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Music is is always a voice for the streets so my last stop is a legendary blues club in chicago where malik accomplished something that was once thought to be impossible. he got two gangs, old school do or die crew and old school. if you're just tuning in, i'm dr. cornell west. do these guys all know each other? >> not really. >> they all know owe? >> yeah. >> but don't know each other? >> not really. >> is that anything that can lead to an issue? >> yeah, definitely. >> okay. all right. even though they are all musicians and cool with you, we don't know they are cool with each other? >> nah, ...

Slow down, we'll address that later. but first. following the killing of trayvon martin in 2012, three activists, started a hashtag, black lives matter. they had this crazy idea that, i don't know, maybe it shouldn't be cool to kill black people for no reason. it sparked a movement. for some reason polarizing debate. polarizing for some people because for them, shouldn't it be all lives matter? have you heard the phrase black lives matter? >> yeah. >> what do you think about it? >> i don't know if it's a color thing, but i think every life matters. >> see. what does the phrase black lives matt...

>> can you kind of tell me a little bit? >> what you said is true. all lives should matter. but right now, but not right now. to many people -- because all lives don't really matter in the same way. and then all lives matter is like an aspirational goal. white people, learn from her. >> i love the black lives matter movement. >> see. >> i think it's important. and i think -- i wish there was more a focus on education. >> well, lady who was such a big fan of the show pulled her car over so she can talk, ask, and you shall receive. because my next stop is meeting with one of the leaders of black...

Street, about three blocks. >> outside of chicago people talk about gangs. they don't know who they are, what the names are, how many there are. >> yeah, you've definitely got the stones from right here, the gds, the vice lords, obviously the vd, which is the black disciples. black gangsters, gangster disciples, black p stones, the latin kings, spanish disciples, mickey cobras, spanish cobras, you got the popes, all these different factions. >> yeah, what gang were you? >> 12, blackstone. ever since i was 12 years old. growing up right here it was crazy. every day, you know, it was like going ...

>> i can't even reach out to you straight. 45 straight there. >> what do you think people need know about what is going on on the south side of chicago? >> it's a lot going on. we just talk to about 7 or 8 youngsters now and it came across to me, as well to others that were with me, that we're reaching out, but the younger generation is not reaching back out to us. they're stuck into what they're doing. somewhere we failed them. >> we failing -- that one that i failed, that be the [ bleep ] that kill me because i missed out. >> on some level what you fail -- it's a cycle, right? >> it's a cycl...