The Day A Driver Took My Daughters Life

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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introduce yourself.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I go buy the name of Donell McCrow and I'm
I'm a public advocate for transportational alternatives and families for
safe streets. I also represent you your name of success movement.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Definitely thank you for coming in with my brother.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Appreciate it. Thanks for having me, Thanks for acknowledging you
know the big.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Nah you called. I had you call. I had to
bring you on there. I had to. It's been a while, yo,
it's been a while. And then when I when I asked,
and then it's like you told me that and I
ain't gonna give you. I'm like, you tell your story,
but that it blew my mom. I'm like hell like
hell no, bro, But this is a part of this,
this segment, this is a segment of the podcast. We

(01:31):
ain't do this in a long time because it's just
been man wealth. But we're gonna walk people through a moment.
It's called Stories of Adult We're gonna walk people through
a moment. And you got a dark story. I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I ain't gonna lie like I said, my heart, my love,
my heart style you feel me. But we're gonna close eyes.
We're gonna walk through this journey. Then gonna flip over
no furniture, They're gonna bump into no walls. You I mean,
you might bump into it, but you know you're not blind, Pobby,
But still I got you. Don't worry, and I'm gonna
let you grab the well.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Right all right? So story, Thanks for tuning in, Thanks
for tuning in. I go by the name of Donnelle McCrow.
I'm a producer, engineer, songwriter, actually wear a few hats
behind the scenes. But you know, currently, right now, most importantly,
I've been focusing on this justice battle for a new

(02:29):
bill which is introduced by New York City called the
Stop Super Speeders Bill. And the reason why I'm publicly
advocating for this bill is because my daughter was a
victim of traffic violence. And that's what this bill is about,
traffic violence prevention and basically raising awareness to people who

(02:49):
are outside speedy drivers, super speedy drivers who are not
aware that they can take someone's lives at any second
by speeding and not being cautious of the speed that
they're driving at. So what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna just I'm gonna rewind a little bit. So back
in I I've been I've been rocking with this guy.

(03:11):
I've been rocking with notes for years Unfortunately, I had
got arrested in twenty twenty one. So before that, we
were doing some club things. We were doing some music
entertainment things and stuff like that. We had a lot
of things going. But I ran into some legal issues
and twenty twenty one I got arrested. I got and

(03:34):
concerrated to a three year bit. I was just released
in February of twenty twenty four after serving my time.
So never in a million years did I expect the
unthinkable to happen, which is, you know, my I lost

(03:54):
my daughter, my firstborn, my firstborn daughter. Her name is
Nayelle McCrory. This is her here, this is her here,
this is a baby picture out here, and as you
see on the table, that's her most recent graduation photo there.
But what happened was on October twenty fourth, I had

(04:16):
received a phone call that my daughter was struck by
a vehicle. So, you know, I'm thinking, okay, you know,
struck by a vehicle, maybe some broken bones, twisted ankle,
something you know she can recover from. I was in
Brooklyn at the time. This instantent occurred at the intersection
of Manhattan Avenue and West one hundred and tenth Street

(04:39):
by the Cathedral Parkway, and I rushed up there immediately.
When I rushed up there, up there to Harlem, they
had already, you know, ambulance got into Morningside Hospital. Myth
signed on Morningside and when I got there to the hospital,
my heart dropped. What I saw was was was it

(05:01):
was devastating to any father to see their child wrapped
up bandage and bruised and just it just was a
bad scene. So immediately, because of her damages, I didn't
I didn't know what happened. All I know is she
got hit by a car. I'm in a state of disbelief, like, okay,
you know what I mean, It still seems to real.

(05:23):
So because of her injury, she was she was transferred
from mounts Mount Sinai over to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital where
she They have a specialized trauma unit for kids and children.
They're known for, you know, working with children and and
and uh dealing with traumatic brain injuries. So what I now,

(05:46):
I know my daughter passed away from a traumatic brain injury.
So my daughter was hit by a super speedy driver.
The driver was speeding. She's walking across the street to
catch the bus after day, she never made it across
the middle double line. Driver came out of nowhere, hit her,
knocked her all the way in the it flew her up.

(06:09):
He continued to drive about a block away and then
eventually he stopped and came back to the scene where
my daughter was laid out there on the floor. It's
it's I guess like, what was most traumatic for me
is I used to speak to my daughter every day
on her phone, and I made a lot of plans

(06:29):
with her. She was only thirteen years of old. She
promised me that she would graduate from UH Junior High
and into high school. And she she played her part.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
She never she never made it to high school.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
She made it to high school. Okay, it was her
first year freshman. She made it by the grace of God,
turned the life around thirty days, got her grades up,
made it to a prom and everything. But what was
more devastating is because I would have never thought in
a million years coming home that I was going to
be burying my child within that same year. So seven

(07:05):
days she spent fighting for her life at Columbia Presbyterian.
Family all kind of calls, everybody just support supportive. We
all were praying, praying, wish and hoping that she would
come up out of this and this coma. They had
to put in an aduce coma because from the impact her
skull hit the submit in the street a few times.

(07:26):
So she had a very big swelling and I had
we prayed that it would go down. Unfortunately it got
worse by the seventh day. That was that was, that
was it for us, you know. The seventh day, me mom,
along with other family members, we just prepared for a
peaceful passing. She couldn't it or her vital maight couldn't

(07:50):
fight no more. She was on the highest dose of
blood Prussian medicine for thirteen years old. It was just
it was it was a horrific scene there. But also
I got my peace because I was there. I was

(08:11):
able to you know, me and her mother we we
we we we created her and we were there with
her all the way until the body bag. You know,
we put her in the body bag on that seventh day.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
For that moment, like as a father being like and
I mean, I sent my love to you, bro, because
I can't I can't imagine that I ain't even with you, bro,
because I have two They got to put me in
the grave behind them. If I ever was to ever

(08:47):
have to cross that that path, they would have to
better me with them. Bro on top, I can't woke
this earth without like my pride enjoys. But as a father,
for that moment, like, how did you feel?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Numb? Numb? Numb was the best words so that I
can explain because so much was going on. There was
so much energy, cries, you know, differ revenge. People were
feeling revengeful. People wanted to go through things, and I
came home, I took my Shahaa in prison. I'm a

(09:26):
Muslim man, I understand what I'm saying, So as a
god fearing man, there were just certain judgment calls that
I could not make as a man because that's not
my position. I let go and I let God here
and do a lot of things. And aside from being numb.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Even in that moment, you still felt that way.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
At that moment, I felt like because I didn't know
what was going on, I wanted to see the footage.
That's what it was. I didn't know what happened. My
attorneys in legal finally got me the footage and I've
seen it. I watched it over a hundred times, my
daughter's last days on his earth. It was just I

