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