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So this morning I woke up to this viral video. Black men always have to work 10x harder just to get a fraction of what everybody else got. If you not from my city or you never been to DC, we have a metro system called WMATA. And then Jake comes here from Florida, right? He takes the metro one time, get over 200,000 views, and within five days, he has a deal with Metro to show their new signage and he's walking down the street with their CEO within five to six days. This young man, if you from my city, everybody in my city done seen this young man. 19 years old, done came here from Arkansas and highlighted and romanticized the metro system that we grew up on, going to metro stop after metro stop, went over 20, maybe 25 plus metro stops. And when he goes there, he shows the beauty of the neighborhoods that have long been forgotten by our own government. He shows the culture, the community. That was a video made by Neighborhood Alky, a person I consider a brother and a great friend here in Washington DC. He basically reiterated how I felt after seeing the situation with Metro. If y'all don't know, I've never did any collaborations, I've never partnered, I've never did any meeting, I've never been in the headquarters of Metro, and I've been probably the biggest metro content creator just around that space this whole last five months. If you add my views together from all the platforms, I've easily crossed over 10 million views. That's what a lot of people know me for. And people tell me all the time, I'm the reason they started back taking the metro. I'm the reason that they got on the metro to explore different places. I'm the reason that they know that the metro is safe again. And since it wasn't going the way that I wanted to, I started pivoting. Now I do personalized content, I do college content, and people follow me for a plethora of things now. But the metro series is where I started from and I take the metro a lot. So when I seen the CEO of Metro meet with someone who just came here, he did like one or two videos about the metro and isn't even residing here, he was from Florida. A part of me understood, another part of me was clearly upset. I felt like they were kind of playing in my face with all the hard work. But this morning after that video, a great friend of mine named Andy the Comedian actually put me on the phone with Metro themselves and they basically reassured me that we will be working on something. We had a conversation, some things that we talked about I can't really disclose, but they reassured me that they have seen the videos and that we'll be working on something. I'm just happy that the people are able to rally behind me and see how I feel and feel that same way and recognize me for the hard work that I've done. That's all I ever wanted. I'm not a person that, I don't need the money from Metro, I don't need the publicity from Metro. I do things genuinely out of kindness of my heart. I didn't even care about not working with Metro until this happened because I didn't think that they did collaborations with content creators. Since they started about a week ago, they have did a collaboration with my boy Andy the Comedian, which is how we even got the connection. I didn't know anything other than just they weren't working with me. That was that. And another thing I want to address while we here, is I had an altercation yesterday in Southeast DC in Anacostia with the fellow young brother. I was recording content on the corner, I was talking to somebody who clearly wanted to be on camera, but it was people off to the left. He was pointing somewhere talking about food, so I panned the camera and there was a guy that got upset that I had the camera on him. And the situation was what it was. I might put a little clip on the screen. But I've been getting a lot of DMs, people speaking death on me, saying that I'm a die, saying that I'm a get myself killed, just speaking a lot of negativity. I've been blocking a lot of people this morning. I don't speak things over my life like that. Obviously I know to be safe, obviously I know to stay aware and move a certain way and stay out of different places. Y'all don't know what I was there for. I was there for business. I had things to do and I had something to accomplish. But thank God that we made it out that situation. So all the people saying stay safe and be careful, I appreciate y'all from the bottom of my heart. These last two days been a lot, but I just appreciate all the people who support me, support the move all the way from Arkansas to DC, and understand what we really getting at.