(10:09):
was angry. You know, I'm angry to this day. I
just find healthy coping mechanisms to deal with the pain.
The pain is never gonna go away. It's a certain
type of pain that I wish you on nobody. But
after a while, you gotta learn how to turn that
pain into power. And that's what made me become even

(10:30):
more of a public advocate, because I get a chance
to go out in front of millions of people as
a speaker and tell my story which can possibly impact
the next person and help somebody else's life, you know,
from advocating in the public way. But besides being numb,
I'll be honest with you, the whole seven days, I
was strong. I did not break down. I didn't really

(10:54):
I cried a few times as it got closer by
No remember first one fifty one in the morning, she
was pronounced that it was the worst. It was the
worst screams I ever heard in the room. It was

(11:14):
it was, man, it was.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
How do you create it? So it's like somebody you
watch girls.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It felt surreal, It still feels surreal to this day.
It felt surreal, and I was just like damn, like
why I kept asking why me? Like why me out
of all people? Because I have to tell like, like
even from anybody that know me knows, I got the
heart a goal like I give. I'm a giver, I help.

(11:42):
I got a passion for seeing people win. Like I'm
literally a chosen one, Like and you know what the
chosen was. We go through the most in life.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Nah, definitely remember I hit you up and I came
to your crib and at this I remember your hands
on with your daughter. Is she in the studio with
us while we're doing drops like DJ drops.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
And yeah, it was hands on it cooking and you're
in there, you're playing the beats.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
And she like your cheerleader and all that. So when
you reached out Wednesday and you call them like you know,
how is your daughter and you was like, my daughter died,
I'm like wait what, Like I couldn't believe it because
I like it just brought me back to that day
when you always in the studio and she was just
You're like, yo, just sit right here, and then your daddy,
can I press that button? Daddy? Can I do that?

(12:29):
Just like for like for you to say that ship,
I ain't gonna lie. When I got off the phone,
when I even got off the phone with you, I'm like,
I can't even believe this. Like I had to hit
my producer up like yo, like this ship is crazy,
like hit my mother and I'm up like I couldn't
believe it. Then it's like I'm looking at my son
and I called my daughter like just to hear their voice,

(12:50):
like that's ye, that's just something just.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
And that's and that's the part that so prior to
her death. About that same day, I told her twenty
fourth she called me about about one I want to say,
between between one PM and one twenty we spoke and

(13:17):
she asked me to send her money and she was like, Dad,
you know, send me some money. You know, I didn't
get a chance to get certain things. I sent the
cash cash after. Who would have thought that was my
last cash AFT to my daughter cash after at one
twenty sons she told her, she said, thank you the
thing that did give me my closure. I told my

(13:38):
daughter I love her, and she told me she loved me.
We did tell each other we love each other via text.
So I did get that, you know, confirmation that Okay,
I did tell her, at least I told her I
love her. I told my daughter I love her. She
know I love her, God know I love her. And
she told me she loved me. But by one forty something,

(14:01):
I got that call and I and I was just confused.
I was with my other daughter at the time. I
had to rush all the way from Clinton Hills, all
the way from her school, all the way uptown to
get to my daughter's mother. My daughter's mother is a mess.
She's getting stronger today. She can't put up the fight.

(14:22):
It's different. It's different from my nobody going to fill
the pain. Nobody's gonna hurt more.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Carried nine months like than my daughter's mother.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's that's only child, that's a that's her first born,
first born. She has another child. But she did everything,
everything with my daughter, everything with our daughter, you know, and.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
The first kid is always to struggle. So it's like
not go out.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
We tell you it was a different.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
You figure out being a parent through your first kid
like me and my mother born. You know, it's like
me and my mother been through the struggle to storm.
So my brother and sister good live a good life
like I've been do the shelters with my mother and
everything else. So it's like I understand that feeling, like,
how is your mental today? Your mental health today?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Man, that's a good. That's a good. Topics Mental Health Away,
Mental Health Awareness Month, this.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
City is important, brof.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
To be honest, I'm on MADS bro Like my mental
and emotional distress levels have increased. I had to get
back on psych mans. I have several mental health disorders,
especially coming home from prison, and I suffer with PICKS,
which is post in conservation syndrome. A lot of people
who come home don't really know about this, but it's real.

(15:40):
It's called PICKS p I c S. You can look
it up. Post in conservation syndrome comes from when you're
concerrated and you're isolated from general public for so long.
So whether you're in shoe which is the box, or
whether you're in whatever confinement, you're restricted from GP which

(16:00):
is general population, and just being in prisoner period, you
are restricted from society, from the world. So imagine doing
so much time in the box, doing that much time
in a cage, doing that much time in the room,
you start to lose touch of a lot of things,
and mentally and psychologically subconsciously. That's where the picks come

(16:22):
in posting conservation syndrome. So it's something that we if
we don't pay attention to it, we act angry, we
act out of anger, and it's really not the way,
but it's something rare on top of everything else I've
been done with. I also was struggling with housing. When
I came home, I went into the shelter. I'm just

(16:45):
now a year later. You know, from staying down and
making real sacrifices, your doors are opening up for me.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
If you don't mind me asking, what does picks feel like?

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Like?

Speaker 3 (16:57):
How does that feel in your.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
It's isolation m hm. You you feel you isolate yourself
and segregate yourself from a lot of people, places, and
things because you can. It can make you feel, It
can make you feel what's the word, I want to

(17:22):
make sure you use the right word, Like that inner
energy of anger. It can make you react and hurt somebody.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
So like in a scenario situation, you could be somewhere
amongst people and.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Just bug out and don't even know you could just
spaz out like literally, like literally, just like somebody could
say something to you and you don't even know why
you respond to just slap this person or while you
just curse this person out or or or worse. You're
using language to dehumanize people's character. And that's not I'm

(17:59):
not of the I'm of building people. I'm of building.
I'm of love, peace and happiness. I buy by the
twelve Jews. And there's also you know, we in Islam,
we have pillars and articles of faith that we bide by.
You understand what I'm saying as a muscler. Now, I
just think that it's it if you have like an,

(18:24):
I had a lot of psychological issues that I did
not know about until I went to psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is
really important for people who have maybe you schizophrenia, bipolar, man,
you got the suffer from depression. You know, I already

(18:45):
suffered from depression, from a mental health dis what I got,
So this just made it. I went through depression. I'm
just coming out of it, like literally mine as well. Silent.
It hit different, but it's times where I don't want
to shower, I don't want to wake up, I don't
want to do nothing. It's a struggle with them, and

