 Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique hustle, it's your boy E-C-E-O, man, hey, man, a whole different ballgame today going on, man, hey, hey, I got my boy Charleston in here with me, man. Man, once again, man. And not only Charleston, I got Miss King, man, Miss King, she's made it back to Boston 101, man. It's going down, man. Who is this fella? You know how I do it? Yes, sir. Who is this young fella you got over here with you? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. This is one of my youths from the program I work at. He met Charleston and Uncle Henie through the program. So he came, he put them on their word, and he called them up, and here we are. There it is. Wait a minute. Watch out. Watch out. Now don't even put them in there. Yeah, yeah. What's going on, man? Speaking to the mic. Oh, not much. Just chilling on it. Yeah, the people want to hear you. Getting to it. Okay. So, yeah, I came down there, did I waste my time or is it worth it? No, no. I'll make it worth it. Okay. You know what I'm saying, Charleston, I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing here. Well, he reached out to me probably about two, three weeks ago. He hit me up through my Facebook fan page, so he hit me up through a Facebook fan page. He said that he'd been trying to call a number and trying to email the email that we gave to him, and nobody's been answering. Wow. Yeah, I didn't see the message. So in his mind, we're full of shit. I knew that was coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, man. But only rightfully so, because he didn't come looking for us. We showed up in his world in a facility saying a whole bunch of things that we could do and would do if they made it to the outside. But because lack of communication or communication barriers, I didn't see the message and we didn't receive his emails and phone calls. So Miss King in just a casual conversation brought up the fact that he's been trying to reach out to us. Okay. And from my understanding, man, a young brother been constantly trying to reach out to us. Wow. So she told me this a few weeks ago, and so I say, well, shit, man, he ain't gonna make a lie out of me. Me either. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I reached out to you. I called him. I called him and made contact with him, you know, kind of seen what kind of situation he was in. And I told him that I had to go out of town. I'm gonna be on a few trips and just as soon as I get settled down, I get with him. Yeah, we rock out. And so not that we were procrastinating, but we just now being able to connect with him. Okay. So, Traylon, what's going on, man? You see the story that Charleston just told. Tell me that you've been out here a little while. Now, what the heck you been doing? Man, I've been working. All right. That's what I want to hear, y'all. That's a proud statement, man. So how old are you? I'm 17. And how long was you locked up? Like 10 months this time. 10 months this time, man. He said this time. I mean, so how long was it last time? Last time, like six months. Okay. And it's like a repetitive thing. You've been going through it. Since I was 13. Since you was 13. Yeah. Wow. So for the last four years, you've been in and out of the juvenile system. Yeah. Been on probation since I was 13. Wow. Wow. So what are you gonna do different this time than what you've been doing all other times? Just try to get the league away. Okay. Well, you don't have to tell us. Yeah. But you're working. Yeah. I'm working. Yeah. That's what matters. You're working a legitimate legal job. Yes, sir. Man. You helping to pay any bills at the house? Yes, sir. You buying the cleaning supplies? Nah. You don't buy? Yeah. You got to buy cleaning supplies. I mean, I bought my laundry, sir. Nigga, you got to clean the bath tub. That's right. Yeah. You got to get Ajax and the shit to clean the toilets. Right. And yeah. It keeps you humble. Yeah. And you got to buy your own set of towels one time. I already did. Already? Wow. Yeah. I got a few sets. A few sets? And so you, what is it? And I know we talked a little bit earlier, but you say that you want to, you're the only child. Yes, sir. And you want to make your mama proud. Yes, sir. I think that's what most men want to do. Not at first. Not at first. Yeah. Not at first. Yeah. Not at first. But, you know, as we start growing in the household with her, it hurt to see mama hurt. Yeah. You know, it, you know, to make us cry is to see mama cry. You know, that hurts. Yeah. Yeah. But when we hurt, we hurt mama all day long, you know, as children, when we resent our fathers, we can resent mother. We can even be mad at our friends. Wow. And we'll take it out on mama. Yeah. Yeah. We'll have as we be, as we begin to get older as children, our mothers begin to bother us because mama always got something to say because we her children and