PIRU'S And BLOODS Actin As CRIP'S on Sequel For Snowfall OG PIRU Go Off!
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The video transcript centers on a heated debate regarding the upcoming sequel to the FX series *Snowfall*, specifically focusing on the controversy of active gang members portraying their own counterparts in the show. One speaker, identified as an older figure or "OG," expresses strong disapproval of Bloods and Pirus taking roles that blur the lines between reality and fiction within gang culture. He argues that while actors like Denzel Washington can safely play violent roles because they are clearly just acting, active gang members doing so sends a dangerous message to youth and undermines cultural integrity. The speaker insists that no amount of money should justify an active member playing a role that glorifies or normalizes the very lifestyle they live, stating he would rather work manual labor than compromise his principles for a paycheck.
The discussion delves into the concept of method acting versus the reality of gang life, with one side arguing that actors become so immersed in their roles that they might genuinely believe the persona they are portraying. However, the opposing view maintains that these specific individuals are not merely actors but active participants in street life who should know better than to confuse their profession with their actual identity. The speaker challenges the notion that these young men are simply trying to make ends meet or feed their families, suggesting instead that this decision reflects a lack of proper mentorship and guidance from older generations within the community. He questions how such a situation could have escalated so far without intervention, placing the responsibility on those who should be raising and protecting the younger generation.
Despite the intense criticism, the transcript also highlights a contrasting perspective that acknowledges the potential positive impact of the sequel. This viewpoint suggests that the series aims to honor the legacy of late filmmaker John Singleton by exploring themes of poverty, addiction, and the struggle for identity within a gang-ridden community. It notes that characters like Wanda are focusing on overcoming their past addictions and using music to revolutionize culture, while also addressing the challenges faced by young Black men in such environments. The video concludes by praising specific cast members, like Glasses Malone, for maintaining cultural integrity and not blurring the lines, while encouraging viewers to engage with the content and support the channel for more reviews and discussions on these complex social issues.
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>> Yo yo. Hey, man. Guys, I don't know if
you guys seen it, man, but they got a
Snowfall sequel and it's about to go
down, man. And I'm going to tell you
right now, these guys are playing hard
ball, man. Snowfall sequel, the drop
pivots, the LA drug game, and rap fame.
So, it's going to be it's a hell of a
sequel. And and and when I seen it, I
was like, man, OG, that that OG, you
there listening to this? Franklin Saint,
the young Andrew hero at the center of
FX blood soaked snowfall uh evolved from
crafty entrepreneur to lethal drug
kingpins in the journey that was
anything but heavenly tracing saints
rise and fall over six seasons. The
final episode was was uh bathed in
tragedy. Uh Saints uh uh Damon Edris uh
was a a lost soul wrecked by alcoholism,
poverty. Many members of the inner
circle, including family members, were
dead. Uh, fugitives are behind bars. His
former right-hand man, Leon Simons,
Isaiah Jun, and Leon's girlfriend, Wanda
Bell, Gail Bean, were striving to
rebuild their lives and getting married.
Snowfall became one of the FX signature
series dramatic filmmaker John
Singleton, portraited of the
complexities of the crack epidemic that
weakened havoc. And I mean this thing
here wrecked havoc of the black
community. Idris and producers carried
the Singleton Vision uh when the Boys in
the Hoods writer director died
of a stroke in 2019. Boy, this was a
hell of a goddamn movie and now they
coming back with the sequel. OG, are you
excited?
>> No, sir.
>> OG, what you mean? What you mean,
>> man? I mean, the movie is could be
entertaining, but it has blurred lines
for the culture. When you look at when
you look at this, the drop snowfall, I
mean, one of my buddies told me, had I
watched it, and when I watched it, man,
it broke my mark. I'm looking at this
and I'm seeing some true G's, I mean,
active members out here in these
streets. So when you have your lines
blurred, we always talk about actors
that put dresses on. You know, one of
the few actors that never put a dress on
was Danzel Washington, uh um uh Morgan
Freeman, and Samuel L. Jackson. And you
look at an actor when they put that
dress on, they didn't been compromised.
Right.
