Derrick Grace Talks Staying Strapped

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Thank you, ro I appreciate you having me.

Oh man, I'm glad to get you on. We've been talking about doing something for a minute. Man, I'm glad we finally was able to make it. Crack man. The first thing I gotta ask you, man, is how does one become Derek Grace?

Uh?

Bro, that's a great question. Bro, I ain't gonna lie. I'm gonna give all the credit to my mom and my pops. They were My mama was very supportive. My mama was very ain'tal about reading articulation and just being privy to what I'm talking about, So as I evolved, it just made me want to She was just one of the people. Bro. She just didn't allow like loose statements and things that nature. So you, in a sense you had to like be what you say you was

And that's dope, man. You know, I think it's sometimes under it's underrated and not talked about enough. The power of having the two parent household.

It is bro and I'm not gonna lie I didn't. I can't honestly say I didn't. I didn't value that as much as I should, maybe until like the last year or so, because I have ten children with five different moms, so I am absolutely like a product of my environment when it comes to I ain't gonna I just saw my pops navigated at a high level he to beat, so I felt like it ain't that bad. But I ain't gonna lie. It does make a huge difference.

You know, it's not always possible, man, for two people to be together, right, but you still can't have two people involved with the kids life. You feel what I'm saying. That's why you have to be on the same page with the mama. You know, it just makes hard. That's why I telways tell my sons, man, y'all be careful. We y'all have kids with.

Men, bro, that's a fact.

You careful. We've got kids here because I've had You know, I got some friends to where it worked out good for him, you know the way they you know, they they didn't exactly it may not have worked out with their child's mother, but they got good relationship with him. And I got some people. Man, it's a disaster. Man. I got one homeboy man his wifet like she want to charge him to see his daughter, right right.

Trust me, I've I ain't gonna say I've experienced it. For the most part. I got to health their relationship with them. But I have had some tough times where I had the lawyer up and play that game and go to court and fight and go through all that nonsense. So I know exactly how to go.

Well. One thing you can't say about I bet you all them girls would know how to fight and take care of themselfs.

Oh man, that's that's a prerequisite. They gotta i mean, for lack of better terms, they gotta know how to kill. That's that's just top of my list. Like you gotta know how to defend yourself lethal and non lethal.

Well, that's real and more than likely it's gonna be lethal nowadays, because these people are coming with barbaric contentions. Man, the world, this is getting real, MANI out there right now.

Man, Man, I literally just seen a video before me and you hopped on and saying that a medical examiner had removed the man's genitals and they caught them with it in their mouth. And I'm like, these these people are just losing their minds in twenty twenty five. Like it's, yeah, a different type of crazy going on right now.

Yeah, it's a different it's a real different type of crazy. And the one thing I'm say, in especially in the black community, manage these kids. Man. They got they just it's reckless, abandoned now man, no regard for what's right or whatever. And on top of that, they're not covering up their face and they putting this stuff out there like they want the world. You know, we just whooked on this dude's ass. We want the whole world to know about it. I think these kids just chasing penitentiary.

I said that in a video earlier. I'm like, Okay, Like when we was kids, you know, listening to our uncles, our elders, they would say things like, man, you gotta watch out for them cameras that this new generation, like where is the camera? Get the camera now?

Yeah, social currency is all about social currency now.

And you're a big proponent of self defense and knowing how to take care of yourself. But you also you know, you spend a lot of wisdom. That's why I love when you break down the videos and what they're doing wrong and what could you know the consequences of those actions could be. You must have had some hill of personal experiences, man.

I did, so I've had them on both ends, which I'm grateful for. So I was a N one one dispatcher for five years from no. Four years from eighteen to twenty two. My pop says, yeah, my pop says, retired secret service. And I was a badass kid.

So you retired secret service.

Yeah, yep. So from picking up the phone and saying now on one with short emergency to shooting somebody myself to having my own run ends where I used my gun. I mean nothing I'm proud of, but I've shot two people in my lifetime. Uh, And to being just head first and the street shit and just making poor choices. So I've been able to see it up close and personal on the receiving end and the other end.

So we could talk about the two individuals who could cut those bullets.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

But what happened the first time you shot two people to the once? Two people at once? Yeah? Two people that okay, people want whatever?

In short? Uh, it was. It was on my birthday, so shooting somebody was the last thing on my mind. I don't really know anybody. I always tell people that, like, trust me, that wasn't my intent. I don't know anybody like yeah, man, that just made twenty nine. I want to kill somebody. So that wasn't my intent at all. But I went to pick up my lady at that time, and her mom, well she's happened to be the mother of my children. At this point, we went because at

Yeah? Yeah, you speak for that.

