Mental Rewiring, Anxiety Meditation, Brain Therapy, & Movie Programming with 19 Keys & Director X

Superior knowledge does not submit to inferior knowledge right so if it's Superior it can stand up to the test of time right I've done that throughout my whole life testing whether the knowledge that I was taught right from when I was young was indoctrination or it was real truth then most people are afraid to go on that Journey because they don't know who they will become afterwards the people people get real again we talk about the brain the brain likes things the way it is people come in trying to move the furniture around they're like yo that's where that that couch goes there right you know and we saw it and I really I really saw over the past few years just the politics the pandemic just a lot of things that they'll they'll let the thing bro I don't know if you ever it was like a behavior when you were young you something was wrong and you left it wrong you know what I'm saying it felt like addressing it would be a bigger thing right right you know I mean and as a child you're like okay I can get that but now I'm seeing like no this is adults right governments don't want to admit that they're wrong about something so they just published the papers and see who reads it just though yeah I mean they'll just they'll just dropped the foul we didn't let nobody know but you know this is where we admitted if you want to read them 500 pages real quick yeah it's somewhere in the middle of page 250 but we ain't gonna tell you yeah let's stay away admitting the truth you know what I'm saying I appreciate my pops for teaching me how to be a God I'm a boy to a man and ultimately back into the United States of being the two of God be as God's supposed to always move with that higher self and I have to be able to execute it having knowledge is not power to execution or knowledge is power knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave because the only real knowledge you can get is knowledge of self [Music] the highest level is power the highest level is sovereignty the highest level is higher Consciousness the highest level is but we own our own very high level not I love it I high like that it's time for a high level conversation high level conversation [Music] [Applause] peace family is 19 Keys welcome to another high level conversation today we have a very special guest as always this is a brother who has made cinematic history who has brought us very striking visual presentations and who has a very special place in culture if you're familiar with his work then you know he has worked with very great stars and he continues to do Works in multiple mediums from video shoots to Art installations to documentaries or movies now there's not too many people that achieve greatness there's a lot of people that try to direct there's a lot of people that tried to get into the film industry but you have to have a certain passion for what you do and you have to have a certain genius and a certain vision for what you do to even direct to be able to give direction so that the vision that's in your mind can actually be brought out when people are able to intake exactly what they're experiencing so you become a curator of visuals here at high level conversations we try to make sure that the direction and the flow of every episode allows you to jump into the experience so that you can feel like you were there with the type of visuals that he has left us with he have already left an impression and a mark on the whole entire world and always think about our guests in terms of if they didn't exist what would the game be like and it would be missing a lot of pivotal moments if we didn't have the great artistic eye and direction of the good brother Director X so I appreciate you being here today brother yeah thank you for having me so I want to start with a question right because these are conversations it's not an interview it's a back and forth flow and a build you know I was thinking as I was just thinking about what a director does right being able to move the pieces and and really have to think outside of self and be empathetic and aware of how everybody else is going to view the presentation right what they're going to experience what they're going to feel and I was thinking about that in terms of life right we are all the main characters in our own stories right some of us have dramatic stories some of us have sad stories some of us you know go after the enemy and we become heroes in our own Tales right and in the lives on a daily basis I'm always thinking about my life right and how will my legacy end and I'm thinking if I am a good director of my own main character right and in terms of that sort of external self right and you being the master of self that gets to direct your own movie what do you think a good director for their own life looks like if you can in terms it as far as the way you put it together on screen I mean I I don't know how to apply it to life but I can tell you what I feel a good director is okay and how that and then everyone can make that analogy themselves um the beginning is understanding of The Craft right you understand I said you got to [ __ ] with the camera right I'm I'm a director I know my lenses I know the equipment I know how to apply that knowledge into a performance how to make a line be a little more if I do this you know I mean and the lights and the the Wardrobe and the makeup and then once you once you have spent your time on the craft and just the art itself well then now the next layer is understanding the workings of it well if I want to do that shot with that piece of equipment how long is that going to take then if I want that other shot how long is that going to take but when does the Sun go down and how long is it going to take us to go to the next location so now I need so you understand I start with my passion of the art I just love it and all I want to do is study I want to study story structure and camera and acting and then a layer back I want to be able to speak about the lights and the equipment and the makeup and the Wardrobe and then another step back I want to be able to understand the logistics if I put the trucks on that street then what's that mean when we you know there's all these things and then there's the next step back is the team that I have to motivate lead right and part of the leadership of a team is that okay he knows what he's doing or she knows what she's doing everyone wants to feel like they're leading someone who deserves to be in their position that knows what they're doing yeah so all that knowledge comes together go oh this guy knows this guy knows the camera this guy know okay this guy knows all the pieces oh he even knows the logistics okay so now I got that the team is the team feels like they're following a leader then then there's another step past that are you respecting that team as human beings right there's a lot we just know in life there's people who feel they have a position they're the boss they get a little bit of power and suddenly they talk to yeah you and you don't want to right they feel that they they feel that they're better than people there's no other way to put it right so again now you got your craft you understand the craft now you understand the business you could say the logistics you understand the business yeah okay now you understand the business now you are dealing with the team as people right so yeah you might be the guy that's getting me my burrito in the morning hey x what do you want in your burrito yeah I can make it some oh run a little you know what I'm saying you're a person first uh uh what do you know I mean when you get it cool all right thanks thank you man I appreciate you right on a human level that makes sense if you want to go to a business level there ain't many people in this business that didn't start with getting people burritos Kenny Barris got people their breakfast burrito you know what I'm saying I got people their breakfast like this this is a ground up game so you can be even selfish about it treating people with respect is a smart play but that's just it feels you know what I'm saying some people can do all that that's just a lot of effort to move through life for me when I hear that I think about coming up with a grand strategy right so if I'm relating that to life life is war it's the way I look at it right we have daily battles well that's good battles or whether those battles where you're going against an opposing force and oftentimes it's self-wars it's the internal Wars that you go through so I've been deep just on the thought process of the self-wars that we have to go on a daily basis so when we go to war you want to have strategies right so what you talked about at first is learning The Craft right and if you learn in the craft then you'll be in an observer right you're in constant state of study and development of self right and so therefore you can start to learn the way of right so when you learn the tools you learn the likes you learn it now you are learning the way of what it's like to be a director right or if somebody's getting a burritos the way of of being an assistant everything that's comprised to be able to do your job right and then you can start to develop a philosophy towards that once you have an understanding and that philosophy is your strategy right so now you have an ability to say this is the way I'm going to do things right and then you talked about stepping back so now I'm not doing things from the point where I'm just inside of it I want to step back and I want to be able to understand it all right what's the history of this what's the Dynamics right what's the social settings right what are the implications of what I'm doing what's the long-term vision for every instance of how I react so once you do that you take that step back you can create a campaign right so this is moving like a military General right and that's how life is so I step back now create my campaign I don't go around my campaign I'm gonna treat people right I'm gonna treat people with respect right I'm an honor division I'm an honor to craft in the industry that I'm in and I'm gonna be a servant leader I'm gonna operate with empathy right all of this is part of your campaign that you play out in life right and so for me I think about that because stepping back and being the director of your life is being intentional about the outcome of your life versus being tactical on a daily basis reacting to things that happen right you're going to find yourself you know at your low level you're never going to get to that high level unless you can be a critical thinkers take a step back analyze have a strategy right and so when we think about war we always think of it in a negative way but war is finding a way to get a desired outcome especially when you're going against opposition right and there's so much opposition it can just be competition right or it can be self-doubt lack of fear procrastination right insecurities those are the self-wars that we go through on a daily basis or even believing that we deserve it right and so those are the things that from people that have made it from lower levels of where they were just thinking about something to the actualization of it they had to go through that battle and figure that out and were you able to reverse engineer then you can watch wrench and repeat and so you can now go to higher levels because what you said what was key you talked about stepping back at least three times and each time you stepping back you say okay I'm in the middle of this campaign was good for this now I got to step back and see the field again right and so every time you stepping back you're going to another high level right and so I think that that's a great introspection for people to think about their own life because I'm always figuring out yo how do I move the main character that is me how do I use 19 keys and what let me see if I can fix you because I don't like the way you talk to that person you know I'm saying you're probably not going to make them feel good you might have hit them with the cold shoulder and you might have just been in a bad mood but they don't go towards your campaign based on how you want to win this war of life because you have a lot of things that could be against you right and so I think that's a dope story because listening to you I was listening to you know your tedx talks and I did some brief brushing up on it and just your deep passion right for the psyche right