(19:05):
that's when you have to stay gotta stay prayed. Up.
You have to pray. You have to pray, and if
you don't have any kind of connection to the higher
power or to the most hard, I advise people to,
you know, get to get a hold of that and
get to know God. You know. I don't want to

(19:27):
go too much into it, but I don't want to
be respectful of people's place. I know where I stay.
All I do is I pray for people. I'm not
about breaking down character and breaking men down or breaking
women down. Now before when I was young, you know,
we're young. We don't know how we are. We may
do things and we don't know why, but it all
stems from trauma. And it's always trauma that we have

(19:51):
not truly gotten over. And this is why we have
issues with women. This is why we have issues with
our kids, while we have issues with parents and the
public period, because we keep running. We running, we think
what we're doing, you know, we jumping this course, doing it,
and then what happens We crash. Yeah, everybody got a

(20:14):
crash out. I don't care who you are, whether you cry, fight,
whatever it is, you're gonna crash out. And then that's
usually the breaking point.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Being is it hard?

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Still?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Like like you said, your disorder, right, Yeah, is it
hard being in behind like in a room with just
four walls and just shoe do you still feel do
it still bring you back to that cell? That like
being in a.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Shoe in shoe And then see, I did my time
at in the beginning, I was in the Max, so
it was different. So they send me all the way upstate,
and I was saying to myself, but I only got
three years. Why is y'all putting me around people who
got life twenty years twenty five? My first bunkie life,

(20:58):
second Bunkie twenty five, third Bunkie twenty two. I'm in
there with the people that's doing. I'm like, I only
got punk ass little three years.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
Hard. You got hard, they got hard.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
They got hard. But the stories, the wisdom that I
gave them and that we shared amongst each other'sself, it
really like grown me crying. It's a lot of good people.
I don't care with nobody. I know, you know at
some point you wilding out, there's a place for you. Yeah,

(21:29):
it's a place for you. You know that's gonna segregate
you from society. But there's so many great people in
prison that I met that. I just wish they had
another chance, you know what I mean. And a lot
of O G sat me down and was like, listen,
I met people that knew my family and knew as
people I ran into and there. I didn't even see

(21:50):
him in a while, and I'm like, what you're doing here?
So in the beginning, you know, the came go back
of what you said. I wasn't. It's two times out
in the island. You locked in the set when you
were such intake. That's when you locked the way. When
you're upstate. Its shoe. I've experienced all. It's just that man,

(22:10):
you know, like like like jeling. Prison is no place
for a human being. And what happens is, after a
while you start to get numbing. You just there's nothing
you can do about it. If you really want to
make it through your bid, the best thing to do
is pray, stay in the corner, stay out the way.
If you start and adjusting, that's it, especially if you

(22:34):
got a little bit of medium time. I eventually got
transferred to a medium, so I was dealing with me.
I'm a chef, so I was the cook. I'm in
the kitchen and a messhole. I got my food handle this.
I came home with seven different certifications. I didn't play
games when I was in there. I made the best
of my time and it was free and it was

(22:55):
something to do to keep me active, keep my mind going.
I read over one hundred books. I read a lot
about I learned a lot about politics and people from
reading Michael Mexico, you know what I mean. And you
know Lord Rules of Secrecy. A lot of different rules
and books and things I read that kept my mind going.

(23:15):
And that's how I made it out and with it.
And I really made it with the smith a lot
through God, because I've been through some some some ship
some stuff. Go back.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
The guy that was speaking, did they ever did you
ever get convicted? Do you ever see any jail time?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Like what? That's the raids right now while mixings go harder.
I received a very disturbing call last month and unfortunately,
just the investigator on his case, you know, they they
they they didn't find no criminality with this guy.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
So even though you're hitting ran, that's not a crown.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
That's that's gonna have to be a battle that were
opening up in civil court. So it's not like we're
giving up it's two parts to a case.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Open up in civil court.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
You're gonna open up. We gotta we gotta start the
civil court proceedings with the legal team, because it's not
making sense to us. It's not to say that we
can't fight and go for justice. But police is saying, Hey,
this god then was not speeding, he was not doing this,
he's not doing that, he didn't do this, he's not
we can't arrest him. That's why we can't arrest them,

(24:29):
which is contradicted to the police report.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, because I thought when you leave the scene, it's
like a hit and running.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
And it's it's much more. It's deeper than what I'm
saying that I will talk, we'll talk behind the scenes
about that, but it's it's deeper than just you know
what people think. And I started my instincts started talking
to me, and I started seeing this whole thing. It's
much bigger in all honesty, and I said it for

(24:56):
the record, I really feel like that person, whoever that
driver was, is of hot stature. So the Lord's gonna
protect this person if he's of the law. I don't know.
I gotta leave it at that. You get what I'm saying,
but we're gonna find out because we have a lot
of information. But I'm gonna be honest with you. Arresting

(25:19):
this man, whatever you're gonna do this man, it's never
gonna be enough. Can't can't bring back my daughter's like
hold on a lot of people, A lot of people,
whole lot of people on my side and in that side,
mother's side, at what's up what we're doing?

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Nah, we can't.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
I can't. I can't. I can't see myself taking somebody
else's life. After I clearly saw the footage. You know what,
you know what really hurts with a pain hit y'all?
Ship was an accident, really.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
And you you determined that by watching that video really
an act?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
It was really an accident. That's the part that hurts.
When my daughter went out, she never looked to the right.
When you're not putting doing you in them streets. It's
called a cross walk for a reason.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
So she stepped out in the streets without looking both ways.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
What any other kid would do, any other kid I've
done a hundred times.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Rush at him. Yeah you rush. I'm about to get
to my friend's house getting my hair done. Were about
to go get your friends, get down nails. You just
got money in my cash that Pops just gave me.
I'm hip my mind. I could see the enthusiasm in
her movement when she's waiting to go. I could see it.
And she was waiting to get to her and on

(26:44):
the others, you know, her friends. She was going to me.
Her friend is devastated to this day. She never made
it though. Imagine getting a call you gotta come here,
and then you get that call like, oh nah, bro, bro,
he ain't that ship go? What? Psychologically right there in there,
it shifts, It shifts those doper means and neual transmitters.

