Speaker 1: My guy Rudy from United Players is celebrating thirty years
Speaker 1: along with all his associates, his people, his folks over
Speaker 1: at u Pee. The youth programs that are apart all
Speaker 1: the young people part of it, man, And that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about for the son of cast this you girl?
Speaker 2: Sound of what's up?
Speaker 3: Yo? You play a Putton? The GPI is.
Speaker 2: My guy is in a bill in Young Roadie thirty years.
Speaker 4: Y'all got good?
Speaker 3: Good? Yeah? Yeah, Upee man, Yes, sir?
Speaker 1: For what have you noticed, like the difference between when
Speaker 1: you first started, you know, this movement which probably was
Speaker 1: from birth light waiting, you know, like from the beginning
Speaker 1: of the very first year to now thirty years.
Speaker 5: Well you have United Players and now you have divided haters.
Speaker 5: And as time goes on, I don't know, it just
Speaker 5: seems like not too many people are comfortable coming together,
Speaker 5: you know. It's more about me, me, me, Yeah, And
Speaker 5: it's rare to find that old school kind of like
Speaker 5: you know, camaraderie trying to unite. But I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: I'm very hopeful, you know, I'm always pushing that line
Speaker 5: and starting at a prevention age when they're really young
Speaker 5: to try to bring and install that in them, So
Speaker 5: I really am. But it's tough, man, you know, it's
Speaker 5: real tough.
Speaker 1: These video games and social media all this stuff is.
Speaker 4: Like I think that really plays a lot to it.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 5: You know, the way our world is, how it's transforming,
Speaker 5: is moving right, just especially in our country, I think,
Speaker 5: you know, everybody just so independent. Everybody's dependent. And the
Speaker 5: Bay Area, you know, we've been independent. You know, I'm
Speaker 5: a player, you know, I'm your nighting players, staying away
Speaker 5: from you know, the divided.
Speaker 3: Haters right right.
Speaker 6: You know, I'll certainly say, man, I remember even back
Speaker 6: to like my one of my very first weeks here
Speaker 6: Internet that came here.
Speaker 3: One of the first events we went to was.
Speaker 6: A United Players event, you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 6: raving there on Howard Street, right, and they had elementary
Speaker 6: school kids out there, and you know, I just seen
Speaker 6: Rudy talk to some grown men and the message was
Speaker 6: not any different with these kids. And I mean just
Speaker 6: I think I think your approach to it, man, you
Speaker 6: give them so much realness and it's authentic and it's genuine,
Speaker 6: and I think that's what they latch onto. And I
Speaker 6: personally want to say, man, thirty years, You've done so
Speaker 6: much great work out here. You've done an amazing job,
Speaker 6: and you have saved a lot of lives.
Speaker 3: My brother, that's so big.
Speaker 6: That's that's a real accolade to stand on, because because
Speaker 6: you know, day by day, bro, you know, you out
Speaker 6: here and you're literally doing God's work, man, and what
Speaker 6: you're doing is so amazing and an impact is even
Speaker 6: if you don't feel like you see it in the moment,
Speaker 6: it's relentless. So we keep on seeing it, you know, echolone.
Speaker 5: And I appreciate, you know, and it's always good to
Speaker 5: hear kind words, especially man, you know, during now and
Speaker 5: so I'll always contribute and honored God. So why things
Speaker 5: happen the way happened, And I always glorify Him and
Speaker 5: give him all the honor and the glory, and I
Speaker 5: only think only through Him, only through him. This is
Speaker 5: only God thirty years, you know, and you know, dealing
Speaker 5: with young kids as young as five years old, dealing
Speaker 5: with grown men, it's only fifty five r sixty five, right.
Speaker 5: The kids are the medicine, you know. I got all
Speaker 5: these dudes who come home from the penitentiary after doing
Speaker 5: twenty five thirty five even forty five years had.
Speaker 4: To do, come home do fifty years.
Speaker 5: And when they're in the presence of the youngsters, they
Speaker 5: I believe sometimes we think we're doing something for them,
Speaker 5: the kids, but they're actually healing us because they're medicine.
Speaker 5: They're just so you know, they just want to be
Speaker 5: accepted in love like everybody else.
Speaker 4: And so, you know, thank you for them kind words. Brother.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I keep playing on man always. So
Speaker 5: what's so what y'all got going on for this thirty
Speaker 5: piece step Yeah, he shouts out to step you know,
Speaker 5: because he he donates.
