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[00:00:00] I'm back on that Twitter too, Mr. Q. They had me, they had my, my, my account compromised for a little while. I forgot my two step verification email and I had a phone that I don't have anymore so I couldn't. So it was a long wait. But I'm back on Twitter, you know, just taking it easy. I'm just getting my health back a little bit. So you gotta calm down. I'll be just trying to go crazy. But you can't, man, your body will be like, yo, chill. I went to the gym today. Felt good about that.
[00:00:32] Listen man, how's everybody doing on this Saturday evening? If you're a fan of the audio, make sure you follow on Apple podcasts, on Spotify. All those links are right below in the description box. Listen, anything pertaining to me, any social media site that you might want to see me on, I'm on all of them. Right in the description box below is everything Thug passion fashion. Thank you for subscribing. We almost had 285 000. Don't forget to subscribe. Don't forget to like, don't forget to share. The shares are very, very important. Share it to your Facebook, share it to your Twitter. Share it to. You got a YouTube. Share it to your community. Tonight we going really, really. I don't want to say it's redundant and it's regurgitated but we gonna have to because it's at the end of the day. Right at the end of the day. Cedric Sweet, don't come in here telling me what to do. You do what you do on your channel, I do what I do on mine. I'ma have a long intro. You know why? Because I'm going to shout out my people. It ain't about you, it's about my people and I never saw you before. So if I do a five minute minute intro, that's just what it is. Because my people is here and I got to let them know and I got to acknowledge them. So you do it work for you? I do what worked for me. People watching playback game, they could just skip it. But you know, I'm shouting minds out. This my folks right here. I gotta shout minds out. Don't tell me what to do, please. I do not listen to people. Don't ever do that again. Anyway, like I was saying, listen man, you know, we got individuals who went to prison, we got individuals who went to prison. We got individuals who served a time, paid their debts to society, know they were wrong and they come out of prison and they try to right they wrongs by doing what they got to do for society. And they do what they got to do to tell the youth and even the people behind them, like, listen, what I did wasn't right, but I had to pay with time.
[00:02:44] I was in there, I read some books, I got some degrees, and I rehabilitated and I came out and I want to tell people what I did prior to me going to prison. And what put me in prison is not for you.
[00:03:11] That's what people should be doing. And there's many people doing that. As many people who come home and change their life, as many people who was in prison, that got doctorates, that come out, they go on speaking tours. They come out and they tell people, listen, man, I was wrong, but I paid my debt. I did what I needed to do.
[00:03:40] And listen, this is where I'm at. To the little homies, to the little young ladies, listen, that ain't what you want. I was in there plenty of nights, crying, missing my family. Poor righteous teacher. I appreciate you missing my family, missing my children, missing my loved ones.
[00:04:06] Many prominent members of my family passed away from ailments. Some of my friends got killed, and I couldn't see them. All I could do is cry and remember them.
[00:04:19] But I'm here. The food ain't good here, the living ain't good. Because I think jail is so celebrated now that we think everybody was in there having a good time. Like niggas in there playing spades and Super Nintendo and PS3 and like that. No, it's not nothing nice about that. When somebody tell you when to eat, when to get up, and at any given time, they could look in your ass.
[00:04:51] Any given time.
[00:04:55] Any given time, they could look at your.
[00:05:03] It's just the truth.
[00:05:05] Any given time. What you doing? Nothing. Get up, bend over and spread them.
[00:05:13] It's humiliating, it's degrading, and there's no place for anybody to be. But if you commit crimes and you do certain things, you know that can be the end result of that.
[00:05:34] It could be the end result. And some people know that. They take the chance. They take all the risks. They get their time.
[00:05:42] Listen, they. They do they time. They don't tell on nobody. They just like, yo, this type of time, I was on this. What comes with it? I get it now. When we do big meat, when we think about big Meats, we always hear this heroic bmf. They was doing this. They had mad Lamborghinis, they had Maybacks, they had bikes, they had jewelry, they had all of this they had all the girls, they, they was buying out the bars, the, all of this, all of this glorification, all of this glorification of what they did and was doing.
[00:06:28] And it's something that we all subconsciously say, damn man, I wanna, said I want to ride in Lamborghinis, I want some jewelry. But at what cost?
[00:06:45] At what cost?
[00:06:50] Were you looking over your shoulder every day when you worried about jack boys and you worried about the police and the feds and all. And you know, you know they're coming.
[00:07:03] You take casualties. You gotta harm people and be willing to be harmed for this.
[00:07:13] But it's celebrated. You get DVDs, you get billboards, you get records, then you get a TV show.
[00:07:22] I never saw one episode of BMF. You know why? I never saw one episode of BMFs. Where I'm from Bed style Brooklyn. Even when I lived in Staten Island, I saw the effects of drugs, crime and that lifestyle that people thought they was going to be the next Tony Montana. And I ain't see one soul be the next Tony Montana. I seen dudes be the next Custies and the next criminals and the next inmates and the next people in the morgue. That's what I saw.
[00:08:02] I never seen nobody be the next Tony Montana.
[00:08:06] Just didn't happen. It don't happen.
[00:08:10] But you got these dreams. So they make the BMF series. And you see everybody loves that because remember Scarface thought like this. Everybody loves the rag to riches story.
