
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[SPEAKER_00]: I worked well on the pressure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When stuff is going to move for me, that's probably the time that I panic, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, just working well on the pressure is the reason why I went to create these businesses and do everything that I can to give back because when I'm given pool in so many different ways, it's keeping me on my toes to be able to motivate others but I'll still help the people at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I love that, love that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So one of the big issues that we have in our community is consumerism.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So how do we change the mindset of our community from consumerism to creators, owners, investors?
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[SPEAKER_04]: What's the best advice as to how to change that mindset for the people in our community?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let them continue to see what they get when they don't invest in themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What I mean is this, everything is going up, prices of everything have gone up, food, gas, insurance, whatever it is you have, everything is going up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The dollar is going down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so let's make this very clear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some people like to be soft.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You are losing if you refuse to invest in yourself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are losing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We make a lot of excuses for why we just want to pay for things or just go spin rather than invest and invest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just give one small example, going to the grocery store versus buying fast food.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you go to the grocery store, the grocery is our little more expensive, depending on if they're organic or not, but you can make more meals throughout the week versus eating out every day at Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to rest our last night, no, I'm mad about this one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to rest our last night and the price of everything was atrocious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The parking, we are extorting people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so serious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all hurt, y'all pockets hurt, and I remember the, really.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we have to invest in ourselves and look at how to budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to look at how to budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to the basics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How much money do you make a month?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Break that down over the next four weeks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you have to buy?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get rid of things that you don't need.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All these subscriptions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All these unnecessary spending.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get rid of all of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The most fundamentalism I'm going to talk about the economic blueprint where they were talking about saving five cents a day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: and gathering that up all the way to the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Literally just starting with something that's small to five cents.
22:10
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, today's day, we may let's say $1 a day, right?
22:13
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's make it a little more up to date, a $1 or even $2 a day.
22:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Find something very small to put towards something that will build your future.
22:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people talk about trust funds.
22:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people talk about these different investment bank accounts.
22:28
[SPEAKER_01]: You have other different things.
22:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you put the money somewhere safe in the house, stash things and invest them somewhere, because as long as we are consumers, we will always lose unless you are a multi-billionaire.
22:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And you just have all that money stashed up in your family.
22:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You have two islands.
22:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, if you don't have any of that, then please stop acting like you have time.
22:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Our biggest thing is we think we have time, and those who are planning are already purchasing the different properties that we are renting, that purchasing all the properties we're growing our own food or trying to, so we just have to do our best to invest in ourselves and don't be afraid to do so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's important right like if you take it from the rap stand point of where I come from, I tell a lot of the homies, what I do two things, I tell a lot of the homies like it would be times we would go to the mall that we would go to strip clubs or we would go do whatever we want to do and I let them know like hey bro, you can take them five or ten thousand that we may be missing out today and create a business to it that money can multiply, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's very important to invest within yourself right because if you don't believe in yourself how you're going to expect somebody else to believe in you or take the chance to even give you the money to push you, you know, that and coming from the musical standpoint always being independent also is you do know you hear the stories out of the time people
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[SPEAKER_00]: when they come to you, the damn of you, you're gonna be the one that sacrificed.
24:11
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I'll put yourself through that when you can invest within yourself, you know what I'm saying there.
24:15
[SPEAKER_00]: You may start small.
24:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, for my kids birthday, a people following me on social media.
24:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they can get whatever they want cause I also hold up at the same time.
24:25
[SPEAKER_00]: When I give them money or different stuff, I want, I make them go create a business.
24:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Like my son, I made him do a game truck.
24:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you love playing video games all day.
24:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Once you go on business in the truck, you know what I'm saying?
24:37
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want you to take this money instead of just missing it.
24:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll put it into some, so worst case you got something to file back on.
24:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Like my daughter birthday just passed.
24:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm in the midst of she wakes up when Dan says she want to have an ice cream truck that sells stuff out of them or so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what she's investing in.
24:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And lastly, I bought a, I bought land and everything.
25:00
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm one of the people.
25:03
[SPEAKER_00]: and which means not being perfect.
25:05
[SPEAKER_00]: I've invested a lot of stuff in lost money, but I want to people that have to take chances because I believe I bought maybe 15 acres right outside of Austin.
