The Fold Your Flag Challenge: Can Gang Members Walk Away Without Consequences? - Prince Yehoshi

You can hear the moment the conversation stops being abstract and becomes personal. Prince Yehoshi joins us to talk about the Fold Your Flag Challenge, a push for grown men to “retire” from gang life and for kids under 21 to get a real chance at school, trades, and a future that does not end in prison or a casket. He shares his background coming up in North Carolina, the street recruitment that starts young, and the hard truth about what loyalty looks like when the people around you can turn on you.

We also dig into the question people are scared to ask out loud: can gang members walk away without consequences? Prince breaks down the difference between violating rules and choosing a new path, and why forcing someone to stay only creates more danger for everyone. He compares old-school structure to today’s chaos, where “rank” can be talk, social media can become evidence, and violence can become senseless instead of protective.

Most importantly, we talk solutions, not slogans. Prince explains the mission behind folding the flag, connecting younger people to work, mentorship, and reentry support, and pushing leaders to build real stability: jobs, credit, homes, and community care. If you care about gang violence prevention, youth mentorship, and community-led safety in North Carolina and beyond, this one hits hard. Subscribe, share it with someone who needs a way out, and leave a review with your take: what should replace street status in our communities?

Transcript

Welcome And Name Change

SPEAKER_00 0:11

What's going on, everybody out there? It's Ron. And that's it. We're not doing brown no more. We're just keeping it Ron, man. I'm realizing with the internet, you gotta be careful out there. I thought just I thought keep doing Ron Brown and all of that. Transparency, authenticity, but nah, man. We got to change that up, man. Ron is up there. I might mess around and change it to Pream, my righteous name, the 5% name. I might change it to Pream. I'm contemplating. Anyway, uh, we got the brother Prince Yahoshi in the building. Prince Yahoshi in the building, uh, Royal Moorish family. And uh, you know, we're gonna chop it up about the Folgia Flag Challenge. Um, and you know, but first before we do that, I want to talk about his early beginnings, you know, briefly, so the audience, the newer audience, can get to know this brother. He's been on this platform twice already. So um, but so for those who don't know him, I would like to give him a uh, you know, uh a chance to like a brief introduction.

Meet Prince Yahoshi

SPEAKER_00 1:27

So let's let's let's take it away, Prince Yahoshi. Tell the people who you are, where you're from, and how are you qualified to speak on this subject today?

SPEAKER_03 1:41

Peace to love, Islam, Asalai Gum, hotel. You know, peace to all the families out there, the ones that's tuning in. Um, I'm Prince Yahoshi. I'm out of the state of North Carolina. Um, I was born in Ohio. Um my background, you know, I started in the I jumped off the porch at 14 in the gang life. You know, we're gonna get into all of that once we get um past the introduction, but I wear many hats, you know, as far as the MST of A, I came out of LA Temple 101 through the grand sheik, Victor Taylor L, which who holds the seat now is the great brother Cosmo L. Um 5% Nation as well, you know, through Shah 120. Um I was in the Nation of Islam too, through uh Student X. Um Moss out of Raleigh, North Carolina. So I sat in many mystery schools, um, but really I was outside in the streets, you know. Now, you know, I'm a community core advocate, I'm a community um activist. Um, I got an underground railroad project, which is symbolism, you know. I helped brothers that get out of prison, our brothers in the streets get into the construction industry. Um, I got five babies. Um, my brother Kerwin Pittman L, he just broke history. He's the first incarcerated to be home to bar prison, Wayne County, North Carolina. So, you know, we really got a lot of great things going on. You know, um, I came up following the Black Panther Party, you know, I saw the Secur and things of that nature. You know, that's what my big homie taught me before he uh transitioned to foul play. Um, so you know, I just wear mini hats. I jumped off the porch at 14. You know, pop's absent, single mother, you know, he did get married. My steppop was Muslim from Gambia. He was a prince from Gambia. So, you know, I got a lot of teachers that taught me. Um, my mentor, my godfather is the honorable T. Rogers, Triple O G out of LA, you know, that came from Chicago. That was my mentor. You know, um, he taught me a lot too, even though he was disturbed about the uh East Coast blood and how it came about, you know. I know the history behind that too. As far as my credentials, I've been doing this 21 plus years, you know what I mean, in the state of North Carolina. Um if you know who I am, you know. If you don't, so be it. Um far as the big homies and the founders in New York, they know who Pharaoh is, you know what I mean? In North Carolina. Um, check the temperature. You know what I mean? So um, I ain't get kicked out. Um I actually play a major role in my set. As far as the positive side, but you know, um we no longer live on the principles. A lot of this stuff is watered down. You know what I mean? You know, a lot of us don't understand. We come from the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, and a lot of these gang founders was God body in New York. Most of them was. You know what I mean, and that's a fact. Or there's a part of different organizations that were for a black revolution, like the black lions and things of that nature. Um, so I don't have to tell you what set I come from. You know, y'all know who the Golden State Warriors is. You know what I mean? If you know, you know, if you don't, you don't. You know what I mean? So, you know, this side came from the prison. You know how West is started on the turf. So the history is deep when you're dealing with rockers out.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

That's a fact. So you came through through the east coast side of things, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 5:49

Yes, I came from the the east coast side of things, yeah. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Okay.

