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that, uh, shouldn't be on the vine.
Uh, we are still losing people, uh, even though, you know, we're talking about numbers being down and people that people love and, and, and, you know, care about their importance to them.
And so I'm going to end up, uh, posing a question and I just want.
If you've been in the game, then that this question will be for you.
Um, and in the game, I'm talking about, you know, yes, you used to be some of the people that you now talk about, man, these people and got out of control and ain't no respect in the game and all, all of the things, right?
So you, you now, uh, since you're out, you don't, you know, be like, man, they need to lead that alone.
There's any other and all of that, but you were a part of the game.
And, but it leads me to, and I know that some people, I know some people that they, well, the answer is going to be yes, but can you get out the game?
Can you get out the game?
And if so, how do you get out the game?
So whether you used to be a gangbanger, whether you used to be all of the used to bees, right?
Can you get out of the game or is this the type of game that once you're in you're in Now you may have you know Taking down your role in the game, but once you enter the game It's like you in this You in the game now You are a part of the game and all of the things that you know, you may have
Say well, yeah, you know, but that's that's how I used to be.
I'm not that way anymore Can you really just erase that like is that just expunged is that a pardon given and you just no longer that person and If you have some tips, you know, what are some tips that you use some people went and they had to do a long prison bid and they got out and They just trying to stay out the way now, you know people
who have that as a part of their past, a part of their history.
I want to hear from you this afternoon, because we need to try to educate, because I'm seeing people that are being murdered within the last few weeks, and I'm hearing people talking about, man, they used to be, man, they left it alone.
They ain't been in, you know, they got out, they went and done some time, they got out, and they wouldn't like that no more.
But they still ended up dying at the hands of the streets, in my opinion.
So is it karma?
Is it something coming black to haunt the life that they used to live?
Which is why I'm asking can you, you know what I'm saying?
Can you get out the game?
Is that a reality or not?
You know, can you get out the game?
And if so, how?
Do you move to another state?
Do you just give your life to a religious sector?
Can you get out the game?
And that's just a real question that I have and I want to know.
And it's already up on our YouTube poll.
Can you get out the game?
If so, call in and tell us how.
833-212-1017.
Some people don't want to get out the game.
And I get it.
I get it.
I don't think it's the right choice for the right decision, but I know that there are people who are making those decisions.
So if you can help somebody else and give them some advice, please call in and let us know.
You know what I'm saying?
Let us know how you got out the game.
If that is the case, how did you get out?
You know, and what are some of the hard knock lessons that you went through while being in the game?
Now, some people have been shot at.
Some people have actually been shot.
Some people have shot people.
Some people may have even murdered people and had to do your time because something has to give.
Something has to give, you know, there are some innocent people who are being caught up by stray bullets or the fact that, you know, somebody was just shooting reckless at somebody, but they never, you know what I'm saying?
They, they didn't get any repercussions on their own.
So if you have a story to tell this afternoon on the grapevine, I want to.
try to use your voices, your stories, Truth Nation, on if you were a part of and you jumped in the game and how you got out the game, what made you leave the game, all of these things.
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Thank you very much for agreeing to call in and give your truth.
We've got Flora Flora.
Great afternoon.
I love you.
I appreciate you getting out the game.
Have you been in the game?
How do you get out the game?
I want to know your truth.
So, Flora, great afternoon.
What's your truth?
Great afternoon, great afternoon.
It's good to be here with you guys, and I love y'all too.
I love Truth Nation, and this is a great subject, and here we are.
And yep, I've been in the game.
I have people that was in the game.
And so, when you get out, you got to have the mindset to want to get out.
Otherwise, you would dip and dab.
You probably won't even live.
You probably won't even make it out.
So it's all about wanting to get out.
A lot of people are given back, like I said.
And so that's basically what it is.
And so many people lose their lives from dipping and diving.
So either you're in or you're out.
I'm getting my name messed up with the system at a young age getting all kind of stuff on my You know criminal records on my name.
I was about to lose my life having people looking for me kicking me in my doors a Lot I'm grateful that I'm still here today and that I did change my life
Yeah.
So, um, that's what it is.
So you got to be willing to want to get out.
Otherwise, um, I think there's a sense that if we hear about a sword to a guy by the
that's it.
know,
and New Jack City.
They just keep calling me and they keep calling me.
So, you
that
just don't see the
Yes, yes, yes.
And then we have those days, though, like we'll have those days, those urges and cravings to go back out there.
Because see, a lot of things that I went through, I mean, like when I was out there in the streets, I became addicted to jerks, addicted to robbing people.
It was just like a whole different lifestyle.
You know, and then once you do try to get clean or clean yourself up for a couple of days, it'd be like a monkey on your back.
It'll come back.
It's only being to your higher power that you make it out.
I really can't explain it, but I had so many bad experiences.
And like I said, I went through drug addiction at such a young age, prostitution, robbing people in and out of jail.
It was bad for me for over 20 years, but I'm coming up now on 23 years.
So God has been good to me.
Absolutely.
Well, thank you, Flora, for giving us your truth.
It's important and hopefully to help some others who are still struggling.
We're going to Blake Gump.
