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Everything
you're searching for,

you have within you.

And you can create
that inner wealth

that turns into outer
success later on.

That's what feeling rich
is really all about.

It's strange because
when I was a kid,

everybody used to always ask me

if I was gonna get into
music like my father

and it became such a
repetitive question,

that I almost tried
to intentionally

do something different
just for that.

I've worked on numerous successful
multi-platinum projects

throughout my career.

But this is the most
important project

that I've ever
been involved with,

mainly because it has the
potential to transform,

an entire generation
for the better.

Over 60% of kids that group
up in lower-income areas

like South Central, Los Angeles

grow up in a
single-parent household

and because of this rappers
take on an exaggerated influence

in their life.

They become almost
like a father figure

in their own father's absence.

So what would happened
if you applied

this massive
influence to health.

Well, I'm about to tell you
hip-hop's biggest secret.

We are in the midst of
a huge transformation.

We're watching our
entire culture be reborn.

So as we were being reborn
and we look at this nation,

we want to go backwards and
see what made the nation great.

What made the nation
great was always a strong,

agricultural system.

And that technology, that
expertise was then exploited.

That exploitation caused
many of us to back away from

agriculture and we
monetized the food

but we were dealing
with free labor.

The huge inequity
that that started,

it got people very angry.

It got people very
sad, very frustrated

so here comes all the problems
that come from that, right?

So we're moving back to the
circle, spiraling back inward.

And I think it's
important to note that

we're having this
conversation in the midst of

what I believe is
a cultural shift

that is happening
in this country.

A transformation in
how we live and eat.

There's a shift in
consciousness about food,

about taking care of
yourself, exercise.

The fact that more
people are concerned with

what they do or don't eat
in the hip-hop community

means that you'll hear more.

Anybody you like
in pop culture,

if they're not on a health path,

they're somebody in their
ear right now as we speak

telling them, you better
get on a health path,

'cause that's what's poppin'.

Look outside, don't be blind.

And the people
being aware of it.

The more we push it, the
more we can get it out there.

Instead of telling
people, let's show people.

Show people you
work out everyday.

Show people what
you eat everyday.

You show people everything else,
when you on the red carpet,

you show people behind
the scenes and do videos...

show a motherfucker when you're
in the gym for two hours.

Hip-hop is truly a reflection
of the community usually.

It's a reflection of what's
going on in the inner cities

of America and now
suburban America also.

I think as artists, we could
take the responsibility to say,

this is my lifestyle
and people start

gravitating towards it.

This artist is into
healthy lifestyle,

this artist actually
is into yoga.

And this artist, you know,
actually is a vegetarian.

You know, when you find those
things out, you're like,

man that person fly,
and they do that?

I'm with it.

You had this big Southern
migration that took place,

like in the twenties,
African-Americans

were moving out of the South,
fleeing the Ku Klux Klan,

they came to urban areas.

They no longer wanted to farm.

They wanted urban jobs,
so it created a system.

But not only did we
dismiss agriculture,

it created a system where
we were no longer eating

the way we had been eating as
sharecroppers and as farmers.

We were no longer sitting
at the table together.

And so that Southern
migration brought us forward,

but it also took us back.

You go to any hood,
you know what you got.

You got the liquor store,
you got the, you know...

- Chicken store
- McDonald's.

Chicken store.
- Yeah. fried chicken store.

Basically, the
concept of food desserts

is when you don't have
access to fresh produce

within like a one to
seven mile radius.

And there's a lot of
neighborhoods all across America

where people don't have that.

It would be almost
impossible for them

to get their hands
on fresh produce.

That adds anther
layer of difficulty

in trying to stay healthy
when all you see around you

is beer and cigarettes
and chips and fast food.

Growing up in Brooklyn,
the type of foods

that I ate was a
lot of fried foods.

A lot of fried
chicken, fried fish.

Pork chop, a fried
platano maduros or tostones

or fried chicken or fried steak.

McDonald's, Jack in the
Box, cookies and milk,

like I would eat that
for dinner sometimes.

Mac and cheese,
a lot of pasta,

fried chicken, potato
chips, cookies.

Wings or you know a
egg roll or some chips,

whatever's on the boulevard.

A lot of African-Americans
believe that

they eat bad and
that's their thing.

We are used to eating
well-seasoned foods,

foods that taste good.

Back in the slavery
days, you know,

they had to make
dishes out of food

that the general population
didn't wanna eat.

The tops of turnips, you
know the turnip greens,

and the tops of mustard.

They learned how to
make the best out of

all of the imperfect conditions.

- It goes back to slavery days.

When they would be out in
the fields picking corn,

that's what they
would get to eat.

The scraps and stuff and
make cornbread out of it.

So now it's just a part
of Southern culture.

I used to eat
chitlins and pig feet.

I didn't know what
they were, I was a kid.

And it was good, you know
you just eat and just...

you don't know any better,
it's what you brought up on

and then one day I walk
in my mom's kitchen

and she's cleaning
chitlins and I'm like,

what is that smell and she's
like, these are the chitlins.

And I'm like, what is that,
explain to me what this is.

And she's, well the
pig's intestines.

You never told me that before.

In the South no
one thinks that

you're supposed to be a vegan,

you're supposed to eat
fried chicken and fried food

and pork and all of that,
that's what we grew up on.

Growing up in
Texas it's kinda hard

when everybody in the whole
state is trying to get you

to be bigger, you know.

Oh you big, oh you gonna
be a big football player.

That's what they
tell you, you know?

They don't say, damn man,

you a little big to
be 11, 12 years old.

They say, aw, you gonna
be a big football player.

They encourage you to be bigger.

The food was always a
big deal for our family.

If you cry, your grandma
offered you something to eat.

You want some pie,
you want some cake?

Food has always
been an important part

of the African-American culture.

You know my
grandmother always said

that if we can do
anything for people,

we could give them
something to eat.

They feel like they showing
somebody love by feeding them.

So especially if
you a chubby kid,

everybody wanna get on your
good side of the family

and every house you go to
they giving you more treats

and more treats and more treats.

Hey I got a little
ice cream for you.

My mom was diabetic, so
I shoulda known better.

But for whatever reason
I had the sweetest tooth

known to mankind.

- We was filled with carbs.

We'd have four cans of
Planters red-skinned peanuts

and four giant bars
of Mr. Goodbars.

And then we'd send
out for number four

of Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.

Being in this
industry is not really

being health-conscious.

You know when you're
traveling from city to city,

three o'clock in the
morning is the time when

you can get a meal,
like the Waffle House

becomes like the mainstay.

And the IHOP becomes a mainstay.

My studio is next
door to a 7-Eleven,

so when it gets 3:00,
4:00 in the morning,

you were going over
there to get the Funyuns,

and you know Welch's grape soda

and then we coming
back over there

and smoking and all of that.

You eating before
you go the show.

You might eat at the show,
'cause now you're hungry,

you built up a appetite
from running on stage.

Then from there, you're smoking.

Then from when you're smoking,

you're going to the after party.

Drinking like five
bottles of Rosé.

You may not realize
it at that time

'cause you young and
you moving around

and you working your body still.

But as you get older,
you sit still more.

All that stuff
starting to take effect

when you really sit down
and you look at yourself,

well damn, did get
a little stomach.

You don't see it yourself until
somebody start telling you.

Before you were Lil Cease,
three years later people going,

yo, what up fat boy?

It's interesting because
rap is such a genre

where it feeds off
of eating good.

That's what it talks about,

like when you get to making
money, it's like, I'm eating.

That's like a slogan in rap.

And if you eating,
you getting fat.

