Breaking the Cycle: From Prison to Purpose

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What up, what up, what up? We're back. The Progression Podcast,
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man. I'm your host, 007. Fifth Ward Boy.
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Hey, man. It's been a great week, a great year, a great month,
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great week, a great day, great hour, great second.
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And man, I'm so glad that God gave me the chance to be here with you today.
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Like I say, it's the Progression Podcast, man.
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We speak liberation, education, Elevation.
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I always explain to people I was liberated from the street life,
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educated in the prison system, and elevated once I gave my life to Jesus Christ, right?
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Second Corinthians, I always start with this because when I was locked in a
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prison cell a long time ago, man, I was 30 miles from Mexico,
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and man, I was locked in this prison cell, and this was fed to me down.
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That's the way what you used to do. You don't do. And behold, like voila.
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And behold, all things are brand new, man.
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I like that, man. I love that because, hey, man, I got to tell you this,
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this one that we're about to talk about.
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I'm not putting nobody down and I'm not.
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I'm only trying to lift up and encourage and tell my brothers what the game is, man.
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Getting out of prison or just everyday life you
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know what i'm saying everyday life look what are
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we doing man what
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are we doing man i'm seeing so
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much stuff so much things on tv and
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the radio and internet and uh
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coming across my table uh even
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things in my family even things uh in
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my church uh things everyday things even
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my stuff at work i'm seeing stuff what
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are we doing so what are we doing
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man this this stuff is
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is blowing my mind man i gotta turn this music down because we gotta get right
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into it we gotta get right into it why why do people i'm gonna give my first
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one why do people love negativity why do people love negativity because i'm
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gonna tell you something,
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In Proverbs 26 and 11, as a dog returns to his vomit.
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So a fool repeats his foolishness. I'm going to tell you about me.
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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
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I was like a dog in the streets that runs out to a car, gets hit by the car,
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and then goes back on the side and waits for a car and times it again to get hit again.
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That's how I went back to the penitentiary. I was there twice.
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Because I was that dog that returned to his vomit, that licks his vomit. You see it all the time.
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So do a fool return and repeats his foolishness.
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Why do we love negativity?
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It's like we thrive on it. I had a homeboy one time, right?
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He used to tell me, you know, he used to brag about his conquests,
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his conquests with different women other than his wife.
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And I used to say, man, you just got caught like two years ago.
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He was like, yeah. I said, you just ain't happy until it's all burned down. And he said, yeah.
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He loved the calamity. It's like he loved the drama.
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I'm telling my, I guess him and his wife, they thrived off that.
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If it wasn't that, they would have been doing something else.
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But why do we love negativity?
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It's like we navigate to the negative, right? When something happens that's
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real, you know, joyous, like a joyous occasion, it's always somebody that says, but what about this?
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But what about this? Jesus walked on water. They said, oh, that's just because he can't swim.
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Man, why do we love negativity? Amen.
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Positivity is the way. If I wasn't positive that I was going to get out of prison,
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I don't think I would have.
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I don't thrive on the negativity, man. Hey, man, if you thrive on the negativity,
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I don't even want to be around you.
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I don't love negativity, man.
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Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. I'm going back to what are we doing.
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In the headlines, and this might go over a lot of people's heads because you're
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not in the hip-hop world, and I am.
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And I love hip-hop. I've been part of hip-hop. I'm in the hip-hop book, as a matter of fact.
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But I love it so much, and I see what's going on.
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I'm like the fire hydrant. I'm
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not in the streets, but I'm close enough to it to know what's going on.
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It's a guy named Poo Shiesty. I know you've heard of him, and some of you ain't.
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But Poo Shisey was signed to a record label owned by a man named Gucci Mane, Robert Roderick Davis.
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So Poo Shisey went to prison after his fame, right? He had a big, big load of fame, right?
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So now he's just got out of prison. And man, he was burning hot.
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I'm talking about he in the halfway house, but he put out some music that's been burning hot, man.
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It's been selling, been taking care of business. They've been doing it on the airwaves, right?
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And I guess, I guess, allegedly, this is allegedly, he wants to get out of his
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contract with Gucci Mane to pursue bigger avenues, right?
