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Listen, man We got a guy here today y'all by way of is it north of South Carolina North Carolina North Carolina North Carolina is in the building Right here man when we first took off man, this guy we just over over strange relationship He calls me out of blue. He tells me love boss talk one-on-one. He loved what he's seeing We did not know we would become great friends man And ever since then we've kept in touch. He flew in on his own dime Yeah, and came and said I want to be on boss talk one-on-one, man He had a lot going on then he has a lot going on now. We're about to get into it, man Our key vias Armstrong is in the building. You already know man. Listen without further ado It's a blessing to be back on the show to see you guys like family to me man to see you guys I put a big smile on my face when I walk through those doors man So again, I appreciate you for giving this this opportunity to get on this platform and to share the the information and what God Has me doing out here in these streets in the lives and and what he's doing with the gift that he gave me brother Thank you man. Great great to have you man. Thank you so much man Man, you know like a lot has been going on since you left here man I mean it's been it's been about a year or so a little over a year Almost two years we've been here, so he came early early early. Yeah, I just want to say man We've seen a lot of different things going on man, you know Back during those days was early stages. I think one of our main things was back then still was helping You know trying to be there for the children and all that doing stuff I know you came miss King came on the show with you a shout out to miss King Absolutely, she was dealing with the juveniles and we meet her Charleston white early on was dealing with the juveniles and they say Early on it was something different early on right right it ain't the same thing that you see today Yeah, when you well just let's get into Charleston white like like what do you think about? What's your perception of him versus when you were going because I was upset to set you guys up You know Well, you know, I think that at the early beginning of what you was doing with boss talk one-on-one and You knew about what I was doing and I think upon arrival It was like I noticed gentlemen who was doing what you're doing y'all doing the same thing And I just think that you guys need to get on the podcast man And just show your ideas and I think you had reached out to miss King Matter of fact, I reached out to miss King and let him know I was in town So, you know, I'll lead to Tuesday I would love to come in the detention detention center, you know, hopefully I can speak with the young man But I don't have a bad will but you know you talking about somebody who is a actually community and youth advocate In real life in real time And he's standing on that my receipts and in my impact and and the people who represents Me and what I do back at home in Charlotte can vouch for that most importantly, you know, I mean Again everybody to each his own But I think when you was trying to get that Connection to happen. I was more resistance because you know I wanted to see what this this Charleston white Individual was about and it just didn't it didn't meet the standards of when I say youth advocate Being the example for the you've been an example in the community. I didn't see that But you know, it's a whole like you say, there's a whole different circus now So and he's still to my to my knowledge is still saying he's in the communities in light, you know Wait a minute man And so, you know, I got some people in Charleston, South Carolina Who's connected with them and you know saying archivies man, you know, I'm like, no, no, no This is real work we doing over here And so, you know, somebody like myself who's been in the community but been a part of the streets I know what an example look like that's not an example that we need to show our kids man Wow I want to go back a little bit because when you were here, you know There was some foreign statements made for us from what you have been through in your past experience as a young man From prison to all type of different right from Milestation everything that you was you was talking about back then sharing, you know The fact of what God has brought you through right, you know I thought it was extraordinary thing to see the development of your character and the way to God to change your life I mean, so it was just a blessing to hear your story And it was a comfort to know that that God was taking you, you know This type of individual and saying I'm going to use you on this side to show other Children of young men that may be going through these experiences the way right on I'm saying, you know Brother you had reached out to me a few times like our creepy archivies man Like like we need to get you back down here and do something in the community And that's not that's not just something that you took a lightning in just because of the interview or the story No, you see in the work. Yeah, you're seeing that like I said on social media You're seeing it in other aspects to our social media influence and in avenues that we use to promote it But absolutely I was a kid, you know when we talk about Our generation today. I was that young man, bro Like you know me like I shared my story last time I was that young man who fought through the system, you know I mean, I didn't just get in the system at 20 some years ago No, I was birthed to it foster homes group home detention centers training school state prison and federal prison But to be in in