 Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one yeah, we gonna talk creating a platform I have a Program where we're gonna be educating a effective black parenting training with these four Christians ladies where in fact I got a Zoom meeting tonight at eight o'clock. So we're gonna start that at 60-day pilot. We have a documentary coming out Senseless gun violence world epidemic with iced tea Trady narrowing freeway rig Got credible messengers. So it's a lot of things going on To where I just like to start getting in a little bit about what we also and trying to do as just for us What Texas does to help the community these incredible mess that that was as opposed to just yapping at the About something that's irrelevant. Correct. I'm not the whole game for boss talk It really is we we want to bring people together and all walks of life You know what I mean trying to figure out ways to bridge gaps man Trying to figure out ways to build bridges instead of walls between different individuals Especially for all us man people that look like each other, you know It's very uncommon for people to come together in any sort of fashion And let's say up to something that ain't worth nothing to even talk about So at the end of the day to have you brothers to come on on boss talk one-on-one just to sit on and have a round table That that's that's that's a man. That's epic for me. You know what I mean? So I appreciate you guys for coming. I'm gonna let mayhem come we're gonna talk a little bit about the books I know Melvin about wrote all kind of books about it. So let's let's get into it man. So what what? When you and cuz you you basically may have Been around me for a while now. So you you know, you know And I appreciate you for coming on the panel today just a little bit about like like When you think about California being that you was born in California and then being in Texas, but still having California ties What do you think about when you look at the way that the you know, the two cities, you know Kind of springboard off each other actually I Mean Dallas, I personally feel Dallas, Texas is LA You know, we we develop always love, California. I mean so it forward we have been we have been California Sister 80 since Ron C came out here Ron C came out from He was from Oakland and he moved from LA didn't move to Dallas He came out trendsetters and then and then you know and then like I say game banging came hit Dallas in the late 80s and for worthless game banging harder than harder than Dallas You know and like I say he was just we had a lot of love and admiration for California for this to snoop dogs and just you know I guess Dallas had like a little pimp. It was like pimping and gangsters back back in those days So when Snoop Dogg came and then I guess we had that like I say Ron C was a big factor back in there As I'm looking at it now 89 90 Ron C put it down. Yeah. Yeah, I had I had Nino Cappuccino on now Not Nino Cappuccino. I had him on everybody had Bobo. I had Bobo on here and he talked about run see and snake That's what it was. Hmm. He talked about those I remember I remember being in Fresno, California and Hearing munchies for your base. I remember walking in Fresno, California Here in Dallas music munchies for your base, which is DJ sneak in Fresno in 86 87 so Dallas music and it's crazy that I would end up in Dallas Listening to California music because I'm from California, but I grew up in Albuquerque, Colorado, Dallas, Louisiana and Memphis So I grew up, but I've always had a connection to California My oldest siblings grew up in California all my family gang banged all my family was Crip That's why when I went in the when I went to prison I was really I will I really grew up a Crip But when I went to prison, I wrote my oldest brother. I got 17 calendar years in prison my oldest brother got 20 For murder Crip I Wrote him. I was all excited to write him. Yeah, bro. Yeah, cuz cuz and I write my brother My brother wrote me back from California prison and he said nigga if you don't stop Gang banging if you ever write me this nigga, he told me they did y'all ain't no real Crips y'all and my this my brother He already had about 17 did it. I'm just an entering prison, but he told me then Don't gang bang y'all Crippin ain't Crippin y'all disrespecting us up here We do not respect what you're doing down there if you come down to Texas and you tell us you're a Crip They're gonna kill you Yeah, stop saying that it depends on who you will carry yourself. It don't matter who you are if you don't Believe it. No, it's not whether you believe it or not. This is what my brother knew who you was No, this is my brother. This is my brother. He know Some people know that hey nigga, you ain't been put on no work we're seeing no No, you ain't no Crip nigga No, no, it's not see my thing is that when we say you look at a crib and tell a girl Well, I'm talking about Crip. We talk about being initiated. We talk about real quick We ain't talking about no, I'm from the neighborhood now We all know what kind of Crip that is we tell my real Crippin and Dallas say when you got Crip niggas and Dallas You got niggas who really was initiated when I tell y'all was Crippin and Dallas We was a you had to go through some real stuff. You just couldn't I Think I'm gonna be a Crip today. No, he was gonna he was gonna if it was a problem You couldn't walk outside. I say he was a Crippin not So how could your brother did break down what your brother was saying and how do you feel about it? And you didn't stop Crippin Danny I immediately stopped Crippin because I was in the county going to Okay, so this he told me at a pinnacle point. I was 18 years old I wasn't no average Crip dude. I wasn't no I wasn't no regular Crip. I was a big Crip I was a big I was so drug. So I wasn't no I wasn't no regular dude. I was I ran people in the street I was embraced by Crippin. I wasn't no They won't I had to gain pain. No, I didn't have to I didn't have to game bang I love game bang. You feel me? It wasn't a it wasn't a Damn, I guess I got to do this I couldn't wait to get up and go outside and hang out with my brothers and this was what it was This was my life. So so when he told me about listen, bro this Crippin Has did to you what it did to me. I got murdered you you 18 years old You got aggravated robbery and attempted murder Crippin Crippin is is for us. I ain't got nothing to do with no Crippin. No, but listen See I'm trying to understand. I don't know what your Crippin was about. It wasn't about no killing and robbing Well, Crippin is not about killing robbing Crippin is about standing on principles and sometimes when you stand on principles, you got to hurt people What's a big Crip? What you mean a big Crip? You said you was a big Crip a big Crip It's just that a school you're our 30 Tell my what are you questioning? Are you you I got to I got to Crippin I'm not I have a community resolution in progress. No, no, no, no, I'm no longer Revolution in progress we grown men