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JAHSEH ONFROY:
Okay, guys, so here is my first vlog.

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Today, I am basically going
to tell you guys about myself

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because I've never really let you in much,

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and I feel like that's
the best thing to do right now

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to ideally strengthen the bond.

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So, here's my room.

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Uh, here's Stitch.

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This is my favorite
Disney character, ever.

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He's very relatable.

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So...

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today I am basically going

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to be telling you guys about myself.

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Uh, currently, I'm in
a huge state of paranoia,

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um, just due to m-my past

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and just the things and the people

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I've associated myself with previously.

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I've tried to put myself in a position

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to ideally be able
to motivate others to--

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I mean, for myself to suffice,

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when it comes to this negative shit

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'cause, like, bro, this shit--

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It's, like, trying to consume me.
It's almost like it's...

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like it's trying to get inside
of my mind, you know?

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I apologize for being so distant.

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I've been paranoid.
I've been needing help,

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and I haven't been getting the ideal help,

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uh, I really want.

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[crowd cheering]

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[crowd booing]

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Los Angeles, make some
motherfuckin' noise!

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[crowd cheering]

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[indiscernible] jump off
that shit so bad, bro.

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- I know.

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MAN: ...but trust me,
they like that here.

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MAN 2: Come on, man.

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SOLOMON SOBANDE:
He was moving like he was on a mission.

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[indiscernible conversation]

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I remember being at these shows

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and watching how much
he controlled the stage.

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Watched how commanding
his voice, actions were.

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Like, he was a natural leader.

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- I'm gon' count down to three.

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When I say, y'all motherfuckers jump.

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One. Two. Three.

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♪ I've been doing her ass, ayy ♪

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♪ Can't keep my dick in my pants, ayy ♪

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♪ My bitch don't love me no mo', ayy ♪

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♪ She kick me out, I'm like, "Vro" ♪

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JOHN CUNNINGHAM: I always felt
like people use the term rapper

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to describe him
mostly because he was Black.

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But he never-- He was not a real rapper.

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He could rap, but I don't think
that means you're a rapper.

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♪ Okay, she keep callin',
she keep callin' ♪

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♪ Every single night ♪

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♪ Day and night, on my mind ♪

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♪ Please don't kill the vibe ♪

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SOLOMON:
He was doing so many different things

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with rock and R&B and hip-hop.

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And I'm like, "Yo, how did the kid
that made that made this?"

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♪ Don't give up, don't give a fuck ♪

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♪ Don't give up, don't give a fuck ♪

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CLEOPATRA BERNARD:
He figured out a way to create X.

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And he found ways
to get attention to himself,

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and even though it was
negative things, it worked.

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SOLOMON:
For him to do all the things

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that he's done in two years,

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it was incredible.

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You know, that's the main reason
why we're all so hurt.

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Everybody was so excited
to see this next step

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in the transformation
that we never got to see.

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NEWS ANCHOR:
The rapper XXXTentacion

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has been shot, apparently--

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NEWS ANCHOR 2:
XXXTentacion,

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a rising star here in South Florida--

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NEWS ANCHOR 3:
Police say the artist,

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whose real name is Jahseh Onfroy,

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was leaving a Broward County
motorcycle shop yesterday

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when he was shot by two men
who ran up to his car.

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He was rushed to the hospital...

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MARC HOGAN: The deep connection
that his fans have with his music,

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that's a fact, that's a real thing.

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His music obviously means
so much to so many.

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- X's music saved my life.

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- For three years, he's helped--
This dude helped me get through

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depression and a bunch of stuff, man.

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CROWD [chanting]:
Long live X! Long live X!

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Long live X!

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MARC:
But the thing about his fame

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and commercial success,

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it started with
this horrific alleged crime.

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MAN: Fifteen-year-olds
will in some ways idolize him,

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and he was an incredible talent.

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He should not be anyone's idol.

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- Show some respect and leave it alone.

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You know, not make a mockery
of the man's life and death.

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MAN: The internet is a place
for this big conversation.

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He was the topic of the conversation

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any time he did anything.

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- You know, there's been
a lot of fucking pressure

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in the media and shit

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to, to not fuck with this dude.

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And I also just want to say, fuck anybody

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who has disrespected him
after his death...

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CROWD MEMBER: Fuck you!

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GENEVA AYALA:
I do think he was changing.

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It's just that he left behind the things

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that hurt others and himself.

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- SKI MASK THE SLUMP GOD:
We just knew violence sells,

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and it's the, it's a type of energy

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that we were tapping into to sell shit.

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You know what I mean?
And that's basically what we used it as.

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[hip- hop music playing]
[crowd cheering]

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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CROWD [sings]:
♪ You done fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, yeah ♪

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♪ You done fucked up, yeah ♪

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♪ You done fucked up, yeah ♪

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up ♪

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♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

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- Y'all niggas, now that I'm successful,

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suck my dick!

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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♪ Bitch, you done fucked up ♪

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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ You done fucked up ♪

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Fire.

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MAN: You ready?
JAHSEH: Yeah.

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You got me nice lighting,

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so I can look pretty.

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Oh.

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WOMAN: Yeah, but actually...

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- In my situation,
they definitely should pay attention

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to what I am as a person
rather than a character.

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But it is hard to mend
these two things together

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if everything that I portray as an artist

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is purely art.

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So, it's hard to tell if, as a person,

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that anything that is controversial

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or spoken on about me
is remotely even true.

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You never know who you're fucking with

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unless you fully delve
into them as a person.

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So, I definitely think
it is very, very important

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to understand who are--
you are fucking with

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and who you're listening to.

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Yes, I do.

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- I decided to make this documentary
because I felt like

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my son's story needed to be told.

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["So Jah S'eh" by Bob Marley playing]

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♪ ♪

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I was in labor for 24 hours.

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He came out super light-skinned,

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gray eyes, and I was like,

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"Oh my god, where did you come from?"

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And he was my little Tweety Bird.

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He was small and cute and yellow.

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He was just a calm, beautiful baby.

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Very serious kid.

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It was as if he was an old soul.

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♪ Shall sit in the sidewalk ♪

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♪ So Jah seh ♪

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♪ Yeah ♪

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CLEOPATRA:
Jahseh's dad would come sometimes,

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pick him up on the weekends,
we would share him

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during holidays or summers and whatnot.

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He just didn't help us financially.

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I was 17 when I had him.

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In my case, I didn't have any support,

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so it's just me paying rent,
paying all the bills,

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and having to work.

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And so, Jahseh was always

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with a babysitter or at daycare.

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I would make sure that he had
the best of everything,

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for sure.

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I would say he was extremely spoiled.

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But I think he always felt alone.

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His father loved him, and he was present

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until he couldn't be.

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He got arrested after Jahseh turned 10,

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and he got 10 years in prison.

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He hasn't physically saw him in person,

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um, since then.

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JAHSEH: When I was growing up,
my mom tried to give me love

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by financially taking care of me

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because she's seen that
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As long as I ate,
and as long as I had clothes,

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and as long as I had a place to stay,

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that was the most important thing to her.

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She was never able
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So, that left some sort
of self-hate for myself

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because I felt like I wasn't enough,

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you know, for a certain amount of time.

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- There was, like,
a shift in his behavior,

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shift in his personality.

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At the age of 10,
he just started wildin' out.

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- He would, like, act up in school.

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You know, class disruption, fights a lot.

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I stayed on him 24/7,
and we would bump heads

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and we did not get along.

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When he was 13, we got him evaluated,

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and they told me that he was bipolar.

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They wanted me to put him
on medication, and I refused

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because where I'm from,
we don't label kids,

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and I don't really believe in, you know,

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dosing kids up with drugs
or anything like that.

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I would prefer going through counseling

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and trying to get
to the root of the problem.

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And we did that.

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It just got really, really bad.

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He was able to get kicked out

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of every school in our district,

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which is why he ended up
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[sucks air through teeth]

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WOMAN: Go and take the picture,
what I tell you to take.

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Jahseh!

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Play so much, man.

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CLEOPATRA:
My mom, she lives, like,

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right across the street from the hood,

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and he just made his way over there

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and he enjoyed it.

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[hip-hop music playing]

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[indiscernible shouting]

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CLEOPATRA:
He started skipping school.

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At the time, he would always say,
"I wanna be a rapper."

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And so, as an incentive, I offered to,

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"You don't have to get straight A's.

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Just stay in school.
Don't get into any problems."

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And I would have him go
to the studio on the weekends.

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♪ He's showing signs of corruption ♪

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♪ That went from something to nothing ♪

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♪ Put his hands on his mother ♪

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♪ And now he's fucking his cousin ♪

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- I remember him making
his, like, first song

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at, like, 14, and we were like, "Yo."

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Like, we didn't expect that at all.

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It was, it was, like, almost, like,
he was telling a whole story.

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That was, like, the first time
we heard him, like, curse, too.

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CLEOPATRA:
It was very inappropriate.

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But I was like,
"All right, you got something."

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♪ All my life I dream these things ♪

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♪ Seems so real, that I see these things ♪

252
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♪ Until I D-I-E,
all you niggas just P-I-E ♪

253
00:12:20.949 --> 00:12:22.868
♪ That nigga can't sleep on me ♪

254
00:12:22.868 --> 00:12:23.577
♪ Ah, ah ♪

255
00:12:25.746 --> 00:12:29.708
- I kept up my end of the bargain
until it didn't work anymore.

256
00:12:32.377 --> 00:12:36.381
He was caught up in a few home invasions.

257
00:12:36.381 --> 00:12:39.218
He was caught selling drugs,
he was caught with a gun.

258
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He had all types of charges.

259
00:12:48.727 --> 00:12:51.063
- It rolling?
MAN: Yeah, I'm just gonna roll.

260
00:12:51.063 --> 00:12:53.023
- All right. Hi, my name is XXX.

261
00:12:53.023 --> 00:12:54.816
- My name is Ski Mask the Slump...

262
00:12:55.734 --> 00:12:58.320
- God. I have, I have a skinny dick.

263
00:12:58.320 --> 00:12:59.446
- I don't know what he talkin' 'bout.

264
00:12:59.446 --> 00:13:01.490
♪ Pussy nigga know he done fucked up ♪

265
00:13:01.490 --> 00:13:03.534
♪ Lame nigga better know his luck up ♪

266
00:13:03.867 --> 00:13:05.577
♪ Pussy nigga know he fucked up ♪

267
00:13:06.537 --> 00:13:07.913
SKI: Honestly,

268
00:13:07.913 --> 00:13:10.332
I didn't know what to make
of Jahseh at first.

269
00:13:10.332 --> 00:13:12.042
I met him in juvenile jail.

270
00:13:12.042 --> 00:13:13.377
I was at least 16.

271
00:13:13.377 --> 00:13:15.003
I think he was younger
than me at the time.

272
00:13:15.712 --> 00:13:17.422
And he told me his charges,
and I was like,

273
00:13:17.422 --> 00:13:18.924
"This nigga is in here for armed robbery?"

274
00:13:18.924 --> 00:13:21.260
[laughs] "Uh, for, for home invasions?"

275
00:13:21.260 --> 00:13:22.469
I'm like, "Okay."

276
00:13:22.469 --> 00:13:25.973
What really connected us was
we would be beatbox, like, making beats

277
00:13:25.973 --> 00:13:27.641
on the table, on the chairs and shit.

278
00:13:27.641 --> 00:13:29.476
And we would just be freestyling.

279
00:13:29.476 --> 00:13:31.562
♪ Belittling vanity, watch
that nigga when we cast it ♪

280
00:13:31.562 --> 00:13:33.272
♪ Half-wet, I leave him
half-alive in the basket ♪

281
00:13:33.272 --> 00:13:35.107
♪ And if you not a savage,
succumb to the madness ♪

282
00:13:35.983 --> 00:13:38.652
We would just, like,
feed off of each other.

283
00:13:39.319 --> 00:13:41.446
We both were the big brother
and little brother

284
00:13:41.446 --> 00:13:43.574
at the same time to each other.

285
00:13:43.574 --> 00:13:45.742
We didn't even know what
we wanted to do at the time.

286
00:13:45.742 --> 00:13:48.120
We just know we wanted
to make a stand for who we are

287
00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:49.997
and just be ourselves, say fuck it,

288
00:13:49.997 --> 00:13:51.707
like no matter the consequences.

289
00:13:51.707 --> 00:13:53.917
At that point, we were like,
"We don't really want a job.

290
00:13:53.917 --> 00:13:55.794
"And if we need a job

291
00:13:55.794 --> 00:13:57.880
"and the job doesn't want us
because we have face tats,

292
00:13:57.880 --> 00:13:59.339
"then that's not the job
we would really want

293
00:13:59.339 --> 00:14:01.133
for ourselves or some shit."
Like, fuck it.

294
00:14:01.133 --> 00:14:02.176
This is what we're doing.

295
00:14:04.970 --> 00:14:06.388
MAN: Real piece of shit.

296
00:14:07.264 --> 00:14:09.016
- Dirty piece of shit.

297
00:14:09.016 --> 00:14:10.601
SKI:
Back then, we were stealing shit.

298
00:14:10.601 --> 00:14:12.853
Well, I was... [clears throat]

299
00:14:12.853 --> 00:14:14.563
I was stealing cough syrup and selling it.

300
00:14:14.563 --> 00:14:16.982
We were just had a lot
of drugs really back then,

301
00:14:16.982 --> 00:14:19.151
and we found a lot of ways to make money,

302
00:14:19.151 --> 00:14:21.612
but because our parents wasn't
helping us with nothing really

303
00:14:21.612 --> 00:14:24.656
because they just thought we were
fucking horrible kids at the time.

304
00:14:25.282 --> 00:14:28.160
I remember Cleo's mom picking
me and Jahseh up one day,

305
00:14:28.160 --> 00:14:30.287
and this is the first time
I meet the lady,

306
00:14:30.287 --> 00:14:32.581
and she says, "Why're you
hanging out with him?

307
00:14:32.581 --> 00:14:34.708
He's a bad kid." [laughs]

308
00:14:34.708 --> 00:14:36.585
This is what she tells me,
"He's a bad kid.

309
00:14:36.585 --> 00:14:38.712
Why are you,
why are you chilling with this boy?"

310
00:14:42.883 --> 00:14:45.219
I feel like a lot of times
Jahseh did feel like

311
00:14:45.219 --> 00:14:47.513
even his family didn't really
like him at that point.

312
00:14:48.764 --> 00:14:51.141
He didn't understand
how his family treated him,

313
00:14:51.141 --> 00:14:52.601
like he was just this bad child.

314
00:14:52.601 --> 00:14:54.728
But if you think in Jah's mind back then,

315
00:14:54.728 --> 00:14:55.896
Jah didn't think that he was just

316
00:14:55.896 --> 00:14:58.065
this bad child trying to rebel.

317
00:14:58.065 --> 00:15:00.609
Jah thinks he's just being Jah.
You know what I mean?

318
00:15:00.609 --> 00:15:02.778
Like, I'm just being me
and niggas hate me,

319
00:15:02.778 --> 00:15:04.780
and I hate myself 'cause niggas hate me,

320
00:15:04.780 --> 00:15:06.782
and I need to change myself, basically.

321
00:15:09.201 --> 00:15:10.786
I've seen him literally choose

322
00:15:10.786 --> 00:15:13.664
to sleep on the streets
more times than go home.

323
00:15:13.664 --> 00:15:15.499
He didn't explain it to me all the time,

324
00:15:15.499 --> 00:15:17.709
but I just knew he even felt better

325
00:15:17.709 --> 00:15:19.294
sleeping with me in the car.

326
00:15:22.381 --> 00:15:24.091
- When he left home,

327
00:15:24.091 --> 00:15:26.260
he left home, nobody kicked him out.

328
00:15:26.260 --> 00:15:28.804
And it was as a result of him
not wanting to follow the rules,

329
00:15:28.804 --> 00:15:30.848
or not follow curfew,

330
00:15:30.848 --> 00:15:34.184
or just doing whatever he wanted to do.

331
00:15:34.184 --> 00:15:35.894
- And then he just
stopped going to school.

332
00:15:36.728 --> 00:15:38.939
He just was like, "Yo, good."

333
00:15:45.153 --> 00:15:47.489
[indiscernible chatter]

334
00:15:47.489 --> 00:15:49.199
SKI: I don't even know why
we wanted a group at that time,

335
00:15:49.199 --> 00:15:51.118
but I was like, "Nah, we gotta
make a group of some kind,"

336
00:15:51.118 --> 00:15:52.452
and I was, like, very ready.

337
00:15:52.452 --> 00:15:54.830
And me and Jah rode that shit out

338
00:15:54.830 --> 00:15:56.832
'til the wheels fell off, and then, um,

339
00:15:56.832 --> 00:15:59.042
out of nowhere, Jah wanted
to make his own group, too.

340
00:15:59.042 --> 00:16:00.377
And that was Members Only.

341
00:16:00.377 --> 00:16:01.670
[indiscernible shouting]

342
00:16:01.670 --> 00:16:03.672
[horn honking]

343
00:16:04.631 --> 00:16:09.303
[indiscernible shouting]

344
00:16:09.303 --> 00:16:11.847
FLYBOY TARANTINO: Jah used to always
be like, "I'm 'bout to start this shit

345
00:16:11.847 --> 00:16:13.599
called Members Only, bro."

346
00:16:13.599 --> 00:16:15.726
There was really
no, like, planned creation.

347
00:16:15.726 --> 00:16:17.686
It was, kind of, just like a manifestation

348
00:16:17.686 --> 00:16:19.271
type of thing for him, you know?

349
00:16:19.271 --> 00:16:20.939
And it was, kind of, like a brotherhood.

350
00:16:21.732 --> 00:16:23.358
KILO JUNIOR: Mostly everybody
would come to my house

351
00:16:23.358 --> 00:16:25.444
'cause I had a backyard,
and we would just, like,

352
00:16:25.444 --> 00:16:27.404
sit back there and smoke,
and write lyrics,

353
00:16:27.404 --> 00:16:28.739
and listen to mad instrumental--
- SlapBox.

354
00:16:28.739 --> 00:16:29.865
- SlapBox.

355
00:16:30.908 --> 00:16:33.827
SKI:
Jah ordered a snowball microphone,

356
00:16:33.827 --> 00:16:35.495
like one of the cheapest
microphones you could get,

357
00:16:35.495 --> 00:16:37.706
and we just started recording on it.

358
00:16:38.123 --> 00:16:40.292
We were recording in bedrooms,

359
00:16:40.292 --> 00:16:42.961
my friend's bedroom, friend's closet.

360
00:16:42.961 --> 00:16:44.546
It doesn't matter what it was,

361
00:16:44.546 --> 00:16:47.049
he would pull that little thing
out with the three prongs

362
00:16:47.049 --> 00:16:49.009
and we would just record that shit.

363
00:16:49.801 --> 00:16:52.346
And that's why our music
came with distortion

364
00:16:52.346 --> 00:16:53.931
because the type of mic
that we were using,

365
00:16:53.931 --> 00:16:55.766
but we would use it
to our advantage, really.

366
00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:59.061
COOLIECUT: It was, like,
the SoundCloud era of rap.

367
00:16:59.061 --> 00:17:00.646
We didn't know what we were doing.

368
00:17:01.188 --> 00:17:03.357
- People loved the first song
that Jah dropped on his SoundCloud.

369
00:17:03.357 --> 00:17:04.650
It was "Vice City."

370
00:17:05.651 --> 00:17:06.902
♪ I seem depressed ♪

371
00:17:06.902 --> 00:17:08.820
♪ Always being bothered, never less ♪

372
00:17:08.820 --> 00:17:11.406
♪ Keeping me out of prison
and putting me to the test ♪

373
00:17:11.406 --> 00:17:13.116
♪ They ask me what is happiness ♪

374
00:17:13.116 --> 00:17:14.409
♪ You write it on a check ♪

375
00:17:14.409 --> 00:17:15.702
♪ Or you feel it on the sweat ♪

376
00:17:15.702 --> 00:17:17.538
♪ When your dick is in the breast, huh ♪

377
00:17:18.413 --> 00:17:21.083
[indiscernible shouting]

378
00:17:23.919 --> 00:17:25.546
- Members Only in this bitch!

379
00:17:27.548 --> 00:17:29.550
FLYBOY:
What really had us noticed,

380
00:17:29.550 --> 00:17:32.761
what really, like, rang bells
where we're from

381
00:17:32.761 --> 00:17:34.096
was the shows.

382
00:17:34.513 --> 00:17:35.722
- Members Only in this bitch!

383
00:17:36.598 --> 00:17:37.766
Members Only in this bitch!

384
00:17:38.475 --> 00:17:41.770
♪ Fuck that house,
I hit that fucking lick ♪

385
00:17:41.770 --> 00:17:43.772
♪ Fuck the state and fuck all of them ♪

386
00:17:43.772 --> 00:17:45.691
♪ Feds tip toeing with my bitch ♪

387
00:17:45.691 --> 00:17:48.235
♪ I been going hard with Forgiatos ♪

388
00:17:48.235 --> 00:17:49.736
♪ In the fucking whip ♪

389
00:17:49.736 --> 00:17:52.030
♪ I'm gon' fuck your friends,
get on your knees ♪

390
00:17:52.030 --> 00:17:53.824
♪ And suck my fucking dick ♪

391
00:17:53.824 --> 00:17:56.034
♪ They be like, "X you not workin' hard ♪

392
00:17:56.034 --> 00:17:57.828
♪ You not droppin' shit" ♪

393
00:17:57.828 --> 00:17:59.788
♪ I been shopping on my homies ♪

394
00:17:59.788 --> 00:18:01.748
♪ Dropping off them checks and shit ♪

395
00:18:04.626 --> 00:18:06.545
MAN:
Jah always had this aura about him

396
00:18:06.545 --> 00:18:09.423
that he was not gonna
let us not be accepted.

397
00:18:15.179 --> 00:18:17.598
FLYBOY: We would pull up
six to seven deep,

398
00:18:17.598 --> 00:18:20.601
and we're gonna grab
everybody else off the walls.

399
00:18:20.601 --> 00:18:23.270
BASS SANTANA: So, he always
had a huge crowd of people around him

400
00:18:23.270 --> 00:18:25.147
and then, everybody looking at it like,

401
00:18:25.147 --> 00:18:26.857
"What the fuck is this? Or who is he?"

402
00:18:26.857 --> 00:18:28.025
- Yo, real shit.

403
00:18:28.025 --> 00:18:29.735
I appreciate all y'all
for coming out here.

404
00:18:30.194 --> 00:18:32.279
Even if you didn't come
out here for me, man,

405
00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:33.572
I appreciate all y'all, man.

406
00:18:36.742 --> 00:18:39.369
BASS: He had a way
of making people feel wanted,

407
00:18:39.369 --> 00:18:41.205
needed, important,

408
00:18:41.205 --> 00:18:44.082
and that's what would
gravitate them towards him.

409
00:18:44.917 --> 00:18:48.795
- He was so comfortable
showing his vulnerability.
- Yeah.

410
00:18:48.795 --> 00:18:51.173
FLYBOY:
It kinda made kids relate to him.