That's one of the statements
that you hear people say,

you guys got fat
when I was gone.

You know what I mean,
that's like the mafia thing.

I actually took a lot of
pride in being a fat guy

and I embraced the image
and the Fat Joe name.

You know we got
this thing of like,

as more successful as we are,

we think we're better
because we can eat more.

We was like the fat society.

- When Paul and I first met,

he would eat any
and every thing.

My highest weight
was 320 pounds.

That's when I was just too
embarrassed to get on the scale,

after that I was, man I ain't
getting on the scale no more.

This where I'm 320.

You know it's embarrassing
when you ride on the plane

and you gotta ask for
the seatbelt extender.

Don't nobody wanna do
that, that's not playa,

you know what I'm saying?

That's not playa at
all if you gotta ask

for the seatbelt extender.

And I would just think, man,

if I died just from being
fat and falling out.

I didn't think
we'd live past 35.

I really didn't.

Charlie Parker died at 35,

our idols didn't
make it you know.

One of the saddest
days of my life

was when he passed away.

He caught a heart attack.

He died too young, he
was beyond talented.

Like one of the
greatest rappers ever

and besides that I lost a
best friend and a brother.

He was always big.

And uh, Pun liked to eat.

You know and he eat
all the wrong things

Kentucky Friend Chicken,
lot of Chinese food.

Big Pun was one of the
biggest rappers in the game

but he couldn't really
move around like that.

He was just so big where if
we walked through the hotel,

he would run out of breath
before we get to his room.

If we did a show, we would
make sure we did all the words

to make sure he could breathe.

It was just sad man, his
health was deteriorating.

And we tried man and he
just gained that weight

and before you knew
it, he passed away.

I shoulda learned then, but
you know I was still young,

I was still wildin'.

I still was thinking, you
know, it is what it is.

You know I got depressed for
two years and I didn't care.

I started eating
a lot and drinking

and just, and then
I just got so big.

It wasn't 'til recently that

I lost a bunch of my
friends to being overweight.

They caught heart
attacks, all of them.

And just last year alone I
lost like six, seven friends.

Young guys, 34,
32, all overweight.

You know, and these was all
good guys, and funny guys,

and make you laugh and the
coolest and you never thought

they would die and they
were all too young.

First time I heard
that Heavy D passed,

it was just a shock to us,
it still kinda shocking us.

Just trying to come
to grips with it.

- It's too soon.

He's too young and
doesn't make sense.

It doesn't matter
what age you are,

you're supposed to
check yourself out,

you gotta maintain yourself.

It's the most important thing
to take care of your health

early on because you
get up there in age

and you got all these problems,

and at a certain
point it's too late.

The age of people
passing away is getting

younger and younger.

We cannot assume if we're
young that tomorrow's promised.

So it's a day to really
reflect on a great young man.

He was inspirational, he was
a friend, he was a brother.

He's a genuine dude,
he's gonna be well-missed

but he's gonna be remembered.

It was an extension
of who he is.

It was love and lot
of joy, lot of tears,

but tears filled with joy.

That's why I love
Heavy D because Heavy D,

he put love and family
first and foremost.

Heavy did it and he
did it like a king.

You know he felt it
was very important

to give a positive
message in his music

and he always stuck to that.

His love still lives
on through all of us

that were touched,
influenced by him.

I think those who were influenced by him,
carry the love.

It allows him to
live on forever.

We would talk about
something called the barbecue

and what the barbecue
represented was coming

to a place in life
where we didn't have to

worry about bills and
health and all of that.

He got to the barbecue
sooner than I did.

But that's where
he's at right now,

so he's gonna be missed...

uh, sorely missed.

- Hip-Hop loses Heavy.

You see this?

Yo that's the
craziest thing man,

Heavy D inspired me, I mean,

to the highest levels.

He was a big guy like
me, he liked the girls,

he liked being fly.

We never seen a big guy
dressed fly like that before,

dance and have fun like that.

Just a classy guy, a stand
up guy, a beautiful person

and it's really,
really, really sad.

This childhood obesity
epidemic right now

cost our nation about 15
billion dollars a year.

The adult obesity in
America costs upwards of

150 billion dollars a year.

You know when I talk
to pediatricians

who were trained in the
sixties and seventies,

they tell me that
they never learned

how to deal with diabetes,
because they didn't have to.

Children didn't have diabetes.

At the time, type II
diabetes was called.

adult late-onset diabetes.

And your grandmothers or
your elders would all go

to a doctor at some point
in their life and find out,

oh, you have diabetes.

Well now we have
children presenting with

adult diseases at
this point in time.

If a child is
overweight or obese,

they are 30-40% more
likely to have diabetes

in their lifetime, have
hypertension in their lifetime,

have a stroke in their lifetime,

have heart disease
within their lifetime.

As Surgeon General
I have the challenge

of being America's doctor.

One of the areas that we
noticed where there were

disparities is in
minority populations.

African-Americans and
Hispanics, Native Americans,

things like obesity
and childhood obesity,

diabetes and
hypertension and strokes.

These populations
are the fastest growing

populations in the country.

So the fastest growing
populations in the country

are living sicker and have
the potential of dying younger

than other populations
in our country.

If you are an
African-American,

you're nearly twice as
likely to suffer a stroke

than your Caucasian
counterparts.

In this country, there are
75 million children, okay?

23 million of them are
overweight or obese

at this point in time.

That's one-third
across the board.

If they're African-American,
born after the year 2000,

two out of three.

If they're Latino,
2 out of three.

- But if these trends continue,

this could be the first
generation of children,

not to live as long
as their parents.

The nature of spiritual
evolution is very simple.

It's like being on a train,

and you're riding uptown

and you know the place
you're going is downtown.

You have to get off the
train, go to the other side

and go the other way.

And that's an
individual's choice,

because everybody on the
train is riding the wrong way.

You gotta get the
fuck off the train

and go the other way.

And then make choices
from the inside out

rather than the outside in.

We don't have to
have to be sheep.

We don't have to be
any of these things,

but each individual has
to make that choice.

If you don't make that
choice on your own,

it's never gonna work.

Because they'll make
a choice for you.

I'm gonna eat this nasty-ass,
fat, uncomfortable shit,

and you eat it, and
you get the little high

but then what do you do?

Eventually you feel sick
and fat and weighted down.

You go out, you sniff
coke and you drink

and you think you're having fun

and you wake up in the morning

with an extreme fucking headache
and then most of the day

you're trying to
clean up your head

and then you go back
and do the same shit.

Paul Wall, he was
losing it at one point,

I ain't gonna lie.

Paul was looking big.

I used to always tease
Paul, every time I seen him,

I was just like, wow,
you're getting fat,

you about to be out of there.

I started noticing the
promethazine at the studio

all the time, sipping drank,

they're mixing it
different ways.

That was like the drug
of choice at the studio.

The more he sipped, the more
he drank, the bigger he got.

The syrup just tears
your metabolism up,

'cause it slows your heart
rate down, slows your body down

and it puts you to sleep,
and has you feeling groggy.

You know after 10 plus
years of dranking it,

I'm pretty slow.

Paul Wall, that's
all he used to drink.

When I made the song "Grillz,"

he was the person who gave
me my first taste of lean.

He explained to
me, what that syrup

and that soda could do to me.

He was like, JD if you
notice all the dudes

that's leaning and drinking
this, they all big.

And he wasn't trying
to get that big,

but if you stay on that pace,

you definitely gonna get there.

You'll see people out here,
who sipping on that syrup

just blow up real fast
man and get real fat fast.

It ain't just the drug itself,

you know it's a lot go with it.

