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A dead body
was found inside the trunk of a car
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in North Preston Cemetery
yesterday,
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making it the second homicide
in two weeks
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for the small community
of 4,000 people.
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Funding for Operation
CeaseFire has been approved by the government
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and will go into action
next month,
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looking to reduce the high rate of gun
violence in the town of North Preston.
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Up next on Power 92.3,
we've got Just Chase's new single "Ego"
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that's been quickly climbing up the
Billboard charts since its release.
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Multiple men from North Preston
have been arrested for human trafficking
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and forcible confinement in
a nationwide sting yesterday.
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Officers say that the gang,
North Preston's Finest,
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is responsible for a pimp ring
that spans the entire country.
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Right now,
we're on our way up to Preston.
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North Preston, man.
My hometown.
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Today I drop
one of my biggest projects,
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and, you know, also,
it's my mom's birthday, so,
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I'm going to see her as well.
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Before I go see my mom, I'm just
gonna pop in on my dad real quick.
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He has no clue that I'm coming.
Surprise his ass.
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Aw, man. Feels good
to be back home, man.
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Welcome to Shatner Land itself.
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Whoo!
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- Hey!
- Hey! What's up?
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- Good to see you.
- How are you?
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Surprised!
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What, you didn't call or
nothing to say you were coming?
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- What...
- Good to see you. How's everything?
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- How's everything?
- Look at you. Good.
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I remember when I
taught you how to drive them trucks.
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- Yeah.
- And then when I took you out on your own,
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I went with you
the first few...
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For a week, but then,
when I let you go on your own...
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The first day
I let you go by yourself...
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I flipped over
in the dump truck.
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- Rolled the dump truck over.
- Oh, my god. I remember that.
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- I'll never forget it.
- Lucky I didn't hurt myself.
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I always had him working for me
right from a little boy.
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- Teaching him how to...
- From the age of eight, nine, right up. Me and my brothers...
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Teaching him how to run the
Bobcat there and stuff like that.
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I had a hard time trying to
keep him focused on the job.
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When I think he's supposed to be at
work, working with the dump truck,
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and he's out hanging out
with his gangster buddies.
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Your mom went in
your bedroom one day
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and she called me in your
bedroom when you wasn't home,
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- and we found a sawed-off shotgun
- Yeah, I remember that.
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in your dresser. Hiding underneath
your clothes in your dresser.
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And I was, like, blown away,
I'm saying, and I took it.
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I took it, and I... I...
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- That's crazy.
- ...got rid of it.
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- It wasn't there when I went...
- That gun...
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And then I start hearing
all these, uh, rumors about
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guys looking for Justin,
and shooting at him,
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and him shooting back at guys,
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and a couple of his really good
friends, good buddies...
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- Yup.
- ...got killed in that.
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That's when I decided,
you know,
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I gotta get him
out of this city.
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And I took him to the airport
one day and put him on a plane
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- and sent him to Toronto with some relatives of mine, and...
- Yup.
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He said, "I don't wanna
see you come back down here.
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I wanna see you focused,
and stay out of here."
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He said, "Focus on your music."
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I've been driving
since I was two.
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One thing about me, boy.
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You got a copy on me, Shatner?
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10-4, Johnson.
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This truck right here,
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basically saved my life.
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Kept me out the streets.
Man, it was so bad,
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I was full-time in the streets
driving this truck.
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It got so bad one day,
at one point,
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that I used to keep my gun
right here.
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Right there. Right underneath
that seat right there.
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Covered up with a newspaper.
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My dad
didn't know that, though.
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If he would have known
that I would've been dead.
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But, yeah, it was crazy, bro.
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Shit was hectic, bro.
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Getting a little rusty there, chief.
Are you having trouble backing up there,
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lock your digs in.
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I know, that's 'cause...
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I ain't a driver.
I'm a singer.
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Okay, I gotta go see Mom,
so I'll check you later.
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- Okay.
- I'll be back.
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You sure you don't wanna work
the rest of the day in the truck?
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No, no, no.
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My mom had
a big influence on me.
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Always, always believed in me
from day one.
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When others didn't,
she was always, had my back.
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My name actually
used to be Chason.
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And, um...
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Now it's Just Chase,
but she, uh...
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She always told me, like, "If you ever go and
you make it in this career, in this life,
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please run with
the name Chason
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or have it involved
in there some way."
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So, it was, like, that meant
a lot to me, too, so...
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Yeah.
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To be honest,
I'm really excited to pay her a visit.
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It's been a while
since I've been here.
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Over six months and, you know,
it's gonna be great just to visit her.
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Happy birthday, Mother.
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I miss you so much.
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I love you, and I know
you're smiling down right now.
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I feel your energy.
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Love you.
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Right now, we're at the
graveyard up in North Preston.
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I came to visit my mom
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My mom passed away in 2011.
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Every time I come
to Nova Scotia,
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I just have to come and see her and just get
that energy back and just feel recouped again.
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So, I was really close
with my mom, and, uh,
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releasing this project on her
birthday just means the world to me.
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She meant a lot to me.
I'm her only son.
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And, yeah, we were
just like best friends,
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so this is amazing to just
be releasing this on her day,
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and happy birthday to my mom.
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If we understand
where we came from,
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we'll understand
where we're at.
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Soon as we understand
where we're at,
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we're gonna understand
where we need to go.
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Where I grew up in North
Preston is a small town
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with about 4,000 people.
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It's the biggest
black community in Canada,
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and there's only one way in
and one way out.
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It's very unique because
there's no other community that I know of,
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the inhabitants have been there
for, you know, 250-plus years
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and they're all related,
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and, uh, they're all black.
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You gotta understand this
community been in existence
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since the beginning of Canada.
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We are now at
the Black Cultural Center
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where you could come learn
all the history you want,
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see the proof
in the indigenous history
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of African Nova Scotians that
migrated here from America,
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the Caribbean, the Loyalists.
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Everybody that has made this
culture the place that it is.
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Remembering
our original true story.
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The diversity that exists amongst
all the different communities
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is because of all the different migrations
that took place that brought us here,
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but we all brought different
characteristics, traits, and ancestry.
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When they think about
indigenous Scotian history,
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it's always related
to the Underground Railroad.
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The Underground Railroad is one
of the most significant migrations
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because America enslaved us
for over 400 years.
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Canada abolished slavery
30 years before America,
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so it was to the point that they
knew once they crossed that border
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they were gonna get freedom.
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The Underground Railroad provided
that with Harriet Tubman.
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She led them from the Southern states
of America all the way to the north,
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following the North Star.
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If you got to north and you
crossed over at the border,
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you came to Canada
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and then you migrated to the
black settlement of Nova Scotia.
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The Underground Railroad's
last stop was here.
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"Underground Railroad."
People think it's train tracks.
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It's just barefoot, no train.
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Walking through swamps,
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through bushes,
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perimeters of lakes,
guided by the moonlight.
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Hoping to get free because you
don't wanna get whipped no more.
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Nova Scotia are all the ones
that got away.
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Preston are all the ones
that got away.
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There's an irony
worthy of Shakespeare,
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in that, North Preston,
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it was a safe haven for Black
Loyalists escaping slavery.
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Now, the North Preston's Finest
has transformed this
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into a hub for its gang's
activities of sex trafficking,
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which is the latest form
of slavery.
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The spirit of North Preston,
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is one of victory.
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In spite of stereotypes,
in spite of racism,
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in spite of discrimination,
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in spite of history of being
neglected and rejected,
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this community has thrived.
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North Preston is one of
the best communities in the world to me.
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I love my community,
I love my people.
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You know, North Preston
gets a real bad shake.
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They wanna say that we're the worst
place in the whole wide world.
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Lot of poverty.
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Hard times.
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This is one of
these little towns that
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you gotta make it in it.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You can't really
describe this place other than
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when you hear you gotta
make it in this town.
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Lot of things go on
that shouldn't go on.
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It was different when these guys
were growing up. Dudes were just bad.
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- Now we got the fuckin' shooters.
- Yup.
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We got the people that wanna
kill you for just saying hi.
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North Preston
came a long way.
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It's a very spiritual place.
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It's a church community.
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And there's also that culture,
that dark culture.
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There's fires, like, there was
pimps, there was hookers,
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there was crack dealers, there was
fiends, there was everything here.
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This is the first time we're
getting to share our story.
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I've been on
the streets for a while now.
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That life will always be
a part of me,
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but it doesn't define me.
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That's how it goes down, man.
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- That's some North Side shit.
- That's it. That's it. That's it.
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All right, all right...
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♪ Niggas wanna know
what's real ♪
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♪ Niggas trying to test
their skill ♪
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♪ Not focus on their meals ♪
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♪ Noticed how... ♪
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♪ Had to show 'em
something real ♪
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♪ I get business on appeal ♪
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♪ Confessing how
you really feel ♪
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♪ She just doin' it
for the thrill ♪
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♪ Notice I was in the field ♪
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♪ Notice I would never steal ♪
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♪ I just set that play
in motion ♪
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♪ Now you fuck with
Nova Scotia ♪
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♪ Notice I was never home ♪
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♪ Notice that I'm not alone ♪
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♪ Now it's time to let it go ♪
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Now we're gonna make this toast to
Chase, North Preston's Finest.
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The whole gang,
everybody...
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North Preston's Finest,
to me,
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is like we always say,
it's not a gang, it's a lifestyle.
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The outside world,
they made it the gang
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that they made it be,
you know what I mean?
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North Preston's Finest are young
black men from that tiny community
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of pimps and human traffickers,
gun and drug dealers.
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They usually target young
teenage girls who are troubled,
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who come from broken families in broken
communities such as North Preston,
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and then they convert them
into prostitutes.
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These are men
who were raised in, uh,
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basically an
opportunity-starved environment.
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They turn to crime to escape
the poverty of North Preston.
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People know
of North Preston's Finest
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which gave it a very tarnished
name in the eyes of many,
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not just here, but, um,
in other parts of Canada as well.
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North Preston's Finest is an
organization that was largely set up
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to take young women out of the community
and bring them into the sex trade.
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I was trafficked by a pimp from North
Preston when I was 17 years old.
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North Preston pimps
are known for brutality,
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as well as recruitment
of very young girls.
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You often find that fathers and brothers
and uncles and grandfathers were pimps.
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North Preston pimps are known
as being one of the largest pimp gangs.
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They're very well organized.
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They have girls in strip clubs,
massage parlors, escort agencies.
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They're known to be
extremely violent.
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They're known to have
a lot of women.
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They're known
to brand their women.
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Back in my day,
street prostitution was really prevalent,
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and the North Preston pimps owned
more than half of the corners.
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There are policing
organizations in this country,
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uh, in particular,
in Quebec and Ontario,
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that have labeled it a gang.
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What gang?
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You know what I mean?
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I'm gonna say it out
like a million times, bro.
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We ain't no fuckin' gang, man.
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But...
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To the outside world,
it might look gangsterous.
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It ain't just some
friendship shit. We family.
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- Nah. Yeah...
- You get what I'm saying?
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- It's beyond friendship.
- It's family, man.
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- It's friendship, family...
- Know what I mean? It's family, man.
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And it's just...
We move as one.
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That's the part they don't get.
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So that's why when you say...
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Like, "What is this?"
Like, what is it we have here.
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Like what he just said.
He couldn't explain it.
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- We can't make this shit up, man.
- Exactly.
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- We can't make this shit up.
- It's us.
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This is our life.
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Cops, they just try to put North
Preston's Finest into a gang
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which is a brotherly tattoo
that we came up with.
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You know, my mom's
North Preston's Finest.
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My dad's
North Preston's Finest. Uh...
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My aunts and uncles,
a lot of people from here, older people...
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It's been described as
everything from a crime syndicate
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to a group of youth who
take pride in who they are
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and want to be recognized
for their community.
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Yes, there are folks that are
linked to criminal activity.
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And we know that through seeing the crackdown
on prostitution and pimping rings,
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and yes, there were individuals in Ontario
that were connected at that time as well.
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To the police, who don't
understand the culture of North Preston,
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and to the media, who doesn't care
about the culture of North Preston,
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they created an article
on North Preston's Finest
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because one individual
was found guilty of pimping,
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who had "North Preston's
Finest" tattooed on his neck.
288
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And said that
this is a gang of pimps.
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Mmm...Actually, no.
290
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The charges now
are not pimping anymore.
291
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It's human trafficking,
which is even worse.
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All of these cases that had
convictions all had one thing in common
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and that was North Preston.
294
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How can you stereotype
an entire community
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based on what your perception
of North Preston is?
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You're not gonna take our
community and just destroy it.
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You're ruining lives, you're ruining
kids' perceptions of themselves,
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their confidence,
and everything else.
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You know, you're calling the
community's name out, "North Preston."
300
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You know,
you're saying, "North Preston,"
301
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and so, when they know you're from
North Preston, you get a label.
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They put them all into one
category, North Preston's Finest.
303
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They got them up there
with the Hells Angels.
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That's a joke.
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So what does that do
with the kids?
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The kids don't wanna say
that they're from here.
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People don't wanna say they're from here.
They get ashamed.
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Because of all the negativity.
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But, see,
I am North Preston's Finest.
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That's not the whole story.
That's one side of it.
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- That's just a lie.
- But there's a whole another beautiful side to it as well.
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Know what I mean? So...
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At the end of the day,
we're all...
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♪ That's just the way it is ♪
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Like, there's people who...
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They may be going through some shit
financially, you know what I mean?
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- You're right. Yup.
- Struggling, know what I mean?
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The struggle's real.
People be struggling, and then, boom.
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But they can call that person,
their cousin, their uncle, whoever,
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- and help them out maybe one from time to time.