she never stopped being our mother. So there's times throughout our life, even as men and women, mama get on our nerves. Mama talk too much. Yeah. And she always got men. Why won't she be quiet? But she given us what she need to give us for when she not here. So what happens when mama gone, we go crazy. We, we get off track. We'd be ready to throw our lives away because mama ain't here. But if we would have been paying attention and engaging her when she was saying those things, then it wouldn't be so bad when mama die. Wow. Because mama prepare us for when she's not here. Yeah. The whole time that she's been in our lives, she's preparing us for one day mama not go be here. So when mama leave, we should be prepared for when mama's not there. She been preparing us for this. Unless you've been a sorry mother fucking kid. You know, that's why you cry. Throw yourself on the casting. They be the guilt and the shame. Yeah. Yeah. So that's why people fall down when mama die because they've been some fucked up kids. I agree. Yeah. So I'm, you know, my mother prepared us for life. Yeah. She gave us a God. And so when I see this young man, and you know, not to talk is his personal business, but he didn't ask his mama to bring him here. He told me, man, my mama work. He ain't far north Dallas. Yeah. It was a challenge for me coming from North Crowley. Going to North Dallas after dropping. So it was a challenge. So he was, he was very patient, man. That alone should tell us that he had a desire to do something different. Yeah. Because, you know, he could have easily went and took his little paycheck money and flipped it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know how we do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the thing I say is you want to make your mom proud. But those other times that you were going through your issues. Why wasn't you focused on making her proud then? And kind of what you were saying. Man, I just wanted some easy, fast money. I knew how to get easy, fast way. Just went out and did it. Miss King, how often do you see a young man like this young man come back into the system? All the time. Recently, we just had about four returns just this week. Wow. And let me, and let me just say this on behalf of Dallas County. And these are your county commissioners. These boys are supposed to be sent away. The type of offenses and crimes that they're committing. The type of juvenile history that they have. These boys are supposed to be sent to the huge state facility. Maximum security with the possibility of being transferred to prison. Right. But Dallas County has a facility. They have a program, the Medlock Youth Village, where it keeps these kids local where the county can deal with them because it's been proven that the county does a better job than the state when you're dealing with children. There's more resources. The family is closer. The people around here, you see, man, you can't get no state worker to do this. This is a county worker. She ain't got nothing else to do with this boy. Yeah, yeah. Her obligation to him is, is gone for her job duties, right? So, but because she live here in Dallas, she goes to see them at the grocery store. She goes to see them at the fair. And, and, and when they get in a situation, sometimes they got a call. I say, Miss, can you give me something to eat? Wow. Yeah. Those calls happen. Yes. You see what I'm saying? So, uh, this is what we get for keeping kids here. But because most people don't know about the Dallas Youth Village and the, and the services that it provides for our black boys out of Dallas with these violent crimes, you see how many chances he get? Mm-hmm. You see, so she said it's been four. So they, they not looking to lock them all up. It's a, it's an alternative and a resource to just locking them up. But we are made to believe they just locking them up. And that's not true at all. That's not true at all. So, Tray, what, what are we going to do? We're going to, I mean, uh, what, what do you aspire to do? You, you, you want to finish school, high school? Yes, sir. God's too. And how, how, how long do you have before you can finish? Cause you're 17 now, right? Yes, sir. All I need is .5 Curtis to be a senior and I'll be straight. That's what's up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good thing. So you feel like you're going to make that happen? Yes, sir. It's only in you to do it. Yes, sir. Yeah. Do you, do you don't mess with them sports too much? No, no, not really. What, what, what do you think? What do you, you know, to ask people this all the time? What do you want to be? You know, man, what's your dream job? What's your dream thing? I did want to become like a little doctor or something. It's not too late. Right. Yeah. Like a anesthesiologist go to the military or something. Yeah. All those things are possibilities. Yeah. So, I mean, so we are here. I did make the statement when I came down there that I would, you know, anytime somebody come home, we'll bless them. You know what I mean? You come through here. I told them that you weren't listening that day. You couldn't have been on there because I gave the store name. You could have hit me up. You could have Googled me. Yeah. Yeah. I was there, but I wasn't important. It's Charleston. