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19 Keys On AI Evolution, the Real State of Hip-Hop and What's Happening in Polyamorous Relationships
Apr 30, 2023
In a recent interview on Sway In The Morning, 19 Keys stopped by for a candid conversation about his journey thus far, the advancements of AI and how we should harness it, and his thoughts on polyamorous relationships. As someone who has always prioritized social issues and mental health awareness through his messaging, 19 Keys continues to set an example for conscious rap, entrepreneurship and activism.
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19 Keys On Evolution of AI, Current State of Hip-Hop and Polyamorous Relationships (Full Interview)
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Yo.
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Voice of power had to be.
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Talk to me.
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Voice of power right here. This young
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man has been putting it down
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for years. It's not something he does,
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it's something he lives. You know, and
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it was implanted in him
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before he was a seed. This is
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epigenetics handed down through
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generations through his bloodline,
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through his DNA, this knowledge, this
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wisdom, and this information. We are the
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sum accumulation of all that came before
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us, and he is a great representation of
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that. He took these tools, learned it.
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He pushes us to think ahead. He pushes
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us as a community and as individuals to
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live on a higher frequency. These are
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terminologies and words that we've used
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throughout our stint here on Sway in the
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Morning, and this man has been
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10 toes down. He doesn't waste words. He
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doesn't waste energy. He's the author of
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the best-selling book The Paradigm King
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Solution Based Mind Reprogramming Book.
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He's spoken on many shows and many
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platforms, and he's celebrating his born
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day, May 4th, at the Apollo Theater in
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Harlem for the Highest Level Tour. I
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want to welcome him to the show. I call
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him my brother because he's from the
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soil. We met He reminded me years ago
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when he handed me a hoodie, and I threw
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that hoodie on just to represent what he
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was about, and I finally got him on the
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show.
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Oh.
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The one and only, I'm going to say
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iconic 19 Keys is here.
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Thank you brother Sway.
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YEAH.
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COME ON MAN, TRACY G.
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YEP. I'm excited for this.
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Man, it feels amazing.
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Tracy's right behind you in New York.
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in New York.
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Shout out to you.
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What's up, 19?
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Blessings. And DB and the whole crew are
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here, man. You're from Oakland,
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California.
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Right?
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Yes, sir.
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Born and raised.
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I was born in St. Louis. I'm moving I
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was two.
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Two years old.
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Yes, sir.
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You're from Oakland.
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Yes, sir.
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Okay.
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for sure. part What part of the town you
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grew up?
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So, we grew up on 24th Telegraph. You
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know what I'm saying? But
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North Oakland, right?
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But we we lived in um West Oakland.
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That's where I was
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Yeah, West. And then we also I mean, I
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lived on every side of Oakland.
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Okay.
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You know what I'm saying? So, you
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familiar with Oakland.
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Uh my pops was at, you know, like your
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Black Muslim Bakery and things of that
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nature. And so,
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you know, our environment and upbringing
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was a little different, you know, like
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we wasn't in the the category of the
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streets per se cuz we was with the
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Muslims.
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Okay.
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me? So, it was a more militant situation
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going on. But then when we would leave
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that, then that's where we would get
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more of that street experience as I
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moved in with my brother throughout
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Oakland.
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You didn't go to Oakland public schools,
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though.
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to Tech for a year.
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Okay.
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You know what I'm saying? That was the
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only school I went to, but they had
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Elijah's Educational Center when I was
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younger. You feel me? So, I went there.
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I used to go to the bakery in North
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Oakland, Dr. Yusuf Bey.
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Mhm.
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You know, did you guys there was a
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kinship in with that?
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Uh yeah, yeah, yeah. So, my father at
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one point in time he was a captain of
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that organization, you know?
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So, if you familiar with Oakland,
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uh and you from Oakland, then you know
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about your Black Muslim Bakery. It had a
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you know, a bad downfall.
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Uh-huh.
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But during the 40-year tenure that it
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was there, you know, it was probably one
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of the first black-owned vegan
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restaurants ever.
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Yes.
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You know what I'm saying? And probably
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in America, right?
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Uh-huh.
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Um and then if you was in Oakland, you
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would see like black men all black
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motorcades.
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Mhm.
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You know what I'm saying? Driving
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through Oakland 10 cars deep, hopping
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out, drilling in every hood.
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Yeah.
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Right? And so, the dynamics and the
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paradigm of growing up in Oakland for me
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was different cuz I seen black men with
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money and power.
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Yes, growing up. Give that a round of
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applause. I did I saw them, too,
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Heather.
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You wasn't there.
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I was there.
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Uh
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So, real briefly, what was your road map
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or your journey to inner standing and
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seeking knowledge?
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You know, grown given the fact that I
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was um
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born in a household, right, where my
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mother and father had knowledge. They
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told me at an early age that you were
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God. And that probably early on
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developed as a complex and then later on
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I developed an understanding like a
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protocol to it like you got to have some
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knowledge of self. You have to be
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willful, you have to have the ability to
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execute. So I feel like my life has
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always been a journey of inner standing
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that idea that they have been instilled
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into us since we were children.
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Mhm.
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And that was to give us a filter on the
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world, right? Because in a world you go
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deal with devils. Right? In a world you
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got to have strategies cuz you got to
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have daily wars that you go through.
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Mhm.
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Right? We have multiple cases. We we we
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grew up in the hood so you know you got
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to fight, you got to be in different
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situations where you can get killed. And
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then you got to figure out how can uh
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specifically for myself, how can you
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maintain the integrity and authenticity
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of your own soul? And then figure out
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how to go outside and be successful.
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Yeah.
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Right? And I never looked like I had
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limitations because
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if you told me I was a God then that
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means I can do anything.
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Yes.
