:22:01
They was just kids,
but I saw them as Bloods.
:22:04
Then this one fool...
:22:08
...I don't know, 13 or 14 years old...
:22:11
...kicking it to some girl...
:22:12
...tickling, whatnot...
:22:15
Suddenly he turns around...
:22:17
...and sees my 9 in his face.
:22:19
He didn't get a chance to blink.
:22:21
That was your first time.
:22:23
Brother, if I used...
:22:25
...both my hands...
:22:27
...to count the number of kids...
:22:30
...that I canceled...
:22:33
...I'd run out of fingers.
:22:34
So what made you quit, Jamal?
:22:37
Went to my best friend's funeral.
:22:40
Now, I done buried a lot of homies...
:22:46
...but my boy, D,
was like a brother to me.
:22:50
And it wasn't like
I wanted to go out and kill...
:22:52
...every Blood in the 'hood.
:23:00
I guess I wanted
one of them to smoke me.
:23:03
So I went up in their 'hood.
:23:06
Where I come from, that's suicide.
:23:08
There wasn't a Blood in sight.
:23:12
That's when I realized I'd just
pull the trigger on myself.
:23:18
Next thing you know...
:23:21
...I meet Jindai.
:23:24
She breaks it down to me...
:23:26
...on how Allah has a plan
for my life...
:23:31
...and how he could use me.
:23:33
Because nowadays, brothers just
kill each other on a glare.
:23:42
She made me realize...
:23:46
...how lost I really was.
:23:50
And that...
:23:51
...killing myself...
:23:53
...wasn't gonna end that cycle.
:23:55
You know what will
end the cycle, Jamal?