December 20, 2022 • 30 mins
Malik and April (Malik’s Secret Weapon) pay tribute to DJ tWitch whom they met during the pandemic and discuss the impact he made on their lives.
HipHopoly creator Chuck Carter stops into Malik Books to promote his new board game and his slogan “you can either be a product of your environment, or a product of your enlightenment”!
Malik interview Tatyerra Mikell, author of the new children’s book “The Birthday Princess”, because children are 100% of our future!
And last week’s episode brought in some MORE loaded questions! Malik responds in another edition of Malik’s Mailbag! E-mail Malik at RealMalikMuhammad@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My Leady Books has how the knowledge you wanted. My
League Books has how the knowledge you need? My League Books, Yeah,
they have all the books that the whole wild world
want to read. My League Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to me.
Lays Books Show bringing a world together with books, culture
(00:21):
and community. What's up? What's up? What's up? This has
been an eventful week because we did another book give away.
We gave away thousands of books in the last two weeks.
We're so grateful. We wanted to bless the community and
we gave away books because the community blessed us, and
(00:42):
we wanted to bless the community. We gave away kids.
It's holiday, and hey, books is the gift that keeps
on giving. So we what gave away thousands and thousands
of books. Were very grateful. We're very thankful, and so hey,
you know, we love books and we want you to
love books. So it's been an eventful week. Um My
(01:06):
podcast is This episode is called Rest and Power d J. Twitch.
Um Me and April were having a deep conversation about,
you know, our relationship and experience with Twitch. We thought
we'd do a tribute to his life and our experience
(01:30):
and just our thoughts about just how you know he
blessed us and what do you mean to us? We
are also talking about um the Malik's Metal Bag. So
I got a couple of questions from the community that
I'm gonna answer, and I got a couple of interviews
(01:51):
as well. On this episode, a game, a boy game
came across. You know he brought up. He did a
board game called him Hoppily, and so I got an
interview with the creator of this game. And it's about,
you know, by the block, either be a government live
(02:13):
on government assisted or try to buy the invest in
real estate so that that board game is available at
Melik Books. And I had an interview with the creator
of the board game hip hop Hoppily. Also also we
have an interview with uh Tatiana who wrote a book
(02:34):
called The Birthday Princess. I was able to interview her
and uh I'm gonna bring that interview as well. So
sit back and enjoy the fifty four episode of Malik's
Book Show, bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
(03:01):
As many of you have witnessed this week, a star
has fallen. I don't know the circumstances behind would Lad
to his death but I know that he impacted a
lot of people, including Malik in April and Malik Books.
(03:24):
And I'm speaking about DJ Twitch. Sir Twitch did hosted
The Ellen Show or was a part of The Ellen Show,
but there are times when he hosted episodes, and say
it again, ours was one of them. He during the pandemic,
he hosted an episode with Malik in April to help
(03:50):
our mission and we wanted to just reflect on the
impact that he made to us personally. And me and
April are going to you know, it's out. We want
to remember I'll fall instoy the joy, the joy that
(04:15):
he illuminated from him. All I've seen and felt was
joy was joy. Joy. We see him dancing, We see
him with his wife, we see him with his family,
you know, because we followed them on social media. But
more importantly, you know, he followed Malik Books and he
(04:37):
invited us on The Ellen Show to help support Not
only did invite, he supported donated towards to help us
during the pandemic. And then he featured in and encouraged
people nationwide to donate to Malik Books, and he did.
He donated um not only publicly, he donated privately because
(05:00):
I am the one who governs the back office basically
on my online sales, and he's done things behind the
scenes that nobody would have known. And that that right
there speaks valumes because a lot of people can use
their mouth and say I'm gonna do something, but when
you put action behind it, it really speaks volumes of
(05:22):
who you are as a person. Yes, yes, yes, And
just you know, it was very heart felt to see,
you know, our beloved brother pass away in the way
that he passed away. It was very heart felt. And
I you know, we had to just talk about Twitch because, um,
(05:43):
you know, he was very joyful, He was a family man,
he was talented. I don't want to go further without
giving peace to his family because, um, at the end
of the day, that's what I welcome, peace and some
type of understanding of the matter, because we're not in
(06:06):
their household, and we don't understand everybody household. But I
offer grace, peace and understanding. Absolutely, we sent our condolence,
we sent our prayers, and we are forever thankful and
grateful for having a personal relationship with Twitch. And he
(06:34):
would never be forgotten. He would never be forgotten. The smile,
the smile, the laugh, the pop, lock, the dance, the joy, joy,
the joy man. And I know his family is going
through a lot, and we're gonna pray for his family
(06:56):
and we, you know, wish that in time aim and
all good time, because nothing I could say or do
I know for a fact, the only time can heal
such awful pain. I mean, we're feeling pain and we
you know, only had a small relationship relationship. But this
(07:23):
this brother, this brother you know, is beloved by many,
and Malik Books is one of them. And we appreciate you. Twitch,
We love you, Twitch, resting power, twitch and um and
uh if there's a such things and we know you're
(07:45):
dancing right now, dancing on the stars, dancing on the sun,
did you still bringing joy above um? Another thing I
want to say is, um, we know from this incident
that a lot of people are suffering in silence, even
(08:07):
behind a laughter and a smile. Please please please hug somebody,
kiss somebody. I love you, mm hmm, Please have a
wonderful day, because you just never know what that I
love you or a smile and hey you look beautiful,
Hey you look cancel may do to someone. You just
(08:29):
never know that that mental health is real, and depression
is real, and people going through things silently is real,
and all with a smile on their face. With a smile. Oh,
I mean I had a co worker years ago and
he had the same kind of personality every time, high energy,
(08:51):
always full of life, you know, encouraging of lifting. You
know all listen d DJ with all of this. And
my friend was like this, and then one day he
committed suicide. And it was just mind boggling because the
precious gift that you can ever be blessed with his life.