25:15
[SPEAKER_00]: And when I bought it, I was buying it to where if anything feel I always have something to fall back on.
25:21
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was a small investment, because they built the Tesla factory, that's what my land, and almost double the triple right.
25:28
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so.
25:30
[SPEAKER_00]: There's definitely a point you got to take.
25:32
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't take the chance as you ain't gonna get no results, so you got to try and do it you can for yourself.
25:37
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I love that.
25:38
[SPEAKER_04]: I love that.
25:39
[SPEAKER_04]: Jay-Z once famously said, truthfully, I want to rhyme like common sense, but I did five minutes, I ain't been running my like common sense.
25:47
[SPEAKER_04]: And what I understand that as is like, I want to tell a truth, I want to talk a certain way, but it's not lucrative to do that, right?
25:57
[SPEAKER_04]: I've been in plenty of powerful rooms, and I've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs, people who have great opinions behind the scenes, but not as vocal as they can be because of the fear that opportunities are being taken away, people will, you know, they'll be looked at a certain way, they don't want the controversy so they play it safe.
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[SPEAKER_04]: What advice do you have for that type of entrepreneur who knows the truth and actually has a voice that can really use that voice for good, but they are afraid of losing that opportunity so they're in a limbo trying to figure out how do I tell the truth and use my voice for good, but not lose opportunity like what would you say to everybody's Malcolm Max and to a rules their bank account said it one more time.
26:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's Malcolm X, until it ruins the bank account.
26:57
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why I said don't play with this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kanye West is one example.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have a good intention.
27:05
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to speak the truth.
27:07
[SPEAKER_01]: But if your money comes from the very system that you are trying to expose, then that is a balance you're going to have to figure out.
27:14
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why independence is extremely important.
27:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, do for self or suffer the consequences.
27:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you know, body fire, brother, reason?
27:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Can nobody fire me?
27:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Can nobody say, brother, you can't say that.
27:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to hell.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Stop me from saying.
27:33
[SPEAKER_01]: But in order to me to say that, I had to establish something that generates the financial capital, so that I can say that.
27:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I was saying that before I had that.
27:42
[SPEAKER_01]: So now that I have it, I can say it even stronger.
27:45
[SPEAKER_01]: But for those who, I would say, are inside of a system that is dominated by this enemy who pays for what they have.
27:54
[SPEAKER_01]: find the person who you see speaking the truth and support that person.
28:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm going to say this to y'all so you can understand because for many of them I am that person.
28:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And there are a lot of people like that for certain people, celebrities, artists, athletes, you name it.
28:11
[SPEAKER_01]: They have that person that group those people who they see, okay, you're speaking the truth in this area that I have passion for but I can't say it the way you say it.
28:20
[SPEAKER_01]: So let me go ahead and put you in the position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: where you can go do that for me on my behalf without them knowing it's on my behalf.
28:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you all hear what I'm saying?
28:28
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah, that's good.
28:30
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called the steal away method, yeah.
28:33
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you have a lot of people who are quiet revolutionaries.
28:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like this enemy sends out scouts for land and property in the hood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people who look like us, working for people who are not like us, who go out and buy up things.
28:51
[SPEAKER_01]: But you don't know that the name is that billionaire's name.
28:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have to do the same thing because not everyone is a revolutionary.
29:00
[SPEAKER_01]: and not everyone is built for the front lines.
29:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, many of them get checked every time they try to step into those shoes and they realize damn, these shoes are far too big.
29:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I could do this, but no.
29:10
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, if you have that thing that you are passionate about whether it's dealing with expose and what's happening to prisons, mental health field, vaccinations,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, brother or any other area, find the person who you see who is speaking the truth, who is effective, who is doing the job that you wish you could do, and support them.
29:27
[SPEAKER_01]: And the only reason why it doesn't happen as much as because we got too many damn egos.
29:32
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of brothers or sisters who are in high positions want, as I said, they want to be a sausage-a-core Malcolm X.
29:39
[SPEAKER_01]: They want to be far a con.
29:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You're a not built like that.
29:44
[SPEAKER_01]: And you have to admit it to yourself.
29:47
[SPEAKER_01]: Do not get out here thinking you can do what you are not built nor purpose to do because you will be checked and you will be on the internet crying.
29:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they took my bank account.
29:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they did this.
