Is it the Programming?

What

up, what up y'all?

Welcome back to our two on the lunch break.

This is the extended lunch break man.

Crazy sentence.

Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Everything gonna be okay.

Chow's out the business boy producing this too, man.

Milwaukee-owned beer is my brother's beer.

We gotta get beers on the show.

We gotta get beers on the show.

That's my brother, man.

I'm super proud of bro, man.

We've been through a lot in the music game.

Man, real quick, man.

I gotta say, rest in peace to Camoy.

my nephew back home in the Virgin Islands.

Well, not my blood nephew, but he's, I met him when we went home for the gender reveal for my niece.

So he was the father of my niece's child.

The child is not even one.

So I'm resting peace to Kamoi and prayers to the family as I know they're dealing with this tragic.

incident that happened back home in the British Virgin Islands.

I love you, Saraya.

You know, Uncle Love you and I gonna be coming home soon.

Welcome to hour two on the lunch break.

We talking about community.

We talking about the village.

We talking about not making this excuses.

Jasmine said, I love Al.

Shouts out to the chat as well.

Anita Nicole says, great combo.

I see both sides out speaking facts.

And I understand we need to find balance with community involvement versus making excuses.

And I agree with what Al is saying.

I don't disagree with him at all.

Only thing I ask is that, like, are we giving up?

And that's what it sounds like because we're and that's dangerous to me.

If everybody just, you know, if everybody just take the position of I'm only gonna care about minds.

And the funny part is, is like even people who think they're doing an amazing job at raising kids, kids still will find a way to mess up.

And you don't want nobody to just be like, I to hell with your kid because they made a mistake once.

Some kids make it more than once

And what I will say too is with that mindset you actually so I Want I want to choose my words right wisely and make sure this is coming across the correct way So if your child is in this community and the rest of the kids are running around doing whatever they want to do and everybody else just Nobody else cares about nobody else kids, right?

What

do you think gonna come of your kid?

Because no matter how great you are as a mother or a father, your child still has to go out into this community and go to these schools in these classrooms filled with kids that aren't cared for, that aren't looked after, that aren't hearing the right advice or not being raised properly.

So you're really doing yourself and your child a disservice by not stepping up and into these other children's lives because at the end of the day,

Unless you move off somewhere into another community your child is still part of this community and a lot of people are victims of community and like if somebody I'm not fresh out of high school But I could still remember kids from high school that I went to high school with or middle school Even that I just thought was these good kids and I just knew like man this kid is smart They gonna be a doctor or something they gonna do something great.

They are in jail or dead Because they're in they're a part of the community still

I'm talking kids who have strict parents who at every point will pop up at that school and be looking through that classroom door like what's going on?

Because they're still part of the community they still have to interact with the rest of the community They fall victim to stupid stuff wrong place wrong time is more

It's more than likely gonna happen when you're in a community of a bunch of unloved kids and nobody stepping up Nobody's telling them nothing, you know I'm saying so like you're really doing yourself a disservice by only looking out for you and yours You still have to live in that community You still have to find a way to thrive in that community and if you don't take hold of that community You will fall victim to that community so and like as far as I guess as far as saying like

the parents need to do this and that.

Okay.

So now we're looking at the factor of like, let's educate the parents, right?

Of these teenagers, but in a few episodes ago, we just talked about how at about 10 years old, if you ain't installing certain morals and like lessons into these kids, they will get away from you.

So we already talking about parents of teenagers, they have already gotten away from them.

You know what I'm saying?

So we have to,

have people that are willing to step in.

We have to have people that are willing to not raise these kids, but face these kids, right?

Because we can't go back.

If we start educating the parents now, we need to start educating the elementary school parents.

And then we get to wait another five years to see if it works out.

But we'll have to, I guess, ignore these kids right now today that are causing all the chaos.

Yeah,

so it's not as easy as like ignore these kids and yell at the parents,

right?

It's not that easy,

right?

Need family intervention, you know what I mean?

It's like

yeah,

these kids are reacting this way because Like you said the environment the household we don't like yes Al 100% right.

We do have to be careful

because you do have parents that'll be like, don't talk to my kid.

Don't tell my kid, like, okay, but okay, I'm gonna talk to you then.