It will get better, I promise you tomorrow. It always does.
(09:16):
It might seem like it's the worst day. I know
it's easier said than done to people that don't understand
or don't have that mental health issue, but I promise
you it will be better tomorrow. There's nothing in life
that you can't overcome. Nothing, um and you might not
think that and you might not know that, but there's nothing.
(09:40):
I mean. I just picture, you know, his beautiful wife,
his beautiful kids. You know that wasn't even powerful enough
to motivate him, you know, to to stay. It's like man,
one is bigger and stronger than loved ones and family
what could breakthrough what was going on that you can
(10:02):
break through that never know. But if you're struggling, if
you have mental health issues, if you're thinking about suicide,
if you reach out to someone and consult someone, because
there's help, There are hotlines, there are people who devote
their whole life to help you through these moments and whatever,
(10:23):
and people suffering silace, you know, and unfortunately, you know,
we lost another one. We lost another one, and I
can't help but think that something could have been done,
something could have been sad because I just think that,
you know, if it's you know anything about life, you
(10:45):
can overcome anything. You can. But if you give up,
you know, and I feel like if you got life
and you can overcome, but when you put a parent
on that life, there ain't no chance to change anything.
And you don't think about what you're gonna leave behind
because people that he loved, that loved him, it's going
(11:08):
to suffer. So the pain he was feeling had to
be so intense that he was blinded by the fact
that his family won't suffer so much pain and grief
and oh my god, it's just you know, and I'm
just assuming I heard it was sou aside. You know, Um,
(11:32):
I heard the same, if that is true, If it's true,
because um, it's always keep the door for something nefarious
or whatever. I don't know, but um, you know potential.
You know, that's why they investigate. But because he meant
so much, does what we just want to talk about there,
(11:53):
and we still lost the life. We still lost a
beautiful soul. We still lost a little laughter from that
beautiful person, Sir Twitch. Ah yeah, yeah, wow. I encourage.
If you want to to see a little bit of
(12:16):
Twitch and a great memory of Twitch, Hey, you can
go to Mileek books uh Instagram. We got the link
in our link tree. You can go to the Milik
books on YouTube. We got the footage of belief of
Twitch interviewing Melik in April, and um, you know, we
like to remember him in laughter and laughter and joy
(12:40):
and love and happiness. I want to thank you family
for sharing him with us. Thank you, and um from
me Emily, we wish you peace, love and joy and
some type of understanding amen on that I hope you enjoyed.
This episode is dedicated to Twitch and his family. Long
(13:04):
live the soul and body of such a wonderful human being. Peace,
my brother, rest in power. Malik Books just came across
a board game car Hip Popperly, and I have the
(13:26):
inventor of this game right here at Malik Books, and
I need him to break this game down because we
all know about Monopoly, but now you need to know
about Hip Hoppily. His name is what Chuck Carter. I
am the owner's last creator of the board game on
this Hip Hopperly, which is the first Opperly themed game
designed for the culture UH and it's designed to represent
(13:48):
what life is like in inner cities UM. It's also
designed to provoke thought and inspire mindset change by helping
people understand that life is less about where we're from,
our trials and tribulations, but more or so about the
decisions that we make, which is a product of our
mindset and aspirations are slogan is you can either be
a product of your environment or a product of your enlightenment. Wait,
(14:11):
I love that, by the block, is just what this
game is teaching. Yes, sir, we also incorporated things such
as UH gentrification. We incorporated things such as voting. We
incorporated things such as a credit, the difference between good
and bad credit. We also incorporated decision making. So financial
literacy is part of this game, absolutely, absolutely, you know.