You know, taking that drug
make you not wanna go work out

or eat healthy or
you just be chilling

and it just get bad man,
everything get slow.

- You feel irritable.

I don't wanna be
fussing at my kids.

But I'm fussing at my kids

'cause I ain't
slept in two weeks.

I don't wanna be
bothered by being a dad,

I wanna lean right now.

This is the cycle, the
same negative behavior.

But one night you forget to
get high or you fall asleep

and then you wake up the
next morning refreshed

and you find out, that
morning meditation is better

than late night drinking.

But then you have
to be committed to

remember to remember
what this gives you.

And then you have to
make it your habit

and that takes
personal strength.

Went to my man's funeral,
and I seen his daughter,

his daughter was
like four years old,

same age as my daughter and I
looked at her and I was like,

yo I don't wanna do that.

I don't wanna leave
my daughter like that.

The obligations,
responsibilities as a man,

make you realize, I need to put
my kids before my pleasures.

That's where I found
a lot of motivation

and the wanting to
get my life together.

Wanna be a man and be a
father to my kids instead of

just living life
for my own pleasure.

Now I wanted to
live for my kids.

I would love him
regardless to how big he got,

it was just really
unhealthy and I worried

about how long he would be
around and I didn't like

how unhappy he was with himself.

To me, he seemed depressed.

The results you
wanna see in your life,

the successes you wanna see,
whether it's through your work,

whether it's in
your relationships.

It starts with like who you are

and how you feel about yourself.

I had surgery in New
Year's Eve of 2010,

and I had did everything I
could do up to that point

to try to lose weight
and I felt like this was

my last resort,
having the surgery.

'Cause I wasn't just overweight,
I was morbidly obese.

And the doctor told me that if
you're 50 pounds overweight,

it takes 15 years off your life.

That's real time, 15
years is a long time.

So I said man, this is an
investment for my life,

for my family, it's something
I really need to do.

I can either wait 'til it gets
too bad and I have no choice

or I can get on it now
so that I will be here

'til I'm 70, 80, 90 years old.

We were very
supportive of him,

because we were all
worried about him.

You know we love him,
we want him to be around

forever and ever and ever.

We have children, like you
know, that's my soul mate.

When I went in
to get my surgery,

I didn't want to do
something that was

only gonna have me right
for, you know a couple years.

It's the lifestyle changes.

Not just, well he got surgery,
you know what I'm saying?

Yeah I had surgery
but I also, I train...

I go hard in the
gym, I eat right.

It's a lifestyle change.

Where
we headed to now?

- Eaton Canyon man.

It's like my new,
it's my new trail.

I did four months at Runyon.

Kinda took it over, so I
figured I'd change it up

on starting my third
60 day challenge

which is pretty much
gonna be my entire core.

Once you complete
the first 60 days,

then the next 60 days
is to rebuild the body.

And then the next 60
days is just maintenance.

So do through the
hikes and the training,

and our diet and meal plans,

we're able to create a stable
environment for people.

Game's awesome, he's
inspiring a lot of people

to stay on their
fitness and workout.

When you have other people
that wanna motivate you,

it makes things a lot easier,
it makes working out fun.

Once you start and you
get on this fitness grind

like this, it goes forever.

Like I'm gonna have to
eat healthy and workout

for the rest of my life.

So if you're not dedicated to
yourself, don't even start,

because you're
wasting your time.

You can't ask your
body questions.

Like you do something
that you're afraid of

and you ask yourself,
are you ready to do this?

Well you've already killed

half of the
determination in yourself

because you're giving
yourself an option to say no.

What I do with myself is I
was wake up in the morning

and I say, you
know, let's get it.

I'm getting diesel
right now.

I got the eye of the tiger,
you know what I'm saying?

Quick start.

Three, two, one, let's go.

Just did like five
mile run, stop, hike,

waterfall thing man.

And you know what, you would
thing that after all of that,

that you would feel exhausted,
but you know how I feel?

I feel rich.

That's it.

I decided to create the
MixFitz Turn-Up because

in my Zumba classes the
ladies were having a blast.

- Here we go!

Step.

Back.

- Class was great.

We had a blast, it was so much
fun, I had a good workout.

Oh my God, it was
a workout for real.

- Had a great time!

Even the white girl
learned how to dance.

It's a lot of energy
and we have a blast.

However, there was
something missing,

I wanted to keep it
authentic to Houston flavor.

To that Southern flavor.

So the ladies wanted
to get ratchet.

So we decided that we
were gonna start something

where we could have
good, clean, ratchet fun.

You know, it's a big woman
gang, everybody's Beyoncé.

Everybody's on stage
when you're there,

you're on stage,
you're having fun.

And so, I mean, it's like
having a big old crew.

I absolutely feel like
we are at the beginning

of a self-love revolution.

Like for real.

Anytime you step
outside of yourself

and achieve something that
you never thought possible,

I think you start looking
at yourself different.

Like, goddam, you a champ.

Holistic health is not
just focusing on exercise

or what you eat or
meditating and doing yoga,

it's all three, so it's
mind, body and spirit.

So I feel like the one
person that truly embodies

holistic health like
who's really the prototype

is Stic.Man from Dead Prez.

And he's pretty much
dedicated his whole life now

to putting message
of health out there

to the urban community.

When I went to his
house, it blew my mind

because we went to Atlanta
and he opens the door

and it just felt so
good in their home.

And for one, it was great
to see healthy black family

doing all this stuff together
and picking vegetables

and cooking them right away

and they're the
prototype in my opinion.

They're very much into the
mind, body and spirit of it all.

There's a Buddhist
story called

of the farmer who knows
what's good or bad.

Farmer's horse runs off his
neighbor comes over and says

ah, I'm sorry you
lost your horse man

and the farmer's he's like,
who knows what's good or bad?

Maybe a week later, that
same horse comes back

with 12 more horses
following him

and so his neighbors
sees all the horses

and he's like, wow
man, what a blessing.

You got all these
new horses for free.

And farmer was just like,
who knows what's good or bad?

Soon after that, the farmer's
son ride one of these

fancy new horses that they got,

falls off and break
his leg though.

So the neighbor
sees that and says,

oh, I'm so sorry what
happened to your son,

but the wise farmer just says,
who knows what's good or bad?

The king of the province
is coming to draft

all the young men for war.

And they get to the farmer's
house to get his farmer's son,

but he got a broken leg, so
he don't have to go to war.

So not just the moral of this
story, but the moral of life.

When we decide is good or bad,

is when we attach a perception.

And that's how we
can be disappointed

and that's how we suffer.

Real disease is when
you have a dis-easement

in yourself and it starts here.

It starts in your brain
and it sends that signal

through the rest of your
body that's feeling dis-ease

and that's why they
call it a disease.

A lot of diseases are like
just you stressing yourself

so far out, over either
something you can't control

or something that's gonna
be controlled anyway.

My mom used to tell me
when I was little like,

cry if you want to, you
just gonna have a headache.

All right your nose gonna be
running, you have a headache,

you still gotta
finish your homework.

So I learned to get
that part out of the way

and learned to get that
stress out of the way.

Kinda take the chains
off of it, let it go.

Whether you realize
it, all day long,

everybody's doing this.

Even whether you
realize it or not.

Being attached to
anything in the world,

valuing anything in the world
will cause you suffering.

So the less you hold
on to this neediness,

the better off you'll be.

And it's not something
that I write it in my book

because it sounds good,
it's something that

Abraham and Jesus and
Mohammad and Lord Buddha

and in The Yoga Sutras, it's
stated over and over again

the smart people
tell us this shit.

