Message

I have nothing but respect for our young people

And what they're doing.

My thing is, we adults did not stand strong

And on our square

To bring our young people through this process.

I know, I was the young person

That had to fend for himself in the streets of New York.

I know what happened, with our young people

I say, "Look I ain't mad at you", know no matter what I hear

I know that you are moving through a process

Because they are attempting to destroy the community

So they're using you.

They are buying you out.

But we as adults, get to buy them back.

I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds.

And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them

Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand.

You see because whether you realize it or not

It's you they're shooting in the streets.

You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot.

So with this entertainment or with this music

Maybe I don't like what I hear

Maybe that I don't like some of the words I hear

Maybe that I don't like the direction

But I think they're doing a pretty good job

Considering that we, as men, the adult men

Did not cover that when we should've covered that

And protected them when we should've protected them

And brought them up that so when we see an artist

Acting in a most inappropriate way

"Where is the father in this?",

"Where is that male mentor that can be there?"

We, as black men

Must take on the responsibility as the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm

Is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family.

And we have got to create nations

We have to create relationships

Between the African man and the African woman

That creates a viable nation