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Right? So that's how I would think about
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the world to where it's like whether I'm
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in a situation with the police or
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whether I'm trying to get a job, right?
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Or I'm going to start a business. I'll
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always think about like if if I say I am
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who I am then I have to prove it. And
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the only way I can prove it is to get
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the knowledge and then use that
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information and execute it and and
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generate something for myself.
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When you speak about that knowledge
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because we we and I hear this
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conversation specifically, what are some
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of the books, teachers, or tools
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that helped you craft this philosophy
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and gain that knowledge?
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Uh it's been so many of course and we
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always start with the foundation, right?
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Right.
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The honorable Elijah Muhammad, right?
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Always tell every black man around the
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world, people always ask me what books
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to start with. It has to be Message to
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the Black Man.
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Okay.
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Um go through that same journey.
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Everybody love Malcolm X but they don't
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want to go through his journey.
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Yeah.
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Right? You don't want to go through that
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redevelopment journey and changing those
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patterns. So we always start with
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Message to the Black Man and Fall of
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America is very important these days cuz
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you see the fall of currency, you see
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the world actually coming to the
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fruition of the prophecies that he laid
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down in that book and those foundations.
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But, I study everything from psychology,
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from marketing, philosophy, from
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physics, right? Spirituality.
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I want to always be well-rounded and
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well-versed in many different subjects
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because they connect.
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Yes.
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Right? It's like most of the things that
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we do today, you know, you look at uh
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let's say um like I've been studying
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Edward Bernays, right? He's a
6:07
psychologist that really developed PR in
6:10
this country, right? Which started off
6:12
as a term for propaganda, but he thought
6:13
it was too harsh. But, what he did was
6:16
he changed society from a needs-based
6:19
society to a desire-based society. So,
6:21
he got us buying products such as like
6:23
getting women to smoke and getting
6:24
people to eat bacon in the morning.
6:26
These were all his propaganda strategies
6:28
that he put together so that they can
6:30
sell more products for corporations.
6:32
Right? So, I always want to understand
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the social construct and the reality of
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it. So, I like to go to the root of
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information. And then from there, I can
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be a master like those who mastered the
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world.
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I love this 19 19 Keys is here.
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Um
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There's so many questions I want to get
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to
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and just listening to some of your
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teachings. I want to ask you this, how
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important is word sound power? Being
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intentional and having understanding and
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connections and true meaning to words,
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how you use them, how you say them. How
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important is that?
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It's everything. You know, you if you
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see right now they got AI. It's a
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language model.
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Yeah.
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Right? And that language model they
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believe is changing the entire world
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because words are worlds. Right?
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Like
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What we say is connected to who we are.
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We have a metaphysical bond with our
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words.
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Mhm.
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Right? If we speak I always say every
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level of consciousness comes with a new
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language. Right? The poor man doesn't
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speak the same language as the rich man.
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The rich man don't speak the same
7:29
language as the wealthy man. Right? The
7:31
wealthy man don't speak the same
7:32
language as the Saudis with the oil.
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Mhm.
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So, there's levels to it and even within
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our English language, right? There's
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levels to, you know, tonality and
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speaking confidence, right? When you
7:43
walk in a room because when you exert
7:45
that, then you create a mirror where
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everybody else has confidence within you
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as well.
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Yeah.
7:49
Then there's difference between a person
7:51
being honest and truthful with their
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words, right?
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Right now, we have that thing where
7:55
everybody want to whisper the truth.
7:57
Nobody want to speak it loud, right? So,
7:59
being somebody that's binded with who
8:01
you are and connected to your core
8:02
values, now you speaking from a place
8:04
that's directed from your soul, right?
8:06
And when you speak from your soul and
8:07
you speaking with spirit, right? Then
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that translates and that wakes up
8:11
everybody else's spirit, right? So, you
8:13
can take a man that has been mentally
8:15
dead and hasn't been awakened for a long
8:17
time and you can speak a truth and it
8:19
sparks them like,
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Yeah.
8:20
"Damn, what you just say?" "That was
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deep."
8:22
Mhm.
8:22
Right? And And for the first time in a
8:24
long time, he actually feels alive,
8:26
right? So, words are very powerful, but
8:29
at the same time, we have an issue with
8:31
learning how to listen,
8:32
Mhm.
8:33
right? And you cannot be a great
8:35
communicator unless you learn how to
8:36
listen, right? And some people only one
8:39
point of the conversation where they
8:40
want to get their point across, but
8:42
they're not really examining, observing,
8:44
Yeah.
8:45
and listening and studying. So, when you
8:46
actually speak and you respond, right?
8:49
You're actually doing it to be
8:50
understood, yeah. Right? And so, I try
8:52
to speak from a place of being
8:53
understood, not just to be heard.
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Man, 19 Keys is here. Uh I cuz I only
8:58
got you for so long. I'm trying to get
8:59
as much information out of you as
9:01
possible.
9:03
And And And And And And a lot of
9:05
these understandings growing up in the
9:07
same region is a lot of teachings that I
9:10
learned along the way and I had to learn
9:13
how to divvy out these teachings cuz
9:15
I've been in the game a lot longer
9:17
than a lot of the folks that are in the
9:18
forefront right now. And when you say
9:21
so, we tend to whisper the truth, we we
9:24
we did how to kind of manage how we told
9:27
the truth and which what amount of
9:28
dosages, you know, the wake-up show with
9:31
King Tech and I that started in the Bay
9:33
was a double entendre because it was
9:35
came on so late at night. We wanted to
9:37
wake people up, but we wanted to wake
9:39
people up.
9:40
Right.
9:41
You know what I mean? With information.
9:43
they're trying to make woke mean
9:44
something different these days.
