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March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Health Ranger and Chill EB, Define Better raps about psychiatric drugging of our children
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They say he's better.
I look him in the eyes, I see a glassy look.
He's not really there, it's a life they took.
He no longer cries, no longer sings.
Harley ever laughs, don't do much of anything.
But he's much more quiet, he's not in the hair.
Also much less alive, but they don't really care.
Hello, everybody, and welcome.
This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger with naturalnews.com.
You've heard the song Define Better.
It is a hard-hitting rap, hip-hop style song, great tunes that questions the psychiatric drugging of our children.
And this song has been promoted here on Natural News and also by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, CCHR. And the artist who created this song is here to join us on the phone today to talk about where the song came from and what the experience has been putting this out there.
His name is Chili B. Chili B., thank you for joining me today here on Natural News.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you for having me.
Yeah, it's great to finally chat with you.
I really enjoyed your song.
What has been the response so far on your lyrics and your music?
Well, the response has been pretty much overwhelming, to say the least.
I've been getting good responses.
You know, the couple of responses that may not seem a good response have just been You know, the people that are arguing contrary to the fact that there's too many people being labeled and drugged, and the motivation is financial as the motivation, and it needs to be stopped.
And I think the song has done great at at least setting the stage for honest dialogue.
Yeah, the lyrics of this music explain a lot, and they should raise questions in the minds of people who are new to this subject, but it's apparent to me that you've known about this for a long time.
Can you talk about the origins of this song and what motivated you to put this down in such a compelling piece of music?
Sure.
Well, this song actually follows as a follow-up to my video from last year.
Last year, spring last year, I independently filmed a video for a song called Y'all Busted.
And I sent the link to the video to CCHR International as well as CCHR Florida.
And then from there, it's just been a whirlwind of conversation and agreement, if you will, To the fact that there's a lot of kids being labeled ADHD and that by giving them these strong psychotropic drugs that lead to suicide and in some cases instant death, it's just getting out of control and no one is really addressing it and someone has to address it.
And I figured that I'd be a great candidate for that because I feel so strongly in our youth being our future and I could see from my experience with working with youth But there's a lot of kids that are labeled ADHD or special education and given these strong drugs for it.
And then I've also had a conversation with people who are adults now who have survived through that whole thing who were either given these drugs themselves and did not like it, had negative experience and was talking about it, or had kids or loved ones that were Yeah.
So, it leads me to believe that there's a lot of voices out there that aren't being heard, and rap music has been one form of art that has bridged a lot of gaps, you know, from the young and the old and the different nationalities of people.
So it was a healthy way to put this message on the table for conversation.
Yeah, absolutely.
I love that.
In fact, probably, I don't know if folks over at CCHR told you, but I've contributed to that effort in my own ways, put out a few songs, which is one reason why I wanted to talk to you so much, because as a music artist myself, I'm fascinated by your process.
And I wanted to ask you, I heard an early version of your lyrics on YouTube, And from that very early version to the finished song, which is just really well done, very well mixed.
You have additional supporting vocals from a female vocalist.
Can you talk about how that process took shape?
Sure.
As I said, Define Better falls on the heels of Y'all Bust It.
And I should also mention that when the success of Y'all Bust It Some of the rebuttal that I've received or some of the feedback, if you will, would be that they agree with the message.
They agree with what I'm saying.
But by the same token, they'd also say that they were ministering this medication to their son or daughter and that it makes them better.
So what is Y'all Busted?
What's the main message of that song?
Y'all Busted basically confronts the...
It confronts the fact that psychiatrists don't have a test to determine ADHD, and yet they're diagnosing people daily with it and prescribing drugs for it.
It pretty much just confronts the whole idea that this has been going on for such a long time and that now that they're busted because I'm revealing that this is...
An idea to basically drug our youth, you know, with these psychotropic drugs.
And so because after that video and the response that I received, I say, well, define better.
You know, if you say it makes you better, define better.
And so you were relating the first version, the earlier version that you heard, to the finished version that you heard.