[00:08:24] It's something that where we from, we celebrate that we, we come from. Yo, I started with an eight ball and we all had those stupid ass imma be a drug dealer or drug lord aspirations. At one point we loved it.
[00:08:52] So Big Meech is in prison.
[00:08:57] He's celebrated because he's Big Meech.
[00:09:05] What is there not to celebrate? Everything that went with the BMF name, Everything that went with BMF name was celebrated. We've seen all the rappers up under them. They had more jewelry than the rappers, more cars than the rappers, more women than the rappers.
[00:09:24] We all looking like damn.
[00:09:30] Because where we from, you can't be no bus driver.
[00:09:36] You can't work in Taco Bell. You can't work in Target, you can't work in retail. Nowhere you looked at as a clown.
[00:09:46] They say the working man is a sucker.
[00:09:49] That's what we run within the hood. Where does that come from? A Bronx tale.
[00:09:54] But if you out there and you doing all the wrong things, as long as it's for that fast Cash and that flash.
[00:10:05] You celebrate it.
[00:10:09] You bust your gun. You ain't no joke.
[00:10:13] Know you celebrated.
[00:10:17] And Big Meats did it on such a high level. They did it on such a high level that it was to be celebrated.
[00:10:27] And it's been celebrated.
[00:10:30] Big me's come home. The Real is back. Welcome home, Big Meech. Well, and I said to myself, you know, he deserves a welcome home. But we didn't hear nothing from him. He has not spoken. He hasn't said anything. Saying. Denouncing his former life. He didn't say anything. I heard and I. Maybe he did, but I didn't hear it. Denouncing his former life, denouncing his former lifestyle. Denouncing all the wrong that he did to society, his family, other families in the proximities that he touched.
[00:11:05] He just coming home, being Big Meech. The Real is back.
[00:11:09] Everybody congratulating him. And I started saying to myself, damn, was he a political prisoner? Was he caught up in something? That he was innocent?
[00:11:21] He was celebrated for being a drug lord. They make him. They making DVDs about him in. In TV shows.
[00:11:31] He got caught up. And what he was doing, he had to go to jail. That's what happens. Because he could have got murder.
[00:11:42] But he's being celebrated.
[00:11:45] And everybody's watching this show. Oh, Little Meats, he looked just like his daddy. Don't look like them, but twins. And, you know, I've seen all of that. Or he's messing with this one. And, you know, y'all like to make all these rapper girlfriends famous. Oh, he's with Jada Waiter and. And Ari and all these nobodies who. Just somebody because they laid on their back and had somebody baby.
[00:12:10] They don't contribute to nothing. But they had somebody, baby, and now they're famous. Oh, Jada Waiter and all these. Whatever the. These women names are. I don't know, I got. I even got caught up in somebody's selfie. I think it's G herbo baby mom. She took herself. And people like, yo, you was behind G herbo baby mother. I'm like, I didn't know who she was. Don't give a.
[00:12:35] So he's home. And now you got Rick Ross. You know who Rick Ross is? A fucking fraud.
[00:12:44] But one thing about Rick Ross that's funny is that he believe his own bullshit. So you kind of just. I laugh at Rick Ross. Rick Ross is hilarious to me. He just believes his bullshit. So I. He's just funny to me. I don't take him serious.
[00:13:01] I don't look up to him in no way. I don't want to be like Rick Ross. I don't aspire to be like him in no way. I think he could rap. I like some of his music, but other than that, this is, you know, it is what it is. So Big Meech is home.
[00:13:22] He's 50. Yeah, 50. You know, the great 50 Cent is doing the BMF show. Like we don't have enough shows about our dysfunction.
[00:13:40] This 2025, I don't expect us to see any more Cosby shows. I don't expect to see any more Martins any more wife thinking. I don't expect to see none of that no more. Why? Because that, sadly, is not our reality no more. We're more of love and hip hop. We're more of bullshit and trauma and stress and making people famous for being clowns or buffoons and jumping around. If you notice most of the black men you see that are famous Internet IG comedians, they get invited all types of places and salute to them.
[00:14:32] But there's nobody serious. There's nobody that's coming with something saying, yo, boom bona dirt could. You still could be funny. You still could have fun, but then use time to be serious. You have to stand on something sometimes.
[00:14:48] So I get it.
[00:14:50] All we have is the snowfalls, the BMFs, all the shows. And I'm telling you, if you are of a certain age, yo, you live through that.
[00:15:01] You live through it. You have drug addicts in your family. You seen some of the strongest men and women in your family succumb to addiction, neighbors, family members.
[00:15:21] So why is always glorify? Why it's always out there like that? I always just like, don't we still seeing shows about people selling crack and drugs? So we said, being that we consume it so much, we said, well, what we are is drug dealers, gangsters, gang members, rats, snitches, hoes, baby mothers, scammers. That's what we said. Because that's all they give us, is a depiction of us. And we eat it up when we could easily just say, nah, we're not jacking that. It's not all we are. I know people who's working class people. I know people work for the city, work for the government. I know different entrepreneurs. I know everything.
[00:16:12] We don't. We don't think these people exist. Because when we go look at what society promotes, what we are, that's all we are.
[00:16:27] They put it on tv, we gonna be the biggest watchers of it.
[00:16:33] If a come out of jail, we Love it. He stood tall She's a tramp ho.
