1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This episode is 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: dedicated to my old friend Liz Timpesta. You are a 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: true badass, sending you all the PMA in the world. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: Is all right, let's get into the show. The story 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: surrounding seventeen year old hip hop viral sensation take K 6 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: forty seven is insane. He allegedly shot a man and then, 7 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: while awaiting trial on house arrest, cut off his ankle 8 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: bracelet and announced his escape to the world via Twitter. Then, 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: while on the run, made and released video depicting his escape, 10 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 1: where he has seen bragging about murder in assault, two 11 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: charges that at the time he was facing art imitating life. 12 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: The videos were led to his arrest in a matter 13 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:05,479 Speaker 1: of hours. The nationwide manhunt may have come to an end, 14 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: but take K forty seven's hip hop career was just 15 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: getting started. His notoriety had caused his SoundCloud plays to 16 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: go through the roof, and Twitter erupted in support of 17 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: the young fugitive come star. Celebrity remixes were released, record 18 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: labels came calling, The song charted on Billboard, and the 19 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: video was viewed over one hundred million times. Why because 20 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 1: It's great? Music as real as it gets. That music 21 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: you heard at the top of the show, that wasn't 22 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: great music. It's far from real. It's a preset loop 23 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: from my mellotron called Harmonium Low MK two. I played 24 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the license for 25 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: a shape of you by Ed Sheeran. And why would 26 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: I play you that specific slice of ginger cheese? Could 27 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: I afford it? Because that was the number one song 28 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: in America on March twenty seven, twenty seventeen, And that 29 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: was the day that Take A forty seven escaped his 30 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: house arrest or, as he put it, did the race, 31 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: becoming one of America's most wanted fugitives and one of 32 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 1: the Internet's biggest viral sensations in the process. On this episode, 33 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: Low harmoniums ginger cheese, busted ankle bracelets and Take A 34 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: forty seven. 35 00:02:26,000 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgraceland. 36 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: You are now about to witness. The strength of street 37 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: knowledge is the line at the beginning of NWA's Straight 38 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: out of Compton. We all know, oh, the iconic song 39 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: and album by now, it's music so powerful that it 40 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: has permanently singed itself upon America's cultural identity. You can't 41 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: describe the history of hip hop without giving Straight out 42 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: of Compton it's due, and you can't give an honest 43 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: depiction of the history of Los Angeles without mentioning the 44 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,799 Speaker 1: album either. Straight out of Compton accurately forecast one of 45 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 1: America's blackest eyes, the Rodney King beating by the systematically 46 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: racist LAPD and subsequent La Riots in nineteen ninety two. 47 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 1: And the album wasn't some obscure, preachy, pedantic musical statement 48 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: about socioeconomic conditions and the plight of black America and 49 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: Los Angeles at the time. It was a visceral depiction 50 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: of life on Compton's streets. And it was a stone 51 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: cold hit. It sold over three million albums, a total 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 1: banger of a record start to finish, not a bad 53 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: song on it, and it sounded different from any other 54 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: hip hop at the time. Was hard and the vocalists 55 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: there were four front men, each voice nearly as powerful 56 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: as the next. Sure mc wren was more of a 57 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: player coach and Yellow filled the ringo slot, but Eazy E, 58 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: Ice Cube and Doctor dre On Straight out of Compton 59 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,919 Speaker 1: were hip hop's answer to John Paul and George except 60 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: this wasn't Can't Buy Me Love? This was life. Ain't 61 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: nothing but bitches and money. Ice Cubess lyrics brought the 62 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: reality of growing up in south central Los Angeles to 63 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: suburban white American youth with authority. I know because I 64 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 1: was a suburban white American youth in nineteen eighty nine, 65 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: the year that NWA's Straight Out of Compton made it 66 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: to my little corner of Middle America. And when it did, 67 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: I was hooked. I wore that cassette out, memorized every lyric, 68 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: every skit, every beat. I was fascinated. The stories were 69 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: gripping the big thing with my friends, and I was 70 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: was this shit real or these guys making it all up? 71 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: Were cops really beating on dudes just for being black? 