Blake Gump.
Great afternoon.
Welcome to the Great Vine.
You we're talking about people who may have been in the game.
If you've been in the game, can you get out the game?
And if you did, you feel like you have gotten out of the game.
How did you do it?
How do you get out the game?
Or is it once a part of the game always a part of the game because I'm looking at this in the context of and Blake just so I can get all of your comment I'm gonna have him keep you on hold so I can go to my break But I want people to kind of look at it in the sits in the sense of in the context of Alcoholics or drug addicts on their road to recovery
when they are no longer alcoholics or they've gotten off of alcohol, they've gotten off drugs, but in that community, they say once an addict, always an addict.
You're just now a recovering addict.
And that they say just lives with you for the rest of your life.
So whether you've been off drugs, you've been off alcohol for 23 years, you're still considered
of recovering at it.
So this is where I'm going with asking about the game.
Can you get out the game?
And if you feel like you have, you know, how do you get out the game?
Because sometimes it's once you win the game, you win the game.
You may not take the same role that you had during the game, but are you still considered in the game?
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Uh, we're getting into can you get out the game?
We also have a poll up on our YouTube page.
So, uh, if you're watching us on YouTube, uh, take the poll, let us know.
Uh, can you get out the game?
If so, call in and tell us how at eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17, or you can comment.
Yes, you can comment.
No.
Um, and when we talking about the game, I mean any parts of it.
and usually the illegal parts of the game.
And can you get out?
And if so, how?
How?
Or does it follow you around?
Like if you were a recovering addict of drugs or alcohol, once an addict, always an addict, just taking a different role now.
We're going to go to the truth call in lines at 833-212-1017.
Blake Gump, thank you for holding through our commercial break.
You hear the conversation.
What's your truth?
Afternoon, family.
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at 14?
My dad and my mom divorced.
I became the man of the house.
I left, I went right out of bond and then I went to Vincent.
10th grade, I had three pair of pants and three shirts and one pair of shoes.
After that, I became my own man, cocaine hit the scene.
If y'all look at the video, the E-Place move video, that's my room that they did the video in when we got the record company and the dope houses became off the corners.
And then when the indictment came down, I was at work.
You know, luckily, my name wasn't on no paperwork and my face wasn't on no pictures.
Next thing you know, you know, life goes on, you start carteling and you can do what they bring you or you can't.
You know, next thing you know, brothers in Atlanta come up missing from here, found two, three years later.
And everybody's robbing everybody for a couple hundred thousand You know
and
then the jury and the dookie chains and the concert started to come Everybody started going skating into the movies.
I stayed at home.
I'm the reason they got 24-hour spots.
They say, you know And I miss come I had such enough I was at work and then So
Out of that, we just had a 26th reunion of a 26th tree from 19th to 26th.
We family, we ain't blood.
I never went to the, down to 16 years, I never went because the first 10 years was indictments.
I'm not gonna be around you if I just spent 25 years with you on the block.
I'm not gonna be around getting pictures taken of me and all that.
And then...
Fortunately, I took a 17 year break from the world and it wasn't jail.
I got the plug You know and like I told him if I can get what I want I can do what I want.
Don't keep calling me.
Don't keep coming up here.
Mm-hmm I'll get caught.
We good.
I got snipped out.
I still talk I got my stripes They went to jail.
I didn't now that somebody call me and It's just before I got shot up.
I prayed that
I can get out of what I was in.
The Million Man March came.
And the week I went to the Million Man March, my cousin Torrance, my man stepping over livery and dying too cold, they got cute.
The week I went to the Million Man March, got back, got saved, got shot up, my heart teased, my godfather, and two other of my family members died.
I got shot that same week.
They say they going threes, I lift.
I got saved before all this happened.
Your game is written, and what you put out here on the streets, I don't know if it's Carla, my four shots in the chest, and to my left hand, I don't know if it's from what I did and got away with, but I know I never did it to nobody that didn't have it coming to them.
I never took nothing from nobody.
So we'll come out here to the people that it happened to that say you out of the game.
Or I'm done with the streets.
The streets don't give, the streets take.
The streets don't gotta be done with you.
Your connect don't gotta be done with you.
Square, so and so, hey, anything gotta be done with you.
Jealousy don't gotta be done with you.
Everybody know there's something that's out here that's a higher being.
But whatever happens out here on the street with vengeance and selflessness.
Ignorance that's by its own toes.
Look at big needs getting paid to walk around and talk about What you get to jail for?
Did you want this is one of him talk?
They already know but they want to hear him talk so he can pay to talk about when he's just on jail for that He just they just swore he wouldn't talk about right?
You know me?
No, you pay me.
I'm a tail.
I'm a talk because nobody on paperwork, but it's other stuff you don't tell So what I'm saying is
When they see me Alpine was having baby.
What a way that I'm done.
I'll bet you know where it's at.
I'm done.
I Don't see if it's not we share blood for going in no more.
I don't run these streets I just hung out with the most gangsters building and killers in my life last week and that's my family
and that's how we grew up,
but it wasn't by choice.
It's what we chose to do
Thank you.