(14:35):
More more importantly is the decision making aspect that we
added to a traditional monopoly. You pull a card to
tell you whether you pay or collect this game, you
may have to decide if you want to invest in
yourself or settle for the government's assistance. You may have
to decide if you want to be a blessing to
somebody else or act like you didn't hear that voice
in your spirit telling you to do it and be
all about yourself. You know, it's through for self, for
(14:57):
self for the consequence. It's not like this game. Yeah,
it's teaching how to do for self? What's the ages
for this game? Thirteen and up? Up? And I see
here it's just depicted like it's this board game for
any location across America or did you pick a certain
area or region. So, so we wanted to start with
(15:18):
l A, obviously me being from l A, but we
wanted to go to different cities and based it around
hip hop artists and the cities that they come from
to make it more relatable to the community. So it's
relatable to the grip because I see Slauson Avenue right here. So, hey,
I'm from l A and I have the Hip hoppily
at Malik Books now, so you heard it right here
(15:40):
at Melik Books. Come through, pick up the board game.
Let's help this brother sell this game. Thank you brother.
Any last words, they can reach you about uh later
on your Instagram our Instagram handle. You can follow us
at hip hip hop lye h I p h O
p O l y on all social media platforms. Appreciate
the support. Malik, Thank you, thank you, my brother. Talk
(16:05):
to Er Michel new author Birthday Princess. Yeah, that Malik Books.
So I want to just talk to you to get
some information about your new beautiful book. Okay, thank you.
We having to heaven and as she walked in it,
so tell me about this beautiful children book because we
believe children our future. Absolutely same here. The Birthday Princess
is about a little girl and her unspecial bond. It's
(16:28):
about familiar relationships beyond your mom and dad and what
does they look like. To celebrate you and celebrate black joy,
black children's joy and give them the space to feel
seen and loved by their entire family and their extended family.
And it just showcases how important it is to uplift
our young kids, specifically in this book, our young girls,
(16:49):
and remind them to always celebrate themselves because sometimes the
world won't. I love your breakdown well when they what
inspired you to breath. It's actually based on my own life.
I've been fortunate enough to have such community. My parents
built such a huge community for us, including friends and family,
including an unlike unseen in the book, who also shared
(17:10):
a birthday with me, and we would celebrate our birthdays together,
and she taught me the importance of self love and
self appreciation itself. Joey Solf. It's it's based on the
true Sorry, yeah, well hey, I'm all about Hunter person,
about you two children and love of self and worth
and how you view yourself as very important to be successful.
And so I love books that identified just that because
(17:34):
as women and as men, we're gonna be you know,
we're gonna be challenged with certain things in society, and
so we want kids to health confidence. Yes, so, and
and you got an award here for yes, I did
we want a Mom's Choice. Wore a Gold Mom's Choice
Award for Family Media. So it's a book that the
entire family can enjoy, boys and girls can enjoy and
(17:55):
really learned to celebrate themselves on their birthdays and beyond
and build that confidence. Ain't you're talking about absolutely? Yeah,
well this is an am with the book. We got
to hear them believe and it's on our website believe
boost dot com the Birthday Princess. Yes, thank you so much.
That's my first show. So I'm really happy that my
first show was thank you, appreciate you million copies I
(18:18):
received that. Thank you, Trey and Culver City. I understand
your point about censoring people on social media, but where
do you draw the line. If someone on social media
says they don't want the vaccination, that's fine, But what
(18:38):
about someone tweeting that the vaccination makes you sterile, or
the vaccination contains the microchips that allows Bill Gates to
track you, or that the vaccination turned you into a
lizard person. What about and an official looking tweet that
says election days has been moved? Doesn't The social media
(19:01):
platform has a responsibility to police that and take those
comments down. It's one thing to say politician is corrupt
and you shouldn't vote for them, but calling them a pedophile?
Where is the line. Is it taken away someone's freedom
(19:22):
of speech to take those comments down or suspend those
users trade. That was a loading question. I respect the question.
It's pot I'm gonna do my best to answer. Now
as far as should the social media platform have a
(19:48):
responsibility to take down fraud, scams, misleading information? And does
that affect you know, oh your first to men right
in terms of censorship or I get it. I get it,
because all over the Internet as well as social media,
(20:11):
there are posts that are questionable. Now, my understanding about
social media platforms is that they're not in the editing
business like a newspaper like the Washington Post, New York Times,
the l a time. They have editors and they're liable,
(20:33):
so therefore they have to protect their brand and their interests.
Social media platforms wasn't designed that way. It's the design
that people can, you know, say and do certain things
within the service terms and conditions, all right, And people
(20:54):
saying misleading information, they're allowed to do that on social media.
