November 11, 2022 • 51 mins
Glasses Malone joined by Aja and Britt discuss the issue of transients and some of the root causes of this ongoing crisis which compromise quality of life.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Watch up and welcome back to another episode and no
Sillers podcast with your host now funk that with your
low glasses, Malone. So tell me again about tell me
how all of this shift happened to AMP, Like start
from the you're getting up, pulling up, like, tell me
(00:22):
the whole story. Like I know you were scared of
petrified right now, but it's funny now because nothing happened
to you, but something mentally happened. To tell me the
whole story. So I went to the store and I
just like throwing something to the store, store to the
amp m ampm right, getting some blunts, which is what
(00:45):
you were trying not to say. Ship. You don't want
to come across like who gets over so people could
judge you. It's okay, yeah, I want to go get some.
So as I'm walking in, there's a guy sitting outside
in the front and he's sitting there and so I'm
walking and he's like, are you my mommy? And so
like I'm looking at him, and it's crazy because I
(01:07):
wanted to be like, hell night, your motherfucking mommy, but
I just looked at him, looked he looked to me
like he was like in his like twenties, he's huge,
but I didn't realize it. Yeah what what what? What?
It was like? It might have been like Mexican white, Yeah,
(01:31):
like yellow here, yeah, blind here. It was curly though.
He was kind of like he was mixed. He has
some black in him. That's why he thought I was
with his mommy. I guess stupid. Yeah, So I'm like no,
you know, I'm thinking, well, I didn't say no, but
I'm looking at I just looked at him and kept
walking in the store. So whatever. So I'm at the
counter like literally getting ready to pay for my ship
(01:55):
and he comes in and he's like he's got his
head all. He thought she was his mom because you
didn't tell him I'm not your motherfucking mama. I see.
I guess that's what I should have did. So he
like he thought you was his mom. So always coming
for a hug first, I'm like, okay, this nig is
tripping whatever. I'm like, didn't hug you. I'm gonna hug
(02:24):
my fellow brother. You're not gonna I will for sure
hug my fellow brother if he comes out like hug
doing for sure with huge. If he needed a hug
out with huggie. I know how tough it is to
be a black man in America. Boy, Okay, keep going
(02:47):
on doing all that at the counter, you know. So
he's coming in and he's like asking for a hug,
like coming over, and I'm like move like you know,
I'm like back up, you know, and he's like yeah,
I'm like back up. So every time he like because
he would back up, and then he's spinning hit some ship.
What was that? What was the intendant doing at the register? Nothing?
(03:12):
And it was a guy in there too, right, So
so it was another customer that's a guy, and it
was a guy that was at the register. No, it
was just one guy in the um. It was a
girl as she was, I could imagine. So he's spinning
around and so I'm just trying to pay for my stuff.
I can get out of there. So then he comes
(03:35):
over more and he and I'm like back the funk up,
and then he just like starts walking towards me and
I'm like move, like move and he's just coming and
so I'm getting ready to like hit him, and then
he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it?
And I'm like run that back. So he's walking up
to you. Just give me that one more time. So
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he's walking, so he spins around. So he's spinning around,
hands out. He's like when I tell him, like back up,
and he's like, oh, his mom didn't get my hook,
not this niggers mother. You know. I'm just saying I'm
trying to think it was okay. I'm trying to say
(04:18):
what's in his mom? So he backs up, he spends,
and then he comes towards me more and I'm like
back up, like you know, move, I can't remember exactly,
but I'm just like move. And so he comes in
and so now I'm backing away from the register and
(04:38):
it has the row of like the chips and the
drinks and stuff. So now I'm round on the outside,
but I'm not turning my back because I'm like, so
he chasing. He's you're backing around me? Did Yeah? I did.
I didn't pay for him yet. I didn't get a
chance to if I I kept trying to right anyway,
(05:01):
he kept pushing up, like coming closer. So I'm like, oh, no,
i gotta get out of here. So um, he's he's coming.
He's coming at me, and so I'm like move, like
I think, I said, like, I'm like something like because
or he's seen my fist, because next thing I know,
he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it?
(05:22):
Do it? And yeah, and he's like coming and come
in and he's and he's steady, and I'm just like
going back because I'm like, I don't want to turn around.
Nik is gonna do. Then I wanted to hit him,
but then I was like, what if he grabbed me
and he's strong, like he's huge. They're not doing that
the dude, Yeah, yeah, what if anything? What was the
dude doing the other customer in the store, the dude,
(05:45):
I'm wanting there's another reason why I was like, let
me not look like watching him. He's backing out of
the store while I'm on this side. So then the guy,
the dude, the transient chases me outside, and I parked
on the side and I didn't want to like go
to my car because I didn't know if he was
gonna chase me over there something. So I started backing
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out towards the pump, and then he's coming and he
trips and falls and and that's when I just run
to the car. He rolls over and he's like just tripping.
Everybody's like looking. So I guess, um because I called
my dude, but I guess people called the police. So
I called him and get up here. Now. Yeah, it was.
(06:28):
It was. It was crazy. That sounds unbelievable the video.
So the m so they gave me. She's like, are
you okay? Did the police get the guy? So the
police yeah, so um they got him down the street
because my dude went back up there and so he
ran and so he was running it. So so you
fin that you're due killer trans I wasn't. No, I wasn't,
(06:53):
but I respect because I had to be scared. I
just called him like I'm like in tears, like you know,
because you don't know what are you thinking. I got
into like a fight with like some bitches at the
store or something, you know, and I'm like, no, trying
to grab me. It's like now, it's really good man.
So it was. It was crazy. So he um they
had to do down the street. One of his homeboys
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happened to drive past, like, hey, you know you straight,
and he told him what happened. He said, you know what,
I'm gonna drive down there and see what's going on.
So he came back and he was like, they're having
a hard time putting him in the car because we
kept seeing all these police cars like go by and
so um. Yeah. And so they were supposed to come
to the house so I could follow a report. They
never came to that because they really can't arrest him
(07:36):
like that. I can't because he didn't do anything right,
So you gotta wait into that to be like intoxicated
like that. Like he had a knife, He had a knife?
What kind of knife? A pocket knife? Did you have
it out on you? He didn't pull it out on me.
He hadn't won him. Yeah, but you could have a
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pocket knife, a pocket knife and legal. They sell him
at the store. This nigga, who else what he was
gonna try to do to me? You can't arrest nobody
because of what they might could do. See, that's why
I don't likes you like that, because if you don't
do something, if they might do something, then if you
do something before they do something, you're exactly. I just
want to make outlaw life so great because I wouldn't
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have gave a just bust his ass, like drove off
like nothing happened. But if you but if you if
you are a law abiding person, then yeah, I guess
that thing about the law though I was scared, like
I was sure, Yeah, I mean like a huge due
like what if he what if he ate that punch,
just grab and not want to let me go? Where
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everybody was acting, he could have did anything like yeah,
nobody's helping me now. So I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
m hm no ceilings g l Red. Who's getting chased
by transient? Hey Red, Hey it's not Bread who didn't
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do anything while she was getting chased by a trend?
What's happening, Bread? What you would have did if you
was there? Be that nigger? Be that they get to
talk about what you No, I don't think so. Not
the way he was, not the way he was like
(09:22):
seemed like he was peaceful and he was coming to
get a hug and jas. It was just he didn't
realize that. You just didn't realize he was a straight
tantrum in the story because his mother, what if he
really thought you was his mother. She's not not my
I'm not his mother. You high that you don't know
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that that's not your mama. You don't need play exactly
why are you here? You need to go find your
mother because I'm not hurt. No, no, I'm no, sir.
The reason that story to me is important. So all
on the news and ship, all on the news. It's
been new the article at the dudes, Brandy watched the news.
So I watched the news a lot. But um, everybody's
(10:06):
running like politics, you know. It's all the politicians getting
voted and all everybody's campaigning right now, and a lot
of people are campaigning on homelessness. And I stayed downtown
right forever, and the only thing it made me was sad.
(10:27):
I was never scared. But I am a guy. I'm
six three, a gang member, kind of familiar with violence
to some degree, fightings and ship, you know, so it's
not as scary to see somebody I might have to whip.
They ass that's okay. But I guess to a regular
person who's not super vested in it, it probably looked crazy.
But I noticed it was a lot of politicians running
(10:47):
with cleaning up the homeless, you know issue in Los Angeles.
And I know there's different people on Twitter, they all
saying the same thing. Oh man, you know, l A
got this horrible homeless population. But I know every state
has a homeless population, a huge one because housing in
America is out of control. But what I think makes
(11:10):
California special, especially Southern California, is it's so close to money.
Mm hmmm, Like all of those homeless encampments. All the
encampments are close to like money. It's like if you
went downtown like the loftice three thousand dollars and across
the street is homeless people. That's why I couldn't get
(11:33):
with that. Like I'm not about to pay No. Three
thousand to come downstairs to smell pistons ship when I
have a bomb mass like penthouse upstairs somewhere and I
come down to that, that's not gonna I'm not That's
not a feeling, and I wouldn't want to see that.
It's some I've seen um encampments like over going towards
(11:54):
UM like Santa Monica, Covert City type area, like just
in yeah everywhere. Oh and then over there off the
one on one freeway. Yeah, right over there, that's a
whole little the whole little thing that remember when they
had that fire, seeing all them damn homents people come
up out of there, and they had that fire right
there them. That's because the rent is so high in California.
