09/22/2026
Crip, Blood, GD, Lord, Piru, North, South, 13, 14—whatever you represent, we need to have an honest conversation about where we've gotten as a people.
We’re living in a country with a long history of Black people being killed, including people being lynched and hung. And at the same time, we’ve got to be honest about something else: we've been killing each other too.
And if we keep going the way we're going, we're going to keep destroying ourselves.
So maybe it's time to sharpen the game.
I'm not saying, “F**k the set.” For a lot of people, the set was the only thing that showed up when nobody else did. That brotherhood meant something. But if that's our foundation, then let's make that foundation stronger.
I believe there should be a mandatory weekly community sit-down.
Not a meeting where somebody comes in telling everybody what they can and can't be.
A real sit-down.
Bloods sitting with Crips. Crips sitting with Bloods. GDs, Lords, Piru, North, South—everybody at the same table.
Talk.
Laugh.
Eat.
Play basketball.
Play football.
Make music.
Build businesses.
Make some money together.
Talk about what's happening in the neighborhood.
Get to know the person you're calling your enemy.
Because it's easy to do something to somebody you don't know.
It's harder when you've sat across from that person every week. When you've laughed with him. When you've played ball with him. When you know his mother. When you know his kids. When you've built something together.
Now, if you're really going to do something to that person, you've got to look at a human being—not a color, not a rag, not a neighborhood, not an abbreviation.
That's the whole point.
We're not pretending the history isn't real. We're not pretending everybody is suddenly going to agree.
We're saying let's make violence harder.
If we already know we're divided, and we've already seen what that division has produced, then why wouldn't we experiment with something different?
These babies didn't create none of this.
They shouldn't have to inherit our beef.
I'm not an activist. I'm talking about community.
Let the next generation build their own world.
Stop trying to be L.A.
Stop trying to be Chicago.
We're not them.
We have our own neighborhoods, our own people, our own problems and our own opportunity to create something different.
We don't have to erase the sets.
We need to sharpen the game.
Make the community stronger.
Make communication mandatory.
Make showing up matter.
And make it so that before somebody becomes an enemy, they've actually had a chance to know the person standing across from them.
Because if we're going to survive, we've got to become harder to divide—and harder to destroy.
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