Don't attach yourself to things

that have nothing to
do with your happiness.

A business guy,
they're so funny like,

they get some money and
they excited for a second.

They get happy because
the stock exchange goes up

and their heart gets down
'cause the stock goes down.

And their happiness
is manufactured.

People are
literally killing themselves

trying to attain
material wealth.

Cause they thing that's
what's gonna make them happy.

It's all about
how you feel inside

that motivation that keeps
you confident and all that.

Some people buy
the material shit

because ain't nothing
else good about them.

Those outer things
really can come and go.

But what you have
inside is yours.

That yours forever and
that's what you have

to nurture for the
rest of your life

and that's what will sustain
you when you don't have

the change because material
things will come and go.

You will be the hottest
artist at one point

and then at some point,

people be trying to
remember your name.

The human mind and
the subconscious mind

they're the strange pieces
of our equipment too.

Your mind is gonna take
you to that next level,

on where you trying to go.

When you in the playoff
game seven, so to speak,

you really can't
depend on your body.

You have to depend on your mind.

- Know how powerful you are.

Women, we are powerful.

Running in general
is certainly a time

that your thoughts
make or break that run.

If you have a day
where you feel like,

I'm tired.

I'm hot.

This is far.

If you let that
pattern of thoughts go,

you're not having a good run.

And then another day, your
same body, your same mind,

your same road that you run on,

oh, I feel like I
could run for days.

I had energy and I
was just thinking

and it was just beautiful
and your thoughts fed that

but our perception is what
gives us that experience.

Negative or positive or
whatever, it's just perception.

Most of the
time when we don't feel good,

it's because of our thoughts.

We wake up in the morning,
we just have a bad feeling,

a icky feeling or
something like that.

How we react to those
feelings is up to us.

And I think that's what
meditation helps you with.

Is it helps you clear away
sort of the artificial thoughts

and it brings out
the organic thoughts.

That's why we meditate to
practice so the mind can be

slowed down so we don't have
the noise, mind is settled.

This is the kind of stillness,

this kind of focus
that promotes bliss.

The difference I've
noticed with meditation is

we're more peaceful in
ourselves, like we just...

it's a time, that you
can take for yourself

to just be still.

And it allows the
Universe to just open up

and just have things for you
that maybe you weren't able to

see clearly if you
weren't meditating.

It's something about
being in tune with yourself

when you meditating and
just communing with yourself

that is like one of the most
purest things you can do,.

It's nothing outside that
can disturb your world

and it's all you
dealing with you.

The whole idea of
hip-hop in popular culture

or whatever is about cool.

Being under pressure,
having your composure,

nothing can move you
and you just that solid.

Meditation though is a way
to cultivate that real cool.

That actual cool under pressure.

And I think a lot of times,
we carry around a lot of noise

in our head and
when you meditate,

what you're doing is
you're breathing in

and just focusing
on breathing in,

if any other thoughts
come, you say thank you

but no thank you and you try
to just focus on breathing in

as deep as you can
and breathing out.

But what happens is
when we're stressed,

we're taking a breath in, and
as soon as you think about that

stressful thing,
you breath out again

and you're breathing
really shallow

and that's bad for your health.

It makes you more stressed.

Right, breathing shallow
is a fear response.

So, when you're
taking deep breaths

and just focusing on one thing,

a lot of that other noise
and stress just falls away.

Breathing though life, is
the solution to everything.

If we all took a deep breath
before we made a poor decision,

you know maybe we
wouldn't make it.

When you use meditation
along with eating a whole foods

plant-based diet, some
walking and moderate exercise

and spending more time
with your loved ones.

That these simple changes
can not only help prevent,

but even reverse the most
common and serious conditions.

It can lower your
blood pressure,

it can lower your
cholesterol levels even.

What we're finding is is
that transcendental meditation

when offered in
underserved urban schools,

that's there's a dramatic
transformation in that school

when now every child or
teenager in the school

has the ability for
10 minutes twice a day

to close his or her eyes
as part of the school day

and just experience a state
of rest and relaxation.

Deeper than sleep.

The child is alert, calm,
wide-awake and for education,

they call learning readiness
the most important thing

in education and for
learning readiness,

what they want is
restful alertness.

Kids, rather than having
all the distractions and noise

in their mind need to be
free to act accordingly.

A kid becomes a better
student, becomes less violent,

anxiety disappears.

You know it's so many
issues that youth deal with

that I don't think they have
an outlet for that sometimes.

Meditation can help them to
just be centered, you know.

It gives you a confidence, it
gives you a sense of peace.

The need for transcendental
meditation or quiet time

in schools is absolutely
unequivocally apparent.

10 million children
suffer from depression

and they're on
antidepressant medication.

Five million children
are diagnosed with ADHD

and other learning disorders
and the number three cause

of death in America among
teenagers is suicide.

So they
actually did a study

that showed that a 10
year old kid that grows up

like in the distressed
urban neighborhood

is dealing with the same
level of post-traumatic stress

as a man or woman coming back

from combat in Iraq
or Afghanistan.

You also know that when
a child doesn't graduate,

they enter the prison
pipeline to the tune of

a two million dollar per
child bill to society.

And there's like 40%
drop out rate now

in our inner-city high schools.

And you can't
medicate that away,

and you can't give every
child in-depth counseling,

but what you can do is equip
them with a simple tool

that anyone of them can learn
easily, instantaneously.

- So pick a sound.

There are lots of sounds
that people meditate on,

the om, shalom, salaam, amin,
amen, it can be anything.

Close your eyes and do that.

And let it fill up
your whole breath.

So take a breath in.

Om.

'Til you run out of air.

Do it again.

Stop, do it again.

Now, what's gonna happen,
your mind will wander,

you'll start to think
about, I gotta do this,

I forgot to do that.

Soon as you become
aware you're thinking

about something
else, bring it back.

Over and over and over again.

That's meditation.

So you start seeing an
improvement in test scores,

studies that were done in San
Francisco public high schools,

the worst schools have
become among the best schools

in the district, test scores
for example for English

and Math 40% improvement
in test scores.

There are so many
thousands of kids,

who you would never
think would meditate,

once they learn it,
they never wanna stop.

I think people would be
shocked what a big difference

three minutes of meditation
can do for your life.

Especially single mothers
who have sold custody

of their kids and there's
a lot of stress 'cause

they're working and then they
come right home to their kids,

meditation would
change their life.

- Poverty makes you very angry.

It's very hard to work
everyday and still can't afford

transportation, it's very
hard to work everyday

and not afford decent housing.

It's very debilitating to you
emotionally and physically

at times and I became a
single mother by choice,

my son when I was
in high school,

I adopted my son from the
community because my grandparents

took care of me and so I was
doing something that I knew

needed to be done, but I didn't
have the resources to do it.

And that did make me angry,
it made me angry to struggle

day in and day out,
despite working full time

and still be living in poverty.

And so many people
who are single mothers

in disadvantaged situations,

don't feel very powerful
at all, you feel helpless.

'Cause you don't feel like
you have much control.

Meditation gives you
a way out of that.

It gives you a sense of
being in control again.

Of empowering yourself.

You know, before
the kids wake up,

before anybody's up
before you have to do

any of your motherly duties,

just take your moment.

Your five, ten minutes and just.

If you going through some
struggle and you're upset

or you're angry and
if you take the time,

you will settle and
you'll say, wow,

you don't have to be at
the mercy of these emotions

and things like that.

They reminded me
that I had potential,

and I had the
ability to achieve.

It seems improbable that
I could come from poverty

as a single mother to
become a PHD holder.