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These big businesses, these big property management, these big companies,
they're raising the rent. They're driving to me homeless homelessness. Well,
it's tricky to me because I don't think everybody is
homeless because they can't afford housing. I think some people
and and the reason I noticed. Let me stop saying,
(12:39):
I think I've so when I stayed downtown, I stayed
on six and may like right close to skined Row,
not far, but as soon as you cross Los Angeles,
people sleeping on the streets. You walk one block over
to where the studio is that still on Maple, and
it's pretty much that's where Scared Roll start. You see
all these tents and makeshift homes and everything like that.
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So a lot of nights for ten years, I would
just walk and clear my head. So I would just
walk through Scared Row. I mean, it's not I'm from
watching Confident watch my whole life, so it's not, as
you know, homeless. It's not scary to me. So I
will walk and I would talk to people sometimes, you know,
just to holler at them, to check on them. Sometimes
I knew people, and people just gave up on the
(13:22):
challenge that's life. Don't have family, don't have anybody. Yeah
that was I met two people that was like that,
but most people I met that just gave up on
the challenge of life. It's like, y'all will come down here.
They never said I was gonna do drugs, but I
could tell at that point they was doing some type
of drugs for me, and they was like, I'm just
giving up, Like as long as I could find a
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way to get some food, I had somewhere to sleep.
Like the challenges of everyday life, of maintaining you know,
rent family, all of these things, these pressures. A lot
of people go down there. And then different people I
noticed when I talked to them too, also came here
to be homeless, Like they left cold places where they
were homeless because of the tough situations and it was like,
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let me go to l A where it's better weather.
So I met a lot of different people, um, and
one thing I realized was people how people gave up.
And it's easy to say, oh, you can't give up.
You know, you can't give up, but it's like life
is tough and and you know, I know, we programmed
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to keep going, and we programmed and make it easy,
and really life is really really tough. Some some people,
some of us make it look easier than it is,
but it is tough. There has been multiple times that
I feel like I almost cracked. I stayed in the shelter.
Did you have what was that about? I definitely want
(14:49):
to hear this ship. It's so crazy. Yeah, I stayed
in a UM like a dirty day emergency shelter. Um,
it was fighting with somebody. No, did I fight win anywhere?
Or why did you leave somebody? And then said you
needed to go to a shelter, the fine temporary housing
you just fight with somebody? Um, I wasn't fighting with anyone.
(15:11):
I just really didn't like I didn't have anywhere to
go as far as like UM where I could call
my own. So I wanted to try to up the
campaign of getting your own place, even though you wasn't
financially what I mean I was. I didn't have I
wasn't working, I had my son. UM. I could have
(15:31):
went and stayed with my grandmother, but my mom and
my UM sister, my stepdad was staying there. My mom
was finishing up school, Like I just felt like, Okay,
you know what I need to take this. I need
to do what I need to do to try to
better myself. So I went and stayed in them, in
the homeless shelter so that I'm able to UM get
(15:52):
like a transitional apartment. So I had did that, and
I mean, honestly, it was one of the best things
I did. Once I transferred to the transitional home. It
was like a place for like UM women, like young
women with children, like one child. I think you had
to be like between the ages of eighteen and twenty four.
(16:12):
They had like programs like parents and programs. They had
like a like a hall where you know, you eat
with your kids, had a daycare like it was like
a whole like structure type of thing. So like it
worked for me, I think a lot of people, UM.
I guess when you stay from there, then you're able
to get like permanent Section eight. I couldn't just stay
there to do that, but I used the resources to
(16:34):
be able to UM to move, you know, to move
you know, end up moving like to Guardina and end
up working. So I didn't do the section eight. But
when I was in the shelter, UM I had to
share a bed like with my son, and a lot
of the women did. But there was a woman like
she would be tripping like every night, like schizzo or whatever.
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So eventually it was like the second night they ended
up UM taking her like taking her away or whatever.
And I don't know what happened to her, kid, but
she was like just really like she was going through
it like she really was. So I know that a
lot of times people are not just homeless because they
can't pay the rent, like it's just so issue or
(17:21):
like you said, they've given up where they don't know
where to start. Yeah, you know, so that's crazy. I
never know you went through all that red. That's deep.
Go ahead, Bread, tell me your story. Let me hear yourself,
Let me hear your story. It was like I was younger, honestly.
It was around the time that my um at one time,
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I know a lot of people don't know this, but
a one time both parents UM both one was in incarcerated,
UM one was like dealing with UM no drug issues
or whatever. So at one point, UM we were living
like like hotel motel people's houses ship until one point
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my mom was just like, you know what, Um, I
stayed with She's not really my god mom per se,
but you know, she ended up being like the person
that my mom trusted with us being there, So that's
what gave us, you know a little bit of It
was a lot, especially being youngest. I think I was
like maybe like and my brother was like six or
(18:30):
something like that, if I'm not mistaken, And just to
see that like all the homeless ship crackheads, all this
ship and you're just like watching all this stuff and
you're not knowing what it is, but you you know,
it's a particular smell or you you know, it's just
a lot of different things and you're like, what the
fuck and you don't know, like what's going on? So
(18:53):
that ship was scary. But um, luckily, like I said,
she got it together and we were able to stay
with someone that she trusted or whatnot. But yeahs is
not at all. So y'all were both homeless. Yeah, so
I don't know if this quite qualifies as me being homeless.
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But my mom when she first went to the fence
the first time, and they gave her a year and
they took her, you know, our house, all our belongings,
and we stayed in the motel for like a year
and my dad came and got us, and she was
(19:34):
like that, yeah, but my stepdad was there, and I
think it and I got a lot of respect for
my step pops. Clarence was like a trooper, but I
think that was just a lot. He didn't have any
kids and then to have this lady's kids and they
have been together probably about a year or two maybe
if that long, you know what I'm saying. So we
were standing in the motel on Long Beach Boulevard, um
(19:56):
in competent and the mob actually, and it's called the
Royal ind it's right used to be a gun store
on Long Bease Boulevard. Stayed there for a whole year
and then my dad came and got us. But it
was crazy. Um. One thing I always tripped about when
I stayed downtown is the more people you talk to,
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you hear all of these diverse stories. And one thing
got tripped off of more than anything is it wasn't
a simple solution. It's not a simple fix. And sometimes
I worry that this country has a real fear of
homeless people. And that's really a scary thing to hear.
(20:39):
You're saying like they just I don't want to deal
with them. They're scared, like they just are really scared
in a sense, or I just think people. You know,
it's funny, man, I think every day, this particularly this country,
(21:02):
becomes more and more inhumane, Like the concept of humanity
is fleeing. It's going to these bare minimums of existence
to whereas as long as you're breathing, and that's cool.
You know, it's like they want to prolong like an
agony or something. But I've been looking at different solutions
(21:23):
that politicians been talking about on the news because and
they've been saying ship like they wanted to build like
a like a guy that owned this huge building and
like near Boil Heights or like in that area, and
he was like, Okay, we want to turn this huge
building into like a like a dorm for transient and
then but all of the community, you know, they were
(21:45):
on the news protesting it, like we don't want them here. Yeah,
I seen. I remember they were talking about taking the
little the little tiny houses, like making a little like
encampment and doing all the little tiny houses. But yeah,
people don't want them in there? Should people? And I
was weird because it's like these are human beings. Like
(22:08):
I was watching people that was doing well for themselves
and making a living complain about homeless people having like
a place to like to stay. They didn't want them
to be there because it was in their community, and
they were like protesting it. And you know, the news
(22:29):
was running a story and everybody I could tell was
just looking at it. But it didn't. I thought I
was the only person that a hit like, damn y'all
protesting homeless people having a place to stay like a dorm.
It's in your neighborhood because you have a fear of
what they could become. They can bring the property value
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down or I mean maybe they're looking at like that.
It probably won't. But what I'm saying is that really
like it, But you think about how fucked up as
a human being because you have to be to where
I don't want you to have nowhere to live because
you're gonna bring the value of my property down. But
that's how unfortunately, I don't know it's if I don't
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think it's set up that way. I think there's an
issue in humanity, like that's something wrong, Like my money
is worth more than some other person having a home.
I mean, but we're at the point where people can
just record a situation they're not even thinking to help.
Like there was an issue where a girl was getting
raped on the subway in Philly and people were have watched.
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It wasn't until like the fourth exit that someone that
worked there saw what was going on and intervened or whatever.
So people are just becoming very disillusion and it's and
it's funny because the Internet plays such a role in
it to where we don't just call each other like
(23:59):
it's art. It off with simple texting. Text like voices
already disconnect from seeing and touching, So the voices really
a strong thing because it comes from somebody, But then
that's being reduced down to texting, and now texting it
were from phone to phone to now. I'll just say
something on social media and everybody can see it, and
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then that way you could judge if somebody's okay based
off of their posts or who the fund is actually
posting what's going on in their life. Right, Well, that's
crazy because the person one of the one of my
friends hit me up because I hadn't been posted in
a while. It was like you're good, and I'm like yeah,
I'm good. Oh, I ain't seen you posting a while,
and I'm like, you got my phone number just like
(24:40):
you just text me today, Like, I mean, but that's
valid though if you're always posting and like, well, let
me check on you. You got my phone number two,
so just check in. Yeah. But but again it goes
into census tap in, babe, it goes into census of convenience.
It's so like right, like humane, like a loose idea
(25:06):
of humane. It's quality of life, like a greater quality
of life. That's the point of being humane, caring about
other folks, other humans, other people. So all of these
tools really reduced the quality of life. I mean, like
like fast food reduced the quality of food, you know,
(25:27):
social media reduced the quality of communication. Quality is the
killer of excuse me, Convenience is the killer of quality.