and understanding why we do things right I believe that many people do things because they don't really have any self-mastery and they're constantly in a reactionary state right they live in this low frequency vibration most of their lives and they're not really in control of their own character right and the one tool that can get you in control of your character is something that you're passionate about which is mindfulness and meditation can we dig a little bit into your story of you know the traumas that you went through getting shot and how that allowed you to grow into the passion of understanding the Mind better I mean there's a few things the getting shot I was shot at my own New Year's party uh someone shot somebody on the Dance Floor the bullet went through two people and hit me right and when I think about that actually on a side bit is what entertainment has done to us how many movies have you seen where it's like a guy with a machine gun and like you take the body you shoot the guy through the machine and then he throws the body and he's safe and he shoots back you know what I'm saying or Nino Brown grabbing the little girl yeah let me tell you somebody if someone shoots the guy in front of you with a machine gun he shoots you yeah yeah I'm just a soft tissue going through yeah when you hide behind the couch yeah you know anything can see like we got bulletproof but but this gets into people's head because why else would this guy put this gun in this man's chest and pull the trigger not understanding how this all works right and it hit me in my back and just a little shift of my body a little standing a little this way or a little that way would have been in my spine right so when I did the Ted Talk I shaped it around this conversation I used so when when I'm coming from entertainment but I think coming from whatever it is you do right but I come from entertainment I understand story structure right I understand how to frame something so those of us that are in the entertainment space taking that knowledge of whether it's making a song or making some art or whatever it is you do and then now applying that to what we want to say to the community right so I took that that Ted Talk is is structured like a screenplay right so what what's the before we even get to the uh meditation and the mindfulness the screenplay so for somebody that wants to tell their story and they want to do it in that manner can you give me a breakdown of them steps yeah so there's a there's a book called save the cat right and um in that book you either read that book there's a beat sheet in it but they break down how the story structure goes so message to the man who shocked me the first thing every movie you think of at least you know say like uh Star Wars or something but every movie you have the introduction you want a big hard-hitting introduction right in Star Wars it's the little spaceship and then the Big Spaceship you go oh [ __ ] what's this yeah in in the Ted Talk I look directly at the camera and instead of doing the you know the Steve Jobs Ted Talk I look at the camera and say message to the man who shot me you remember the night you came to my New Year's party good like good lighting change um dramatic but you feel what I'm saying so you have your introduction and this applies to everything it's not this isn't just oh story structure this works for a sales pitch right you're you're making your sales deck yourself [Music] [Applause] to our people people right [Music] [Music] thank you bro ourselves we're going to the highest level make sure y'all come with us the history that we get to think about in relation and be a part of but this is me proven my thought leadership this is me implementing the ideas and reinvigorating the spirit that we're going to need to win the future right now so you have your introduction you want to hit them with something impactful okay after you do your introduction you need to State the theme of what it is yeah so at my introduction I tell the story or I got shot and I said I went to the hot I spent the rest of that night and uh in the emergency room getting the bullet cut out of my side thinking what would make someone do something like that the audience doesn't know it but I've just primed them for it the entire thing is going to be about you see what I'm saying right so that's the theme stated every movie they State the theme then a good movie so there's some [Laughter] then then you get into the setup okay so um I said what would make someone do something like that and then I began to set up basically who I am right I talk about uh I talk about how the city goes crazy but there's there's a setup stage you're setting up all in a movie you'd be setting up your characters right um for me I set up who I am right so I go oh uh you know I did some I did some reports I did some I did some articles and but then I went back to work I made some videos and I put up a video of I put up a clip of hotline bling made a movie Superfly made a TV show Mr tachyon right and that so two things I'm setting up so whatever's if in a movie you're setting up your characters right in this context I was setting up that I work with celebrities because I know in people's brains just the way we think in our world oh you work with a celebrity oh you're a celebrity makeup artist you're a celebrity chef you're a celebrity driver you must be really good because the famous people want to work with you I dropped the line about mystery tachyon because that's a science show so the setup happens and then you have a catalyst Obi-Wan Kenobi says to Luke come with me come with me on this journey right because we set it up Jedis and all that kind of stuff so you have your you have your Catalyst something happens that changes everything you can't go back the Catalyst of message to man who shot me is the city of Toronto goes crazy yeah that we're in Toronto's everyone remembers that year kids are getting shot on Young Street kids are getting shot on Queen just everywhere you turn gun violence okay so now from your catalyst is the debate you talk about it and you debate that thing so the key here in your debate section if for me I needed to address the doubts that I know people had about me so part of my setting up that I'm a director and I do all this stuff leads to the people I know they are thinking what the [ __ ] you know about the brain right right actually you hold on you said something cold I like that part when he was talking about well you studied it and you know you've studied the research papers that came out and then you hit them with that's the [ __ ] reason they published the papers in the first place which I thought was profound because when you really think about it people do that all the time right as if the only way to know something and to speak on something is for that to be your exact field of expertise right but studying is how we learn because even though scientists and actually you get a greater ability because they published it you don't have to do the work now you just get the expert information right so as long as I'm sourcing from the experts you can take this as expert knowledge exactly and then and then in the Ted Talk the audience laughs yeah so when they laugh that topples any doubt my I'm free to do it yeah you know what I'm saying so after after that debate section and again in every movie they debate whether or not they're going to go on the adventure right but for for what we're doing you need to decide what what debate do you need to to have right when I do a treatment my debate for me is actually just talking about the I'm going to do this with the cameras I'm gonna do this with the Wardrobe all right so all the variables because now we're about to get into what the the second act funny games all that stuff is a setup that actually now now we're in the spaceship now we're on the now we're out and on the road so there's two halves to the second act okay the first half you go up the hill so normally that's you know we're on the adventure everything's going great and then you hit the top and they call that the bad guys close in on in the TED Talk it's me talking about the studies so the the studies show so let's apply it to what it's really all about right people who are prone to violent and aggressive behavior the parts of their brain that are different than the average person the prefrontal cortex which is the part of the brain that uh is the decision-making part of the brain it's the part of the brain that tells you I'm alone in my bedroom I can do these things I'm in a restaurant I can't do those things I can do these things you know what I'm saying it's social interactions the rule percept the rules your understanding of the rules um uh what do they call it impulse control that's the prefrontal cortex for people that are prone to violence and aggression they're prefrontal cortex is smaller than the average person it's too small then the amygdala the amygdala is uh emotions right and their emotions are too big okay um I like to you know like your gut big gut your muscles too small okay so for the again like I said the average the average person that's the first size but that violent aggressive brain their emotions are too big their decision making is too small okay so I go through all those studies and I talk about those studies well how do you get to that place well children that are abused and neglected and these are all separate studies that are all floating around what I did was bring them together for this conversation so there's that study on violent and aggressive people okay then there's another study over here that doesn't mention that at all they just say children that are abused and neglected so hitting your kid and ignoring your kid are the same thing children that are abused and neglected their prefrontal cortex is smaller than the average person their amygdala is larger than the average person this is a clear line to how you get there in recent years I've found there's another set of studies that say stress changes your brain stress shrinks your prefrontal cortex and enlarges your amygdala right and when when that is going on for too long it hardwires in your fight or flight response you're just in it you just how many people do you know growing up right that immediately it's on well that's that's also growing up in the hood and listening to certain music when we listen to certain frequencies we're in a low vibrational state so that state is not that state where we have more control over self right so if we listening to like binary beats of like 40 Hertz that's going to put us in a state where we're less reactive right so somebody step on your shoes like okay school right versus when you listening to music and it's like man I'll knock these [ __ ] down and I kill them right you in that state like bro what's happening so you automatically triggered and you're tripping and so you provoke and go straight to violence rather than rational thinking so you're not getting any filter in your responses right and so that's why it's dangerous like people don't really think about you know their information diets and and the environmental diets that they're supposed to take right to have the ability to decompress it's like we know that if we angry you know that's not the best time to go walk into a room full of people because you're short-tempered right so what you're talking about if you're looking in the brain you're not going to have that much control over yourself right yeah so like you're not going to be able to regulate Focus to their prefrontal cortex right where that third eye is and be able to say you know what I'm thinking higher right now I have higher reasoning and skills at this moment right it I know like therefore you can take that information and it will process I know they didn't mean it like that right I know this is not a problem it's cool I ain't even tripping right it takes you you you you almost jumped out that state but you come right back down to your base level you can see where it is you can you can do the steps if I start this here that leads to this and you know I mean you're in Canada it wouldn't be the smartest place to go get into a fight right you may never be able to come back to Canada yeah you know what I'm saying a lot of people couldn't make it out here exactly I mean yeah all the all these things mean something okay so there's another set of studies now that talks about meditation and what meditation does to the brain meditation gives volume to your prefrontal cortex in