Because clearly that's who needs to be talked to.

And we can't just be okay with just somebody saying, don't speak to my kid.

And then just like, okay, well, I ain't gonna say nothing to nobody.

Well, like, okay.

For instance, take Larry Brazil, the guy whose stuff got broken into, as a matter of fact, we just launched a GoFundMe to help support Larry as well.

He could have took the position of like, you know what, to hell with these kids, they all go into jail from nine to 19.

You go into jail to one that's on bracelet for attempted robbery and possible murder.

You go into jail.

And he could have took that, but Larry reflected on his own life and his own decisions and the things that people didn't do for him and wish that he would have had and he offered them a chance.

Yeah, we spoke to the kids, but we also made it a priority to go speak to the parents too.

And even in going to speak to the parents, you saw some of the parents dealing with whatever it was they was dealing with.

That's not for us to judge them because that's not what we're there for as community We then started taking up this position like we got where we judging people and condemning people as if our slate is squeaky clean and like

We don't want grace.

Like humans deserve grace.

Kids, especially young people, they deserve grace.

They deserve the most grace.

Sure, they parents.

We could blame their parents.

And we ain't making excuses for their parents.

But they going through some crazy and they don't know how to deal with it.

And everybody said to hell with the community.

So now we don't know our neighbors.

Whether we live next door on top behind whatever we don't.

And whoever it was have done an amazing job at.

Dividing the community to the point that we don't care about each other anymore.

So now they could continue to systematically break us down.

We don't even give a damn about ourselves no more or each other no more.

So now they could continue to.

destroy education.

They could continue to destroy our food.

They could continue to destroy our music.

They could continue to put these messages in music.

Dividers,

yeah.

Which takes us to our next segment, Shannon.

You know, is it sounds or sorcery?

When does entertainment become programming?

And I might be

I might be somewhat hypocritical on this topic, Shannon.

Because I could sit here and say, man, the messaging in this music is bananas.

They telling kids to do all these stuff.

They telling people to do this.

And I'm the same dude that may bow.

I'm on your body, girl.

She don't mess with broke.

She ain't mean.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

You

know what I'm

saying?

I'm encouraging them to throw it.

Yeah.

You feel me?

But I will say, I will say, you did it in the right way.

You said you gon' wife her and then do those things.

So I mean, you would give in the right.

You catch that?

The proper steps.

You know what I'm saying?

I will give you that.

You

caught it.

You caught that shot.

Shout out to Supreme.

You know who pointed

that out to me?

Supreme pointed that out to me, man.

He was like, man, Ray, Ba was the most creative black love song ever.

And I thought he was trying to be funny.

I thought he was trying to be funny.

He's like, man, think about it.

He was like, man, you liked her first and then you wifed her and then you took her home.

and had the all nighter.

Her body, you know what I'm saying?

So it was a black love story.

It was a story of love here.

My mind is blown.

You feel me?

And like, I was playing it this weekend.

So like, now I'm not, I think about it differently.

Yeah, so it's like...

Black love into the community.

There we go.

So there you go.

Blah, blah.

Bow is the black love ever.

We just discovered that.

And that's pretty much how the Bible say to go about it, right?

I'm in line with the Creator.

I'm in line with the Creator.

They like he for the go

to hell.

You said even what, Shannon?

Shannon, don't do this.

Come on, Shannon!

Shannon!

Shannon!

Shannon!

Shannon!

Alright man, we talking about is it sound or sorcery once we figure out what's- Well look

how she froze.

Whatever sorcery Shannon got going on.

You gotta take a picture of how Shannon froze.

Oh yeah, I got it.

Oh with her finger on her.

Ah!

Man.

Don't go anywhere y'all will be right back and maybe we'll have Shannon as well live on the lunch break truth 101.7 FM.

Is it sound or sorcery?

Don't go anywhere.

Don't go

anywhere

Welcome back.

Welcome back to the lunch break with your boy Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon, maybe.

Live.

My check.

My check.

There she go.

Move slow.

My check.

Hello.

Move your body, girl.

Hey.

That is so

ratchet.

I can't stop.

I can't

stop

it.

Man, so Shannon, you've been keeping me up to date.