So I'm referring to like I've known her since I was ten. We've been rocking that long. I'm thirty five now, her youngest well, her oldest brother, but he's the youngest of the brothers. Him and I were best friends. That's how I got introduced to her anyway. But the other brothers, some of them, they just give me weird energy every time I come around. Oh, her mom would especially so as I pull up mom and brother, Mom and mom and her oldest brother are arguing in the doorway, the

Yeah yeah, Mama stormed down the driveway and I have my daughter in the back seat, and I'm just one of them people, especially when I got my kids and me like I'm on high alert and I don't play, Like just don't play when the kids around here.

Mind you.

I've known this woman since I was ten, but she come to the door and she's like, yeah, I'm sick of your ass too. All y'all need to leave. So she basically I'm now inherent in smoke that she got for her children. She she she having a mama moment, and I get that Mama's get pissed and they go cussing out all the kids and how y'all grown asks need to get out of my house. Blah blah blah. Ain't got nothing to do with me. But now I'm getting the brunt, the brunt of the conversation. So I'm

Hey, but she drunk too.

No, No, she won't drunk. She don't drink that I know if I just know, I know the sun pissy drunk. Like he tripping, so.

Just on bullshit from the exact.

So he come to the passenger door and like, I got I got a great deal of patience for mama. That's the elder and that's her mama. I'm not tripping, but grown ass man, I ain't playing with at all. And I just literally said like, hey, Dereka in the back seat, and Bro, I never forget. Like it was like the most slow motion but fastest thing ever happened. Bro came to the passage door and I was like, Bro, if you open the door, I'm gonna kill you because

Used to kick the bullet man. She might have thought she was a super woman in summing.

Nah, she ended up losing her finger. Her finger got shot out, and he got shot in the chest.

So she know she went paning for them.

Now she found Yeah, she found out that night. And it was even crazy after the fact. Is my my adrenaline pumping? I men fight a flight, And then I know I knew her adrenaline was home because after I shot her, I jump out and I draw down and she started walking towards me like literally her finger is off, like it's her ring, the thing literally hanging on by a string. And she walking towards me, looking like a zombie.

So she's still in the house doing the whole time, stuff.

Going on, getting ready the whole time. I don't shot her people's and she she in the house doing not doing makeup, but you know, doing with girls.

So man, I bet y'all and you y'all got five kids together.

Yeah, we went on to have five children after that.

Christmas time. Make y'all. Christmas time with y'all be many as hell.

No, man, yeah, I'm not gonna lie. That's one of the main things that I do. I'm not mad at me for standing in this situation because, like like I said, when it comes to my children, I'm just not playing.

But you can't play because you don't know what nobody's intentions.

He is, man, absolutely, and I made it clear. I'm like Derek back then, and just the look she gave me was just like, I don't give a fuck, and I'm just like, all right, well you don't give a fuck. You know, I don't give it and I ain't gonna lie.

Bro.

Back then, I was wild.

I was.

I hate to admit this, bro, But like I remember thinking, I remember having times back then where I would ponder on what it's like to kill somebody, and I now that I couldn't wait, but I in a sense I couldn't wait to show like what I was made of. Like, man, the first time a motherfucker play with me, I'm a fire ass up. And that was that wasn't the first time. It was some other people that have but it didn't I ain't had to shoot them. When I updated or I went to they stood down, and I'm not a

Let me ask you this, did you have the tattoos and stuff on your face at that time.

Yeah I did. I didn't have as many, but yeah I had a couple of tattoos on.

You still had them. So the police suit because, like, man, usually when they see somebody that like you were me, it's automatic, man, especially if I don't have my glasses on. Man and I'm dressing a certain way, I'm just assumed like he did.

It, not gonna lie. They treated me like shit when they first got there, like the way they got me out. They had me at gunpoint. I remember the dude saying because it was a little scary. I remember the dude saying like don't. He was like, don't look at me, don't turn around, put your hands on your head, excuse me, interlock your fingers and take twelve steps back. And bro, I'm not even thinking. My adrenaline excuse me, my adrenaline on tin, like my stomach cramping. I ain't never felt

Bro.

I was like, okay, this, yeah, yeah, this is Pops.

Wn't it came? If you didn't have your Pops, man, you probably Billy Club and all kinds of stuff.