Why Street Loyalty Breaks Down

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Now, what made you turn a new leaf and at what point? Like, so you know, let's say you you started, you came home, so to speak, right? You came home as far as joining, right? And then five years later you decided, nah, this is I gotta change my my course. How many, um, how many years did it take you to realize I have to make a turn, I have to make a turn for the better?

SPEAKER_03 6:25

Um, like I said, I've been in this since I was 14 years old. Um, you know, a lot of youth get involved because they don't have no father. It's the lack of the home. So they they're looking for love in the wrong places. And don't get me wrong, like I'm not saying um everything inside game banging was bad. You know, we have principles that we live by. You dig what I'm saying? You protect women, you don't touch children, you don't snitch, you don't mess with punks. You know, it's a lot of things that we're supposed to govern ourselves by, and it's not giving out information. The feds and snap so many dudes with paperwork, all of this is on the internet. I mean, it ain't hard to find it, but it's like um when they start removing that the real leaders, the real big homies and OGs, you know, it starts becoming corrupted. So now you have children recruiting children. You know, um, I was in a high rise. Anybody in North Carolina that's been a high rise, you know it's gladiator school. It's a it's a prison that's a youth spread that's 16 floors. You know, um even being in there it was a it was a nightmare. Big one I'm saying, because we had big country white COs. And um at the age of 16, 17, I got my face broke with a nightstick by a CO. And I was throwing in a cell. I went to Icon and got through behind the wall for three weeks with no medical attention. You know what I mean? So it's like you had to learn how to survive. Not only was you fighting COs, you was fighting other gang members. You know what I mean? Back then it was more blood versus crit. You know, now it's more or less blood to kill blood. You know what I mean? So it's like um even my first bad taste in my mouth was watching, well not watching, getting a phone call that my big homie got shot in the back of the head. And when he got shot in the back of the head, the crazy thing is it was by one of his little homies. They killed him for they killed killed him just to flip to another set that don't even exist today. You know what I mean? That was wicked. And it ain't like I'm telling on who shot him or whatever. The dude already been caught and been sent to life in prison. You dig what I'm saying? So me being young then and paying attention, like the dudes that you grow up with, you could be with brothers in the sandbox. I mean, y'all cool, mama know each other, and his man might not like you, and next thing you know, this nigga shoot you in the back of the head. You know what I mean? And he's doing this because he's being influenced. So it's like um it's a lot of self-genocide type stuff. And don't get me wrong, you got ones that uh stick together and do positive, but you know, growing up, not like the gang stuff now is just senseless. You know what I mean? Ones are roaming around, don't even know why the fuck they're killing people, they don't know why they're robbing people. You know what I mean? They don't have no guidance. Even some of these big homies out here, they don't have no control of these little homies. They're scared of them. They scared that these little homies might turn around and kill them. You know what I mean? That's just the day and time we're in. You know what I mean? And it's crazy because it's like growing up in this gang life, I was backdoored by my own homies. Not once, not twice, multiple times. Do you know what I'm saying? Stabbed in the back, been shot. You know what I mean? To protect my brother, I push him out the way. I almost got killed. It's trying to save my own setbrother. You know what I mean? So it's like, and this thickness behind it is it's like um I was set up by my own set sister. So it's like these youth, when they get involved in this, I never know you go to jail behind this. I never know that you can die or go in the graveyard. This is the stuff they don't tell your youth. You dig what I'm saying? They get involved, they think all it is is throwing up gang signs and getting money and fucking girls. They ain't tell you you can get shot in the face, they ain't tell you that they can kick your door and go kill your mama. No, I mean, they ain't tell you that his beef is your beef. No, I mean, if they can't get your homie, they're gonna get you. So the same war that was going on over there in Afghanistan, it's the same war we got going on in the streets. And you know, a lot of brothers in this day and time, I'm not saying all the brothers are bad, but even with some of the big homies now, some of these, excuse my language, some of these big homies are pussy, they ain't never did nothing a day in their life, but they got all the rank. You dig what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Nobody's now. Can you explain that? How do you get rank like that and you never did nothing?

