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In order to grow, must the street in you have to die?
Welcome back everybody to another edition of the PreAsian Fans Podcast. Mike, you're coming at you guys. I got the fellas here. What up, fellas? What up? What up? St. Louis and the beach.
SPEAKER_04So that's what's up. That's what's up. All right. So today, guys, we're going to be talking about the growth code versus the street code. I'm street all day, nigga. And street all day, Nick. Yes, sir. Today we're going to be led by Wolmaic or would you like to use your alias?
SPEAKER_03The alias. Slimy Johnson.
SPEAKER_04Slime.
SPEAKER_03Slime Johnson. Slime Slime Johnson. Yes, sir. All right. That rep kicking this thing on. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Mr. Slime Johnson.
SPEAKER_03Mr. Yeah, Mr.
SPEAKER_06Trump. Slime and Johnson.
SPEAKER_00If you're nasty. Here we go. All right. This was I can't be good because we already we already on topic. All right, here we go. Let's do these.
SPEAKER_08So hear me out, fellas. I'm I'm gonna run through these. I'm I'm gonna try to define frame it and define it. Then I have three questions that we can build our folks. Let's go. The screen code versus the growth code. Yes. There are two rule books. So the first one is the survival rules, and they speak about screen, trauma, and the environment as opposed to the growth rules, which is leadership, success, and structure. And when you are evolving, these two rules often conflict.
SPEAKER_07Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_08So my question, first question, I guess I got three of them. And you follow both codes at the same time. No. Don't answer. All right. What behavior helped you survive but hurt you most when you were developing? And then the last one, which is the one I really think, when when you have what do you when so let me let me get this? When when do you have to unlearn the screen code that once that once kept you alive? When do you have to unlearn that? Repeat the first question. So can you follow both codes at the same time? Okay, I got you. So what behavior?
SPEAKER_07Let's go number one. Can we follow the first code at the same time? Follow both codes at the same time. Being a nigga that I can't say I was fully, fully in the streets, but I definitely was in the streets. And now that I'm in the corporate world, I think my street mentality can't prepare me for the corporate world. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm just being honest because in the streets you have to survive. And you can't take bullshit. Because bullshit was a sign of a sign of weakness. You can't be out there in the streets doing what you're doing, hustling, slinging, whatever the case may be, and you take bullshit. Because if you if you let it like example, if a nigga comes short with your money, in that moment, if you get a nigga a pass, every nigga that owe you or out there for you, you got to give all them niggas a pass. So in that moment, when that nigga comes short, he owes you five grand, 2500, whatever, and he comes, hey man, all I got is is three thousand so-and-so, so and so, so-and-so, he gives you an excuse. In that moment, right at that moment, you have two decisions. I get his nigga pass and it comes back, he he square me off. But if I don't get his nigga pass and the nigga don't come back with his money, then I got to deal with that nigga in that moment. Everybody in your circle is watching, they looking at you because they want to see what type of nigga you really is in that moment. And I can tell you right now, if you let a nigga walk over you on the street, then they definitely gonna walk over you in the in the corporate world or the business world or the growth, as you say. So you got to you have to deal with the issue when it comes to you. Now, you can smack the nigga up and say, nigga, you got until next weekend to bring my money. In that moment, if I smack them up in front of everybody and tell the nigga you got another week to bring my money, that might die some stuff down and niggas might not come after you and try to challenge you on the next situation. So if I say, oh man, it's cool, honey. You heard it? So if I say, hey nigga, I'm you know, bring my money later, woo, wah, wah, woo, wah, wah. Now I just gave him a pass with no consequences. And when you're on the street, you gotta have consequences. So the growth of the matter, in my opinion, on just that first question alone, is when you are in the street, it prepares you for reality. Now, mind you, in the corporate world or the business world, I can't go around smacking anybody or punching everybody in the mouth. It's consequences, and you have to deal with things as they come to you. But everybody on the street is watching you. Because remember, you the leader, you the head. So if they come with you with some BS and you take the BS and no consequences, everybody in your circle is not gonna give you a situational circumstance. So, do you answer the question? What was the question again? So the question is can you follow both codes at the same time? Cannot. You can't follow both codes at the same time. That's just my opinion. Growth code, street code. Can you follow?