And still case, you know, I was gonna say that they definitely probably I'm me in my pops telling me he was like, now, they definitely, they definitely was gonna try to charge you with aggravated as saw he named like three of the things. But I definitely would have got hit with some charges and then whether it got clear self defense or not, I would have had to go to court and beat them. But based on who my family is on my part sport up. It was almost like a closed case off the rip.

Now, I see you are a big advocate man of people knowing how to use their weapons.

Absolutely, what would.

You recommend for the normal household out there? What kind of guns? Because I you know, I own firearms. I got eight K forty seven.

That's my favorite, right, Yeah, I got it.

It is Yeah, it's a good rifle. I got a VR eighty, I got an AR fifteen, I got I got some weapons you know in my house because I think, you know, especially in this day and time were in, I think you have to have your house protected. You have to be in some kind of protection. Man. People out there is crazy.

Absolutely, no man I recommend because I tell you all the time, just based on what they see see me doing social media, people think you need an arsenal and I'll be having around them like a lot of that is from a collector's item standspoint. But if she get real, you hand me a nonmili. That's my favorite. All them desert eagles. I got them. They cool, They're good for showmanship, they're good for value. But I'm not going into no damn shootout with no fifty college just ain't a good idea.

Now, I'm gonna kind of get deep with you a little bit, man, because I don't want to like identify you as like a survivalist. But all the stuff you talk about, man, is necessary, like skills not think sometimes, man, especially nowadays, I think everybody's stuck on stupid Man. I'm like, y'all not looking at what going on around us, y'all not paying attention like this stuff. Man. Everything is kind of hanging by a thread right now.

Bro, it is, it really is, bro, Man, And I with you from the jobs to the violence. Like I think people don't realize we like one big event or one small event away from this ship being totally flip flopped, and they're gonna have to fight for their lives, their freedom.

They telling you, Bro, I'm telling you. Like my wife, she called me that she was upset. She said, man, you know they about the the guy that flowed, George Floyd. They're about to love them. I said, they ain't, no way that's gonna happen. I said, you listening to just that's like a TikTok rumor or something like that. You know you can't listen to that. But I did say, if something like that was happening, man, that might be the match right there.

You know they you know they're gonna set this one off. They do that for sure, it's gonna be rise, it's gonna be all type of stuff taking place.

It's gonna be crazy. Man. But I look at l A. I was at New Mexico State when the ride happened, out here doing the Ridney King Verdict, right, and I remember being up in New Mexico, me and my wife actually looking like, damn man, they really caring, you know, they really cheering the city up. How close you think we are to something like that?

Bro?

Bro?

Personally, I literally was just having this conversation with people in my community. I think we're uh bro when you intertwine AI, the economy, the violence, and that Trump got the power just to tweet something and he could turn countries upside down. I ain't gonna lie. I mean, I hope it don't take place, because I know a lot of my loved ones are absolutely unprepared. But like I said, I don't even think it's a big event. I think we're a small event away. I don't foresee Purson just

I'm gonna tell you about a couple of different scenarios. Right my homeboy he got a son. You know, I ain't gonna see home whales whatever, but his son was into that you know that credit card you know whatever stuff. Man. And these dudes got so much money. Man, They set up like they go downtown and get like the most expensive loft they can find, right, and they going there. They may be in there for six months and got like you going there ain't nothing but computers in their

Right, I peaped it. It was in twenty twenty four, late twenty twenty four. I don't know if you remember when it's happened. Some type of blackout happened, and I remember the healing because I was trying to check into a hilling. The healting would not work. Phones had some phones went I can't remember what. I know some airlines was affected. I remember phone companies was affected. It was an overnight thing. I remember by morning they was trying to sort it out and figure it out.

But I knew then.

I'm like, all right, this shit ain't super safe. People, credit card information ain't safe. Socials ain't safe. Ain't shit safe. Somebody can get it right.

Ain't man. We would to be like our grandmama and there was you know, grandparents just keep their money at the crib and the mattress. I do not trust that, man, I do not. I stayed trying to figure out a way not to keep my money in the you know, just the traditional system, man. Because and I don't think people would pay attention, right because I believe you heard of predictive programming.

Absolutely, yeah, So.

I think it's a lot of that now, Like if you look at stuff like Black Mirror, they talk about all these different things, and they starting to slowly roll out some of that stuff you know that they've been talking about, right, because these stuff is already. This stuff is already happening. People just need that genius to where they just a mass and all this. They just got access to stuff that we don't.