But it's very possible
when you're willing to

invest in yourselves
and in your children

and you set the limits
to how far you can go.

If the mamas are out
there loving themselves

and taking care of
themselves and showing that

to their children and
stepping up in a major way.

I think when a young man
sees his mom in that light,

like it changes his world.

If you want your kid to
be invested in the world

in a happy way and not
an anxiety-prone way,

learn to meditate and
teach your children.

As soon as you meditate and
you keep your thoughts still,

then all of a sudden what
really is important will surface

and I think that more people
will find that self-love

through meditation and then
they'll wanna eat healthier

and wanna treat people
in a different way.

So I think it all starts in
the mind and in the spirit.

Well this will be
the last White House

Kitchen Garden planting for me.

Yeah, it was eight years
ago that we cooked up this

really interesting idea that
maybe we could dig up some dirt

on the South lawn, maybe
somebody would let us do that,

and we would plant a
wonderful garden that would be

a space for us to talk
about the food we eat.

When you
talk about holistic health

as it relates to
the urban community

because of the homicide
rates and the poverty rates

and the stress levels there,

you're gonna need different
types of solutions.

My name's Ron
Finley and we're in

South Central, Los Angeles.

Home of the drive-by.

Right behind us is what I like
to call my urban food source.

What inspired me to
create this food for us

is the lack of healthy
food in this community.

I wanted people to see that
you can grow your own food

and stop waiting for
others to do it for you.

Grow your own food,
empower yourself,

empower your community.

I wanted people to see how easy

and how beautiful it could be.

I just wanna bring back the
health to this community.

So with
all these food desserts,

there's also a lot of
bright spots out there.

We went to Detroit and
met with a company called

Urban Gardening.

I'm from Minneapolis,
but I lived on a farm

for three and half
years in my teens.

So when I saw all of that
unused land in the city,

my mind thought, well why
don't we just plant food

on that land?

So I put my recording
career on the back burner

and I started Urban Farming

and we started with three
gardens in Detroit, Michigan.

This is one of the
very first pamphlets

that I started
Urban Farming with.

Let everybody know that we
were getting ready to start

planting gardens so then in
2005, we really got started,

this is the first garden
planting that we did.

We grew in the second year,
we expanded into Minneapolis

St. Louis, New York,
Jamaica and Los Angeles.

This is a running ticker tape.

It's in real time so as
soon as somebody registers

their garden, anywhere in
the world this number goes up

and your garden will
appear on the global map.

And again, it started in
Detroit with just three gardens.

My name is Rashid Nuri,
I'm the President and Founder

of Truly Living Well Center
for National Urban Agriculture.

We produce over 30,000
pounds of food each year.

And we distribute it through our

community supported agriculture.

We sell it to some of the
finest restaurants in town.

We give double value to
folks who are on food stamps

and if someone is hungry
we just give them food.

80% of Americans,
live in cities.

So that's why urban
agriculture's becoming

more and more important,

we are proving the
economic viability

of the urban agriculture.

So it's all about deciding
how we're gonna have

abundant food systems
within urban settings.

Many organizations now
in the United States,

schools, faith-based
institutions,

non-profit organizations,

have land and due to the
fact that we're having

nutritional challenges
with our health

all throughout our community
these organizations are trying

to revisit their missions.

We are in the Third Ward
area of Houston, Texas.

At Alabama Gardens.

This property here belongs
to Texas Southern University

and they let us use this
property to grow vegetables.

We have 56 plots in
here and what we grow

we take care of families then
we take care of food banks.

I want people to be able
to take the food system back

because it's been taken from us.

There's over 400 and
something kinds of carrots.

You lucky if you find three
of them in the stores,

it's the same thing with apples.

They narrow our
food choices down,

so basically this whole food
reality thing is manufactured

for us and you're just
'sposed to follow it,

so I wanna bring
this whole palate,

this whole color that
we used to have in food,

I wanna bring that back so
that's what I'm telling people

get gangster with their
parkway and grow some food.

Growing your own
food, being healthy,

taking back your community,
not terrorizing your community,

that's gangster to me.

Local food is being pushed
throughout the markets,

and yet we don't
have enough growers.

And we definitely don't have
enough growers of color,

that are in a space where
they are able to sustain

themselves and provide
for their family.

So we wanna figure out
how we can bring in our,

do-for-self attitude with the
skills and the technologies

that allow us to grow
abundant amount of food

on small spaces.

- You can grow food, anywhere.

You know, you can grow food
in a box on your balcony,

you can grow food in buckets

and I tell people if it's some
soil, put something in it.

Because food should be free.

It's like printing
your own money, period.

One of the things
that people said to me

when we first started is,
you gotta put fences around

the gardens and I said
why, they said because

they're gonna steal the food.

And I said, well there's
nothing to steal,

that the food is free.

You cannot eat all of the
food that you can grow,

it's damn near impossible,

you will be eating
all day every day.

Just imagine if we had
a place where everybody

had their parkways planted.

Now you have a community
that's engaged and wanna...

I can tells somebody
hey, go over to Quincy's

and get me some carrots.

I can send my son over there
and you can send your son

over to my house
and get some onions.

Gardens build community
and that's real,

that's just period, it does.

What's important is getting
people to break bread,

to have conversation, the
community and the society

becomes more civil when
they're able to share

and to be healthy.

- Through urban agriculture,

you can find a way to address
most of the urban ills,

whether it's people overweight,

creating green spaces, giving
work for community service.

We also work with
returning citizens

that are coming out of
jail and they need to get

community service hours, they
would do that on our gardens,

but the difference was
they're not making money

for somebody else, they're
actually cultivating this food

for the community,
for themselves,

for their family and friends.

Basically this
is against the law

because the city
owns this property

but you have to maintain it.

It's ridiculous because we
have all this barren land

and all this space around here

that serves no
purpose whatsoever.

I wanna get something out of it.

We're not cows, we
can't eat grass.

Why wouldn't we
plant food on that...

like why would people
be going hungry?

There used to be a day and age

when people when
they saw unused land,

they immediately
thought about planting.

There are a lot of black
folk that wanna have nothing

to do with growing anything
and think what we're doing

is too close to slavery.

The older people in particular
who are only one or two

generations out of slavery,
don't wanna do this.

Not understanding that
the earth is where

all the wealth comes from.

Yeah that legacy does
exist with slavery,

you know the whole, well,
we don't do in the dirt.

Oh I don't do worms and I think
we have to flip the script

and let these people know.

No this is powerful.

You control your destiny,
soil to me is powerful.

I hear a lot of people say
when you bring up being healthy

or being vegan or being
in shape and all that is

I think a lot of people under
the impression that you need

to be wealthy or
be rich or famous.

Our true nature
going back to Africa

is to be healthy and
eco-friendly, you know.

To this day, we're very
eco-friendly and healthy there.

In Africa they don't really
believe in eating food

that's been refrigerated, they
wanna pick everything fresh,

whether it's meat or
vegetables or fruits,

everything is very fresh.

So it's actually
part of our nature,

but we've gotten away from that.

We have more to learn by far
from them in terms of wisdom,

quite frankly just being
happy, you know what I mean.

Like, I'm being serious,
everybody's happy,

they're feeling good.

It's a lot of lessons I think
we could learn from here.

Just seeing our essence
in a different light.

They got probably far
more struggles than we do,

but the way they process
it, it's just so different.

So very endearing and there's
a lot of love and warmth here.

We don't have good toilets,
we don't have good bath house,

you know, we just maintaining.

You see always I
tell myself that

I can see joy through the
pain because when it comes to

the ghetto all you see
is pain but everybody

just humble and cool.

Your strengths,
come from Africa.

