We Still Celebrate The Men Who RUIN Our Communities! Ft. Brother Tad

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Peace. Peace. What's the word, dog? [00:12:19] Speaker B: Not much. Hold on one second. I got a cough. Yeah, I had to get that out. We talk every day. And based on the conversation that we had earlier, we was just. Just talking. You know, we talk about neighborhood stuff, we talk about family stuff, we talk about what's going on on social media and just different things, different people. And we had a conversation today and we was just like, yo, man, when. When dudes gonna grow up, you know, it's a lot of celebration of dysfunction, failure. And it's just like it's getting more and more prevalent. And no matter where we look, no matter where we turn, this is just all we see. You know, this person did this amount of time in jail. This person laid this person down. This person did this. This person sold us a bunch of. Bunch of work. This one knocked a bunch of chicks down. And sadly, it's a lot of black men. And I don't think Black men address other black men and it gets celebrated, supported and saluted. But me and you being family men, and the most important thing is being our family. We got so many babies in our family that look up to us. You know, we worry about their future and we worry about what they're gonna have to grow up with. And if we don't start now having certain dialogue, there is no future for them as well as the families in the. In the chat family. So this is how we brought this dialogue. And he was like, yo, I want to talk to you about this. So I said, let's do it tonight. So ain't no time like the present. So what do you. What do you want to speak to in that to start it off? [00:14:00] Speaker A: I'm just thinking about the climate of what's going on in this country right now, you know, with the government shut down and, you know, some states not getting a snap benefits and everybody putting it on like it's black women who's going to be affected the most. And just on how so many people attack our community on a regular basis, talking about, you know, the other side, the folks that don't look like us and don't care about us. But then when I come to our community, our demographic, dudes from the hood, dudes from the trenches, it's the same conversation. It's like, yo, F them ends and F them B's, you know, I'm trying to not curse again, you know, and it's like, yo, where do we go and get our piece? We. We talking about black males and black female relationships. You know, we. We talk about what's going on in politics. But even amongst us, brothers from the soil, dudes who are fortunate enough to make it out of the 80s and 90s with our lives, limbs and mentality intact, still talking that about who's a snitch, who's a real one, who's live, you know, salute everybody who's coming home from doing a stretch. Those who was fortunate enough to give time back, you know, in fact. In fact, my niece's father, get ready to come home. Pat son. [00:15:22] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:15:23] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? I got hit with some long numbers. So shout out to everybody who's. Who's working hard. You know, the brother Bush from lg, you know, his project, right, is working to get people home. So it's getting Pat son home, and I salute all that. But when we get these second chances, what are we gonna do with them, right? And I'm not talking about him because he's young. I'm Talking about the OGs, dudes in our age and generation and dudes who are older. And I'm not telling nobody. Don't get it how you live it. That. That's not my platform. That's. I'm not on that pedestal. I'm not on that mountain. But what I'm saying is, how are we going to move forward in reality? You know, what are we presenting? Everybody who talks about who's a real one, whether it's rappers or street dudes who are legends, they're respected because of the damage they did in our community. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Right? Right. [00:16:14] Speaker A: We respect certain dudes for how many bricks of poison they sold in our community. We respect the hitters for how many bodies they caught in our community. And I'm like, yo, we keep talking about the real, but we keep acting like children ain't growing up without their parents. We keep acting like mothers aren't missing their children. Around these holiday seasons, some dudes are passing away behind the wall, not even getting to see the light of day, even if they got a release date, whether they sick, high, get jammed up in there, poked up, whatever, whatever. And it's like, yo, when we gonna change our mindset? We seen what went on in our past that caused us all of this trauma for dudes to come home and jump on the Internet. And I always say, I salute every dude who coming home and figuring this, this digital space out because we can't do it on the corner no more. This is a new stream of revenue. So we need to tap in, but we can't tap in with that same mentality that got us popped. [00:17:17] Speaker B: They got us tapped out. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Yeah, we can't do that. And when I see brothers keep constantly beefing and beefing and beefing, and, you know, we from the era where you beef and I hold that energy, right? Because we're not gonna make no comments like. Like, this is how you get indicted if me and you gonna argue online. I'm talking about what I'm gonna do when I see you. When I see you, I'm obligated to do it. Other than that, I ain't. I ain't a real one, Quote, unquote, based on hood rules. Not saying that this is a reality because only your perspective creates your reality. But if I say I'm that real dude and when I see you offline, I' ma smack fire out of you, I have to do it. Other than that, I'm just talking and I ain't really a real one. Like, I'M claiming. But why even put myself in that position? Dog, you could remember years ago without going into detail or even hashing it. I just kept talking. I said, yo, you know what? There's nothing even to talk about. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Right? [00:18:16] Speaker A: Nothing to talk about. And I just shut my mouth after that. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Time for some action. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Action. Action speaks louder than words. [00:18:24] Speaker B: And you don't talk about the action. The action is the action. The action is the action. It's not even just what. [00:18:31] Speaker A: When you threaten me, Imma just say hi. [00:18:33] Speaker B: That's why I always say on the YouTube, I'll be like, all right. Okay. [00:18:37] Speaker A: You say you're gonna hurt me, I believe you. [00:18:39] Speaker B: Yep. [00:18:40] Speaker A: Now what am I supposed to do? [00:18:41] Speaker B: So now when I become the white piece on the chessboard and I go first, don't say nothing, because I ain't gonna be the black piece. It's my move. My. I'm going first. [00:18:50] Speaker A: Look, I got popped by somebody I didn't think would do it, right? All down. I said, now you gotta pop me, right? [00:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:18:58] Speaker A: If you don't pop me. [00:19:00] Speaker B: And when he. And it's funny, though, because I don't even know how old I was. I'm probably like, 13. When he pulled out. Yeah, we pulled out. We chased him. He already shot you. We still chasing him. We haven't had nothing. [00:19:14] Speaker A: We. [00:19:14] Speaker B: We was like, oh, no, we gonna. We gonna break his neck until. Hold on, you bleeding back. Yeah. Yeah. [00:19:22] Speaker A: Because that adrenaline rush, you don't feel nothing, right? [00:19:25] Speaker B: And we so angry. [00:19:26] Speaker A: What we said, we were teenagers. [00:19:29] Speaker B: It was 14. [00:19:30] Speaker A: We grown men now, right? Why would I still think and operate in that mindset, in that. In that frame of reference? So I see dudes who's going back and forth, and I don't want to see nobody get jammed up. I'll be honest with you. I want to see everybody win because it's enough to win. I see. I see the other side, the other folks, you know, the palm side. I see them. They stick together, right? They may have these disagreements, but they working together, especially when it comes against us. But us, we getting in the position, and we keep kicking each other down off the ladder, down off the ladder. Then when you get to the top, you surrounded by all the ops, right? [00:20:10] Speaker B: You know what's deep about that? Because although the palm side stick together, right, they the ones who perpetuate in the shit that they never had to do. And did they? The ones who talk about who was snitching, who got paperwork, and who a rat. And are you going to slide for somebody and all that. Who you ever slid for? Because when you start having that dialogue, that's different dialogue. That's not dialogue, you know what I'm saying? [00:20:32] Speaker A: Criminal Free. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Free my God. Free my God. Sherman the Worm. Free my brother. Our brother turf, but free Sherman the Worm. And when I speak to Sherm, Sherm been locked up for like 25 years, right? And Sherm always talk about giving that time back. He always say, yo, bro, I was a kid, I didn't even realize how little I was when I was wild and I was a kid. I didn't understand that what, what I did. I didn't understand what I was doing. So the way I think now, I don't think like that no more like I was a little kid, you know what I'm saying? So the point that you making and that I'm making is that we got people who should know better but still perpetuating something, like their children, you grown ass men and grown ass women, you know, So I, I find it ironic. Like I got an individual who, who has a YouTube. I don't know what they was. I don't, you know, I'm from Brooklyn. I don't know their street reputation. I don't know. I also don't care either because, you know, we, that don't mean nothing to us, you know, but dude, just keep DMing me. And it's like, yo, you trying to provoke me to say something about you. You trying to provoke me through the dm. One minute you DM me and big me up, the next minute you DM me and say stuff. And it's like, yo, get off my dick. You want me to argue with you in the dm, Just do something with yourself, you know what I'm saying? If you successful at what you doing, why are you so concerned with me? Because I'm not concerned with you. I've never DMed you first, I only replied to you one time. But then it's like, I don't know, we really gotta check a lot of our black men mental health too. Yeah, because. And I'm. And I'm not talking about stress, I'm not talking about. I'm talking about clinical. Some need medication, man, because something is wrong with you. And for some reason, for you to always provoke and paddle and prod at people who. Not messing with you. What is your problem? But you doing it digitally, you know what I'm saying? And it's like, yo, you need help. And one thing about me and you, there's been times in our life where if you'd be like, yo, I gotta go talk to somebody. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:22:48] Speaker B: Because my thoughts ain't clean, my spirit ain't clean, my mind ain't. It ain't sharp. And we talk to each other, but we gonna go talk to a professional. And we surrounded. We've been surrounded by people from the hood, our friends, our homies, like, yo, that need help. [00:23:04] Speaker A: We knew since we would hold up. First of all, they was in special ed when we were kids. [00:23:08] Speaker B: Facts. [00:23:09] Speaker A: Let's not forget that, yo. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Five in the classroom. [00:23:14] Speaker A: Five dudes and two teachers. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [00:23:17] Speaker A: Those are the ones we was calling real ones too. [00:23:19] Speaker B: Right, exactly. Because they were dysfunctional. Because they would throw an egg at somebody. [00:23:25] Speaker A: So once you get a childish dare, but then you go punch them in the face. [00:23:30] Speaker B: But. But the. But the op. The optimum word in that is childish. [00:23:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:36] Speaker B: See, we did at kids because we didn't have any recreation. Sometimes the recreation was catching wreck. Remember? That was the wreck. [00:23:48] Speaker A: That was our recreation. [00:23:49] Speaker B: That was the wreck. The wreck was making somebody else bleed, cry, bigger pocket. We did all. Or just go rolling. Just. Just go and go into another neighborhood, you know, get into. Yeah. So. [00:24:03] Speaker A: And then sometimes I want to say something real quick. [00:24:05] Speaker B: Go ahead, go ahead, real quick. [00:24:06] Speaker A: Before we move on, Shout out to Turf. Shout out to Sharon the Worm. And I want to say, because I. I'd be remiss if I don't really speak to that situation. When we went to see Turf, his spirits was up, right? Smiling spirits was up. You know what I'm saying? Whole conversation was positive. Everything about positivity, like you said. And we saw Sherm, you know, I don't know him personally, but we saw him on the floor. [00:24:29] Speaker B: Right, right, right. He was right there. [00:24:30] Speaker A: But what he told you, he was a child. He got his mind right. That's a real one. When you grow out of the form of mentality that got you jammed up, that's what make you a real one. Not to the fact that you got an extensive resume in the streets and all this. That and the third, you know, just to the fact that. That you can mentally grow up and recognize the error of your ways and know how to move accordingly. You know what I mean? That's what makes you a real one. And I just had to put that out there because a lot of our resumes, at least the quote unquote, real ones, a lot of our resumes come out of things we did as children and young adults right before our brain. 35, 40 years old, 50 years old. You better not Be thinking like you did when you were 16, 17, you know, back then, you're looking for. You're looking for validation. You're still trying to find yourself, you know, And a lot of us become products of our environment. [00:25:24] Speaker B: And I want to. And I want to change the conversation, and I want to be a little harsh in the conversation because it has to be said. And I don't think nobody's really saying it with the whole Supreme Team thing going on. You know what I'm saying? They're not known for building the community. They're not known for building housing and. And doing sheetrock in the hood and like that. They known for laying down and hustling. So I had somebody comment one day, and they were like, yo, nah, them had honor and all that. And I'm like, how? Like, yo, we gotta. Yo, listen, I'm gonna be real with y' all audience. We have to be real. Now, respectfully, some of the things that some of the guys was doing in the 80s, 40 years ago, so I'm not going to hold nobody feet to the fire for what they did 40 years ago, but we not going to act like it wasn't. And we not going to glorify and salute dudes. We not going to be like, yeah, they was getting it because they was doing it where they live. They was doing it today, people. The first time a lot of dudes got top was from their man moms. The first time they got action was from their man moms. They were selling each other mothers. They was doing all types of foul, laying each other down in the hood. So we not going to sit here and act like they was honorable guys. No, there was no honor and being dishonorable acts. So those are things was happening. Although I would like I said it was 40 years ago, some of the things 30 years ago. So. But I'm not gonna sit there and be like, yo, they was real ones. They. No, there is no honor in that. And this is what we're saying in 20, 25, when we do look at in hindsight, we say, damn, we did our up. We did do that. Instead y' all saying, yo, they coming home. Salute them and all that. Now, as for somebody like a prince, when you come home and you still talking some of that same that got you locked up, I'm like, okay, when are you gonna change the conversation? Because I don't give a about who's a CI, who's informing and all that, because that's talking for criminals. You shouldn't be talking to the Criminals no more because you're not a criminal. You said you paid your debt to society, right? You do. You, you got locked up for what you did. You got a second chance to reentry. Why are you talking about who's a CIA, who's a foreman and all that? It don't make no sense to me. Because you should not be talking to criminals unless you talking about prevention. That's it. That's it. Go ahead. [00:28:01] Speaker A: Yeah, you're 100, right. And I understand when people talk about that honor, you know, and this is why I'm so adamant and I say I die on this hill about, you know, redemption and reforming, you know, because I did. I wasn't proud of when I was outside. You have to, when you outside, you have to become an animal or you're going to be on the menu. And I hated that I was in those positions. You know, there was times I called you. Right, Dog, if I don't make it home tonight, I'm here with this one. [00:28:28] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [00:28:30] Speaker A: That way if they got, you got to identify me, you know, the whole story. [00:28:34] Speaker B: Right. [00:28:34] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? But that's the reality of being outside. And this is why I feel it's important that us as black men, you and I, you have a big platform. I have the voice. I've done tons of work in the community here, in our community and on the continent of Africa, you know, but this, this not the stuff that gets publicized. This is never school talking about criminal element as if that's our identity is what's popping. So I just use this topic conversation to get people to change their mindset. Because as black men moving into this, I always say, yo, we a quarter century into the new millennium. Like you said, a lot of was 40 years ago. 40 years ago. We need a new paradigm, a new reality, a new way of thinking and seeing things. Somebody said that Donald Trump was the worst president we ever had. I saw a lady say, no, he wasn't. And I thought it was profound. She said, you act like we didn't have Ronald Reagan. Yeah. Dump the drugs in our community. [00:29:32] Speaker B: Right. [00:29:33] Speaker A: So we talking about all of these people. We talking about what happened 40 years ago. But you got little 25 year olds that don't know nothing about 1997, 95, 93, 91 or 89 or 88. They're the ones with the big voices now, Right. They don't know what this world was like before drugs hit our community and hit our families. Doesn't mean like drugs didn't affect the strong black men within our family. Talk about me and your family. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, Right. [00:30:02] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? So we're talking about redeeming ourselves as black men because we saw what happened to our fathers before us, Our fathers and our uncles. And then here we come right behind them, and we do it to other people's fathers and uncles. And then we got these young dudes out here like, we got millionaires, right? You know, we got millionaires out here who losing their children. And I don't think that's funny and cute. I didn't think it was funny at all when Charleston white was teasing Gilly, right? That's Yo. There's Yo Stan character, homie. Because that. That was violation, man. I don't like to speak on stuff like that. You know, Big U just lost his son. And there's people we. Who's not famous, right? [00:30:43] Speaker B: But I want to cut you with the big you thing because some people say this is karma for this. Now, why black people always talk about black people? Karma. And we don't put karma on nobody else. We were talking about what's our karma about what the folks did to us. What's they karma. [00:31:00] Speaker A: It didn't come. It's the behaviors. [00:31:01] Speaker B: But this is the point. No, but this is the point I'm making. They done dumped work in our hood. They done dump burners in our hood. They done locked us all up, lock warrior classes up, done did all types of to us. But we'll say that his karma. Cause he ain't post my video. Where's that karma? So they just. They don't get no karma. They done did for us for hundreds of years. There's no karma for them, but there's karma for us. Because I didn't do said thing to you or I walked past you. It didn't speak. So that's my karma. That's why he crashed his car. Think about that. Black karma is only for black people. We the only ones who talk about karma. They don't talk about karma. They done invaded countries, pillage whole land, sovereign lands, all types of. And they don't ever say to each other, karma or no, that's only us that we talk about each other. Karma. That's just karma. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:01] Speaker B: Karma is only for us. Karma is only for us. [00:32:06] Speaker A: It's our habits. It's not karma. It is our bad habits that we have in the community. Things that we celebrate, things that we glorify, Calling people who harm in our community honorable. And that's your perspective. Maybe honorable that he's taking the money, feeding his family, you know, protect. Taking care of his elders and the children in his family. But think about the destruction that's causing on the other side. Meanwhile, nobody is talking to us about real business, right? About getting LLCs and how to properly file your taxes, how to properly secure loans. You're done in bad street numbers and all this stuff. Nobody's telling us none of this stuff. And everybody who is is charging us. You look at the Indian people, they lock down Dunkin Donuts and hospitality, hospitality. [00:32:56] Speaker B: Services and gas stations. [00:32:59] Speaker A: And gas stations. Chinese locking down restaurants, 711 and. And nail salons. And you know what I'm saying? Like, we have to pick an industry and we have to bum rush it. And it's not like we couldn't. We can't do it because we've done it before. The problem is we don't study our history enough. We don't study our story. So when people yell like they anti Trump, you supposed to be anti Trump, as if both Bushes and Ronald Reagan and Thomas Jefferson and all other presidents was just great for us. Come on, man. We got to stop the rhetoric and really start doing some introspective thinking and stop. [00:33:35] Speaker B: Yo, and I'm gonna say this. Black men. I gotta stop being black, man, with this victim mentality. Black men with this victim mentality. Yo, it's bad because for every solution, some of y' all find a new problem. I don't had the harshest life. I don't have a up life. But I learned how to turn tragedy into triumph with the minimal support system. I tell y' all all the time, I got a lot of excuses. I just don't use them. It don't matter. The ends, that's all that matter, is the end, the bottom line, the finish line. That's all that matters. Yo, I did this. Yo, if yo, y' all gotta stop that. We've all suffered losses, whether it was parents, whether it was loved ones, siblings. We all come from the same places. But the choices you make is going to define who you are. We all started behind the eight ball. We all started at zero. I don't got no excuse for not doing nothing, yo. It's still all on me, regardless. And that's called being accountable and being the man and being what it is. Because some of us try to remedy each other. And you say, yo, nah, bro, try this down the third. No, I tried all that, man. All right, you just defeated. Because I don't with defeated people. Anybody that I'm around. And I say, yo, you think that'll be hard to do? And they say, yeah, man, it's going. I don't know how. All right, I can't with you because I want you to tell me now. Yo, we jump off this building, yo, we could fly. And look. Because I made wings. Look at the wings. Let's try the wings. Yo, you know what? It. I'mma. We gonna fly together. And you could attest to the people the. That I tried when I was younger. It ended up working. But I wasn't supposed to try that right now. Yeah, this is what I'm saying. I wasn't supposed to try that. I was supposed to cry. Yo, my mom's died when I was 2. That's why I get drunk every day. Yo, I want to kill somebody. I could have used all those excuses. I was like, nah, I got a skill. I got a talent, and I gotta drive. And I'm willing to be quiet and learn and say that people feet who's doing it and just be quiet and. And just ask questions when it's needed. And I just was moving around in different spaces, never selling my soul, never being a sucker, never being weird, but never using the excuse of what I couldn't do. All I did was do what I can do and what I can do, end up working in different spaces. So when I'm around a lot of you guys and y' all always bitching and complaining like. Like broads, like. Because I say bitch is not gender specific. [00:36:34] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:36:34] Speaker B: Bitch is not gender specific. It's not gender specific. You know, so when I see dudes talk about what they can't do, and, yo, man, I had it hard. You want to hear myself? So what we supposed to do? Trade trauma stories? So when people always tell me what I don't got, what I don't do, say, you must not know where I come from. Tad, how you feel when people tell you you cursed? [00:37:01] Speaker A: I'm blessed because they don't know my story. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:37:06] Speaker A: They don't know where I come from. So where you may see me at right now, you may think that's the starting point or the finish line. Again, that's based on your perspective, right? Depends on where you met me at Neltron. [00:37:17] Speaker B: I appreciate that donation. Yeah, man. Like, yo, listen, we say this all the time, and sometimes, you know, we have to repeat it, because what I find is a lot of things that we say. Sometimes somebody else will regurgitate with a bigger platform, and y' all be thinking they all deep and introspective but you got to realize the architect, right? I was 300 pounds before Tad was 280 before, you know what I'm saying? We was at, like, our highest weights, super duper violent, eating wild, drinking 40s on the corner. He was smoking reefer. I never smoked weeping, but we drinking 40s just looking for ways to harm ourself first and then harm others. And then one day you just get hit with an epiphany and just say, yo, yo, we gonna start going to school. Remember? I said, like, yo, we gonna start going to school. We gonna do this now. Only thing I could say that we might have had that many of you didn't have, because we had a brotherhood support system, because there's a bunch of cousins that comprise of brothers, but it's a bunch of cousins as well. And, yo, it's times when we pick up the phone, we're like, yo, is you doing? Yo, I heard you such and such yesterday, Counsel. And you can't say nine do that because people said you was outside doing that. Yo, who was. Who was licking them shots last night? That was you. Yo, you making it hot outside? Is you doing. Oh, no. But you. Because you couldn't blow smoke. Because it was everybody against Taz sometimes. It was everybody against me. It was everybody against Mel. [00:38:55] Speaker A: We'll just be. Wow. Yeah. [00:38:58] Speaker B: This is what I'm saying. Yeah. So it's. A lot of times this afternoon, you. [00:39:01] Speaker A: Like, yo, what the was that? [00:39:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I might. Yo, who was that? I was outside shooting. It'd be my. It might be after school or something like that. Yo, where them shots came from? So you start getting on the bad phones. Yo, who was that? I tell you later. You know what I'm saying? Like, I. Everybody good, though. Yeah. You understand what I'm saying? We come from that. For real. For real. And these conversations are never going to be popular amongst folks because I don't know how to. Yeah, because I don't know how to make the bells and whistles come out. I don't know how to front to make you believe. You understand what I'm saying? I don't know how to front. I could just be as real in the conversation as real could be. And I just know that I'm tired of y', all, man. I'm tired of y'. All. No, I really am. I'm. I'm like, yo, hold on. We swing. So we ain't. We never accomplished nothing. All we are is rappers, drug dealers, gang members, chicks knocking dudes out. We've been to Prison. That's all we are. Like, so we didn't accomplish nothing. Look, how many of y' all guys are mathematicians, tech gurus, social media gurus. Because you learn how to use social media, you learn how to make yourself a YouTube. You learn how to do some of these things. You learn how to do your graphics. It's a lot of things that you should be proud of, but you more proud of being dysfunctional. And you're not no hero. You not know you not no hero. Because when you do some piece of. And you get locked up and be like, freedom. I'll be like, for what? The was a pos. And he was proud of it. [00:40:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:40:38] Speaker B: You understand what I'm saying? You known for being what a piece of. And what do we need you for? You know, we need more people that's talking to the little dude saying, yo, man, I used to be one of the wildest dudes ever. And then one day, I just didn't want to be wild no more. Like, yo, this was stupid. It was draining. I was tired. I was scared. I jeopardized my family. I didn't even see my kids get raised. You know, I spent, you know, my whole life, my. My kids was coming to see me because remember this, Y' all gotta remember when you're in prison and your loved ones come to see you now they're in prison, too. You don't look at it like that. Because how many times we heard about. How many times everybody. But how many times we heard about stealing on moms, on the dance floor, on the visiting floor, Y' all knocked that mother out. I cut that girl. Should be happening for real. You know what I'm saying? And we losing people. Like, you know, how could you perpetuate something? And you got a child that's in prison right now, and you got a child that's in prison right now, or your child is deceased to the system that you keep glorifying. I mean, Prescott, I appreciate you said. The guys in our neighborhood when I was growing up, made sure things were about to go down, that us as kids was getting the house ride. They would be like, yo, take y' all little ass out. Remember when the oldies used to tell us go to school? [00:42:09] Speaker A: Yep. I remember. [00:42:10] Speaker B: They used to take my beer and break it. You knock my ham sandwich out my hand and say, yo, go get turkey. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's how we stop eating pork. So it was a particular time where the older dudes was trying. Although, like I said 40 years ago, they were teens, they were young. We were single digits. Yeah, but if you were a team then, and you come out of prison and you did that time or you still got that mind state you had as a team, that means you didn't grow. So many of us are suffering from black fatigue where we just tired of. That's really what we saying. We tired of what it is too, though. Go ahead. [00:42:51] Speaker A: It gets. Is getting glorified. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:42:54] Speaker A: Those conversations get pushed in the algorithm because. [00:42:57] Speaker B: Absolutely. [00:42:58] Speaker A: There's so many people that are invested in our dysfunction, whether it's the clinics, whether it's Planned Parenthood in the clinics, whether it's the privatized prisons, whether it's these five, the morgue, the 501C3s for all types of preventions that get. That get grants. And I'm not talking about the brothers who are doing it the right way, you know, Shout out to tribe gangster and the light. [00:43:22] Speaker B: Shout out to gmac. Shout out to man, dude, bad vibes, all of them. That's. That's out there. [00:43:26] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Dude, my brother, man up Inc. Yeah, bad vibes. [00:43:33] Speaker B: Shout out to all of all. Especially all the nose, all Brooklyn dudes. So we gonna shout out the borough because. [00:43:37] Speaker A: Because they know firsthand, you know what I'm saying? They're not people who read about. Read about these situations in the book. They know firsthand from being on the inside, you know what I'm saying? They know the vernacular, they know the language. They know how to get through to the young people, you know what I mean? Because some people got it on them, some people got it in them. We need those that really got it in them to really come out and try to discourage the young people, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to hocus. 405th flag challenge, you know what I'm saying? [00:44:08] Speaker B: So. So now when you say the drop the. The drop your flag challenge. So the drop your flag challenge was inspirational in many, many ways, because that's what made me get on the phone with Hassan Campbell, Right? Because you got Hassan Campbell on this side supporting hocus in his drop your flag challenge. You got me on this side supporting it, but we showing the youth that we can't get along on some YouTube shit, right? So I said, yo, you know what, Hulk, for you, I have dialogue. Me and him need to have dialogue because we look kind of little weird if we both supporting you in peace and dropping your flag. We look it. So it ain't about being homies, friends, hanging out, and all that shit's about Just dead. And sometimes. Because at the end of the day, it wasn't nothing. Where I was a part of his inner circle, nobody got hurt. [00:44:59] Speaker A: It wasn't right, right. [00:44:59] Speaker B: It was his words, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was his words. Yeah. [00:45:03] Speaker A: Because you see me being on the inside really knowing how everything transpired. Like, how did he come. How did Hassan even come on the scene, you know what I'm saying? Through Straight Black Pride, you know, through my organization. At the time, I was the Northeast regional director. You giving them a platform and showing them how to navigate the YouTube streets. And he took off with it. You know what I'm saying? He took it and ran with it. And salute to that. I want to see dudes win, right? [00:45:30] Speaker B: Because at the end of the day, we all listen. Yo, I always tell y', all, just because you won today, that don't mean I lost, right? If you won, I. Yo, I'm the person. I'll be clapping, yo, I'll be clapping so loud for. For dudes and. And a lot of dudes could tell you, I call them like, yo, you went up on that one. Because at the end of the day, I'm happy, bro. [00:45:54] Speaker A: I saw what you did for math. I saw what you did for math. I saw what you did for a lot of dudes. [00:45:59] Speaker B: That's an ungrateful bastard, though. That's an ungrateful bastard, though. He's one of them. [00:46:03] Speaker A: But. But. But nonetheless, I'm talking about your character. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Right? [00:46:06] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right, right, right. Because I just want folks to know that this is not. These are things that were actually done. We actually do things in the community. Ain't no smut on our names. [00:46:18] Speaker B: Right? [00:46:18] Speaker A: Even dudes we had beef with, real beef with. Shout out to dudes in the Fort when I'm saying the Myrtle Second, Glen Hill. [00:46:24] Speaker B: Yep, Yep. [00:46:25] Speaker A: If we could just put that behind us and really exist as men, you know, saying, me and Swindle talk from time to time. Me and Snap talk. We just like, yo, we glad we didn't kill each other. [00:46:35] Speaker B: Right? And I'll be trying to. And even when I was alive, to. [00:46:38] Speaker A: Really raise our children, enjoy the beauty of being an adult. [00:46:43] Speaker B: Think about this. Even, like, fruit, one of our childhood friends, I be saying he changed a lot. Nobody changed a lot, though, because it was a particular time where he definitely would knock your head off your shoulders. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Yeah. They don't. They don't know the 88, 89 fruit. [00:47:00] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. [00:47:01] Speaker A: But again, we always kids because all the LG was crazy. [00:47:05] Speaker B: Seven. Seven bills, you know, Butter. Rest in peace. Rad. [00:47:09] Speaker A: Free world. [00:47:10] Speaker B: Yeah, free world. Like sleep. Shout out to sleep too. Yeah, shout out to sleep too. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. [00:47:16] Speaker A: It was in the same home room. [00:47:17] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right. [00:47:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, but that's what I'm saying. Like, dudes, all of us was outside just really trying to figure it out, you think? Even with big, you know what I'm saying? Like people like, yo, you ever met anybody famous? Like, you think even with Big, all of us just sitting on the block drinking 40, smoking blunts, really just trying to figure out what are we going to do as adults. And many of us have made it to be adults and a lot of dudes didn't make it. God bless yaya and the likes. But what are we doing with the second chance that we've been blessed with? Those of us who are alive, those of us who are home, those of us who got children and grandchildren, what kind of example are we setting? Yo, my granddaughter speaks Chinese, man. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Right. [00:48:01] Speaker A: And she speaks it well. My daughter touched more countries than I did. Right. When we was growing up, our parents wasn't taking us on vacations. We just pack up in the truck. And going down south was the vacation. [00:48:13] Speaker B: Yup. South Kakalaki. [00:48:15] Speaker A: Look at what we're able to do for our children. [00:48:18] Speaker B: Right. [00:48:18] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? But that's just financially, because if we don't change their mindset and let them know the world is bigger than the hood and, and our behaviors, because that twerking and you know, all that jarring acting stupid and sexual for our sisters, you know. [00:48:32] Speaker B: Right. [00:48:32] Speaker A: Every time you want to impress them, that ain't impressing nobody. And if anything, that's a huge turn. [00:48:36] Speaker B: Off, you know, it's deep because I don't even. [00:48:39] Speaker A: No man wants to marry a woman. [00:48:41] Speaker B: I was gonna say that though. You know what's deep? I don't follow no women who do that. I don't fraternize with no women who do that. And if what you have is for everybody else, then what do you have for me? [00:48:56] Speaker A: Arguments. [00:48:56] Speaker B: Exactly. Or, or requirements or even requirements. [00:49:03] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:03] Speaker B: Think about it. How you meet somebody and they already got a requirement, a prerequisite based off of what social media said or what the last dude did all that. Listen, man, I ain't got nothing to do with that, you know, because I ain't your daddy. I you talking about daddy stuff. And if you're a grown ass woman, you should have grown out of that. Anyway, though, it's not about what I could do for you or what you could do for me. It's about what we could build. That's the biggest thing. And a lot of people don't even go ahead. [00:49:34] Speaker A: They don't want to build. [00:49:35] Speaker B: Right. [00:49:36] Speaker A: They want ready made. Everything. They come in with their kids, they bills built in box. Because it's like, yo, somebody, my rent doing two weeks and my kids need new sneakers. Like, nah, nah, not the herb you're looking for. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Right, right. Because that's. [00:49:53] Speaker A: That's old school right there. [00:49:54] Speaker B: But listen, though, you said your kids need new sneakers. Could I go to Target and get them a pair of 1515 sneakers? Is that suffice? This is the point I'm making. [00:50:03] Speaker A: So your kids Jordans might not be good enough no more. They might need Balenciaga. [00:50:08] Speaker B: They might need some new products that came back out. [00:50:10] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? [00:50:11] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And. And you know what's funny? Even, like, you know, trolls that come in the comments and different people who come. I understand, too. I understand y'. All. And. And it's sad that I understand y', all because everybody's not ready for every conversation. So when we was younger, we had a friend of our named Ahmed. Y' all know him as a Rashid. He used to be talking. He'd be talking some real shit. He just didn't want to hear that. Like, yo, he just didn't want to hear that. [00:50:41] Speaker A: Sharif. [00:50:41] Speaker B: Yeah, because he was a little bit more advanced in his. In his Gulliver travels and his upbringing, his mother, you know, rip to his mom, Dukes. So he was able. He was privy to different information that we wasn't right, but we didn't want to hear that. The problem that we're saying to some of y' all is that you're grown, you're grown, you're of age. You cannot use being a teen, being an adolescent, being a young man as an excuse anymore. Because as you grow older, you learn, you expand your knowledge base, you read more, you study more, you get around different things. If what you consume day in and day out is dysfunction, that's all you're gonna know. And I, and I. And I think sometimes, because you never been around it, some people, you really think that is cute. You know, if you work in the sewer, you don't smell after a while, you do know that, right? Like, you don't even smell it. So what we're saying is that we was around that so long so much that we could just pick out that ain't really no drug dealer that he just rapping would have robbed you. This would have happened. And this is the part of the culture that I don't like because I think people are just perpetuating an image because that's what they think we want. And we telling you, yo, we don't want that. Just like we could tell the ladies, we don't want y' all twerking. We don't want y' all do this. The ladies should be telling the men, we don't want gangster. We don't want these type of dudes. We don't want hustlers. We don't want drug dealers. It's cool to have a nine to five. It's cool. Cool to earn 75, 000 in a year. It's cool to earn 50, 000. And you put that with my 30. We got 80. It's cool to say that things because a lot of times we be hard on the women, but we need to start telling these dudes, yo, you need to stop fronting because somebody gonna go upside your goddamn head. And that's why dudes, they getting popped out in the streets and we be like, free. And it's like, yo, free that for what? Or your rest in peace for what? Yo, that was asking to die. What's gonna come from. It ain't like he was on his job. He was, yo driving the train or riding the bus and somebody violated the was in the place where that type of TO happens. When you in the battlefield, when you in the battlefield and you get lost in the battle, that's it. That's it. You was around a bunch of POs. Everybody was, you know, gunning for the photo for the. And then give me one grave that was better than the other yo the grade. The cemetery is filled with a bunch of real and gangsters. The same yo, that buried over there. And them could have been ops. The jail just filled with this is what I'm saying. But. But I'm just saying, being a real doesn't. You're not gonna get a special grave. What you got a mausoleum? What you got some doves sent off or you had a horse and drawn carriage? You're dead. Be like, yo, he look good, right? Ah, the look dead. There's no such thing as a good looking corpse. I don't care what nobody say, yo, he look good, right? Nah, the look dead. [00:54:12] Speaker A: You know, it's just worth the comfort, man. [00:54:14] Speaker B: But I'm just saying the mentality. Yeah, the mentality is that we started Taking that's up and just making it cool. Yo, they sent them off nice, right? I wish they didn't have to send them off. But we don't think about that though. We'll be like, yo, they sent them off. They sent them off good. Nah, yo, they, they had good food, we had a good drink. We. Yo, that's the. That got him killed in the first place. That smoking, drinking, party in the mentality, you know what I'm saying? There's a saying, the working man is a sucker. I don't agree. The sucker says that. [00:54:53] Speaker A: And I said, but who says that? And what I want to say, right? What I was going to say real quick, salute to all the OGs that really did a 180. Because I see a lot of the real ones doing transit right now. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:55:08] Speaker A: Transit got money and benefits, facts, you know, get their jibs over time, yo, get your jibs fixed, all that stuff that you can't get on the block. But ain't nobody telling nobody that. And again, I ain't knocking nobody getting any money. How they get it? When I was out there, I had to figure it out. That's what brought me to where we are today. And that was part of my journey. And of course, when I was outside, I wasn't the first one outside, you know, even. Even when I'm outside walking up and down, putting them, you know, I always salute the OGs who was out there before me. I ain't the first one. You know what I'm saying? [00:55:41] Speaker B: But look at this though, Tad. But think about how we got tricked when we was younger. [00:55:46] Speaker A: The streets did trick us. It has to be a progression in the, in the mentality. [00:55:51] Speaker B: And we can't be tricking and we can't be tricking the youth the way we got tricked. Because think about this. We was always thought yo got on that Burger King. We didn't know that you could start in Burger King and become a manager of Burger King and make six figures or owner. We didn't know that. We thought you just a on fries. [00:56:09] Speaker A: You know, somebody who did it at Taco Bell. [00:56:11] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:56:11] Speaker A: Just rose the ranks. Word. [00:56:13] Speaker B: We, we, we just knew that. Yo the sneaking target playing, you know what I'm saying? Yo, this working target, yo. Work, target, work. We didn't know that you could become a head buyer or a manager. We didn't know that. We always got tricked into the legitimate way of living. Wasn't. We always got tricked. Yo A got a job, yo. Remember his strap? You still doing this Bicycle. What happened when he do the bicycle? Got. Got jammed up and went to jail. [00:56:45] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:56:46] Speaker B: You understand what I'm saying? [00:56:47] Speaker A: This. This is the mindset and the bad habits. Because you think about it, back then, we all had hoop dreams or music dreams. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Right. [00:56:55] Speaker A: Hoop dreams or music dreams. You know, you were one of the fortunate ones to really stick with your dreams and not have to get a 9 to 5. People like me, I had to tap out. I had a family to feed. [00:57:08] Speaker B: Right. [00:57:08] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? So I had to get a gig. Get a gig or start, you know, or the kids stop because, remember, I was still outside. [00:57:15] Speaker B: Because you tried on the hustling. [00:57:17] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:57:18] Speaker B: You tried all that. Amir Prescott said something. Amir Prescott says something profound. And he said we also have to address the PTSD in our neighborhoods. We became immune to things we've seen growing up. And then that's what I said earlier. Some niggas need medication. Some niggas need to, you know, we normalize shit. That's like, you know, think about when we was younger. And I really can't say this, but I' ma say it. But remember when dudes thought it was cool, it was a promiscuous young lady who we didn't know that might have had some type of trauma in their life. And dudes is running choo choos on chicks and all that and thinking it was cute. Yeah. You didn't know no better. [00:57:58] Speaker A: You know, we told her. That's one of our biggest regrets. [00:58:01] Speaker B: Right? [00:58:01] Speaker A: Right. [00:58:02] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? [00:58:02] Speaker A: Especially me having daughters. [00:58:04] Speaker B: I ain't gonna front. I never part too. I know I never, you know what I'm saying? That's one thing I could say. I ain't got on my jacket. I ain't never been a part of no choose. [00:58:12] Speaker A: But, you know, again, again, you know, poverty, right? Miseducation, misinformation, mental illness. Because you think the adults in our house had to work, right? I think we pretty much raised ourselves. Y' all go to school. Y' all hurry been go to school. You know, they went to work before we left the house. [00:58:34] Speaker B: How old was I when I. When. When y' all came to the crib and I was cooking, y' all was like, you could use the stove. I was probably like eight, nine. Yeah. I was like eight or nine. Yeah, yeah. Because it's when we first moved, you're like, yo, you could use the stove. I'm like, yeah, I'm in the crib baking chicken. [00:58:47] Speaker A: Barbecue chicken. [00:58:48] Speaker B: I was baking chicken. Barbecue chicken. He like, you could use the stove. And this is the stove where you had to light the paper and go under there. Yeah. I was already eight years old making barbecue chicken in the oven, you know what I'm saying? And him and him and my cousin Soup's like, yo, you could use a stove. I'm like, yeah, I'm making Potter rice, too. You understand what I'm saying? Because for. By myself, you know what I'm saying? And. And a lot of times, it was a lot of that we did that we thought was cute, you know what I'm saying? And it really, really wasn't. And Hellbent says, thank you guys for speaking on this. Y' all the only ones that's getting. It's getting exhausting. Kids don't got nothing to look up to. Please keep this powerful message up. I thank you for receiving it. Thank you for receiving it, and thank you. And if you hit the like and the share, it's going to get to more people. Me and Ty suffer from something else, too. That's a part of the ptsd, and it's called survivors remorse. Because a lot of our childhood friends are not here no more. And they didn't. Did. None of them passed away from ailments, except I think Kimi is the only one who passed away from ailments. Everybody else passed away from senseless violence. And we. Yo, when you see your man in a casket, yo, that's the realest. And I never got numb to that, to where I thought it was normal. That's the only thing about me that I never thought it was normal. [01:00:30] Speaker A: I got up to that early. [01:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah, this is what I'm saying. [01:00:32] Speaker A: But I couldn't cry after a while, like, yo, because this is all we doing. We going to funerals, right? I think every summer it was like, yo, who gonna get it this summer, Jigga? [01:00:41] Speaker B: Jtv, I appreciate you, but