One Mile Away Page #2

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with some of them Burgers and that.

So I contacted you to contact Dylan,

who's affiliated with Burgers.

Yeah, it's Flash. Waagwaan?

What you sayin', G? What's happenin'?

So Shabba called me,

because I got to know young men

on both sides of the conflict,

while researching

my film One Day, in 2007.

I stayed good friends with Dylan

who played Flash in the film.

I got a phone call from Penny

saying that a guy named Shabba

from the B6 side of town

was thinking about any way

where there could be a truce.

My first initial thought was,

"OK, this is against the grain. "

If my friends hear I'm talking to somebody

from the other side of town,

or people I wanna associate with,

they're thinking, "Yo, I'm dodgy. "

So my first thought was

"Do I really wanna do it?"

Then I thought to myself

I've got kids coming up,

I've heard 'em talk about

this gang stuff, so I'm obliged to.

Wanna be a gunman, do ya?

Just making the film One Day,

I've got these kids running up to me

saying, "Yo, Flash, Flash, Flash. "

I feel obliged to push this message -

you don't wanna be like Flash,

you don't want that lifestyle,

you don't wanna be involved in that.

Shabba, you made it.

And how did you feel

before the meeting?

Before the meeting, I was nervous.

I'm not gonna lie.

I don't really get nervous like that.

This is some different kind of stuff,

cos it's against all rules.

It goes against

what I grew up to believe in,

even though it's rubbish.

For me to go into the room, I was

nervous, thinking, "What is this?"

I could have went in there

and he's gonna think,

"There's my man from that side of town.

Let's get rid or f*** him up. "

You wake up every day saying,

"Something is not right. "

Yeah.

I don't know

if we're gonna get a next chance

to come back in a next world

and do it again.

Well, we're only gonna get

this one chance, innit, brother?

Like I says, you're only gonna be

10 once, 20 once, 30 once.

There's no part two of this, next year

or in the next lifetime.

Bruv, right now, it's real.

I've lost a load of friends.

I've lost a load of people.

A load of people around me...

Misery, and a load of angry people.

You wake up and think, "I can't be

living like this. It's not a joke. "

Yeah, it's not. Do you get me?

You're burying your friend.

You've done your crying.

You can't be living like this, man.

This is crazy. You understand it?

Who else can I think of

that's gonna come up and say,

"You know what?

We have to stop this ting,"

and can actually get to the next side

and get back and vice versa?

So it's a good thing for me

to be sitting here with Dylan.

Being able to pass messages

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