Chapter 1: What does it mean to be a member of a 1% biker club?
Jason Momoa is a member of this club. You can't wear support gear of another club. You have to show them that you're built like that. If you're not of the caliber, you're going to get ran. I go to open the door. I see all my enemies and I see my daughter crawling towards me. And I'm like, man, is this how I'm going to go out in front of my daughter like this? I was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
My mother and father, my mother ran away with my father to have me because my grandfather was, he was a beast. Like he beat up my grandmother for years and stuff. So he was like, you know, back in those days, they were a lot more aggressive than So I was born out in Puerto Rico. We only lived there for a year. And then I moved to the Bronx when I was one years old.
And I lived in the Bronx my whole life. And, you know, my childhood was rough. My father got caught up in crack. He was laying carpets for this place called ABC Carpet. And he had a friend that he worked with that put him on to crack.
Chapter 2: How did Sose The Ghost's childhood shape his future?
And he was just addicted. So he was gone by the time I was four. But we... I have very limited memories of him because the only thing I really remember is him throwing my turtle out the window one day when he was mad at my mother. We had a turtle cubby, and they had like an argument. That's the only aggressive act I ever seen him do, though. He was like a really nice guy. But he took our turtle.
We lived on the fifth floor in the Bronx at this time, and he threw the turtle out the window. And I'm like, oh, my God, cubby, I'm looking down. And he actually survived it. Turtles are like that, you know? So you never saw him again? After four, I didn't see him again until I was 28. Oh, OK. Yeah. OK. Yeah. He just recently died a couple of weeks ago.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yeah. We it was weird, though, when he died. I wasn't like really messed up because I had that relationship with him. But I'm not a grudge holder. So I didn't like. I don't know. It was weird. Like I felt a little funny, like I'm supposed to feel bad, but I don't feel that bad. Not in an evil way, but just I was a little disconnected. So it was like a weird thing. But, you know, I got through it.
But him not being around in my childhood when I was younger, my mother started to date someone else and she wanted to marry him. And this dude, my stepfather, he worked for the state government. It's like he wasn't like a correction officer, but he worked for like the mental institution. It was called Bronx State at the time. I don't know. It probably still exists, but I don't know.
But he was a really wicked dude. Like I used to hear him talk about, you know, having fun mistreating people with mental health issues. You know, like in Bronx State, it's like an asylum. So you got some crazy people in there. So you'd be like, yeah, we held him down. We were bending his arms. So I grew up hearing stuff like this. And... He never really gave me love.
He gave my sisters love, but he was very hard on me. I tell people this a lot. When I first met him, he reprimanded me the first day I met him. I think I was five years old. My mother was having a party, and she was like, it's time to go to bed now. That's when they had house parties in the Bronx in the 80s. It was a crazy time.
She would have a DJ come to the house on the weekend, move all the furniture, and we're in an apartment on the fifth floor. Move all the furniture, have all these people here. They'll have a DJ playing. This is like when house and all that stuff was going on. So the first day I met him, I told my mom, oh, mom, I want to stay up a little bit later. And the first day he says, that's your mother.
You don't answer her back. And I looked at him like, I never met this dude in my life. And that's who she chose to be with. So he was very abusive physically. I got my ass whooped all throughout my childhood, even to the point where my aunt, rest in peace, that died, my godmother, took me out the house and I was living with her and my grandmother for a minute.
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Chapter 3: What led to Sose's involvement in street gangs?
So I went through a lot of problems on the street because she did that. Because it was almost like, it's not snitching, but it's almost like letting him stay locked up. And it's like, I wore the brunt of it. For some reason, I didn't understand why it was my fault. But I was telling her, I'm like, Ma, you can't leave him here. You know what I mean? Like, just take him.
She's like, no, the way he's talking to them, you know, he was like really getting at the cops. Mm-hmm. But, you know, but because of all of that, I winded up getting locked up. I first I got probation, but at that age, I'm not going to school. I'm messing up. So my mother called up and got me violated with my probation officer. So I wind up going back.
