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00:00So
00:30Let's go.
02:00Hey, man, why don't y'all state your names real quick?
02:02Man, my name is Christian Harris, man.
02:04I've been through a lot, man.
02:06I was born and raised on Plymouth Road on Sunsets.
02:11Okay.
02:11It's Devin Harris, you know what I'm saying?
02:13It's my cousin, you feel me?
02:14They call me P-Rock 2K.
02:16I do a little rap shit, you know what I'm saying?
02:18You know what I'm saying?
02:18Plymouth Road, nigga.
02:20You know what I'm saying?
02:21Okay, so this is the west side of Detroit.
02:24For people that don't know, we'll be off of Plymouth Road.
02:27And what street is this?
02:28Memorial.
02:29Why don't y'all tell people about this neighborhood right now?
02:31I mean, shit.
02:32I mean, it's the trenches.
02:33It's the trenches, man.
02:34As you can see, man.
02:35Like, this shit is run down, you know what I'm saying?
02:38I done grew up here all my life, you feel me what I'm saying?
02:40Like, it's a big family over here, you know what I'm saying?
02:44They, you know, they been through some shit, you know what I'm saying?
02:48Like, everything.
02:48Like, my pops got killed over here by his best friend.
02:52Like, all the type of shit, you know what I'm saying?
02:54Why don't you tell us a little bit about that?
02:56What do you want to talk about?
02:57My pops been dead since I was, like, first born.
03:00So, I don't know how it feel.
03:01Do you feel me?
03:02I didn't have that father or that spirit, that godly, manly spirit on top of me.
03:07Like, he ain't been there.
03:08He died when I was literally one years old.
03:10How did that happen?
03:12It was, like...
03:12My dad was a hood, nigga.
03:13You know, the oil shop on Southfield, he robbed it and got killed.
03:16And his best friend worked there.
03:18Oh, sorry, you don't.
03:19You know what I'm saying?
03:20My mom been out the mental home my whole life, so it's just, you know what I'm saying?
03:25Folks struggling, you know what I'm saying, man?
03:27It just...
03:28All this shit look cute that we got on.
03:29You feel me?
03:30But, see, we work for the...
03:32We pray for the drip.
03:33Like, how these rap niggas be like...
03:36So, what do y'all do?
03:39I mean, like...
03:40Oh, I just got back from...
03:42I was literally...
03:43I'm the second kid in my family to go to school.
03:47I just came back.
03:47I go to River First University.
03:49I just got back probably a month ago.
03:51I go back January 3rd.
03:54I'm a bio major.
03:55Oh, okay.
03:56That's good, man.
03:56You know what I'm saying?
03:58Me, you know, I just do my music.
04:00You know what I'm saying?
04:01I just throw it on YouTube.
04:03Y'all tap me in.
04:05Instagram name, official2k.
04:07You know what I'm saying?
04:08That's what I do.
04:09That's my foundation.
04:10You know what I'm saying?
04:11I make music.
04:11You know, I want to reach out to my people.
04:14You know what I'm saying?
04:14Awesome.
04:16You know what I'm saying?
04:17Just open your mind on what's really going on out here.
04:19You know what I'm saying?
04:20Because in a neighborhood like this, let's tell you be the ones blocking your blessings.
04:23You know what I'm saying?
04:24And everybody ain't got your best interest out here.
04:28So, you know.
04:29At all.
04:29So, you know.
04:31Okay.
04:31Let's talk about what.
04:33Is there any, like, in this neighborhood, is there any, like, gang activity?
04:36Most definitely.
04:37Yeah.
04:37So, like, I know Chicago really big on the gangs.
04:40So, what kind of gang activity going on over here?
04:42You know.
04:43I mean.
04:43What did y'all know about?
04:44Everything.
04:45Everything.
04:46I mean, like, I ain't going to say.
04:47I can't really get into, like, the names.
04:49But, like, it's more so a lot of shit going on.
04:51Like, you feel me?
04:52FOE, GMF.
04:54Like, a bunch of shit.
04:55Like, them some of the gangs.
04:57Right.
04:57You know what I'm saying?
04:58You know what I'm saying?
04:59They.
05:00And you can look, like, it's self-explanatory.
05:03You know what I'm saying?