- Right.
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That uncle, that cousin, that brother,
whatever, maybe they're a pimp.
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Maybe they sell dope.
You know what I mean?
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Like, at the end of the day,
like real shit, like...
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If it wasn't for the pimp game,
we may not have made it this far.
325
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- Real shit. And I ain't even sayin' that.
- And that's...
326
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- I'm not saying that they're fucking...
- That's facts.
327
00:18:54,943 --> 00:18:56,478
- We may not have made it this far.
- You know what? That's facts.
328
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Real shit, bro.
It was a part of the struggle. Like...
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- That avenue of finances helped this community...
- Yeah.
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...grow, but that ain't the only
thing that helped the community grow.
331
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Just like the motherfucker that
had a construction company.
332
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I grew up around a bunch of pimps,
drug dealers, gangsters, and hoes.
333
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So, it's like, you will become
what you see every day.
334
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So that's what I became.
335
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That was the cool thing.
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Nice cars, nice clothes, nice
jewelry, nice hoes, nice money.
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And that's what it was.
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And I got into it, you know what I mean?
Like, that's just what it was.
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It's normal to us.
It's the regular life.
340
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It's a regular lifestyle. It's not
even like this... You know what I mean?
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It's normal.
Like what he just said.
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- We don't think about it like that.
- Yeah.
343
00:19:36,677 --> 00:19:38,609
It's just
a natural thing to us.
344
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Pimp watcher, yeah.
We grew up... That's...
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It's normal to everyone
that grew up here, right?
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- It's a lifestyle. Yeah.
- It's a community. A lifestyle, exactly.
347
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- We're North Preston's Finest.
- Yeah.
348
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It's a lifestyle. It's not...
It ain't... It's not a gang.
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It's a lifestyle.
That's how we live.
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Nothing wrong with that.
That's how we live.
351
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So we was always repping North
Preston, you know what I'm saying?
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Like, that's what we do.
We represent where we're from.
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We are proud people,
so we rep that.
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And, you know, they look at it
like, oh, well, you know,
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a couple one or two guys
get in a little bit of trouble,
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they got a tattoo
saying North Preston's Finest.
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Know what I mean? So then now
they start paying attention, like,
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"Oh. This group of people, we gotta call
them something." You know what I mean?
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So we're gonna call them
North Preston's Finest.
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♪ Turn on the radio ♪
361
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♪ Flick on the news ♪
362
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♪ NP Finest all day That's
what These bitches choose ♪
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♪ A lot of you snitching
Still too many real ♪
364
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♪ North Preston with me
So fuck how you feel ♪
365
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♪ Just a gel nigga comin' up ♪
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♪ In my hood ♪
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♪ Chillin' at the fire hall
Throwin' rocks at the cops ♪
368
00:20:39,144 --> 00:20:42,277
♪ In my hood ♪
369
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♪ We stay strapped
But we learn to stand by ♪
370
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♪ In my hood ♪
371
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♪ We got a dollar over here
Pimp hoes and sell rocks ♪
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♪ In my hood ♪
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So now they took that and
made it like, "Oh, this is a gang."
374
00:21:03,443 --> 00:21:06,510
You know what I'm saying? So now they
take what they believe to be a gang,
375
00:21:06,542 --> 00:21:10,410
what we believe to be a lifestyle,
a culture, who we are as people,
376
00:21:10,442 --> 00:21:14,277
and they take it and they run
it and they call it a gang.
377
00:21:14,311 --> 00:21:20,610
North Preston's Finest is a group of
young guys, they hung out because of music.
378
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If some of the people that
associated or identified themselves
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as North Preston's Finest
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became involved in criminality and,
you know, moved outside of the area.
381
00:21:32,709 --> 00:21:35,476
People within
different jurisdictions
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classified them
as North Preston's Finest.
383
00:21:38,476 --> 00:21:40,543
I'm forever gonna be
North Preston's Finest,
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no matter what I do,
no matter my walk of life,
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00:21:42,709 --> 00:21:44,043
because that's who I am
as a person.
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00:21:44,077 --> 00:21:48,044
I ain't no gang member.
I'm just a human being like anybody else,
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00:21:48,076 --> 00:21:49,342
but I represent
where I'm from,
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00:21:49,375 --> 00:21:51,010
and I believe in that.
389
00:22:03,176 --> 00:22:05,543
This place is one of those cities...
390
00:22:07,642 --> 00:22:11,574
It's not the Bronx,
it's not New York, it's not Boston.
391
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It's North Preston.
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It's a jungle
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where everything goes.
394
00:22:17,642 --> 00:22:20,277
I'm normally one of the guys
that gets drunk on the scene,
395
00:22:20,310 --> 00:22:22,344
and fucks a scene up,
right?
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00:22:24,210 --> 00:22:26,410
I'm your friend, I'm your...
I'm the devil.
397
00:22:26,442 --> 00:22:28,910
All these young niggas out here
gonna achieve something today.
398
00:22:30,143 --> 00:22:32,210
It's just,
when are they gonna achieve it.
399
00:22:32,243 --> 00:22:36,343
Is it gonna be... When the violence
gets out of control too much,
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00:22:36,375 --> 00:22:38,910
where we can't stand
one another,
401
00:22:38,944 --> 00:22:42,577
or is it gonna get in control where
we can communicate with one another,
402
00:22:42,609 --> 00:22:47,409
and build something great other
than a city of hatred and jealousy,
403
00:22:47,442 --> 00:22:51,110
and all of that stuff
don't make no sense to me.
404
00:22:51,144 --> 00:22:53,442
Lot of young cats out here
need to survive
405
00:22:53,476 --> 00:22:54,911
instead of going under.
406
00:22:55,610 --> 00:22:57,011
I'm the worst one,
407
00:22:57,044 --> 00:23:00,476
the last one, and probably the only
one that gonna tell you this...
408
00:23:02,676 --> 00:23:05,543
Things gotta change,
or thing's gonna get worse.
409
00:23:24,110 --> 00:23:27,944
So, we just located a
vehicle that was recovered stolen.
410
00:23:27,976 --> 00:23:30,144
And my opinion would be,
it was targeted,
411
00:23:30,176 --> 00:23:33,477
'cause there's some vandalism on there,
like, some statements on the vehicle.
412
00:23:33,509 --> 00:23:37,476
When people spray-paint stuff,
or they key vehicles,
413
00:23:37,510 --> 00:23:41,878
uh, and steal them,
that's not normally a joyride.
414
00:23:52,642 --> 00:23:58,211
There was, uh, a statement on the
vehicle that was racially motivated,
415
00:23:58,242 --> 00:24:01,978
and that lets you know
that racism still does exist.
416
00:24:25,542 --> 00:24:26,577
Racism is real.
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00:24:27,376 --> 00:24:28,542
All day.
418
00:24:28,576 --> 00:24:31,010
Bigotry and prejudice
419
00:24:31,044 --> 00:24:35,443
and stereotyping and
generalization is still very real.
420
00:24:35,475 --> 00:24:38,510
And, unfortunately,
it's part of the DNA of North America.
421
00:24:38,542 --> 00:24:44,976
Oh, yes, racial profiling is very
much alive and well in North Preston.
422
00:24:45,010 --> 00:24:49,243
It wouldn't be logical of us to think that
racial profiling has completely gone away.
423
00:24:49,276 --> 00:24:51,477
I have experienced
racial profiling quite a bit.
424
00:24:51,509 --> 00:24:54,143
You know, a lot of cops, they
target blacks, you know what I mean,
425
00:24:54,176 --> 00:24:56,542
just try to pull them over
for no reason.
426
00:24:56,576 --> 00:25:01,011
I think racial profiling is the worst
ever right now. It's ridiculous.
427
00:25:01,044 --> 00:25:03,011
I can be in a car
with a young gentleman,
428
00:25:03,044 --> 00:25:06,376
you can just sense
you're guilty for nothing.
429
00:25:06,409 --> 00:25:10,609
Today, a lot of the challenges go back
centuries, I would say, certainly decades,
430
00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:14,076
which is that the community has
been the victim of systemic racism
431
00:25:14,110 --> 00:25:16,011
throughout its history.
432
00:25:16,043 --> 00:25:18,077
We had the famous case
a while back,
433
00:25:18,109 --> 00:25:23,542
of Kirk Johnson, who's a boxer,
who was picked up for driving while black.
434
00:25:25,175 --> 00:25:27,676
...entering the ring
wearing black trunks with white trim,
435
00:25:27,710 --> 00:25:33,976
hailing from North Preston,
Nova Scotia, in Canada.
436
00:25:34,010 --> 00:25:39,142
Kirk Johnson is the
number-one-rated WBA heavyweight contender,
437
00:25:39,176 --> 00:25:44,110
and he is the mandatory defense
for the champion John Ruiz.
438
00:25:44,143 --> 00:25:47,944
Kirk Johnson's gonna be the next
Larry Holmes in the sense that
439
00:25:47,977 --> 00:25:50,610
he's the guy who could win the
title and hold it for many years.
440
00:25:50,642 --> 00:25:55,443
I'd like to bring him up now,
the WBA mandatory heavyweight challenger
441
00:25:55,475 --> 00:25:57,509
Kirk Johnson from Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
442
00:26:00,509 --> 00:26:01,910
Sorry. I'm sorry.
443
00:26:01,944 --> 00:26:04,110
From North Preston,
Nova Scotia.
444
00:26:16,044 --> 00:26:18,443
Kirk Johnson was,
you know, a hometown hero, man.
445
00:26:18,476 --> 00:26:21,076
When I was, like, maybe eight,
nine years old, man,
446
00:26:21,109 --> 00:26:23,943
like I could turn on the
television and watch Kirk Johnson
447
00:26:23,976 --> 00:26:27,043
battling for world titles,
knocking people out.
448
00:26:27,075 --> 00:26:30,342
He was somebody that we had
an opportunity to look up to.
449
00:26:30,376 --> 00:26:33,309
I won my first Canadian title
at the age of 14.
450
00:26:33,343 --> 00:26:36,911
I won, like,
six Canadian titles in a row.
451
00:26:36,943 --> 00:26:39,342
Then I won a world title
at the amateurs also.
452
00:26:39,376 --> 00:26:42,477
You know, the first Canadian
to do it fighting.
453
00:26:42,510 --> 00:26:43,544
Lennox Lewis, he did it,
454
00:26:43,577 --> 00:26:46,176
but the Cuban fell on the steps
and hurt his back.
455
00:26:46,209 --> 00:26:49,677
But I literally did it, you
know, fighting all the fights.
456
00:26:49,709 --> 00:26:52,075
And right there and then
I said, "You know what, shoot.
457
00:26:52,108 --> 00:26:54,676
Lewis got a world title
as an amateur
458
00:26:54,710 --> 00:26:55,876
and I got a world title
like Lewis,
459
00:26:55,910 --> 00:26:58,510
so I'm gonna be world champ
like Lewis is world champ."
460
00:26:58,543 --> 00:26:59,976
That's when it came to me.
461
00:27:00,010 --> 00:27:02,277
I said, "You know what?
I can really do something in this world."
462
00:27:02,309 --> 00:27:04,611
I was big on just thinking that
I could conquer the world.
463
00:27:06,410 --> 00:27:09,676
My professional record
is 37 wins,
464
00:27:09,709 --> 00:27:13,376
one draw, one no-contest,
and two losses.
465
00:27:13,410 --> 00:27:16,077
Twenty-seven knock-outs I have.
466
00:27:30,076 --> 00:27:33,977
What made me wanna step up when
it came to the racial profiling
467
00:27:34,008 --> 00:27:36,243
and wanna combat it, was...
468
00:27:36,275 --> 00:27:38,042
It happened to me
too many times.
469
00:27:38,076 --> 00:27:40,943
When I brought my car home,
it was only a Mustang,
470
00:27:40,976 --> 00:27:46,009
but when I brought it home,
within three weeks, I got stopped 29 times.
471
00:27:46,043 --> 00:27:48,143
And that's 29 times
with me counting.
472
00:27:48,176 --> 00:27:51,509
And then when this man,
badge number 454,
473
00:27:51,542 --> 00:27:55,509
racist cop stopped me,
and had me there for two and a half hours,
474
00:27:55,543 --> 00:27:57,443
and wouldn't accept
my insurance,
475
00:27:57,475 --> 00:27:59,109
he wouldn't accept
my registration.
476
00:27:59,143 --> 00:28:01,410
I told him I'm coming home
to see my mother and father,
477
00:28:01,442 --> 00:28:04,142
and then he took my car
to try to humiliate me
478
00:28:04,176 --> 00:28:07,542
and I just told him, "I'm gonna get you.
I'll see you in court."
479
00:28:07,576 --> 00:28:10,577
He was a man
who was racist towards me,
480
00:28:10,609 --> 00:28:12,142
he didn't have no reason
to stop me,
481
00:28:12,175 --> 00:28:16,376
and put something on me, then you
have people start trying to judge me.
482
00:28:16,409 --> 00:28:18,910
And I just realized that
483
00:28:18,944 --> 00:28:23,209
you do have people who just hate
you for the color of your skin.
484
00:28:27,376 --> 00:28:30,677
I accept the finding that Mr. Johnson
was discriminated against,
485
00:28:30,710 --> 00:28:34,043
and recognize that this has been
a very humiliating, stressful,
486
00:28:34,075 --> 00:28:35,677
and painful experience
for him and his family...
487
00:28:35,709 --> 00:28:36,876
When it comes
to people's human rights,
488
00:28:36,909 --> 00:28:40,210
if you violate that, that's a
right, and that's hatred,
489
00:28:40,242 --> 00:28:42,242
and we've been
going through that there
490
00:28:42,276 --> 00:28:46,409
for 450 years of slavery or what-have-you,
and we don't wanna go back to that.