72 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: Were rappers really living a gang life, slinging dope and 73 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: committing drive by shootings in between playing shows and making records? 74 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: I was in camp reel. How could anyone make this up? 75 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: It was too wild. The truth, of course, was somewhere 76 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,719 Speaker 1: in the middle. Easy E had og Street cred with 77 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: the crips, but I'm pretty sure Ice Cube went to 78 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: bed at night wearing matching pajamas. It didn't matter. Their 79 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: music was inspired and gangster as fuck. It was my 80 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: first experience with art imitating life, art that I appreciated himways, 81 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: and so when Rodney King and the La riots happened, 82 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: it was just life imitating art. Like most of America, 83 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: I was shocked as I watched the riots from the 84 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: safety of my suburban couch, but unlike most of America, 85 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: I can't say I was surprised. We knew this was 86 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,840 Speaker 1: going to happen BECAUSEWA warned us, and when OJ got off, 87 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: same shocked, but not surprised. Unless you live in South 88 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: Central or Long Beach, or are a cop or a 89 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: social worker or first responder, or someone else working in 90 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: the area, this is likely where the story of LA 91 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: gang culture ends for you, culturally speaking anyways, But of 92 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: course that's not true. Gang life in South Central and 93 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: Long Beach continues to be pretty much just as dangerous 94 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 1: as it was when NWA burst on the scene. Statistics 95 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 1: are hard to come by, what with LAPD under reporting 96 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 1: violent crimes, but according to a report conducted by the 97 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: La County Board of Public Health the year Straight Out 98 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: of Compton was released nineteen eighty nine, there were five 99 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four gang homicides in La County. In 100 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: the year two thousand, there were four hundred and forty eight. 101 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: A vast majority of these deaths can be attributed to 102 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 1: the perpetually feuding gangs, the Bloods and the Crips. The 103 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: Crips the La Gangwa's Eaze and mc ren associated with 104 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: Boasts a worldwide membership of thirty five thousand gang members 105 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: comprised of a network of countless individual gangs, the Nutty 106 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: Block Cripslnana Bloc Crips, Long Beach In Sane Crips, south 107 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: Side Crips, West Side Crips, Cabbage Patch Crips, and on 108 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: and on and on. In the year two thousand, a 109 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: Nutty Block Compton Crip and a Long Beach in Sane 110 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: Crip gave birth to Tamor McIntyre, born into one of 111 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: America's most dangerous street gangs. No one knew it at 112 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: the time, but seventeen years later, just like those other 113 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: products of Compton Street's MWA, this boy's art would so 114 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: authentically imitate his life that it would land him on 115 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: the billboard charts and make him one of America's most 116 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: wanted fugitives in the process. By twenty sixteen, Taymor McIntyre 117 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: had dropped the name as gang banging parents gave him 118 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,360 Speaker 1: for the preferred take A short for take K forty seven. 119 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: Of course he did that. Old Nwa Lyric was baked 120 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 1: into the cake. Take K forty seven's life had already 121 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,479 Speaker 1: started imitating art. He may have only been a babyface 122 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: sixteen year old, but he had hard eyes, eyes that, 123 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: because of his upbringing, had seen things other sixteen year 124 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: olds will never see. Violence was in his blood. Robbery 125 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: was a viable career path, murder and occupational hazard, even 126 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: in shitfuck Texas, where he was now living. After his 127 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,319 Speaker 1: dad had gone away to take A moved from La 128 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: to Las Vegas to live with his sister, and when 129 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 1: his dad got out, he moved the family to Arlington, 130 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: Texas for a fresh start. And it sucked. There was 131 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: nothing nothing to do for take A. There were two 132 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 1: roads out, robbing and rapping. He hedged his bets and 133 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: pursued both. Rapping was long shot. Take K fucked with 134 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: the Daytona Boys, but Santana Sage was serving forty four 135 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: years on a murder charge and the group was a 136 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 1: dead end, he decided to break out on his own, 137 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: and in twenty fifteen uploaded his first song to soundcloaud. 