RBG Media discussion and Skid Row arts festival preview

go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go Go ahead, log on. Log on. BobbyBuck.com Yo, yo, yo. Here we are, here back at the Bobby Buck Show. And this evening, we're going to get it cracking with some more type of information that I don't think some of y'all are ready for. So tonight, we're going to be speaking with RBG Media. And tonight, let them go ahead and tell people who they are. Go ahead and mention your names. Indeed, brother. Thank you for having us. My name is Mind Over Matter. And I'm one of the members of one of the people that will be working for RBG. One of the people that will be working for RBG Media to bring not just street news, but tribal news and our news to the people. Uncut. Okay, uncut. Right. Okay, all right. Hey, I need to be here advertising. Indeed, indeed. Yeah, okay then. So who we got next to you? Yeah, this is Del Partrey. Representing RBG. And, you know, I do the musical poetry. And I got an RBG CD coming out very soon. Okay, we'll have to have you come back and do something on the show. For sure. Okay, all right, all right. Who we got right next to you? Oh, Bobby. Don't do me like that. Don't do me like that. I was like, who's this stranger over there? Who is he? Nah, me and Bobby go way back. He know me. Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. This is Dante. Hey, I'm one of the head videographers of... RBG Media. And, I mean, one of the reasons we felt the need is because the way our people are demonized in the media, and the way most of the things geared towards us, they come in a negative light. So we want to put something out there that's for the people, that's uplifting type of media. That's our goal. I'll tell you what, I got to merge in then, because that's what I want to do, because I want to do the same thing like I'm working with Skid Row. So everybody look at the... Negative part, but I want to promote and advertise the positive stuff we got going on. Right. Like I'm going to do later on in the show. But to show y'all what's happening. So, first off, let me go ahead and see what all exactly do y'all do to get started with people. Okay, well, basically what RBG is, it's a movement. Okay. We don't classify it as a struggle, because we're not struggling. We're actually in motion moving. Okay. And like your brother said, we're tired of how we're portrayed in the media, and all forms of media, and all of them, you know, music, TV, social, everything. You know, and we do contribute to that, you know, the negativity. Not us, but our people do contribute to the negativity. And there's a... It's a lot of us who actually just tired of it. You know, you fed up with it. You know, like for me, myself, I did 18 years in prison, and I've been out here about four and a half years. And I feel like I didn't do 18 years in there, you know, to get myself together, to get out here, to just accept the buffoonery that goes on. You know, and basically, it's a lot of good brothers and sisters that's up in there that I wish I can actually transplant them out here and throw some of these coons and Negro peons up in there. Yeah. You know what I mean? Get these brothers up in there, a chance to come out here and put it down. Yeah. And the ones who were out here lackadaisical and idle, go on up in there. You know, get out the way for about 10, 15, 20 years. Mm-hmm. You know, so we feel like we out here, we're educated, you know, basically, we're ready. You know, I feel like I owe a debt. You know, I sit up and I read about Huey Newton, George Jackson, Bunchy Carter, Fred Hampton, and all the greats, the Honorable Marcus Garvey. And it's like, I just can't see myself out here just living, you know, the nine to five, and, you know, I got a car. I don't, that's, nowhere is that in the mix, you know, what we trying to do. You know, we trying to uplift the people and activate their minds, reactivate their minds. Well, you sound like you talking inside my brain. Yeah. That's where you come from. See, myself, I was an 18-year drunk. Mm-hmm. So I was locked up for 18 years. Right. And it's like, I'm just getting my own awakening. Right. Because I had to learn from Dante on a lot of information because I'm kind of insightful. I don't really know, but I tell people, I just do what I feel led. Right. And like, what I had to do was become homeless to really go and experience. I always wanted to help people. I remember back in the day, in high school, me and Dante talking about these nonprofits getting all this money and not really giving the products or materials to the people. So, you know, so, you know, we were talking about that. And I came back to L.A., I was like, you know, it sent me to want to make a change, a difference. So I feel who you're coming from. You act on that calling. Yeah. That calling. It's like an internal calling and you feel funny if you don't act on it. Yeah. That's the thing right there. That's the scary part. It is scary. Yeah. Because I'd be like, I'm up here, I wake up every morning, I say, you know, if I can't do it online, I got to do it physically. Something. Something. Yeah. So, and like I say, and I'd be on social network, on Facebook, kind of getting upset on some of them all black groups. Right. They just, you know, be lollygagging. They do. You know, like with me, what I figured, this is how I look at the whole social thing and specifically speaking about Facebook. I know in prison, you communicate through kites, you know, through pieces of paper and you got to relay messages back. So basically, on that spectrum, you're dealing with people who are educated and brothers who are uneducated. So you have to try to decipher what they're saying on a piece of paper, whether it's misspelled or he don't know, he don't have, his grammar's not good, his punctuation. You have to try to decipher that. So we do that on social media. So a lot of these groups that throw a black on it and this and that, some of us see right through that shit. Yeah. You know what I mean? We see right through it. I mean, you can, that's like a couple weeks ago, I was added to a black love group, some