And when people start when they started changing the terms,
terms and conditions, they started getting into censorship. When they
started having meetings with the government of the United States
to determine what should go on the platform and not
then that censorship. The government shouldn't be in the business
(21:17):
of determining what should be posted and whatnot. Yeah, it's
a lot of fraud and a lot of scam and
on the internet, on social media, and it should be
it should be addressed or removed to some extent. I
don't believe that there is anything wrong with a person
(21:41):
posting on the internet that they had an adverse effect
from this experimental drug. That they don't have a lot
of data. Now over two million, three hundred thousand according
to the VARs database, are right. This keeps track at
first effects over two million you hear me, Over two
(22:06):
million people have rolled in had adverse effects. This database
virus is called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, And
forty five thousand people or more have died dropped dead
just taking the vaccination. Do you think it's appropriate trait
(22:29):
for the government or a physician or a reporter to
say is safe and effective when people are dropping dead
when they're taken. And they don't tell people this. They
don't tell that people get mild card datis. They don't
tell people that people have been hospitalized two hundred thousand
(22:52):
hospitalized right after the shot. They don't tell you that
people walking in and taking the vaccination and what heaven
death and that don't and that tells me that ain't safe.
An the fact of me, you should know your you
should know up front what you're getting into when when
you take a shot this experimental. It's your choice. That's
(23:15):
between you, your God, your doctor. But we now know
that people are taking a shot. People who didn't take
the shot get factioned. I mean people have gotten vaccinated
who didn't get vaccinated, They catch COVID, they transmit COVID,
(23:37):
it don't matter. I know people who taking a shot
got COVID again and dropped dead. Okay, so it's a
lot of misleading information. And government has weighed in on
this and its censored professional doctors about this vaccination. And
(23:59):
in order to have of I think some type of
you know, direction, you gotta have public debate. They silenced
one side while they allowed only one side to speak
their mind their thoughts, while another side was silence, removed
and censor. Now, I think that's sensor ship. I think
(24:22):
that sensor ship. And I'm not saying that certain scams
and certain misleading information shouldn't be addressed. But who is Twitter, Facebook,
and Instagram and snapchat and twick TikTok Who they ain't
to decide who's telling the truth when they don't even
know they they don't even know, you know, somebody telling
(24:47):
them this is right, and so remove everybody else, only
to find out years later they told us or if
you take the vaccination that you won't be transmittable or
you won't never get it again. That was a lie. Okay,
So now way, all right, people people have taken a vaccination,
they hospitalized, they die in they're catching it, they transmitted it,
(25:11):
all right. So yeah, I think that any business has
has has a right to protect their brand and does
have a right too, but it needs to be without discrimination.
And what's taking place on social media that has been
discrimination against one group against the other. That's what's me
going on. And the only reason why they're getting away
(25:32):
with this is because politicians in the government and the
media are lining up against these small voices that are
being removed and silence and censure. The bottom line is
is discrimination taking place. And Black people know all too
long about discrimination. We know all too long about oppression
(25:56):
and our voices being silented. So my position here is
that it's discriminating and it's in it um, and these
platforms are violating their own service terms and so forth,
because they have an army of attorneys and lawyers and
(26:16):
they have the full way to the government and media
blogging them up. Jada in mid City Malik, you claim
to be bringing the world together with books, culture and community.
The best way to bring the world together is to
stay away from politics. Jada, you must be a mind reader.
(26:40):
Just this past week I was thinking along that line.
Malie's book show is bringing a world together with books,
culture and community. And I absolutely believe politics is divisive.
(27:01):
I also believe religion is the divisive I think that
if you're stay away from politics and if you stay
away from religion, you'll have a better chance and bringing
many people together. But here's the ticker. Politics and religion
(27:23):
are so essential in people's lives. I only talk about
it sparingly. Most of my episodes on the Least Bookshelf
are about empowerment, about economics, about believing in yourself, elevating yourself,
(27:44):
and what's going on in the community. I don't spend
a whole lot of time on politics and religion per se.
Why because I feel it's divisive and I'm trying to
focus on elevating people and bringing people together. Man. I
believe books, and I believe culture, and I believe community
(28:05):
can bring people together. I think the differences in people's
culture and customs and communities. I think the differences would
allow us to know each other better. But we need
to have understanding of each other and not be judgmental
(28:27):
or critical. Because everybody has their own version and aspect
of how they see life. So I personally feel that
politics is not the golden goose. I feel that economics
(28:47):
and emphasizing pulling money together, building communities brings people together,
brings a better city, neighborhood community. I really believe that.
And this is why I've been trying to use my
podcast and sometimes I didn't Dad and a few things
(29:10):
political and a few things, but I don't go so
hard because that's not my m O. That's not really
my focus for Melak's bookshelf. You know, I'm not looking
to get people rolled up just so they don't go anywhere.