411
00:18:52.007 --> 00:18:54.551
[keyboard clacking]

412
00:18:56.470 --> 00:18:57.930
FLYBOY:
They reach out to him and say,

413
00:18:57.930 --> 00:19:00.182
"Bro, you saved my life."

414
00:19:03.936 --> 00:19:09.358
♪ I can't seem to find
someone's shoulder ♪

415
00:19:11.527 --> 00:19:16.907
♪ Who will I rely on when it's over ♪

416
00:19:17.324 --> 00:19:19.868
JAHSEH: The more I got
into that creative process

417
00:19:19.868 --> 00:19:22.579
and really being imaginative,
and really thoroughly, like,

418
00:19:22.579 --> 00:19:24.915
studying the dictionary and the thesaurus,

419
00:19:24.915 --> 00:19:26.750
and then I really started
liking making music,

420
00:19:26.750 --> 00:19:29.294
and then, I started using it
to, kind of, cope

421
00:19:29.294 --> 00:19:30.879
and as an antidepressant.

422
00:19:31.338 --> 00:19:33.841
I found a new comfortability within myself

423
00:19:33.841 --> 00:19:35.092
when I recorded music.

424
00:19:35.092 --> 00:19:38.387
♪ I dug my nails into my arms ♪

425
00:19:38.387 --> 00:19:42.432
♪ She turned and laughed at all my scars ♪

426
00:19:42.432 --> 00:19:44.101
♪ What is my worth ♪

427
00:19:46.228 --> 00:19:47.813
♪ What is my worth ♪

428
00:20:05.289 --> 00:20:07.291
- Let's see, let's see if this shit work.

429
00:20:08.375 --> 00:20:09.835
I think this connection bad.

430
00:20:09.835 --> 00:20:11.086
All right, it is working, I guess.

431
00:20:12.421 --> 00:20:13.964
How are you guys?

432
00:20:13.964 --> 00:20:15.257
Let's wait 'til we get more people.

433
00:20:15.257 --> 00:20:16.466
Damn. Damn, bros.

434
00:20:16.466 --> 00:20:18.177
Already a hundred. Jesus Christ.

435
00:20:18.760 --> 00:20:21.054
Already 200? Jesus Christ.

436
00:20:21.638 --> 00:20:24.183
All right, I fuck with y'all.
Y'all out here going hard.

437
00:20:25.267 --> 00:20:26.768
I left my DMs open up.

438
00:20:26.768 --> 00:20:28.562
That's what nobody realizes.
My DMs are open,

439
00:20:28.562 --> 00:20:29.980
so people can talk to me

440
00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:31.982
because I really like
to, like, talk to my friends.

441
00:20:31.982 --> 00:20:33.817
I don't like to just be
an ignorant asshole

442
00:20:33.817 --> 00:20:35.903
and act like nobody's there, you know?

443
00:20:36.987 --> 00:20:39.031
That's why, I, like--
when I, when I get depressed,

444
00:20:39.031 --> 00:20:40.574
I realize that I have you guys

445
00:20:40.574 --> 00:20:43.410
and it just, it motivates me
to be a different person.

446
00:20:43.410 --> 00:20:46.413
It motivates me to not be
so fucking down, you know?

447
00:20:46.413 --> 00:20:48.707
Like, look at this, there's--
We have over,

448
00:20:48.707 --> 00:20:51.043
we've had over a thousand people in here

449
00:20:51.043 --> 00:20:52.794
and, like, I'm just one person, you know?

450
00:20:52.794 --> 00:20:55.297
So, to show-- to have
that many people supporting me,

451
00:20:55.297 --> 00:20:57.049
you, you not know how awesome that feels.

452
00:20:57.049 --> 00:20:58.175
That's fucking awesome.

453
00:21:07.309 --> 00:21:08.727
[sighs]

454
00:21:08.727 --> 00:21:11.104
BRUNO DICKEMZ: A lot of people
know me as Bruno Dickemz.

455
00:21:11.104 --> 00:21:15.067
I've been a porn star for about 12 years.

456
00:21:15.067 --> 00:21:17.319
I created my own website.

457
00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:19.446
You got to show us
some skin, baby. Skin to win.

458
00:21:19.446 --> 00:21:21.323
We shot reality-type porn.

459
00:21:21.323 --> 00:21:24.284
I followed around artists
in the underground scene.

460
00:21:24.910 --> 00:21:26.662
Me meeting a lot of artists,

461
00:21:26.662 --> 00:21:28.205
you know, I decided that I wanted

462
00:21:28.205 --> 00:21:30.624
to manage some of these artists
because I saw a lot of potential.

463
00:21:30.624 --> 00:21:32.835
But, you know, I was going
to a lot of the shows,

464
00:21:32.835 --> 00:21:34.503
and there was one guy that was starting

465
00:21:34.503 --> 00:21:35.629
to make a little noise in South Florida.

466
00:21:35.629 --> 00:21:36.672
I didn't know who he was.

467
00:21:36.672 --> 00:21:38.090
And everybody around me's
like, he's the kid

468
00:21:38.090 --> 00:21:39.466
we were telling you about, X.

469
00:21:39.466 --> 00:21:41.260
You know, he's, like,
coming up in the scene.

470
00:21:41.260 --> 00:21:43.595
- We weren't on the level that he was on.

471
00:21:43.595 --> 00:21:45.556
It was him and Ski on a particular level,

472
00:21:45.556 --> 00:21:49.351
and it was our job to help
that grow and formulate.

473
00:21:49.351 --> 00:21:52.563
He started off by networking with artists

474
00:21:52.563 --> 00:21:54.857
that was already running the
South Florida underground scene.

475
00:21:54.857 --> 00:21:57.818
WiFi was one of those people
that already was up there.

476
00:21:58.360 --> 00:22:00.696
Robb was another one.
He was already up there.

477
00:22:01.154 --> 00:22:02.614
Denzel.

478
00:22:04.324 --> 00:22:07.703
- I just saw his energy.
Like, it's hard to explain.

479
00:22:07.703 --> 00:22:09.872
Like, just his presence.
Like, he could make noise

480
00:22:09.872 --> 00:22:11.123
in the room and not even speak.

481
00:22:12.082 --> 00:22:15.335
These kids, man, they looked like
they were ready to die for Jah.

482
00:22:16.044 --> 00:22:17.921
He was already XXXTentacion.

483
00:22:17.921 --> 00:22:19.840
The way he got that name he came up with,

484
00:22:19.840 --> 00:22:22.968
that name was his, uh, you know,
infatuation with porn.

485
00:22:22.968 --> 00:22:26.096
So, once he heard,
oh, there's this porn star

486
00:22:26.096 --> 00:22:27.890
that shoots porn with underground artists,

487
00:22:27.890 --> 00:22:29.892
he's like, "Oh, this is
the guy I got to meet."

488
00:22:30.893 --> 00:22:32.519
I think he was living with his grandma.

489
00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:34.897
He started coming over more
than he was supposed to.

490
00:22:35.939 --> 00:22:38.358
So, I was like, "You coming here a lot."

491
00:22:38.358 --> 00:22:40.110
I wake up in the morning,
he's sleeping on the couch.

492
00:22:40.110 --> 00:22:41.820
I'm like, "Hey, man,
y-you don't live here."

493
00:22:41.820 --> 00:22:43.113
He's like, "Bro,

494
00:22:43.113 --> 00:22:45.657
where I'm at, man, I'm going crazy."

495
00:22:45.657 --> 00:22:47.951
Like, "I need to,
I need to be somewhere else.

496
00:22:47.951 --> 00:22:49.661
Like, please let me move in."

497
00:22:49.661 --> 00:22:51.955
I was like, "All right,
I'll officially be your manager.

498
00:22:51.955 --> 00:22:53.165
You can move in."

499
00:22:53.165 --> 00:22:54.750
And I started managing Ski, too.

500
00:22:55.584 --> 00:22:58.170
[indiscernible]

501
00:22:58.879 --> 00:23:01.715
[hip-hop music playing]

502
00:23:01.715 --> 00:23:03.467
SKI:
When he was able to stay at Bruno's,

503
00:23:03.467 --> 00:23:06.386
I think he was able to hone in
on his artistry,

504
00:23:06.386 --> 00:23:09.097
like the screamo-type distorted beat.

505
00:23:09.097 --> 00:23:11.892
No one was delivering like him,
you feel me?

506
00:23:12.768 --> 00:23:14.978
♪ Fucked up, fucked up, fucked up ♪

507
00:23:14.978 --> 00:23:16.271
This is, like, one of the first times

508
00:23:16.271 --> 00:23:18.440
we've seen Jah yell at the mic.

509
00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:20.859
The porn girls in their house
was goin' in here like,

510
00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:23.111
"What the fuck is wrong
with this nigga, dawg?"

511
00:23:23.654 --> 00:23:25.280
We were literally living in a porn house.

512
00:23:25.280 --> 00:23:27.032
We'd see crazy shit every day.

513
00:23:27.032 --> 00:23:29.076
And then the rages at the concerts,

514
00:23:29.076 --> 00:23:30.869
like all the energy just mashed,

515
00:23:30.869 --> 00:23:32.162
we were living it.

516
00:23:34.623 --> 00:23:36.792
- I think that's when things
started picking up for him

517
00:23:36.792 --> 00:23:38.210
because he started making better songs

518
00:23:38.210 --> 00:23:40.295
'cause he was able to jump
into that character,

519
00:23:40.295 --> 00:23:41.463
if you know what I mean?

520
00:23:41.463 --> 00:23:42.798
And on top of that, he was doing

521
00:23:42.798 --> 00:23:44.216
a lot of shit,
like he was beating niggas up

522
00:23:44.216 --> 00:23:45.133
on camera and shit.

523
00:23:46.134 --> 00:23:47.553
- Hey, Periscope.

524
00:23:47.553 --> 00:23:50.180
So, we got a very, very, very, very

525
00:23:50.180 --> 00:23:52.432
extra interesting story today.

526
00:23:52.432 --> 00:23:55.727
So, basically, this nigga
that owes us some cash

527
00:23:55.727 --> 00:23:58.146
pulled up to the crib,
and he thinks, like,

528
00:23:58.146 --> 00:23:59.565
he thinks we're cool with him.

529
00:23:59.565 --> 00:24:01.900
So, my manager was
letting him kick it in there.

530
00:24:01.900 --> 00:24:04.319
But basically, I'm about
to just beat this nigga's ass,

531
00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:06.113
and you guys get to watch it firsthand.

532
00:24:06.864 --> 00:24:09.074
BRUNO:
If anybody fucked with X's friends,

533
00:24:09.074 --> 00:24:10.742
X is going to deal with it.

534
00:24:11.368 --> 00:24:14.037
The kid he beats up in the bathroom
was somebody that owed me money.

535
00:24:14.037 --> 00:24:16.665
And I told the kid, man,
if you can't pay me the $500,

536
00:24:16.665 --> 00:24:18.083
we're going to have to fight this out.

537
00:24:18.083 --> 00:24:20.752
We're going to have
to record this for my website.

538
00:24:20.752 --> 00:24:22.713
Are you cool with it? He agreed with it.

539
00:24:23.797 --> 00:24:25.799
X pulls up. He's like, "Where's he at?"

540
00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:26.925
We need to shoot the scene.

541
00:24:26.925 --> 00:24:28.177
I was like, "He's in the house,

542
00:24:28.177 --> 00:24:29.428
"but we're doing the scene tomorrow,

543
00:24:29.428 --> 00:24:30.804
so please, can we just wait?"

544
00:24:30.804 --> 00:24:32.639
Because I know if you go
and try to fight him now,

545
00:24:32.639 --> 00:24:35.350
this thing's not going
to happen, you know?

546
00:24:35.976 --> 00:24:37.436
Yeah, and he didn't listen.

547
00:24:37.436 --> 00:24:39.313
[knocking on door]
MAN: Yeah.

548
00:24:39.313 --> 00:24:40.355
JAHSEH: Come here, bro.

549
00:24:41.231 --> 00:24:42.232
Come here.

550
00:24:46.403 --> 00:24:47.404
Fuck you...

551
00:24:47.404 --> 00:24:50.073
[grunting]

552
00:24:53.493 --> 00:24:54.995
SKI: Honestly, there'd
be times where I'd be like,

553
00:24:54.995 --> 00:24:56.371
"What the fuck is wrong with this guy?

554
00:24:56.371 --> 00:24:57.998
Is something not right with this guy?"

555
00:24:58.415 --> 00:25:00.959
That's when people didn't
really want to be around Jah.

556
00:25:00.959 --> 00:25:03.003
To be completely honest, a lot of people

557
00:25:03.003 --> 00:25:05.130
that was around Jah
didn't want to be around Jah

558
00:25:05.130 --> 00:25:06.840
before Jah got onto shit.

559
00:25:06.840 --> 00:25:09.092
People hated Jah, to be completely real.

560
00:25:10.677 --> 00:25:11.845
JAHSEH: Fuck.

561
00:25:13.096 --> 00:25:15.098
- Come on. Come on, brother?

562
00:25:17.434 --> 00:25:18.810
- Fucking play with me, bro.

563
00:25:19.978 --> 00:25:22.147
[indiscernible shouting]

564
00:25:22.147 --> 00:25:23.941
SKI:
He was a small dude, but he had

565
00:25:23.941 --> 00:25:26.068
a very loud Napoleon complex to him.

566
00:25:26.652 --> 00:25:28.570
I was always the person
that people would be coming to

567
00:25:28.570 --> 00:25:29.947
to calm Jahseh down.

568
00:25:29.947 --> 00:25:31.698
I basically was always the one

569
00:25:31.698 --> 00:25:33.242
that looked, looked him in the face.

570
00:25:33.242 --> 00:25:35.160
I'm just like, "I'm here, bro,

571
00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:36.537
and I'm going to be here for you."

572
00:25:36.537 --> 00:25:38.330
And I think I was one of the first people

573
00:25:38.330 --> 00:25:39.915
to really do that for him

574
00:25:39.915 --> 00:25:42.334
and show him that I'm going
to love you either way.

575
00:25:42.334 --> 00:25:44.419
That's why he really
loved me and felt like

576
00:25:44.419 --> 00:25:46.171
I was one of his true,
really true best friends.

577
00:25:46.171 --> 00:25:47.840
Because no matter what crazy shit Jah did,

578
00:25:47.840 --> 00:25:49.299
I had to look him in the eye and hug him

579
00:25:49.299 --> 00:25:51.677
and tell him I loved him
for him to understand

580
00:25:51.677 --> 00:25:53.136
that you're going to get better.

581
00:25:53.136 --> 00:25:54.805
Jah hated himself

582
00:25:54.805 --> 00:25:57.766
at one point, and a lot of points.

583
00:26:04.106 --> 00:26:05.732
- Uh, emotions.

584
00:26:05.732 --> 00:26:07.067
He probably-- I felt like he hated

585
00:26:07.067 --> 00:26:08.819
his own anger, you know what I mean?

586
00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:11.780
And he was trying to learn
how to control that.

587
00:26:11.780 --> 00:26:13.115
His emotions, basically.

588
00:26:13.532 --> 00:26:14.950
And not let them to get the best of him.

589
00:26:15.492 --> 00:26:17.452
That was really just his biggest battle,

590
00:26:17.452 --> 00:26:19.288
himself really, yeah.

591
00:26:22.374 --> 00:26:25.627
It took a series of things
for Jah to get the way he was.

592
00:26:25.627 --> 00:26:27.087
I mean, Jah used to tell me he used to see

593
00:26:27.087 --> 00:26:29.089
his mom get beat up when he was younger

594
00:26:29.089 --> 00:26:30.382
or some shit like that, Cleo.

595
00:26:34.595 --> 00:26:36.638
CLEOPATRA: His dad tried
to put his hands on me a few times.

596
00:26:37.139 --> 00:26:38.849
It didn't work out well.

597
00:26:38.849 --> 00:26:40.100
I didn't call the cops on him

598
00:26:40.100 --> 00:26:42.144
because where I'm from, that's also taboo.

599
00:26:42.144 --> 00:26:43.770
But I hauled ass real quick.

600
00:26:43.770 --> 00:26:45.689
I wasn't about to be nobody's, um--

601
00:26:46.648 --> 00:26:49.276
You know, my story don't go like that.

602
00:26:51.445 --> 00:26:54.198
You know, we're Jamaican,
so we're used to ass whoopings.

603
00:26:54.198 --> 00:26:57.075
Like, we get our ass beat,
like, with hoses

604
00:26:57.075 --> 00:26:59.912
and two-by-fours and you name it.

605
00:26:59.912 --> 00:27:02.039
And so it's passed on
from generation to generation.

606
00:27:03.457 --> 00:27:05.626
I don't know if his dad beaten
him with anything crazy,

607
00:27:05.626 --> 00:27:07.169
but he would, he would snuff him

608
00:27:07.169 --> 00:27:09.254
and he would, like, beat him

609
00:27:09.254 --> 00:27:11.673
if he would tell him
to study his timetables,

610
00:27:11.673 --> 00:27:13.425
if he would get something wrong,

611
00:27:13.425 --> 00:27:15.719
so whenever he would get
in problems at school,

612
00:27:15.719 --> 00:27:17.095
Dad would come give him a whooping.

613
00:27:17.095 --> 00:27:18.388
A good one.

614
00:27:18.388 --> 00:27:19.640
Um, but he wasn't abusive.

615
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.767
I wouldn't say he was abusive
or anything like that.

616
00:27:26.605 --> 00:27:29.399
- We was born into a world
that taught us that men have to fight,

617
00:27:29.399 --> 00:27:31.235
and this has been going on
for thousands of years

618
00:27:31.235 --> 00:27:32.694
before we even came here.

619
00:27:32.694 --> 00:27:34.947
So, this is the way the world works.

620
00:27:35.322 --> 00:27:37.157
Our parents, big brothers, big cousins

621
00:27:37.157 --> 00:27:38.659
don't want us to be at a disadvantage.

622
00:27:38.659 --> 00:27:41.662
So, when my big cousins used to be beating
my ass as a kid,

623
00:27:41.662 --> 00:27:44.790
they was training me to not get
my ass beat as an adult.

624
00:27:44.790 --> 00:27:47.793
- Same on this end.
- So, at the same time, it's, like,

625
00:27:47.793 --> 00:27:51.964
it might affect us negatively, personally,

626
00:27:51.964 --> 00:27:55.342
but generally, generally, you feel me?

627
00:27:55.342 --> 00:27:57.636
Generally, it, it protects us.

628
00:27:58.178 --> 00:28:00.180
It's, it's, your weapon can also be

629
00:28:00.180 --> 00:28:01.849
the same thing that kills you.

630
00:28:03.851 --> 00:28:06.228
JAHSEH: If you got a fear,
you can, it's hard to be angry.

631
00:28:06.228 --> 00:28:08.313
If you got someone that
you're scared of in your life,

632
00:28:08.313 --> 00:28:09.439
it's real hard to be angry.

633
00:28:10.649 --> 00:28:12.609
Dad got locked up when I was, like, 10.

634
00:28:12.609 --> 00:28:14.444
Who was I to fear, my mom?

635
00:28:14.444 --> 00:28:15.821
Who was I to fear, some stranger?

636
00:28:16.697 --> 00:28:18.240
I feared nobody.

637
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:20.367
So, my anger took control.

638
00:28:20.367 --> 00:28:22.327
And whenever anybody
would do anything to me,

639
00:28:22.327 --> 00:28:23.412
I would act out on.

640
00:28:24.705 --> 00:28:26.832
Fear left, so anger replaced it.

641
00:28:32.004 --> 00:28:33.547
MAN: Ohh!

642
00:28:36.675 --> 00:28:38.969
MAN: Like everything
that he did, when it came

643
00:28:38.969 --> 00:28:41.597
to beefin', fightin', and poppin' off,

644
00:28:41.597 --> 00:28:44.016
even though it was
mental instability there,

645
00:28:44.016 --> 00:28:45.893
he would still go on live and he recorded

646
00:28:45.893 --> 00:28:48.437
knowing goddamn well
this is good for my career.

647
00:28:49.396 --> 00:28:51.398
- I guess he just knew
what they wanted to see,

648
00:28:51.398 --> 00:28:52.941
and he just took advantage of it,

649
00:28:52.941 --> 00:28:54.401
just like anybody else would.

650
00:28:54.401 --> 00:28:56.236
♪ Ayy, yo ♪

651
00:28:56.236 --> 00:28:58.906
♪ Ayy, ayy, yo ♪

652
00:28:58.906 --> 00:29:02.743
♪ Try me, might fight
fist fuck, on sight ♪

653
00:29:02.743 --> 00:29:06.455
♪ Wrist heavy, fat dyke
pop Molly, Mike Ike ♪

654
00:29:06.455 --> 00:29:10.375
♪ I got glacial white ice
and my bitch rack nice ♪

655
00:29:10.375 --> 00:29:13.921
♪ And I do fight dykes
ride my dick like a bike ♪

656
00:29:15.047 --> 00:29:16.757
JAHSEH: I would do
little things that I knew

657
00:29:16.757 --> 00:29:18.342
would get people's attention.

658
00:29:18.342 --> 00:29:19.885
This is what people want to see.

659
00:29:19.885 --> 00:29:21.220
I said, I know what you wanted.

660
00:29:21.220 --> 00:29:23.180
And then I just started marketing bullshit

661
00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:25.849
that I knew the kids would like
to get them to go on my page

662
00:29:25.849 --> 00:29:27.643
because obviously, I would
post this shit on my page.

663
00:29:27.643 --> 00:29:29.478
And then they would be like,
oh, this nigga makes music.

664
00:29:29.478 --> 00:29:31.939
Let me try. Let me listen
to this and see what it's like.

665
00:29:31.939 --> 00:29:34.066
And then I would catch you.
That's how I would catch you.

666
00:29:34.858 --> 00:29:37.778
BASS: Jahseh would make us
make multiple Twitter accounts.

667
00:29:37.778 --> 00:29:39.738
Twenty-five people in the chat,
and each of those people have

668
00:29:39.738 --> 00:29:41.406
at least five different Twitter accounts,

669
00:29:41.406 --> 00:29:42.866
and we all retweeting this stuff.

670
00:29:42.866 --> 00:29:44.034
FLYBOY: Mm-hm.

671
00:29:44.034 --> 00:29:45.911
- And we all gonna sit there on Twitter

672
00:29:45.911 --> 00:29:48.789
and talk shit to anybody
that come in there talking shit

673
00:29:48.789 --> 00:29:51.333
and just fuck up
the algorithms in our favor

674
00:29:51.333 --> 00:29:53.126
- to just like...
- Draw attention.

675
00:29:53.126 --> 00:29:55.963
It was all planned out and very strategic.

676
00:29:55.963 --> 00:29:58.590
[crowd shouting]

677
00:29:58.590 --> 00:29:59.967
MAN: Fuck y'all, nigga!

678
00:30:02.219 --> 00:30:04.179
MAN 2: Let him stand up.
Let him stand up.

679
00:30:04.179 --> 00:30:08.350
[indiscernible shouting]

680
00:30:09.935 --> 00:30:12.271
- All these people want to see
is us destroy each other.

681
00:30:12.855 --> 00:30:14.439
That's what, that's what they pay for.

