article_snippet: I don't promote violence, I promote hope," said Dada 5000, who started West Perrine fights in his mother's backyard and who was once a bodyguard for mixed martial arts fighter Kimbo Slice.
article_snippet: (T)hey are back here in these streets, and T)hey would like a second chance, a chance to do the right thing, but those chances are not there.
article_snippet: I grew up in a rough neighborhood on the eastside of Detroit.
article_snippet: I was mugged in elementary school by a grown man.
article_snippet: We don't have Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson coming down here to this level of hood," Dada said.