WEBVTT - EP 84 RICO ACT and how Casanova 2x might have got caught up 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:06.040 When I right, y'all all across the USC Compton lots. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:11.040 Thank to l A from on the California the Valley. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.520 We represent that kind of county. So if you're keeping 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.160 it rail on your side of your town, you tune 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.439 into Gangster Chronicles. Gangster the Goals are gonna tell you 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.800 how we go. If I lie my nose will girl 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.040 like Pinocchio. We're gonna tell you the truth and nothing 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.040 but the truth Gangster Chronic Goals. This is not your 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.640 average show. You're now tuned into the Rail m c A, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:45.400 Dick James and Mixed Fields from the streets. Hello, where 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.960 you act? This is o G Gangster Granny and the 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.720 Gangster Chronicles Podcast is back in effect. Get ready for 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.920 some of that G ship. We might welcome everyone to 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:02.880 another episode the Gangster Chronicles Podcast. Not with my homeboys. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.199 You know, make sure you hit that I heart app, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.319 download the I app subscribed to the show. All my 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.760 iPhone users. Hit that purple MICUs on your phone. You 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.680 know those lights that you hang up in your backyard, 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.160 the purple lights. You know the fly hit him? Is 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.360 that the flies keep the flies from coming in bees 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.280 and stuff. The black male is like one of those 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.800 bees man and the light is the penitentiary system. Well, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.360 you gotta look at it like this. It ain't just 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.200 with with black males, just with everything and everybody. This 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.120 world is designed is a circle. Everything is repeats itself. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:41.040 All the robberies, murders, everything repeats itself, especially in the neighborhood. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:49.120 Everything is a cycle, and it just repeats itself. Killings, rape, robbery, homies, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.000 fighting homies, homies killing homies. This ship has been going 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.520 on from the beginning of time. Yeah, a week at 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.200 our I guess second rapper man, you know, casting over 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.520 two times by the FBI man you know, fist saying 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.160 he's a member of a violent street game, street game 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.959 rather than um, you know, one of eighteen people charged 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.480 with drug trafficking and reggaeteer in New York City and upstate. 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.680 So it's a lot of stuff going on. And when 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.200 we got Friends of the show, Grade Katian here tonight 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.520 detect the grade katiing just here to kind of shie 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.600 me in on some of this stuff. There's a lot. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.440 There's a lot going on. Why these guys keep getting targeted? Man, 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.840 how are they getting themselves in these situations? You go ahead, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:39.800 go up man. Um. Honestly, Um, I think it's like, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.359 once again, it's the product of the environment and it's 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.640 the way we walk or the life that's put ahead 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.160 of us whatever. I mean. You know, a lot of 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.400 us join gangs, you know, feeling that we want to 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.800 be associated, or we want to protect the neighborhood or whatever. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.880 But we tend to forget when we turn or we 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.880 try to turn into regular men. The pitfalls of gang 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.200 banging kind of follows us, you know, everywhere we go. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.160 And that's your face of James. It's a lot of them. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.400 There's a lot of niggas who still want to be associated. Yeah, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.440 but but if you make it out of the neighborhood. 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.920 Everybody said they want to make it out the neighborhood, 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:20.760 and everybody said they want to be able to take 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.200 care of their kids and their mama's. Let's get their 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.400 mama's out the hood. But our biggest problem is going 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.720 back to the hood too, because we want the homies 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.519 to say, all you're looking out for us, or that's 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.720 the big homie, or is this and that if you 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.440 make it out the hood, you get out the hood. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.640 I think every man that that that that walked this life, 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.040 should have their own way of trying to get out, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.320 you know what I'm saying. And if you get out 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.880 and the homies ain't there to say, man, you did that. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.280 You know what I'm saying, We're proud of you are 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.440 the motherfucker, don't come to the hood no more. You 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.000 see the difference. They main't your friends. So we gotta 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.000 understand who's our friends and who's not. I mean, if 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.040 the homies want to see me doing good and better, 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 they're gonna tell me not to come around there no more. Man, 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.960 you're doing good. Don't funk with these dudes and this 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.360 and that, which I get a lot of that. I 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.840 get a lot of that. But you know, we we 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.240 we we go back to the hood and want to 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.160 help somebody, help the homies, and then we we want 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.159 the hood to shine. And the whole time you're trying 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.440 to make the hood shine, you're digging. You're you're digging 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.479 a dish for yourself, because sooner or later, somebody out 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.360 of that crowd is gonna say, after he get busted, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.400 