05:03Yeah, you can see how they look around, man.
05:05This shit.
05:06They do these right here.
05:07Like, it really used to go down over here.
05:10You know what I'm saying?
05:11Oh, it's definitely.
05:11Dice games right across the street on that very porch where there ain't got no door on there no more.
05:16You know what I'm saying?
05:16Like, it used to be lit over here.
05:20You know what I'm saying?
05:21What do you, um, what do y'all think, um, what would you like to see change in this neighborhood?
05:27Everybody, like, why we got to hate it?
05:31Why we got to hate on each other when we're up?
05:33You know what I'm saying?
05:33Like, if you see somebody that, that you feel me, that's doing good.
05:37That people are famous for that in Detroit.
05:37Like, man, you need, don't be trying to, like, perfect for the car and get caught off there.
05:42Like, you feel me?
05:43Ask them what they doing to get rid of it.
05:45That's how I'm looking at life.
05:46Right.
05:47I ain't hating on nobody.
05:48I want everybody to win.
05:49Big facts.
05:50Yeah, man, that's a big factor in death around here, man.
05:53You know what I'm saying?
05:53The hate.
05:54The greed.
05:55You know what I'm saying?
05:55Do y'all see any improvements in the neighborhood, like, say, like, 10 years ago?
06:00Do you think it's gotten worse or do you think it's gotten better?
06:02Man, the only thing they probably did is make downtown Detroit look way better.
06:06That's what everybody said.
06:07That's what I'm saying.
06:07They ain't coming in the woods.
06:09They ain't coming in the woods.
06:10They ain't coming in the woods.
06:10They ain't coming in the woods.
06:11Man, I'm telling you, man.
06:12The next 15 years, it's going to be the same shit.
06:15So, so, because that's what I have to feel, too.
06:17So, do y'all like our mayor, Dugan?
06:20No.
06:20You fixin' roads on streets where ain't no crime and nobody got killed within the last three, four months or a year.
06:29Ain't no traffic riding down those streets.
06:30Ain't no traffic stops going on, but y'all come over.
06:32Y'all want to come over here.
06:33Peek Joy Road.
06:34Peek Joy Road.
06:35Joy Road got rebuilt.
06:36Evergreen.
06:37Peek Evergreen.
06:39You know what I'm saying?
06:40Peek 96.
06:41Southfield Freeway.
06:42Man, that shit look crazy.
06:44You tearing up your vehicle riding on these roads.
06:46You know what I'm saying?
06:47They ain't doing nothing for real.
06:48You know what I'm saying?
06:49They worry about the wrong.
06:50Shit, shit.
06:52You know what I'm saying?
06:52They want to invest where you, they want to invest in Pruscent City where they don't need no investing.
06:56You know what I'm saying?
06:57Where they kids live.
06:57Where they parents, where they rich.
06:59They parents got, already got money put for they kids' tuition.
07:02Like, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, could contribute to shit when I went to college.
07:07I was the under struggling for four months by myself, but I couldn't come home because I would have been a product of my environment.
07:13I know so many people that went to college, but then it came right back home because it got tight.
07:17I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm too, I'm built for something else.
07:20I ain't built for something.
07:21You kidding me right now?
07:22I mean, I'm, yeah, I'm a country right now.
07:23Okay, okay, that's good, man.
07:25Yeah.
07:26Um, we can talk about that.
07:29What, um, what high school did y'all attend?
07:32Man, big NL, Northwestern on the Boulevard.
07:34Yeah, you know me, Cody, you know what I'm saying?
07:38Okay.
07:39Oh, that was our rival too, Cody boys, you know boys.
07:42Okay.
07:43What do y'all, in Detroit, what do y'all think is the biggest difference between the East Side and the West Side?
07:47Oh, man, East Side, they show them all.
07:48They, they, they, they have perfect.
07:50They, look, this one killing me.
07:52We both be beefed out, right?
07:54But we put it to the side when we get around niggas.
07:56We beefed where niggas we really ain't cool with and perfect.
07:59West, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be known.
08:03It's gonna be known, if I ain't fucking with you, I'ma let it be known.
08:06It's gonna be known, like, there's more love over there than the West, I swear.
08:10Yeah, and, shit, they grinding, bro.