SPEAKER_03 11:41

Well, one's got a good talk game. For one, it's like it's a talk game. Back in the day, you had to put in pain, and you know, I'm not saying nothing that the elders ain't said because they done got them podcasts and ran down how the rockers they done ran up on a nigga a buck fifty his face open, all that. It North Carolina, I'm gonna be real with you. North Carolina got played with. They got played with by New York cats. You dig what I'm saying? They'd come down here from New York, and they'd just explain, like, yo, they're this big gangster from Brooklyn or Queens, or you know what I mean? So they influence all these dudes to think that there's somebody up there and they can get put on whole time. These dudes are rats, punks, never been nobody in New York. That was the era we ain't had phones, we ain't had the internet, so we're just going off word of mouth until you run into a real K, like, yo, that boy's a whole rat. Oh, that boy ain't that boy been running for years. So a lot of these guys came to North Carolina to use North Carolina for a safe haven. You know what I mean? So it's like, um, and I salute the homie Hocus uh 45 because he got the foe drop your flag challenge, and that's out of New York. Now, like, and he's a real gangster. So it ain't like you don't have real certified brothers that respect the moment. A lot of my elders, they respect what I'm doing. They they gave me the green light. They say, yo, bro, we respect if you don't say drop your flag, say fold your flag. You know what I mean? You're not dropping it, you're you're putting it a weight in your pocket. You retired. So a lot of people understand, I never I didn't drop my flag. I retired. I got 21 years in this shit. You know what I mean? I'm 34 years old. It might sound young, but what the hell do I look like being outside on the block, throwing up gang signs, moving around with kids, X, Y, Z? That's an oxymoron. I'm 34 years old, I got kids. To become a man, you must let go of childish things. You got brothers out here 50 years old and want to be blood. Like, are you serious? You got grandchildren. What are you doing? Are you a dummy? Like, come on, bro. What is what's up with you, bruh?

SPEAKER_02 14:17

You don't care about your life? You want to still be outside on doing what?

SPEAKER_03 14:25

So it's like, um, and with the fold your flag challenge is if you grown, you over the age of 21, I'm not telling you to fold your flag. You a grown man. Do what you do, do what you want to do. That's necessary. You're grown. I'm saying give these babies a chance. Anything under 21, they're not a full developed man, they can't make proper decisions. Let's give them the opportunity to go to school, get a trade, build a legacy. Let's give them different automatons to have a better life than we did. If I know gang banging led me in prison on my deathbed, not once but twice, no, I mean, I done lost homies that I done lost homies to it. I done lost homies that went to fed that got double license. I got homies that are radic, you know what I mean? XYZ.

Burying A Brother

SPEAKER_03 15:25

And the closest thing that hurt my heart in this, and this happened about what was it uh like a month ago, bro? Uh 30 days ago, I had to bury my little brother.

SPEAKER_00 15:40

Oh wow, sorry to hear that.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

You know what I'm saying? Walking his casket to his grave, he's younger than me. Wow, so one don't understand how do how would you feel walking your little brother to his grave and can't tell your mama, can't tell his mama he's not coming back ever. He's not coming back, and then all these people, homies, gang members that say they rock with him and they cool with him, none of them showed up. He didn't give his mama no money, you ain't sent no flowers. The only one that was there was his brothers. And I salute my big homie because my big homie helped me carry his casket.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

So my my condolences on that, bro. Uh, sorry to hear that, man. I I wasn't expecting to hear that, man. That's that's crazy. Uh yeah, man. Uh well, I want to ask you. Hold on, okay, I'm here. Um, I want to ask you now.

Can You Leave Without Punishment

SPEAKER_00 16:53

In the in the title, it says, Can gang members walk away without consequences? Now, I put that in the title from I think we had a phone conversation or a text. Were we texting or we were talking over the phone? One of them. Um, and um, I think you you mentioned can gang, you know, gang members walking away without consequence. What's the what's the pro what's the protocol for a gang member? Is good, you know, you know, if whatever you could explain.

