This is the result of the selfishness of taking another person's life. You not only kill that person, but you kill certain aspects of their loved ones. This is heartbreaking. Regardless of how an individual makes you feel, taking their life shouldn't be the only option to solve things. Praying for her strength.
@@ebonylover4104 exactly. That's why you gotta get off your ass and make something of yourself so you don't have them around all that crazy violence. At some point the parents gotta start taking responsibility for their failures as parents to protect their children from the slums
This is the side of drill music they don't show you beyond all the smoke and mirrors, layers upon layers of pain and despair. Big up to Say Cheese for this interview, this is EXTREMELY important.
"Don't catch feelings ,we catch bodies & we dont care how your mom feels" that's a line by Suspect (UK drill rapper) also said "just said hi to q next man's mom ,she don't know imma kill her son" so it's pretty talked about, the fans just don't care tbh
My heart, this just immediately made me think of my momma and all the things she fought for to get us away from the violence. Mothers are angels tbh. God bless her soul and anybody else lost
I don’t think a lot people understand how devastating it is to lose a child, I’ve been there, and although not being murdered. It is a pain that is one of the worst feelings imaginable. Depression, suicide, no sense of direction can ensue. To look at your child one day smiling happy full of life, then to see them lifeless, and to know they never coming back, is something I wish on no one. Hug your kids tight man, we living in dark times for sure.
This interview took me back to the time I found one of my best friends dead. He was on the block we grew up on in 2003! My deepest and sincerest condolences to her
I tell my students all of the time that being disobedient can cause so many problems even death. Parents we must put our feet down and stay on them. No parent should go through this. EVER!!!! Let our children know that they are great and we support them.
Wow. The true side effects of drill music that isn’t being spoken about enough. This lady is torn and has constantly been tormented during her grieving process. She humanized Tooka and even let us know that she has feelings, too. When you kill someone, you don’t just kill them. You essentially destroy a family. I hope one day she can find more peace.
I just lost my granny who was like my momma and when she started cryin saying “ that was my son on that cold ass ground” tears started comin down my cheeks I haven’t been able to feel anything she died VERY suddenly unexpectedly and that was her baby SMFH.
*What’s even more disgusting is, there are multiple people who capitalized, marketed and made lucrative luxurious careers off the demise of a 15yr old & as a result, the mother is compensated with more grief.*
He was one of the ones that started it and also I wouldn’t say that they got rich off of him tho I feel like if it wasn’t him it would’ve been someone else.
Man her son was out there doing shit he aint had no business doing. She know tooka as her joyful son but Niggas in the streets know him as tooka that gotta problem. She dont know that side of him.
Why doe it dont matter at all in real life that was dam near 20 years ago facts this was a waste of a interview all to get the young audience and a few views
When you asked that question it instantly brought her back to the day you can see it in her face. So sad RIP all the young ones that lost their life too soon.
This is so heartbreaking. The streets are unforgiving. She shouldn't have ever had to feel this pain. That pain will never go away and I pray for her healing and her overall Peace.
The black community doesn't give a fuck. We only care if it's a non-black person who kills a black kid who is under generational curses. Then the white people and BLM also only care if it's a non-black person kills a black so they can push their agenda and get donation money.
This broke my heart watching this watching the pain of her losing her only son and how broken she still is ten year’s later I’m not gonna lie watching this gave me a different perspective on the situation and I cried my eye’s out I have to black son’s and I know for a fact that if something would happen to them it would kill me on GOD!!!!!
I can empathize with this mother; because my son was also murdered in 2012 in Chicago. My heart goes out to this sister. It’s like being in a club that you don’t want to be in when you lose a child. We have to do better as a people.
Mercy, I wish these kids had respect for their lives and the lives of others. This kind of pain is unimaginable and quite frankly avoidable! Blessings to you mom. Sending peace and love to you!🙏🏾💜 Rest in Power Tooka 🕊
My heart breaks for Tooka’s mother. I couldn’t even watch the whole interview. One of my children passed away six years ago, and that’s not something that you just get over. Just listening to her relive the phone call moment, sent chills through my body. You’re never prepared as a parent to get the call from detectives, regarding your child being deceased. We’re supposed to be buried by our children, not the other way around. So when your world is flipped upside down, it hits different. I couldn’t even imagine someone mocking my child’s death. People have songs about her son. It’s so bad you have people from all over the world saying their smoking on her child. How is she supposed to get through the grieving process, when people are making a mockery of her son’s death? This is so sickening. I don’t know if she’ll read the comments or not but I want to send my deepest condolences to you. From one broken-hearted mother to another. I pray that telling your story starts to give you some type of peace, and healing. It takes alot of courage and strength, to get on a big platform and talk about something so traumatizing, devastating, and heartbreaking. I am pretty sure you suffer from depression, PTSD, and anxiety, due to this tragedy. I pray people will stop tormenting you, by mentioning your son, in such a negative way. Thank you for sharing your story. ❤️❤️❤️
She is humanizing her son. If she didn’t, he would just be a “PACK” to be smoked. She letting us know that he was a son, and a brother. She fighting for his name to not be just a by-word or a bar in a song. She’s fighting for her son even in his death. Rip Tooka.
