 What's up y'all, I go out and make my ghillie became a million dollars worth of game, pretty sure a lot of y'all in here are familiar with who I am, I want to tell y'all this right, the wake up is the win, when you wake up in the morning, that's the win, because you get another opportunity to chase your dreams, you get another opportunity to be great, you get another opportunity to change anything that you got going on, that you want to change in life, any direction you want to go in, the wake up is the win, this is coming from a guy who I've been shot, if you know me you know I've been shot before, a few times, I had a son that died from gun violence, who ain't going to get a chance to wake up tomorrow and be great, he lost his opportunity to wake up and chase his dreams, tomorrow and say, I want to do this, I want to do that, now I'm going to make it happen, so the real win is when you wake up, but you got to win the day, the wake up is just the beginning, you got to go out there and win the day, he made a mistake when he was 17 years old, he went to jail for 20 years, came on when he was 37, one mistake, nobody to get shot, nobody got killed, nobody got harmed, none of that, one mistake, he came home from prison, he owned every day, he's the cultural advisor at YouTube, so the wake up is the win, every day you wake up and get an opportunity to be great, you got to go win the day, I'm going to tell you all again, he did 20 years in jail, he's the cultural advisor at YouTube, what's your position at reform, chief marketing officer at reform, so there ain't no limits to what you can do out here, it's no limits to what you can do out here, seven years ago he was sitting in a jail cell at the prison doing karaoke night, like a garden, the prison showers, do your mom any jobs he had in prison, he taught solid classes, so I just want to tell you, young and in here, I come from North Philadelphia, five of us in a two bedroom apartment, at first we understand that when you put that work in, God will open the doors for you, but it got to be up to you to put the work in, not what you think is work, real work, you put the work in, you put the time in, you put the effort in, and God will open any door for you that you couldn't even imagine, when he came home from jail, he just put the work in, he didn't know where, where it was going, he just woke up every day and put the work in, now the rooms he in, around the people that he's in, around the companies that we deal with is unimaginable, so I just want to tell you all, everybody in this room, especially the youth, the wake up is the win. We got to start protecting our communities, when you go get it done and you shoot somebody in the community, you deteriorate the value of your community, you deteriorate people that work their whole lives, they property value, you're making unsafe in your community, and you put a target in the community and that's not a good place to go, we don't want that, you know, I know there's a lot of things that the young people see on social media, and we got to, we got to get away from the cool idea of, in the black community, everything is cool when it comes to destroying your community, it's cool to be a street nigga, it's cool to sell drugs to your community, it's cool to shoot somebody, it's cool to go to jail, but when are we going to start normalizing, it's cool to just be smart? Because we'd be so focused on the men, first of all this one is the national women's month, let's make some noise for that, let's make some noise for that, Chino State Prison for women in California, and I spent a day with a bunch of women, and we never, we never hit the side of the women, we only, when you think of prison, you only think about the men, and the women that's forgotten in prison, we forget about showing lovers, the sisters, the aunts, the grandmothers, and I went to the prison, I walked in the yard with some women that's doing life, some women that've been in there for 30 years, 40 years, I'm telling you, you wouldn't even imagine, 18 years, and just, just talking to them sharing their story, y'all going to see it come out soon, but we got to really start tapping it to these young girls too, because a lot of times we neglect them, because we so worried about the young boys, that we forget about them, we got to take care of everybody in the community, but to the young boys, a lot of things y'all going to see in the social media, y'all going to start looking at it from a different perspective, and start trying to emulate the rappers, a lot of these rappers are, and we've got to use the word entertainers, a lot of these dudes have never done this stuff that they're talking about, the same way you watch a movie, but a lot of y'all be so fascinated by that, y'all, oh my God, I got to do this, how you got to do something that nobody's ever done, just because they entertain you, y'know, I'll be one of the first to tell you, sitting in prison wasn't cool, and we ain't talking about going to the county jail and coming out, being able to call your mom and she come get you, because a lot of y'all are going to come out here and I got to be straight up, if you got any dumb shit on your mom, let it go, because all you want to do is put pressure on your mom, your sisters, your little brothers, because once you get that jail, now you got to call your mom, you got to try to get Lloyd money, she got to figure out, she got to work overtime, it's taking food and things out of your little brothers and little sisters mouth, because now you want it to be itty-bitty, you want it to emulate some stuff that wasn't even real, that was an illusion, social media is an illusion. You know what I mean, we in a whole different world, y'all, y'all be sitting in these dudes, dad and that and that stuff, we all propaganda machine, to tear our community down, and make you believe that you got to do some dumb shit in order to be cool, cool like that brother sitting over there, cool as being you, that's the most safest thing to do is be you, because when you, you ain't got to worry about falling victim to being somebody else, I want you, I'm going to be straight up, I spent 20 years in prison, I went to jail for two firearms and two home robberies, I ain't shit nobody do nothing, but, when I was sitting in prison, I said to myself, oh man, I'm in jail for not even, trying to be somebody else, I wasn't even neat because I had a conscience and I thought a little bit, so I'm like, I'm in jail for trying to emulate some shit I seen, and a lot of y'all are going to try to emulate some stuff y'all seen on YouTube or somewhere, if you want to emulate, if you can play the game, you can make the game. You know, y'all got to start looking at the game and say, you know what, I don't want to be a player, I want to be a coach, until Jackson had Michael Jordan in court, the coaches last longer than the players, stop