Shannon is my young spirit, by the way.

She keeps me young.

She keeps my ear to the streets and what's going on in the streets.

We're talking about sound or sorcery.

When does entertainment become programming?

And this was based off of the conversation that has been happening surrounding in the area that black shade cocoa butter queen in the area.

God bless in the area, man.

And.

She had made a comment, Shannon, about your home girl.

Your homeowner had a song called Spin That.

Young Miami.

Young Miami had a song called...

That's a melody.

First of all, there you

go.

Truth

listeners gonna put a... You gonna be like, nah, this ain't what we be listening to talking about in...

So that's the song that we talking about, y'all, if you don't know.

But, you know, people have been talking about how, you know, this type of me, and we had D1 on our first show, talked about the importance of artists being responsible with the messaging that they're putting out to our people, saying that, you know, it's programming us to do...

Terrible things whether that's scamming or murder or drugs or any of these other things that just doesn't add value to our lives and You know some people it was a very split conversation once again a 3 3 2 on 2 10 17 if you'd like to join the conversation or hit us up on YouTube We're talking about when does entertainment become programming?

And we want to relate it to Milwaukee and the programming that our young people experienced because we did have a whole Stoli epidemic and we had a dance to it too.

And I feel like when when the Stoli music was and the dance was at its peak, that's when our stolen car epidemic was at its peak as well.

So.

People say, you know, y'all is just entertainment.

But I believe at some point it does become programming because we are people that move to the rhythm of music.

We respond to the rhythm of the drum.

And it's not just like,

oh

yeah, we just dancing.

It's not true.

Look at look at Shannon doing the Stoley dance.

We are people that respond to rhythms and beats and music.

And then at some point over those beats, we have mantras, right?

That constantly replay.

Somebody did a study.

I can't remember what the study was, but it was two plants, Shannon.

And oh, no, it wasn't two plants.

I think it was like a basket of fruit.

or something like that.

And the person was like, spoke lovingly to this fruit.

Fruit or plant, we'll go with fruit or plant, right?

This one basket of fruit, they spoke nothing but loving, caring affirmations and so forth.

And this other one, they just cussed the basket of fruit out, just was terrible to it.

And what happened is, you saw it to rapidly decay versus the one that was being spoken to with love.

So, what's your thoughts, Shannon, on the programming and we gonna get into what some of the people have been saying about the N-D-R-E and Young Miami

stuff?

Hmm, so.

Let's start here, right?

Before I get serious, I would like to say she's speaking love into our scamming community, okay?

They deserve love too.

She ain't saying nothing bad about them.

She's just making love and maybe that's gonna cause them to be better people.

The views and

opinions expressed on this show does not represent the views and opinions.

of truth one on

one place.

I'm just giving y'all my reflection of her music.

This is what I talk.

I mean, it sounds like she's trying to give them love and support and just uplift their community.

Am I saying this right or wrong?

I'm not.

Her best friend, well, at the time JT went to jail for years for scamming.

So

I mean,

do with that information what you will.

But what I will say is I do know of that study, and I do believe that to be true.

The words you speak are important.

The way you start your day is important.

Affirmations and things that you hear over and over again definitely are important.

But I'm not a big Miami fan just because I like people that show duality.

I like people that can rap one thing and then have an equation.

I

can dig it and Mike did a little duality just now as well, but um,

yeah,

we gonna go to Kevin Let's see what I Kevin we got Kevin on the line.

Talk to us.

Kev, you live on truth 101.7 That's a pleasure

to be on the truth.

I believe that I believe in scripture a little bit there where we are in the end times and

It talks about, well, we know that Satan, you know, he moved God with music.

If it moves God, it's gonna move people.

So I'm not surprised that, you know, where we are now and the influence we have through music, because music will move you.

It was a time when white people didn't want people to go to Black, to James Brown.

to listen to him because they knew it was going to change their whole attitude.

So we know that music, and we're in the end time, so Second Timothy talk about that.

It says, we are in perilous times, men should be lovers of their own selves, boasters, prouds.

The board boasters to me as rappers.

You boasting about some that

You might be preaching right now, man.

You might be preaching, Kev.

Well,

I

might be, but you

know, go

say that word,

Kev.