9:45
there man. I and I and and that's
9:47
interesting to me, too. You know, cuz I
9:49
know Governor DeSantis in Florida said
9:51
this is the place where woke comes to
9:53
die.
9:54
Yeah.
9:54
You know, what are your thoughts about
9:55
that?
9:56
That's white woke.
9:57
Okay.
9:57
It's different, but see, the way they
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utilize woke now, it's an
10:00
interchangeable word.
10:01
Mhm.
10:02
Right? So, you know, it could be
10:04
it could be gay, it could be whatever
10:05
they want it to mean, but they utilize
10:07
the word woke so they don't have to say
10:09
it.
10:09
Mhm.
10:10
But those who understand the context and
10:11
the connotation connected to it, it's a
10:13
clever use of a language. Now, we use it
10:15
as for the exact opposite, right? We use
10:18
it for saying that no, you have
10:19
awareness and understanding of what's
10:20
going on in the matrix and the
10:22
programming of the world.
10:23
Mhm.
10:23
Right? So, it's like a person is woke
10:25
about eating, they're on the Dr. Sebi
10:26
Elijah Muhammad diet, right? So, they
10:28
know that you don't eat bacon and you
10:30
don't eat certain things for yourself
10:31
and you understand gut health and what
10:33
they're putting in the food that's not
10:34
good for us. You understand that there
10:36
may be fluoride in the water or
10:38
something. That was the understanding of
10:40
woke, understanding that the government
10:41
has real programs that they implement,
10:44
right? Such as, you know, J. Edgar
10:46
Hoover, right? With the files of the FBI
10:48
and how they infiltrated every single
10:49
black organization, whether they was
10:51
actually a threat to any violent group
10:54
at all, right? That's what they did. And
10:56
so, being woke and having information
10:57
and knowledge means you're not sleep of
10:59
what's going on around you.
11:00
have your eyes or your mind closed.
11:03
Yeah, so it's different. Woke is a good
11:05
thing. At least in our connotation.
11:07
In our connotation, it's a good thing.
11:09
AI is a good thing. That's something
11:11
you're a proponent of that. Often I see
11:13
you talking about AI and um the
11:16
necessity that we grab hold to it to
11:18
understand it. Do you believe that AI
11:20
will uh or not that AI will become
11:23
conscious?
11:24
So, I want to I want to uh position that
11:27
because somebody asked me that the other
11:29
day, like why are you pushing AI? And
11:31
I'm not, I'm teaching it. It's
11:32
different.
11:34
Right? So, I'm making people aware of
11:35
it. Because there's good and bad with
11:38
everything. Right? Like when we look at
11:41
AI, I probably like 5, 6 years ago, I
11:44
was teaching people about AI how it was
11:46
still people jobs, how it was going to
11:47
come, how it was going to take over
11:48
things. Everything that's happening now
11:51
was already, you know, something that
11:52
I've been a thought leader on for a
11:54
while. Because I like to keep us
11:55
educated cuz when technology comes,
11:57
we're never at the forefront. We're
11:59
always at the consumer end and then we
12:01
complain about when those who are
12:02
currently at the top level take over it,
12:04
but we had that same opportunity like
12:06
1995 when the internet came.
12:08
Mhm.
12:08
Right? But we weren't there in that
12:10
internet boom because you know, we had
12:13
so many other things to focus on. Right?
12:14
During that time you had the Million Man
12:16
March. We were trying to make atonement
12:17
in our communities. So, we weren't able
12:19
to take advantage of the social media
12:22
boom and create Jeff Bezos to where he
12:24
was able to create digital libraries off
12:26
the internet. So, when I look at AI, AI
12:29
can be a great thing in the sense of
12:31
using it for business efficiency.
12:32
Mhm.
12:33
Right? Everybody should be studying and
12:34
putting those hours in so that, you
12:36
know, staying advanced on technology
12:39
means that you're not doing things in
12:40
yesterday's ways.
12:41
Yeah.
12:41
When there's a better way to do it
12:43
today.
12:43
Mhm.
12:44
Right? But at the same time we know
12:45
that, you know, artificial man creates
12:47
artificial things so that he can
12:48
maintain artificial power. So, you got
12:50
artificial intelligence, artificial
12:52
insemination, artificial ingredients.
12:54
Those are the AIs, but we got ancestral
12:56
intelligence.
12:57
Yes.
12:57
So, you got to be able to tap back into
12:59
the principles of being a man and a
13:00
woman in that natural intelligence that
13:02
makes you who you are. Because the
13:04
greatest technology can be around, but
13:05
if you don't have that creative agency
13:07
on how to use it.
13:08
Mhm.
13:08
Right? This is the most dangerous thing
13:11
because, you know, when they talk about
13:12
it being conscious, you can't really
13:14
fear AI, it's just doing the things that
13:16
human beings can already do.
13:17
Yeah.
13:18
That's it.
13:19
Mhm.
13:19
Everything about AI is based on natural
13:21
intelligence. So, what am I fearing?
13:23
Myself?
13:24
Mhm.
13:24
You fear the fact that you may not
13:26
develop yourself in those areas and they
13:28
have a machine that would do it. Right?
13:30
So, it's the same way you fear somebody
13:31
smarter than you taking your job. AI
13:33
ain't going to take your job, somebody
13:35
that uses AI will.
13:36
Right? And so, I believe that it can be
13:39
a good thing in the sense to where black
13:41
people have always had complaints in the
13:42
world. Right? What about when technology
13:45
comes that eliminates those complaints
13:46
and creates solutions for them? Like
13:48
media. Right? I got a show, we got about
13:51
30 million views, high-level
13:52
conversations.
13:53
Yeah, hold up, hold up.