Speaker 4: That's you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And so we're having an actual party, you know, to celebrate.
Speaker 5: It's a fundraiser, but at the same time a celebration
Speaker 5: just bringing you know, people together. Man to enjoy the
Speaker 5: moment and say thank you to everybody for off the
Speaker 5: three decades. And you know I had Steph. I got
Speaker 5: with his team to see if he could show up. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, they're in town. You know, they're in town.
Speaker 5: And so hopefully man, you're right with the three.
Speaker 3: H right, thirty it's only right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So how can people donate if they're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to attend or whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: because an organization that that you would want to because
Speaker 1: you know, as Rudy always mentions, like, kids are the
Speaker 1: focus because obviously that's the future, and we want to
Speaker 1: teach them better than how maybe we even maneuvered or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, or what they're seeing.
Speaker 2: They want to be better, so, you know, and a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 1: The programs like when I see your kids come out,
Speaker 1: like when we did the The Little Doggie Show, Yeah, my.
Speaker 2: Goodness, a jam with that idea.
Speaker 4: The kids did.
Speaker 1: It was so dope, and they're just so excited to
Speaker 1: be there and making signs and clapping and like just
Speaker 1: to be a part of something positive, you know, instead
Speaker 1: of instead of the junk they get at school or
Speaker 1: online on these apps or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: It's an actual, real life this is happening. You're a
Speaker 1: part of it, and we're doing something good.
Speaker 2: So if you.
Speaker 4: Let nig go ahead, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Saying, like, go to the website and make a donation.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: And the youngsters created that movement, right, It was about dogs,
Speaker 5: but it was actually about getting people woke in the
Speaker 5: senseless gun violin.
Speaker 4: I'm a surviv a gun violin right on that street
Speaker 4: that you stood on.
Speaker 5: It is actually where I got hit, right and my people,
Speaker 5: you know, may rest in peace right then. And so anyway,
Speaker 5: the kids came up with that idea and it was
Speaker 5: a good way for them to approach and bring kids.
Speaker 5: It's from who ain't from the city with kids from
Speaker 5: the city, and they created that dogs and it was
Speaker 5: a perfect segue man, and to have kids meet together
Speaker 5: and kick it in.
Speaker 4: Yet, you know, donate to the cause.
Speaker 5: You're not a players dot org p L A y
Speaker 5: A Z shouts out to Foe Tail and Fly.
Speaker 4: And low players JT the bigger figure.
Speaker 1: I do want to note that that event and also
Speaker 1: the mom that came out whose son lost his.
Speaker 3: Life, Leslie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, her son is pierced.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Here's his pledge.
Speaker 4: Here's his pledge.
Speaker 3: Finn.
Speaker 5: It was on on on a panel as a judge
Speaker 5: watching that it was it was love, huh.
Speaker 1: It was crazy, and that her story brought me to
Speaker 1: tears due you just don't ever want to hear something
Speaker 1: like that happen. And I follow her on Instagram and
Speaker 1: she constantly is on the same movement you are. Just
Speaker 1: to remind people that gun violence is a real thing,
Speaker 1: and people have mental issues that they deal with and
Speaker 1: when they pick up a weapon, then bad things.
Speaker 2: I cried on the MI.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself because you know the fact that
Speaker 1: her you know then husband right or your six father,
Speaker 1: you know, took both of their lives and the baby
Speaker 1: didn't have no choice in that.
Speaker 4: A baby, your baby.
Speaker 2: There was no conflict, there was nothing.
Speaker 1: It was just a mental disorder that he didn't get
Speaker 1: help for and now she's doesn't have her son.
Speaker 2: So when I got the.
Speaker 1: Mic and they wanted me to say something good, I
Speaker 1: just lost myself in it because that sorrow was just
Speaker 1: felt through everyone. But that's kind of what it takes
Speaker 1: to move people to understand this is real shit.
Speaker 5: I love your heart so because you know you, You
Speaker 5: hear you on a radio, but in real life when
Speaker 5: I seen you and it hits your heart.
Speaker 4: You've seen you, yeah, and you know you teared up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you tear up, yeah, you know, And it's real shit.
Speaker 2: This is real shit. Y'all think it's a game.