[00:16:43] That's why the music is the way it is. That's why the depiction of us is the way it is. And there's nothing really bad with that because you do have some of that. But you have to have a balance. You do have to have a. That's not all we are.
[00:17:00] Not all we are. See, anything is all the way over here. It's not balanced. It has to have a balance, right? So what happens is it's off, it's out of. It's off balance. It's. It's just the balance is off.
[00:17:18] And then we don't think nothing else exists. So we just start glorifying that reason why Big Meech was having a concert. And I'm like, what are they having a concert for Big Meech for? I mean, what did he do?
[00:17:36] What did he do? What did he do that was great? That we should say, Misha's home, Meeches home.
[00:17:47] And this is going to change now.
[00:17:50] Meaches home to make change. Meet his home to make a difference. Meet your home to say, yo, look, I dealt with them cartels. I dealt with the highest of highest of drug dealer. None of y'all was drug dealing higher than me. And it got me all them time, all that time in prison.
[00:18:10] And he was being celebrated.
[00:18:14] He was going to throw a concert until that tag got put on him.
[00:18:23] He's a rat.
[00:18:26] So I'm confused. Like he was being celebrated out of all the he did to his people, my people, your people, the communities, and he was being celebrated.
[00:18:39] But now he can't be celebrated because he's a rat.
[00:18:42] Why was he being celebrated in the first place? Why was they throwing a big party for him? Why was it a big celebration for somebody who did all the shit he did willingly, knowingly.
[00:18:56] But because he's a rat, let's take it all away from him. So you could do all that. You could, dudes could get laid down, dudes could be strung out on drugs. All this could happen.
[00:19:09] But if you told, we gotta take it all away.
[00:19:14] That don't make no sense. See, a person of his caliber, a person of his mind state, how he lived his life worried about money. Money was more important than anything.
[00:19:28] How we holding them to a moral standard? How we looking him and judging him by his moral compass? How are we saying you told, oh, no, we can't mess with you no more. Why was we messing with him in the first place? He didn't come home on a life changing Mission. We didn't even hear this man talk. All we seen him do was go get jewelry, fake teeth, got them struggle braids. That was it. Take pictures with dudes. That's what we saw. And celebrate that he was having a party. The last time I seen him speak was him trying to explain how he's not a rat.
[00:20:07] That's all you got to say?
[00:20:10] So all the people who idolize you, all little dudes who idolize you, who think they Big Meech, Larry Hoover whipping work, Hallelujah. That wasn't put in the context of Big Meech. The. The rehabilitated guy, Big Meat, the guy who learned his lesson. That wasn't putting that content. It was put in the context of you still being a drug dealer. You still being foul.
[00:20:32] That's what it was being put as. You didn't come and say, yo, I want to set up a foundation.
[00:20:39] You didn't do that.
[00:20:42] You didn't do that.
[00:20:45] You came home Big Meech, the same guy that left. Because when you speak, you're supposed to say, yo, look, man, that life I was missing from my son life, I was missing from this. I was missing from that.
[00:21:04] No, you came and you just want to live up to being Big Meech.
[00:21:10] You're not Demetrius Flannery. You Big Meech. The same God that came out, the same guy that went in and now we want to denounce him because of some paperwork or. Tammy, when 50 Cent was working with the chick, he was working with her, so he should have been new. He told because she's executive producer, she owned his life rights.
[00:21:40] So now we're denouncing somebody for being a rat. But before they was a rat, they was celebrated and they didn't do nothing positive. Now, as backwards that is now, oh, he's a. He's a snitch. Oh, we can't rock with him and then think about it. We got people who's not in the street life. I'm telling you, I'm not fascinated or care about who told. I think everybody going to tell is more people who told and people who stood tall. You just didn't know they told yet.
[00:22:17] Seriously, you just didn't know they told. So I don't care about who told. That's not my politics. I don't expect somebody with no morals, values and principles to stand tall.
[00:22:31] Because if you don't come home rehabilitated, you don't come home change. You had a technicality, so you got parole. You're not coming home saying, yo, that life.
[00:22:43] You coming back Home as Big Meech.
[00:22:46] What was Big Meech before he left?
[00:22:52] What was he before he left?
[00:22:55] So to make him a hero. And now his party is canceled, and we sitting here celebrating that. I'm like, what's the win? What was the win with him anyway? What did we win?
[00:23:07] Now he has the whole. Think about it. This man got out of prison. This man was celebrated prior to him going to prison for all the wrong reasons. He got the whole world at his feet in his hands. All he had to do was say, look, I am denouncing that prior life. That ain't get me nothing, and it ain't gonna get you nothing. And you know what? Another thing that I want to say to y'all, one of the biggest errors that we make is we keep talking about the streets, but we ain't setting up nothing.
[00:23:47] We not giving healthy alternatives, and we're not keeping it real about the street. See, the streets is not the problem. The streets is gonna street. Everybody's in the streets. Everybody got to go to and in the streets. Whether you got to go to work, whether you go into the store, whether you're going to the supermarket, whether you go into the laundromat. The streets is the streets. It ain't the streets, it's the company you keep.
[00:24:13] And we was all taught, everybody's not your friend.
[00:24:18] And that's how you was able to weed out over the course of time who you need to be around or who you need to stay away from. It ain't the street. Stop saying the streets is dead. The streets is not dead. The streets is the streets.
