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Introduction

1. Soft White Underbelly
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       • Video #1
         Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
         Date Published:- 2020-February-22nd
         Date Added:- 2021-May-15th
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Stories

Homelessness

Tre

1. Dodging Death-Tre
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     • Soft White Underbelly interview and portrait of Tre, a homeless man on Skid Row.
   • Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
       Published On:- 2022-April-18th
       Added On:- 2022-April-21st
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     • Ceaser ( Brother )

Video Transcripts

Stories

Homelessness

Tre

1. Wrong Side of a gun
   • I have been through it all, why wouldn’t it end this way
   • Not I had a bright future
2. Angel
   • Must be an angel
3. Home
   • Pain
     • Outside
   • Home
     • Always looking for a home on the inside
     • First apartment at 15
4. Music
   • Rapping
     • The only outlet I had was rapping
     • Short Fuse
5. Trauma
   • Sometimes no matter how hard you try to put your mind in a good place, sometimes the pain of the past is too much.
   • Like a lot of people that come speak on this channel, what we share is the pain
   • As much as we will like to cloth it, what we share in common, is un-clothable pain
   • The pain just be too much
   • The whole try to be normal thing just doesn’t work
   • And, I am not making excuses
   • I am just stating facts
   • It does not work so well for us to normalize; it is just too hard to deal with it
6. Drugs and Alcohol
   • I swear to God, I did not do drugs or drink alcohol until I turned 18
   • Up till then, it did not help
7. Music
   • Only Music
   • Music was the thing
   • I was 16 when I dropped my first album
   • Only Music Helped
   • When I started that path, it was music that helped me get beyond my past and got me to try to be happy
8. The bad
   • Between those two things, it is going to look bad
     • a drug user
     • no respect for authority
     • keep to himself too much
9. Essentials
   • If I did not have
     • alcohol
     • drugs
     • music
   • I will
     • I will blow my brains out
10. My Brother
    • My brother did not have music as an outlet
    • He got heavy into drugs
    • it took 4 years for the drugs to get a hold of him
    • I found his body in a motel room
    • we were headed to move into Sacramento
    • he said never stop doing your music
    • You are on the level
11. Brother:- Suicide
    • went to pick him up for a show
    • the world seems like a lonely place
    • somebody that doesn’t want to be there will not be there
    • my brother was tired
    • I am tired too
    • Got to be somebody better bro
12. Pain
    • I walked across the country from Los Angeles to New York
    • I tried to get the pain out
13. Family
    • Father
      • My father died when I was 2
14. Music
    • Cautionary Tale
      • Maybe my music is just a cautionary tale to help somebody else
      • a testimony
      • an indulgence
15. Somebody
    • Just maybe if somebody is listening
    • Just take the pain one day at a time