Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast - WES WATSON IS A FAKE?! | EX GANGSTER REVEALS THE TRUTH
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I knew West Washington was a flake before I even never watched any of the prison genre channels.
He's one of his videos, like he doesn't respond to nobody when they attack up, but he actually responded a little bit.
I don't see why people have to talk about other people.
He can't discredit what's being put out there.
That's straight from the Department of Corrections. You can't deny that.
He ain't ran no prison yard. I may be what I am, but I've ran prison yards.
You know what I was part of an organization. I recruited people.
I've made, I've really had people stick and stuff like that.
This dude has it.
And I came across you because you did a video, um, on
on uh west watson oh yeah right so how did how did that come about like i knew west watson
was a flake before i even never watched any of the prison jodder channels right a lot of
these dudes that came on back then were they're fake man all these dudes that like they were never
part of no gangs or organizations they were just me just sat there did whatever they needed to do
they were the base limit convicts all these dudes that have 500 000 to a million subscribers
they were no buddies in the game so when i see west watson
I'm saying, I never want to attack him
because I have nothing against, I have no hate towards him.
Right. But he's fake.
His stories, when I heard the story
he did about the shoe, and I was
in the shoe indetermined. He's
talking about the South Siders are up at 3.30.
I've never seen the South Sires get
up past 545, ever.
You know what I'm saying?
He's talking about fucking how they put him in this, all this shit
that he's talking, man, this shoe's full of it.
Like, just everything he's saying,
and you can just tell. And he's talking about
how dominant his group. I'm like, dude, your group's not even
even the top three as far as the most dominant groups in the prison system.
This would be real. You know, you're not going to run
nothing by no orders. You're going to do whatever the South Siders tell you to do in most
places. So quit trying to pretend. And then when I started hearing the
level four stuff, I got at somebody I know, who knows how to get at
somebody to get the records pull. And so they pulled it. And so if you
looked at it, it shows Donovan, which was reception, which is he said he went
from Setanella before he went to
he went to the shoe he said
and then he said he went to
Setanella before he went to Arizona
doesn't show you if he went to Setanella
it says he went straight from fucking
Donovan to fucking Arizona
you know what I'm saying so I'm looking at all this stuff
and I'm watching his videos and I'm like I already knew
he's full of shit but I'm like dude this shit right here just
fucking proves everything he says he's full of shit
he never was no level four
the officer that that uh uh
gave us to the person I know
said that he never did no shoot time
there's no street term that he allegedly claimed so it's all
bullshit so I'm
like, you know what, man? I dropped it for two reasons. One, it's going to get
fucking views. You're real. That was the number one reason why I dropped it because
sometimes, hey, there's some things, we need that bump in our channel for that week.
You could have 100,000 subscribers, but only getting 2,000 other videos sometimes.
Yeah. Okay? You could have 20,000 subscribers, but every video is hitting 30-40.
So that right there will give me the jump. I know it.
Two, why not? Why not tell people with the truth? You know, I'm not hating on what he accomplished.
I'm saying that the do's a fake.
You know, it's like if you went to, uh, whatever, ever training a seminar or you're a sports fanatic and you want to go to some quarterback school, you know, you think you're getting fucking coached by fucking Joe Montana, man, but literally you know, you're getting fucking coached by a fucking high school quarterback.
That's the reality of it.
And, um, that's up for people to make the decision if they want to support him or not.
That's up to them. He maybe is a good motivator.
I mean, I wouldn't that nobody talks to me the way he talks to people, you know, me?
We'd be having issues, straight up.
Right.
And when I see it, I'm like, fuck
these people like
And people, it's funny though
Some people will defend them though
Like, it's like, fuck here
It's like, why they got
West Watson like that, it's like, come on man
You know, he's nothing that he portrays to be
You know
I did a video about him
I'm paying the AB
I'm like
I never said that he had to pay the AP
He said it on no jumper
He's the one that made that first statement
Oh, I could just know some money
If I go back in this stat
You're not to go fucking whack the shit out of him, man.
You know what I'm saying?
He was never on the level four.
He paroled from a CCF, level two.
So at the end of that, it just shows up to 2015.
That shows the last place he was housed in Arizona.
I don't know when he came back to the States.
But he came back, I think, to a CCF.
So he had to go through reception.
So I heard he went through Delano, they told me.
So he went to the CCF, which is not even a prison.
Those are fucking private-owned fucking cast, basically.
Right.
He was never in no shoe.
He was never on no level four yard, and he was out of state that's all there's to it.
He wasn't running no yard.
I don't think he was a punk or nothing, but he was not the man that he portrays to be on looking YouTube.
Right.
Well, I mean, listen, there's lots of guys like that, you know, there's lots of, you know, you hear the stories and it's like, that didn't sound right.
Like, I don't see how you're behaving this way in prison.
And I don't see these, these stories that you're, I'm not saying they're not true, but I don't see all these different things happen.
happened to you and you know and look I I got people that you know people send me emails and
they you know they they contact me on Instagram and you know they'll shoot me you know we shoot
messages back and forth but you know and guys are like listen like they're they're saying all
kinds of stuff about him like look that like that he ended up getting some kind of a benefactor
right away that basically has him put him up so he can shoot videos in like a condo so that he's
driving a vehicle that it's not his like it's all these things like it's the whole fake it till
you make it you know and and that's you know i get it some people do that but i also kind of get his
story too because let's face it at i got now of a prison and never mentioned that i cooperated i could
have said i filed two 2255s got my sentence reduced twice i could have come up with some bullshit
story and i got 26 years but i ended up meeting this guy and he filed two 22 to 55s for me
got you know seven years knocked off my sentence and and five years knocked off my sentence and could
come up with some bullshit reason. Nobody's got to check. Nobody's got to go pull up page or look.
So I could have done all that, but I just thought, you know what? Transparency. You've got to be
transparent. Well, you know what I thought was? And this happened in prison. I kind of thought,
you know what? Like all your bullshit lies and fraud got you here. And I remember my buddy Pete
telling me this. My buddy Pete said, you cannot, you cannot go to prison.
continue to behave the way you did prior to prison,
get out of prison, and not expect to come back to prison.
And I thought, all my bullshit fraud,
all these scams, all these lies,
if you get out and you continue bullshitting people,
you're going to end up back in fucking prison.
So you know what?
If you have to tell the truth and you're going to get some shit for it,
you're going to get some shit for it.
Fucking say it.
Be honest.
Be one of the only honest guys out there.
And the people that matter will appreciate.
that the people that don't matter won't and fuck them yeah so I mean I think
that feels that's the sake seems like it was funny though he finally he finally
did not respond to it but he gave a little response to it if you notice he may
oh yeah what was it on what is one of these videos like he doesn't respond to
nobody when the attack of but he actually responded a little bit I don't see why
people have to talk about other people you're fucking fake man you know me
accepted bro I mean like now you're gonna discredit it you can't discredit what's
being put out there that's straight from the department
carbon to cricksh is you can't deny that right no same it's like the liver king
like bro you're you're you've got an amazing fucking physique he's doing a bunch of
like why are you going to lie about the steroids just say you're fucking doing like it's part
of your scam that's why yeah i know i i just i just rather not i'd rather not be that person
no he's and he's gonna get um he's gonna get um he's gonna get his supporters right some people
why you gotta hate out mad it's not even hate another man just keeping it real
if I can be transparent about my story
which is going to get a lot more criticism
than anything he's done, right?
Right.
Why can he be real about his?
He ain't ran no prison yard.
I may be what I am, but I've ran prison yards.
You know what I'm saying?
I was part of an organization.
I recruited people.
I've really had people stabbed in prison and stuff like that.
This dude has it.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
There's no credibility there.
Me, I may have done what I did
because I felt
I felt what I did was the right thing
from my family,
Whether people were real with or not, I don't care.
It was right for me and my family.
But at the end of the day, you can't discredit everything that I've been through
or what I done or who I was.
You know what I'm saying?
It's all right there.
So people are going to hate either way.
And with him, it's like, man, you know,
fuck, I wish I would have gotten on YouTube sooner.
Where are you now?
Are you in California?
Or are you in California right now?
Okay.
Everybody raised in California?
California, Bay Area, to be exact.
Okay.
Okay. You know, small town, Melpitas, California, which is on the outskirts of San Jose.
So I had everything. Open this way, San Jose, this way, San Francisco, just in the center of the bay.
Small community, very diverse as far as different races. You had Mexicans, you had blacks, you had Filipinos, you had Asians, you had everything.
So I didn't really grow up in a very racial environment. It was one of those very diversified environments.
Right.
You know, what about your, what about your parents?
What did they do for a living?
Okay, well, my mom, my dad was a car salesman at that time, right?
He was actually the general manager at Stevens Creek European,
which at that time, they were the only the second dealership that did the European cars.
So this is in the midst of the 80s, the 90s.
Right.
Well, and he was a general manager there, and it was rabbiast of Armenians that,
I remember their names, Philippine Moore Duke, right?
That was their names.
And man, they were doing, I don't know, they were doing a lot of illegal things back there.
You know what I'm saying?
There was a whole different type of era.
A lot of the local drug dealers, like in Richmond and Seaside and all that, used to go in there.
And what they would do is they would lay $10,000, $20,000 at a time and lease a car for a couple months and get a demo.
Right.
Because it would be Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and all that kind of stuff.
And I remember as a kid, man, young, man.
My dad would come home with like a suitcase, all kinds of money.
He never got arrested for anything.
You know what I'm saying?
As I got older, I asked him, man, what was all that money about?
That's what he told me was what they used to do back then was the drug dealers.
This was in the 80s.
They would lease the cars to them because they couldn't purchase them
because the feds would try to get for tax evasions at that time.
So my dad, that's how my dad was.
You know, he was a big man, very violent, very abusive.
Nobody tried his best.
My mom, she was raised in the military family.
She was a real estate broker later on in life.
So,
but at first she was just a regular stay-at-home mom.
And she was a victim of domestic violence as well.
You know what I'm saying?
So it was like one of those houses where you're,
you're scared what you have to save the house
because you don't know what's going to make that tick at the time.