[00:24:34] It's the company you keep. Some people you around don't want nothing. Some people you around can't wait to go to prison. Can't wait to harm somebody. Can't wait to smoke crack, sell crack, do. It ain't the streets, it's the people you, the company you keep.
[00:24:55] Stop saying the streets is dead.
[00:24:58] No, it's not.
[00:25:00] But the mentality of the street mentality and the individuals you around, that's how you differentiate what you need to do. Okay? You this, that, and the third. Well, I'm going to studio. When I was young and dudes was out wilding.
[00:25:19] If it wasn't for that studio, if it wasn't for me practicing being a dj, I'd be dead. You know why? Because I loved the thrill of playing knockout. I love the thrill of digging a pocket. I loved all that. But something that I loved more than that was that music.
[00:25:42] Love that.
[00:25:43] That came on and I got on Them turntables. And I was like, oh, I loved it. More than that. I love that more than anything.
[00:25:56] I love that music. I love making beats. I love being on them turntables. I loved it. And that superseded me standing on the corner, drinking beer, me hanging around him. You know why? Because he went to jail. He got killed. He started smoking crack, and he was just out here bugged out. He smoked some pcp, was wild, and he became a mooc. And what did I do? I went in the crib and started practicing on the turntables. That's when I started saying, he can't come to my crib.
[00:26:30] He don't want nothing.
[00:26:33] And because he don't want nothing, he don't want me to have nothing.
[00:26:39] Not the Streets. They gonna be out there, but I don't have to be with them.
[00:26:48] I don't have to be amongst that. And when you come into your own and when you come into.
[00:26:55] You can't be influenced when you're not a follower.
[00:27:02] When my own cousin was saying, just put the cigarette in your mouth and smoke it. Nah, I'm good.
[00:27:09] See, I never wanted to follow nobody.
[00:27:12] They say, stop idolizing people. What if I didn't idolize Pete Rock? What if I didn't idolize Molly Ma? What if I didn't idolize Ralph McDaniels? I wouldn't be sitting here today. Because when I seen these men and their greatness, and it was probable impossible for me to do that, too. And then people gave me the opportunity, and I knew when to go places and be quiet, shut up and learn, and just be a sponge in the room.
[00:27:47] And I was invited back. That Brooklyn. I was on that 40, drinking that two for three saint eyes, drinking that Power Master, that Crazy Horse, that old English that ain't working, Chunk King, studio, that didn't work around certain people. I was raised with manners.
[00:28:05] So what I did was I said, yo, I remember them asking me, yo, why are you so quiet? I said, no, I'm not quiet, but I just want to come back.
[00:28:17] I want to be around. I love it here. I love this studio.
[00:28:21] I love it when I went in the studio. When I went in Chung King and I seen that mixing board go, I was like, yo, what did that do?
[00:28:31] Oh, it was called Flying Faders. Yo, how it moved by. I was fascinated.
[00:28:38] So it was either this or be on the block drinking Cisco with niggas.
[00:28:45] I chose what I chose.
[00:28:47] Why? Because I wasn't a follower. I never been a follower. Nobody can influence me to do nothing on this earth.
[00:28:56] And I made a choice.
[00:28:58] The streets are still the streets. Some of my blue, some of my man's is gone. Dead before they have facial hair.
[00:29:05] But I made a choice.
[00:29:09] The streets is gonna be out there. But my grandmother told me, everybody not your friend.
[00:29:16] Somebody tell you to jump off a bridge, you gonna do it. Listen, you could call me what you want.
[00:29:23] You call me smart. You can even. Some people even say, yo, he pussy, whatever. But you know what I am? I'm alive.
[00:29:33] I got goals, ambition, and I got drive. And I'm still here. Being a living testimony of making a living off of what I love. Don't got no felonies.
[00:29:48] I could legally carry a firearm. I could legally buy a crib, my own car. Everything is in my name. Because I made a choice.
[00:29:57] I made a choice.
[00:30:00] I ain't want that shit. I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to be out there with them. Where was that going to get me? I wanted to be Pete rock.
[00:30:15] And then 20 years later, he ended up being one of my best friends.
[00:30:22] Somebody who I wanted to be. End up calling my phone, hey, bro, what's up? See, sometimes you gotta pinch yourself. Sometimes you gotta say, damn, I know Pete Rock.
[00:30:36] I call Pete right now, he gonna pick up, bro, what's up?
[00:30:41] I could have tried to be the biggest drug dealer. I could have been. I was selling weed, I was doing all types of. I was out there. I could have tried to, I could have attempted. But what was it going to warrant me? Nothing but a story to tell. Or what I used to do, or what I used to have, or I used to be this, I used to be that. Y'all don't even know that. The Coolio song is not called Gangsters Paradise. It's from Stevie Wonder. Spending all our life living in the past time paradise. You can't win today's game over yesterday's points. So all that, what you used to do, used to have. That don't mean.
[00:31:25] That don't mean the women I had, that don't, don't mean nothing.
[00:31:32] Because you cannot pay today's light bill with 10 years ago money.
[00:31:39] So we don't tell the youth the streets is dead. How is it dead? He gotta go to school. All he see is the streets.