Speaker 5: And it brought two different worlds together because Leslie comes
Speaker 5: from a different word that I on front, but we
Speaker 5: hits the impact still hits hard. It's right, and it's unfortunately.
Speaker 5: It brought me and her from different worlds to come together,
Speaker 5: but now we're dealing with the same casts because children
Speaker 5: are number one killer young kids now nineteen and younger.
Speaker 5: It's gun violence, whether it be suicide, domestic violence, all
Speaker 5: the reporter violence. And so you write those son, it's
Speaker 5: a mental health issue that I'm glad that people start
Speaker 5: to see. We need all the support and help we
Speaker 5: can get.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I knows that's right, man, you know. I mean, like
Speaker 3: you mentioned, seeing those kids.
Speaker 6: Every time we have a new school shooting, if something
Speaker 6: happens and it's you know, it's a breakdown up top. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and so you know, we God knows we need more
Speaker 6: organizations like yours man, to let them know.
Speaker 3: Hey, man, you're not alone in this. You know.
Speaker 6: Even if you know you have folks who give you
Speaker 6: a hard time online, are folks who you feel, you know,
Speaker 6: might make fun of you at school. You always got
Speaker 6: a community. You're never by yourself, man. I think a
Speaker 6: lot of kids need to know that.
Speaker 4: Amen. You know, I'm shuts out the fab out the
Speaker 4: end of town.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: You got thug thirty yep, right, you got us for
Speaker 5: us with Damien on the You know, everybody's doing this
Speaker 5: collected together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's important that you know, it's just not
Speaker 5: black white or pepper and stripe or you know a
Speaker 5: Republicans and Democrats, just all of us and none of us, right,
Speaker 5: you know, because it affects all of us, and so
Speaker 5: and I appreciate y'all give me this platform to share
Speaker 5: because it's important that people do hear love.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a lot of love still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and hes San Francisco through streets man.
Speaker 6: So you know again, make sure y'all tap in the
Speaker 6: website one more time.
Speaker 5: You're knotted players dot org p l A y A Z.
Speaker 1: We headed into the next thirty next time we sit
Speaker 1: down at to be fifty thirty one.
Speaker 5: So you see, I'm not only into the marathon, but
Speaker 5: I'm also into the relay. Yeah, So you don't want
Speaker 5: to hand it off to some of these johnsters.
Speaker 4: I don't think they can still outdo me though, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, you.
Speaker 3: Got the sauce, man.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna tell you, man, I don't know, I think,
Speaker 5: and I cannot run all y'all up in this jury.
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna lie the next bight back for the holidays.
Speaker 5: It's going to be December of the second week of December.
Speaker 5: It's the anniversary Sandy Hook, you know. And you know
Speaker 5: the uh the President and the White House was saying
Speaker 5: about gun by back said they say, well, it's not
Speaker 5: effected because the police get the guns and they take
Speaker 5: them apart, but they still sell them.
Speaker 4: I want to say, for the record, we don't.
Speaker 5: But s p D right, we burn, we break them down,
Speaker 5: we burn them, or we make art out of it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so y'all need to capture that story White House and
Speaker 5: see what we really do with them.
Speaker 4: Real'll be destroying.
Speaker 2: We sold back onto the street getting them exactly.
Speaker 4: And you know people, man is greedy, no man. You
Speaker 4: know you're going to see.
Speaker 5: Something that the Warriors stadium, it's a big monarch, right,
Speaker 5: it was made out of all gun pieces, right, so
Speaker 5: the Warriors purchased that. Ye though, you know, Robbie, Robbie
Speaker 5: Poblett Foundation is a part of us helping destroy these
Speaker 5: guns and they out there. But Leo, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, that's how to my sister. She lost her son, Robbie,
Speaker 5: and that's what brought her to the circle. You know,
Speaker 5: a lot of people's pay is actually now turning to
Speaker 5: the purpose, and you know we're doing it collectively.
Speaker 4: Everybody plays a part. I'm just one doing one. Layup now.
Speaker 5: I'm just gonna get ship every day. Hit the three though.
Speaker 1: Yeah from this, Yeah, yeah, we're gonna We're gonna stick
Speaker 1: together and we need to be a part of that.
Speaker 2: Buy back to already have you come?
Speaker 4: Man is always online.
Speaker 5: She on point with us and toes down and y'all
Speaker 5: been down with us since the beginning.
Speaker 2: Because the cause is just so important.