shrinks your amygdala the exact opposite of stress which or it's trauma whatever you want to call it the exact opposite of childhood abuse and neglect right the exact opposite of the violent and aggressive brain so that's my fir that's going up the hill in the second act now I reached that midpoint at my midpoint I need to switch it up a bit it needs to be related to what I went up for right but it needs to be a different flavor so I hit the midpoint and now it's time to tell you stories where meditation actually was effective so the one of the most violent prisons in Mexico okay they had a prison riot and in that one Riot they killed 44 people that's a high murder rate if Toronto 44 people died in Toronto over the course of the year that would be a bad year yeah yeah you know what I'm saying they did that in one riot okay so they started meditating all the prisoners and all the guards and after that they did not have any more extreme violence right not a bad one um there is a school in San Francisco Middle School again one of the most violent neighborhoods in the city uh one time the kids came to school and they're I think three dead bodies on the playground okay so of course that energy gets into the school the kids are always fighting it's just chaos in the school at all times there's a just the grades are bad the violence is bad the attendance is bad they start a meditation program grades go up attendance goes up happiness goes up some of the worst performing students become their best performing students the whole school environment changes yeah yeah so that gets you to that your your final bit right in a in a movie what would normally happen is you go up right funny games then the bad guys close in this would be the part where the big giant guy comes out the shadows and chases you around you hit a low Mark which is that you know someone normally dies okay uh for us in the Ted Talk it becomes well what are we going to do with this information right and then you your finale and then the finale was bringing meditation to what the mission is of operation prefrontal cortex bringing meditation into our schools into the community into the correctional system um and to the police to the Our First Responders our police and all them that deal in this high high stress jobs and let that react um the Ted Talk was really well achieved when we put on Instagram for about a good month every time I left the house someone will come up to me and say oh I saw the tattoo did any of you all in here see that TED Talk yeah um and then we started getting real like unrelated uh School in Moulton which is a kind of a city is malt in a city or is it like a town is it a town like it has a sign that says welcome to Malton but you know but it's Moulton's you never meet anyone from Malton outside of Malton have you ever been somewhere like someone said I'm from Alton like it just doesn't happen you know it's a weird town but anyways we love molten um but it's a rough it's a rough town and um they have really bad violence and one of our largest shootings 144 rounds in one shooting happened out there and uh a young young kid Jonathan Davies got killed he was just waiting to get picked up by Family unrelated to anything that was going on and it really hit that Community hard and one of the teachers she has a program called GLE right a leadership program and she's one she wanted to introduce meditation to the kids and of course a bunch of black kids in the hood like please meditate what are you talking about so she used that TED Talk to get them open to the idea and seeing someone that looks like them again what entertainment coming from the entertainment side someone who works with people they look up to it opened the door and then when the science was presented they said all right we'll give it a shot and then they started reaching out to out to us like yo we're meditating it's different really I feel better I feel calm I don't get angry the way I used to like it really impacted their lives and we ended up making a documentary about them right so the full circle is we made a documentary called quiet Minds silent streets and uh um it funded by headspace we're winning a lot of Awards in different film festivals and now they are that piece of entertainment that I can use or we can use to show other kids and other people and have them say oh right some proof some studies I'll try that out that's that's interesting because you know you you cited a lot of Science and now I'm deep into science I love psychology I love the brain you understand me a lot of people everybody has a brain but everybody don't know how to use it right like we're not we're not giving brain manuals and be like yo this is how this section worked this is how this section work you know like as you grow and as you age the brain is going to start to change neurogenesis white matter all of that these are not common terms that the average person knows or understands right we can talk about pop culture all day long and we're going to have so much of that information from external world but we don't have much of internal information from our internal world right so therefore people lack the ability to control themselves because they don't have a control manual you need those keys right and so most people don't know why they do things why am I always angry right so they don't know how to have that introspective you know observation to be like yo why am I feeling this way and another thing about like you know mental health is brain health but specifically like in correlation with your diet and how that changes the brain chemistry because we talk about mental health in our culture but I think it's because you know there's so many people that do talk about it but they may be connected to sponsors who may have products that contribute to bad mental health right so it's like let's just be honest like alcohol is not good for the brain right but we can't talk mental health and sell alcohol at the same time the reason you can't do that is because somebody who may follow you may have mental health issues right they may want to think positive but then they may drink liquor which is messing with their brain right and there are so many different things that we do even from the foods that we eat that cause inflammation in the brain right and that inflammation becomes another reason why people can't think the same right it's like anytime we have inflammation within our body that's our system attacking itself right and so this is what I find when I look at different people like you show me your diet right tell me your history like a doctor would you even know what's wrong with a person but the problem is most people have tactics they ain't got strategies right so a person feel like man I'm stressed I'm about to smoke right so they go smoke some weed that's a tactic it's not a strategy right because a strategy with taking a holistic approach towards the root of the issue taking a step back figuring out why I was caused not trying to figure out how to cover it up but to figure out how to cure it right so now you have a way of dealing with it anytime it starts to come right so like one thing that meditation helps us to do you know you close your eyes and it allows you to focus on the inner or the outer right so most people are going to say you know bring attention to your heart rate right so something called what's it called um introceptive I believe like some people have a natural interest set of awareness of their internal self right like so like one of the test was to say you know see if you can count your heart rate without touching it that's a representation that you are a person that has internal awareness a lot right so as you're talking to somebody you may be feeling your gut right you may be thinking about how you feel and it's going to be connected to social anxiety as well right you're talking to somebody and you can't stop thinking about how you look or something that's going on right versus you know somebody who more so has extra receptive awareness and they're thinking about things outside you know their skin right and so these two different process can determine the way you go about doing meditation right to balance it out if you're a person that's overthinking too much on the inside it can cause anxiety right overthinking you're constantly processing what's happening so you can't really be present and focused or if you're a person that ignores what's going on you kind of detach from it and your awareness is always outside of something that's going on so you're not really aware of your internal processes so if you're going to be doing meditation one of them could be I'm closing my eyes because I'm always thinking about my or you keep your eyes open and you're sort of meditating to try to focus and have more awareness outside yourself right versus somebody that close their eyes and now they're bringing their attention to their third eye right here that prefrontal cortex of that focus and like when you close your eye you can actually feel it right let's let you know you're doing it and so that's a way for a person to be able to balance their states right and I think one thing that we don't get to do a lot in society is customize specific ways that human beings can enhance themselves because all the time when somebody figures out a technique they tell you how they did it and you think it works for you as well but you may be different right and so you may be increasing your internal awareness which could also increase your anxiety so you have to know the tools and techniques that work for you in a customizable way because you could be increasing your mental health so they like oh mental issues so people be like yo I did everything you told me you know I'm saying and it's still not working so you got to adjust your strategy you got to take a step back well maybe I'm Different maybe that doesn't work for me right and I believe that this is a problem we have with Society period it's too generalized it's not customized enough like when you talk about trauma it's I've been through so many traumatic events and situations that it doesn't actually register and move me emotionally right because I've become emotionally detached to trauma that happens in my environment that's my response to it a person gets shot at and it's hard for me to be like it's because I'm used to it I grew up in Oakland and St Louis these are growing up these were two of the top murder capitals you understand me in the U.S so growing up there I've been shot at Point Blank Range people who've tried to kill me for no reason we didn't even know who they were they were just sliding by trying to get some Stripes right so I remember waking up in the night and my brother got shot right and so I've known before I was 20 probably like 20 30 40 people who died right and so the trauma response that we have we get so conditioned and used to a traumatic reality that you know we think it's normal right and it's the same thing people get used to anxiety because they've never truly been in a state of calm right so they don't know what real what being healthy even feels like they just have coping mechanisms and tactics that allow them to continue to go with whatever they default state is and so I think that that's a deep conversation because you know in the hoods of America we got and throughout the world right the same conditions that create one environment creates the other environment lack of proper nutrition right you know lack of a good fostering environment right like if you you have ideas and you have nobody to talk to right you deprived of naturally building out those interests and Curiosities that you have you you uh you you walked into an area there's a sociologist named Neil durkheim in the early 1800s he studied suicide and he found that people who felt that they could not see dreams coming true they could not see when they looked at their life they couldn't see it going anywhere that they wanted to be right the wife kids they just there's nothing there for them that's what drove people to want to hurt themselves or hurt other people and that's what we see going on I mean we see it all the time right when you really get into what these kids you know you're broke in the hood what do you see ahead of you right beyond your you got your hip-hop dream and maybe you're not even the rapper maybe it's your boy so then what is it you know I mean and that that anger it it can twist you and when you look on the other side right those that that right wing that