where y'all get this, how y'all hood comes from here 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:43.120 to there? The homies? Now you in jail because you 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.280 help the homies, and you know, it's different ways to 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:49.880 help the homies. One one way to help the homies 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.640 is getting the jit jobs. You know what I'm saying, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.520 If if if they want to get up the ass 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.960 that do a ninety five, put money in the neighborhood 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.880 where they can come and go to work, put on 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.280 uniform and make money the legit way. But no, everybody 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.600 feeled it doping and and the pistols ain't doing them 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:12.160 becausing a bigger problem than we had before. So it's 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.000 it's different ways to do that. You know what they're 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.520 saying is um you know what it was an indictment 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.880 that was unsealed on Tuesday name in eight teams expected 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:27.000 gang members who have been charged with racketeering, murdering, narcotics, firearms, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.120 and other fraud offenses. You know, as in the indictment, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:31.800 they you know, a legend that he was a member 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:36.799 of the Guerrilla Stone gang, violence, trafficing, narcotics, and even 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.440 engaged in fraud by exploiting benefits programs, you know them 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.479 cards that everybody had running around when it was getting 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.479 there getting a little you know, bring it off of 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.000 and now that everybody you know, catching cases behind that 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:56.000 silly ship, I think, UM, when you start looking at 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.120 and I'm sure Greg can probably attest to this, UM, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.720 when you start looking at served dudes as far as 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:11.440 game members, UM, that stretch that line of of you know, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.440 broken laws, you can attach to a ship. I mean 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.440 because let's face a lot of niggas from the neighborhoods, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.400 the dry bys and killed and all that type of ship. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:27.760 So to attest all that bullshit, I'm pretty sure that 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.560 when they start looking at certain motherfucker's, if you want 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.400 to bring up Rico as you know what I'm saying, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.039 They're just gonna look at the long heathline of history 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:41.239 of the neighborhood. You get me like, oh, yeah, they've 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.119 been killing since the seventies and so and soul soul 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.839 drugs and we know he sold and he was big 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:51.159 time and these motherfucker's over here. So I'll just look 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.479 at it as when you go, yeah, we can attach 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.360 Rico to a lot of motherfucker's if they game members, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.320 if they neighborhoods have been known to being some of 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.839 that old tory, your ship. Absolutely. But let me ask 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.960 you this, and this is a question like UM for 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.599 YouTube gride I guess would be for you. Um, you 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.160 have a guy he's named in this reco indictment. Let's 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.280 say he just a member of the game and they 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.400 had sometimes you know, you've got members of games. Some 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.000 of them got jobs, some of them are selling dope, 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:23.000 something got everybody not active. Let's say he's like a 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.320 member of this game. He may go around and kick 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.840 it here and there, hang out with him, at him 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.200 coming to the club, with him, going videos, but he's 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:34.320 doing his rap thing. Could he possibly have been named 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.640 in that reco active they hadn't caught him in doing 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.760 it the wrong? No, No, that's not the way RICO works. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.160 So you've got things that like you have things you've 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:46.280 heard of like gang injunctions where they'll target a gag 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.160 and they're doing a junction where they just put a 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.200 lot of you know, energy into um even minor crimes, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.600 but with racketeering it's a completely different. Things. You have 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.720 to have predicate acts, and every charge in RICO has 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:01.960 to have or predicate act, and there's only so many 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.200 predicate acts. Some some crimes don't qualify as predict cad acts. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.800 But things like you know, obviously um extortion, money laundering, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.480 murder um, using public utilities to commit crimes, you know, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.160 talking on the phone, you're making boat deals, that type 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.880 of ship. All those things blend in because Rico was 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.880 actually originally designed to go after the mob right back 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.320 in the day. And then they started in a late 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.360 night probably the late eighties, early nineties, they started to 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:36.800 doing a gangs, Mexican gangs, Black gangs, motorcycle clubs. And 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.000 they're like, man, Rico works just as effectively here. And 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.080 but to answer your question, you know, there has to 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.480 you would have to commit a particular crime that's on 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:50.319 a list of crimes that fall under the umbrella of Rico. Okay, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:54.520 he got caught doing something. He got caught something either 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.360 on the phone or you know, transferring money, anything like 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.840 that would have qualified and means, and it's disattributed to 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:07.920 because at this point they're already investigating the game. Absolutely. Yeah. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.240 It all starts out with a proposal to do a 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.040 racketeering act on a group of people. How long do 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.160 they sit on a case like that, I don't I 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.719 don't know what do they watch? They could be from 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.480 a day or year. They were doing a racketearing act 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.320 on Death Row from late nineties three to ninety four, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.480 all the way on the stuff till and just sitting 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.000 back and taking taking notes and just watching and watching 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:42.280 connecting dots. So they can go for years. And what 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.360 another kind of you know, not disturbing, but another kind 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.319 of concerning thing about it is there can be a 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.800 long stretch of time between crimes. That's what I'm saying. 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.720 It's like, let's say this guy, hypothetically, six years ago, 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.880 he gets another dude in the neighborhood. You know, he's 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.679 probably rhymes on the side or whatever, but he get 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.640 his break, Um tax Stone start messing with him. Did 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.280 he get you know, picked up by rock Nation. So 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.920 now he changed his life. He's starting to do shows 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:10.800 and get show money. You know, you tend to move 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.840 out to the neighborhood when you start getting a little somebody, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.079 you know, you upgrade. You can't stay in the same spot, 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.040 you know. So you're telling me that this could have 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.520 been him. Dude call him on the phone like, man, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.720 I need a ah some some um. What's that they 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.960 smoke out there? Haze? I need some haze, you know 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.480 what I mean? And he go serve his homeboy and 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.800 eph weed. But he just happened to be listened to 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.440 because he's part of this whole thing. Now that he's 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.560 missed a big time rapp and they don't give a say, well, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.760 this dude, your soul's weed. They probably want him now 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.679 because you're bigger. Yeah, I'm saying because that makes the 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.199 case look juicier. Well, that's what I'm saying. So they 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.640 could paint him as this dude that's funneling all this 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.120 dope and money for this, and that they really try 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.880 to throw motherfucker's in the grease, don't they. Well that 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.040 to the whole idea is to get as much leverage 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.800 as you can so that when you collect all of 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.840 these people, you have so much leverage on them all 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.080 because they're threatened with this idea of racketeering enhanced crimes. 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.920 And now you're like, oh, ship, all I did was 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.200 this what you per seen as a minor thing. But 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.920 now you're looking at a lot of exposure and that's 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.800 gonna force you to cooperate. Plus oh so plus, if 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.560 they get him, he probably got a little bit more 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.000 going on than the other cats that's in the indictment 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.760 with him, So they probably could grab him just in 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:31.880 hopes that he like man I got a career going 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.600 on and all this ship happening. Man, Oh, it's gonna 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:36.120 be easy to flip him. You don't want to lose 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.200 the ship. But would he throw him with this regal wacons? 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.480 You see, he's on the run. Now, if you were 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.880 advising him, would you tell him to turn himself in him? Yeah, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.920 you can only run so far. He's gonna get caught. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.239 And when it comes. Now, when he gets caught, obviously 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.120 that's gonna work against him because it's gonna show when 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:57.680 he goes to his his here may maybe you're just 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.080 trying to figure it out right now. Yeah, that's I 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.240 think he's getting together to get the lawyer together, you 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.480 know what I'm saying, seeing what is the actual charges 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.360 that they're trying to bring against him? You know what 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.000 I'm saying. So you can probably you can probably say 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.720 that's happening too, because I wouldn't. That wouldn't be a 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.320 smart move. Yeah, because this guy, you know, casting is 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.480 he's been in prison before. I mean, he's a he's 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.120 a street he's a street catch soon so he know 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:29.880 he know how to play it. You know, he's he's uh, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.760 you know, got the reputation of being somebody that's authentic 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.000 and official, you know what I'm saying. I mean, he 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.600 still was associated to his neighborhood, no telling what his 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.560 plans were, you know what I'm saying, because he was 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.559 getting you know, he rap career, was being a little successful. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.720 You know, he was up there. My man was moving 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.000 units and all that ship videos and ship and all that. So, um, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.959 we would just hope that he would be making the 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.439 decision to just let me get my ship in order 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.800 before I have to go do it. That's what's going down. Yeah, 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.959 I just don't, like I said, it seemed like it's 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.439 just would you say, Greg, you've being from law enforcement, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.360 actually law enforcement, do you think that this whole system 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.679 is just designs? May be asking a rhetorical question, Um, 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:21.080 is it designed for certain people to fail? I don't know. 