OUR NEXT GUEST REALLY NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION TO THE CHICAGO AUDIENCE, BUT I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY.

RAPPER ACTOR, ACTIVIST COMMON, HE EVEN TOOK TIME RECENTLY TO KIND OF PROMOTIONAL SPOT FOR WBTW NEWS AND HE'S AN OFFER.

WELL, HE'S BACK IN CHICAGO TO TALK ABOUT HIS LATEST BOOK.

AND THEN WE RISE A GUIDE TO LOVING AND TAKING CARE OF SELF COMMON SAT DOWN WITH US AT THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY TO TALK ABOUT THE BOOK AND SOME OF HIS ACTIVISM.

WE STARTED HOW THE PANDEMIC PLAYED A ROLE IN HIM WRITING THIS BOOK.

>> THE PANDEMIC WAS LIGHT.

A TURNING POINT FOR ME WANT TO SHARE BEFORE WAS SOMETHING THAT I WAS LIKE, OK, THIS IS THIS IS WHAT I DO.

THIS IS THE WAY I LIVE AND I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS IF I FEEL THAT COULD BECOME A PRE 2 ALIKE.

YEAH, THIS IS WHY I'M DOING THIS.

AND CLEAR WITH THIS BECAUSE THESE THINGS THAT COME OFF LIKE I FEEL LIKE I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.

BUT I THINK DURING THE PANDEMIC, WHAT HAPPENED WAS PEOPLE REACHED OUT TO ME.

TO ASK ME CERTAIN THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S CONVERSATIONS.

I WOULD HAVE IT.

PEOPLE TALK TO ME ABOUT THEIR DIETS, PATTI YOU KNOW, IN A WAY OF SEEKING MAKING TO CURIOSITY, LET ME KNOW THEY WANTED TO BE BETTER.

ALSO DURING THE PANDEMIC, THE WORKOUTS THAT I WOULD DO INSTAGRAM LIVE HOME PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITH SAY SOME TO ME LIKE WOW, MAN AND THE WORKOUTS.

I STARK.

I WOULD USE ALL IG LIVE IN AND HELP ME THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.

REALLY THANK YOU FOR THAT.

AND I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW MUCH I WAS DOING IT FOR FUN.

AND JUST SAID IS LIKE WHY WE'RE HOME.

BECAUSE I KNOW MY FRIENDS.

WE ENJOY IT.

SO I JUST SAID AND THAT LET ME KNOW THAT IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO.

SO SPREAD THE WORD OF THINGS THAT I MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED A NO.

AND AS MY EXPERIENCES AND SOME OF MY THOUGHTS.

BUT ALSO I TALKED TO DOCTOR TRACY RICO, WHO'S THE INTEGRATE OF, YOU KNOW, THIS USE INTEGRATED MEDICINE, WHICH IS WESTERN AND EASTERN METHODS OF OF HEALING.

I TALK WITH MY THERAPIST AND SHE'S IN THE BOOK.

I TALK WITH MY TRAINER GABE WAS WORKOUTS IN THE BOOK AND THEN, YOU KNOW, VEGAN CHEF TOO, WHO TREMENDOUS NAME LAUREN VAN DE RECIPES.

BUT SHE'S BEEN A BIG COMPONENT.

>> IN TIMES WHEN I REALLY NEEDED TO FOCUS IN.

EITHER DO SOMETHING FOR ROLE.

AND WHEN I WAS DOING A PLAY ON BROADWAY, IT WAS NEEDED THAT THAT TYPE OF DIET, TOO, TO FUNCTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.

BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU WROTE EARLY IN THE BOOK THAT I FOUND INTERESTING.

YOU WRITE THAT ARE LORD CALLS TAKING CARE OF HERSELF, QUOTE, POLITICAL WARFARE.

YEAH, WOW.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

FIRST OF SEASONS SPECIAL, >> AND AND HAS A SPECIAL PHILOSOPHIES.

JUST POWERFUL.

AND TAKE ITSELF IS POLITICAL WILL FACE IN ALIGNMENT.

SO WHAT I WANTED BOOK TO BE ABOUT A FIRM BELIEVER IN LIKE THE WE LOVE MYSELF.

THE MORE WE TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES.