I want you to use that energy to what do
for self? Change your life? Do better, be a better citizen,
(29:34):
a better father, a better husband, a better wife, and
you know, pay it forward. Listen. We ain't gonna never
see a world where everybody is just gonna get alone,
all right. That's a fairy tale. And I'm not trying
to bring a world together. This unrealistic, all right, But
I think we can bring a world together of like
(29:55):
mind where people can get alone and fellowship and be
all together, pray together, and one good fortune together. Now,
how you can do that without politics? Your guests as
good as my Thank you for your question, Thanks for
listening to Melik's Bookshelf, where topics on the sholf, our books,
(30:18):
culture and community. Be sure to subscribe and leave me
a review. Check out my instagram at Milik Books. See
you next time,
My Leady Books has how the knowledge you wanted. My
League Books has how the knowledge you need? My League Books, Yeah,
they have all the books that the whole wild world
want to read. My League Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to me.
Lays Books Show bringing a world together with books, culture
(00:21):
and community. What's up? What's up? What's up? This has
been an eventful week because we did another book give away.
We gave away thousands of books in the last two weeks.
We're so grateful. We wanted to bless the community and
we gave away books because the community blessed us, and
(00:42):
we wanted to bless the community. We gave away kids.
It's holiday, and hey, books is the gift that keeps
on giving. So we what gave away thousands and thousands
of books. Were very grateful. We're very thankful, and so hey,
you know, we love books and we want you to
love books. So it's been an eventful week. Um My
(01:06):
podcast is This episode is called Rest and Power d J. Twitch.
Um Me and April were having a deep conversation about,
you know, our relationship and experience with Twitch. We thought
we'd do a tribute to his life and our experience
(01:30):
and just our thoughts about just how you know he
blessed us and what do you mean to us? We
are also talking about um the Malik's Metal Bag. So
I got a couple of questions from the community that
I'm gonna answer, and I got a couple of interviews
(01:51):
as well. On this episode, a game, a boy game
came across. You know he brought up. He did a
board game called him Hoppily, and so I got an
interview with the creator of this game. And it's about,
you know, by the block, either be a government live
(02:13):
on government assisted or try to buy the invest in
real estate so that that board game is available at
Melik Books. And I had an interview with the creator
of the board game hip hop Hoppily. Also also we
have an interview with uh Tatiana who wrote a book
(02:34):
called The Birthday Princess. I was able to interview her
and uh I'm gonna bring that interview as well. So
sit back and enjoy the fifty four episode of Malik's
Book Show, bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
(03:01):
As many of you have witnessed this week, a star
has fallen. I don't know the circumstances behind would Lad
to his death but I know that he impacted a
lot of people, including Malik in April and Malik Books.
(03:24):
And I'm speaking about DJ Twitch. Sir Twitch did hosted
The Ellen Show or was a part of The Ellen Show,
but there are times when he hosted episodes, and say
it again, ours was one of them. He during the pandemic,
he hosted an episode with Malik in April to help
(03:50):
our mission and we wanted to just reflect on the
impact that he made to us personally. And me and
April are going to you know, it's out. We want
to remember I'll fall instoy the joy, the joy that
(04:15):
he illuminated from him. All I've seen and felt was
joy was joy. Joy. We see him dancing, We see
him with his wife, we see him with his family,
you know, because we followed them on social media. But
more importantly, you know, he followed Malik Books and he
(04:37):
invited us on The Ellen Show to help support Not
only did invite, he supported donated towards to help us
during the pandemic. And then he featured in and encouraged
people nationwide to donate to Malik Books, and he did.
He donated um not only publicly, he donated privately because
(05:00):
I am the one who governs the back office basically
on my online sales, and he's done things behind the
scenes that nobody would have known. And that that right
there speaks valumes because a lot of people can use
their mouth and say I'm gonna do something, but when
you put action behind it, it really speaks volumes of
(05:22):
who you are as a person. Yes, yes, yes, And
just you know, it was very heart felt to see,
you know, our beloved brother pass away in the way
that he passed away. It was very heart felt. And
I you know, we had to just talk about Twitch because, um,
(05:43):
you know, he was very joyful, He was a family man,
he was talented. I don't want to go further without
giving peace to his family because, um, at the end
of the day, that's what I welcome, peace and some
type of understanding of the matter, because we're not in
(06:06):
their household, and we don't understand everybody household. But I
offer grace, peace and understanding. Absolutely, we sent our condolence,
we sent our prayers, and we are forever thankful and
grateful for having a personal relationship with Twitch. And he
(06:34):
would never be forgotten. He would never be forgotten. The smile,
the smile, the laugh, the pop, lock, the dance, the joy, joy,
the joy man. And I know his family is going
through a lot, and we're gonna pray for his family
(06:56):
and we, you know, wish that in time aim and
all good time, because nothing I could say or do
I know for a fact, the only time can heal
such awful pain. I mean, we're feeling pain and we
you know, only had a small relationship relationship. But this
(07:23):
this brother, this brother you know, is beloved by many,
and Malik Books is one of them. And we appreciate you. Twitch,
We love you, Twitch, resting power, twitch and um and
uh if there's a such things and we know you're
(07:45):
dancing right now, dancing on the stars, dancing on the sun,
did you still bringing joy above um? Another thing I
want to say is, um, we know from this incident
that a lot of people are suffering in silence, even
(08:07):
behind a laughter and a smile. Please please please hug somebody,
kiss somebody. I love you, mm hmm, Please have a
wonderful day, because you just never know what that I
love you or a smile and hey you look beautiful,
Hey you look cancel may do to someone. You just
(08:29):
never know that that mental health is real, and depression
is real, and people going through things silently is real,
and all with a smile on their face. With a smile. Oh,
I mean I had a co worker years ago and
he had the same kind of personality every time, high energy,
(08:51):
always full of life, you know, encouraging of lifting. You
know all listen d DJ with all of this. And
my friend was like this, and then one day he
committed suicide. And it was just mind boggling because the
precious gift that you can ever be blessed with his life.