When I get locked up, I wind up going to Spofford because this is a robbery charge that I got hit with. So you cop down, so it's a lighter robbery. But I still had 18 months of probation. So that transferred over to I had to do 18 months of time. So at 14 years old, I went in. It happened at 14. I went in at 15 and came out 17. But what happened was...
When I first got locked up... Spofford's a juvenile facility, right?
Yeah, Spofford is where they used to send you before Rikers Island made the kiddie unit. So this was... It was Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten. This was the baddest of the baddest, all in the Bronx. And the place is shut down now because it was so corrupt. But Spofford was like... Spofford was a dangerous place.
The crazy thing about Spofford, though, it was so bad, but it was like my school because my school was that bad. People were getting beat up every day. People were getting robbed every day. If you had a nice hat on, like a new Mets hat or a nice Yankee hat, and you weren't part of the group, they're taking it right off your head. Right.
Because they had these like stairs that go up in the school and they were like, you know, those weird ones, the school ones that go like that. They like they're weird the way they go up and it's all gated. You start walking. One person will grab the hat. They'll start passing it down to other people. And then I would see it happen every day. It was so crazy.
But going to Spofford, it was it was it was hardcore. Like I that was my first little kiddie, you know, learning what what the prison system is like. So then from there, they sent me to... My mom said, listen, I wanted him. I thought he was going to go to wherever he was going to go and not have to go to Spofford first. She didn't understand the system.
So they put me in a group home called Boys Town. And it's actually famous for... You heard of Boys Town before? Yeah. I've heard of Spofford before. You heard of Spofford before too? Oh, okay. Yeah. Boys Town was actually fun. Anytime I was in a group home, I actually had fun. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: How did Sose's experiences impact his views on crime and community?
And it was rough, too, but it was more—I say— They call it lockup, but it's more, it's cottages. And you're in different cottages. I was in the hillside. And it's kind of, to me, it's more like boarding school. It's not a boarding school. You're locked up for a charge. But the setup is like a boarding school almost. So I did that for 18 months.
And I had fun and hard times there because it was like... Since it's a kiddie jail, when you're locked up, if you do the right thing, once a month, they had visits or whatever. So you would have a weekend visit or Thanksgiving and stuff like that. And I remember we got in a lot of trouble sometimes because we'd be joking around at nighttime.
And when the lights are off, they want no nothing because they don't want words to spark something. And people are fighting because there's less staff or whatever. So a couple of friends of mine, we were joking around and we got dorm disturbances. That's what they called it. And we lost our Thanksgiving and our Christmas. That was rough. Everybody was going home. And I had my little girlfriend.
We're writing letters and stuff like that. And it was a rough time. But then I got out of there. I kind of schemed my way out of there, though, because since I was going on 17, I told them, look, if I go outside... I'm never going to go back to school. It's just not going to happen. So I got my GED in there. So they put me in a GED program.
Since I finished and passed my GED fast, there was still months left on my sentence. So they sent me to a group home. So I kind of schemed my way out of there because nobody really does that. They usually have to do their time all the way through, but I wound up going to a group home. And then they semi said they were going to pay because I was going to be a big producer there.
So I went to the Institute of Audio Research. It was way over my head. It was just too much scientific math stuff, you know, like, and we never even stepped in a studio. I thought I was going to be like a big time producer or something like that. So I didn't do that. And you're what, 17? Yeah, I was 17. So it was just too over my head. You had people in there that were owning studios for years.
They would just get in the paper just so they have it for the job. I had never touched a button in a studio in my life. But I was rapping and stuff like that. So I thought it would be good if I have the technical side of it. When I came out, it was a struggle, you know? And like I said, my stepfather was very abusive. Well, now I'm 17. I think I'm a grown man.
So there was one day that my sister came to me crying and she's holding a hand over her face and she's all red and crying. I'm like, you know how you get frantic? Like, yo, what happened? What happened? So she comes up to me and she says... He hit me. And I'm like, who hit you? She was like having a hard time. Told me my stepfather hit her. I was already 17. I put the beats on him. So awful.
Like I was hitting him. He fell a little bit. I was kicking him. And then my mother came and helped him. She hit me with a bat in the back. Now,
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Chapter 5: What led to the Pagans' undercover agent incident?