SPEAKER_03 17:24

Let's let's you want me to be real about the situation? Yeah. Can gang members walk away without punishment? That depends on how they're walking away. If you become a rat, you know what comes with that. If you violate certain rules, you know what comes. Treason, you know what comes with that. Me, I never I didn't walk away as a rat. I'm not on nobody's paperwork. I ain't walk that way as a punk. I put on for my bros. I got a lot of my little homies are in college. They're part of fraternities, they're alpha and omegas and all that. So um, I had somebody hit me up about the situation. Yo, bro, you know, uh, blood in, blood out. Uh, 80% of these niggas in these games are rats. I mean, rats is normalized. So before you come get the good ones, go make sure you clean up that dirty shit that y'all got going on first. A man should be able to walk away with free will. Why would you hold a man hostage to a lifestyle he don't want to live? You're only asking to turn him to a rat and form it. You're gonna incriminate your organization. If you force somebody to do something they don't want to do, you're gonna get the bad end of the stick. You want him to ride with you and go commit a crime or go commit murder, knowing he's not gonna keep his mouth closed. You go kill that boy, guess what? Now you mad because he turned to a rat. You knew he wasn't built for the mission. If in this day and time, if a man wants to lay his flag down or fold his flag or walk away, let him walk away. There's plenty of ones that want to participate in this low vibration life. Let them do it. They got enough jail cells and they got a lot of graveyards for you. Do it. The ones that don't want to do it, leave them be. Because 21 years in this, I have not gained anything. Yes, I became more aware of my surroundings. Yeah, I became militant. You know, some knowledge I do apply. You dig what I'm saying? But at the end of the day, I done shot five times. I've been on my deathbed twice, and every single time it was by somebody that was supposed to be a part of my situation. I thought you were my brother. Now you want to kill me? I just did just made a move for you. I gotta go do 10 years. Now you want to fuck my girl? This is stuff that's not being talked about, and it's like, can I leave the gang without being punished? Me personally, my answer would be yes, because I got at my higher rankings and I let them know. To be honest, a lot of them are laying it down at the end of the year. So, would you gonna check the originals for North Carolina? You gonna check the ones that put on for this shit? How? If I was the boogeyman there, if I was the boogeyman then, what makes you think one of your weak little homies that ain't never been in the field coming to do what to me? That's like sending a foot soldier to come get a lieutenant. I didn't leave on a bad note. I'm not bashing nobody. You know, it's just in this day and time you can be punished for leaving a game. Absolutely. That depends on your big homie and the situation of the set. My big homies and my OGs, and I'm a double OG myself. We're brothers. Our kids go to school together, we eat together, our women know each other. You dig what I'm saying? So even all of us, we like, bro, we fed up with this stuff, bro. These kids need another way out. This is not the way, this is not the light, and then we all know that you can't serve two. Masters, you want to serve the great God Allah, or do you want to serve man? Which one? I can't serve both knowing what's the consequence of me going in my grave. You don't go to Jenna if you serve two masters. It doesn't work that way. It said you must serve the great God Allah alone. He is not to be compared with anything. These youth need another direction to go. What happened to the in the 1930s? We wasn't moving like this. The man was in a home, the woman was in a home, and the child was taken care of. The father made sure that the house was taken care of. We ain't have all this black on black crown, spinning block. And let's not get into the drug situation with our kids dying on opiums and popping pills and XYZ. It gets wicked.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

Now, um, I I got you, I got you right here. You know, what you're saying is is is impactful. So I want people to see, you know, you know, everything. You, you know, only you. So now I wanted to ask you what do you see as far as like the difference between when you first started to right now as a grown man?

Then Versus Now In Gang Culture

SPEAKER_03 23:32

When I first started when I first started, it was more structured. Um we was given the knowledge of self. I mean, a lot of this information comes from Islam, you know. So we was given the knowledge of self.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Okay, that's that's his son right there. Yeah, right now uh he's uh talking to his his uh son. You know, uh there we go. I'm back. All right, all right. Yeah, pardon me.

SPEAKER_03 24:27

It's okay. Um when I first started, it was more intense. I mean, you had to know your paperwork, um, you had to know your oath. Um, you had to know your history. Black Panther Party, Black Liberation, Black Party, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, who Bobby Banks was, Bobby Seal, Bobby Hudson. We knew about the West Coast. Um, my mentor, T Rogers, how he came from Chicago, now I mean, the whole shebang, how the bloods in the cryps fell out. Because at one point, the bloods in the cryps was one until they separated. You know what I mean? You know, the CIA got involved, they gave drugs, and they started poisoning the community. It was an uh experiment. So um, we knew about the black liberation. Um, blood on the east coast was started behind being oppressed by Latinos, the Neath and the Latin kings. Right. You know what I mean? So they got established the a self-defense to protect our people. So growing up, the South, we dealt with a lot of racism, you know what I mean? And you know, back in the day it was more intense because it was the north versus the south side. I was a north side homie. I mean, a lot of homies was on the south. So if you get caught on the wrong side of the that line, you was getting your ass whooped. I mean, that's the way it was. It was more or less intense in block painting. You know what I mean? But it was you didn't have a million big homies. Now you have a million different big homies. Back in the day, you had like five different big homies. That's it. It wasn't a thousand, it wasn't a bunch of dudes with rank. You couldn't get no rank like that. You know what I mean? Like, you could put in all the work you want. You still not getting stars for that. And you know, if a call got made, it got done. Point blank, period. I mean, a lot of stuff I did, you know, I regret it, but growing up, I mean, it made me who I am today. But it's like in this day and time with gangbanging, it's senseless. You got a thousand different big homies in one city, you know what I mean? So who who respects who? You know what I mean? Like, where do the respect come in at? You know, back in the day, an OG was like what 30, 40 years old. Nowadays, you got an OG that's 20 years old. How's he an OG? He ain't even lived long enough to be a OG, Digga, even experienced life, right? No, I mean, like my big homie, I used to get my my behind whoop for not going to school. You skip school, you was getting discipline behind it. We had a real structure. Yeah, we handle business in the streets, but we had a real structure. No, I mean, like, that's just what it was. A lot of these young Y-ins nowadays, back in our day, they would not, they couldn't even be blood. Because you couldn't ask to be blood, you was hand picked.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. I never heard that before, right there.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

All right, so you can't ask to be blood.