It will get better, I promise you tomorrow. It always does.
(09:16):
It might seem like it's the worst day. I know
it's easier said than done to people that don't understand
or don't have that mental health issue, but I promise
you it will be better tomorrow. There's nothing in life
that you can't overcome. Nothing, um and you might not
think that and you might not know that, but there's nothing.
(09:40):
I mean. I just picture, you know, his beautiful wife,
his beautiful kids. You know that wasn't even powerful enough
to motivate him, you know, to to stay. It's like man,
one is bigger and stronger than loved ones and family
what could breakthrough what was going on that you can
(10:02):
break through that never know. But if you're struggling, if
you have mental health issues, if you're thinking about suicide,
if you reach out to someone and consult someone, because
there's help, There are hotlines, there are people who devote
their whole life to help you through these moments and whatever,
(10:23):
and people suffering silace, you know, and unfortunately, you know,
we lost another one. We lost another one, and I
can't help but think that something could have been done,
something could have been sad because I just think that,
you know, if it's you know anything about life, you
(10:45):
can overcome anything. You can. But if you give up,
you know, and I feel like if you got life
and you can overcome, but when you put a parent
on that life, there ain't no chance to change anything.
And you don't think about what you're gonna leave behind
because people that he loved, that loved him, it's going
(11:08):
to suffer. So the pain he was feeling had to
be so intense that he was blinded by the fact
that his family won't suffer so much pain and grief
and oh my god, it's just you know, and I'm
just assuming I heard it was sou aside. You know, Um,
(11:32):
I heard the same, if that is true, If it's true,
because um, it's always keep the door for something nefarious
or whatever. I don't know, but um, you know potential.
You know, that's why they investigate. But because he meant
so much, does what we just want to talk about there,
(11:53):
and we still lost the life. We still lost a
beautiful soul. We still lost a little laughter from that
beautiful person, Sir Twitch. Ah yeah, yeah, wow. I encourage.
If you want to to see a little bit of
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Twitch and a great memory of Twitch, Hey, you can
go to Mileek books uh Instagram. We got the link
in our link tree. You can go to the Milik
books on YouTube. We got the footage of belief of
Twitch interviewing Melik in April, and um, you know, we
like to remember him in laughter and laughter and joy
(12:40):
and love and happiness. I want to thank you family
for sharing him with us. Thank you, and um from
me Emily, we wish you peace, love and joy and
some type of understanding amen on that I hope you enjoyed.
This episode is dedicated to Twitch and his family. Long
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live the soul and body of such a wonderful human being. Peace,
my brother, rest in power. Malik Books just came across
a board game car Hip Popperly, and I have the
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inventor of this game right here at Malik Books, and
I need him to break this game down because we
all know about Monopoly, but now you need to know
about Hip Hoppily. His name is what Chuck Carter. I
am the owner's last creator of the board game on
this Hip Hopperly, which is the first Opperly themed game
designed for the culture UH and it's designed to represent
(13:48):
what life is like in inner cities UM. It's also
designed to provoke thought and inspire mindset change by helping
people understand that life is less about where we're from,
our trials and tribulations, but more or so about the
decisions that we make, which is a product of our
mindset and aspirations are slogan is you can either be
a product of your environment or a product of your enlightenment. Wait,
(14:11):
I love that, by the block, is just what this
game is teaching. Yes, sir, we also incorporated things such
as UH gentrification. We incorporated things such as voting. We
incorporated things such as a credit, the difference between good
and bad credit. We also incorporated decision making. So financial
literacy is part of this game, absolutely, absolutely, you know.
(14:35):
More more importantly is the decision making aspect that we
added to a traditional monopoly. You pull a card to
tell you whether you pay or collect this game, you
may have to decide if you want to invest in
yourself or settle for the government's assistance. You may have
to decide if you want to be a blessing to
somebody else or act like you didn't hear that voice
in your spirit telling you to do it and be
all about yourself. You know, it's through for self, for
(14:57):
self for the consequence. It's not like this game. Yeah,
it's teaching how to do for self? What's the ages
for this game? Thirteen and up? Up? And I see
here it's just depicted like it's this board game for
any location across America or did you pick a certain
area or region. So, so we wanted to start with
(15:18):
l A, obviously me being from l A, but we
wanted to go to different cities and based it around
hip hop artists and the cities that they come from
to make it more relatable to the community. So it's
relatable to the grip because I see Slauson Avenue right here. So, hey,
I'm from l A and I have the Hip hoppily
at Malik Books now, so you heard it right here
(15:40):
at Melik Books. Come through, pick up the board game.