The advantage that you
have over everybody else

in the world really,
is your African-ness.

When slaves ended up in America,
they didn't suddenly forget

everything that they had
learned, you know what I mean.

And how they treat
their children

and how they treat their parents

and how they treat their
brothers and sisters.

So if African-Americans
didn't have that

African in the them,
they'd be just like

the rest of the people,
you know what I mean.

Their value in spite of all
the hurdles and obstacles

and victimization and things
which have been thrown in

the paths of African-Americans

they have been able to overcome.

We shall overcome.

Stabilizing the food system
allows for the great thinkers,

the great musicians, the great
healers, the great teachers

to come because
they're being born

into a society that
nourishes them.

We grew food as a
communion with nature

with the understanding
that everyone should eat.

The elders should eat,
the children should eat,

but everyone should eat
the best possible food.

So we can get the
best possible results

from every member
of this society.

So what happens once we
monetize the food system?

The best food was being
sold or distributed

to just certain
people so then you had

a huge population
that was malnourished.

If you're constantly worried
about how you're gonna eat,

that's a file folder that
never shuts down in your mind.

So, all your energy is
going into that problem.

But if you can take that
problem off your plate,

then you might be able
to start thinking about,

oh well I'd like to get
training to get a job

and I can now put my energy
into that and ultimately,

people who have jobs, people
who are getting training,

that's what you want
in a healthy city.

I said if you can't
eat, you can't think

and if you can't
think, you can't learn

and if you can't
learn, you can't earn.

I'll give you an example of
one young man that I met,

he said to me that I used
to work in these gardens,

as a volunteer and I said,

really, what are you doing now?

And he said, well I'm a
male nurse and I said,

wow, that's great.

How'd you start to become
that and how did that happen?

And he said well, from urban
farming, from what I did

I learned how to care for
something outside of myself.

It's more than a
gardening organization.

Why?

We talk about healthy eating,

we talk about healthy thinking,

we talk about healthy
finances, healthy fitness,

healthy families.

It's a holistic
approach to healing.

- You know in terms of finding,

the healthy community
wherever you live,

like finding that group of
people that you can sort of

be peers with and when
you're around people

that are healthy,

automatically you pick
up a lot of their habits.

So this is our fridge, and
so since we're vegetarians,

it's a lot of veggies.

So if you're around successful
people who wanna treat

themselves well, you're gonna
probably fall into that.

If you're around people
who wanna do something bad

to other people and
have a negative mindset,

you're gonna fall into that.

I think people don't
eat healthy in the hood

because they're not hip to it

and you get caught up
when you in the hood,

in just what's around you.

They don't know that the people
that are living the longest

and living the best pretty
much try to eat healthy.

I was tired of just eating
fast food like, for me,

from me having common knowledge
of how I was growing up

cause when at home I would
eat veggies and fruits.

I was missing all of that
because I was going with

too much fried food,
too much, just too much.

So I started thinking, damn,
I need to start juicing up.

To somewhat balance it out
or just throw something good

in my body because it has
so much bad in my body.

It just became like
part of my culture

and part of my way of life

and the more I kept
living like that,

I started noticing
over a period of time,

I stopped eating fast food.

I start eating at home better.

I start shopping
better for myself,

I start doing more baked
things more grilled things.

Eating more veggies,
drinking more juices,

then I started noticing
the change in my body.

Then I was feeling real
great about myself,

I lost a lot of
weight and I was like,

wow, like this really
really really works.

It's something
about living healthy

that gives you a
different energy.

Like you know what I mean?

And this is what people don't
tell you and this is real,

this what we try to
share at Juices for Life.

Something about living
healthy gives your engine,

it's like cleaning it out.

Juicing up, eating
right and exercising

is gonna help you in your life.

That's what it's about so
we could all live right.

This is what in.

Line anybody who you like,
any modern pop star you like,

any rapper you like,
any athlete you like,

this is what they do.

This is the key to cool.

Juice up.

Steam your food.

Exercise.

Health is wealth.

Movement is medicine.

Feel rich.

Now I've been to Atlanta tons
of times since my early 20s

I been coming to Atlanta
for the last 20, 30 years

and I never knew there was
a vegan urban community

within the Atlanta scene.

I didn't know that.

We are at Soul Vegetarian
in Midtown Atlanta,

this is like one of the
restaurants that I had to find

when I became a vegan,
cause I think people,

they have misconstrued
what vegans eat,

that we can't eat
the same type of food

or it's not as good
as the regular food.

And this place is a
soul food restaurant,

that speaks to that
anybody that's saying that.

They got greens, potato
salad, cornbread,

rice and gravy, it's just
cooked in a different way.

You can't eat organic and
then go back to eating crap.

Oh, I know I'm doing wrong.

It's like I'm giving
myself cancer right now,

eating this hamburger.

I became a vegan after I
went on like a 22 day fast.

The way your body feels
as you clean your body,

you just can put that
stuff back in there.

So I wasn't really on the
mindset to become a vegan,

I was thinking I had to
just start eating cleaner.

But I felt so clean, I
was just like, I'm not.

I'mma go all the way with it.

And the fast
basically let you know

that the majority of the
time when you're hungry,

it's more mental than it
actually is real hunger.

People have this
term that they say,

I need a comfort food.

And so many times, people
turn to food for comfort.

But when I came to
Project Row Houses,

you know I made a
real concerted effort

to have a holistic
change in approach.

And I realized that food
didn't need to comfort me.

I had people, community
activities to comfort me.

You know on the quest
to holistic living,

I think one of the most
important things is to learn

to become aware of yourself
and I started to know myself

and know that I felt better
when I was eating fish.

It had to be a clean,
good fish you know?

Don't get me wrong, some
days I still go home

an eat some catfish
that my mother bought,

but that's not what I
would do on the everyday.

One thing they don't tell
you at the grocery store,

you go to the outer perimeter,

that's where all the
good healthy food is at.

The inside on the shelves

is where all the
processed food's at.

All the stuff that's bad for
you, just go to the outside.

The more color you have
in your food, the better.

So, I try to put tomato,
onion, bell pepper,

all these things in every
meal that I prepare.

You notice how low
the prices are too.

And most of these
prices are per pound,

and this isn't even a pound.

This celery right here,
for a price of a Snicker,

this about six or seven
snacks right here.

For the price of one Snicker.

I'm noticing some
things that I used to eat

that I don't eat
as much anymore.

I love brisket.

But brisket's not a every
weekend meal for me anymore.

Other things that
I always pass up,

pre-processed,
pre-packaged things.

'cause I don't know
what's being put on them,

I don't know what goes
into cooking that,

but I know that I'm gonna
put only heart-healthy

and healthy things on my meat.

I ain't even know there
was a difference from

fried and bake or broil,

I just thought
everything was fried.

There is a difference,
there is a choice.

You can justify eating
anything, you know.

I've heard some funny
lines about guys

make up these lies about food.

For me to be able to say,
I'm not going to eat meat,

and I'm not going to eat dairy,

it gave me a
discipline that help...

that started to affect the
other aspects of my life.

And I wanna make
this point clear,

it's like being vegetarian
or vegan doesn't

necessarily say that you
are all the way healthy.

You have to find what
the things are to eat

because at one point
when I was vegetarian,

I would just eat french
fries and salads.

And that wasn't really healthy,

so you have to find the things
that are good for your body.

I wish somebody
woulda told me earlier

about becoming a vegan, like
when I was like sixteen.

My health would incredible.

And I can honestly say like
if you run around and work

and stay in the studio
and party as much as I do,

this the only lifestyle for you.