That's right.

So, so, so that's right.

So that's the foundation, you know, that, uh, you know, that I hold dear to me beside my mother and father teaching.

I have to hold description, you know, and, uh, I'm not surprised by these times.

I really ain't, you know, I mean, people, it's about money, it's about sex, it's about drugs, it's about, you know, but that music gonna move people, you know, and dogs.

So you said something that was very profound, Kev.

You brought up scripture and God and Satan, and from what I remember,

When I was heavy into the church and maybe maybe you got the Bible out, you could you could refer to it for me.

But wasn't Lucifer like wasn't the thing he was he had domain over was music.

It

was the angel of music.

He wasn't wasn't he the angel of music and sound or something like that.

He was an instrument, pretty much.

There we go.

So or or is blown out of him and go ahead.

Put put that into perspective after you just made that statement, right?

So knowing that in the Bible, it said that Lucifer was like the angel of music.

So why do we think like he's still not in it?

Exactly.

That's the part or controlling a long time.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

He's still working.

The enemy still working.

You know.

Uh, he's he's cunning, you know, uh, they say be careful of his devices.

Yep.

You know,

man, Kev, thank you.

Thank you, Kev, for calling in truth.

One of 1.7 FM on the lunch break with Ray as Shannon.

I think that's all that's very, very important, right?

Because we like to use God and the Bible and everything for.

All of these other conversations that we have shots out to the chat.

The chat says if music can heal you, it can harm you as well.

Says, look at each era of music.

They can tell you what was going on at that time.

Right.

So knowing that, Shannon.

And knowing that we it's in the Bible.

I wish I could pull it up with scripture it was, but.

And Lucifer was the angel of music and used music to essentially.

Lure people.

I mean, I think about it.

What was our Kelly nickname?

Hi

Piper.

The pod pipe was about to bring that up.

Well, I was about to bring that up and nobody thought nothing of that the pod Piper.

Do y'all know that story?

Exactly.

What is it though?

The pod Piper.

Yeah, the pod Piper.

Tell him the story, Shannon.

Tell him the story about Piper.

I think it's a German folk tale if I'm not mistaken.

And basically it's a story of like this guy that did work for the townspeople or did something for the townspeople, they didn't pay him.

So because they didn't pay him, he used music to lure all the children of the town away and they never came back.

So he was luring children away to teach the parents a lesson.

So

for him to call himself that is actually- Come on, man.

It's actually insane.

Nobody was like, why would you want to be called that?

And he

sang it so eloquently.

He's saying he's he pod piped his way right into to us being able to say, oh, we can separate the man from the music.

My

head hurts.

He's basically flat out said, I'm using music to lure children in.

That's not come on.

I literally use music to influence to And it ain't even in my thing is it's not even a hidden message It's out there.

They

get a song that ain't nothing nobody made up or

he wrote age ain't nothing but a number for Leah

Yeah, I said the after marrying her like

And then called himself the Pied Piper, but that's another story.

He was like in people's face with it.

Like, this is not creative direction.

This is pedophilia.

But anyway.

So,

we're going to take a break, y'all, because this is getting crazy.

Go ahead and spin that on your lunch break live on Truth 101.7 FM.

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It is Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.

Every time the devil opened his mouth, that Jesus, through scripture, it is mouth.

He came back at him again and he said, devil, it is written.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

It is written.

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God.

He hit him over and over and over with the scripture.

And guess what happened?

The devil ran.

Welcome back.

Welcome back to the truth 101.7 FM live in downtown Milwaukee, Third Street Market Hall from the American Family Insurance Studio.

It's your boy Ray Nitty and maybe Shannon.

This beat is going crazy.

Shout out to Anita Nicole and in a YouTube chat.

She said, so we're supporting scamming songs and carving out a space for bad behavior with music, then asking people to serve the community.

So like the fire and bring the fire extinguisher.

Endless cycle.

I agree.

I agree.

We got it.

We got to figure it out.

We got to figure it out and and it's OK to highlight our hypocrisies of the community because a lot of them terrible songs.

Like I'm not going to sit here and act like I don't be vibing out to some music that's probably undesirable.

Right.

I am a musician.

Like I hear good.

But.