THE MORE WE COME BACK IN A NEGATIVE THINGS THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE WORLD LIKE IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T GIVING SPACE TO GET TO YOU.

IT'S NOT.

YOU HAVE WHEN LIKE RELEASED SINCE HITTING YOURSELF AND YOUR HIGHER SELF.

THE THINGS JUST TRYING TO GET IT TO THE NEGATIVITY, THE NEGATIVE CONVERSATIONS, THE THE NEGATIVE INFORMATION, THE NEGATIVE TWEETS AND AND THE RACISM AND SEXISM.

IT HAS LESS OVER.

CHANCE TO GET INTO YOUR OR INTO SPIRIT INTO YOUR HEART.

BECAUSE HUGE HAVE BUILD YOURSELF UP TO TO JUST NOT BE ON.

THAT VIBRATION.

IT'S LIKE IT'S ALMOST LIKE.

THEY SPEAKING ANOTHER LANGUAGE THAT YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND BECAUSE IT'S SO NEGATIVE YOU IN ON THAT NEGATIVE LANGUAGE.

SO IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T ACCEPT IT.

WE DOING ENOUGH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION.

NOW HE AND HIS WORLD.

SO LIKE WHAT'S THE THING?

WE HAVE POWER OVER?

I CELLS I SELF AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE WE TRULY HAVE POWER OVER EVERY DAY.

4 PILLARS OF THE BOOK BECAUSE YOU'VE MENTIONED FOOD, BODY, MIND, SOUL AND, YOU KNOW, 2 IN THE VEIN OF WHAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, AS FAR AS THAT BEING SORT OF POLITICAL WARFARE THAT BEING REVOLUTIONARY TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.

HOW DO YOU HOW DO YOU BRING THAT MESSAGE TO SOME OF THE YOUNG FOLKS IN CHICAGO WHO?

CARING FOR SELF IS JUST NOT SOMETHING THAT'S TOP OF MIND FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY THEY'RE THEY'RE FIGHTING SOME OTHER BATTLES.

AND I TOTALLY I NEVER EVEN HEARD THAT.

I'M LIKE SELF-CARE AND SELF-LOVE LIKE.

GROWING UP.

I WAS IN MY MID 20'S, BUT I'LL SAY, YOU KNOW, ONE THING I DO KNOW ABOUT THE YOUTH CHICAGO AND YOUTH EVERYWHERE WE WANT TO THEY WANT TO ACHIEVE.

THEY WANT TO LIKE.

DO SOMETHING IN LIFE AND BE SOMETHING USE THERE.

THE LAST HORSE, SOMETHING THAT THEY DREAM OF AND WANT TO.

AND WANT TO EXCEL.

AND AND AND.

THESE THINGS ABOUT TAKING CARE SELF WELL.

THE STEPS TOWARDS GETTING TO WHATEVER YOUR VISION AND GOAL AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS, IT WILL.

>> GIVE YOU TO BE HAPPIER AND MORE JOYFUL AND FULFILLED AS YOU FIND OUT WHAT THAT IS.

PROPER FOODS IN FOODS THAT CLEAN OF FOODS AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU GOT TO BE VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN LIKE A CLEANER, ADDING JUST SIMPLE THINGS LIKE WATER VEGETABLES TO YOUR DIET WILL AFFECT THE WAY YOU FEEL AND THINK LIKE FOOD AS EMOTIONAL WEIGHT TO IT, TOO, IT DOESN'T COST YOU EITHER TO TAKE A LITTLE TIME IN THE MORNING.

LIKE JUST SELF I WHATEVER YOU NEED, IT MIGHT BE A MONTOUR THAT YOU SAY TO CHARGES SELF UP.

MIGHT BE A SCRIPTURE THAT DID IT.

YOU FEEL IS LIKE ENCOURAGING US STRENGTHEN YOU TAKING THE TIME JUST SETTLE AND MEDITATE.

MEDITATION IS NOT.

AND THEY GOT TO BE SO FOREIGN TO YOU.

IT'S JUST LIKE YOU CALM YOUR MIND BEING INTO WHICH A BREATH.

MY MEDITATION IS NOT ANYTHING THAT I GOT FROM THE GREAT BUDDHIST TEACHER LIKE I I PICKED UP FROM DIFFERENT PLACES.

