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I have nothing but respect for our young people and what they're doing
 My thing is, we adults did not stand strong and on our square
 To bring our young people through this process
 I know, I was the young person that had to fend for himself in the streets of New York
 I know what happened, with our young people
 I say: Look, I ain't mad at you
 Know no matter what I hear, I know that you are moving through a process
 Because they are attempting to destroy the community, so they're using you
 They are buying you out, but we as adults, get to buy them back
 I'm ready to compete with anybody for our young people's minds
 And what we have to is change the paradigm of how we're interacting with them
 Deal with them from a heartfelt place where they can understand
 You see, because whether you realize it or not, it's you they're shooting in the streets
 You, young brothers, they're the ones that are being shot
 And so with this entertainment or with this music
 Maybe I don't like what I hear, maybe that I don't like some of the words that I hear, maybe I don't like the direction
 But I think they're doing a pretty good job, considering that we, as men, the adult men
 Did not cover that when we should've covered that
 And protected them when we should've protected them
 And brought them up that so when we see an artist acting in a most inappropriate way
 Where is the father in this?
 Where is that male mentor that can be there?
 We, as black men, must take on the responsibility
 As the honorable Elijah Muhammad told Malcolm, is that a nation is only as strong as its weakest family
 And we have got to create nations
 We have to create relationships between the African man and the African woman that creates a viable nation