Johnny Chang

You know, first one to get out of the bed, first one to get inside of the bed as well before he came back.

So, you know, just very submissive.

And my father was a drunk, you know, he was an alcoholic.

Beat on me, beat on my brother, beat on my mom.

So he had a lot of inner demons as well at that time we didn't recognize.

But yeah, so we grew up in that type of environment.

Pushed me to kind of join gangs at a very early age.

So I was 12 years old when I joined my first gang.

What were you like at school?

Bad.

I was a knucklehead and I was fighting with people, stealing, ditching, just doing a lot of bad stuff, even at the age of 12 years old.

Who forced you into the gang?

Your dad?

My dad was, yeah, I would say... Was your dad a gang member?

He actually wasn't a gang member, but he was very like a street guy where in...

He were Chinese, but he's born in Korea.

Uh, due to my grandparents, you know, fleeing the war in China, you know, at that time it was a communist regime.

Everybody was just running everywhere to get out and they were erasing their history before their eyes, you know?

Um, but my father was, was in Korea, was a fighter, you know, he's had always been fighting on the streets and they kind of faced a little bit of oppression over there too, being that they're Chinese, but living in Korea.

So yeah, he fought a lot too.