(27:06):
It's different. So you know it in that in that
in that case, you know.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
There's a lot of a lot of it's like a
lot of emotions because you.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Know it's a lot it's a real touchy case because
the parents.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
But at the same time, it's like my baby girl
can't come back. So it's like and it's.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Something that I gotta live with because if if you
if you go on, you know what I mean, we
get you get revengeful, right. I always tell people revenge
is of the Lord. When you really think of it,
revenge is of the Lord. If you in a spiritual realm,
if you really believe in God, nothing goes unnoticed. The

(27:51):
truth always comes out. I just think that in this
situation here, you know what, na yao. My daughter was
very special, truly gifted, and God, God, God brought her

(28:13):
home for a reason. It was something in the future.
Maybe I can't see, maybe I couldn't see. Maybe it
was something none of us could see. But I'm convinced.
My daughter got seven written all over that number seven.
Tell you something about the number seven. I'm thirty seven.
Her mother's thirty seven. Her birthday is November seventeenth. She

(28:35):
survived seven days.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
As soon as you said she survived seven days. It's
exactly where my mom went to that.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Seven is golling in. Eight is new beginnings. It's crazy, bro,
seven days fighting it by that last day, that eighth
time for the start of new life. He brought a home.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
You just dropped some knowledge on me. I know because
like thinking about that, it's like seven days in the
hospital with my eight d I came home like a
new life for.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
You. Go ate his new beginnings and I'm not gonna lie.
I don't like Halloween, which is the thirty. First, I
don't really like that day. It's a lot of things
that go on that I don't agree with. And I
begged that norder. I begged them in the hospital, please
do not let my daughter pass away on this day.
Please don't. And they gave me that grace. God gave

(29:29):
me that grace. By the one fifty one on November one,
which is, oh, seventeen days before her fourteenth birthday, they
go that seventh again. Damn, seventeen days before fourteenth birthday
is crazy. So I when I kept asking God why
it would already was that's just that's just when I

(29:53):
when I when I was like, man, this is just
she was really an angel.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
That's crazy. Angels seven time fourteen?

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Should you say she held in twenty fourth?

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Look seven times to fourteen? Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
She held on in twenty fourth.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
She got hit October twenty fourth, I.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Said, interviewing on seven, ain't it seven? That's crazy? Seven
to twenty four?

Speaker 3 (30:17):
I was, I was, you know, I was gonna ask you,
but you're kind of saying it. But I was going
to ask you, as you've you know, I thought about
this endlessly, like what and I don't know if this
is too revealing, But like, what do you what? What
has God communicated to you through all of this? It
seems like you already are like on you're making, You're making.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
A different trends. I'm in a different realm. I'm in
a different dimension now. Honestly speaking, my dimension has changed mentally,
and I see my growth. I just I just pray
for strength every day, and I pray that I'm a
firm believer in divine pre ordaemon, which is whatever God wills,

(31:04):
whatever is of his will, will be of his will,
it will be done. If it's not of his will,
it will not be done, which is basically you have
to remember this sometimes I tell you this, this is
how I look it. Like when you pray and you've
manifested so much into something because you want it that bad,

(31:25):
You've applied to steps. There's an not the manifestation. A
lot of people don't know there's an art to it
when you apply them steps and you fall back. If
it's of his will and it's of the universe to happen,
is going to happen for you, no matter what nobody
tries to do. They could try to block you, call you,
it's not gonna happen because of the energy and your

(31:48):
mindset and the focused level. So the vane pre ordain it.
There's something I'll lived by, which is sometimes when you
want something so bad and you notice that it doesn't happen,
been that's God not willing it into your life, because
that means the negative. It possibly means that the negative

(32:08):
is going to outweigh the positive. And as a as
a chosen one and as a God fearing person, you
have to be obedient and look at it from that,
from that angle. Now, when he wills it for you
like this here, what's going on right now? This is
a will. This is all of his will. It's no,

(32:30):
it's this is this No, this is of his will.
It was meant for me to link back up with
my brother right here. This is all of his will.
But we have real we are we are we are kings,
and we are real, we are organic. This is organically happening.
We forced us to happen. That's how I know it's
real and there's something big coming out of this. I

(32:52):
can feel it, you know what I mean. So when
he wills something for you, it's going to happen. That
means the positive is going to exceed the negative, and
it's for you because God is not of negative. Absolutely
put things in your life that isn't going to help

(33:13):
you elevate. So when you start elevating it, that's where
the prayers come in. The do eves come in. Understand
the thank yous coming to being humble, just being just
being resilient, just waiting because it's gonna happen. We get
impatient and the worst thing the man is ego.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Definitely damn brother. How do you sleep because, like me
suffering mental heffort, I suffer with PTSD for what happened
to me. Sometimes I ain't lize. Some days be harder
than others. To point, I don't want to go to
sleep because I don't want to relive what happened to me.
You sat there and said, you watched this. You watch
the video thousands of times, right, sometimes you won't be

(33:56):
scared to close your eyes because you're gonna see that
video again.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
No, the reason, and I tell you why. The video
gave me my composure. It gave me my I mean
not composure, my closure because I had a I was lost.
I didn't know what happened to her. All I mind you,
when my daughter got hit, she was perfect from the

(34:20):
neck down, from the neck down perfect. She had embrasires
and scratches on her arm. So I'm investigating, like why
she got this with her face, you know, and just
above you know, her head was scratched up, and she
had to bandage on me because what they had to
do was they had to put her the pain was
so bad on the thirteen she's thirteen years old. Mindful,

(34:43):
remember she's not an adult. Thirteen years old. The pain
was so bad they had to put it in an
a duce comba because of the screaming and hollering and
that threshold pain she had to deal with, of course,
and we were praying and hoping that she would wake
up and come out of the induced coma. She never did.

(35:05):
The swelling was so bad in her brain that it
just kept enlarging. And as a thirteen year old, your
brain is only your skulars only was so big, so
it's only with so much space before that, and that's
when it we you know, we they checked the pupils.

(35:28):
She had reaction, there was no activity, there was activity.
There was no activity, there was activity. We keep checking
our pupils of dilating, dillaying. Then after a while and
went no reaction, no reaction. No, that's what we knew.
She was leaving. After seven days, she was leaving.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Every day was every.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Day was I didn't leave. I stood in the hospital
every I didn't know where me and mother would nowhere.
I stood by my daughter's bed every day, me and
every day until the end. So I just really that
brings us to this here, which is.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Just about to get into it NA see segment. So
pretty much like just what do you hear?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Traffic violence is real? Y'all?