Yeah, your energy's
totally different.

Your brain works different.

You can tell the difference
even if you go to eat a bunch of

Popeye's or you eat
a bunch of grease,

you gonna be so tired
once you get to the house,

or go to work, forget
about it, you get lazy.

But when you eat at
a certain standard,

you know it's even more fun.

It's like you found
somebody who cooks it right

and it's like not oily
an it's not heavy.

- I like coming to this place,

My Two Cents because I
love the energy here.

The food, the people
cook with love.

My Two Cents is in the
community in Los Angeles

where people from the inner
city can have access to it.

And I love this restaurant.

The vibe is right.

- I am chef Alisa Reynolds.

Originally from Los Angeles.

I've done events for
everyone from Barack Obama,

Oprah Winfrey, Common,
Reggie Bush, Matt Kemp.

You know it's an
old Southern saying,

you put your two cents in.

So this is my two cents,

my version of what
traditional American food

from the South is.

I saw the numbers of people
that were dying of diabetes

and obesity and I wanted
to do something different

but I always felt you can't
change someone sharply,

it's a about changing
people's mind

without changing the dish.

It's not trying to
change people instantly,

it's turning them on to
new things and slowly,

it could change people's lives.

See the thing is, you
gotta be able to ease it by

and not tell, you have to
prepare it so that people

can't tell the difference
in it or automatically

your brain just shuts it out.

I had a couple come in,
and he's eating the gumbo

and he's like man, this
sausage is so good.

And his whole family
is around and I'm like,

oh, that's vegan sausage
and he just stopped chewing

and his wife, everybody
started laughing.

And she's like, he's so
against vegetarian anything,

he just assumed
that it was meat.

It's mental, you know?

It's a mental reality that
people just are stuck with

over generations
and generations.

I think it's just getting
the community exposed to it.

Good tasting food that is
has healthy options to it.

If I tried to keep the
tradition that people recognize.

And change the method,
it would change the way

they'd look at it in general.

But I have to tell
them afterwards.

You do it for you
first, you know?

You not doing it
to offend anybody,

you not doing it to
prove to somebody,

like when people be like,
oh are you pescatarian?

I be like, no I just eat fish.

No matter what you call it,

you know what the purpose
that you doing it for.

- I say start now, start slowly,

if it's one day a week
that you try something new.

Don't go home and
eat a pot of rice.

Or a pot of spaghetti.

Eat some salad with that chicken

or with that steak
or with that fish.

Sautéed vegetable, tell your
moms I want vegetables man.

And I just ate
this whole meal.

I don't feel tired,
sleepy or nothing.

I just had soul food and
I'm not over here like this.

I'm ready to go.

Leave here and go to the
studio and get my work on,

so that's what it was for me.

I don't want nothing
that's gonna slow me down.

A friend eats elephant's
ass and he's happy you know?

And good, your friends a unique
person with special genes.

That don't mean, oh, you
could smoke cigarettes,

my dad lived to 100
smoking cigarettes.

Your fucking dad was special.

I don't know what to
tell you, is that what,

what's gonna tell you.

You now if you're doing
well, with a bad diet,

if you're doing well
and you don't work out.

Just think you can do better.

We can all do better.

Since the last interview,
we definitely got better,

Hustle Fit is a real
brand in Houston now.

Everywhere you go,
all around Texas

you could see people
rocking the Hustle Fit brand

and supporting the movement

and being a part
of the movement.

What is Hustle Fit to me,
Hustle Fit is a lifestyle,

we want to always
emphasize the hustle.

We put the hustle in big
and the fit in small letters

so people can realize the
hustle's in everything

you did whether if
it was in the gym,

whether it was at work,
whether it was education-wise,

you going to school,
trying to get that degree,

for college, you know.

Everything you do, you
have to hustle for it.

And what it is, is everyday
you try to be better

than you were yesterday.

Well I can't call
myself a hustler

if I ain't hustling to
take care of myself also.

I think it's 50/50.

I think it's about
taking care of yourself

and after you leave the gym,
go and get on your own hustle

and figure out how to be
successful in this world.

Not a lot of people
that look like me,

make it out and get to see a
different part of the world.

I got some friends that's
still stuck in that circle but,

they see me doing something
that's not selling dope

and I'm not locked up,
I'm not dead or in jail.

And I go back and
I can touch them

and show them where
I'm at and inspire them

to wanna get better
and do better.

And they realize stuff does
exist outside of the hood

and you can make it
doing honest living.

I gave up smoking,
I gave up drinking

and I gave up
cheating on my meal.

You know without all
that, I felt lighter,

I felt like, you know,
I was in a better mood

and I got a lot more stuff done.

- We inspire people.

Whether it's through
social media,

through fitness competitions
that we're doing.

You know the feedback
that we get from people,

hey I've been watching you
guys and you guys motivated me,

I've been down in life,

and it's been hard but
just watching you guys

live your lives day to
day, and really repping it,

it's just giving me hope and
it's pushing me to go forward.

People come up to
me randomly and say,

man we seen how far you
came, we seen how you changed

since back in the day, and it
motivate us to get in the gym

and start working on
ourself and getting better.

What better service can
you do than the service of

someone else helping them
change their lifestyle

and once that happen man
it kinda just took off

and I haven't looked back since.

- It's just like everything,

if you wanna be
successful at anything,

you gotta have the discipline,
you gotta have the drive

and you know it's just about
challenging yourself, man.

- This is not easy.

And it takes a
lot of discipline,

you have to have
self-motivation,

where you have to
establish that mindset,

get around the right people.

Some people that are
going to push you to be

at your best and
the sky's the limit.

Feeling rich is
just being mentally,

spiritually physically,
you know, at your best.

- My thing is this.

You know Fat Joe
your whole life.

Fat Joe.

You known him for
a million years.

If he lost weight,
you can lose weight.

I'm not special in
no way shape or form.

I am not superman.

I am just like you.

If I took you in
the gym right now,

I would do the
same thing you do.

There's nothing incredible,
I'm not running up a mountain,

doing back flips, no I'm
going on the treadmill

for a little 25
minutes, watching TV.

And you know, I'm done.

I worked out.

Since our last interview,
I've lost 50 pounds in total.

Whoo.

The benefits to having
a healthier lifestyle

are that your children are
living a healthier lifestyle.

We really stay on them
about portion control,

about vegetables, 'cause we
didn't grow up with that.

We have diabetes in our family.

My father passed
away from Cancer.

We're breaking the cycle
with our children's futures.

You now, they'll that
along to their kids.

Maybe they won't have
to suffer from diabetes,

maybe they'll make
healthier choices.

- I want people to know.

I don't want them to have
these heath problems, knowing,

damn man I coulda
stopped this 20 years ago

if only I woulda just
exercised a little bit more,

drunk a little bit more water
instead of drinking soda.

I think that's the thing,

people don't wanna
change the lifestyle,

they just wanna look good.

Well it takes hard
work to look good.

When you go work and
you done working out,

you might be sore, but
man you gonna feel good,

on stage too.

I'm bouncing around,
jumping around,

doing thing is couldn't
do when I was big.

I'm not out of breath.

I can still give my all and
give a hell of a performance.

I know the hard
work it used to take

into rocking the show.

And now it's almost
like I'm gliding.

And I'm laughing.

Jordan game seven.

Laughing, I'm mad I'm laughing.

Ha!

Turn around whoo, I'm on the
other side like what's up?

I think entertainers,
especially rappers getting in shape,

50 Cent, Fat Joe, myself,

I think definitely
it's gonna provide

some king of motivation to
somebody when people see that,

then they can see, okay, well
if he can do it, I can do it.