491
00:28:46,443 --> 00:28:48,942
As far as you
see, the racial profiling,
492
00:28:48,976 --> 00:28:50,377
Kirk probably experienced it
493
00:28:50,410 --> 00:28:52,943
because they didn't want no black
man rolling around with nice cars
494
00:28:52,976 --> 00:28:53,810
and having millions of dollars.
495
00:28:53,843 --> 00:28:55,342
I've seen it myself,
like, if you...
496
00:28:55,377 --> 00:28:59,410
If the police see someone who has
something nice, or driving a nice car,
497
00:28:59,442 --> 00:29:04,009
I used to have a Saleen Mustang, it
was, like, a really nice flashy car,
498
00:29:04,042 --> 00:29:07,109
and that was the most I ever
been pulled over in my life.
499
00:29:10,008 --> 00:29:11,442
You know,
I speak to so many kids.
500
00:29:11,476 --> 00:29:14,577
Some of them say they get stopped
all the time for no reason at all.
501
00:29:14,609 --> 00:29:17,309
They said, "Well, the police
say you fit the description."
502
00:29:17,343 --> 00:29:21,310
And I can't lie, I will stop that way
before somebody stops me and says,
503
00:29:21,342 --> 00:29:23,110
"Oh, well,
you fit the description."
504
00:29:23,142 --> 00:29:24,476
I said, "Description of what?"
505
00:29:24,510 --> 00:29:26,110
"Somebody who robbed a bank."
506
00:29:26,143 --> 00:29:27,976
I said, "Okay.
507
00:29:28,008 --> 00:29:31,043
Well, I got, like,
$2 million after taxes in my bank account,
508
00:29:31,075 --> 00:29:33,409
"so who do
I need to rob, right?"
509
00:29:33,443 --> 00:29:36,976
Kirk got stopped a lot of times.
I got stopped a lot of times.
510
00:29:37,009 --> 00:29:38,610
Law-abiding citizen all my life
511
00:29:38,643 --> 00:29:42,377
but the amount of times
that I've got stopped
512
00:29:42,409 --> 00:29:45,242
it was crazy and ridiculous,
like, unreal.
513
00:29:45,276 --> 00:29:49,010
Like, it made me feel like, you
know, they don't want me here.
514
00:29:51,208 --> 00:29:53,975
Racial profiling,
police accountability,
515
00:29:54,009 --> 00:29:59,909
there's still a giant gap between
community and police relations.
516
00:29:59,942 --> 00:30:06,409
Um, we still have to speak against
issues, uh, like excessive use of force.
517
00:30:06,442 --> 00:30:09,643
A justice system that has not
been fair to people of color.
518
00:30:09,677 --> 00:30:12,176
If we look at it
across the country,
519
00:30:12,208 --> 00:30:15,342
it's magnified
in North Preston.
520
00:30:15,375 --> 00:30:18,309
When you look back
at the Halifax Race Riots,
521
00:30:18,343 --> 00:30:20,943
a little bit over 20 years ago,
522
00:30:20,975 --> 00:30:25,277
where black people had to
go to the streets to protest
523
00:30:25,309 --> 00:30:29,942
because they were being denied
access to public facilities.
524
00:30:30,543 --> 00:30:32,542
That was in 1992.
525
00:30:32,576 --> 00:30:35,610
Not 1952, not 1962.
526
00:30:35,643 --> 00:30:36,777
'92.
527
00:30:36,809 --> 00:30:40,175
The city of Halifax is reeling
from a wild street riot
528
00:30:40,208 --> 00:30:42,142
in a downtown neighborhood
last night.
529
00:30:42,175 --> 00:30:46,477
A riot touched off by growing racial
tension between blacks and whites.
530
00:30:46,509 --> 00:30:50,042
Fifteen people were injured in the
melee, eight people were arrested.
531
00:30:51,342 --> 00:30:53,209
What the fuck, man?
Get the camera off...
532
00:30:53,242 --> 00:30:57,175
We have an over-representation
of African Nova Scotians
533
00:30:57,208 --> 00:30:59,677
that are picked up by police.
534
00:30:59,709 --> 00:31:04,076
And also an over-representation in the
court system of African Nova Scotians,
535
00:31:04,108 --> 00:31:05,910
which I'm hoping changes.
536
00:31:05,942 --> 00:31:09,476
Prejudice and racism
and racial profiling,
537
00:31:09,510 --> 00:31:12,577
they did it all
to our generation.
538
00:31:22,042 --> 00:31:26,042
Right now, we up at
my Uncle Texas' place.
539
00:31:26,075 --> 00:31:29,342
As you can see,
he has a junkyard all over here,
540
00:31:29,376 --> 00:31:30,710
when I used to be
running around,
541
00:31:30,742 --> 00:31:33,509
taking all the parts and stuff
off the cars when I was younger.
542
00:31:36,142 --> 00:31:37,376
This is where it all started.
543
00:31:37,409 --> 00:31:40,042
I used to come up here.
This was my getaway.
544
00:31:40,076 --> 00:31:42,877
Come up and learn
how to play the bass, guitar,
545
00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:44,243
everything.
546
00:31:52,043 --> 00:31:53,577
- Where we at, T?
- What's this?
547
00:31:54,343 --> 00:31:56,110
Where we at?
548
00:31:56,142 --> 00:31:57,975
Huh?
549
00:31:58,009 --> 00:32:00,010
What's up? What's up?
550
00:32:00,042 --> 00:32:03,242
♪ Making lots of money
'cause you're dancing side to side ♪
551
00:32:03,276 --> 00:32:06,975
♪ Girl is hot, hot
Too hot, girl ♪
552
00:32:07,009 --> 00:32:08,110
That's what
we started on, right.
553
00:32:08,143 --> 00:32:09,277
Yeah. All right.
554
00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:12,277
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
555
00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:25,209
Yeah.
556
00:32:27,576 --> 00:32:28,309
No.
557
00:32:30,609 --> 00:32:31,976
Yeah, I was always
just singing.
558
00:32:33,176 --> 00:32:34,444
And he would play
the wrong notes.
559
00:32:41,175 --> 00:32:43,142
♪ Lord, they say
They're fooling you ♪
560
00:32:43,176 --> 00:32:44,310
Exactly.
561
00:32:44,342 --> 00:32:46,276
♪ By coming to church
On Sunday ♪
562
00:32:47,510 --> 00:32:49,976
♪ Laying hands on folks ♪
563
00:32:50,008 --> 00:32:53,943
♪ Stomping and jumping around
Thanking the Holy Ghost ♪
564
00:32:53,975 --> 00:32:55,577
Yeah, that's what...
That's one of the songs we used to do.
565
00:33:09,043 --> 00:33:10,077
Yeah.
566
00:33:17,108 --> 00:33:20,142
This is where, like,
I learned how to play the bass,
567
00:33:20,176 --> 00:33:22,610
the guitar, and the drums
back there, like...
568
00:33:22,642 --> 00:33:25,109
Uncle Texas
taught me everything.
569
00:33:25,143 --> 00:33:29,543
Justin was a cool guy, funny, comical,
liked to crack a bunch of jokes.
570
00:33:29,575 --> 00:33:31,209
He always loved singing.
571
00:33:31,243 --> 00:33:32,610
Singing was his passion.
572
00:33:32,642 --> 00:33:34,243
Me and Chase,
we knew each other our whole life.
573
00:33:34,276 --> 00:33:38,342
He had a talent for singing. He had a
passion for singing. That was his dream.
574
00:33:38,375 --> 00:33:40,942
I'd been very supportive of
Chason getting out of the streets.
575
00:33:40,976 --> 00:33:44,310
I used to tell him myself, "Go sing, man.
Go do something better with your life.
576
00:33:44,342 --> 00:33:48,476
"Get up out of here, 'cause you got a
real voice that can carry you a long way."
577
00:33:48,509 --> 00:33:52,310
He was such a rebellious
little bad-ass,
578
00:33:52,342 --> 00:33:57,576
that our parents purposely put us
in different schools growing up,
579
00:33:57,609 --> 00:34:00,376
because they didn't want me to
end up following down his path
580
00:34:00,409 --> 00:34:02,510
'cause he's always been a problem
child, right from day one.
581
00:34:02,542 --> 00:34:04,542
Just always trying to
find a way to get in trouble.
582
00:34:04,575 --> 00:34:07,542
Then he eventually
found his way around guns,
583
00:34:07,576 --> 00:34:09,342
he kind of got obsessed
with guns.
584
00:34:09,376 --> 00:34:13,310
It wasn't shortly after
that I started seeing him
585
00:34:13,343 --> 00:34:16,942
carrying guns, and bragging
about having beef with people,
586
00:34:16,975 --> 00:34:20,075
and saying what he's gonna do
when he sees his enemies.
587
00:34:20,108 --> 00:34:23,909
He was going down
a path of destruction, really.
588
00:34:23,943 --> 00:34:27,277
Like, he was either gonna
end up dead or in jail, then...
589
00:34:27,309 --> 00:34:30,075
When he was in that life,
I was very worried about him.
590
00:34:30,109 --> 00:34:32,910
I'm seeing both sides.
I'm seeing my parents
591
00:34:32,943 --> 00:34:35,176
stressing out to the max,
worrying,
592
00:34:35,209 --> 00:34:38,543
and I remember them telling me when they
get a phone call at the middle of the night
593
00:34:38,574 --> 00:34:42,675
that something happened
to Justin, or some bad news.
594
00:34:42,708 --> 00:34:47,209
I wasn't the type of dude to be just,
"Oh, yeah, I got a gun. Look at me.
595
00:34:47,242 --> 00:34:49,009
I'm a fucking gangster..."
Nah, it wasn't like that.
596
00:34:49,043 --> 00:34:53,142
It was about, "No, I need to protect my life,"
because some shit was going on at the time.
597
00:34:53,176 --> 00:34:55,575
"You think you wanna kill me?
Nah, I'm gonna protect myself."
598
00:34:55,608 --> 00:34:57,310
I had to stay strapped up.
599
00:34:57,343 --> 00:34:59,910
It was either my life
or their life.
600
00:34:59,943 --> 00:35:02,176
His music career
was slowly starting to pick up.
601
00:35:02,209 --> 00:35:04,042
People take different paths
in life.
602
00:35:04,075 --> 00:35:05,409
Chase stuck with the music.
603
00:35:05,443 --> 00:35:07,110
It opened up doors for him.
604
00:35:07,142 --> 00:35:09,075
I obviously chose
the wrong path.
605
00:35:09,108 --> 00:35:11,541
Probably could've been
in the same situation as him.
606
00:35:11,574 --> 00:35:13,010
I chose the streets.
607
00:35:13,042 --> 00:35:15,575
I started off on the streets
selling dope.
608
00:35:15,608 --> 00:35:17,942
And carrying guns.
609
00:35:17,976 --> 00:35:20,376
When the dope sales
started getting slow,
610
00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:22,176
I started robbing people.
611
00:35:22,209 --> 00:35:25,510
So that's what I went to jail for.
Robbery. Armed robbery.
612
00:35:25,542 --> 00:35:28,509
My sentence was seven years.
613
00:35:28,541 --> 00:35:31,175
Randall's a great cat, man.
A talented guy, man.
614
00:35:31,209 --> 00:35:33,243
But, like,
some shit happens sometimes.
615
00:35:33,276 --> 00:35:35,477
Like, everything always
don't go right.
616
00:35:35,509 --> 00:35:36,975
Sometimes it goes left.
617
00:35:37,009 --> 00:35:38,609
I went right, and he went left.
618
00:35:38,641 --> 00:35:40,975
He had to go away for a bit,
so, it was just like...
619
00:35:41,009 --> 00:35:43,175
That's just how it happens
sometimes in North Preston, man.
620
00:35:43,208 --> 00:35:46,642
♪ Late night hear my line
in your phone too ♪
621
00:35:46,675 --> 00:35:49,909
♪ Ain't nobody know you
Like I know you ♪
622
00:35:49,942 --> 00:35:52,942
When Chase sings,
goosebumps.
623
00:35:52,975 --> 00:35:54,376
A lot of people could sing,
624
00:35:56,309 --> 00:35:59,042
but can they give you
that same goosebumps?
625
00:36:01,476 --> 00:36:04,542
♪ You missing all the things
We used to do ♪
626
00:36:04,575 --> 00:36:07,976
♪ Got anything You would
have made it through ♪
627
00:36:08,009 --> 00:36:10,277
♪ Anything you wanted
I gave to you ♪
628
00:36:10,309 --> 00:36:12,942
What he has
is something that's needed,
629
00:36:12,975 --> 00:36:15,475
that gives music life.
630
00:36:15,508 --> 00:36:20,476
I grew up going to these
churches, that when they'd sing,
631
00:36:20,509 --> 00:36:22,243
you would feel
that Holy Spirit.
632
00:36:22,276 --> 00:36:26,442
When Chase sings,
it's like the Holy Spirit's inside of him.
633
00:36:26,475 --> 00:36:29,943
♪ And you did it to me, baby ♪
634
00:36:29,976 --> 00:36:33,143
Growing up here was rough, really
rough, but you become used to it.
635
00:36:33,176 --> 00:36:35,277
It's like the normal, normal
day-to-day for us.
636
00:36:35,310 --> 00:36:37,575
I was caught up in the street
life, you know what I mean,
637
00:36:37,609 --> 00:36:39,509
for a long time,
and it's just like,
638
00:36:39,542 --> 00:36:41,277
when my friend got killed
in front of me,
639
00:36:41,309 --> 00:36:44,109
that was my time.