Are we really listening to the words, or is it just the beats and the rhythms and things first?

And then the words is secondary, but they the most important one, it's almost like, what did they say?

I guess this is reverse from medicine and the sugar, putting sugar in the medicine.

This is like putting poison in the sugar, I guess.

But I agree.

We got the caller on line one, Shannon.

Let's see what they talk about.

Hey, what's going on, Shannon?

Ray?

How you

doing?

What's up?

What's up?

I'm

doing awesome.

For me, when I hear specific times being bad times, I would say, and people point out a decade or a generation, I feel like they're being disingenuous because the King James version of the Bible

was written in 1611 and most of the people in our community and throughout this nation couldn't tell you who King James is, but they claim that they live their lives by what is taught in his version of the Bible.

And I'm sure you guys are aware that there are many other versions that are closer to where Jesus was actually from.

So when we talk about music and evil having dominion,

over music Like everything else is a personal choice because you could sit down and listen to Jesus is loved by the Commodores You could listen to one love by Bob Marley Which which has nothing to do with anything but love and God you could listen to children hold on to your dreams by Weegee from the dramatics You can listen to it's your world by common.

You can listen to I know I can by Nas harvest of the world by Isley brothers

You can listen to and I'm hoping you guys are familiar with this artist, Y.G.

Marley.

So I'm trying to cover the spectrum of different time frames.

We know why Marley

Granson.

Yeah, absolutely.

Frays

giant.

Come on now.

And if these rules are kind enough to play that for the community, I think we could flip this.

I mean, today we could flip this narrative that music controls you.

There are many more bad listeners.

than bad musicians.

And there are many more bad executives who promote that music more.

But it is up to parents, it is up to communities and in the end, you give one life no matter how old you are and the sooner that you figure that out, because you experience a lot more than from the outside, from the inside looking out as an individual.

And children are much smarter than we give them credit for.

They know good people when they see them, and if they're exposed to good and great music, I'll challenge you guys to play a few five or six of these type of songs every day as musicians to put medicine over this poison on a daily basis.

I'm asking and requesting, because I know DJ Brother Z has a great catalog, and that would be great for the parents to hear, which they might share, because that's where we get our first music

education is in the home.

And so I think it's a personal choice because there have been cowboy movies where people get shot.

You see Bruce Willis in Die Hard hanging outside of a window.

But how many people are going to climb 30 stories up and hang with one hand behind their back?

You're not.

So in the end, it becomes your personal choice to know that it's art.

and be taught that it's hard and teach your children that it is it's expression and many times it's like in WA when I was growing up they're just news reporting and uh when it goes beyond that it's up to the parent to point out that this is just trash that somebody wants to promote uh like uh a song about boosting and where my boosting girls are uh when you aren't a person who probably even does that you know so yeah um

I think music is what you make it.

Yeah, we appreciate that the caller.

We appreciate that the caller.

Man, so yeah.

Honestly.

Go ahead, Shannon.

The caller was on point with everything I was just gonna say, just because I was gonna say, honestly, like, I don't know if this is a good, like, you know.

What do you call it?

Anyways, like what came first?

The chicken or the egg?

A lot of times people are just reporting what they're already seeing.

They're only singing what they've already done, what they've already been seeing consistently in the community and what's already been pushed into the community.

And like he said, it's on us to be able to teach children discernment and to differentiate like

This is what's going on, but I'm going to show you a different way.

Yeah, this music is cool to listen to whatever, but you also have to understand that's their story.

That's what they're doing.

That's what that's their, you know, expression, that's their art, whatever you want to call it.

But you don't have to be a follower either or think that's the way to live.

You also have to be a parent and parent trick child.

So like, like we just were talking about a lot of things do start at home.

And you can't stop your kids from seeing or hearing certain things like personally growing up my mom like did not let us touch the radio in her car Okay, and we couldn't listen to v100 not to be look.

I don't want to get pro but we could not You're gonna listen to this smooth jazz And that's all and my dad we got in the car was listening Bob Marley and that's it That's all that's all we got Bob Marley or smooth jazz so

You can't stop a child from growing up and doing their own thing or taking certain songs and like falling in love with it or being attracted.

Right.

So we got a couple of people in the chat.