SPEAKER_08My so Lamar talked about one extreme aspect of one end of the spectrum. Me is something I'm a person who would be called, I came off the porch late. Like I wasn't, I wasn't in the streets doing it. I like that. My family kept me close and I had scripts and a butt. But there were certain rules that I had to follow as far as far as what colors to wear and different things. Yeah, man. Because we had to walk, I had to walk back. Right. And I went, I couldn't, I had to couldn't get caught up in the city.
SPEAKER_07What neighborhoods that you had to pass through? Because you was in Western, right? Yeah, I had a finine bag.
SPEAKER_08I had all these other things.
SPEAKER_05I learned that the hard way.
SPEAKER_08Yes, sir. You will get jumped so that trauma kind of followed me into my adult life with with so I think you can follow both. Me personally, I think you can follow both because me as someone coming off the porch, I had to learn how to navigate and how to move in certain areas. Because we had family members in the game? Yeah, and and the same thing applies in the corporate world. You gotta learn how to maneuver in certain rooms, yeah, in certain adaptation.
SPEAKER_07You have to adapt.
SPEAKER_08But that that trauma, seeing the drug and the violence and and the killing in my neighborhood made me stronger, and it kind of desensitized me, and I kind of use that in my corporate in my government job, and I don't really things don't affect me and phase me that much. My wife says I I really don't show a lot of emotions because that's how I was kind of raised.
SPEAKER_07Absolutely. That's me, we don't. It could tip the edge off. We have to deal with that shit. In the moment, we have to deal with it. You ain't want no crime or no bitching out, nigga, you have to deal with that shit.
SPEAKER_05Well, how say you, JB? I kind of What neighborhood? Oh, I grew up in North St. Louis. Uh what streets? St. Louis Avenue, Vanna Vana. Hell. Yeah. So you know. But because I was, now I did have both parents. I brought up in the Catholic environment. But like he was saying, you still had to, I grew up in that neighborhood. You I saw a lot. So you still had to navigate yourself, even though you were sheltered from it a lot, you still in it. You in the in the neighborhood, you in it. Um, again, I was speaking to you, he said you got no cuss. I was so naive. Man, I know, man. You know, I'm thinking, but I was we all would. I'm thinking, uh, man, I wanted to go to school at that time with the bird. And I want to. Oh, you gonna bitch at the bird? The bird, right? And I was going to college. I'm gonna go to UNLV. Oh, okay. My red so you had your life planned out? Planned out. Okay. Had my red UNLV hat off. Had my red shirt in. Oh, you was running out, man. I'm just running, you was running for real. And I was over there about Bowmont.
SPEAKER_04Bow Mont, yeah, that was N SGC, right? Northside Gangsta Crib. Yes, sir. You know what? Uh uh.
SPEAKER_07And all that little shit over there, yes, sir.
SPEAKER_08You see, you wasn't wearing no point. You didn't even participate in the gang culture. No, you just wearing your school colors, yeah. Wearing school club, didn't understand.
SPEAKER_05She wanna go to. I didn't know about his name. But you learn real.
SPEAKER_02I didn't know machine. What's up, Craig?
SPEAKER_07Slim.
SPEAKER_03What's up, what's up, crab? Slide say what's up, crab. Oh no, what's your deal? What crab it's negative to call it crib crab. It's negative call it blood or slob. Yeah, no, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Too late by that time. So this I I know you have to talk. I tried to tell him I wasn't in that shit.
SPEAKER_08Can you follow both codes, the street code and the growth code? See, he never touched the street, dog. He never touched the growth. The streets touched him.