type of group like that with black love. They see me and my queen on Facebook and they added our pictures on there. So some told me, investigate the group, come to find out. They was on some type of like one love thing, you know, and I'm not with the one love, you know, I'm with black love, the pro black love. Yeah. So I told him about it, you know, well, what consists of this group? You know, what's the rules and everything? They was, they was, they was lollygagging. That's, that's another clear sign to me that, you know, y'all not with this, no problem with it. You know, just remove my pictures and I'll go over here. Yeah. So in the end, you know, we went back, but yeah, it's a plethora of so-called black groups on the social networks claiming this and that, but they, they just filling up space. Yeah. I feel you on that because like I say, I tell people, everybody that's black is not a king or a queen, but people throw that out loosely a lot. Right. So yeah, so. Right. And also I was out here, I'm actually like, like what is considered or what's the difference between like a coon or Uncle Tom or is it that they were all white people? Why don't y'all want to pick that? Yeah, I'll elaborate on that. It's dumb poetry. Mm-hmm. You know, a coon, you know, you're talking about a person that is black with a European mind. You know, it's all in the thinking. Yeah. And you know, from, from slavery to now, that's, that's been our division, you know, is self-perpetuated hate against one another. You know, so, that, that, all right, there's a basic difference, you know, between a person that is conscious, pro-black, for-black, for his people, and, you know, a person who's living in America unconscious. Okay, okay. Right. And I want to add, a lot of people, I've heard some people who are outside of any type of pro-black or black conscious movement, they say, well, why do you guys embrace and use negative terms to refer to your people? And it sounds simple on the surface, you know, it's a legit question, but we have to realize that we do have coons and negro peons. You know, we have coons who actually will, you know, skin and grin to make themselves feel comfortable around non-blacks. Then you have, you know, like negro peons who will take it a step further, like an educated step further, and actually feel like, you know, they're part of the fabric of this society, you know, and talk down on their own people. So, we do recognize that we have coons, you know, we have enemies, just like Marcus Garvey said. Not interested in taking everybody back to Africa because the ones who ain't shit over here ain't going to be shit over there. So, it's the same thing. You know, we can't never forget about that. You know, we all feel the upliftment of all of our people, but you have to acknowledge that we got some clowns and buffoons and negro peons, you know, and they're really prevalent right now. You know, they like the loudest ones on these social medias out in the streets. They like the loudest ones, these entertainers, and they're, you know, they're really putting themselves out there and that's what we need to do. You know, that's like... The problem with that is that there's rewards for that coonery. The more bullshit you're willing to go out there and do, the more rewards. You know, those rappers, they get out there, you wear the leggings and the skirt, you win. You go platinum. So, it's about manipulating those rewards and we, as a revolutionary, what do we have to reward the people with? What do we have to give them? Because the system that we're telling them to eject themselves from have purpose for them. They have rewards and stuff. They can give them something. They can give them a job. They can give them billions of dollars to run a ball down the street. They can give them a job down the court to do some bullshit. But we can't give them no money to do the things that need to be done which are providing food, clothing, and shelter for our people. So, I mean, that's what it really boils down to. And that's why I say on the money part because that's why I talk to people about it like with people who want to be militant against the system or the government when that's where the money comes from. So, I say you got people who are at the beginning of money. When they wake up, they're at the very beginning of money. When you got people at the bottom looking for 25 cents, 75 cents to cash the bus. The people who own the money-making machine because what's worth more? The money or the machine that makes the money? Who owns the machine that makes the money? Right, right. So, what I'm saying is way up there with people at the beginning. So, I think on that spectrum is what my own take with us I think we need to create our own jobs and entrepreneurship and make money. I think that'll take your mind off of being negative and like say, you know, I'm not saying this is from downtown Skid Row. I'm cool with some protesting but I think a lot of that time and energy should be spent trying to invest in yourself. I tell people like a job, look at a job as a hobby to invest in yourself. Don't call it a job. You know, look at it as a hobby because you look at a job as a deadbeat, dead-end job. It's a hobby to make money to invest in yourself. All a job does, what they do, they take your human energy and put it out on the market and sell it. Yeah. Now, we as entrepreneurs, we take our own human energy, we put it out on the market. And we reap the entire benefit. Exactly. So that's what we need to get into. We need to get into really taking hold of the economic infrastructure, not just being on the outside, getting jobs and, you know, purpose from the society. We need to be creating our own structures. Right. Yeah, because like one of them groups, they said, they always throw us the curveball. I said, well, let's learn to think ahead and create our own. And they go throw us a curveball. So, I want to say kind of what y'all do and same thing I'm doing. Like I said, but we got, main thing I think we got to do is reach the youth with it. And that's the form of the media because where is the youth? They're in front of a glowing screen