I appreciate you giving your truth and and I Just need to know you know, what is your truth on this situation we're talking about can you get out the game and If you feel that you have got out the game, how did you get out of the game?
Because we got a lot of people that feel like you know, this is life.
This is life.
That's the only thing I know
You know, I came up hard and when I'm talking about the game ladies again, uh, and men, uh, prostitution is a part of the game too.
Prostitution is a part of the game.
You know, going out dancing and all of that kind of stuff, that's a part of the game.
And there are a lot of people.
So I just want people to understand when I'm saying, uh, how did you get out the game?
Uh, and can you get out the game?
I know some women that.
have been stripping exotic dancers or whatever, private dancers, whatever you choose to call it, whatever name, and they're grown grown and they still stripping.
They still doing parties.
So it's like, and some of them have said, like, you know, as long as I got this, you know, it's going to sell.
Somebody going.
So if I get into a jam, they fall black on what they know.
And I've heard the same from some drug dealers who have called themselves becoming ex-drug dealers now, but they like, man, I know how to hit a lick right quick and get right black where they need to be.
So if you have those urges, then are you really or are you really out the game?
Are you really out the game?
Because again,
You it should go up under the same banner as I say it as people who are recovering from alcohol or drugs Because they can have been away from it for eight years now But they say they're still urges just like smoking cigarettes be like I ain't smoked in this amount of time But they still have that urge, but they're just able to fight it.
So can you really get out the game?
And if you feel like you have, because of your amount of time, you know, how did you get out the game?
How did you, you know, not fall victim to the urge to get black and be like, man, let me go on and make this money.
Let me go on and do this.
Let me go on and go ladies.
Let me go on to go up north.
Let me go on and go here.
I'm going to take a trip to Miami.
and call yourself doing what you're doing.
And just because you, well, I just went to just hit a lick, but I don't do it no more.
Like, yeah, that's not how it works.
That's not how any of this works.
Again, everybody on our YouTube page that are watching Lucretia, great afternoon, love you, appreciate you, Betty Lewis, great afternoon, love you, appreciate you, Jasmine Jazz West.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Say a great topic.
Uh, Lucretia said, I believe a person can the question to ask oneself, do I really want to get out?
If so, how disciplined am I to do the necessary work?
Uh, and you know, and it will take, and how, if, how disciplined am I to do the necessary work, it will take to change my mindset and environment.
Got it.
It was behind the pole for me at first.
Will D9.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Good afternoon.
I don't know how easy it is to get out of the game, but what I do know is typically you are who you put yourself around.
Okay.
Okay.
Anita Nicole.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Uh, Derek Patterson, a great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Said, bring your old buddies that were with you when you were in the game, change your surroundings so your outcome will be different.
And you know, I've kind of seen exactly what you're talking about, Derek Patterson, because I do tend to see a lot of people be like, that's the old gang there.
You feel what I'm saying?
But all of y'all are now trying to be in a different space and y'all feel like these younger people.
Don't taint it the game and y'all ain't trying to be around these young fools or the Y is or whatever the case We got to get ready to take care of some bills.
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I'm the legendary Homer blow the question We're talking about in whichever part of the game because there's many parts in the game can you get out the game and If so if you feel like you can or you did how did you get out the game?
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futures without limits Welcome back to the grapevine on the award-winning one on one seven fm.
I am the legendary Homer blow and Today we're starting out talking about can you get out the game was dope game just street game in general?
You know whether it's a dancer and all of that can you get out the game?
Can you ever really like just get out the game and if you feel like you can?
How, how do you get out the game?
Because there's so many people that have habitual criminality repeater on their criminal complaints when they are charged with different crimes that are usually associated with something that they used to do, whether it's stealing cars, whether it's this, whether it's that, you know, people get addicted to that criminal element, that criminal life.
And it's like they get locked up oftentimes for the same thing you be like again Yeah, yeah, man, you heard they got such and such you had to be like again Didn't he just get out didn't she just get out?
I want to bring in my Producer on this afternoon DJ brother Z. All right, great afternoon DJ brother Z. I love you.
I appreciate you.
How you doing and filling this afternoon.
What's
up?
I'm just making a edit.
Yes and no, I feel like yes, you can, but you would have to like move states, like you really transform your life, like everything.
but then I say no as well because Yes, you may not be like active but Depending on where you are or where you're living you may still have connections to people within the gangs therefore You're still kind of a gang member.
You're just not active right like if you can use them for security or
Whatever the case is like
that's kind of still in the game And
that's what I'm that's where I'm thinking, you know, and that's why I'm saying like, you know, I want to hear from people who aren't afraid to acknowledge that yeah, they were in the game and
They may still be in the game or they still have the urge.
And if so, like, let's use all of that as a teaching tool to try to help somebody else, to try to help somebody else that may be still struggling.
And it's like, I can say in New Jack City,
it just keep calling me, man.
It just keep calling
If you feel like, yeah, I got out the game.
What did you do?
I believe when people say, you know, you had to move.
Some people will be like, I just had to move away from it all and just kind of leave that there and move somewhere else where people don't know that part of your life.
And you can, they get to know you as this reformed person because that's basically where you're at now.