13:54
Hold up, just don't just say that and
13:55
not forget to that knowledge. Did you
13:56
hear that, sir?
13:58
Wait, 30 million?
14:00
Yes, that's what we doing.
14:01
Okay, that's
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There you go. All right. Shout out to
14:03
the team. And shout out to Michi, Steve,
14:05
EYL.
14:06
Um because, you know, they used to say
14:08
that you know, people ain't interested
14:10
in high-level, people ain't interested
14:11
in consciousness, all that woke. It's
14:13
like, no, you just not doing it right.
14:15
You know what I'm saying? They're not
14:16
interested in from somebody who's corny.
14:18
Right? So, at the end of the day, man,
14:20
we give you those elements, but we going
14:22
to do it at a high level. Everything got
14:24
to be high-level right now.
14:25
High-level.
14:26
Like the information already out there,
14:28
so it ain't just me giving you something
14:30
new. I'm reminding you of who you are
14:32
and what you know and what you need to
14:33
do. And then we going to put it at a
14:34
high level the same way they put
14:36
ignorance at a high level. Because they
14:37
going to take a production value of an
14:39
ignorant rapper and they put millions
14:40
behind it. But we going to say we got
14:42
the solution to some higher
14:43
consciousness and only put a couple
14:44
dollars behind it. Right? So,
14:46
comparatively, a person don't want to
14:48
take their Netflix time and listen to
14:50
you. Right? Because now it feels like
14:52
I'm doing something of a lower level.
14:54
No, so we change the game and we put in,
14:56
you know, consciousness and knowledge
14:58
and information in an entertaining,
15:00
high-level, productive way.
15:03
How can people come see the high-level
15:05
tour that you're doing? The
15:06
highest-level tour.
15:07
The highest-level.
15:08
Yes.
15:09
Yeah, so the highest-level tour starts
15:11
on my born day. You know, it's Taurus
15:13
season and everything. You know, some of
15:14
the greatest individuals on the planet
15:16
Earth are Taurus. Malcolm X, Minister
15:18
Farrakhan, you know, myself, you know,
15:20
Dame Dash, you know the We rule the
15:21
communication sphere. So,
15:24
May 4th at the legendary Apollo Theater,
15:27
we will have the kickoff of the tour.
15:30
And then after that, we going all across
15:31
the nation and then we going to take it
15:33
global. Right? So, you can go to
15:34
19keys.com/tour
15:36
and get you some tickets ASAP.
15:37
19keys.com/tour.
15:41
Get your tickets now. 19 Keys is with
15:44
us. He's from Oakland. You watch
15:46
basketball, I'm assuming.
15:48
Mhm.
15:48
Can you tell Heather why you a Warriors
15:51
fan?
15:51
Oh, boy.
15:52
Heather, no. Come on. Heather.
15:55
I love you, Heather. You got to know why
15:56
I'm a Warriors fan.
15:57
tell me why. You I don't got to know.
16:00
ever seen Curry before?
16:02
Yeah.
16:02
And I've been a Warriors fan since the
16:04
We Believe when they had the black expos
16:05
back in the day. You know what I'm
16:06
saying? The warrior man.
16:08
Sway, stop agreeing. You just
16:10
I'm just It's just We having a Oakland
16:11
moment.
16:12
That's all it is, but I have to keep
16:13
being exposed to Oakland moments. You
16:16
know?
16:16
You know they called the Warriors. You
16:18
know what I'm saying? That energy that
16:19
come from. You know, like like I I I
16:21
think Oakland, we got the greatest name
16:24
out of any team in the NBA. That's
16:25
warrior.
16:26
true. The warrior.
16:28
Like shout out to the Lakers, but what
16:30
is a Laker and is a warrior.
16:32
You know what I'm saying? It's just
16:33
different. And I love the Lakers.
16:35
The Lakers started in Minnesota. That's
16:37
why they
16:37
Yes, Heather. You a warrior in your
16:38
heart.
16:39
Um
16:41
Y'all don't even play here no more.
16:43
Whatever. But
16:44
Yeah, that was that was a little blow.
16:45
That was a little blow.
16:46
Yeah, Heather. We still healing from
16:48
that one.
16:48
Come on. We are still healing from that
16:50
one. What do you feel the current state
16:52
of hip-hop in relation to the black
16:54
community is consciousness and
16:56
self-mastery? What do you feel like the
16:58
current state is?
17:00
I think it's in trouble.
17:02
I think, you know, I forgot who was
17:03
saying it, but they were saying for one
17:04
of the first times in history, hip-hop
17:07
is not really giving us the instructions
17:10
on how to live better. Right? It's not a
17:12
representation of consciousness on a
17:14
daily basis. Right? Hip-hop has always
17:16
been influenced in some sense, re-adding
17:19
those core values, revolting against the
17:21
establishment, right? Now, it's so much
17:24
controlled by capitalism, right? That
17:27
everybody is making records for money,
17:28
right? Nobody's doing it for the people,
17:30
for the culture, right? For the
17:31
movement. And so, hip-hop is in trouble
17:34
of not being hip-hop anymore, and it's
17:35
just being another music genre that's
17:37
out there, and the core values of
17:39
hip-hop has disappeared. Specifically,
17:41
let's say it like this, right?
17:43
You know, I specifically have been able
17:45
to maneuver strategically and, you know,
17:48
be able to get on platforms like
17:49
yourself. Uh uh like uh Sway in the
17:51
Morning Show, one of the greatest in the
17:53
world, right? Thank you, brother. Um
17:55
but, there's a documentary out by uh
17:57
about um
17:59
What's the young brother from Chicago?
18:01
Uh
18:01
King Von, right?
18:03
King Von, okay.
18:03
allegedly say he's a serial killer. But,
18:06
we have such a death culture in hip-hop,
18:09
that's okay.