[00:31:49] OC is crime. All he see is a dude being able to go buy the new Jordans. All he see is his man pulling up in something nice. How you got there? I got that like this. I want to get it too. We don't tell them yo, it's an alternative. Might take you a little longer. The road might be a little harder, but this is attainable.
[00:32:14] Gonna be a little harder.
[00:32:17] It ain't Fast street gonna be out there. You know, it's the livest in the streets.
[00:32:26] A stray cat, a stray cat. Stray cat, brave the elements.
[00:32:33] The stray cat deal with the rain. Other cats trying to body them. The dogs trying to eat them. The cars and they live their life and have kittens out there.
[00:32:42] The stray cats is the livest individuals out there. They don't get no credit.
[00:32:50] It's going to be the streets.
[00:32:53] We got to stop glorifying people when all they're doing is breeding more ignorance.
[00:33:02] See, the brothers who got out of prison, they could tell you a cautionary tale. And they tell you, yo, my mother died. I was in prison. I couldn't even go to her funeral. I cried every night. I cried myself to sleep in myself. See, we don't hear that.
[00:33:15] We don't hear that. Now, we, a lot of us suffer from PTSD because the stories is still getting celebrated.
[00:33:28] How many of y'all watch Scarface?
[00:33:31] Scarface is so old, used to be on two VCR tapes. I don't watch that second tape. Let's keep it real with you. See, we all love the rags. The richest store. We always want to say, I started out like this. I had this. I have that, and then look at me now. We all want to tell that, but at what cost?
[00:33:58] I don't want to spend most of my life in prison and come home and look like that. That don't look like a happy man. That don't look like a man who it was all worth it. That don't look like somebody that I aspire to be like. He can't talk about what he did. So what?
[00:34:15] So what?
[00:34:20] We hear the streets is a myth. We hear the streets is dead. Stay out the streets. No, it's nothing wrong with that. But you could go to and fro, you could come through, give all your mans a five and keep it moving. The problem is, it was once upon a time in those streets, we respected dudes who wasn't with it. We respected dudes who say, yo, he ain't with that. Leave that nigga alone. He not part of the gang. That's my family. That's my cousin, yo. He a mathematician.
[00:34:59] He a good student. Yo, he won the science fair. See, none of that is celebrated no more. The smart kid is not celebrated. The intelligent kid is not celebrated. The nerve word is not celebrated because of the Internet. And social media, nobody wants to be that because that person is not celebrated. That person is not perched up. We don't see rags. The richest stories of people who use their brain to get what they want. I use my goddamn brain. I didn't have to use my brawn or who I knew or none of that. I use my brain. I use my intellectual property. That's why I get so crazy and so mad when people cover my logo and do. I worked hard for this.
[00:35:39] That's not celebrated. The drug dealer is celebrated. The goon is celebrated. The shooter celebrated. The gang is celebrated. That's what's celebrated. So you think everybody want to be clapped for? Everybody want to be perched up. Everybody want to be. Yo, he stood tall. Respectfully. My uncle told me one time and shout out to my cousin. I still didn't meet him, but, you know, I'm pretty sure he's probably on the right track now. My uncle, my father's brother, told me, my first cousin, yo, your cousin just got out of jail, man. He just did 10 years standing on his head. He got his mind right. And I said respectfully, he just did 10 years.
[00:36:21] He ain't got his mind right.
[00:36:25] And I don't know. Cause I ain't know him before he went to prison. And I ain't gonna be like, yo, my Cousin just did 10 years. I don't know that. He just my cousin in blood and, and, and name. I don't know. He just did 10 years in jail. I don't. I don't know him.
[00:36:44] He ain't got his mind right.
[00:36:47] But I guess I was supposed to say, yeah, my cousin just got out of jail. He did 10 years. No, no, no. I don't know that he got his mind right. He do 10 years. Nah, he got to get acclimated to society. He probably waking up four in the morning and nah, I don't know that that's your son, my cousin. Cause you my. You were. You were my father's brothers. But nah, that ain't nothing to celebrate.
[00:37:20] No, he don't get no points from me. Yeah, my Cousin just did 10 years.
[00:37:28] I don't know that I told my uncle that he wasn't too happy, but I don't know that I ain't know him before he went to jail. So he did 10 years. I'm supposed to know him.
[00:37:42] He got his mind right. He went out. He got his mind right.
[00:37:46] That 10 years in jail and come out with their mind right now.
[00:37:51] Nope.
[00:37:53] See me, I always use discernment and sometimes we do mess up. And some of the mistakes that we make using discernment and trying to judge people, characters could make us jaded. It can make us very, very reclusive. And sometimes we give people chances. And the people that we give chances to prove us right, that some people we can't mess with because they don't want nothing.
[00:38:23] They don't want nothing. Me, I'm into motion, I'm into growth. I don't want to be the same man I was last year. I don't want to say the same. I don't want to come on every night and talk about the same. That's why I take time off. Because I'm sitting there doing the knowledge. I'm looking at the landscape. Of course, I could be before you every 10 minutes. I got a big platform and saying this, then the third. But sometimes nothing is not wrong. And sometimes when I want to come and I say things, that's positive. Positive, don't get views because we live in a negative society. Everybody is thriving off of negativity. That's just where we are. Unfortunately.
[00:39:03] Unfortunately, that's where we at. Everything is negative.
[00:39:08] So you can't come and say, yo, man, today I made a banging pot of chili niggas like, so what?
