Be-Loved | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Dedric Hammond, once known as "Bad News," a notorious figure from Harlem's St. Nicholas houses, who transformed into "Be | dG1fM3RhR0ZjV0VkdE0

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00:00Hey, what's going on, y'all? How y'all feeling?

00:04What's good, King? Everything good. How you holding up?

00:06So they know me from when I used to be called Bad News.

00:09I used to be the one selling drugs, shooting people, kidnapping people, all types of other stuff.

00:15Let's go.

00:17Now I'm known as Beloved.

00:25When I got shot, I really didn't even know I was shot.

00:28It put 24 holes in my intestine.

00:31Shootings was like every other day.

00:34It was almost to the point where a lot of us wouldn't go to sleep if we didn't hit no gunshots.

00:38What's good, King?

00:40We've been through so much trauma that that's just a normal way of life,

00:44that we don't feel comfortable when we're not feeling traumatized.

00:48Me and you on the street, I got a gun on my waist.

00:51I'm like, yo, hold this for me real quick.

00:54Being shot and doing shooting helped me with the work because I experienced both.

01:00Being a credible messenger really means the community acknowledges you.

01:05You was out there day in and day out, on the ground.

01:08I could speak for this. I saw you in action.

01:11I saw you dealing with mothers, dealing with fathers,

01:14dealing with people from the hood who came to see their boys shot,

01:18and you gave the bad news to them that their loved ones didn't survive.

01:22That was you.

01:23You was out there trying to prevent it before that person lost his life.

01:27I'm talking to you, blood.

01:30All the ills that's going on inside our community that they ain't get to the hospital for yet,

01:36we dealing with that in real time, day to day basis.

01:40We street doctors.