You know what I'm saying?
I was one of those ones that just wanted detention and shit.
I remember I would sit there,
sit there, wait for him to come home.
And he would just come here and rub my head
and just go on about his bed.
business and shit, man. So, um, I had one of her brother and then one older sister. My sister,
she, she ran as soon as she could, she could, man. My brother was about three years younger
and stuff. And, uh, you know, uh, he kind of didn't go down the same path as me, but he started
to suffer from drubby, these shit, you know what I'm saying? And, uh, now he's doing good, man,
he has a, he has a, he has a YouTube channel too. He has, like, over 30,000 subscribers. He
has a business where he's making over 200 round a year and you know we all we all went different
ways you know right oh sometimes it takes time to equal out you know what I'm saying sometimes
you got to hit rock bottom go through some shit before you go listen this isn't working like I'm better
off with less yeah then you know you know what I mean like I'm better off with less and just
living a better life than than what I'm doing just something takes a lot sometimes takes a lot
for people to get there.
Most definitely.
So,
go ahead.
Go ahead.
No, no, I was going to say.
So, I mean, like, when you, you know, you were to high school, did you stay in that area?
Or did your parents stay together?
I mean, what?
Let me get to that.
It's kind of interesting, right?
You know, being a neglected kid, right?
I always wanted to catch you this shit.
So I didn't really have any male figures really, male role models in my life.
And that, like, like, five, six years old and stuff, right?
my dad elected to put me in t-ball right and this is a true story right so the first t-ball game right when
i went to run right i was running like a fucking girl right right it's it horrified my dad and everything so
immediately that falling week i was in taekwondo so i was at west coast taekwondo and um that kind
took me in a whole different different way you know i mean that's when he started to get involved in my life
rights to compete, do demos and all that kind of stuff as a young kid.
But it was kind of interesting that, you know, before that, you know, you had to have been there, man.
Being as a kid, like, I was neglected, so I didn't know the basic things to do.
Even when I went to prison, there were certain things as a man that I didn't know what was supposed to do.
You know what I mean?
I didn't know that shave right.
I didn't know certain things that no father, that each father was supposed to show you.
I don't know if it was contributed to my dad not and all because the way he was.
raised he was raised uh down south you know what i'm saying with uh he had a uh his mom was
native american and his dad was crippled from polio and she was underage i guess and um
she had three kids with him and she ran off with a preacher imagine that you know what i'm saying
so you know he came from one of those hardline type of lifestyle so nowadays when i talk about all
the stuff it doesn't i don't have no hate towards my dad or my mom it is what it is you know
I think that they did the best that they could at the moment.
That's my family.
Right.
So how long, I mean, how did that, you know, develop?
I mean, did you, you know, so the Taekwondo, I'm assuming, kind of toughened you up a little bit.
Yeah.
And you go to, you end up in middle school.
Middle school.
And by then, I was always, you know, fighting, getting in trouble.
You know, I would do, I would go to the extreme.
I was an attention seeker.
So I like the attention.
You know, I do things at school just because I want to be attention to be popular and whatnot.
Getting fights.
You know, the gang stuff came up later on around 8th grade, 9th grade.
That's when the gang last year started.
And by then, they had already got through a split.
My mom was, like I said, she was a homebody.
And this was around 1990, I think, 89.
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She got her real estate license and stuff.
And so I'm pretty sure you know as a real estate agent in the beginning,
you don't always make money
unless you're selling houses.
No.
Take the same.
And so my dad had all the money.
My brother won with my dad.
I won't want my mom and my brother over there had everything.
We were over there struggling.
So I was already selling dope by the time I was like 14, 15 years old just to have clothes.
How that, I mean, how did, like, how did that come about?
Were the neighborhood kids you saw them doing it?
Somebody could approach you.
Just the neighborhood, just rode up in the neighborhood and wanted to experiment.
you know, looking at the older homeboys
and wanted to be just like them
and just you gravitate towards
where you get acceptance, you know,
and that's just how it was for me is I
was one of those kids where I was running away
but I was already like 12 years old, 13 years old
I was living on the side of the freeways
and it wasn't if I came from a bad home though.
Don't get me wrong as far as financially wise.
It was just the things that were going on at home
that were not good.
It had nothing to do. Like, people don't understand that.
It had nothing to do with the financial part of it.
Later on it was, but my mom, we were struggling.
But at the beginning, it wasn't always like that.
So I didn't come from no, like, we were middle class, you know.
Basically, my dad basically spent what he wanted to spend his money on.
Basically, if we didn't have nothing coming, we had nothing coming.
That's just how it was.
It doesn't sound good.
No, it wasn't good.
It wasn't.
So you're, you know, fighting for your, you know, fighting for the scraps or fighting just to stay alive.
you know get enough that keep yourself going um so what happened like you know in high school like
if you're selling drugs and this is in middle school no that was about that was middle school high
school okay so you're selling drugs i mean are you you just doing it to you know just to get
enough money or are you actually thinking hey i can turn this into something or you do you get you get
no i got caught i got i got i got kind doing it right and i told my mom why i was doing it and then she
figured out a way to get some clothes, you know, same. Because before, like, I'd have to borrow clothes
from the homeless from my neighborhood sometimes, right? Like, the shoes would be fucking too
small, like, my feet would be bleeding, you know? Or the pants would fit. I'd have to find a way
to fucking sag or do whatever I could because we just didn't have that, you know? And, you know,
we made do with what we had. And it was just, you know, how it is in high school. If you start
to have, like, you know, you never have kids just to put, like, patches over the holes, the
Bobbs did, you start doing stuff in high school.
When you're in high school, man, people are going to make fun of you.
So I would do what I could and get what I could.
Because I was never, I was never a good thief.
That was never one of those ones that go in there and go to Kmart or whatever it was back
then and still fucking a whole bunch of clothes.
I just couldn't do it.
I'd get caught.
You know what I'm saying?
So someone drugs was a little bit easier for me.
So how long did that go on?
I mean, did you end up graduating high school or did you get caught before that?
Like, I ended up, uh, I didn't finish high school.
Cool.
They're going to the boys' ranch.
For what?
For an assault with a deadly weapon, a knife.
What was that?
What happened there?
Okay.
Not a long story, right?
I got the time.
He had to do with my sister and her boyfriend at the time.
And they were a little bit older.
I was about 16 years old.
And I was coming down from crank, I think, at the time.
And, you know, I didn't want to go to school.
So I wasn't going to go to school.
wanted to sleep. And so her and her boyfriend were trying to wake me up and they started saying
I was on drugs. And so I grabbed the fucking knife and I started chasing after her and boyfriend,
right? And then they just took off running. And so I go back into the house. I go to sleep.
All I just want to do is sleep next to you know, I'll wake up. I got my police department with
a gun straight at my head. I'm like 16 years old. Like, oh shit. So they got me for assault
with a deadly weapon. From there, went to juvenile hall. I was going to end and out,
juvenile all the time for stolen cars, just stupid stuff at the time, right? Nothing major.
yet um nothing major child went to prison you know but at that time i was just trying to fit in um joy
riding uh you know beer and run stuff like that's what i was doing it was basically innocent
not innocent stuff but teenage type of stuff you know i mean we've all done that you know
beer runs smoking weed uh breaking into a band of apartments to kick with some females stuff like
that that was the the level of crimes i was committing
Like the Boys Ranch?
Yeah, the boys' ranch.
How long was that?
How long was that for?
For juvenile, I think I was there for like 15 months.
Whoa.
But that's because I ran twice.
So, okay, so you're, you're, I mean, you understand that most kids, they get in trouble.
If they do get in trouble, if they get probation and then that's it.
But you're, but that's, that, but you ended up with a 15-month sentence.
15 months sentence.
Well, it wasn't if he, he was based upon how.
that you did. The program I had to do was only three and a half months. I turned it into a 15
months since. I'm lucky I didn't go to the youth authority, which was prison basically for
juveniles. Because I caught an assault with a deadly weapon when I was in the juvenile
hall. I hit some dude. A little melee happened with some Sudanials arrived, which is a rival gang,
and I ended up hitting one with a chair. Okay. So you were already in a gang? Yeah,
at this point. Yeah. And how did that happen? Did you approach them? They approach you?
they approached us one night
one night we were just kicking back
with a couple of the older homeboys
and you know
they started drinking right
and they're getting riled up
so they wanted to go fight somebody or jump somebody in
so they ended up jumping me and another
homeboy in that night
and it's just like any other gang
you know they just take off on you for about like
45 seconds 60 seconds
bunch of kicks
bunch of you know they were in steel toes
so it was pretty bad you know
I remember I couldn't even fill my hands
afterwards and I didn't get one good hit
in there at all
but that was probably about 14 years old at time.
Okay, so you end up in the, in whatever, the boys ranch, I want to say juvie, but in the boys ranch, and it drags out for 15 months.
Yeah.
Which is ridiculous.
And so you get out, I mean, you didn't graduate high school in the, well, I guess you were pretty young.
Well, I ended up, put it this way, I had to go to the county jail to get the time done.
I actually never graduated the program
because I actually ran the last time right before I was 18
and they caught me.
So I had to do 60 days in the county jail.
I went from juvenile hall to the county jail.
And this is what I was like, you know,
I was a kid.
This is in the 90s and I don't know what to expect.
I still won't forget that.
That was a very scary time at first.
You know what I'm saying?
Because you heard all the stories about dudes raping young kids
and shit like that and, you know, getting abused and all that.
And you don't know what to expect.
So I remember they walked me from juvenile hall
to the county jail.
and then they sent me to one section
that was the
there was actually where I'm from my city right
but it was like a big door with like 200 grown men
all in the prison
and it was just a whole different atmosphere
from going from the boys ranch and juvenile law
to now county jail
was county jail better
it ended up being better
yeah at first I was a little nervous right
but after a couple of people that knew me
you know that kind of made it made the
made it a little bit easier
and just the more action
just to walk around and do what you wanted to do,
but it was totally different,
whereas in juvenile hall, it was more structured for us.
County Jail was, you know, to do what you want, pretty much.
