Dereck Jackson

I was like, what the fuck?

So they sent me over there.

And then, long story short, I programmed over there a little bit.

It was weird, you know, being around all these SMY gangs and all that shit.

You know, they were kind of off the hook.

What's SMY gangs?

So say, for example, a Southsider.

You know, locks up, goes protective custody, and then he goes to another yard and he starts another gang.

That's so stupid.

Yeah, and they got a shit ton of them.

They're fucking brutal.

Yeah, they're pretty bad.

So...

Like I was told, you know, I just kept my mouth shut and I did my thing.

I finally got to go into an art program, you know, where I could actually hold a paintbrush because on the activist side where I was at, you couldn't have those.

You can make weapons out of them and all that.

So I'm in there painting, doodling.

And then this guy just comes out of nowhere and he's talking to me and he heard about me and he was like, look, I want you to come meet this guy.

You know, he's going to come in from the streets.

He's a movie producer and all this.