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Let's push what bear like, let's push what we be
here for today.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
I'm here to push that narrative that traffic violence is real.
Nobody thought and that split second from her being hit
that it would take her life. But you gotta also
remember that same year, in twenty twenty four, last year,
two hundred and fifty two people here in New York
City died from traffic violence. That's how, that's how, that's

(36:54):
the problem. And oh, actually two hundred and fifty three,
three four and fifty three people were killed the traffic crashers.
One person was killed every thirty five hours, and pedestrian
fatalities rolls twenty one percent over the previous year. Through

(37:15):
the fatalities and traffic speedy drivers, super speedy drivers. So
I'm a part when I went to her vigil, we
had a vigil for her, a memorial there. It's still
up there. It's on the corner of one tenth and
Manhattan Avenue. You'll see it. I'm been advocating for the

(37:38):
street co naming, which I'm getting ready to submit soon.
That's District nine and District ten. So I got all
the rules and regulations I got tell me about that,
so right automatically, I created a petition online via change
dot org for to have this street co named after
my daughter. We raised over nine hundred signatures.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Going still up and going my signature.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
We raised over nine hundred signatures from just the public alone,
physically going to people way more. Now, what happens is
whenever you're doing whenever, what I learned from the district is,
whenever you're actually submitting an application for a street code name,
sixty of the signatures needs to be from the residents

(38:29):
who live on the block closely in that area. So
recently we had a rally. A lot of people came
out Senator Cordell Claire, who's a that's her district. We
got support from uh. We got support from Yusuf Salon,

(38:51):
which is that's his district as well. Assembly Man lastly
came out. Shout out to them and Brad Lander, Brad Lander,
who's the New York City's calm controller. He's act Brad Lander.
If you don't know what's actually running for mayor right
now for New York City. And for them to come

(39:16):
out to the rally meant a lot for me, and
I thank them all for that. The bill is actually
being sponsored by Gallagher and it's endorsed by oh Man
Man I forgot all his part in me for It'll
come back though, It'll circle back around.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I want you to sit down link Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
He can put it up.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
So I got to sign get other people to sign up.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, and to sign up to make that happen. And
we have until June seventeenth, that's our cutoff. Before before
we actually we were trying to push to get this
bill signed and passed through this House of Legislation. So
I've been back and forth to Albany these next three weeks.

(40:06):
I'm gonna be back and forth to Albany going up
there for the lobbying we've been lobbying at the state
cabin YEP. So more about the bill. It's called the
Stop super Speeders Bill, and it's the S forty forty
five in the Senate, and it's the A twenty two
ninety nine in Assembly and then basically the speed Limiters

(40:27):
for repeat Offenders, and it's the bill will require the
most reckless drivers to install a speed limitter, which physically
prevents driving more than five miles per hour over the
speed limit on their vehicle. So it would only apply
this is the catch. It would only apply to any

(40:49):
person that's driving a vehicle that receives six or more
speed or red light camera tickets in a year, and
any driver who receives eleven or more points on their
license in two years. So we're not saying, hey, take
their life. We're not saying hey punish them, throw them
in prison. No, we're saying, yo, time out, slow down.

(41:13):
You're not aware. Maybe you under emotional mental distress, maybe
you going through some things. You're just unaware it happens,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
So you tell you, like, if a car run the
red light, then the camera take six more pictures.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Because you're considered a super security drive. Okay, okay, you're
a reckless driver.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
You reckless or they don't take the cops to point me.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
No, as long as you this is why you can't
catch it.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
You got to put it on your car.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
That's what we're saying. We're trying to basically establish a
medium and balance between law enforcement and actually helping to
raise awareness of stop speeding drivers. So this device will
be placed into your vehicle. It's compatible GPS, and no
matter how hard you that gas down to the floor,

(42:02):
you will not exceed twenty five miles per hour, even
though in the highway you wouldn't exceed sixty or whatever
miles per hour. That's so pretty much trained.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
I'm on the highway into sixty five, I'm gonna go
sixty five.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
That's no matter how hard yep. Okay, okay, yep. And
that's the bring And if you're at sixty five, it's
gonna trigger awareness. So it's not saying hey, throw in prison,
We say no, we want to. We found a medium
a waiter. You know, it's already passed in state Virginia

(42:37):
and Washington, d C. Just recently to states so far
this Yes, and we are the state that introduced this bill.
We need to be in top three. So we have
until the seventeenth to get this thing rolling. Get this
bill rolling, and I'm gonna talk about a little bit
about the device, which is called is a get into it.

(43:00):
So the solution this is. So, the problem is people
are being killed by New York's most reckless drivers. New
York City School Zone speed camera program slows down the
vast majority of drivers, but a few super speeders are
taking advantage of the system. So here's a solution. Solution

(43:22):
is a simple device known as Intelligence Speed Assistems, which
is an ISA, or we say a speed limitter. It
can be installed or any motor vehicle to prevent it
from exceeding the speed limit. Similar. I don't know if
y'all know, but it's similar to the breathalyzer interlock devices
for repeat drunk for repeat it drunk drivers.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
That's the thing you gotta blow before the cost starts up.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
And the law can require the installation of speed limiteds
for the most reckless drivers. Yes, so the breathalyzer interlocks.
If you don't know if you're repeated offender, the d
you know, drive it walk. They're gonna instore that in
your car now. And if that if it senses any

(44:07):
kind of alcohol in your vehicle, shut down, that's amazing.
Shut down.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
I know somebody had that in their car. You got
they gotta blow into the car and to take a
picture too. Steps to it once that that's the only
way your car will start.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Up, the steps to it. And and that's just it's just,
you know, we a lot more lives to be saved,
and that's what this is about. I'm advocating on this
bill to save lives. I'm a part of saving lives definitely,
instead of you know, killing people.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
And you're not somebody just just talking this.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
I was affected. I can relate to it. Yes, I
can relate to it. I was affected by losing my
daughter to traffic violence.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Saving more lives like this.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
So if I can save more lives, I became a
member of York New York State Streets Coalition, which is there.
I'm a member of it. I actually brought something for
you too. I bought something for y'all too, the Safe
Streets button that's for you, and I got a T
shirt for you as well.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Put on you know that.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Sure and that's just a memory when you're moving around
and just remember, you know, stay safe when you're in
these streets.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
The memory of your adulter man.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
That's a fact. And you here, I got one for
you too, just so you you know, because it is
the smallest I didn't know how many people couldn't be
here if it was gonna be a group or but
it's good it actually worked out the way it is.
I'm gonna give you one too, because we print them
up all the time. I get those done by them.
There's nothing to print.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
What could I do to help? How can I extend myself?

Speaker 2 (45:45):
What people can do? For more information on this bill
and if you want to support it, go to Families
for Stafe Streets dot org. That is the website. And
you want people to do, And what I want people
is to get in contact with their senators, their local senators,

(46:05):
get in contact with their AMN local assembly members and
let them know about signing on and supporting co sponsoring
the S forty forty five and the A twenty two
ninety nine Stop super Speeders Bill. It's there, and push it,
push it, raise awareness. You know, we have until the seventeenth.

