marvin gaye. john legenlennon. bob marley.am cooke. >> songs that really touch people deeply. >> i have come to a place where i call it the sound of maternity. bob dylan calls it eternal young. i think there are certain songs that help you live without fear. when you are living in fear, you invest in violence. fear is expensive, just ask president bush. inn love. and what marvin gaye says is true, war is not the answer, only love can conquer hate. these things are not cliches, they are truisms. if we implement them, you will see a transformation in the bay area, richmond, oakland, the mission. all places where we need to dismantle the violence, the fear, the unnecessary pain that goes on. >> you are a person that has lived a pretty miraculous life. pretty extraordinary what you have accomplished, the range of people you have been able to touch with your music. you chose a beautiful word in spanish for your foundation -- miracle. could you talk about what the foundation has been able to do? >> we are able to empower and give yo

i put people that i love, michael jackson, marvin gaye, i look at them as blockers and i follow them. i know that is the way to go. i follow people that have been around 25 years. tavis: i love the analogy. how do you follow those kinds of blockers and create your own sound? >> i and a dreamer. i watch a ton of footage. i studied tapes. you do not try to become an because you can never become any of those guys. but you hope that some of it -- at some point in your show, you're writing, that happens to you. i have always loved people that have been around for a long time. i like a good leather. i like a good close. -- clothes. you will not catch me in a leather jacket with all the nba teams on it. tavis: i loved it. toward three times now, -- i have never talked to you on radio or television or you do not bring up oakland. why are you so proud of your hometown? how does having grown up in your area influence your music? >> i am proud of it because there was so much music around there for me. so many people, latin music, santana, i used to play at a bar with my high school teacher. we d

this is the same thing that happened to marvin gaye and his father and that's why marvin gaye's fathershot him and killed him, and had not been for my mother my father would have killed me as well. >> host: because your mother intervened and said you should get out of here. >> guest: get away. >> host: what's interesting here is you just described yourself as technically having been in jail for 20 years, 6065. but the violence and the whole lot of hatred that you describe, you say that has been a jail for you for 40 plus years until you discover yourself. let me read again from your book. this is an interesting moment because using you're going to be 74-years-old. you've been in jail. you also write here i was a prizefighter at one point i was a soldier at one point and a convict at one point, a jailhouse lawyer at one point. it says here you were executive to victor of a group that was called a unai association of defense of the wrongly convicted at one point. today you are the ceo of the innocent international group. and it says but if i had to choose an epitaph to be carved on to my

only black folks in a white neighborhood the party that they were at, they were playing salsa, marvin gaye, and we were hanging out after the birthday party. we got caught up in a situation where the police had been called for shots fired. we happened to be the only black people there, they got us and put us in jail. that was the first day that you mentioned. the long and short of it is, i was in my second year of law school at the time. i am reading all these things about criminal procedure, criminal law. the stuff that is on the books is not what is happening on the streets. don't i have some kind of rights? miranda or something? they just did what they want and it was the first time that somebody had taken my body and had physically done something with me -- except raimondi, a different category. [laughter] they put me and handcuffs and they did all of that. so i wrote about it. my lawyer, she was also a teacher. she encouraged me to tell my story. the next week, the assignment in class, it was to talk about -- writing about an experience of injustice. i was ready to send this. i did no

anyway -- >> this is marvin gaye. this is also on tour.here there is prince's phone number. >> some of the jackson family. >> we have a phone. >> we were going to call it. call prince. what could he be doing? >> what is the area code? >> i couldn't see the note. >> this is madonna's "like a virgin. ""who could forget that? this was the very first thing given to the hard rock, eric clapton's guitar, which is awesome. this is literally the beaded jacket michael jackson wore in the video. >> he was so small. >> actually. yeah -- i don't think i can. sort of. look. how amazing was that video though? if you look inside, it's a backstage pass to see liza minnelli. >> are you serious? >> yeah. isn't that cool? what else is there? buddy holly's glasses back here. >> i'm getting no answer on prince's number. i'm just letting you know. okay. >> maybe i could break into this and use buddy holly's glasses. >> speaking of music, we are getting tons of contestants for our contest "the voice." now we are up to 300. >> whoa! >> we'll let you listen. we ca