a place and in a platform that I have right now, you know, I'm changing lives You know, I mean our programs are in five schools back in Charlotte, North Carolina. That's proven fact We have two different counties that we provide Mentoring and and tutoring to That's a proven fact. We were sitting in these meetings with the city council and The education aboard and all these other opportunities that we are getting support. That's a proven fact But how did a person like myself end up in a situation where he's doing what he's doing? I had to realize what what my second chance was was helping and Give him back that time not only that time, but those experiences that I encounter What did I learn from it? And so I didn't just want to just go back in schools or mentor kids Just telling a story we had that we had to create a system and a curriculum That was something that we can teach and educate our kids with giving them career path showing them college tours Business and trades financial literacy You know, I mean just so many opportunities in exposure To to the youth that they would never got the opportunity to even see or get a chance to experience It's a proven fact that we're doing that and so again when when coming out here and getting an opportunity to share That with somebody who like you I told you when I spoke with you I said man, you've been standing you've been standing on that business and what you believe in from day one You never switch you never you never try to know me waiver You know me even straddling the fence you've been a hundred percent in your lane And I think that's what makes you guys you miss Jamaica is so authentic to bring people who was genuine They're not looking for views. They're looking to share their stories and that's what I feel like when you talk about boss talk You know me we're giving you that platform to share your stories and your experiences man I definitely Wanted you know keep keep the the same, you know consistency, you know the word of God say I'm the Lord thy God I change not Therefore you're not consumed right you so so when you understand that He's the same the day yesterday and forever forever when you see that you standing on that type of foundation Then you have to line yourself up. You're trying to be a better person, right? You're trying to every day trying to be that that that person that that that you're thriving to be through who you read about Right when you'll follow right like I am right. So at the end of the day I think that's what's kept our journey the way it's being also the fact of reading like I say plan with my wife Asking her is she okay? We sending each other notes and letters to say are you okay looking out feature having each other's back and then You know being here in front of these cameras it's nothing to us because we're just being who we are you know what I mean And that's what makes you different And I think that's what a lot of people struggle it because a lot of people trying to find their way And they willing to jump in every lane and whoever platform But you guys said this is the lane we paved and this is what we're what we're creating and You guys can come over here. We don't have to go over here go over here I've watched you just in two years grow and you know Went from now you went from a place where it was local to international Like platforms you ain't listen to the thing that's beautiful about what you guys are doing You've stepped out on faith and in what you've shown people chase your dreams It don't have to have an age limit to it or age cap to it. You have so many people in this industry Doing what you guys doing is a much younger crowd You guys and listen we can be what we do what we are to everybody and not have to change And that's the problem. Sometimes God will give you that platform to see if you change like you say he don't change you change I'm gonna bless you. Let's see if you can still be, you know, I mean what I What you say you are because that's what a lot of people they change when they get a little fame You guys know me you guys have gotten that, you know, I've seen that growth, but you are staying the same Humble, yeah, you very humble. Well, I thank God for it, man It's cause I guess when you've been through so much and you've had those experiences the ups and the downs You know coming from a background that like I've experienced a lot and thank God for my trying times Those are the times that really pretty much make us who we are today. Absolutely. Um, you know We've had a lot of different things to happen to transition here, you know Since you know, like I said, you was here last time Yeah, you know, there's a lot of different people who who've been on this platform From iced tea to Bun B to who else they are a lot a lot a lot of Comedians, you know, Jesse the comedian Jesse mccarlose So the reason and that's just God, you know, just putting us in the midst of everybody The Chico beans like we are in the midst of these people because we supposed to be a light that shines in dark Come on, you know, I'm saying and this platform was put here so that people can see that you can Be married for 20 years and still do and look at each other Not only during during the day during the night work together. There's no excuses That's all we're saying, you know, we're trying to figure this thing out as we go There was no book written nah to relationships and raising your kids, right, right, but you know, some people They don't know how to do it It's not it's not something that they're shown or given the example what it what it looks like to be married because they're not They're not raising those type of environments And