at any given time. So, we need to just hijack that, go in there and give them some sitcoms that are based on the things that are relevant to us. Give them some comedy. You know, give them suspense, action, reality. Give them all those things but based on an, you know, on the upliftment of our people. Right. We're not going to get on there indeed, and demonize ourselves. We're not going to get in there and demonize our people. We're only going to portray our people in a positive light. So, that's what we're trying to get is RBG Media. And all we're looking now is, you know, we got bodies on board. We got equipment and everything. We just need the people behind us. We need the people behind us for real. Not just hitting a like on Facebook or yeah, good job. Yeah. We need you to look at what we're trying to do, the idea, and share the vision. And then when you walk up in them stores and you're looking at that, the bullshit that you bought that you don't need, made that decision. You know, is it more important to buy this happy meal or should we send this little $20, $30 to these brothers so they can get that media going as to where we can see some real entertainment. You know, real entertainment or real news story or be informed. You know, we're not just looking to be, you know, do entertaining people. You know, we're not looking to entertain anybody. We're looking to inform people and wake people up. That's why we're not asking for donations. What we're asking for is investors. Because what we're doing is not, it's nothing to donate, donate to. You know, this is an event. You should want to invest in this right here. And we want to meet the people where they at because that's where they at. They behind, they in front of a glowing screen. That's where everybody is at right now. Yeah. And the youth in general, you know, that's our medium to get to them. And at this point, once we get the people behind us, it ain't no stopping us. It ain't no stopping us. Because, I mean, people see what we've been doing. I mean, we've reached like, what, like 1,300 subscribers on the YouTube channel we got going on. Okay. We put out videos consistently. I mean, I met this brother here just on a whim. Just on a whim. Yeah. Walking downtown. I was with you at the police rally. At the rally. You know? And if you look at it, it's not really on a whim because the same way I connected with the brother right here. If you look at it, if you research it, it's never really on a whim or by chance or by luck because we were all doing what we were supposed to be doing. That's what led us up to me. Yeah. You guys were at the rally for your reasons. I was there for my reasons. Yeah. And I don't think none of us was there for what's on the surface. It's a rally. Let's go down there. I know I didn't go down there for that because I knew that there was going to be some coons down there. It was going to be some hands up, don't shoot. I knew that was going to be there but I knew that once I go there, I wasn't bringing that to the rally. I was bringing something way more powerful and in the end, look what happened. We all connected. Yeah. Months later, we in the studio. Yeah. You know, so none of that was by chance. I've been learning that since I've been out here in LA seven years this August and LA is hardcore but it's also spiritual and if you don't tap into that part, you just be like all the rest of them. Los Angeles is cold. It is. It's because people migrate. They migrate here underneath that Hollywood. Let's come out here and there's some people that make it but for like everyone, I forget what the percentage is but for everyone that make it, it's a lot of lost souls that just get discarded. Thousands that don't. You know. Discarded because they don't they can't hack it and then reality hits them as where it's not really you know, glitz and glamour. You know what I mean? The glitz and glamour to me is fake because I've been out here since 87. Okay. So I got a chance to see a few rappers and entertainers and everything and I seen the side where they pose for the camera and I seen the behind the scenes where they get robbed, where they get punked. When you see how they ain't really black, they on some negro peen type shit. I seen all that right there. The homosexual ones. You know what I mean? The ones who in the closet. I seen all that. So it's like, I don't see it as weird. Like, LA, Hollywood, I know the real. Yeah. They out here faking in front. You know, it just looks good. It's complimentary because of the weather out here with the palm trees. Yeah. You have the palm trees and the limo and the weather. It look all good. But it's about the media campaign. LA has a media campaign behind it. The coldest. When you in Arkansas, you come to California, you see the flashing lights and all this shit. You're like, damn, it's cracking out there in LA. I'm gonna tell you what happened to me because I came here alcoholic and drunk and stuff. So I came here, you know, buzzing a little bit. Everybody talking about Hollywood, right? So I got extra drunk so I can experience this, right? So me and my people got on Hollywood and Western. I'm fresh here. We were riding down Hollywood Boulevard. I'm buzzing good. I said, when are we gonna get to Hollywood? He said, you in it. I said, I thought it was supposed to be a whole big, he said, nope, just a strip mall. Yeah. They hyped it up. I thought it was heaven or something. I said, man. On TV, they tell you the stars is in the skies, but when you walk on Hollywood Boulevard, they on the ground, you're stepping on it. You're stepping on it. You know, that's symbolic. Yeah, so, trying to see anything else. I had this white man tell me something about education and he's telling me something about, he's not smart, but he reads the dictionary and he reads and researches the dictionary. He said he knows the definition of words and he told me what's wrong with a lot of people because he was going to the hood to do, uh, what's called literacy, work with, with the youth and stuff. But, what he said, what he come to see is that when people do not know the definition or understanding of words, that