That's what just triggered my head.
640
00:36:44,143 --> 00:36:46,676
Just right there, it was like,
"Okay, that's enough for me,"
641
00:36:46,709 --> 00:36:49,509
and I'm not trying to end up in
jail for the rest of my life.
642
00:36:53,076 --> 00:36:56,176
Little Nathan was like
a best friend of mine.
643
00:36:56,209 --> 00:36:58,010
A little brother, great guy.
644
00:36:58,042 --> 00:36:59,910
We would do everything
together, you know?
645
00:36:59,942 --> 00:37:01,142
We did a lot of
street shit together.
646
00:37:01,175 --> 00:37:02,942
Fuck the street shit.
Put that shit aside.
647
00:37:02,976 --> 00:37:05,010
Like, Little Nathan
was a great person.
648
00:37:05,042 --> 00:37:07,010
This is where we all
posted up there, man.
649
00:37:08,108 --> 00:37:09,176
We were all over here...
650
00:37:10,475 --> 00:37:13,110
When the day my...
My buddy got killed,
651
00:37:13,143 --> 00:37:15,442
right in front of me,
right in front of all of us, actually,
652
00:37:15,475 --> 00:37:17,143
we were just
posted up right here.
653
00:37:18,176 --> 00:37:20,043
Little Nathan right here.
654
00:37:20,076 --> 00:37:23,343
God rest his soul.
All the rest of my boys right here.
655
00:37:23,376 --> 00:37:25,176
Next thing you know,
just, pop, pop!
656
00:37:25,209 --> 00:37:26,509
Pow! Pow!
657
00:37:26,542 --> 00:37:29,910
And, you know, we all just
fucking scattered, scattered away.
658
00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:32,609
Little Nathan
went running up this way,
659
00:37:32,641 --> 00:37:36,042
and he just fucking collapsed right
out there on Aunt Lala's lawn.
660
00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:38,309
Time we seen him,
time we get out there,
661
00:37:38,343 --> 00:37:42,009
just his whole neck was just
fucking blown open. Just...
662
00:37:42,042 --> 00:37:44,376
Crazy, man. It just really
messed with my head.
663
00:37:44,408 --> 00:37:45,476
It fucked me up a bit, man.
664
00:37:48,408 --> 00:37:50,675
Er, no.
665
00:37:50,708 --> 00:37:53,109
Yeah, we never worry
about seeing them no more, but...
666
00:37:53,143 --> 00:37:55,110
Yeah, God rest his soul, man.
667
00:37:55,143 --> 00:37:58,476
He was like my best friend, and, um,
that really took an effect on me.
668
00:37:58,508 --> 00:38:00,476
And I just took it from there,
669
00:38:00,508 --> 00:38:03,042
and just decided
I'm done with the street life.
670
00:38:03,075 --> 00:38:06,076
You know, I'm gonna go
pursue my music 100%.
671
00:38:06,108 --> 00:38:08,309
Sold the three straps
that I did have,
672
00:38:08,342 --> 00:38:10,343
and, you know, hey,
here I am, man.
673
00:38:12,409 --> 00:38:13,910
I had a friend,
Little Nathan,
674
00:38:13,943 --> 00:38:17,309
after he got killed, Chase, he was
like, um, "Man, I gotta do something."
675
00:38:17,342 --> 00:38:18,976
I'm like,
"Man, go chase your dream.
676
00:38:19,008 --> 00:38:20,474
Just, when you get it,
come back to the hood,
677
00:38:20,508 --> 00:38:23,442
and everybody will appreciate you,
you know." And that's what he'd done.
678
00:38:27,374 --> 00:38:30,509
Why should my best friend
die in front of me like that?
679
00:38:31,310 --> 00:38:32,310
Just, like...
680
00:38:33,175 --> 00:38:34,409
Yeah.
681
00:38:34,442 --> 00:38:37,010
Just, like, really fucking...
682
00:38:37,043 --> 00:38:39,576
That was it for me.
Like, just seeing that...
683
00:38:39,609 --> 00:38:41,909
That really...
Yeah, that really...
684
00:38:43,276 --> 00:38:45,143
Took a piece out of me.
685
00:38:45,176 --> 00:38:47,376
I just decided
that I wanted to just
686
00:38:47,409 --> 00:38:49,443
focus on my career,
and that was it for me.
687
00:39:05,441 --> 00:39:08,110
Look, the culture
is very violent.
688
00:39:08,142 --> 00:39:09,508
When the guns
get in the wrong hands,
689
00:39:09,541 --> 00:39:11,975
and you start
playing around with them,
690
00:39:12,008 --> 00:39:13,975
and once they get that gun
in their hand,
691
00:39:14,008 --> 00:39:16,075
that devil comes in,
692
00:39:16,109 --> 00:39:19,110
and then next thing you know,
you're trying to kill your own people.
693
00:39:19,142 --> 00:39:23,541
You see how they change
694
00:39:23,574 --> 00:39:27,209
to literally want to kill
their own flesh and blood.
695
00:39:27,243 --> 00:39:29,975
It's mind-boggling to me.
696
00:39:30,008 --> 00:39:32,042
There's always been
guns in this community.
697
00:39:32,075 --> 00:39:34,642
From other generations
right up to my generation.
698
00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:37,242
It's gonna always be like that.
699
00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:39,210
It's just a regular,
normal life. It doesn't...
700
00:39:39,242 --> 00:39:40,441
It's nothing...
I don't think...
701
00:39:40,475 --> 00:39:42,508
nothing of it. It's just like
a regular life. It's just...
702
00:39:42,542 --> 00:39:45,309
Like I said, you become used to
it, become immune to it.
703
00:39:45,342 --> 00:39:47,542
Gun violence has definitely
gotten worse down here.
704
00:39:47,575 --> 00:39:49,143
Basically,
you protecting your life,
705
00:39:49,176 --> 00:39:52,675
because if it's not you,
then it's gonna be you.
706
00:39:52,708 --> 00:39:56,575
Once we start losing people, and,
you know, they dying from gun violence,
707
00:39:56,608 --> 00:39:59,441
and that means like I gotta
protect myself down here.
708
00:39:59,474 --> 00:40:02,276
It's just what it is
in North Preston.
709
00:40:02,308 --> 00:40:05,009
I have three brothers.
Two of them are incarcerated.
710
00:40:05,042 --> 00:40:08,042
I have two cousins that's
incarcerated right now as well.
711
00:40:08,075 --> 00:40:10,142
One's doing 12 years.
712
00:40:10,176 --> 00:40:12,276
One's doing 9-14.
713
00:40:12,309 --> 00:40:15,209
And my brother Wade's
on his 20th year.
714
00:40:15,241 --> 00:40:17,475
Incarcerated right now.
They're all for murder.
715
00:40:19,474 --> 00:40:23,275
So when you add the guns to North
Preston, man, it's a rap. It was a rap.
716
00:40:23,309 --> 00:40:25,376
It was over, because now,
717
00:40:25,408 --> 00:40:27,242
everybody gotta
defend themself.
718
00:40:27,274 --> 00:40:30,010
I'm trying to live,
so if you try and take my life,
719
00:40:30,042 --> 00:40:32,575
what I'mma do? I'mma die?
No, I ain't gonna die.
720
00:40:32,608 --> 00:40:35,043
I'mma try to kill you
before you kill me.
721
00:40:35,075 --> 00:40:37,475
Once the cancer spread, man,
it was a rap.
722
00:40:37,509 --> 00:40:40,076
You know what I mean? This community
wasn't built for gun violence.
723
00:40:40,108 --> 00:40:43,309
It's too small.
We're too connected.
724
00:40:43,342 --> 00:40:45,608
Right now, we're up on the
block itself, you know what I mean?
725
00:40:45,642 --> 00:40:48,109
- Sub-division.
- Sub-division, right. So, you know...
726
00:40:48,142 --> 00:40:51,175
If things get crazy out there, man,
we done did it all up here, man.
727
00:40:51,207 --> 00:40:53,642
- Yeah.
- Like you know what I mean? "RIP," as you can see,
728
00:40:53,676 --> 00:40:56,441
to my man's dead Rico.
Cruise, little brother.
729
00:40:56,475 --> 00:40:58,010
Good friend of mine, man.
730
00:40:58,043 --> 00:40:59,441
Shit just gets crazy up here.
731
00:40:59,474 --> 00:41:01,608
At day time, nighttime,
any time of the day,
732
00:41:01,642 --> 00:41:04,309
it could just pop off
in broad daylight.
733
00:41:04,342 --> 00:41:07,241
I was about 16 when I first got my own...
My first strap, man.
734
00:41:07,274 --> 00:41:10,275
- Yeah.
- Strapped up to the nines, big .40-cal Springfield.
735
00:41:10,309 --> 00:41:11,542
Seventeen, one in the head.
736
00:41:11,574 --> 00:41:13,442
That's 18,
I used to jam it that way.
737
00:41:13,475 --> 00:41:14,809
- Yeah.
- That's how bad it was out here.
738
00:41:14,841 --> 00:41:17,909
It used to be so heavy on my hip,
it used to put a mark on my hip.
739
00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:20,408
Because I used to be standing
so long out here with it on.
740
00:41:20,442 --> 00:41:22,442
- Yeah.
- You know, once the shit started to pop,
741
00:41:22,475 --> 00:41:26,075
it was kind of like, either you're
gonna be in the house and hide,
742
00:41:26,109 --> 00:41:27,509
or you're gonna be a man.
743
00:41:28,509 --> 00:41:29,975
If you ain't got it with you,
you know...
744
00:41:30,009 --> 00:41:33,110
Put it like this. You could get that
smoke if you never had it with you.
745
00:41:33,142 --> 00:41:34,909
- Uh-huh.
- At any time. Trust me.
746
00:41:34,943 --> 00:41:37,208
Me, personally,
it was that bad at a time
747
00:41:37,242 --> 00:41:38,576
that I wouldn't leave
the house without it.
748
00:41:38,609 --> 00:41:40,175
- No.
- Like, I said, I wouldn't... I was...
749
00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:41,508
I was driving a truck
at the point.
750
00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:42,708
- Yeah.
- Working for my dad.
751
00:41:42,741 --> 00:41:45,109
And I would drive with that in
there, in a dump truck.
752
00:41:45,143 --> 00:41:46,276
- I remember that.
- Yeah.
753
00:41:46,309 --> 00:41:48,142
It's like,
it came to that point.
754
00:41:48,175 --> 00:41:49,576
- It's like, I wouldn't go nowhere without it.
- No.
755
00:41:49,609 --> 00:41:52,209
- I had to have it on me at all times.
- Yeah.
756
00:41:52,242 --> 00:41:54,341
When your life's on the
line, you gotta have it with you.
757
00:41:54,374 --> 00:41:55,308
- Yeah.
- Exactly.
758
00:41:59,076 --> 00:42:02,175
When you have a killing within
your community,
759
00:42:02,208 --> 00:42:04,576
so, it's further than
black-on-black crime,
760
00:42:04,608 --> 00:42:06,109
it's family against
family crime.
761
00:42:27,308 --> 00:42:29,075
I think
they've been acknowledged,
762
00:42:29,107 --> 00:42:30,441
and perhaps,
acknowledged too much,
763
00:42:30,474 --> 00:42:32,909
what some of
the crime problems are.
764
00:42:32,943 --> 00:42:36,276
The kind of problems you have when you
just basically leave a community alone
765
00:42:36,308 --> 00:42:38,942
and have it cut off
from all of the amenities
766
00:42:38,975 --> 00:42:41,308
that the rest
of a community have.
767
00:42:41,341 --> 00:42:45,542
Poverty is pushing
our children into lives of crime.
768
00:42:45,575 --> 00:42:48,342
Most of the crimes committed
by young black men and women
769
00:42:48,374 --> 00:42:49,542
are crimes of economics.
770
00:42:50,642 --> 00:42:52,342
Now, don't get me wrong,
771
00:42:52,374 --> 00:42:55,408
are we committing violent
crimes against each other? Yes.
772
00:42:55,441 --> 00:42:58,909
We've gotten so angry,
we have devalued ourselves.
773
00:42:58,942 --> 00:43:00,975
Because others
have devalued us.
774
00:43:01,009 --> 00:43:02,142
So we're drinking the Kool-Aid.
775
00:43:03,142 --> 00:43:04,608
We gotta take
responsibility, too,
776
00:43:04,641 --> 00:43:06,675
because, at the end of the day,
777
00:43:06,708 --> 00:43:09,275
if I don't take responsibility
for my actions,
778
00:43:09,308 --> 00:43:10,675
how can I change them?
779
00:43:10,709 --> 00:43:11,809
You know what I mean?
And these kids...
780
00:43:11,842 --> 00:43:13,141
Like, I look at these kids,
they look up to me.
781
00:43:13,175 --> 00:43:16,010
But if I'm over here, running
around, shooting up the town,
782
00:43:16,043 --> 00:43:17,508
that ain't gonna work,
you know what I mean?
783
00:43:17,541 --> 00:43:20,275
These kids are gonna look at me
and they're gonna run back
784
00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:21,709
and they're gonna try
to emulate what I'm doing.
785
00:43:21,743 --> 00:43:24,676
So, at the end of the day,
I gotta take responsibility for my actions
786
00:43:24,708 --> 00:43:27,442
if I'm gonna take responsibility
for that kid's future.
787
00:43:37,075 --> 00:43:38,676
There's always
been an inherent mistrust
788
00:43:38,708 --> 00:43:41,910
between the black man and the police
since we first came to the country.