08:14Hey, grinding way harder, though.
08:15They, it's a lot, it's a lot of cats over here, man.
08:17They taking your shit, man.
08:18They feel like you lose, uh, you know what I'm saying?
08:22You, you sweet, you sweet, you, you family.
08:24What, what I said, the craziest thing y'all ever seen happen over here, like, in the streets?
08:29Oh, in the streets, my, uh, when my homeboy got killed.
08:32You seen what happened?
08:33My homeboy just got killed.
08:34Hell yeah, I had to be about 11, 11 years old.
08:37I live across the street from this school called Oakman Elementary.
08:40It was the only half-paraplegic, half-regular kid school in Michigan, and they closed it down.
08:46I say, when we got to 7th grade, we went to Henderson together.
08:50I ain't gonna lie, I used to be, I used to be making a lot of bad decisions.
08:52I'ma just put it out there, like, we got into some trouble with some dudes we was beefing with.
08:59A lot of gunfire was exchanged, and he's not here anymore, so rest in peace to my baby, Chris, on top of that, you know what I'm saying?
09:07Oh, okay.
09:08Um, yeah, one thing I can't say, the only thing, like, under this new bed that I've seen improved, I mean, although we are surrounded by a lot of abandoned houses, they seem to be tearing them down faster, and I notice that your city's street lights, more lights on.
09:21Remember, the whole city used to be dark.
09:23Oh, yeah, I live on the dark side of public, too, to let you know, that's past Evergreen, I mean, that's past Greenfield, that's part of the dark side.
09:29It was called dark side because there wasn't no street lights.
09:31It ain't, it still, damn, man.
09:32Still ain't no street lights.
09:34I'm telling you, it ain't no street lights on there, man.
09:38You go up through there, you, you're reliable.
09:41He live on the light side, where it is street lights, but you better have a glicky on you, or block, or something, whatever you want to call it.
09:47If you win, you know what I'm saying, man, you got to know how to move out here, man, these streets come for real.
09:51Okay, so anything that y'all want to say, anything y'all want to show up?
09:55Man, one thing, bro, like, everybody, what's going on in the world, bro, like, we got to be one with each other because there's a lot of shit, a lot of adversity, a lot of diversity going on, especially with race.
10:04Like, can we all, like, come together and just, like, fuck a color, like, man, let's either get money or let's contribute to our younger generation because my nieces, man, I'm looking at how they growing up.
10:15It ain't, it ain't go, you know what I'm saying?
10:17You feel me?
10:18Well, do you think, are you happy with the job the president is doing on this?
10:23Man, hey, Trump, I ain't even, I'm on there and I'm saying fuck, Trump.
10:28Trump, man, keep doing what you doing, like my nigga Rick Ross said, man, we got to destroy before we elevate.
10:32Anyway, he said, I'm glad Trump became the president.
10:36Hey, shit, if he glad, shit, I'm glad, too, but he ain't stopping me from my grind.
10:41Well, one thing I think everybody should know, you know what I'm saying, be honest with yourself, you know what I'm saying?
10:47Like Richard said, be honest.
10:49Be honest with yourself, man, and whatever, you know what I'm saying?
10:52With drives, with your drive, whatever your drive, do that shit, man.
10:56What's your belief in life?
10:57Whatever you feel like you want to do in life is not no shit you can't reach.
11:02It can be done, you know what I'm saying?
11:04Have y'all own mind out here.
11:06Big facts.
11:06You know what I'm saying?
11:07And like I said in the beginning, everybody know how your best interest, so keep it a hundred with yourself, man.
11:13You know what I'm saying?
11:15It ain't, I can talk your ears off about this shit, you know what I'm being out here for so long.
11:19I know the old heads probably done told y'all the same shit.
11:21Y'all people's telling y'all the same shit we done told y'all, man.
11:24You know what I'm saying?
11:24Take heave on the, I'm taking heave.
11:26I'm trying to better myself in life, man.
11:28Big facts.
11:30Okay, we're gonna, we're gonna close it out of that though because I'm out here freezing.
11:33All right, man, we ain't gonna keep you out here too long.
11:36All right, man.
11:36All right.
11:37All right, man.
12:07All right.
12:37All right.
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