(46:28):
We're hoping and praying that we will get it passed.
It has. We did get an update the other day
Senator Ganadas, that's who I was speaking of earlier. So
Senator Ganadas is going extremely hard up there and ope
for this bill. He is pansponse. He is the man

(46:49):
that's really pushing it and he helped it it actually
makes it actually made some progression in the Senate Committee
last week. So we're making move. We're making some moves.
That's what this is really about, raising awareness. There's other
bills as well, but this is the most important ones

(47:12):
for me. I am a bite this group. There's bills
out there for bicyclists and cyclists as well. There's a
lot of new bills that are being implemented that you're
gonna see. You're gonna see it soon. They got one
where I'll talk about them right quick, just so. They
have one which is called the there's fourth one is

(47:34):
Complete Streets Maintenance. The other one is defined Safe Passing.
The third one is stop as Yield, which is called
the Idaho Stop. And then the fourth one is the
one I've been speaking on, which is the speed limiteds
for the most reckless drivers. Perfect the Complete Streets maintenance.
We got a few sponsors on that which it includes,

(47:54):
when possible, complete street design features and resurfacing, maintenance and
pay recycling projects. And further enable safe access to public
roads for all users. Defined safe passing requires motorists to
follow at least to allow at least it's and I

(48:15):
believe it's pasted or have don't quote me, but require
motorists to allow at least three feet between vehicle and pedestrians, bicyclists,
bicyclists and wheelchair users when overtaken or passing. And it
applies outside of New York City. No change to the
existing law in New York City, which requires a safe

(48:37):
distance and then stop as yield is. It's proven safety
measure that allows cyclists to treat stop lights as stop
signs and stop signs as yields. So if you're a cyclist,
when you go to that red light, you gotta stop.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
No, I see what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
That's where I've been, bro, I've been. I've been in
it with the organizations advocating for these bills, just doing them.
No non for profit work out here, keep doing these communities.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Is anything I could do? COMMU talk walk with you, bro,
I'm ten tones out with.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
This absolutely and we're doing this. Man. Like I said,
you got kids, Yeah, other people got kids out there.
I really don't want somebody to experience this pain. This
pain and losing a loved one I don't even have
to be a child is the worst love one period
to traffic violence. It can be avoided. Can't save the world,

(49:42):
can't control everybody, but we can start somewhere to restructure.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Two questions before we wrap up. First question is if
you was if you had an opportunity to be in
front of the guy that hate your daughter, what would
you say.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Mm hm when you impacted my When you when your
vehicle struck my daughter, why didn't you stop? Why were
you unable to stop automatically? That would give me because

(50:23):
if I ask him that, it would give me what
it is that I've been knowing the whole time. And
my man, you were speeding. That's the real reason. I
just want to see if you gonna admit it. But
that's one, you know the answer that that's I would
have to ask that when you struck my daughter, why

(50:45):
didn't you stop automatically? What prevented you from stopping your vehic?
Because when you hit. I'm a driver, I got a peripheral.
I see something coming from my peripheral. Sure, first thing
I think to do is slam on the brakes.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
Sometimes when you're move so fast, you can't.

Speaker 2 (51:02):
There you go keyword moving.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Fast, the driver of a speed demon.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I think I used to be a speed demon. I
stopped after this. It's so hard for me. It's easy
for me to point out the speed is now when
you're going through this, and when you start a bottom
bottle speed limit lows and things, you start seeing life differently.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Would you like that meeting with that person? Do you
feel like you're ready for that?

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Me? Yes? Other people no, No, And I don't think
they ever want to have that.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
I'm one of them.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Ever, I understand, I really don't. I'm gonna be honest
with you. I view him as a coward. I don't
view him as a real man, because if you knew
you did this, you should have came forth. M hm.

(52:07):
And according to when I picked up that police report,
I was told from a sergeant when I went into
that priestinct that upon police arriving, you pretended to be
a witness mm hmm. And then they eventually find you

(52:29):
see you see what goes on right then and there.
It's always it's like, hey, this is what I'm this
is the fight. Bro ain't out.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
He's saying, you act like you a witness, and it's like.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
That's what and that's what I was told when I
picked up that.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Report, was just like you swing for money, right.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
The lawyers in them is already going through the right.
But they're doing that part. I don't even really care
about what she can't bring.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
She can't bring my jail, can't bring my daughter's back.
But at the same time, it's.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
Like it's just doing it's the justice doing that right.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
You try to hide the fact that she was behind
that steering wheel, like was he drunk?

Speaker 2 (53:15):
So the bus driver, I got a witness the bus,
the same guy who was driving the bus, that same
bus that she was running for, because I got the footage.
She's in there, but the buses right there when we
had the rally. Look how guard works. The bus driver
happened to be coming down the same block the same
time as the valley came out. The bus stopped, the

(53:36):
whole bus stopped, everybody in the street got off. The
bus made it. I got his number, name, and everything
made it his business to get off that bus and
come shake my hand and say I was the driver
that day, and gave me more information about this reckless driver.

(53:58):
Said I've seen everything that put him there for a reason,
said I've seen everything. I seen everything that happened, and
told me he was getting ready to take off. He
had no intentions of coming back. There was a con
Netison truck that kept beeping their horn basically getting attention
to get him back. He had no intentions in coming back.

(54:19):
He was just gonna and leave. Leave him, damn. But
I see him in the phone. I got a photo
of him. He came back to the scene. Black. Yeah,
I got a photo of him. Came back to the scene.
But now his where it's it's a little gray shaded area.
Usually I don't want to say a crime scene because

(54:41):
she wasn't pronounced dead at that time. However, she was injured.
And in the photo he's standing.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Next door.