789
00:43:41,943 --> 00:43:44,976
But in Preston, yeah,
there was a long history of mistrust.
790
00:43:45,008 --> 00:43:47,942
It took a long time to break
down some of the barriers to...
791
00:43:47,976 --> 00:43:49,142
To get us where we are today.
792
00:43:49,174 --> 00:43:52,108
There were rock throwings,
there were shots at cars,
793
00:43:52,142 --> 00:43:53,943
there were windows
knocked out of police cars,
794
00:43:53,976 --> 00:43:55,709
police cars
surrounded by people.
795
00:43:55,742 --> 00:43:58,609
I can vividly remember one of the Chronicle
Herald stories that said, you know,
796
00:43:58,641 --> 00:44:00,342
the police are not wanted
in our community.
797
00:44:00,375 --> 00:44:03,209
It hit the driver
in the wrist, actually,
798
00:44:03,241 --> 00:44:06,543
just missing the head
of one of our female members.
799
00:44:08,575 --> 00:44:10,475
Police relationships...
It was very terrible.
800
00:44:10,508 --> 00:44:15,008
They wouldn't even attempt
to come into our community.
801
00:44:15,041 --> 00:44:19,275
Cars were tipped over,
tires were sliced,
802
00:44:19,309 --> 00:44:22,309
windows bashed in,
it was terrible.
803
00:44:22,342 --> 00:44:25,542
It takes time to get to
the point that we're at now today,
804
00:44:25,574 --> 00:44:30,676
where it's more of a norm to see us in
the community than it was 10 years ago.
805
00:44:30,709 --> 00:44:33,309
Now, having a permanent place
in there
806
00:44:33,342 --> 00:44:36,676
really has made a difference,
I feel.
807
00:44:36,708 --> 00:44:38,174
They put a police
station in the rec center.
808
00:44:38,208 --> 00:44:40,442
- Try to figure that one, though, I don't know.
- Yeah.
809
00:44:40,474 --> 00:44:43,042
You know what I mean?
Rec center police station?
810
00:44:43,074 --> 00:44:44,675
- I guess, you know what I mean? But they did it.
- Yeah.
811
00:44:44,709 --> 00:44:46,275
The cops didn't
come up here a lot
812
00:44:46,309 --> 00:44:48,341
'cause they didn't get a real response
from the people, you know what I mean?
813
00:44:48,374 --> 00:44:49,775
Like, the people
wasn't really...
814
00:44:49,809 --> 00:44:52,309
Like, people don't know nothing,
know what I mean? So it was like...
815
00:44:52,341 --> 00:44:54,675
The cops really wasn't getting nowhere
when they come up here and shit.
816
00:44:54,708 --> 00:44:55,809
'Cause people, you know...
817
00:44:55,843 --> 00:44:58,108
A lot of times, they used to
bust the cops' windows...
818
00:44:58,141 --> 00:44:59,575
Yeah,
chuckin' rocks and shit.
819
00:44:59,609 --> 00:45:02,008
...so it was costing the cops a lot
of money to be in the community.
820
00:45:02,041 --> 00:45:05,008
They don't really
need to be here 'cause...
821
00:45:05,042 --> 00:45:09,409
You know, I always felt that
we're doing a good job on our own.
822
00:45:09,441 --> 00:45:13,341
Since the police came, we lost more
lives than when they weren't here.
823
00:45:13,374 --> 00:45:16,241
We solved our own problems
with each other.
824
00:45:16,275 --> 00:45:18,075
People talk,
they communicate.
825
00:45:18,108 --> 00:45:19,609
They didn't just call 911.
826
00:45:19,642 --> 00:45:22,041
We pretty much governed
our own selves.
827
00:45:22,075 --> 00:45:23,376
We never had police.
828
00:45:23,409 --> 00:45:26,142
It was always our elders
that kept us in check.
829
00:45:26,174 --> 00:45:28,910
Soon as we let the government
come into our community,
830
00:45:28,941 --> 00:45:30,375
that's where
the violence started.
831
00:45:30,408 --> 00:45:33,941
There was never guns with us
fighting amongst each other at all.
832
00:45:33,974 --> 00:45:37,941
It's always been,
the community deals with it themselves.
833
00:45:37,974 --> 00:45:41,008
I find we governed ourselves
better alone.
834
00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:43,208
Like, we could take care
of ourselves better.
835
00:45:43,241 --> 00:45:47,041
When the police came, it's everybody
shuts their windows, close their doors,
836
00:45:47,074 --> 00:45:48,441
let the police deal with it.
837
00:45:48,475 --> 00:45:50,208
Where, before,
it was more intimate,
838
00:45:50,241 --> 00:45:51,975
where we could
take care of our own selves,
839
00:45:52,007 --> 00:45:54,175
and it was much better,
I found, that way.
840
00:45:59,141 --> 00:46:00,508
♪ No, no remorse ♪
841
00:46:01,275 --> 00:46:03,276
♪ No, no, no ♪
842
00:46:06,676 --> 00:46:09,508
♪ Last night I think
I caught a feel ♪
843
00:46:09,541 --> 00:46:12,375
♪ But last night I think I lost
The feel for you ♪
844
00:46:12,409 --> 00:46:15,109
♪ Last night I almost
Turned the page on you ♪
845
00:46:15,142 --> 00:46:17,375
♪ Last night
Thinking in the mirror ♪
846
00:46:17,408 --> 00:46:20,241
♪ Last night
I think I caught a feeling ♪
847
00:46:20,274 --> 00:46:23,108
♪ Last night I think I lost
The feel for you ♪
848
00:46:23,141 --> 00:46:25,608
♪ Last night
Staring in the mirror ♪
849
00:46:25,641 --> 00:46:27,975
♪ Talking to myself
So consciously ♪
850
00:46:29,175 --> 00:46:31,609
♪ How you showed
No more remorse ♪
851
00:46:31,642 --> 00:46:34,342
♪ You showed
No, no more ♪
852
00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:37,375
♪ I feel no more remorse ♪
853
00:46:37,408 --> 00:46:39,675
- ♪ I get no, no more ♪
- We found the fire hall, for the block.
854
00:46:39,708 --> 00:46:42,276
Whatever, you know...
855
00:46:42,309 --> 00:46:43,576
- Fire hall, man.
- Yeah.
856
00:46:43,608 --> 00:46:45,375
That's what it is,
a fire station.
857
00:46:45,409 --> 00:46:48,042
- We're just here, man. This is our every day.
- Yeah, all day.
858
00:46:48,074 --> 00:46:50,009
- Yeah, every day thing.
- Life happens here.
859
00:46:50,042 --> 00:46:51,309
You're right.
You're right.
860
00:46:51,341 --> 00:46:53,942
- What it is.
- Tradition, man. Go way back.
861
00:46:53,974 --> 00:46:55,375
Before these young cats signed,
862
00:46:55,408 --> 00:47:00,408
we known for basketball players,
athletes, you name it, fighters...
863
00:47:00,441 --> 00:47:02,008
- Singers.
- Singers.
864
00:47:02,042 --> 00:47:04,075
- Pimps.
- You're right. You're right.
865
00:47:04,107 --> 00:47:05,175
A lot of those.
866
00:47:06,007 --> 00:47:07,942
This is a pimp nation.
867
00:47:07,975 --> 00:47:09,341
- Right here. What you looking at?
- Exactly.
868
00:47:09,376 --> 00:47:12,643
I'm telling you
the pimp capital come from this.
869
00:47:12,675 --> 00:47:15,109
When we grew up,
the people that had the nice cars,
870
00:47:15,142 --> 00:47:16,409
the people
with the nice clothes,
871
00:47:16,443 --> 00:47:18,109
- man, they were pimps and hustlers, man.
- That's what it was.
872
00:47:18,142 --> 00:47:19,242
So what were we gonna do?
873
00:47:19,275 --> 00:47:20,841
Success is
874
00:47:20,875 --> 00:47:24,174
diamond chains, and gold chains and nice
cars, and bitches, and all that shit.
875
00:47:24,207 --> 00:47:27,241
That's success in the world
for blacks.
876
00:47:27,275 --> 00:47:29,108
You know what I mean?
So that's...
877
00:47:29,142 --> 00:47:31,174
How am I not gonna
wanna do that shit?
878
00:47:31,207 --> 00:47:33,108
Know what I mean?
No matter what my upbringing was,
879
00:47:33,142 --> 00:47:35,142
if I'm growing up
in an environment every day,
880
00:47:35,174 --> 00:47:36,441
all I keep seeing
is the same shit.
881
00:47:36,476 --> 00:47:39,375
The successful people, in my
eyes, were the hustlers, man.
882
00:47:39,409 --> 00:47:42,375
And every house you see, every
successful person you see is a doctor.
883
00:47:42,408 --> 00:47:44,974
What you gonna do when you get old?
You gonna be a doctor.
884
00:47:45,008 --> 00:47:46,576
My parents
did a great job raising me.
885
00:47:46,609 --> 00:47:49,475
I can't even knock
nothing my parents did,
886
00:47:49,508 --> 00:47:51,508
as raising me,
you know what I mean?
887
00:47:51,542 --> 00:47:53,242
But the environment
raised me too.
888
00:47:53,274 --> 00:47:55,108
I'm a product
of my environment.
889
00:47:55,141 --> 00:47:57,275
Growing up here, there ain't a
lot of opportunities and shit,
890
00:47:57,308 --> 00:48:00,441
so if I dude be like, "Yo,
I'm about to graduate high school,"
891
00:48:00,475 --> 00:48:04,242
maybe "I got a kid on the way," or "I'm
just trying to get some money," you know...
892
00:48:04,274 --> 00:48:06,141
- Where the opportunity at? Know what I mean?
- Mm-hmm.
893
00:48:06,174 --> 00:48:08,008
- Right.
- Like, they put us out here to die, basically.
894
00:48:08,041 --> 00:48:09,974
- Where's the opportunity? So what we gonna do?
- Not like us.
895
00:48:10,007 --> 00:48:11,374
Are we gonna starve?
No, we're not gonna starve.
896
00:48:11,408 --> 00:48:13,508
We're gonna do what we gotta do to
get this money, know what I mean?
897
00:48:13,542 --> 00:48:15,442
Some people
choose that lifestyle.
898
00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:17,676
Know what I mean? Others don't.
There's a lot... That's the thing.
899
00:48:17,708 --> 00:48:19,509
They're only telling
half the story.
900
00:48:19,541 --> 00:48:22,475
Not everybody from North Preston
is a pimp or a drug dealer, man.
901
00:48:22,509 --> 00:48:24,542
Know what I mean? Like,
there's people doing all kinds of shit.
902
00:48:24,574 --> 00:48:26,308
We got dudes about to go
do their MBA,
903
00:48:26,342 --> 00:48:28,576
we got dudes boxing,
we got dudes in school,
904
00:48:28,608 --> 00:48:30,643
- we got dudes doing all kinds of different shit.
- All kinds of things.
905
00:48:30,675 --> 00:48:35,042
It don't necessarily mean that we're
just pimps and drug dealers. No.
906
00:48:35,074 --> 00:48:38,276
You know, you don't have no
other choice but to be a cliche.
907
00:48:38,309 --> 00:48:40,475
Your life turns out to be a
cliche right from the beginning
908
00:48:40,508 --> 00:48:42,642
because it's just so...
It's a competition
909
00:48:42,676 --> 00:48:46,109
between all cousins,
all family, everybody.
910
00:48:46,141 --> 00:48:50,208
It's everybody competing to get the best
car, the best mansion, the best everything.
911
00:48:50,242 --> 00:48:51,476
That's what this place is.
912
00:48:51,509 --> 00:48:54,409
We push each other
for greatness.
913
00:48:54,441 --> 00:48:58,041
Shaney Boy, great
friend, I look up to him.
914
00:48:58,075 --> 00:49:01,108
The guy taught me a lot, man.
Like I said...
915
00:49:01,141 --> 00:49:03,441
He taught me the ins and
outs of the street life.
916
00:49:03,474 --> 00:49:04,908
And that's just straight up.
917
00:49:04,941 --> 00:49:06,576
He taught me the ins and outs
of the pimp life.
918
00:49:06,608 --> 00:49:10,041
He just taught me
how to move in general.
919
00:49:10,074 --> 00:49:12,541
This is the perfect
time to get my story out.
920
00:49:12,575 --> 00:49:15,409
And my story is,
I went to jail for a gun,
921
00:49:15,442 --> 00:49:17,975
and I was involved
in a lot of things.
922
00:49:18,008 --> 00:49:19,541
They took me down
for human trafficking.
923
00:49:19,574 --> 00:49:21,275
I'm not gonna say
I was totally innocent,
924
00:49:21,309 --> 00:49:23,309
but I paid my debt
to society.
925
00:49:23,341 --> 00:49:25,108
Today, you know,
we're doing music,
926
00:49:25,142 --> 00:49:26,876
and we get to tell our stories
through our music.
927
00:49:27,942 --> 00:49:30,008
I don't have no regrets, man.
928
00:49:30,041 --> 00:49:32,575
You know, it is what it is,
you know what I mean?
929
00:49:32,608 --> 00:49:34,141
I knew what I was doing.
930
00:49:34,175 --> 00:49:36,942
I'm not gonna blame it on anyone.
I take full responsibility for me.
931
00:49:42,974 --> 00:49:46,141
Being a pimp entails like
keeping your bitch in check,
932
00:49:46,175 --> 00:49:48,409
like, staying on top
of your money,
933
00:49:48,441 --> 00:49:51,109
not getting too fucking drunk
and shit.
934
00:49:51,141 --> 00:49:53,342
We gotta stay focused
out here in the game, right?
