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we can meet him

and try to talk to both

of y'all at the same time?

Yeah.

Okay then, man.

Just hit me tomorrow.

Okay, I'm a get up

with you.

All right.

Thanks a lot.

I appreciate it.

He do look like

a rough rider, don't he?

It took me a minute to get

up with the older brother, Kenneth.

What's up, boy?

What up?

How you doing, man?

Chilling out.

I might as well

just be straight up on it.

Your mama, she concerned

about you and Bud.

We fight every day.

It's either I knock him out

or he knock me out.

I mean, like...

We upping pistols on

each other over little sh*t.

And y'all live under

the same roof.

That mean if y'all upping guns

up on each other,

that mean if he go to sleep

and you go to sleep,

y'all got to sleep

with one eye open.

Y'all can't even trust

each other.

Like last year,

my best friend got killed.

I could get

shot tomorrow.

I know it's gonna hurt my mom

more than anybody, you know?

She say she just moved away

because she couldn't take it

no more.

I can't get along

with my mom.

'Cause she, "You act just like

your daddy" and sh*t.

"Woo woo woo," and...

I... I ain't trying

to hear that, I'm gone.

I'm outside, you know?

My father, he been locked up

since I was three years old.

He get out a little bit

after I turned 18.

My life would be totally

different if my father was here.

You know, if he was in my life,

just being involved.

Checking up on me every day,

and, "How you doing, son?

"What's going on?

I love you, son. "

I can count on one hand

how many times I told my mama

I love her.

So I'm gonna talk

to with Bud and Toya, man,

and see, man, we could try

to get together, man,

just sit down and talk, man.

I ain't trying to point no

finger, who wrong and all that.

Let's just correct this.

Let's just, be a family

and be happy.

So, you up with that?

Yeah, I'm with it.

First and foremost, I want

to thank the young brothers

coming from Calumet City.

Why don't you stand up

in the back, if you don't mind.

What happened last week,

there was a big conflict

with two different groups.

We got a chance to really work

with them young brothers

and a sister.

When I met that sister, she made

it clear to me, she said,

"I'm a sister, brother,

you know what I'm saying?"

I been trying to call you.

When I call your phone,

I expect you to answer,

like, "Yeah, Ameena. "

I'm like, hello?

We've been keeping in contact.

Caprysha is a very loving

young lady

that had not had a chance

to have a childhood.

Substance abuse plays

a huge part of the toxicness

that she was raised around.

I was worried.

I know you wanted

to go see your mother.

Do you want to go?

I'll get mad.

All right, so we just gonna

have to keep it moving.

You gotta get ready to do

you, be a big girl.

You want to go skating

this weekend?

You do?

Okay.

I'm a send a car for you

this weekend,

because it's my

eight-year-old's birthday.

If I got time,

I'll come and get you myself.

All right, baby?

Where is my husband?

Come on, come on, come on, come

on, come on, come on, come on,

come on, come on,

come on, come on, yeah!

Yeah! Yeah!

Today we're celebrating

my daughter's birthday.

We're really sad,

because Caprysha was supposed

to come skating with us.

So then I got the full scoop.

She wanted to get back in touch

with her mom.

And that caused her to feel.

And she acted out

on some old behavior.

She got high.

She violated her parole.

So she's in the county jail.

I need you guys to say

please and thank you.

Right, Maddie?

Okay?

Right, right, right?

So where you

find these strangers at?

These your people, man.

Ah, where y'all

find him at?

Today I finally

reached Toya and her two kids

and we agreed to all sit down

together and work things out.

This morning,

Toya was steaming hot.

She went back to the apartment

she left her kids.

She saw Kenneth's friend

in there bagging up some drugs.

She went back

and changed the locks.

Sh*t, times hard.

You got to have

a job out here, man.

Yeah, man, or hustle.

One or the other.

Hustling going to end you up

one of two places.

It really don't matter

right now.

Well, if it don't matter,

why speak on it?

I guess that's

the same as your life.

You not gonna

make no progress.

You just got to

humble yourself.

You thinking like,

you want a handout.

No one's going

to give you anything.

Who you talking to?

Him or me?

I'm talking in general,

and if you listening,

then I'm talking to you, too.

I'm really not listening

to sh*t you're saying.

That's why you in the

predicament you in now.

I don't have time

for this sh*t.

What you been

through that's so hard?

What you been through

that's so hard?

So what the f***

is you saying, B?

You ain't no boss

of me, boy.

Push comes to shove,

whatever I say gonna go.

If I want to... if I don't want

no motherf***er out there,

ain't nobody gonna be

out there, n*gger.

Now what?

Now what you gonna say?

And I'm right there.

Then it's on.

Hey, hey.

Hey, Bud and Kenneth,

Kenneth and Bud.

On our way down there I'm

like, "Damn, did I make a mistake?"

You know what I'm saying?

I don't want them to get

to fighting under my watch.

I'm saying, one thing

y'all missing, man.

Y'all is blood brothers, man.

Y'all ain't no bad kids.

Both of y'all

finished school.

Both of y'all ain't been

to motherfucking penitenti...

that's good, man.

I just hate how my own

people just think like,

"Yeah, Kenneth, the type

of crowd he be around... "

Boy, if I wasn't

the parent that I was,

you wouldn't have made it

through school.

I made sure you had

what you needed.

Hey, hey, but Kenneth,

I'm gonna tell you this, though.

She don't want to see sh*t

happen to y'all, man.

He can't say when he need,

or he need a bond I'm not there.

I always bond him out of jail

for stuff that I don't

even believe in.

I don't need no, no,

no other motherf***er.

I never served for another man,

or none of that sh*t.

Always been on my own two.

Yes, you have.

Always been on my own two.

If I, if I,

if I had got something

from another motherf***er,

Cobe, I took it.

Plain and simple.

'Cause I feel the

motherf***er owed it.

Go to work.

Yeah, I'm right here

on Roosevelt and Ashland.

Right here.

All right, come to the office,

it's heated right now.

Okay.

All right.

If the clique you are in...

I ain't putting you

on the spot,

but if they came at your

brother, would you stop them?

Yeah.

You would?

Okay.

The clique you in,

if they came at your brother,

would you stop them?

Of course.

And my thing to you, when it

come down to the street game,

the only choices, man, is jails,

deaths, and institutions.

Do you feel you can be in a cell

for 23 hours a day?

A six-by-nine cell?

No, no man could be in that

place for... for that long.

Well, what'll happen

when you're on the streets,

though, little brother,

you'll run into

a situation out there

with your brother's associates,

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