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In this video, we hear from Benny The Butcher, who offers his insights on the Buffalo shooting. This is a powerful and insightful interview that provides much-needed context on this tragic event.
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um you know definitely thank you for
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coming for coming on
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um i'm sure you were horrified just like
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everybody else when we was hearing the
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news and seeing everything on television
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of the massacre in your city
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um
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you know i know you obviously know
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people there and it's your home city how
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is the city coping with such a
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tremendous tragedy
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and it's it's tough right now i ain't
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gonna lie
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it's tough right now you know i mean
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everybody on edge everybody's trying to
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stick to stick together and be there for
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each other but it's tough right now you
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know what i'm saying but i ain't gonna
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hold you know that that was something
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that we've seen
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is crazy but it's america that's
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something that we've seen a bunch of
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times when they hit home is different
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though it's different
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yeah it's something where um
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you know we see these tragedies uh time
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and time again
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um
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from the police brutality
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to the white supremacist
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uh the
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tiki torches and shooting up churches
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now in buffalo but it's something that
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um we can never get desensitized to man
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it's something that we can never get
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desensitized because it's it's a direct
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attack on us as black people
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um i mean it's a direct attack on us as
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as americans if you ask me you know even
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other than being black man these are
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terrorist attacks and it's happening to
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us time and time again
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right you know i'm saying that's crazy a
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lot of things got to be addressed you
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know i mean moving forward
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you know i mean like because it seemed
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like we'd be at this spot we'd be at
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this spot right here where we at after
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something happened just figure out
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trying to figure out our next move
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but you know
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things need to be figured out you know
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i'm saying like especially gun laws
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and the way we protect ourselves as
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americans you know i'm saying as black
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change i'm saying we people
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uh you know the police they have they
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they got enough artillery to keep up
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with the criminals you know what i'm
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saying
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so what about the you know the regular
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people who who's under attack too
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you know what i'm saying is like
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something gonna change
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i was watching i was watching one of the
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press conferences today man
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and uh
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it was a mother who was in her 80s
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that that really shook me to my call
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because you know i got you know my
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mother 76 i got hunts in their 80s and
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you know they go to the grocery store
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and the woman
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you know this one particular woman who
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got murdered she was just going there to
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get some food for her husband who can't
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even move out the house you know she
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she's been helping to keep her husband
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alive
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for the past four years being his
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personal caretaker
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and the man kills her and
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you know the family's like well who's
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gonna take care of the father now the
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husband and
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who's going to tell him that his wife is
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dead just going to start to get some
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food is so crazy we have the honor
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the privilege
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representing
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the family of a great lady
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uh
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hero for this community
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angel
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for her family
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and you
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bear witness to her legacy
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what she
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did as a mother
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she
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raised a remarkable family you will hear
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from her children about her sacrifice by
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her dedication
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her commitment
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as
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a
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loving
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faithful wife
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for 68 years
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to her husband
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god
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garnett
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garnell
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whitfield senior
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this is so
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painful and emotional
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this is so difficult
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it's a heavy domino effect it's a heavy
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domino effect and this is a wake-up call
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saying that it had to come in a form of
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this but honestly it's away from the car
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and me looking around the country and
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looking around the world
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for other cities and places seeing
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tragedies like this i only could think
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back to that what they went through and
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think about how many more times it can
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happen before we put in a position where
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would you defend ourselves or
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it's not happening at all you know what
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i'm saying it's like you know
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there's certain laws
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i mean that's brought upon us like like
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the asian hate laws you know what i'm
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saying like
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it's time that
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there's the law
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yeah i mean they definitely got to put
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the
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laws in place to you know protect black
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people seems like we're getting targeted
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the most
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and um
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you know man
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the the guy who they they apprehended
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they did all of the shooting
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it's like
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still another another guy it it it's
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just it's curious to me how you know all