Yeah, it's just trying to keep yourself occupied.
Yeah.
So I, the hard, the worst part about being in prison
is trying to just keep yourself occupied and entertained
is, there's just nothing to do.
In jail, anyway, in prison, at least you can go out to the yard,
and you can, you know, there's stuff, some stuff to do,
but still, it's a lot of downtime.
time. So when you got out, like, what's your mom saying, bro? What is your mom saying? Is she coming
to see you and saying he was like, shape up? What are you doing? Man, she couldn't control me at
that time. Nobody could. I got to that point where I didn't care. It didn't matter. And, you know,
I'm saying? I feel bad now. But, like, there's nothing she could do. She pretty much had to write it
out. Like, you know, I knew she cared, but there was nothing that she's seen that she could do
that would change anything. And, like, I was the one that she worried the most other, oh, her
kids was me. You know what I'm saying? I'm the middle kid. So I'm over there. I'm, you know,
first week out of county jail, my car gets shot up out there, getting a shootout. You know what I'm
saying? You know, we're having people, we had a shootout at my house as well. You know what I'm saying?
So like I think the first month we had about, let me see, there was about four or five shootings
that we had that were all involving me. One of them was my car. And we ended up,
I was only out for about six months, and that's when I caught a drive-by-shooting,
and then ended up catching my prison case.
And then lo and behold, my mom was actually selling the house, right?
The house that we lived in, I did the drive-by shooting in her car, right?
I thought I got away.
I thought I got away with the smooth, right?
I'm a kid, right?
I thought I got away with a smooth, so as I'm coming, I won't ever forget it.
I got another homeboy, and I see all the cops come,
and the cops come out of nowhere in the house.
They had me, they had my mom.
It was on home for all at gunpoint.
Basically, menace do all that stuff, right?
And I come out like one of those guys on cops.
You know, what are you guys doing here?
What are you guys doing here?
Like, you know, like a young kid, like a fucking idiot, right?
Here's my language.
And they got me.
And on that case right there, the bad thing about that case was everything went wrong.
Not only were they not in the house at the time we did the shooting.
They were right, their mom was driving right behind me.
as we had the gun out
they went to shooting at the house
so I ended up getting a five-year prison term on that
you know and that was my first standing prison
and was based upon that shooting
so real quick the shooting
this is basically what like your
like guys in the gang saying
hey we're going to go shoot up this house these are rivals
or something yeah basically okay
so you get five years
where they send you
where is it this is still and this is in California
so where do you
where do you go first?
Like, in there, like a, like a...
They have a reception center.
I mean, like, I went to San Quentin Reception Center.
This was in the 90s.
I forgot what a year it was, but I fought it for a little bit, right?
And when I was fighting it, I played guilty, took a deal, right?
I ended up catching a...
I almost caught another assault with a daily weapon
and kept you murder when I was in the county jail, right?
But just play guilty.
And they tried to get me for a slicing where a dude got sliced from your to ear.
right and this is I'm a kid
and this is an interesting story too right
it all started over
I was watching the TV and there's this one dude man
he used to come in there and he was a big old dude
like while I was dudes if you see like in the prison movie
just fat with a big old mustache like this
he's fighting three strikes right
and I just didn't like him though because he was always
getting pulled out by the cops at different hours working
he was always in the cops here just look funny to me right
and this was that about 96
so back then there was no
structure politics really in the county jail, right? You can sleep up there. You can get
high if you wanted. You can do whatever you want. It's not like that nowadays. So
everybody's asleep and I'm up and I'm watching X-Man, the cartoon. Now this guy goes up to the
TV and he changes it to fucking NASCAR racing. Now, now today I like NASCAR racing and I didn't
know if sports always take president over everything else. I didn't know this. But I thought he was
disrespecting because I went and broke my razor, came from behind. I hid up from here to ear.
bam and then I hit him again right there and then I kicked him right while he was standing
up he was a big old fat dude and you know I feel like I made him look like a bitch right and I went
back to go to sleep right and so did you think he was just going to walk away be okay with it
see I was I was a young kid I thought I didn't think that there was uh uh like jailhouse
informants and snitches like that I didn't know that right off top they were gonna know
who it was within like a half hour right I mean they came and I remember I won't ever forget
it. They pulled me out first and
they came back and they raped me my rights.
And, you know,
I started acting up because
I just played guilty, like I said, to a drive-by
shooting. And so I started
hitting my fucking my head on the window
and acting all tough and crazy. The cops,
fuck you motherfuckers. And they came in, they beat
the shit out of me. They beat the
shit out of me, man. They had me all tight up with all
kinds of, like, chains and stuff like that.
and were dragged me, basically dragged me,
because I was only about, let me see.
I only weighed about 135 pounds.
I was like 6'2 back then.
Right?
I was a skinny, scrawny kid.
And then I see a little paper boy.
He ceased me.
So I'm like, oh shit.
He's wondering what's going on, right?
Because he works, I guess, somewhere with a free staff there.
So for about a week, they were trying to give me to admit that I stabbed this dude.
They were coming back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
And I was like, I don't know what to tell you guys.
And they even tried to send him in there.
And then finally, they told me it's going to be interesting
because I actually ran it to this dude years later in prison, right?
Actually, they actually tell me like, look,
the dude told us that you stabbed him,
but he doesn't want to be on paperwork as a snitch.
You know, I'm saying?
Right.
So basically, you know, we're done with you.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Cool.
You know?
So that right there, they were trying to give me for attempted murder,
but they just couldn't buy the charges because,
he didn't want to be on paperwork.
Right.
But he had, I think he got like about 72 or 172 stitches, somewhere that range.
Staples and all that.
You know, nothing that's not proud of today, though, at all.
Um, so then, then what?
After you stay at, at, I mean, after you stay at the reception center,
and what are they, they, I'm sure your classification must have been,
that didn't help your classification.
Where'd they send you?
Semi-Solano, level three.
How do the levels work?
Basically, I think it was
zero, I forgot, could be wrong.
Zero to 17, I think, was level one.
I think it was like 18 to 31
was like level two or something like that.
And then 32 to 51 was level three.
And then 52 and over was level four.
I know 52 and over was level four
because I ended up with like 100 or something points being.
that started I think with only like 30 points
so are you saying like
so the first level is that like kind of like a low
a medium okay so basically you went straight to
basically what like a pin
yeah
yes the only living so I'm not the highest level pin
but a pen yes
okay I'm trying to think of the federal system
I'm thinking you know low medium
pin probably like a probably like
let me see you have the USPs
FCIIs are what,
silly to me, right?
Um,
it depends.
Yeah, I mean,
typically, yeah,
there's cells,
but, you know,
there can be,
like the low I was at was,
it was an open bay.
But it was a low.
Now,
at the mediums,
they're all cells,
you know,
you got the stainless steel combo,
toilet sink in there,
they close it,
they can feed you through the doors.
They don't ever have to let you out.
Okay.
We would have to let you out for a shower.
So this would be,
This would be a step below USP.
Okay, basically.
You know?
I don't see, CCF, so I went to Slotto and was there, and that was just a,
that was done by drugs and prison politics.
So I was on that yard.
It was off the hook.
I never seen so much drugs ever just in one prison.
And this was one prison to where we actually had, our numbers were pretty good.
You know what I'm saying?
As compared to other places where they're not so good.
as you know
Suveo's a property
the more dominant
as far as population-wise
in the California system
what cuts between the two groups
the Solano was actually a place
where we had the numbers
so it was a little bit
different experience at first
and you know
I was there for about
let me see 10 months
and we ended up
getting off with some Anna Larkats
some Nazi lowriders
okay
can you say that again
I don't understand
what I was there for 10 months
until we ended up
getting off with some Nazi lowriders
what does that mean
getting off with.
Fighting melee.
Okay.
They rush me in the homeboy.
You know.
Okay.
Why?
Any specific reason?
I think that they feel offended, right?
Because about two months before,
we had to go get at them about being on our side of the yard, politics.
And it was me and home.
And we're both young, we're both scrauding.
We both have pale skin.
So they're not liking that.
You know, and they planned it.
And we were doing the same program every day,
which was part of our security procedures
we're going to go get the reports from every building
at the last yard
so this was night yard
so every night we were doing the same thing
we were going to this building and that building that building
all the idea was watch what we were doing
we're doing the same routine every day
so I want to forget Matt
it was me and another YouTuber
a homie hangout rascal
I'll never watch this channel
remember so we're walking
and next you know all I know is
I didn't hit this dude this big old
They call him Tommy guns
He just fucking takes off on me
I get hit so fucking hard
This is the one time
That in prison where I got broken out
I got hit and I dropped
I tried to get up again
And hit me again I dropped
So I had to do a somersault backwards
To get on my feet
And I'm a kid
And so my punches were jello
I was fighting to survive
Just to live another day
You know same thing with him over there
These dudes pretty much put hands on us
Pretty bad man
you know uh they had that man strength we were just fucking barely 18 19 at the time right
and and six foot two and 135 145 pounds right yeah yeah yeah it'd be it'd be it'd be a fun
outcome nowadays you know but you know um but then yeah you got to give it to them they gave it to
us you know what I'm saying I'm not going to sit there a lot of dudes look they always win every
fight now we got broken off I mean I kind of broke the nose and they thought I was hit at first
and I was pissed off though because I'd never been in a position where it was that bad
where basically fucking just got dusted by some dudes pretty bad you know and I told myself
I said I'm never going to let that happen again ever I'm always going to be like five steps
ahead and I was ever since I was five steps ahead so what happened do you get you guys get
thrown in the shoe I mean how do you cover that up like you know how do you not have that
reported oh they got us they ran to the yard they put us in the handcuffs and took us
to the whole right of the spot.
Yeah, because, you know, sometimes guys will get into a fight
and then they'll try and stay in their cell
or until the bruising goes down.
They'll try, you know, and it never really works,
but, you know, that kind of stuff.
So they took us to the hole and that was it,
went to our committee hearing, got found guilty,
and then they sent sent me out.
They sent me to a prison called CMC East,
which is in South of San Luis Obispo.
And this is a trip.