SPEAKER_00 27:50

You can't ask to be blood, you're hand picked. So explain that right there. It's you know, you don't have to go into stupid detail, but you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

In my era, you was picked. I mean, like you gotta know somebody to know somebody. You couldn't just walk up to a big homie, you're gonna get you couldn't even walk up on a big homie anyway, because the little homie's gonna run down on you. So it's like you had to know somebody to know somebody that that even get a situation.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

Oh, hold on a second, they got the brother uh Mr. Tony Brown in the building. What's going on, brother? What's going on? Yeah, that that's one of my elders from New York. Right, right. I remember you building about him one time. Yeah, indeed. So, you know, uh cap, you know, finishing what you were saying.

SPEAKER_03 28:39

So, like he said, blood told you you ain't choose it. Now I mean when I first went to my big homie, I'm like, my older brother was blood before me. So like, yo, I'm gonna be blood, man. You know, uh uh uh the big homie told me. No, I was pissed when he told me no, I was denied three times. It came to we got in a fight in school, my older brother got in a fight with a different set, right? And I got it popping with my brother. It was like two of us versus seven dudes. We got kicked out of school. Once I got it popping with my brother, my big homie, like, yo, all right, all right, you really want this, don't you? Yeah, that way. Back in our days, we got triple O's. We had to get three paws burnt on our back. Uh, these bloods nowadays, they don't got no paws on their back, they ain't get burnt, they ain't the half the stuff we went through back in the day, they they don't go through 10% of it. Damn. I mean, like you might run into a dude, he might be like, Yo, who you be, who your big homie? Run this. You might not know your lit, and now you getting beat on. You getting beat on because you don't know your information. I was a young dude running wild. I think I was like one of the youngest big homies in North Carolina because it used to be grown men outside looking for me, like I was a grown man. I was a kid. I'm talking about they riding through the hood with with pistols and everything looking for me. And when they finally see me, they like, you such and such. I'm like, yeah, they like, man, yeah, right, you're a kid. Like, nah, I'm him. Like, man, get out of here. Ain't no way. Like, yo, I'm him. And it's like, in this day and time, anybody can be the big homie, anybody can be blood. Now I mean, it's it's a social group now. Like, you got ones that's blood that you know, come on, bro. Stop it. Stop it. Are you in this for the protection? My question to a lot of these dudes is what would you be without blood? Would you be able to stand your ground? Would you get busy? Would you handle yourself accordingly a certain way?

SPEAKER_02 31:07

Or will a dude run down on you?

SPEAKER_01 31:15

So that's the um that's what's not being talked about, you know.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

You hear me? Yeah. All right.

Launching The Fold Your Flag Challenge

SPEAKER_00 31:42

So as far as the Fold your Flag Challenge, explain to me how that came about and you know, uh the details that you can share with the public.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

So, Fold your Flag Challenge. Um, I had a conversation with my big bros, my brothers. You know, they're like, yo, bro, we we tired of this, bro. You feel me? It's always politics. Um, things ain't going the way it needs to go. We've been in this 20 plus years. A lot of our big homies are dead or they're in prison for the rest of their life. The ones that put on. You know, when do we stop and make decisions for ourselves to make a betterment for our community? You know what I mean? And don't get me wrong, New York always uh manipulated North Carolina when it comes to gangs. They always did. It's always some corny dude that comes up with this scenario of how he wants to run and make himself look good. You know what I mean? So we come to the situation like we put on for North Carolina. Y'all gotta respect that. North Carolina got put on by us, but it's like we wrapped a New York set in North Carolina and made it look good in North Carolina. You go to Gangland, remember the episodes of Gang Land, South Carolina, XYZ, we put on for New York. But it there was still no recognition to us. We would still look as little homies. No, bro, we're the big homies of this shit. I mean, 20 plus years, we're no longer the little homies. We're gonna make better decisions for our backyard, for our youth, for our people. We want to bring down the crime rate. Why would we wait on the police and the government to bring down the crime rate in our own communities? Right. So the Folge flag challenge came about uh me and other OGs and big homies sitting at the table, even some of them being crip. You know what I mean? Like we want change in our communities. Cause the question is, you would send his son to kill somebody, but would you send your son to go kill somebody? No, I mean you want to tell somebody else's child what to do, but do you even raise the child you got at home?