138 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: He'd seen other rappers like Lil Yachti break out big 139 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: time through SoundCloud, so why not him. Li Yati had 140 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: over a half million followers ended up with a record deal. 141 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: It was now modeling for Kanye West. Jesus, that dude 142 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:56,199 Speaker 1: could do it. Take Ky's first upload, Biff Sandon grab 143 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 1: some local attention but failed to light the internet on fire. 144 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 1: We're into it, but not enough to send mister Kim 145 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: Kardashian knocking. For the then fifteen year old, it was 146 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: a real come to Jesus moment. So for the time anyways, 147 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: it was robbing. The alleged plan was to stick up 148 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: that boy, Ethan Walker, the one who always had the 149 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: good weed and the stacks of cash. He was crazy 150 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: for pussy, like every other twenty one year old dude 151 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: on the planet. He'd be no match for the two girls. 152 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: One of them wasn't much to look at, but she 153 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: knew how to work it, and she wasn't enough of 154 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,720 Speaker 1: a distraction. Instinctively, Take knew that the other girl, the 155 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: one with those eyes, she'd do the trick. They told 156 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Ethan they were on their way by his place to 157 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 1: smoke him up. The girl's car hit the fifteen hundred 158 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: block of Aspen Court in Mansfield, Texas, at around ten 159 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: pm on July twenty fifth, twenty sixteen. They rang the 160 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: bell and were buzzed in. Ethan locked the door behind them. 161 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,920 Speaker 1: He'd already been robbed before and didn't need that shit again. 162 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 1: It was straight to the bedroom, weed and then hopefully sex. 163 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: The weed was thick, sticky, you really are to get 164 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: after it and break it up. While Ethan rolled a blunt, 165 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: he tried making small talk with the girls, and they 166 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,959 Speaker 1: were acting weird, distracted, running in and out of the room, 167 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: out to the kitchen, fucking with their phones, not making 168 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: an eye contact. Maybe they're already high. Supposedly, the way 169 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: the plan was to go off was that take a 170 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: would text hit a lick to the girls. Hit a 171 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: lick was code for home invasion, and on that cueue 172 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 1: if the girls gave the okay, KK and his two boys, 173 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: who were outside, would then bust In and Robbie take 174 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: his weed and his money. The problem is that the 175 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: girls were fucking things up. They were taking way too 176 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: long to text back, does it go? Take K texted 177 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: nothing fuck inside. Girl number one was flirting with Ethan, 178 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: but Ethan wasn't interested. He wanted Girl number two with 179 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: the eyes, but she was smoking weed on the other 180 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 1: side of the room, trying to play it cool. Then 181 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: she wandered out to the kitchen again. She pulled out herself, 182 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: texted the OKA back to take care, and then unlocked 183 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: the front door the apartment. Taymore McIntyre aka take K 184 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,440 Speaker 1: forty seven and two others allegedly burst through the door 185 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: at that moment, Gun's out shouting that this was a 186 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: robbery and everyone needed to chill the fuck out. Ethan 187 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: knew what was up immediately. Shit. He extracted himself from 188 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: Girl number one's bullshit advances and got to his feet 189 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: and quick. It all happened so fast before he could 190 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: even get his head around the queasy feeling in his stomach. 