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of these these terrorists are getting
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apprehended
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and
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people
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are getting killed and you know come to
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find out it's the black people not even
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committing a crime you know it's
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innocent black
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killed people killed people and they
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know that when they arrive on the scene
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and saying it's like i don't know how i
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mean when
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when guys are unarmed
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you know what i mean you know this is
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crazy i don't know i mean i'm speechless
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i don't even know what to say i just
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know that my heart's in his city is
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heavy right now
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and i'm on tour
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and i mean if i could i'd be right back
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there but you know man it's crazy
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yeah i was i was gonna say man um is
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you know when we think about when
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especially in the hip-hop community when
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we think about
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buffalo obviously we think about you we
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think about griselda
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and uh
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being leaders you know what i'm saying
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and
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what what's some of the things that that
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you do as a leader who actually can't be
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there
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um on the ground and in the trenches
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with with the people physically we know
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you did in spirit we know you they ain't
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hard in mind but you know physically
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um you can't be there right now
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how do you lead from
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away from a distance
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basically man we got we got team members
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that's there that's letting us know step
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by step what's going on and how we can
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help specifically even if it's not
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through an organization even though we
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titled some organizations even if it's
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not true man
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we don't
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think individually like i said it's a
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small
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knit community like we know people
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personally who was
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involved in that so even if we just
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reaching out and seeing what we could do
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and you know what i mean i'm i'm
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thinking about not thinking about i'm
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definitely donating money from
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the shows that i'm gonna run for right
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now when i get back you know i mean i'm
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gonna have
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have some bad have a bag at least
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i'm saying just to help out with
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everything it's definitely going to
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bring awareness to it
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by doing a
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merch piece and donating all of the
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money you know just you know different
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things that i'm working on right now i'm
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saying that's what happened like sooner
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like sooner than i mean later like you
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know i mean yeah
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you guys obviously
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do a lot for the community anyway but uh
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man you know this is this is a situation
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where um
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i know you guys are so sufficient and
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you do a lot of things on your own but
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man you could definitely call on some of
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the other members of the hip-hop
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community too man like this is this is
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uh
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you know like i said this is a black
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thing this this is an american thing
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this is you know this guy like he came
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from abroad it's terrorism you know
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right here on domestic soil and uh you
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know
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i'm sure you give the marching orders to
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the hip-hop community you're going to
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get people
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coming in to help the jay-z's ditties
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everybody going to come to help because
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this this is a this is a massacre and
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it could never happen again
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exactly you know i mean and you know
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people reached out to me too so shout
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out to everybody that reached out to me
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and checked on me and asked me did i
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need anything and if i plan on doing
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something uh they they got my back and
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and they went in so yeah people people
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are supportive
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how did you hear about this man like
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this is something
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that you know you're you're on tour
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you're away i know you when you heard
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about it you're thinking about your
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friends and family and
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you know the worst was confirmed that a
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friend of yours had a family member in
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it but how did you hear about this
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it was so crazy because i was there i
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was in the town when it happened i was
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in buffalo
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i'm saying i'm really not there that
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often but i was in buffalo when it
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happened
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and uh early that day somebody said you
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know somebody got shot at
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groceries or their tops
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it's sad but when you know when you hear
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that you hear it
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stuff like that happen every day
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but i heard it again
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i mean i'm moving around the city and i
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heard it again then i'm i heard it like
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four times and i'm like hold up and then
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you just
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see
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like a real situation going on and it
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was world news and
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you know what i mean and it was a mass
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shooter like it was a terrorist attack
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basically what i'm saying in the hood
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you know what i mean and that's the
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grocery store everybody goes it's on the
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east side and that's that's a black
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neighborhood uh
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man my mom's shopping here i haven't
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been there i mean i live five minutes
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away from there i got a spot back home
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that's five minutes away from that i
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mean it's crazy
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yeah it's definitely his home man
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um your friend that that losses is a
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family member
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um how can you even comfort that man