So as we have things that are super convenient, we
lose quality. McDonald's, you know, the burger that McDonald's versus
your old lady or your mom or somebody making your
own burger. Yeah, but it's like in and out burger
(25:50):
ain't nowhere near as good as a burger made it home.
Remember if you were stuck red with the fixing the
(26:15):
property in Los Angeles. We need to have a politician
come on the talk. That's what we need to do.
What we could expand on this conversation because I think
no matter what they say, they're gonna have bad answers.
But if you were looking out when I moved out here, um,
there wasn't a lot of homeless people. Yeah, I didn't
really see homeless people because it was cheap to live. Yeah,
(26:38):
and it just changed, yeah, slowly become a Los Angeles
There there's a lot. There's a lot out here now
and it's crazy because it's like, um, they're young. It's
a lot of young, um, homeless people. It's a lot
of um, a lot lot of people on drugs. It's
(27:02):
a lot of I think has to do with it too,
where they're just like they give up their brothers. The
drug has them, so they want to spend the money
on that. They don't want to spend the money on
quality life, right, But ship is it? Is it? You
drug get a hold of you, boy, and it really
(27:22):
just know that's how y'all be smoking weeds. I watch
y'all boat all the time. I'm jes podcast glasses always
talking about is that smoke. I know some weed smokers
didn't know for real, they smoke stomach aches. My brother
(27:44):
K got hooked on moon rocks. He was on Really
I did it before. I've done it before, and that's
why I can't do it. So we're releasing our own
strain of joints. Like it's called ops um and it's
like meant to put you down, like it's a it's no,
(28:07):
it's just weeds, quality weed, but it's doctored up really well,
you know what I mean with T A s, A
lot of t s to make sure it is super
You're looking about seventy that's a couch. That's a couch deadlock.
(28:27):
With the funniers, it come five in the pack like
the little so they like, uh, each one is like
uh a little over, like a little short of a gram,
so like point seven point seven each one. But it's
just meant to be like when you come home from work.
(28:47):
So it's like the whole idea of ops is like
instead of like going out in the streets and sucking
your life off getting into something that this is the
op you should smoke. I guess to push kind of
an agenda of like you go use somewhere, Bro, you
don't stop to I mean, so you could smoke them
all of these now these things gone like that baby daddy,
(29:12):
the baby daddy, You wouldn't be a mother if it
wasn't for because why would you want to kill him?
You must don't appreciate being a mother so much so
then how would you be mad at the nigger that
made your mother. It's just I wasn't thinking money thing.
But I guess smoking is you know, smoke your baby dad.
(29:32):
I don't. I'd never understood how y'all safe y'all baby daddy?
If you love unless you really just be lying about
being women out here that may want to say the
baby daddy and smoked that baby daddy like joint? Would
you look at your friend crazy if you want to
kill her baby and she says she loved being a mother,
and then this is the man that actually gave her
her greatest it would kill me. What treat me out?
(29:52):
Is this? When you look at people's I g and
like their greatest achievement and be like being my mom
and I'm like, you still hate your baby daddy? Be
somebody lying. She ain't gotta like the baby dad eats
to love her, But then how could you not like
the person that made you your greatest accomplishment. You don't
have to like him, you don't love like him. You
can still you could be like they don't have to
(30:14):
like him. I love, but you could. How could you
dislike him if he gave you the thing that you're
the most proudest of you about him? You can care,
but how could you How could you not love the
person that gave you the things? You can love him,
but you don't have to like them. I don't mean
you gotta like him, but I got into an argument
of one on one day, right and he was tripping
on you know about the kid. I want that joint
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so I can go like this baby dad, I can't
stock him. I can't do ship to him. Let me
let me smoke the baby dad. Let me go sit down,
Let me go, let me stop, Let me go sit down.
Y'all about the sickest motherfucker's in the world. Let me
get this nick up out of here. Let me get
(30:58):
take it up. You don't get this nick. So it's
crazy because we don't call them joints like it's called.
They called soldiers soldiers, So it's like, yeah, we got
we got the Domo pack, we got the key Way pack,
we got the Cops pack, we got the Rebels pack,
which is like the Confederate Army for certain times, we
(31:18):
got a special thing going for like the British soldiers
for the fourth of July in the Boston two party. Okay,
we put one of those in there, which one. I
don't know something something. Why does it have to Why
are you against the male species? What are you talking about?
I'm not against the species. I'm just saying just in
(31:38):
case you're you're not putting anything in there for the
people that want that something else that they in. You
know about that crippen life we got. I'm saying there's
other things, but that it has to be a greater
problem than you just laid down with the wrong person.
Like it had to be somebody that tried to keep
you in slaves, that's targeted your community for years, not
(31:59):
the first thing. You not the person you gave a
ginta two and then you got it wrong. So now
you're upset it yourself. I should give you a you
pack so that way you can smoke the right person
because you so upset with yourself for sleeping with this.
I'm saying, I'm talking. I'm giving it for the people.
The people may want this, so Red, if you had
to solve the homeless problem in Los Angeles, this ain't
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enough time to come up with this. Obviously we have
to we have to call Sticks and get some people
in here. But if you had to come up with
a solution, yeah, shout out to watch Sticks because he
he always come up with these bad ideas about the
homeless people and not be like Sticks, that's a bad idea.
But it's easy for nigger to be I'm gonna tell
you why. It's easy for a sideline nigger such as
(32:42):
myself at times, especially in that fight, to to really
comment on what Sticks is doing. Sticks is doing a
fantastic job. I am tough on him because he's a
super intelligent, smart person, but sometimes he had like these
two dollar ideas and I'll be like, that's just crazy,
But then reality, I'm like, it's I would hate to
be the press. I wouldn't want to be the president.
I only could be a dictator like in l A.
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Like if I had to clean up the homeless thing,
like I'm asking you, like immediately the first thing, I
wouldn't care what no community thought. So you're moving into
whatever community the first building or first three buildings, that's
big enough. I don't care about what happens to your
property value. I don't care if we have to hire
a little bit more police security, you know, for the neighborhood.
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I don't care. What's important is how we treat a society,
a community, A society, a race is judged by their worst.
People come to Los Angeles right now and see homeless
people and be like and the only reason they could
plain because you would think they've never seen a homeless
person a bump. I don't know if that's like a slur,
but you would think they've never seen a bump because
(33:47):
the way they talk about it. But what I'm realizing
is the bum is right at Staples Center. The bum
is right where the rent is four thousand dollars. Wait
a minute, So artists who live downtown, they'll be like
as homeless people right here. But it's like I always
like l a And compared to Godtham City because it's
like literally it's poverty and wealth exists within one simple border,
(34:13):
especially in downtown town. So and I love downtown. I
love the homeless. I love the fact that it's homeless
people there. You know, not I like the factor's homeless people,
but I love the fact that's homeless people right there
because it always kept me grounded. Like my biggest fear
is becoming you know, Kanye or jay Z or somebody
(34:36):
who kind of and I don't want to say like Kanye,
who doesn't carry the burdening condamn it, somebody who carried
the burden of community, but also Jay to where economically
I get disconnected from what people find themselves connected to.
That's super important to stay with the struggle, stay with
the streets if it means not being having twenty million
dollars or two hundred million dollars. Who needs more than
two million dollars anyway? Who needs more than five bedrooms? Anyway?
(35:00):
Who needs? Why would any human being needs? Who the
funk got enough? There's nobody with ten kids with ten bedrooms.
Every last person who got ten bedrooms don't don't have
ten kids. And I know entirely too many people with
ten kids that got two bedrooms. So the only way
it could work for me, like this whole situation is
(35:22):
even as any type of leader, like even states who
different people king different homies. They be like, oh, you
should get into politics, even my O G Homy mugs
from families. She said, I can't because I wouldn't. I'm
not trying to make people feel better. I'm trying to
make it better and policies politics is all about making
people feel better. I'm about making it better. And I
(35:43):
don't want to argue with you, like y'all in people
was in boil Heights protest and I'm like you, motherfucker's
it is homeless people sleeping on the fucking streets and
you don't want them in your community inside of a
building that's big enough to have homeless people so they
can have a home. That made me like those people.
I wanted to shoot them up. You don't like how
(36:04):
lights like how old boy in in uh rest his
soul in Northern Africa eat, I mean not eaty Um
the brother that created all the gold builders on island
light skiing dude. Yeah, he's he's a he's a North
African brother. He got killed too, but he's super dope.
I don't know why I'm drawing up black, but like
(36:25):
I would have to rule like that because that type
of thing. That's why I get dictators. I get people
like Kim Jong, people like you know, the the guy
in China, the guys that really because I can't agree
with y'all who is human beings and death or something.
(36:46):
But no, no, no, no, all of you men women,
But I don't think so because we all can't be
the same thing. Somehow, we can't be all the same
thing because how do I think? So fucking crazy and
y'all make me feel crazy, and I'm like, just might
be it ain't that much deep in the world, and
there's a lot of people out there. You're just very logical.
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But isn't that like everybody? Everybody? But they were protesting,
like pick it side, like they well, what was the
purpose of it though? Was it because it was like
a lot of like crime or something over there? That
crime comes with homeless people, which is they're homeless, okay,
(37:29):
and a lot of them aren't, so I guess. But
they're saying a lot of them are. Big did not
say that whatever, you know how she got that all
because they don't most of them. She said, most of
them are bad. She tried to say it real low big,
she's like sucking hit. He's like hitting it to the
(37:52):
homeless people. Just put them all into gas, kill them all.