angry right wing mad at the world you know imagine that in a trailer park in the middle of America what do you where do you see this all going the factory is closed maybe you're addicted to the oh and that that hopelessness leads to a want to hurt yourself or others but he found the places that had community places where the people could come together they could overcome that hopeless feeling they could they could they could go oh well that ain't happening but what are you doing what are you doing tonight let's go juice you know what I'm saying that that camaraderie that that Community is what got people through right the social cues and being around like that that's what happens you know like if you lose someone right you have to replace things with balance right because now your body is still craving that energy in that presence right so oftentimes if a person was to lose a loved one they go into depression right because they may roll over and that person out there and so now their body is is off tilt right so instead they have to figure out how do I do something that can make up for what I lost right so that's why a person can get rid of a habit and go into depression right it's not the fact that that habit you know was good for you it's the fact that you didn't replace it with something else to give your body balance right so pretty much man I stopped drinking and or I stopped smoking or I stop doing whatever and you didn't replace it with another regiment you go back to it because you feel like man I don't feel better right and so I think about that anytime I want to change a habit of myself I think what am I going to exchange this habit for though I can't just get rid of it right I have to put something else in that space right so I think about life as you know like the odd skill it has to be weighed this is a bad habit now let me praise it with a good habit so I can keep my balance in life otherwise it tips the scale I would have been better off maintaining that bad habit right and so that's another important thing for people to understand because it helps them understand why it's hard for them to change right these are these internal things that's going on with us and it's hard for people to take that step back sometime and be like yo what's the why right people can often understand what you understand me and then also when we talk to people yeah how you doing right we don't have real languages that allow people to have internal conversations and introspection if I was to meet you I'd be like hey what you feeling today right let's go change your response like what am I feeling so now it makes you have this internal perception of where your energy is where your emotions and then you like wait a minute why am I feeling like this right you become aware and in that awareness you can actually eliminate that emotion instead of reactively acting off of it so they talk about that Towing your stuff yo yo if you uh snub your uh toe in the morning then it reacts throughout the day but it doesn't have to if you stop right there and you process it like that happened now move forward if you don't that emotional state stays right and then it compounds every other time you don't process so now by the end of the day you angry for no reason right and so we take on too many emotions and we stack them right we take on so many issues and we stack them and then we got all this anxiety right for me I step out of the eye of the storm when there's too much going on I step away am I stepping away is the mindfulness like I must like I have a deep internal conversation always happening I'm always deeply aware of my internal processes too much sometime right but at the same time it's my gift because I can hear myself very very clear and this allows me to communicate because I'm practicing my thoughts before I speak right so therefore and then I have a deep internal Vision I can see what I say before I say it so it's like a subtitle screen that I get to read right and I've learned to hone in on these practices to make me better at being a human being this is how I direct myself through our life right and so a lot of us we accept our weaknesses right we accept that this is just my default when we know through neurogenesis and through you know training the mind and the Brain we can actually change our states of mind right we can go from beta or Delta towards low sleep state where it's just a state of suggestion to gamma to where we're super aware right and we actually do this throughout our days we have Cycles throughout the days where we're more aware at certain parts of the days and then that work feels like it's anxiety and that's when you take a rest so in the hoods of America you don't really get a rest you don't get a walk you don't get I get to go to the I get to take a vacation to Dubai for a second then I come back and deal with the hood politics no poverty is 24 7.00 [Music] that's what you operate that's when you pull things from the darkness without the power to change the world and you can bring welcome to Generations [Applause] that you got God the power against all eyes [Music] foreign [Music] you going to the highest level make sure y'all come with us the highest level tour is you know it's a it's among history that we get to think about in relation and be a part of but this is me proving my thought leadership this is me implementing the ideas and reinvigorating the spirit that we're going to need to win the future right now what you're saying about brain weight is actually interesting it's a good segue um The Meditation I do is called the Silva method um you familiar with it right so the silver method he came up with this Jose Silva came up with this in the 50s or the 60s he first called it silver mind control and um you know he changed the name because mind control had negative connotations after MK Ultra and that's another thing we're going to talk about no we can talk about that that's another you know what I'm saying but um another segue but so his whole thing was that the universe uh resonates in the alpha State and if you can bring your brain down through meditation into the alpha State and then you begin to visualize your goals that it's a bit of a cheat code it's like you're yeah that's it like you're dropping in you're dropping in through for the for the universe to manifest and that was the meditation that I started doing one to see you know a bit of a science experiment let's see if I can manifest what I want to manifest but in it I found a a meditation that is calming but still active it's not like yeah just clear your brain and you know listen to the No No it's it's it's it's something where you're you're doing something but it still takes you to that place and then when you get to that place you begin to visualize what you want to do with yourself and seeing yourself achieve it right and you know we can debate whether or not that interacts with the universe and makes it manifest or that just helps Focus what you want to do with yourself but I found it that's both yeah exactly I think so speaking of the CI right a CIA talked about patterning and patenting is a technique of emotional intellectual you know visualization right so the idea is that if you constantly focus and create a visualization of the exact reality that you want to live right you project a hologram right and because the universe is a hologram and thoughts have an energy signature you can project that hologram into the universe and create it right now they have a whole entire science paper on this right and it sounds as if a yogi would have wrote it right but it's interesting because when science you know science is a bit of a religion itself right but people don't look at it like this sign is Moore's set as a matter of fact in stone you're now got the Bible of results right when reality science is always changing because they told us that our brain couldn't change at first and then we find out that was crap completely right and what we really found out is that you have to stimulate the brain differently right so after the ages of like 25 your brain has to be stimulated from that hippocampus area that regulates mood memory and learning you have to do different things right so when you were younger you have great pattern recognition you can just learn learn then when you get older information ain't hitting like that right and so people feel like they start to get old when they have these neurodegenerative declines right because of the way we start to live we start to overtake chemicals things of that nature so that destroys our ability to have control over ourselves and our reality right so your ability to emit Consciousness in in holographic projections in the universe might not be working like that so I might be giving you the game but you know you got a lot of mercury in your system and you got a lot of chemicals in your system right and so therefore your powers ain't working right so my Powers be working I ain't gonna lie I clean it up you know another another thing I've someone sent me something not long ago yeah the same parts of your brain that respond to a physical attack which is again your prefrontal cortex and your amygdala are the same parts of your brain that react to new information so when you talk to someone you hit them with like oh that thing you think that thing you think ain't the thing that is and that that aggressive yeah defense of the thing they think it is that's actually the brain that's how the brain reacts to new information that's why I call it a true bomb man truth truth is an electrical energy it can change literally you can be presented with such a powerful truth that it changes the whole state of your brain matter it rearranges right your neurons this one is no longer you gotta oh snap I gotta disconnect this one put it over here that was wrong my bad like nowadays they talk about woke right and woke has been a hijacked term to mean whatever feeling the blank you wanted to for derogative terms so instead of saying the derogative term that they mean they say it's woke right but when the beginning of it came about it was about awareness right and being aware of reality and so there was all these documentaries came out or there was Master Teachers throughout time that will give us information that we shock our system like wait a minute that's happening right and some people can actually go crazy from this it can be too much right like if that's why it was the whole concept in The Matrix you can't unplug everybody you have to bring them to a certain level of awareness first right because when we unplug them it will shock them and the shocking truth can kill you right so it's like I was talking to her that I said Donald Trump was actually he made a lot of White Middle America whoa right and the reason I say that is because he started hitting people with terms like fake news so somebody who wholeheartedly accepted an idea who never really thought to ever question the media has now been hidden with this shell of truth right that some of these things are fake like and he started breaking down like no you know they work for this they not so he was there you know um they already they compared them to too many recent black people I can't compare them to no black people right now they told me they're gonna work well it was going wild so I'm not gonna give them that but he he was they woke messenger I would say that right he so this is why he has such a strong base because they now have a core memory and a connection right to their lord and savior that gave them this new hope you know the funny thing it was Hillary you first coined the term and then he took it from her I remember that clearly yeah yeah I know if you go in your brain you can't even remember Hillary's kind of yeah it's fake news and he just snatched the term he heard that he just took it from me he just took it from her and made it thank you uh he played her every so it was hilarious obviously that's powerful though like and this is why it makes it hard for people to accept truths right like you can present somebody with a truth and then there's a cognitive bias right because people are trying to protect who they are you you go your whole entire life building up who you are and you're trying to protect this because you believe this is all I have if I let this go I don't know if I'm still gonna love what I love I don't know if I still want to do what I do I don't want to know too much don't tell me because maybe I can't can't be with this person right I can't work this job maybe