They came and did a special transfer.
They transferred me out as a sole person
by myself with two fresh officers in a car.
I never experienced that ever.
Like they even stopped in the middle of some small town called
Gilroy to let me use a restroom and they get out with the guns
and let me go take a piss real quick.
They bought me a soda and they were pretty cool.
But they were trying to get information off me
as we were taking the trip.
And I think the reason why they did a single transfer
was they were going to the state hospital
which was, I think the Taskadero
to bring somebody back somewhere else.
So he was just a matter of convenience.
But at that time I felt special.
so I get to this yard
and you know I've already
know that there's no really of my people there
but I got to find out if there's any there
so I go to R&R
and I ask them, you know, is there any northerners
here and norther's I mean Nortenos
and they said
oh I think fuck man
that's not a good sign right and I have this
little Mongolia right here
I mean like you know sure and I have my jab flats
on I have this cold and stuff it's right
by the ocean
now bear in mind
I said I'm never going to
it caught slipping again. So I go, I go to my cell. In a single cell, it's in an orientation spot on AQUOT.
So when they pop is open, I go outside and these dudes come up to me and they're like smiling, right?
They're like, oh, we don't play that here. And then they take off. I'm like, fuck, we don't play that here.
So I go, I want to find out who these dudes are because I think they're my people. And if they're, you know, programming with certain enemies or, you know, allowing another group to dictate their program, there's the only be issue.
That's not how we get down
So I get a secret from
Blackie's like I go over there
I start talking to this dude right
And I ask him where he's from he goes
Man I'm from Fresno I'm a bulldog
That's like one of our number one enemies
I'm like oh shit
So I start to take off right
So these other guys come up to me
And they
They tell me like
Hey man the South Siders are tripped off you
Because you have a Mongolian
You know what I'm saying
They're gonna watch you
The Sudeos want you to cut your town
I said I can shit
we said uh you know uh we don't we don't play politics here and uh you know we like to do our thing
we don't like to have problems here we're i told these things they go make get to step in you
i mean so already knew i'm by myself and so as i'm coming across the yard i'm being called buster
by these by these like skinheads and sudaos and i'm at the only northern around the fucking
yard right they're talking shit over here over here and i'm nervous though and so finally
some dude comes up to me and he's a christian he's from oakland from up north and he goes hey my family
or Nortez-Aos, but, you know, I'm a Christian.
And I go, okay, that's cool.
He goes, you got no homeboys here?
I go, all right, he goes, you believe in the Bible?
I say, yeah, but I'm not going to go that route because I respect that.
Sorry, sorry, you knew what time I was.
So when I was going to child, I didn't know what I was going to do, but I knew I was
going to take off on somebody.
So every time someone came too close, I was ready to jump.
And I was scared.
You know, fear's going to make you react.
Let's keep it real.
I was in fear that that situation, anytime I could get rushed and stab,
by any one of these dudes
because that whole yard
there's about
300 or 400 to look them
on that yard
so
I'm nervous
I'm not gonna turn
it's just you
it's not gonna be good
it's not gonna change
there's no winning
in that situation
no but it gets good though
so
I put a chow
I remember two
two young southsiders
they came right by me
I almost jumped right there
and they were tripping
because it came
too close to me
so I'm in there
I'm looking around everywhere
like I don't know
what to think
you know like
fuck I couldn't even
couldn't do anything
you get the cladmy hand
you get the
ass is sweaty you start to have have farts and all that stuff you know those are the type of nerves
i had right and so i'm going back in and i remember those dudes that were talking shit to me right
you go off with tattoos all over his face right and i'm like oh right i'm gonna get this fucking
dude i said i'm at least gonna wait i'm gonna get him last so when they jump on me i'll be
all right let me at least get one of them good so in there it was levels of floors so i went by where
the seal was at and i was talking to the seal right and i seen as those guys came out i started stepping away
from the CO and I went towards where they were coming
as he was going up the stairs
as he was the last one I took flight on him
and I just dropped him to the floor
right? Now I'm expecting to get
jumped on. None of these
dudes jumped. Instead this dude
came with pepper spray, pepper sprayed me
do wrap the stairs, laid it down
and getting a salt with battery on the yard.
Okay. The salt
with a battery on the yard. And so
I'm tripping, man, because I'm thinking like, look
how did I get away with this one?
because I should they should have gave me the business they should have
and this dude whoever I took off on that was talking about all that shit he got scared
when I took off on him and it was a programming yard nobody wanted to go to the hole
I'm pretty sure being in the prisons like that where people talk a bill one
but when it comes down to it they don't want to go to the hole they don't want to go to this other
prison because maybe they have some issues they have to answer for it so they're
going to try to prevent it they may act tough but when it's coming down down to it
they're not going to bust a break right well from their um I
pretty much go to the hole.
And I'm young, and I'm one of those ones that's pushing politics all the time and education.
And I'm getting at certain homeboys that are there that this is out of the program I'm supposed to be.
So some dude comes in from Salado, when I was in the hole in Salado that we had told to move on his roommate.
And a dude refused to.
He said he was going to do it.
But when his roommate came back from classification, he didn't do it.
So he's a PC.
So now he's in the hole, but he doesn't remember me.
So I'm telling everybody in there what time I is with dude.
And they're like, well, I believe you, but, uh, you.
You know, I got to see the proof and all this stuff.
I said, check this out.
I go, I'm going to deal with dude.
I'll deal with you.
And this is like about two weeks after I already got caught the one battery.
So, they used to showers.
This is the whole.
This is different.
They used to showers and groups of four.
Right?
So I made sure that I was the last one to go in, so I'd be the first one to get my cuffs off.
I said, let this do go first.
Jay, you get second and make sure the other dude, the low gets third.
So I get my cuffs up.
not going to take off if I do with its cuffs still on. I'm going to wait. So I sat right
there and I waited and as soon as the cuffs took off I just took off on them and they couldn't do
nothing about it and it was bad because there was no gun tower in the section. They're not
going to pop the door to go in there because they have to worry about their own security.
So I had every which way I wanted to with this dude. His name was little local from Stockton
just in Raleigh. So I was just needing them, dropping them, doing whatever I wanted to do with
them that it got so, it got so boring that I stepped away, and that's when they just came
and dragged them out of there. Now, for that, I think I was 19 or 20 at the time. These,
these correctional staffs, I had yet to go through any type of, you know, infliction of abuse
or torment and all that, right? Or fucking them doing a power plate. They moved me off that
tier, and they moved me to a whole other tier where they put me in the last cell on the only
North Daniel. There's 43 cells this unit. Forty one of the one.
them are Sudanials and two of them are NLRs.
And they had me in the last cell.
So every time I had to go to showers, anytime I had to go to legal law, yard, or anything,
these dudes used to talk shit through the fucking chair.
They used to fucking try to gas me with piss and just, it was bad.
I had to go through that for about a year.
A year, year of basic retaliation on their part.
And then they validated me as a gang member.
Can I get the rest for real quick?
Yeah, how does that work?
How does, yeah.
I'll tell you right now
All right
So when I was there
This was in 99 I believe
Shoot 9 he was there
No
Okay
He was in the medical word though
He was in Central and I wasn't there
To other BQad
But I was running to him sometimes
But I'd go to visits
Never really talked to him or anything
But he was there at that time
And same stuff was going on when I was there
Matt like I told you
The retaliation by staff
I ended up getting into it with his social warding
I tried to kick over the table
his name was McAllister
So from there they put me in a management cell
Which was a cell within the cell
They stripped me down butt naked
No mattress, right
No blankets, no running water
For a whole fucking week
They came in that day
They go, okay, you know you're going to be in there a week
Technically they were always supposed to keep me in there
So I've seen a psych and let them make the determination
But they made a determination
based upon the fact that
I tried to kick over a table
and I tried to fucking rush these social warden.
My mom had drove all the way up there
to visit me that weekend.
Like 10, 12 hours, right?
They turned her at the gate.
Right?
She wrote a letter about what happened
about the whole incident
about the running water.
How could she leave me in a cell
with no running water and all this shit, right?
They lied.
They said that I incited the riot with a flood.
You know what I'm saying?
So they tried to cover their ass, man.
But they basically, from there,
they put me up for an IG review.
stuff came up
What is that?
Institutional gang investigation
Okay
So they were looking at me as a prison gang member
And so
They put me up for review
And they used some of the most pettiest step
They could
They used a
Name and PFN number of someone
That was my selling the county jail
Before I ever watch prison
You guys put me in the cell with them
How am I going to get validated
For being in the cell with them?
Right
You know what I'm saying? They used that
They used some stuff
concept of leadership that I got from a book
that I wrote out.
They came from my actual book.
Not no in-structure. They used that.
And they tried to use some, like,
alleged
letters.
You know, you write other people at other institutions.
And you write riddle.
They tried to use that. But then it was really game-related.
They had, like, 16. And they submitted
to Sacramento, and they validated me as a prison
game. But I had to be there for about 13 months.
okay so what what happened we had stopped where you said that they um made you a
oh okay oh okay now i now i get it now i get it i'm feeling i just filled in the blinks right now
yeah yeah that just made sense okay all right so so you're there so you're basically in the shoe
well do they call it the shoe what you guys call it the hole what we call this okay
there's only three shoes in california at that time there's pelican base shoe corporate shoe and
and to ask me shoot.
All the other ones
they call
administrative segregation
which is basically a shoot.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, and you were there for 13 months?
So are you alone for 13 months?
You got a Sally?
No, Sally, hello.
Do they give you books?
Yeah, we get books.
Okay, I was going to say.
We had no hygiene on our commissary, you know.
Hmm.
I had to brush my teeth with two powder for a year.
Fuck.
Oh, the other.
No deodorant.
No deodorant for a year.
You know what I'm saying?
That was terrible.
I don't know how they're going to leave with it.
I was in the shoe for like the longest.
I was in the shoe several times, but the longest was like, I think, 45 days.
But listen, the shoe in the feds, you got a hot shower.
You got a toilet sink combo.
They're bringing, they're constantly coming up and down with books so you can read books.
Yeah.
