The Consequences of Street Life

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]So every day we're getting a new example of why being a part of this street, you know, gang culture is one of the dumbest things you can involve yourself in.

[00:00:07]There are only two outcomes to this lifestyle. Death and prison. There is no other way around it, especially in 2026.

[00:00:13]So about 2 years ago now, the rapper Julio Fulio was killed. Now, let's get this straight. This guy was no saint. He was heavily involved in the streets and he got one of the outcomes. But with the way he went about being killed, the people that did it, they were extremely sloppy and ended up getting caught pretty fast. A few days ago, these guys were sentenced and found guilty. So, right here, we have a clip of all of the accused murderers. On screen right here is the youngest, I believe, named Sean Gatheright. In this clip, the judge listed off all the charges of each individual, and they were found guilty.

[00:00:44]But what I want to focus on is the reaction of this individual right here.

[00:00:48]So, as y'all can see, man, this is this brother is crying.

[00:00:52]The reality has hit him. His life is gone for for what? at the cost of another black man. And I don't know how many times people got to see examples like this, bro. In this exact moment, he's filling with pretty much every prisoner in that cell is telling you like, you know what I'm saying? We watch shows like Beyond Scared Straight. These people all say the same thing, man. Stay out stay out the streets. Don't do this.

[00:01:12]Don't do that. But we keep seeing so many brothers still fall for the trap.

[00:01:16]You know what I'm saying? And listen, I'm a person that understand history. I know everything that black people have been through. A lot of the conditions and and and all of the disenfranchisedment has birthed street culture that we see today. But I tell all my brothers this, man. We we we know what they did. We know how evil these people are. We know the traps that they set out. We cannot keep falling for it. We cannot. And like I stated, bro, the crime that these dudes did, what what was it for? Y'all killed another black man. We go so hard and we slide on each other for, you know, for damn near nothing. But like I state, bro, we still got people like George Zimman running around here. We still got the racist white dude Chud the Builder walking around calling people the N word. He's still untouched. But a lot of these dudes, street dudes, you know what I'm saying? specifically, right? Is ready to slide over nothing.

[00:01:58]You saw a dude one day walking down the street, he looked at you wrong. Now he dead for nothing. But if it was one of these white dudes walking walking down the street with him with the hey sir, how you doing sir? Like I say, not wishing death on that on the white dude, but it's like it's no way he should be walking around doing that. But we got some real certified crash outs out here that'll kill their own brother. Like I I I just don't understand that [ __ ] But that's why I do go so hard for the black community when a lot of these white dudes get online talking about they scared of black people. Bro, sad thing is dog, you not going to get touched. If anything, they going to praise you, you know, walking into the hood or walking around a lot of these black dudes, bro.

[00:02:29]It's just something better than the community. We are taught to hate each other while to respect and love everybody else.

[00:02:34]>> So, this is that boy shine gay fright.

[00:02:36]And word is this [ __ ] come from a loving family, >> man.

[00:02:41]>> From the crib, his mama, his peoples got bread. Real money, >> grandma house. Nice as [ __ ] Real money.

[00:02:51]I'mma keep it a ban. I have no clue on how this young [ __ ] got mixed up into the street life, but god damn it, what a way to go. They said this man provided all the guns. He the [ __ ] arsenal.

[00:03:04]>> What?

[00:03:05]>> Godamn. And he the shooter. He provided the ratchets and he put one in his hand and put that [ __ ] to use.

[00:03:12]>> What?

[00:03:13]>> And he's 18, too. So Fio was what, like 26, 27. I'm pretty sure he ain't even, you know, he didn't really have any personal beef against him. You know what I'm saying? Maybe Fio did something to his friends associated with him, but on a personal level, bro, you doing all this, he never did anything to you, you know, per se. And he went that hard. The youngest. And for what, bro?

[00:03:34]>> You came from a loving household, boy.

[00:03:37]You lived in a nice neighborhood, [ __ ] And you chose the street life. You chose that. Follow behind six blocking ATK and 1200. Boy, they about to cook your ass. You hear me?

[00:03:52]They going to frequency fry you, young blood. And >> this is a clip from the interrogation room. Man, this dude was going through it. Um, let's just watch the clip right fast.

[00:04:05]>> Let me out, bro. Let me out, bro.

[00:04:11]Let me out, bro.

[00:04:20]Let me out like he's trying to escape and [ __ ] up in there.