Absolutely, no, I agree with you. I know I haven't watched Black Mirror that much, but I remember watching an episode where they had like they was big on social status. So if you got to pour rating from other people in the community, you could no longer live in the community and get access to certain food resources.

And all that.

Yeah, the old China is there. China own that. China already got like a social media and once you break certain rules or the camera catch you jaywalking, you start to lose value and credibility in certain communities and you don't have access access to resources anymore based on you the jaywalk. You can get tickets and like they're holding you accountable for that, And I'm I'm not opposed to

Yeah, for real, social currencies are all times, it's the most desired form of currency right now. Absolutely, you know people wanted. I will always tell my partner glasses Man, that I think if you offer the average kid Instagram pigs Man with two million followers, man, and you know we're getting ten thousand likes of Postman or a million dollars, a lot of them kids don't say give me that Instagram.

Yeah, ye get me. And they ain't even.

Gonna know how to monetize it. That's the cold part of the party because they could go make some money off of pace like that, but they're not to monetize it.

It's that dopamin hit of likes and comments that just that that two minute rush of when they dropped the post and it's getting heavy traction. That just it do something to them. They love it.

That's the real thing too. People become addicted to that stuff. Man. They got now and the world is sola teaches now everybody's trying to sue motherfuckers and blaming them for some ship that they did to theirselfs right, they got no man. What they're telling people, if you were a loved one was impacted and getting addicted to game, called out, we can help you win money, you know, and it's like, it's just crazy. Man. People got to really pay attention

Man. No, I agree, Man, I knew it was real when motherfuckers I had catching bodies in the real world about their Instagram world like you could. I can ask you and disrespect you on a social platform and you'll come kill me in real life. That's that's they are. By their Instagram handles. They'll kill you when they see you in the streets.

Man, I'm gonna give you one better. I've seen fifty and sixty year old men get on this motherfucking A lot of they ass are bro a lout of situations, places and things that they never experienced that this's nowhere. They're true. And the thing about it, man, is that it'll be a legion to people are found with these people that believe them.

No, I'm I'm man, I agree.

Uh.

I got some ties out ties out in the West Coast, and uh the dudes I knew or no, I just never seen that they never embodied this shit I see on YouTube and a social and I'm like, these mother buys be my daddy. Age I had cutting up, but his internet shit they say and do anything for them clicks and them like, man.

I'm gonna tell you something. Man with the ogs you see acting the food bro A lot of them dudes been in prison most of their life, don't have educations. Man, can't go get a job. They really don't have nothing else to offer nobody, so they see this as a quick come up. Like I tell people, and they wonder why YouTube is kind of like going down, you know on those different platforms, because there's too many people on there. Everybody don't figure it out. I can make a few dollars.

I peep that often, especially with Because I'm not gonna lie. I've been fascinated with LA since I was a little kid. Like LA has played a vital role in my gun collection. I ain't gonna lie. I just feel like people from the South, like we was fascinated with y'all world here because most of us had never made it there. So we saw the movies, We saw the colors. The ship just looks so cool. And then to grow up and

And you know what's so cold? I tell you this. Them clowns you see online nowhere near the representation of what.

Really is out here already already, you.

Know, because l A man is a l A is a deceptively dangerous place.

Absolutely, it's nice.

I've been out here longer than half. I'm originally from the Midwest, right, I came out here in the eighties. Okay, but it was more dangerous back then because it was a lot more active. But now it's still dangerous, man. And what makes it even kind of more dangerous now is before you was able to identify the threat, like people will be flamed up. They have you know, they like they had a uniform on. Now right now, man, you can have a dude that got some skinny jeans on,

Yeah, I think go ahead. No, I was just gonna say, I know exactly what you mean. I've definitely seen it where I was out there last time I was out there with September. But anytime I might move on my head on the squibble, but I know it exactly what you mean. You just gotta I mean, even in even outskirts, you gotta be on points, especially when they know you're a foreigner, you're not from Runner. They'll definitely get on your ass just to get on your ass, oh for sure.

And it's some votures out here too. Man, it's some votures out here. And you know it ain't all it ain't all doom and doom, but you have to move a certain way out here. Like I tell people, I think people should be able to wear what they want to wear. But don't go to the hood with a bunch of chewery, right right, that's like dangling the stake in front of some pit bulls. It's just I'm not saying this right, but it's more than likely you go find yourself in a bad situation.

And I agree, you know that's.

Pretty much anywhere. If I had jewry. I couldn't go to certain parts of Miami like that.