so you look at positive male influence is something that I feel like it needs to be more of, you know Everybody has a voice but not everybody is is skilled nor qualified at that Point where you're able to give that advice because it depends on who's receiving that because you can you can hear Something from a homeless person and you you may not receive it because who are you to give me advice on how my life should be? And you're at your worst But even in the Bible says no mean a message will come through a peasant from a peasant One of my greatest lessons came from a homeless person's digging in the garbage can but you know me I was what? his Never devalue who you are and I tell that I tell that story often where He asked could he drive my car one day and I was like no but the the spirit convicted me like no let him dry your car You know when you have that spiritual connection you feel something you hear something You can't explain it But you know that was nothing but God and he said let him dry your car And everything that's in your pocket give it to him and and that was a life lesson When I got when he got finished drying it off I said what you think I owe you and he looked at me and he looked at the car and he said a hundred dollars And I'll say to myself like I mean I don't know what you feel like why do you think that drawing off my car Was worth the hundred dollars and but you know I remember what the word told me said give him everything that's in your pocket I remember Pulling out one bill at a time You know I mean the first two bills was like two fives and no I'm sorry the first four bills of four dollars and I handed it to him and I said is that enough he looked at He was like no and he kept his hand I said keep coming and every bill I pulled out You know me it was a five or ten or twenty. He just said keep coming He did not say thank you and go about his business, but I pulled out everything in my pocket He asked for a hundred dollars. It was ninety four dollars. He ended up with I didn't remember what I had in my pocket But I knew I had money. That's why the spirit said one thing, but the body the flesh The flesh was like no But the spirit said nah give him everything and um, but you say thank you he said thank you But I told him thank you That's the thing like God would test you God would put put you up to listen He's not gonna test you if he know that you can't you know me pass the test We don't pass the test because we rely on our own spiritual mind not all I mean our own Well our own mental and how we feel it from a spiritual standpoint and so when I told him I needed that more than you think you needed that money Because as a speaker as a contractor as a coach As a as a construct I mean contractor, you know, we get contracts we get bids and sometimes we want that bid so bad We willing to reduce our prices to the point to where I just want that money because I need that money But not realizing listen never devalue your worth He stood on what he felt what his worth was and he got it You know me cuz again, I could have given four dollars He could have gone about his business, but he ended up he knew what he said his worth was and he got But that day I end up selling like 300 over 300 something books a school order like almost 400 books that even right back It came I mean come on It was like almost four grand that they end up spending with me and I was obedient to God and gave $94, so you know, I mean and again just staying true to who you are There's been so many opportunities for me to to mess up this blessing And that's what a lot of people a lot of people don't realize the devil know how to bless you too Because we lack patience We don't want to go through the storm We just want to we just want to endure it go through until we could take just enough But God said I need you to stand and so we have to understand when God tell us something It's on his time not our time the devil know how to bless you too. Wow when you look at all I remember back I say some years back, you know when Eric Thomas first came on the scene less brown a lot of those guys start getting real traction, you know like like When you look at those guys today like Eric Thomas and him What do you see in in that whole movement with with motivational speech? Is that that that is it is it genuine? Is it organic? Is it just for the money? What are these guys doing it for now man? Is it is it is it doing anything to change things? Come on E That's a great question because you know, I don't follow Eric Thomas. I don't follow less brand I know who the individuals are they've paid the way they done some great things I remember saying this in Atlanta, maybe a year ago at a mastermind that I was a speaker at This industry is watered down just like podcasting You have to find your lane and make it yours and be authentic Everybody think they're speaker. We've coached so many people We've put so many people in our classes and I've been educating people like you may not be a speaker But the thing with people is that you know many people are watching so many people and thinking they can do it Just like them God has created us to be different. He has created all of us Equal in in in a sense spiritually, but we're all different I'm different. So I don't I don't I mean matter of fact when I first heard about ET I was late with it. I was like 2017 18 18 when I heard about it Eric Thomas and somebody shared a video say hey man You I thought this was you. I'm like, who was that when you think about it? He came in the game He say he was homeless. Yeah, he was he was homeless He couldn't didn't know how to do his studies. I think he went to college