looking at things we all think, oh, I don't need to be a rabble at all, I don't need to be entertaining, no, you're going to be late. We got to really start tapping into our ingenuity, we come to destroy their people, we prepare players with no cranes. So y'all got to start really tapping into the history to know where we come from and the struggles that took place in the world and in America that got us to here today. Because once you tap into the history, you realize, oh, no, I'm really smarter than this. You know what I mean? If you go back and tap into it, we got some of the most inventions in the history of life, us, black people. You see what I'm saying? So we got to start tapping into our ingenuity and stop being dumb. You know what I mean? Kids don't listen to what you say, they watch what you do. See, one thing about this world, if you live it now first, we listen with our eyes, then we listen with our ears. So you can't be telling your kid, oh, don't be doing this, don't be doing this, don't be doing this. Mom, your whole life, mom, you deal with drugs, that's why your son don't want to be one of these. You got to think about it. You got to think about who you're bringing in the kid, who you got around your kids. Because kids want to be anything that's seen cool. If they see you looking at something in a certain way and it's shiny, they want to be that. When I grew up in the streets of Philadelphia, and I used to sit on the curb, in my neighborhood, in North Philadelphia, the only people that I'd seen here respect was the drug dealer. When the drug dealer pulled up in that car, with that jury on, playing that music, when he jumped out the car to get the most beautiful of his woman in the neighborhood, Ms. Johnson, Ms. Brown, Ms. Green, all the older ladies on the porch, they said, hey baby, they never say nothing, Mr. Fred, that was coming home, that was the plumber, or the construction worker. When he was walking down the street dirty, ain't nobody speak to him. The hard-working man in the ghetto, he amplified, and we put on a pedestal, the successful criminal. We loved him. From the movies, to entertainment, we loved that person. Because it's just this thrill, the danger. But we got to start highlighting the people, the real men that's in the community doing a real work, because there's some fathers in here right now, there's fathers and kids that's not their kids, because they understand the responsibility they got to take with the community. Getting crazy in school. So we got to start taking advantage of what we got to understand in the weird community, and together, each achieve more. You see what I'm saying? That's what team means. Together, each achieve more, and we stronger together. So we got to start working together to make our community better. I'm happy to be here today. I'm thankful for brothers like you, and the team that you got, for even interning, even, you know, entertaining the thought of giving back to our community. Because so many people take, but they never give back. And I think it's very important. Rather it's what you help, rather it's what you funds, what any type of resource you got. So y'all can continue to have this, because if you have this today, and it's just over, no, you've got to continue to have safe spaces for these kids on a monthly basis. Like, y'all can come together in this gym today. I can y'all come together in this gym once a month to be able to create new places, because the kids that forget this, you've got to be systematic for weird stuff. Because everything that took place is systematic. The prison system is systematic. Everything is systematic, because I'm going to tell you something. If y'all put something in place, it's all done. People always talk about prison and rehabilitation while most people come home and they go back. The prison industry and the justice department, well, the justice system, is a business. Now, let me say this. Let me say this. It's a business. What business in the world do you know that don't want their customers to come back? So we got to take care of us. It's not fun. We got to make sure they don't get to jail. And they don't get to jail when you put proper programming on and you consistently love them and they know they got to support. And they don't got one. Because when I grew up, I'm going to say this. I ain't had one mom. I ain't had one dad. I had anybody. Every house on that neighborhood could beat my ass if I'm making it home when I do something different. And I know you can't do that now. I don't say it. You can't do that now. But I'm just saying this. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's just about the love. If you can put the love on these kids, it's got to always be hard, because we always think about hard because in the black community we're taught to be tough. If everybody on that block could love that kid and that kid could know they got support. And you can't make it to the game line. Oh, I'm going to go. I know you got to work overtime. Me and my husband are going to go. We're going to make sure we support them and cheer them. That's what we got to do. And then when we do that, when we love each other, we start sitting at the table eating and get off these phones. Stop letting these babies order and all these apps, all this food and start sitting down cooking a home cooking meal. Have a real conversation and the game is going to change. But we got a lot to do. We got a lot of work. And if you want to work, we're going to have it. Lock up. Lock up. You're getting cooked, man. You're getting cooked, nigga. Yeah, you're getting cooked, nigga. Yeah, I remember you. You got it. Go on places, man. You hear me? It's something you got that you got to be born with. You know what that is? Personality. Hear me? Heart. It takes heart to be 11 years old and walk up on the delts and be personable like that. You go on places in life. You hear me? You're going to remember, I told you that. You're famous. Watch. That's good. What's up, man? What's up, man? My name is Lil' Zay Say. I'm a nine student with ten-year-old weapons. I'm not going to take fifty-five of you. Who is Zay Say? Number one, they're going to be really simple and easy questions. Number one, I know we had a basketball event with basketball football. Basketball. That's the biggest advice I can give you. The streets don't love you. And if you jump out of there in the streets they go and do you dirty like a fan. Gym socks. I got three. And he got three, so we got three, three, one. You guys catch up and kill him. Two, five, four, he said no top. Now you want your design. No top, right corner, right corner. And that's ball on par two. Make it look cool. There we go. There we go. Five, four, check it out. Here you go. Yay. Swim it. You gonna do it right there? I'm playing ball. It's better than you. It's not seen, but you. Teamy man, we done it baby. Wanna chip?