Probably after about a month or so, I was like, bored of reading books because I didn't even have a cellie.
They'd go by, they'd be like, Cox, you're taking a cell?
And I'd be like, no, I really don't want a cellie.
And then one day, after about a month or so, they came by.
They were like, Cox, you want a cell?
I was like, fuck, yeah, put them in here.
Like, I'm bored out of my mind after a month after just reading and reading.
Because the first few weeks, I was like, this is not bad.
You know, because you've got a shower.
Like, you've got everything you need.
You could get commissary.
Like, not a bunch of commissary, but, you know, and you're reading.
It's like, fuck, I got to lay down and read.
I can do pushups, lay down, read, take a shower.
Like, fuck, this isn't that.
bad. But listen, after a month or so, I can't imagine 30 times. I couldn't get a celly at the time, right?
Right. And that was one of the first ones that be put on walk alone in California at that time
when I hit the shoe yard for violence. So they weren't letting me go out to the group yard. They were putting
me up on the group yard to go, but when they reviewed my C file, they seen all the assaults I had
and stuff so they wouldn't put me after on the yard. So that was kind of a bummer. So I think
I did like 27 months that time. The last 27 months of the five years, I did basically isolate
in the hole with no celly.
I mean, let's face it though, bro.
You brought that on yourself.
I mean, you're, you know, go on.
No, no, complain about it.
Yeah.
You know?
You know, it's like, what else are they going to do?
Every time they put you in a general population,
you're fucking trying to attack somebody.
Yeah.
So, or you're also just kind of being an attack.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, I mean, but I'm sure from the administration's point of view,
they're like, fuck, you know, this guy's attacking people.
But really you're all, you're concerned about getting attacked.
That's why I got to it with the associate warden
When they said, well, why are you attacking people?
I said, I didn't ask to come to this fucking,
because back then, there was no such thing as PCs
And half that yard was fucking PC.
They'd send him anywhere.
And that was the all point.
But we can't tell you, oh, I can't be on this yard
because there's a bunch of dropouts on this yard.
I can't tell them that.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
I got to go ahead on my business.
And that's what was happening was I was sticking to the code.
And I was kicking the salt after salt after salt.
We used to bone that.
you know by the time I left there I had
no way did I had to be any terrorist
I had like three shoe turtles I had like a hundred or something
points
you know the problem with that is
how many guys end up going to fucking prison
for five years and it turns it'd be a fucking
20 or 25 year prison sinker
I got lucky though
I got lucky
that I didn't you know what I mean I got like to get caught
with anything uh
this is a piece you know I mean because there was some
instances that happened where you know
I got away I don't talk about them right
there's a couple stabbing I did where I got away
and um you know these ones were just batteries or fighting and all that so it wasn't as bad and
you don't really lose much time off that but there's people like you said that they go in there
with five years and the next thing you know they're doing life or they get killed nowadays like
nowadays if you look at california department of corrections rehabilitation it's totally
different than what i was in there they have more access to fucking cell phones drugs all this
stuff out there and there's people getting killed left and right and it's not they're not getting
killed by rivals, they're getting killed by their own people.
You know, some kid goes in there
and owes some money on a fucking cell phone, and they're killing them
over our own money on a cell phone.
I was like, I've never heard of that shit before.
You know, it's usually because the kid
made a bad choice. So you're going to put the kid
in a bad choice to where now you have to kill him by giving them
a fucking cell phone. Makes no fucking sense.
You know, not once.
They've done it three times at one dude, and they ended up killing them.
The fucking, what you guys figured out the first time not to
give the due to cell phone? Right.
But, you know, they're hoping to put someone
in a bad position to where they owe them.
the money. Like some of these yards that these games are making like 50,000 to 100,000
a month now in California. That's a lot. There's nowhere near how it was when I was out there
at all. That's a lot of fucking money. Um, well, so what happened? You got out. Well,
what happens when you get out? I'm going to, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you didn't get
a job. No, he's telling used cars. No, I didn't. It did get a job. Yeah, no, but I have a
feeling you didn't fucking. I worked
to you guys.
No, no, I was a courier
for the real estate company, which is kind of kickback.
You know, I dropped off all the loan docs and all that.
And then I was doing loan processing.
Okay. So my mom
was a real estate broker. My sister
was a sales rep entitled.
And then my wife at the time I ended up getting married to
was a junior escrow officer.
So I had ties in the real estate.
And I was going to start a career company,
you know, when you have to drop
off the, you know,
titles and all that to get them put to record it or this and that.
I got familiar with the real estate stuff, right?
And so I was doing that, which was cool because I could be carrying a package for a title company
at the same time I could be curing some other product.
Oh, okay.
You know what I'm saying?
So I did play a game right off top, you know, with the prison gang.
Right.
But I came out there.
I was told I was on probation.
And I got pulled into a prison gang at the time.
I was a newest other awesome member.
And then I became an NF associate,
Neustra for media associate, right?
And I was out there to function on the streets.
And so back then, you had to go out there
and you were put on probation.
You had to get a job.
You had to get a license, get insurance.
Show your processor that you're doing good
before they would even let you function with a regiment.
And a regiment's kind of like a crew for the mob,
for the mafia kind of like,
this is just Hispanic games.
So I did all that.
And within like three, four months,
I said my number in
and I get contracted
by an individual name
he was telling me his name was Daniel, Danny.
He ends up being the high profile
and forming in Operation Black Widow, right?
The big indictment that the NF had,
the Duke Casper that you sit on Gangland.
Right.
Him, he's the one that plugged me in.
He's dead now, passed away about two years ago,
but he's the one that plugged me in
with another individual named Chico Roles.
All these he just get caught in Operation Black Widow
and they'll flip.
you know what I'm saying so I had two dudes that were ready to hay mail to dry even though I was young in my career
and so that was how my introduction into what the prison gang stuff was like on the streets
it was all about money that's all was a little and there was you can trust nobody and it just got
worse and worse so how does that I mean how does that for first of all you you had a regular job
as a courier service like why are you still fucking with the gang
Because I committed myself to do it.
That obligated myself.
I bet they commit me before I parole.
So I have to.
If not, then they're going to want to kill me.
No, this is all bad, bro.
It's just all bad.
No, it is.
It is all bad.
I mean, you know, there's, okay.
So, and your wife, what is your,
and, I mean, your wife understands this and knows this.
My wife was young.
She was only like, when we got together, was when I got out.
I think I was 23.
she was 19
So does she not understand?
She just she understood
She just respected it
You know
She was she was
I got her a job with my sister
So she was all this was new to her
She went from fucking you know
Ready getting out of high school
Fucking at Little Caesars
To now she's working out at a title company
She's making good fucking money
She worked her ass off
So I would try to keep her away from that life
As best as much as I could
You know what I'm saying
There work
understood what I did and see for the most part let me do what I needed to do so what
what's happening at what point do the the cops or the was it like a gang task force get on
on your case or you know well they were on me the whole time man but end up catching a case to go
back to prison right and it was over another NF member that got out to the streets and he was just
off to something hook he was just he was slam and meth and doing all this stuff that you're not supposed to do
and just one of those dudes
that's just treacherous
he was a treacherous dude
he's a type of dude
that would tie a whole family
up and shit like that right
and he wanted
he wanted to go kidnap
his cousin
and hold him for ransom
because he had used
his social security number
while he was in prison
this is the level of his thinking
and then he's trying
and he's trying to get
at these connects I know right
and talking about
yeah well those
they're talking about
snatching of people's kids
and holding for ransom
to focus some of the drug connects out there
I'm like no I don't want to know part of this shit
and so
he wanted to get his cousin
and I remember
whenever we gave him the gun.
First he was upscaldi, and I got him in contact
with some cats from Salinas, right?
But he wanted to go back and do this holiday
because he wanted to get this money.
So next to you know, I'm at my house
and I look up at the fucking screen
and there he is fucking his picture.
One of her attempted carjapping, kidnapping.
And next you know, he's walking through my fucking door.
And he has on a garage unit for him,
like the mechanics.
Right.
So, you know,
and it was just one of those crazy stories.
I remember before he had this,
he had this young chick
that he was waiting in a turn 18
that was running around with him, right?
Okay.
And she and, and her friend, some gay guy.
So this was fucking, I'm watching
that NF member was supposed to be a fucking
criminal organizational game member,
and he's doing, and he's doing all the shit
that you're not supposed to be fucking doing.
I'm like, what the fuck, man?
Like, this shit isn't fucking right.
I remember telling him to get out of my house
with all this shit.
So I remember this gay dude picks him up
with a young chick.
And this dude was very abusive
in prison towards people.
You know what I'm saying that we're lower rank.
me and him we just got along right i got left for a man but some of the stuff he showed me was just the wrong
way i'll just tell you that i'll never forget he's he's fucking yelling at him in the back of the car
they're out thank you for you motherfucking whoa whoa i'm like fuck i better get out of here
so i take a cap to get my other car and we go to a motel and then they hit the motel and when they
hit the motel uh i wasn't able to flush on my drugs and then the cops knew me and they were there
for him they wanted to him and stuff right
Yeah, I was going to say they're out there coming for him, though.
You don't know that, though?
You don't realize that.
I kind of knew it afterwards.
You still got to get rid of everything.
Yeah, I couldn't find everything.
She opened the door before I was ready.
And I had my nine-month-year-old daughter at the time in the room and stuff, right?
The drugs were around her.
I wasn't using no drugs or anything around here.
And so the cop comes in, and he knows me.
He's named his officer, Secura.
He's now a lieutenant.
He used to be a gang task force 20 years before.
And so he goes, hey, you know, I go, man, you ain't heard my name out there.
He goes, well, I heard you know fucking Luis Gonzalez.
That was dude's name.
We told.
I'm like, fuck.
And they're like, well, ma'am, you know, we'll let you go if you tell us where's that.
Well, I don't know where's that.
You'll let me go.
And so they started trying to fucking interrogate me.
I don't know what you guys are talking about, this and that, right?
And then they just put me in the cop car.
They tried to interrogate my wife at the time.