makes them hostile because they're not really comprehending or understanding information that's being told to them. Y'all see that? In, in this, in this environment, in the European context, yeah, if we don't understand European words, we can't exist in a European society and that, and that, and that, and that can happen. But, um, but I don't think, I don't think that's the bulk of our problem as black people. They try to put that out there like, like if we just talk a certain way and dress a certain way and act a certain way, things are going to fall into place for us. And I, and I think that's the, that's the least of our problems because no matter how I talk, as long as you can understand what I'm saying, yeah, mission accomplished. That's what, that's the whole point of language is communication. So, yeah, I feel like on that, it depends on, the person's intent. Like you said, the guy, he was a Caucasian guy. Yeah. He was going to, to the neighborhoods and trying to, Yeah, because they had him out there to help with literacy. And then the other kick part he told me is that the, the preachers or the leaders out there told him that, um, I don't think we need you around here no more because people might get too smart and won't need us. Wow. That sounds like, that sounds like something the preachers say. Sure do. Sure do. So I want to say, there's always some flip sides to everything. Yeah. But he wants, he said, you know, educational, like say, just learn the definition of words that can help enhance the mind. Yeah, I think that's like a cultural thing because, Okay. I can say, we don't know his intent, what he was really going there for. You have to question it too. Yeah, yeah. You have to question it. Why is he there? But, um, it's a cultural thing. He's coming from a different culture and a different background and he goes down there. He may go down there with intent as where, I'm going to teach you dumb niggas, you know what I mean? So that can be in the back of his mind. Yeah, yeah. So I think the best thing he could have did was any resources or any money and then he should have allotted that to somebody else that can speak the language and looks like those people that he was going to so-called teach and then let them deal with that. That's what he was wanting to do. He's trying to work with me with doing it and he gave me a little information because I told him, I might need some literacy program myself because I can read but I'm just not way up on it like that. But he said, the way you can do it, say you just stand up in front of the course room and just look up definition of words just because you're standing up in front that makes you look like you know what you're talking about and you learn at the same time. Yeah, I want to, I can elaborate on that. You know, America and this English language is very perplexing because even the most educated African Americans, you know, it's like we still do not have an understanding of this language. Yeah. You know, that's just like in the 60s when they said, okay, we're going to, you know, Martin Luther King pushing the civil rights movement to desegregate. You know, we, at that point, we thought, wow, you know what? We need to desegregate. But at the same time, you know, unless you really study that word, you know, for its fullness, then you're really not understanding what desegregation was really about, you know, and what it means. But then the Marcus Garvey movement, you know, and, you know, Black Wall Street, at that time, they destroyed our black enterprises and our infrastructure. Yeah. Because, you know, in the progression of time, when the 60s came around, we were too powerful economically as a people. And so, you know, they pushed the civil rights movement to desegregate. And actually what it did was disfranchise the civil rights movement. And so, you know, they pushed the blacks straight across America. But see, they also, they negate to mention the fact that even when Black Wall Street was destroyed, it was built back up within four years. What killed Black Wall Street was the integration process where we diluted ourselves and we gave, just like Melvin talks about, we not only gave up, you know, the houses and the jobs and all these other things at infrastructure, you know, as far as infrastructure goes, we gave up the infrastructure and we also submitted to their leadership. That's right. That's where we really messed up. Now our children go and look up to them in their schools. Now their president is our president. Now all these different things, we fall under this umbrella. And when it's diluted and we're, what, how, what, at one point we were 30% of the population. But what did they do when that happened? They made sure they got immigrants from all over Europe to come in and they were able to to come in and get those jobs and everything. They gave the Irish the police department. They gave the Italians the fire department and so on and so forth. And here we are with nothing. So do y'all think we, as far, you know, because all black people ain't gonna never get along. So you think we can be able to put a dent in working towards what we're trying to make happen? I don't think it's a point as to where we all won't get along. We have to, we have to, we need to get back to an understanding. Yeah. Because right now we have a severe misunderstanding and some of us have no understanding. So I think it's, it's not even the fact of us not getting along because name of people who do all get along. There's tribalism. You know, we definitely have tribalism and tribalism should be embraced. I don't know what that was. Okay. But tribalism should be embraced. Yeah. You know, but not to the point as where we're harming each other. Right. So once we get better informed, then we will, we will get along because we just lack that understanding. That's all we need. We need that knowledge, wisdom, and then hit us with that understanding and then we locked in after that. Okay. I'll tell you what, because I know one thing, that's what I love about a talk show setting, you know, because I'm going to hook up with y'all. We in motion. Yeah. We in motion. And