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Maybe somebody told him, hey, if you get out that deal, I'll give you this deal,
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and you'll be bigger than you ever been, right?
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So he calls Gucci Mane, allegedly, calls him and says, Hey, we need to have
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a business meeting and I need to be let out of my contract.
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The story goes, Goochie flies in for the meeting and gets robbed,
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gets a gunpoint made to get him out of his contract, all kind of stuff, right?
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What are we doing? Hey, man, you just got out of prison. I don't know.
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I think you did five years or six years or something.
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Got out of prison, man. You had the ability to walk out that place.
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And now, before you even get the monitor off your leg, you do some gangster stuff.
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Hey, man, let me tell you something. What you feel is gangster,
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but it's really foolish.
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It's not gangster. That's not gangster. Gangster is handling your business,
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taking care of your family, and now everything might crumble.
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Everything might crumble. As a dog returns to his vomit, so does a fool repeat his foolishness.
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Poor shiesty, if it's true, had no business being outside doing what he was doing.
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Right? So then, I was saying, why do we love negativity? What are we doing?
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Let me tell you something.
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Before upward mobility begins, inward maturity has to be present.
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Before you take that leap and go far and all that stuff, you got to be mature
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enough to handle that level, right?
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You got to be mature. Like, I can't give my little kid the car,
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the keys to the car and say, hey, man, give him that kind of responsibility
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and say, hey, man, don't go to the store and give me something to eat.
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He never drove before. He never been in that position.
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He don't know how the cars go in the car. He don't even not operate a vehicle.
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But if I give him the keys, he had to have some maturity.
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To handle that, to gain upward mobility, you've got to be sure.
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And if you're not ready, that's why I say my guys in prison,
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I tell my boys I just got there last week.
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I was at Pam Lishner and some guys was being let out, and I was speaking to
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them about navigating this world.
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And I was telling them about I know we make a lot of plans when we're in prison.
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We make a lot of plans, right?
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But plans do fail. Some plans do fail. But I was telling them the goal is to stay free.
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The goal is to stay free. The plan might fail, but change the plan,
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but don't change the goal.
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The goal is always to stay free.
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Right now, I'm not being a Bible head or Jesus Junior or nothing like that and
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telling you, hey, man, I'm telling you, only thing you could do,
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you better do this. Read your Bible all day.
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Do this. And look, man, I'm not telling you that. I'm just telling you how it happened for me.
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I can't give you the scripture and tell you how to do it. You can combat me
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on that all the time, man.
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That's wrote by him. That's wrote by the white man. I can only tell you my experience.
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My experience is when I gave my life to Jesus Christ, everything got better.
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I was let go out of the prison system. I got with some partners that showed
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me some accountability that showed me that.
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And then, man, hey, I've been out there ever since. 20 years ago, man.
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Almost 19 years ago, it's going to be 20 years. Been out of prison.
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Right? Let me tell y'all something, man.
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What I think we do, I think we do, we think it's a competition.
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I think we think it's a competition. Man, it's no competition.
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It's room enough for everyone, for everybody.
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Man, let me tell you something. Maybe him and that dude didn't get along, right?
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But I done seen a million rappers and people that was over that had the company that didn't get a loan.
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Hey, man, I'm going to get my money. I'm going to get my money.
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Hey, I'm going to do my thing.
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Hey, contractually, I'm obligated, so I'm going to fill it.
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And when I'm going to stay in my lane and when I get out of that contract,
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I can swerve all over the road if I want to.
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No competition, man. There's room enough for everybody. But what I wanted to
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tell you is that I think this is just between me and you.
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I think it's too many people wanting to be a boss.
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Too many people wanting to be a boss. Let me tell you about this boss theory.
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I saw my boy Damon Dash.
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He was on The Breakfast Club, and he was calling off on them like,
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you're not a boss. You're not a boss. I'm a boss.
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See, I do this. I do that. Let me tell you something about a boss.
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Sometimes the mindsets are not equal, and it's not putting nobody down.
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But everybody don't have the capacity to be the boss.
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Everybody don't have the capacity
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to be the boss. I'm pretty sure Pooh Shiesty wanted to be the boss.
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But you see, Gougemane is the boss. But he want to be the boss.