Now, that was just a rushed version that I just did because I felt the need to I kind of released that song out there at that time.
And after I released it, I had some friends who said that they could help me get that, do it, sort of be ten times better, and we can master it, and it would just sound extremely nice.
And so we went through that process.
It took a couple of months, you know, but it was well worth it because the song did come out a lot stronger, and I think it communicates a lot better.
I like both versions of the song.
But the version that we have online now definitely communicates the urgency and hopefully demands the attention that this needs, you know, is that there hasn't become an end to the labeling and drugging because we all know,
I mean, I'd be singing to the choir by speaking to you and possibly a lot of the listeners there, is that, you know, they're basically giving a label to the I mean, it's not really a symptom.
It's not really a disease.
It's just a behavior.
And they're giving it a name.
At being able to label it so that they can prescribe you the medication.
Well yeah, all these behaviors, the DSM, the bible of modern psychiatry is a complete fraud.
They diagnose you with disease for being fidgety or having too many projects on your plate or young boys being active and want to be more physically active and learning through physical sensations and so on.
I mean yeah, the whole thing is a complete joke.
What I'm really...
Oh, go ahead.
I was going to say my youngest son fell into the category where they were trying to label him.
Healthy kid.
And, you know, about a month or two after he got to label, the prime candidate for ADHD medication was what we were told.
Three weeks or a month, maybe later, he didn't have it anymore.
So, at least...
I suspect a lot of that is going on, you know, all over the place.
I want to ask you too about the music video itself.
And folks, if you have not yet seen this video, just go onto YouTube or you can go onto naturalnews.tv and you can search for the term Define Better and you'll see the video.
The video is quite amazing in that it's super compelling, yet it features mostly animated words.
Gosh, I wish I had friends like yours who did that incredible mix, because the mix is great, but the video is also fantastic.
Can you talk about how the video was made?
Well, the initial video, if you saw the first link that I had on YouTube, that was just my makeshift editing.
I never really edited a video before, so I just did some editing here.
Um, just to give it a visual so I could put the song on and I could actually share the link and my other social sites and so forth.
So that was just my stab, my jab at it.
I think I did a pretty decent job, but of course not having the, uh, that not being my expertise and not having the high end tools to do it with, you know, it would only look so good.
But, um, once again, once we did the song and, uh, we had demoed the song, uh, Again, a group of my friends just decided that we should just go ahead and do a video and put the video together just so that we could have something that we could deliver to CCHR International and, you know, just to help with their campaign.
We're just getting this message out there.
I'm curious.
So that, it wasn't like CCHR didn't do the video.
It was your friends who did it and then you sort of handed it to them.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yes.
Oh, that's interesting, yeah.
And what I want to do, and what I'm doing is, I just registered through my own label, was to offer the song, because a lot of people have been asking for it on iTunes, so I just did a registration thing now.
Supposed to show up tomorrow, well, should I say tomorrow would actually be the 29th, it would show up on iTunes, and So people can support that way and a portion of the proceeds is going to CCHR International just as a contribution that I wish to make.
Well, that's outstanding.
Alright folks, so search for that song Define Better on iTunes and of course watch the video on YouTube as well.
Do you, Chili B, do you have a background in music or vocals?
And also, you mentioned before that you have some experience of working with children.
Can you talk a little bit about your background to provide some context for this song?
Sure.
Well, with regards to the kids, I've always had a heart for kids and for our youth because I realized years ago that there are most valuable resources that we cannot afford to live without.
And so from years ago, I've volunteered as a basketball coach because basketball was my sport.
It was my favorite sport.
I played at the college level, and I wanted to give back to the youth.
But as my coaches gave to me when I was younger, is the love of basketball.
Teach them to love and respect the game, to honor the game, and to hopefully better their skills and so on and so forth.
And during that, I kind of built my resume up as a youth mentor and went into football, assistant coach for football, I was an after-school program director for many years for the city here in the East Bay.
I live in Northern California.
And so I was a program director for youth.
So that gave me an opportunity to work with hundreds, if not thousands, of other people's kids.