Let's help this brother sell this game. Thank you brother.
Any last words, they can reach you about uh later
on your Instagram our Instagram handle. You can follow us
at hip hip hop lye h I p h O
p O l y on all social media platforms. Appreciate
the support. Malik, Thank you, thank you, my brother. Talk
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to Er Michel new author Birthday Princess. Yeah, that Malik Books.
So I want to just talk to you to get
some information about your new beautiful book. Okay, thank you.
We having to heaven and as she walked in it,
so tell me about this beautiful children book because we
believe children our future. Absolutely same here. The Birthday Princess
is about a little girl and her unspecial bond. It's
(16:28):
about familiar relationships beyond your mom and dad and what
does they look like. To celebrate you and celebrate black joy,
black children's joy and give them the space to feel
seen and loved by their entire family and their extended family.
And it just showcases how important it is to uplift
our young kids, specifically in this book, our young girls,
(16:49):
and remind them to always celebrate themselves because sometimes the
world won't. I love your breakdown well when they what
inspired you to breath. It's actually based on my own life.
I've been fortunate enough to have such community. My parents
built such a huge community for us, including friends and family,
including an unlike unseen in the book, who also shared
(17:10):
a birthday with me, and we would celebrate our birthdays together,
and she taught me the importance of self love and
self appreciation itself. Joey Solf. It's it's based on the
true Sorry, yeah, well hey, I'm all about Hunter person,
about you two children and love of self and worth
and how you view yourself as very important to be successful.
And so I love books that identified just that because
(17:34):
as women and as men, we're gonna be you know,
we're gonna be challenged with certain things in society, and
so we want kids to health confidence. Yes, so, and
and you got an award here for yes, I did
we want a Mom's Choice. Wore a Gold Mom's Choice
Award for Family Media. So it's a book that the
entire family can enjoy, boys and girls can enjoy and
(17:55):
really learned to celebrate themselves on their birthdays and beyond
and build that confidence. Ain't you're talking about absolutely? Yeah,
well this is an am with the book. We got
to hear them believe and it's on our website believe
boost dot com the Birthday Princess. Yes, thank you so much.
That's my first show. So I'm really happy that my
first show was thank you, appreciate you million copies I
(18:18):
received that. Thank you, Trey and Culver City. I understand
your point about censoring people on social media, but where
do you draw the line. If someone on social media
says they don't want the vaccination, that's fine, But what
(18:38):
about someone tweeting that the vaccination makes you sterile, or
the vaccination contains the microchips that allows Bill Gates to
track you, or that the vaccination turned you into a
lizard person. What about and an official looking tweet that
says election days has been moved? Doesn't The social media
(19:01):
platform has a responsibility to police that and take those
comments down. It's one thing to say politician is corrupt
and you shouldn't vote for them, but calling them a pedophile?
Where is the line. Is it taken away someone's freedom
(19:22):
of speech to take those comments down or suspend those
users trade. That was a loading question. I respect the question.
It's pot I'm gonna do my best to answer. Now
as far as should the social media platform have a
(19:48):
responsibility to take down fraud, scams, misleading information? And does
that affect you know, oh your first to men right
in terms of censorship or I get it. I get it,
because all over the Internet as well as social media,
(20:11):
there are posts that are questionable. Now, my understanding about
social media platforms is that they're not in the editing
business like a newspaper like the Washington Post, New York Times,
the l a time. They have editors and they're liable,
(20:33):
so therefore they have to protect their brand and their interests.
Social media platforms wasn't designed that way. It's the design
that people can, you know, say and do certain things
within the service terms and conditions, all right, And people
(20:54):
saying misleading information, they're allowed to do that on social media.
And when people start when they started changing the terms,
terms and conditions, they started getting into censorship. When they
started having meetings with the government of the United States
to determine what should go on the platform and not
then that censorship. The government shouldn't be in the business
(21:17):
of determining what should be posted and whatnot. Yeah, it's
a lot of fraud and a lot of scam and
on the internet, on social media, and it should be
it should be addressed or removed to some extent. I
don't believe that there is anything wrong with a person
(21:41):
posting on the internet that they had an adverse effect
from this experimental drug. That they don't have a lot
of data. Now over two million, three hundred thousand according
to the VARs database, are right. This keeps track at
first effects over two million you hear me, Over two
(22:06):
million people have rolled in had adverse effects. This database
virus is called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, And
forty five thousand people or more have died dropped dead
just taking the vaccination. Do you think it's appropriate trait
(22:29):
for the government or a physician or a reporter to
say is safe and effective when people are dropping dead
when they're taken. And they don't tell people this. They
don't tell that people get mild card datis. They don't
tell people that people have been hospitalized two hundred thousand
(22:52):
hospitalized right after the shot. They don't tell you that
people walking in and taking the vaccination and what heaven
death and that don't and that tells me that ain't safe.
