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AllHipop.com's in the building with Erica Forbini Siegel
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They have an event coming up, gaming for peace. Yes, yeah, yeah
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Yes, sir. In the throes in the building. Yes, yes. Let's get it. All right, y'all
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Tell us about it. And tell us how y'all got together, too. But tell me about the event and then how y'all got together
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Okay. So it's game changes weekend because you know I'm a game change
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danger to just how it is. You know, so Sunday I'm passing the baton
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You know, I saw your eyes open up wide. After all these years, I'm turning
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over the leadership of LifeCams, state-to-day operation. So part of the whole
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weekend, one of my friends, Marvin Bing, was into this game itself. He's like, yo, you should tie it in. I was like
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but then I was like, why not? Right? And so, as another
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tool to get young people involved in what we're doing and open it up what you know that whole conversation about making peace a
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lifestyle to a new audience right and so we're doing game for peace we had 512 young people from
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across the united states compete and the final four is coming to queens on saturday
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$20,000 pool cash prize nice nice okay um how did y'all link up how did you all link up
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you know those same mutual uh Friends she spoke about Marvin Bing connected us I doing a lot of work in my city in Philadelphia with you know gun violence awareness and mental health awareness and things like that
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And he said he was going to link me up with somebody that can help me on that path
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and, you know, pull me up on a game and how to just, you know, start moving forward on that
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were you familiar with Erica because Erica is a legend in New York
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yeah super legend yeah and of course you knew beans you know no
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never heard of his music before of course duh trying to figure out who Marvin was why he was bringing
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this guy but I said what to hell I heard him rap and you know
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he's got a little bit of skills there a little bit right Almost a bit
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He's a credible messenger. He's a real, his heart leads, you know, and so it made sense
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Right. It makes sense. And I love the brother, you know, where he comes from and what he represents
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And so, you know, we've been doing some work ever since. Right. So for those that's not aware about the Gaming for Peace concept
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can you break it down for somebody that may not be informed on exactly what is that
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So it's an NBA 2K game. Okay. They competed. It was two days full elimination, just like the March Madness
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Okay. And the final four is coming here. And they going to compete against each other at York College for the prize Okay And they also contribute prize money to an organization in there anywhere in the city that they want to that does violence prevention
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Right, got you. Okay. Are you going to incorporate this in Philly, perhaps, maybe
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Oh, no question. No question. Okay. Yeah, we do stuff in Wilmington, Delaware, with a group called Raising Kings
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and Raising Kings is employing the same type of thing. What is it about gaming that you feel attracts kids
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You know, at one point it was hip hop, and now it seems like that's shifting too. So gaming is where they're at
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If you want to deal with them, you've got to go where they're at. Right? And then work with them from where they're at to bring them where you want to go
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And so it's infusing the two cultures or the two, you know, for us, it's about saving lives
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Right. There are lives and lives we want to save. And so we want to make it cool
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you don't want to do something that's not cool and that they don't want it to. And so that's how and why
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And gaming is a big business. And our young people should pop it over
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Right. Now, speaking of that, now is there music associated with this
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Because with every game, there's music. You know what I mean? So is that obviously why Beans is a part of it, I would think
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You know what I mean? Not just the music part. It's all kind of aspects about it
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You know, with gaming there comes, you know, they can own their own
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game. Right, okay. That I'm starting to learn about these servers and things like that
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Right, right, right. So it gives them different avenues to be able to you know express their selves through so they won have to be out there Right Releasing aggression in negative ways So you got music you got you know for lack of better terms like I said you know they can learn coding
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Right. Programming, yeah. You know, avenues of different things that they can be able to, you know, make money off of. Right
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Now Erica, some of the games are weird. Like the culture gets a little weird
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I was talking to a friend of mine whose daughter is in that. And then, you know, sometimes it gets a little weird
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And also then there's the other side where this is like shoot them up. How do you address that
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Is there any concern? I mean, we've been working together for over 30 years
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And so in everything there is both sides, right? And so how do you continue to bring people to your side
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You got to get in it and then you got to win their minds over to something different, right
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Yeah. And so if we can partner with the NBA, partner with artists and athletes
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and really make it cool and create our own games. Yeah, yeah, yeah
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Right, create our own games. And then create a way where we can have fun by having fun
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with non-creepy or killing, you know? I think Soldier Boy tried that, right
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He's the first. Yeah, he's the first. He's the first. Yeah, definitely
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To try, think about it. All that. Okay. All right. I bet