No. I mean, I've told my peers on numerous occasions. I feel like, you know, everywhere I go, I move with respect. I moved with honor. And it's okay to like understand the terrain you want and know how to navigate it because I'll be doing some super egotistical motherfuckers. I ain't got no security, no nothing. I'm going everywhere with the jury.

I'm like video the next day.

Yeah, they gonna get it. Like man, it's places in my hometown. I go, and I'm taking that ship off like I don't. I don't need the attention and I don't need my ego stroke that bad when I pull up in here that I need to come with all these big ass chains on just so I can be a victim to night.

Yeah, because it's gonna be bad. And I never understood the fascination people have got money wanting to come to the damn hood anyway. That's always been the silliest shit ever to me.

Nah, it's funny. I was just making a video about that the other day by some young men out in New York who had that similar mindset but I don't think they really be realizing until they realize it. And there in that situation, like that ship is a It is a flag for the wolves, for the women that got bad intent, for the I R s, for the government,

About anything, man, just you know, And it's just fascinated man to put all xury on. And then when something happened, everybody like, oh it shouldn't happen. He shouldn't have his ass over here, right? Why why would he come up? Because I'm gonna tell you right now, man, I go, I'm going to the steak I'm going the most expensive steakhouse I can. I'm trying to do. I'm not trying to go to ship out escape from I work too hard to stick. Why do I want to go back? You feel what I'm saying?

And then like one of the most unfortunate things, especially with people with statuses. A lot of times they aren't the ones that's gonna pull the trigger and save their own ass. It's gonna be the homie. So now you don't put the homie in the mix. And he ain't got no jury, he ain't got your means, all your resources. Now he got to fight the case or he gotta hope he don't die, because his job is to make

That's what I'm saying. Man, I just don't that. I don't think it's worth it, man. And I'm unfortunately in the state. Man, California got probably the worst gun laws in the country. Man. You know, I would say probably second in New York, right right right, New York and California got the worst gun laws ever. And I tell you like this, man, this is where I'm at with that I have guns, and I know, you know, you got to have a concealed carry. I'm in the process

Man, I'm in agreeance. The way that we would do it when we moved through LA is because we got this, we got great private security. So the way we would do it is when we travel to places like LA and New York, we would we would basically presented for the sake of security. So if we were to inherit law enforcement, they would have to respect it based on the security credentials and not just or some wild niggas from Florida that came up here with guns anyway, So no, man,

Yeah, and I'm always cautious, man, And believe me, believe it or not. Man, Like I was telling somebody one day, my last result is to shoot like I'm just not looking like if somebody give me the finger, I'm not gonna pull. I'm not gonna go dump them out. You know what I'm saying. It's just whatever. If anything, I'm gonna move a little bit more cautious, right, and I got the thing with me, you know, but I refuse to be a victim. I saw this young man. It

Yeah.

They made a run down the street naked, and I told my wife, I said, see that wouldn't be me right there. They had to kill me out there because I for sure shot some ship up.

And I said the same thing, like I saw one part they like literally forced bro head under the like damn the under the car and then just was stumping on his neck and back. And I was just like, I had to put one of you niggas down, y'all. Barbari, y'all, just y'all want to strip a nigga of his manhood, I'm definitely have to kill one of you.

They would have for sure had to kill me, man, because I believe like this bro, I'm like we ever pull out for nothing, stupid man. But if my life in danger, especially with bestally, with my wife and my shoes, my wife and my daughter. Man, this is my two, my most precious assets right there, I'm not gonna let no harm.

Come to them, right absolutely, and.

I'm gonna do what I have to. I'm I'm gonna do what I have to, like any you know, any real man will to protect this house. So what do you say, man, Like, I know you are big all your kids at homeschool, right yep, yep. Let me ask you this, man, do you think the public school system does more harm than good? Uh?

Yeah, I definitely feel like I can do more harm than good, for sure, one hundred percent.

I got some theories. I want to hear your take on it them.

Oh, I mean, well, one, I feel like the children aren't truly fit, especially physically and mentally. I don't feel like they're truly physically and mentally protected there and not taking nothing away from the teachers in totality because I

It prepares people to fail, bro. And I'm going to tell you, and this is where I'm at on there. And both of my all of my kids went to you know, my two of my kids went to public school and one of my kids went to a private school. Right, this is what I think about that. I think it's all about money, man. I don't think the people in there are invested in really teaching your you know, you may have some teachers. I'm not talking about the teachers.