We could take the
responsibility to say,

this is my lifestyle
and people start

gravitating towards it.

And if they've been
some kind of successful,

like let's use a Drake
or even a 2 Chainz,

you look on his
Instagram, he's like,

look at this Brussels sprouts.

Look at this, you know.

He's eating super healthy
and he shows it on his thing.

You boast and brag to them
about keeping your body right,

keeping your temple right
the same way we boast

and brag about the jewels,
the cars, the women.

You can't enjoy none of that
if you're not in good health.

Maybe everybody's not
going, yo it's cool,

because they don't
see a dollar in it.

But it's not about
a dollar in it.

You're your biggest dollar.

If your health is bad, I don't
care how much money you have.

If you're in the hospital,
you can't enjoy it.

I can enjoy $20 in
good health more than

you could enjoy
$20,000 in bad health.

Not gonna tell you it's
the easiest thing to do,

but it's the greatest
thing I've done in my life.

Now that I lost 100 pounds,
I'm enjoying living.

Rather than hoping I don't
die because I'm overweight

and because if the
way I'm eating.

I look at my body as something
that I need to allow me

to be healthy, to be
whole, because my body

is now no longer a
liability, but an asset.

So we did my dad's first
interview for this documentary

he was a little bit overweight
and he had some health habits

that his doctors had tried
to talk to him about.

And he wasn't really listening
and every time we tried

to get him to pay
attention, he would be like,

okay well let's see if
anything's wrong and every time

it turned out that there
wasn't anything concrete

that we could point to
to get him to stop doing

certain things, eating
certain types of food

and that sort of
thing, and then, um.

And then out of
nowhere, he had a,

I'm not sure what you call
it, but like a diabetes attack

where he went into a coma
and when he woke up from that

a few days later, the
doctors gave him a warning

and told him that if
you do any of the things

we told you not to do, one
more time, that could be it.

Like this was your,
basically your final warning,

like this is, should
be a wake-up call.

And my dad listened.

Since January 8th
last year 2015,

I was informed that of
because of my overindulgence

in sugar or sweet stuff,
that I was 'sposed to die.

I got that wake-up call
and I took advantage of it.

And I heard it loud and clear

and I have not had a drop
of alcohol in 19 months.

And I feel like 19 years
old, clear as a bell.

I've never been more
creative in my life

and I will never go back,
I do not miss it at all.

And it's kind of
a testament to like,

once you start the momentum
of getting healthier

and you realize how
good it feels, you know,

it's hard to go back.

- Push now.

Push, push, push.

More, more, more, more, more.

Come on there you go, great job.

Good job, good job, perfect.

My wish is that
everybody gets to at least

feel that feeling so
they know what it is

so that they can get
hooked on it, you know.

It's not the worst thing
to be hooked on at all.

So.

For me this is one of the
most important documentaries

I get to be a part of
because healthy living

is very valuable to my life.

It means a lot and I feel
like it's really just a way

of showing love to myself,
saying I do value me.

You know some people think
when you eating healthy

it's about just the way
you look and the weight.

Well that just comes along
with it, that's a plus.

The inside is what
it really is about.

And then you get the outer
with it, so why not like,

that's just a big bonus that
you start looking better

just because you felling
better and eating healthier.

People will be like
man you're glowing.

And that glow, I love that glow.

That glow is like people think
I need to put on the makeup

and I need to have the fresh
haircut and outer things

but that inner
glow is the beauty

and that's all holistic living.

It's complete and total wellness,
meaning inside, outside,

mentally, physically, all of
that, you wanna feel rich.

♪ Are we addicted to the
struggle or committed to success

♪ Are we focused on the
positive or holding onto stress

♪ Not saying thing's perfect
but in many ways I'm blessed

♪ Learning how to take the
negative and flip for the best

♪ Everyday bring challenge

♪ Every challenge is
a chance to advance

♪ The power is right
in our own hands

♪ From a youth full of
rage, to a wise grown man

♪ Here I am, it's
beautiful now, I overstand

♪ I'm looking forward
through my rear view

♪ Mirror in hindsight

♪ Gotta be more than just a G
if you keeping your mind right

♪ Better be ready for the
battle or focused on my fight

♪ I ain't sitting on no
sidelines watching them highlights

♪ I'm gonna begin the
game playing to win

♪ But learning from setbacks

♪ And strengthen my weaknesses

♪ And mastering what I'm best at

♪ Power of refinement until
you get right and exact

♪ It's all in the mind

♪ But that's depending
where your head's at

♪ Life is a chess match and
lessons come from your mistakes

♪ Try not to end up in checkmate
no matter whatever it takes

♪ Long as you're breathing
then you can be problem solving

♪ Staying involved, evolved,
the world keep revolving

♪ For the cause be all you can

♪ From the morning to the sunset

♪ You never have no regrets

♪ Took a journey to the edge
of your fate and then lept

♪ Not just understanding but
overstanding is the objective

♪ Keep it open, in perspective

♪ Just let me be what I am

♪ Take my destiny in my hands

And how much of health
is mind body and spirit?

Like all of it
is absolutely right

it takes all three
of those things.

A perspective, understanding
that you reap what you sow,

whatever you put out there
is gonna come back at you.

Positive or negative.

And that goes not
just with what you eat

but how you treat people.

- Everything.

Everything.

And every time you have
to look down on anybody

you should give them a hand up.

- That's beautiful, I like that.

Thank you man.

- Thank you super, love you.

- Love you too.

♪ Into a source
that was omnipotent

♪ Had to shift my focus
to my higher purpose

♪ Ain't nothing weak about broke

♪ It takes a fighter's courage

♪ People say they
want a revolution

♪ But steady holding
on to slave ideas

♪ Afraid of evolution

♪ In life we live and learn,

♪ It's practice,
theory, practice

♪ Wisdom is organically grown

♪ Its not pre-packaged

♪ It's forward ever
baby never backwards

♪ Just let me be what I am

♪ Take my destiny in my hands

♪ By my actions you
can judge where I stand

♪ And I hope one day
that you'll overstand

♪ We think we found
the absolute truth

♪ But only to discover
it's a labyrinth

♪ We go from one
maze into another

♪ So many chambers and angles

♪ Peeling the onion layers

♪ Within it all I
see the same gang

♪ Just different players

♪ So I rebel from the prison
cell of the pigeon hole

♪ And dare to be myself original

♪ A man lives on principles

♪ I don't posture to be popular

♪ Born to be a leader
not just a blind follower

♪ It's family before the dollar

♪ Your priorities in order

♪ And like Bruce Lee say

♪ Be the water, be the earth

♪ Be the wind and the fire

♪ Elevate take it higher

♪ It's instinct

♪ Fulfill your needs
and your desires

♪ But we go to be compassionate

♪ Considerate

♪ A people's advocate

♪ Eradicating ignorance
through experience

♪ The more you live the
more you learn and you grow

♪ It has a positive effect
on all the people you know

♪ It's motivation

♪ Just let me be what I am

♪ Take my destiny in my hands

♪ By my actions you
can judge where I stand

♪ And I hope one day
that you'll overstand

♪ Are we addicted to the
struggle or committed to success

♪ Are we focused on the
positive or holding onto stress

♪ Not saying thing's perfect
but in many ways I'm blessed

♪ Learning how to take the
negative and flip for the best

♪ Everyday bring challenge

♪ Every challenge is
a chance to advance

♪ The power is right
in our own hands

♪ From a youth full of
rage to a wise grown man

♪ Here I am

♪ It's beautiful now I overstand

♪ And I hope one day
that you'll overstand ♪