I WENT AND SAY, OK, WHAT?

HOW IT'S CENTER MYSELF?

WANTED TO COULDN'T TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE SPOKEN UP ON >> YOU AND IMAGINE JUSTICE YOU FUNDED THE REBIRTH OF SOUND PROGRAMS STATE, WAS THAT SOMETHING ALL OF THAT WORK?

WAS THAT SOMETHING YOU FELT LIKE?

IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SPEAK OUT ON?

>> I WAS HAVING A CONVERSATION.

GUY WAS DOING A DOCUMENTARY WITH A WOMAN NAMED MICHELLE ALEXANDER.

SHE WROTE A BOOK ON THE NEW JIM CROW AND THE NEW JIM CROW WAS ABOUT HOW?

YOU KNOW FROM SLAVERY TO THE JIM CROW LAWS.

SO PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, YOU KNOW, MASS INCARCERATION.

IT'S ALL BEEN PLATES TO KEEP.

BLACK PEOPLE AS SECOND CLASS CITIZENS.

THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX KEEPING BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE AS SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS.

SO WHEN I WAS HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH HER, I WAS TELLING YOU KNOW, MY THING IS ABOUT TRYING TO HELP CHICAGO AND KIND OF BROKEN DOWN TO SIMPLE ABOUT LIE.

HOW?

MEN AND WOMEN BEING INCARCERATED WAS ACTUALLY.

PERPETUATING VIOLENCE THAT GOES ON BECAUSE YOU TAKEN FATHERS OUT OF THE HOME.

YOU PEOPLE SOMETIMES MOTHERS OUT OF THE HOME AND EVEN WHEN PEOPLE.

JAILS AND PRISONS, 80%.

I THINK IS 89% OF THE POPULATION COMES BACK.

IF THEY DON'T COME BACK HIELD OR CHANGED AND THEY BRING EVEN THAT BACK, YOU KNOW, TO TO THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN OUR PROGRAM IS IS GET TO SEE VIDEOS TO BE ON SINCE SONGS.

AND IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS STUFF IS REALLY GOOD WORK.

AND I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT CREATIVITY CAN BE TOWARDS HEALING UNTIL IT'S LIKE KIND RE STORE YOUR COMMUNITY SELF FOR I KNOW IS HE'S BEEN BENEFITING THEM AND THEY'VE EXPRESSED IT.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I MOST PROUD OF AND INSPIRED BY.

AND I HAPPEN TO KNOW THEY'RE PROBABLY WATCHING.

WHAT WOULD YOU TO THE MINUTE STABLE WHO ARE WATCHING RIGHT NOW?

>> TO THE MEN, AS THEY JUST WANT TO YOU KNOW, HUMANITY IS GLOWING IS SHOWING DIFFERENT WAYS LIKE.

I KNOW MANY PEOPLE OUTSIDE.

THAT A FREE JUST THINK LIE, OK, MAY I DID SOME AND THAT'S IT.

YOU WRONG.

BUT IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE TRULY DO CAN BELIEVE IN FORGIVENESS, BELIEVE IN HEALING, REALLY EVEN LIGHT.

THE HUMANITY.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE STEPS.

2 ACTUALLY LAKE SHOW YOUR HUMANITY AND SHOW YOU CREATIVITY.

AND IN LIGHT.

YOUR GOING FROM DARK TO LIGHT IS ACTUALLY CHANGING THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE IN CERTAIN WAYS AND CONTINUE TO DO IS NOT HE'S NOT OVERLOOKED OR NOT.

UNHEARD AND THE MORE WE CAN GET IT OUT THERE, THE MORE I THINK, YOU KNOW.

YOU ALL WILL BE HEARD YOUR VOICES AND YOU WILL IMPACT PEOPLE LIVE IN A SOCIETY KEEP KEEP EYES ON THE PRIZE.

KEEP BRIGHT OUTLOOK BECAUSE ANYTHING THAT HAPPENED IN A POSITIVE WAY.

>> AND THOUGH HE LIVES IN BROOKLYN THE OFFER ALSO SAYS THAT HE'S ESPECIALLY PROUD TO BE ABLE TO BRING THIS BOOK