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My Story by AR
My name is AR, I'm 22 and I'm a retired blood in Texas. For me, the rise and fall happened fast. I was a foot soilder, just kicken it in tha hood and suddenly the O.B's and the queen B took me into the inner circle. I started doin highway work to get stripes...I was makin good money driven to H-town everyday. We were hood celebrities...everywhere we went , On the weekend we would be chillin with rappers in H-town...livin big and fast. It was like a movie...Things quickly got deep ,ya know? I ended up earning a lot of stripes last year and got ranked up to Lieutenant. I had prayed for that rank, that5's crazy.In highschool i was friends with tha Kings, and beef had started up with the Brown Pride and 13's. So, last year I started dating a king who had been my best friend thru school...and he moved in wit me. The beef started back up when one of the B.P.'s shot another king last year. Me and my man took tha defense and started gun-warfare up. We were doin drivebys every week....or getting shot at. We were living to die. About the same time my queen B got caught on the highway...doin my work. I had said that I didn't want to go that night....and she got busted. She's facing fed time. Anyways, me and my man were sleepin on the floor every nite, to avoid shots...carrying heat everywhere....lookin behind us. You could feel death around the corner...and then it was over. My man got caught up..he's doin time now. A week later my O.B.'s got arrested for shooting up a blood that they said wasn't loyal...and then that same week I got arrested for supposedly shooting up some crips at a party...they were shootin at my yung dawgs...what can i say? I went to jail 3 times this year on charges related to that night...although I haven't been formally indicted. After all that I was like fuck this, I'm gonna chill...I didn't even get props for that shit at the party. For me, it was easir since my O.B.'s were all locked up. I just COMPLETLY isolated myself...that worked. I don't go out at all, I don't ansewr calls. And eventually they stopped calling...now ,my O.B'S got out this week , we'll see . They haven't contaced me yet. I had spread word of wanting to chill. Me and my man got married thru the court while he was in tha kounty...now I'm just chillin,waiting for him to get out. One thing that helped was prayer...and church. I go to church about 4 times a week now....Before i stopped bangin it had been years. It's possible...to get out. You'll need more strength and courage than you ever needed to bang though. |