or something like that but just just Just Hannah gave his backstory and I think that was impactful in the way He spoke touched a lot of people lives at that time, you know I remember one of the most famous speeches he had when he would talk about 50 sin And he would talk about I think it was Beyoncé in it as well And it was just something that was phenomenal about about its tonality and its delivery You know what I mean? So and at the end of the day I mean, what is this if we if we're helping to change people lives is one thing Who's life for you changing and what change are you bringing? Right? You know, that's the whole game for me like even less brown like I think he was supposed to be retarded mental remedial law and You know, he was told he wouldn't make it and people just want to hear like just like your story Like you basically were you came up in foster homes, you know, you came up going into You know juvenile centers where you was at troubled as a as a young man, right? Right, and then you end up graduating and going to the big. Yeah, the big prisons, right? Mm-hmm. So, you know, this is the stuff that and then God changed your life at what age did he change your life 20? 2425 he was 25. I was in federal prison when I gave my life to Christ. Wow. Yeah, I was 20 24 25 years old And and that's the thing, you know, we all have a story And your story is meant for somebody else to to overcome to Endure whatever they're enduring and just having hope, you know And that's the thing that I feel like what God gave me the second chance because of things that I experienced It's gonna be the very thing that's gonna break the break that stronghold and in those generational curses and those behavior patterns in So many young men who's gone through certain things that you experience and so I was 25 and you know at that age You know, I just signed a 10 year plea And I knew I was coming towards the end of my My bid at the time and I'm trying to figure out. Okay, I gotta leave out change I can't go out the same way I came in and so that was the very thing that I had to realize What are you gonna change about you? You have you have to change you if you don't change you then nothing changes and everything remains the same The only thing changes your appearance, that's it But the inner person is still the same and so I I had to ask myself. What can I do to change me? I read books and you know, I got in certain classes to better me But one thing I had a struggle with getting into was the Bible I read so many books, but I would never read the Bible to save my life And so how I built that that courage to actually one day say, you know what? Let me try God. It was something that a lot of brothers in prison saw in me There's a lot of great brothers in prison and and I always tell people I've never seen nothing negative about prison Nothing at all Yes, yes things go on in prison But if you know how to go in mind your business and do your time, you know I mean and focus on what she needed focus on with you is stay out of the other stuff You'd be a height. How long was you in federal prison? I was in federal prison six six years Yep, six and when you first went to federal prison you walk in Did you do you already have been like like in? County, right County you had already been into some juvenile detention centers, right? A lot of them right a long time You so you was like like I said you graduated into prison federal prison. What was your case again? Assault with the deadly weapon and possession of cocaine. Okay, so you get there the first day What is the experience like for you ready to get it over with? This was you had a six-year sentence. Yeah, I've already signed my tenure, please Okay, yeah, and so you know my whole thing was I've spent my whole entire life in Situations like this But I've never been this far away. I was in Kentucky And so being in a place where it was almost 3,000 brothers from all different places, California Atlanta, Texas, you know, everywhere you could think of that was there a little a little piece of uncertain like okay What's next like how do I maneuver and you know, you gotta you have to understand that you know One of the things that that separates so many people are involved in these these streets doing the things They're not built for that life You know me I tell people a lot of people listen on on on camera You look like one thing but when you and I'm sure you probably have dealt with this With a lot of people you spoke with on one-on-one when the cameras go off So she made you look like this But when I talk to that man or when I talk to that young lady you get a whole different person And so that's what you see a lot man a lot of people honestly some people are really good people You just made a dumb choice like you literally allow Four minutes five minutes six minutes of your time in your life that just cost you 17 to 20 years You're talking about even with me I was facing 35 years of life at 19 and they drop some charges and I plead out to 10 years That was literally that act took me literally less than one minute And here it is I don't sign my life way for years for a decision and again I wasn't a bad kid anybody who've ever met me now You wouldn't have never thought that the things that I was doing that I was doing Because a lot of things that I was doing you didn't see it you heard about stuff happening But you didn't know who was one doing it I was that person and so you know that's the thing I was a good kid Honestly, I was a good kid, but I was just I was raised and exposed to it and Cultivated into the wrong situations. You know mom on drugs strung out daddy on heroin strung out