see, remember, Ty, we started growing early. Even when we younger. We started wisening enough because we was like, yo, we not going to juve. We're not going to the West Indian Day Parade. We ain't going outside for Halloween. We ain't going outside for New Year's and Easter's a dub, unless you taking the kids somewhere. Because we did it. And we knew the oppression and the trauma and the bullshit that came with it. But all we could do is people who've been through it, spread the word. This is what we doing now. So when you look at some of these guys on YouTube and they try to tell you what I am and What? I ain't. Please don't listen to them. [01:01:20] Speaker A: But you know what, dog? That's why I always questioned a lot of these dudes, right? We talked about before, too. Female attention. Always got that, like. So if you're impressed with that right now, you're a late bloomer. Talking about how tough you are. Then you wasn't outside. Because we've seen the biggest and baddest before. We got our general stripes get their head knocked off. So we was clear that anybody could get it. You know what I'm saying? Every dude wasn't scared of us. Every hood didn't care about who we was. Back on Fulton street, right? That's all that's Fulton. You want Myrtle, you want. You on Franklin, you want, you know, Lafayette. [01:01:54] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:01:56] Speaker A: You know, yeah. On pickings. Yeah. Beef with four green dudes. We had to go shop at Simon's in Brownsville, right? [01:02:02] Speaker B: We had to go. [01:02:02] Speaker A: Took our chances to the worst. [01:02:04] Speaker B: To a worst neighborhood. [01:02:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Then running the dudes down at the I'll Be Square mall in Fort Green. Because, again, we were kids, but our parents didn't take us shopping. Get the money. Y' all go get what y' all gonna get. And then, you know, we did our one twos and put some extra money on it. And only time we really went downtown heavy like that is if we deep like that and had the weapons on us, right? But is that any way for a young person to live, right? That's why we is forced to grow up so fast, you know what I'm saying? You had. I'm gonna tell you, the local Brooklyn cruise. You had us on Fulton Street. We was on Fulton. From Fulton in Washington to Atlantic Terminals, you know what I'm saying? Then you had. You had Big Fruit in them. Shout out to Big Fruit. You had them dudes over in LG over there. And right around the corner, you had. Granted, Clifton dudes at one point. Everybody's together, but then they wasn't putting them, you know what I'm saying? When you got grand, grand down and Irving, that was like one crew plus Carson and Left. It's over there. Then you got N A Rock dudes from up and down Gates Avenue, you know what I'm saying? From Nostril and Gates, you know what I'm saying? Like, there were so many groups of young people being active. Yeah. Because Nostril and Gates is Maino, and you know what I'm saying? My little brother from right there. So I used to be over there. I went to 258 with a lot of dudes from each. Each hood, you know what I'm saying? [01:03:26] Speaker B: And the style. And I went to 113 with the fort Green dudes and the Clinton Hill, Fort Green, Farragut, and Clinton Hill dudes, you know, So I went to 130. [01:03:36] Speaker A: Didn't always get along at one point. [01:03:37] Speaker B: Right, right. [01:03:38] Speaker A: And what I want to say real quick, because this is about the young people, not about us. Because sometimes people be questioning resumes, like, wondering if dudes was really outside. Like, dude, we talking about 88, 89, 90, 91, 90. Yo, by 93, we was chilling. We was trying to chill, like things were still active outside, you know what I'm saying? But a lot of dudes was locked up in the early 90s, and a lot of our homies was getting killed. And we would still, in our late teens, early 20s, making the decision that it got to be something better than this, that this can't be going on year after year after year. You turn on your tv, you watching other families who don't even deal with this kind of stuff. You go to other places. You go. Like. Like, even if you go down south, where you go to Connecticut, even if you go out of town to hustle, you see, certain people are not dealing with that mind state that we got, you know, saying that everybody's out to get you, so you got to get everybody and everything, you know? And this is the perspective that shaped what we believe to be our reality. What? But once we shape our perspective, our reality will change. And I can't impress that on people enough, because when we were young, we really didn't care whether we lived or died. We died, we die. [01:04:51] Speaker B: That's it. [01:04:52] Speaker A: We all knew what we signing up for. But when I became a parent and I had children, I started to realize the I was putting my parents through. Ain't like, dudes ain't come and clap up the crib. My mom's in the bed sleeping. Like, what the hell is that? She heard the banging in the whole bank. Like, you going home? You smell the gun smoke? This is reality. I could have lost my life on so many occasions. So I know I'm blessed to. Back to your question, dog. You know, when people think I'm cursed, say, yo, we curse. We know I'm blessed because not only am I here. [01:05:23] Speaker B: What did your mother tell you about burying you? [01:05:27] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. One time I asked, I said, ma, how did you do it with me? Because my kids drive me crazy, and they not a piece of as bad As I was. She said, tad, when a mother got a son like you, she bury him twice. Once in her mind and once in reality. She said, I was just waiting for that phone call. And I was like, damn, that's deep. That she was really just waiting to hear, because I was. Wow. I was ignorant. I was dumb. I was young. But the sad part is that I did know better. I know better. I just chose not to because I'm trying to fit in with what's going on with the other little dudes in the hood. Oh, this project is popping dang later for them. We. We live over here. What? What? And you know, like Nas said, I gave you power. I make you buck wild. First time you get your hands on one of them things, boy, you feel invincible. You in the mirror playing. You. You clicking it at your man's. He like, don't mark me. [01:06:25] Speaker B: Stop playing. Yeah, don't mark me. [01:06:28] Speaker A: You know what I'm saying? That's what we was doing because we was young and dumb. And I see and pass the mic back door. But I just want to say this because we can't express it enough. Grown men older than us, 50s, 60s, still arguing about that. Don't matter. Internet posts, YouTube videos, and ain't nobody touched your children. Nobody disrespected your mother. Nobody messed up your money. Really arguing over YouTube shit instead of saying, yo, how could we collaborate, yo? Let's. Let's. Let's bum rush this shit, yo. Because everybody's eating off our culture but us. [01:07:08] Speaker B: I dysfunction. I dysfunction, yo, you know what? You know what's deep about what you said, right? Because what is a reputation on YouTube mean? Eventually, everybody's going to turn on you, so you're gonna get your run. And like I said earlier, and I gotta reiterate this, when you really from something and you're a part of something, you partook in something. The last thing you want to do is still see that later on in life. So for the new Jacks, the newcomers, the people who's not from the inner, inner city, the people who never been in New York, never rode the subway, who. Who don't know anything about free food stamps and welfare and oppression and dog on the floor or stray dogs and all that that we had to grow up with. It's not cute. And that's why I don't glorify it, because I got some stories for y', all, but it's not going to be one. It's not going to be one to grow on. Unless I'm speaking It from the point of prevention. That's why I don't like certain rappers. That's why I don't like certain content, because I really am a part of from that. And again, in my opinion, my pops ain't here. A lot of people not here. I watched some of the strongest black men that I know in my life succumb to substance abuse. So I don't think this is cool or cute. I watched my best friend get shot in the head and dead. So I don't think this is cute. And I often wonder how different my life would be if they was here in good spirits and good health. And that's the stuff that I need to think about. So I'm not going to use that excuse. Yo, Josie got killed in 93 and have. I'm not going to use that. I got to just honor their memory, right? I got to honor their memory and remember our conversations because we talked about the future. We talked about what we wanted for ourselves, for the future. The future is now. So why I'm a revisit the past of the oppression and. And the trauma and the up things that happened and live did I always tell people, history is cool to go, but you can't stay there. You can revisit history, but you can't stay there. You live right now. You live today and you prepare for the future. What you do today could shape tomorrow. So I don't have time to say this happened and this happened and this, why this, that and the third. Nah, we was talking about the future. We would talk about what we wanted to do. We was talking about cars and I really drive now. You know what I'm saying? We talking about places that we wanted to live, that I really live now. We was talking about. Remember we was little. Juicy had Gucci and Benetton and all that. He likes, like, he like 12 years old with all that. You know what I'm saying? So he had all that. He had his parents. He came from an African center crib. He came from that. But one thing that hit him, streets. [01:10:03] Speaker A: And you know, Doug, I want to say real quick, speaking on that, because this is. This is where I was gonna go with it. Right. Hold on one second. Yeah. You hear me right, though? [01:10:20] Speaker B: I hear you. [01:10:22] Speaker A: All right. Yeah. Cause now gutter was just calling me too knock the thing off. But as we talk about Juicy, somebody who had it, somebody who family was financially sound. Oh, we talk about the influence in the environment. Because I look at people right now who will look at our message and say, man, Talking that these young dudes gonna do what they want to do, man, we did the same. We was doing the same. Yeah, but does it make it right? Part one, part two, where are they learning this from? Where are they picking this up from? And that's what we're saying. If we really want to be impactful in our community, we have to change the conversation and the bad habits and the behavior that we display. We have to, we have to be mindful, we have to be more self aware on how we present out here in the world because everybody's watching us, particularly our children. And if we showing them this is what manhood is and we're doing them a disservice because our idea of manhood in the hood, you know, in our little circle is the dysfunction. It's how much, how much work can you move in the community and how much pain can you cause in the community? And this is the dysfunction we're talking about, right? That's being passed on from generation to generation. So who's going to be the black men to break that? Those who came home from doing 10, 15, 20, 30 years. What's going to be your contribution to society and to show that, yo, I'm a reformed man. I went as I went in as a child and I came back out as a man. And as a man, we take responsibility for everything. Things we've done right and things we've. [01:12:02] Speaker B: Done wrong and accountability. And accountability, because that's one word that a lot of dudes run from. Accountability. You always playing the blame game. Amir Prescott said. I also think think us, us growing up with grandparents helped us having certain morals. The great grandparents be 45 now, hanging outside. Yo, you, you absolutely right. But see, this is something that I was having a conversation earlier. Your grandmother might only been in her 20s, you didn't realize that, you understand what I'm saying? But we did have something called home training. And it was also things that was implemented like home economics, phys ed, sex ed, some of the schooling and education was doing that and teaching kids different things too, you know what I'm saying? So once they remove certain programs or we got these devices, we got all these distractions. So I don't use these as for distractions. I use these to get some money. You know, I'm saying that's the difference between me and other people. But the children are the best part of you, you know what I'm saying? And, and the funny thing, I don't know if the children in our family worship us like, worship like we like the greatest thing in. In the world to them because we exude strong black manhood. Never see us upset, never see us cursing, never see us out of pocket. Just always teaching them, talking them, loving on them, making sure they eat, making sure they get everything that we never had and showing them different things that we didn't have. We don't pass. Oh, when I was little, I didn't get this, and I get that, but that's why uncle worked so hard so you could get that. [01:13:49] Speaker A: You got ease today, society. When he said minister, society, right? Get a little a drink. Word, word. [01:13:55] Speaker B: We don't do that. You got all these today. Oh, wow. Yo, you know what? You got ease. I'mma send you your Robux looks. You understand what I'm saying? Because the kids be always happy to tell me how good they did in school. I got a satisfactory today because they know. Listen, you're not doing good in school. You're not. Hold up. You're not listening to your mother. You didn't brush your teeth. Nah, don't. I ain't giving you nothing. So your mother got to tell me, you got a good report. You understand what I'm saying? And we do the reward system with a lot of them, and they gonna be mischievous. They gonna do different things because we did it as kids too. But at the same time, we got to understand they had the child mentality, the pro. They got a child mentality in the child brain. The problem is when you 60 with that damn brain and you saying, we, we still got to do. Yo, hold on. Like, when dudes be saying, we need leaders. What about the elders? You 60? You're the elder. You 60 years old. Chad told me maybe 10 years ago, yo, we the elders now. And I was like, damn, I don't think I'm ready to embrace that. But the more and more that I thought about it, I said, yo, because you got an outlet, you got a responsibility. You got to carry it a certain way. You got to do certain things because your voice is powerful now. You could use your. Your voice to. To party and. And have some fun because at the same time, we do need balance, right? Anton, I thank you for subscribing. We do need balance, and we know how to pick and choose. But, yo, we had a critical time right now getting their stamps cut off. Everybody fear mongering, everybody talking about every. It's. It's like, I just never seen the time where it's just so much ungrateful selfishness and so many men that act like, what's wrong with y'? [01:15:48] Speaker A: All? [01:15:49] Speaker B: It's a lot of men. And you think because you'll knock somebody out or you'll let the weaponry go, or you this or that, or you'll type real hard, that's what make you a man. Nah, that's not what make you a man. It's how you resolve and how you carry yourself. And a lot of dudes. What happened? [01:16:10] Speaker A: Real quick, go ahead. You said you can knock somebody out. Rest in peace, Kimbo Slice, right? I remember the first time you showed me a video. [01:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:16:19] Speaker A: Throw hands, too. [01:16:19] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [01:16:20] Speaker A: Dog say, yo, Tattoo and show you something. He said, you'll fight him. [01:16:23] Speaker B: Yeah. What I said, right, right, right. [01:16:26] Speaker A: That's what I got the thing for. Just like him. I'm not fighting Kimball. [01:16:31] Speaker B: This is what I'm saying. But, but, but. [01:16:34] Speaker A: So you could think you tough all you want. You think you're gonna knock? Yeah. All right. Some dudes I fight, if we're in the same weight class, then let's go. Let's go. I give you a little height, but Kimbo Slice was something different. Rest in peace to him. But to your point, dog, about dudes thinking they just gonna debo their way through life. And you know, that old school mentality, because brains beat brawn all the time. But if you think you're brawn, because that worked, you know what I'm saying? When you was locked up, man, you know, everybody really respect the dude that uses his mind. [01:17:05] Speaker B: With my man.38 special, a powerful mind could build an empire with somebody else's hands. I was like, I always make them say that. Yo, what you say? A powerful mind can build an empire with somebody else's hands. Yeah, Crazy. [01:17:21] Speaker A: But I was gonna say, before I forget this, too, what we going through right now in our community, just. Just