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.560 I think you get you know, people, as you guys 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.480 have alluded to. You know, you get caught up in it. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.280 Sometimes you're caught up and you you don't need to 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:28.959 know how deep you're in it until all of a 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.840 sudden you get hit with a you know, you know, 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.040 somebody's kicking in your door and you realize, like, what 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.920 the fuck? Two years ago I was on the phone 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.640 and you know, selling a couple of pounds of weed. 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.360 The next thing you know, I'm wrapped up in this 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.720 racketeerian thing. And you know, so I think a lot 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:48.360 of people just don't realize, um, how uh you know, 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.920 precarious it can be. And and and then we gotta 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.320 look at it. When we out there committing our crimes, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.880 are doing what we do to get our money. We 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.400 don't we're not paying attention to the consequences. Who might 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.920 be who and we're doing it. So at the end 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.640 of the day, when the when the ship happens, we 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.000 already know we We were in the thick of the ship. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.199 So I don't think it's a trap. I think we 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.640 put ourselves into travel, you know what I'm saying, because 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.400 you they're not just coming out there okay today, We're 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.720 gonna set whoop whoop and get them and and make 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.600 them by the dope from us. You know what I'm saying. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.960 I think we were already out there in the streets 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.720 doing what we're doing. So we a lot of this 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.720 ship that we do is on us, and we gotta 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.080 be accountable for the ship we do. You know what 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:42.120 I'm saying. It's some of us has got all away 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.120 with a lot of ship, and I'm sitting here and 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.840 I can honestly testify to that. And maybe I got 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.040 away with a lot of ship because certain things in 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.320 the hood I didn't like, or do you know what 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.280 I'm saying? I was a straight fucking gang banger. I 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.880 didn't I didn't even want to. And I couldn't see 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.520 my self snatching purses from what the wind that wasn't 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.160 game banging. I didn't see myself braving a female that 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:13.440 wasn't gag banging. My whole life was the opposite society. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.080 This is what I thought it was supposed to be, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.120 you know what I'm saying. So any time I got 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.000 trapped and caught into that, I didn't have a choice 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.040 but to sit in jail and go to court behind 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.680 this ship. Whether whether I win, lost or did some 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:32.680 time or whatever, it was my actions the consequences. It's me, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.640 really what I'm trying to say. And that's for all 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.200 of us across the board. You know what I'm saying. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.320 We out to know him, we're doing rome, But at 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.600 the end of the day, why are we complaining about 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.880 how we get down? And I put myself in that 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.560 same trick back as everybody out there doing what they're 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.360 doing and get caught up and ship like this. You 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.560 know what I'm saying, I had a choice to make, 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.120 Like with death Row, I had a choice to either 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.400 rock and roll with the dumb ship. Y'all going over 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.040 there and do your thing. I'm gonna go over here. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.120 I'm gonna go get the shop. I ain't got time 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.800 for that. I ain't going against the grain. I ain't 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:12.080 doing this other dumb ship. It just wasn't me and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.680 and those cats that felt the same way I felt. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.920 We all got choices every everything we do. Every time 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.120 I put my pants on and put my band down 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.040 in my pocket, I knew inside and I knew when 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.320 I put my pistol on the hill it was I 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.480 might run into gangs and Jackson, I might run into sos. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.560 You know what I'm saying. I'm a day out there, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:40.000 and Lingwood was out there deep. But I knew the consequences. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.120 But I still had my pistol. Catch me with that motherfucker. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:50.840 I don't don't go outside. So those chances that we took, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.760 now getting caught with a pistol, and all I said, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.000 I think let's go to jail, said there and deal 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.040 with it. Yeah, exactly, you know, I'm ship. I'm dealing 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.080 with the ship fox. Fine terms. I'm just saying, we 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.440 all have choices. Everything I know, Like you said, it 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.159 was the choices you knew when you stepped off the 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.320 porch and you put that that motherfucker pistol on your 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.240 head that Lynnwood shares Mike Jack and motherfucker. But that's 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.720 the chance I'm gonna take. Same with me. I rolled 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.200 around with a motherfucker three eighty with gonna pop off 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:24.520 vic dash that did I know that motherfucking the sheriffs 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.439 or Compton p d was gonna be rolling through as 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.800 soon as they see your motherfucker. They don't get a 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.920 fun I'm a motherfucking eight folk. Cut listen, sh what'sh 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.520 the breakdown once you