682
00:30:14.439 --> 00:30:16.400
- All controversy.
- Mm-hm.

683
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:19.069
- So, if you're telling us,
if you're paying us

684
00:30:19.069 --> 00:30:21.989
to destroy each other,
then we will become gladiators.

685
00:30:22.489 --> 00:30:24.616
What'd you expect us to do?

686
00:30:24.616 --> 00:30:27.452
[hip-hop music playing]

687
00:30:31.456 --> 00:30:32.958
- Oh, see if they fuck
with that soft shit.

688
00:30:34.209 --> 00:30:36.211
I dropped, like, some soft shit,
so tell me if y'all fuck with it.

689
00:30:36.837 --> 00:30:38.380
KILO: He came to my house
and he was like,

690
00:30:38.380 --> 00:30:40.090
"Bro, I got something really different.

691
00:30:40.090 --> 00:30:42.217
Like, really different.
Like, I'm singing, like."

692
00:30:42.217 --> 00:30:44.469
I'm like, "You ain't singing, bro.

693
00:30:45.679 --> 00:30:48.432
You just yellin' and screamin'
on tracks and being angry."

694
00:30:48.974 --> 00:30:50.434
And he played "I Don't Wanna
Do This Anymore."

695
00:30:50.434 --> 00:30:51.393
I'm like...

696
00:30:52.102 --> 00:30:53.770
He's looking at me,
and I'm looking at him,

697
00:30:53.770 --> 00:30:55.439
and I'm like, "Bruh."

698
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:57.816
♪ Been up all night ♪

699
00:30:57.816 --> 00:31:00.068
♪ So, you don't wanna wait on me ♪

700
00:31:00.068 --> 00:31:02.029
♪ I'm about to catch my flight ♪

701
00:31:02.029 --> 00:31:04.239
♪ So, you don't gotta wait on me ♪

702
00:31:04.239 --> 00:31:06.491
♪ No more, you don't wanna,
you don't wanna ♪

703
00:31:06.491 --> 00:31:11.288
- He just went from doing this
hype rock rap shit to R&B.

704
00:31:11.288 --> 00:31:14.041
How did-- And after that,
I knew he was gonna be great.

705
00:31:14.041 --> 00:31:16.293
Once he made that song,
I was like, he could do it all now.

706
00:31:16.877 --> 00:31:19.004
♪ I don't wanna love myself ♪

707
00:31:19.004 --> 00:31:20.839
♪ I'm praying that they all love me ♪

708
00:31:21.673 --> 00:31:23.926
JAHSEH:
There is no definition to my rap.

709
00:31:23.926 --> 00:31:25.844
I'm versatile.
If you give me the tools

710
00:31:25.844 --> 00:31:27.054
to make what the fuck I want...

711
00:31:27.054 --> 00:31:28.555
- Proper studio shit?
- Proper studio,

712
00:31:28.555 --> 00:31:30.390
proper engineering, even the people

713
00:31:30.390 --> 00:31:32.518
that will sit there and take
their work very seriously

714
00:31:32.518 --> 00:31:33.977
and, like, as far as the production,

715
00:31:33.977 --> 00:31:36.021
I'll be the greatest artist
there possibly is.

716
00:31:36.021 --> 00:31:37.105
- Really?
- Literally.

717
00:31:39.274 --> 00:31:41.276
CLEOPATRA: The first time
I went to one of his shows,

718
00:31:41.276 --> 00:31:42.694
I was amazed.

719
00:31:42.694 --> 00:31:44.738
There was kids lined up
on the side of the stage

720
00:31:44.738 --> 00:31:46.573
with their sneakers to get autographs,

721
00:31:46.573 --> 00:31:48.283
and I was like, "What is this?"

722
00:31:48.867 --> 00:31:52.371
"Is this my child," you know?
And it was like a proud moment.

723
00:31:52.371 --> 00:31:53.705
♪ No, no, no ♪

724
00:31:54.331 --> 00:31:55.666
♪ No, no, no ♪

725
00:31:58.418 --> 00:32:01.046
- I started noticing that X, you know,

726
00:32:01.046 --> 00:32:03.507
was getting in his feelings,
he was feeling a little lonely.

727
00:32:03.507 --> 00:32:05.092
And him being a hopeless romantic,

728
00:32:05.092 --> 00:32:07.678
he's like, I need a girlfriend,
it's going to help me focus.

729
00:32:07.678 --> 00:32:09.513
It's going to help me be creative

730
00:32:09.513 --> 00:32:11.515
because some of the music
he was making was,

731
00:32:11.515 --> 00:32:13.475
you know, a lot
of that R&B love stuff.

732
00:32:13.475 --> 00:32:16.687
So, I guess he needed something
to actually make it real,

733
00:32:16.687 --> 00:32:17.813
make it sound real.

734
00:32:22.276 --> 00:32:24.611
- I met Jahseh 2014.

735
00:32:25.237 --> 00:32:26.321
I was in high school.

736
00:32:27.030 --> 00:32:28.657
I met him, like, online.

737
00:32:28.657 --> 00:32:29.783
Look at this fucking hair.

738
00:32:29.783 --> 00:32:31.076
I was supposed to be a mystical-ass lion,

739
00:32:31.076 --> 00:32:32.828
and I ended up being a fuck-ass human.

740
00:32:32.828 --> 00:32:33.829
What the fuck?

741
00:32:33.829 --> 00:32:35.789
[hip-hop music playing]

742
00:32:35.789 --> 00:32:38.542
GENEVA:
At 17, I was basically homeless

743
00:32:38.542 --> 00:32:39.751
or home hopping.

744
00:32:41.295 --> 00:32:43.297
I was always getting, like, bullied.

745
00:32:43.297 --> 00:32:45.090
I was just always on the laptop basically

746
00:32:45.090 --> 00:32:47.467
and trying to, like, make friends online.

747
00:32:47.467 --> 00:32:50.387
I'd go on chatrooms
and live through there.

748
00:32:51.138 --> 00:32:53.724
Look at what we have here.

749
00:32:54.141 --> 00:32:56.518
I would just try to keep myself happy
through friends.

750
00:32:58.770 --> 00:33:00.814
When Jahseh and I first met,

751
00:33:00.814 --> 00:33:03.525
I had cuts on my thigh, like five lines,

752
00:33:03.525 --> 00:33:06.278
and under that I had
a word that said "Alone."

753
00:33:06.278 --> 00:33:08.447
And when he noticed it, he was like,

754
00:33:08.447 --> 00:33:09.531
why'd you do that?

755
00:33:09.531 --> 00:33:11.366
And I was like, because I felt alone.

756
00:33:11.366 --> 00:33:13.202
He was like, "Oh, me too."

757
00:33:13.202 --> 00:33:15.662
Like, I feel like
we're the same in that aspect.

758
00:33:17.581 --> 00:33:20.792
JAHSEH: I just felt like
I found my significant other.

759
00:33:20.792 --> 00:33:22.336
I felt like I found my soul mate.

760
00:33:23.170 --> 00:33:25.297
I said, "I want you
to cut 'Alone' into my arm,

761
00:33:25.297 --> 00:33:27.257
"so every time you feel
as if you're alone,

762
00:33:27.257 --> 00:33:28.759
"you think of me and you understand

763
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.719
you have someone
that feels exactly the same."

764
00:33:31.803 --> 00:33:33.722
♪ Depression ♪

765
00:33:34.097 --> 00:33:37.142
♪ And obsession don't mix well ♪

766
00:33:39.311 --> 00:33:41.271
GENEVA:
I was living in a motel.

767
00:33:41.271 --> 00:33:42.439
I didn't even have, like, a pillow.

768
00:33:42.439 --> 00:33:45.359
I was just sleeping on a air mattress
with my uncle.

769
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.277
So, he gave me a pillow at his house

770
00:33:47.277 --> 00:33:49.321
and gave me a jacket.

771
00:33:49.321 --> 00:33:51.573
It's like, he didn't want me to feel

772
00:33:51.573 --> 00:33:53.158
like I didn't have anything

773
00:33:53.158 --> 00:33:55.410
even if he had to, like,
sacrifice his own thing.

774
00:33:57.246 --> 00:34:00.165
- I was like, "Yo,
do you like sleeping alone?"

775
00:34:00.165 --> 00:34:01.917
She said, "No."
I said, "Neither do I."

776
00:34:02.459 --> 00:34:04.336
I said, "I know that you stay in a motel.

777
00:34:05.087 --> 00:34:06.880
"So, I want to go back
to the motel with you

778
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:08.382
and I'll sleep in the lobby."

779
00:34:09.341 --> 00:34:11.260
She said, "Are you serious?
Would you do that for me?"

780
00:34:11.260 --> 00:34:12.928
I said, "Yeah."

781
00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:19.726
♪ Hollywood motels ♪

782
00:34:19.726 --> 00:34:25.607
♪ Hell, I think
I'm just obsessed with you ♪

783
00:34:26.441 --> 00:34:29.111
That was the only person
I had around for a while

784
00:34:29.111 --> 00:34:30.571
that I felt relevant to

785
00:34:30.571 --> 00:34:32.823
despite, like, besides my mom.

786
00:34:33.699 --> 00:34:35.701
- I realized that he had a girlfriend,

787
00:34:35.701 --> 00:34:38.203
so I basically fell back

788
00:34:38.203 --> 00:34:41.039
and after those three days,
we didn't hang out.

789
00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:42.666
We really didn't have contact either.

790
00:34:44.001 --> 00:34:46.587
JAHSEH: I didn't hear from her
for two to three years.

791
00:34:54.094 --> 00:34:56.972
GENEVA:
When we met up again, I was 19.

792
00:34:57.598 --> 00:35:01.101
My best friend at the time,
she invited me to his show.

793
00:35:01.602 --> 00:35:03.937
We're outside waiting
to get into the venue

794
00:35:03.937 --> 00:35:05.439
and I see him.

795
00:35:06.023 --> 00:35:07.733
He had, like, no shirt on.

796
00:35:07.733 --> 00:35:09.610
You know, it was, like, dark and steamy.

797
00:35:09.610 --> 00:35:12.446
And he locked eyes with me
from across the room,

798
00:35:12.446 --> 00:35:14.615
and then he, like,
started walking up to me.

799
00:35:16.158 --> 00:35:17.534
He just, like, grabs me by the neck

800
00:35:17.534 --> 00:35:19.286
and looks at me, like, deep in my eyes.

801
00:35:19.286 --> 00:35:20.621
I'm like, "Oh."

802
00:35:21.622 --> 00:35:23.415
♪ Spotlight, uh, moonlight, uh ♪

803
00:35:23.415 --> 00:35:25.250
♪ Nigga, why you trippin',
get your mood right, uh ♪

804
00:35:25.250 --> 00:35:27.127
♪ Shawty look good in the moonlight ♪

805
00:35:27.127 --> 00:35:28.962
♪ All these pussy niggas so bad mind ♪

806
00:35:28.962 --> 00:35:30.839
♪ Spotlight, moonlight ♪

807
00:35:30.839 --> 00:35:32.174
- And he just walks away after that.

808
00:35:32.174 --> 00:35:33.926
And then I just look at my friend.

809
00:35:33.926 --> 00:35:35.928
I'm like, "Yeah, I don't know
what that was,

810
00:35:35.928 --> 00:35:37.846
but it was sexy."

811
00:35:39.097 --> 00:35:41.433
We started dating after that day,

812
00:35:41.433 --> 00:35:42.768
and I moved in with him.

813
00:35:43.977 --> 00:35:45.979
[chattering]

814
00:35:46.772 --> 00:35:48.524
He would post me on his Snapchats,

815
00:35:48.524 --> 00:35:50.484
and all my friends were
hitting me up like,

816
00:35:50.484 --> 00:35:52.069
"You date X?"

817
00:35:52.069 --> 00:35:54.071
And then he started to, like,
bringing me around places

818
00:35:54.071 --> 00:35:55.322
and people would notice him

819
00:35:55.322 --> 00:35:57.533
and, like, they'd just go crazy for him.

820
00:35:57.533 --> 00:36:00.035
I just didn't realize it. I didn't know.

821
00:36:00.035 --> 00:36:01.954
- Go ahead.
- No, no.

822
00:36:01.954 --> 00:36:04.164
- Go ahead. Let me see how weird you is.

823
00:36:05.832 --> 00:36:08.377
GENEVA: It was kind of
a romantic feel in the beginning.

824
00:36:08.377 --> 00:36:11.171
It was a mesh between, like,
always taking care of each other

825
00:36:11.171 --> 00:36:13.382
and trying to better ourselves.

826
00:36:14.174 --> 00:36:17.010
- You saw put her fucking finger
in my mouth... [indiscernible]

827
00:36:17.010 --> 00:36:18.595
- Ow, stop it.

828
00:36:18.595 --> 00:36:20.806
- Why do that shit, you fuck-ass nigga?

829
00:36:20.806 --> 00:36:22.182
Say sorry.
- I'm sorry.

830
00:36:22.182 --> 00:36:24.476
- Hmm.
- I'm sorry as fuck, sorry as fuck.

831
00:36:24.476 --> 00:36:26.436
- They stayed in this room
most of the time.

832
00:36:26.436 --> 00:36:28.188
I barely saw them.

833
00:36:28.981 --> 00:36:30.482
But I just saw...

834
00:36:32.526 --> 00:36:37.072
how the obsession wasn't healthy.

835
00:36:38.031 --> 00:36:39.616
GENEVA:
When I moved in with Jahseh,

836
00:36:39.616 --> 00:36:41.159
I was working at an animal hospital.

837
00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:43.161
I was getting paid $10 an hour.

838
00:36:44.413 --> 00:36:46.707
That was my first good-paying job.

839
00:36:48.041 --> 00:36:49.585
Like, a week later, he was like,

840
00:36:49.585 --> 00:36:51.336
we're not going to drive you
back and forth

841
00:36:51.336 --> 00:36:54.548
from Fort Lauderdale
to North Miami every day,

842
00:36:54.548 --> 00:36:55.841
so you're going to have to quit.

843
00:36:55.841 --> 00:36:57.634
You're fine anyway.
And, like, I got you.

844
00:36:58.302 --> 00:37:00.262
And then I quit.

845
00:37:01.555 --> 00:37:04.600
I understood, like, off the bat
that when he cared about something,

846
00:37:04.600 --> 00:37:07.603
it was impossible for you to, like,
deter him from that.

847
00:37:08.645 --> 00:37:12.983
There was also a lot of miscommunication
and jealousy, I'd say.

848
00:37:15.903 --> 00:37:17.029
JAHSEH: Say sorry.

849
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:20.240
GENEVA: I'm sorry.

850
00:37:22.784 --> 00:37:24.745
You know, I was depressed somewhat

851
00:37:24.745 --> 00:37:27.206
when I was with him because I felt like

852
00:37:27.206 --> 00:37:29.708
he was like the only person
that would give me love

853
00:37:29.708 --> 00:37:31.543
and, like, I wouldn't
find that anywhere else.

854
00:37:32.044 --> 00:37:34.796
So, that's why, like,
I continuously stayed.

855
00:37:35.547 --> 00:37:37.049
It had its good moments and bad moments,

856
00:37:37.049 --> 00:37:39.801
but mostly, like, I was lost.

857
00:37:39.801 --> 00:37:42.054
I didn't really know, like,
what to do about it.

858
00:37:45.474 --> 00:37:49.645
[crowd shouting]

859
00:37:51.688 --> 00:37:54.191
- Woo. I'm already tired...

860
00:37:54.816 --> 00:37:59.112
[indiscernible]

861
00:37:59.112 --> 00:38:00.531
[crowd cheers]

862
00:38:04.076 --> 00:38:05.494
COOLIECUT:
He was kind of buzzing at that point.

863
00:38:05.494 --> 00:38:07.913
He was making, like, underground hits,
you know what I mean?

864
00:38:08.622 --> 00:38:09.998
And then people start peepin' like,

865
00:38:09.998 --> 00:38:12.125
"Oh, he might be the next
one up," you feelin' me?

866
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:14.711
- Okay, I'm tired. I'm tired.

867
00:38:14.711 --> 00:38:16.672
Tired. [laughs]

868
00:38:17.422 --> 00:38:18.757
COOLIECUT:
But I'm not gonna lie.

869
00:38:18.757 --> 00:38:22.177
I think his mind state
was very bad at that point.

870
00:38:24.596 --> 00:38:27.349
The thing about Jah is,
if you weren't that close to him,

871
00:38:27.349 --> 00:38:28.642
he didn't really want you to see,

872
00:38:28.642 --> 00:38:30.602
like, his true personality sometimes.

873
00:38:30.602 --> 00:38:33.146
So, he always, you feel me,
throwing a little mask

874
00:38:33.146 --> 00:38:35.524
or something to try to hide
how he's feeling in the moment.

875
00:38:35.524 --> 00:38:37.651
So, that's how he was
treating me at that time.

876
00:38:37.651 --> 00:38:39.570
He was trying to be very calm.
You feel me?

877
00:38:39.570 --> 00:38:41.154
"Yo, what's good? How you doing?"

878
00:38:41.154 --> 00:38:42.781
But he was in a bad mental state though,

879
00:38:42.781 --> 00:38:44.825
I could tell.
Yeah.

880
00:38:50.998 --> 00:38:53.292
- This is the first time
I'm letting them see my hair.

881
00:38:54.209 --> 00:38:56.170
My hair is just a reminder of telling me

882
00:38:56.170 --> 00:38:58.088
to, to fucking relax, basically.

883
00:38:58.088 --> 00:39:00.674
It's a, it's a reminder
of me telling myself that,

884
00:39:00.674 --> 00:39:03.302
"Yo, you are human
and that you are not a god.

885
00:39:03.302 --> 00:39:05.179
"You are still on the planet Earth.

886
00:39:05.179 --> 00:39:07.764
"And that you need to remind yourself
that karma is a real thing.

887
00:39:07.764 --> 00:39:09.892
And whatever you give out,
you will get back."

888
00:39:11.101 --> 00:39:13.437
CLEOPATRA:
I knew that something was off.

889
00:39:14.188 --> 00:39:15.981
The voices in the head came.

890
00:39:15.981 --> 00:39:18.525
He would tell me, like,
he would not sleep at night.

891
00:39:18.525 --> 00:39:21.195
And he would tell me he hears voices.

892
00:39:22.029 --> 00:39:23.947
SKI:
Literally, he'd be like, "Oh, I took LSD,

893
00:39:23.947 --> 00:39:25.949
"and I've talked to a spirit
that's a demon

894
00:39:25.949 --> 00:39:28.368
"and told me information about myself,

895
00:39:28.368 --> 00:39:30.037
"about how long I'm gonna live,

896
00:39:30.037 --> 00:39:32.372
that they're going to come
get him at some point."

897
00:39:32.372 --> 00:39:34.291
I really didn't like
that shit at that point.

898
00:39:36.126 --> 00:39:37.711
- Yeah, it was a very dark time.

899
00:39:40.088 --> 00:39:41.965
- And if I end up getting shot and killed

900
00:39:41.965 --> 00:39:43.550
for what the fuck I'm doing

901
00:39:43.550 --> 00:39:46.136
or if I end up getting my ass
beat at some point in time

902
00:39:46.136 --> 00:39:47.679
or nigga, if shit get hard on me,

903
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:48.847
it's because I deserve it.

904
00:39:48.847 --> 00:39:50.140
That's point blank, period.

905
00:39:50.140 --> 00:39:52.142
Everybody will get a death--

906
00:39:52.142 --> 00:39:54.102
Everybody will get a death
that is deserving.

907
00:39:54.102 --> 00:39:55.646
Everybody will get a life
that is deserving.

908
00:39:55.646 --> 00:39:58.065
Everybody-- You will get
what the fuck you deserve.

909
00:39:58.065 --> 00:39:59.024
Karma.

910
00:40:05.822 --> 00:40:08.700
TALYSSA LEE:
I was 23 in the summer of 2016

911
00:40:08.700 --> 00:40:10.160
when I met Jahseh.

912
00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:12.746
I was at the time dating Khaed Moulton,

913
00:40:12.746 --> 00:40:14.414
which was his producer.

914
00:40:14.414 --> 00:40:16.917
Jahseh was about 18 at the time.

915
00:40:16.917 --> 00:40:18.544
Jahseh was not a monster.

916
00:40:18.544 --> 00:40:20.254
Like, when I met him,
he was very charming,

917
00:40:20.254 --> 00:40:21.630
very intelligent,

918
00:40:21.630 --> 00:40:23.090
empathetic, in a sense.

919
00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:25.259
Like, damn near surprised me.

920
00:40:27.845 --> 00:40:30.430
The first day I saw Geneva
when she came out,

921
00:40:30.430 --> 00:40:32.140
she was wearing a hoodie.

922
00:40:32.140 --> 00:40:34.268
She just wasn't making
eye contact with anybody.

923
00:40:34.268 --> 00:40:36.436
She'd look up and just,
like, go back down.

924
00:40:36.436 --> 00:40:38.772
She was literally just
a shell of a person.

925
00:40:38.772 --> 00:40:41.024
Like, there was just no expression.

926
00:40:41.024 --> 00:40:42.067
There was nothing.

927
00:40:42.609 --> 00:40:45.153
I felt like her soul
was empty at the time.

928
00:40:45.153 --> 00:40:46.154
You know?

929
00:40:50.075 --> 00:40:53.078
One day, Khaed cracked a joke in the car.

930
00:40:53.078 --> 00:40:54.329
She kind of giggled and laughed.

931
00:40:55.289 --> 00:40:58.333
And Jahseh, like, cut his eyes
to her and was like,

932
00:40:58.333 --> 00:41:00.127
when we get to the house, go in the room.

933
00:41:00.711 --> 00:41:02.921
And I was kind of like, "What the fuck?"

934
00:41:02.921 --> 00:41:05.757
It kind of became clear
that he was not happy

935
00:41:05.757 --> 00:41:07.384
with her laughing at his joke.

936
00:41:08.927 --> 00:41:11.180
They went in the room,
and I could hear them fighting.

937
00:41:11.680 --> 00:41:13.515
Eventually, you just hear somebody

938
00:41:13.515 --> 00:41:15.225
who's getting hit.

939
00:41:15.225 --> 00:41:17.686
Jahseh had a bathroom in that,
a private bathroom in the room.

940
00:41:18.312 --> 00:41:20.689
So, you could hear water running
and I'm thinking,

941
00:41:20.689 --> 00:41:22.691
"Okay, maybe they're going
to take a shower or whatever."

942
00:41:22.691 --> 00:41:24.276
But no.

943
00:41:25.444 --> 00:41:27.529
He was literally drowning her in the tub,

944
00:41:27.529 --> 00:41:29.698
like putting her under,
and you could hear her screams

945
00:41:29.698 --> 00:41:31.783
being muffled by the water
and being put up

946
00:41:31.783 --> 00:41:33.535
and then being put back under the water.

947
00:41:33.535 --> 00:41:36.371
And I was banging on the door,
begging Khaed like,

948
00:41:36.371 --> 00:41:38.415
"Bro, I'm calling the cops,"
and he's begging me,

949
00:41:38.415 --> 00:41:39.750
"Don't call the cops, bro."