935
00:49:53,375 --> 00:49:55,342
Pimping is about words.
936
00:49:55,375 --> 00:49:57,674
It's all about
what you can say.
937
00:49:57,707 --> 00:49:59,941
And I mean,
that's real pimping.
938
00:49:59,975 --> 00:50:02,476
A lot of pimps like
a lot of money, right, so...
939
00:50:02,509 --> 00:50:05,909
They're not just really pimps,
they're hustlers, they're money-makers,
940
00:50:05,942 --> 00:50:10,541
they're just go-getters, right, so they
fuck with that dope and shit, you know.
941
00:50:10,575 --> 00:50:12,542
Couple will sell a gun
here and there.
942
00:50:12,575 --> 00:50:14,475
You know what I mean?
Come up on this thing.
943
00:50:14,508 --> 00:50:16,475
Get a couple burners,
let that shit go,
944
00:50:16,508 --> 00:50:18,209
they don't want
that shit around.
945
00:50:18,241 --> 00:50:21,074
You know,
real nigga shit, though.
946
00:50:21,108 --> 00:50:24,275
You know, it's all about how the
player plays the game, right?
947
00:50:24,308 --> 00:50:28,974
The pimp capital of
this country is North Preston.
948
00:50:29,007 --> 00:50:31,009
They say that we
the pimp capital of Canada.
949
00:50:31,042 --> 00:50:32,508
I probably wouldn't
disagree with that
950
00:50:32,542 --> 00:50:35,409
'cause, yeah, there's a lot of players
that come out of North Preston.
951
00:50:35,442 --> 00:50:38,442
To me, a pimp is a dude
that, you know...
952
00:50:38,475 --> 00:50:41,042
He got a lot of women, you know
what I mean? He got a lot of girls.
953
00:50:41,075 --> 00:50:42,908
If a girl wanna give you
some money, you know...
954
00:50:42,941 --> 00:50:44,509
At the end of the day,
if she wanna give you some money,
955
00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:47,276
she gonna give you some money.
That's between me and them.
956
00:50:47,308 --> 00:50:51,042
A pimp is someone who
trafficks women and girls.
957
00:50:51,074 --> 00:50:56,375
A pimp will use manipulation, force,
intimidation, he'll play on her vulnerabilities.
958
00:50:56,408 --> 00:50:58,375
Stories of murdering girls,
959
00:50:58,408 --> 00:51:01,041
and, uh, dumping their bodies
in forests.
960
00:51:01,075 --> 00:51:03,174
When we're speaking
in terms of North Preston,
961
00:51:03,207 --> 00:51:05,508
pimps, they usually expect you
to make a quota.
962
00:51:05,542 --> 00:51:07,109
If she comes home
with less than that,
963
00:51:07,141 --> 00:51:09,475
she can surely
expect a beating.
964
00:51:09,509 --> 00:51:11,342
You don't
leave until you get the money
965
00:51:11,375 --> 00:51:12,542
that you need
to get to go home.
966
00:51:12,575 --> 00:51:13,908
There's no coming up short.
967
00:51:13,941 --> 00:51:15,375
That's not an option.
968
00:51:15,409 --> 00:51:17,476
And if you choose that option,
969
00:51:17,508 --> 00:51:20,642
there's gonna be really serious
physical, brutal consequences.
970
00:51:20,675 --> 00:51:24,674
The violence
became very routine.
971
00:51:24,707 --> 00:51:27,208
He choked me, and I really
thought he was gonna kill me.
972
00:51:27,974 --> 00:51:28,975
And that...
973
00:51:29,475 --> 00:51:30,608
For me, that was it.
974
00:51:30,641 --> 00:51:32,608
Violence is a huge factor.
I mean...
975
00:51:32,641 --> 00:51:36,476
I haven't met one single girl or woman
who was involved in the sex trade
976
00:51:36,509 --> 00:51:39,009
who hasn't experienced
physical violence.
977
00:51:39,041 --> 00:51:41,108
For myself, you know,
I've been burned with cigarettes,
978
00:51:41,142 --> 00:51:44,942
I've had both my arms broken,
my nose has been broken three times.
979
00:51:44,975 --> 00:51:46,508
Just a lot of broken bones.
980
00:51:46,541 --> 00:51:50,376
I was growing up in that era
with the pimps, and that was it.
981
00:51:50,408 --> 00:51:51,709
It was just like,
982
00:51:51,741 --> 00:51:55,074
if you're not a pimp,
you're not really much anything.
983
00:51:55,108 --> 00:52:00,509
Human trafficking would be where
someone is taken from a community
984
00:52:00,540 --> 00:52:04,574
and forced into the sex trade.
985
00:52:04,607 --> 00:52:09,141
They may not have even realized
they're being forced into it
986
00:52:09,174 --> 00:52:11,441
until it's too late.
987
00:52:11,474 --> 00:52:14,641
"Pimping" is the term
from 20 years ago,
988
00:52:14,675 --> 00:52:16,575
and, you know, maybe even
989
00:52:16,608 --> 00:52:19,441
you know, people that are
involved in human trafficking now
990
00:52:19,475 --> 00:52:22,476
are, you know, still using
that term of "pimping."
991
00:52:22,507 --> 00:52:26,276
There's definitely individuals that
are involved in human trafficking
992
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:28,475
that have connections
to North Preston.
993
00:52:28,507 --> 00:52:30,041
Guerrilla pimp.
994
00:52:30,075 --> 00:52:32,075
Guerrilla pimp.
995
00:52:32,107 --> 00:52:37,341
"A pimp who regularly uses force and
threats to keep his money in line.
996
00:52:37,374 --> 00:52:40,174
"Guerrilla pimps have a high
turnover rate of hustles."
997
00:52:42,574 --> 00:52:45,408
Yeah, we got
pimp cultures in North Preston.
998
00:52:45,442 --> 00:52:48,608
They were the ones that,
when someone needed cash,
999
00:52:48,641 --> 00:52:52,308
they were the ones,
when no one had nothing, they had.
1000
00:52:52,341 --> 00:52:53,607
That's just how it was.
1001
00:52:53,641 --> 00:52:55,175
Cats weren't getting jobs.
1002
00:52:55,207 --> 00:52:57,276
They were getting no education.
1003
00:52:57,309 --> 00:53:00,041
So they had...
That was like a survival thing.
1004
00:53:00,074 --> 00:53:03,674
A lot of people
looked up to them.
1005
00:53:03,707 --> 00:53:07,908
How can I go be a
university bachelor of anything
1006
00:53:07,941 --> 00:53:10,308
when the person up the street
that I look up to...
1007
00:53:10,341 --> 00:53:11,475
That I look up to.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
1008
00:53:11,507 --> 00:53:14,375
- ...is getting money out of bitches?
- Mm-hmm.
1009
00:53:14,409 --> 00:53:15,608
- What I'mma do?
- Definitely.
1010
00:53:15,641 --> 00:53:17,474
- Know what I mean?
- I'm gonna get some of that money too.
1011
00:53:17,507 --> 00:53:19,474
I'm gonna get a bitch
and get some money.
1012
00:53:19,507 --> 00:53:20,707
- I'm gonna get some of that money too.
- Right?
1013
00:53:20,741 --> 00:53:23,275
But what I'm saying is,
that ain't the whole story, man.
1014
00:53:23,308 --> 00:53:25,174
- Nah, nah.
- That's just the part that they wanna tell.
1015
00:53:25,208 --> 00:53:27,376
Girls find us, right?
So, you know what I mean?
1016
00:53:27,409 --> 00:53:29,942
Them bitches got
broken homes and shit.
1017
00:53:29,975 --> 00:53:31,342
You know, they're looking
for a way out, right?
1018
00:53:31,374 --> 00:53:32,707
They want money
and shit, like...
1019
00:53:32,740 --> 00:53:35,341
Fuck, they're usually at the
club, you know what I mean?
1020
00:53:35,374 --> 00:53:37,674
Fucking, them drunk bitches
and shit.
1021
00:53:37,708 --> 00:53:39,941
Out there, drinking life away,
you know what I mean?
1022
00:53:39,974 --> 00:53:41,909
They ain't got nothing
to look forward to and shit.
1023
00:53:41,941 --> 00:53:44,309
They have a good fucking story,
and need us for some good game.
1024
00:53:44,341 --> 00:53:47,208
You know, get the
bitch in your car, don't let her out.
1025
00:53:47,242 --> 00:53:48,542
Tell them there's a better way.
1026
00:53:49,275 --> 00:53:50,608
Get paid, right?
1027
00:53:50,641 --> 00:53:51,641
Straight up.
1028
00:53:51,674 --> 00:53:55,242
There are women being
forced into prostitution,
1029
00:53:55,274 --> 00:53:58,241
then there are women who've
chosen this of their own volition.
1030
00:53:58,275 --> 00:54:00,309
There are women
who've made that choice,
1031
00:54:00,342 --> 00:54:03,975
but there are so many more
women who are being trafficked,
1032
00:54:04,008 --> 00:54:06,441
who are being forced into this,
1033
00:54:06,474 --> 00:54:08,675
who are being beaten
and abused,
1034
00:54:08,708 --> 00:54:12,541
and degraded every day.
1035
00:54:12,573 --> 00:54:15,474
Man, them girls brag about
being in the life.
1036
00:54:15,507 --> 00:54:17,209
They're superstars,
you know what I mean?
1037
00:54:17,241 --> 00:54:18,808
They get their attention
and shit.
1038
00:54:18,841 --> 00:54:22,474
They got their bread, a player taking
care of them, hooking them up and shit.
1039
00:54:22,507 --> 00:54:23,642
What else could you ask for?
1040
00:54:23,675 --> 00:54:25,642
You probably don't even
gotta convince them, right?
1041
00:54:25,674 --> 00:54:27,376
Some of them bitches
love sex.
1042
00:54:27,408 --> 00:54:29,440
They wanna have sex all day.
I got a way.
1043
00:54:29,473 --> 00:54:31,308
You see it a lot,
but it's like...
1044
00:54:32,308 --> 00:54:34,009
It's almost like
a normal thing.
1045
00:54:34,041 --> 00:54:37,109
Anyone is allowed to have a girlfriend
that's a dancer, you know what I mean?
1046
00:54:37,142 --> 00:54:38,975
If the media wants to
call that pimping, then...
1047
00:54:39,608 --> 00:54:40,641
So be it.
1048
00:54:40,674 --> 00:54:43,574
I feel it's important
that this message gets out
1049
00:54:43,607 --> 00:54:47,674
because no other
mother's children,
1050
00:54:47,707 --> 00:54:49,607
boys or girls,
should be trafficked.
1051
00:54:49,641 --> 00:54:51,942
It is the most heinous.
1052
00:54:51,974 --> 00:54:55,440
It's akin to murder.
1053
00:54:55,474 --> 00:54:58,641
I was trafficked by this pimp
from North Preston.
1054
00:54:58,674 --> 00:55:00,974
I'm a different person
because of that experience.
1055
00:55:01,007 --> 00:55:04,374
Essentially, that first person
has been murdered.
1056
00:55:04,407 --> 00:55:08,176
Has been
brutally forced out.
1057
00:55:10,007 --> 00:55:11,507
No one should go through that.
1058
00:55:13,008 --> 00:55:15,075
If I'm seeing
the success
1059
00:55:15,107 --> 00:55:16,908
through the eyes
of the players,
1060
00:55:16,942 --> 00:55:18,575
through the eyes
of the hustlers,
1061
00:55:18,607 --> 00:55:20,974
what do you think
these young girls are seeing?
1062
00:55:21,007 --> 00:55:24,108
- Everywhere you go, sex is gonna sell.
- Big time.
1063
00:55:24,142 --> 00:55:26,508
Like, this ain't
a North Preston problem, man.
1064
00:55:26,541 --> 00:55:28,374
- It's a world issue.
- It's worldwide.
1065
00:55:28,407 --> 00:55:31,074
Sex has been...
Sex has been selling since the Bible.
1066
00:55:31,108 --> 00:55:33,641
Couple of niggas doing it
is an issue all of a sudden?
1067
00:55:33,675 --> 00:55:35,608
- It's the truth.
- You know what I mean? Like...
1068
00:55:35,641 --> 00:55:37,407
Hey, I don't know.
1069
00:55:37,441 --> 00:55:39,142
I wanted to go to university.
1070
00:55:39,174 --> 00:55:41,407
I went to college
for a couple of months.
1071
00:55:41,441 --> 00:55:45,175
It just wasn't working for me,
and due to my circumstance and situation,
1072
00:55:45,208 --> 00:55:48,174
I got involved in the game,
you know what I mean? It was really...
1073
00:55:48,208 --> 00:55:50,575
Really easy for me
to get involved in the game.
1074
00:55:50,607 --> 00:55:53,440
I was pimping this, pimping
that, pimping this, doing that.
1075
00:55:53,474 --> 00:55:55,575
'Cause that's what I was doing.
That's what it was.
1076
00:55:55,608 --> 00:55:56,875
Imagine being in that situation
1077
00:55:56,908 --> 00:55:59,275
where you really wanna do
something different with your life
1078
00:55:59,307 --> 00:56:01,241
and try for some opportunity,
1079
00:56:01,275 --> 00:56:03,209
and people just keep
closing the door on you,
1080
00:56:03,242 --> 00:56:05,109
ain't nobody
giving you no assistance
1081
00:56:05,142 --> 00:56:07,075
to try to help you
get your situation started.
1082
00:56:07,108 --> 00:56:08,707
But then you go
down the street,
1083
00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:13,407
and the dudes on the block has got
overflow opportunity, you know what I mean?