And they told her that I told them that I knew where he was at, that they were going to take my daughter.
told him I didn't care if they were going to take my daughter I was going to do this and that
they just tried to fucking pump fear to her and um they asked her if she knew where he was at
and she denied she said no so she ends up getting released I go to jail and so she's 19
our daughter's maybe like seven months old she goes to the house she calls up homeboy
because at that time we had to call our IDs remember on the phone you didn't have cell phones yet
He tells him like, hey, get out from where you're at.
The cops search his house.
They got every number on this phone.
They're probably going to hit up every place.
So he was able to get away because of her calling him up.
Okay, so she went from there to like two counties away.
Say like two counties and a state away.
And since she gets there, they fucking, here comes the cops sitting in my mom's house.
Right.
And that's when they started to threaten her to take my daughter, all this stuff that
talking about that I'm a prison gang member and that,
I'm part of this and part of that
and that she should just leave me and
you know tell us where he's at the other guy
and she doesn't know anything
they keep on threatening to take my daughter in
so finally
they leave
a couple days later right
they try to call her by the phone to threaten her
well they did after the cops left my mom had her
noir license right as did her partner
right who owned the
the real estate branch
right they would have notified giving my
custody to my mom.
So when the cops were making those threats,
we said, you can't. We already give them custody to my mom.
Right. When they're threatened the arrest her, she goes, where do I got to go?
They told her to go to the Burger King right there in San Joseon on Peter's
Border. They never showed up.
So we got over on that one, but they tried to pump as much fear on that, you know.
You know, that's what type of, my first wife, that's how she was.
You know, she didn't want to be part of life stop, but she knew what she needed to do.
You know, and, yeah, that was that one incident right.
there. So what's, what's happening with you? You're, they've got you, um, at what, the county
jail? At the county jail. So, so I ended up running, taking over the county jail. All the
OGs are over here in the old jail though. And it's just a section called, uh, what was it,
Little Max. And so I'm trying to get over there. And so I'm having her go visit over there. And I'm
having ever find a phrase to go visit. So I'm in communication with them. And so I end up getting
moved by classification down there and I bail out
when I bail out
I go to my hearing for
the case
and they put me on the stand for a Romero motion
which is to dismiss your strikes
now my own attorney
got me out of the fucking stand and said
aren't you a prison gay member or validated
this one and I did not
expect this and he's trying to justify
that to the courts why I couldn't go into
drug treatment programs or anything like that
that was going to help my case
so I'm on a stand not expecting
And so I'm like, no prison game member.
Isn't your fucking motto, blood in, blood out?
I'm like, fucking, hey, this shit sounds like a fucking movie.
It was like more than what it really was.
Right.
I was out on the streets, Bell.
I mean, I was out for about two months out on Bell.
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I went from shaking into an SLE, right, for only two days, right?
Three days later, I was in San Quentin.
So, I mean, back to your lawyer.
Like, doesn't he understand that you're going to deny all that?
Did he think you were going to admit to it, or did he just want it on the record?
I don't know what he was thinking, to be honest with you.
I didn't expect it, man.
Like, you know, I wasn't even ready for the hearing that day.
You know, I think he just wanted to get rid of me as a client, probably.
You know, we've got his buddy's work.
Let's see if I can, let's see if we can get them off or not.
You know, and that's what happened.
So how much time did you get?
32 months.
32 months.
Where'd you do that time?
Corprian.
With the Sanquin and then corporate again.
Okay.
Same mobile chain.
So what happens while you're there?
I mean, nothing just.
With prison politics, the prison politics.
I was running San Quentin for a minute at that time.
I was the RST over there.
Got to corporate, and it was pretty much kick on back.
We didn't have really no issues at that time, like politically.
And I was right there with the pot I was in was basically headquarters
because that's where the regiment commander was.
So we had no issues.
It was an easy program.
I already knew the routine.
I already knew what needed to be done.
So I was just there doing my job.
I was actually the maestro, which is teacher,
for all the North Daniels that were there.
So all the young Northerners
or even older Northerners,
I was the one that was schooling all of them
doing their education,
which is we haven't read essays,
given topics, discipline,
whatever it may be.
We had a whole phase list
that each North Daniel had to go through
while they were there,
which was different educational phases.
So every North Daniel was on a different page.
So it was a lot of work for me.
But it kept me busy, though.
You know, and with that,
I was doing the legal law,
and then I was studied at the time
there's a stock market
so that was my next thing that I wanted to do
when I get out there
with all the illegal money I was trying to make, right?
Right.
I was how to diversify my portfolio
and do all that stuff, man.
I had like fucking plans, you know what I mean?
Which they were working for a minute, right?
But when you get a pro violation
and you have your money invested in penny stocks,
it's not always a good idea when you can't sell.
Right.
You know?
So I lost a lot of money on penny stocks
when I was playing, you know.
Um, okay. So, I mean, what happens? So you, do you get back out? Like, it's, it's uneventful when you go in. I mean, nothing happens. You get back out. Your wife still? I get back out to the streets and I go back to doing my own thing again, which is, you know, your wife was down with you the whole time. Yeah. Man, that's, that's, that's a solid chick. Yeah. So, you know, doing the same day, I had, I had my own little crew. So I had a little bit more jurisdiction. And, you know, we were
extorting people, selling dope, all the stuff that you think of any type of organized crime
on the streets. You know, every month I had to submit a certain quota, you know, for how much
I produced. And then it just gets political on the streets as well, though, man. And, you know,
there was a lot of hate, a lot of jealousy. Everybody's campaigning against each other or, you know,
a lot of betrayal. Just, I got one of those situations where one of these dudes,
was a young old boy in mind he ended up trying to
he had issues with me because for a minute
when he was younger he was from a hood called
B&M which is basically a second generation
of my hood based in the sense right
and he was younger and he was younger and he was younger
I smacked the shit out of him when he was younger one time
you know and he ended up being my little homeboy though
and when he was locked up I seen his wife
who was my home girl I gave her money for diapers and stuff like that
me and my wife would see her talk to her and what that
and he gets out
And he just, he wanted what I had, the position I had, the leadership I had.
He wanted to be who I was.
And so when he came out, I didn't want him to work with me.
So I directed him to work with somebody else.
Because at that time, a lot of people who were paroling, they would get in contact with me in that area to who they were going to work with.
So I put him with some O.G.
So what are we doing?
What's going on?
What happened?
Well, I guess we're talking about the guy I tried to sexually solve my wife.
Oh, shit.
Well, at that time, since 2001 to 2006, you know, I went in for about 25 months for a little bit,
but I was out from the streets, generated a lot of money, involved a lot of different criminal activities, right?
Everything from extortion to laying people down, to drug dealing, whatever it may have been, right?
Taxing people, finding people, whatever the organization asks me to do.
Go out there and debt collect, I debt collect it.
So, at this time, I was being grilled for a certain position to take over out there in the streets
and being recruited as an F member at the time.
And so people were touching base from different prisons with me and people that were coming out were being sent to me.
And I put him with an existing crew that they were going to be part of.
So I put him basically with the crew with a dude that was a leader because he was a knucklehead, but he was my homeboy.
Now, we were already having the issues real quick out there in the streets because where my area was at,
he was out there trying to do business.
and so one time I showed up to a trap spot
which a trap spot is where you have people
that are making your money right there
right recently in my house I go in there
and get the money
and my wife's there with me
and I get dropped off over there
and then he asked me if he can get a ride with my wife
I have no problem with that
I give his lady a ride home or anything
so in the process of that happening
she was pissed off at me
and she said let's smoke that joint
you know spark that joint
and he told her honestly I'm going to fuck the shit
of you. She goes, you want to get killed?
She was, nah, we're the ones taking care of shit on the streets, man,
that I'll have her killed for trying to cross him up.
And then he tried to sexually grab her, right?
She didn't tell me at first. She thought that I put him up to try, try doing this stuff, right?
So when I found out, I flipped. I was like, I'm going to kill this dude.
You know what I'm saying? Went to the homeboy, told him what happened.
He says, okay, let's get this dude, right? I said, we can't. He's working with Lancho,
who's a high-ranking member.
We have to go through him.
Now, this dude's promising Lancho that he can do this,
that his ladies connected to the cartels and all this shit, right?
So he's presented himself as like the Golden Goose, right?
So I'm requesting that we whack this dude, take him out
because this dude is not even a member.
And let's just say, no, hold up.
You know, we'll deal with it in due time.
I'm like, this is my wife, bro.
Like, she's done nothing but helped the organization.
She's not even a member.
She doesn't believe in that of this shit,
but she does what I tell her.
and it became one of those um i took it really personal man like here i am i made sacrifices
i've caught time i've done what everything i'm supposed to do right this dude is disrespects my
wife and you're telling me i can't handle my business so i was going to handle my business anyways
but i seen them i was going to go against the grain and then i ended up getting caught up on the
case and that's when uh the gang investigative units talked coming to see me and talking about that
they were trying to put a green light on me for a minute i'm like green light
I guess because I was pushing issues out there because I had requested all kinds of
stuff I'd say okay I brought up certain people's days I brought up Chucco's name and everybody
else's name in regard to my wife you know I mean and I was pressing certain things I guess
that they felt that uh you know being young right that they didn't like it they didn't like
what they were hearing you know what I'm saying so I was becoming a problem um I would study
though at that time the dude that when I rec that I had the issues
with that assaulted my wife
ends up coming to DVI, Tracy.
I'm running the whole prison at that time.
I had to have him dude hit, right?
So can I ask a question real quick?
Yeah, go ahead.
What sentence did you get to get you there?
Like what?
Now,
Salis APD had a whole.
They were trying to get me to work with him.
They just let the parole violation up.
They didn't file charges on me yet.
Okay, so they're just trying to get you
kind of hemmed up and off the street.
So they had me up in the streets, and I had to be contemplating whether I was going to work with them or not because of the situation.
And so I ended up dealing with dude, and at that point, I'm like, man, I had to go through all this, and I ended up dealing with him, and now it's okay, because he owes this dude money.
And at that time I was done, I was like, I'm cool.
I can't fuck with none of these dudes.
There's no loyalty.