18:10
Mhm.
18:10
Right? Like, you can come in hip-hop and
18:13
be a murderer, a killer. You can talk
18:14
literally that that I kill people,
18:16
right? And you will be put on. You will
18:18
be blasting in every media outlet.
18:20
That's hip-hop. That's currently what
18:22
the state of hip-hop is. It's sex, fast
18:25
money, and death culture.
18:26
Mhm.
18:26
Right? So, that's not all of it, right?
18:29
But, the independent artists that don't
18:31
get they shine, they're not taking over
18:33
the radios, right? Because they don't
18:35
have the payola, right? Or they don't
18:37
meet whatever criteria standards or
18:38
understanding strategies or how to break
18:40
into the industry. So, I believe that
18:42
currently it has to be an independent
18:43
movement that rises up.
18:45
Yeah.
18:45
Right? You got my brother on pool, Jack
18:47
Harlow class. You got your little
18:48
Russells, your your Symbols in the
18:49
world. You got your uh what's that,
18:51
Coast Contras in the world, AJ McQueens.
18:54
You know what I mean? Yeah, Toby. You
18:56
know, you got some solid individuals,
18:58
but it's like, once we see something
18:59
that we like, we have to support it.
19:01
Yeah.
19:01
Right? Like, I tell people, my tour is
19:03
not just my tour, it's proving that we
19:04
in the new time, we in the new culture.
19:06
Yeah. Like, we can have different things
19:07
that we do for entertainment. We can go
19:09
somewhere and not just go to a club, but
19:11
we can go somewhere we have a
19:12
transformational experience. Right, we
19:14
go in there, we learn, we had a great
19:16
time, we vibe and we left. Like that's a
19:18
new culture. So right now we have a
19:20
low-level culture. We know our top five
19:21
rappers but not our top five core
19:23
values. And culture is built on its core
19:25
values. Right, where's the family,
19:27
where's the respect, where's the
19:28
responsibility, where's the integrity
19:30
that's built into it. So right now our
19:33
culture is built on capitalism. So
19:35
anybody can capital capitalism and
19:37
people will put them on.
19:39
19 Keys, Crazy G, he used a
19:42
a phrase that you you used earlier this
19:44
year and earlier this week when we were
19:46
talking about AI.
19:48
Yeah, ancestral intelligence. 19 Keys,
19:52
I've yep, bro. Yes, I am. Two things.
19:55
One, I feel incredibly fed and you just
19:57
gave us an appetizer. Bro, I'm just very
20:00
appreciative of the knowledge you have
20:03
gained, the awareness that you already
20:04
have but you expanded
20:07
and the knowledge that you seeked and
20:08
you're giving and you're serving to us.
20:10
Second, what Sway says with the
20:12
ancestral intelligence
20:14
that came in conversation with Jidenna
20:17
who is such a multi-faceted
20:19
human. I can't stop at just
20:20
multi-faceted artist. And a lot of our
20:23
conversation had touched on polyamory.
20:26
And something I'm I'm noticing, at least
20:29
within my circles, is a lot of the most
20:34
conscious, those who are just like
20:36
sliding on the highest frequencies
20:40
lean towards polyamory.
20:43
And we've also seen that monogamy
20:47
was presented as a core value for a lot
20:51
of folks. Why do you think it is that
20:54
when people start
20:56
awakening
20:57
a lot tend to lean towards polyamory?
21:02
I think it's when you look at America,
21:04
right, and you look at the constructs of
21:06
America. Everything in America is our
21:08
Western experience, right? Coming out of
21:11
slavery for those who are African
21:12
descendants of slaves, some of us are
21:13
Native Americans that's from here,
21:16
right? A lot of the way we think about
21:18
love, the way we think about family, the
21:19
way we think about life is all from a
21:21
Western experience and education. It's
21:23
for us to assimilate into this
21:25
particular country so that we can fall
21:27
under the social contract of this
21:29
country, right? So that we can adhere to
21:31
the laws of the land, right? Like right
21:33
now, if if if you look at polyamory or
21:36
polygamy, we have a situation where we
21:38
have gay marriage. Men can be with men
21:40
and women can be with women now. So, I
21:42
don't really have an issue with people
21:43
who take that up as far as, you know, a
21:45
man decides he want to be with multiple
21:47
women, but also you got to understand
21:48
that that sort of lifestyle is only for
21:50
the 1%, right? And I say that because,
21:53
you know, most of us can't afford to be
21:54
with two women. Now, people take it on
21:56
because when you expand your mind and
21:57
you start thinking from a global
21:59
conscious perspective, right? You may
22:01
not take on Western perspective, right?
22:03
You may take on Nigerian perspective,
22:05
right? I believe 38% of marriages out
22:07
there are polygamous,
22:09
right? You may take on Indian. They have
22:11
it to where there's arranged marriages,
22:13
right? You you you may do something like
22:14
they do in Brazil and they have a high
22:16
percentage of cohabitation. People are
22:18
looking at the global landscape now
22:20
deciding that there's new relationship
22:22
constructs that they can go for. If we
22:24
look in America, 50% of marriages, you
22:26
know, fail and end in divorce, right?
22:29
And now one of the higher percentages
22:30
that we see rising is interracial
22:32
dating, right? And so you have this new
22:34
pool of, you know, this global
22:37
diversity. Everybody's taking from each
22:39
other's culture. And this is what people
22:41
who have done that started to develop
22:43
their consciousness, they started to
22:44
look outside the construct of America
22:46
for solutions for what our ancestral
22:48
tenants and practices was. And it's
22:50
possible that, you know,
22:52
when you look at all concentrated groups
22:54
of melanated people all throughout the
22:56
world besides probably Brazil, they
22:58
practice polygamy, right? So it was an
23:00
option for practice, right? In Islam,
23:03
you know, a man doesn't just practice
23:05
polygamy, but it was given as an option
23:07
in particular circumstances.