>> Right.
So for a
active gang member to switch sides and
say it's just acting that's like putting
a dress on. So you got some G homies
that are Bloods and Pyus are taking on
[ __ ] rolls and they think it's just
acting. Now, we we had a culture some
years ago on the south and the east
coast because the lines were blurred
with pyros and crips hanging together in
the south because they didn't know that
to separate the difference. Right.
>> Right.
>> So now when somebody from South
Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi
see these guys and know that they're
reputable saying cuz putting on blue,
Skip Townsen is a representative of 20
Bloods in LA. a a a G representative.
Now you got you got Glasses Malone.
Glasses Malone is a G out of watch. When
he first come on, he's playing a [ __ ]
All the the roles that are in that
movie. How did they take these three
guys and make have them for a extra part
you get a certain amount of money from
the SAG? Now, if you get a speaking
role, you may get a couple of hundred
extra dollars. It ain't like they got
paid 25,000, 10,000. They may got a,000
or 1,500 for the roles that they played,
but now it puts a lasting impression on
gang activities. I didn't become a [ __ ]
on TV.
>> Oh, gee, let me stop you right there. It
it it when you're an actor, these guys
are probably method actors. I don't know
if you know what that is, but a method
actor becomes the person that he's
acting as. so much so he gets caught up
in it and he's just acting a role but he
becomes that person so much you're so
much into it that you it become
believable these guys that you're trying
to throw a monkey wrench at or say that
these guys took a role on playing a
a a [ __ ] uh but basically playing a [ __ ]
and they oh and they py or blood I'm
going be real with you they're just
trying to further their uh um their um
career
>> no you women first of Come on, let's
stop right there. And I'm glad you said
that. A method actor, you get into a
role so deep you believe that yourself.
>> That's right.
>> That's my That's my point. How in the
hell is a Pyro going to believe he a
[ __ ]
You must wanted to be a [ __ ] all day.
>> No, G, this is acting. Denzel played man
on fire. You think he blowed those damn
buildings up?
>> He wanted to. You said he got into it.
He was right into that. And you every
time you see him, you think about
blowing them buildings up.
>> The sad part about it is the sad part
about a lot of people going to say, you
know, why are you why are you even
saying anything about these young
brothers trying to get to the bag? A lot
of people going to say that you like you
hating on them, man.
>> Yeah. I Well, what? Yeah, I'm hating. My
daddy was a hater. My point is I you
some things you just can't do for the
bag. I'm not going to do it for the bag.
It's not it's not going to happen. I
don't care how much money you give me.
It's certain things that I'm not going
to do. And that's one of them. I I just
I could never play that that I remember
one time uh uh I was with uh Bobby Brown
and they played this gang of roses.
Right.
>> Right.
>> And and and they needed some more people
to be in this saloon.
>> Right.
>> As a uh as as as u extras. And so they
asked me and uh Captain Curtis, man, we
we need we'll give y'all uh $800 just to
sit to be in this scene. Right.
>> Right.
>> So when we got into the scene, it they
were going to show our pictures in uh
standing at the bar. We put these cowboy
suits on. Right.
>> Right.
>> But they gave us cowboy suits without a
gun. So
>> the the uh um uh
the girls were supposed to come into the
bar and when they pull out their gun, we
were supposed to break and run and hide.
Right.
>> Right.
>> I couldn't do it.
>> Why?
>> I ain't a method actor. Because if you
got a gun, I'mma have one and shoot
back. Goddamn.
>> Oh, G. This is active. That's what I'm
saying. You You're taking it too far. I
want to be real with you. You compare
these two these young men who probably
this their first acting role and and you
compare them to a a actor putting a
dress on is you know I don't have a dog
in the fight. I don't I don't know I
really don't understand how you guys are
moving in your situation you're moving
in. But if a guy's an actor I do know
something about that. I watch actors.
I've met actors. I've interviewed
actors. These guys are acting a role on
a movie, on a film set, and once that
camera goes off, a method actor clicks
back into who he is. So why are y'all so
why are y'all so uh uh
>> it's a bad it's a bad look on the
culture. Period. It's a bad look on the
culture. And it's it's not rewarding to
our side. I you know, I don't care how
you explain it. as a OG, I just can't
sit back and feel like to go along to
get along. I got to say something about
it. Whether it's it's for me or it's
against me. I've had too many calls.