And as my kids became old enough to come to these programs, of course, they came to the programs as well.
So I had an opportunity to spend quality time with my kids as they developed, you know, socially and academically.
So during those experiences, I was able to observe other kids and to observe the behaviors of adults and the attitudes toward these other kids that in a lot of cases were labeled, in most cases were labeled, with either, like I said, ADHD or being in special education class.
And there was some type of a warning that they were trying to give me with my interaction with the kids and just kind of didn't settle too well with me because these were coming for grown-ups that That were entrusted to supervise and to make these experiences enriching these kids' lives, you know, not to end them, you know.
So that didn't sit too well with me.
As far as with you asked me about my music background, I guess for a lot of people that have heard only just my works of Defined Better and or possibly Y'all Busted, there's a whole long history that's missing that goes back It was 20-plus years ago, and I kind of made a name for myself here in Northern California, which became kind of regional.
I would say late 80s to maybe the early 90s, mid-90s, and then I had kind of a semi-national name.
I mean, we had some successes with having a video on BET and California Music Channel.
And Video Jukebox, just a couple of national networks that were playing my video.
And a lot of people may know me from a lot of advertisers that I did for a big game company back in the 90s that was really popular.
And so I had a couple of funny commercials that tended to take people off guard when they're at home eating dinner or watching another program.
And also my commercial would pop on and kind of scare the snot out of people.
Was it music or was it some other kind of commercial?
No, I was...
It was actually a commercial for Sega, Sega of America.
All right.
And I had kind of a recurring character that was kind of a cross between a drill sergeant and probably a WWE wrestler or something.
It was one of those, you know, the guy was just, you know, I've been called, it's been called the angry black guy is what has been referred to by some of the commercials.
That's funny.
Yeah, it's a pretty funny commercial.
It's on my YouTube channel as well.
But a lot of people know me from that, but...
For my new friends, I don't refer to them as fans, but for my new friends, I'm saying as of last year and this year, there's a whole lot of history of stuff from in the past.
I wouldn't even be able to tell you all about it in one hour slot of time.
Well, let me go back and ask you more about your interactions with both children as a basketball coach and also observing the way that parents interact with children in that context.
Would you agree with...
This idea that it's not the kids that have disorders, that it's really more that the parents who buy into this psychiatric diagnosis, that they're the ones who have a kind of mental sickness almost.
I mean, the kids are fine.
The kids need leadership and the kids need good examples.
It's the parents who are all messed up by believing in these chemical solutions.
Would you say that's true?
Yeah, well, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the parents have messed up or have a mental illness to that extent.
Because I say as a parent myself is that we as parents, we want what's best for our kids.
And any parent that is giving their kid this medication is doing so because they went to someone that they respect as a specialist.
And this person told them that this is what their son needed and they believe this person.
So they have good intentions.
Yeah, they have good intentions.
But that's where we fall short as parents is once we give that much power into someone else to tell you all about your son or your daughter when you spend more time with them or you should be spending more time with them than anybody else.
And so, yeah, we do.
It is a bad thing because we want what's the best for our kids.
And if it's the case with the school, a lot of times it's the last case scenario that, you know, this kid, we've tried everything else.
We've tried counseling and everything.
It didn't work.
And now we have to go and see a psychologist or a psychiatrist.
And if they try to give us medication and tell us that it's going to make our son better or our daughter better, of course, we want our son or daughter to be better.
So we're going to go along with it.
We believe that this is a way that's going to make our child better.
And even the people that are even in the Dead Wrong video, the CCHR circulating, that was their intention.
And the stories are not good stories at the ending.
And then when you see it happening all over the board, all across the board, and you see it happening, people being diagnosed.
I mean, I've actually met people recently who said that they were diagnosed They were told they had ADHD and was given medication.
And they weren't even taking their medication.
They were giving it to somebody else.
And it's like, wow.
And it's just easy.
It's just so easy to get it.
I mean, you could just go in there and tell the doctor that, you know, you have a hard time sleeping at night and you have headaches sometimes.