You don't want to say for a certain area where
it's just them, not just them, but maybe like a
mobile home park. Not a mobile home park, but you
know how they create mobile home parks. But I'm saying,
(38:13):
I know, I say, look right here and said that
they were trying to do that with the tiny homes
and the I guess the and that's little it's it says,
I mean, but it's like their tents, so they're used
to I've been watching a lot of people build like
it's funny. People are building complete structures. I've seen the
dude on the news because had a two bad like
a two story homeless and Captain crazy ye through like
(38:42):
see that kind of person. To me, it's gonna take care.
But probably it's not that we just we we they
just wanted what used to say, live off the land.
They just they just want to live out the land.
They might not want to pay this high ass rent,
these high ass utilities. They don't want to do nothing
like that, especially if they can't. I mean, I think
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mental illness comes to mind. Mental illness is definitely a problem,
But that don't change that still, regardless, right, the goal
have to the goal has to be taking care of
our worst people that are in the worst positions, and
if we can't, Like this guy was looking to use
(39:27):
his building, this huge building, huge building. I wish I
knew all that, you should look it up, but he
was looking to have this huge building. Huge. I mean,
they probably could have fit a thousand plus people if
they just put cots up in this right, probably could
have took most people off a skilled roll and put it.
Was it a temporary situation or was it a permanent thing? Well,
(39:48):
I think it's all temporary. I think the goal is
to try to move people into homes. I mean, I
don't know how possible that is with l A prices,
but I think the goal is to move people into homes.
So they're so it's basically they wanted to build another shelter,
like another mega shelter. Oh yes, neighbors protests proposal to
turn serious building building into homeless housing. Well it's homeless housing,
(40:14):
but why would the funk would you? Protests Protesters are
continued their fights to stop that what they claim its
power over their community. That's crazy, Like we don't want that,
Like who the fund is? What the fund is wrong
with human beings to where they don't want to take
care of homeless people. It's a huge center to it
says yes, like it sits six acres. I'm telling you, man,
(40:37):
Brandy watched the news. I see this ship all the
fucking time. I'll be like, and I'll be sitting right
there looking at the fucking news because that's what killed me. Bro.
I'll be sitting right there listening to what they're saying
and like looking at the like I was looking at
that the boy has. I'm like, so this is this
huge building with a bunch of homeless people, and the
(40:58):
people who live in the community like don't want them
over here. We don't want them over here. These people
it ain't like I could see if they were like
sex offenders and you were scared of your daughters. I mean,
but there's already probably homeless people outside of their um
community right now. Now they're just be in one place.
I'm sure they go to the store, there's homeless people.
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I'm sure behind the stores, there's camps. There's homeless people everywhere.
So you know, I just don't understand, why will we
not take this huge building and create a place where
people have somewhere to sleep under a roof. But they're
gonna put that huge building in like Beverly Hills or
in uh, Brentwood, They're not. I don't give a funk
(41:41):
where they put that. I'm just saying they're not there.
They're not going to do that. I don't know why,
and I'm saying I'm saying I don't give a funk
where My issue is with human beings. So I don't
get from Brentwood. I don't they from Lynnwood, any Wood, Lakewood,
any of the wood us. If they have a space
(42:02):
where you can put the human beings under a roof
so they don't have to sleep outside, I get it.
It comes with crime because it's people that are suffering
from poverty. But again, unless we as a complete society
start to deal with why people are committing crimes, I
guess there are always these occasional people who just just
commit crimes because they just exist, right, But at the
(42:23):
end of the day, we still can't give up on
human beings, and that's what we try to do. And
this is what I was saying to you a couple
of weeks ago. About like drill music, Like I listened
to people who care about drill music, right, and like
they'll be like, oh, this music is murdered music. I'm
watching a lot of adult black people that came from
the community turning to see the Lord's Tucker, Like they're like, oh,
(42:47):
you know the music, And I'm like, Okay, are these
rappers in Chicago rapping about something that's not happening? Like
why would you stop at the rapper? Why would you
not walk right past him and then change what he like?
What he can rabby He's not making this ship up.
So that's how I feel to some degree, like about humanity,
(43:09):
where we just at a lost place to where there
is a building that's twenty six something crazy acres or huge,
huge building, right, that could fit thousands of people under
the roof, yeah, right, all these people mental health and
other services. Yes, right, so you can fit all these people, right,
(43:32):
and you could do that, and then there's people who
live there. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. We
don't want to Okay, if you're worried about crime, Hey,
if you're gonna put this build here, we need an
increase police president, We need to leave this going. The
neighborhood came together and said, hey, we need extreme police. President,
maybe y'all give us some extra money because y'all know
(43:53):
we got to deal with more crimes, your opecivities, windows
getting busted, like you do things, but you still think
to take care of these people, just not just say no,
we don't want this. There's no other they're picketing, like
if you look at the picture, they're picketing like they're
putting on their Sign's not even a detention center, but
(44:13):
that's what I'm saying, like it's jail. So maybe it's
the way that they rolled it out the stops. It's
just people don't care. They have the same fear that
most people have of homeless people. There's a natural fear.
Could you fill that with some of your water? They
have a natural fear of homeless people. People think. You know,
obviously they called it. They said they want to call
(44:37):
a life rebuilding center. But they got on their picket
signs again because they want to make other people, other
human beings think like they have some kind of valid
point and why they shouldn't take care of homeless people.
All right, that's crazy. It starts with housing people. Why
(44:58):
the fuck would we not how other human beings? Ship
is crazy and it's life. But the thing is they're
shelters though, but a lot of well some homeless people,
they don't like to go to the shelters because it's
dangerous in those shelters, where I can't imagine it's more
dangerous in the shelters than being outside. No, I've really
heard situation, and I think there's some people that will
(45:21):
turn it down. But the fact that that's not available,
it's unbelievable because that's just crazy. Like that, This is
how far we are away from simple humane ideas to
where we're like, oh, we need to go past just
making sure they got a place now. Once you get
them in a place, now we can start to figure
out how to help people. But how the funk are
you sleeping outside outside, outside, outside under the freeways right now?
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A lot of people have noticed and that they got
to what you call it, but the trailer homes of
the trailers. Yeah, like if you go over thereby isn't
will and hills to um the summits right there? Oh
you know what? All right on the side, you know
we're talking about jetter. Put my little nephew poop. He
(46:12):
bought a home over there and was going to turn
it into a studio and it was like a homeless
It wasn't one of hills. Yeah, like I think he's
been like one point four million dollars or it's more
time million dollar houses in this community and right around
the corner as homeless people. And my issue is is
not as homeless people. My my my issue is why
is people sleeping outside in California? Like in this society,
(46:37):
you have to want to. If I met one person
who said they didn't want to and was that's a
problem that they didn't want to sleep out? It was
some people I did me days like, gee, this is
just how I'm living. I don't want to go inside.
I don't want to sleep inside, you know, I want
to be outside. That's a different argument. I mean, however
(46:58):
we deal with that is separate. But it's entirely too
many people that have to sleep outside. These kids. I
was watching something, Um what is that? One thing it
comes on like YouTube is the black and whitey talks
to the prostitutes. He talks to um Damn, I can't
think of it. But it was really good. So this
this one girl. She was like ten and she was
(47:19):
lived outside and um in the tent. It was like
a tent and she had like a bedroom and it
was another tent attached and they had that's where like
they ate, and you know, she was cool with all
the people that lived out there. She said that they
you know, they all look after her and stuff like that.
You know, like that's crazy, that is sober. And I
(47:42):
think she was in school, which is crazy because I
remember on the paperwork, like they asked, like, do you
have a place to stay? Do you have the hotel?
Are you? She probably didn't. She probably didn't tell the truth.
She was with her mom though, they So can we
agree with that? That even? Can we agree? Right because
(48:04):
I know y'all rarely ever agree with me. Can we
agree that that is crazy? I think it's crazy. I
think the protests and oil heights, I think that is crazy.
I mean if it's like I could see people saying, Okay,
we don't want these people here because you know, it's
(48:25):
going to bring down our neighborhood, it's gonna decrease our
property value. But then when you look at it, like
you said, like why are we stopping someone from having
a place to sleep, like a place to stay, like why,
Like this has nothing to do with you at all,
And I can understand it could and I can understand
if it affects your community. But these are the struggles
(48:47):
we took on the day we were born to care
for other human beings. It's actually the verb of being
a human being is to look after others, not yourself.
To look after others. That's what human sin is that
I know what they think, and they think, that's a
lot of homeless people in work in my neighborhood. I
(49:11):
gotta walk my kids or whatever. My kids gotta be
outside already. Know it's they're thinking, Oh, they're not thinking
like how they should. They're just thinking about themselves. How yeah,
how will affect them? And that's the problem. That's my
issue with society. There's a thousand other demands you can make,
but the first thing you'd be like, you know what,
this building couldn't fit them. Okay, this is how we're
(49:31):
rocking in association. We need these other things to happen
to make sure that our kids are still safety these
neighborhoods and everything is still you know, cop aesthetic. But
that should be a part of the demands outside of
it shouldn't even be an argument about what are these
people coming into the community. They should not be picking,
you know, other human beings having a roof to sleep
(49:54):
under ship crazy, It's sad. So what would you do Britain?