29:58
[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't know.
30:03
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the enemy's territory.
30:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So the first thing is you have to make it very clear of front that you are not a part of what they got going on.
30:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So that they can see.
30:14
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, there is a purpose and that's a part of the game.
30:17
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, I'm just making that very clear.
30:19
[SPEAKER_01]: Find a person who you trust, but if it's your purpose, then live it all the way.
30:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And don't be afraid of any of the consequences.
30:28
[SPEAKER_04]: So one thing I want to add, or one thing I've noticed, and I just want to point out, was, you mentioned purpose a lot, you mentioned, you know, you know, doing, you know, you said wing in it, right, and got to take care, you know, and that's what I've noticed, and I've noticed in that,
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[SPEAKER_04]: There isn't a fear of doing what you're being called to do because there's a belief system that you will be taking care of.
31:00
[SPEAKER_04]: When you think about your purpose, or you think about the work that you guys both do for the community and true speakers and being able to be taking care of afterwards, can you talk a little bit about the part that your faith plays in the work that you do?
31:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm going through that as we speak, but it's important, right, because when you get in these moments, it can give very discourage, because everything and going your way, everything is not aligned enough.
31:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And even, right, we're talking about the community side.
31:41
[SPEAKER_00]: When you go to speak in more on the revolutionary side, I don't know if you know, I move to Kentucky, the fight for Brianna, I think then you can, and probably hate me probably as one of the most, you know, I'm saying, from showing up to his house to everything, to get into the jail many times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I say that to say,
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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of times, man, we have to just, he says something that's really sticking to me when he's say calling, right?
32:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna be honest, I don't know what my calling is, I'm still learning, because you know I do a lot of everything.
32:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I just know how to go out there and beat me, and whether that may be to some people look good, to some people they stand with, to some people may not like me for it,
32:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still going with me and with me going behind just standing behind everything that I believe you have to have faith at the same time because it ain't written but it's only so much of human can do you know what I'm saying just being realistic if we get spirits or with it so you have to have faith and the thing is if you don't have faith then you automatically doubt yourself so you probably already create the road like for yourself before you could even
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[SPEAKER_00]: make it do it a little way.
33:05
[SPEAKER_00]: So put me, faith is everything.
33:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if you don't get the results that you feel you're supposed to get, you still gotta have faith.
33:13
[SPEAKER_04]: Like don't just believe when it's good, believe when it's bad too.
33:34
[SPEAKER_01]: The honorable minister Louis Farakhan, I'm all now some of you may like them, some of you may not, I really don't give it then.
33:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Faith is in my blood, brother.
33:48
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't face a system that is truly built on a satanic circumstance unless you have faith in a higher power.
33:57
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe in Almighty God, I lied to clear that.
34:01
[SPEAKER_01]: And when the enemy sees you, they know that.
34:04
[SPEAKER_01]: When they see you, they step to you different.
34:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Or they don't step to you at all.
34:09
[SPEAKER_01]: People feel your energy before you walk on the wrong.
34:12
[SPEAKER_01]: And if they have evil or wicked intentions, they go far away from you know how it is.
34:17
[SPEAKER_01]: People try to step to you and they know that they don't mean you know good.
34:20
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't even want to help with the mission you want.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to take the money from the children.
34:24
[SPEAKER_01]: Take the food, take the clothes.
34:26
[SPEAKER_01]: They like, oh, that's a try.
34:27
[SPEAKER_01]: I can go around.
34:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Damn, I can go around.
34:29
[SPEAKER_01]: because they know what you're about.
34:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And they know what we represent.
34:32
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have to be bold about that.
34:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So faith plays every role for me.
34:36
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a believing wife who believes in the most high, Almighty God alive.
34:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't do it with a sister who ain't, you know, rather, I was sister, all right.
34:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I need peace at home, and I need to know that you got my back.
34:53
[SPEAKER_01]: You see this enemy coming at your brother, you know, so we have to have a believe in a higher power.
35:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the money is paper, currency, digital currency, Bitcoin, okay, all that is nice, but to be honest with you, those who have the power have all the money.
35:09
[SPEAKER_01]: They print it, they add the numbers, they just flick a switch on, they add more to the account.
35:14
[SPEAKER_01]: But the people who believe in a higher power are those who cannot be made into slaves.