they went too hard on being right about this thing right if they ain't just it's going to this man we came out of covert people went real hard on their opinions yeah and then they they just you know they just don't have they just dip out the room when they're oh I was wrong right that's why you have to be in the state of Readiness to constantly accept new truths right you can have a rigid truth in your mind and that's completely fine but the real your religion should be truth right so you can't have and say oh I believe in this but I can't hear that just in case it destroys this truth a superior knowledge does not submit to inferior knowledge right so if it's Superior it can stand up to the test of time right I've done that throughout my whole life testing whether the knowledge that I was taught right from when I was young was indoctrination or it was real truth that most people are afraid to go on that Journey because they don't know who they will become afterwards the people people get real again we talk about the brain the brain likes things the way it is people come in trying to move the furniture around they're like yo right then that's where that that couch goes there right you know and we saw it and I really I really saw over the past few years just the politics the pandemic just a lot of things that they'll let the thing burn I don't know if you ever it was like a behavior when you're young you something was wrong and you left it wrong you know what I'm saying if it felt like addressing it would be a bigger thing right right you know I mean and as a child you're like okay I can get that but now I'm seeing like no this is adults right governments don't want to admit that they're wrong about something so they just published the papers and see who reads it just yeah I mean they'll just they'll just dropped a foul we didn't let nobody know but you know this is where we admitted if you want to read them 500 pages real quick yeah it's somewhere in the middle of page 250 but we ain't gonna tell you yeah let's stay away admitting the truth you know what I'm saying but I think it's very powerful conversation because in the you know hoods of the world and not even just the hoods you can be a corporate person and you could be telling yourself the reason that you're doing this thing is because you know it's who you are right and most people never know who they are they know what they do right but if I ask you who you are I get slow responses from everybody if I ask you what you do it's quick right because what you do is reactive it can be reactive to your circumstances in life I needed money right I can ask you why you with the person you with you may not be able to tell me right it could have just been reactive I was feeling lonely all right so most people don't have a philosophy of life I do this because it's connected to my purpose I love what I do and they can go deeper and draw more inferences and connections and they just light up like yo this is why I'm doing this I love this like it's crazy that's not the state that most people live in and especially in the hood we're in a constant frantic state of panic and low vibration bad food dehydration we're not eating right we're not drinking right right we're constantly over police there's Sirens there's issues there's news and so even when you hear then you got to make a living amongst people you got to make a living so you're in a constant state of survival so you don't get to get to that point of Maslow's hierarchy of needs where you get to actualization when you can think about if I just had all the money in the world what would I do then right what would I do that just gives me pure happiness most people never get to that place well I mean this is again this is what I could bring back the meditation an operation prefrontal cortex this really is the one thing that doesn't cost any money that we can do even in your whatever state you're in meditation and exercise are really the best way to look at it is exercising in the brain yeah at least you're exercising how often do you I mean uh meditate I do it I do it every morning um I used to you know unless I got something crazy I got to go do yeah you know I mean but uh at first when I was doing the silver method I was doing 15 minutes then a friend of mine sent me a Declassified CIA document oh boy you got some new techniques got some new techniques so I'm in it and you guys like oh one man can with mind can destroy an army like you know I've been the CIA the CIA really knows what's real yeah you went for a Jedi I'm a full job let's forget their political yeah [ __ ] that science wing of the CIA they are not trying to uphold anything they just want to know if it works right so they got everything they got everything right this thing talks about meditation if you meditate they got big you know I mean and in it they call it hemisink yeah the Monroe it's on YouTube yeah yeah I'm saying like off the tapes on YouTube I downloaded it so I've been doing that so now my meditation is about half an hour yeah and then I Journal after that right and um it's just again it's a great way to start your day just visualizing yourself reaching your goals you know going all the way into like yeah you know yeah really here's your goals and like double double it right it's it's a great space to exist in and then go in out in the day and like I said what it does for your brain right sinking those two hemispheres of your brain you know most of the time we either left or we right-brained right so most people don't have that full control of your brain being in this balanced state right and that's when you're one of the ones that's when you're walking around like you Obi-Wan Kenobi you understand me and you know I think most people can tell sometimes you you know just being in the state of flow most people can't get into a state of flow right that state of flow is when you feel good and you're doing good right you can challenge me to anything and that's when my my skills meets The Challenge right to where I can operate in a state of Mastery no matter what because my mind is in a constant state of flow right and I want to you know I teach people about God Consciousness right how to crystallize yourself into that higher Consciousness to where when you find yourself in that state of flow you can stay there because there's some times where you can have perfect recall there's sometimes where you just get Amazing Ideas right where you have that super intelligent agency that's happening in your mind but why can't you always operate at that the idea is that you can right but you don't practice the habits sometimes you just get lucky and you're there but you don't know how to reverse engineer to constantly bring it up so it's like the Masters the billionaires of the world they they focus on these things because if they know that if they can control themselves they can control the world right like you cannot bring out your grand ideas into this world without having control over yourself right because it's going to require process and stages of development right like even some ideas the person that come up with ideas not the same person that can bring it to life right along the Journey of that idea you have to become more in order to finish that idea into reality right so you may have come up with a movie idea and this movie idea was nice but are you the person that can go Network right and go talk to the people you need to talk to because you may not have social skills so you may have been introverted oh I got this great idea and they like well can you go pitch it and you're like damn I gotta learn a whole new skill to get to my next stage now you didn't got to the pitch but now can you be organized can you actually be a project manager do you think that all the people you need are around you if you you're that kid you have you have your idea do you think the universe is actually placed around you because for me it has placed the people around me that I need I I've not I've I've the the people that are truly outside of my circle someone in my circle brought them you know what I'm saying and I wonder if that I look at Drake because people were around him his his things really started rolling when he just said you know what let me bring my people in you know what I mean um and I wonder how what do you think do you think do you think for that kid who doesn't have the social skills amongst not all their friends but I'm amongst their friends is the one they need that has the social skills but has the sense you know what I mean I think so I definitely think so like I look at my own team and they can do things that I can't do right sometimes you don't develop the vision to be able to use each other right so y'all may be friends because y'all go to the club or go to the party and not realize that each one of you all have a skill that can help each other in the area that you weak in and so that becomes the yin yang relationship which is often why we connect with people in our lives in the first place right people talk about people completing them right and it's not that they complete you like you're not enough is that they add on to what you don't have we become extensions of the people around us I wonder is it raw raw raw buzzing at a frequency right and there's a Harmony when you when the frequencies are right I wonder if you've got a group of friends each one's a different key you know what I'm saying literally a different key absolutely into the thing and if that Harmony is right then that's there's a reason you know what I'm saying we see that in Dynamic Duos all the time right when when one person's like you know you may it's like the good cop bad cop scenario right you're more aggressive they're more relaxed but that's what makes the balance in the situation right because when when this person is going above and super aggressive this person's more relaxed in this situation and not be too crazy right and I think that that's why like I said that's that's the completion of the frequencies that compute each other it was Dr Wesley talked about the black guy protocol and his idea was the fact that we are all frequencies right in the universe there's just spectrums of frequency and each frequency is different right but you have a frequency of something in you that I can't do so that forces me to bow down to the Mastery of self that you complete right but together when you add those frequencies that's the universe right and so we're not we was never all supposed to be the same otherwise it wouldn't bring any unique point of value right if everybody's just like me there's no need for me right but since people are different everybody can communicate everybody can't think right so therefore my skill sets benefit other people right and then they have skill sets that benefit me and I think what we lack sometimes is the ability to appreciate the value that each one of us have right and so oftentimes we start looking at the skill sets that somebody else has we start looking at the way that they wear their strengths and we want those results right but that's not our strengths right so I I always talk about the fact that people sometimes have dreams that's connected to their weaknesses because you watch somebody else build out a dream on their strips and you want those same results but it's about the middle it's not about the end the middle is who that person is the end is the results of being that person right and so we watch the end right he got the movie he did the thing with Drake he did the thing with the big pimp and I want that too you watching the end you know the middle was who he was that produced that reality right so you know you you can't even appreciate the end of the movie until you know what happened in the middle you know what I'm saying and so most people don't know nothing about the process in the middle yet they want the ending and it's like you don't even desert it right and so I try to get people to think about that customization for that purpose and the power of mental visualization of sitting down thinking about what you want to customize your life as it's a very powerful tool when you're talking about Transcendental Meditation because for me I'm gonna either meditate to clear my mind or I'm a meditate to think about something right I'll meditate to bring complete focus in an area so that I can be in a state of flow when I go do things right oftentimes like before speech I'll be getting ready and I'll study all these things that allow me to create these connections right