I'm creating a positive movement called action. Action? Yeah. You know, I want to do physical actions to help people and everything like that. And also, what I'm doing, I'm acquiring, our causes to intertwine. You know, that's why I want to bring all the right, all the right people together. Right. You know, not just everybody, but the right ones. And that's why you said organically things are forming. Right. Things happen. That's what it's about, getting the right people. Yeah, right. We don't need all black people in this struggle and what we're trying to do. We don't need all black people. We need all black people that are of like minds. You know? Yeah. Like somebody told me, you know, you got the army, you got the Marines, you got the Navy. Then you say, you also, you got the special, you got the service people. And it's only five of them that can do the work of the army. Dedicated. Yeah. So he said, you look for those and don't worry about the rest. Right. It's better, it's better to have those five people that are going to ride like that than to have armies of people who are iffy. Yeah. You don't, you don't know if they're going to move or not or when they're going to move. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm going to say, so y'all want to leave a little information for people to get in contact with y'all. I'm available on Facebook underneath, Mind Over Matter. Also, you can reach me at www.rbgmentality.com and rbg at yahoo.com. Okay. Well, hold on before we let y'all go. We got a caller want to be part of this segment. So, caller, you're live. Peace and black power. This is brother in Google. Now you see RANM from Facebook, YouTube. What's good, people? What's going on, brother? What's up, brother? Same old shit, man. Keep going. What we doing? Keep banging it every day. Dig it. I see the topic tonight is media, getting our own media outlets established or whatever. So, I wanted to drop a little, you know, quick little comment on that before I get out of here for the evening. Basically, long story short, anybody who knows anything about anything knows damn well CNN, NBC, ABC, that news channel, this news channel ain't going to tell us our story the right way at all. And if they do tell us, decide, decide, decide to tell our story, they're going to distort the hell out of the message. They always want to find the most ignorant, you know what I'm saying, disturbed black person they could put on TV for visual exploitation. You figure, smell me? But at the end of the day, these are the stories that our people love to feed into. They love to, you know, embrace that story as truth. Whereas, when, you know, you got folks like myself, Mano Bermata, Brother Rod out there, and Callie out there as well, when we out on the camera, when we doing our thing out in the streets or whatever, folks necessarily, don't like to hear what we got to say and these are our own people. But at the end of the day, what we have to say is much relevant than what you're going to see on CNN. Because at the end of the day, like I said, they love to exploit. We have the mission of building up. This is why I feel RBG Media Group needs to be established. It's a big need. I'm not even going to say it's a want. It's a freaking need. Because at the end of the day, like the old proverb says, if the hunter is the only one that's telling the story, you feel me? Then that's the only side that you're going to get. I'm paraphrasing the proverb, but I think you get what I'm saying. You feel me? We're the ones that are being hunted right now and the hunter is the only one that's telling the story. So with that being said, we need to have different, you know, subchapters, if you will, using that phrase, if you will, of RBG Media Group out there in the street dealing with the people every day, all day, chopping it up. That way we can understand better the psychology of black people here in the West. Because as you know, our psychological thinking is, excuse my French, it's fucked up. You feel what I'm saying? We think whatever we're told to think. We don't think when we're told not to think. We do what we're told, nonetheless. Long story short, we do what we're told. And this also, this has an effect by way of the media. The media tells us when to be upset. The media tells us when to be happy. And then all of these different things that they're telling us to do, it's further destroying our people. It's destroying our minds. We need to have our own outlet. I don't give a damn if you want to call it pirate radio, pirate TV, whatever. It don't matter. We need our own shit. But this is why folks like myself up here in New York, you feel me? We got the whole RNM, RBG TV thing going on. Granted, it's on YouTube, but at the end of the day, I'm reaching folks. I mean, I got folks hitting me up from Paris, South Africa, Korea, all kinds. You didn't even spot somebody that hit me up there. So this is the type of shit that we need to be doing. We got to tell our story our way. Right. And we appreciate you for being majorly active too, brother. Right on. For real, brother. Real talk. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, that's pretty much all I can really say about this topic. We need to tell our own damn story. We got to stop falling for the bullshit. Real talk. Because our people right now, we are so comfortable. We're so wrapped up in shit, we don't even smell the shit. You feel me? Yeah. We don't even embrace it, if anything. We rub ourselves all up in it. Excuse me for the metaphor, but I hope y'all understand what I'm saying. We have to clean up our stuff. We got to clean up our minds. We have to clean up what we see and what we hear. Because the music is destroying our minds. It's destroying what we think. What we think, what we hear, you feel what I'm saying, is what we think. And what we think is what we speak, and what we speak is what we do. We got to change all of that shit. Go ahead and give the information so people can contact you. Oh, dig it. Like I said, I'm off. This is Nguvu, not UC, R-A-N-M. You can spell that N-G-U-V-O-N-Y-E-U-S-I-R-A-N-M on Facebook. Also, you can find me at that same