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Keepingit Real and Boo Man talk about From War To Peace In Chicago

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Introductions And Mission

SPEAKER_04

Here we go. I'm looking at it. You know what I'm saying? Hold on, let me introduce you. Yeah, I'm the host of Baptist podcast. You know, I got a very special guest in the house. This is my man for the land. You know, by keeping it real. I call him Go Go. I got a lot of positive things to say. I'll tap in and listen. Is there anything that you want to go anything that you want to say about ideas up there? You know? Don't speak your peace.

SPEAKER_05

You know, God on the move, that's the first thing.

SPEAKER_04

God is good.

SPEAKER_05

So, you know, we try to get that covered off our city. Uh Chirect, the city of war, to Shirus in the city of peace. So, you know, I've been fighting hard, working with the youth, the youth council. A lot of people don't know that. Uh, but because they see me at the city out there like they don't see the real work I put in.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_05

Like I'm at the nurse homes, uh, I'm at the soup kitchens. Right. Um, I'm working with the youth. We got Shirus and Eats coming. Right. Shirusha Mike. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_05

And so we can stop like supporting Gucci, Louie, Prada, and every other multiple uh design. We can start pointing to our own designers.

SPEAKER_01

True, true, true.

SPEAKER_05

And if we get our numbers up, we're trying to stop boycotting uh these stores, uh the Arab stores.

SPEAKER_04

That should have been took place though.

Youth Work Behind The Scenes

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, they send the money back overseas for war. Yeah. Right. They're trying to be having jobs inside the gas station.

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Right.

SPEAKER_05

So yeah, God on the move, man. Okay. We got some big stuff lined up.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. So so y'all had uh old school versus new school basketball game now, huh?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I I was supposed to play in it, actually. I wanted to make it, but I end up uh I had to go to the soup kitchen, I had to do a little work. Okay, you know what I'm saying? And I had to go to the school to press up some shirts, you know what I'm saying, some hoodies that day. So yeah, I had to miss it. But I I did see it, I supported it, you know what I'm saying? Absolutely, because it was peace.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_05

So anytime anything can end with peace, can be beginning with peace and end with peace, man, that's God.

SPEAKER_04

What made you get into into uh doing clothing? You know, like your own brand.

Local Fashion As Economic Power

SPEAKER_05

Well, I got into it because you know, I always had an idea of doing it, but I wanted to make sure that I had something more to get to the youth. So a lot of youth are gonna teach them how to like create the brand, and then another half of them's gonna be selling the brand. Right. You know what I'm saying? So teaching them different trades. If they got something to work with, they gotta break the cars and steal cars and rob people. You know what I'm saying? We try to create an avenue for them to be able to provide for them in the club. I think the kids one or two, three years old, you know, they trying to find a way to feed them. Right. That's why we came up with shoes gotta eat. These shorties they gotta eat. You just can't get them the word of God. And that's enough.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

SPEAKER_05

You gotta have a solution, like how they gonna eat. And so that's why we're coming up with all these different programs. You gotta have 50 50 uh things of income.

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Right.

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You know, and so that's what we're trying to create for the shorty.

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Right.

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And so that's actually the school that uh the school that every Hoof guy graduated from.

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Right, okay.

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So yeah, so we we do a lot of work in the school because the school of profits.

SPEAKER_04

That's what's up, man. That's what's up. I'm glad a lot of problems have been made, you know. What's up, boom, man?

SPEAKER_05

Uh yeah, I'm just you know, I'll let you guys, uh, my bad for being late, uh, you know. Uh keeping it real, I I see you, you know, you make it major moves for the city, you know, for uh giving out to the youth, you know, trying to help them. You know, uh what what platform you building that from? I mean I'm trying to I'm building from every platform, you know, TikTok. You know, I put a lot of stuff up there, I have a lot of stuff I'm just trying to build on Facebook. So I guess what I put up when I'm making uh hoodies and I put place up there to really show like what we're gonna do in the school. And so we try to have a lot of people like sign their kids up at the school program so we can teach them trades and teach them, you know, a lot of these should be they got great ideas already. They just ain't really got no guidance. Right, right. We're trying to put ourselves in a position to help them guide them in the right direction.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