23:09
Right? And I look at the way the world
23:11
is, we're practicing polygamy and
23:12
polyamory already, just not legally.
23:15
Right? So, it's the it's the one
23:17
relationship status that's illegal in
23:19
this country. But, I think that it's
23:21
more so from a holistic standpoint that
23:22
we just reprogram reprogramming
23:24
ourselves to say, "What works?"
23:26
Yeah.
23:26
You know what I'm saying? Fathers back
23:27
in the '20s and '30s, they had multiple
23:29
families. They just couldn't get married
23:31
and couldn't let both of them know.
23:32
Mhm.
23:33
You know what I'm saying?
23:33
Mhm.
23:34
But, I think that we have to figure out
23:35
what's a healthy dynamic. And when it
23:37
comes to relationships, a lot of us have
23:39
too much trauma and shadow work to do in
23:42
order to be in relationships with
23:43
multiple people cuz people are in toxic
23:45
relationship with themselves.
23:46
Mhm.
23:47
Right? And so, you got to go back and
23:48
re-pattern yourself and re-parent
23:50
yourself as a child. And when you don't
23:52
see healthy conditions in relationships
23:54
in a household, how can you believe in
23:56
monogamy when your parents were
23:57
separated? Your parents got divorced.
23:59
You grew up with domestic violence,
24:00
right? The reason that people was
24:02
instilled to really believe in monogamy
24:03
is cuz of Disney and the movies and
24:06
romanticism and things of that nature.
24:08
But, those was romantic That
24:09
didn't say that that's African.
24:10
Mhm.
24:11
Right? So, when we look at systems that
24:13
may work for us, it's important like Dr.
24:15
Nuri say, you know, beyond the choice of
24:17
choosing, you know, the most important
24:19
choice is choosing to believe in God.
24:21
And the second is choosing who you'll
24:22
spend the rest of your life with.
24:23
Right? I believe that a man is more
24:25
powerful with a woman. A woman is more
24:26
powerful with a man. So, choosing that
24:28
partnership is very key. And figuring
24:31
out how to create a healthy dynamic with
24:32
one person is key cuz there's no way
24:35
that Sway got a bad relationship with
24:36
Heather B and now we going to pick up a
24:38
third partner. That don't make sense.
24:40
No, y'all got to get this thing figured
24:41
out.
24:42
Yeah.
24:42
Then we talk about expansion cuz a
24:44
relationship is a business. It's a
24:46
partnership. That's why you got to put
24:47
legal documentation. Y'all come under a
24:49
different tax status now.
24:50
Mhm.
24:51
Right? And so, when you thinking about
24:53
those arrangements, you have to first
24:54
think about, "Okay, what works? And what
24:56
will work for nation building cuz we so
24:58
individualistic that we think about what
25:00
works for us, not work for we.
25:03
Yeah, and it took us a long time to find
25:05
our peace and harmony.
25:07
Cuz we a hater.
25:11
I'm a hater.
25:12
Uh man, 19 Keys is here. I'm loving I'm
25:15
only hating that we got to uh
25:17
um
25:17
bring it to an end. Not enough time, so
25:19
you got to come back. This is just a
25:20
prelude.
25:22
This is a prelude to a bigger
25:23
conversation. Um when you come to New
25:25
York, come sit and and talk with us a
25:27
lot longer, man.
25:29
Um I wanted to ask you about uh the
25:32
third eye.
25:33
Okay.
25:33
Mhm.
25:34
Uh
25:36
Um
25:37
What does it take, in your opinion, to
25:40
activate
25:41
or and and
25:44
or decalcify
25:45
Mhm.
25:45
um
25:46
Come on, Sway.
25:48
Okay. Sway with the hot ones.
25:49
Come on, Sway.
25:51
No, now
25:52
19 Keys, you know where I'm from.
25:54
Yes, sir.
25:57
And these are conversations. That's why
25:58
we called it the Wake Up Show.
26:00
Yes, sir.
26:00
Back in 1990
26:02
Yes, sir.
26:03
that we were having back then.
26:04
Yes, sir.
26:05
Right? You might have been a kid
26:06
minister back then.
26:07
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:08
Yeah, which folks may not, you know,
26:10
Yeah.
26:10
know that part.
26:11
Keys.
26:12
That you was a baby Keys, right? Uh can
26:14
you speak to that?
26:15
Yeah, I mean, when people talk about the
26:17
third eye, think most people don't
26:18
realize it's a physical thing as well,
26:20
right? As
26:21
as well as a metaphysical thing. It's
26:23
the pineal gland, right? And you talking
26:25
about understanding your brain, most
26:26
people understand their brain. They
26:27
don't know their neo cortex or their
26:29
hypothalamus gland and what regulates
26:31
mood and the left and right brain and
26:33
different hemispheres.