name on YouTube. Check out my channel, R-A-N-M-R-B-G-T-V. Common sense breakdowns, man. No rhetoric, no doctrine, no bullshit, just straight common sense. That's something that we also lack. And that's got to get, you know what I'm saying, reinstated. So people out there, holler at me, check me out, let's diatribe, let's dialogue, let's get it popping. Sound like a player. Indeed. Black power. Alright, appreciate you. Big homie, mind over matter, keep banging, brother. I'm with you. Indeed, brother, love you. Black power, brother. Black power. Alright. Alright. Hello, how you doing? How you doing, Miss Suzette? Greetings, greetings, all. I'm not sure what I came in. I don't know. No word of the camp, I don't know. Too much for you. Yeah, but we kind of got to get ready to wrap up, but kind of explain to them what you do. Oh, well, hey, I just came from an L.A. Can, a Los Angeles Community Action Network meeting talking about some of the local community activism going on. They were talking about the No Drones campaign, in regards to, you know, basically stopping law enforcement from bringing drones into our neighborhood here. And, and also, I have a Ladies Take the Mic show, Ladies of Skid Row talk, Real Talk. And, and we piggyback here with Bobby Buck as well. Alright. That's some stuff. Yes, ma'am. Oh, yeah, yeah. Definitely. Thank you, thank you. Yeah, so, we feel good, we feel, yeah. I sat in with the brothers last Friday, too. Oh, yeah, man. Last, last, last week we did a talk about domestic abuse, domestic violence. Right. From a male perspective. With a twist. With a twist. Yeah. And, talking about how women can play the victim role. Yes. And sets you up and things like that. You know. Had it, had it happen. I know how it go. Yeah, because I know one of my people, he did three years on that. So, that's what I'm saying. So, I be on Facebook going back and forth. You probably see me pretty soon on the different groups, but I hit them where it hurts. Then they're gonna meditate. Then they say, they might not like it, but they gotta go back, hmm, I don't like everything, but that right there, hmm, it hits something. Research it. Yeah. Like I say, it ain't all just one track, one sided. Like I said, I wanna hit all the gray areas out there. Right. So, you know, so I'm gonna bring, you know, like I say, I wanna open some eyes on them. I just wanna know on record, I ain't down for that. I ain't down for that. My heart went out to the brothers last week, so I just wanna, I ain't down for that. Yeah, we gotta stop being each other's enemies. Yeah. We gotta stop, stop them waves. that right there, that right there. Yeah, so we gotta, you know, as long as we, you know, the small few start stepping up and everybody else could be nosy, no-wee nosy, what they doing over there? And then they gonna start, you know, law of attraction. They go, okay, let me see what's happening. Let me try that. Right. Like I say, the kicker here is showing them how they can make some money with us too. So, like I say, we gotta all work that, you know, like I say, we gotta be able to provide something for them to come this way. Right. build each other up, that right there. Yeah. So, but anyway, go ahead and let y'all get your information to contact y'all. Oh, you can contact me, Del Poetry, on Facebook. And that's where I'm at. All right. Me, just Dante Davis, D-O-N-T-E, Davis. Go ahead and feel free to get at me, but mostly I'm in the streets, so get at me in the streets. That's where I'd rather you get at me at, because a lot of people, a lot of people want to do the Facebook, thing back and forth, and think we friends for real. We ain't friends for real until we get down and get down in the trenches together. Okay. That's the kind of people I'm looking for, so don't add me unless you want some realness. Right on. That's so funny. That's what I say. I'm a street soldier. I'm down in the trenches with y'all. Right. Right on. I'll see you there. All right, then I sure appreciate y'all coming on down. Likewise, brother. Thank you for having us, Oh, yeah. We'll plug in. So, I guess we go ahead and play a little video. What's great, it's going to happen now on this coming weekend at Skid Row in Gladys Park, the festival for all Skid Row artists. So, I'm going to give y'all a little glimpse of what happened last year. ...event over there on the court, and then we'll open the show with a blast. A blast like, never before. ...gender blow. I'm so deep. Lost a few years. Always sweet, yeah, yeah. Party time, yeah. Turn your mind again. I'm just a lump of clay. 50% God, and 50% just plain old river mud. That's me. And I'm cornered, and alone, and afraid. I was there, and heard the last cry that was a whimper from a brother whose brother had killed him for a cause called slavery. She gets up, way way way way way way way I can hear her pour hot water in a coffee cup Did I have A perfect ring as in the air Ordinary, ordinary But did you feel her smile Oh girl, your love is what I hear Every day and each night Oh baby, don't you know I'm thinking of you Cause you know that I love you more Than words could say Girl, I don't want you to slip away Walk home alone There's showers I can call Papa dog throws me some dollars from my home And I break you off a little something You say it's at all I can't understand I'm screaming loud I'm shouting out Is that the man When you come out Come on and dance with me All I want to do is dance When you stand up That's what I'm hearing now It's on the call Exactly what it is What it is, what it is, what it is What it is, what it is, what it is Sit yourself down in the car And you'll see me Lie down way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way Yeah! Dee Dee Wilson! Oh, yeah! Hey! Hey! Oh, Dee Dee! Oh, oh! Yeah, the funky, funky! Yeah! Yeah, the funky, funky! Oh, Dee Dee! Hey, hey! Oh, oh! Hey, hey, hey! Oh! Oh! Hey, hey! All right, all right, there you go. That's what happened last year, and then starting tomorrow and Sunday, they're going to have it cracking once again. So this is a once-a-year event, and this is the fifth year that they're having this. So we're going to have the people