35:20
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't make us into a slave.
35:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what they are afraid of.
35:25
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why they ask, okay, so what do you believe?
35:27
[SPEAKER_01]: Or who do you believe in?
35:28
[SPEAKER_01]: Or they'll just test you.
35:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Sitting next to you, trying to say something, or bring up somebody, and you don't like that do-ass.
35:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Reason?
35:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Which thing about him?
35:40
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm to know, really this, these be my response.
35:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to know, you have to be like this.
35:44
[SPEAKER_01]: If you truly have faith, you want for your brother, as we're taught, I want for my brother what I want for myself.
35:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, listen, you're not going to talk about him outside of his presence because I wouldn't want you to do that to me.
35:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So who the hell are you?
35:58
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, get big on.
36:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Brother, you must've come down.
36:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, I'm just, we be in the gym.
36:09
[SPEAKER_01]: So faith is everything, brother.
36:11
[SPEAKER_01]: Faith is everything.
36:12
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have no faith, don't even get out here and do no work, because it won't go out far.
36:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Black people going piss you off, why people going piss you off?
36:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's going to make you angry and upset.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to quit within the first two hours.
36:22
[SPEAKER_01]: So have faith and truly make sure your purpose and that will help to drive your faith and drive your belief in God.
36:27
[SPEAKER_04]: I love that, I love that.
36:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Um, question for both of you, what does do for self look like for the next generation, right?
36:35
[SPEAKER_04]: So like we have a great opportunity now, you know us as young OGs, right?
36:40
[SPEAKER_04]: We have an opportunity now to really guide the next generation.
36:44
[SPEAKER_04]: So when we teach and them about doing for self and not being transactional and not, you know, you know, you know, living in their purpose, like what does that look like for the next generation?
36:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, brilliant.
36:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And at the same point what I say early, like even kind, the independence, right?
37:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, let's just take the current state of the world right now, the economy is terrible, even for people who have money.
37:10
[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, it's like why not show them.
37:14
[SPEAKER_00]: If all feels and everything, congratulations now, how to prepare yourself to be a, how to even just sustain the life in general, you know, saying stuff like that is very important because what is it that they used to say you, yeah, I helped me out like that.
37:35
[SPEAKER_00]: I could even go fishing for you or I could take you and show you how.
37:39
[SPEAKER_00]: So saying that to say, if you don't show them how,
37:44
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like you're setting them up for failure, and just me being a man, I can't look at my people as a whole just to watch them running to these dead ends or running to these hurdles or crash out every time when I know I was blessed to get some type of knowledge.
38:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I may be able to just use a little of my knowledge share with somebody else, and some may make some of them that they may be way better than me, him, you and everybody else.
38:11
[SPEAKER_00]: If you blessed to get that, it's always important to share them blessings with others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_00]: To prepare them.
38:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Because just... Let's take it from a paying standpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How would you feel, knowing?
38:25
[SPEAKER_00]: We may be leaving any day now and we're leaving our kids here and we leave in the middle of the position that they may not be being able to get out of this very important to get our hand just whether it's share the knowledge share the love or just share the push, you know what I'm saying, because I'm struggling, I'm
38:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, man, we've heard of each other many times.
38:47
[SPEAKER_00]: This first time of us ever been with any other president, but before this conversation, the first thing we told each other, whatever you got going on, whatever I got going on, you hit me if you need me.
38:57
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a jump out there with you, and you come through the same with me.
39:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
39:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And moments like that are important, right?
39:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you said something else about egos, and I swear, you could be in these situations, man, and some of the people that you would think.
39:12
[SPEAKER_00]: What be the support to be the bear people trying to tear you down?
39:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they are comfortable with losing their position, you know what I'm saying?
39:20
[SPEAKER_00]: We definitely got it.
39:21
[SPEAKER_01]: We have to sit out amongst each other.
39:34
[SPEAKER_01]: be the clean glass.
39:36
[SPEAKER_01]: Do not condemn the dirty glass.
39:38
[SPEAKER_01]: He's saying is be the example.
39:39
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
39:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So no need to attack your brother.
39:41
[SPEAKER_01]: No need to attack your sister.
39:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Just be the example.
39:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Show them how to do it by you doing.
39:45
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't even need to talk.