Being a mother myself from Chicago her son would be the same age as my son..this is heartbreaking my friends have lost their sons to the violence as well I pray the young men and women see this interview and decide to make a change for the betterment of themselves and families..Keep Ya Head Up Moma❤️
The pain, the sorrow, the anguish, the hurt, the sadness, the emotion she experienced and still is is heartbreaking and hurt my soul. I cried the entire time watching this.. as a mother, you do the best you can with what you have and when your children leave the house you expect them to come home. We have to pray for our children and ask God to walk with them and to protect them. Saddest video I’ve seen in a long time
This pissed me off because this woman has to relive that day all over again. This is heartbreaking and I hope she gets an apology from Keef, Durk and every other rapper in Chicago that has dissed her child. I pray for her peace.
Keef doesn’t do it all at anymore. Almighty Jay said “we smoking on Tooka tonight” and Keef said “Stop saying shawty name, that shit old”. He’s obviously grown out of it but I don’t know about apologies. I guess hurt like this is all just casualties of war, but I’ve never been in this type of life so I can’t tell you fr.
Losing a Child Especially a young Child has to feel like an Outer Body Experience for The Parent and That is Exactly how i imagine it when she said her Body went Numb...Heartshattering...Props to interviewer letting her tell her story without interrupting at all
Hear body went numb from adrenaline. She was worries about one thing only and that was getting to her child and because of that state of being she said she her body felt numb as she didnt felt any pain or anything just that on her mind. Out of body experience is real thing also but is something else she was trying to decribe here.
I woke up this morning hearing there was a backlash over the interview. This is a mother that has not healed and will never heal from the loss of her son. This is the pain parents & family members feel when they lose their kids to the streets We have become desensitized accepting loss of life there are some things that can't be sugarcoated to save face because others are in their feelings. Rest in peace Tooka 🙏🏽🕊️
@@SayWhat336 tooka was apart of a little gang called BDs. They were very known and they weren't involved in gun violence. Just little fights here and there. Tooka use to throw hands and beat ass. Niggas couldn't take that so the only way to defeat that baby was to use bullets. Rather that baby was raudy or not they didn't have to take that baby life and he damn sure didn't deserve to have grown ass niggas create an entire genre of mfs dissing a child. Tf on
@@SayWhat336 even if he wasn’t INNOCENT people die from gun violence MULTIPLE times a day babies fuckin die from gun violence you gone blame them too!?! Quit being insensitive cause if it was your momma granny you wouldn’t be blaming them
@@happythoughts5679 Nigga this is the second time I’ve seen you in here talking shit to people expressing condolences. Question is, why are you against these people?
@@happythoughts5679 because all too often this story is told thru and packaged via American record company marketed drill music. While tough to watch, we rarely get to hear the story/pain inflicted on the mother.
As I watch my son at football practice this evening, laughing and playing with his friends, I couldn't imagine the pain this mother is going through!!! God bless you Mama😥
This has to be the hardest interview to watch. I cried, as a father, I can't fully imagine how heart breaking it is to go through that. Life changing and definitely a death within that can not be revived. So sad...so sad. Smh Damn man. Smh
Haven’t watch all of the clips so Idk if his father was around but I’m guessing he wasn’t… As a father also, we gotta be there for these kids… I went through all that so he doesn’t have to… If you’re not with the mom, at some point, try to make arrangements to get custody because these babies need us…
Tooka was street nigga he die like one it’s a lifestyle some born into it or choose to live it and if u kno he probably was a killer 2 yes it hurts our parents once we die in it but our parents can’t protect us from the people who kills us just for living somewhere different and the ones that was killed cuz of where we live can’t die alone so we have to kill for them it’s a cycle a game we call the streets and some of us won’t make it out that’s y it’s a gamble
I literally try to watch this interview multiple times. I just can’t sit here and watch and listen to somebody hurt like that. At this point, we’re hurting each other
This has been the most gut wrenching interview I’ve ever seen from say cheese. More rap fans need to this side of the drill shit. These are real people with real families. Gosh what a damn shame.