to build off what you just put down, is that we going through a detox phase right now. So that's why this conversation is important. You know what I'm saying? That's what the mayor said. You know, the. The power of the great grand. The power of the grandparents and the great grandparents. The. I always give it up to our grandparents, you know what I'm saying? To Grandma, to Umi, my grandmother Bernice, you know what I'm saying? All the grandparents that invested in us, that showed us love because they remember a world when black folks had to stick together. Remember Granny, too? [01:17:57] Speaker B: Granny. Granny. Recipes to Granny. [01:17:59] Speaker A: Can't forget Granny. Word. Rest in peace, Granny. You know what I'm saying? What's her last name? Perryman. [01:18:08] Speaker B: Dorothy Perryman. [01:18:10] Speaker A: Big up, Granny. You know what I'm saying? But we had elders in our development, Women, though. Black women. This is why you'd be hard pressed to find us disrespecting black women, because they helped make us into the men we are as well as the men who were in our life. But it was a community effort to raise us as children, not just mommy and daddy and auntie and uncle. We were raised by a village, so we would. We were instilled with a particular set of value systems. That's why even. Coming up. He's coming up. All the kids came to hang with us because we had siblings and we were cousins that were closest siblings. So if you wanted to know where all the kids was, just come to our crib. There's a bunch of us. [01:18:49] Speaker B: Come to the block. [01:18:51] Speaker A: Yeah, Come to the block. Play with us. You know, we had Noon and Blacko downstairs, upstairs, depending on what floor we lived on at the time. You know, those are our other brothers. [01:19:02] Speaker B: Right. [01:19:03] Speaker A: You know, so we were. We were raised in the community. And right now, it's like, people don't want to talk to the children. People don't want to love on the children and show them like, yo, you better than this. There's times I spoke to children on the train and always got through because how my approach was. [01:19:20] Speaker B: Right. You know, he's talking to them, not Adam. [01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:19:23] Speaker B: Remember, Seeds was a. Y' all don't know. Little C's was a badass little kid. He was never bad in the. And that. But Seeds was always the youngest. And Seeds would be in the crib, him and Nina. One time we come in the room, we playing hooky. We come in the room. Remember, Caesar's in the room doing. I ain't gonna do him like that. I ain't gonna do it like that. Was he like 11, right? Like 11 or 12? Like, yo, Wannie, what the hell you in here doing? Sees was always around, so I was happy that Big did snatch him up, because I don't know if Seas would be alive right now. You know what I'm saying? [01:20:05] Speaker A: No, that's. [01:20:05] Speaker B: Yeah, but Sees. But. But Little C's was. Little C's was there. Seeds would just roam around the hood. Him and Nino, which is Nene. They were. But see, at the same time, if we seen Cs or Nino, something happened to them. You wasn't running past Waverly getting away. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, Because. Because. Because we. We ran the neighborhood. Yeah. We had our different size Our different crews. But if you was outsider, we was war one. You was not getting off of Fortnite Street. You understand what I'm saying? You was not getting off of 4th street if you ran towards St. James. Get them, get them, Grab them. Somebody was going to kick trip you. You know what I'm saying? It just was what it was. And then when you hit that ground, that's your ass, Mr. Postman or the time. Shout out to K Mel. Remember? They was walking, looking. We looking out the window. What happened? Yo, some at Sterling try to front. Well, we coming too. So it was about seven of them. By the time they get to sterling, it's 17 of them. [01:21:08] Speaker A: Sterling High School, not Sterling Place. [01:21:10] Speaker B: Yeah, Sterling High School was like a 600 school. Yeah. [01:21:13] Speaker A: So again, alternative. [01:21:15] Speaker B: That was the neighborhood. So that's why Big used to come to the crib so much and work on music. That's why Little Kim came to the crib, because it was a community of us. And although when we went to our respective places, we wouldn't hang together, but the music brought us together. And I'm segueing into that now because a lot of y' all youth do music. A lot of you older dudes want to direct the youth to do music. But y' all don't be knowing what the y' all doing or what y' all talking about a lot of times, too. Because all you got to do is not all you got to do. There is no gonna. There is not gonna be too many more whole stories, 50 stories, or too many dip sets or anything like that. Now. It's a new way, the computer, the social media and all that. And a lot of y' all older dudes use it for all the wrong things. And you won't hire somebody who know what they doing, you know, so it's a lot of misinformation, a lot of regurgitated information. And that's why a lot of times things are not going through the way they supposed to. And many people are using social media for all the wrong things. You know, you got perception, you got reality. You got people who are twisted. You got people who are messed up and they want to be on social media acting like it's all good. Nah, it's okay to do the laundry on social media. It's okay. Yo, I'm about to take this call for a while, so I'm walking my dog or yo, I'm reading to the kids before they go to sleep. Many of you don't even read to your children no more. The first books you ever seen or heard got read to you. The tv. [01:22:47] Speaker A: Some of y' all don't know how to read. [01:22:49] Speaker B: Some of y' all only look, the tv. We watch tv. But it was a time. Cut that TV off. Cut that game off. Take your ass to bed. Take a nap. Now y' all got devices that's raising your children. Your children are doing things that you don't even know about because you too busy doing some fuck shit. You too busy doing things you ain't got no business doing. So if you got devices, that is access to any and everything because nothing is really childproof unless you childproof the device. And you're not even doing that. You understand what I'm saying? Y' all not even doing that because look what you doing on there. So 20 years from now, if you. If old pitches pop up. No, let's say you at the age you at now. And then you look at 30 years ago, your moms was on there busting it open. How would you really feel? How would you really feel? Or your pops was always outside drunk. Because the. That we perpetuate and we think is cool is really not. Because it was a particular time where you was called a wine. Oh, and a custody. So now that you think that you doing designer drugs and did everybody is doing it, you still a custody in the wino. If you get bent every night, what's the difference between you and the guy that's standing on the corner drinking wildlife? Because you still popping, you still getting into fights, you still getting into domestic situations, you still in the hood getting knocked out every night. You still drinking beers. You just like the wanos. If you smoking reefer every night and popping perks and pills, then you a custody is no different than smoking crack every day. It's just a different drug. It used to be for partying, but how do you party every night if you got responsibilities? If your baby's got to get their clothes on, you gotta run a bath, you gotta make sure they wash behind their ears, you gotta feed them, you gotta get them ready for school. How are you high and drunk every day? And how are you not home unless you at work? How you out bullshitting somewhere? How you in the lounge? How you in the club? How do you leave your beautiful wife? Because all y' all got bad chicks, right? How you leave your beautiful wife and your beautiful family to go to the hood to hang around a bunch of. Go ahead. [01:25:18] Speaker A: That's something to think about. That's. That's really something to think about. But I mean, those are, those are thought provoking questions we really got to sit down and ask ourselves, you know, and I was joking about people not being able to read, but if you can't read, it's not a laughing matter. But this would be the perfect time to learn how to read. See, the thing is, our embarrassment for things we can't do prevent us from learning how to do it because we don't want to acknowledge that we don't know how to read. [01:25:44] Speaker B: And shame makes you violent. And shame makes you violent. Getting teased and being shame makes you violent. Go ahead, though. [01:25:50] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And because of that shame, we don't want to learn it because we don't want nobody to see us practicing trying it. You know what I'm saying? Look me and see. Gutter got a podcast, the OG Wisdom Podcast. We started that a little over a year ago, though. It's been in the works for years. You know, just trying to figure it out. You know, we could be discouraged because we don't have the following doggy has. But nonetheless, we still gonna push forward because that's the only way you're gonna get better. And that's with anything in life. You know, things are always hard when you don't know how to do it. But once you learn how to do something, you become proficient at it. There go. You know what I mean? [01:26:29] Speaker B: Yo, I was £300 on the bike. I bought my bike from Target. I rode it back. When I rode the bike back from Target, just laughing at me riding the. [01:26:38] Speaker A: Bike, I was about to say, I remember people was teasing me that I just decided I was gonna lose weight. Because remember, I was, I was like, yeah, I'm doing this. Dudes was like, man, I ain't doing that. I ain't eating this, I ain't eating that. But then a year later, when I come outside for the summer, they like, damn, son, what you do? I said, every exercise that I hate, right? You have to discipline yourself and stop. Stop listening to the crowd. You have to listen to your inner voice. You got to have internal dialogue with yourself and decide what do you want to do with your life. I read something today, right, though, and it was talking about the purpose of life. It's a book I read every day, right? And it's daily meditations. But they say the thing in life is to live up to your fullest potential. It's three things. Live up to your fullest potential, always honor the creator and damn near everything you do and serve others. That should be your purpose in life. And I thought, how simple is that? Because three is the magic number. Live up to your fullest potential. You know where you weak at and where you want to be strong. So work. Work in those places, work on those things. Get your skill sets up. Like we in the digital age. Like there's nothing hidden from us no more. Before we had Google, now we got Chat GPT, we got Perplexity, we got Claudia, we got all of these AI things that could just show us everything, answer almost any question we have. But the real answers lie within us. So we have to ask ourselves particular questions. Like one, what do we really want out of life? Like, what do we want? Do we want money? And if we want money, what do we want it for? [01:28:19] Speaker B: And could I. Let me interject. [01:28:21] Speaker A: Let me. [01:28:21] Speaker B: Because this is. This is the main thing I think is gotta stop operating from the point of defeat. That's the pro. Yo, I'm telling you. That's the problem. When you say you can't do something, you know what you just told yourself? You told you that. I didn't say you can't do it. You said you can't do it. So I ain't gotta discourage you. You discourage you. I don't like, so me. I remember when I was. I said, yo, Tad, I'm not. I ain't doing the Forbes no more. I'm gonna do my own thing. He was like, well, I ain't gonna tell you. I ain't gonna tell him what you said tell me to do. But I was like. I was like, nah, I wanna. I'm gonna do my own thing. And you was like, all right. Cause I said, no, I know what I could do. I know what I'm gonna do. I know what I did for this and I did for this bum ass nigga. I know what I could do for myself. You understand what I'm saying? Now, I just want y' all to know, new ventures, new ideas are scary as hell. But on the other side of fear, opportunity and success on the other side side of fear. So that's why we say to y', all, yo, I ain't scared of. I ain't scared of nothing because I don't face that. I. I think I done seen the devil. [01:29:44] Speaker A: That's what I was about to say, yo. Yeah, I'm glad you hit that. Because the thing is, it is fear that stopping us. A lot of times we don't pursue what we want. It's a fear. And we got to find out what is that fear? That fear of failure. Is it a Fear of success. Is it a fear of how people receive us in this thing? I read today, too, it said if God gave you an idea, he also gave you the support system for it. You just got to do your part and take action. That's all it is. Remember, we first started OG Wisdom podcast years ago. It was the challenges was everybody's schedule coordinating, whether it was the venue, whether it was the camera people, whether it was the sound people, whether it was me and Gutter's schedule. That's five different variables on making it work. And everybody's schedule didn't always gel. And before you know it, one year went by, then two years went by, and around the third year, I said, yo, we just got to get this thing up. You know what? [01:30:45] Speaker B: And I remember I kept saying to you, yo, stop talking to me about it. Yo, just do it. [01:30:49] Speaker A: Yeah, just do it. Yeah, just do it. [01:30:51] Speaker B: Whatever. Whatever happened gonna happen now. Because you, like I said, you. The one advantage that you might have had all the over people is you had me, but you still had to execute. So I walk you through some of the things, you know what I'm saying? And that's. That's. That's. Yo, you know, people do have a foundation that they have, but a lot of times, dudes don't know how to gel because dudes don't know how to take instruction, too. Sometimes. Sometimes you not the big man in this situation. Sometimes you guys shut the up yourself. Yeah, you gotta shut the up. You can't say, well, he's doing it. You don't know. You do not what it takes. Like, so my thing is this. I know a lot of people who operate from defeat, and I know a lot of people who always try to tell me what I can't do or what I'm not. And I'm like, okay, that's what you think. But I know what I'm gonna do, and I know what I can do, and I know what's happening. If I fell nine times, I got up 10. If I fell nine times, I Got up 10. Because I didn't come this far to lay down and be like, yo, you know, this ain't gonna happen. That ain't gonna happen. Yo, man, it's over for me. And it's times, yo, every day of my life, I'm not going lie to y'. All. Every day of my life, I say, I don't want to do this no more. I don't want to do that no more. Sometimes I don't want to go live. Sometimes I Don't want to do videos. Sometimes I don't want to edit. Sometimes I don't want to do all that. I've been doing it for 19 years. Sometimes I say I don't want to do it. But you know what? But what? But when I think about the kids, little, the little kids in our family that say, uncle's a big YouTuber or my godfather's a YouTuber, he this, that. And the third, I say damn. Because I want y' all to know too. A lot of times people don't be inspired because they don't hear inspirational words. A lot of times all people tell me is what I ain't. I never said I was any of that. But it, oh, you should quit. Go get a job. Go, go get a job and be just like you, right? You miserable. You're miserable. But you want me to be like you when you should say to me, yo, bro, how you do this? So some of the people who is consulting with me about YouTube, who paid consultations, some of the people who pay me for promo for stuff or pay me for stuff, I respect y' all because at least y' all saying, yo, I really want to do this. Help me get my off the ground. As matter of fact, it's the perfect time to go into the commercial. Listen, man, have you heard about my hundred dollar promo deal? If you didn't, let me give you some details really, really quick. First and foremost, the promotion will be done on Doggy Diamonds TV. And the Interlude TV, that's the Insta stories, the YouTube community, the threads, the Facebook and the Twitter accounts. I could promote whatever you need. But as a reminder, this is for serious inquiries only. Must be cash at ready. I can help you bring more awareness to your products. Contact me at Doggy Diamonds on Instagram. And that YouTube, that's for your T shirts, that's for your music. That's for anything. Hit me up what you was gonna say, Ted. [01:34:08] Speaker A: I was laughing. You said sometimes I don't want to do this because I did a whole bunch of I didn't want to do today, right? But what I remember is that not that I got to do it, that I get to do it, right? Change my mindset. I didn't want to go to the gym this