all of my siblings All my brothers selling drugs. So I'm in this environment. This is all we see. This is all we know We know how to survive and that's by any means necessary But see the things that people are talking about now. They're talking about people lifestyle that they don't live They don't have to experience, but they heard about it They seen about it then when you get around people who are involved in that real street life and you get caught up Now you see here facing 20 years and you came from a good family Let me ask you this you got guys that go in there. We just had Rallo. He just got out a rapper And when he first come out, you know, he make of course now everything's about when you get out It was as a rapper. Yeah, they look at you and if you don't come out a certain way You're not hot. They're figuring out ways to be exciting there They'll say what I think Rallo said something about he could never do work with CMG after, you know, Dolph Yeah, right Then you got a honeycomb brazen He just got out and he went in on different people Jay Prince or what not then I don't know if they straighten it out But they're doing things that right gives you like a it joked the algorithm. Yeah It's something to where they'll say this or say that or do this or do that and boom, you know It gets a reaction. What do you think about that? You know, um, they're not they didn't learn a lesson Honestly, um, you know, when you look at the the Rallo's and you know How he needs to come back out like he was before he went in, you know what that says? I'm still that guy and you know and nothing changes And so when you come back out The same person that you went in then you didn't learn your lesson Then we have to stop feeling sorry for people We have to stop saying free certain people and allow them sit in there and get some time to think and know I just had this question asked me a couple days ago Because we just had a young man 14 years old and Charlotte There's a young person getting killed and shot at every single dance. Charlotte, North Carolina a 14-year-old He's got killed for three days ago by 19 year old Oh, and so when when people ask me who's somebody who's actually in the community Who's actually trying to change the mindset of our young men who's actually trying to position them to be better men and fathers and in community Leaders and change the trajectory It's a slap in the face to see people like honeycomb brazen who who grandmother I believe and grandfather who was killed because of the behaviors only for him to come out and start in that same You know me a conversation you should have left him in there He shouldn't have never been released. You ain't learned your lesson It's like having a child when your child do something wrong and you punish them You don't take them out punishment today learn their lesson look at you look at finesse two times Look at Rallo. They're saying to the system Ain't nothing you can do to break me But the prison system also saying when you come in here everything is still like it's the same when it was on the streets So how are people learning a lesson if they're doing the things that they're doing you got a Slim thug right now. He's in a situation what he's in we have to stop feeling sorry for the ignorance What's them talking not slim though young thug young thug yeah, yeah, yeah young thug You know when you got we have to stop feeling sorry My mom once said and I've said it's all the time my mom used to say I feel at peace and I can sleep When I knew you was incarcerated I rather I rather you can be able to come see me behind a glass Wearing a all-brown suit then you come into a graveyard Happen to speak to some dirt in a stone or wear a t-shirt We have to stop feeling sorry for these people who was actually contributing contributing that toxinous and That that that that that poison they that that's what they're doing So again when Rallo listen the next I would say if God to live you out of one thing The next time it's gonna be ten times worse. You may not make it to see prison There's some people that you did rub the wrong way before you left You know I mean so they're gonna listen to you you and here's the thing to answer your question People should want to change. I Didn't want to come home from prison and go back to the lifestyle. I once lived I Didn't want to be in that type of environment. I didn't want to be around those type of people What will I receive coming home to people who glorify me being free? But not giving me another Alternative Another avenue what lessons and what are we teaching our younger people? We talk about youth and community advocate like even with Charleston white when you're brandishing firearms on social media Grabbing your penis and you're telling the F the kids and you know you saying be this and be that But you saying that you're a youth advocate that don't add up That don't add up. What are we teaching our kids to become? You know me at the same time like we say when God when God changes you You have to realize he don't change we change because we get the opportunity to like in the platforms I have so many opportunities to be in on the stage and in the same environment of so many great people I'm not choosing viral. I'm choosing impact now. I'm not saying these platforms can't make an impact But how I choose to use my gift. I'm very careful with that So you can't put me Alongside of somebody saying they're youth advocate and I'm seeing you smoking weed your drink You're turning up. You're in the strip clubs You're hanging out with people who send their gang members and you're still active as a green No, you're seeing you're sending mixed