I've called too many other G's. You
know,
uh the people that I've talked to and
talk when Skip did this, I confer I
confronted people close around him and
he like, man, I don't know what he was
thinking, man. I tried it, but it's just
it's blurring the lines. If you're okay,
I'm not active. Okay, it's cool. But for
some youngsters, for them, it was bad
advice. They have roles in there that
could have played a blood part for
Bloods to play the part. So to take me
over and put me in some place out of my
element. How do I explain that?
OG,
what's your favorite movie? OG,
>> what's my favorite movie?
>> Yeah.
>> Uh, Shrek.
>> Do you really think Shrek is in that? Is
really look like that in real life.
>> Yeah.
>> What I'm telling you is, man, these guys
are putting on
>> That's really That's really That's
really Shrek.
>> They're acting OG. That's really true.
>> You think Jamie Fox really Jango and he
goes around killing uh people that don't
look like him?
>> Do Do you think Do you think that that
wasn't Jamie Fox in that dress?
>> Oh, gee. There's been a lot of them in
the dress. And I I have respect for
these people, man.
>> Okay. I respecting one thing, but the
>> Kevin Hart, uh, any of those guys, man,
that any of those guys, Martin Lawrence,
uh, Tyler Perry, I mean, these guys are
still men.
>> Would aggress every one of them,
>> they're men, OG, they're men at the end
of the day?
>> Are they Are they Have you ever seen
Tyler Perry with a with a woman?
>> OG, now you're going too far. Now you're
going too damn far. You don't know that
man. He got a child. He got a baby. What
you talking about?
>> Yeah, it's a G. I I I just tal we just
talked about a a a transexual that had
six kids.
>> Damn.
>> So what? He didn't cut everything off to
be a woman and he he had six six
children. So your point is what?
>> Og there there there's there's a problem
with the way you you're answering these
questions because these boys are just
act they're acting. They're acting.
They're acting. They're acting. They're
acting.
>> Is Yeah, they've been acting then.
>> No, they ain't been acting. This is a
role that came up in in honor of the
late great John Singleton. They trying
to act.
>> So, you're saying this is not their
first role? So, they've been acting all
their lives who they said they was.
>> Yeah, they was. I I I just don't know
the politics of it. But if a guy go out
and find a job and and do something uh
that's useful and and and he's trying to
make ends meet, may have children, may
have trying to make a dollar out of 15
cent, a dime and a nickel. Why would we
not commend him? I don't know y'all
politics, but I do know that a man is
going out trying to feed his family,
these guys got to feed their family. So,
at the end of the day, uh are are y'all
coming together as the in these groups
and trying to help the members of
whatever's going on with y'all? No. So
they got to eat, man.
They got to eat.
>> That's That's a sorry excuse.
>> So it's some it's some things that you
do for money when you come home, your
wife need to hit you in the head
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>> or your mama need to hit you in the
head.
>> Well, guys, y I want y'all to go ahead.
>> The saying the old old saying is all
money ain't good money.
>> I get it.
>> They say and and they say this. My dad
used to tell me this. If you stand for
nothing, you will fall for anything.
>> Wow.
>> So when we out here, when we out here
representing, we out here standing on
what what they call standing on
business.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm not deflecting at all. What you see
is what you get. What you hear is what
you get. When you see me, I'm not going
to change. It's going to be me 100% ever
since I've been in these streets. So for
to send blurred lines to the other part
of the world who we represent, it really
bothers me. It really bothers me. And
and and and no excuse you can make can
tell me that you can justify I don't
care how much money that it I would
rather go uh shovel [ __ ] at the [ __ ]
factory than the crossdress. Period.
Oh, G. I'm going just say this, man, and
I and I want you to hear me out on this.
Let me get it out and then I'mma end
this thing.
Two people can be right and wrong at the
same time.