26:34
So, it's a very practical thing in my
26:36
essence, right? It's the detoxification,
26:38
right? Cuz that calcification as when
26:40
it's that calcium build up, right? And
26:42
so, when you talking about detoxifying
26:45
yourself from heavy metals and things of
26:47
that nature, now you allowing your body
26:49
to be restored. First thing I would say
26:50
people need to do is fast. Regenerate
26:53
the system. Wake up in the morning and
26:54
get you some sun. Reset that circadian
26:56
rhythm, right? And that's the peak hours
26:58
of the sun maybe between like 6:00 to
27:01
8:00 before it gets to that high
27:03
ultraviolet radiation. You view that,
27:05
it'll reset your body to be in tune with
27:07
its natural, you know, state the same
27:09
way a flower is, right? We have
27:11
different cycles that our bodies go
27:13
through. The same way a woman has a
27:14
cycle, we have what you call ultradian
27:16
cycles where we have different peak
27:18
cycles throughout the day where we can
27:19
be at top focus, right? That's why if
27:21
you're working more than 90 minutes, you
27:23
may need a rest, right? But we go past
27:25
that and our brain is overworked all of
27:27
the time, right? So, at the same time,
27:29
you want to do things like tap in, drink
27:31
some gold water, right? So, gold water
27:33
is colloidal gold, you know what I'm
27:35
saying? Like that's going to
27:36
re-electrify your brain. You want to
27:38
drink plenty of water. You want to stay
27:40
away from low vibrational, you know, not
27:43
only foods, people, music. All of these
27:46
things lower your vibration to be in
27:48
that low state to where you're not in
27:49
high consciousness, which would be like
27:51
gamma versus like beta. When you first
27:53
wake up, you're in that beta state. You
27:55
understand me? That's why they call some
27:56
men beta males. You know what I'm
27:57
saying? They're not high energy. Right?
27:59
So, you know, going through that process
28:01
of eating the right foods, of having the
28:04
right rhythm and cycles throughout your
28:05
day, right? Listening to some binaural
28:08
beats, right? To where you're retraining
28:11
your brain and you're putting it at that
28:12
high level. All of these things will
28:14
start to do it, but more importantly,
28:16
it's what you put in your mind as well.
28:18
So, the knowledge that you take into.
28:20
Right? So, you have to be reading books
28:21
of higher consciousness so that your
28:23
brain can be activated and stimulated in
28:25
those areas. But most of the world, you
28:28
know, most of music that's made today is
28:30
decalc- or is calcifying music.
28:32
Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
28:33
Calcifying music.
28:34
It's It's music that's going to trigger
28:36
you. It ain't music that's going to have
28:37
you in a zen state. Like you want to
28:38
meditate, you want to work out, right?
28:40
You want to do all those things, but
28:42
most importantly, you want to do the
28:43
shadow work.
28:43
Yes.
28:44
You know what I'm saying? Where Where
28:45
get that gold water from?
28:46
Oh man, you get that from gold
28:48
water.com, g o l d e water.com. You
28:50
know, we be on the shrooms.
28:52
Yeah.
28:52
Not the psychedelics, but we be on the
28:53
lion's mane, the cordyceps. That's what
28:55
I got in here I've been sipping, man.
28:57
Okay.
28:57
That keeps me on that high level.
28:58
Okay.
28:59
what I'm saying? Reactivate the brain,
29:00
remyelinate, and regenerate the nerves
29:02
and things of that nature. You know, we
29:04
we we we like only like one plant in our
29:06
culture, and that's weed.
29:07
Mhm.
29:07
You know what I'm saying? Like we ain't
29:08
got more herbs.
29:09
Yeah.
29:09
We be talking about how safe this is.
29:11
What about the other million? How y'all
29:12
just go
29:13
Yeah.
29:13
just go with them from the conversation.
29:15
Yeah.
29:15
You know what I'm saying? Like if we
29:17
going to talk about mother nature, man,
29:18
talk about all her children. You feel
29:20
me? Tap in.
29:21
Tap in.
29:22
19 Keys, man. Get this brother a round
29:23
of applause, man. We been You know, let
29:25
me get Madam CJ on the line. She's been
29:27
waiting to say something. Madam CJ, how
29:29
you doing?
29:30
Madam CJ.
29:31
What up, Madam CJ? How you feeling?
29:33
Madam CJ, tell me how y'all living. Good
29:35
morning to everybody. I'm such a fan of
29:36
the show. I love each and
29:38
What up? Good morning.
29:39
Peace. Peace. Peace.
29:40
For sure. I love you. I love your your
29:42
your your straight talk. You you be
29:43
giving these folks out spoke. So, I'mma
29:45
make this real quick. I just wanted to
29:47
19 Keys, you that dude. I just want to
29:50
say happy birthday. We birthday twins.
29:52
Oh, thanks.
29:52
I was
29:53
I just happened to find out that you was
29:55
born on
29:56
Oh, man. For sure. For sure. May the
29:57
fourth be with you. You dig? So, yeah, I
29:59
just wanted to say happy birthday.
30:01
God bless you.
30:02
I'm upset you're not coming to Atlanta.
30:05
But, I'mma go book
30:06
We got Invest Fest. We going to be
30:08
there. We got a few things lined up.
30:10
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I did see that. And I
30:11
saw that price, too. And I was like,
30:12
"Ooh." But, I I think I'mma do that VIP
30:16
You got A FEW MONTHS. YOU GOT a few
30:18
months
30:19
A few months of listening to You know
30:21
how we teach the game on Skill Sets,
30:23
financial literacy. You know, a few
30:24
months of listening to some Market
30:25
Mondays, Wall Street Trapper, Aristotle
30:27
Investments. They teach you some skills
30:29
to pay the bills.
30:31
Fact. Fact. Fact. Shout out to all that.
30:32
I seen Aristotle posted he going to be
30:34
on it yesterday and everything. So, I
30:35
just wanted to
30:36
Yeah, shout out to Aristotle Honeybee
30:37
University.
30:38
bless you.
30:39
God bless you. You know, hey. Shout out
30:41
to you. Shout out to show. Thank you
30:42
guys for letting me
30:43
Thank you. You citizen Madison, CJ.
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I love you guys.
30:47
Let's go, we love you, too. It's Sway in
30:49
the morning.
30:49
Snee, Snee in New York, make it quick.
30:51
Say what up to 19 Keys. Go ahead.
30:53
Hey, hey.
