Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Drop the mother bag. Drop the bag. You're not going to tell me shit? You're not going to tell me nothing? And why the fuck out of everybody you say my name? Goddamn, you a real little bitch, bro. For real, dog. Both of my parents, they both from Nigeria. I'm full-blown Nigerian, so I turned 12 years old.
Chapter 2: How does Ebo's upbringing influence his choices?
And my dad, he quit his job over here and ran for House of Representatives in Nigeria, because it's real messed up where he at. He's from the fucking trenches. About to be 13, that's really kind of when you really need your dad right by you, you know what I'm saying? He raised me the right way, but it's like now I'm about to be a young man. I never had the birds and the bees talk.
He never threw a football with me. We never went to no games, nothing like that. And I come from a Nigerian background, so he was real strict. There was always, yes, no. Like, him play, my dad, him play. So when he left, I just looked at it like, kind of resentment, because he was always mean as fuck when he was around, and then he left.
But my dad ran for House of Representatives in a whole other country. He risked everything and lost. So when he lost over there, My mom got to take care of me, sister, two cousins, and him a little bit, because he's just still trying to get his feet wet in the politics over there. So, shit got a little rough. So, I just started selling a little gas just so I could help my mom out a little bit.
She didn't know what was going on. She just thought I was smoking. She'll catch me smoking every now and then, but she didn't know I was selling it. So, started skipping school a little bit. Boom, now I'm selling my stuff, and I run into some of my guys. They already on some click shit. They got little clicks and stuff like that. Click beefs and stuff like that. I was always just the cool dude.
I didn't grow up on the rah-rah like super crazy as a 12 year old and 13 year old. I like money. I like to hang around women and shit, or girls at the time. But shit, I started hanging with my boys and they already had beef and I'm just a loyal type dude. I kind of inherited they beef just by being around. But I was just wanting to get the money.
Some of them wanted to get money, some of them just wanted the beef. So we was all together, we was all cool as hell.
What is this, like gang activity that you're saying? That they're just, they got beef with different gangs? Or when you say cliques, or is it not really gang related?
Not exactly gang, full-blown gang. When we were younger, it was like more so cliques. Where I'm from, it was a lot of different cliques. Okay. People just used to get in little fist fights and stuff. It never was too real at that age. But we'll catch a couple folks, jump them. They might catch us and jump us. You know what I'm saying? It never got too serious. Did you ever have that?
Where people from different high schools.
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Chapter 3: What led to Ebo getting involved in illegal activities?
So it just brought a lot of light to it. So the next day I go to school. I'm in ISS. I happen to be in school suspension. So I didn't even get to enjoy it, but everybody just coming by the doors and shit, just singing it, singing my songs and shit. Just really hyping it up. Later on, they end up having a game.
The dudes that we beefing with, they just online on Twitter, hey, y'all better not come over here. Just talking a lot of shit, basically about what they going to do if we go to their school, because they was at home. So we get to the game. It's like 20 of us. We get to the game. Soon as we walk in, all eyes on us.
They not even paying attention to the game no more because they know it's going to go down. So we all understand. We go literally at the end of the third quarter, before the fourth quarter even end, we already walking out about to wait on them. So I come outside, see a bunch of police officers, like 40 police, because like I said, it's a huge game.
So we really thinking like, damn, ain't nothing going to happen because the police here. So we probably not even going to get to do what we want to do. Fuck around and we all just waiting outside for them boys. One of my homeboys, he by this girl. He not by us. He about 20, 30 feet away. So next thing you know, we just hear, oh shit, they jumping Thomas. So we all looking like, what?
We like, what the hell? Thomas was just with us. We turned around. It's about 40 of them just surrounding Thomas, punching him, kicking him, stomping him out. He trying to fight. He grabbing him and shit, tussling with him. He get to the ground, basically we all run up on him. They throwing bricks at us, throwing sticks at us, all type of crazy shit. We wasn't expecting all that.
So next thing you know, it just got real. It just turned into a brawl. The whole street, literally from the parking lot, the street, we fought. From the front of the entrance of the football game, through the whole parking lot, outside onto the streets, to the point we beating motherfuckers up on cars.
And parents is coming to get their kids from the school game and seeing all this people rolling around, getting stomped, put up on the cars, getting body slammed on cars and windshields. The shit getting crazy. It's to the point where the police don't even want to lock us up. They just trying to tell us, go home. Y'all just stop. They can't control it. Every time they break it up.