signals like that So that's the problem with our community. They're seeing too many people on an everyday basis like that So when you see people that comes into these schools You saying what you used to do, but you're still a part of what you say you used to do. No They could see that person any day in the community. They need to hear and see it from somebody. Okay. That's different That's different. Let me ask you another question. D1 is a guy that comes on my show I don't know. I know you're talking for Louisiana D1 comes on the show and D1 was here and then he talked about Rick Ross Saying that God forgives and I don't on this album that he had done he spoke of that here But then he left he went on sway and he called out Meek meals for having some, you know shoes that said, you know acting as if it was reformed, you know driven but then getting on his music and Contradicting the the the things that he were portraying to be in the community, right? Then he also you had you had Jim Jones that was Got an honorable mention right and like I say Rick Ross Jim Jones and Meek meals were the guys that were were pretty much in an uproar and they came back and rebutted what he had said Where do you lie when it comes down to that? I didn't see I didn't see no lying what he was saying I see nothing but truth and I think that's what a lot of people they failed to realize is that people now are They're used to a lie they have accepted the lie and And they and they shy away from the truth because the truth supposed to hurt the truth supposed to hurt if I tell you about you It don't supposed to make you feel good So what you look at the Rick Ross to the Jim Jones is who are responding to? D1 because of out of offense and In what he's saying is not a lie. Well some say that in these communities They are doing things to make a difference bro. Listen, I'm gonna tell you like this. You can't you can't tell me Here it is. We're putting programs in schools Then one day you decide to bring a rapper who's every video brandishing firearms and Every video you got naked women in your videos every video you smoking weed Every video you're talking about killing then you allow them to go in a school to say something to a young person and You think just because you have a position that you go into these schools. That's making a difference No, you create more of an issue than a solution And so that's the problem just because you can go Jim Jones say hey, I pass out turkeys all the time You you you can get people like these are organization that give out thousands of turkeys That's not nothing to give out thousands of turkeys. That's like people saying hey We feed the homeless every single day. You're not you're not solving a problem You just giving them fuel in their stomach to go down to the next corner and hold up a sign Can I give you a job opportunity? Can I help you with XYZ if it's economic economic development if it's helping you with your credit? If it's helping your family get out of financial situations like you got to do more and say here go a pair of shoes That I don't wear no more Here go a jacket that costs four hundred dollars to you you like that's the world But honestly you just gave somebody $1,400 jacket And yet these people don't know nothing about financial literacy So we know as a black community how to spend but not how to save We know how to we know how to continue to hurt, but we don't know how to heal But in this music, we're constantly pushing hurt pain trauma, but no one is taught deep talking about healing Deep talking about bringing value to the community and to our youth Yes, I don't care how much you think you can give to a school There's a lot of people who gave to our organization back home in Charlotte and these are people who probably listen They're not on the right side of the track But we're gonna take that money and we're gonna do the right thing with it But if you is even talks in the Bible when you talk about I know I don't care I don't know where it is But when you talk about giving a person who have a lot to give it means nothing But a person have very little give it means everything I don't know where that is in the Bible, but it's in the Bible someone it talks about a woman that had gave two mites Yeah, and then it talks about the Pharisees who gave from their abundance. Come on And so when you look at our like archivist Armstrong who's giving With very little Creating programs. I'm in the schools all week Every day. I'm in high schools in alternative schools and we're not going in a talk Providing solution-based programs that's given in and as teaching and that's exposing it's proven fact Look up step up to leadership dot com s utl nc.org go to our social media page Google me you're gonna see a lot like you'll probably see something this week and we just have other opportunities We're partnering with banks other big organizations my wife would tell you we just got awarded $50,000 in grant money. You don't see me in the club smoking weed You don't see me walk around here sagging You don't see me on the corner selling dope or smoking dope or talking with no, you don't see that I am trying to pull out so I can expose you to so when you go back to your reality I wanted to hurt. I don't want it to feel good. I don't want you to be comfortable I want you to look at your situation realize I'm gonna get up out of this But if I go to you with all the gold change and all the diamonds and and I go to my social media page And I'm always showing the lavish light then what I'm teaching you So it's nothing what these guys are really saying and doing that's helping the black community nor the youth So what do