SPEAKER_05No, he in the growth. I understand the part about the streets touched him. The streets touch me. Yeah. And but you're in it, but you're not in it. Yeah. You you grew up around it. But as far as the culture, I didn't immerse myself in the culture. Exactly. Exactly. You know, I was over here, but I'm forced to grow up around it. So I had to learn a little bit about it. You did. To survive. To survive. To survive it. So I think you could do both the question. Okay. Like a surviving part? Yeah, I had to learn where to go, where not to go, what goes where, you know. But like I said, what middle school you went to? St.
SPEAKER_04Matthew's used to be on the old Catholic, right?
SPEAKER_07He went to Melville.
SPEAKER_04No, he goes to Millville. Man, he's saying Bishop the Bird.
SPEAKER_07I went to St.
SPEAKER_05Matthew. St. Matthew's put on me. Take his drink. And uh it was uh uh Noah. That was it was north, it's called Northside Catholic, but it was Holy Rosary over off Rosary. I remember that. My sister's bartering.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_04Joe probably hit one of my sisters.
SPEAKER_02That's cool. What about you, Mike? You up, man.
SPEAKER_04Joe probably hit one of my sisters.
SPEAKER_02You gotta have both.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, because this is the thing. Like Joe said, I never immersed myself in it, but I knew the dynamics of it. Yeah, you feel what I'm saying? I knew how to discern and how to navigate through the situation when I actually put myself at risk.
SPEAKER_07But let me ask you a question real quick. Because you had older brothers.
SPEAKER_06They wasn't around. They wasn't around. It was just you. It was just me. And I I I I hung out with a family at the time. They was the hemp is oh so I heard about that name. So the hemp is about that name. It was very, they was a very well-known. A lot of them, too. Yes, a lot of them. Yeah. And I saw different dynamics of the family. I bet you did. I mean, I saw different dynamics. So I I was one, my best friends are one of them. I never one thing I can say about one of the guys who I was friends with, he's gone now. He died in the mobile accident a few years ago. He never allowed me to get all the way in it because he knew he knew. He knew exactly what my family was like. He said, You know what, George? Well, his family was like or your family? My family. Okay. I had a father, I had a mother. His father wasn't around. So he knew that I had more of a clear. Was he older than you? A couple years older. Yeah. But he took him on his wing. In a sense, but in a sense of he didn't want me to get too immersed in. But I knew how it operated. I knew exactly what to do, what not to do. So he brought you in a little bit. In a sense. Yeah. But like I say, so like I said, you got to know, because man, a lot of it is is is street smarts. Even when you get in a situation. You didn't have a lot of street smarts, but you you I you're an adapter. I adapted. Yeah, you adapt. You fake it till you make it. Yeah. Yeah. You fake it till you make it. So I never was put myself in a position where I could I was at risk, yeah, but I knew how to navigate. Yeah. You feel what I'm saying? And I knew how not to be a victim. Yeah. Because what it is is that either you, either you I tell my kids that either you at the dinner table or you on the menu. I never put myself to where I was on the menu. Yeah. I went at the dinner table, but I was never on the menu. And you didn't have to eat everything at the table.
SPEAKER_04Exactly. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What about you?
SPEAKER_08What about you, Mike?
SPEAKER_04I would say to that question, man, look, I I I'm from the, well, I I'm one of those dudes that was from the streets, but the streets were never really in me. Yeah. I wasn't raised that way. My mom, she was a great mom, but I embraced the streets and I dove into it because my sisters did. I had older sisters and they was just horrible people. Now I love my sisters, but they were violent, man. They gonna do my head. They were violent. They were violent. And because of them, I embraced that shit, and I didn't have to. And I got very involved in it. So what I'm gonna say to answer that question is for me, it depends on how deep in it you were. And if you weren't deep in it, that part of you has to die if you want to have the growth side. It's gotta die. And for me, that part of me had to die because I couldn't be that dude that I was, because that dude that I was, he didn't care if he lived or died. Like before you and my best friend sitting right here to the left of me in high school. He had no idea. I didn't care if I lived or died. When I got up and walked to the morning walk in the morning, I wore all red through a crippled neighborhood. I didn't really say I didn't care if I lived or died. And that's a sad thing to do at 15, 16, 17. No neighborhood. I was I lived in uh by Red Hook of uh Sacramento National Bridge. Uh oh. Yeah, man. A lot going on over there.
