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What's going on world? It's your man Farag Gray. It's your man Chuck Creekmer
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We've had a long day. It's your man Chuck Creekmer, Jigsaw, All Hip Hop, here with Farag Gray at the BET Awards. What's up
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Man, I'm excited that BET is here and possibly gonna be black owned again
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That's what's up. You're not at the table, you're on the menu
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That's a fact. That's a fact. First things first, talk to me about Hip Hop 50
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But see, this is our spin, 50 years forward in the future. We're talking the future now
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Absolutely. Hip Hop culture has really been the foundation and really transcended beyond what they ever expected
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And of course we have the vultures and the capitalists that have taken it and perverted it with something that was very pure
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So it's allhiphop.com and others on the front lines who are preserving the culture
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So to see BET hopefully in the hands of our people, because if they don't treat you right, they won't teach you right
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And if they don't teach you right, they won't treat you right, to quote Khaled Mohammed, my father
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I may have messed that one up, dad, but forgive me, I was close
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So therefore, it's very important to make sure it's in the hands of the people that will literally not only preserve the culture, but move it 50 years
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And I always say beyond 50 years, generations yet unborn. Yes, absolutely
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You know, speak on your father, man. You know, for the longest time, we didn't make that connection immediately
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And he's someone who was so unapologetically black. And I mean, in the most sturdy way you can imagine
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I'm reading the book. I'm still reading it, by the way. I'm a slow... Attorney Malik Zula Shabazz
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It's a fascinating book, by the way, I should add. I'm never going to stop reading
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You know, when I read, I like to... I don't want it to end, basically. So sometimes I just read real slow
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But talk about being his son. Wow. You know, as I get older, I realize the impact of him being a freedom fighter, what he meant to people
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Because to me, he was just dad, you know. So I find myself studying his speeches
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Even when reading the biography, I learn things about him. So I chose a different path
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I believe that business is warfare. As the Honorable Elijah Muhammad spoke so very frequently about, the importance of green power and black power coming together
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With our buying power, we're spending at an alarming rate. And at the end of the day, we are not..
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I'll put it this way. We're the only race of people that don't feed ourselves
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If you ask us what we ate, we're going to tell you Chinese food, Italian food, Polish sausage
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So we are not feeding ourselves. We have an international stomach. So to look at entrepreneurship, agriculture, because where there is no culture, therefore, we have no agriculture
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We're not feeding our own. So entrepreneurship was the path that I chose
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Economic evangelism. And my father always supported that. So, you know, to have Khaled Muhammad as a father, who I believe is still with us here spiritually
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You know, it's definitely an honor. So as I learned more about my father's impact in many of the speeches, I was right there with him
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Right, right. But now I'm really like, wow. You know, the wow factor
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He has a line, something along the lines of saying somebody has to hold the line
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Somebody has to hold the line, man. That always rings out as being a black-owned property. Absolutely
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And that actual quote came from a man that trained him, Captain Ali Rashid
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He would always say, man, hold the line. So whatever it was, whatever, no matter what you went through, you know, my father faced assassination attempts over and over and over again
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There wasn't a day where he was not told that, you know, there was a bomb threat or that someone wanted to kill him
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So, you know, check out the book of Khaled. Also check out faragrey.com and always stay tuned to allhiphop.com
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Appreciate you. Thank you so much. All right