morning, right? My loan went off at 4:30 and I cut it right off. But I ended up going to the gym like 9, 9:30 this morning. You know, it was definitely later than 5:00'. [01:34:33] Speaker B: Clock. Right, right, right, right, right. But you got it done. [01:34:35] Speaker A: But I still winning it still went in there, got it done, got a good sweat, and I was glad that I did it. But then I had to put away all the summer clothes, break out the winter clothes, pull the AC out the window. Didn't want to do it, but I had to. And not that I have to, but I get to. Because I can remember there were times when I was just in the cell. [01:34:57] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right. [01:34:59] Speaker A: Like I'm get out of here. [01:35:02] Speaker B: Or the worst cell you could be in is the prisoner your own mind. [01:35:08] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:35:09] Speaker B: When you are free and you are defeated, that's physically free. Yeah, physically free. But you're not mentally. Right, That's. But see, this is why I keep saying to people, stop pushing your fears on people. Stop pushing your doubt on people. I wanna. I surround myself with people who say, nah, you could do this. We could do this. I called, I called Tad one day, and I ain't gonna even talk about the other bozo that that was around me. But I called Tad one day and I was like, yo, I want to get this car for my birthday. Yo, what you told me. [01:35:44] Speaker A: I said, yo. I said, get it. I was like, yo, get it. And they'll talked about if. Because in fact, your birthday was coming. We just took a big loss. [01:35:52] Speaker B: Right, right, right, right. [01:35:54] Speaker A: Important people in our family. I said, yo, if it didn't teach us nothing else, that life is short. I said, think how many times we wanted to do something and we had the opportunity and chose not to. Life is not promised. You got the opportunity, do it. You talk about what you want when you're a kid and you finally get the chance and you don't do it. And then. And that's what it is. That's why you get to do these things. The decisions you can make could really turn your next year around. You know what I'm saying? A lot of times, who's it? Prince said it takes a lifetime to become an overnight success. Right. We see successful people, but we don't see them practicing. We don't see the nights they get discouraged. We don't see them crying. We don't see them shooting in the gym. We don't see all the missed shots they took. But they keep going at it regardless of who's discouraging them. Sometimes it's people we love discouraging us from our goals, and it's not from a place of hate. Sometimes they love us so much they don't want to see us disappointed. [01:36:54] Speaker B: But think about this. I called you, I said, my birthday coming up, I want to Reward myself for my birthday. I want to get this because I get that you deserve it. Yo, look at all you do. Another said, that ain't gonna validate you. Are you talking about. This is what I'm saying. Because I gotta say that. Because people got to understand that this side and this side. Now, 1 know me because we related. 1 know me a little bit, but the nigga's a piece of at the same time. So I gotta listen to the conversations and say, hold on, why would you say that? I'm not looking for validation. I just want a fucking new car that I deserve. [01:37:36] Speaker A: From his paradigm, it's all about validation. [01:37:38] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:37:39] Speaker A: You bought a luxury vehicle, one that people like. Oh, well, why would you spend all your money? But see, that's coming from a place of lack. Because people think when you buy something expensive or luxury is for status, and it's not for status. A lot of times you're playing, you're paying for quality. [01:37:57] Speaker B: Exactly. [01:37:58] Speaker A: When you got a lack mindset and you don't have an appreciation for, you don't know quality if it's smacking you in your face. [01:38:05] Speaker B: And even if you had quality, you lost it. So I don't want to listen to you. I don't want to listen to the loser. I don't. You didn't value or you made poor decisions. And this is what I'm saying. A lot of us black men, black women, we make very, very poor decisions. And when you accountable for your poor decisions, that's how you big up, up again. That's how if you fell 9, you could get up 10. You say, you know what? I ain't gonna do that again. Just like when you was little, you might stick that. You might have licked that battery. Remember, we all licked a 9 volt battery. Wasn't too kind to you. You ain't lick it again. This is the point I'm making. But we seeing people lick the battery a little over and over again. And they trying to tell people what to do in life. These are the people that you got to stay away from. These, the people in YouTube that you got to stay away from. These, the people that you shouldn't be listening to. And they might say something that's profound, but the broke clock is right twice a day. What about the other 22 hours? You understand what I'm saying? What about the other 22 hours? So this is what I'm saying. And I always say this to y' all every night. Y' all don't listen to. I only listen to people who I know. Love me. I don't listen to. I. Yo, you should. Nope, I don't listen to. I call Tad. I call Pole. I go as people that I call my brother. Rest in peace, I used to call him. I don't listen to too many people because. Why you say that to me? Why are you looking at it like that? Nah, that's not coming from a place of love. That's coming from a place where, I don't know. I feel a little weird. You understand what I'm saying? When anything that Tad ever wanted to do, especially in this digital space, I said, nah, go ahead, do that. You know. You know, I' ma show you. You know, I'm gonna help you. But he still has to execute. This was hype. When he made his first thumbnail, things like, yo, check my thumbnail. [01:40:01] Speaker A: Because people don't realize how hard this is. I mean, you know how to do it, because this has always been entertainment, and music has always been your thing. I was right there when everybody was like, yo, get a job, Get a job. But for me, somebody who's not computer savvy, you know, just learning all the technical stuff that goes into it, it's not just turn your phone on and talk. Those people do it. Then it's hit or miss. Consistency is the key. Consistency is the key. But to do the thumbnail, as opposed to asking someone to do it, because. [01:40:35] Speaker B: I go check my thumbnail, what you think? [01:40:38] Speaker A: Like, check it out. Let me know, is it good? Is it Gucci? [01:40:42] Speaker B: You did good. You know what I'm saying? You did good. [01:40:45] Speaker A: But you have to try it. You have to try it. Before you know it, you. You be good at it. And I'm not just saying this YouTube space. I'm not just talking, but anything you want to do in life, because some dudes are coming home with great ideas. One of the people who I always respect and I always say this is Wallow, right? Wallow. [01:41:04] Speaker B: Came home. [01:41:04] Speaker A: He just hit the ground running. I remember one video he had. 200. That's all he had, 200. Laid it out on a single bed at his grandmother crib. He said, yeah, this is my little setup. He was. But he was himself to tell, because we like authenticity, too. So whatever you do, be true to yourself, to thy own self be true. But he said, yo, just all the money I got laid out, 200. He said, but watch what I do. Watch, watch. And now swallow. You know what I'm saying? Don't have to explain who he is. We all know who he is now. And that's. And that's the type of dedication and commitment you have to have to yourself. Because this life is going to be over one day. And how you want to be remembered. What will your obituary say? I've been to some funerals where it's just a folded piece of paper. The picture on the front, Sunrise, Sunset, where the funeral's at. Open it up. They was born on this day to this person, that person. Here's the program. They died on this day. That's it. Then other people, they got a booklet that don't even scratch the surface of what they've done in the world, what they've done with their potential and how many people they positively impacted in their life. And I want my. To be a booklet. I ain't gonna hold you. [01:42:20] Speaker B: And. [01:42:20] Speaker A: And look, and I want to give people. Let me say this real quick, though. I want to give people this good feeling that I have of losing weight and coming out of that death style. That. That destructive mindset that everybody's out to get me. So I gotta get them. I gotta keep looking over my shoulder every time I turn around, take a weap everywhere I go. Hide it around the corner, in the garbage. Even if I'm going to court, I'm not going nowhere where it ain't nowhere near. That's constant fear, right? Whether we acknowledge it or not, I had to come to terms with that. But when you can break out of that mental cage, that mental cell and literally be free and realize that there's nothing you can't do, man, ain't no feeling like that. You no longer live in fear. And there's things you're going to be cautious about, right? [01:43:09] Speaker B: Right. Right, Right, Right. [01:43:11] Speaker A: But I really want to encourage people to be your best self. Because can't nobody be you but you. [01:43:16] Speaker B: And think about this, right? My thing is, you know, the detractors I had, always telling me what I can't do, what I shouldn't do, or this, whatever I don't listen to, I just don't listen. I know what I'm gonna do. I know what my skill set is and I know my discipline. So if no matter what people tell me what I ain't, what I don't got, or what they did better than me, or they had this. You ain't never lose 120 pounds. So shut the up. Because that's how I be with people. Yo, I conquered insurmountable odds. Did it. Not complaining, just did it. Yo, I'm a war from Harlem to Brooklyn. Imma do this. I'm gonna challenge myself to do this. Yo, Tad watch I do this. Yo, Tad watch. I interview this person. Yo, where you going? Yo, I'm going to to interview Rowdy Rebel. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. Dr. Why? Like yeah, damn, the worst. Yeah, this is what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. A working and then you and you Remember when we lived in the crib when the, when the, the artists used to call the crib phone because we didn't have beeper. So easy Mobi calling the crib. Do it all. Calling the crib. O.J. calling the crib. Cold chilling record labels calling the crib because we didn't have beepers or cell phones was too little. You understand what I'm saying? So when people always try to tell me what I'm not or who got more subscribers or whatever I said, man, I don't give a damn about none of that. You don't know my journey and you damn sure don't know my destination and I don't know yours. So for you to look at me and tell me what I'm not and what I don't got, I find out to be common comical because I come from insurmountable odds and I never complain, just keep going. There's no tears, there's no. And again, I ain't confront today. I wasn't even really feeling my best mentally. I just felt, I don't know, since the hour went back or some. I'm like, yo, my aunt birthday was the other day. It was just like a lot of things that was with me. I didn't even talk to you that day. I was like, I'm not even calling Ted right, you know what I'm saying? But we know, you know, me, you and Paul, we got the shining, you know what I'm saying? Like we already know something. [01:45:26] Speaker A: We don't take it personal. [01:45:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we know. I'm just like, yo, I don't even want to, I don't even want to talk about certain stuff, you know what I'm saying? [01:45:33] Speaker A: And say what? [01:45:34] Speaker B: Right, Exactly. You know what I'm saying? [01:45:35] Speaker A: So we, we, we feeling it together. [01:45:38] Speaker B: Yeah, got the shining, you know what I'm saying? So we. [01:45:41] Speaker A: You don't feel it like me. [01:45:44] Speaker B: So that the time going back and it was just so much things. And then, you know, I seen the kids and they costumes and stuff, so I felt a little bit better then. I was like, yo, I got a lot of work. I want to do going into this new month, you know what I'm saying? I want to go do this, you know. And I started, you know, thinking, but you know, as, as I, I was like, yo, today, I spoke to you today and you said, you know what? This is a conversation that I needed to speak about because this is getting a lot off that been weighing on me because I know what I'm tired of seeing. And I know every time I go on social media, I seem like I'm bombarded by this frequency and this energy that I'm tired of. So all I could do is not disrespect nobody. But I could talk, we can talk about it. Yeah, we could talk and talk other, you know what I'm saying? And I, I hit the gym today, I took my supplements, I gotta go to a vitamin shot tomorrow, you know, I've been on some no snack, so I've been a little grumpy, you know. [01:46:42] Speaker A: I want to say something that you said before we go too far like you said. And no disrespect because I don't. A lot of these men, I don't think I know any of them, but I respect men. Like, and I'll say this real quick, the young dudes that I had in boy Scouts and that came up behind me in the streets, they always say, yo, you never try to treat us like a little dude because they 30 now. Like these little dudes is in their 30s now. I had them when he was in a single digits and 10 years old, 12 years old. And I told them I always showed y' all love because all boys grow to be men and all men are worthy of respect. So they know how I deal with them. And I address all men with respect. It's not about fear, it's about respect. Because I want people to respect me. So I'm going to approach you with respect. But what I see and I see potential for dudes to grow because these are some powerful people. And not powerful as into, you know, they like Jay Z powerful where they got politicians in their pockets. They, but they men of influence and everybody has value. You just have to tap into it, you know what I'm saying? Like princess home. I don't know Prince from a can of paint. Only know his reputation. He seemed like a solid dude because he's not a man of many words. But when he speaks, it lends value. In fact, I remember when Pream was locked up rather he's still locked up, but when he called home, it was the incident about his Son, you know, and they spoke about it, Prem and Prince. And what they did was give legit OG wisdom. Talk about honor, respect, integrity, silence. The power in silence. Sometimes these grown men need to know everything you think don't need to be regurgitated. [01:48:29] Speaker B: Silent. And listen, I have the same letters. I always tell people that. [01:48:34] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. And, and I, I, I want dudes to win. I really do, in my heart of hearts, because I know who we are as black men, I understand the struggle. So every time people talk about, yeah, I was locked up, I didn't do a long stretch. I fight my cases. I'm sorry, put me in the jail. I'm going to the law library. I'm not fighting over the tv. I'm not arguing over the phone. I'm heading to the law library. My uncle Zay told me. He said, yo, the keys you looking for is in them law books. He said, don't look for the metal keys. Look for them paper keys. I went to the law library, didn't know how to shepherdize. I didn't even know what I was looking for. He just told me to go to law library. I asked dudes in there, yo, how I could look up on my case. Well, where your paper at? Do to do? Looked at my paperwork. I they charging with this down the third. So you want to look at this. That, that taught me what shepherdizing is. Just Only stop trying to read everything. Only read what pertains to your case. But in them law books, at the beginning of a case and at the end of a case, there's a key. And I see what Uncle Zay was talking about. Those are the keys that's going to get you out. But dudes are low level thinkers. Not all, not all, but a lot of dudes are low level thinkers. So when they get locked up, first thing they want to do is, yo, who running the phone, who running the tv? My first thing was getting back home to my kids because I didn't want to leave them outside to the wolves. [01:49:55] Speaker B: But you know why they think like that? [01:49:56] Speaker A: Jew? I know they had Jamel. [01:49:58] Speaker B: Nobody thought like that. Because they plan on staying there, right? So they was getting comfortable. Yeah, but they was getting comfortable. Now you can't get comfortable, right? [01:50:08] Speaker A: And I mean, dudes do, because it's easy to get comfortable. Because after you beat the initial fear of like, yo, who am I had to get it on with da da da. And then you run into people you cool with and you get love, you like, oh, you let your guards down a little. But you like, I didn't as bad as I. You know what I'm saying? I