Speaker 2 (54:55):
With a phone out. The bus driver told me he's
the one who called it in. The bus driver called it,
I'm going to get that for you. That if I'm
going to get that for you, he had the phone
to do what he had his phone I was told
from the person who took the photo that he was
on remorse. Maybe I'm here, I'm here on the way,

(55:18):
try and please stay here with us, try trying.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
That's that's the first thing I think when you say
that he was saying he was a witness, because the
only reason why somebody would still be there because they
want to they know what they've done.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Let me see, you just need to know older brother, younger,
young older guy.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Here's the there's another killer. The vehicle he was driving
was the rental no.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Man through Enterprise Man and damn.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
He had the lowest amount of insurance on that vehicle,
five to twenty five on it that day and it
was registered out of town, so Enterprise automatically they you know,
they offer always gonna offer a settlement or I ain't
take that told my being taking none of that shit.
I'm the fuck if this shit take three, four, five,

(56:12):
six years and I don't get a dime. I need justice.
My daughter's mother. It's devastating, my daughter's grandmother.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Another one man, you watched you watch.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
This, They like like I was there for my daughter
and I helped raise her to a certain degree. Help
all the supporter I might not have been a primary
care taker because she lived with her mother, but on
that side, they really was hands on with Nayelle. Na
Yelle is a beautiful person. She she I had three
hundred and fifty people I had to go make morebituaries

(56:49):
and her wake funeral. She thought she was a celebrity, right,
she thought she was a celebrity. Amount of people that
I was like, why not only one thing she did?
What she did do was she men did a lot
of relationships and men did hearts. God's gift. My daughter

(57:10):
was truly a gift. And I miss her. I really
do miss her. It's not so we're having a June
twenty eighth, We're having an annual memorial barbecue morn the
side Park Hollow. I'm definitely gonna shoot you the info

(57:33):
and shoot try to info. Come out everything free, come
show out. I mean if you even need to donate.
We're doing donations to One thing she wanted was a
teen room, a teen's lounge, So we're in the process
of getting that in order raising funds. All donations gonna
go to Nayell's teen lounge living room. She wanted a

(57:56):
place for like the teens to go when they come
out of school where they could just themill, do they tiktoks?
Do they but be safe? To be safe, that was
one of her dreams.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
And she was doing the work that the community should
be doing.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
That was one of her dreams. So in retrospect, that's
really what we're aiming for.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
We gotta push that. We got to make that happen.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Yeah, yeah, naming right after World Bro that the street call.
It's all coming. It's just timing patience a lot of
his patients and just timing and just knowing that you
know that there will be better days. Some days I wake.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Up and I'm like, you have every rate to feel
like them.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
That's a fact. Like I really was bugging out psychologically
to the point where they switched my psych mass three
times already because this one I'm on now is the
best because I can sleep. I really was not sleeping
at all, and that's not helping. And that wasn't helping
me because my bags was coming. I was over, I
was mentally fatigued, everything just train overcapacitated. I had no

(59:02):
mental capacity for nothing.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Then it's like you can't even be like this because
you still got another kid to live for.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Right, and it's her sister. She leaves two sisters behind,
and it's just hurt them. It's hurt them. I have
another daughter and my daughters, you know, my bem, she
has another daughter. So you know now, y'all was a
dancer though she was a stuff TikTok. She was a
TikTok trend setter. They loved her on TikTok and she

(59:31):
touched a lot of kids. She left behind a legacy.
There's a lot of people that came out for that
rally just just passed on.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
It's beautiful. A few weeks strong man, definitely strong.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
That's it and that's all I can be. Bro. But
I'm strong but broken. I tell people like this my
heart without a shot of a doubt. It's broken, but
it still works. Okay, my heart is broken, but it
still works. And I'm gonna keep doing God's work. Keep
doing it, bro, you know or these changes, I just

(01:00:07):
want to say, like, love your love your children while
you have them, Love on them. You know, never never
never say goodbye. I teach minds to see I see
you later. You know what I mean, because that that
goodbye word could could subconsciously and it causes mental issues
when when that person really leave and that's the last

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thing you told them, you know what I mean. So
I'm a firm believer and I see you later because
I feel I will see you later. When when it's
you know, goodbye, is like bye, like that's final. I
ain't gonna see you man, or I don't want to
see you again, or I just wasn't trained or taught to,
you know, use the proper terms and what's powerful.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
So before we get out of here and leave the
people with a message.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
There's a mantra that I lived by and knowledge is
power because it truly is. But there's also a quote
that I kind of throw out there and I live
by it as well. But not everyone deserves a front
row seat to your life. Sometimes you have to love

(01:01:20):
protecting care from a distance. Hashtag everybody can't go. So
if you understand that and you kind of figure out
your surroundings in your life a little bit, just because
you meet somebody January first, the winner, don't mean that
y'all gonna be cool by August first, the summer. Because

(01:01:41):
people into your life for what different reasons and different seasons.
If this person is not adding to your success and
they're not helping you elevate. Cut them out quick. It's
not that you don't love them, it's not that you
don't care about them, but they're holding you up to
get into the next dimension. There's different dimensions in life.
There's really levels. Meek wasn't lying all these people preaching

(01:02:04):
and talking about it like, it's really levels to it.
I find myself. I went from an extrovert to an introvert.
It's nothing wrong with being an introvert, it's nothing wrong
with being a loner, also being a loan wolf. But
I know the power behind me, and I know the
power that I possessed within my mind what I can
do to this world absolutely by myself. Absolutely, so I

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don't need a gang of people or gang on need
none of that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
I'm walking to walk with God and God got me absolutely,
God got us.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Look at you, bro, you survived one of the worst
things you hear. Still I'm still here and you and
you chosen. Because I know you chosen. That's why you
and not connect like we do that we both God
is gonna always put you around the ones from this
point on. Once you start hitting past your twenty five,
you start hitting thirty thirty five. Like everybody that gravitates

(01:03:04):
to you most likely shares a success story with you,
and they the chosen one. The chosen ones go through
the most in life. Why because we are the strongest,
We're gonna keep getting the most hardest battles.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Yeah, they ain't gonna stop there, even keep going. Every
day is a battle.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yo. When I when I seen, when I seen you,
kind of you for a blind person, you got good
foresight and intuition. Explain when I say that with Shorty,
you've always seen things in Jody. You've seen things of
her that she didn't see in herself. At that point,

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she didn't think.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
She wasn't even rapping.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
She wasn't even rapped exactly that she wasn't even rapping
them with Young Dolph first Lady, first Lady over there
on the Dolphs to Young Adult Team. A piece. It's
a piece to Dolph Man because that was a good
brother as well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
I had in the studio way before she was a rapper.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
Had in there movie. She didn't even didn't even she
she was up. She was a bottle girl. She's a
bottle girl, bottle girl.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
I had to do some drops for me, that show
opened up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Man must have opened it up that she started getting
into the rapping and came with the music. You know,
this and that next thing, you know, I cut my
TV on I see her bends and this that and
out then moving. I'm like, damn, my son really had
the vision. I've seen it, seen it boys, seen it
from the beginning. My sons sad. It's just about to
sign him before he went down. Man, but she's different,

(01:04:38):
and it happened for a reason. You know, it happened
for a reason because and it's not to say that
there's many more. You know, a lot of people don't know.
Just recently I put on my Instagram just so people
knew like I was the first, just so people know,
first producing songwriter I ever discovered. August. I've seen her.
It's on my grand don't ever get a twisted. So

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I had him living living living with me and my father,
you know, for a certain period of time. His mother
is a prayer warrior, you know, God bless and big
ups to Shila. I've seen her. August alst was one

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that made me very happy over his success. He really
had the talent, He really had it back then. It
was just I had a lot going on. I lost contact.
You get what I'm saying. I had eight artists at
that point. I kind of mastered the industry at nineteen.