Old School Vs New School Unity

Clothing Brand As Youth Pathway

SPEAKER_05

And uh that's I mean, uh that that's great. You know, we need more guys like yourself, you know, as a great leader, you know, from where you came from, you know, the troubles, the the tribulations, all that, you know, so I know it's an everyday graph but you, you know. I mean, I know you scribe it, and I also see, you know, the ambition you got behind it, you know what I'm saying? I I see you push it even through the storm. I see you, you know, you move in the clouds when you start to push it, and you let, you know, block you from that, you know what I'm saying? I just know I see that. Yeah, I appreciate that. It ain't it ain't about me no more, you know. Me, I'm 52 now, so I done did it basically me already, you know what I'm saying? But I've had over 300 twice in my life. So now this time I want to eat it the right way. Well, and I want to leave in the right way, so that's what I'm that's what I'm trying to do, just lay down a foundation. So every other nation can stop eating off us. So we're trying to eat something like this, we're gonna all code, our own scores, our own yes. The same way everything is supposed to be both, but we much don't get a large deep now. And once we come together, we unstoppable, you know. That's why we take this city from Chirac to Chair, the City of Rupert. That's a that's that's a that's a uh that's that's a great that's a great change like how you changed it uh you changed it to twice coming from the street. Yeah, that's that's that's tough. I I like that. Yeah, so what made me let me ask you a question up there. What made me come up with the idea? Me and my brother actually came up, you know, he came up, uh my brother, the CEO, CEO, the CEO, I met right-hand man, acting uh Jeff we got next with. So that he had a video maybe 27 years ago. I met Jeff and the county deal actually. So he was coming up there teaching and preaching the word of God. And so when I met him, I was late on the book. I heard that fire. You know, he was players like me and you. I was like, Oh I uh once I heard them, man, you're gonna come on. You're gonna take a lot. I'm gonna do a mess. I came off. What's the point about that? Wow, guys. Like I've been part of the door. It felt like it felt like it put you down the Yeah, I felt like 'cause it was a wow moment because like I don't I don't want to come apart with it, but I guess we could do something.

unknown

So when I came in with just a bike, it was like I know that's God, you know what I'm saying? And uh guy has been giving me things, but I've been going to a lot of stuff because the enemy, one thing that we can have your life, we're gonna put every distraction distraction on me that we can. We gotta do whatever you can, because you can't take his life. Well, let me do what else I can do.

SPEAKER_05

So we try to stand into the wrong, we try to get you into the wrong crowd, we try to get you through this, you know what I'm saying? So right now, we just gotta leave that example, man. So your everyday life, your everyday struggle. You, you know, you trying to get back, you're doing one of these communities, you know, you rub your shoulders, you give it signatures, you know, uh, you're doing everything that's positive. My my question to you is like, how'd you grab them with with your old life and and trying to convert to this new life and try to, you know, get back? I how that's working for you, but you know, every day is gonna be a fight, it's gonna be a new challenge. Um, but once you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04

So check in uh I got him, I got him, I got him totally.

SPEAKER_05

Uh uh, my bad go get a go ahead. Yeah. So every day, every day gonna be a new challenge for you. Because the enemy definitely don't want you to choose your goal.

unknown

If you still have to do something right, you know what I'm saying? The enemy's gonna try to stop you.

Faith, Setbacks, And Purpose

SPEAKER_05

But the Bible says the righteous is and bold as the lion, but the enemy fleece when no one pursues you. So you ain't gotta worry about nobody else. You gotta give you a walking and step on death like you're no evil. So you gotta stand on that. And you gotta keep fighting no matter how many status for, how many statues gotta be crying? Give up, get up, and keep the reason the reason I ask you that question, you know, you know, five identity routine, our daily life, where we come from, who we were before, who we who we trying to become now. You know, like me personally, like I have a my thing is like it's easy for me to go right back into that old me. I'm talking about like just like that. But I I I I struggle every day with trying to be right because all I know how to do is, you know, my old self. So that's why I was kind of just seeing how you was coping with your everyday life. So the key to this, the key to it, I was being suffering myself. So but the key to it is when God started moving you away in a different direction, some of these people can't go with you. And you gotta try to hang back when God removes you from a different way to remove you from around people. You gotta accept that. And you gotta accept this way, that's your way. No way gonna get you back into it. No way to get you back off. No way gonna get you challenge in the streets again. You can take challenge in your mail. So you just gotta follow that's your way for your way and go in and like focus on what he gasping. And that's what my goal is. That's why I'll hang around this month. I thought a week, two months ago. So I did to eliminate a lot of crowds that I was hanging around. Because they weren't doing the beginning three week anyway.

SPEAKER_04

So, so so you know that one like saying top of people in a laugh for reasons. Like go off y'all, you know what I'm saying? Yin and yank. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right. That's called to the positive. I know that.

SPEAKER_05

He got a lot of uh of course the enemy don't want he got a lot of gifts, and the enemy don't want the girl to see that, and it won't him to keep on like doing things as low-hanging fruit and not holding stuff up to the highest standard. Cause he's great. So when you are great, you know what I'm saying?

unknown

The enemy's gonna fight you too many.