SPEAKER_07So five, dog. It's a deep stuff. Don't say no, it's not. Don't say don't know it's not everything.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but I would say that that part for me, it had to die. I can't do both now. I took those those the knowledge that I got doing that and I carried over, but I can't bring that into the corporate world where I'm at now. I bring that in there, I'm gonna get fired. Because I can't I can't sit in front of directors, VPs, and that's good nigga that I that was in that.
SPEAKER_08That kind of transitions into our next question. So the next question is what behavior help you survive, but it hurts you in your leadership role. So I'm gonna just go first. Go ahead, go ahead. The the the I don't give a fuck attitude helped me in my in my screen code because I was I was on 10. I don't give a fuck. Like Michael said, I walk into the neighborhood. I don't care about I don't care if I live or die. Because I don't care about the consequences. And I felt like I had to be that. I had to be tough. But I can't take that into my leadership or my corporate world and be like, I don't give a fuck about y'all. I can't take that same attitude.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, HR. See, somebody take it to HR.
SPEAKER_00It depends on it depends on what industry you work in as well. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08You can't I don't I don't think you can take out I don't give a fuck attitude nowhere.
SPEAKER_04Because I think well, if you're a rapper, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They appreciate that shit. But like anything like what we do, nah.
SPEAKER_08Well, but the like let me let me ask you the question. So you can get what behavior help you survive, but it won't hurt you in your leadership or your growth role.
SPEAKER_06Well, what uh help me survive is that you you have to realize, I always have the ideas that I'm always dealing with sharks. I always look, I trust nothing. It's doggy dog. And sometimes that can put you at a disadvantage because you all you have a mold, you have an idea of that I'm always in in attack. And then sometimes you don't realize you don't have to be that way. But on the up on the flip side of that, it all depends on what industry you work in. If you work in a situation like say if you work in a service industry or you work in first responders, you know, firefighters, cops, EMS, things are more lax in that type of industry versus corporate, you know, like in the military, you know, if someone says something to you, you don't like, man, fuck you. Okay? Absolutely. How many times have you someone got fired really for saying that to somebody else? You know, like to another subordinate. Yeah. Man, fuck you. And then nothing was done about it. So it all depends on what industry you work in. So I just think that, you know, sometimes I think having that attitude can kind of put you in a situation where it limits you to where and you really have to make a conscious effort to kind of expand yourself.
SPEAKER_08So you can you can so you reasonable. So you're saying you can say fuck you without any consequences to your Well, no, the thing is that you can say, for example, you might make that say that fuck you to your superior, but say we on the same level.
SPEAKER_06You say something I don't like, man, fuck you. Right, right.
SPEAKER_04Another right, and it definitely depends how if I say fuck you to another manager where I'm at, it might go be an HR.
SPEAKER_06First responders, you you have more of a set of freedoms in certain areas than you do in corporate. You can't say that in corporate America to someone. Fuck you, because that's what your ass going to HR. You looking for another damn job. You work back, you know, voice in what we work in. Come on, man. There's been times where motherfuckers sit up there and cuss each other out. Has somebody went to HR? Have someone got written up? Hey man, go to your corner, go to your corner. Y'all good? We good, I'm good. It's done.
SPEAKER_04It's not like that in corporate America. You think the millennial attitude changed all that too, man? Because millennials are quick to take you to HR. They quick. They they had HR on speed dial. So I would say to my answer to that question would be my at my I took in the attitude of not trusting anybody. The only people I trusted back when I was doing shit was my sisters and myself. So see, I feel like anybody else, they'll rat on your ass. You know, and I knew my sisters they were doing the same shit, so they weren't gonna rat. But I can't have that attitude in the corporate where I am now, if I want to grow and you know move forward in my life, because I may miss out on something. Because some of those people I'm gonna have to trust, like my senior manager, when he says, Hey, I'm gonna get you more people. I have to trust that until he showed me I can't trust it. So you have to extend that that level of trust. So I would say that was one of those characteristics that had to die, you know, and I ain't easy to trust. I don't like trusting people. But I had to let that die and start trusting people. And it helps me.
