Confronting the Shadows of Youth Incarceration and Walking in the Steps of a Cultural Icon

What's up my good people. This your boy, cj money way. Welcome to the money way show. Hey, today I got my son on with me. Hey, what's your name boy? Hey, alright, so I brought you on the day, man, because not only because you my son and because I love you, you know. But this is things that I want to do because I feel like For the young people out there need for some of the older people out there. I think you got a story to tell. I think you went well. I don't think I know you went through something that was, you know, traumatic, something that was life experiencing, hopefully life changing, but you know, life throws us a lot of curveballs at time. But I just want you to tell the people man some of the things that you went through and, in particularly, that Certain thing that you went through last year.

So last year around November, my life took a change. November 15th, I want this. Something happened that I never thought a million years. I went to jail for a school trip that I made toward my school that I never made a million years, never thought I would do. And that's when my life took a change. On November 15th I got processed through the Faraday Police Department and I was in the hood itself about six hours for a transfer me to Oakland County Children's Village when I got finger-crain it, mugshot, changed. I got took down to the Florida quarantine. By my first two minutes there I was in a fight almost my first two minutes on the pot. I got moved off the pot, moved into the fish bowls, which is another pot, and and guards came through. Actually, what's going on? They know what's going on. I got moved to a different floor where I called. I quarantined for six days Quarantine, probably the worst time my life being to sail 24 hours a day.

Just you know, nothing else. No pencils, no books, that's just you know. All day and a bright light trying to sleep at night. I think my first two days they put me on my first day there they put me on suicide watch because I wasn't eating nothing. I'm on suicide watch. They give you just a stout. You got no clothing. That is the green thing. They give you two blankets and I Continue not to eat nothing. I'll pick the whole time I'm driving in there. I want it was some place. You don't want to be Out. With times I call my mom about two weeks. It's because every time I called on the phone I would hear a cry. I want to hear that on the phone when I finally got a quarantine, it probably would. It got a little better. You can finally build a floor with other people, but then you're gonna put other people with steel craze people fighting every day. I say somebody get.

Pete doing that face what?

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What's up, my good people? This your boy CJ moneyway. Welcome to the moneyway show. Got my boy, rick in a building today. What's up though?

What's going on, man? Money way. If you ain't thinking, the money way, you ain't thinking. Hey man so I let me ask you something, hey how y'all let that boy, 20 years old, still on a pacifier. I heard that.

Over the granny crib that way 20 years old y'all for real.

Well, you know, maybe that's why you so what's that with your man Puffy, man Puffy, having a bad year this year?

a puff. We all have it a bad year. We didn't lost pill bill, pill Cosby. They're locked up, our Kelly and they gonna finish the year out with you. Puffy, hey, look here. You think our Kelly in that scene gonna join you. You gonna be a dancing man when you.

Know.

Video you gonna be dancing boy for free we get behind our people, but then I mean I don't even want to talk that show man.

But he really I don't, I don't like.

I don't like. I'm not really a big Kanye fan. I don't like Kanye. I think that this is music or not. I don't like the way he moves. I Really don't. I don't like the way he moved, bro period, and I'm never gonna wear none of that type of clothing. You will never see the kid and no.

I think he's a fashion genius. I think he's Unhinged.

Explain something to me please, before you go any farther. Explain to me about these fashion genius stuff.

Ah, the Yeezys. If you look at the Yeezy, shoot it the D. The Yeezy shoe mimic slave shoes. His designs, it all mimic slave shoes. Okay, so what's? It's fashionable because white people. It didn't get into the black community until we seen how much he started charging. You know we love it. It could be ugly, we if it's expensive and him over, there came the four I want to wear.

Okay, so just think about what you just said, before you even went to that. You said that it mimics what slave shoes. Okay, then so who liked them. White folks. Okay Then, so why would they like slave shoes?

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And that's the understanding of education, thank you. Just say, like Cuz, hey, I wish I could do 80 hours and make my whole six fingers. Come on, man. You know I'm saying that that's the good thing about it, cuz, and I wish I would have went to school. So ain't got it worked a whole hundred and forty hundred fifty-eight, even though I will do it.

I just know 150 hours ain't right for two weeks, see I mean but like but, but at the same time, in that same instance. That's the situation that we put ourselves in, true, you know, because, although and when we talked about this once before, after record, although, yes, our education system, you know, may not have been like those up there in Indianapolis or you know other parts of the area around here, one thing about it is we all had an opportunity To to go to secondary school and you know, santa, go and get a degree. We all had that opportunity, whether it, whether the school system was messed up or not, because it was some same people that graduated with us. They went to school with us, that went out and got them an education. So we all had equal playing feet, and so that's a cop out when we say what we do have the same same school system. No, you just been put in the work, true?

True, a lot of excuse. I seen that I even had some, so I know. Just because I had to go back in 21 to get my ass through the plunge. You got one wait, but I respect it. You're strong, I had to do it. But I recognize before that I was getting all the barely making. That's what everything change.

So you said that you graduated in 2021. So a couple years ago you graduate. So I guess the question now everybody want to know is what year were you supposed to?

graduate it to 2001?.

And it's crazy because my daughter was just about to graduate that year and I had another Cradist to graduate. Because I was born off and on school all through those 20 years and I recognize like if I sit down and stop playing I can graduate with my daughter. You listen to the CJ money way show with my man. Cj money way To near every other Friday, to one of the hottest podcast in the Midwest where you can hear exciting episodes and Upcoming artists like myself, even inspiring authors and entrepreneurs in the everyday man and woman, right here on the CJ money way show. That's good oh.