don't have to pop off in here like I thought I would. Next thing you know, you get to use the phone, you get to watch tv, you eating good, you go to the store shopping. And now you're comfortable. Now you in that cycle. And. And of course, it's a survival mechanism because it's life or death in there. But I'm talking about once you come out of that element, once you come home and you could be reunited with your wife, you don't have to see her on a conjugal. You can literally take your children or your grandchildren to the park. You could literally buy them an ice cream cone and do the things that your grandparents probably didn't do with you. I tell. I tell the kids all the time, I love my grandfather. The life, loving life. Love that man like nothing. Like nothing I could describe. But he never took us to the park. He was always working. Word, literally around the corner. [01:51:13] Speaker B: I don't even remember pop outside of this door exactly. [01:51:17] Speaker A: He's just always in the store working, always in the store working, you know what I'm saying? And we all love them, all the cousins, you know, we love them to life. [01:51:25] Speaker B: We went and got candy and cookies and all that, but that was about it. [01:51:29] Speaker A: Candies and cookies, but you know what I'm saying? So I'm able to take my grandkids out to the park, I'm able to take my kids to the park, all of these things. I'm able to watch them graduate. We didn't graduate. SARAH J. He's getting kicked out of school, bounced from school to school, you know what I'm saying? So I say that because I want dudes to understand that that level of courage you have to survive the streets and to survive jail, use that gumption, Use that courage to go into the next phase of your life for ultimate success, for that thing you really want out of life now. Because we see we couldn't get it with our street dreams. That's why a lot of dudes got jammed up. Keep saying, you're gonna hit a ceiling in the streets. You're gonna be move the most bricks, you're gonna catch the most bodies, you're gonna be the illest dude in Nebraska. All that. All that. But then what, right? The folks is coming. Ask me. Ask prank, right? And you should look at big. You look a puff, right? You want to do it. And not saying, as black men in this country, not saying that we ain't gonna get in no type of scuffle with law enforcement. I'm not saying that at all. But you want to minimize it. Jay Z says, the way I see it now, I may never go to jail. [01:52:41] Speaker B: Right. [01:52:41] Speaker A: Because now he's isolated. He literally lived his dream. Kanye literally lived this dream, and ain't no different from me and you and doggy. You know, in the audience, we can all do it, but we got to get out of this, this criminal mindset. [01:52:56] Speaker B: And stop acting like. [01:52:59] Speaker A: Yeah, stop. Why do we care about who snitched? I get it. [01:53:03] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [01:53:03] Speaker A: Unless you want to stay in that criminal element, then by all means do that. But if you're going to stand a criminal element, also do the other rule of the criminal world. Shut the up. [01:53:15] Speaker B: Right Quiet and stop acting like a criminal. [01:53:17] Speaker A: Just shut up. Don't we only hear nothing about it? Stop indicting yourself. Talk about who snitch when you sitting here on camera talking about what you're gonna do to somebody when you see them. And this down the third. And stop acting like, yeah, yeah. [01:53:32] Speaker B: The reason why I keep saying that, reason why I keep saying. [01:53:37] Speaker A: I'm give you the mic back about this. Yo, these celebrities got their shows and they pop ups brothers. It's not a good look when we looking back at music clamoring to get next to a dude and they knocking the chicks over to get next to an artist. Yo, that looks crazy. That looks very, very crazy. But yeah, I just wanted to put that out there, dog. Go ahead. [01:54:04] Speaker B: The reason why I keep saying that is because. Stop talking from the perspective of defeat and what you can't do. I didn't listen. Watch where we watch this. Come we revisit this conversation next year. Watch where we at. Watch where we be. Because there's a lot of manifestation. It's a lot of determination, discipline, and execution. And that is implemented every day. Every day is implemented. A new plan is implemented every day. And just carrying out the plans and just sticking to the script and just keep chipping away, chipping away, chipping away. A diamond is for formed under pressure. And sometimes it takes thousands of years for a diamond. And the diamond. And diamond. A lot of diamonds are in the rough. We all diamonds. That's why it's my name. You know what I'm saying? That's why the name of my ship was Diamonds Up Production. It was so many things dealing with the diamond because it's one of the most beautiful pieces of jewelry, one of the most beautiful pieces of gems, but it's not formed Overnight. Now they got these niggas is lab made. These niggas is lab made. We formed. Been doing this shit for 19 years. I never had a boss. I never had a boss, but I've always been a leader. Never had a boss, but I've always been a leader. And I never wanted to be nobody boss. It was a time where doing the music Ty used to say to me, pull rank on. And I used to say, no, because these don't want my leadership tag. You should always say, yo, poor rank. Nah, these don't want my leadership. These. These. They don't want a leader. I'm a leader. I'm telling them what to do. I'm telling them how to write the songs. I'm promote. I got the music for them. I got the stew. I got everything. I've provided everything. Leadership. I provided the direction. Direction. They don't want my leadership. All they got to do is bring the talent and show up. I'm gonna do everything else. They don't want my leadership because other than that, I would be bossing them around. Yo, you gotta do. That's not a leader. That's why I did the show the other day. The difference between leaders and bosses. I gave option. I give what I told y'. [01:56:36] Speaker A: All. [01:56:36] Speaker B: Bosses tell people what to do. Leaders give direction. It's a difference. And I'm leading by example because I'm in the studio every day. So to be a leader, you got to lead by example. I'm here every day. I'm working every day on new music. So now when we start getting the second win and the second go around, and people like, yo, I want to nah. But I always say, I ain't a boomerang. You throw me away. I don't come back. Because you felt strong in what you had going on. And when I say, stop acting like a. Again, it's not gender specific. It's just that I don't like people telling me what they can't do when I know what you can do, especially. It ain't even no you. It's a we. Look what we could do if we put our minds together. Look what we could do if we do this. You understand what I'm saying? So my whole thing is like, yo, me and Tad, a lot of times we say, yo, we gotta do this. We gotta do this. All right, yo, let's do it like this. Yo, hit buddy, you know, just hit certain people, yo, flying in. We. We just know how to coordination. That's it. I never heard him say, yo, nah, I can't do that now. Why not? We was going to drink Chance, remember little buddy was like, yo, I can't go. You mean you can't go? You like why you can't go? Because I ain't got. You ain't got the money. You need money for my money? [01:58:05] Speaker A: Tight. [01:58:06] Speaker B: Yeah. What do you need money for? [01:58:08] Speaker A: Dog day? Uncle there. [01:58:10] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta go. [01:58:12] Speaker A: But he was the MVP because he did all the coordinating. [01:58:15] Speaker B: This is what I'm saying. Because now with the right direction, he's the baby. But he took the leadership role of doing that. And you said, there's nothing wrong with having a boss. I don't mind playing Pippin as long as we get the chip. See, Jordan was never Pippin's boss. He was the leader of the team. He practiced the hardest, he ran the fastest, he ran the most. Jordan was never Pippin boss. He was the leader. He never was his boss. Pippin learned from Jordan by his work ethic and his leadership on the court, off the court, in practice. See, that's the mentality that I want you to be able to understand the difference between the boss and the leader. Jordan was never Pippin boss. He was the leader of the team. And being the leader of the team, one of the biggest things of a leader is leading by example. So a boss tell what to do. Leaders show you what to do based off of what they doing. That's why if you look at my video, why a lot of rap crews don't work, because somebody always wanted to be the boss. But who's the leader? [01:59:36] Speaker A: And bosses pay people. This is, let's be clear. [01:59:39] Speaker B: And then they hire and fire people. [01:59:42] Speaker A: They don't even hire you. [01:59:43] Speaker B: Yeah, they know. [01:59:44] Speaker A: Yeah, they got no bread for you. They can't feed you. They can't. They can't beat your financial obligations monthly. So you're not really a boss, right? [01:59:56] Speaker B: Oh, he coached on the floor, but look, he coached on the floor. But a coach is still the leader, though. It's not the boss. The bosses was owner. The owner is the boss. [02:00:06] Speaker A: The owner, the one who pay, makes sure everybody get paid. [02:00:09] Speaker B: But you still need a floor leader. You still need a. Need a floor coach. You still need a floor general. That's not a boss. You, you know what I'm saying? I mean, that's not a leader. So when you look at a lot of these guys in these YouTube space and you start doing, really, really doing the knowledge and realize who's from the doggy diamonds tree, it's gonna your head up when I Was on Drink Chance with the Nori. Tell y', all, if it wasn't for you, there'd be no drink champs. But nobody would look at me and say, damn you. [02:00:40] Speaker A: But that's why he had to. He said, right. Had to have you come up, right? [02:00:44] Speaker B: But nobody look at it like, damn, this nigga's not an artist. He's not a rapper. He's not none of this. Yo, he is, but he's not known for that. But I got my own episode of Drink Chance. Because what I do behind the scenes, how I lead to certain things, how I tell certain dudes, how you just inspire people. It ain't about, yo, telling dudes to do this. New to that now, yo, bro, you. You do this. Because this is what I did. This is what I would do in that situation. Matter of fact, let me do it with you. You know what I'm saying? Most of the interviews that I did, Tad was there, so he already saw how to do certain things. And then when he do, I don't be like, nah, you up, yo. Nah, this is how you do this. But he was on the phone the other day, remember I was telling you about YouTube, and I wasn't even in front of the computer. I was driving. I said, nah, Click the bell on the right. [02:01:33] Speaker A: How you do this? Standard. [02:01:34] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. Click the little gear right there. If you do this, it's gonna say advanced features. I was driving. I said, yo, I'm driving. When I get in front of the computer, I probably could further help you, but I'm driving because I know. [02:01:45] Speaker A: Help me. Before you got to the. [02:01:46] Speaker B: Before I got to the crib, I never even got on the computer. [02:01:48] Speaker A: I said, nah, nah. I said, I see what you're talking about. [02:01:51] Speaker B: I said, is it called. It's going to be something called advanced features. You gotta click this. Scroll all the way down and all that. [02:01:57] Speaker A: This is over here. [02:01:58] Speaker B: And do this. Click the top right. You'll click the top right. Click this. Start this right there. You understand what I'm saying? Start this right here. Hit set, did, then hit new clip. I'm not in front of no computer. You understand what I'm saying? I'm not in front of no computer. But this is what I'm saying. Some of us are able to help people and lead people on their path. Because, yo, OG Wisdom is some. That. I'm like, yo, the name of y' all could be OG Wisdom. You and Gutter. This is the logo. I make the logo. Big still made a logo, too. I said, yo, I Could do the font. So we made you so you know, it's a team effort. And then now they off him running. You understand what I'm saying? [02:02:41] Speaker A: And this and we saying subscribe, go like and subscribe. [02:02:43] Speaker B: Yeah. OG Wisdom podcast. So the point that we trying to make is that we never went off of what we couldn't do. We ain't the richest dudes, but we ain't the poorest dudes. But we damn sure ain't where we was oppressing people, hurting people, getting hurt, getting ass, getting shot, getting stabbed, getting locked up, hurting ourselves, drinking, smoking. You know all this with these chicks and all that. Dudes don't do that no more. Dudes do. Grown man in the results is going to be what it's going to be. And sometimes you might be the only person that's doing something, something. And you feel like the odd one. You feel Friday night I'd be like, what you doing? They could be like, I'm in the crib. Why everybody Friday night looking for the turn up, looking for where they gonna go get a drink at, Looking for where they gonna watch the game. And I'm not telling. People don't have fun. But your fun should be a learning experience. And it should be true fun, not fun because everybody else is doing it. And you don't want to be left out. Nah, you gotta get left out sometimes. Yeah, you gotta get left out. I was looking at Halloween, I'm like, damn, do they even get the kids dress anymore? The adults got on costumes. Where the hell is the children? You see more adults celebrating Halloween than the damn children. Because again, it's the mind state. You bought the kid, the, the mass with the string around it in the plastic suit, but you got on a 400 Halloween costume. So again, our priorities is all twisted to how we think and how we carry ourselves. Because I'm be real. Many people was deprived as children of their fun. Many of us did have to grow up fast. So we do look at stuff and be youthful. But like I told you, when it comes to history, you could visit there, but you can't stay there, have your fun, enjoy yourself, enjoy different foods. If you want to drink, have a drink. If you want to smoke, have a smoke. If you want to go out, if you want to go to the movies, do all those things, I'm not saying is anything wrong with that. But when it comes to execution and you got babies watching you, and you got children watching you, and you got the youth watching you, or even if somebody three, four years younger than you watching. You got to be a better example. Because if not even older. Yeah, or even older than you. If not, what you doing is you creating more people. Like what you don't even want to be like no more. Because if you had it your way, you wouldn't be like that. But that's all you know. You understand what I'm saying? So a lot of times the dudes, yo, some could talk that jail. I ain't really good. I ain't never been there, so I ain't gonna talk. That. That don't make me less than a man. You know, with some dudes that be like, yo, this nigga's intelligent. He's smart. He must not be a street guy. Most of the street guys who. Street guys who did the most street, they never lifted a finger and they was in the suit. Every day somebody pushes the buttons on this country and they not in the street. And they control policy. They control everything. See, when you learn about control, when you learn about uniform and you learn about true power, that come from your mind, you know, that you don't execute none. You know, sometimes you defeated and you never even did nothing. It might have been what you said. Some is defeated of your potential. Mike Tyson defeated dudes and never even stepped in the ring. Sometimes. Sometimes you never say. This was the look on his face. But all of us got infinite potential. But tap into you and stop always saying what you can't do. That's why I said, stop acting like. And if you think you can't do it, stop discouraging others. That's one of the worst things you could do. Don't let nobody take you off your. Go ahead, close us out. [02:06:43] Speaker A: No, I was gonna say, because whether people agree with us or not, even if you don't agree, still do you? That's all we saying. You know what I'm saying? Salute everybody who. Who out there pursuing their dreams, man. Yo, I'm over 50 years old, right? I ain't think I live this long, be honest with you. But I'm here now what? And that's the thing we always gotta ask ourselves. All right, I made it. Now what? I didn't die in the streets. I didn't die at the gut. I did. Now what I've been fortunate enough to do some dope ass. I've been able to run marathons, go back and forth to Africa a few times. Did some dope with the children of the community. Created a youth group in the projects where I used to cause the most damage. You know what I Mean, got to meet some interesting people, got to meet world leaders, really did some dope shit. And now what? Because what I'm about is legacy building. How will I be remembered when I transition? And more importantly, how would you be remembered when you transition? So again, I salute all the brothers that's coming home, doing a thing, figuring out this digital space, you know, telling their stories. Because nobody's story is more valuable than the next one. Only value you have is what you creating yourself. And if you could pull jewels out of the tragedy that you've been through, that's what we mean. To go from tragedy to triumph, then by all means. Because we only here to change the narrative, change the mindset. Because we believe in our brothers. We believe in our community. So we're not going to talk about black women and not talk about black men. We're not going to talk about black children, but not talk about the black parents. But it's all on us as men. So this conversation tonight is for the men. It's for the brothers, man. [02:08:31] Speaker B: Change the conversation. Change the calm. Y' all got to change the conversation. Because the conversation is. Has not been uplifting, has not been conducive to anything that we want to do, trying to do. Yeah, we did this, we did that. We all was a part of oppressing our community, oppressing each other, hurting each other. Some of us to hang, talking a long time behind. Old dumb. All right, that's cool. Now what? Now do we go? You know what I'm saying? I. I got on camera 10 years ago. Exactly 10 years ago. I didn't. I don't want to be on. I don't even like the camera. I don't want to be on the camera. I don't even want to do something. [02:09:06] Speaker A: Happy camera anniversary, you know what I'm saying? [02:09:08] Speaker B: I think I got on. [02:09:09] Speaker A: You didn't get on camera. [02:09:10] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I just. I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to be on camera. I just wanted my voice to be heard, and I wanted the. The product to be a one. You get what I'm saying? So when I got on the camera, I was like, yo, I gotta make it count. I can't be on the camera. 