We keep walking. Somebody's getting busted in the head with a bottle. Somebody getting stomped out under somebody's car. Somebody getting choke slammed. I'm like, damn, this shit's really crazy. So one thing led to another. A gun was involved.
At the stadium? What do they call that?
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Chapter 4: How did Ebo's first experience with police unfold?
Shot like five, six times and he was out. He threw the gun and it landed on top of the building. Like he running too now. So we all scattered like roaches and shit. And the craziest part about that shit, like the police were in the same building. Plaza. They were in the same plaza while all this going on. Nobody got locked up.
They didn't question anybody? They didn't track anybody down? Nothing?
Nope. And the only thing was, a dude is so crazy. A dude, an innocent bystander got shot. That's the only person that got shot. Out of 40 of us moving targets, he didn't hit none of us. The other dude, he didn't hit none of us either. I don't know how did... God, it gotta be God, because I don't know.
But the only person that got hit was an innocent bastard, and he got hit in the leg or something, so he was all right. But the police were more focused on making sure he was all right than trying to go lock all of us up. So, yeah, that was the first night gunplay got involved in my life.
What is your mom saying in all this fucking... Does she have any idea that you're causing chaos?
It's so crazy, because honestly, I was living a double life. I was living a double life. I was never a fucked up person like that. I was always a good dude, but I was such a loyal dude, like I said. I inherited all my homeboy's beef. To this day, I never really just had just straight beef because of me. Like, hey, I don't like you for something you did, so it's you.
So whole time, I'm a good dude, so that's what my mom's seeing. But it's like every time I'm out, I got to stand on this business, this shit. So it would be time. It's so crazy you asked me that. It will be times that my mom will find bullet shells in this shit. Crazy mom when you see this. But I got to go tell on myself. It will be times she find bullet shells in her car.
But she loved me so much, I was just like, she couldn't see me doing nothing wrong. So she asked me about the bullet shells, and I'm just like, I'm making up shit off the dome. Like, oh, my homeboy, he in the Navy, he had a necklace with bullet shells and shit, broke in the car, and that's how I got in there. She's like, oh, okay.
You know, whole time I'm knowing, like, she knows that I'm lying, but she doesn't want to believe I'm lying, pretty much. Then like a week after that, because I got in a shootout in her shit.
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Chapter 5: What happens during the biggest shootout in the county?
They had it well organized. They start shooting at us. When we turn towards them, the bus and you turn. They start hitting different cuts and shit. They on foot, but we in the car, so it's hard to hit them. We having a crazy shootout. This is the biggest shootout in my county ever. They said they found 136 bullet shells out there. They running in cuts, they on foot, so it's hard to hit them.
We all shooting, they shooting, we running in the shit, running in the mailboxes, running into people's cars. People was in their cars and got hit by us, because we came two or three cars deep, I can't remember. Some of my people bumping into them, they bumping into light poles, all that. But we in a full blown shootout. Long story short, a couple of them got shot, none of us got shot.
I think two of them got shot. They came and picked one of my homeboys up. And this is the crazy part about it. The dude who initiated the robbery... He just robbed my homeboy, but when we come back and shoot it out with y'all, he goes and tells the police, like, yeah, he shot at me. So that's when I knew, like, bro, the streets is crazy. Like, you initiated the gangster shit.
Then when we come see about your ass, you call the police on us. Like, that's why the streets is dangerous, man. The streets ain't for nobody, bro. Like, for real, because you got gangster racks out there. You can't beat them. You know what I'm saying? If you lose...
Chapter 6: How does a robbery lead to a police investigation?
You die. He'll kill you. But if you win and get the ups on him, he'll tell on you. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, bro, if you would have just left us the fuck alone, you would have never got shot at. So now you started this shit. Now we come back and retaliate and you tell on us. But he didn't know everybody that was there. He only know the person he robbed that day. So he tell on him.
And my bro, he gets locked up for aggravated assault for the whole shootout. He didn't tell on nobody else. He took his time. He took his lick. So now he's locked up for aggravated assault. While he's locked up for aggravated assault, they add Rico to his shit. So that was when they had the last straw. They was like, all right, we're about to start coming to get all of them. U.S.
Marshals pulling up to all our mom's house. They trying to catch us where we frequent at. All this shit. That's when shit got real. Yeah. It was close to a school, so they was serious about that shit. The neighborhood happened to be close to a school, so they like, man, anybody could've ... Kids could've got hit, you know what I'm saying? They wasn't fucking with that.
Neighbors in their car, their cars getting shot up.
Chapter 7: What are the consequences of being involved in a RICO case?
