Real Talk: The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia

Real Talk: The Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia is a 2007 short documentary directed by Tim Smoove, which won the 2007 Freddie Award in the Adolescent Health category. It includes commentary from American rapper Lupe Fiasco.
== Synopsis ==
In 2006, there were 406 murders in the city of Philadelphia. A staggering number which signals a crisis. Equally alarming, the majority of those killed were young black males, at the hands of other young black males. MEE Productions examined the root causes of the violence claiming our young people's lives - poverty, unemployment, a broken educational system, community, the media, and respect/self esteem. More importantly, we define solutions to un-learn this down-ward spiral of violent behavior, and avoid its disastrous consequences for this generation, and those to come.
== Dialogue ==
Interviewer	What did you do to avoid violence in the streets?
Lupe Fiasco	I punked out. Yeah, I punked out. You know what I'm saying? You're going to lose mad cool points, which is what I lost. I understood at a very early age that there was something out there that wasn't for me. I don't wanna be like that. Jail ain't cool, being shot at ain't cool. You know what I'm sayin'? I took that nerd route, you know what I'm sayin'? Intentionally, to keep me alive. So I punked out. Lupe Fiasco punked out. I wasn't no punk, but I punked out from something else. You know what I'm sayin'? I didn't punk out to no gangsters, I punked out against like ignorance. I punked out from oppression, like I'm not finna be oppressed to you. And a lot of my friends took the cool route. So many of them locked up, been locked up, and ran through the system dead. And I looked back. And that's why nobody can say nothing to me. No rapper, no gansta in the hood, no n***a can tell me nothing, 'bout nothing. Calling it 'You made a [?] record, you made a record by such-and-such, you ain't from the hood,' like thank you. Thank you. I know I'm not from the hood. I'm from there, my body is from there but my mind is from somewhere completely else.
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