39:46
[SPEAKER_01]: Just go out here and do it.
39:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't announce my businesses until they were completely done.
39:51
[SPEAKER_01]: and already in motion.
39:54
[SPEAKER_01]: We announced things too prematurely.
39:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And it causes people to doubt and be disappointed because we don't follow through.
40:03
[SPEAKER_01]: Our lack of consistency at times.
40:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And many of us aren't getting better with that.
40:06
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I love because many people are seeing it.
40:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they're doing it in an opposite way.
40:10
[SPEAKER_01]: But be the example number one, number two, you unite with those who are like minded.
40:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Not all of us are going to make it y'all.
40:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is hardest for me to accept because again, I've been working with our people since I was a child.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I love us so much.
40:27
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been very difficult for me to realize that all of us really not going to make it, not because I don't want us to, or he doesn't know you don't.
40:34
[SPEAKER_01]: But because some of our people generally don't believe that they can make it.
40:37
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't even see a future.
40:39
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they've already decided to let go.
40:41
[SPEAKER_01]: You all know, some of you in here probably have been to that point, like, man, what's the point?
40:47
[SPEAKER_01]: You night with those who are like minded, the people who see the vision, who want to be a part of it, who have a passion for it, and they like, no, that's my purpose to get with those because they're going to add to the mission and we're going to build together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So be the example, you night with those who are like minded.
41:03
[SPEAKER_01]: And again, don't announce anything until it's done.
41:07
[SPEAKER_01]: And even when you announce it, make sure you protect it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Especially if it's going towards the good and betterment of the people.
41:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
41:17
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that.
41:18
[SPEAKER_04]: As we wrap up, my final question to both of you are if you could leave one principle behind that captures the essence of Revolutionary Entrepreneurship, what would that be and then where can the people find you?
41:35
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I only want to ask you, if I would be able to sum it up in a few words, I would say a couple of things, I would say, be you believe in self and just give it to all again.
42:01
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not made for everybody to succeed.
42:03
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not made for everybody to win.
42:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you have a lot of people out of it.
42:06
[SPEAKER_00]: If they slightly think they're not going winning, they ain't going to take their chance.
42:10
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be like, after that.
42:11
[SPEAKER_00]: So don't be that person.
42:14
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying?
42:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Just give it to all and be you.
42:19
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to take your wins with your losses.
42:22
[SPEAKER_00]: You come from the hood, we may have a impeccable record when they come to fight and everything else, but guess what?
42:30
[SPEAKER_00]: You might run into that one, they got your number that day and if that's what it is, you got to take the good with the bear, with that.
42:37
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm saying that the plot and life within itself, you know what I'm saying?
42:42
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to go out there and just give it your best because at the end of the day, you'll be able to look at that mirror,
42:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say the same thing our brother said in this way, minutes to far, con, the most unfortunate moment said, self improvement is the basis for community development.
43:06
[SPEAKER_01]: The better you are, the better the community will be.
43:09
[SPEAKER_01]: The more intelligent you are, the more intelligent the community will be, the healthier you are, the more healthy the community will be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This brother does not do the work just for himself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He makes sure that he spreads it around to build the people.
43:21
[SPEAKER_01]: So we have to focus on self healing.
43:25
[SPEAKER_01]: and getting rid of our trauma because our trauma is connected to all of those who look like us.
43:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we see one person as all of us, and it prevents us from making progress.
43:34
[SPEAKER_01]: So develop yourself, work on yourself, build within yourself, and and spread that healing that love in that progress within the community.
43:40
[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe the community will thrive, they want it to know what a fine you'd rather to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're here in a business like I'm at Booth 1431 and you know I want to them down every people you come out at any time, but it's for a social media is at trade A.B.N.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to get what you get, which is me, you ain't getting that more nonetheless.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before we do that, what I do want to do is,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to make sure I film this just to even show because I'm a be honest when I came here and they told us we were going to do a panel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know if it was going to be five people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was going to be a hundred people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was grateful regardless because the purpose is to get out here and do what we need to do for our people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So all the kind of three of you can.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need everybody to make a round of applause for they sit, but I just want to I want to post it and show people.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He said the count of three, no a count of three, two, three, Yeah, This highest down the field, but the reason is long, brother, Trader true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, sir.
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[SPEAKER_05]: All right, man.