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I gave it out. Well, in the beginning, you know, we didn't have all the dorms hooked up. Yeah. I take that. Because you hear it. And then they had, you know, and, you know, they had five days where they was, they was, I mean, they was, they was bombarded with not just information, but the different emotions that they went through because they hadn't really done that. So that's the first time that ever happened? Well, that's the first time it ever happened with that big of a host of black men. Yeah. Yeah. They were willing to help. People come in there and they'll tell a story and make them because they have to listen pretty much unless they go to lock up. But a lot of people come in there and give them a big dream, you know, and they'll tell them about their life story, but they never offer any type of services afterwards. So, so this something that Ms. King, see, this is what people have to realize. You can have the best programs in the world, but it's the people that you have facilitating the programs that make the biggest difference, right? So you can have the best program, but if you got cold hearted people teaching it, if you got people who don't believe children can change, if you got people who have their own personal ideology towards children who commit crimes, then your programs are ineffective. So if you got a gang program and you got a bunch of white college kids teaching it and you teaching it to gang-related black boys, then that's an ineffective program. It wouldn't, you can show it to be evidence-based, but our children don't connect with white gang members. Yeah, yeah. You see what I'm saying? Our children don't connect with white motorcycle gang. Right. So, so in order to change something in a child or really in anybody, you know, to correct something, you first have to have a relationship with the thing that you're trying to correct. Mm-hmm. So if you don't establish a relationship with these young people you're trying to correct, man, they waiting until they can eat the candy that you got after the talk. There's something. Once the candy gone and you gone. He laughing. He like, man. That's so true. No, no, that's so true. Which I bring us. That's what they, which I bring us. Yeah, I enjoyed that. You mean you sat there and listened for nothing? Yeah. And so what I, what I know is two years prior to that, Ms. King has say cheese TV mode three. What trap was Freddy one year. So she's bringing these more relatable people because I know some of them personally, but I just try to bring people that look like them and people that can relate to them that came from where they came from. That can help them to understand that they don't have to just be in their situation without something to look forward to. Right. And to kind of also help them to explain like the young man earlier was saying how he was with somebody, but he didn't make that choice. Because, you know, everybody wants to be a rapper. But do you know the paperwork behind being a rapper? Do you want, I want to teach y'all that part. Because you might not supposed to be the rapper. You might supposed to be the one to write the rap. All the producer. All the sign the rapper. But you don't ever know that and you only seen the rapper. So I'll say let me bring. What's his name? Did you know him? Let me bring Didger Norman here and talk to him because they know them. They know all of them. I don't. Yeah, they'll know. They'll know their music. They'll know something about it. Right. And these are kids that look like us. So we got to do something to relate to these children in a way that we can bring them out of darkness. Right. Because a lot of times what happens is the infrastructure. And you've you explained this to me. I learned this from you that that infrastructure when they come out is so important because they don't have it. Right. You see what I'm saying. 85% of adult inmates are real rested within five years. So that's 85% of every grown person who get out of prison within five years of back in prison. So that's back in prison in five years. So if you look at a lot of people when they get out of prison, wait five years. Then you start saying, OK, let them get past the five year threshold. So for young men like him, it's 80% is back real rested within one year after being released. Wow. The one we brought through here, he been shot already. I know. I seen. I told him. He told me about it. I was like, wow. So yeah. But he been in my spirit, right? It's barriers in our way to work with them. Yeah. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. I seen that last time when he came. So they, man, they set up to fail if the community is not here for him. Yeah. Man, his mama don't know what he need at this point. Man, she working, trying to keep the roof, not just for him, but for her. She got to deal with what she got to deal with mentally. She don't know what's in his heart. She don't know the niggas he hang with. Right. You see what I'm saying? No, I get it. We do. We got people from the facility that look at their Instagram page and say, say, man, that nigga there looked like he getting too wild. Right. We reach out to him. Say, nigga, take that down. Yeah. Yeah. But they don't know who watching them. Right. I'm saying we watching them. But it takes, it takes a village. It takes me to call. It takes me to call. Yeah. It'll take me to call my inside people because I can't lose my job. But I got some inside people. It means he don't know where. Yes, I do. I'll find you. Yeah. So, so, so he, so, so he, he got shot, right? Yeah. He called me. Now here come the test of mentor and young man. Say, man, what's up? What's going on, nigga? Oh, see, I'm ready to go to the studio. Oh, you ill? You off your curfew? Yeah. No. He don't call after nine. Oh. Nigga, I can't do that homie. You gonna lose respect for me if I do that. That's right. That's right. And then homie, I'm gonna risk everything that I have and been doing with kids. If I break the rules for you, homie. No, I can't do that. But he have to try. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You see what I'm saying? He have to try. Well, because I didn't go along with it, he pulled back from me. I think the cool Mr. Charleston, though. No, no, no. But I called and checked on him. Say, nigga, Miss King say called and she check in. What's her number? So he called and check in. Now he shot. But man, we... We don't find him. We don't find him. Yeah, yeah, he just followed me tonight on the restaurant. As soon as he followed him. Because we called. Yeah. Well, but we, man, we saw what he come back to. Yeah, he came back to something tough, man. And we seen that. And you spoke on it when he was here. So the young man didn't have the opportunity that you have. And that's something we see. They won't let him work. He can't get a job. Not because of us or the city. You know, it's his foundation. It's just what it is. So what we're saying as black people, we say, man, well, they mama and daddy should have done this. Well, why they mama? What happened to the saying that it takes a village? Right. And a parent can't raise the kid. The village raised the kid. The village. So we seeing the evidence man. First thing you say, man, the city messed up right now. Many young niggas killing. They killing and they want to kill. It ain't like they, we didn't really want to do it. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't want to be no killer. No, they want to do it. So what, what, what do Dallas County have? What do the black community have? What do the hip hop community have for those kids that want to kill? They don't want to hear shit by nobody talking but the rappers talking by killing. What do they have for them? No, that's a, that's a valid, valid point. He hang with them. So when he get out of work, he hanging with the one they want to kill. We got some for him. Yeah. Yeah. We ain't got nothing for them. They, they, they doing what they doing. Yeah. Yeah. But the music says it all too. It's a lot of that that comes through the music. How, how influential is the music? I mean, for me, music don't really influence me like that. But, uh, like. If you keep hearing the same thing over and over again with people carrying the guns and showing them on Instagram and acting like they're going to go do it and telling you how they're going to do it. Yeah. And then you're popping to get shot. I mean. You see what I'm saying? It's something to it. It's too close for comfort. Yeah. But like, not for me though, like, like, I engage in some of the stuff. The rappers be talking about it. Like, I don't really do it because they say they be talking about it. Like. Yeah. Well, it, it influenced me because I want my woman to do like that little girl making the statue. Yeah. Like that little girl making the statue. Yeah. Like that little girl making the statue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want a gun like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. Yeah. No. So, no, it is. Man, we just want to say, man, we're here for you, man. Yeah. At all costs, right? Charleston. Yeah. Right, Ms. King. Yes, sir. And anybody else that's coming from those situations, as we spoke on when we was at these facilities speaking. Yeah. We, we wanted, we wanted to, I was here already waiting