Would you move them in with you if you were
if you had all the power? Definitely, man, I just
I wouldn't. I don't like to see people hungry or
all these multi billion dollar businesses and motherfucker's star. I
(50:16):
just never understood that. Like I never did like get that,
so honestly I would, um, I do, I do get
I do get it, but I don't agree with it,
like why they're saying the things that they're saying or
why they're picketing. But I mean, like if you have
a gun, if you know what it's supposed to be,
you know, you're supposed to care. And if you don't
(50:37):
care about a person's like living on the street, that's
just black. Like I would never want to see I mean,
are the homeless population is crazy in California. So it's
clear that people don't care about people living on the
street because I don't see anybody. I mean, there's a
lot of people that are helping, but definitely. I mean,
(50:59):
I'm not over here offering homeless people places to stay,
and I might have somewhere for him to stay, but
that's true. You wouldn't even give a homeless person to
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Watch up and welcome back to another episode and no
Sillers podcast with your host now funk that with your
low glasses, Malone. So tell me again about tell me
how all of this shift happened to AMP, Like start
from the you're getting up, pulling up, like, tell me
(00:22):
the whole story. Like I know you were scared of
petrified right now, but it's funny now because nothing happened
to you, but something mentally happened. To tell me the
whole story. So I went to the store and I
just like throwing something to the store, store to the
amp m ampm right, getting some blunts, which is what
(00:45):
you were trying not to say. Ship. You don't want
to come across like who gets over so people could
judge you. It's okay, yeah, I want to go get some.
So as I'm walking in, there's a guy sitting outside
in the front and he's sitting there and so I'm
walking and he's like, are you my mommy? And so
like I'm looking at him, and it's crazy because I
(01:07):
wanted to be like, hell night, your motherfucking mommy, but
I just looked at him, looked he looked to me
like he was like in his like twenties, he's huge,
but I didn't realize it. Yeah what what what? What?
It was like? It might have been like Mexican white, Yeah,
(01:31):
like yellow here, yeah, blind here. It was curly though.
He was kind of like he was mixed. He has
some black in him. That's why he thought I was
with his mommy. I guess stupid. Yeah, So I'm like no,
you know, I'm thinking, well, I didn't say no, but
I'm looking at I just looked at him and kept
walking in the store. So whatever. So I'm at the
counter like literally getting ready to pay for my ship
(01:55):
and he comes in and he's like he's got his
head all. He thought she was his mom because you
didn't tell him I'm not your motherfucking mama. I see.
I guess that's what I should have did. So he
like he thought you was his mom. So always coming
for a hug first, I'm like, okay, this nig is
tripping whatever. I'm like, didn't hug you. I'm gonna hug
(02:24):
my fellow brother. You're not gonna I will for sure
hug my fellow brother if he comes out like hug
doing for sure with huge. If he needed a hug
out with huggie. I know how tough it is to
be a black man in America. Boy, Okay, keep going
(02:47):
on doing all that at the counter, you know. So
he's coming in and he's like asking for a hug,
like coming over, and I'm like move like you know,
I'm like back up, you know, and he's like yeah,
I'm like back up. So every time he like because
he would back up, and then he's spinning hit some ship.
What was that? What was the intendant doing at the register? Nothing?
(03:12):
And it was a guy in there too, right, So
so it was another customer that's a guy, and it
was a guy that was at the register. No, it
was just one guy in the um. It was a
girl as she was, I could imagine. So he's spinning
around and so I'm just trying to pay for my stuff.
I can get out of there. So then he comes
(03:35):
over more and he and I'm like back the funk up,
and then he just like starts walking towards me and
I'm like move, like move and he's just coming and
so I'm getting ready to like hit him, and then
he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it?
And I'm like run that back. So he's walking up
to you. Just give me that one more time. So
(03:56):
he's walking, so he spins around. So he's spinning around,
hands out. He's like when I tell him, like back up,
and he's like, oh, his mom didn't get my hook,
not this niggers mother. You know. I'm just saying I'm
trying to think it was okay. I'm trying to say
(04:18):
what's in his mom? So he backs up, he spends,
and then he comes towards me more and I'm like
back up, like you know, move, I can't remember exactly,
but I'm just like move. And so he comes in
and so now I'm backing away from the register and
(04:38):
it has the row of like the chips and the
drinks and stuff. So now I'm round on the outside,
but I'm not turning my back because I'm like, so
he chasing. He's you're backing around me? Did Yeah? I did.
I didn't pay for him yet. I didn't get a
chance to if I I kept trying to right anyway,
(05:01):
he kept pushing up, like coming closer. So I'm like, oh, no,
i gotta get out of here. So um, he's he's coming.
He's coming at me, and so I'm like move, like
I think, I said, like, I'm like something like because
or he's seen my fist, because next thing I know,
he's like do it, do it? Do it? Do it?
(05:22):
Do it? And yeah, and he's like coming and come
in and he's and he's steady, and I'm just like
going back because I'm like, I don't want to turn around.
Nik is gonna do. Then I wanted to hit him,
but then I was like, what if he grabbed me
and he's strong, like he's huge. They're not doing that
the dude, Yeah, yeah, what if anything? What was the
dude doing the other customer in the store, the dude,
(05:45):
I'm wanting there's another reason why I was like, let
me not look like watching him. He's backing out of
the store while I'm on this side. So then the guy,
the dude, the transient chases me outside, and I parked
on the side and I didn't want to like go
to my car because I didn't know if he was
gonna chase me over there something. So I started backing
(06:07):
out towards the pump, and then he's coming and he
trips and falls and and that's when I just run
to the car. He rolls over and he's like just tripping.
Everybody's like looking. So I guess, um because I called
my dude, but I guess people called the police. So
I called him and get up here. Now. Yeah, it was.
(06:28):
It was. It was crazy. That sounds unbelievable the video.
So the m so they gave me. She's like, are
you okay? Did the police get the guy? So the
police yeah, so um they got him down the street
because my dude went back up there and so he
ran and so he was running it. So so you
fin that you're due killer trans I wasn't. No, I wasn't,
(06:53):
but I respect because I had to be scared. I
just called him like I'm like in tears, like you know,
because you don't know what are you thinking. I got
into like a fight with like some bitches at the
store or something, you know, and I'm like, no, trying
to grab me. It's like now, it's really good man.
So it was. It was crazy. So he um they
had to do down the street. One of his homeboys
(07:15):
happened to drive past, like, hey, you know you straight,
and he told him what happened. He said, you know what,
I'm gonna drive down there and see what's going on.
So he came back and he was like, they're having
a hard time putting him in the car because we
kept seeing all these police cars like go by and
so um. Yeah. And so they were supposed to come
to the house so I could follow a report. They
never came to that because they really can't arrest him
(07:36):
like that. I can't because he didn't do anything right,
So you gotta wait into that to be like intoxicated
like that. Like he had a knife, He had a knife?
What kind of knife? A pocket knife? Did you have
it out on you? He didn't pull it out on me.
He hadn't won him. Yeah, but you could have a
(07:56):
pocket knife, a pocket knife and legal. They sell him
at the store. This nigga, who else what he was
gonna try to do to me? You can't arrest nobody
because of what they might could do. See, that's why
I don't likes you like that, because if you don't
do something, if they might do something, then if you
do something before they do something, you're exactly. I just
want to make outlaw life so great because I wouldn't
(08:18):
have gave a just bust his ass, like drove off
like nothing happened. But if you but if you if
you are a law abiding person, then yeah, I guess
that thing about the law though I was scared, like
I was sure, Yeah, I mean like a huge due
like what if he what if he ate that punch,
just grab and not want to let me go? Where
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everybody was acting, he could have did anything like yeah,
nobody's helping me now. So I was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
m hm no ceilings g l Red. Who's getting chased
by transient? Hey Red, Hey it's not Bread who didn't
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do anything while she was getting chased by a trend?
What's happening, Bread? What you would have did if you
was there? Be that nigger? Be that they get to
talk about what you No, I don't think so. Not
the way he was, not the way he was like
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seemed like he was peaceful and he was coming to
get a hug and jas. It was just he didn't
realize that. You just didn't realize he was a straight
tantrum in the story because his mother, what if he
really thought you was his mother. She's not not my
I'm not his mother. You high that you don't know
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that that's not your mama. You don't need play exactly
why are you here? You need to go find your
mother because I'm not hurt. No, no, I'm no, sir.
The reason that story to me is important. So all
on the news and ship, all on the news. It's
been new the article at the dudes, Brandy watched the news.
So I watched the news a lot. But um, everybody's
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running like politics, you know. It's all the politicians getting
voted and all everybody's campaigning right now, and a lot
of people are campaigning on homelessness. And I stayed downtown
right forever, and the only thing it made me was sad.
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I was never scared. But I am a guy. I'm
six three, a gang member, kind of familiar with violence
to some degree, fightings and ship, you know, so it's
not as scary to see somebody I might have to whip.
They ass that's okay. But I guess to a regular
person who's not super vested in it, it probably looked crazy.
But I noticed it was a lot of politicians running
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with cleaning up the homeless, you know issue in Los Angeles.
And I know there's different people on Twitter, they all
saying the same thing. Oh man, you know, l A
got this horrible homeless population. But I know every state
has a homeless population, a huge one because housing in
America is out of control. But what I think makes
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California special, especially Southern California, is it's so close to money.
Mm hmmm, Like all of those homeless encampments. All the
encampments are close to like money. It's like if you
went downtown like the loftice three thousand dollars and across
the street is homeless people. That's why I couldn't get
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with that. Like I'm not about to pay No. Three
thousand to come downstairs to smell pistons ship when I
have a bomb mass like penthouse upstairs somewhere and I
come down to that, that's not gonna I'm not That's
not a feeling, and I wouldn't want to see that.
It's some I've seen um encampments like over going towards
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UM like Santa Monica, Covert City type area, like just
in yeah everywhere. Oh and then over there off the
one on one freeway. Yeah, right over there, that's a
whole little the whole little thing that remember when they
had that fire, seeing all them damn homents people come
up out of there, and they had that fire right
there them. That's because the rent is so high in California.