SPEAKER_08So what about you, Joe? Is there any is there any behavior you had to let die in order for you to grow? Any screet cold behavior that you had to let die in order for you to grow as a man.
SPEAKER_05I tell you, it's something that even today and then it it it I still struggle with it. And not only I struggle with it Well, I guess it's not so much in my business, is is and it makes me so bad it's a it's a sin. Cry. Very crying. Yes, uh it's a seven daily sins. And I fight with it, and even in I guess especially like in relationships and stuff like that, and I and I struggle with it. I don't know why people push me like that. You know, if I struggle with that, why are you gonna keep pushing me? Why are you pushing them like that? And uh look at punk and stop pushing them. I told you. And we, you know, in our business like that, beat him. There is a lot of that trick, get him in our business, a lot of test pounding, and you know, I'm above you, and yeah. So you gotta swallow your pride. You gotta swallow your pride, and that's not big. That's a difficult.
SPEAKER_06He's the biggest swallower here. How you swallow. Show him how you swallow. Swallow me a pride. Mr. Slam E. Johnson, Esquires. Esquire. How do you back the question back to you?
SPEAKER_08Things that I had to let die in order for me to grow. I spoke from first of all about that attitude that I had about um you have is your attitude.
SPEAKER_07Can you please let him answer? I want to out. I just want to know. But you interrupted him. A young man. You about to interview him? So what your attitude is like you entitled or not entitled.
SPEAKER_08I mean So when I say no, it's not entitled, it's more of a short temper. It's like growing up because people always want to test you. For whatever reason, that's what you had to do. Don't be tested. So I had I had to be all the fucking. To be ready to react and react negatively immediately. So I don't think that's healthy walking around with that in my brain. Right. A chip on your shoulder. Yeah, the chip on my shoulder. I had I used, I ain't gonna lie, man. I used to remember comeback phrases. Motherfucker say something to me, I had a comeback phrase ready for you. And it was, it was, it was meant to hurt and be harmful with the comeback phrase.
SPEAKER_07Just me. Can I ask you a question with that? Because like you say, your comeback, did you have a mother and a father or just a mother?
SPEAKER_08I had I had a mother and a stepfather.
SPEAKER_07Why are you digging?
SPEAKER_08He lived there. But we we we can do therapy because I'm good with therapy. I had growth. So so he he lived in the house with me, but so when through my process of therapy, I mean, there are two types of examples. Yes. You can put a you can put a kid in a situation, he can be a you can have a horrible, we talking about this, you can have horrible examples.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_08But you but God had blessed me and my consciousness to say, man, I don't want to be like that. Right. So you can, or you can sit in that same situation and be like, I want to be like my fucked up parents.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. That's because when And you make that decision and what they're I'm being serious because a lot of people don't get a chance to make a decision like that. Because that's a tough decision. I don't know. Because you can be part of the environment that you're in, or you can say to yourself, I want to be better than the environment that I'm in.
SPEAKER_08So I think my what helped me is I had grandparents who showed Amen. You need you need someone else to show you.
SPEAKER_04I was about to ask, how do he know what's better? Right. My dad was my hero, and that nigga was Mike Julius.
SPEAKER_02You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04I love my daddy. I miss you, Pops.
SPEAKER_07Straight G.
SPEAKER_08So going back to the question number two, read one more time so I could just So it was like, what did you have to uh what behavior did you have to let go in order for you to grow? What street behavior did you have to let go for you in order for you to grow as a man?