in the studio who will be performing tonight, giving us a glimpse of what's going to happen this weekend at the Festival for All Skid Row Artists tomorrow in Gladys Park. So with the people who just arrived inside the studio, go ahead and say who you are. Start with you. Hi, my name is Sylvia Hernandez. My name is Linda Harris. And my name is Walter Pheebs. All right, all right. So y'all getting ready for tomorrow? Oh, yeah. Yes. All right. Yeah. So I'm going to say who's going to be the first one to do something tonight to demonstrate what's going to be cracking on the weekend? Well, let's start off with Linda Harris. All right. Linda is one of our regulars who has performed for us since we started this festival five years ago. So on Sunday and Saturday, we'll see that we not only have individual performances, but we'll have group performances as well. Okay. All right. So Linda, take it. One of the songs I always do is called, I Hope You Dance. And it goes a little bit like this. I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. Yet you fail to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath. One single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed. Beautiful. Linda got some pipes on her. Oh, yeah. Such a beautiful voice. So we're going to get you going out to the clubs and going to the big venues and stuff. All right. Well, you know, Linda has taken that voice all over the country and the world. Okay. She has quite a repertoire. Oh, okay. Sitting out there just being chilled out all the time. So you got a lot going on up under the belt, huh? God is good. Right on, right on. I feel you on that. So which one of y'all feels the break it down now? Well, I'm going to perform tomorrow, but I would like to talk about, you know, what is this about? The festival is like a platform for all the skid row artists and also artists from the outside of the community. This is a space that the artist is giving back to the community, a way to express, you know, the gratitude. They are very attached to the community. I had the opportunity last year to interview most of the performers, and that's what I got from that. It was powerful. It was beautiful. It got me more attached. I'm very attached to the group LAPD. Well, I would like to share with you something that I'm going to perform tomorrow. It's based in a very popular, traditional Mexican song called La Llorona. I made my own lyrics. Okay, go ahead. Your own lyrics? Yes. I just got, you know, the basic. Yeah, I'm just going to perform a little bit. Okay, all right. Here we go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go. Here it go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go Aquí tengo a mis amigos, Llorona, de los que valen la pena. Aquí tengo a mis amigos, Llorona, de los que valen la pena. No es que quiera ser activista, Llorona, es que no me gusta la fiesta. Mmm. Oh! You don't like it, girl. Beautiful, beautiful. So what were you saying? Well, I can translate a little bit. You know, this is a song that can be used to express love, love for anyone, love for your country. But it becomes activist, too, if you want it. You know, very political. So what I said is that I love and I like Skid Row, Llorona. Because I... I feel like I'm the only one. There's a lot of poor people, Llorona. But there's a lot of good people, too. Llorona, don't change the topic, please. Because I have my best friends here. But those are the good friends. It's not that I want to become an activist, Llorona. It's because I don't like this party at all. Mmm. Cool. Mmm. Go, girl. Mmm. Man, okay, I like that. You're becoming witty. There's more. There's more, but tomorrow I'm gonna sing, you know. All right. Okay, that's how you do it. You're doing a hustle. Okay. It's beautiful. Making sure they show up. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. So, Mr. Fierce, what's going on with you? Well, as you can see, we have some very talented and strong, powerful voices in our community. Oh, yeah. Is it way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way again there will be not only individual performances but there will be visual artists performance artists singers dancers spoken word this festival though is really a celebration for the community because it i i overheard your your program uh what what the the discussion was earlier and um it ties in with with what we the work that we're doing yeah we're all about empowering our students and our families and our families and our families and our families and our families and each other to begin to tell our stories and this is just a way that we can give people the opportunity to be able to tell their stories believe it or not some people they get their 15 minutes all they want to do is tell their story but come out this weekend and meet and greet and hang out with us and and really enjoy yourself oh yeah everybody to come check this out for y'all you know skier rubber for tomorrow and Sunday y'all go see her special treat yes again that's 12 to 4 that's on 6th and Gladys Street in downtown Los Angeles okay all right thank you Gladys Park that is part yeah all right there we go thank you all right thank y'all very much thank you for having us Bobby oh no problem get y'all come back you know you know so we can you know get on stuff yeah like we look at a la can report and I mean we forget a crack and go catch up with these gentlemen get them turn on with la can we're gonna bring everybody I say it all the right like-minded people sounds great all right and also I think we got a call on the line still for RBG so color are you still there if you are go live how you doing Bobby I'm doing all right I'm doing good who's speaking yeah I know my brother RBG mind over matter supposed to be up in there yes indeed brother who's this brother's a billion you what's going on brother man you're calling into support you know I know you putting in work so I most definitely gotta show some support indeed appreciate that and definitely looking forward to meeting up tomorrow at the taste of soul oh yeah 12 p.m. on crash on 39 we trying to bring folks together to address you know all these police