SPEAKER_00 34:07

Right. Ooh, ha ha.

SPEAKER_03 34:09

You did what I'm saying. You want to be a big homie, but you don't have a car, you don't have a house, your credit score is shot to hell. Hold on, hold on. Rewind, say that again. I had a bomb job. You want to be somebody big homie, you don't have a car, you don't have a house, and your credit score is shot to hell, and you're illiterate. So who are you leading? No, I mean that's the blind leaving the blonde. Right, dumb deaf is stupid. You got a thousand men, but nobody got a business, nobody got no revenue, no legal, nothing. So what are we doing? How are we betterment in the nation, the community? Why is our women and children scared? No, I mean, why are we so fascinated with guns? How are you so quick to kill your brother, but you won't go kill a racist? I mean, make it make sense. It's like we're spitting in our ancestors' face. Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad. Now I mean, the list goes Marcus Garvey. Everything that they set up for us as a blueprint, we're going against it. You dig what I'm saying? But you got brothers that's in your home section that hate to see you grow. That's the devil. That's the lower self. You mad as I got food on my plate and don't understand that I can put food on your plate if you stop moving in on lower traits. You want to be a big homie of the streets? Well, I'm I'm I'm the I'm a supervisor in my in my at my job. So who really the big homie? I can put you on, you don't make no money outside. You're penny pinching. I say, bro, come get a job and learn a trade. You make $12 to $1,500 a week. Which one do you want to argue with, bro? I see why rich people stay away from certain communities. They ignore it. Because you don't want to do nothing. Better with yourself. Let's give these youth another outlet where they can see outside of their hood. They have tunnel vision. They they go, let's take them to the ocean. How big is the ocean? How far it goes out? That's how far you can go with success, long as you stay focused. They ain't seeing nothing but what they see on TV. Spin that, spin that, check, hit that, cast that. So baby girl think because she got her boobs out and her her butt out, and you know, she that she that chick, right? And all the little homies, they want to bang her and XYZ and get money and show drugs on the internet on camera while they got the beds watching them all day long, building their own case. Dig what I'm saying. Nobody told on you but you. You told on yourself. Can't get mad at nobody. You you did it all on camera. So it's like, when do you change your mind state? You think because you want to block throwing up gang signs getting money that they're not watching you through the street lights? You wonder why you got pulled over five times a day? So what are you getting away with? I still to this day you go spin on somebody, the police gonna get you in the first 48. Did you win? No, you lost. You actually went against our culture. You killed another brother for what? I understand if he raped a woman, touched a child, X, Y, Z. You killed him over what? Some some Punani. Now he ain't got none, and you ain't got none, and she going to the next hot thing smoking. You about to be in prison with other brothers for the rest of your life. And if you ain't like that, you gonna be holding his pocket and you're gonna be screaming when you get back to that cell block because he's gonna tell you to bend it over. And if you can't fight, he's gonna knock you out and take it anyway. So this is stuff they're not telling to the youth, right?

SPEAKER_00 38:51

You know not the with the fold your your flag challenge. How is it working right now? Is it just you're in the talks of it? Plans, if there are any plans, what what are the plans? Like, what's the main

Building Off Ramps And Reentry Paths

SPEAKER_00 39:07

mission?

SPEAKER_03 39:07

So, you know, anytime you walk away from something, you have to have an outlet, you have to have a transition. You know, um to for me to better my brothers around me, I am opening doors to my Masonic fraternity. If you want to let go of the negative and you don't want to be a part of that street life, you know, I extend my hand as a Morse right brother. Hey, brother, come on board. Let's teach you man characteristics. You know, this is about building the characteristics of man. My brothers that that that are familiar with the Morris Science Temple, I introduce them to the National Grand Sheik Cosmo L. Now I mean, I'm only gonna introduce you to who I deal with. I can't speak for another body because I don't know how it functions. Uh even with my uh elder Tony Brown, he got a lot of good things going on. You know, he got this the keys to Fairville, North Carolina, you know, give it back to the community. You ain't got no record. He got a gun range, teach you how to uh safety weapons, shoot your gun, X, Y, Z. So we got many programs that can help litfy and uplift our brothers and sisters. You know, my brother Kerwin Pittman L. Um, you know, he just bought the prison. So, you know, he's doing a uh he's turning the prison basically to a rehabilitation center when you come from prison. Stay here six months, you get benefits, resources, three three meals, you learn to trade, X, Y, Z, and shift on to the next thing. What we're doing in North Carolina is we're connecting the dots with all the powerful brothers that stay positive. The ones that want to stay negative, cool. If somebody from your set don't want to bang and don't want to live a low vibration life, let them go. Most of my little homies, they walked away. When I folded it, they folded it too. They said, Big bro, we following you. We don't know no other way. We don't know what the next man is gonna lead us to do.

unknown 41:31

Right.