You're just, uh, reformed.
And again, eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17.
is the call in line.
Let's see, Blake Gump said, you're, I don't know, is this supposed to be your respect that you put out there and what you stand on lets people know that you're in or out.
Hmm.
So it also said, uh, Blake, uh, Blake Gump said, I've been out, I don't miss it and I don't have a record.
So I'm not a felon.
Uh, two, two Reeves, uh, great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you said to get out.
You have to change your mindset as well as environment.
You also have to have realistic expectations.
Most in the game have transferable skill sets.
It's finding them and applying them.
Great point.
Great point.
You know, cause I always have said like, man, some of these people that know how to run these empires in the illegal drug business is like, if you put that.
You know what I'm saying, to where it's something productive, you'd be a multi-millionaire.
You'd be a multi-millionaire.
But some just, you know, choose to stay in that realm.
And I think, and I know that, um, you know, some people may not watch it, but 50 cent with the whole power series, it's like, again, it's showing you how the rise and the fall and how the street will come and get you.
The streets going to come get you.
You know, some of these homicides that have happened here in the city, uh, within the last couple of months, I've seen people on social media talking about, man, they had left the streets alone, man.
They weren't even on that no more.
And man, y'all took a good dude.
Y'all took a good girl.
She was good.
You know, she started doing this.
She was doing that.
He was doing this now.
He wasn't even out there.
He wasn't trying to dibble and dabble in it.
But you have to ask yourself at the same time, was that karma coming from being in the game?
The streets is where you were and the streets ended up taking you.
Even though you calling yourself now like I ain't on that.
I ain't in that.
I ain't doing none of that stuff no more.
I'm not about that life no more.
But when the street says it's time to pay up, it's time to pay up.
I've read over the last several years, different criminal complaints where it talks about the person had just got out of prison from doing a long time sentence.
They've done a long sentence and soon as they got out, like sometimes less than a week after they got out the same day that they got out and somebody ended up taking their life.
It's like, why?
Why?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
So were those crimes, uh, people that just bite at their time and be like, I'm going to wait.
I'm going to wait 15 years, but I'm going to take my justice.
I'm going to take.
You know action on something that I felt that you done to me that Disrespected me or you know put me in a situation And I'm coming to call on it so where everybody else is confused and don't understand How did this happen this that any other?
It could be that you know I know that there are some people that you know homicides have happened and that person may have taken somebody's life before too
Is this a nephew or is this a grandson or granddaughter?
that Knew that and said, you know, I'm gonna get some justice So that's why I say, you know, can you can you and I appreciate everybody who is Taking part in this by Talking to me on the YouTube chat by giving me your thoughts and your truth and opinions on that and again call in because again sometimes we can say it
on the chat but sometimes you may need to actually explain what you mean by saying yes you can get out the game and then give a how and what it took for you to end up getting out of the game and maybe some of the people that are.
Feeling like they just trapped in it now that they're still doing it.
Some of the younger people that are still doing it now, maybe they may be able to hear the formula.
Maybe they may able to hear the conviction in your voice, in your truth, letting them know, like, look, I know, I know the money be coming, the money be coming.
And it's like, you know, yeah, you ain't trying to work at a fast food restaurant because that money ain't coming.
Long enough, but I just say this if you feel like that just think about when you get to prison Because you will eventually get there if you don't end up losing your life to the streets How much you getting for working in the kitchen?
How much you get for working in the laundry?
And when you have to say you made $15 a week or 15 or $15 a month
That should give you something that will make you say, you know what?
Yeah, this probably ain't worth it It's probably ain't worth it when you got somebody telling you what time to get up how to walk While you're in the prison how to go across the yard knowing that there are people With guns that have a right to take take you out if you don't do what you supposed to do where you used to be the person so it ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun so this is about trying to you know really
Help some people that are fighting because some people it's an addiction for some people.
It's an addiction You know Tutu Reese said there are no limitations when you truly believe in you You know so we we we got to do something because I can say I keep seeing some of these crime reports where they're saying somebody got murdered
And, you know, people like, man, it's so many LLs.
And I'm not talking about cool J that we are seeing on social media and so many people that are just torn up.
But some of y'all hang with some of the same kind of people that are out here doing these crimes, that are out here doing these homicides.
So do you really want, you know, do you really want that person?
Black.
Do you really wish the streets didn't take them, but you're hanging with some of the same people?
Some of these candlelight visuals, you know, it's about somebody that got shot and killed.
And I tell you, it'll probably be several people that are out there at that visual and they got their guns on them.
But yet here they are talking about, you know, we need to stop the violence, man.
We need to stop that doubt.
Y'all took a real one.
Y'all took a real one, man.
But yet here you are ready at moments notice To shoot up the vigil If somebody says something if you happen to see somebody We got to make a change we got to get ready to take care of some bills you're listening to the grapevine on the award-winning 101 7 FM I gotta take care of these bills and I'll be black
Great afternoon true nation.
Welcome to the grapevine.
I am the legendary home of blow on the award-winning 1017 FM We are broadcasting live from the American Family Insurance studio in the heart of downtown at the Avenue Ah Yes, you know It's the weekend, right?