You have reoccurring dreams.
That might be enough right there to get some type of medication from them.
Incredible.
And so, for me, I'm saying is that I try to tell parents is that We as parents, I mean, when we fall for that, we basically, it seems kind of harsh to say, but I'm not apologetic by it.
It's just that we're being bamboozled into believing that the behavior of our child has a label to it as such that there's going to be a drug to That they should be given to deal with that behavior.
Do you see signs today that more parents and maybe even more teens are starting to question psychiatry and to think more clearly about whether these are real diseases or not?
I mean, are things moving in the right direction here in terms of awareness on this issue?
I think so.
I actually think so that there's more people That believe, that question it.
I mean, for instance, people that were students that were taking psychology at the local junior college and perhaps midway through the first semester to drop the class because the studies, the history of psychology and psychiatry, they have to study all this stuff about how they do their practice and everything.
And just by learning, just by being educated on that They drop classes because of the evil of that.
These are people that don't even know who CCHR is.
And I felt the same way even before I met CCHR, before I knew who CCHR was.
I always believed that ADHD was...
I'd say ADHD is the hopes that I didn't know where it was coming from, but then as I investigated a little bit more, I found out how it all came about.
And then they also find out from psychiatrists themselves who say there's no test to prove it, there's no cure for it, and that in the long run what they're doing is counterproductive.
That says enough.
This is coming from the people that prescribe this, so I have to believe that.
Oh yeah, it's incredible.
Well, CCHR has put out some interesting videos that actually ask psychiatrists, is there a test?
And they all admit, no, there's no test.
There's nothing physiologically real.
This is all just a label slapped onto some child because of some observable behavior and an opinion by a psychiatrist.
Quite bizarre.
We were at the airport.
I think we were coming back from...
I can't remember where we're coming from, but we met a person who was saying that they were enraged, that they were listening in the car, listening to a radio show that had a psychiatrist on the air.
This is a popular radio show, and they had this guy on, and they were taking calls from people.
They were letting people call in and talk to this guy and ask questions or whatever.
And one lady called in and she was saying, my son, you know, my son just seems like he's out of control and, you know, I can't really get him to cooperate like he used to and it's really difficult for me.
And then the psychiatrist says, well, some asked her a question or something like, does he stay up at night?
Does he have a hard time sleeping?
Oh, yes, he has a hard time sleeping.
Okay.
What about, does he ask another general question?
And she's, oh, yes, he does, absolutely.
And he says, well, you know, basically what you need to do is you need to take two and send some drug that was kind of like a kind of prescription type drug that this guy basically prescribed already for this lady over a phone call, over the radio.
Incredible.
To this lady.
And told her that she should go down to her doctor and after this, this is what we need to do.
We should take one and a half or two.
He just kind of gave her the dosage or whatever.
And it was this really bizarre thing.
And the guy said he was so upset that he wanted, he was wishing that he could call in on the radio to complain to this guy.
Because there's so many people that are listening that are impressionable.
Some people are, some people are.
I mean, you know, some people kind of would question that whole thing anyway, but then there's a lot of people that wouldn't question it.
But what you just described, that's pure quackery.
I mean, there's no other word for it.
And, you know, that's just completely unethical.
Yeah, it happens all the time.
But also, I've got one more question for you here, but before that, I've got to interject here.
For people listening, when your doctor says you've tried everything or when parents say they've tried everything, I guarantee you 99% of them have not tried dietary changes and getting their kids off the refined sugars, off the high fructose corn syrup, off the artificial coloring additives.
Just those changes can completely transform children.
Absolutely.
I believe that 150%.
I've always felt that it was nutritional, a combination of nutritional and environmental, and possibly I know recreation athletes, I know nowadays they have different avenues of recreation than they did the old school way of just playing football on the street or always having to find some way to entertain yourself because we didn't have as many Nice things for entertainment as we do now.
I don't know.
I definitely would say diet and environment as the two major things.
Yeah, totally agree.