The betrayal, like, the whole situation with my wife ruddy wrong, you know what I'm saying?
And I caught a case because of how I felt about that situation.
and when I found out that they were trying to put a green light on me I'm like
dude I don't know these dudes nothing you're saying these guys over here condoning the dude
that should be on Megan's law a sexual predator well you're one distinct and then if you're
okay with it why did I have to wait till he owed you money and now you're saying he's all bad
for me to fucking have him hit he should have been hit off top so I felt disrespected and
I was like you know what fuck these dudes and so part of getting out that's when the gang
investigated unit and the FBI came and got got at me and I flipped you'm saying I started
I said fuck these guys but I'm gonna go out you're gonna have a brilliant out on me anyways
so I might as well go after the same dudes that disrespected me and my wife and that's exactly
what I did right well listen real quick what happened you said the dude the guy showed up at
the prison that you were running he shut up saying you put the head out on him well there's
no hit on him right when he got there I used other reasons to have him hit he said that he was
he said that he had status right which he didn't have because I remember
telling him that. That was one. And number two, he was speaking bad on an NFL member son.
The dude that he was working with, he was speaking bad on his son. So I utilized all those
to have to green light him to have him hit. None of it had to do with what happened with my
wife. Because if I would have it did that, it would look too personal. But it was personal.
Right. I was going to have him hit. One way to get hit. I was going to find a way to have him hit.
You know what I'm saying? It would have been justified. So he gets hit. He goes to PC.
and yeah I could say okay you know what everything's all good now but I was like
nah fuck this shit you know and at that time I'd already taught to them so I already knew pretty
much that was going to eventually come out if I decided if we can't so um that's what is the
FBI say what do they say when they come to you they basically um you know they already knew
who I was right from Operation Black Widow and they asked me what my agenda was I said my
agenda was to get these people right here off.
I said, you know what?
It's revenge, basically.
Because I could have took down a whole lot of people, but it ended up only being three.
Within two months, they ended up catching the, they ended up cutting off the investigation short
because at that time I was playing both sides.
I was talking to them, the feds, the DEA, all of them, right?
But at the same time, still going out there committing crimes.
So this isn't in the prison.
So street's out.
Okay.
The parole.
So when I paroled I was initially working with
They had all these departments that were working
And so they ended up trying it as a state case
And it was only three cases
And they tried to have me to do more
I wouldn't do it
Because I said that this is personal
You know what I'm saying?
This has nothing to do with just me
I wasn't trying to get out of no time
I didn't care for us any of the time
Because they caught me with a gun
And some dope right
Right piece of meth and a gun
And they were watching me
When they caught me
It was speechless surveillance
and so
when I went to
Grand Jury Testimon
I ended up doing
three different
control buys
one for a
PCP one for a gun
and then one for
like a pound of meth
you know what I'm saying
and I turned over the safe
that we had about the dope
and when I went to
the grand jury right
which was a trip
because they had me in a motel
and it was like the fucking movies
they'd have fucking like
me get into a car
with another cop car
behind me
and another cup car in front of
you used to go to testify
and shit right
I was like this isn't that big of a deal
but it just
spot against three people on control guys and they got indicted. And the interesting thing about
it was none of the cases that they built off me did these guys really get any time. But once
they got caught up and they were behind the walls, they started doing this on the phone and doing
deals. They got caught out a whole different indictment that caught them up. Right. You know,
that got them a bunch of time. Yeah. So I testified in grand jury and, you know, I remember the questions
that they asked me, the DA said, you know, were you offered any time? I said, nah, I wasn't offered
any time or anything. I'm not tripping up the time I got to do. I did this because of the
disrespect betrayal that was done on to me and my family. You know, my wife being sexually
soft and you guys just slept the neck like it's okay? No, it ain't okay. Fuck you guys. And so,
I don't believe really in snitching or anybody doing that, but I don't judge anybody that does,
you know what I'm saying? Because look at what I did. You know what I'm saying? And I don't try to
just, I don't try to justify it, but
I don't have no regret that I did it either, though.
Right.
Look at those guys that they're no different off to the sexual predator.
If you're okay with my wife being sexually assaulted,
then you're no better off to the fucking sexual predator yourself.
Because how up you should have been like, no, let's get this dude.
And that's when I finally realized that that lifestyle was not about any loyalty.
It's about every man for himself.
You know, and so I went out with a bank.
You know, that was in 2007,
shit, 17 years ago.
you know and I've been away from that life for a lot of time I started for a minute
I went back into an addiction for a while right after I was in the what do you call
the it's not the it's like a relocation program they don't change your identity or nothing
they just put you in a place away from your home they take care of your rent for a little bit
I was only in that for one month right got kicked out okay now that's that a rule
very well. I was just, I was young and hard-headed. And so I could have been in that program for like
six years, believe or not. You know, and I could have got my rent paid and worked and did all this
shit, but I didn't. So they had it for a month. So next thing you know, I'm just out there on the
streets doing the same stuff I was doing before, but without having any prison obligations and
stuff, man. And it wasn't until my, my youngest son got put in CPS care. And I had been with
some other chick and she was kind of a drug addict herself right that's when everything changed
that's when I started like you know what man if he needs somebody to be there for so I started doing
all the things I was I was CPS that was a perfect fucking the best dad that they ever had they wanted
me to do a parent partner program where I talked to their dads here I am you know ex-prison
game member tattoos ex-fell and all this stuff I got the reunification services my son gave
it to me before the mom first
right
right
within that
we had that
we had services
for a year
after they were done
she ends up
relapsing
I ended up filing
for full custody
I had full custody
I had full custody my son
in 2018
so here I had
fucking doing all the
stuff I was going
into programs
I was going to
you know
church every week
I was donating
time at the school
doing all the stuff
that I never did before
with my two other daughters
you know
what
can I interrupt
real quick
what happened
to your first wife
because
of all the stuff she left okay yeah she left you know she hasn't even dated anybody or got married
or anything ever again you know it was a it was a rough situation you know um yeah she's she's still
out there you know um my daughter's all grown up they're all adults now my daughter's a straight-a
student you know other ones in high school so they're doing good to themselves but i wasn't in
their lives like i should have been that i have a great and that was because i was badly my
on demons after leaving the gay lifestyle like there's a lot of regrets still because that's all
I knew my whole life was the gang's lifestyle and the crimes and now here I'm changing it trying to
be a better person you know it was it wasn't until later on that I was able to fulfill that
then I started being a better parent then I ended up full custody of my youngest son you know I was
doing all those things and then COVID happened and that's what kind of changed a lot of things in
my life was the COVID thing um because I had custody my kid at the time
I wasn't able to go to meetings
and meetings kind of got scaled for a minute
and so I found YouTube
to be another outlet that's trying to help you.
Yeah, I was going to say, where were you living at this time?
Did you go right back to the same old neighborhood?
I mean, it was in the Bay Area, but nowhere close.
Okay.
Yeah, because I was wondering if you were concerned
about retaliation.
First time, I was only 10 minutes from my neighborhood.
I was out there.
There was attempts on my life out there.
You know what I'm saying?
But I was ready for whatever came my way.
care. You know what I'm saying? It was like a, how you say it? I was ready to go there,
put it that way. You know what I'm saying? The influenced by the drugs and all that too,
that kind of made me not really give a fuck out there. Later, you know, once I got off the drugs,
I started to care and that's when I started to try to be, parent, started to do everything
different. And I wanted to help people because you learn about the best spiritual solution
you have for yourself is when you're helping others. So that's what I started to sponsor
man and I had
commitments and I had all kinds of stuff going on
and then COVID happened. So that's
how I got involved in the YouTube stuff.
I was watching the videos
Prison Gank stuff and then there was
a friend that had a channel and he read his book on there
and I'm in the book. I'm like, fuck, I could do this shit too.
So next you know, I started the YouTube channel.
And here we are now.
Right. So how long, what year was that?
2018 or 19?
It doesn't 20.
20. Okay. Yeah, because
the early 20 was COVID. Okay.
So how long did it take for you to do that?
Was it like in the middle of the year?
I was working with one channel called The Stories Read by a Current Prisoner.
That's your buddy.
That's my buddy.
I was working with him and I brought some other people on.
And then we, one of two of us elected to start our own channel too.
So that's when we had a common perspective.
It was just me and another guy at first.
Okay.
You know, what happened?
What happened to him?
I think the first year was really good money.
I think the second year we started to see a decline.
right and you know there was we weren't out of the same page and just he wanted to just do something
different he wanted to work so the one that kind of started all the stuff he didn't mind giving me
the channel you know what I'm me so even though he put just as much work into the channel you know
I tell him that all the time but um you know there's only enough to really make for one person
really to make it on this channel at that time because we weren't getting to the support
there's a lot of hate when you start doing a YouTube channel you start to succeed yeah we were having
lives where we were having like lies our lives were fucking classic we're making 500,000
dollars lives all the time people were just enjoying it we had people joking around next you know
you have to hate next thing you know everything you say people hold you to it you can just
say one little thing and people were gonna fucking remember that and if you change your mind on that
you're this and that you're a liar you're fucking bullshitter it's one out there's so much fucking
there's such fucking assholes out there it's like yeah it's bad you know i had it got to the
point so they were attacking my my wife well i ended up being
remarried. They were attacking her.
They were attacking me. They attacked my kids.
All kinds of shit. They didn't have no fucking boundaries.
I'd never seen nothing like it.
And I think it's other YouTube channels that were doing it, to be honest.
Everybody's a badass in the comment section, you know?
Honestly, typically, when I come back and respond to people, 90% of those people, like,
and I'm not talking about violence. I mean, they're just calling you names or saying
fuck stupid shit. And you just, I just address them. And a lot of times they're like,
bro, I didn't mean nothing by that. I've been drinking. Or, you know, they start
backpedaling immediately.
These were trolls. These were people like, you know,
it's this guy, we got real nasty.
I never seen nothing like it, man.
And a lot of it was, they were associated with people I used to associate with.
Because there were certain stuff that was put out there that only they knew.
Right.
You know, and then you see the all different sides.
Like, I came into this not to fucking troll people or to attack people.