on you. So, you know, you always, this store been here for 15 years. It ain't, and we, we've helped a lot of people, but now we connected with you. If you come through here and you, hey, man, I'm going through this. I'm going through that. Watch what I do. Let me show you what he did, homie. I wouldn't go better to come get you today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My baby's been having me strained up with the new school year, right? So, I had hit easy, man. I ain't going to be able to take my daughter home, ride way to North Dallas, come get you, then come over here. Man, that could be too much on me. Man, he put down everything he was doing. See, I go get him. Yeah. Because we don't want to disappoint y'all, huh? Yeah. I know y'all looking for us to lie. Y'all looking to be disappointed. That's the, that's the defense mechanism. Man, them niggas lying like them all, but you kind of hoping we will. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's been three weeks. Times, yeah. Yeah. I know what you've been thinking. I'm going to put you out. Yeah, I'm in here, though. I ain't been answering the phone because I don't want to lie to you. Oh. So, yeah. So, I know what you've been thinking, man. Yeah, but I've been here. Yeah. I'm the one. Yeah, I'm the one, though. I can promise you, if he ain't got y'all, I'm over here with you, too. He know that. That's why I put us together. That's why I called him. Yeah, he called and said, we ain't going to be able to do it. I said, man, I go get him. Yeah. Because I know already, this needs to happen, because at the end of the day, I've been there. I've been through it. I've been through a lot more, but at the end of the day, that's why God put us together because we've been through stuff. So, we should be able to help our youth, help the younger men. That's what we're here for. Now, if we go too long without y'all, if y'all call her, Ms. King ain't going to let us. She's going to call and say something. Yeah, I'm going to say something. She's going to call and say, she's going to say, yeah, she's going to call and hold us accountable. Mm-hmm. Y'all not only lying to them, y'all lying to me. Yeah. Yeah. They can't take it for myself. They can't take it for myself. Yeah. I'll be worse than y'all We don't want no smile. We don't want nothing. But now, definitely, man, we're going to definitely try to always stay connected even with the young boy. What was his name again? Dumb boy. Dumb boy. Dumb boy. Yeah, yeah. Dumb boy. If Vita shouted at me, I gave him my number that day. Yeah. You know that? Yeah. Kyle has phoned off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's phoned off right now. Yeah, but is Instagram working? Yeah, yeah. Is Instagram working? Yeah. So, one thing I'm saying is, man, I'm here. And Charleston's here. Yeah, but it's King's here. King's here. So, hey man, we here to try to help. And if you feel like you need somebody to talk to, somebody to call on, you have no excuse for here, brother. And I salute to you, brother, for going out and getting you a job. Yeah, no problem. And you know what I'm saying? Going and getting you a job and trying to create your own way. Even when you didn't feel like nobody was there. You see what I'm saying? You couldn't get a hold to this person. You still wouldn't got a job. Like I told Dumb boy, homie, as you begin to grow, when it's time to buy a car, homie, we the niggas to help you buy a car. Yes, sir. Man, whatever you need, man, to help you make the transition to give you the tools and the skills in order for you to be successful, that's what we signed up for. Yeah. My whole youth facility back yard full of cars, homie. So, I take Dumb boy, you know, I took a man show, man, you like that being niggas? It's go call about 4,000 and get it fixed. He was talking about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, bad mom. Yeah, but it give you something to work towards. Yeah. It give you something to work towards, homie. So, that's... But 100 work just like a Benz. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My son turned down the 2016 Honda Civic because he won the Chrysler 300. He walking right now. Yeah. He walking right now. Yeah. He getting dropped out. No, man. Hey, man, we love you, brother. Yeah. And like I said, we here for you, man. Like I said, man, you got my IG now. Hey, we rocking out. Ms. King, like I said, they own that thing. They watching everything on Instagram and so am I. You know, I'm on that thing, man. And then I want you to watch Boss Talk 101, too. Don't play with it. Yeah. They gonna keep you occupied, too. Yeah. You gonna get some good game from me. So, yeah. You gonna get some good game from me. Say it, man. Thank you so much, man. We love you, bro. Already. Okay. No problem. Been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. We all right, all right. It's up.