identify my central thing right identify the analogies and the stories that I want to tell because as you're speaking you're building up an idea right and someone else's head so you're transferring a vision right so I have a vision of a red dot in my head so now everybody else that just thought about it they got a red dot in their head right so this red dot is expanding right now there it is a a black dot in the middle of this red dot that's what talking is right we're communicating ideas that people can build up so now it's not in my head is in your head it's yours now so now at the end of this Ted Talk of life you can walk away right with what I had in my head I just passed it along right and so that's my daily on how you inspire I can walk a certain way by visualizing me we have mirror neurons we mirror what we see right human beings love to follow the crowd because we feel more protected in a swath of numbers and we often sacrifice our genius just to be a part of something so assimilation destroys individual uniqueness but individual uniqueness and overthinking about your individual thought process can take away your ability to add to the collective because you want everything to revolve around you versus what can I add you understand me and instead people try to compete oh he do to direct I bet I could do directing too like no you could have found a job on set to help right and so we watched people that are successful and trying to figure out how we can compete with them instead of collaborate right and now we can be complementary right instead of competitive and that's a better nature of human beings because that's when we build Great Pyramids right that's when we build great systems or when my streams are complementary to yours and then we can start advancing societies and Nations right and so unfortunately when we leave circumstances that we came from right like the hoods we don't get to go back and complement that environment to become better and pass on the skill sets and the strengths to say I want to add to this to grow it right and I understand because once you escape something you don't want to go back right it's like why would I go back to the scene of the crime this is where my trauma started right I've done the test the the adverse childhood experience test and I rank very high because I've had almost every average childhood experience you could think of but I've learned the quality of self-forgiveness right gratitude and Grace right I practiced going back in my childhood at points in time like you said a child at that time they couldn't understand that experience it happened to them they didn't create the reality but as an adult you get to go back understand it and rewrite the emotion attached to it so now you get the practice Detachment so now you're not constantly refilling that feeling every time somebody brings it up right if a person says you know my ex all of a sudden people are triggered right because they never processed that right but if you processed it that don't mean nothing to you there's nothing speaking of I got a segue how did you get the X Director X I mean it starts well you sound like a doctor today right um back in the the early 90s mid 90s hip-hop was a very different scene you know even even if you're a gangster rapper or a you know rapping for the girls yeah everyone had their black conscious song yeah and then there's groups the whole thing was being black and conscious so x-clan uh Public Enemy yeah Paris this is this is a big part of the thing so that's when everyone's about Malcolm X and you know what I'm saying um so being uh the light-skinned [ __ ] that I was I was a black [ __ ] in the room constantly [Laughter] look at that yeah I'll be right on the outside yeah exactly it's always always the lightest guys like we're gonna kill these crackers yeah yeah so um of course they started calling me Little X okay right um so that was it I liked it it's a little extra you took on Malcolm little and Malcolm I brought them all together but interestingly I remember I like the X name it just sounded it was cool right I wanted the X name and I remember walking to school thinking about like an ex name and then I went to a black youth conference and they're like you're a little ex like they said it to me yeah you know what I'm saying uh and then I just withdraw it on when I would draw start writing Little X like I'd draw a character and put a shirt it was you know as an artist um well I used to draw a lot more to say that um and then when I started directing well actually I was doing poetry I did spoken word okay use Little X yeah then then I started directing used Little X and then when I hit my 30s being little X didn't feel quite like um [Music] you know what I'm saying and uh so then it became Director X and it has the yeah has the right power to it yeah you know what I'm saying how strong yeah exactly yeah sounds like the guy that gives you your mission in the movie yeah Director X yeah yummy sound like a Marvel character exactly yeah you know what I'm saying I like that so speaking of movies right Superfly I remember my father was telling me about when Superfly came out the original one right in the 70s and how it changed the game right because it exported right um a certain type of you know um pimp ology and at the same time black exploitation and political Consciousness around the world right but it also made a certain type of black man more popular right the flamboyant pimp right and so watching the new film was an interesting new take on you know this new era of where we at right because that was a different type of masculinity right coming from the 60s it was very militant structuralized right and then going into the 70s you started to see a change in style fashion right social interactions the way we treated each other and then that movie was shown to the culture and it sort of changed the the the not change but it influenced right you know the way black men dressed the way that they talked right and then made them want to be pimps as well right so in doing Superfly did you take in any of that account as far as like the cultural history that's connected to it yeah I looked at the original movie and I wanted to hit because to me the mission was remaking Superfly right so I I thought of it like Hood Shakespeare yeah right so if you're doing Romeo and Juliet it's got to be two people from different sides of town two sides that don't get along um uh curse on both your houses when someone gets you know and then the tragic ending so I took the key element to Superfly which to me one one was the hair the friend like all those elements so if you watch the original Superfly to mine I brought back all the original characters all their story arcs are essentially the same even when I changed some things like in the original Superfly he gets attacked by two junkies and that's what makes them say I want to get out the game yeah if and he wanted a million dollars now if you're in the streets and you're gonna leave the game a million dollars ain't enough but if you're talking about making that kind of score you're not interacting with junkies anymore so we said oh okay well it was he he left the it was people in the game that made him want to leave so that's why we made it rival drug dealers right I didn't want to make something I didn't want to make a movie that the hood would watch me like you know what yeah we gotta turn this [ __ ] up we you know what I mean so there's a this ain't doing good enough yeah come on man you remember when the wire came out yeah yeah we were like you know what we got it that's the interesting point because most of the movies are made so aspirational that you want to be the characters in the movie yeah you don't really get the lessons that the character got from the movie no they just see the they just see the point I mean there's some there's something in we are animals right and there is a part of you that wants to exact revenge and you know what I'm saying you have these and you you can turn that up with a movie you know you know how this goes so I just didn't want to make you know I got a organization trying to stop gun violence I didn't want to make a movie that where kids would watch and say that looks like my neighborhood that looks like my life I this is giving me ideas right right it was it's John Wick for black folks yes it's why can't we have an action movie unrelated to the real world man you know what I've I've always thought about starting one like that some ideas but you know because I always thought about the fact that I get tired of watching movies about my reality right it's like I don't need to watch the movie I can walk outside like I'm tired of seeing that because it's like a reinforcing social conditioning that this is your reality exactly instead I want to see some sci-fi I want to see some Thrillers right I want to see things completely different than what I experienced because that Taps into the imagination right that's that's the fantasy industry as my brother red pill calls it right you can really promote change through movies and as you talked about you know there's techniques that can evoke you know to make this character more aspirational and traits of this character right like a Superfly he was a small dude right considered to be masculine right but it was also the type of masculine that wasn't hyper masculine but if you tried them you feel me he can whoop because he had hands then he had the multiple women so he was the alpha male the one that everybody wants to be right so in the original Superfly when you see the pimp with the ladies that's what I want to be so that character of the pimp was sold as the new masculinity to the world and I think people don't understand and this is what I kind of want to get at it's like the Consciousness that you have to filter the movies when you watch them right like my parents always gave us that third eye of you know this is like you can watch what you want but like this is how you think about it so that you're not internally being influenced right subconsciously because you don't realize it and most people watch movies for entertainment which is the greatest state of suggestion right uh a movie has a central theme and an idea that it wants to convey right and so you may not realize it but it's conveying an idea and communicating to you about time you leave you leave with that idea right and that now becomes a part of you right and that can now showcasing some of your social behaviors the way you dress the way you move you want to be that character because you just watched this person for two hours straight right and watching things for that long like we don't watch nobody for that long right we now have it this is why influences work so well because when you watch a person over and over and over right it becomes connected to your own self-identity because there's an image of them in you right like this is who you see so it's very you have to be very careful of what you watch so like what are I mean it's two directions I can go you know I'm saying I was gonna ask you like you know what movie you want me to star in but I think you know I could go somewhere different right you just let you think this is art a suggestion um how how do movies work sometime like or what movie have you seen where you can see a blank and like storyline that's suggesting something right like how does that go about if you want this character to be like the main one that's cared about even if he's not the main character so it's like let's say uh Black Panther right everybody like Michael B Jordan character more than Chad Boswick because the anti-hero is more relatable they're more complex I was talking to Joey Badass about this right you know we have a lot of anti-heroes in a culture right because we do a lot of crime dramas and things of that nature so how does that go what's the psychology what's the what's the secrets of the trade I mean that book I mentioned earlier save the cat literally mentions that that's what that's about in Superfly when that girl gets shot and he slides over and gives her money it makes it oh he's a good guy yeah that's his save the cat moment you know I mean you have to you have to give the character you want to have some empathy for the one you want the people to root for yeah you got to give them something give them something that they do that makes the audience right that's a good guy yeah I like that one um I mean then there's just the thing about playing the villain is just they just get to