I trolled humans to try to help people and made me try to take a step back.
And I was like, it changed my outlook about YouTube for a little bit.
It's hard to, it's hard to help people on air, you know what I'm saying?
or be of service.
So I try to help people offline.
I have better, better results.
You know what I'm saying?
So I don't try to cater myself
to be a positive channel or any of that.
I'm a channel.
It's entertainment.
It's information.
Whether it's talking about gangs, interviews,
whatever it may be.
It is what it is.
And so no matter what,
you're always going to have someone
that's going to critique what you're doing.
You know, I'm always going to get fucking
attacked for fucking when I flipped.
Right.
Rat, whoa, whoa, what's like,
you're going to tell that to my face, are you?
you know what I'm saying
the whole thing that gets me on that is this
everybody will be quick to use that
but no one says anything about
why I did it. They don't talk about the fucking
sexual assault. They don't talk about none of that.
You know what I mean? To me, that's more of an issue
that look, these dudes allow it. They're just like
a predator. Fuck these dudes.
Well, it's that I think
people say that to make themselves feel
better. Like they can elevate
themselves. It's a way to elevate themselves
over you. They don't know what the situation.
You know how many times I've talked to somebody
who talks about, you know,
oh, this guy's a rat and this guy's rat.
And you're like, okay, you cooperated.
And they're like, yeah, but it was different.
You don't understand what happened.
Well, that's the same.
It's always different.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I get it.
Everybody has the same excuse, right?
So it's like, you know what it?
If you want to be in the streets, it's not acceptable.
That's just the point of way.
Right.
Do I care?
I don't care.
You know what I mean?
It's what it is.
I mean, listen, like to me, when I made that decision,
it was like 12 years off of my sentence.
and periodically somebody may call you a rat
or you do the 12 years
and people say that's a stand-up guy
there was no decision
I made that decision so quick
I was like I'll take fucking you can call me a rat
every once in a while I'm not going to do 12 extra
years fuck that
yeah no no
so and then it's
and then it's like you know
the other thing is I love it when people say
you're a lying piece of shit
no no no
I told the truth
You're a lying rat
No, I'm an honest rat
You're lying
See, I get told that
You're a dropout, you're this nest
Like look, man
I function on the highest level
You can
You know, I was part of the organization
How are you going to sit there
And tell me what the life's about
When I've lived it
I have nothing
I have no actions to cry
Against the organization
It's me against those individuals
Who two are already no good
They've already fucked up off their own
Only one still in good standards
But
So I have to have
have no access to grab with the previous group, you know what I'm saying? I don't try to
fucking support or go against them, you know what I mean? It is what it is. What do you
channel, sorry, what is your channel focus on? What do you focus on on the channel? Well,
see, when it comes to, like, the prison gang stuff, a lot of people call me the historian. Like,
I know a lot about everybody, you know what I was involved with like Mexican mafia members,
NLR, you know, NFs. So a lot of it is just about prison stories. I have some people come on
to do interviews. Sometimes I'll do some historical stuff like, you know, what happened during
this incident. Sometimes I'll bring a common topic up. And then sometimes I'll do current events,
but with current events, I'm very careful because it involves criminal cases that are current.
So I'll probably put out there what is not going to affect anybody in their case. Like I used
the word alleged at times. But even if you speak on a case, it's all hearsay. People don't realize
that. You can talk on an open criminal case as long as you're not part of it. And anything you say is
only hearsay.
None of it can be used in court.
People forget about that.
And they should talk about it
from a point that you were involved,
then they can use that.
But if you're just speaking,
okay, this is hearsay,
this is what I feel or think
or how it looks.
It's only hearsay.
But I'm still a little bit,
how you say,
selective on that
because, you know,
I don't want to wake up
any other giants that
maybe have issues
with what I do.
Right.
I like to keep the channel diverse.
You know,
I've had rappers on.
I've had, you know,
actors, I've had everything on there.
So there's no limitations.
I've had cops on here, other game members, rivals, everything,
and I've had my stories.
So it's just a perspective of the life that I lived through my eyes,
what I experience, what I see.
Everybody has their own truth of what they went through and what they've seen.
And so when I speak, I speak only from what I know and what I see.
Yeah.
Hey, so how many videos a week do you put out?
Anywhere from like three to like 10.
Because I have another reaction channel, but that's just small.
I'm just, I'm waiting to get some more equipment because, like, you know, I'll briefly talk about this.
I'm out on bail right now.
Okay.
You know, they mentioned that.
Two aggravated assaults, is I'm saying.
I'm not going to talk about it because I've not gave no statements.
I go to court this Friday and I may be going to trial soon.
You know?
But they have offered me a deal down to two years bottom, four year top.
And this is on a case where I allegedly shot two people they're saying.
So two years, four years, it tells you something that they're offering me that already.
kind of tells you about the case.
Right.
I'll leave it there.
So, yeah.
So that's where I'm at today.
And I want to get back to the stuff I used to him,
which was all like a message, you know?
Like, YouTube's easy to get,
you get consumed in it.
I don't know if you go through that.
Sometimes I get consumed in fucking my old past.
Like, okay, flocco.
I'm not really flocking in real life off of YouTube
on fucking William.
I'm somebody totally different.
Or I want to be something different.
But sometimes I get,
I get caught up in this ultra ego of who I used to be,
that I'm that old person sometimes right after I come out of doing these videos.
And I don't see it, but I've been pointed that out a few times.
Yeah, I, you know, what's funny is when I started doing YouTube,
there were so many things that I would see other YouTubers do
that I just thought, that's just so stupid.
Like, these guys are consumed by this whole thing.
That's ridiculous.
But then you start putting out the videos.
And then you start putting in the work.
And then you start realizing like, like, you know, like it gets consuming because you're like,
I've worked so hard for this.
There should be a 50,000 video, 100,000 view video.
Why do I like, yeah, I go to that too.
Like, I brought in some fucking key enemies.
Like, I go, I know this is a beggar.
Why not getting the views I deserve?
Or how many have you done where you've done a video and like, as soon as we get off,
I'm like, eh, that's like, it wasn't all that.
That wasn't that great.
You know, whatever.
That won't get any views.
And then boom, it gets fucking 60,000 views or 70,000.
I'm like, are you fucking serious?
That was a horrible fucking story.
It's a horrible video.
I see this all the time.
The algorithms like women.
I can't figure out either.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I've tried everything.
I've tried to fucking, and I don't, you don't need to put the fucking hashtag or nothing.
I put out videos with no hashtags.
I think it's 100,000 views.
Yeah.
Then I put the one that's perfect.
You know, I think, okay, this is the video.
Look at the title.
The thumbnail looks good.
Okay, this is going to go.
Right.
time. Nobody's hard right now. It's going to hit the algorithm. Fuck.
Five hundred views an hour. I'm like, fuck.
Yeah. Yeah, man. I, I, you know, I don't know. Whatever. We'll see. You know,
it's funny too because everybody, the first thing everybody asks is how many subs do you have?
Like you said, subs don't mean anything. The subs are just bragging rights. So if you could say,
oh, I got 200,000 subs, like people are like, oh, wow, they're impressed. But you could have 200,000
subs, your videos are getting 3,000 views, and you're making no money, and I know guys that
have 20,000 subs, and every video they put out gets 100, 200,000. Like, I'm like, why don't you
have more subs? I know, I know some dudes where when you watch them, get their views, you're like
fucking, how the fuck are they getting these videos too? Yeah. Seriously. You know what I mean? I like
different channels. I like, you know, I like different types of content, but I, if you have 200,000
subscribers like you, right? Right. She'd at least get 25,000 every fucking video.
wouldn't you yeah that would be nice right not the way it is my I go to these 10,000 per video
but it doesn't happen at one point we were hot it was every video was over 10,000 every video
but that's that just like you said that's the algorithm like you said you you guys were doing
really good for a while then it kind of it cooled off and then it'll come back up and I have like
two months where it's like fuck this is it bro like we're doing great and we have two months
where it's like Jesus bro then you see those that just take off and they keep on going you're
like, what the fuck they got that I got right now?
I've had videos where we put out the video and it got 8,000 views, 10,000 views.
Three months later, in a week it gets another 20,000.
And then a week later, it gets another 30.
And then again, next thing you know, within two months, it's got a hundred or, it's got
90 or 100,000 views.
And you're like, what happened in the interim of that two months that suddenly it took off?
Yeah, I've had that happen too.
Like, I'm not watching it.
I go get the video.
That's 40,000 views.
Where did it get those views?
it's insane i mean yeah you just can't like just like you said it's i can't figure it out but so i'm
just going to keep doing what i'm doing because at this point it's paying my bills i like doing it i like
talking to you know the guys that i get to talk to you know i think it's it's you know it's great
and it's great to get these you know where these guys even though i don't even try and do this
where these guys are like bro like you know you got me through a tough time in my life or what you
said was inspirational or i look up to you and to me i'm not trying to be
be inspirational at all.
But it is still pretty cool when someone says,
wow, bro, like, I watch
that video and that fucking, you know, that really
moved me. Like, that really got me
through a tough period of time or whatever it was.
That's, you know, that's a good feeling.
Yeah, because the thing about
you do you do that's great is
you get to push your narrative,
your story, your truth of which you walk people
to the air, this is your brown. And that's why, I
try to respect every other YouTube out there,
but it doesn't mean if they always give the respect to which are.
No.
Yeah.
Well, how do you, how do you feel about the, how do you feel about this interview?
It's good.
Anything else want to go over?
I'm good.
Is there any questions you want to ask?
Are you sure?
Yeah.
No.
I mean, I'm obviously, I'm curious about the case, but, you know, we talked about it before.
And, you know, you obviously don't want to get into it.
So I totally understand that.
You can't because of the attorney stuff, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, it's a weak case, though, man.
You know, it's a one shot, hit two people.
So it's a self-defense case, basically.
Yeah, I get it.
So we got to see what happened.
You know, pretty much this person was wanting to attack you for some time and tried to attack me.
Right.
You know, even though I'm not supposed to have a gun, I'd rather have one than not have one sometimes.
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