191 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: It was a bullet. He didn't even know where it 192 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: came from or from pool, and then nothing. Ethan Walker 193 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:53,079 Speaker 1: was dead, just like that, twenty one years old and gone. 194 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: Witnesses from over at Aspen Court gave police everything they 195 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: needed to quickly piece together whom I have been to 196 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: blame for the robbery slash murder, and cops quickly rounded 197 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: up all involved, including Take, who, at sixteen years old, 198 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: had just caught his first murder charge. We'll be right 199 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: back after this word word word. House arrest sucked as 200 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: this shit fucked Texas wasn't bad enough now you had 201 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,320 Speaker 1: to spend your time, all your time cooped up in 202 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:30,079 Speaker 1: this lifeless apartment. But being charged with capital murder did 203 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: have his upside, since the arrest and the press surrounding it, 204 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: Take's SoundCloud plays had gone through the roof, relatively speaking. Anyways, 205 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,079 Speaker 1: Lesson learned, the more really your shit is, the more 206 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: people are going to pay attention to you. Wait a minute, 207 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 1: that's it. Fuck house arrests. What good was it doing? What? 208 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: You're supposed to sit around for months waiting to be 209 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: ushered to and from court where you face either life 210 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:01,560 Speaker 1: in prison with no shot a parole, or death sentence. No, 211 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: how are you supposed to become a hip hop star 212 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: like that? Hell? How are you supposed to rob anyone 213 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 1: like that? The decision was easy, stay and you're going 214 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 1: to jail or worse, run and you could get caught. 215 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: But fuck it, maybe you release some music along the way. 216 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: Get your SoundCloud really going. Maybe you get some of 217 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: that record label money, or go back to Robin. How 218 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: bad could life? Is? A fugitive be probably beats a 219 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: shit out of sitting around at home. So on March 220 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: twenty seventh, twenty seventeen, take K forty seven cut his 221 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: ankle bracelet off and sent out the following tweet, Fuck 222 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: this house, arrest shit, fuck twelve. They gonna have to 223 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: catch me on a hood. I'm not gonna lie. Had 224 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 1: I seen that tweet in real time, I probably wouldn't 225 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 1: have understood what the hell it meant, But the rest 226 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: of the twitters fear got it. Tak was gone. He split, 227 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: and as his escape picked up steam, so did his tweet. 228 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 1: Now the take was on the run from the law, 229 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: he started to really blow up on SoundCloud, and hip 230 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: hop fans weren't the only ones interested, obviously. The United 231 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,280 Speaker 1: States Marshalls Service listed him as a violent fugitive, released 232 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: a wanted photo, and solicited the public for help in 233 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: locating you. The public had other ideas. Fans took to 234 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: Twitter almost immediately to tweet posts of support for take, 235 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: whose Twitter profile featured several videos and pictures of him 236 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: posing with guns, cash, and dope. No matter, the tweets 237 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: started pouring in from all over Run take A. I 238 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: hope they never find take take A can murdered this 239 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: pussy anytime? And the ubiquitous protect take A at all costs. 240 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 1: That one was retweeted over and over again and used 241 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 1: in the context of whatever was trending on Twitter that day, 242 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,800 Speaker 1: as in, there's a hurricane coming to Houston, protect take 243 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: A at all costs. Allegedly, take A headed from Arlington, 244 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: Texas to San Antonio. Maybe the plan was to escape 245 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 1: to Mexico. Maybe there was no plan at all, but 246 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: in the absence of a plan, there was predictability. Wrapping 247 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: and robbing. Authorities suspect that while in San Antonio, take 248 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 1: K robbed and assaulted a sixty five year old man, 249 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: and shortly after he made his escape, take started sending 250 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: new music to his manager, sixteen year old Ezra Averil. 251 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 1: One track was so good they decided they needed a 252 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: video for its release to really take advantage of the 253 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: social media wave. Takey's fugitive status had given him so 254 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: in late May twenty seventeen, take K forty seven a 255 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: Most Wanted fugitive somehow hooked himself up with his friends, 256 00:16:44,040 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: presumably back in Texas to shoot the video. The video 257 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: looked great and the song slammed. Ezra knew they were 258 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: onto something, and take K knew he had to lam 259 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 1: it again or else get caught. So he headed north 260 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: and as he continued to run, his name continued to 261 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: ring out on Twitter. The original plan was to release 262 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 1: the video later that year, but the Internet wants what 263 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: the Internet wants when the Internet wants it. So smartly, 264 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: Ezra set up a deal with Miami rap collective Buffet 265 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: Boys to release the video on their YouTube channel, and 266 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: by the time Taik arrived in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 267 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: June thirty, twenty seventeen, the video was ready for release. 