1084
00:56:13,441 --> 00:56:16,009
So them old-school players,
you know what I mean?
1085
00:56:16,041 --> 00:56:18,507
Like, they giving you
the game for free.
1086
00:56:18,540 --> 00:56:21,540
That ain't the only thing that's
gonna define me as a person.
1087
00:56:21,573 --> 00:56:25,041
Like I got an opportunity to kind of
represent myself in a different light.
1088
00:56:25,075 --> 00:56:26,942
You know what I mean?
I got kids now, and shit.
1089
00:56:26,974 --> 00:56:30,374
And I want my son to have a different
opportunity than what I had.
1090
00:56:30,408 --> 00:56:34,408
I don't want him to have to be forced
into, or make choices that I had to make.
1091
00:56:39,674 --> 00:56:42,209
♪ It feels like the devil
Is on my tail ♪
1092
00:56:42,241 --> 00:56:45,475
♪ Hey, do you like summer?
I'm hot as hell ♪
1093
00:56:45,507 --> 00:56:48,908
♪ You're burning up Feels
like a pot of lucky gold ♪
1094
00:56:48,941 --> 00:56:52,208
♪ Oh, yeah They never could
come And just steal my soul ♪
1095
00:56:52,241 --> 00:56:55,441
♪ I stand on your bitch
And I take her home ♪
1096
00:56:55,474 --> 00:56:58,574
♪ Hey, we got that nigga
Super potion ♪
1097
00:56:58,608 --> 00:57:01,341
♪ Oh, yeah
We had a secret location ♪
1098
00:57:01,373 --> 00:57:05,041
♪ This be our holiday ♪
1099
00:57:05,075 --> 00:57:07,042
This is one of my favorite
guys, you know what I mean?
1100
00:57:07,974 --> 00:57:09,275
Right here, man, you know.
1101
00:57:09,307 --> 00:57:10,942
- Twenty
- In the building, man.
1102
00:57:10,975 --> 00:57:12,408
Watched these guys grow up,
you know what I'm saying?
1103
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,241
Just like a little brother
of mine right here.
1104
00:57:14,273 --> 00:57:15,240
We did everything together.
1105
00:57:15,274 --> 00:57:16,942
Like I said, we did
everything together, man.
1106
00:57:16,974 --> 00:57:20,208
Run the streets together, did it all.
1107
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:21,542
- It's crazy up here.
- Yeah. Trust me.
1108
00:57:21,574 --> 00:57:23,574
- Before it used to be everybody all together.
- It's hectic.
1109
00:57:23,607 --> 00:57:25,008
Now it's just crazy up here.
1110
00:57:25,041 --> 00:57:26,641
You see my boy right here?
1111
00:57:26,675 --> 00:57:29,142
- Come on.
- .40 cal through his foot.
1112
00:57:29,174 --> 00:57:31,208
You get your head blown off
if you're not too careful.
1113
00:57:32,108 --> 00:57:33,374
Cocksucker!
1114
00:57:33,407 --> 00:57:34,207
Don't worry about it.
1115
00:57:35,675 --> 00:57:38,240
You fucking train wreck.
Fuck you up.
1116
00:57:38,273 --> 00:57:40,540
Do I gotta put you
at 2 a.m.? Please.
1117
00:57:40,574 --> 00:57:44,141
Put me up? I own
this house.
1118
00:57:44,174 --> 00:57:46,407
There's a lot of fightin'
going on tonight.
1119
00:57:46,441 --> 00:57:48,540
Some of this you can keep.
You know what I mean? No, seriously.
1120
00:57:48,573 --> 00:57:49,907
'Cause it's real-life shit.
1121
00:57:49,941 --> 00:57:52,441
- So what will get you gone? A cigarette?
- You better fuck off.
1122
00:57:52,473 --> 00:57:54,041
- Do you want a cigarette?
- Yeah.
1123
00:57:54,075 --> 00:57:55,241
So come on. Come on.
1124
00:57:55,274 --> 00:57:56,642
I'll get it from nanny,
and then don't bother me no more.
1125
00:57:56,675 --> 00:57:57,542
They ain't home.
1126
00:57:57,575 --> 00:58:00,240
I'm going in, and I...
It's in her room.
1127
00:58:00,273 --> 00:58:03,974
Go in her room and get it out,
but you don't give me that, cocksucker.
1128
00:58:05,641 --> 00:58:07,341
- Okay. I got you.
- Okay.
1129
00:58:07,373 --> 00:58:08,908
Okay, okay. Sorry.
1130
00:58:08,942 --> 00:58:10,608
- Thought you already knew.
- Okay, okay.
1131
00:58:10,641 --> 00:58:12,275
He's been pimping
since he was five.
1132
00:58:15,274 --> 00:58:17,142
Keep a long story short.
1133
00:58:17,174 --> 00:58:19,440
Just what it is. Just what we was.
The whole trend.
1134
00:58:19,473 --> 00:58:22,141
- Yeah.
- From our uncles, dads, everybody.
1135
00:58:22,173 --> 00:58:24,307
That's what you...
Like I said yesterday, we grew up in it,
1136
00:58:24,341 --> 00:58:25,642
and that's just
what we've seen
1137
00:58:25,675 --> 00:58:26,642
and that's just what we do.
1138
00:58:26,674 --> 00:58:29,109
We try to get to the money,
know what I mean?
1139
00:58:29,140 --> 00:58:31,474
So, hey,
I can explain it like this.
1140
00:58:31,508 --> 00:58:33,274
- We were getting money together...
- Exactly.
1141
00:58:33,307 --> 00:58:34,274
...like I said...
1142
00:58:34,308 --> 00:58:35,709
Me and him at that time,
you know what I mean?
1143
00:58:35,741 --> 00:58:38,909
- Both had our girls...
- We had our girls just working the shit, right.
1144
00:58:38,941 --> 00:58:41,440
So there ain't nothing to hide about that.
It's just what it is.
1145
00:58:41,473 --> 00:58:43,441
Drinking, lifting, pimping.
1146
00:58:49,541 --> 00:58:51,609
♪ Hey, I wrote a song for you ♪
1147
00:58:53,140 --> 00:58:55,009
♪ Hey, even moved on from you ♪
1148
00:58:56,107 --> 00:58:58,974
♪ Okay
I did it all for you ♪
1149
00:58:59,008 --> 00:59:00,241
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1150
00:59:00,274 --> 00:59:02,275
♪ I pushed her aside for you ♪
1151
00:59:02,307 --> 00:59:05,107
♪ Oh, girl You see me I'm
still looking flossy ♪
1152
00:59:12,407 --> 00:59:14,340
What's he doing,
though?
1153
00:59:14,373 --> 00:59:16,207
Come on, come on.
Wake up. Come on.
1154
00:59:33,473 --> 00:59:34,507
Are you serious?
1155
00:59:36,206 --> 00:59:37,941
Come on. Come on.
1156
00:59:45,340 --> 00:59:46,641
Drinking one minute,
dancing to the music,
1157
00:59:46,674 --> 00:59:48,340
and then choking
in the next five seconds.
1158
00:59:48,373 --> 00:59:49,908
That's how we do it.
1159
00:59:49,941 --> 00:59:51,240
That's exactly how you do it.
1160
00:59:51,274 --> 00:59:52,975
- Same... Same with the girls.
- We told you.
1161
00:59:53,007 --> 00:59:54,607
- It's a real-life thing.
- Gang, gang.
1162
00:59:54,641 --> 00:59:57,174
It's a real-life thing.
It ain't no... It ain't no joke.
1163
00:59:57,206 --> 00:59:58,642
- It ain't no joke.
- Wow.
1164
00:59:58,675 --> 01:00:00,642
Girls, men...
It goes down.
1165
01:00:00,674 --> 01:00:03,208
Trust me. It goes down the way it goes down.
1166
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:04,540
That's life, nigga.
1167
01:00:04,573 --> 01:00:06,540
- It's gang, nigga.
- At the end of the day, man,
1168
01:00:06,574 --> 01:00:08,174
this is what it is.
This is what we live.
1169
01:00:08,206 --> 01:00:09,575
This is what it is
up here, right.
1170
01:00:09,608 --> 01:00:12,141
- Know what I mean?
- It happens within a blink.
1171
01:00:12,173 --> 01:00:14,008
She launched at her
like a fucking leopard.
1172
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,174
Well, she was standing over
there, staring at me,
1173
01:00:17,206 --> 01:00:18,740
and I just said hello to her,
1174
01:00:18,774 --> 01:00:20,674
'cause like if you're looking in someone's
face, you might as well say hello.
1175
01:00:20,707 --> 01:00:21,842
And then she came over here
1176
01:00:21,875 --> 01:00:23,173
trying to push me out the
way to get to the fridge,
1177
01:00:23,206 --> 01:00:24,307
and I said, "Say excuse me."
1178
01:00:33,408 --> 01:00:34,341
He's not your man.
1179
01:00:34,374 --> 01:00:35,976
Yeah, he definitely was.
1180
01:00:52,541 --> 01:00:56,508
Right now, we're in Toronto,
Noble Street Sound... Wait...
1181
01:00:56,541 --> 01:00:58,975
Shit. Right now,
we're in Toronto,
1182
01:00:59,007 --> 01:01:00,942
Noble Sound...
Wait, what is it?
1183
01:01:00,975 --> 01:01:02,641
- Right now...
- Look at me.
1184
01:01:02,674 --> 01:01:04,908
All right. Right now,
we're in Toronto,
1185
01:01:04,942 --> 01:01:06,175
at Noble...
1186
01:01:06,942 --> 01:01:09,308
Damn.
1187
01:01:09,341 --> 01:01:12,173
No, I'm not nervous.
I'm actually, um...
1188
01:01:12,206 --> 01:01:15,340
I more enjoy this
than being nervous.
1189
01:01:15,373 --> 01:01:19,275
Yeah, well, yeah, you know, uh, I haven't
put out music in a while, so, um...
1190
01:01:20,341 --> 01:01:21,807
I just wanted to release, um...
1191
01:01:21,842 --> 01:01:25,041
This great body of work that I've
been working on for a while just now,
1192
01:01:25,073 --> 01:01:26,074
so, yeah.
1193
01:01:28,541 --> 01:01:30,542
Man, you know what it is?
It's the light.
1194
01:01:31,674 --> 01:01:33,540
Um...
1195
01:01:33,574 --> 01:01:35,407
All of them, really,
but I mean, like...
1196
01:01:43,508 --> 01:01:46,642
♪ See me no more
See me no more ♪
1197
01:01:46,675 --> 01:01:49,642
♪ See me no more
No more ♪
1198
01:01:49,674 --> 01:01:53,174
♪ See me no more
See me no more ♪
1199
01:01:53,206 --> 01:01:55,909
♪ See me no more
See me no more ♪
1200
01:01:55,941 --> 01:01:58,174
♪ 'Cause you just
Play too much ♪
1201
01:01:58,207 --> 01:02:00,475
♪ Way, way, way too
Way too much ♪
1202
01:02:00,507 --> 01:02:01,973
♪ Too much ♪
1203
01:02:02,007 --> 01:02:04,541
♪ Girl, 'cause you're just
Way too much ♪
1204
01:02:04,574 --> 01:02:06,675
♪ Way, way, way too
Way too much ♪
1205
01:02:06,708 --> 01:02:08,041
♪ Too much... ♪
1206
01:02:08,940 --> 01:02:10,342
- Yo, yo, yo.
- Yo.
1207
01:02:10,374 --> 01:02:13,308
Man, we feel a lot of fucking
little bit of things right now, man,
1208
01:02:13,340 --> 01:02:14,707
but, you know,
we feeling good, cuz.
1209
01:02:14,742 --> 01:02:17,474
- Thank you. Thank you for this.
- We like the special audition, man.
1210
01:02:17,507 --> 01:02:19,474
We've never seen this before
in our very eyes.
1211
01:02:19,508 --> 01:02:20,642
Very special.
1212
01:02:21,106 --> 01:02:22,440
Yo.
1213
01:02:22,473 --> 01:02:23,940
- Man.
- Amazing.
1214
01:02:23,974 --> 01:02:25,508
This has been
a fucking pleasure, man.
1215
01:02:26,474 --> 01:02:27,641
- You know what?
- Yeah.
1216
01:02:27,674 --> 01:02:31,441
This mix tape is my best
body of work I've ever did.
1217
01:02:31,473 --> 01:02:32,440
Sheesh!
1218
01:02:32,474 --> 01:02:35,173
We're turned. We gotta go.
1219
01:02:35,206 --> 01:02:37,641
We got a flight to catch.
1220
01:02:37,675 --> 01:02:40,341
♪ I'm not saying
It lasts forever ♪
1221
01:02:40,373 --> 01:02:42,641
♪ 'Cause things happen
You know better ♪
1222
01:02:42,674 --> 01:02:45,274
♪ I guess this time
We were so close ♪
1223
01:02:46,340 --> 01:02:48,173
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1224
01:02:48,206 --> 01:02:50,674
♪ I'm not saying
It lasts forever ♪
1225
01:02:50,707 --> 01:02:53,275
♪ 'Cause things happen
You know better ♪
1226
01:02:53,308 --> 01:02:56,075
♪ I guess this time
We were so close ♪
1227
01:02:57,340 --> 01:02:58,540
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1228
01:02:58,574 --> 01:03:01,141
♪ 'Cause sometimes
You know wrong ♪
1229
01:03:01,173 --> 01:03:03,674
♪ But you gotta bring it home ♪
1230
01:03:03,707 --> 01:03:06,340
♪ I won't keep you
Waiting long ♪
1231
01:03:06,374 --> 01:03:09,041
♪ I could say
She's trying to break it down ♪
1232
01:03:09,074 --> 01:03:11,541
♪ Just tell me
She was my baby ♪
1233
01:03:11,574 --> 01:03:15,074
♪ And obviously
She drives me crazy ♪
1234
01:03:15,106 --> 01:03:19,407
♪ For putting me
This loyalty, that's right ♪
1235
01:03:19,441 --> 01:03:21,308
♪ We're so close
That I could taste it ♪
1236
01:03:21,341 --> 01:03:22,441
OG style, baby.