It's a week, but there's some It's some greatness
that shouldn't be on the vine.
We are still losing people, even though, you know, we're talking about numbers being down and people that people love and, and, and, you know, care about their importance to them.
And so I'm going to end up posing a question and I just want.
If you've been in the game, then that this question will be for you.
Um, and in the game, I'm talking about, you know, yes, you used to be some of the people that you now talk about, man, these people and got out of control and ain't no respect in the game and all, all of the things, right?
So you, you now, uh, since you're out, you don't, you know, be like, man, they need to leave that alone.
There's that and the other and all of that, but you were a part of the game.
And, but it leads me to, and I know that some people, I know some people that they, well, the answer is going to be yes, but can you get out the game?
Can you get out the game?
And if so, how do you get out the game?
So whether you used to be a gangbanger, whether you used to be all of the used to bees, right?
Can you get out of the game or is this the type of game that once you're in you're in Now you may have you know Taking down your role in the game, but once you enter the game It's like you in this You in the game now You are a part of the game and all of the things that you know, you may have
Said well, yeah, you know, but that's that's how I used to be.
I'm not that way anymore Can you really just erase that like is that just expunged is that a pardon given and you just no longer that person and If you have some tips, you know, what are some tips that you use some people went and they had to do a long prison bid and they got out and They just trying to stay out the way now, you know people
who have that as a part of their past, a part of their history.
I want to hear from you this afternoon, because we need to try to educate, because I'm seeing people that are being murdered within the last few weeks.
And I'm hearing people talking about, man, they used to be, man, they left it alone.
They ain't been, you know, they got out, they went and done some time, they got out and they wouldn't like that no more.
But they still ended up dying at the hands of the streets in my opinion.
So is it karma?
Is it something coming black to haunt the life that they used to live?
Which is why I'm asking Can you you know what I'm saying?
Can you get out the game?
Is that a reality or not?
You know, can you get out the game and if so how?
Do you move to another state?
You know, do you just give your life to a religious sector?
I Can you get out the game and and that's just a real Question that I have and I want to know and it's already up on our YouTube poll Can you get out the game if so call in and tell us how?
eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17.
Some people, some people don't want to get out the game.
And I get it.
I get it.
I don't think it's the right choice for the right decision, but I know that there are people who are making those decisions.
So if you can help somebody else and give them some advice, please call in and let us know.
You know what I'm saying?
Let us know how you got out the game.
If that is the case, how did you get out?
You know, and what are some of the hard knock lessons that you went through while being in the game?
Now, some people have been shot at.
Some people have actually been shot.
Some people have shot people.
Some people may have even murdered people and had to do your time because something has to give.
Something has to give, you know, there are some innocent people who are being caught up by stray bullets or the fact that, you know, somebody was just shooting reckless at somebody, but they never, you know what I'm saying?
They didn't get any repercussions on their own.
So if you have a story to tell this afternoon on the grapevine, I want to.
try to use your voices, your stories, Truth Nation, on if you were a part of and you jumped in the game and how you got out the game, what made you leave the game, all of these things.
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We've got Flora Flora.
Great afternoon.
I love you.
I appreciate you getting out the game.
Have you been in the game?
How do you get out the game?
I want to know your truth.
So, Flora, great afternoon.
What's your truth?
Great afternoon, great afternoon.
It's good to be here with you guys, and I love y'all too.
I love Truth Nation, and this is a great subject, and here we are.
And yep, I've been in the game.
I have people that was in the game.
And so, when you get out, you got to have the mindset to want to get out.
Otherwise, you would dip and dab and
You probably won't even live.
You probably won't even make it out.
You know, so it's all about wanting to get out.
A lot of people are given back, like I said.
And so that's basically what it is.
And so many people lose their lives from dipping and diving.
So either you're in or you're out.
I'm getting my name all messed up with the system at a young age getting all kind of stuff on my You know criminal records on my name.
I was about to lose my life having people looking for me kicking in my doors a Lot I'm grateful that I'm still here today and that I did change my life
Yeah.
So, um, that's what it is.
So you got to be willing to want to get out.
Otherwise, um, I think there's a sense and if we hear about a sword to a guy by the sword, that's it.
know,
and New
They just keep calling me, man.
They keep calling me.
So, you
that
just don't see the
Yes, yes, yes.
And then, and we have those days though, like we'll have those days, those urges and cravings to go back out there.
Cause see a lot of things that I went through, I mean, like when I was out there in the streets, I became addicted to jerks, addicted to robbing people.
It was just like a whole different lifestyle.
You know, and then once you do try to get clean or clean yourself up for a couple of days, it'd be like a monkey on your back.
It'll come back.
It's only being to your higher power that you make it out.
Like I really can't explain it, but I had so many bad experience.
And like I said, I went through drug addiction and such a young age prostitution, robbing people in and out of jail.
It was bad for me for over 20 years, but I'm coming up now on 23 years.
So God has been good to me.
Absolutely.
Well, thank you, Flora, for giving us your truth.
It's important and hopefully to help some others who are still struggling.
We're going to Blake Gump.
Blake Gump.
Great afternoon.
Welcome to the grapevine.