Speaker 4: You know, guy's plans got say it.
Speaker 1: Every time, even when these young people go out and
Speaker 1: they feel like putting a gun to somebody's chest to
Speaker 1: take their purse or wallet, and then you pull it
Speaker 1: like there's two lives that are lost in that because
Speaker 1: now you're probably gonna spend the rest of your life
Speaker 1: in jail in your only twenty.
Speaker 4: So everybody loses.
Speaker 5: Everybody loses, the whole community, they families. Y'all need to
Speaker 5: give me a summer gam on the stage one day
Speaker 5: to speak, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: That crowd needs to hit it man. Man.
Speaker 5: I love to sprinkle them, yeah, I love to sprinkle them.
Speaker 3: Say what the real game exactly.
Speaker 4: You come from that hip hop era, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So December we're gonna be together again, yes,
Speaker 1: and we'll chop it up again.
Speaker 2: But the message is always the same. Yes, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. We got to have each other's backs.
Speaker 4: Out there takes the hood to say the hood.
Speaker 2: To say the hood.
Speaker 1: And these young people, man, we gotta focus on them
Speaker 1: because things are looking.
Speaker 2: Bad man out there. These kids are willing to risk
Speaker 2: at all and.
Speaker 5: Their future in present if we don't get to the
Speaker 5: minds of the heart of the kids who will right period?
Speaker 3: Right plan to see now, yeap.
Speaker 2: And for the ogs out there, it's never too late.
Speaker 5: And some of these ogs need to step up. You
Speaker 5: know they say O G still for original gangster. That
Speaker 5: OG sounds like a stands for out of gas, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. So we need to step up
Speaker 5: because we original godters. That's what it is, original guidance.
Speaker 7: There you go, all right, years bro, it is it
Speaker 7: is just born thirty years y'all, God good good?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What have you noticed, like the difference between when you
Speaker 1: first started, you know, this movement, you know, like from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the very first year to now thirty years.
Speaker 5: Well you have united players and now you have divided haters,
Speaker 5: and as time goes on, not too many people are
Speaker 5: comfortable coming together.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's more about me, me, me, Yeah, and it's rare
Speaker 5: to find that old school kind of like, you know,
Speaker 5: camaraderie trying to unite.
Speaker 4: But I mean, you know, I'm.
Speaker 5: Very hopeful, you know, I'm always pushing that line parting
Speaker 5: at a prevention age when are really young, to try
Speaker 5: to bring and install that in them. Song children the
Speaker 5: number one killer young kids now nineteen and younger. It's
Speaker 5: gun violence, whether it be suicide, domestic violence, all.
Speaker 4: The reporter of violence.
Speaker 3: So what y'all going on for this thirty piece?
Speaker 5: Yeah uh yeah, he shouts out to step you know,
Speaker 5: because he he donates, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 5: so we're having an actual party, you know, to celebrate.
Speaker 5: It's a fundraiser, but at the same time a celebration
Speaker 5: just bringing you know, people together, man to enjoy the
Speaker 5: moment and say thank you to everybody for off the
Speaker 5: three decades.
Speaker 2: So how can people donate if they're not going to
Speaker 2: be able to.
Speaker 4: Attend or donate to the cause.
Speaker 5: You're not a Players dot Org P L A Y
Speaker 5: A Z shouts have to foteil and flo and low
Speaker 5: players JT the bigger figure years bro there is it
Speaker 5: is just born.
Speaker 1: So many stories. Rudy has man and all the folks
Speaker 1: that mess with up. It's like she sh just years
Speaker 1: of trying to clean up these streets. Get these guns
Speaker 1: off the streets, make some beautiful art with them, or
Speaker 1: at least put some money in the hand of a
Speaker 1: person who feels like they got to use that thing
Speaker 1: to make it through the day. Like it's just a
Speaker 1: mental health awareness situation as well as a crime situation
Speaker 1: on the streets, and just you don't need those guns.
Speaker 1: So we talked about a gun buyback coming up in December.
Speaker 1: We'll give you all the details for that.
Speaker 2: So give them up. They give some big cash for them.
Speaker 6: Always man, stay locked in. Hit the website again United
Speaker 6: Players with A Z dot Org to go ahead and
Speaker 6: make a donation or to stay tapped in with them folks,
Speaker 6: because I'll tell you man up is lot to the soil.
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