SPEAKER_05

And they don't care what he fight you with with women, with uh with these guys in the streets, with uh you know what I'm saying, with drinking, smoking, whatever it is, he trying to dilute you. He ain't trying to let you get to your full strength because you're gonna be a force to be reckoned with. And little brother, he got that boost too. So, uh that that that that's black stuff.

unknown

I appreciate that. You know what I'm saying? So you know, I'm gonna take that as accountability. Like I'm I'm I'm reading the battle. Trying to find a way I can get it in, like, we gotta try to like find a way we can get into them. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

That's another outcome we gotta bring out.

unknown

Okay.

Daily Battle With The Old Life

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna say around uh we try to take them a different way.

SPEAKER_05

So we can have a boxing class uh get things out there. And now we try to get them another way instead of that you can see it every other block that they fight. So they could every block they were angry at each other. Yes, but why do we fall?

SPEAKER_04

Well yeah, now you're right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Not at all. Not at all.

SPEAKER_03

Right.

unknown

Hey, you know, we gotta wake up, man, come on, I say, man, that's right. That's a shame, that's a shame. That's why I get out of here. That's why I get out of here, you know. That's why when I got it on my I say, hit me, go in, get me.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Keep it real.

unknown

Keep it real.

SPEAKER_04

Keep it real, keep it real. Now I got you here.

unknown

I'm putting that in money. And then you said I was right for the money.

SPEAKER_04

Each one, hey, hey, you out here to teach, you know what I'm saying? Each one teach one. You know? Right. Right.

SPEAKER_01

True.

SPEAKER_02

Like, man, right.

unknown

Somebody else might have somebody else can help you. You know what I'm saying?

Boundaries, Mentors, And Growth

Boxing, Safe Outlets, And Conflict

SPEAKER_04

But see, you know something about that? I tell women out here, like, real talk, you need a man to really raise a a boy into a man. Because right to me, yeah, it takes two. But see, I think like the mom can't raise them on her own. On her own. You know what I'm saying? That's something we gotta do. Right. Exactly. Right. Right. Yeah. Hey. And then got something in the kitchen. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. You know, that's kind of crazy though. That's why I say nowadays it's a lot of soft shit going on, you know? And then it needs guys like us, the older generation, you know what I'm saying, to like pave that way. Like you said, your niggas get out on you. Mine did too. I can't go nowhere, you know what I'm saying? Street lights come on, hey, hey, back in the house. You know what I'm saying? I do something both, you know what I'm saying? Miss Peggy and Miss Roberta, hold up. Get out on him, you know what I'm saying? So it's alright. That's why I got the most respect for him. You know, I see them as mom. Nobody don't. They came up on the block. That's a real challenge. Right. Right. Yeah, that's how he ran, yeah.

SPEAKER_06

What you say, you know, I like to say we gotta take control.

unknown

You know what I'm saying? And even when I'm out in the middle of Mexico, I still try to make up, let them know, man, well, you ain't gotta, you know what I'm saying? I still try to try to uplift, let them know, man, you ain't gotta suspend.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I'm I remember I did that before to a while, man. It turns out different, though, but you keep that up, you know what I'm saying? Cause they need to hear that. They need to hear that. You know what I'm saying? Cause it's just like to me, it's like it's like talking to a brick ass wall. You know what I'm saying? Like, the same shit y'all doing, we did already, but see, look, it was done in a better way. Y'all just out here wow. You know, like y'all out here wow. Right. Yeah. Right. You want to say that? Hold on, I'll let my way, get in, 'cause I'll get it.

Elders, Standards, And Accountability

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Right. Right. Right.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Hey, so let hey, they go back to uh the like leave. How y'all feel about them the the so-called military coming there? How y'all feel about that? How you feel about the military coming in? How you feel about the military coming in?

SPEAKER_03

You hear me?

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Right. Right. Okay. Now I don't know if you heard me, boom, man. I asked him how do you feel about the military coming in. You know what I'm saying? Um Chicago. How you feel about it?

unknown

If we can't get it together, somebody gotta get it to get it together. I I think they should do it.

SPEAKER_01

True. True. True. True.

SPEAKER_04

True. Right. Right. True. Okay. I feel that. Okay. I will tell.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

Community Leadership And Unity

SPEAKER_04

And you're right about that. You know what I'm saying? That's not the way it is going to stop. That's not where it is going to start, you know. Right.

unknown

We gotta have one. We gotta have somebody on the counter.

SPEAKER_01

True. True.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

unknown

True. You know what you know what's crazy to me if you got an issue that you went out. You know what's crazy to me, man. It's like it's it's like we are it's like I don't like sometimes.

SPEAKER_04

I say that all the time, man.

unknown

We control that all types of guys that we don't even know we may control. You gotta do the real damage to all types of shit. You gotta look at these things anybody goes to the thing.