1237
01:03:22,474 --> 01:03:24,441
♪ Long haul,
I hope you like it ♪
1238
01:03:24,474 --> 01:03:27,174
♪ And I hope that
You're not faking ♪
1239
01:03:27,207 --> 01:03:30,008
♪ And I hope that
You never change ♪
1240
01:03:30,041 --> 01:03:32,475
♪ Seeing I've been
knocked out ♪
1241
01:03:32,508 --> 01:03:34,874
♪ Last chance
You better not blow it ♪
1242
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:37,441
♪ You better not blow it ♪
1243
01:03:38,074 --> 01:03:40,308
♪ Yeah ♪
1244
01:03:40,340 --> 01:03:43,008
♪ I'm not saying
It lasts forever ♪
1245
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:45,241
♪ 'Cause things happen
You know better ♪
1246
01:03:45,274 --> 01:03:47,609
♪ I guess this time
You were so close ♪
1247
01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:50,608
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1248
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,374
♪ I'm not saying
It lasts forever ♪
1249
01:03:53,407 --> 01:03:56,040
♪ 'Cause things happen
You know better ♪
1250
01:03:56,074 --> 01:03:58,542
♪ I guess this time
We weren't so close... ♪
1251
01:04:00,007 --> 01:04:02,908
Yo, yo, yo.
Next stop Nova Scotia. Whaddup?
1252
01:04:10,707 --> 01:04:14,374
Well, you know, when I first
went back to see my grandmother,
1253
01:04:14,408 --> 01:04:15,642
she had Alzheimer's.
1254
01:04:15,675 --> 01:04:17,408
I knew she was
getting really sick.
1255
01:04:17,441 --> 01:04:18,575
Who's that?
1256
01:04:19,473 --> 01:04:21,475
"I wanna go see Nana."
1257
01:04:21,508 --> 01:04:24,374
"Well, Justin, I don't know if you want
to go in there because she's not talking.
1258
01:04:24,407 --> 01:04:25,441
"She hasn't been talking
in months."
1259
01:04:25,475 --> 01:04:28,575
This community should be
very proud of you, Justin.
1260
01:04:29,141 --> 01:04:30,408
I am.
1261
01:04:30,441 --> 01:04:33,040
- And I'm speaking on behalf of your grandmother...
- Mm-hmm.
1262
01:04:33,074 --> 01:04:34,408
...that's not able to be...
1263
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,475
- I mean, she's here, but not able to speak.
- I know that, yeah.
1264
01:04:36,507 --> 01:04:39,607
Because she can't speak
for herself, for this,
1265
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,940
- she'd be overjoyed right now.
- She'd be overjoyed.
1266
01:04:41,974 --> 01:04:43,341
This is my grandmother
right here.
1267
01:04:43,373 --> 01:04:44,407
- Yeah.
- As you can see.
1268
01:04:45,141 --> 01:04:46,308
Noreen Smith.
1269
01:04:48,073 --> 01:04:49,641
She taught me how to sing.
1270
01:04:49,675 --> 01:04:51,375
I grew up singing
in church with her.
1271
01:04:53,006 --> 01:04:54,241
Everything.
I did everything with her.
1272
01:04:55,140 --> 01:04:56,342
She means the world to me.
1273
01:04:57,041 --> 01:04:58,675
And, uh...
1274
01:04:58,708 --> 01:05:02,141
She can't speak at the moment
right now, but, I mean,
1275
01:05:02,173 --> 01:05:04,242
we're still... You know what I mean?
Everything is still great.
1276
01:05:06,274 --> 01:05:07,642
How you doing, Nan?
1277
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:10,575
Give me a kiss.
1278
01:05:10,607 --> 01:05:12,241
Well, okay.
1279
01:05:12,274 --> 01:05:15,608
Remember...
♪ I am redeemed Bought with a price ♪
1280
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,107
- That's right.
- See?
1281
01:05:17,140 --> 01:05:23,607
♪ Jesus has changed
my whole life, yeah ♪
1282
01:05:23,641 --> 01:05:24,675
You remember that?
1283
01:05:28,207 --> 01:05:29,240
Uh-huh.
1284
01:05:33,374 --> 01:05:34,340
Nice.
1285
01:05:40,106 --> 01:05:42,374
Mmm, very nice.
1286
01:05:42,407 --> 01:05:43,542
How'd you know that?
1287
01:05:45,107 --> 01:05:46,408
Well, I love you.
I'll see you later.
1288
01:05:47,675 --> 01:05:48,642
- Mmm.
- Okay?
1289
01:05:49,374 --> 01:05:50,541
Yeah.
1290
01:05:50,573 --> 01:05:51,541
Okay.
1291
01:05:57,341 --> 01:05:59,575
Wow. Like, did you see that?
1292
01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:02,973
Bro, like, they said that,
"Your grandmother don't talk no more.
1293
01:06:03,007 --> 01:06:05,908
"She doesn't really sing
like how you used to."
1294
01:06:05,941 --> 01:06:09,340
But, bro, like, she started singing the
same song that we always sing together.
1295
01:06:09,374 --> 01:06:11,007
And, you know, it's really
important that I saw her,
1296
01:06:11,041 --> 01:06:15,008
because I'm not really sure
when's the next time I'm gonna see her, so.
1297
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,241
It meant a lot to me, so, yeah.
1298
01:06:17,274 --> 01:06:18,642
And next thing
you know,
1299
01:06:18,674 --> 01:06:20,940
she passed away
on Christmas Day.
1300
01:06:20,973 --> 01:06:23,574
And that was the last time
that I got to see her,
1301
01:06:23,607 --> 01:06:25,440
and she sang to me,
1302
01:06:25,474 --> 01:06:28,208
and she spoke to me,
and that was amazing.
1303
01:06:28,241 --> 01:06:29,674
That was, like,
1304
01:06:29,707 --> 01:06:31,508
the greatest feeling.
I can't explain it.
1305
01:06:32,206 --> 01:06:33,207
Yeah.
1306
01:06:42,508 --> 01:06:46,540
Maybe one day
somebody will tell our story.
1307
01:06:46,573 --> 01:06:49,507
Maybe one day we'll be in
control of the narrative.
1308
01:06:49,541 --> 01:06:51,609
When we look
at someone like Justin,
1309
01:06:52,507 --> 01:06:54,040
a product of our community
1310
01:06:54,074 --> 01:06:57,074
who says,
"Listen, I wanna take you back,
1311
01:06:57,107 --> 01:06:59,041
"I wanna take you back
to where I grew up.
1312
01:06:59,074 --> 01:07:01,008
"I wanna take you back
to where it started,
1313
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:05,040
"I wanna show you the
ingredients that created me."
1314
01:07:05,074 --> 01:07:06,208
That's what it's all about.
1315
01:07:08,140 --> 01:07:13,140
For years, North Preston had
been looked down on by everybody,
1316
01:07:13,173 --> 01:07:17,507
because of the negativity that
comes out of the community.
1317
01:07:17,540 --> 01:07:21,308
But the way I look at it, this
negativity, it's all over the world.
1318
01:07:21,340 --> 01:07:23,908
There's a lot of good things
that come out of this community
1319
01:07:23,941 --> 01:07:26,308
that are unheard-of, unseen.
1320
01:07:26,341 --> 01:07:28,640
They don't see the good
and the great stuff that we have.
1321
01:07:28,673 --> 01:07:31,607
We have doctors, we have
lawyers, we have surgeons.
1322
01:07:31,639 --> 01:07:34,640
We have so much,
but that stuff never reaches the media.
1323
01:07:34,674 --> 01:07:36,075
I think that there's...
1324
01:07:36,108 --> 01:07:39,908
There's been a much more balanced
view of North Preston in recent years,
1325
01:07:39,941 --> 01:07:41,375
but for a long time,
1326
01:07:41,407 --> 01:07:45,374
we had areas that were considered
to be very heavily ridden with crime
1327
01:07:45,407 --> 01:07:47,340
and North Preston
was the same way.
1328
01:07:47,374 --> 01:07:51,441
The change of North Preston's
image has come from within.
1329
01:07:51,473 --> 01:07:54,208
People just want people
to see what's there,
1330
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,040
which is a very vibrant
community of amazing people.
1331
01:07:57,074 --> 01:07:58,674
North Preston's
been a threat to everybody
1332
01:07:58,706 --> 01:08:00,940
because this is the
foundation of everything.
1333
01:08:00,974 --> 01:08:03,174
People will get
North Preston confused,
1334
01:08:03,206 --> 01:08:05,208
but the world's confused.
1335
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,340
The world's like
an upside-down map.
1336
01:08:08,374 --> 01:08:10,508
And everybody's confused.
1337
01:08:10,541 --> 01:08:13,408
If there was no confusion,
there wouldn't be no war.
1338
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:14,873
There wouldn't be
no more fighting for nothing.
1339
01:08:14,907 --> 01:08:18,174
There'd be no struggles, there'd be
no change, there'd be no progress,
1340
01:08:18,207 --> 01:08:19,107
there'd be no nothing.
1341
01:08:19,140 --> 01:08:22,974
When we talk about
our educational system,
1342
01:08:23,006 --> 01:08:26,173
we still have too many of our young
people dropping out of school,
1343
01:08:26,207 --> 01:08:28,241
because our young people
will say,
1344
01:08:28,274 --> 01:08:32,208
"Why should we stay in school
if there is no economic light
1345
01:08:32,240 --> 01:08:35,008
at the end
of the educational tunnel?
1346
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:36,408
Then why stay in school?"
1347
01:08:36,440 --> 01:08:41,073
Do we have to be concerned
that poverty has forced
1348
01:08:41,106 --> 01:08:45,907
a lot of our young men and young
women into lives of crime? Yes.
1349
01:08:45,940 --> 01:08:48,539
So, if you want to address
community crime,
1350
01:08:48,573 --> 01:08:51,308
address racism,
address poverty.
1351
01:08:51,340 --> 01:08:54,007
But, even as a pastor,
1352
01:08:54,041 --> 01:08:57,241
if I've got
this righteous rage in me,
1353
01:08:57,273 --> 01:09:00,340
just think about the young brothers
and sisters who are not pastors,
1354
01:09:00,374 --> 01:09:02,275
the kind of rage they have.
1355
01:09:02,307 --> 01:09:06,141
And if it is not dealt with,
it will manifest itself.
1356
01:09:06,173 --> 01:09:08,274
Right now,
we're turning on each other,
1357
01:09:08,308 --> 01:09:09,574
instead of turning to
each other.
1358
01:09:11,007 --> 01:09:12,574
But what happens
1359
01:09:12,607 --> 01:09:14,908
when we get tired
of turning on each other?
1360
01:09:14,941 --> 01:09:17,141
What happens
when we begin to realize
1361
01:09:17,174 --> 01:09:20,008
that the oppressor
is not our community,
1362
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:21,541
and then we rise up
against the oppressor?
1363
01:09:23,941 --> 01:09:28,074
Hallelujah, hallelujah!
It all belongs to the Lord.
1364
01:09:28,107 --> 01:09:30,341
It all belongs to you,
Lord God.
1365
01:09:30,373 --> 01:09:34,140
Everything that I have,
everything that I am,
1366
01:09:34,173 --> 01:09:37,473
everything that I would
hope to be, Lord God,
1367
01:09:37,507 --> 01:09:39,441
it all belongs to you.
1368
01:09:39,473 --> 01:09:43,108
My mind, Lord God,
my body, Lord God,
1369
01:09:43,141 --> 01:09:45,375
everything belongs to you.
1370
01:09:45,407 --> 01:09:48,440
My soul belongs to you,
Lord God.
1371
01:09:48,473 --> 01:09:52,141
Let this church
always be a church of love.
1372
01:09:52,173 --> 01:09:55,240
- Lord God, and if it is not, remove anything...
- Yeah.
1373
01:09:55,273 --> 01:09:58,140
...that hinders love
from our bodies.
1374
01:09:58,174 --> 01:10:01,540
Remove the pettiness,
remove the spitefulness,
1375
01:10:01,573 --> 01:10:05,074
remove the bitterness,
remove the laziness,
1376
01:10:05,106 --> 01:10:08,173
remove all the ism
and the schisms, Lord God,
1377
01:10:08,206 --> 01:10:12,473
that would cause this church, Lord
God, not to be a beacon of love
1378
01:10:13,074 --> 01:10:14,041
and hope.
1379
01:10:14,607 --> 01:10:17,606
Love, and hope.
1380
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,439
Coming down from the
mountain top of St. Thomas,
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01:10:20,473 --> 01:10:23,375
into the valley
of North Preston.
1382
01:10:23,408 --> 01:10:27,474
Remind us that these bodies
are temporary anyway.
1383
01:10:27,506 --> 01:10:31,240
What profits a person to gain
the world and lose their soul?
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01:10:31,274 --> 01:10:33,540
Forgive us, Lord God,
all of us.
1385
01:10:33,572 --> 01:10:36,408
This we ask, this we pray.
1386
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,473
- Amen. Amen.
- Amen.
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01:11:10,522 --> 01:11:15,522
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