You we're talking about people have may have been in the game.
If you've been in the game, can you get out the game?
And if you did, you feel like you have gotten out of the game.
How did you do it?
How do you get out the game?
Or is it once a part of the game, always a part of the game?
Because I'm looking at this in the context of, and Blake, just so I can get all of your comment, I'm gonna have him keep you on hold so I can go to my break.
But I want people to kind of look at it in the sense of, in the context of alcoholics or drug addicts.
On their road to recovery,
when they are no longer alcoholics or they've gotten off of alcohol, they've gotten off drugs, but in that community, they say once an addict, always an addict.
You're just now a recovering addict.
And that they say just lives with you for the rest of your life.
So whether you've been off drugs, you've been off alcohol for 23 years, you're still considered
of recovering at it.
So this is where I'm going with asking about the game.
Can you get out the game?
And if you feel like you have, you know, how do you get out the game?
Because sometimes it's once you win the game, you win the game.
You may not take the same role that you had during the game, but are you still considered in the game?
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And this afternoon we're getting into can you get out the game?
We also have a poll up on our YouTube page.
So if you're watching us on YouTube, take the poll.
Let us know.
Can you get out the game?
If so, call in and tell us how at 833-212-1017 or you can comment.
Yes, you can comment.
No.
And when we talking about the game, I mean any parts of it and usually the illegal parts of the game.
And can you get out?
And if so, how, how, or does it follow you around?
Like if you were a recovering addict of drugs or alcohol, once an addict, always an addict, just taking a different role now.
We're going to go to the truth call in lines at 833-212-1017.
Blake Gump, thank you for holding through our commercial break.
You hear the conversation.
What's your truth?
Afternoon family.
Yes, sir.
Now
at 14?
My dad.
And my mom divorced, I became the man of the house.
I left, I went over right out of bond and then I went to visit.
10th grade, I had three pair of pants and three shirts and one pair of shoes.
After that, I became my own man.
Coke can't hit the scene.
If y'all look at the video, the E-Place move video, that's my room that they did the video in when we got the record company.
the dope houses became off the corners.
And then when the indictments came down, I was at work.
You know, luckily my name wasn't on no paperwork and my face wasn't on no pictures.
Next thing you know, you know, life goes on, you start carteling and either you can do it, they bring you or you can't.
You know, next thing you know, brothers in Atlanta come up missing from here.
Found two three years later and everybody's robbing everybody for a couple hundred thousand You know
and
then the jury and the dookie chains and the concert started to come Everybody started going skating into the movies.
I stayed at home.
I'm the reason they got 24 hour spots.
They say, you know and diamonds come I had such enough I was at work and then
So out of that like we just had a 26 reunion of a 26 tree from 19 to 26 We family we ain't blood I Never went to the right down to 16 years.
I never went because the first 10 years was indictments I'm not gonna be around if I just play 25 years with you on the block.
I'm not gonna be around getting pictures taken to me and all that and then
Fortunately, I took a 17 year break from the world and it wasn't jail.
I got the club You know and like I told him if I can get what I want I can do what I want.
Don't keep calling me.
Don't keep coming up here.
Mm-hmm.
I'll get caught.
We good.
I got snipped out.
I still talk I got my stripes They went to jail.
I didn't now that somebody call me and It's just before I got shut up.
I prayed that
I can get out of where I was in.
The Million Man March came.
And the week I went to the Million Man March, my cousin Torrance, my man Steb and Overlivery, and Donnie Too Cold, they got cute.
The week I went to the Million Man March, got back, got saved, got shot up, my heart teed, my godfather, and two other of my family members died.
I got shot that same week.
They say they're going threes.
I lift.
I got saved before all this happened.
Your game is written, and what you put out here on the streets, I don't know if it's Carla, my four shots in the chest, and to my left hand, I don't know if it's from what I did and got away with, but I know I never did it to nobody that didn't have it coming to them.
I never took nothing from nobody.
So we'll come out here to the people that it happened to that say you out of the game.
Or I'm done with the streets.
The streets don't give, the streets take.
The streets don't gotta be done with you.
Your connect don't gotta be done with you.
Square, so and so, hey, anything gotta be done with you.
Jealousy don't gotta be done with you.
Everybody know there's something that's out here that's a higher being.
But whatever happens out here on the street with vengeance and selflessness.
Ignorance that's bias all in tow.
Look at big needs getting paid to walk around and talk about What you get to jail for?
Did you want this is one of him talk?
They already know but they want to hear him talk so he can pay to talk about when he's inside jail for that He just they just swore he wouldn't talk about right?
You know me now you pay me on the tail.
I'm gonna talk because nobody on paperwork, but it's other stuff you don't tell So what I'm saying is
When they see me Alpine, we're hanging baby.
What a way that I'm done.
I'll bet you know where it's at.
I'm done.
I don't see if this smoke we share blood for going in no more.
I don't run these streets.
I just hung out with the most gangsters, dealers, and killers in my life last week.
And that's my family.
And that's how we grew up, but it
wasn't by choice.
It's what we chose to do.
All right.
Thank you.
I appreciate you giving your truth and and I Just need to know you know, what is your truth on this situation?