Those guys are trying to make ends meet
and and and in one way they're right,
but in another way they're wrong when it
come to the the G to the gang culture,
you know. And then you wrong cuz you
ain't try to pick up the phone and talk
to them. Maybe they would have changed.
Y'all not staying close to y'all little
youngsters out there. We don't let our
youngsters do this. Our youngsters, we
stay close to them. We look out for our
youngsters. So on I guess you going to
have to do a better job than that. Then
you don't have nobody to blame but
y'all. The ones who the older spoke
persons that should be able to have said
something that not let this happen. But
that's just that ain't my business. But
I'm just saying that it it seem like
you're looking at it wrong the wrong
way.
>> Since you since you so such an elder,
where was you at when M three got
>> Wait a minute, man. This ain't what
about me, man.
>> You just said what what we do in Texas.
Where was you at? Where was you at when
the tragedy happened at the pink house?
>> Oh, gee, I was You know, I was out of
town. Stop it.
>> Where where was you at when with when
little Rob got uh and his kids? Where
was YOU AT WHEN WHEN P got got gunned
down on the West Coast? Where was you at
when Biggie got hit up over there? Where
was you at when when the when the boy at
PMG, the one got killed at Rosco's
Chicken and Waffle? Where was you at
when Draco got stabbed in the neck like
that? Where the hell was you at?
>> I was I was at home, but the people that
did it was from Texas.
>> Whatever, OG. All I'm saying is y'all
got to raise them boys up right if y'all
going to say if you going to be
mentoring them and having them in. These
are younger guys. That's all I'm saying.
Now, y'all can get mad at me, but I'm
just telling you, I put it back on you.
That's what I do. Now, if he out there
acting like he was a [ __ ] and he he
supposed to be representing a blood set
or or or pyu set, then at the end of the
day, OG, how did it get this far? I
asked you, how did it get so far
detached from where it should have been?
That's the question.
>> I allowed it.
>> There you go. There you go.
>> That's the answer. That's the answer.
That's all I can say.
>> It's done.
>> Wow. I hope I hope and pray that those
guys are
>> mean I have to like it.
>> Oh gee, a lot of people be saying, "How
are you still even related to any of
this stuff?" And you and you're a older
guy. They want you to get out of the
game.
>> Well, well, I and and my reply to all of
those idiots that ain't said nothing.
How many generals you seen in the army
that's 20 years old? We're all veterans.
>> Wow. Wow. Good answer, OG. Well, guys,
get in the comments if y'all y'all heard
what I heard. OG talking crazy and and
he ain't letting up on some guys who in
this new series uh the sequel. I came
>> I came in hot talking about it, showing
love to him. Uh uh uh in this new
series, Wanda moves to the center stage
as she becomes uh laser focused on
making it big in the music business,
convincing the the fledged rap genre can
uh revolutionize American culture. She
is also channeling her strong will to
get beyond her addiction to crack, which
plagued her in snowfall. She uh enlists
her young cousin Lamar Kinsey uh Asante
Black, a music prodigy raised by strict
religious grandparents as her vehicle to
stardom. Lamar is also trying to deal
with his identity as a black man living
in a community overrun by waring and
gangs. This here helps to people to see
how we unfold and came out of these
poverty situations and these these all
these different specific things we went
through in our community. And I commend
these guys for putting this back on too
and just giving an eyesight to it so
that other youngsters can know their
history and what happened with their
parents. A lot of it happened and a lot
of it we can't take back, but we got to
embrace what happened. Uh,
>> and and and a and a shout out to the
storyline because Big Daddy, you hear
you hear the name Kenzie. Yeah, but they
just put the S instead of the C. Yeah,
>> Mr. Kenzie. And a big shout out to to
Glasses Malone for playing his
>> Shout out to Glasses. He called me the
other day, man. That's my dog, man.
Well, he hit me up.
>> He He stayed He stayed right right in
the cup. He played it. He started this
off and he hollered at Mr. Kenzie for
fixing the car and uh big shout out to
Glass Malone for keeping the culture
straight and uh not blurring in the
lines at all.
>> Wow. Y'all heard OG man. Make sure you
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