SPEAKER_00 41:32

So how do you deal?

Handling Pushback And Drawing Lines

SPEAKER_00 41:34

How do because I know like with anything you do, you have people who disagree with with your your plight, your mission. How do you deal with people who disagree? How does that work out? Does it call cause more um more strife with the within the within the family? Because I I've I've I've I've watched things happen over the years, like you know, I'm not I'm not a spring chicken, and you know, I've watched things happen, you know, people want to do things more positive, and then other people don't, and that could start out like an all-out war.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

So, like I said, a lot of my brothers, superiors, they're walking away at the end of the year. So that's a whole bunch of us walking away. We just want to live our life. We got children, we love our family, bro. We don't want to do no time behind stupidity, and it's like, bro, I'm willing to die behind my family. So if you come playing with me while I'm taking care of my family, if I was a problem then, I'm gonna be 10 times as worse now. I mean, for real. Because I gotta protect my family, so I'm willing to go all the way, however, you want to take it. And I told you it's peace, brother. I'm still here to advocate. You need a job, anything, brother. I'm here. It's all love. I'm not, I don't have three, five, ten, I have 21 years. I have buried brothers that I love. I done buried sisters and babies, and bro, I'm just so tired. I am tired, and I'm not scared of any brother that feels some type of way because I'm telling you, you cannot stop what Allah has in the will. The will of Allah, you cannot stop. And you come in to play with something that's divine, Allah would kill you. I I'm I'm not gonna play with the creator. Allah, when you are submissive to the will of Allah, Allah is gonna make sure you're protected, He's gonna make sure you're on your thing, He's gonna make sure your family's okay. So if you think your man-made or your man mentality can challenge the creator, go for it. Go for it. But even to this day, I'm not ducking no fade from nobody. Anybody want to call me out for a fade? You got 30 from right now, you got 31 days to get your fade. After that, I'm not accepting it. A friendly fade. If you want to fade it, because you feel some type of way what's going on. Even for the little homies that want to leave, I shoot the fade for them too. Something has to give. We want betterment for our community. We are tired of all the sucker shit. These women are tired of burying their babies. Behind bum people. Some of these brothers are bums. Some of these brothers inside this situation are great brothers. Don't get me wrong. It's a lot of decent brothers that take care of their family. Some of these people in this are the devil. They're bums. They don't have nothing going for their self. They would kill your baby. They're worse than the yawstick. Black devils is real. You can't put you can't recruit my son. I'm telling you now. You recruit my son. I'm coming to see about your big homie. I'm not gonna let it happen. Because it's all cool until you bury your brother, bury your mama, bury a two-year-old, bury somebody close to you. What? You wanna get mad and retaliate? This is the lifestyle that you wanted to live. It comes with killing innocent people. So when are we held accountable for our actions? Anything I ever did to anybody, I apologize from the bottom of my heart and pray to Allah that you forgive me. But I refuse to know what's going on in these streets to watch these babies die. Because these babies are dying quicker than elders. How do you leave out before your daddy? How do you leave out before your grandma? Do you not want to live life? Do you not want to set up a legacy? Any big homie that's a real big homie, you have to stamp this. Because what is the reason why blood was created? To protect your community, to protect the children, and to protect the women. Where do it come from? If you bang the five, it comes from Islam. Brotherly love override oppression and destruction. Break down the five. Love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice. There's a lot of Islamic literature there. It tells you don't harm civilians. This is not a secret. All of this is on the internet. The federal government know who is who. You think they're stupid? They can identify who's the big homie, OG, X, Y. It's so much technology. Man, listen, you ain't getting away with nothing. The best thing you could do is go look legal, be legit, make a change in your community. I'm not telling you just because you fold your flag, that don't make you pussy. That don't make you less than a man. You're just saying you're able to stand on your two feet by yourself. I will always have love for my hood. No, I mean, always. It's in me. I've been doing it 21 years. But brother, when you see me, hey brother, peace, brother. How you doing? When you come holler at me, I want to hear about no gang shit. I'm not your gang gang. Hey, big homie, I need a job, man. I'm trying to take care of my son. That's what I want to hear. Come fill this application out. Use me as a reference. You know, go get some money, bro. Take care of them babies, man. Them babies need you.

SPEAKER_00 48:44

That's a fact. That's a fact.

Events, Outreach, And Civic Alternatives

SPEAKER_00 48:46

So now, what are you doing to promote this folder flag challenge? Any any promotion out there, any events gonna happen? Um, um, how are you gonna set this up so that it reaches the masses?