killing brothers like he's ill for what not of course the homeless issue the gentrification just right now we gotta wake our people up way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way for a breast cancer fundraiser. It's going to be held in Compton for Miss Antoinette Greer. It's a lady. She's doing a lot of great action in the community and everything. So if you will, I'm going to say it's okay to put the flyer up. So everybody, if you can, please just kind of do any type of support. If you can just call and check in or you can just try to donate PayPal or online or just call and try to get, you know, get some information from Antoinette Greer who's doing this fundraiser tomorrow evening, tomorrow night in Compton. And like I say, we want to bring everybody together with this positive movement. And that's the only thing, like I tell people, you know, being positive is not being a punk because it's easy to be negative. It's hard to change to be positive. So we want to get everybody together and come check out tomorrow night, tomorrow evening. And go ahead and say your speech. The best thing in life, I want to say is accent the positive and alleviate the negative. Oh, there you go. I'll tell you what. You got something else you want to say? Go ahead. Jesus loves you. All right. Thank you. I sure hope you keep loving me, boy. I know I'm crazy every day, but I'm getting better. What about you, Sid? Well, the invitation is open to everybody, you know, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday at Gladys Park from 11 to 5. Yeah. Everybody is welcome. And also we're going to have food at the end of the festival. Oh, man. I'm going to have to look at that. I'm going to have to leave early. But can y'all save some plates? I mean, not a plate, but some plates. It's going to be a salmon dinner cooked by a chef. So I don't think there's going to be many leftovers, Bobby, but we'll try. Yeah, right. Yeah, I heard that really sound convincing there. Well, I know I'll be there for a little bit and then I'm trying to come back on Sunday. I want to go have some more salmon on Sunday. It may be a different menu on Sunday, but we will definitely have food. Well, they ain't going to have red carpets, too. This weekend. The stars will be there. Yeah, the Skid Row stars for real, man. Most def. Yeah, man, because if y'all have not ever been to Skid Row, this weekend's the time to come for everybody. Right there. Yeah, so I'm glad everybody's here. So I'm going to say we got a little time left. Any final words this evening from anybody here? Want to give a shout out to anybody? Want to say what's up? You know how they do begging to say, hey, mom. You know what I'm saying? Learning to love yourself is the greatest thing. Love of all. And I'll end that to kind of reiterate our mission. And our mission for the Los Angeles Department, Los Angeles Poverty Department, is basically to create performances and multiple disciplinary artworks that connect with the direct experiences of people living in poverty. Now, that's not to say that everybody who lives in Skid Row is poor. But there are some who lack economic means. There are some who need housing. There are some who need medical care. But through all of that, art can and is used as a way of expression for those who may be in those positions and those who may not. So I would encourage anyone, who's got some free time this weekend, come out, check us out. Again, that's at Gladys Park, Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 5, this weekend, the 17th and 18th. And I'm sure that your life will be directly affected and changed. Yeah, because they might even try to run on stage they still, because they get so inspired. We do have an open mic session. So if you do feel inspired, come on out and we'll have someone take your name. And yeah, we don't, we don't have any censorship. So you can pretty much let it flow. Ruh-roh. Oh, so what time do you think the open mic part starts? Let's see. I think that she had told me about, I can't remember, but I forgot about that part. I think it's on Sundays, on Sundays from 3 to 4. 3 to 4? Yeah. Okay, okay. Yeah. All right then. So anybody else got anything they want to add from tonight? You know, I'm trying to, you know what, RBG, I don't know if y'all got anything new in there. Show up tomorrow. Come out and get fed twice. Rest in your belly. Second for your brain. Sure, wish I could fit that in. I'd love to be there. Yes, that's correct. Sylvia was right. The open mics are both Saturdays. Open mic is at 3 to 4 and Sundays. So like I said earlier, if you feel inspired, if it hits you, sign up and step up. Uncle Bean, aren't you performing tomorrow? Of course he is. And what time you going on? He's one of our superstar. What time you going on? Yeah, I'm supposed to be hitting the stage. Peace and blessings to everybody. I'm supposed to be hitting the stage tomorrow, I believe about like 4.15. So 4.15 on Saturday, come check me out. And I think on Sunday about 4.10. I'm going to do a hip hop set tomorrow. I'm saying with a little bit of dance hall, touch of dance hall. And then Sunday I'm going to do like a, just an all out, just energetic, you know what I'm saying, with the skid row players. You know what I mean? We just going to do a great set and show a lot of love to the whole skid row community, to everybody who comes out and supports for the LAPD. Yeah, Sunday he's performing at 4.20. So come on out y'all. You want to give us a little something tonight? You got a minute. I'll do a little something. You're oh so close to me. Though you're so far away. Didn't want you to go. I'm begging you girl just stay. You're oh so close to me. Though you're so far away. Didn't want you to go. I'm begging you girl just stay. I'm begging you girl just stay. All right, there you go. There you go. Sweet. That's so sweet. That's the sound. That's the sound. That's the sound for now. You come out tomorrow, you get that live. Live for two days. It's straight action tomorrow. Y'all come on down. Let's get it cracking. All right now. All right now. We out. Log on. 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