30:53
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa
30:55
barakatuh.
30:56
s-salam.
30:57
Quick question. We made the comment
30:59
about classified music. And we, you
31:02
know, our community always complains
31:04
about how we don't play the positive
31:06
music to elevate our mindset. Why are we
31:08
still just complaining and not making
31:10
the moves to actually put that in
31:11
rotation?
31:13
Well, I think complaining feels good. It
31:15
makes us feel like we're doing
31:16
something, but I think we're at this
31:17
time where independent music can grow
31:19
just by individuals listening to it. It
31:21
doesn't even have to be on the radio to
31:23
do it. You understand? We see people
31:25
like Lu Russell and we see people
31:26
building their communities up. So, I
31:28
think it's up to the listener and the
31:30
fans to build that base up.
31:32
There you go.
31:32
Right? Like right now, it's all about
31:33
communities. You know, you got Web3 is
31:35
about people taking their intellectual
31:36
property and ownership, right? And
31:38
they're learning how to capitalize by
31:40
going direct to community and consumer.
31:42
So, for me, like I listen to my little
31:44
brothers on a daily basis. So, when they
31:46
when they got their spins, that's me in
31:48
there.
31:48
Mhm.
31:48
Right? So, if you want to hear good
31:50
music, listen to good music and that's
31:51
how it grows. And then, when they put
31:53
together shows, show up for it. You
31:55
understand me? So, that they can
31:56
actually make revenue so they can
31:58
continue to grow.
31:58
Right.
31:59
Black media, black music, good music, it
32:01
only grows if it has investment. If
32:04
there's people buying into it, right?
32:06
Like I just got my first black sponsor
32:08
for High-Level Conversations. And that's
32:10
30 million views later. But, we had to
32:12
teach people like it's important that if
32:14
you don't invest in black media, it
32:15
can't grow. They got to put out the
32:17
gossip and entertainment shows cuz
32:18
that's the only way they're going to get
32:19
ad dollars for it.
32:20
Yeah.
32:20
Same thing with rappers. Only way
32:22
they're going to be able to grow, you
32:23
don't want to keep the artists broke
32:24
because they're putting out information
32:25
that's high vibrational. No, I support
32:28
it. You know what I mean? To be proud to
32:29
pay like Nipsey said.
32:30
There you go, Snee. Appreciate your
32:31
call. You a citizen.
32:32
Sway in the morning.
32:33
One more because Zuri's from Oakland. Go
32:35
ahead, talk to him, Zuri.
32:36
Zuri.
32:38
Hello.
32:39
Hey, Zuri.
32:42
Hello.
32:43
Yeah, go ahead, Zuri. 19 Keys is here.
32:45
Go for it.
32:47
She lost connection. Okay.
32:48
Zuri, I can hear you, Zuri. You
32:50
connected.
32:52
Oh, I just wanted
32:52
connected.
32:53
to say hello. Hello, Sway. How are you?
32:56
I'm excellent. Thank you. I'm with our
32:59
brother, 19 Keys.
33:01
Yes. I I just you know, I'm just in awe
33:04
of everything that he's speaking. I'm
33:05
just you know, born and raised in
33:07
Oakland myself.
33:09
Um I'm not an O high player, but my
33:12
sister was, Sway.
33:14
Okay.
33:14
And I think that this is just a
33:16
beautiful thing.
33:18
Absolutely. And that and that message is
33:20
enough in itself.
33:21
Absolutely.
33:22
Absolutely. We appreciate you, Zuri.
33:23
You're a citizen.
33:24
Sway in the morning.
33:25
Okay. Give it up for 19 Keys, y'all.
33:27
Come on, man.
33:29
My brother.
33:30
Man, I appreciate you having me.
33:31
Well, we got to do more. This is the
33:33
prelude. And there's a whole lot of
33:35
other things I want to ask you. You
33:36
know, um
33:39
I know it's sold out.
33:42
Can I still get a pair of tickets?
33:44
Oh, Sway, you got VIP.
33:45
I got VIP? You hear that?
33:46
VIP.
33:47
that here, Heather? All the all the
33:49
You see Oh, wait a minute. You know, cuz
33:50
all the VIP tickets are sold out. I
33:52
think we got the the top part that's
33:54
still available for people. But the VIP
33:57
sold out. So, we just going to make a
33:58
couple more, you know, for the team.
34:00
Mhm.
34:01
Y'all pull up on us.
34:02
Please. Thank you.
34:03
You know, we can't say who the special
34:05
guest, but it's going to be special.
34:07
some special.
34:08
You know what I'm saying? And he
34:08
definitely don't pop out a lot. So, it's
34:10
going to be Yeah, it's going to be
34:11
legendary. It's going to be historic.
34:13
I can't tell you enough how how proud I
34:15
am of um all that you're accomplishing,
34:18
how motivated and inspired I am by you.
34:21
Thank you, brother.
34:21
Uh continue success. I know your
34:23
history. I know your family's history.
34:25
And um man, you're excellent
34:28
representation of who we can be at our
34:30
highest level.
34:31
Yes, sir.
34:32
So, continue success.
34:33
Sweaty got the answers.
34:34
Come on, man. Come on. You already know.
34:35
Sweaty got the answers, Y'ALL.
34:38
19 KEYS SAID IT. COME ON. DON'T PLAY
34:40
WITH IT, ALL RIGHT?
34:41
OKAY, tell them how they can reach you
34:43
if they don't know already.
34:44
Um they can go to the Instagram and
34:46
YouTube, you know what I'm saying? Go to
34:48
19 Keys {slash} tour, 19keys.com to tap
34:50
in. If you want to get some of them
34:52
high-level conversations and you go to
34:54
high-level conversations on YouTube and
34:55
change your life.
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