(01:05:41):
You get what I'm saying as far as managing and
doing this and doing deals and growing and traveling and
doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes, being around people.
But when I say discovering him, it was a manager
I was working with at the time who actually brought
him out to and while I was the first producer
that ever worked with him and did this ever first demo,

(01:06:02):
and then from there he went back. I remember him
and his mother. They took the train out here. It
took them over twenty four hours. They was devoted to
come to New York. Never been there, first time in
New York. You ever hear him, You talked to him
your first time New York, you met Krox, Tell you
all about it. That's why I put it on my
grand and I put it there for flashback on Fridays,

(01:06:25):
just to let the world know, like I've been here,
I've been down way more to go, man Ship. Appreciate you, bro,
for sure. I appreciate y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
I ain't gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
I appreciate y'all for having me here because this is
what it's about. Were about to connect. He's gonna make man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Past this bell and stop speeding.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
I'm on take your slow your ass down, Slow down.
You're still gonna get there, no matter promise, You're gonna
get there. You're gonna get to the destination.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Man, You're gonna get there.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
That's like kill nobody in the process of getting man.
But this is another episode of brother. I ain't gonna
I gotta get a hug bro yea. Also, before you
tell people where they can then find.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
You on Instagram, you can find me at MCRO made it,
mccr o W made it. I used to be MCRO
make it bang Now Macro made it. Because that's just
my success story. I have made it to a certain
level at this point in my life. Nobody made me,

(01:07:31):
but God he helped me, and he helped me make it.
So Macro made it and the company is unanimous success
movement MVMT on Instagram that all platforms. Mcrow pro made
it many platforms. I'm getting reacclimated into things. I'm setting

(01:07:51):
up everything now, getting things going. But it's been I'm
coming out of that dark place. I really was in
a dark place where I was ready to just hang
it up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
Bro, you got you got gotta be feeling too bro like,
And I'm here if you ever go through them dog days,
but you always put.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
The phone and called me, bro figure.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
I'm never too I'm never too big, and I pick
up the phone and just tell your problems.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Trust believe that. Likewise, I know thirteen years I'm still battling,
bro so you ain't in a year, yeat got a
lot more to go, a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
To go, bro so, And I don't know what the
future holds. Only God can see it. But while I'm
here strong though, I'm just gonna keep, you know, putting
my best foot forward. And that's all. I'm strong and patient.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Don't forget to send me them. Send me the links
and everything so we can put in the show notes
so people can support sign their name to it and
help this bill get passed.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Families for Safe Streets dot org for more information on
how you can become involved in the community work. And
I'll share the other link with you. Changed that all, Yeah,
definitely said we could get that signatures.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Like I said, if y'all need me to serve some
burghers or friends and all that. Twenty eight you know
how we get doing. I ain't touching the gral hot,
but you to put a burger on the bun and
all that to pass it out to the community. I'm
here for it. I'm here for it. I don't know,
maybe be coming together. We got doing, you know, blin

(01:09:17):
down seat, slow down, collaboration, get a shirt out there,
you can sell it. Let's donate it to the proceeds
of getting like setting up open and all that. Like,
I'm here for that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Ship. I like that. I like what you're doing, bro.
I respect what you're doing, appreciate you. Really, I don't
know what it is, bro, Bro, you gotta be the
most the voice person I met. It's the voice. But
like your yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The tenacity.
You have a lot of tenacity, A lot like you.
You don't be understanding, Like I might not call you

(01:09:49):
as much, but I'll be paying attention and I'd be like,
damn this nigga blinde. How the fuck is a nigga
blind putting in more work? Got the motherfucker? I got
four hours? I say four hours a nigga I got
two pupils and two glass lands putting it in work
like and just know how to just know how to
maneuver and connected together, really really really your own balls.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Appreciate I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Man, take some time, but we're here, right, that's a fact.
Get better.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
It's another episode of podcast. You know you can find
me at bob I C NYC. Let's put our names
on there. Lest let's get these laws passed. Man, we're
not finished doing the work.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Work never done.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Y'all here we moving grinded.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
You got me ready to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Get into politics and passing laws and really represent.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
It's a beautiful thing when you were part of something
positive and impacting to Really you got to ask yourself
you want to be a part of the change your destruction? Absolutely,
I'm a part of change. I'm tired of I'm tired
of destruction leads to self destruction. I don't want to
destruct and and and harm people and you know, killing

(01:11:02):
and doing things like that. That ship is the old
I'm not into none of that ship.

Speaker 3 (01:11:07):
And also, y'all remember for y'all leave, June twenty eighth
is the memorial and they are raising money. So if
you can't, if you're supporting anyway that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
You How can they how can they send the money
in for the memorial?

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
The memorial on what I'm gonna do now or I'm
gonna post another If you following me on Instagram and
I'm a chromemated or unanimous success movement, You'll see we
got a little flyer out there. I'm gonna be posting
a heavy start in June first, just to remind people.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
How can't people donate to that though.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Cash at Zell we gotta we gotta nn Jay's party
planning promotions.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
So you definitely got a donation for the Bloomer I see.
And I'm gonna come out, show my face, I even
help pass out Sodas burgers whatever like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Yep, it's the time. Come out, you know what I mean,
and just enjoy your self. You know, we're going to
bring the kids out, man, just doing just doing something
productive in the industry. We got the park, We're gonna
have a little we got the permit, got a few
things going on and stuff like that. Twenty if is
a what twenty eighth is on? We make sure Saturday,

(01:12:17):
right I believe so, I'm gonna tell you right now,
June twenty eighth is actually a yeah, that's Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
You got a noise permit? Yeah, huh, yeah, you're looking
for DJ.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
I got it. If I think we do need a DJ,
actually say no more.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
Don't worry about it. We do need to come from
It's come from me. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
It's coming for me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
Yeah, and we finished the segment. I'm gonna call it
verify that too, because I think we do. I think
we do need to. I think that is the noise permit.
We get that from. That's nothing, that's from the zone.
Get all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
We're gonna make it happen. I told you, I'm fully
into it. This is my giveback to you, your daughter,
and the dimssion be pushing ye. That's my guest.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Feel me.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
Another episode of blooming.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Out Peace, Load Out Peace. See