950
00:41:39.750 --> 00:41:41.460
Like, you know
I got a situation in Georgia,

951
00:41:41.460 --> 00:41:42.669
which he did.

952
00:41:42.669 --> 00:41:44.796
So, I didn't. Big regret.

953
00:41:45.881 --> 00:41:48.383
Later that night,
she finally came out again

954
00:41:48.383 --> 00:41:49.968
and she, like, picked up her hoodie

955
00:41:49.968 --> 00:41:51.762
and she was marked up with bruises

956
00:41:51.762 --> 00:41:54.389
like a Dalmatian,
like a bruise behind her ear,

957
00:41:54.890 --> 00:41:56.934
behind her neck, literally everywhere.

958
00:41:56.934 --> 00:42:00.062
And it was very clear that
he was avoiding hitting her face

959
00:42:00.062 --> 00:42:02.606
so that she wouldn't have
any, like, clear injuries

960
00:42:02.606 --> 00:42:04.066
when you were talking to her.

961
00:42:04.066 --> 00:42:06.151
I've never seen somebody
bruised up so bad.

962
00:42:08.862 --> 00:42:11.114
It was just very clear like
she didn't have nobody.

963
00:42:11.114 --> 00:42:12.533
Like, she didn't have any money,

964
00:42:12.533 --> 00:42:14.451
she didn't have any family support.

965
00:42:14.451 --> 00:42:16.995
So, in a situation like that,
when people are like,

966
00:42:16.995 --> 00:42:18.830
"Why don't you leave,
why don't you leave?"

967
00:42:18.830 --> 00:42:21.208
And you really don't,
you think that that person

968
00:42:21.208 --> 00:42:24.127
is literally your foundation
and your network to life.

969
00:43:07.462 --> 00:43:09.173
TALYSSA:
They all knew what was going on,

970
00:43:09.173 --> 00:43:11.967
and they were so caught up in his clout

971
00:43:11.967 --> 00:43:14.052
and having his respect,

972
00:43:14.052 --> 00:43:15.929
they would never go against
what he was saying.

973
00:43:16.471 --> 00:43:18.765
It was like the weight of that person,

974
00:43:18.765 --> 00:43:21.393
it was zero compared to their potential

975
00:43:21.393 --> 00:43:23.020
to make it with Jahseh.

976
00:43:23.020 --> 00:43:25.814
So, there was just
no incentive to step in.

977
00:43:28.734 --> 00:43:30.319
COOLIECUT: You know how
you got that little voice in your head

978
00:43:30.319 --> 00:43:31.695
and it'd be like, "Yo, don't do that."

979
00:43:32.237 --> 00:43:33.655
I don't think he had that

980
00:43:33.655 --> 00:43:35.616
in certain moments,
if you get what I'm saying.

981
00:43:35.616 --> 00:43:37.242
So, he used to just be like,
"Bro, niggas tryin' me.

982
00:43:37.242 --> 00:43:39.161
All right, let's go." You feel me?

983
00:43:39.161 --> 00:43:41.288
That-- So, if you don't have
that in your head,

984
00:43:41.288 --> 00:43:43.290
you kind of got to have
somebody around you

985
00:43:43.290 --> 00:43:45.584
to be like, "Yo, bro, we good, bro.

986
00:43:45.584 --> 00:43:48.337
It's not that big of a deal."
You feel me? Let's just vibe."

987
00:43:48.337 --> 00:43:50.005
And I don't think, that was the thing,

988
00:43:50.005 --> 00:43:52.299
I don't really think
he had that in Orlando.

989
00:44:02.601 --> 00:44:05.938
- He was in jail and I was
with a group of his friends.

990
00:44:05.938 --> 00:44:07.981
You know, they were, like,
taking care of me and stuff

991
00:44:07.981 --> 00:44:09.733
while, until he got back.

992
00:44:11.151 --> 00:44:14.613
And I ended up cheating
on Jahseh with his homeboy.

993
00:44:18.825 --> 00:44:20.452
Once it came out, like,

994
00:44:21.119 --> 00:44:23.247
Jahseh at first said
that he would deal with it

995
00:44:23.247 --> 00:44:24.623
and he would get over it.

996
00:44:24.623 --> 00:44:28.544
But he couldn't get over it, it seemed.

997
00:44:34.883 --> 00:44:36.802
BRUNO:
He did come to me and was like,

998
00:44:36.802 --> 00:44:38.679
"Hey, Geneva's pregnant, what do I do?"

999
00:44:39.263 --> 00:44:41.765
And I couldn't really answer
that question.

1000
00:44:43.100 --> 00:44:44.476
I don't know, I was like, "Oh.

1001
00:44:45.686 --> 00:44:47.437
Just be there for her, that's it."

1002
00:44:48.146 --> 00:44:50.357
You know? But it can't be here.

1003
00:44:51.191 --> 00:44:52.568
Especially now that she's pregnant.

1004
00:45:04.746 --> 00:45:07.124
TALYSSA: If I was there, I don't think
it would have went that far.

1005
00:45:08.125 --> 00:45:10.085
I don't think I would have
left Geneva alone

1006
00:45:10.085 --> 00:45:11.378
for a second with him,

1007
00:45:11.378 --> 00:45:13.005
and that's what happened
when she was attacked,

1008
00:45:13.005 --> 00:45:14.173
she was left alone.

1009
00:45:21.638 --> 00:45:23.098
From what I understand, like,

1010
00:45:23.098 --> 00:45:25.058
they held her there
for, like, three or four days

1011
00:45:25.058 --> 00:45:26.810
and wouldn't let her see the hospital.

1012
00:45:27.895 --> 00:45:29.730
I remember when she said how she escaped,

1013
00:45:29.730 --> 00:45:31.899
'cause I was like, "How the fuck
did you get out of that shit?"

1014
00:45:34.026 --> 00:45:36.778
He was playing PlayStation
or Xbox or something,

1015
00:45:36.778 --> 00:45:38.530
and she opened up the fridge

1016
00:45:38.530 --> 00:45:40.699
and kind of let that be a distraction,

1017
00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:42.492
like she was looking in the fridge,

1018
00:45:42.492 --> 00:45:44.745
and she says she got on her, her fours

1019
00:45:44.745 --> 00:45:47.539
and crawled out of the house
while the fridge was still open

1020
00:45:47.539 --> 00:45:48.624
and ran out.

1021
00:45:53.962 --> 00:45:55.881
GENEVA:
I had nowhere to run.

1022
00:45:55.881 --> 00:45:59.301
I don't have any brothers,
I don't have a father figure.

1023
00:45:59.301 --> 00:46:00.677
Nobody was going to come save me.

1024
00:46:00.677 --> 00:46:02.804
I had to leave.

1025
00:46:02.804 --> 00:46:04.723
I felt like it was going to get worse.

1026
00:46:05.557 --> 00:46:10.062
The first person I called
when I ran away from the house

1027
00:46:10.062 --> 00:46:12.814
was my ex-boyfriend because
literally besides my mom,

1028
00:46:12.814 --> 00:46:15.025
that was like the only
phone number I knew by heart.

1029
00:46:15.025 --> 00:46:16.902
And he seen my face and he's like,

1030
00:46:16.902 --> 00:46:19.112
"Okay, this is crazy.
I have to call my mom."

1031
00:46:19.821 --> 00:46:22.157
His mother was like,
"She can't be with you

1032
00:46:22.157 --> 00:46:23.992
because they're going
to think you did that."

1033
00:46:24.952 --> 00:46:27.287
She literally drove me to the station.

1034
00:46:27.287 --> 00:46:29.998
She was like, "Go, 'cause you're
not staying with us like that."

1035
00:46:31.750 --> 00:46:33.377
I didn't want nobody to go to jail,

1036
00:46:33.377 --> 00:46:35.379
but I didn't know what to do.

1037
00:46:36.380 --> 00:46:38.632
I wasn't aware that that would
all, like, crumble down

1038
00:46:38.632 --> 00:46:39.842
onto him like that.

1039
00:46:46.473 --> 00:46:48.350
DEANDRA:
You got to be fucking kidding me.

1040
00:46:48.350 --> 00:46:49.601
Like, that's the first thing
I thought, like,

1041
00:46:49.601 --> 00:46:51.395
"You got to be fucking kidding me."

1042
00:46:51.395 --> 00:46:54.356
Like, how... how... [stammers]

1043
00:46:54.356 --> 00:46:55.691
Like, you just gotta
be fucking kidding me.

1044
00:46:55.691 --> 00:46:57.651
Like, there was no other way
to think about it.

1045
00:46:58.902 --> 00:47:01.572
- You know, I knew he was a lot of things
and get into a lot of shit,

1046
00:47:01.572 --> 00:47:03.240
but that, that was new to me.

1047
00:47:04.074 --> 00:47:05.659
That part was foreign to me.

1048
00:47:07.703 --> 00:47:10.289
I was shocked at how bad it was.

1049
00:47:27.973 --> 00:47:30.976
He was already out on bond
when that incident happened.

1050
00:47:31.727 --> 00:47:33.353
He had racked up so many points that,

1051
00:47:33.353 --> 00:47:36.023
you know, he was going to jail
for a very long time.

1052
00:47:38.358 --> 00:47:39.860
DEANDRA:
Cleo, in her mind was like,

1053
00:47:39.860 --> 00:47:41.236
I'm going to have to take care
of him his whole life

1054
00:47:41.236 --> 00:47:43.864
because he has a record,
tattoos on his face.

1055
00:47:43.864 --> 00:47:46.200
Like, it was exhausting. just running,

1056
00:47:46.200 --> 00:47:48.785
like, not knowing what
the next option was for him.

1057
00:47:56.084 --> 00:47:57.836
- When he called me, I was really nervous.

1058
00:47:57.836 --> 00:48:00.088
I was like, "Okay,
this is a jail phone call."

1059
00:48:00.672 --> 00:48:01.798
I answer it.

1060
00:48:16.063 --> 00:48:17.981
GENEVA: He was telling me
that I would go to jail,

1061
00:48:17.981 --> 00:48:19.316
and I was scared of that.

1062
00:48:19.316 --> 00:48:21.818
But then he would tell me that he loved me

1063
00:48:22.444 --> 00:48:24.821
and that he cared about me,
he didn't want anything to happen to me.

1064
00:48:24.821 --> 00:48:26.573
So, there was still, like,
a little bit of manipulation

1065
00:48:26.573 --> 00:48:28.450
and I was just, like, so confused.

1066
00:48:45.259 --> 00:48:46.969
GENEVA: The fact that he got
in the amount of trouble

1067
00:48:46.969 --> 00:48:49.805
that he did get into,
it was not my intention.

1068
00:48:50.347 --> 00:48:51.890
I just needed to get away from it.

1069
00:48:52.850 --> 00:48:54.685
BASS:
Of course, we believe him.

1070
00:48:54.685 --> 00:48:55.894
- We're family.

1071
00:48:55.894 --> 00:48:57.396
We hate to see one of our own

1072
00:48:57.396 --> 00:48:59.439
be incarcerated, you know,

1073
00:48:59.439 --> 00:49:01.191
especially for an allegation.

1074
00:49:01.191 --> 00:49:04.570
You know? And he's literally
sitting rotting in jail

1075
00:49:04.570 --> 00:49:06.488
- for an allegation--
KILO: Almost a year.

1076
00:49:06.488 --> 00:49:07.739
- That shit felt forever.

1077
00:49:07.739 --> 00:49:09.575
- Everybody was like,

1078
00:49:09.575 --> 00:49:11.910
"He was arrested
because of his girlfriend."

1079
00:49:11.910 --> 00:49:13.662
And I'm like, "Well, this is why."

1080
00:49:15.664 --> 00:49:18.876
When I told my piece about the situation,

1081
00:49:18.876 --> 00:49:20.669
fans are not very understanding

1082
00:49:20.669 --> 00:49:22.921
because obviously the person
that they look up to

1083
00:49:22.921 --> 00:49:25.841
is saying one thing, and then I was saying
the complete opposite.

1084
00:49:25.841 --> 00:49:27.885
Obviously, they're not going
to believe me.

1085
00:49:32.306 --> 00:49:34.933
FLYBOY: The fans are toxic,
so if they get an ear of things,

1086
00:49:34.933 --> 00:49:36.560
they're going to start

1087
00:49:36.560 --> 00:49:38.103
making up their own narratives

1088
00:49:38.103 --> 00:49:40.355
and start twisting things
and contorting it.

1089
00:49:40.355 --> 00:49:43.150
And so now, it's this on social media.

1090
00:49:44.151 --> 00:49:47.654
Whether he did it or not,
for people to make it public,

1091
00:49:47.654 --> 00:49:50.199
all that shit brings
attention towards him.

1092
00:49:51.950 --> 00:49:54.536
- I want to say it was,
we were on Instagram

1093
00:49:54.536 --> 00:49:56.580
and A$AP Rocky was like,

1094
00:49:56.580 --> 00:49:58.248
"Yo, free X,

1095
00:49:58.248 --> 00:49:59.958
that's the hottest nigga out
of Florida right now," right?

1096
00:49:59.958 --> 00:50:02.044
- Free my nigga XXX.

1097
00:50:02.044 --> 00:50:03.378
I can't wait 'til you come home.

1098
00:50:03.378 --> 00:50:04.713
Fuck is you talking 'bout?

1099
00:50:04.713 --> 00:50:06.590
He the hardest nigga in Florida.

1100
00:50:06.590 --> 00:50:07.841
I said it. So what--

1101
00:50:07.841 --> 00:50:09.843
- It would literally
become like a hashtag,

1102
00:50:09.843 --> 00:50:12.846
like his mug shot went viral.

1103
00:50:12.846 --> 00:50:15.557
- The first image I ever saw
of Jahseh was his mug shot,

1104
00:50:15.557 --> 00:50:19.228
and it was probably the most
polarizing image of an artist

1105
00:50:19.228 --> 00:50:21.230
that I've ever seen in my life.

1106
00:50:21.230 --> 00:50:24.816
He had tattoos on his face.
Half blond, half black hair.

1107
00:50:24.816 --> 00:50:26.818
He had the stare in his eyes.

1108
00:50:26.818 --> 00:50:28.612
His eyes almost looked black.

1109
00:50:28.612 --> 00:50:31.698
His image, it was exciting,
it was polarizing.

1110
00:50:31.698 --> 00:50:33.659
I knew that people wouldn't forget him

1111
00:50:33.659 --> 00:50:35.953
because he was the first of his kind.

1112
00:50:36.662 --> 00:50:38.372
♪ I'm like, "Bitch,
who is your mans?" Ayy ♪

1113
00:50:38.372 --> 00:50:40.249
♪ Can't keep my dick in my pants, ayy ♪

1114
00:50:40.249 --> 00:50:41.792
♪ My bitch don't love me no mo', ayy ♪

1115
00:50:41.792 --> 00:50:43.168
♪ She kick me out, I'm like, "Vro" ♪

1116
00:50:43.627 --> 00:50:45.379
CLEOPATRA:
Unfortunately, we're living in a world

1117
00:50:45.379 --> 00:50:49.216
where drama and bullshit sells.

1118
00:50:49.216 --> 00:50:51.093
And so as bad as that was,

1119
00:50:51.093 --> 00:50:52.970
it helped to catapult him
to the next level

1120
00:50:52.970 --> 00:50:54.555
because his name was everywhere.

1121
00:50:54.555 --> 00:50:57.432
And then the Drake beef added to it.

1122
00:50:58.475 --> 00:51:00.394
MAN: It was the fans
who started saying something

1123
00:51:00.394 --> 00:51:01.687
about Drake stealing his flow.

1124
00:51:01.687 --> 00:51:03.230
- That's how we found out
'cause of the fans.

1125
00:51:03.230 --> 00:51:05.524
- Yeah the fans, the fans
were speaking out before us.

1126
00:51:05.524 --> 00:51:07.109
We don't even listen to Drake.

1127
00:51:07.109 --> 00:51:09.403
♪ Demon just got out the can, yeah ♪

1128
00:51:09.403 --> 00:51:11.321
♪ I gave my bro an advance, yeah ♪

1129
00:51:11.321 --> 00:51:12.906
♪ Love is just not in my plans ♪

1130
00:51:13.323 --> 00:51:15.367
♪ I'm like, "Bitch,
who is your mans?" ayy ♪

1131
00:51:15.367 --> 00:51:17.619
♪ Can't keep my dick in my pants, ayy ♪

1132
00:51:17.619 --> 00:51:18.829
KILO:
Once the fans started speaking,

1133
00:51:18.829 --> 00:51:20.163
it all started speaking for itself.

1134
00:51:21.832 --> 00:51:23.417
SOLOMON:
People were fighting about the music,

1135
00:51:23.417 --> 00:51:24.626
falling in love with the music.

1136
00:51:24.626 --> 00:51:26.420
People were fighting about the charges,

1137
00:51:26.420 --> 00:51:27.629
hating him for the charges.

1138
00:51:27.629 --> 00:51:30.757
But, like, he was only getting
more famous by the day.

1139
00:51:30.757 --> 00:51:32.801
Whether you loved it
or whether you hated it,

1140
00:51:32.801 --> 00:51:34.261
you just had to acknowledge it.

1141
00:51:35.053 --> 00:51:36.597
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1142
00:51:36.597 --> 00:51:38.515
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1143
00:51:38.515 --> 00:51:40.309
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1144
00:51:40.309 --> 00:51:41.602
♪ Look at me, yah ♪

1145
00:51:41.602 --> 00:51:43.729
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1146
00:51:43.729 --> 00:51:45.230
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1147
00:51:45.230 --> 00:51:47.232
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1148
00:51:47.232 --> 00:51:48.942
♪ Look at me, yah ♪

1149
00:51:48.942 --> 00:51:50.444
♪ Yah, yah ♪

1150
00:51:52.404 --> 00:51:54.656
CLEOPATRA: I had labels
started reaching out to me

1151
00:51:54.656 --> 00:51:55.824
because he was locked up.

1152
00:51:55.824 --> 00:51:58.577
Regardless of whether me and him
fought like cats and dogs,

1153
00:51:58.577 --> 00:52:01.121
he knew that I always had
his best interests at heart.

1154
00:52:01.121 --> 00:52:03.624
Who was he going to trust,
you know what I mean?

1155
00:52:03.624 --> 00:52:06.668
I'm his mama.
So, he gave me power of attorney.

1156
00:52:06.668 --> 00:52:09.630
You know, I was kind of like,
"Oh, we should sign, we should sign."

1157
00:52:09.630 --> 00:52:12.508
He was like, "No, Mom, if we can
hold on and stay independent,

1158
00:52:12.508 --> 00:52:14.551
that's where the real bag is."

1159
00:52:14.551 --> 00:52:16.637
Seeing all the people
being screwed in the industry,

1160
00:52:16.637 --> 00:52:19.139
he knew very well and from early

1161
00:52:19.139 --> 00:52:22.726
that he wanted to own all his masters.

1162
00:52:23.185 --> 00:52:25.604
He knew what the end game
and the end goal was.

1163
00:52:26.772 --> 00:52:28.690
Solomon found us, actually.

1164
00:52:28.690 --> 00:52:30.442
I was intrigued by that.

1165
00:52:30.442 --> 00:52:32.945
- You know, I saw pictures
of him, of course.

1166
00:52:32.945 --> 00:52:34.780
But, like, I don't know, in my mind, like,

1167
00:52:34.780 --> 00:52:36.406
I was expecting him to be, like,

1168
00:52:36.406 --> 00:52:38.408
like a giant almost when I saw him.

1169
00:52:38.408 --> 00:52:41.370
And then when I saw him behind the glass,

1170
00:52:41.370 --> 00:52:44.414
it was just kind of crazy
because he was a kid.

1171
00:52:44.998 --> 00:52:48.126
All this craziness,
and then he's just a kid.

1172
00:52:48.126 --> 00:52:50.128
Like, he had all the hope in the world

1173
00:52:50.128 --> 00:52:52.005
and you could see he was vulnerable.

1174
00:52:52.005 --> 00:52:53.924
So, at that point, I'm just like,
"Yo, no matter what,

1175
00:52:53.924 --> 00:52:55.425
yo, I got this kid, I got him."

1176
00:52:55.425 --> 00:52:57.594
- We got our first deal
while he was locked up.

1177
00:52:58.512 --> 00:53:01.807
SOLOMON: We got the 100 grand
to license "Look at Me" to Empire,

1178
00:53:01.807 --> 00:53:03.517
and it was off to the races from there.

1179
00:53:12.359 --> 00:53:14.903
- No, I really didn't give
a fuck, to be honest.

1180
00:53:14.903 --> 00:53:16.655
That wasn't a concern to me.

1181
00:53:16.655 --> 00:53:19.533
Uh, I just knew that
the record was special.

1182
00:53:19.533 --> 00:53:21.076
It was moving,

1183
00:53:21.076 --> 00:53:24.162
and I just started chasing it.

1184
00:53:24.162 --> 00:53:26.623
I think my first contact with him was,

1185
00:53:26.623 --> 00:53:30.169
uh, Bob called me on three-way
with him in prison,

1186
00:53:30.878 --> 00:53:33.130
and we talked for a couple minutes

1187
00:53:33.130 --> 00:53:34.882
and he told me had a couple other deals

1188
00:53:34.882 --> 00:53:36.633
that he was looking at,
so on and so forth.

1189
00:53:36.633 --> 00:53:40.262
And he called me back
with Bob on the phone,

1190
00:53:40.262 --> 00:53:41.930
and he said, "I'm gonna do your deal."

1191
00:53:41.930 --> 00:53:44.474
And I said, "I don't understand.

1192
00:53:44.474 --> 00:53:47.060
Why would you do our deal
versus the other deal?"

1193
00:53:47.060 --> 00:53:49.646
Um, and mind you, the other deal was

1194
00:53:49.646 --> 00:53:54.359
like a traditional
multi-album deal, large advance.

1195
00:53:54.359 --> 00:53:57.154
I think the advance was like
1.5 million, he told me.

1196
00:53:57.154 --> 00:53:59.698
My offer was like a 100k
for, like, two singles.

1197
00:54:00.616 --> 00:54:03.243
Um, and I asked him, I said,

1198
00:54:03.243 --> 00:54:05.996
"Why would you do my deal
over the other deal?

1199
00:54:07.539 --> 00:54:10.125
You're only like 18, bro.
That's a lot of money."

1200
00:54:10.125 --> 00:54:11.752
He said, "'Cause your deal
makes me a partner

1201
00:54:11.752 --> 00:54:13.128
and their deal makes me a slave."

1202
00:54:37.945 --> 00:54:39.154
JAHSEH: Howdy there.

1203
00:54:39.154 --> 00:54:41.490
WOMAN: Woo! [laughs]

1204
00:54:44.618 --> 00:54:46.787
[indiscernible chatter]

1205
00:54:46.787 --> 00:54:49.373
JAHSEH:
I-I still feel like I'm dreaming.

1206
00:54:49.373 --> 00:54:51.542
I feel like I just broke up
out of this bitch.

1207
00:54:53.710 --> 00:54:56.129
Yeah. Don't go to jail in Broward County.

1208
00:54:56.129 --> 00:54:57.714
MAN: Don't go to jail in Broward County.