That's why tennants is such a big deal because they need that bad. That's why diagnosed in children with certain things and oh they need they need a guidance counselor X y Z is just to run the bag up and get yeah.

And that's what they do. Man. Do you know how many genius level kids man in the neighborhood get diagnosed with things like learning get diagnosed with learning disabilities and all kinds of other things just because they haven't been taught properly. And then they get somebody that's really interested in teaching them and cultivate them when they find out, Man, he one of the most brilliant kids in school, you know. But it's because nobody cares. Man. In our community, man,

And that's where I'm at, Like me and not all of them, but me and one of the mothers, one of I got five moms, Me and one of the moms, we constantly bump heads on that because I'm telling I'm like, listen, I'm cool with them practicing duality and at some point going but they gotta be ready. This ship not the same. Bullying is not the same. Violence is not the same. These motherfuckers man, Bron't know if you've just seen the video it's going viral today, Spanish dude banging the black

I saw that in the classroom, right, Yeah.

Yeah, I'm actually going to post it. But ship like that, like we're just in a different eras.

Different in a different time, man.

The social pressure, the drugs, like your your tenth grady fucking around to get a whole of fence and no trying some new ship with the friends, and now you ain't got a tenth grader no more. It's just a lot of shit going on, so you can't even experiment.

Your child can afford the.

Experiment now here.

We experimented right now, me too.

I remember trying ecstasy. I remember I remember being able to smoke weed and not having to wear about dying after you smoke the shit. But we in the arawhell, motherfucker, sprinkle fit doll on that that's gonna be your one, your first and last hit. You ain't getting back up, man.

I was telling one of my friends that was tripping. He found out his daughter smoked weed, right, and I had to kind of telling my saif because his daughter is nineteen right, nineteen years old about to be twenty this summer round. I said, Bro, that's not the worst thing. It's so many other things that she could be doing right now. I said, as a matter of fact, she's smoking weed. Bro, you should go get it.

For no, Bro, I agree fully. I've had that conversation numerous times with relatives women, even in my community. And I asked him, like, would you rather cultivate a safe space for your child to experiment with certain things at home? Or would you rather would you rather be a drill sergeant wards them to suppressing and know they're gonna go out in the streets and try.

To anyway, and they probably go do something to hurt them one day. You hurt theyself one day. And I don't know, I don't understand people like that. Man, It's like a hypocrisy almost. I would definitely go get my child something, you know, something that was good and safe and tell them, hey, look, I don't want you smoking this in my house. But if you feel the urge and you got to go back in the back and you know, do your thing, I would rather my kids

Look, I tell parents that, Like, that's one of the things I teach parents with guns and educating and introducing their children to guns. When you when you when you insert the education, you remove them to seek and you remove the mistakes. They know what they're doing and they don't even be as typed about it. The like my pops taught me how to use guns. It's no big deal. You ain't got to pull your uncle gun out the closet. I know what a gun looked like.

Yeah, and you're not tripping no more. I just think, Man, it's a whole bunch of stuff you on. Man, that's really stuff that we need in our community. Like even with the financial you know, with the you know, financial advice that you give. Right in fact, I think that's one of the biggest problems right now in our community, man, is that we don't really understand how money works. Right.

No, for sure, I agree.

How do you how do you go about changing people's mindset? Because I know you've got the whole community of people that follow what you got going on.

So for the most part, man, I think people got to know that money is an actual tool. But unfortunately, especially with Black culture, we've been taught about money from a place of scarcity. So a lot of us are under the premise that is running out. We gotta get what we can, we gotta hold on to it. Like I tell most people, like I'm I'm not even big on saving, I'm big on flipping because I understand, like, like,

Yeah, for sure. What's your favorite investment right now?

I think my favorite one right now, and the past has been real estate, it's been gold, it's been guns. But I say my favorite one right now would be I got some doomes, the bug out bags that I got coming from China, as well as self defense kids. So I think that's my most exciting investment right now. I can't wait to get them motherfuckers in my hands

Guns and butter baby.

Absolutely, And that's a huge thing I tell people too in the mat like the country ran out violence, you ain't gonna never fall short with either investing in things that you need once violence kicks off, or investing in things that you need to inflict the violence. Like this country is a murderous country. They love bullets, they love guns, and they love shit that go boom.

Yep. When we're not paying attention to our community, makes we too worried about what the baddies are doing, and who got this going on with? You know, we always in somebody else's business, but everybody else, the rest of the world is getting prepared right right. So I'm gonna tell you one thing, man, that I noticed, and you

Yeah.