[00:04:38]It's crazy, bro. This this is what happen when you get alone and you you know what I'm saying? You separated from all your friends and you just got to sit there with your quiet thoughts and you start thinking, "Damn, I really threw my life away. I really did this shit." Like that that [ __ ] start to sink in when it's just you by yourself. You ain't around your friends no more.

[00:04:59]You ain't around none of that. Those thoughts get to eating at you, boy. And you just realize how how dumb that was in that split instance. You threw everything away.

[00:05:10]sit in that chair and don't leave.

[00:05:12]>> I ain't going to lie, dog. I wouldn't be surprised if that young man harmed himself in prison because everything is just crashing down on him now. He knows that his life is over. And hopefully, man, anybody that's watching this video and involved in the streets, you realize that this life is not what it's meant to be. I try to tell all my brothers, man, to always have impulse control. Don't react off of emotion. Sit back, think, and map out all of the different outcomes that could come from this situation. In that moment, it may feel good of you reacting and pulling that trigger, but once it's done, it's done.

[00:05:38]And now you're calmed down and you think, "Damn, I really just did this.

[00:05:41]Did I really just take this person life?

[00:05:42]Did I really just throw my life away?"

[00:05:44]All that stuff comes back at you full circle when you could have been just out the way working your chill nine-to-five job, going back home, playing the game, living your boring, mundane life, but you got your freedom. But you got your freedom. And it's like you always appreciate the things when they're gone.

[00:06:00]Now you in that jail say you like, "Damn, bro. I had it so good. You know what I'm saying? I had I had it so chill. I was had my freedom, bro. That's You know what I'm saying? I just, like I said, I feel for the street dudes, but I could never just throw that freedom away. I love my freedom. Especially brothers that got responsibilities out here, man. God forbid you a a father, you got kids, and you you know what I'm saying? I can't just something I couldn't fathom. That's just me personally. Like, I wouldn't do [ __ ] to throw that throw that away. I am a high school algebra teacher in the largest public school district in the state of Tennessee, which also comes with it being the most disenfranchised and impoverished districts in Tennessee, primarily because majority of our student population are black people. Um, and today I am here to talk about the epidemic quote unquote of the Yin. Um, and I'm here to talk about it from a teacher's perspective because I can see it. I'm seeing it from the ground and how it's developing and I can tell kind of where it's going. If that makes sense. In the premise of conversation, I do not subscribe to the term YN. I understand that it is a caricature of describing young black men who um might be in trouble or might have like certain decisions that they make uh due to the circumstances and the environments that they're growing up in. But I do not subscribe to calling young black men yin. So, I wanted to start off by saying that, too. Most of the time when you hear people talk about um just where black people are as a community um in today's time, especially the young people, you hear a lot of it being blamed on the parenting, um on the system, on the education system, etc., etc. And all of those things are true. I think this conversation is a lot more nuanced and it takes place at the intersectionality of all of it. So, in order to not make this video extremely long, I'm going to actually break this down into three parts. In this part, I will talk explicitly about parenting.

[00:08:00]Um, and the parenting goes back a lot further than I think some people are cognizantly thinking about. Um, the parenting goes back to, especially in the black community, we're going back to regonomics, right? when you have multiple generations of uh people not being present due to drug abuse, due to mass incarceration, um due to uh the perpetuation of like the welfare state, all of these things, right? They create this kind of like dependency in this environment and that is kind of what we're seeing the effects of trickled all the way down.

[00:08:36]>> Literally, literally, that's why I say all the time, bro, you have to go back to understand why things are so messed up the way it is now. 400 years of slavery, boom, Jim Crow, segregation, red lining, co-intentail pro killed all the leaders, chemical warfare, hearing crack, and that trickles down to yen epidemic of 2026. Literally, and I hope when she gets into this part about parenting, I want to add this in first.

[00:08:58]We can go back to capitalism as well. A lot of these parents, they don't have time for their kids because guess what?

[00:09:02]They have to work. And yes, you can say that they shouldn't have had all these kids in the first place. That is true.