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it's like
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i mean
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it's hard i i don't know how i mean i
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don't know how all i could do is like
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i don't know that you know we there for
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him and let him know that you know we
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got his back
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i don't know that you got me moving
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forward you know i mean just
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i mean whatever we could do there's
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really nothing you know i mean it's
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always gonna get an empty space you know
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i lost family members and there's
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nothing nobody ever do but
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make the healing process as smooth as it
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could be
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yeah
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and you know once again man i i know
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it's tough for you but definitely thank
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you for coming on um you know a lot of
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people watching this just just to hear
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your words and just to hear you
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encouraging them to keep moving you know
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they're going because you know after
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this especially the the family members
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they just they just want to give up man
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so you know it's great that we encourage
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everybody we send our love and you know
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we send our prayers to everybody and you
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know we got to keep moving forward and
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you know we want
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this is one that has to bring us back
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together as a black community man
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exactly exactly you know i've seen
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change the rapper say something we need
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to speak privately about this and
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move forward and i mean and have to have
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things in place and situations a place
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where we're protecting ourselves and
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where we you know i'm saying like you
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know just prevent it but right as black
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people is definitely another way to call
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in front of our face i'm saying
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your action has been protected
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yeah
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last thing i want to ask you man we we
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talked a little bit earlier you said
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it definitely needs to be some reforms
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and some
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uh changes what is there anything
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specific that that you would like to see
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reformed as far as the gun laws or
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anything specific that definitely the
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gun laws you know i'm saying i heard
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nancy pelosi say something about it
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earlier
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uh like if we waiting on something right
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now it's in the supreme court that's
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going to allow uh new york residents to
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keep a considerable weapon but [ __ ] had
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a concealed weapon on them and that
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everybody know the gun laws in new york
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is tough you know what i'm saying people
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got businesses they're not able to
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protect them or got to go through great
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lifts just to protect their businesses
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you know i'm saying that's that's that's
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[ __ ]
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so i was like you know uh definitely the
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gun laws and and with that comes
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training and that comes uh
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uh
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but we where we can identify sources
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like that as
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quick as possible you know what i'm
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saying is like you know whatever we got
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to do that's not going to cost 10 20 30
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100 more lives you know what i'm saying
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whatever we got to do as people got it i
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mean we got to do it this time we got to
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be the generation i'm saying
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we got to man and you know um not to be
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a preacher anything during this but you
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know i definitely want to just
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talk directly to to the young brothers
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and young sisters out there man like
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um it's it's interesting i've been
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seeing on the news a lot lately
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so many killings
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in new york city man i'm i'm in new york
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city there's so many killings going on
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in the city
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so many killings going on in atlanta
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right now where it is us killing each
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other and um as you can see it is a war
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on black people so we need to get that
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energy and just come together because
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there are a lot of forces out there that
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just want to take us out specifically
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and we cannot assist in that
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exactly i feel the same way man i feel
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the same way
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yes
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yes man so um you know this is
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definitely this is not just um an
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interview and and a speech and it's over
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this is gonna be something that's gonna
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be a long
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um healing process for everybody
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definitely
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yeah definitely books on the ground yeah
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boots on the ground we we got to help
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these people
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benny we looking at you as one of the
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leaders you know you get the marching
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order the whole hip-hop community is
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going galvanized with you my brother
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this is not just a buffalo thing this is
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a black thing that happened in buffalo
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but we got to help our brothers and
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sisters out there
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and uh you know we got it got a unified
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and organized man
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thank you my brother you you'll be safe
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out there appreciate thank you thank you
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man for checking on us upstate folks man
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with a try this tragedy going on we
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appreciate y'all we appreciate the
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support from around the country and
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everything thank y'all always man and
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you got my you got my little brother
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stove guard out there with y'all man
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y'all doing some great things i i love
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to see y'all rocking
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i appreciate them and we're going crazy
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every night
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yes man much what you needed for for
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hip-hop man i always say yeah y'all
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making music i i feel like y'all making
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it just for me but it's a lot of memes
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out there that love y'all man so we
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appreciate
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all y'all
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