Amy Watkins said, my answer was Summerfest is responsible.

The accountability is the crowd.

She also says, man, don't worship music easy.

Anita Nicole said facts.

She also said the caller was spot on CTV says we got to talk about these labels and owners Why do they push these kids these kind of songs?

Cuz we know who they pushing it to so I think that's on what the caller was saying as well You're saying we got to get into these label execs and so forth.

I even saw um on um We got Amy

calling in as well.

We'll get to her in a second.

But I saw where they were.

Charlemagne was asking one executive.

I want to say it was Lee Leon Kohler and was asking him, like, why do you push this type of music?

And his legitimate answer was, I got to feed my family.

This was the white man saying that when asked, why do you push this destructive music?

You know.

And he said he had

to feed his

family.

Go ahead.

But I feel like that was his way of saying, this is what's working.

Like this is what's selling.

And I don't care what it is.

If it's selling, I'm gonna sell it.

Supplying to man.

Like I said, it's more so what's already being, you know, it's what's being uplifted.

So this is working.

Why, why change it up?

So that's what I look at it as.

Zach, you a DJ, right?

You know how breaking records come, come about, right?

frequent repetition.

Do you believe that these records is what was selling or these records is what was paid to be promoted and forced upon us so much so that we started liking these records?

Yeah, so much that we started liking them because there's like a lot of popular songs within the last two or three years that I'm like, I do not like this.

I can't stand listening to it.

And now I find myself playing some of these

exact songs every time that I'm DJing.

100%.

And

that's... You throw TikTok in there, put a dance with it.

There you

go, right?

Now, social media, when you add the dance factor to it, it makes it so much more enjoyable, quote, unquote, because now you're getting views for it.

Now you're going viral for it.

Let's go see what Amy's talking about.

Amy, how are you doing?

You are live on The Truth with Ray Nitty and Shannon.

Well, I just text...

Ray nitty and bow came up.

You understand?

Music moves us music moves us.

Okay, let me share a quick story with you just for controversy 11 years old Looking out the window supposed to be in bed.

Yeah, but I'm looking out the window because it's loud music going on and clearly the teenagers older than me 18 to 21 I would suggest Uncle Luke, okay

You know the rest.

Yeah,

I was amazed.

I didn't know what was happening.

I didn't know what was happening.

Get it and don't stop.

Okay.

Meanwhile in my home, same time, Michael Jackson, Man in the Mirror was one of those first songs that touched me.

It was like, oh, I'm getting older and you know, you get touched, you know, you feel sincerity.

You know, things I'm just playing around you, you know, I get it, you know, I'll make that change.

So music has a way of giving you an escape and an excuse without any other balance or truth to the songs and the momentum and what you hear in your life should be validated.

There's always something else to idolize.

You know, I love Joe to see but my mama said I can't listen to freaking you at the same time she was rebellious and would have her kids in the car listening to shoot And I really was proud of her for she let nobody tell her that it was wrong for her kids to be listening to shoot because it was her jam So I think that there's a Exciting excuse to blame music

and the technology and the social aptitude of it just because there's other things that aren't as powerful as the music.

And when it's old music, that's the part I think I'm focused on personally is that you should share music that's before a time or music that is outside of being conformed into, oh, okay, I like it.

Surprisingly,

Surprisingly, I like Elvis Presley for several reasons.

And I like that in those conversations, it's like, oh, okay, oh, okay, all right, I see.

You know, because you have a perspective of music.

I think that would be the solution for anyone that finds a young person influenced by music in a negative way.

Mind you, we all have.

We've really got to give kids a break.

They know the music is stupid.

Then other music is an escape And as hard as I am is it one time?

Yeah as far as I am one time the dumb music kind of helped me just you know not think so much

Do they do they know that the dumb music is programming?

That's uh, that's uh, what we are trying to get some sort of understanding and

It's easy to just blame music, right?

It's easy to thank you, Amy, once again.

Shout out to Amy, man.

Amy is a phenomenal individual in the city of Milwaukee doing amazing, amazing things from fashion to art to all types of amazing things.

But Shannon, we was talking about movies.

What about the movies that's been perpetuated?

Because I don't think movies get nowhere near as much slack or backlash.