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These big businesses, these big property management, these big companies,
they're raising the rent. They're driving to me homeless homelessness. Well,
it's tricky to me because I don't think everybody is
homeless because they can't afford housing. I think some people
and and the reason I noticed. Let me stop saying,
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I think I've so when I stayed downtown, I stayed
on six and may like right close to skined Row,
not far, but as soon as you cross Los Angeles,
people sleeping on the streets. You walk one block over
to where the studio is that still on Maple, and
it's pretty much that's where Scared Roll start. You see
all these tents and makeshift homes and everything like that.
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So a lot of nights for ten years, I would
just walk and clear my head. So I would just
walk through Scared Row. I mean, it's not I'm from
watching Confident watch my whole life, so it's not, as
you know, homeless. It's not scary to me. So I
will walk and I would talk to people sometimes, you know,
just to holler at them, to check on them. Sometimes
I knew people, and people just gave up on the
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challenge that's life. Don't have family, don't have anybody. Yeah
that was I met two people that was like that,
but most people I met that just gave up on
the challenge of life. It's like, y'all will come down here.
They never said I was gonna do drugs, but I
could tell at that point they was doing some type
of drugs for me, and they was like, I'm just
giving up, Like as long as I could find a
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way to get some food, I had somewhere to sleep.
Like the challenges of everyday life, of maintaining you know,
rent family, all of these things, these pressures. A lot
of people go down there. And then different people I
noticed when I talked to them too, also came here
to be homeless, Like they left cold places where they
were homeless because of the tough situations and it was like,
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let me go to l A where it's better weather.
So I met a lot of different people, um, and
one thing I realized was people how people gave up.
And it's easy to say, oh, you can't give up.
You know, you can't give up, but it's like life
is tough and and you know, I know, we programmed
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to keep going, and we programmed and make it easy,
and really life is really really tough. Some some people,
some of us make it look easier than it is,
but it is tough. There has been multiple times that
I feel like I almost cracked. I stayed in the shelter.
Did you have what was that about? I definitely want
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to hear this ship. It's so crazy. Yeah, I stayed
in a UM like a dirty day emergency shelter. Um,
it was fighting with somebody. No, did I fight win anywhere?
Or why did you leave somebody? And then said you
needed to go to a shelter, the fine temporary housing
you just fight with somebody? Um, I wasn't fighting with anyone.
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I just really didn't like I didn't have anywhere to
go as far as like UM where I could call
my own. So I wanted to try to up the
campaign of getting your own place, even though you wasn't
financially what I mean I was. I didn't have I
wasn't working, I had my son. UM. I could have
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went and stayed with my grandmother, but my mom and
my UM sister, my stepdad was staying there. My mom
was finishing up school, Like I just felt like, Okay,
you know what I need to take this. I need
to do what I need to do to try to
better myself. So I went and stayed in them, in
the homeless shelter so that I'm able to UM get
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like a transitional apartment. So I had did that, and
I mean, honestly, it was one of the best things
I did. Once I transferred to the transitional home. It
was like a place for like UM women, like young
women with children, like one child. I think you had
to be like between the ages of eighteen and twenty four.
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They had like programs like parents and programs. They had
like a like a hall where you know, you eat
with your kids, had a daycare like it was like
a whole like structure type of thing. So like it
worked for me, I think a lot of people, UM.
I guess when you stay from there, then you're able
to get like permanent Section eight. I couldn't just stay
there to do that, but I used the resources to
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be able to UM to move, you know, to move
you know, end up moving like to Guardina and end
up working. So I didn't do the section eight. But
when I was in the shelter, UM I had to
share a bed like with my son, and a lot
of the women did. But there was a woman like
she would be tripping like every night, like schizzo or whatever.
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So eventually it was like the second night they ended
up UM taking her like taking her away or whatever.
And I don't know what happened to her, kid, but
she was like just really like she was going through
it like she really was. So I know that a
lot of times people are not just homeless because they
can't pay the rent, like it's just so issue or
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like you said, they've given up where they don't know
where to start. Yeah, you know, so that's crazy. I
never know you went through all that red. That's deep.
Go ahead, Bread, tell me your story. Let me hear yourself,
Let me hear your story. It was like I was younger, honestly.
It was around the time that my um at one time,
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I know a lot of people don't know this, but
a one time both parents UM both one was in incarcerated,
UM one was like dealing with UM no drug issues
or whatever. So at one point, UM we were living
like like hotel motel people's houses ship until one point
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my mom was just like, you know what, Um, I
stayed with She's not really my god mom per se,
but you know, she ended up being like the person
that my mom trusted with us being there, So that's
what gave us, you know a little bit of It
was a lot, especially being youngest. I think I was
like maybe like and my brother was like six or
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something like that, if I'm not mistaken, And just to
see that like all the homeless ship crackheads, all this
ship and you're just like watching all this stuff and
you're not knowing what it is, but you you know,
it's a particular smell or you you know, it's just
a lot of different things and you're like, what the
fuck and you don't know, like what's going on? So
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that ship was scary. But um, luckily, like I said,
she got it together and we were able to stay
with someone that she trusted or whatnot. But yeahs is
not at all. So y'all were both homeless. Yeah, so
I don't know if this quite qualifies as me being homeless.
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But my mom when she first went to the fence
the first time, and they gave her a year and
they took her, you know, our house, all our belongings,
and we stayed in the motel for like a year
and my dad came and got us, and she was
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like that, yeah, but my stepdad was there, and I
think it and I got a lot of respect for
my step pops. Clarence was like a trooper, but I
think that was just a lot. He didn't have any
kids and then to have this lady's kids and they
have been together probably about a year or two maybe
if that long, you know what I'm saying. So we
were standing in the motel on Long Beach Boulevard, um
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in competent and the mob actually, and it's called the
Royal ind it's right used to be a gun store
on Long Bease Boulevard. Stayed there for a whole year
and then my dad came and got us. But it
was crazy. Um. One thing I always tripped about when
I stayed downtown is the more people you talk to,
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you hear all of these diverse stories. And one thing
got tripped off of more than anything is it wasn't
a simple solution. It's not a simple fix. And sometimes
I worry that this country has a real fear of
homeless people. And that's really a scary thing to hear.
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You're saying like they just I don't want to deal
with them. They're scared, like they just are really scared
in a sense, or I just think people. You know,
it's funny, man, I think every day, this particularly this country,
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becomes more and more inhumane, Like the concept of humanity
is fleeing. It's going to these bare minimums of existence
to whereas as long as you're breathing, and that's cool.
You know, it's like they want to prolong like an
agony or something. But I've been looking at different solutions
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that politicians been talking about on the news because and
they've been saying ship like they wanted to build like
a like a guy that owned this huge building and
like near Boil Heights or like in that area, and
he was like, Okay, we want to turn this huge
building into like a like a dorm for transient and
then but all of the community, you know, they were
(21:45):
on the news protesting it, like we don't want them here. Yeah,
I seen. I remember they were talking about taking the
little the little tiny houses, like making a little like
encampment and doing all the little tiny houses. But yeah,
people don't want them in there? Should people? And I
was weird because it's like these are human beings. Like
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I was watching people that was doing well for themselves
and making a living complain about homeless people having like
a place to like to stay. They didn't want them
to be there because it was in their community, and
they were like protesting it. And you know, the news
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was running a story and everybody I could tell was
just looking at it. But it didn't. I thought I
was the only person that a hit like, damn y'all
protesting homeless people having a place to stay like a dorm.
It's in your neighborhood because you have a fear of
what they could become. They can bring the property value
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down or I mean maybe they're looking at like that.
It probably won't. But what I'm saying is that really
like it, But you think about how fucked up as
a human being because you have to be to where
I don't want you to have nowhere to live because
you're gonna bring the value of my property down. But
that's how unfortunately, I don't know it's if I don't
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think it's set up that way. I think there's an
issue in humanity, like that's something wrong, Like my money
is worth more than some other person having a home.
I mean, but we're at the point where people can
just record a situation they're not even thinking to help.
Like there was an issue where a girl was getting
raped on the subway in Philly and people were have watched.
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It wasn't until like the fourth exit that someone that
worked there saw what was going on and intervened or whatever.
So people are just becoming very disillusion and it's and
it's funny because the Internet plays such a role in
it to where we don't just call each other like
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it's art. It off with simple texting. Text like voices
already disconnect from seeing and touching, So the voices really
a strong thing because it comes from somebody, But then
that's being reduced down to texting, and now texting it
were from phone to phone to now. I'll just say
something on social media and everybody can see it, and
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then that way you could judge if somebody's okay based
off of their posts or who the fund is actually
posting what's going on in their life. Right, Well, that's
crazy because the person one of the one of my
friends hit me up because I hadn't been posted in
a while. It was like you're good, and I'm like yeah,
I'm good. Oh, I ain't seen you posting a while,
and I'm like, you got my phone number just like
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you just text me today, Like, I mean, but that's
valid though if you're always posting and like, well, let
me check on you. You got my phone number two,
so just check in. Yeah. But but again it goes
into census tap in, babe, it goes into census of convenience.
It's so like right, like humane, like a loose idea
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of humane. It's quality of life, like a greater quality
of life. That's the point of being humane, caring about
other folks, other humans, other people. So all of these
tools really reduced the quality of life. I mean, like
like fast food reduced the quality of food, you know,
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social media reduced the quality of communication. Quality is the
killer of excuse me, Convenience is the killer of quality.
So as we have things that are super convenient, we
lose quality. McDonald's, you know, the burger that McDonald's versus
your old lady or your mom or somebody making your
own burger. Yeah, but it's like in and out burger
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ain't nowhere near as good as a burger made it home.