really release right because the whole point of the good guy is what we've been talking about right control right they have control of themselves and the situation and they take control control very much is and you know sometimes control isn't the most fun right the bad guy the whole point is they have no control right right and they get they get to do so even in the performance they get to give the bigger performance and do the Wilder thing and you know it's just a it's a different kind of role to eat up you remember like die hard yeah that villain was great there's a great to be a truly great movie you need a great villain that's a fact right you know I think fails at making good villains DC they never give their villains any character it's no complexity they just show up to get killed you know marvel you relate to the character right because this character has a beginning a tragedy right to where you can feel sorry for them so you started to because usually with villains is is the empathy is employed through tragedy right like oh this is how they became and where they are it's not really their fault right and they get to let out all of the innate dark human desires right and human nature relates to that like oh if I wasn't in control of myself I'd probably be like that too well the the villains the villains of Marvel all have a point to a point you're like maybe they're right right Thanos was you know we're using up all the resources maybe we should just get rid of half the people right you know uh Michael B Jordan's killmonger was why are we we have all this technology why are we playing nice with these [ __ ] was a hero right so but that's what I'm saying they represent they represent a part of ourselves where you know there's a part of your brain that says you should hurt that person that's the solution in this scenario is hurting you and you feel it someone's talking bad about you or someone's just getting in your way or you know someone's just been mean to you and they're not even thinking about you anymore there's a part of you that wants to to do what they did to you to return that feeling right but in reality hurting that person now you start a chain of events and the smarter play is to go live life better right it will be better for you in the long run and that's what these movies are supposed to be doing I tell kids when I speak to different uh film groups that a movie has to do two things you're either talking about the world and how to move through the world or or that's it you're either talking about the world or how you move through the world those two things and if you're not making a statement about those two things then you're wasting time which is why the Fast and Furious movies are a great time but they're not saying anything they're not saying truly anything about you know family family but even that they're just saying those words right you don't come out of those movies truly touched right it moved and really see that okay I see what you're trying to say about the world where Star Wars the reason why Star Wars has meant so much to so many people that talk of the force that there's this there's this Force there's this thing around us and if you know how it's moving things around all the time and if you get in tune with it then you can move things too and then you can just talk to someone and they'll just follow a command and you can just move things without touching it and it's this analogy for what we all know we have that feeling that that's how the world works the Matrix right that's why people you know these are not just movies they're essentially novels to themselves there's you can't really move through the modern world and not even if you've never watched Star Wars in The Matrix you have some kind of idea of how that works you know what I mean these are like essential books that you you need to read and that's truly what storytelling is supposed to do right and of course people do spectacle and you find I find that with the DC movies too they're just kind of hey people are crunching and they're flying and there's a bad guy and he looks evil and he watches just to watch it because it's what you gonna get yeah and it's over but it doesn't stay with you but that's the that is what storytelling is always been meant to do down from the fairy tales Hansel and Gretel a little you know uh Little Red Riding Hood these are all these little morals they're trying to get into you a way of the way the world works right stay away from strangers don't take things that you know I mean these things keep coming up these are are supposed to be lessons and if that's not if that's not there if you don't have something you need to say about the world then again you're not saying nothing what's your favorite movie my favorite movie hmm I mean the kid of me I remember the Terminator 2 blew my mind away Empire Strikes Back blew my mind away the older the older me loves me Godfather too or watching one and two as one whole yeah one whole thing uh recently everything everywhere all at once yes good movie right good movie you know what I'm saying I mean that's masterful on all the levels yeah masterful storytelling saying talking about family trauma history and then on top of that it's a kung fu movie I talked about that it's like one of the first movies it's it's starring Asian characters but it's not an Asian film right it's like those characters could have been replaced with black or white or anybody else and I think that's what made it a really good film because it was about the thing you understand me rather than the people and it's like you see the the show um the last man who fell to earth right that movie had no context to their race it was just a good show about you know science right and this Anunnaki alien and it was great and it was refreshing to see something that wasn't always planned on this low level self-awareness of Consciousness what what we have not done we all grew up especially again I'm born in 75. you got it was white people that TV was a bunch of white people and one black friend right and that's what it was yeah if if that right sometimes the black friend wasn't there yeah right I said I do remember uh Ghostbusters one of the Ghostbusters movies came out and they had the cover of some magazine in 7-Eleven and it was a fold out right so on the main cover it was the three White characters and then when you folded it out I guess it was on the fold out yeah the one the one black the one the black they literally folded him of it but um but that was what it was so it's just white people doing making their movies about the character and at no point did they make it about being white right none of that [ __ ] was part it was just the characters existing and we all had to watch it and put ourselves we all saw ourselves in Star Wars right we all saw ourselves in the Terminator we so you know what I'm saying we just had that was the choice you know white white folks a bit of a blank slate just put yourself on it and the whole world went with it because it wasn't about a thing and we often make our movies about the struggle about the and there's there's a barrier to entry then then we're literally saying this is for us right and one of my favorite things that I've ever done is a movie I did you know pure Moss pure Moss the clothing line oh yeah I thought you tell my one of my products I said yeah now listen a little housekeeping we have sports Moss Sports Moss is what I've been using to get big now I know some of y'all been seeing me and y'all been asking me if I'm gonna play the next Black Adam right y'all want to know if I'm going to get into wrestling or into boxing or I'm gonna start bodybuilding and all those things now the answer is no right I'm developing these broad shoulders and arms and legs because I can't right I wanted to develop myself into the greater version but I couldn't do it without the sports Moss two of these a day and it increases the distance phosphate which help deliver that oxygen to my blood while I'm working out right and then it helps decrease recovery time so in this it says we got the Elderberry in there we got the vitamin D the CMOS the zinc and the cordyceps now that conversation how you tapped in this is the Super Saiyan you understand me peel right here yeah then we got the vitamin c moss we have uh smart Moss so each one does something different y'all know we don't be getting enough Sun so you got to get that vitamin D in you anyway to regulate them hormones you got to get that vitamin let me see because we all nationally produce ascorbic acid so you've got to get it through food or some sort of supplementation in order for you to be balanced you got to get that green tea extract in there help build up that immune system now we got shrooms but not the shrooms that give you the Psychedelic experience right but it is the struggles that help you increase your psychic abilities meaning your mind meaning your brain right as we age and we develop we get old decrepit can't remember things start to lose things so we gotta tap there especially in a word that's constantly making us mentally exhausted then of course we got the gold now y'all already know the gold man a goal to have us tapped into our electrical wiring systems to your brain synapses is firing just like you as a baby you're constantly developing regrow and re-flowing right so if you want to tap into those Energy Systems of mineralizations that I use to tap into my body rather than being infused with the chemicalizations to where you no longer God body y'all come tap into the Goldwater pills man Piermont pure monster clothing line I did I did a you know a fashion film for him and we decided instead of just you know models walking around in clothes we decided to make it them short and it's based on Kirby's life it's called seven mothers yeah and uh he said to me the thing that ignited the thing was that I want to make something that's about black people I think black people just living life is the Revolutionary statement right it was he said to me just being a family not the struggle and the thing and all this kind of stuff so we started talking and building and then we came to the fact that his mother had died when he was very young and he was raised by seven women mothers friends aunts you know Grandma all these seven women raised him and I wanted to tell the story or what I wanted to say about the world and the way the world is is that the spirit lives beyond the body okay so this this film is about him being raised by these seven women but also how his mother now speaks to him and one of the aunts says your mother your we come to the church to Worship in the holy spirit because the holy spirit is a living thing without a living body your mother's Spirit your spirit is tied to your flesh your mother has no more ties so she'll speak to you in dreams and coincidences you can hear her if you listen and that is what that film is about and where that goes and you know It's Not Unusual to show that movie and people start crying I've shown any meetings people leave the room to go cry and then what will happen every now and then is I'll show it to somebody and they'll just be very quiet and say my mother died when I was young right and so the film started becoming I saw and I knew when I made it because I've been touched by a spirit after death that it would use the film to speak to other people you know what I mean whose Spirit was a friend of mine you know a friend of mine when I was in my 20s and it is a it's always been a story I've wanted to tell and that and it comes up often and works but that film was one of my favorite pieces in the way connected and like you're saying when people watch it of any race what they see is themselves and they say to themselves if my friends if my friend died I'm there for the kid right I'm in they they they they everyone knows that feeling that I was I'm I'm there you know what I mean and um yeah even I have a show coming out uh probably this summer we we remade Robin Hood okay it's a modern day Robin Hood it's already finished it's finished we finished the episodes we got like a couple effects shots to finish up but I think it's done um and it's Robin with a Y it's a black girl okay yeah right uh they live in the projects at the corner of Sherwood and Forest got it sure you all know Robin for you all that I understand because Robin Hood lived in Sherwood Forest oh anyways let's see we'll put up some b-rolls but that was the thing with the old Robin Hood but we modernized it but we got a bunch of