Name: Ali Siddiq on "I Don't Know Anyting Else" Mentality
Uploaded: 2023-06-14T17:31:08.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ali Siddiq on "I Don't Know Anyting Else" Mentality' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-14. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- They don't slap you on your wrist like other places.
No, you can get a life sentence in Houston easy.
Easy.
Do something out of pocket.
Like you was doing somewhere,
oh you gonna just carjack.
All right, that's a capital offense.
You had a weapon while you was carjacking?
Okay, capital.
What did that start with? 35.
Whatever it is, it's gonna be 35 years and up.
So get that wrapped around your mind.
Oh, you watched them come out the bank?
Oh, you premeditated robbing?
Oh, okay.
Sure got you on video too.
And you had a weapon?
Oh yeah, another capital.
Like, damn.
Like, man, you get hit with so many charges
and then they find out you got a weapon?
You got a weapon?
Like this is how they point at you.
You had a weapon?
Capital, they ready to throw capital on everything.
Wow.
Because they need more people to put in these jails.
How scary is that?
How scary is that?
Texas is like this.
I only had to go once.
And it is nothing ever in my life that I do
to ever get back to that position.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I'll hold court in the street before something like that happens.
Look, I'm not in favor of carjacking or armed robbery.
Not in any stretch of the imagination.
But until we address why this is all happening.
Yeah.
Until you address why some people have zero need to rob people
and some people, that's the only way they can get by.
Or the way they've learned to get by and it's been in their neighborhood for so
long.
They've been dealing with gang violence and drug dealing and chaos all their
life.
So, I ask you this.
Being formally from this position, have I not seen anything else?
Like, ever.
See, sometimes I can rationalize when people say, "I don't know anything else."
You have a smart phone?
How did you find out about smart phones?
Because they didn't come to the hood and drop a bunch of smart phones in the
hood.
So, how did you find out about it?
What you was watching?
Where you was at?
Okay.
So, you was somewhere?
Okay, cool.
Were they doing what you were doing, what you're doing right now at that place?
Like, were they, were you, were you found out about a smart phone?
Were they gang banging at the place?
Or were they shooting and robbing people and cutting up dope?
Like, what movie haven't you seen that shows you the results of this?
What person haven't you heard speak?
Like, even when I was, even when I was doing wrong, I had a sensibility of, I
heard Public Enemy while I was doing wrong.
Like, I, I heard Run-DMC, I heard other things that had positive stuff while I
was still doing wrong, and, I can't say it's all I know, because, no, I wouldn't
have never found out about a smart phone if I was in the street.
Because I would be in the street.
So, it's not all you know, but it is what you're accustomed to if you grow up
in a terrible neighborhood.
I don't, I don't even think.
If you don't have good role models, if the people around you, I mean, you tell
me.
It's, I, I'm, this is what I'm, this is what I'm saying.
I, I think that it's a lot of parts to this that, but when, it's also like when
raising kids, like I, like my oldest daughter, I used to tell, tell her mom,
don't say this in front of her.
Cause then you give her that option as an excuse.
Yeah.
Something she probably never would have even thought of using, but when I give
her the option to use it, that's the thing.
Like, with me, I'm very transparent about, man, I didn't have to be in the
street selling, though my mom had a job.
My desire for what I accepted outside of what my mother was saying to me,
because nobody's mother is saying to them, get out in the street and gang bang
and, and, and create ruckus.
Nobody.
So, when does that voice become less important to you than whatever you're
seeing in the street?
Because nobody in my community, not one black mother I ever even known in my
life said to their child, this is the only way for you to go and get it.
It's to rob, pillage, steal, kill, sell dope.
Not one person.
I've never heard that story while I was in, while I was in prison.
From nobody.
And when people would tell me, man, this is all I know.
How in the hell is that all that you know?
It's impossible for that to be all that you know, because you were doing
something before you were doing that.
I see what you're saying.
I see what you're saying.
You're a person that takes extreme responsibility, though.
You're also a grown man.
And you're also a man with a fully formed brain.
And your frontal lobe.
As a kid.
As a kid.
As a kid, you knew this.
Well, you were wise.
As a kid, I wasn't, I wasn't, man, Joe, man, well, me, we was out in the street
doing stuff.
We knew that it was wrong.
That's why we was trying to hide it from our parents.
Of course.
I wasn't trying to hide my basketball championship from my mother.
Of course.
I wasn't trying to hide.
When I was working and earned something from working, I wasn't trying to hide
that from her.
I knew exactly what I was doing because of how we were going about doing it.
And all of us knew that we were wrong.
And the consequences, what was ridiculous was we thinking that it's a, oh, we
just go in and get a slap on the wrist.
Not understanding what you got to go through to even get that slap on the wrist.
Because when you, once, you got to get arrested first.
And when you go to, when you go to the county jail, the county jail is not a
place.
This is full of grown men.
And they don't care nothing about you being 17.
They don't care nothing about you being 18.
Caring nothing about you being 19.
Because you didn't, whatever you were doing in the street, you didn't care.
So why would we care about what you got going on in here?
And we're going to put you in the worst position.
So maybe you can say that you don't want to be in this position.
Maybe it's the people who love you will come get you out of this position.
Like my mother did the first time.
When my mother bonded me out the first time, I should have learned then.
I should have learned then.
This lady has a job.
And I'm making it harder for her.
I'm putting my mother in the hole $2,000.
I got a $20,000 bond.
How old were you then?
I'm 16.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
And I have no reason because I want a goddamn UNLV jacket.
Well, you know that now.
But what did you think when you were 16?
You know what happened was, how I even get in this situation, I'm in the car
with some people that's really petty.
They're really petty.
And I know these people are petty because they're robbing people.
And I'm not no robber.
I'm a hustler.
And I know better than be with somebody that's a robber.
Because it's two different categories on things.
I'm hustling for whatever I want.
You're taking something from somebody.
You're a thief.
And I'm in the car.
And he snatched this lady purse.
And I don't say nothing.
I'm in the car.
They just on camera in the parking lot.
Everybody that go in the car, we go in there.
I'm not going to snitch on you.
But I didn't take no purse.
And I told my mom, I ain't take that lady purse.
But did you get some Jordans from the credit card that somebody used?
I'm with them.
But I ain't take nothing from that lady.
I told them, man, that's stupid.
And boom, now I'm on probation.
Then, hey, I'm working at the grocery store.
But I still got bread from my hustling.
So I'm trying to, I'm in a position.
And I'm trying to figure out how to give my mother this $2,000 back.
For some dumb shit that I done did.
Man, I'm not supposed to be with nobody even like this.
And see, nowadays, people got this weird loyalty to people who they don't even
fucking know.
That's the crazy thing.
You got loyalty to somebody who you don't know that they ain't got as much to
lose as you.
I only hang, I only really hang with men that got things to lose like me.
So you make better decisions.
Yeah.
Hey, man, I'm not, hey, man, you got, man, what, what are you responsible for?
Or who are you responsible for?
That means a lot to me as a character of your person.
Oh, I'm just out for self.
Oh, no, bro.
You can't hang with me and you ain't got nobody to just be responsible for you,
just yourself.
No.
No.