Music does because

I don't know

if it's because, you know, we we criticize the black people that are making the music and it's easy or whatever that is.

It's low hanging fruit.

But the callers clearly said he talked about die hard.

You know what?

I think they got a problem.

when Black people do it.

Because you know what I did hear about people talking about movies and it's terrible programming?

Remember when they was protesting 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin' movie?

That

was the one

time I felt like I heard people protesting movies and about it being negative and so forth.

Every

song has its time.

I agree with that.

Go ahead, Shannon.

I was just reading the

chat.

No.

I definitely agree with that and like we were just saying before movies and TV and songs of course they have some type of leverage or some type of influence on the way we think and move but it's on us to kind of raise our children to understand that this is music this is not a way of life and show them other ways to live and move throughout their their lifetime right.

I also do think

when it comes to that song specifically, the only thing that bothers me, like, yeah, I agree.

Like some music is just straight up out of hand, right?

But I do think Young Miami is getting a lot of slack when there are songs that have been broken, that have been bigger, that are way worse.

You know what I mean?

Like, 100%

Then Zach brought it up to that actually the young Miami song it was written by like six dudes if I'm not mistaken and one One chick one one one woman was a co-writer on that song if I'm not mistaken.

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Man, this the extend though Amy Watkins said let's not forget rap has its way of highlighting subcultures Man, yeah, we talking about

Is entertainment programming or is it just entertainment?

And I think we've come to the conclusion that it is more than just programming.

It's more than just entertainment.

It is definitely programming, but it's programming on multiple levels because we have film, we have music, we have TV shows, and so forth.

And they say,

If you want, if you, I can't remember how the exact saying was, but they say, if you want a man to believe he's something else, show him that vision of himself over and over and over again, and they'll become that.

So if you continuously show young black people as thugs and.

and violin and so forth, that's what the generation will become.

If you show them as students, teachers, leaders, so forth, I think that's what the generation will become.

Let's go see what Leslie is talking about.

Leslie, how you feeling today?

Talk to us.

You live on The Lunch Break.

Hi, thank you for taking my call.

I just wanted to make light on the issue with the song from young Miami.

If we lived in an ideal world where you can say that parents teach their kids a certain way, then hopefully that kind of music wouldn't influence their brain.

But we don't live in that world right now.

We live in a world where there's a lot of parents that are 40 and under, I'm sorry, and they are not really raising their kids.

So if your kid is out there in the streets around other peers who is also coming from the same household, you're going to easily be influenced by what each other do and by what you hear on on the radio or in music or wherever.

So I think that song and you know, I hate to say anything negative about a young woman who is doing something, you know, making her money or whatever, but our kids are not being raised.

Some of them.

Some of them are not being raised right.

The parents are in their own world and these kids are out here raising themselves.

So to say that parents should do certain things to help their kids out, that would be good.

Some of them is doing it, but a lot of them are not.

So that's just my take on that.

And thank you for taking my call.

Thank you, Leslie.

Thank you for calling the true family.

Shannon, what you what you think of what Leslie just said?

I guess I do understand that.

But like we said before, it's more than just the music.

You have to change what they're watching.

You have to change the news they're watching.

You have to change the music, the books they're reading.

When people started reading books and newspapers, people were freaking out like, oh, my goodness, it's programming.

You just have to make sure there's that duality.

And as I said earlier,

I'm not really much of a mind.

That's true.

Where you go, Shannon?

Shannon.

Shannon.

There you are.

Come back and play.

What's wrong with you?

What's funny is when that happens, I could still hear you.

That's

even funnier.

That's hilarious.

I'll be over here dying.

But what I was saying was like, I like Meg LaStiane who also went to school and also did all these other things.

Like I like listening to artists that also has like other things about themselves and isn't just pushing one thing because as we said before.

When you think of baddies, we also listen into the music and then we got the visuals here.

If we're listening to music and then we watch these interviews and these people are pushing other things, it gives somebody different perspective.

So I think the word here is duality and being able to vibe to music and understand, hey, in a perfect world, parents are parenting, right?

But that's just not gonna happen and music ain't the only thing.

Crazy to me.

Yeah.

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What?

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What does he do to make

them like

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