Watching her talk about him on the concrete got me hurt. To the creator: I can't tell you how important it was for me to see tooka and ducks mamas. Such beautiful women. I love learning about these kids thru them. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you putting them on here. They got so many people talking bout and for their sons, it's nice to get it from the mamas. For these kids to rename the entire territory "tookaville" and how many gang members talk about and represent him, leads me to believe he was at least friends w some gang members.. Sending them all my love
@@irishscience580 regardless of how u feel about it. They are legends to some people. They were loved by many. We know about the wrongdoings. No need to tell us
Godbless this woman it's so heartbreaking. My sister passed away in a car accident and still to this day it has took a huge tole on my mom. Never should a parent lose a kid. The person that killed him like wtf who are u to say someone else's life needs to end? Smh I pray for her and her family 🙏
Honestly from all the information I've heard about this young man, he was murdered because everyone was terrified of him. When his mom said "he was cold with his hands." And on top of that he loved wrestling, they had to get rid of him cause he couldn't be beaten toe to toe smh this is sad
Get rid of him for learning how to protect himself the best he could from physical bullying and being a complete victim. A mess. But it's been a total mess since forever....
He didnt have them terrified ..He wasn't a killer he just knew how to fight and protect himself. I don't think he ever was doing malicious things that would have people that scared
Parents gotta do a lot more better. Lot of red flags in her account of his behavior but hey we are only humans. May God Bless our beloved departed souls till we all meet again on the last day of the resurrection🙏
This segment of the interview helps motivate me to keep striving to awake and protect my ppl's... No loving parent wants to lose their child no matter how bad they are or maybe. It's deep af on how these things have and continue to take place but the work is simple we just need to get over our fucking selves and put everything especially religious disagreements aside and focus on the mental. spiritual, and education portions.
Man, this probably one of the toughest interviews I’ve ever watched. I almost ain’t get through it. And to imagine, people have dwindled this woman’s son’s name down to a strand of weed. SMH. Fantastic job Say Cheese. You got to the heart with this one. I hope it does what you intend for it to do. Humanize the Black boys who are being exploited by the music industry. This genocide must end. Love and respect to Shondale Gregory’s mother and everyone who has a story just like her. 🖤🖤🖤🏁
If you don’t feel this you ain’t human. Saycheese facing backlash for this interview but honestly the entire world needs to see this. God bless this woman for even being able to share this story with us
I grew up in Chicago ( Englewood). I've lost a lot of people to the streets. I've also seen the pain from losing children up close and personal. I pray for the next generations to come.
Say cheese broke the hip hop internet with this interview 💯💯 he definitely stepped outside the box for dis 1…people need to visualize the other side of this shit that it ain’t cool hopefully people wake up to the senseless shit
This was painful to watch but necessary specifically for this generation today to see I feel for this Lady 🥺 I hope she realizes that by sharing this the others she is helping and this gives her a deep sense of peace
@@teebaby7768 you don’t get over your kid dying, especially when you’re reminded about it because it’s viral. You’re supposed to die before your kids do, not the other way around, ain’t no preparing for that.
See how hurt this black woman is? Any other time we talking bout the pain of the black community but nobody care when we the ones inflicting it. This lady has been spiritually tortured for years by some bs some BLACK mfers came up with and profited off of. You even got lil white kids running around talking bout smoking her son like it’s cool. But y’all silent af when it comes to these topics cuz your favorite rapper is involved. All cuz you so in love with this street nonsense. This is exactly what CW meant when he said this is why he has no problem saying f**k these rappers and the whole industry, and I feel him 100%. This shyt has done us far more harm than good
Don’t matter if it’s a black women any color women. These youth gotta stop gang bangin and learn from these who died already can’t take pictures gangbanging and when they die cry innocent they gotta learn shit not cool
I have only 1 son and I wouldn't wish that pain on my worst enemy. I pray she finds peace of mind and comfort. But as a parent you'll never be the same again💔
This made me feel the same way when I always had to explain the terrors of war to a new doctor. I had to go back over all the any stories of losing a buddy this way and losing another that way. It's crushing to say the least. However, I have two babies an I've never lost a child. There are words that can't describe truly how it must feel to lose a child. RIH!!!