SPEAKER_07My street behavior that I had to let go is that I had to trust people. And that was tough for me. Because in the streets, you couldn't trust. Even your partners that you ran the street with, you could trust it. Because they either, if you made more money than them, they wanted your money. If you had more clout than them, they wanted your clout. If you had the finest bitch in the block, they wanted your bitch. And they'll do anything to get your bitch. So in that moment, I had to trust people. And that was hard for me. That was hard for me. Because the people in a corporate America, to me, are the worst sharks ever. Because niggas on the street, you see them. But I didn't know when you dressed up in a suit and attire, you was the devil. I didn't know that. I thought you was a good person. You know what I'm saying? So I had to learn how to decipher. These motherfuckers right here in the suit and attire, they selling you shit. Why are you pointing at me, man? All the time.
SPEAKER_04You do sell the shit. You be selling the shit. Yeah, you sell a lot of shit. I'm just saying, a nigga good at it.
SPEAKER_07And when and when you in that moment, that's one of the things I had to learn how to do. And a lot of people that I trust got me. I'm being real with you. They got me. I had to learn from a hard ass. How does it get you? Talk to us about it, yeah. One of the things that they got me at is because they talk fast. No wonderful that is. And you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_04And when they talk with your fans, somebody had to change.
SPEAKER_07So I wasn't able to decipher. Because I can't see your truth. You like you a nigga on the street. That's what's down. Nigga, I don't understand. You know what I'm saying? So you get caught up in a moment and they tell you you see it, and you like, okay, you know what I'm saying? You agree to some shit that you shouldn't agree to because you didn't pay attention. So, yes, that's how they got me. But once I learned that business life, that corporate life from the street life, yeah, you couldn't get me no more. Because I learned how to say, hey, excuse me, could you repeat that? I learned how to say, wait a minute. Or say no.
SPEAKER_05You know what I'm saying? I remember there was an alderman that said no, no, no. And we said, why do you say no to you know they vote on something? I didn't understand. And until you slowed it down, you ain't gonna get a yes from me. Man, bro. Because they just thought negative about them. Yeah. But what is this? What is this? Yeah. And then they know you go roll call. No, nay. Okay. And then one day, yeah, we said yes. And we like, we just came to him, he's like, well, I understood that. Right. We don't know fast talking and running a bunch of stuff under the table. I learned how to do it. Here it is. Black and white, I understand.
SPEAKER_07How to do due diligence. I learned how to ask questions. I learned how to know.
SPEAKER_08That's got the last person. Uh huh. Do you think it's do you think it's important to unlearn the street discreet behavior in order for you to be successful? No.
SPEAKER_07That's just my opinion, but I'm saying no because when I the corporate world or the business world is just like the street. It's just a different avenue. The language is different, but them motherfuckers are just the same as them niggas on the street. They just the fucking same. The only difference is they run for the street, but they make more money. Some of them from there. And some of them is, but they make more fucking money than them niggas on the street, and they have more connections to things that we didn't even comprehend on the street level.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_07You feel what I'm saying? So, like we take an avenue, we were just talking about people with property. Like everybody that we know, we know right now. Everybody's moving out of downtown and they're coming out to North County, West, because they think it's better. Yeah, what color are they? Black. Exactly. Because they think it's better. You go? You know what I'm saying? And because they think it's better, they're gonna take the city back.
SPEAKER_04I'm telling you, city about to be city about to be like the south side. White and black niggas, but good people. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And it's gonna be nice as a motherfucker. Yeah. The little paper that grandma had gave you, a left view, a mama left view. Guess what?
SPEAKER_04Hold on to that shit.
SPEAKER_07Hold on to it. Don't worry about it. Go ahead, go out there. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. What is it? Gore County and St. Joe. Like that shit is a yacht. It takes whatever to turn.
SPEAKER_07But in your moment, yeah, the yada interrogate. I don't give a fuck what y'all say, nigga. It's better out here. And I get it. I'm not mad at nobody that makes a decision for their family or for themselves. Especially when you get to a point when you're ready to retire. You know what I'm saying? You looking at the bottom line. When I turn 60 or 70, how I'm gonna be, where I'm gonna be, where do I want to be?
SPEAKER_04When you get older, man, you don't want to hear gunshots every nine and you know, all that nonsense.