SPEAKER_03 49:01

At the end of the year, we have we're putting together an event for the youth. And anybody that wants the full day fly, they can't, because we're gonna holler at the big homies about it. I I I'm speaking from my section. I can't speak for nobody else. I don't control what the Crips do or other blood sets. But my section, my big homies, my elders, they respect it. Hell, some of my elders don't want to get involved with this. They're not trying to go to the Feds for a Rico. You gonna you don't have to have a criminal record to get 20 years for being in a gang. All you have to do is be affiliated and put in that conspiracy. You getting a 20-piece. And if you get anything lesser than that, they need to check your uh your 401k. So it's like if you start, if you see the same things happen over and over, when do you stop? Babies dying, you brothers keep going to prison for the same stupidity. X, Y, Z. When do we stop and educate our people? What happened to opening the doors for the elders? What happened to making sure our community, hey, you you need your grass cut, Mr. Paul? What happened to checking on our community? Are we building our community? Are we tearing it up? Do we understand that the project means it's a project? That means you're being used as an experiment inside the project. So when do we make a change? Even with something Nipsey said, why would you want to be rolling 60s and you're not from LA? You're not from here, you're not from Slauson, you all the way over there, you ain't never been here. So, what makes you want to be a part of this? You ain't outside every day, you gotta spend. And don't get me wrong, I know it's hard out here in our community. Poverty, low income, no jobs, no connection. That goes upon us as um activists, brothers that have networks and connections that go in our community and find our youth and give them opportunity. We can't just be up here talking about it. I can't just be up here talking about it with you. I have to go outside. And I'm not gonna be scared of a hey, hey, bro, I don't like what you said about the gangs. Okay, what you want to do about it? Because I'm so active in my community, I got some powerhouses behind me. I don't just got my Masonic brothers behind me. I have some powerhouses behind me. I'm talking about military, U.S. military officials that they respect what I do. Even the uh National North Carolina Highway Patrol, they like what I got going on for the youth. Some of these people that we think is the enemy wanna see change. I mean, so I got I I gotta get active. I gotta let it be known. Gang banging ain't the same no more, brother. It ain't for protecting the family and the children and the women. You want to gang bang, what you want to go kill somebody, bro? Go join the army, bro. You like to drive the cars fast around the block, go be a highway state patrol officer. They get to drive the police cars fast as they want. They're running you up and down a highway. Go go be something productive, brother. You tired of the judge being corrupted in the justice system, go be a judge. How you get mad at a situation and you don't want to take the seat? You mad could a city mayor running a city a certain way, go run for city mayor. Right, even the prophet said, I'm gonna lead these these government here long enough so y'all can understand how to run a government. But in order to run a government, you have to take the seat, you have to be educated.

SPEAKER_00 53:34

Right, right, indeed.

Where To Find Prince Yahoshi

SPEAKER_00 53:36

Now, what now before we cut out, I need you to give everyone where to find you. How do they support the uh Folger Flag Challenge? And uh, yeah, that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

So you can find me at Prince Yhoshi, P-R-I-N-C-E, Y-E-H O-S-H-I on any platform: Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, um, TikTok, um, even Amazon. I just dropped my book, Triple Sam. No, I mean, like, all you gotta do is type in the name, Prince Yihoshi. I am everywhere, and I know they've been waiting on me to drop a book, so I gave them that too this year. So, and there's many more to come.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

That's peace, man. You know, uh, it's it's great to see someone younger than me putting a uh best foot forward. You know, I respect it. Thank you to everyone on the chat right now, everyone watching. Um, just to let you know before we cut out, I am gonna also play reruns of Prince Yahoshi the first time he was on the platform, and then the second time he was on the platform. So it's you know, next week is gonna be uh the next week and a week after is gonna be uh uh uh Prince Yahoshi week. You know what I mean? So, you know, we're just gonna keep his face on the platform. Would love to keep keep you coming up here. Uh oh, and he can sing too. Yeah, the brother can ride. I I I I keep everything. I'm I'm quiet about certain things, but I I'm I'm I got my ear to the street. You know what I mean, and my eyes. So uh again, thank you for coming out this evening. I really appreciate you, Prince Yahoshi. And oh, you know what? I said next week we're gonna we're gonna do a Prince Yahoshi uh uh uh rerun on Friday. I'm calling Friday the Holy the Holy Day Blessings. I'm gonna do reruns on Thursdays and Fridays. Fridays, we're gonna throw Prince Yahoshi up there with uh Crip Jesus and uh Cosmo L on Friday for y'all to check that that one out. That was the first one. Thank you for coming out again. Peace to everybody in the chat, peace to everybody on Spotify, Apple Me Apple Podcasts, all the all the streaming platforms, and we are out of here. Peace.