After watching this interview....it really just shows me how EVIL Our Hip Hop Culture has become! My heart goes out to her and her family! This woman is in pain! And those rappers that make a mockery of her son's demise Are heartless!
It ain’t “OUR” Hip Hop !!! It’s the music those in charge are enforced to produce! Look up the Tavistock Institute… all of this shit is by design. Lucifer is the Angel of music for a reason… it occupies the right brain 🧠 while embedding subliminal bullshit into the left brain 🧠. Literally brainwashing you. The Pied Piper lured children from the village to get revenge on the town that ousted him. Please- do me a favor. I’m a old head. I’m 35. Get you a library card. Start reading. Start looking for wisdom knowledge and understanding from the elders in the conscious community. It’s free right here on RU-vid. If you need some people to listen to let me know.
This interview got me in sooo much chills !! This pain just watching this would never amount to the pain this women feels and I even feel bad for liking and listening to the songs they used to play dissing that young man’s name. As a kid we don’t fully kno the damage that did but man this hurt my soul and is truly heart breaking. I’m my mothers ONLY child so I couldn’t imagine how my mom would feel. I’m all she got. I gotta get out of the streets 🙏🏿
This must be the most heartbreaking thing ever as a mother. As a parent, your kid is still your kid 😢 to hear people still making fun of her child’s murder years later must hurt this lady greatly 🤦🏾♀️
For the drill artists still smoking their dead opps, hope their moms can see this interview. For the Hip Hop legends, record label executives and rap pioneers who are quiet and watching this drill music take over the industry, Hope they can see this pain.
Exactly I wonder if their mothers reached out to her or if they don't care because it hasn't happened to them?! I wonder if their mothers get at them behind the disrespect.
You can tell even after all these years she hasn’t spoken about this a lot hearing her speak on it seems like this just happened the heartache she has is still so pure #RIPTOOKA 🙏❤️
Man this hits so different now. These retelling of these horrible experiences always struck a nerve but it hits different now that my little brother was killed. My mom found happened to ride past the murder scene and her intuition told her to get out and see if my brother was okay because he hangs in that area. This curiosity lead my mom to finding out that her youngest son was killed. Mfs don’t care about the harm they cause families once these selfish acts are committed. It’s horrendous, man.
I pray for this lady and all orther that have lost a love one I felt. Her pain and hurt of her son iam just a servant of the lord I just want to do his will God in the name of Jesus touch this sister hart and easy the hurt and pain not only her all the rest that have lost there sons and orther think you Jesus for dieing on that cross. For our sins shield and camp your mighty angles around our kids and keep them safe. From danger and harm God bless every one
Watching this broke my heart. I’ll never think of my sons without thinking of them as my babies first. There’s nothing I won’t give for them to be healthy and outlive me.
This shit hit me hard I can’t even finish this interview without shedding tears, this how my momma felt when she lost her first son. My older brother passed in 2016 and she still hurts til this day… I hope you and all the moms out there have a blessed life. One full of happiness, y’all been through enough. 💔
I seen multiple videos of her explaining this & every times she could barely get it out. Crazy she neva had time to grieve from it, & must of us grew up reciting the lyrics disrespecting her son. Ngl every time I hear a song now dissing the dead I can’t even repeat the names they say🤦🏾♂️
Make me don’t like rap music no more even though it was founded and them Gangs by black Freemason. Got remember Esau in the Bible who God hated was a black man
On god that's how I be these days I feel guilty listening to some of the raps but I fuck with the flow and beats shitt. I feel bad for all the fallen nocap
He was a baby 😔... I hate that she had to go through what she went through but I love that she is letting her sons story really be told! I'm praying for Chicago always, but I've got a extra pray out there because it's going to go up this weekend and I hate that s**t
This make an Asian proverb ring in my head. “When a parent dies, the child buries the parent in the ground. When a child dies, the parent buries the child in their heart.”
The pain your mom goes through when us as black men are in these streets. Glad I have changed and made my mom proud. You can love the streets but it will never love you back.
You missed the whole story cause Tooka wasnt in the streets. They said he was a ladies man. He was just living somewhere and had to pick a side and he picked where he moved to. Nothing more, nothing less. He ain't have no bodies or did nothing.
@@NoName718. no bodies don’t mean anything he was still in a gang and shit so he was in the streets he was just smart wit it he won’t on hot ass shit but it still happened to him . RIP Tooka !!! 💯