you want to say it was truth? Wow? It was truth Well, I wanted to ask you another thing, you know being that you was abused as a young man Going through being sexually abused. Yeah To see what is going on with P. Diddy and Cassie Yeah, and just that whole situation where women are coming back now years later Excuse me and and they're and they're and they're coming back and they're saying hey, man You know this happened to me To these prestigious people that you know, there's two or three things. I'm thinking as I talk about this like What is the what do you see from that? Like is this something that is this? Justifiable is this a game? What if what are we dealing with here because I'm just looking at How it's it's a trend like like for people To come now come forward. They made it a thing to where even in New York where there's a law pretty much cocooned the situation and said you can come now and it by this time I think was November the 24th on it. Yeah, you can't come no more Yeah, like what is this a really is this is this the harsh reality? We live in today where people are capping off people's frustration whether if there was abuse then that's a Bad thing and if there wasn't abuse then this is a game. That's being right. What are we dealing with well money? Well, that's what we're dealing with it is a money grab And everyday life. This is not even the African American. This is not just blacks. This is life There's a young girl right now that's 15 16 years old sleeping with an older man That's been going on ever since I can remember You know, we've seen that a lot in our community is growing up You know mean little kiki was in the in the van with mr. Charles That ain't nothing new that's been going on And so most people knew little Charles was messing with little girls They knew they knew mr. Leroy liked to fonder around with little boys You know me, but mr. Leroy would probably get a little entwined a pair of Jordans You know, I mean the mom didn't care because the mom ain't always at the house So she don't know where well little little man got his new shoes from Or where he could get the new Reebok classics from and she constantly having her hair done And and she keep wearing little her clothes getting shorter and shorter and shorter. That's been going on This is all about money if our Kelly wasn't our Kelly Nothing would have been brought up if Bill Cosby wasn't Bill Cosby Nothing would have been brought up if if if P. Diddy wasn't P. Diddy. Nothing would be brought up The fact that these people even not just black you're talking about the wine steam What was the other yeah, all of these people got people above them that's been doing them These people been exposed to it, you know And when you look at like even the molestations that I had to deal with When I was seven years old I was seven years old. I was molested every single night by a woman Every single night, you know, I mean I was fond of the way a couple times by a different man But those were situations when I was like six seven eight years old and I'm in and out these crack houses with my mom Why she getting high? Your baby boy upstairs such a system don't probably roll them on a little bit and out of fear I ain't gonna say nothing and that's the problem out of fear Most people don't say none. There's somebody right now. That's probably we're gonna watch this interview That's gonna be like man. I used to get fond of it by my uncle You know, I mean there's people right now that that used to get molested every single day by our friends down the street Out of fear, you're not gonna say nothing this stuff been going on right now What we were witnessing honestly is a money grab money grab. It's a money grab now all it takes is one person That's all it takes one person to step out and be bold to talk about it Regardless if it's a money grab or not it takes one person To cause the table to shape for other people's like, you know what? I'm gonna come from up under that table You know what I want to confess to it was done to me too. Honestly I beg people come forth Because the fact of the matter is holding on to these type of experiences only causes more trauma It causes more pain and hurt That's why most families can't even get together to today because there's some things that's done happen within that family That can't everybody get around each other like that's been going on but when you look at like some of the stuff like Aaron Hall They He said he come in behind everybody and oh, you know and he he basically Speaking out about the fact of those nights wouldn't be it did he them got to see him do his thing like he Was letting everybody know that hey man, you know, I guess it done, you know I'm not here. I really they know I got the big boy coming in the big boy package. I'm by the jump You know like like these are things that prove that there was some things going on when you listen To the conversation or was there are these guys younger too? You got think about the age span to these guys take it they're talking 20 some years ago Camera and just came forward and talked about him doing something different girls. Yeah, and then he said but I was young, you know There's a thin line. We got the media base, right? We got we got this social media We got the internet. Yeah, and and basically people are saying things and people are misconstruing some of these messages and Taking them and using them to try to Incriminate people bro, right? Well, here's the thing, you know, um, you know when you're when you're What are you? What are you coming out about? What are you using that information for? What awareness? Are you trying to bring forth? And you know and