We're talking about can you get out the game and If you feel that you have got out the game, how did you get out of the game?
Because we got a lot of people that feel like you know, this is life.
This is life.
It's the only thing I know
You know, I came up hard and when I'm talking about the game ladies again, uh, and men, uh, prostitution is part of the game too.
Prostitution is a part of the game.
You know, going out dancing and all of that kind of stuff, that's a part of the game.
And there are a lot of people.
So I just want people to understand when I'm saying, uh, how did you get out the game?
Uh, and can you get out the game?
I know some women that.
have been stripping exotic dancers or whatever private dancer, whatever you choose to call it, whatever name, and they're grown grown and they still stripping.
They still doing parties.
So it's like, and some of them have said, like, you know, as long as I got this, you know, it's going to sell.
Somebody going.
So if I get into a jam, they fall black on what they know.
And I've heard the same from some drug dealers who have called themselves becoming ex-drug dealers now, but they like, man, I know how to hit a lick right quick and get right black where they need to be.
So if you have those urges, then are you really or are you really out the game?
Are you really out the game?
Because again,
You it should go up under the same banner as I said as people who are recovering from alcohol or drugs Because they can have been away from it for eight years now But they say they're still urges just like smoking cigarettes be like I ain't smoked in this amount of time But they still have that urge, but they're just able to fight it.
So can you really get out the game?
And if you feel like you have, because of your amount of time, you know, how did you get out the game?
How did you, you know, not fall victim to the urge to get black and be like, man, let me go on and make this money.
Let me go on and do this.
Let me go on and go ladies.
Let me go on to go up North.
Let me go on and go here.
I'm going to take a trip to Miami.
and call yourself doing what you're doing.
And just because you, well, I just went to just hit a lick, but I don't do it no more.
Like, yeah, that's not how it works.
That's not how any of this works.
Again, everybody on our YouTube page that are watching Lucretia, great afternoon, love you, appreciate you, Betty Lewis, great afternoon, love you, appreciate you, Jasmine Jazz West.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Say a great topic.
Uh, Lucretia said, I believe a person can the question to ask oneself, do I really want to get out?
If so, how disciplined am I to do the necessary work?
Uh, and you know, and it will take, and how, if, how disciplined am I to do the necessary work, it will take to change my mindset and environment.
Got it.
It was behind the pole for me at first.
Will D9.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Good afternoon.
I don't know how easy it is to get out of the game, but what I do know is typically you are who you put yourself around.
Okay.
Okay.
Anita Nicole.
Great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you.
Uh, Derek Patterson, a great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you said, bring your old buddies that were with you when you were in the game, change your surroundings so your outcome will be different.
And you know, I've kind of seen exactly what you're talking about, Derek Patterson, because I do tend to see a lot of people be like, that's the old gang there.
You feel what I'm saying?
But all of y'all are now trying to be in a different space and y'all feel like these younger people.
Don't taint it the game and y'all ain't trying to be around these young fools or the way is or whatever the case We got to get ready to take care of some bills.
You're listening to the grapevine.
I'm the legendary Homer blow the question We're talking about in whichever part of the game because there's many parts in the game can you get out the game and If so if you feel like you can or you did how did you get out the game?
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Welcome back to the grapevine on the award-winning 1017 FM.
I am the legendary Homer Blow and today we're starting out talking about can you get out the game was dope game just street game in general.
You know whether it's a dancer and
All of that.
Can you get out the game?
Can you ever really like just get out the game?
And if you feel like you can, how, how do you get out the game?
Because there's so many people that have a habitual criminality repeater on their criminal complaints when they are charged with different crimes that are usually associated with something that they used to do, whether stealing cars, whether it's this, whether it's that, you know, people.
Get addicted to that criminal element that criminal life And it's like they get locked up oftentimes for the same thing you be like again Yeah, yeah, man, you heard they got such and such you had to be like again Didn't he just get out didn't she just get out I want to bring in my Producer
on this afternoon, DJ Brother Z. Great afternoon, DJ Brother Z. I love you.
I appreciate you.
How are you doing and feeling this afternoon?
What's up?
I'm just making an edit.
Okay.
What's your thoughts on this topic?
Do you believe people can truly get out the game?
And if so, how?
And if not, what's your logic?
Yes and no.
I feel like
Yes, you can but you would have to like move states mm-hmm like you really transform your life like everything mm-hmm, but then I say no as well because Yes, you may not be like active mm-hmm, but Depending on where you are or where you're living you may still have connections to people within the gangs therefore
You're still kind of a gang member, you're just not active.
Like if you can use them for security or whatever the case is,
that's kind of... Still in the game.
Yeah,
And that's where I'm thinking.
And that's why I'm saying, I want to hear from people who aren't afraid to acknowledge that, yeah.
They were in the game and they may still be in the game or they still have the urge.
And if so, like let's use all of that as a teaching tool to try to help somebody else, to try to help somebody else that may be still struggling.
And it's like, like I say in New Jack city,
it just keep calling me, man.
It just keep calling
If you feel like, yeah, I got out the game.
What did you do?
I believe when people say, you know, you had to move.