SPEAKER_04

Exactly.

unknown

That's like to me, that's like a good shit. That's like one that you need because it's like that's a little bit of a hand right now. You're not connected.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Yeah.

unknown

It's like that.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

unknown

You won't see it only. You won't see it.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

unknown

We don't have no act for animals.

SPEAKER_04

Who wouldn't have stand up and show? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Talk is talk, but we gotta walk that walk. You know what I'm saying? At all times.

unknown

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04

Right. Yeah.

unknown

You know what I'm saying? I think we're gonna get a lot of support, even from the, you know, the the the single parents, because at the end of the day, we right here trying to show your son where, you know, his daddy like that, or he might not even have his dad.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

unknown

See what I'm saying? Because to be honest, all our female friends now, they they they turns all that they looking up to us.

SPEAKER_04

That's that's real talk, that it is.

SPEAKER_02

Right.

Positivity From The Trenches

unknown

No, I gotta hurt when it hits everybody.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, everybody, and and you know something, that's how everybody ain't know something, that's how right it used to be. You know what I'm saying? If one more got hit, we all felt that. Ain't like that no more.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Yeah.

unknown

People leave myself, teaching how to make their own bread and put up you know, I'm gonna learn how to eat the stone and uh uh just to take that to the people that they can hide in tree. We gotta keep going in every other nation.

SPEAKER_04

See, I like that. Hey, you know something though? Hey, you know something? A lot of people think so negative about Chicago, and I got two brothers right here keeping it positive and real. You know? Yeah, from the trenches. Exactly.

unknown

Made me strong enough and and I break my fat. You feel me?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

unknown

Okay, let's be great.

SPEAKER_04

Hey, you already know, man. Okay.

Gratitude, Prayer, And Closing Words

unknown

Okay, uh I mean I've got a uh good topic. I enjoyed it, so you know, you know. Keep it going on, stay consistent, you know. Uh I mean, that's where you know, people man, y'all just take the topics we come up with. You know, we're gonna stay focused, you know, we're gonna try to keep ads, people, you know.

SPEAKER_04

Right.

unknown

Anybody watching, we appreciate you know, some of y'all's comments. Let me sit.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, go ahead, Peppin'.

unknown

Hello, April. Let's get on uh all the people, you know.

SPEAKER_06

We just we started something on Bob Talk Podcast. You know, throw y'all comments and let us know. You know what y'all think, man.

unknown

You know, we this day too. We just grabbing everything, man.

SPEAKER_04

You know, we just trying to get out of people trying to get it I got your daddy off.

SPEAKER_06

Um not to cut not to cut. I'd like to keep a podcast. I just got a rather, you know, keep the podcast.

unknown

I don't have a podcast. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_06

I mean it's cool. I I mean whatever.

unknown

I I just I'm just you know, I'm I'm just on podcasts, just trying to call it home. It's all my feelings.

SPEAKER_06

I just want to like with you know, people that's it.

unknown

Yeah, yeah, well thank you for that. Thank you all for the podcast. Thank you all for thank you all for uh thank you possible for the thank you all for having us the light on the right on uh we can turn around. Thank you all for the thing. We thank you all for the following uh we claim in peace left now or right now, fucked up. We thank you all for having protests.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, baby, windows, baby, definitely get your photo done, see you fucked up.

unknown

We thank you, we claim thank you in Jesus' name, and glory, glory, glory, man.

Final Host Sign Off

SPEAKER_04

Amen, man. Hey, thank y'all, brothers, man. I love y'all for doing this for me, man. Real talk, keeping it real. Boom. I'm back talk. Hey, thank you. Alright. Yeah, that's me, Shira. What you mean, dude? This me. I'm back. Yeah, let me close this out though, you know. I appreciate my guys coming over here, keeping it real, keeping the pause here, taking knowledge. I need a lot of y'all young hands, you know what I'm saying to pay attention, you know. Go, go. That's a lot of knowledge. Pay attention to it. They're trying to teach you. They can lead you to the water, but they can't make you drink it. With that being said, I'm out of here. Oh my boy, Boo Man, he with me on side by side, talking pistols. Now you hear him talking? I'm like, like, yeah, like I'm like, that's my main man. You know what I'm saying? That's my main man. When it comes to go, go, keep it real. He he wants he boom man for the deal with me. You know what I'm saying? So that's why I really want him on there.

SPEAKER_03

Hello?

SPEAKER_04

I made you do it because I'm uh doing a live and then I gotta watch tonight.

SPEAKER_06

I'm like, America. Let's go to our new special tech coordinator. You mean special team? I'm a special tech, Chris. I got the team motherfucker ready to go.

SPEAKER_03

Is that the switch to this?