1209
00:54:57.714 --> 00:54:59.049
- They not finna let you out.

1210
00:54:59.049 --> 00:55:02.886
[beeping]

1211
00:55:03.720 --> 00:55:06.640
- Oh, that boy... [laughing, screaming]

1212
00:55:07.057 --> 00:55:08.684
[screaming]

1213
00:55:08.684 --> 00:55:11.270
- You look fresher...
- Yo! My nigga!

1214
00:55:11.270 --> 00:55:12.688
Oh my goodness.

1215
00:55:13.564 --> 00:55:16.400
- I'm out this shit, dawg.
I'm out this shit, dawg.

1216
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:17.818
- I'm so fucking proud of you.

1217
00:55:17.818 --> 00:55:19.152
- This shit 'bout to be crazy.

1218
00:55:19.778 --> 00:55:21.905
- This is all you, bro.
- This shit 'bout to be crazy.

1219
00:55:22.364 --> 00:55:23.532
- Oh my goodness.

1220
00:55:24.116 --> 00:55:25.200
JAHSEH: I'm gonna call my mom.

1221
00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:27.494
[line ringing]

1222
00:55:34.710 --> 00:55:36.003
- Look, FaceTime.

1223
00:55:37.421 --> 00:55:38.380
- FaceTime.

1224
00:55:39.965 --> 00:55:40.841
- Do it.

1225
00:55:42.885 --> 00:55:44.219
Hi, princess.

1226
00:55:44.219 --> 00:55:46.180
You look beautiful.
What are you talking about?

1227
00:55:48.056 --> 00:55:49.641
- You look like sex!

1228
00:55:52.603 --> 00:55:54.980
- I feel like crying.
I'm about to get on my knees.

1229
00:55:54.980 --> 00:55:57.399
Yeah. I'm dead-ass serious.

1230
00:55:57.399 --> 00:55:58.442
So, I don't come back to this shit.

1231
00:56:02.988 --> 00:56:04.198
- Yo, I look like a Jack.

1232
00:56:05.407 --> 00:56:06.408
I love you.

1233
00:56:08.160 --> 00:56:09.119
- I'm gonna call you.

1234
00:56:14.833 --> 00:56:15.918
Oh man.

1235
00:56:17.044 --> 00:56:19.838
Yo, my fucking name comes up, my nigga.

1236
00:56:20.839 --> 00:56:22.132
"Jahseh D. Onfroy,

1237
00:56:22.132 --> 00:56:24.551
"better known by his
stage name XXXTentacion

1238
00:56:24.551 --> 00:56:27.513
is an American hip-hop recording artist
from Plantation, Florida."

1239
00:56:28.472 --> 00:56:30.390
Jesus fucking Christ.

1240
00:56:32.935 --> 00:56:35.270
Oh, that's a lot of fucking followers.

1241
00:56:35.896 --> 00:56:37.189
Holy shit.

1242
00:56:37.773 --> 00:56:38.982
Holy shit.

1243
00:56:39.650 --> 00:56:41.235
["Look at Me" playing over speakers]

1244
00:56:41.527 --> 00:56:43.153
- What the fuck?!

1245
00:56:45.113 --> 00:56:47.157
Ohh, fuck.

1246
00:56:47.157 --> 00:56:51.036
[screaming]

1247
00:56:51.036 --> 00:56:52.663
♪ I gave her dick, she amen, ayy ♪

1248
00:56:52.663 --> 00:56:54.414
♪ She put her tongue on my dick, ayy ♪

1249
00:56:54.414 --> 00:56:55.999
♪ Look at my wrist, about ten ♪

1250
00:56:55.999 --> 00:56:57.084
Fuck!

1251
00:56:57.084 --> 00:56:58.752
♪ Look at me, fuck on me, yah ♪

1252
00:56:59.378 --> 00:57:01.129
I'll take over the fucking world!

1253
00:57:01.129 --> 00:57:02.589
♪ Look at me, yah ♪

1254
00:57:03.215 --> 00:57:04.758
[crying]

1255
00:57:04.758 --> 00:57:06.009
- So stupid.

1256
00:57:06.426 --> 00:57:07.678
Put me down, boy,

1257
00:57:09.638 --> 00:57:11.306
- Mmm.
- Hi, baby.

1258
00:57:11.807 --> 00:57:14.476
- You smell like--
- Cigarettes.

1259
00:57:14.476 --> 00:57:16.103
- Yes, I do.

1260
00:57:16.103 --> 00:57:17.855
- Yes, I had cigarettes.
- Wait, are you getting short?

1261
00:57:17.855 --> 00:57:19.815
- No.
- Oh. Oh yeah.

1262
00:57:19.815 --> 00:57:21.567
Okay. [chuckles]

1263
00:57:21.567 --> 00:57:23.861
Oh, I guess you like
this jacket better, huh?

1264
00:57:23.861 --> 00:57:25.821
[indiscernible]

1265
00:57:25.821 --> 00:57:27.030
- If you could.

1266
00:57:29.867 --> 00:57:30.826
Baba.

1267
00:57:31.910 --> 00:57:32.786
Baba.

1268
00:57:39.293 --> 00:57:42.546
- [Cleo, indistinct]
- No, I'm gonna let him sleep.

1269
00:57:42.546 --> 00:57:44.131
CLEOPATRA:
Yeah, he's not going to wake up.

1270
00:57:46.258 --> 00:57:47.968
[laughs]

1271
00:57:47.968 --> 00:57:49.803
- Yo, this is hilarious.

1272
00:57:49.803 --> 00:57:51.180
SOLOMON:
Bro, you about to have

1273
00:57:51.180 --> 00:57:52.973
a number one-record,
so do you understand that?

1274
00:57:52.973 --> 00:57:54.600
You gonna have a number-one record.

1275
00:57:54.600 --> 00:57:56.810
You about to have
the biggest song in the country

1276
00:57:56.810 --> 00:57:57.895
very soon.

1277
00:57:57.895 --> 00:57:59.271
WOMAN: For real.
- Very soon.

1278
00:57:59.271 --> 00:58:00.731
- Viral.
- So, just leave

1279
00:58:00.731 --> 00:58:02.691
all the BS alone, bro.

1280
00:58:03.734 --> 00:58:06.528
The really important thing is to ignore--

1281
00:58:06.528 --> 00:58:08.488
JAHSEH:
Ignore her. I know that, yeah.

1282
00:58:08.488 --> 00:58:09.990
- Keep away from all that bullshit

1283
00:58:09.990 --> 00:58:11.825
because it's not worth it. You feel me?

1284
00:58:11.825 --> 00:58:13.660
Look what you already
went through over that.

1285
00:58:13.660 --> 00:58:14.912
- Understood.

1286
00:58:14.912 --> 00:58:15.996
CLEOPATRA:
And look where you're going.

1287
00:58:15.996 --> 00:58:17.206
- Facts.
WOMAN: For real.

1288
00:58:17.206 --> 00:58:19.291
Look what he have right now, like...

1289
00:58:19.291 --> 00:58:21.335
SOLOMON:
Now is about your family

1290
00:58:21.335 --> 00:58:23.420
and about your life, about your career,

1291
00:58:23.420 --> 00:58:25.839
about you accomplishing
everything you ever wanted.

1292
00:58:25.839 --> 00:58:27.841
That's the only thing that matters, man.

1293
00:58:27.841 --> 00:58:29.968
Leave everything else in the past, bro.

1294
00:58:29.968 --> 00:58:31.220
And just make the most out of it.

1295
00:58:31.220 --> 00:58:32.554
Make your little brother proud.

1296
00:58:32.554 --> 00:58:33.555
Make your mother proud.

1297
00:58:33.555 --> 00:58:34.973
Make your family proud, bruh.

1298
00:58:34.973 --> 00:58:36.558
Every, all everybody wants

1299
00:58:36.558 --> 00:58:39.061
is just to be proud of you.
You know what I mean?

1300
00:58:39.061 --> 00:58:41.647
For you to change the lineage
of the Onfroys

1301
00:58:41.647 --> 00:58:43.273
for the rest of eternity.

1302
00:58:44.775 --> 00:58:47.778
CLEOPATRA:
And you are the example right now.

1303
00:58:47.778 --> 00:58:50.489
I mean, I'm not saying
you are a role model like that,

1304
00:58:50.489 --> 00:58:54.535
but people are looking at you,
and you now have

1305
00:58:54.535 --> 00:58:57.871
a lot of responsibilities as a grown man.

1306
00:58:58.372 --> 00:59:00.415
- You hear that?
You got a lot of responsibility.

1307
00:59:00.415 --> 00:59:03.168
[laughter]

1308
00:59:03.168 --> 00:59:04.586
I'm handing this to you.

1309
00:59:05.462 --> 00:59:07.464
- As a grown man.

1310
00:59:08.382 --> 00:59:09.842
- Yeah?
WOMAN: So cute.

1311
00:59:11.218 --> 00:59:13.136
- All right, I understand.

1312
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.013
- You're going to be just fine.

1313
00:59:15.013 --> 00:59:16.557
- I'mma just take it one step at a time.

1314
00:59:16.557 --> 00:59:18.851
- That's all you can do, man,
just take it one step at a time

1315
00:59:18.851 --> 00:59:20.602
and just try to do the right thing.

1316
00:59:20.602 --> 00:59:22.437
- Yeah.
- That's all that counts, man.

1317
00:59:27.109 --> 00:59:28.902
JAHSEH: This is the story,
this is the full story,

1318
00:59:28.902 --> 00:59:30.320
and this is the last time I'll tell it.

1319
00:59:32.155 --> 00:59:34.783
She was already bruised on her face

1320
00:59:36.076 --> 00:59:38.120
all while she was staying with me.

1321
00:59:38.662 --> 00:59:41.623
She was already bruised on her face.

1322
00:59:41.623 --> 00:59:44.793
Now with the, the severe bruising,

1323
00:59:44.793 --> 00:59:47.963
I don't know how the fucking
severe bruising came about.

1324
00:59:47.963 --> 00:59:51.300
But she had, like, bruises
on the left side of her face

1325
00:59:51.300 --> 00:59:52.593
while she was at Bruno's.

1326
00:59:53.260 --> 00:59:54.761
I think she got jumped.

1327
00:59:54.761 --> 00:59:56.263
That's what I,
that's what I told everybody.

1328
00:59:56.263 --> 00:59:58.390
Like, yo, she got jumped because I'm...

1329
00:59:58.390 --> 00:59:59.892
because the way she was fucked up,

1330
00:59:59.892 --> 01:00:01.268
I think she got jumped.

1331
01:00:01.268 --> 01:00:02.352
They're not going to admit to it.

1332
01:00:02.352 --> 01:00:03.645
I don't, I don't give a fuck.

1333
01:00:03.645 --> 01:00:04.855
That's not my part of the story.

1334
01:00:05.647 --> 01:00:08.901
That... that bitch got whooped. Bad.

1335
01:00:10.027 --> 01:00:12.154
Whooped. So...

1336
01:00:12.154 --> 01:00:14.072
I didn't beat her, nor do I give a fuck

1337
01:00:14.072 --> 01:00:15.199
about who beat her at this time,

1338
01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:16.617
because now I know she's an evil bitch.

1339
01:00:17.326 --> 01:00:18.493
There's the story.

1340
01:00:26.043 --> 01:00:28.295
- Jahseh was like,
no, Mom, it's not true.

1341
01:00:30.214 --> 01:00:32.758
And, um, a part of me, you know,

1342
01:00:33.550 --> 01:00:34.760
took that and ran with it.

1343
01:00:44.394 --> 01:00:47.272
[indiscernible conversations]

1344
01:00:47.272 --> 01:00:48.690
CLEOPATRA:
I mean, that's my son.

1345
01:00:48.690 --> 01:00:51.527
Even if he's Hitler, that's my son.

1346
01:00:51.527 --> 01:00:54.071
If he's the devil, that's my son.
I birthed him.

1347
01:00:54.071 --> 01:00:56.573
Wrong, right, or indifferent,
I'm going to have his back no matter what,

1348
01:00:56.573 --> 01:00:58.659
and I'm going to have
his best interests at heart.

1349
01:00:58.659 --> 01:01:01.870
So, naturally, for me,
I want to save my child.

1350
01:01:01.870 --> 01:01:04.581
Any mother would have done the same thing,

1351
01:01:04.581 --> 01:01:05.541
I would think.

1352
01:01:06.750 --> 01:01:10.295
[indiscernible chatter]

1353
01:01:10.295 --> 01:01:11.922
JAHSEH:
I could never repay my mom

1354
01:01:12.714 --> 01:01:14.091
for the amount of pain

1355
01:01:14.091 --> 01:01:16.260
that she's been through,
and I gave her more.

1356
01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:19.054
And she still stood there
hanging on with broken hands.

1357
01:01:21.306 --> 01:01:22.599
I could never repay her for that.

1358
01:01:22.599 --> 01:01:24.268
I am forever in her debt,
and I do everything

1359
01:01:24.268 --> 01:01:27.437
that I still do now
for my fans and for my mother.

1360
01:01:27.437 --> 01:01:30.023
[fans cheering]

1361
01:01:30.023 --> 01:01:33.110
[shouting]

1362
01:01:35.571 --> 01:01:37.406
JAHSEH:
There's most definitely a difference

1363
01:01:37.406 --> 01:01:40.534
between Jahseh Onfroy and XXXTentacion.

1364
01:01:40.534 --> 01:01:43.370
[fans cheering]

1365
01:01:45.789 --> 01:01:47.749
Nobody cared about Jahseh Onfroy.

1366
01:01:48.417 --> 01:01:49.501
MAN: Do that. Do that.

1367
01:01:49.501 --> 01:01:51.170
[shouting]
MAN 2: Bro, chill out.

1368
01:01:51.170 --> 01:01:53.297
- Jahseh Onfroy was very meek.

1369
01:01:54.381 --> 01:01:55.883
Jahseh Onfroy was weak.

1370
01:01:55.883 --> 01:01:58.343
- You're leaving now.
OFFICER: Now. Everybody go.

1371
01:01:58.343 --> 01:02:00.888
- You take everybody out the door now.

1372
01:02:00.888 --> 01:02:03.891
JAHSEH: Nobody gave a fuck
about me as an individual.

1373
01:02:03.891 --> 01:02:06.101
Nobody gave a fuck about how I felt.

1374
01:02:08.520 --> 01:02:10.397
Now, my opinion is respected,

1375
01:02:10.898 --> 01:02:13.275
and every move I make
is recorded and calculated.

1376
01:02:14.359 --> 01:02:15.986
Nobody cared about Jahseh Onfroy

1377
01:02:15.986 --> 01:02:18.447
until he took on the persona as XXX.

1378
01:02:18.447 --> 01:02:21.533
[fans shouting]

1379
01:02:28.874 --> 01:02:30.125
BASS: Darkness sells.

1380
01:02:31.043 --> 01:02:32.461
Bad things sells.

1381
01:02:32.461 --> 01:02:34.880
The shit that your parents
tell you not to do sells.

1382
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:36.590
You pick up on that shit
quick in this industry.

1383
01:02:36.590 --> 01:02:38.300
So, when you're trying to go ahead,

1384
01:02:38.300 --> 01:02:39.551
that's usually the formula.

1385
01:02:41.678 --> 01:02:43.472
JAHSEH:
I'm gonna make the world hate me.
I'm gonna make the world hate me.

1386
01:02:43.472 --> 01:02:45.557
I'm gonna be like,
I'm gonna be the super villain.

1387
01:02:45.557 --> 01:02:47.142
I'm gonna make this whole thing crumble.

1388
01:02:47.142 --> 01:02:48.101
WOMAN: People like the villains.

1389
01:02:48.101 --> 01:02:50.479
- Yeah, they do. [laughs]

1390
01:02:50.479 --> 01:02:52.231
Yeah, I definitely agree.
They definitely...

1391
01:02:52.231 --> 01:02:54.525
I'm gonna, I'm gonna ruin
everything for everybody.

1392
01:02:56.610 --> 01:02:59.112
MAN: When I really knew
that we were really doing

1393
01:02:59.112 --> 01:03:01.448
something crazy was Revenge tour.

1394
01:03:02.533 --> 01:03:03.784
COOLIECUT:
The shows were huge.

1395
01:03:03.784 --> 01:03:05.369
I ain't even expect that.

1396
01:03:05.369 --> 01:03:06.912
I don't even think he expected it.

1397
01:03:06.912 --> 01:03:09.414
SKI: It was so relieving
to see Jah's efforts

1398
01:03:09.414 --> 01:03:11.542
of always doing some outlandish shit

1399
01:03:12.292 --> 01:03:14.378
actually make sense.

1400
01:03:14.378 --> 01:03:15.963
Like, there was a method to the madness,

1401
01:03:15.963 --> 01:03:18.298
and it worked hella good.

1402
01:03:18.298 --> 01:03:20.384
♪ And boy, I'm sippin' tea in yo' hood ♪

1403
01:03:20.384 --> 01:03:22.386
♪ What the fuck is up, you buttercup ♪

1404
01:03:22.386 --> 01:03:23.637
♪ Purrp in that blunt ♪

1405
01:03:23.637 --> 01:03:25.347
♪ Smoking suicide, bloody blunts ♪

1406
01:03:25.347 --> 01:03:27.641
♪ Pussy boy,
you talkin' shit for Twitter ♪

1407
01:03:27.641 --> 01:03:28.767
♪ It ain't addin' up ♪

1408
01:03:28.767 --> 01:03:30.018
♪ How these pussy niggas ♪

1409
01:03:30.018 --> 01:03:31.645
Jah was a real showman.

1410
01:03:31.645 --> 01:03:34.106
Every single night, he's trying
to outdo the last night.

1411
01:03:34.106 --> 01:03:36.233
You know, what could I do
that's more memorable

1412
01:03:36.233 --> 01:03:37.234
than the last night?

1413
01:03:37.234 --> 01:03:38.193
♪ I love it when they run ♪

1414
01:03:38.777 --> 01:03:40.362
♪ Fuck all that talkin' shit ♪

1415
01:03:40.362 --> 01:03:41.989
♪ Do that shit for fun, uh ♪

1416
01:03:42.364 --> 01:03:44.700
- And when I say go, you rush me

1417
01:03:44.700 --> 01:03:46.118
and you fuck me up.

1418
01:03:46.118 --> 01:03:47.160
You hear me?

1419
01:03:47.160 --> 01:03:49.246
CROWD [shouting]: Yeah!

1420
01:03:49.246 --> 01:03:51.206
♪ Bitch, I'm sippin' tea in yo' hood ♪

1421
01:03:51.206 --> 01:03:52.457
♪ What the fuck is up ♪

1422
01:03:52.457 --> 01:03:54.418
♪ Bitch, I'm sippin' tea in yo' hood ♪

1423
01:03:54.418 --> 01:03:55.794
♪ What the fuck is up ♪

1424
01:03:55.794 --> 01:03:57.379
JAHSEH:
We're going to play this shit,

1425
01:03:57.379 --> 01:03:58.922
and I'm going to try and commit suicide.

1426
01:03:58.922 --> 01:04:00.966
Okay. You ready?

1427
01:04:14.813 --> 01:04:16.356
MAN:
I remember being at these shows

1428
01:04:16.356 --> 01:04:19.151
and watching these kids soak in every word

1429
01:04:19.151 --> 01:04:21.069
that Jah said.

1430
01:04:21.069 --> 01:04:24.615
The way he would speak to them at mass,

1431
01:04:24.615 --> 01:04:26.074
would kind of be like a mass.

1432
01:04:26.074 --> 01:04:27.826
It would be like church for them.

1433
01:04:31.622 --> 01:04:34.958
It was like a cult,
and he would be like their God.

1434
01:04:52.726 --> 01:04:55.020
CROWD: Yeah.
JAHSEH: Now, now...

1435
01:04:55.020 --> 01:04:57.898
if you want to find your purpose
and you reach for the stars,

1436
01:04:57.898 --> 01:05:00.526
people will often tell you
that it's not possible.

1437
01:05:00.526 --> 01:05:03.403
Let me ask you something:
do you think

1438
01:05:03.403 --> 01:05:06.532
you can be right here
and right where the fuck you want to be?

1439
01:05:06.532 --> 01:05:08.492
[crowd shouts]

1440
01:05:08.492 --> 01:05:09.576
Let me hear it!

1441
01:05:09.576 --> 01:05:11.036
[crowd shouts]

1442
01:05:12.621 --> 01:05:14.164
SOLOMON: I remember him
always telling me, like,

1443
01:05:14.164 --> 01:05:16.416
I'm making music for the broken people,

1444
01:05:16.416 --> 01:05:19.002
for the people that feel how I feel.

1445
01:05:19.002 --> 01:05:21.004
[singing]

1446
01:06:05.132 --> 01:06:07.843
[indistinct]

1447
01:06:13.265 --> 01:06:17.269
♪

1448
01:06:33.452 --> 01:06:36.121
- Why the fuck are y'all
reporting me, bruh?

1449
01:06:36.121 --> 01:06:37.998
I am @instagram.

1450
01:06:37.998 --> 01:06:40.542
I'm not fucking posting nothing, bruh.

1451
01:06:40.542 --> 01:06:42.461
This is not fair.

1452
01:06:42.461 --> 01:06:44.713
That's the third account
I've lost to Instagram

1453
01:06:44.713 --> 01:06:47.174
because of fucking hatin'-ass X fans.

1454
01:06:47.174 --> 01:06:48.425
And I fucking hate y'all.

1455
01:06:48.425 --> 01:06:50.219
And I wish I could just take my soul

1456
01:06:50.219 --> 01:06:52.804
and put it in another
fucking body or something

1457
01:06:52.804 --> 01:06:55.224
because I fucking hate myself
because of y'all.

1458
01:06:55.974 --> 01:06:58.393
I'm not crying because
Instagram is my life, bro.

1459
01:06:58.393 --> 01:07:00.729
I'm crying because y'all are
my income, bro.

1460
01:07:00.729 --> 01:07:01.855
Like, I...

1461
01:07:03.565 --> 01:07:07.611
I couldn't get a job
because the situation was so popular

1462
01:07:07.611 --> 01:07:09.905
that people would come
into the place I work

1463
01:07:09.905 --> 01:07:11.907
and they'll just, like, ask me questions.

1464
01:07:11.907 --> 01:07:13.659
And like, the situation's fresh.

1465
01:07:13.659 --> 01:07:15.285
I would start crying to the point

1466
01:07:15.285 --> 01:07:17.120
where the managers were like,
"Why are you always crying?

1467
01:07:17.120 --> 01:07:18.413
Like, we don't need this."

1468
01:07:19.122 --> 01:07:21.625
And everybody was like,
"You're ruining his career."

1469
01:07:21.625 --> 01:07:23.168
But at the same time,

1470
01:07:23.168 --> 01:07:24.503
I felt like my whole life was ruined

1471
01:07:24.503 --> 01:07:27.256
because nobody even cared.

1472
01:07:27.256 --> 01:07:28.841
Like, after that, I was homeless, like...

1473
01:07:29.800 --> 01:07:32.177
I lived in a hotel for, like,
almost a year after that

1474
01:07:32.177 --> 01:07:35.889
and the whole time, I'm like,
"Everybody hates me

1475
01:07:35.889 --> 01:07:38.809
when I was just trying
to say what happened."