Some people will be like, I just had to move away from it all and just kind of leave that there and move somewhere else where people don't know that part of your life and you can, they get to know you as this reformed person because that's basically where you're at now.
You're just, uh, reformed.
And again, eight, three, three, two, one, two, 10, 17.
is the call in line.
Let's see.
Blake Gump said, you're, I don't know, is that supposed to be your respect that you put out there and what you stand on?
Let's people know that you're in or out.
Hmm.
So it also said, uh, Blake, uh, Blake Gump said, I've been out.
I don't miss it and I don't have a record.
So I'm not a felon.
Uh, two, two Reeves, uh, great afternoon.
Love you.
Appreciate you said to get out.
You have to change your mindset as well as environment.
You also have to have realistic expectations.
Most in the game have transferable skill sets.
It's finding them and applying them.
Great point.
Great point.
You know, cause I always have said like, man, some of these people that know how to run these empires in the illegal drug business is like, if you put that.
You know what I'm saying to where it's something productive.
You'd be a multi-millionaire.
You'd be a multi-millionaire.
But some just, you know, choose to stay in that realm.
And I think, and I know that, um, you know, some people may not watch it, but 50 cent with the whole power series, it's like, again, it's showing you how the rise and the fall and how the street will come and get you.
The streets going to come get you.
You know, some of these homicides that have happened here in the city, uh, within the last couple of months, I've seen people on social media talking about, man, they had left the streets alone, man.
They weren't even on that no more.
And man, y'all took a good dude.
Y'all took a good girl.
She was good.
You know, she started doing this.
She was doing that.
He was doing this now.
He wasn't even out there.
He wasn't trying to dibble and dabble in it.
But you have to ask yourself at the same time, was that karma coming from being in the game?
The streets is where you were and the streets ended up taking you.
Even though you calling yourself now like I ain't on that.
I ain't in that.
I ain't doing none of that stuff no more.
I'm not about that life no more.
But when the street says it's time to pay up, it's time to pay up.
I've read over the last several years, different criminal complaints where it talks about the person had just got out of prison from doing a long time sentence.
They've done a long sentence and soon as they got out, like sometimes less than a week after they got out the same day that they got out and somebody ended up taking their life.
It's like, why?
Why?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
So were those crimes, uh, people that just bided their time and be like, I'm going to wait, I'm going to wait 15 years, but I'm going to take my justice.
I'm going to take.
You know action on something that I felt that you done to me that Disrespected me or you know put me in a situation And I'm coming to call on it so where everybody else is confused and don't understand How did this happen this that any other?
It could be that you know I know that there are some people that you know homicides have happened and that person may have taken somebody's life before too
Is this a nephew or is this a grandson or granddaughter that?
Knew that and said, you know, I'm gonna get some justice So that's why I say, you know, can you can you and I appreciate everybody who is Taking part in this by talking to me on the YouTube chat
by giving me your thoughts and your truth and opinions on that and again call in because again sometimes we can say it on the chat but sometimes you may need to actually explain what you mean by saying yes you can get out the game and then give a how and what it took for you to end up getting out of the game and maybe some of the people that are.
Feeling like they just trapped in it now that they're still doing it.
Some of the younger people that are still doing it now, maybe they may be able to hear the formula.
Maybe they may able to hear the conviction in your voice, in your truth, letting them know, like, look, I know, I know the money be coming, the money be coming.
And it's like, you know, yeah, you ain't trying to work at a fast food restaurant because that money ain't coming.
Long enough, but I just say this if you feel like that just think about when you get to prison Because you will eventually get there if you don't end up losing your life to the streets How much you getting for working in the kitchen?
How much you get for working in the laundry?
And when you have to say you made $15 a week or 15 or $15 a month That should give you something that will
Make you say, you know what?
Yeah, this probably ain't worth it.
This probably ain't worth it.
When you got somebody telling you what time to get up, how to walk while you're in the prison, how to go across the yard knowing that there are people with guns that have a right to take you out if you don't do what you're supposed to do where you used to be the person.
So it ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun.
So this is about trying to really help some people.
that are fighting because some people, it's an addiction for some people.
It's an addiction.
You know, Tutu Reeve said, there are no limitations when you truly believe in you.
You know, so we, we, we got to do something because I can say I keep seeing some of these crime reports where they're saying somebody got murdered and, you know, people like, man, it's so many LLs and I'm not talking about Ku J.
that we are seeing on social media and so many people that are just torn up.
But some of y'all hang with some of the same kind of people that are out here doing these crimes, that are out here doing these homicides.
So do you really want, you know, do you really want that person?
Black.
Do you really wish the streets didn't take them, but you're hanging with some of the same people?
Some of these candlelight visuals, you know, it's about somebody that got shot and killed.
And I tell you, it'll probably be several people that are out there at that visual and they got their guns on them.
But yet here they are talking about, you know, we need to stop the violence, man.
We need to stop that doubt.
Y'all took a real one.
Y'all took a real one, man.
But yet here you are ready at moments of notice to shoot up the vigil.
If somebody says something, if you happen to see somebody, we got to make a change.
We got to get ready, take care of some bills.
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