SPEAKER_07Next thing you know, there's some nigga up the call, nigga, give me your key. You know what I'm saying? You don't wanna be in that situation. So all I'm saying is that I cannot, I think, in my opinion, the street code is important. Because street code taught me how to decipher motherfuckers before they even got to me and started running their mouth. You know what I'm saying? And I had to tap into that shit. Because like I said, the only difference is that them niggas out here in the business world making way more money than Nixon, well, I'm gonna say make making one more money, but they are in a better situation to make money and it's legal. Let me say that. We are here making this shit and it's illegal. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_08You know what, Lamar? Because we I always wonder, as black people, why we do this. Because I agree with you when I say the streets wait. The streets raised me, they gave me that foundation for me to grow on. But them same white folks that you tell them on, I wasn't raised by the streets.
SPEAKER_07So how do how do how do they get the leg up then? They get the leg up because remember, though, and this is we're going back to what we said earlier. Remember, what when the drugs came into these inner cities, we didn't bring the drugs in. We couldn't get them in.
SPEAKER_04We didn't say that earlier on this podcast. That was a previous podcast. Yeah. The fans are listening.
SPEAKER_07So the drugs that came into the inner cities, the black people could not get them in there. Okay? Let's be 100 and honest with that. The CIA went over there, tapped into the Noriegas and the and the different drug cartels, and they got drugs into the motherfucking United States.
SPEAKER_04Watch Snowfall, it'll tell you all about it.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we got Pablo S ball. It comes into the United States, and then they said they took a motherfucker just out the street, random nigga. They say, hey man, you wanna make more money? You wanna do this, you wanna do that? And they brought him in and they showed him how to make money. But they also showed them sell it to your people. Yeah, then they locked his ass up. Exactly. But the thing is, is that we have to keep our people controlled and contained. And we do that by putting them on drugs. You know what I'm saying? What they say, you if you if you want a black man to basically stay dumb, don't give him a book. But once that nigga learned how to read, now he's he's thinking beyond the book. He's thinking beyond, he's thinking about future, he's thinking about family, though. You know what I'm saying? We don't read at all, but now we learn how to read, we the most dangerous person in the world now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I think right.
SPEAKER_07You feel what I'm saying? What one thing I've learned in life, man, from the stories and stuff, man. When a when you had two types of slaves, either had a house nigga and a field nigga. The field nigga learned from the master. Some field niggas went, some house niggas went back and told the field nigga, hey man, this how you do it. You feel what I'm saying? I can say when master sick, we sick. Master hungry, we hungry. Master hot, we hot. That's a house nigga. Field nigga, we just out here doing the work. But the the house nigga and the field nigga finally got together and realized how to make that shit work. You listen to the master, you report back to us and we learn and we benefited. So the house nigga learned how to read. He went back to the field nigga and he taught them how to read. Some of them. Not all of them. Not all of them. Reach back and get your people. You hear me? Reach back and get your people. Now the the the the difference is, in my opinion, is that now we out here, we done went from street to corporate. To me, it ain't nothing but a house nigga and field nigga.
SPEAKER_08Can't a corporate nigga reach a street nigga though?
SPEAKER_07No, he can't. He can't. Where you meet him at? On his level first. You gotta meet a street nigga on his level. But you gotta bring him up. If that's what you want. Because see, let's be honest, some black people don't want us to all prosper.
SPEAKER_08Because you and the the big A's that I am now, I don't want to meet a street nigga at his level. I'd rather, I'd rather go get his little homie and guide him.
SPEAKER_07Ah, but the little homie, nine days, you can't reach that nigga. You better off reaching the nigga that's over the little homie. That seven to fifteen year old. No, you ain't reaching. I don't want that eight to you. You ain't reaching that nigga. I can tell you right now, not these young niggas. Not these young niggas because these young niggas are hungry and they don't give a fuck what you say because they want what you got. You've been poor and broke all my fucking life. Nigga, I want what you got. I want the clout, I want the admiral, I the admiral. You know what I'm saying? But I want all that. I want all that. Because you got it, I don't have it. You know what I'm saying? Then look at your shoes. The first thing a young nigga do is look at your shoes.