1476
01:07:40.394 --> 01:07:42.312
And on top of that, they were
asking me what happened.

1477
01:07:42.312 --> 01:07:44.356
Like, everybody was like
asking me what happened,

1478
01:07:44.356 --> 01:07:45.858
and I'm trying to tell it.

1479
01:07:45.858 --> 01:07:48.151
If you're going to think
that I'm a liar, I'm a liar.

1480
01:07:48.944 --> 01:07:50.195
Because how am I supposed to fight that?

1481
01:07:50.195 --> 01:07:51.613
I'm only one person.

1482
01:07:56.326 --> 01:07:58.161
It was really a dark moment for me.

1483
01:07:58.161 --> 01:08:01.874
And there was no way
that I could just stop it.

1484
01:08:01.874 --> 01:08:03.250
He had the power to do all that.

1485
01:08:05.169 --> 01:08:06.420
♪ Look at me, what ♪

1486
01:08:06.420 --> 01:08:08.547
♪ Ayy, look at me, fuck on me ♪

1487
01:08:08.547 --> 01:08:10.215
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1488
01:08:10.215 --> 01:08:12.009
♪ Look at me, fuck on me ♪

1489
01:08:12.009 --> 01:08:13.218
♪ Look at me, yah ♪

1490
01:08:19.183 --> 01:08:23.145
[crowd cheering]

1491
01:08:23.145 --> 01:08:25.147
EMCEE:
Rolling Loud make some noise

1492
01:08:25.147 --> 01:08:27.482
one time for XXX!

1493
01:08:27.482 --> 01:08:28.942
Ayy!

1494
01:08:28.942 --> 01:08:31.153
- I love you. I love you all. Goodnight.

1495
01:08:34.781 --> 01:08:35.866
I could pay your mama house payment.

1496
01:08:37.993 --> 01:08:39.661
I could pay your mortgage, baby.

1497
01:08:41.455 --> 01:08:43.790
MAN:
Woo. I said, "When can I drive it?"

1498
01:08:46.168 --> 01:08:48.754
JAHSEH: Can't forget.
[plastic rustling]

1499
01:08:50.923 --> 01:08:52.299
You see this fucking mug shot

1500
01:08:52.883 --> 01:08:54.092
on the platinum plaque?

1501
01:08:54.635 --> 01:08:56.220
Yeah, bitch. [chuckles]

1502
01:08:56.845 --> 01:08:57.721
Viral.

1503
01:08:59.014 --> 01:09:02.184
JOHN:
I met Jahseh in early August.

1504
01:09:02.184 --> 01:09:05.437
He was coming to L.A.
to finish his album 17.

1505
01:09:05.437 --> 01:09:07.481
I was waiting for them in the studio

1506
01:09:07.481 --> 01:09:09.858
and, um, while I was waiting
for him to show up,

1507
01:09:09.858 --> 01:09:12.152
I just was kind of playing
the guitar hanging out.

1508
01:09:12.653 --> 01:09:15.656
And he walked in the studio
and introduced himself

1509
01:09:15.656 --> 01:09:16.823
and was like, "You play guitar?"

1510
01:09:16.823 --> 01:09:18.075
And I'm like, "Yeah."

1511
01:09:18.075 --> 01:09:20.452
And then he just started
singing something.

1512
01:09:20.452 --> 01:09:22.412
That night was a long night.

1513
01:09:22.412 --> 01:09:24.039
I remember he goes into the booth,

1514
01:09:24.039 --> 01:09:26.834
and he was trying to kind of
figure out a certain melody,

1515
01:09:26.834 --> 01:09:30.087
and the engineer wasn't
getting the sound right.

1516
01:09:30.087 --> 01:09:32.256
I kind of figured out
what he wanted in his head

1517
01:09:32.256 --> 01:09:34.132
and was able to translate
that a little bit.

1518
01:09:35.008 --> 01:09:36.885
♪ Dead inside ♪

1519
01:09:36.885 --> 01:09:40.597
♪ Spend a lot of time stuck
in this head of mine ♪

1520
01:09:41.098 --> 01:09:44.643
♪ Under the assumption
love is dead, already ♪

1521
01:09:45.644 --> 01:09:47.271
JOHN:
He was one of those people

1522
01:09:47.271 --> 01:09:48.981
that had everything in his head,

1523
01:09:48.981 --> 01:09:50.816
he just didn't know
physically how to, like,

1524
01:09:50.816 --> 01:09:52.276
translate that into a record.

1525
01:09:52.276 --> 01:09:54.194
Like, the process of production.

1526
01:09:54.695 --> 01:09:57.030
And so I kind of just started
fitting in there.

1527
01:09:58.323 --> 01:10:00.284
♪ Dead inside ♪

1528
01:10:00.868 --> 01:10:04.955
♪ Spend a lot of time stuck
in this head of mine ♪

1529
01:10:05.330 --> 01:10:07.457
SOLOMON: I know a lot of fans,
a lot of people thought

1530
01:10:07.457 --> 01:10:09.543
he was going to make an album
full of "Look at Me's,"

1531
01:10:09.543 --> 01:10:13.130
but instead, he made this vulnerable

1532
01:10:13.130 --> 01:10:15.799
emotional masterpiece, really.

1533
01:10:16.842 --> 01:10:21.305
I remember when 17 came out,
I was worried at the time

1534
01:10:21.305 --> 01:10:24.057
because as amazing as I thought
the project was, I was like,

1535
01:10:24.057 --> 01:10:25.642
"Yo, people are either going to love this

1536
01:10:25.642 --> 01:10:26.894
or they're going to hate this."

1537
01:10:26.894 --> 01:10:28.187
I didn't really think
there was going to be

1538
01:10:28.187 --> 01:10:29.396
an in between.

1539
01:10:29.396 --> 01:10:31.899
So... people love it.

1540
01:10:31.899 --> 01:10:33.483
♪ Tired of feelin' like I'm
trapped in my damn mind ♪

1541
01:10:33.483 --> 01:10:35.360
♪ Tired of feelin' like I'm
wrapped in a damn lie ♪

1542
01:10:35.360 --> 01:10:37.237
♪ Tired of feelin' like
my life is a damn game ♪

1543
01:10:37.237 --> 01:10:39.114
♪ Nigga really wanna die
in the nighttime ♪

1544
01:10:39.114 --> 01:10:41.033
♪ Only time I feel pain,
when I'm feelin' love ♪

1545
01:10:41.033 --> 01:10:43.911
SOLOMON: I remember
Kendrick Lamar giving it praise.

1546
01:10:43.911 --> 01:10:46.955
So many people really,
really, really surprised

1547
01:10:46.955 --> 01:10:49.541
at how Jah just left
his soul on that project.

1548
01:10:49.541 --> 01:10:53.003
He just gave it to you.
It was raw. It was honest.

1549
01:10:53.003 --> 01:10:54.213
It was everything.

1550
01:10:54.671 --> 01:10:57.257
And also nothing like
we've ever heard before.

1551
01:11:03.931 --> 01:11:05.682
MARC:
My first article about XXXTentacion

1552
01:11:05.682 --> 01:11:07.226
was in February of 2017,

1553
01:11:07.226 --> 01:11:08.519
and he was already blowing up.

1554
01:11:09.144 --> 01:11:11.230
Around the time that X was
blowing up was the moment

1555
01:11:11.230 --> 01:11:13.565
when people were becoming more conscious

1556
01:11:13.565 --> 01:11:15.359
of what kind of values
they wanted to support.

1557
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:18.487
It was a strange moment
for somebody to be coming up

1558
01:11:18.487 --> 01:11:21.907
who also had these terrible
allegations attached to him.

1559
01:11:34.127 --> 01:11:36.380
So, at this point, people are
listening to his music,

1560
01:11:36.380 --> 01:11:37.965
people that we respect and admire

1561
01:11:37.965 --> 01:11:40.050
are recommending his music.

1562
01:11:40.050 --> 01:11:41.385
There's more to the story.

1563
01:11:41.385 --> 01:11:43.637
Here's what this young woman
said under oath

1564
01:11:43.637 --> 01:11:44.638
he did to her.

1565
01:12:02.030 --> 01:12:03.824
JAHSEH:
Y'all niggas mad I'm successful?

1566
01:12:03.824 --> 01:12:05.701
[bleep] my [bleep]!

1567
01:12:05.701 --> 01:12:07.494
No, but on some real shit,

1568
01:12:08.787 --> 01:12:10.038
if you don't like me,

1569
01:12:11.248 --> 01:12:13.750
refer me to your auntie, so that I,

1570
01:12:13.750 --> 01:12:15.419
I put my [bleep] in her [bleep]

1571
01:12:15.419 --> 01:12:17.379
'cause if y'all really think
I ever gave a fuck

1572
01:12:17.379 --> 01:12:19.047
about anything y'all be saying,

1573
01:12:19.047 --> 01:12:20.716
all right, y'all going
to make me miserable.

1574
01:12:20.716 --> 01:12:23.218
[bleep] y'all little sisters.
They [bleep].

1575
01:12:23.218 --> 01:12:25.512
I swear to god. I swear to god.

1576
01:12:25.512 --> 01:12:29.224
Everybody that called me
a domestic abuser,

1577
01:12:29.224 --> 01:12:32.144
I'm finna domestically abuse
your little sister [bleep]

1578
01:12:32.144 --> 01:12:33.395
from the back...

1579
01:12:34.021 --> 01:12:35.522
[cackles]

1580
01:12:35.856 --> 01:12:37.191
Is this making you mad yet?

1581
01:12:38.066 --> 01:12:39.776
If you hate me, are you mad yet?

1582
01:12:40.360 --> 01:12:41.945
Are you going to go on Reddit and post

1583
01:12:41.945 --> 01:12:43.572
really bad things about me?

1584
01:12:44.198 --> 01:12:46.783
Hashtag insensitive.

1585
01:12:47.659 --> 01:12:49.453
GHAZI SHAMI:
He had gone on social media,

1586
01:12:49.453 --> 01:12:51.914
and I think it was on his story

1587
01:12:52.497 --> 01:12:54.374
and he had a girl next to him

1588
01:12:54.374 --> 01:12:55.792
and they were laughing and giggling

1589
01:12:55.792 --> 01:12:57.127
and he made a pretty...

1590
01:12:58.337 --> 01:13:00.589
aggressive remark towards women.

1591
01:13:00.589 --> 01:13:03.592
And, um, it was pretty bad.

1592
01:13:03.592 --> 01:13:05.928
I mean, it was bad enough
that women in my office

1593
01:13:05.928 --> 01:13:07.095
were talking about it.

1594
01:13:07.095 --> 01:13:08.388
And so...

1595
01:13:09.223 --> 01:13:11.600
we all decided to jump
on the phone with him.

1596
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:14.394
It was me, his mom...

1597
01:13:15.771 --> 01:13:18.440
Solomon,
the criminal attorney,

1598
01:13:19.191 --> 01:13:20.734
and the entertainment attorney.

1599
01:13:21.985 --> 01:13:23.654
I don't think anybody else
was on the call.

1600
01:13:23.654 --> 01:13:25.155
It was a group call.

1601
01:13:25.155 --> 01:13:28.158
And they kind of wanted to address
some of his actions.

1602
01:13:28.158 --> 01:13:30.994
And he wasn't fucking with it.

1603
01:13:32.120 --> 01:13:33.330
He was really upset.

1604
01:13:33.956 --> 01:13:35.207
Started yelling at us.

1605
01:13:35.207 --> 01:13:36.917
He was always adamant that he wanted

1606
01:13:36.917 --> 01:13:38.919
to express whatever it was
he wanted to express,

1607
01:13:38.919 --> 01:13:41.380
and he didn't give a fuck what anybody had
to think about it.

1608
01:13:42.381 --> 01:13:43.507
And so...

1609
01:13:45.008 --> 01:13:47.010
I remember we hung up the phone,

1610
01:13:47.010 --> 01:13:48.637
but I called him

1611
01:13:48.637 --> 01:13:51.348
and I was like,
"Bro, let me holler at you."

1612
01:13:51.890 --> 01:13:53.058
And he was like, "What's up?"

1613
01:13:53.976 --> 01:13:55.060
And I said to him.

1614
01:13:57.187 --> 01:13:59.439
"You know, you've spent...

1615
01:14:00.607 --> 01:14:03.777
"all this time building this relationship

1616
01:14:03.777 --> 01:14:05.821
"to your audience on social media.

1617
01:14:06.780 --> 01:14:09.700
"And I know you really love

1618
01:14:09.700 --> 01:14:11.535
"and cherish this role of the villain

1619
01:14:12.703 --> 01:14:14.663
"and the villain
has gotten you pretty far,

1620
01:14:15.622 --> 01:14:17.708
"but I don't think you need
to be the villain anymore.

1621
01:14:17.708 --> 01:14:20.169
You're already poppin'.
Just be who you are."

1622
01:14:20.711 --> 01:14:24.423
And I don't know, for whatever reason,

1623
01:14:24.423 --> 01:14:26.466
I don't know if it was that conversation,

1624
01:14:26.466 --> 01:14:28.760
I don't know if he had
other conversations with his mom

1625
01:14:28.760 --> 01:14:31.513
or his other friends
around him or whatever.

1626
01:14:31.513 --> 01:14:33.432
But I want to say that, like,

1627
01:14:33.432 --> 01:14:36.393
something definitely changed
after that incident.

1628
01:14:36.393 --> 01:14:37.978
Things started to change with him.

1629
01:14:37.978 --> 01:14:39.188
[sniffs]

1630
01:14:40.022 --> 01:14:43.150
- Um, I apologize to anyone I've offended

1631
01:14:43.150 --> 01:14:44.693
within the last couple hours.

1632
01:14:44.693 --> 01:14:46.528
Obviously, you guys know
I'm going through a lot

1633
01:14:46.528 --> 01:14:48.405
just, uh, due to this case.

1634
01:14:48.405 --> 01:14:50.365
If I want to assert myself

1635
01:14:50.365 --> 01:14:52.534
in my career or have my views respected,

1636
01:14:52.534 --> 01:14:55.287
I realize that I have
to treat everything with care

1637
01:14:55.287 --> 01:14:57.372
and take time
and have patience with people.

1638
01:14:57.372 --> 01:14:59.541
I just want people to know
that I'm not trying to lead

1639
01:14:59.541 --> 01:15:02.503
their children down a dark, dark path,

1640
01:15:02.503 --> 01:15:04.588
and that I really want something
good for the human race.

1641
01:15:04.588 --> 01:15:07.299
So, with that being said,
I hope everyone has a good...

1642
01:15:07.299 --> 01:15:09.635
BASS: There's some issues
where people need to be scrutinized

1643
01:15:09.635 --> 01:15:11.094
and some issues where people just need

1644
01:15:11.094 --> 01:15:12.930
to be put away. You feel me?

1645
01:15:12.930 --> 01:15:15.057
But there are some issues
where people need help,

1646
01:15:15.057 --> 01:15:16.517
especially kids.

1647
01:15:17.017 --> 01:15:18.435
He was mature.

1648
01:15:18.435 --> 01:15:20.604
Streetwise, he was mature.

1649
01:15:20.604 --> 01:15:23.899
He was music business savvy.
You know I mean?

1650
01:15:23.899 --> 01:15:25.150
He had a lot of--

1651
01:15:25.150 --> 01:15:27.236
So, he had to have
some type of, like, hustle

1652
01:15:27.236 --> 01:15:29.446
in his family background,
you could tell that.

1653
01:15:29.446 --> 01:15:32.032
But at the end of the day,
like emotionally,

1654
01:15:32.032 --> 01:15:33.867
he wasn't, he wasn't there yet.

1655
01:15:40.499 --> 01:15:42.918
- It made me, I mean,
it made me sad, you know.

1656
01:15:42.918 --> 01:15:45.420
He allegedly did to her
what she, what he allegedly did.

1657
01:15:45.420 --> 01:15:47.923
But that doesn't mean
that he didn't suffer as well.

1658
01:15:47.923 --> 01:15:50.092
That doesn't make him just
a two-dimensional person, either.

1659
01:16:22.916 --> 01:16:24.960
SOLOMON:
I saw him battle with his demons

1660
01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:26.461
from the very beginning.

1661
01:16:26.461 --> 01:16:28.088
I wish I could have helped more.

1662
01:16:28.088 --> 01:16:29.965
I didn't know how to help.
I didn't know what to do.

1663
01:16:30.424 --> 01:16:33.135
- It's one of those days where you realize
nothing fucking matters.

1664
01:16:35.804 --> 01:16:38.015
One of those days where you feel
like driving off a bridge.

1665
01:16:40.642 --> 01:16:42.269
Am I really quitting? Yes, I'm quitting.

1666
01:16:43.061 --> 01:16:44.396
I don't know for how long.

1667
01:16:44.396 --> 01:16:46.440
But I'm just not going
to make music right now.

1668
01:16:47.691 --> 01:16:51.028
I mean, it's just been
that my mind's been fucked up.

1669
01:16:51.028 --> 01:16:52.863
My mind has been somewhere else.

1670
01:16:53.280 --> 01:16:57.868
SOLOMON: He saw a doctor
and was diagnosed as bipolar.

1671
01:16:58.619 --> 01:17:00.579
They were giving him medicine to take.

1672
01:17:00.579 --> 01:17:02.748
You know, he hated
the medicine, of course.

1673
01:17:02.748 --> 01:17:07.002
The medicine made him dull, uncreative.

1674
01:17:07.002 --> 01:17:09.755
It was hard for him to be himself.

1675
01:17:09.755 --> 01:17:11.381
- What are they going to say now?

1676
01:17:12.841 --> 01:17:14.468
Isn't it clear I don't give a fuck?

1677
01:17:15.427 --> 01:17:17.638
CLEOPATRA:
He made himself ugly at one point

1678
01:17:17.638 --> 01:17:19.890
by shaving off his eyebrows,
that's what he called it,

1679
01:17:19.890 --> 01:17:21.850
shedding who he was.

1680
01:17:21.850 --> 01:17:24.394
JAHSEH: If you feel
as if your physical identity

1681
01:17:24.394 --> 01:17:26.813
has to be the same as everyone else's

1682
01:17:26.813 --> 01:17:29.066
to be socially acceptable, you're stupid.

1683
01:17:29.858 --> 01:17:31.360
Be yourself.

1684
01:17:31.360 --> 01:17:33.028
COOLIECUT:
He wanted to trip acid.

1685
01:17:33.779 --> 01:17:35.405
I think he was kind of trying
to free his mind

1686
01:17:35.405 --> 01:17:37.032
from everything that was going on.

1687
01:17:37.616 --> 01:17:40.035
But it was kind of
to dig deeper into yourself

1688
01:17:40.035 --> 01:17:42.079
to understand like,
"Why you think like this?

1689
01:17:42.079 --> 01:17:43.664
Why do you act like that?"

1690
01:17:43.664 --> 01:17:46.333
He wanted to shed his skin.
He kept saying it to me.

1691
01:17:46.333 --> 01:17:48.168
He was like,
"Bro, I feel like I don't like this.

1692
01:17:48.168 --> 01:17:49.920
You feel me? The skin I'm in."

1693
01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:51.421
He just meant like he wanted to become

1694
01:17:51.421 --> 01:17:53.006
a better person, you know what I mean?

1695
01:17:53.006 --> 01:17:54.550
He just kept saying that over and over.

1696
01:17:54.550 --> 01:17:55.926
I was like, "Yeah, I feel you, bro.

1697
01:17:55.926 --> 01:17:57.177
"We're going to get through this.

1698
01:17:57.177 --> 01:17:58.929
"You're going to become
a better person, bro. Don't worry."

1699
01:17:59.429 --> 01:18:02.349
♪ The way I feel now ♪

1700
01:18:04.518 --> 01:18:07.354
♪ Just can't compare ♪

1701
01:18:09.314 --> 01:18:12.067
JOHN: He was going through a lot
and we would be making songs

1702
01:18:12.067 --> 01:18:14.069
and sometimes in between the process,

1703
01:18:14.069 --> 01:18:16.864
I would kind of leave my phone
on just forgetting about it,

1704
01:18:16.864 --> 01:18:19.283
and then we would start
talking about something.

1705
01:18:20.200 --> 01:18:21.493
This is one.

1706
01:19:41.657 --> 01:19:43.283
- ♪ Hello ♪
- ♪ Hello ♪

1707
01:19:43.283 --> 01:19:45.327
♪ From the dark side in ♪

1708
01:19:45.327 --> 01:19:49.248
♪ Does anybody ever want to be my friend ♪

1709
01:19:49.248 --> 01:19:50.165
♪ My friend ♪

1710
01:19:50.165 --> 01:19:52.292
♪ Want it all to end ♪

1711
01:19:52.292 --> 01:19:56.255
♪ Tell me when the fuck
is it all gon' end ♪

1712
01:19:56.880 --> 01:19:59.007
♪ Voices in my head ♪

1713
01:19:59.007 --> 01:20:03.136
♪ Telling me I'm gonna end up dead ♪

1714
01:20:08.642 --> 01:20:10.853
♪ So save me ♪

1715
01:20:10.853 --> 01:20:12.563
♪ Save me ♪

1716
01:20:13.772 --> 01:20:16.775
♪ Before I fall ♪

1717
01:20:22.239 --> 01:20:23.699
- Okay, guys, so basically,

1718
01:20:23.699 --> 01:20:25.909
this is what I wanted to explain today,

1719
01:20:25.909 --> 01:20:27.995
um, just based off of what I've learned.

1720
01:20:28.412 --> 01:20:31.665
You have to take a second to sit down
to thoroughly observe your patterns.

1721
01:20:31.665 --> 01:20:33.709
Do you move when you don't want to move?

1722
01:20:33.709 --> 01:20:36.253
Do you get angry
when you don't want to get angry?

1723
01:20:36.253 --> 01:20:37.796
You have to fix
these things about yourself.

1724
01:20:37.796 --> 01:20:39.673
You have to give a fuck about yourself.

1725
01:20:39.673 --> 01:20:41.592
And that makes life so much better.

1726
01:20:41.592 --> 01:20:43.302
Like, I'm learning to do it now.

1727
01:20:43.302 --> 01:20:45.762
And it makes life 10 times better.

1728
01:20:45.762 --> 01:20:46.889
It makes you feel better.

1729
01:20:47.264 --> 01:20:49.016
I want you to start a journal.

1730
01:20:49.892 --> 01:20:52.352
COOLIECUT: That's when
the internal change was happening.

1731
01:20:52.352 --> 01:20:54.104
He was actually changing internally,

1732
01:20:54.104 --> 01:20:55.814
trying to preach a positive message

1733
01:20:55.814 --> 01:20:58.650
because he kind of had a negative impact.

1734
01:20:58.650 --> 01:20:59.943
And he wanted to balance that out.

1735
01:20:59.943 --> 01:21:02.070
JAHSEH: I'm going to stop
calling you guys fans.

1736
01:21:02.070 --> 01:21:04.615
I'm going to start calling you
members of my cult.

1737
01:21:05.032 --> 01:21:07.242
This is a cult. Not a fan base.