[00:39:15] Fuck your chili.
[00:39:17] You know what I'm saying? That's just where we at.
[00:39:21] That's why you'll get more negative comments than you'll get positive.
[00:39:27] But everybody turn their back on Big Meech.
[00:39:33] When. Why did you have his back in the first place?
[00:39:38] He should have came home as a spokesman. Who did it at the highest level. And tell some of these grown boys too.
[00:39:50] Oh, you not gonna. They had all the money for the record labels. They laundered money through Jacob the Jeweler. He dimed on them public record.
[00:40:00] He told on them.
[00:40:02] And now we hear he snitched. Your heart is broke.
[00:40:09] Just really think about it.
[00:40:12] Your heart is broke. Cause he told you thought he was a stand up guy, huh?
[00:40:21] Your heart is broke. The concert is canceled. People are just so upset.
[00:40:28] He was a real one. A real one at what?
[00:40:35] And I'm gonna tell you, I'm not mad at y'all.
[00:40:44] I'm not mad at y'all. Reason why I'm not mad at y'all because the confusion that we face, as I understand why y'all have a hard time placing your faith in people because you've been constantly disappointed.
[00:41:02] I'm not mad at y'all.
[00:41:05] I'm not mad at y'all. Because every time that y'all Put your faith in somebody, they do you dirty. I know that. I know y'all want to celebrate the black man and the black woman. I know you love to see us do well.
[00:41:23] And it be people who sit before you. You'd be like, look, we got one.
[00:41:28] Look how intelligent he is. She is. And then they sell you out. I know that's what y'all be going through. So I don't really be mad at y'all.
[00:41:38] I. I empathize and I feel bad. And then sometimes I spank out, and then people will call me a hater. But I'm not really hating because real talk, Dr. Umar still ain't build that school, man. He didn't make due on his promise to y'all. And he talk about everything, and he go there and play in that empty ass building and didn't build and make doing his promise. And y'all champion him. Y'all pushed him to where he's at. You gave him your money. And you look at him as a champion, a scholar, and all he doing is trying to get.
[00:42:13] And that's just the truth.
[00:42:16] That's just the truth.
[00:42:19] So he doing the sisters deviants. That's all he doing. Brother Polite.
[00:42:30] All these dudes that you see on the Breakfast Club, and you see these places and you say, look at us. We got one look at them. Because we always been looking for the next Malcolm, the next Martin, the next Honorable Elijah Muhammad. We've been looking for them, the next Marcus, God, we've been looking for them. And when they come before you, what you do is that you champion them. And all they got to do is say, this is what I need, and you give it to them.
[00:43:00] And then they play in your face, make excuses.
[00:43:08] You had the Tulsa real estate fund. You had a lot of that was done to you.
[00:43:16] So I know some of y'all say, hey, we might as well with the drug dealers and the pieces of. Because the dudes who's righteous and conscious, look how they do us. They do us like the drug dealers in the piece of.
[00:43:35] So I feel, you know, I. I empathize with y'all. I. I know that y'all. I know many of y'all mean well. I know many of you like, yo, whatever we got to do, whatever we got to do to thrive as a people.
[00:43:53] I put my money up, I do it. And many of you have done it. You didn't even get decent answers. You didn't even get straight answers for where your. Your money went. And look, now I'm hating on Umar but all I said was he didn't make do on the promise. How was that hate?
[00:44:12] See, that's the bozo mentality. Because when you speak the truth, how could the truth be hate? How could the truth be hate? See that? See the mentality? You're not allowed to speak truth because when you speak truth, you're hating.
[00:44:30] How was I? How am I hating? I spoke the truth.
[00:44:38] And then when an individual say, yo, I was 12, he called him a dirty ninja.
[00:44:49] Y'all put.
[00:44:52] Y'all put money up for the Tulsa. Y. Y'all invested in the Jay Morrison dude.
[00:45:04] And I know yo, many of y'all mean well. Seriously, you mean y'all mean well.
[00:45:18] But when you speak truth, what happens is you're a hater. Or dudes start talking crazy and out of pocket and want to respond. I don't want to hear no responses.
[00:45:33] All we have to do is make do on our promises. If somebody gave me a dollar to do this is my duty to do it. That's it.
[00:45:44] That's it.
[00:45:46] Especially if I'm doing it under the guise of blackness. Because. Reason why I'm saying what I'm saying and play for. Shut the fuck up.
[00:46:01] Shut up.
[00:46:04] Shut up.
[00:46:06] Still working on it. So he's out there building stuff. Where the builders at?
[00:46:12] Shut up.
[00:46:15] Still working on it.
[00:46:17] Collecting money since 2012 out of here. I know people with institutes that they. That they working right now that got it up and running with no money, no resources.
[00:46:31] Anyway, listen, reason why I brought that up because when you want to celebrate greatness and you want to celebrate blackness, you got somebody who going, Zoe.
[00:46:50] Or you got the hustler, gang banger, jail dude.
[00:46:59] You got all of that. So what choice do you have again? What do we have to celebrate as a people?
[00:47:08] And you know, when you don't have nothing to celebrate, they give you people to celebrate.
[00:47:14] Seriously, they give you people to celebrate. So that's why.
[00:47:21] That's why.
[00:47:25] That's why we have what we have.