Now, I saw a documentary similar to that on Netflix about the ghost guns. They buying the three D printers, cooking up the parts in the crib, putting them together, and I can't remember the city, but it's a city in Florida. They be linking up and they go and I remember like as they recording a documentary, the police pull it up and then the police was just he kept really, he was like, they are undocumented but legally and ain't shit I can do about it. I can't

Oh yeah, that's that's what I am referring to. They're messing with them three D guns. And they got like websites, not man where you can go buy like they may sell you upper to uper to a gun, then they have a lower in another sex. You gotta bound something, but it's up to you to put it together right right, And I'm gonna tell you they are very much getting prepared. I think, man, now, if we did have a war, man, we probably lose. Bro. We wouldn't be prepared.

No, Bro, I'm in agreeance. Unfortunately, I agree. I feel like, just as you said, we be minding everybody business but our and I feel like culturally we just we gravitate to the bullshit we run from the real ship. And when we do, when we do address to real ship, more times than not, all we do is trauma ban motherfuckers. Typically at coming up with no action plays or what to do next, They're gonna trauma ban about it. And

Forget all about it, bro, And I'm gonna tell you right now, man, Like you said, you got a survival bag. What's the contents of the bag? Uh?

I got a sample back here, I can go grad.

Yeah, let me see that. Oh you've got a real bag. Yeah.

This this is a sample version right here. But it comes with uh all right. You got your your cutting knife, you got your what is this one?

Oh?

You got your lanner, you got your adult poncho glasses, twelve person tan gloves for the protected hands. You got the shovel, you got the water filter system that come in it. This is another knife and a hammer intertwined still in the plastic. I ain't put it out. But you got this right here. If you need to do some building, of course, you got your first aid kid,

So you said you had a tend there two.

Yeah, y'all got a twelve person in there. Person yep.

So you said twelve people can fit in that ten? You said one two, right, Yeah, that little bitty bag man.

It's just the way it's the way they packaged it, so they it's folded up at this point, but once you unravel it, it kicks out. It's a seventy two hour kid prepared for a long term survival. This product is for emergency situations and does not replace your camping tent, so it is a temporary ten. It's up to seventy two hours, and your five meters military grade seven yard three strand pair of courses mentioned. So, yeah, I ain't gonna lie. I haven't even opened it because it's just

Yes, that's like, you know, that's all the stuff you would need in an emergency. You need something way to clean your water because we were not prepared, man. And I thought about it one day. I started really kind of get my own house prepared, man, because I remember one time, man, and the electricity went off out of here, man, and it was kind of like And luckily I live in a good neighborhood, so I wouldn't worry. But I told my wife, I said, if something bad happen, we're

And that's what made me tighten up. I ain't even see this knife, Uh, that's like, I said, that's a sample. I hadn't even fully opened it yet. But I got more knives flashlight conference. But that's what made me tighten up. The last hurricane we had, I'm used to the power getting knocked down' from Florida. When we have hurricanes, that's

That's That's what I'm saying, man. And the average and the average person is not prepared. They're not even thinking because that's not nothing, and there's not nothing that you can go up there. You see people running to the grocery store at the last minute, right getting all this stuff. It's like, man, you're not gonna be able to you know, you need to have weeks of water right now? Months of water? Your month supply of water, you know months,

I could believe it. I actually saw somebody talking about that recently, that if China decided to attack us, we literally uh willn't have what it takes to deal with their military.

You think their military is stronger than ours.

I ain't gonna lie. I think as far as manpower physically, no, But I just have reason to believe they've always been more advanced to us in a lot of other categories, that their motherfuckers probably got something on the ground over there that nobody aware of, and their tearorhole goddamn country.

Well, I'm gonna tell you what I'm scared of saying that about, dude. I don't think it's necessarily that, man. I think them motherfuckers put something the air over in this motherfucker have everybody falling over.

Oh, I could believe it. You see what I'm saying.

Dude, doog and you just shovel everybody out this motherfucker. If you go take over someplace, why would you want a place? It done? Then blew up. They ain't gotta do that. They just blow some shit on you and everybody get to falling out over this motherfucker. You know, I believe it. I can believe it for everybody. Get everybody, get the falling all over here stuff. Man, I don't like That's why. That's how I think they get it. That's how I think they get us, ma'am. So why

So the Family Bible on the grad one, it's a it's really a to z. It's an a Z comprehensive God that I created that. I feel like literally every family should absolutely have.