1738
01:21:07.242 --> 01:21:10.579
While we have this big family
of a fan base

1739
01:21:10.579 --> 01:21:12.164
and there's a lot of us
that are depressed,

1740
01:21:12.164 --> 01:21:14.499
myself, including myself.

1741
01:21:14.499 --> 01:21:15.626
There's a lot of us that are depressed,

1742
01:21:15.626 --> 01:21:17.586
so just hashtag my name

1743
01:21:17.586 --> 01:21:20.214
and find another person
that listens to my music

1744
01:21:20.214 --> 01:21:21.673
and help them through their problems.

1745
01:21:21.673 --> 01:21:23.967
So, here's what we'll do,
we'll start a hashtag today.

1746
01:21:23.967 --> 01:21:25.928
Um, I want you to get this trending.

1747
01:21:25.928 --> 01:21:29.264
Hashtag #Youtellmeyourproblems
andI'lltellyoumine,

1748
01:21:29.264 --> 01:21:31.642
and we will use this hashtag
to communicate

1749
01:21:31.642 --> 01:21:33.977
with other fr-- uh, fans and friends,

1750
01:21:33.977 --> 01:21:36.480
uh, and that listen to my music,
that need help.

1751
01:21:36.897 --> 01:21:40.317
- He did not want that image
to follow him around

1752
01:21:40.317 --> 01:21:41.485
for the rest of his life.

1753
01:21:42.361 --> 01:21:44.488
But when it comes
to his relationship with Geneva,

1754
01:21:45.280 --> 01:21:46.990
I do sincerely think that he wanted

1755
01:21:46.990 --> 01:21:49.451
to fix his relationship
with her privately.

1756
01:21:49.451 --> 01:21:53.163
But between the law,
the case, and then the public,

1757
01:21:53.830 --> 01:21:56.041
it, that was like an impossible task.

1758
01:21:56.500 --> 01:21:58.502
- He had what's called

1759
01:21:58.502 --> 01:22:00.879
a no contest order of protection

1760
01:22:00.879 --> 01:22:02.881
against, uh, Geneva.

1761
01:22:03.966 --> 01:22:07.344
- ♪ Under the assumption
love is dead, already ♪

1762
01:22:08.679 --> 01:22:10.597
♪ Just let me be here ♪

1763
01:22:12.266 --> 01:22:15.561
One of the girls that he was living with,
she hit me up on Instagram,

1764
01:22:15.561 --> 01:22:17.271
she told me that Jahseh wanted
to speak to me.

1765
01:22:18.146 --> 01:22:20.649
And I was like, "What?"

1766
01:22:22.067 --> 01:22:24.236
And I was speaking to him,
I was on FaceTime with him,

1767
01:22:24.236 --> 01:22:26.738
and he was telling me
that he wanted to meet up

1768
01:22:26.738 --> 01:22:28.490
and apologize to me.

1769
01:22:28.490 --> 01:22:29.992
And I was really scared
because I didn't know

1770
01:22:29.992 --> 01:22:31.243
if it was a setup.

1771
01:22:31.243 --> 01:22:32.995
I was, like, still very afraid of him.

1772
01:22:33.453 --> 01:22:34.580
So, I was scared.

1773
01:22:35.622 --> 01:22:38.417
But I just had to, like, overcome that.

1774
01:22:38.417 --> 01:22:42.087
I felt like I had to face my problems.

1775
01:22:43.130 --> 01:22:46.717
- Reporting live from Florida,
with the alleged hurricane...

1776
01:22:46.717 --> 01:22:48.343
GENEVA:
We'd, like, hang out here and there.

1777
01:22:48.343 --> 01:22:50.762
I spent a whole weekend with him

1778
01:22:50.762 --> 01:22:53.807
during a hurricane
and like, nobody even knew.

1779
01:22:53.807 --> 01:22:56.185
People online would be like,
they hate each other.

1780
01:22:56.602 --> 01:22:58.353
But in reality, like, we were talking.

1781
01:22:59.771 --> 01:23:03.817
For me, like, I found sympathy
and empathy in the situation,

1782
01:23:03.817 --> 01:23:06.904
and I was able to literally
just, like, forgive him

1783
01:23:06.904 --> 01:23:08.697
because I feel like...

1784
01:23:08.697 --> 01:23:10.574
I basically compared it to my mother.

1785
01:23:10.574 --> 01:23:12.576
Like, my mother has abused me.

1786
01:23:12.576 --> 01:23:15.037
And you don't see people

1787
01:23:15.037 --> 01:23:16.788
disowning their mother because of that--

1788
01:23:16.788 --> 01:23:20.417
Well, you do, but not
necessarily in every instance.

1789
01:23:26.423 --> 01:23:28.842
JOHN: They both had an opinion
on what should happen.

1790
01:23:28.842 --> 01:23:32.054
But at some point, the state
of Florida wanted otherwise.

1791
01:23:34.723 --> 01:23:37.768
SOLOMON:
When Geneva sends in her affidavit

1792
01:23:37.768 --> 01:23:40.812
to say she no longer wanted

1793
01:23:40.812 --> 01:23:43.232
to pursue criminal charges,

1794
01:23:43.232 --> 01:23:47.277
I think that prompted them
to go through the jail calls.

1795
01:23:47.277 --> 01:23:49.613
You know, there was
so much stuff on there,

1796
01:23:49.613 --> 01:23:51.657
they easily charged Jahseh

1797
01:23:51.657 --> 01:23:54.743
with a bunch of new counts
of witness tampering.

1798
01:23:56.203 --> 01:23:59.373
- Okay, guys, so I was
just given seven more charges,

1799
01:23:59.373 --> 01:24:01.333
uh, by the state attorney's office,

1800
01:24:01.333 --> 01:24:03.877
uh, and I have a court date on the 15th.

1801
01:24:04.294 --> 01:24:07.631
So, I would ask that everyone
come to support me.

1802
01:24:08.090 --> 01:24:11.927
I ask that the people that do come
come bearing positive energy.

1803
01:24:12.386 --> 01:24:14.388
JOHN:
He had this court date in December.

1804
01:24:14.888 --> 01:24:16.682
The day before, I was asking him, like,

1805
01:24:16.682 --> 01:24:19.351
"What's the worst thing
that can happen tomorrow?"

1806
01:24:19.351 --> 01:24:21.812
He answered that he'd be
taken in for a couple hours

1807
01:24:21.812 --> 01:24:24.398
and they'd be able to get him out
that same day.

1808
01:24:24.398 --> 01:24:27.651
- The fans took over
the, the whole courthouse.

1809
01:24:27.651 --> 01:24:29.444
They were calling the judge,

1810
01:24:29.444 --> 01:24:31.488
like doing all kinds of crazy stuff.

1811
01:24:31.488 --> 01:24:32.781
Soon as you walk into the room,

1812
01:24:32.781 --> 01:24:35.325
you could feel the energy from the judge.

1813
01:24:35.325 --> 01:24:37.953
He didn't even get a chance to say a word.

1814
01:24:37.953 --> 01:24:39.788
She just started going in.

1815
01:24:50.215 --> 01:24:51.675
DEANDRA: It seemed like
she just knew in her mind

1816
01:24:51.675 --> 01:24:54.052
she was going to take him that day
to make an example of,

1817
01:24:54.052 --> 01:24:55.721
you don't have more power than we do.

1818
01:24:57.055 --> 01:24:59.183
SOLOMON: They ended up
taking him in for a week.

1819
01:25:00.559 --> 01:25:02.394
CLEOPATRA:
All those charges added up.

1820
01:25:02.394 --> 01:25:04.938
So, I believe he was looking at 20 years.

1821
01:25:04.938 --> 01:25:06.607
Now because of his status,

1822
01:25:06.607 --> 01:25:10.110
it requires him to be
segregated in solitary.

1823
01:25:10.694 --> 01:25:12.696
Not being in general population,

1824
01:25:12.696 --> 01:25:14.114
he doesn't have access

1825
01:25:14.114 --> 01:25:15.782
to sitting and talking to people

1826
01:25:15.782 --> 01:25:17.993
or anything that can stimulate him.

1827
01:25:17.993 --> 01:25:20.954
And he already struggled
with hearing voices in his head

1828
01:25:20.954 --> 01:25:22.539
and being alone.

1829
01:25:22.539 --> 01:25:26.210
Any time in, you know,
locked up in solitary

1830
01:25:26.752 --> 01:25:28.462
would be a problem for him.

1831
01:25:28.462 --> 01:25:29.505
And we knew that.

1832
01:25:39.473 --> 01:25:41.642
DEANDRA: It doesn't matter
how many times he spoke

1833
01:25:41.642 --> 01:25:43.977
about, like, helping each other
or something like that,

1834
01:25:43.977 --> 01:25:46.021
it was always, okay, but he beat Geneva.

1835
01:25:47.898 --> 01:25:51.068
Like, he can never have a conversation

1836
01:25:51.068 --> 01:25:52.694
without that being,

1837
01:25:53.195 --> 01:25:54.655
going back to being the topic.

1838
01:25:58.075 --> 01:25:59.409
- Why is it wrong?

1839
01:25:59.409 --> 01:26:00.869
- How do you fully redeem yourself

1840
01:26:00.869 --> 01:26:03.163
if every time on every corner

1841
01:26:03.664 --> 01:26:05.249
it just keeps popping up?

1842
01:26:12.047 --> 01:26:15.300
- He acknowledged that he was,
that there was a situation,

1843
01:26:15.300 --> 01:26:18.011
you know, but self-acknowledgment
and accountability,

1844
01:26:18.011 --> 01:26:20.556
do I have to hold myself accountable

1845
01:26:20.556 --> 01:26:22.391
and admit it to the world

1846
01:26:22.391 --> 01:26:24.142
just for you guys to judge me anyways?

1847
01:26:25.602 --> 01:26:27.729
They were going to judge him
no matter what.

1848
01:26:27.729 --> 01:26:29.648
You know, without knowing the full story.

1849
01:26:29.648 --> 01:26:31.817
It didn't matter if he spoke
that full story,

1850
01:26:31.817 --> 01:26:34.027
they were going to judge him
no matter what.

1851
01:26:34.027 --> 01:26:35.904
And that's all he had,
that's all he was going through,

1852
01:26:35.904 --> 01:26:37.197
was being judged.

1853
01:26:37.197 --> 01:26:38.574
He could release a number one album.

1854
01:26:38.574 --> 01:26:39.825
You could love his song.

1855
01:26:39.825 --> 01:26:41.285
But then they were still judging him

1856
01:26:41.910 --> 01:26:43.120
based on that situation.

1857
01:26:43.120 --> 01:26:45.205
It wasn't something he was able to escape,

1858
01:26:45.205 --> 01:26:46.957
even though he was
holding himself accountable.

1859
01:26:51.044 --> 01:26:53.255
- I think it also might have
resulted in them taking

1860
01:26:53.255 --> 01:26:55.048
- his whole life away.
CLEOPATRA: Yeah.

1861
01:26:55.048 --> 01:26:57.176
- I think, I think it makes sense that

1862
01:26:57.176 --> 01:26:59.261
that's an apology that needs to be

1863
01:26:59.261 --> 01:27:01.680
kind of more, um, planned out

1864
01:27:01.680 --> 01:27:05.142
in a way that, like, has
an actual beneficial result

1865
01:27:05.142 --> 01:27:06.852
and not one that, you know,

1866
01:27:06.852 --> 01:27:09.354
results in somebody getting
their entire freedom

1867
01:27:09.354 --> 01:27:10.647
and life taken away.

1868
01:27:11.982 --> 01:27:14.443
- But I do think he would have
gotten to a place where he would have

1869
01:27:15.527 --> 01:27:18.530
gotten there, it just,
he just never had a chance to.

1870
01:27:41.887 --> 01:27:44.681
GUY WHEELER: I got a call
from a well-known psychologist

1871
01:27:44.681 --> 01:27:47.267
by the name of Dr. Michael Brannon.

1872
01:27:47.267 --> 01:27:50.854
The judge decided that
I was going to work with him.

1873
01:27:50.854 --> 01:27:52.272
The judge pointed at me, he says,

1874
01:27:52.272 --> 01:27:54.149
"Everywhere he go,
he's got to go, you got to go.

1875
01:27:54.149 --> 01:27:56.318
He can't go anywhere without you."

1876
01:27:56.777 --> 01:28:00.656
Well, the first day, it was,
it was people here galore.

1877
01:28:01.031 --> 01:28:02.658
I didn't want to go right then and there

1878
01:28:02.658 --> 01:28:04.409
in a sit-down face-to-face,

1879
01:28:04.409 --> 01:28:06.870
because from a cultural
kind of background,

1880
01:28:06.870 --> 01:28:08.830
the connotations of therapy

1881
01:28:08.830 --> 01:28:11.583
and counseling perception is
what goes along with that.

1882
01:28:11.583 --> 01:28:13.460
"I'm crazy, I'm loco and I ain't crazy."

1883
01:28:13.460 --> 01:28:15.128
As a matter of fact,
he mentioned that, you know,

1884
01:28:15.128 --> 01:28:16.547
"Ain't nothing wrong with me.
I ain't crazy."

1885
01:28:16.547 --> 01:28:18.841
I said, "Man, let's walk,
let's just walk."

1886
01:28:18.841 --> 01:28:20.843
"Man, I got problems like anybody else."

1887
01:28:21.260 --> 01:28:22.719
I said, "Look, I'm here, man,

1888
01:28:23.470 --> 01:28:25.389
"you know, to treat you
like a human being.

1889
01:28:25.389 --> 01:28:27.933
"It's about your life, man.
That's a bigger picture to me.

1890
01:28:27.933 --> 01:28:29.434
I'm concerned about you."

1891
01:28:29.434 --> 01:28:30.853
And he looked like that,

1892
01:28:31.854 --> 01:28:33.522
pointed at me, he's like, "Straight."

1893
01:28:33.522 --> 01:28:34.898
- I do not at all want--

1894
01:28:34.898 --> 01:28:36.316
SOLOMON:
Guy was rule-based.

1895
01:28:36.316 --> 01:28:38.318
He was like, "Yo, you got
to clean this shit up.

1896
01:28:38.318 --> 01:28:40.529
"Way too many people in
and out of your house, bro.

1897
01:28:40.529 --> 01:28:43.532
"You not, you can't control
what these people are going to do.

1898
01:28:43.532 --> 01:28:45.450
"Something bad is going to happen.
Yo, you know what?

1899
01:28:45.450 --> 01:28:46.952
"You can't have
all these women in your house.

1900
01:28:46.952 --> 01:28:48.203
"That's going to lead to something.

1901
01:28:48.203 --> 01:28:50.122
You just pick one and call it a day."

1902
01:28:50.831 --> 01:28:52.165
You know, he picked Jen.

1903
01:28:54.918 --> 01:28:56.336
JENESIS SANCHEZ:
Before me and Jah ever dated,

1904
01:28:56.336 --> 01:28:57.588
we were not two people

1905
01:28:57.588 --> 01:28:59.673
that were looking for anything at all.

1906
01:28:59.673 --> 01:29:01.466
He actually wanted me to be his assistant.

1907
01:29:02.050 --> 01:29:03.552
Jah always saw me

1908
01:29:03.552 --> 01:29:06.471
as this very nurturing, caring person,

1909
01:29:07.014 --> 01:29:09.516
and he felt very safe when he was with me

1910
01:29:09.516 --> 01:29:11.018
and I did, too.

1911
01:29:11.018 --> 01:29:13.562
So, he just kind of said, like,

1912
01:29:13.562 --> 01:29:15.272
"You're my girlfriend now,

1913
01:29:15.272 --> 01:29:17.566
"and if you don't want to be here,

1914
01:29:17.566 --> 01:29:20.319
"you don't have to be, but if you want to,

1915
01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:21.778
I would love for you to be."

1916
01:29:21.778 --> 01:29:24.114
I'm like... "Okay."

1917
01:29:24.114 --> 01:29:26.158
I could be your rock, you could be mine.

1918
01:29:28.035 --> 01:29:30.704
I will say, there were
some days I felt like

1919
01:29:30.704 --> 01:29:33.916
I was definitely walking
on shards of glass,

1920
01:29:33.916 --> 01:29:36.502
because you didn't know
what you were going to get.

1921
01:29:37.669 --> 01:29:40.631
GUY: We would have sessions,
we would just sit down and talk and laugh.

1922
01:29:40.631 --> 01:29:42.925
Whatever his pain or whatever
he was going through,

1923
01:29:42.925 --> 01:29:44.384
whatever he wanted to talk to me about,

1924
01:29:44.384 --> 01:29:46.053
personal, family kind of stuff.

1925
01:29:46.053 --> 01:29:48.138
And I recognized then that this was

1926
01:29:48.138 --> 01:29:50.766
a traumatized human being
unable to grieve.

1927
01:29:51.350 --> 01:29:53.143
And he had to play out the macho.

1928
01:29:53.143 --> 01:29:55.270
He's five-foot-two,
he's going to play out this macho,

1929
01:29:55.270 --> 01:29:57.856
the rap and hip-hop
and all of that.

1930
01:29:57.856 --> 01:30:00.025
And he's dealing with
an enormous amount of emotion

1931
01:30:00.025 --> 01:30:01.109
and a lot of stuff.

1932
01:30:01.109 --> 01:30:02.778
I never can be his biological father,

1933
01:30:02.778 --> 01:30:04.154
and that was not my role.

1934
01:30:04.154 --> 01:30:06.365
But if anything, that I can be there

1935
01:30:06.365 --> 01:30:08.492
and that I didn't want money from him,

1936
01:30:08.492 --> 01:30:10.202
it was about him

1937
01:30:10.202 --> 01:30:13.455
just as a human being

1938
01:30:13.455 --> 01:30:16.208
that deserved the dignity and respect.

1939
01:30:16.208 --> 01:30:19.211
[indiscernible singing]

1940
01:30:32.683 --> 01:30:34.142
JOHN:
And I know this from what Cleo

1941
01:30:34.142 --> 01:30:35.477
and Solomon and everyone told me.

1942
01:30:35.477 --> 01:30:37.729
It's like when I was around
making music with him,

1943
01:30:37.729 --> 01:30:39.356
that's when he was happy.

1944
01:30:39.356 --> 01:30:42.359
I realized that, like,
the process of making music

1945
01:30:42.359 --> 01:30:43.986
and being able to put
his mind on something

1946
01:30:43.986 --> 01:30:45.737
was what allowed him to free his mind

1947
01:30:45.737 --> 01:30:48.156
off of all the other places
that it was going.

1948
01:30:49.533 --> 01:30:55.497
[indiscernible singing]

1949
01:30:57.124 --> 01:30:58.917
MAN: That's scary, bro.

1950
01:30:58.917 --> 01:31:00.377
Bro, once you learn how to use
your vocal range,

1951
01:31:00.377 --> 01:31:01.503
you could do some crazy shit.

1952
01:31:02.504 --> 01:31:05.507
SOLOMON: He was putting down
big records, big records,

1953
01:31:05.507 --> 01:31:06.717
and it was exciting to watch.

1954
01:31:06.717 --> 01:31:08.886
♪ ...take this damage ♪

1955
01:31:08.886 --> 01:31:11.805
♪ And the way I feel, can't manage ♪

1956
01:31:13.891 --> 01:31:17.269
♪ And the way I feel, can't manage ♪

1957
01:31:17.269 --> 01:31:18.437
[vocalizing]

1958
01:31:21.565 --> 01:31:23.066
CLEOPATRA:
He was on house arrest,

1959
01:31:23.066 --> 01:31:25.611
and going to the studio
and having to be home

1960
01:31:25.611 --> 01:31:27.404
at a certain time became an issue.

1961
01:31:27.404 --> 01:31:29.615
And so we decided to knock out the closets

1962
01:31:29.615 --> 01:31:31.783
and build a studio in home for him.

1963
01:31:31.783 --> 01:31:34.536
Whenever he gets into the mood,
it's right there.

1964
01:31:34.536 --> 01:31:36.330
JAHSEH: It was the X.

1965
01:31:36.330 --> 01:31:37.748
JOHN:
I remember, like, there was a day

1966
01:31:37.748 --> 01:31:39.541
in early January that

1967
01:31:39.541 --> 01:31:41.418
he was asking me if I had any beats.

1968
01:31:41.418 --> 01:31:43.378
And I said,
"Yeah, I have beats from this person

1969
01:31:43.378 --> 01:31:45.923
"and that person and this producer

1970
01:31:45.923 --> 01:31:48.050
and that producer,"
and he said, "No, you."

1971
01:31:48.050 --> 01:31:50.260
And so I reached over and kind of logged

1972
01:31:50.260 --> 01:31:52.804
into my box account on his computer.

1973
01:31:52.804 --> 01:31:55.015
And before I could click on anything,

1974
01:31:55.015 --> 01:31:56.266
because I was so nervous

1975
01:31:56.266 --> 01:31:58.060
I was trying to figure out
what to play him,

1976
01:31:58.060 --> 01:32:00.354
he clicked on something
called "Sad Banjo,"

1977
01:32:00.354 --> 01:32:02.564
um, which turned out to be
the beat for "SAD!"

1978
01:32:04.024 --> 01:32:05.859
[indiscernible chatter]

1979
01:32:05.859 --> 01:32:07.152
JAHSEH: I like it.
JOHN: Okay.

1980
01:32:08.487 --> 01:32:10.697
And in maybe, like, five or 10 minutes,

1981
01:32:10.697 --> 01:32:12.241
he wrote that whole song.

1982
01:32:12.241 --> 01:32:14.576
- ♪ Someone that's afraid to let go, uh ♪

1983
01:32:15.577 --> 01:32:17.579
JOHN:
Oh, that's nice. That's dope. Yeah.

1984
01:32:17.579 --> 01:32:19.206
- ♪ You decide ♪
JOHN: ♪ Who am I ♪ Yeah.

1985
01:32:19.206 --> 01:32:20.624
- ♪ Who am I ♪

1986
01:32:20.624 --> 01:32:22.626
BOTH:
♪ Someone that's afraid to let go, uh ♪

1987
01:32:22.626 --> 01:32:23.919
- ♪ You decide ♪
JOHN: Pfft.

1988
01:32:25.170 --> 01:32:27.172
- Mm- hm. Yeah.
- That's fire.

1989
01:32:29.383 --> 01:32:32.344
JOHN: Like, the day we got
the mix of "SAD!" back,

1990
01:32:32.344 --> 01:32:34.555
I remember us kind of looking
at each other and being like,

1991
01:32:34.555 --> 01:32:36.014
"This is different."

1992
01:32:36.014 --> 01:32:38.392
There was always this desire
to have something

1993
01:32:38.392 --> 01:32:40.435
that just would kind of set him apart

1994
01:32:40.435 --> 01:32:42.938
from everyone else that he was
being compared to at the time.

1995
01:32:42.938 --> 01:32:45.941
And this would have been a song
where there's zero rapping on it.

1996
01:32:46.358 --> 01:32:48.944
And the idea of this song coming out,

1997
01:32:48.944 --> 01:32:51.655
especially at the same time
as a song called "Changes,"

1998
01:32:51.655 --> 01:32:53.866
that excited me and it excited him.

