Karamo mediates between mother Quayda and son Brandon, who uses the nickname "5 Glocks" and posted gun images online after being hospitalized from a school fight. Brandon insists he's not a gangster but wants to be a music producer, while his mother feels disrespected and unheard.
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You talk too much. Keep your mouth closed. Keep your mouth closed. How can you listen and you talking? Look at him. That's what I'm saying. How you doing?
Nice to meet you.
I'm Quayda. I'm Quayda. Hi.
Nice to meet you. Quayda, so why are you angry at your son?
Because he just do stuff. All he does is talk, talk, talk. I do everything I can for this child right here. I love this child, but it makes me, the things that he do makes me hate him. It makes me feel like I hate him. I don't hate anybody, but it makes me feel like I hate him because of things that he do. He know that. He always snaring up his nose like he's better than everybody else. You ain't better than, I take care of you. Then he sit up here talking about you grown. That's what I'm saying.
I don't act like I'm better than everybody else. I know I'm not like everybody else.
Then you talking about I'm famous. Hell, you ain't making no money from it.
Okay, the money's coming after the fame.
You ain't famous. Okay, whatever, but like I said.
You're not.
Like I said, that's what I'm saying, that little kind of stuff like that. You talking about you're not, okay, who said I was? I ain't say I was famous. You the one out here calling yourself 5 Glocks. What does that mean? The only 5 blocks, 5 blocks you going is walking them 5 blocks to school. You don't have no gun, you don't have none of that. Like that's what I'm saying. I never said I had a gun. Yeah, but it don't matter, so why you call yourself 5 Glocks?
How long has this fight been going on between you two?
Listen, this child been acting like this and rude to me his whole entire life. This been going on, but it seemed like since I say last year, you can see I got a little piece of tail 'cause you know they say you're smelling yourself, you know? So that's when all this disrespect when he was about 15. So all my friends was like, well maybe he done had a piece of tail or something. 'Cause I say, 'cause he always been, he always had an attitude and all this stuff like that. But it's disrespect. Like, I can't talk to him. Every time I try to talk to him, he talk over me. Then, like, when I try to talk to him, he close the door.
When I try to talk to her, she don't wanna listen.
You don't either. You don't either, Karamo.
Every time I try to listen to my mom, all she do is yell. I don't wanna listen to my mom yell all the time.
Well, if somebody's not listening to me and they saying blah, blah, blah and rolling their eyes and slurring it up like you better than everybody else, of course I'm gonna yell. If I don't feel like he listening, If I don't feel like he listening, then of course I'm gonna get a dub and see why he talking about, I don't want my other son to be out 'cause he's smart, he's in band, he do stuff. This boy don't have no interest in nothing. He don't have no, and you talking about make good grades.
I'm interested in a lot of stuff.
No baby, you—
I'm not gonna make it like I'm just super smart, but I'm trying to work on myself.
Brandon, what are you interested in doing?
I'm trying to be a musical engineer. I wanna go to college so I can be, yeah.
In music? You wanna be a musical engineer?
Yeah, 'cause I love music. And I wanna be a producer.
You feel like Brandon's social media is a problem?
Exactly.
What is it?
Because when he did, when he got in DAP, D-E-A-P is what it called, whatever. Only reason he in it 'cause he making threats on social media, putting pictures of guns and doing all that.
I don't own no guns. I'm not even a gangster. It was actually in my private story. Nobody was in there.
What were you mad about?
I was mad 'cause the dude, he pushed me on the table. I'm in a hospital. I was going through pain. I'm mad. All I'm thinking about is getting him back. I'm not worried about nothing else. All I'm worried about is getting him back.
Why were you in the hospital?
I got into an altercation. Dude pushed me on the, pushed me, my head hit the table. I went.
So at school?
Yeah.
So at school you were in an altercation, your head hit the table and then you had to go to the hospital?
Yeah.
So when you were in the hospital, you were just so angry about what this kid did at school.
Yeah.
That you posted something.
Yeah.
Understand. What did you think you were gonna gain by that? Was it to intimidate him? And I'm asking honestly.
No, it really wasn't. It wasn't for him to see. I don't even know why I posted it. There was no reason to it.
I hear that.
There was no reason to it. I'm not gonna shoot nobody. I will beat somebody up. I got them hands. I'm not gonna play with nobody.
Yeah.
But it's just like, I don't even, I don't do none of that. I'm not a gangster.
I know.
I'm actually a child of God though.
Mm-hmm.
Hold up, hold up.
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