268 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: At eight fifty four pm, take K forty seven tweeted 269 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: out the video with the following caption, Feds can't hold 270 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: me back. Here it go take A the race music video. Boom, 271 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: Twitter blew up. The video was everything Ezra had hoped 272 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 1: it would be. The opening shot shows a wanted poster 273 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: of take A. The beat drops and as a viewer, 274 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: you're immediately on board. Art imitating life. Take A is 275 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: seen in the video, mugging for the camera and dancing 276 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: around with a nine millimeter Every lyric is a depiction 277 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: of his seventeen year old life at that moment. It's 278 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: all running, robin and killing. It was real, real enough 279 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: for detectives to easily team with the numerous tips they'd 280 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,199 Speaker 1: been receiving from all over the country, and within hours 281 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: of the video being released, Take K forty seven was arrested. 282 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: He was extradited from New Jersey back to Texas. As 283 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:46,639 Speaker 1: if the video wasn't enough, news of his capture pushed 284 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 1: the video over the top. Hashtag free take a quickly 285 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,399 Speaker 1: became a thing on Twitter. Travis Scott tweeted out a 286 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: line from the race, do the dash then go out 287 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: the way, giving the unknown rapper hip hop's seal of approval. 288 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: Remixes by massively popular artists like Taiga, twenty one Savage, 289 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: and Yes, even Lil Yati started showing up. The song 290 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,159 Speaker 1: debuted on the Billboard charts at number seventy and peaked 291 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: at number forty four. Rumors started circulating that RCA Records 292 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,399 Speaker 1: was interested in signing the young fugitive, despite news that 293 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,439 Speaker 1: he was going to be tried as an adult for 294 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: capital murder. The rumors were partly true. RCA record exect 295 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: Jay Grand signed take K forty seven to his independent 296 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: label eighty eight Classic, but it remains to be seen 297 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: if TAKEK ever get hold of any of that record 298 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 1: label cash. The video for the race, however, has been 299 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: viewed over one hundred million times one hundred million times. 300 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: Someone's getting paid. YouTube should be paying take K forty 301 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: seven's legal fees, After all, they're advertising against his video. 302 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 1: If I were Taymore McIntyre's manager, I'd be starting a 303 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: new hashtag campaign forget free, take care. What about pay 304 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: take a legal fees? Especially if for two capital murder 305 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:11,160 Speaker 1: charges can get expensive? Oh yeah, authorities added another murder 306 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: charge to take after he was caught for the alleged 307 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 1: murder of a victim outside of San Antonio fast food 308 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: restaurant while on the run. More to the point, art 309 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: imitating life can get expensive. Take K forty seven's rise 310 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: in popularity has as much to do with this art 311 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: as it does with his life. Rappers have been boasting 312 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: and talking shit ever since the genre came to be. 313 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 1: The more authentic those hip hop artist seemed, the wider 314 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 1: their appeal see straight out of Compton as Exhibit A. 315 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: But with n WA, there was an unseen line between 316 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 1: art and life. You really couldn't see it, but you 317 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,199 Speaker 1: kind of knew it was there. That line made the 318 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: artists a little less scary and a little more acceptable. 319 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: Take K forty seven, on the other hand, feels a 320 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: lot more real, maybe because of the viral diy nature 321 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,400 Speaker 1: of it all. It's all super authentic. Unlike with NWA, 322 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,439 Speaker 1: there isn't a shred of daylight between what could be 323 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: real and what could be fake. There is no debate. 324 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:20,359 Speaker 1: It's all real life imitating life. And let's not forget Tunoucent. 325 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,159 Speaker 1: People are dead and a seventeen year old is facing 326 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: either life in prison or the death sentence, So all 327 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: of it it's also a disgrace. 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