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Everybody's mindsets are not equal. Remember what I was telling you.
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It's a level of maturity that has to happen if you want up on mobility.
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He's still robbing, allegedly.
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He's still taking some, allegedly. He don't have that, you know,
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that legislation kind of thing going on with him, right?
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Let me tell you about being a boss. If everybody was a boss,
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say I have 20 KFCs, 30 Burger Kings, and all my people is trying to be the boss.
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Who going to work? Who going to be the workers?
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We need some workers too, man. We're going to be the workers.
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Let me tell y'all something. It's nothing wrong.
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It ain't nothing wrong with a nine to five. Don't let Dame Dash fool you.
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Because right now, right now he's in a position that he wish he wouldn't have never said.
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He'd never tell you that, but he wish he wouldn't have said those stupid things
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that was coming out of his mouth.
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A lot of the things he was saying, see I'm leaving this to my kids, all of it's gone.
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I'm going to tell you like them kids say, this cap, that's cap.
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Hey man, somebody got to work.
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Somebody got to work in the place. Everybody cannot be a boss.
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The mindsets are not equal.
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And if you result back to the same way you were before you got out of prison, hey man.
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Say, man, you in for a treat. You in for a big trouble.
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I'm telling you. I want to go back to that thing, man, because I want to tell you about me.
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As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.
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Let me tell you, me, 007, what are we doing?
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I was in prison the first time I did.
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I was in there from 2000 to 2004.
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When I got out, I just said, you know what?
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I'm going to just be good. I don't need that Bible. I'm not going to pick that
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mess up. You know what I'm saying? That's for fakers anyway.
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You got to be faking to be doing that, right? That's what I thought.
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Before a year was up, I was back in prison. I was back in prison before a year's up.
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I found myself an hour, I think, 90 miles, 30 miles from Mexico in a cell,
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in a pison cell, first one, and then in a Sereno cell.
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Then I couldn't it's a whole big story you gotta buy the movie if you want to
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know the story about me but,
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I had to get in a 23 hour cell,
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23 hour lockdown only one hour was out but it really wasn't out all you could
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do is see the sky you had walls all around you all you could see is the sky and I stayed in there.
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When I was released from that place, I really knew something.
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I did everything I needed to do to get out here and not be premature. Let me explain that.
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A woman, when she's pregnant, the baby is inside her. She got to eat right.
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She got to take prenatal vitamins.
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She can't smoke. She can't drink. She can't do anything negative to the baby.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because that could cause premature labor. And that's what happens when we just,
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you know, try to live that life of, you know,
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I'm saying a prison life instead of getting everything in us not to ever come back. Right.
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Hey, man, don't be premature when you get out of here.
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If everything that I say is true, well, everything they say is true that happened
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with the situation, hey, man, the man was premature when he got out of here.
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Then you gave him a whole bunch of cash. That made it real worse.
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Yeah, that made it worse.
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Hey, man, like I say, man, what are we doing? Hey, man, we don't,
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we just love negativity.
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And let me get to my last thoughts, man. Let me get my last thoughts,
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man. I want to thank y'all for subscribing to my YouTube channel.
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I've been down on the social media for a while, but I'm back.
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A few people can catch me.
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Man, I've been doing a lot of prison ministry. It's been great.
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And, man, I want to thank y'all. My last thoughts. Wake up. It's not a dress rehearsal.
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We dressed up, but it's not rehearsal. It's real life.
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Man, them people is not playing with us.
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And both sides are laughing at us. Both sides.
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And I'm talking about, you know who I'm talking about. They laughing at us and we laughing at us.
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I'm like, man, I'm not going to be entertainment for everybody. Right?
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If I can't entertain the right way, I'm sure not going to be on that news entertaining,
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with my hands behind our back.
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Say, man, when you deal with these feds, man, or you deal with the state,
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I don't care who you deal with.
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When you're dealing with these police officers and judges and our lawyers and
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all that stuff, hey, man, it's not meant for us.
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Wake up. This is not just dress rehearsal. This is real life. The play done started.
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Hey, man, hey, 007, man, I love y'all.
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Man, I'm glad I got through this episode. I done did it by 18 times.
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Hey, man, I love y'all. Peace.