Remember if you were stuck red with the fixing the
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property in Los Angeles. We need to have a politician
come on the talk. That's what we need to do.
What we could expand on this conversation because I think
no matter what they say, they're gonna have bad answers.
But if you were looking out when I moved out here, um,
there wasn't a lot of homeless people. Yeah, I didn't
really see homeless people because it was cheap to live. Yeah,
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and it just changed, yeah, slowly become a Los Angeles
There there's a lot. There's a lot out here now
and it's crazy because it's like, um, they're young. It's
a lot of young, um, homeless people. It's a lot
of um, a lot lot of people on drugs. It's
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a lot of I think has to do with it too,
where they're just like they give up their brothers. The
drug has them, so they want to spend the money
on that. They don't want to spend the money on
quality life, right, But ship is it? Is it? You
drug get a hold of you, boy, and it really
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just know that's how y'all be smoking weeds. I watch
y'all boat all the time. I'm jes podcast glasses always
talking about is that smoke. I know some weed smokers
didn't know for real, they smoke stomach aches. My brother
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K got hooked on moon rocks. He was on Really
I did it before. I've done it before, and that's
why I can't do it. So we're releasing our own
strain of joints. Like it's called ops um and it's
like meant to put you down, like it's a it's no,
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it's just weeds, quality weed, but it's doctored up really well,
you know what I mean with T A s, A
lot of t s to make sure it is super
You're looking about seventy that's a couch. That's a couch deadlock.
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With the funniers, it come five in the pack like
the little so they like, uh, each one is like
uh a little over, like a little short of a gram,
so like point seven point seven each one. But it's
just meant to be like when you come home from work.
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So it's like the whole idea of ops is like
instead of like going out in the streets and sucking
your life off getting into something that this is the
op you should smoke. I guess to push kind of
an agenda of like you go use somewhere, Bro, you
don't stop to I mean, so you could smoke them
all of these now these things gone like that baby daddy,
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the baby daddy, You wouldn't be a mother if it
wasn't for because why would you want to kill him?
You must don't appreciate being a mother so much so
then how would you be mad at the nigger that
made your mother. It's just I wasn't thinking money thing.
But I guess smoking is you know, smoke your baby dad.
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I don't. I'd never understood how y'all safe y'all baby daddy?
If you love unless you really just be lying about
being women out here that may want to say the
baby daddy and smoked that baby daddy like joint? Would
you look at your friend crazy if you want to
kill her baby and she says she loved being a mother,
and then this is the man that actually gave her
her greatest it would kill me. What treat me out?
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Is this? When you look at people's I g and
like their greatest achievement and be like being my mom
and I'm like, you still hate your baby daddy? Be
somebody lying. She ain't gotta like the baby dad eats
to love her, But then how could you not like
the person that made you your greatest accomplishment. You don't
have to like him, you don't love like him. You
can still you could be like they don't have to
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like him. I love, but you could. How could you
dislike him if he gave you the thing that you're
the most proudest of you about him? You can care,
but how could you How could you not love the
person that gave you the things? You can love him,
but you don't have to like them. I don't mean
you gotta like him, but I got into an argument
of one on one day, right and he was tripping
on you know about the kid. I want that joint
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so I can go like this baby dad, I can't
stock him. I can't do ship to him. Let me
let me smoke the baby dad. Let me go sit down,
Let me go, let me stop, Let me go sit down.
Y'all about the sickest motherfucker's in the world. Let me
get this nick up out of here. Let me get
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take it up. You don't get this nick. So it's
crazy because we don't call them joints like it's called.
They called soldiers soldiers, So it's like, yeah, we got
we got the Domo pack, we got the key Way pack,
we got the Cops pack, we got the Rebels pack,
which is like the Confederate Army for certain times, we
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got a special thing going for like the British soldiers
for the fourth of July in the Boston two party. Okay,
we put one of those in there, which one. I
don't know something something. Why does it have to Why
are you against the male species? What are you talking about?
I'm not against the species. I'm just saying just in
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case you're you're not putting anything in there for the
people that want that something else that they in. You
know about that crippen life we got. I'm saying there's
other things, but that it has to be a greater
problem than you just laid down with the wrong person.
Like it had to be somebody that tried to keep
you in slaves, that's targeted your community for years, not
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the first thing. You not the person you gave a
ginta two and then you got it wrong. So now
you're upset it yourself. I should give you a you
pack so that way you can smoke the right person
because you so upset with yourself for sleeping with this.
I'm saying, I'm talking. I'm giving it for the people.
The people may want this, so Red, if you had
to solve the homeless problem in Los Angeles, this ain't
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enough time to come up with this. Obviously we have
to we have to call Sticks and get some people
in here. But if you had to come up with
a solution, yeah, shout out to watch Sticks because he
he always come up with these bad ideas about the
homeless people and not be like Sticks, that's a bad idea.
But it's easy for nigger to be I'm gonna tell
you why. It's easy for a sideline nigger such as
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myself at times, especially in that fight, to to really
comment on what Sticks is doing. Sticks is doing a
fantastic job. I am tough on him because he's a
super intelligent, smart person, but sometimes he had like these
two dollar ideas and I'll be like, that's just crazy,
But then reality, I'm like, it's I would hate to
be the press. I wouldn't want to be the president.
I only could be a dictator like in l A.
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Like if I had to clean up the homeless thing,
like I'm asking you, like immediately the first thing, I
wouldn't care what no community thought. So you're moving into
whatever community the first building or first three buildings, that's
big enough. I don't care about what happens to your
property value. I don't care if we have to hire
a little bit more police security, you know, for the neighborhood.
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I don't care. What's important is how we treat a society,
a community, A society, a race is judged by their worst.
People come to Los Angeles right now and see homeless
people and be like and the only reason they could
plain because you would think they've never seen a homeless
person a bump. I don't know if that's like a slur,
but you would think they've never seen a bump because
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the way they talk about it. But what I'm realizing
is the bum is right at Staples Center. The bum
is right where the rent is four thousand dollars. Wait
a minute, So artists who live downtown, they'll be like
as homeless people right here. But it's like I always
like l a And compared to Godtham City because it's
like literally it's poverty and wealth exists within one simple border,
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especially in downtown town. So and I love downtown. I
love the homeless. I love the fact that it's homeless
people there. You know, not I like the factor's homeless people,
but I love the fact that's homeless people right there
because it always kept me grounded. Like my biggest fear
is becoming you know, Kanye or jay Z or somebody
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who kind of and I don't want to say like Kanye,
who doesn't carry the burdening condamn it, somebody who carried
the burden of community, but also Jay to where economically
I get disconnected from what people find themselves connected to.
That's super important to stay with the struggle, stay with
the streets if it means not being having twenty million
dollars or two hundred million dollars. Who needs more than
two million dollars anyway? Who needs more than five bedrooms? Anyway?
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Who needs? Why would any human being needs? Who the
funk got enough? There's nobody with ten kids with ten bedrooms.
Every last person who got ten bedrooms don't don't have
ten kids. And I know entirely too many people with
ten kids that got two bedrooms. So the only way
it could work for me, like this whole situation is
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even as any type of leader, like even states who
different people king different homies. They be like, oh, you
should get into politics, even my O G Homy mugs
from families. She said, I can't because I wouldn't. I'm
not trying to make people feel better. I'm trying to
make it better and policies politics is all about making
people feel better. I'm about making it better. And I
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don't want to argue with you, like y'all in people
was in boil Heights protest and I'm like you, motherfucker's
it is homeless people sleeping on the fucking streets and
you don't want them in your community inside of a
building that's big enough to have homeless people so they
can have a home. That made me like those people.
I wanted to shoot them up. You don't like how
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lights like how old boy in in uh rest his
soul in Northern Africa eat, I mean not eaty Um
the brother that created all the gold builders on island
light skiing dude. Yeah, he's he's a he's a North
African brother. He got killed too, but he's super dope.
I don't know why I'm drawing up black, but like
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I would have to rule like that because that type
of thing. That's why I get dictators. I get people
like Kim Jong, people like you know, the the guy
in China, the guys that really because I can't agree
with y'all who is human beings and death or something.
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But no, no, no, no, all of you men women,
But I don't think so because we all can't be
the same thing. Somehow, we can't be all the same
thing because how do I think? So fucking crazy and
y'all make me feel crazy, and I'm like, just might
be it ain't that much deep in the world, and
there's a lot of people out there. You're just very logical.
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But isn't that like everybody? Everybody? But they were protesting,
like pick it side, like they well, what was the
purpose of it though? Was it because it was like
a lot of like crime or something over there? That
crime comes with homeless people, which is they're homeless, okay,
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and a lot of them aren't, so I guess. But
they're saying a lot of them are. Big did not
say that whatever, you know how she got that all
because they don't most of them. She said, most of
them are bad. She tried to say it real low big,
she's like sucking hit. He's like hitting it to the
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homeless people. Just put them all into gas, kill them all.
You don't want to say for a certain area where
it's just them, not just them, but maybe like a
mobile home park. Not a mobile home park, but you
know how they create mobile home parks. But I'm saying,
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I know, I say, look right here and said that
they were trying to do that with the tiny homes
and the I guess the and that's little it's it says,
I mean, but it's like their tents, so they're used
to I've been watching a lot of people build like
it's funny. People are building complete structures. I've seen the
dude on the news because had a two bad like
a two story homeless and Captain crazy ye through like
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see that kind of person. To me, it's gonna take care.
But probably it's not that we just we we they
just wanted what used to say, live off the land.