black kids all the all the characters are played by black folks right um but at no point in this thing do we say that's why black people need to you know just don't we made the point with the cast right I don't even need now to hit you with another you know what I'm saying because you know look we all we all also have to be a little realistic if you want that broader audience it's a mix of folks and they and as I feel like it's humanizing black people to not be subjected to our worst experiences as our identity yeah right and so that's what we export around the world you see a black person you connect our worst experiences that's who they are and that's not who we are right and we don't have enough hero Tales right like we start at slavery so much we don't really think about what was happening before right we existed millions of years we've been here since the beginning right I want to see stories of Hannibal Barker I want to see a young black man conquer the Roman Empire writing elephants that will do well for my self-image right when I was young I seen Superman soaring through the skies but he don't look like me and is cool to fantasize about the powers but what you realize is that they don't have to ever say Superman is white but the way he makes decisions is white so you know ain't bro that can fly ain't working no job they definitely ain't gonna try to disguise behind glasses you can at least get some shades so you know by the culture of Superman he not black right but somehow he used the sun to get power right but it's that's it is what it is it's like so I want I always think about the films that I want to see and eventually I want to get into creating documentaries and then films right and that's why I love doing high level conversations and we decided to take the approach of like think about creating a production rather than creating a podcast so we say let's go and make a show right and so this show has elements and Central themes and b-roll and we play around with the sound effects and things of that nature and it it makes it uh an experience that you compete with the time that people will usually use to watch entertainment right now you're watching edutainment right so people sit there and watch two three hours of it and it proves that people are interested in more things right and so I think by the end of the year we could probably get to you know uh 100 million views right if we do things the right way right and the media is such a powerful form because it inspires and it creates holographic images in the mind that can get crystallized and then inform reality right and so individuals such as yourself and actors and producers you know you all have a great ability right to shape narrative and Consciousness right I do it with education right informing people to think for themselves which makes them take different routes in their decision making which changes the life and the narrative that they live right but in film you get to take these ideas these emotions and you get to present it to people and say here it is and so for you know our people creating films that's not about our struggles reminds us or or takes us out from constantly attaching to those struggles right like hey you're a black man you go through issues there's race problems there's poverty like people don't like you like damn remind me again you know but the reality of it is is not that's not really the reality all the time right it's a very small aspect of reality because even racism you can experience racism by watching it not about going through it right and so that's what the experience is so if I'm watching racism on the film I'm experiencing that so you're inducing trauma that never would have happened but now I see a mirror image of myself going through something and it's creating PTSD right or triggering that PTSD state that we live in so films about you know the nanny and Maroons in Jamaica right I want to see how she conquered the army of one right like most people don't even know who she is I want to see the stories of Marcus Garvey and him you know going and getting the ideas about creating the Black Star Line ship and getting certificates like these change the way people think about themselves I think woman King was a great film especially cinematically that showed black women in the light that we've never seen them in a way that it captured the essence right in the beauty of it and had us thinking about what was going on in Africa even though that's still connected to right enslavement so it's like we can create a cinematically beautiful film like that but have something that draws into a higher conclusion of thought right something that makes us believe that yo we're moving forward like oh yo ma'am that's how we did it like if you go build you know everybody want to take credit for building the pyramids but and be honest the people who build it they painted themselves on the wall right so imagine leaving a picture of yourself and people still say that ain't you so if we just use the depiction and representation that they left behind that's respecting them and how they saw themselves regardless of how you try to colorize it let's just make a movie in their image right so there's no debate I've been to Egypt and I've seen it on the walls I've seen the systems with the the braids right there wasn't no appropriation back then I know who that was right I've seen The Yoga practices right it was fly so we have to not only do that now end on this point representation is often you know pivoted for a small group of people right they control who gets represented but I have the idea about ethnicity right like we're both black men there's plenty of black people in Canada to America to Africa but we have different ethnic backgrounds and what they do is they say we want representation but they only include a certain ethnic background each time right so you're not going to see a black Muslim conscious man right on the film anywhere right we have Malcolm X and Spike Lee got in trouble for it right and so it's like you can't talk representation unless it's equal they taught representation where they want to hand pick who's represented in the culture right and so therefore we don't never get to see ourselves even though that's a black man he don't have my culture he doesn't make decisions like I would make and so they're still embedding themselves right in our representation and so that's a dangerous thing so we that's why I want to get into creating myself so that I can create myself it's important man look the the reality is um part of what doesn't come up a lot when it comes to the black man black woman Gap professional Gap is some white man is going to hire he has to hire someone of color does he want sexy swaggy you walking around the office um this is his little power play this is where he gets to flirt and be the most you know what I'm saying right he's the guy up in here right he brings you oh it's over okay but if you can hire a black woman not have to worry about in fact he gets to flirt with her too um be clear I mean none of us have to use our imagination that much to understand that's what the [ __ ] has happened right you know what I'm saying so that applies to decisions of things that are going to get made this keeps on going and going and going so there is a realm of film there are types of films the films you're talking about we got to do that ourselves well I'm glad you said [Applause] so listen I do want to before we wrap it up I do want to leave you in a meditation oh let's get it done everybody here everyone down to do a little meditation yes sir been talking about it all right this episode is brought to you by Goldwater all right so get yourself in a comfortable position comfortable position all right close your eyes take a deep breath in through your nose and exhale through your mouth now as you breathe in exhale I want you to visualize and repeat the number three three times three three now as you continue to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth I want you to think about the top of your head where bone meets skin think about and feel the flow of blood and tell the top of your head to relax think about your forehead your eyebrows and eyes breathe into that section of yourself and as you exhale tell it all to relax think about your nose cheek mouth chin as you breathe in breathe into that part of yourself and as you exhale tell it all to relax think about about the back of your head your neck throat breathe into that part of your body and as you exhale tell it all to relax think about your chest shoulders arms elbows forearms and hands breathe into that part of your body and as you exhale tell it all to relax think about your abdomen and groin breathe into that part of your body and as you exhale through your mouth tell it all to relax think about your legs the muscles the calves the feet all the way down to the tips of your toes breathe into that part of your body thin through your nose and as you exhale through your mouth tell it all to relax now breathe in to your entire body and as you exhale through your mouth tell it all to relax as you breathe in I want you to visualize the number two three times as you exhale two two two here I want you to visualize a place in nature a place in nature you have been to using all your senses see this place in nature sight hearing touch see it feel it because in all your senses take a moment to be and interact in this place in nature now as you breathe in and as you exhale visualize the number one three times one one now in a deeper healthier State of Mind I'm going to count from nine to zero as I count and visualize the numbers and count along yourself visualize and count along with me As you move into a deeper healthier State of Mind in through the nose out through the mouth and nine eight seven six five four three two one zero looking at the zero see the inside of the zero open up a porthole walk through it on the other side of this porthole in this deeper healthier State of Mind you see yourself watch yourself achieving a goal you have watch yourself using all your senses where are you who are you with what are you doing as you achieve this life goal of yours take a moment to watch yourself achieve your life goal [Music] now step inside of yourself and through your own eyes see yourself achieving your life goal [Music] now as you achieve this life goal from the area of your heart project great gratitude love and expectancy [Music] I'm going to count from zero to nine as I count visualize and count the numbers with me and when I make a sound with my hand open your eyes feeling refreshed and awake zero one two three feel yourself moving higher and higher four five six higher and higher seven eight nine eyes open how you feel here yeah present how y'all feel meditation mindfulness the ability to control your psychic energy your breath your key your car this is your fire when we let our Fire gets loose we start to get angry that's when we can't control our breathing that's when we lose control of our heart our spirit our mind and no longer in line every single day we have to fight to maintain control of ourselves and not allow our lower selves and lower inclinations to sleep in and take over we have to fight to make sure the attention is always here at the crown right and not here at the roof and so when we learn how to tap into ourselves and use tools like mindfulness and meditation we're activating our ancestral intelligence so that we can use that in the Arsenal as generals as we fight this war of life I'm 19 keys and I'm here with the good brother Director X and you just watch high level conversations peace [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] you're not waiting on nobody let's get on the mission we emotion and we devoted we give Liberation to our people I would feel let me talk about the identity that's connected to the evils that the agenda gives you not talking about actually knowing that you've got the power Against All Odds they look at me and say are you a black man president [Music] [Music] to the highest level we're going to the highest level make sure y'all come with me history that we get to think about in relation and be a part of but this is me proven my thought leadership this is me implementing the ideas and reinvigorating the spirit that we're going to need to win the future right now

Channel: Earn Your Leisure

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Length: 118min 45sec (7125 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023