that's the thing that I honestly truly believe that you know when you look at the cameras, bro I was having sex again. I was molested every single night, right? When you look at the fact that I started having fully sex, I was 11 and 12 years old And so these these are the type of things, you know, and we was having sex, you know, I was 17 18 Having sex with 30 some year old women. So, you know on both spectrum. Just not just men with girls There's women out there who actually do it has been doing it, but no one is talking about it you know, that's where I feel like there is is is It's not a fair playing ground a woman can a woman can look at a little boy right now If you walked your son in a grown woman because oh my god He is so handsome. Oh, he's gonna take all the ladies Oh, you better be careful when I when you get older and we'll laugh about it But let a man look at a little girl that's three years old. So oh my god, she gonna be fine when she get Oh, we're gonna look at like you nasty So it's like it's been going home on both sides forever hundreds and hundreds and years ago You know, I mean all young girls used to get raped by slave masters At 12 and 13 years old So it's been tolerated. It's been accepted. It's been pushed out there and now we're living in the times now It's just even worse because you got the sexy reds. Whoa That's a whole nothing. You got the Cardi B's you got the Megan the stallions you got all the suckies You got all of these women's pushing this this propaganda and it's this theory on young girls On what you need to look like to be beautiful what you need to sound like to be accepted What you need to act like to be a boss and It's just like and I'm a father of four daughters I got all girls and I'm seeing her looking at from a different perspective. I know We're pushing this and we're forcing this on our generation even for the boys You know, I mean, I don't have nothing against no whatever your gender are whatever you like But you can't even go take your kids to go watch a movie with them pushing LGBTQ or any like this that like whatever a person want to be let them be you look at the Dwayne ways and how they like Come on. That's young boys. Shouldn't have been given that that authority Bob off. Listen, whatever you say you are I respect that I might have to love you for that But I'm not getting behind you and pushing this And so that's the thing that we have to understand as a as a as a community as Parents and as a as an influence how much power we really have Wow dope interview man. Love what you're saying. You had a lot of great valid points Real quick with it to you you you gifted when it come down No, you know I'm saying there's power in the tongue. Come on man. Yeah, Paul's You know Yeah Listen and let me tell you something about that I have an organization where we met to a hundreds of boy hundred boys a year and a lot of our young men's are from like 13 On up to yeah, you have to be careful what you say. We play basketball a lot I'm like, I somebody go get the ball. Come on. Mr. Armstrong pause. I'm like, come on Can you say anything now without it being a pause? It adds some humor to it. You know, but absolutely man There is power in the tongues and I always tell people you have a choice You either can speak life or you can speak death choose what you choose to speak from out of what the mouth God gave you and so I honestly choose to speak life, but I'll not just choose to speak life I show you through my examples how I walk it. That's the problem people words is not matching their walk That's again what D1 was saying your your walk what you saying ain't matching the words you saying You have to understand that your words now really don't mean nothing We grew up where it say hey do as I say not as I do. Yeah, that doesn't exist Now as I'm a do as you do because what you telling me I shouldn't do you ain't knowing it Yeah, how you telling me I shouldn't do something and you're doing it. Wow, man. Thank you for coming on the show man Let's talk about where this organization is again. How can people get all this and it is step up to leadership It's in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it's also in Cabaret, North Carolina We've been in four different counties probably over 12 different high schools and middle schools Community workshops and power sessions summer camps Educational measures we're doing a lot of great work, but Charlotte, North Carolina is where we at man People y'all been asking for it. We got him here I'll keep his arm strong back in the building with a motivational speech for you. He has definitely Came and showed out all the way here from by way of North Carolina And the guy's dope man and God sent him to us early on and here he is still with us today, man We thank God for him Man, thank you for coming on show. We love no man. I love y'all and I appreciate that man I appreciate you saying always you're welcome Man this show and then you ain't getting too big bro that you ain't humble enough say listen mm-hmm Platform is still available for people that that's the way it gotta be man I mean like I said the ones who God put in our life We we understood the assignment. Yeah, and that's what we're here for right, right? Thank you so much, man Hey, man, guess what mr. Mako? Wow much this time Arquivus took it and he ran with it. Yeah, we gave him the ball come on man with it Come on. I don't like them cowboys going to do That's why I'm in Dallas baby Listen, I'm gonna be in that stadium tomorrow. It's gonna be stupid. I can't wait my god Check it man. It's been another great segment of boss talk one-on-one where the boss is taught and we out