They just they just want to live out the land.
They might not want to pay this high ass rent,
these high ass utilities. They don't want to do nothing
like that, especially if they can't. I mean, I think
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mental illness comes to mind. Mental illness is definitely a problem,
But that don't change that still, regardless, right, the goal
have to the goal has to be taking care of
our worst people that are in the worst positions, and
if we can't, Like this guy was looking to use
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his building, this huge building, huge building. I wish I
knew all that, you should look it up, but he
was looking to have this huge building. Huge. I mean,
they probably could have fit a thousand plus people if
they just put cots up in this right, probably could
have took most people off a skilled roll and put it.
Was it a temporary situation or was it a permanent thing? Well,
(39:48):
I think it's all temporary. I think the goal is
to try to move people into homes. I mean, I
don't know how possible that is with l A prices,
but I think the goal is to move people into homes.
So they're so it's basically they wanted to build another shelter,
like another mega shelter. Oh yes, neighbors protests proposal to
turn serious building building into homeless housing. Well it's homeless housing,
(40:14):
but why would the funk would you? Protests Protesters are
continued their fights to stop that what they claim its
power over their community. That's crazy, Like we don't want that,
Like who the fund is? What the fund is wrong
with human beings to where they don't want to take
care of homeless people. It's a huge center to it
says yes, like it sits six acres. I'm telling you, man,
(40:37):
Brandy watched the news. I see this ship all the
fucking time. I'll be like, and I'll be sitting right
there looking at the fucking news because that's what killed me. Bro.
I'll be sitting right there listening to what they're saying
and like looking at the like I was looking at
that the boy has. I'm like, so this is this
huge building with a bunch of homeless people, and the
(40:58):
people who live in the community like don't want them
over here. We don't want them over here. These people
it ain't like I could see if they were like
sex offenders and you were scared of your daughters. I mean,
but there's already probably homeless people outside of their um
community right now. Now they're just be in one place.
I'm sure they go to the store, there's homeless people.
(41:18):
I'm sure behind the stores, there's camps. There's homeless people everywhere.
So you know, I just don't understand, why will we
not take this huge building and create a place where
people have somewhere to sleep under a roof. But they're
gonna put that huge building in like Beverly Hills or
in uh, Brentwood, They're not. I don't give a funk
(41:41):
where they put that. I'm just saying they're not there.
They're not going to do that. I don't know why,
and I'm saying I'm saying I don't give a funk
where My issue is with human beings. So I don't
get from Brentwood. I don't they from Lynnwood, any Wood, Lakewood,
any of the wood us. If they have a space
(42:02):
where you can put the human beings under a roof
so they don't have to sleep outside, I get it.
It comes with crime because it's people that are suffering
from poverty. But again, unless we as a complete society
start to deal with why people are committing crimes, I
guess there are always these occasional people who just just
commit crimes because they just exist, right, But at the
(42:23):
end of the day, we still can't give up on
human beings, and that's what we try to do. And
this is what I was saying to you a couple
of weeks ago. About like drill music, Like I listened
to people who care about drill music, right, and like
they'll be like, oh, this music is murdered music. I'm
watching a lot of adult black people that came from
the community turning to see the Lord's Tucker, Like they're like, oh,
(42:47):
you know the music, And I'm like, Okay, are these
rappers in Chicago rapping about something that's not happening? Like
why would you stop at the rapper? Why would you
not walk right past him and then change what he like?
What he can rabby He's not making this ship up.
So that's how I feel to some degree, like about humanity,
(43:09):
where we just at a lost place to where there
is a building that's twenty six something crazy acres or huge,
huge building, right, that could fit thousands of people under
the roof, yeah, right, all these people mental health and
other services. Yes, right, so you can fit all these people, right,
(43:32):
and you could do that, and then there's people who
live there. They should be fucking ashamed of themselves. We
don't want to Okay, if you're worried about crime, Hey,
if you're gonna put this build here, we need an
increase police president, We need to leave this going. The
neighborhood came together and said, hey, we need extreme police. President,
maybe y'all give us some extra money because y'all know
(43:53):
we got to deal with more crimes, your opecivities, windows
getting busted, like you do things, but you still think
to take care of these people, just not just say no,
we don't want this. There's no other they're picketing, like
if you look at the picture, they're picketing like they're
putting on their Sign's not even a detention center, but
(44:13):
that's what I'm saying, like it's jail. So maybe it's
the way that they rolled it out the stops. It's
just people don't care. They have the same fear that
most people have of homeless people. There's a natural fear.
Could you fill that with some of your water? They
have a natural fear of homeless people. People think. You know,
obviously they called it. They said they want to call
(44:37):
a life rebuilding center. But they got on their picket
signs again because they want to make other people, other
human beings think like they have some kind of valid
point and why they shouldn't take care of homeless people.
All right, that's crazy. It starts with housing people. Why
(44:58):
the fuck would we not how other human beings? Ship
is crazy and it's life. But the thing is they're
shelters though, but a lot of well some homeless people,
they don't like to go to the shelters because it's
dangerous in those shelters, where I can't imagine it's more
dangerous in the shelters than being outside. No, I've really
heard situation, and I think there's some people that will
(45:21):
turn it down. But the fact that that's not available,
it's unbelievable because that's just crazy. Like that, This is
how far we are away from simple humane ideas to
where we're like, oh, we need to go past just
making sure they got a place now. Once you get
them in a place, now we can start to figure
out how to help people. But how the funk are
you sleeping outside outside, outside, outside under the freeways right now?
(45:49):
A lot of people have noticed and that they got
to what you call it, but the trailer homes of
the trailers. Yeah, like if you go over thereby isn't
will and hills to um the summits right there? Oh
you know what? All right on the side, you know
we're talking about jetter. Put my little nephew poop. He
(46:12):
bought a home over there and was going to turn
it into a studio and it was like a homeless
It wasn't one of hills. Yeah, like I think he's
been like one point four million dollars or it's more
time million dollar houses in this community and right around
the corner as homeless people. And my issue is is
not as homeless people. My my my issue is why
is people sleeping outside in California? Like in this society,
(46:37):
you have to want to. If I met one person
who said they didn't want to and was that's a
problem that they didn't want to sleep out? It was
some people I did me days like, gee, this is
just how I'm living. I don't want to go inside.
I don't want to sleep inside, you know, I want
to be outside. That's a different argument. I mean, however
(46:58):
we deal with that is separate. But it's entirely too
many people that have to sleep outside. These kids. I
was watching something, Um what is that? One thing it
comes on like YouTube is the black and whitey talks
to the prostitutes. He talks to um Damn, I can't
think of it. But it was really good. So this
this one girl. She was like ten and she was
(47:19):
lived outside and um in the tent. It was like
a tent and she had like a bedroom and it
was another tent attached and they had that's where like
they ate, and you know, she was cool with all
the people that lived out there. She said that they
you know, they all look after her and stuff like that.
You know, like that's crazy, that is sober. And I
(47:42):
think she was in school, which is crazy because I
remember on the paperwork, like they asked, like, do you
have a place to stay? Do you have the hotel?
Are you? She probably didn't. She probably didn't tell the truth.
She was with her mom though, they So can we
agree with that? That even? Can we agree? Right because
(48:04):
I know y'all rarely ever agree with me. Can we
agree that that is crazy? I think it's crazy. I
think the protests and oil heights, I think that is crazy.
I mean if it's like I could see people saying, Okay,
we don't want these people here because you know, it's
(48:25):
going to bring down our neighborhood, it's gonna decrease our
property value. But then when you look at it, like
you said, like why are we stopping someone from having
a place to sleep, like a place to stay, like why,
Like this has nothing to do with you at all,
And I can understand it could and I can understand
if it affects your community. But these are the struggles
(48:47):
we took on the day we were born to care
for other human beings. It's actually the verb of being
a human being is to look after others, not yourself.
To look after others. That's what human sin is that
I know what they think, and they think, that's a
lot of homeless people in work in my neighborhood. I
(49:11):
gotta walk my kids or whatever. My kids gotta be
outside already. Know it's they're thinking, Oh, they're not thinking
like how they should. They're just thinking about themselves. How yeah,
how will affect them? And that's the problem. That's my
issue with society. There's a thousand other demands you can make,
but the first thing you'd be like, you know what,
this building couldn't fit them. Okay, this is how we're
(49:31):
rocking in association. We need these other things to happen
to make sure that our kids are still safety these
neighborhoods and everything is still you know, cop aesthetic. But
that should be a part of the demands outside of
it shouldn't even be an argument about what are these
people coming into the community. They should not be picking,
you know, other human beings having a roof to sleep
(49:54):
under ship crazy, It's sad. So what would you do Britain?
Would you move them in with you if you were
if you had all the power? Definitely, man, I just
I wouldn't. I don't like to see people hungry or
all these multi billion dollar businesses and motherfucker's star. I
(50:16):
just never understood that. Like I never did like get that,
so honestly I would, um, I do, I do get
I do get it, but I don't agree with it,
like why they're saying the things that they're saying or
why they're picketing. But I mean, like if you have
a gun, if you know what it's supposed to be,
you know, you're supposed to care. And if you don't
(50:37):
care about a person's like living on the street, that's
just black. Like I would never want to see I mean,
are the homeless population is crazy in California. So it's
clear that people don't care about people living on the
street because I don't see anybody. I mean, there's a
lot of people that are helping, but definitely. I mean,
(50:59):
I'm not over here offering homeless people places to stay,
and I might have somewhere for him to stay, but
that's true. You wouldn't even give a homeless person to
fucking home. We're looking out for tuning into the No
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