[00:47:32] That's why Big Meech is going to be celebrated. You know why? Because when we dealing with the powers that be, we know the prison industrial complex is big. We know all of that shit is big. And celebrate and meet and creating more meechers.
[00:47:51] Creating more meechers helps with that 13amendment, helps the morgues, helps them jails, help some private buildings they own.
[00:48:07] It helps our communities be dysfunctional. It helps all of that shit that's detrimental to.
[00:48:15] Not to you. Maybe you 45, maybe you 50, maybe you 35 years old.
[00:48:22] What about See, look, only thing we never do, everybody always say for the babies from the children.
[00:48:32] I don't give a about the kids. Look how the adults act. What.
[00:48:38] What future do the children have if the adults act the way they act? Listen, when you think about these babies, who do they have to look up to?
[00:48:58] Family dysfunctional family on the Internet, acting the ass on ig, acting the ass. They uncles, their cousins, their fathers, gangsters, drug dealers, gang members, their mothers, twerkers. Only fans. Who the hell do the children have to look up to?
[00:49:17] Just really think about that.
[00:49:21] Everybody's acting they ass. Everybody's acting ass.
[00:49:29] What the children got to look up to.
[00:49:35] So again, again, we always talk about the children.
[00:49:45] We always talk about this, that, and the third, the babies and all this jogging that people use.
[00:49:55] All right, so this is the part of the show, what's her name play for free. This is the part where you just operating off of slow gases.
[00:50:09] You don't get it.
[00:50:11] And I just don't like your vernacular. And I'm not trying to have you understand what shouldn't take you so much to understand.
[00:50:24] But you could come back in 24 hours or just don't come back at all.
[00:50:30] I just put you in a virtual corner for 24 hours. Come back, try again, sleep on it, make you some kombucha or something like that, and just figure it out.
[00:50:42] I'm not arguing with nobody.
[00:50:46] Not doing it.
[00:50:51] But again, this is what we have.
[00:50:58] This is what we have.
[00:51:01] We trying to tell little dudes what not to do. But what role model do they have? The drug dealer, the gang member, the guy who did jail time.
[00:51:17] All that shit is celebrated. They rewarded with teeth to snitch. They rewarded with TV shows, podcasts, YouTube channel. It's always a reward for dysfunction.
[00:51:33] We don't know of any scholars. And when we get a scholar, the first thing they do is say, hey, I want to do this.
[00:51:39] And then they start getting your bread, and then they don't make do on they promise. That's one thing we don't know of anybody.
[00:51:50] We don't know of anybody that's doing it. Open and honest.
[00:51:57] See, I could tell you my choices got me where I'm at. And then you have some people who will say, he ain't any people feel like that, that's fine.
[00:52:16] I ain't for everybody.
[00:52:21] Well, I'm telling you what I got. I got my mental, my physical health besides when I had the flu.
[00:52:30] And I know what I want and I work towards that. That's me. Don't drink, don't smoke. I know people hate you. You always talking about, he don't drink or smoke. And I don't crash out. I don't do shit for clout.
[00:52:44] I'm not. I don't act ass. I don't dance a jig. I don't do none of that shit.
[00:52:50] And I'm not trying to be a role model either. I'm just saying, hey, man, this road to sit here was tough.
[00:53:03] It was times where they was like, yo, yo, you coming?
[00:53:11] And I said, you know what?
[00:53:13] No, that's y'all shit.
[00:53:18] That ain't my.
[00:53:21] That's what y'all want to do. I didn't. I'm not making poor choices, and I don't follow people who make poor choices. I don't take advice from people who make poor. Ah, nah, no. Because I know what I want.
[00:53:34] I can't want what you want. You can't want with what I. You can't. I can't want what you want for me now. I'm good.
[00:53:47] I'm good.
[00:53:50] Fuck that.
[00:53:52] I'll be in a crib.
[00:53:56] And one thing I could respect about my crew and I could respect about my family members, it came a point in time where they wasn't including me anyway.
[00:54:10] I remember doing a party and was like, go home.
[00:54:19] Like, what's up? What's up? Yo, take the speakers and the turntables and the records and go home.
[00:54:30] Okay.
[00:54:33] I got to Adelphi in green, and I heard that's how much respect I started getting, that they was respecting that. You going to be something.
[00:54:54] You gonna be something. You are going to be the one that help all of us. That's how we used to treat each other. That's how we used to protect each other. We didn't take the basketball player and hand them weed and you'll drink with us and put the gun. And they. We didn't do that. Nah. My. You. You the one who got to get us up out of here. We got a champion, somebody.
[00:55:20] So I didn't have to do a lot of you get what I'm saying? I was the youngest cousin.
[00:55:32] Where he at? Yo, he practicing on the turntables.
[00:55:35] After a while, my grandmother felt good because she knew I wasn't getting in no trouble. I'm telling you, when that music bit me, man, I was bit.
[00:55:46] Custody. Going to Breach Street Records downtown, Going to Music Factory, going to Tower Records. I was bit. I was bit like, nah, yo, I'm Pete Rock.
[00:55:59] I'm Pete Rock.
[00:56:02] Then Easy Moby moved Around the corner, and he started coming to the crib.
[00:56:09] And I'm watching him make flavor in your ear and get down. Like, I'm really. And I'm like, yo, sometimes I think back like, damn, I really witnessed history.