But he did the same thing with the pagans. One of the brothers went and tried to get a hooker. So he meets up with this girl. It turns out that the hooker is like an undercover agent. So then they do this huge press conference with all these people that are like human trafficking and all that. They hang his vest up and say, yeah, the pagans were part of this.
Chapter 6: How does the government manipulate gang members?
I wonder what your club is going to think about you. I mean, the guy was going to get a hooker. And you got them in a huge thing that's like a sex trafficking ring. It's dishonest. It makes it look like it's a huge deal that you did a huge bust, but it's really not that.
I was going to say, I was going to do my whole, I'm not going to sit here and listen to you talk bad about the federal government. Yeah, listen, I can't. Like the guy, Grasshopper. Oh, listen, the guy, he owns a construction company.
And these guys came, like the government came, they knew he was like the, I don't know if he was a president or where he was, but they came to him and they said, look, like they're flying in drugs. I'll probably get the story wrong, but they're flying in so much. We need you guys to help us unload the plane or the truck, whatever. Mm-hmm. And they offer him money. And at first he says no.
And they keep offering more and more and more. And then he's like, okay, well, they wanted to sell him stuff. He's like, I'm not interested in that. And then it was just help us unload it. So you're desperately trying to get him connected because there's a group. And so what they do is they end up saying, look, can you get some of your guys to help? And then he's like, yeah, yeah.
He goes to the guys. He's like, I'll give you a couple hundred bucks if you'll help me unload this fucking thing.
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Chapter 7: What is the process of joining a 1% biker club?
Yeah. Like none of this is really connected to the gang or the group itself. It's just like I know these guys because I know all the guys in the club. These are my buddies. We hang out. So he asks them. They come in. They unload a shipment.
Then they bring in another shipment because they're trying to – you have to – if you move so much, you keep hitting these different plateaus where they can give you more time, more time, more time. So they have him ship.
Chapter 8: How do 1% bikers balance their club activities with personal lives?
It's multiple shipments. They're asking him to bring weapons or just in case where he does bring a weapon. They unload it and then eventually they bust them all. And now you're a part of this huge RICO case where really you're just unloading a vehicle. We're not selling the drugs. We're just labor. You guys brought us into this. And of course, they go to trial. They lose.
They all get like fucking 30 years, 45 years. But the truth is like... You put me into a conspiracy that I wasn't really a part of. You made me a part of a RICO case. You put it together. You guys laid it all out. You made sure that there were multiple times that we unloaded. You made sure there were multiple people there. You made sure we brought weapons. You made sure we transported drugs.
You're the one. But when it laid out in the newspaper in front of the jury— It's a well-oiled machine that's part of a huge RICO case to import and distribute drugs. No, I'm moving drugs from here to here. That's all I did. But, you know, he gets 45 years and he's still in prison to this day. So, I mean, I've seen that happen over and over again.
I think it's a way to keep like dominant men like out of the picture, like lock them up there too. Because I feel like they want like a nation of like sheep people that are weak, don't work out, stuff like that. Bikers, people that are getting money, you know, they're more masculine. So they're like about their money. They're on the chase. They're more hardcore.
They want those people off the street. They want a bunch of soft people that are just going to listen, running around everywhere.
And I'm noticing that. The government doesn't have to do that. They got TikTok and... You know, they got they got them doing that for him now in a massive way that you that the government could never pull off. They have China. I know TikTok is not Chinese, whatever. But they come in and they've created this environment of.
Yeah, but TikTok is owned by ByteDance, right? That's China, right?
It's China. It supposedly is not owned by China. It's like a Chinese company that – but here's the problem. Any company in China is partially owned by China. They have regulators. They can dance all the – do their little dance where, oh, no, we have no input.
That's like saying that – how many times have you heard five years ago, six years ago, ten years ago that, oh, no, the federal government – Facebook doesn't work with the federal government. YouTube doesn't work with the federal government. No, we have no input on what they do. And now it comes out that, oh, no, every single day we're telling them, take this TikTok guy down.
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