300 pounds. Nah. Lose weight. Get your together, you know what I'm saying? Get you the dope pair of shades. And then ended up being my trademark shades, you know what I'm saying? [02:09:34] Speaker A: So it's like, I understand the value of the shades because these lights, every. [02:09:38] Speaker B: Time I say the lights, be bright. Everybody be like, why are you wearing shades in the house? No, I realize I ain't got my other lights on. Oh, hold on. Let me show y' all something. Yeah, I ain't even got my lights on. So, again, like, people don't understand, like, the value in you. The value and believe in yourself and the value of just keeping going, keep grinding, keep chipping away to make it to television, to make it to billboards and Times Square and all this. Like, I already achieved a lot that I want to achieve. And then I started saying, damn, I got other. Go see that. It just came on. I'm using the app. You know what I'm saying? Then I started saying, yo, what's other things that I want to do? So I start reaching new heights, and I start saying, yo, I want to do this and do that. So a lot of things that people think that they aspire to do, that's not what I want to do. Your direction is your direction. You might say, yo, I want the biggest this. I want this. I want that. By all means, go for it. Ellmatic, I. I appreciate you, but, yo, every day we talk about the children and our family directly. The children in our family is the most important because they not going to come on YouTube and see me acting the ass or doing certain things because they all got access to all this stuff. So why be the first embarrassment in your family if you already was? [02:10:59] Speaker A: Now, I want to say also part of this conversation is prevention, too, because we know substance abuse and alcoholism is rampant in our community and our families, too. [02:11:09] Speaker B: And hypersexuality. [02:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah, and hypersexuality. And when you're intoxicated, you don't make the best decision. [02:11:16] Speaker B: You make the worst decision. [02:11:17] Speaker A: When you drunk of all time, chick. [02:11:20] Speaker B: Start looking good, that you know ain't right. That's why y' all baby moms be ugly, but go ahead. You know, but baby moms be crackheads, but go ahead. [02:11:29] Speaker A: We definitely want to take control of our community. Again, not on no military militant stuff. I mean, if that's what you all about. But we can just do it with our mindset and the way we change our behavior, how we interact with each other, how we spend our money with each other, how we not dump our money into other communities, because we keep talking about finances. We keep talking about what we need for our community. We will never be empowered if we keep begging other people to do for us what we can do for ourselves. When I have my youth group, people always say, yo, how do you get funded? My Funding come from the community, right? Anytime you do something in the group, you get a discount. Just pass the discount on to the people, right? Don't charge them full price. Or even if you charge them full price, let them know. Let them know you're charging them full price and the extra money is going to the next event because you're doing this, you're doing that, and have proof and evidence of what you accepting money for. Anytime I've accepted money, I've done trips, I've. I've collected books and bought book bags with the money that we collected and people were seeing. In fact, I always invite people to be a part of it, right? People were always welcome to be a part of anything that I was doing involving the community and the children. So we can have this level of transparency because this is important, because transparency is how we build trust. And once we got trust, there's almost nothing we can't do, because then we could cover more ground. Because if I know doggies on the east side and I'm on the west side, we trust each other enough to know that the mission's gonna get done. And when people see our results, then they gonna want to join. So while doggy's on the east side and I'm on the west side, somebody can hit the north side, somebody can hit the south side. [02:13:05] Speaker B: Right? [02:13:05] Speaker A: Now we got all these points covered because we built that trust, and now we can move the show on the road and get things done. It's not hard for us to take control of our community. It's not hard to create safe spaces for our young people and our elderly. We just have to make the decision that that's what we really want. And yeah, we could get money in the interim of doing it all, but, you know, I'm not telling nobody how to get their money or anything, but I'm saying if we want to be an economically viable force in this society, we got to start doing things that lifts us up instead of tearing us down. People keep beating each other up, man. That's painful. [02:13:47] Speaker B: With the same. [02:13:49] Speaker A: Because I go to the white folks channeling. They beating us up, right? Go to go to them other channels. They beating us up. I come to us for loving. We beating each other up. [02:13:58] Speaker B: You, yo, you did. Yeah. Like, yo, God damn. Like nobody. Who the hell love us, right? [02:14:05] Speaker A: So we just retreating. Go in the house. Y' all never see you, Right? [02:14:09] Speaker B: Right. And I'm glad that you said that, because that's how I wanted to end this, too. Too. Don't be afraid to Retreat. Retreating sometimes is not surrendering. Sometimes. Sometimes you got to do certain things for your own serenity, for your own mind. Like if you be in certain places and the aura is bad and the energy is bad, leave. It's okay. Yo, I. I left. I wasn't really feeling the vibes. That don't make you. That'll make you act, that make you a survivor, and they make you smart. So sometimes when you in certain places, I don't care if you in a party, if it's a work party, if you in a certain train car, you go to another, the car is cool. Serenity, solitude is cool sometimes. Just because you alone, that don't mean you lonely. Get in tune with yourself. Do what you like. If you like to read, if you by yourself, nobody could talk about you reading. If you like watching certain movies, if you by yourself, nobody could talk about you watching that movie. Be able to be when one with yourself because looking for validation from other people, they're never really going to give it to you, especially if they know that's what you want, something about people. When they know what you want the most, they won't give it to you. Because people like to starve you out when it comes to certain things that they know you need. So when you look for other people for. When you look to other people for validation, sometimes people just never gonna give it to you. So don't look for them. You know, just say, yo, I'm valid because of this. And yo, I always tell you, I told y' all 10 years ago, get you a white chalkboard, write some of your things down, knock them out, cross this off. Yo, I crossed this off, yo, I achieved this. I achieved this. Y' all went the whole week, y' all ain't eating no snacks. So I drink a gallon of water. You gotta start doing your things. But who's a snitch, who's a rat? Who shot who, who did this? Time in jail, who did this? Who knocked two out, who beefing with who, that. How does that help you and your household, your immediate self and your immediate household? How does that help you? It don't use it sometimes as a form of entertainment, but when I start seeing you tweeting about it and I start seeing you making Facebook statuses, I say, damn. All of the things that you could have spoke about, all the information you could have gave people, you chose to say that. Out of all the videos you could have posted, you sat there singing many men smoking reefer. Out of all the videos you could have posted to yourself. We want to see that your baby is full in Korea. You ain't got to show your baby face, but it's certain things that you could be proud of. But you want to sit there, smoke reefer and singing many men and all that. How you proud of yourself? That ain't nothing to be proud of. So I don't look at dysfunction and dysfunctional people and be like, he crazy, yo. He. Wow. Now I know wild. Some of them smoke crack, some of them dead, and some of them in jail. It was the smart ones that said, yo, you know what? I don't want to be like that no more. Yo, that was corny. That was whack. That's all I really could say to y'. [02:17:11] Speaker A: All. [02:17:11] Speaker B: So, Yo, Tad, of course, I always thank you for joining me and like that. This is our regular conversation. And see what we just. [02:17:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. We just said we're gonna have this publicly today. [02:17:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [02:17:19] Speaker A: Yo, shout out to our brother Bomani. [02:17:21] Speaker B: Bomani's in the building. [02:17:22] Speaker A: Yes. You know what I'm saying? [02:17:23] Speaker B: Yeah. Shout out to all the moderators. Shout out to all the people. People who donated. Amir Prescott said we need the most economic spending, but not. [02:17:32] Speaker A: We. [02:17:33] Speaker B: The most economic spending, but not supporting our own. You know what, though? Let me close on that, too, right? Because I think the problem is that we start not to be able to recognize who our own is. Because when you into this and I'm into that, I don't. You don't look familiar to me. Right? Because if you sitting there smoking reefer and doing certain. I can't. Yo, I'm telling you, I'm. I'm up. I'll be like, yo, I don't. I don't even with them type of. You know what I'm saying? I want to deal with like minds. I don't want to go to Bath and Body Works to get candles. You got candles, okay. And then at the same time, I want to say this, too. And this is very, very important. Black people don't have bad customer service. Black people got bad patience. The seller got bad patience, and the patron got bad patience. Sometimes, if you didn't get the products out in this, in a time, people gonna complain. But then sometimes the person who paid gotta understand, yo, if you doing this from the ground up, it might take them a little while. Patience is the key, and communication is everything. And watch how you talk to people, because nobody ain't your child. And everybody, when they get spoken to a certain way, it does something to their ego. And stop trying to Brother me OG me legend me your way into a favor. It's a hundred dollars for promo. I don't care who you are. I'm gonna be a legend. Yeah, I'm gonna be a legend. I'm gonna be all of that still. But you can't legend me OG me brother me your way into a favor. If you respect what I do and you think that I can help you, it only costs a hundred dollars. If you want to get interviewed on the channel, we'll talk about a price and all that too. But one thing about me, anytime I need something from somebody, which is rarely, but if I do and I want to give somebody a play, I always say, yo, how much? Nah, God, I don't want you to have me. I want you to be able to feed your family. Because if I got it, I' ma spend it somewhere. I' ma spend it somewhere. So I'd rather spend it. [02:19:32] Speaker A: Before you close touch on that, though, we gotta circulate the money. Wait till somebody open up a burger spot, then be like, y' all get burgers. If somebody got a service supported, right? They selling that. Yo, you know how many T shirt, dog, While I was switching, switching the gear out today, putting away some clothes, pulling out winter clothes, yo, it's mad shirts I bought that I don't have no intention on wearing, right? But just on the strength of supporting, just on the strength of supporting whoever was doing it, I pulled it out. Those shirts are getting donated it, right? You know what I'm saying? So we definitely got to start right there. But we got to get in the mindset of spending. Stop looking at everybody is trying to get us. You got to start looking for the best in each other again. Because we all we got. [02:20:16] Speaker B: And Everybody started at 0. Everybody stop looking at somebody greater because they have 100 and the person is at 10. Yo, they started at 0. 2. They started at 0. A poll said, Put a 1 in front of the nun and make some worth appear. It just is what it is like, yo, at the end of the day, Everybody started at zero. Everybody started somewhere. If you got a YouTube and you trying to get your YouTube grinding, keep grinding. But I tell you tell, yo, you got to share. That's old. It don't matter. Everybody started at zero. Stop idolizing people because of their perception, because their reality is. Is different. I'm telling you, reality is different from perception. Perception is how you view it, but that don't mean that's how it is. That's why you got things called optical illusions. It's not what you think. It's just your perception of it. Magic ain't real. There's no such thing as magic. There's no such thing as coincidences. Everything happens for a reason. But your vantage point and your viewpoint and you're approaching how you view. You might not be ready to see certain things a certain way because you're not developed enough in your learning base and your knowledge base. But stop idolizing because why you think there's no top 100, no top hip hop songs? Because they started cracking down on the bots. It's simple mathematics. They started cracking down on the bot so now people can't bought their way into the top. This they started, they stopped pushing people through. See, a lot of rappers are not rappers. They're influencers that wrapped. You understand what I'm saying? The influences that rap or like I say every night, what did they influence you to do? They influence you my soul or they influence you to think you a drug dealer, a gangster, a killer? What type of influence is that? How many people say, yo, I graduated college, I go to school, yo, I was in the crib doing that in the third and I still whip somebody ass because don't think them dudes that don't drive the bus or the train won't whip your ass. They went to the gym this morning before they went through. [02:22:32] Speaker A: Like I said, those the OGs though. [02:22:34] Speaker B: This is what I'm saying. [02:22:34] Speaker A: On the bus, in the train, those are the ones who is really doing. [02:22:38] Speaker B: The ones this think I'm a fish fry. Straight up and down. Dude put in the most one of the one of dudes put in the most work in the hood, went legit, worked in a fish place, doing what he gotta do. He like, yo, really must think I'm a fish fry. But like I tell some of y', all, y' all must really think dangerous. Y' all be really just thinking I'm some on YouTube. I hope you don't have to find out. That's why I'll be saying. All right, whatever. But Ted, until next time, man, we out of here. Make sure y' all hit that like button. Leave a comment after video as well and make sure you subscribe to the OG Wisdom podcast. Peace. Until next time. Don't forget Doggy Diamonds did.