[00:56:23] I really witnessed history.
[00:56:27] And I had all these choices to do dumb shit.
[00:56:35] Another person who believed in me was a guy from my neighborhood by the name of Payne.
[00:56:42] His son's mother is actually in the chat.
[00:56:47] And pain was knowing you get busy, dude. He got money. And I remember him coming to me and said, there's no way you should be sitting in this neighborhood with all this talent.
[00:56:59] Who said, how much money you need to take your to the next level?
[00:57:04] And I said, I. I probably need like $10,000.
[00:57:08] He said, I. I'm going to Pennsylvania, coming back with that money.
[00:57:14] Needless to say, he never made it back.
[00:57:17] But I remember the conversation that he just believed in me so much that he's like, yo, I'm going to get you that money.
[00:57:24] I'm bringing that money back to you.
[00:57:29] See, I could have been out there with them. After a while, I was like, fuck this.
[00:57:36] The streets were still the streets. They was out there.
[00:57:39] I was like, nah, I don't. I don't want to be with y'all. I don't want to be with him. This drink beer all day.
[00:57:48] I don't want to be around you.
[00:57:51] You trying to do. You trying to get drunk. It's 8 in the morning. You drinking 40s.
[00:57:58] That didn't make me less than anything. That didn't make me no sucker. That don't mean I couldn't fight. That don't mean I still didn't carry my little 25 on me. That ain't mean none of that shit. That just mean I started making different choices because I want it different for me.
[00:58:18] And at any given time in your life, you could want different for you. And you entitled to that. You entitled to say, yo, nah, man, this ain't enough. I want different. I want more.
[00:58:35] What is it going to take? And you write your plan. You don't follow these bozo ass. You don't follow on YouTube who tell you, you don't follow people who give you bad advice. You follow you. You follow your heart. You follow your drive. You follow your ambition. You say, damn, what is it that I want?
[00:58:55] Maybe you want to raise.
[00:58:59] Maybe you want a different position at work. Maybe you want to take on an extra shift sometimes. Maybe you want a second job.
[00:59:08] You write it down. You plot, plan, you execute. That's it. All These niggas telling you these war stories, how they did this. And I is lying.
[00:59:20] Stop listening to liars.
[00:59:23] Look at them.
[00:59:27] Never got nothing nice to say about nobody.
[00:59:31] Never speaking life into nobody acting like they care. Don't give out one book bag, one turkey. No toy drive ever. Just online talking. We all could talk. We all got a mouth. But where is your product of your words?
[00:59:53] Kids be up. That start happening is. You know, it is what it is. It means it's time for me to go. But before I go, just do. I just want to say this. If I didn't say nothing else to you tonight, make sure you subscribe to the channel. Make sure you hit the like button. Make sure you leave a comment. And I want to say this.
[01:00:15] None of your Heroes is on YouTube, TV rapping.
[01:00:25] That's not your heroes.
[01:00:28] The biggest hero you ever gonna meet in your life is you. Be your own hero. Be your children's heroes. Be your niece hero, your nephew hero, your family.
[01:00:38] You take your poor decisions, you rectify them. And it ain't too late for you to change who you are. It ain't too late to forgive yourself, forgive others.
[01:00:53] You be your hero. You be somebody that you proud of. You look in the mirror and say, yo, you know what?
[01:01:03] I did that.
[01:01:05] That's why I don't. Like people tell you to be humble. No, be proud of yourself. Say, yo, I did that.
[01:01:12] Look how I changed. Look how I lost weight. Look how I quit drinking. Look how I quit smoking. Yo, I could cook.
[01:01:21] Forgive yourself.
[01:01:23] Celebrate yourself.
[01:01:28] You know, your mother might have had a rough road, but she might have did the best that she could with all she had. Your father might not have been in your life.
[01:01:38] You know, we don't know the reasons, but we got so many reasons to be sad, cry, mope. So many reasons to just be disgruntled. We got a billion and one reason to be disgruntled.
[01:01:54] But we not finding reasons to smile and be happy. And that should be more important than anything.
[01:02:06] It's like we don't got no reason to be happy.
[01:02:10] We always looking around for something to be mad about.
[01:02:18] The sound is in and out. I don't know what's going on. Hold on. Let me try something. Hold on.
[01:02:24] I don't know what's going on, but just refresh. If you could refresh your phone or whatever, because I. My sound is working fine. But then again, you know, when it starts happening, they are telling me, get offline. So on that note, man, I appreciate y'all, man. I'll be back tomorrow.
[01:02:44] That's it. I'm Doggy Diamonds.
[01:02:48] You know what I do. Make sure you subscribe.
[01:02:52] Make sure. Yeah, I don't know what's happening. I'm breaking up. I don't know what's happening make just refresh. I don't know what's happening. But anyway, let me get up out of here, man. Until. Till next time, man. I don't know what's going on. You know when they start messing with me, that's it, man. But yeah, if you clean, you sober. No weed, no alcohol, no cigarettes, none of that. Salute to you, man. It is what it is, man. And like I said before, if I didn't say nothing else tonight, I want to say to you, man, celebrate yourself. Be your hero for your children. Be your hero for your family. Be your own hero. Hey, little kids, don't follow these dopes.
[01:03:28] Next time, I'm out. Peace.