get caught. But now, when you 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.720 guys were doing that, and you know they're consequences of 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.760 those that specific action, But what are you thinking in 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:42.760 terms of like this is maybe part of a much 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.679 bigger picture. Well, I just get caught with a pistol, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.520 but now I'm wrapped up in some kind of organized 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.720 crime type of prosecution. Think you don't think like that 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.600 thinking about what I thought was. Motherfucker, you better have 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.200 a heat rolling through these motherfucking streaks or you don't 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.680 get caught. Just like if I passed, I went out 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.520 and put in work, and then I give that pistol 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.480 to the homey. That pistol got something wing, but he 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.720 ain't knowing he's thinking of homie. Ain't gonna do me 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.120 like that. Now, a whole lot of us get caught 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.760 up like that, you know what I'm saying, just because 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.720 that pistol got some money. Now you're sitting in jail 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.120 like God damn it. If I speak on this food, 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.640 I can't do time in yere. I can't go back 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.920 to the hood. So you take gotta take that goddamn wrap, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.199 you know what I'm saying. And then at the end 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.360 of the day, motherfucker's ain't taking care of you, none 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.800 of that ship. But these are the consequences that you 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:36.919 take when you get up and you put that pistol 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:39.200 in your hand. Are you getting that car and do 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.440 what you do? Are you out there on the block 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.320 selling dope. When we was on the block selling dope, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:46.960 the police used to pull up and and be doing this. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:48.879 Let me here, then let me see and put the 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.600 step of cup on your edge. That ain't good enough, buddy. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.359 We out of here, and and motherfucker's breaking round something 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.520 get away. Some don't. But being on the block, trying 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:02.080 to sell up to what we think is feeding out 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.960 families or kids are or so I can go get 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.280 them nice tennis shoes or get the rims from our car. 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.560 We ain't thinking about the ship that the people that's 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.280 consuming them drugs, how the homie mommy is sucked up, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.560 but we're still selling it to it. We ain't thinking 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.440 about none of that. So then we get busted because 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.240 they've been watching the block. So when they hit the house, 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:29.439 we go to jail. The breakdown of that is, Man, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.560 I wouldn't in there, and they I was outside and 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.400 they took me in the house. Oh I was over there, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.199 but I wanted to selling no jobs. Now they've been 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.359 sitting on your ass for a month, two months, a year. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:41.960 You can't get out of it. That's how the fans 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.679 do it. They sit back and they make sure they 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.119 got you. You can't go in and sit out and 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.080 then not that ship at all. You can't So what 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.080 that's what what I'm saying is and and I'm I'm 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:57.840 using me as any example, so nobody can say. I'm 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.760 saying they the choices I made got me where I went. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.000 The choices I made something, the pritison, the choices I 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.879 made hurt a whole lot of people. You know what 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.000 I'm saying, The choices I made hurt my mom's. You 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:14.560 know what I'm saying is everybody got to be accountable 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.920 for self. If we don't understand self and and don't 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.119 understand what the we're doing in the consequences of how 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.320 we do it, then we're gonna talk about this dude, 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:28.600 death road, diggie. We're gonna talk about all these kids 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.680 that get caught up, that gets money at a certain 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.119 point in their life and then still want to go 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.160 back to the bullshit. You make it. You made it, Yeah, 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:40.960 you don't have to come back. And that's the disturbing 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.800 thing about this to me is it seems like it's 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:47.840 always the rappers man, not wonderful times. And I feel conflicted. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.119 We're feeling this way because you know, I work in 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.320 the music and this tree, and you know I love 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.840 against the rap music like everybody else, But I always 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.480 saw its entertainment, and I think maybe it's part I 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.159 knew a lot of the artists and I was like, man, 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.840 he's really a nice dude, but he can just you know, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:05.600 you knew how to talk about the honies around them 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.400 real good. Don't necessarily mean you're phonny, but he knew 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:10.280 how to convey what was going on in this community, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:14.800 you know what I mean? Exactly? Do you think they're 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.360 purposely and this may be me reaching or whatever. I'm 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:22.080 kind of a conspiracy theorist. Um do you think that 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:26.359 it was because it seems like black music rap music 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.720 just kind of start And I ain't gonna say because 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.399 the gangster rap, because it was still even the stuff 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.280 when they was talking about, you know, public gating, he 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:34.920