[00:09:07]That's why you don't just go laying around and sleep with anybody. And that's for men and women. So then they have these babies and guess what? Kids are expensive as hell. So the parents are at work all day and sometimes it's just one. The mama she is working all day who who going to watch out there and give attention to this child. He going to look for it in the streets. He going to look for it for dudes that's in these gangs literally. Bro, >> I know these things happened 30 year 30 plus 40 years ago. But I think now we're starting to see the effects. So with the parenting explicitly, right, parenting matters so much here because the parents weren't present, right? if we're talking about the crack epidemic um and the whole dropping guns and drugs and all of these things into our neighborhoods and completely destroying the black community um most of the damage of that is because of lack of presence. So you have the original doctors, lawyers, uh nurses, teachers, um businessmen. These people who were pillars in the community now addicted to drugs and not able to be present for said community. So when they should have been in the households or in the neighborhoods helping to raise children, helping to show up for children, helping like making sure they're going to school, making sure there's somebody that the kids are always taking care of. You have a lot of children who ended up raising themselves or were being raised by their grandparents, which happened to be the boomers at the time. And when you talk about being raised by boomers then and or grandparents, now we're talking about permissive parenting because realistically a grandparent cannot show up in the same ways that your parent can because of different restrictions whether that be mobility, age, job, all of that, right? There's a reason.

[00:10:48]So now we have a bunch of teens, children with no authority and nobody to hold them accountable presently because of different restrictions. And then they continue throughout their life without presence, without accountability, without community. And then they race and have their own children. And because none of that was present during their childhood, they don't know how to >> do that for the next generation. And then that happened with millennials and the older Gen Z's. And then now we're starting to see like this Yin epidemic, quote unquote. um because now we're seeing the effects of children who are born to parents who were not raised and who did not have presence in the community.

[00:11:33]>> So now this isn't a conversation about people's willingness to parent or the ability to parent. It's about did they even have a foundation of what good parenting looks like. And I think that is what we're dealing with right now.

[00:11:45]And a lot of the whole permissive parenting, wanting to be your kids' friends, wanting to level with your kids more, I think is coming more out of the need to not feel how they felt about their parents, right? So, they show up for their kids in ways that don't always encourage discipline, accountability, integrity, etc., etc. And then how that translates to the the progression of like this Y culture is that you have an entire generation of people who are not considerate of others because nobody's teaching them to be considerate because their parents had to fend for themselves and their and sometimes their grandparents, their aunts and uncles all had to fend for themselves. We get this mentality of is you versus everybody.

[00:12:30]And then when you teach that to a child whose brain is not fully developed, then they their children are already selfish in general because that's the natural.

[00:12:37]>> Sorry. So now you have a generation of people who are being taught to be individuals and to only think of self.

[00:12:44]So it is not necessarily that they have the desire to hurt others. It is the fact that they live in selfishness.

[00:12:50]That's it. It's because they are they don't have any reference point or any metric of what real morality, compassion, and empathy looks like because they're being raised by people who had no empathy themselves as children. So, how do you teach it if you don't experience it? And I know what you're saying. Some people learn how to do it. Some people don't. That's the parenting aspect. I don't think that people are inherently trying not to be good parents. And I thought I also think they're not making good decisions about whether or not they actually want to be parents. A lot of people have kids who don't actually want to be parents and that's another thing that we're seeing.

[00:13:22]>> Shout out to her. She did a great breakdown in part one. I want y'all to go check out part two and three on her Tik Tok page. And to sum up this video, man, the inevitability of street life is death or prison. There's no other way around it. Black community, we got to wake up, dog. We got so many different forces targeted at us, but at times we seem like our biggest enemies. We got to build up more community. Let's start greeting and and and speaking to our brothers more. Like I stated, something that I took upon myself a few years ago was whenever I see another black man, I'mma say what's up to him. I'mma smile.

[00:13:50]I'mma wave. I'mma shake his hand. I'm going to try to talk to him. I'm 24, man. And I really do want to make a change within the black community. Like, especially, you know, my age range. All the brothers, cuz we we we pretty much the future now. You know what I'm saying? We in charge right now. The youth, they looking up to us. So, we got to set the standard. All my brothers, you know what I'm saying? All the YouTubers I see. I've been seeing a lot of more black YouTubers that come online and speak about this [ __ ] bro. And I'm glad that that we're able to do this, man. Whether we realize it or not, we do make a a little change. Just maybe a smidg. We we we doing something, man.

[00:14:17]But no more talking. Um I have a great breakdown on why culture on my main channel, and I don't know if a lot of y'all saw it, but I suggest y'all check out that video. I went in detail basically how the young lady did, and I cooked it up, man. I think it'll be a great watch for y'all.