Why they about to go to work and shit? It's early. I told you, it's 12 PM. In the middle of the daytime, it's like the wild, wild west. We shooting it out. They shooting, we shooting. Shit was crazy. I found a Cali plug from Sacramento. He was in the Bay.
We was trapping like a trap house.
Yeah, a trap house like selling drugs, selling dope. So I found a Cali plug from Sacramento. Like I said, I was 18 at this point in time. I'm getting the pounds sent from Cali to my mom's front door. I'm getting it for like 1,400 a pound. Back then it's like 200 a zip. So 16 zips. I'm probably making like... 5,000, 6,000 off of each pound. And I'm 18. I just came home. So I'm feeling myself.
I'm like, man, fuck that robbing shit. I'm just trying to try. I'm trying to just get off this gas from Cali. Because nobody my age at that time, like, nah, these kids advanced. You got trappers that's rich, 15-year-old trappers. But then in my area, that wasn't really common for trappers. Nobody that was 18 would be getting the pounds from Cali.
These people barely buying three fives and sevens and shit, and I'm getting the pounds shipped to my mom front door. So I get to selling dope. We got a little trap house, basically like where the gang used to just go, sell their drugs, fuck with the girls, you know what I'm saying? Just chill. start getting hot, because now there's shootouts going on over there now.
This apartment complex wasn't really known for that, but now there's shootouts. Now there's people getting robbed in the apartments, not by me personally, because I gave it up, but not everybody gave that up that was around me. So they'll bring them to them apartments, rob them, all type of shit was going on. Basically, one day the police come.
They come to the trap house and they looking for somebody like, hey, is so and so here? We know the person though, but he wasn't there. It was like, nah. I happened not to be there that day. They put the whole house in handcuffs. It was like 11, 12 people there. Because like I said, everybody used to just congregate there. Females, dudes.
They put the whole house in handcuffs and said they was looking for somebody. They ran everybody's names. Nobody had warrants. So they left. We wasn't thinking too much of it. We like, what the hell? We was like, why did they come? But they were just looking for him. He might just be hot at the time. They might just be looking for him.
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Chapter 8: How does the protagonist navigate life after prison?
Whole time, they building this RICO case on us from shit we did. They've been investigating us since 2012 and they came and got us 2016.
Who's they? This is the GBI?
Yeah, yeah. GBI, the gang task force, all that shit. So this isn't the feds, this is the state? Yeah, it was the state. Yeah, this is the state. They had been watching this from 2012 to 2016, so they were building the case for four years already. So this is towards the end of when they're about to convict us. They came to the house, did like the little walkthrough. They didn't search the house.
They just, like I said, they detained everybody, ran their names, and they let us go. Well, let them go. So I had some work stashed in the wall over there. So I'm like, once they told me that, I'm like, no, I got to go get my work. Like, that's hot. I go there the next day to get my work, and I dip. Yeah. Later on that day, police come back and they kick the door in and lay the whole house down.
They lay the whole house down. They start searching. They find like seven guns. They find a bunch of muscle relaxers, X pills, Xans, gas, all type of shit in the house, in the trap. They take everybody to jail except the girls. So everybody that was in that house went to jail and that was like the beginning of the RICO.
So now it's like they got their first people already locked up, but they still got their eyes on 23 of us. The way I got locked up on my Rico was the most fucked up shit, man. That was a crazy situation. I just so happened, I'm going to this girl's birthday party. I'm messing with this girl. We on the way to a Japanese steakhouse. We about to go get something to eat. Good vibes. I didn't drive.
I got in one of my homeboy's car. We about to pull out. I'm like, damn, let me go get my gun. I run back in the house, grab my gun. I grab some molly. Stop at the liquor store, get a bottle. We stop at the liquor store, get a bottle. We just so happen to stop at the gas station. So this shit's crazy. We get to the gas station. We pulled in by the pump right here. My homeboys all walk in.
One of them come back out the gas station and asked me, like, hey, you got some change? I always had a lot of money on me, like, because I was trapping and shit. So he was like, hey, you got some change? I'm like, oh, change for what? $100, $50, $20? Like, what kind of change? He's like, nah, change, change. Like, he homeless. He trying to get some money. So I'm like, oh, I got him. Boom.
I walk up to the homeless dude, give him some money, just dap him up, give him some money. I go back to the car at the gas pump. One of my other homeboys come out and he asked him too, like, hey, can I get some money? I need a little bit more money to go get me a hotel room for the night. He's like, how much you need? He's like, 35 more. He's like, I got them. Boom. My homeboy gave him the $35.
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