That's an area that's completely overlooked by psychiatry, which is now really basically owned by the pharmaceutical industry.
But let me ask you the final question here.
What is next for Chili B? Do you have another song in the works?
Are you speaking on this issue?
What do you got in the works for us, man?
A little bit of everything.
A little bit of both of what you mentioned, actually.
Yeah, we do have another song in the works, and we're going to get it to you as soon as it's done.
And so, yeah, we have definitely a follow-up for Define Better.
We just keep the theme going on Trilogy so far.
This will be the third installment of this series.
And, yeah, just to be speaking on it, I mean, as much...
I may have found myself having to speak about it in some cases, you know, to run across some people that want to know more, you know, about the song and the motivation behind it.
And then a lot of people just want to share the story just because they're so much in agreement with the song and they just never heard a song like it before.
So I feel honored to be the person to deliver a product like that.
And I just want to continue doing more music.
You know, with purpose, more music that's positive, that can make a change, or at least just invoke and change the way people think about a certain topic, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And are you going...
Video.
We'll be doing more video, too, as well.
Yeah, please keep me posted.
I want to give you my direct email, too, so hold on after this interview for that.
Also, I want to ask, are you going to use that same female vocalist?
Because, man, she is hot.
Her voice is just incredible.
She is, and I would love to.
Actually, I think I would love to because we actually recorded, we're on two projects together so far, and I think she's going to be on this next project that we're doing because we have a nice formula that tends to work, and she's a joy to perform with.
She's awesome, professional talent, and she just has the whole package, and so it's fun performing with her, and I think we're just discovering that We have a nice compliment on our voice vocals together.
Do you publicly credit her, or is she a secret?
Yeah, I think she's on the credit.
Her name is Mari, so I think they credit her on the CD. I know she's not a big name that somebody would already know.
I didn't collaborate on something large like that.
She definitely has the power and the star quality of a big name.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, definitely.
Well, yeah, you'll definitely hear more of her as well because we just had an event last weekend and we were discussing already talking about our next project.
So you'll hear something else.
I think it's going to be maybe eye-opening.
It's going to be a shock or surprise to some people.
Well, that's great.
That's what it takes.
By the way, I just got to thank you for having the courage to walk this path, you know, to choose this path where you could just sit back and not speak out and not volunteer your efforts and your talents to do this.
But no, you're taking a stand.
You're moving forward with courage.
You're spreading a message of truth.
You're helping children in so many different ways.
You know, you are the kind of person that we need in our society to stand up against the kind of corruption or distortions that we see out there from these big corporations and to stand up for the rights of children, you know, to protect their health.
So I've got to thank you for what you are doing, Chill.
Well, thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it.
And, yeah, it's just got to do it.
You know, it's just got to do it.
You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
And by having the ability to speak up or having the ability to stand up or even having the ability to support or confront this whole idea and not doing it, you're part of the problem.
Absolutely.
And for my situation, as long as I have the ability to do it, I just figure I just got to do it.
Yeah, love it.
We'd love it.
We'd love to hear more from you.
And is there a separate website where people can find your work, or should they just search for you on YouTube?
Definitely search for me on YouTube, backslash ebchill.
Just put my name in reverse, ebchill.
That takes you to my YouTube page.
If you go to my...
I have a website in construction right now, but if you go to www.chillie.com, That'll take you to one of my social sites, Facebook, I believe it is.
All right.
And I'm also on Twitter.
You can follow me on Twitter.
All right, same name there, Chill EB? Yeah, Chill EB. I think it may be Chill underscore EB. Okay, all right.
Well, folks, if you search for Chill EB, the letter E, the letter B, you should be able to track down his social sites.
All right.
Yes.
Well, Chili B, I want to thank you for taking the time to share with us here.
Thank you for your music.
We look forward to hearing more from you.
Oh, no doubt, Mike.
Thank you for your time and thank you to your listeners for listening.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I hope to see you again soon.
All right, I'm going to close this out by playing your song here.
So get ready, folks.
Enjoy Define Better by Chili B. The power's in your hands to command,
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