An the fact of me, you should know your you
should know up front what you're getting into when when
you take a shot this experimental. It's your choice. That's
(23:15):
between you, your God, your doctor. But we now know
that people are taking a shot. People who didn't take
the shot get factioned. I mean people have gotten vaccinated
who didn't get vaccinated, They catch COVID, they transmit COVID,
(23:37):
it don't matter. I know people who taking a shot
got COVID again and dropped dead. Okay, so it's a
lot of misleading information. And government has weighed in on
this and its censored professional doctors about this vaccination. And
(23:59):
in order to have of I think some type of
you know, direction, you gotta have public debate. They silenced
one side while they allowed only one side to speak
their mind their thoughts, while another side was silence, removed
and censor. Now, I think that's sensor ship. I think
(24:22):
that sensor ship. And I'm not saying that certain scams
and certain misleading information shouldn't be addressed. But who is Twitter, Facebook,
and Instagram and snapchat and twick TikTok Who they ain't
to decide who's telling the truth when they don't even
know they they don't even know, you know, somebody telling
(24:47):
them this is right, and so remove everybody else, only
to find out years later they told us or if
you take the vaccination that you won't be transmittable or
you won't never get it again. That was a lie. Okay,
So now way, all right, people people have taken a vaccination,
they hospitalized, they die in they're catching it, they transmitted it,
(25:11):
all right. So yeah, I think that any business has
has has a right to protect their brand and does
have a right too, but it needs to be without discrimination.
And what's taking place on social media that has been
discrimination against one group against the other. That's what's me
going on. And the only reason why they're getting away
(25:32):
with this is because politicians in the government and the
media are lining up against these small voices that are
being removed and silence and censure. The bottom line is
is discrimination taking place. And Black people know all too
long about discrimination. We know all too long about oppression
(25:56):
and our voices being silented. So my position here is
that it's discriminating and it's in it um, and these
platforms are violating their own service terms and so forth,
because they have an army of attorneys and lawyers and
(26:16):
they have the full way to the government and media
blogging them up. Jada in mid City Malik, you claim
to be bringing the world together with books, culture and community.
The best way to bring the world together is to
stay away from politics. Jada, you must be a mind reader.
(26:40):
Just this past week I was thinking along that line.
Malie's book show is bringing a world together with books,
culture and community. And I absolutely believe politics is divisive.
(27:01):
I also believe religion is the divisive I think that
if you're stay away from politics and if you stay
away from religion, you'll have a better chance and bringing
many people together. But here's the ticker. Politics and religion
(27:23):
are so essential in people's lives. I only talk about
it sparingly. Most of my episodes on the Least Bookshelf
are about empowerment, about economics, about believing in yourself, elevating yourself,
(27:44):
and what's going on in the community. I don't spend
a whole lot of time on politics and religion per se.
Why because I feel it's divisive and I'm trying to
focus on elevating people and bringing people together. Man. I
believe books, and I believe culture, and I believe community
(28:05):
can bring people together. I think the differences in people's
culture and customs and communities. I think the differences would
allow us to know each other better. But we need
to have understanding of each other and not be judgmental
(28:27):
or critical. Because everybody has their own version and aspect
of how they see life. So I personally feel that
politics is not the golden goose. I feel that economics
(28:47):
and emphasizing pulling money together, building communities brings people together,
brings a better city, neighborhood community. I really believe that.
And this is why I've been trying to use my
podcast and sometimes I didn't Dad and a few things
(29:10):
political and a few things, but I don't go so
hard because that's not my m O. That's not really
my focus for Melak's bookshelf. You know, I'm not looking
to get people rolled up just so they don't go anywhere.
I want you to use that energy to what do
for self? Change your life? Do better, be a better citizen,
(29:34):
a better father, a better husband, a better wife, and
you know, pay it forward. Listen. We ain't gonna never
see a world where everybody is just gonna get alone,
all right. That's a fairy tale. And I'm not trying
to bring a world together. This unrealistic, all right, But
I think we can bring a world together of like
(29:55):
mind where people can get alone and fellowship and be
all together, pray together, and one good fortune together. Now,
how you can do that without politics? Your guests as
good as my Thank you for your question, Thanks for
listening to Melik's Bookshelf, where topics on the sholf, our books,
(30:18):
culture and community. Be sure to subscribe and leave me
a review. Check out my instagram at Milik Books. See
you next time,
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