SPEAKER_04I don't want no shoes. Well, I would say to that man, to that third question, is do you have to to kill that part of you? I would say yes and no. You have to kill it on the surface, but on the inside, you need to hold on to those lessons that you learned. Because earlier I said that part of me has to die, but you have to let it die on the surface. Like I can't, I can't wear that gang persona in corporate America out where everybody can see it. Yeah. But I guarantee you, if a motherfucker tests me, that dude is in there.
SPEAKER_01Oh waking him up.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I'm gonna respond on the inside like I would when I was in that shit, but on the outside, I gotta respond corporate, but I'm gonna use that to I'm gonna steam this motherfucker that just tested me. And I'm gonna do it in a professional manner.
SPEAKER_07Yes.
SPEAKER_04And that's where that's that's what I say.
SPEAKER_07That's called adaptation. And you adapt it. You know you can always approach a nigga like from the street, but you realize that if I approach you from the street, you just trying to get me up out of there. Yep. So let me come to you in a corporate corporate way. And that's HR. Motherfucker don't know. HR is an important word. That's real talk. I never knew it until motherfuckers said some silly ass shit like, hey, motherfucker say, hey man, you look good today. Motherfucker don't know. That's harassment. And you thinking like, I just complimented you. So that's just a form of harassment. It depends on who you who it comes from. Exactly. That's a form of harassment. Said it is you look good. I ain't trying to say that you was looking horrible the next day or the day before. But guess what? My interpretation of what you just told me is Why do you do that though?
SPEAKER_08But you you can you comment on my appearance.
SPEAKER_06Exactly. You try to fuck.
SPEAKER_07So you know what they do? They go to HR.
SPEAKER_04If it comes from uh I would go to HR. If it comes from Tom Brady, it's a compliment. If it comes from Harvey Weinstein, it's sexual harassment. I would definitely agree.
SPEAKER_08I like I like your glass. You look good. I like your glass. That's not sexual. He's trying to fucking come out of my body.
SPEAKER_07Damn, trying to fuck that's that's right. You trying to fuck. Change the game. And don't mind you. You know, we come from the street and we know what the street mentality is, but you just changed the game. Change the game. So now you done changed the game, and I got you up out of here. You gone now. So guess what? I'm gonna holler at my partner, white person. Not Jerry up in here. You trying to fuck. Jerry up in here now. Michael, he's gone.
SPEAKER_04Well, yeah, beat Michael.
SPEAKER_07You know what I'm saying? He's gone. I don't know the peon.
SPEAKER_06I think Michael said the peon name.
SPEAKER_04I don't know no P. Name one Peon Michael. Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, uh Mike Tyson, me.
SPEAKER_05Michael Griffin.
SPEAKER_04Me, non-P. Peter Griffin.
SPEAKER_05Peter Griffin. That's another motherfucker.
SPEAKER_04You gotta pick another name. Archangel was named Michael. He's strong as Archangel with me. Strong.
SPEAKER_07Yes, be in the hole. It's caused me. Because I was able to see some shit that started to unfold. How do you really keep those jobs? Tell us how do you really keep those jobs? Because streets make you awareness. Oh man. Your surroundings is important. You're talking to a privileged nigga, man.
SPEAKER_00It depends on what job. It depends on what job you're putting in. If you got a corporate job, if you got a corporate job, you ain't gotta interject the streets as much.
SPEAKER_04If you're working in a warehouse or some shit, you may have to interject the streets. But it depends on the dollar and where you at all this day on the line. Man in the penny. It is fine. At least two of these niggas at this table is pretty. I ain't one of them.
SPEAKER_07I'm just saying, man, life has taught me so much, and I've taught me to discern, I just can't bring the street shit to the corporate life of business world.
SPEAKER_04Because we get fired. That's right.
SPEAKER_06Exactly.
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