Uh.

I start from the beginning about their origin story because I feel like culturally won't have an identity. A lot of us aren't aware. We won't know where we come from,

That is real, real dope. Now, you know, we got a lot of people listening to this podcast man and some cats wanted to order man that, the bug out bag Man and the family Bible. Man. Where could they go get it? Oh?

Did they go straight to the website? So everything is under my government name. It's Derek Well, my government name is Dereck Grace is second, but it's Derek Grace two dot com. So same on ig, same on YouTube, Facebook, website, everything Derek Grace twol dot com.

Yeah. I would like to say, man, have you ever been referred to as as a survivalist?

No, No, I haven't.

Haven't. I think you, you know, you on another level, you know, be more modern, because usually people think about a survivalists, they think about one of them dudes. Man, a white dude got some long hair, you know, long string hair. Man. We live in a trailer somewhere, you know, down all day and shit. You know, I don't think that's what it is. I think you give people. I think you give people life skills. Man. We need more of that because I think it's a people. It's not

Man. No, I agree fully. I agree, man. I feel like life coming seasons, and I just feel like culturally we don't understand that part of it. So because of shit, I practice duality. Like I mean, you know, I got ten children in five mamas. I be having fun like everybody else. But there's a time and a place for fun. There's a time and the place to be Still, there's a time and the place to be disciplined, and foreshow

One. I got to ask you this because I asked all the homies and I get interests, and sometimes you believe in life and out of space, you think it's life out there.

Oh hell yeah, man, man, it's so much interesting shit. I was just saying, they said it's another it's a super Earth. I think you said, one hundred and forty forty years away. That's made of diamonds. And it was just saying, based on the carver, the carver, the carbon that that super Earth produces, the ground and the atmosphere is literally made out of diamonds.

I do believe it.

I believe that motherfucker Elon know what's out there. That's why he's trying to get to borrow so bad, or he probably already.

It's a whole like the whole word is made of diamonds.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I was just looking at it. I'm gonna get it had a number inside the name. But they said because of the carbon, carbon production on the super Earth is completely made out of diamonds.

I wonder, so will we be able to breathe out there? Probably too much carb. But if this is making diamonds.

Right right now, it probably is. It's probably not a spot we could breathe. But I have heard numerous times that people are gonna be living on Mars any day now.

Well, I actually think don't get me started with that, man, way off subject, man, I think Mars at one time probably had some life on it, may still got it. May they may be living on the ground in summer. Maybe all that stuff is the defense mechanism to keep people out, you.

Know, right right now, man, I genuinely believe that. I don't know Elon got a fascination with Mars. I think Bro probably already over there building houses and ship.

But you know what, man, see, I'm a conspiracy theorist. How do we know? All we the only thing we know about Mars not being uninhabitable, dog is because they tell us that, right No, just like it's not like we have a walk up there and be able to see it. Might be just like this. It might be some people up there already. They get money, they got gold up there, and they may be taking trips up there already, going to go get gold every few years whatever and going to re up coming back.

Bro. I really believe that because he the rating, which he talked about it, and in the project that he'd be creating. I'm like, Bro probably already over there, chilling like a motherfucker. And I'm sure he's big and treating, has already got the extra strategy like, hey, this ship gets too real, don't worry about it.

And they leave ours and you know what they gonna do. They gonna leave our ass down to everybody's looking busy, looking at TikTok and Instagram all damn day. They will keep the head down because they ain't gonna be able to afford the.

Ticket, right, I already know already that's.

What they gonna do. They can keep a lot of undesirables up. Man. I appreciate you man, really coming to sit down with us. Man. I think you gave people a lot of important information and I like to switch stuff up there once in a while. Man, you know it can't be all about just I don't know, man, I think I'm just getting old dog got talking about some real ship sometimes. You know.

I appreciate it, man, and it's I ain't gonna lost a full circle moment for me. My brother come home next month after fifteen years, and we've always been a big fan of a I wish Bro could have been here.

Just oh, man, what I don't tell you I gotta tell you, man, while we're doing this, Dog, we go we gonna do this again. This ain't. I actually held off half of my question, dog because I know he's gonna want to do it. We had talked about doing you together, but then he has some stuff that came up and so Man, but we definitely gonna do this again though, Bro. And when you're bro come.

On he come home April seventeen.

Oh man, we haven't done before then, Man, I promise you, Yeah, promise you. And on that know, y'all we out here. Thank you, Bro.

I appreciate you having him.

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