1999
01:32:53.866 --> 01:32:55.826
And then when those two songs came out...

2000
01:32:57.369 --> 01:32:59.830
I felt like the entire world changed.

2001
01:33:01.123 --> 01:33:04.376
♪ Who am I, someone
that's afraid to let go, uh ♪

2002
01:33:04.376 --> 01:33:07.671
♪ You decide if you're ever
gonna let me know, yeah ♪

2003
01:33:07.671 --> 01:33:10.757
♪ Suicide if you ever try to let go, uh ♪

2004
01:33:10.757 --> 01:33:13.969
♪ I'm sad, I know, yeah,
I'm sad, I know, yeah ♪

2005
01:33:13.969 --> 01:33:17.055
♪ Who am I, someone
that's afraid to let go, uh ♪

2006
01:33:17.055 --> 01:33:18.557
♪ You decide ♪

2007
01:33:18.557 --> 01:33:20.350
CROWD:
♪ If you're ever gonna let me know, yeah ♪

2008
01:33:20.350 --> 01:33:21.560
JAHSEH: ♪ Suicide ♪

2009
01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:23.061
CROWD:
♪ If you ever try to let go ♪

2010
01:33:23.812 --> 01:33:26.690
- ♪ I'm sad, I know, yeah,
I'm sad, I know, yeah ♪

2011
01:33:28.901 --> 01:33:31.403
JOHN: And, you know,
in the "Sad!" music video,

2012
01:33:31.403 --> 01:33:32.821
he kills his former self,

2013
01:33:32.821 --> 01:33:37.242
and he was really deliberate
about not attaching

2014
01:33:37.242 --> 01:33:39.369
who he was in 2018

2015
01:33:39.369 --> 01:33:41.079
to the person that he was in the past.

2016
01:33:42.748 --> 01:33:45.959
♪ Who am I, someone
that's afraid to let go, uh ♪

2017
01:33:45.959 --> 01:33:48.962
♪ You decide if you're ever
gonna let me know, yeah ♪

2018
01:33:48.962 --> 01:33:52.508
♪ Suicide if you ever try to let go, uh ♪

2019
01:33:52.508 --> 01:33:55.552
♪ I'm sad, I know, yeah,
I'm sad, I know, yeah ♪

2020
01:33:56.553 --> 01:34:00.557
CLEOPATRA: Transitioning into
the blue hair was indigo child

2021
01:34:00.557 --> 01:34:02.267
coming into himself

2022
01:34:02.267 --> 01:34:04.144
and realizing his responsibility

2023
01:34:04.144 --> 01:34:06.063
to this generation.

2024
01:34:06.063 --> 01:34:07.523
You know, him and I had a conversation

2025
01:34:07.523 --> 01:34:09.441
about what are you going to be?

2026
01:34:09.441 --> 01:34:11.777
What do you want these kids
to walk away with?

2027
01:34:11.777 --> 01:34:13.403
You know what I'm saying,
what's your message?

2028
01:34:14.238 --> 01:34:16.323
And he realized he had an obligation

2029
01:34:16.323 --> 01:34:17.908
that was bigger than himself.

2030
01:34:17.908 --> 01:34:21.245
And so he chose to take that path.

2031
01:34:25.082 --> 01:34:28.001
- Um, okay, so my current focus

2032
01:34:28.544 --> 01:34:30.045
is creation and evolution.

2033
01:34:30.462 --> 01:34:34.383
It's better to be respected
through love rather than fear

2034
01:34:34.383 --> 01:34:37.219
simply because, like, all right,
I was respected through fear

2035
01:34:37.219 --> 01:34:38.512
and it's not real love.

2036
01:34:38.512 --> 01:34:41.056
It's not real love,
and it drives people away.

2037
01:34:41.056 --> 01:34:42.432
It makes people treat you differently.

2038
01:34:42.432 --> 01:34:44.518
It makes people really, like--

2039
01:34:45.269 --> 01:34:46.562
It's just not genuine.

2040
01:34:46.562 --> 01:34:48.522
It's not what you really would want.

2041
01:34:49.439 --> 01:34:51.900
It's better not to be
a crazy motherfucker.

2042
01:34:51.900 --> 01:34:53.861
It's better not. 'Cause I've, I've--

2043
01:34:53.861 --> 01:34:56.154
I've been-- I've went through that.
I've decided I want--

2044
01:34:56.154 --> 01:34:57.865
There was a point where
I wanted to be the villain,

2045
01:34:57.865 --> 01:34:59.867
and it's not fun, bro. It's not fun.

2046
01:34:59.867 --> 01:35:02.369
People t--
Like, it doesn't attract anything

2047
01:35:02.369 --> 01:35:03.662
that you truly want.

2048
01:35:03.662 --> 01:35:05.789
I've started to look at myself
very differently

2049
01:35:05.789 --> 01:35:07.457
and beat myself up.

2050
01:35:07.457 --> 01:35:09.918
And you guys are the only thing
that gives me hope.

2051
01:35:09.918 --> 01:35:11.712
You guys are the only things that,

2052
01:35:11.712 --> 01:35:13.255
that thing that motivates me

2053
01:35:13.255 --> 01:35:15.841
to ideally like, yo, be strong.

2054
01:35:15.841 --> 01:35:20.512
You have over eight million kids or adults

2055
01:35:20.512 --> 01:35:22.556
and teenagers watching you

2056
01:35:23.348 --> 01:35:24.725
relying on you for this hope.

2057
01:35:26.852 --> 01:35:28.854
DEANDRA:
Jahseh was becoming more patient.

2058
01:35:28.854 --> 01:35:32.566
He was more positive versus
being so angry all the time.

2059
01:35:32.566 --> 01:35:34.943
You can reason with him

2060
01:35:34.943 --> 01:35:37.487
because he was able
to reason with himself.

2061
01:35:37.487 --> 01:35:40.490
- When the nigga would just
usually freak out and trip out,

2062
01:35:40.490 --> 01:35:41.909
you would see him go into a corner

2063
01:35:41.909 --> 01:35:43.827
and do breathing exercises, you feel me?

2064
01:35:43.827 --> 01:35:45.287
Keep his eyes closed, meditate,

2065
01:35:45.287 --> 01:35:47.206
even if it's for, like,
a little 10 minutes,

2066
01:35:47.206 --> 01:35:49.291
then come back and address the situation.

2067
01:35:56.673 --> 01:35:58.967
JENESIS:
One day I get home, and I'm like,

2068
01:35:58.967 --> 01:36:01.595
something, something doesn't feel right.

2069
01:36:01.595 --> 01:36:04.056
The next day, I took a pregnancy test

2070
01:36:04.056 --> 01:36:06.600
and sure enough,
I find out that I'm pregnant.

2071
01:36:07.309 --> 01:36:10.395
Jah had, like, 30 phones,
it was so ridiculous.

2072
01:36:10.395 --> 01:36:12.940
So, I'm, like, sending
the picture to all these phones

2073
01:36:12.940 --> 01:36:14.316
because I couldn't get ahold of him.

2074
01:36:14.316 --> 01:36:16.026
Turns out he was at the gym training.

2075
01:36:16.026 --> 01:36:17.861
Finally, when I got ahold of Jah,

2076
01:36:17.861 --> 01:36:19.071
he was super excited.

2077
01:36:19.071 --> 01:36:21.114
Like, he was like, "No way."

2078
01:36:21.532 --> 01:36:23.742
- Family and success.

2079
01:36:24.117 --> 01:36:26.787
[all cheering]
WOMAN: Cheers.

2080
01:36:29.748 --> 01:36:32.042
- I almost felt like he knew
how to relate to kids

2081
01:36:32.042 --> 01:36:34.461
more than he did other people.

2082
01:36:37.548 --> 01:36:41.969
And he saw this emotional
phenomenon in children

2083
01:36:41.969 --> 01:36:45.097
that they were pure and unable to judge

2084
01:36:45.097 --> 01:36:47.891
and unable to have hatred in their heart.

2085
01:36:47.891 --> 01:36:49.518
And he loved that so much

2086
01:36:49.518 --> 01:36:52.187
that the idea of having a kid of his own

2087
01:36:52.187 --> 01:36:55.816
and being able to instill
this sense of acceptance

2088
01:36:55.816 --> 01:36:59.194
and lovingness and positivity
within this kid

2089
01:37:00.487 --> 01:37:02.114
would have been his proudest moment.

2090
01:37:07.494 --> 01:37:10.873
GHAZI: I know one incident,
I had took him to Nobu.

2091
01:37:10.873 --> 01:37:13.333
It was his first time
eating at a fancy restaurant.

2092
01:37:13.834 --> 01:37:15.002
And they pulled up

2093
01:37:15.961 --> 01:37:17.379
and we were sitting down eating,

2094
01:37:17.379 --> 01:37:19.423
and he was fucking around
with the chopsticks

2095
01:37:19.423 --> 01:37:21.008
and we were just sitting there

2096
01:37:21.008 --> 01:37:22.885
and we started talking about kids.

2097
01:37:22.885 --> 01:37:25.762
He was like, "You're going
to be a great dad."

2098
01:37:25.762 --> 01:37:28.223
I said, "You're going to be
a great dad too someday, bro."

2099
01:37:28.223 --> 01:37:30.851
He said, "No, I'm not."
I said, "What do you mean?"

2100
01:37:31.435 --> 01:37:33.312
And he just looked me dead
in the eye and he was like,

2101
01:37:33.312 --> 01:37:34.688
"I'm not gonna make it past 21."

2102
01:37:34.688 --> 01:37:36.815
And then just went right back
to fuckin' with the chopsticks,

2103
01:37:37.399 --> 01:37:38.859
like he hadn't said a thing.

2104
01:37:43.280 --> 01:37:44.656
CLEOPATRA:
He always spoke about death

2105
01:37:44.656 --> 01:37:45.741
and was fascinated with it,

2106
01:37:45.741 --> 01:37:48.535
I think, since he was about 15.

2107
01:37:49.077 --> 01:37:51.747
It's almost as if he was preparing me

2108
01:37:51.747 --> 01:37:53.207
that he wasn't going to be here.

2109
01:37:55.959 --> 01:37:58.962
His lawyers called and told me that, um,

2110
01:37:59.546 --> 01:38:02.382
they were coming to pick Jah up Tuesday.

2111
01:38:11.975 --> 01:38:15.395
I had the worst anxiety ever.

2112
01:38:15.896 --> 01:38:18.899
[loud hip-hop music playing]

2113
01:38:24.196 --> 01:38:27.741
I went to the studio
and he was working on his first beat.

2114
01:38:29.368 --> 01:38:30.744
And he was so proud.

2115
01:38:31.912 --> 01:38:33.163
[sniffles]

2116
01:38:33.163 --> 01:38:34.456
[exhales]

2117
01:38:34.456 --> 01:38:35.999
And I was so proud because I was like,

2118
01:38:35.999 --> 01:38:37.459
"Yo, where did you come from?

2119
01:38:37.459 --> 01:38:39.920
How did you even learn
to do these things, you know?"

2120
01:38:42.381 --> 01:38:44.716
He spoke about possibly running.

2121
01:38:45.509 --> 01:38:47.052
And I was like,
"Jah, where are you going to go?

2122
01:38:47.845 --> 01:38:50.597
"You have blue hair with tats
all over your face.

2123
01:38:51.098 --> 01:38:54.601
You're not exactly going
to blend in with the crowd."

2124
01:38:54.601 --> 01:38:56.645
And, um, he was like,

2125
01:38:56.645 --> 01:39:00.399
"I can't, I don't understand
what's happening or why."

2126
01:39:00.399 --> 01:39:02.734
And I said, "Kid, you're powerful."

2127
01:39:03.402 --> 01:39:07.781
I said, "I've watched you
control your crowd and your audience."

2128
01:39:07.781 --> 01:39:10.325
I said, "That's, that's dangerous

2129
01:39:11.118 --> 01:39:12.244
to the status quo."

2130
01:39:12.244 --> 01:39:14.997
He got up from around the table
and he said, um,

2131
01:39:16.748 --> 01:39:18.917
"To whom much is given, much is required."

2132
01:39:20.294 --> 01:39:22.880
And then he said, "You know,
I'm going to go buy a bike."

2133
01:39:22.880 --> 01:39:24.464
And I was like, "What? Why?"

2134
01:39:25.174 --> 01:39:27.593
Because at the time, he had
about three bikes in the garage

2135
01:39:27.593 --> 01:39:29.928
and then some other ones
at his other house

2136
01:39:29.928 --> 01:39:31.930
that he doesn't even ride them.

2137
01:39:31.930 --> 01:39:34.558
But I knew my son. I knew it was
because he was so worried.

2138
01:39:34.558 --> 01:39:35.809
He was so scared.

2139
01:39:35.809 --> 01:39:36.977
Typically, I'd be, like,

2140
01:39:37.603 --> 01:39:40.689
arguing with him
about those type of things,

2141
01:39:40.689 --> 01:39:43.942
if it doesn't make sense,
but I knew what that was.

2142
01:39:43.942 --> 01:39:46.945
And so I was like, "Okay, let me
get security together for you."

2143
01:39:46.945 --> 01:39:49.740
And he was like, "Nah,
they're going to take too long."

2144
01:39:49.740 --> 01:39:52.951
I called Jazz's brother,
which is Aiden's dad.

2145
01:39:52.951 --> 01:39:55.787
I called him and I was like, "Hey, um,

2146
01:39:55.787 --> 01:39:57.664
"Jah wants to go pick up this bike.

2147
01:39:57.664 --> 01:39:59.333
"I'm gonna need you to drive his car back

2148
01:39:59.333 --> 01:40:02.544
in the event that he,
he does, um, get the bike."

2149
01:40:02.961 --> 01:40:06.590
And I said, "No matter what he says,
don't leave his side."

2150
01:40:15.307 --> 01:40:17.726
♪ I remember I had walked home that day ♪

2151
01:40:17.726 --> 01:40:20.062
♪ Content with all my misery
told myself it'd get better ♪

2152
01:40:20.062 --> 01:40:21.355
♪ No clue what there was next for me ♪

2153
01:40:21.355 --> 01:40:22.564
♪ Remember there was people ♪

2154
01:40:22.564 --> 01:40:23.774
♪ Walkin', talkin' in the distance ♪

2155
01:40:23.774 --> 01:40:25.025
♪ I was dressed for winter weather ♪

2156
01:40:25.025 --> 01:40:26.235
♪ But the summer rays were kissing me ♪

2157
01:40:26.235 --> 01:40:28.237
♪ I, I was lost ♪

2158
01:40:31.448 --> 01:40:33.450
♪ So I took a different path ♪

2159
01:40:33.450 --> 01:40:34.910
♪ In the distance he awaited me ♪

2160
01:40:34.910 --> 01:40:36.161
♪ Had no weapon, I'm guessin' ♪

2161
01:40:36.161 --> 01:40:37.538
♪ His hands were just enough for me ♪

2162
01:40:37.538 --> 01:40:38.914
♪ Was no question,
I'm guessin' he laughed ♪

2163
01:40:38.914 --> 01:40:40.123
♪ Just at the sight of me ♪

2164
01:40:40.624 --> 01:40:43.335
♪ And there he was,
his presence was alarming ♪

2165
01:40:43.335 --> 01:40:44.586
♪ As he approached, was casual ♪

2166
01:40:44.586 --> 01:40:45.921
♪ We talked 'bout self- harming ♪

2167
01:40:45.921 --> 01:40:46.964
♪ He told me, "Kid, you shouldn't be ♪

2168
01:40:46.964 --> 01:40:48.298
♪ Walkin' on your own" ♪

2169
01:40:48.298 --> 01:40:49.675
♪ He smiled and laughed, and pat my back ♪

2170
01:40:49.675 --> 01:40:50.759
♪ He asked, "How far are you from home" ♪

2171
01:40:50.759 --> 01:40:53.220
♪ I said, "Maybe 30 minutes" ♪

2172
01:40:53.220 --> 01:40:54.388
♪ His frequency distorted quick ♪

2173
01:40:54.388 --> 01:40:55.764
♪ I seen it in his image ♪

2174
01:40:55.764 --> 01:40:57.391
♪ I should've run
right fucking there, a-- ♪

2175
01:41:00.018 --> 01:41:02.104
♪ You ever woke up on a train track ♪

2176
01:41:02.104 --> 01:41:03.647
♪ With no motherfuckin' clothes on ♪

2177
01:41:03.647 --> 01:41:04.898
♪ Death before your eyes,
you prayin' to God ♪

2178
01:41:04.898 --> 01:41:06.233
♪ But ain't no response ♪

2179
01:41:06.233 --> 01:41:07.317
♪ Tryna scream for hope, just a shoulder ♪

2180
01:41:07.317 --> 01:41:08.402
♪ That you can lean on ♪

2181
01:41:08.402 --> 01:41:09.611
♪ But ain't nobody comin' ♪

2182
01:41:09.611 --> 01:41:10.904
♪ So you scream on and scream on ♪

2183
01:41:10.904 --> 01:41:12.155
♪ And scream on ♪

2184
01:41:12.155 --> 01:41:13.574
♪ While this evil fuck laugh at you ♪

2185
01:41:13.574 --> 01:41:14.950
♪ Train getting closer,
you still surprised ♪

2186
01:41:14.950 --> 01:41:16.159
♪ That he battered you ♪

2187
01:41:16.159 --> 01:41:17.202
♪ Tears falling harder and harder ♪

2188
01:41:17.202 --> 01:41:18.412
♪ Minutes get minuscule ♪

2189
01:41:18.412 --> 01:41:19.580
♪ Could've had a son or a daughter ♪

2190
01:41:19.580 --> 01:41:20.581
♪ Now what you finna do ♪

2191
01:41:20.581 --> 01:41:21.665
[gunshot]

2192
01:41:24.751 --> 01:41:27.421
[siren wailing]

2193
01:41:35.429 --> 01:41:36.597
CLEOPATRA:
When I got the call...

2194
01:41:37.806 --> 01:41:38.765
yeah, I just...

2195
01:41:39.391 --> 01:41:41.143
I just collapsed to the floor.

2196
01:41:44.813 --> 01:41:47.149
- Bro, I think X got shot, bro.

2197
01:41:47.149 --> 01:41:49.943
- Hey!
- I think X got shot, bro.

2198
01:41:51.069 --> 01:41:53.322
I think X got shot, bro!

2199
01:41:54.573 --> 01:41:56.450
I think X got shot!

2200
01:41:57.367 --> 01:41:58.702
- I'm like, "They did what?

2201
01:41:59.328 --> 01:42:00.787
Wait, what do you mean they shot Jahseh?"

2202
01:42:01.288 --> 01:42:03.123
- I remember not having any gas,

2203
01:42:03.624 --> 01:42:05.000
not wanting to stop.

2204
01:42:06.376 --> 01:42:09.171
I'm trying to get to where he was,

2205
01:42:09.171 --> 01:42:12.049
and, um, it's all a blur.

2206
01:42:12.049 --> 01:42:13.800
- And I just remember, like, calling Cleo.

2207
01:42:13.800 --> 01:42:15.761
Like, "Cleo, where are you?"
She's like, "I'm lost."

2208
01:42:15.761 --> 01:42:17.804
She, like, literally didn't know
where she was.

2209
01:42:17.804 --> 01:42:20.140
I'm like, "Bro, you got
to get to the hospital."

2210
01:42:20.140 --> 01:42:21.975
She's like, "I'm trying
to get there, but I-- "

2211
01:42:21.975 --> 01:42:23.435
She's like, "I don't know where I'm at."

2212
01:42:23.435 --> 01:42:24.436
[sniffles]

2213
01:42:26.021 --> 01:42:27.940
- I was like disoriented.

2214
01:42:27.940 --> 01:42:30.317
I got there, there was
a few people there already,

2215
01:42:30.317 --> 01:42:31.944
I'm not sure how they found out.

2216
01:42:31.944 --> 01:42:34.071
And I was just in there from then on,

2217
01:42:34.071 --> 01:42:35.781
pacing back and forth.

2218
01:42:35.781 --> 01:42:38.116
I wasn't able to go back there,

2219
01:42:38.116 --> 01:42:39.493
and they gave me some bullshit story

2220
01:42:39.493 --> 01:42:41.828
about them not wanting me
to see him like that

2221
01:42:41.828 --> 01:42:43.789
because it would traumatize me.

2222
01:42:43.789 --> 01:42:46.583
But I think that I should have
made that decision

2223
01:42:46.583 --> 01:42:48.377
of seeing my son.

2224
01:42:49.086 --> 01:42:51.380
- And then it's like that calm.

2225
01:42:51.380 --> 01:42:53.131
Just, there was like a calm that set in,

2226
01:42:53.131 --> 01:42:54.216
because it's like, "All right.

2227
01:42:54.842 --> 01:42:57.052
"It's Jahseh, like, he's a fighter.

2228
01:42:59.346 --> 01:43:01.098
"He's a fighter.
Jahseh is going to make it through.

2229
01:43:01.098 --> 01:43:02.766
If anybody was going to make it through,
it was going to be him."

2230
01:43:04.142 --> 01:43:07.521
- The cops came out,
and they pulled me in a room

2231
01:43:07.521 --> 01:43:09.857
and I remember

2232
01:43:09.857 --> 01:43:12.568
the officer was just so callous

2233
01:43:12.568 --> 01:43:14.236
when he delivered.

2234
01:43:14.236 --> 01:43:16.989
He was just like,
"Oh, Jahseh expired today

2235
01:43:16.989 --> 01:43:18.365
at such and such time."

2236
01:43:19.867 --> 01:43:23.412
- I still don't understand,
what do you mean by expired?

2237
01:43:30.544 --> 01:43:32.254
- That shit just seem like

2238
01:43:32.963 --> 01:43:36.091
watching a movie or something.

2239
01:43:36.091 --> 01:43:39.469
It's, I-I don't know, I never get,

2240
01:43:40.470 --> 01:43:42.806
come to terms with it.

2241
01:43:45.517 --> 01:43:47.728
- It went from that to just...

2242
01:43:50.647 --> 01:43:51.940
planning a funeral.

2243
01:43:52.733 --> 01:43:54.151
I remember Cleo walking
in the room and saying,

2244
01:43:54.151 --> 01:43:56.111
"How do we plan a funeral?

2245
01:44:00.157 --> 01:44:02.284
How do I plan a funeral for my son?"

2246
01:44:10.417 --> 01:44:13.629
♪

2247
01:44:21.094 --> 01:44:23.764
♪ Before I lay me down to sleep ♪

2248
01:44:24.139 --> 01:44:26.808
♪ I pray the Lord my soul to keep ♪

2249
01:44:27.184 --> 01:44:30.437
♪ I hope it's not too late for me, Whoa ♪

2250
01:44:33.273 --> 01:44:35.901
♪ Before I lay me down to sleep ♪

2251
01:44:36.276 --> 01:44:39.196
♪ I pray the Lord my soul to keep ♪

2252
01:44:39.196 --> 01:44:42.366
♪ I hope it's not too late for me, Whoa ♪

2253
01:44:45.410 --> 01:44:46.578
♪ Difference ♪

2254
01:44:46.578 --> 01:44:49.790
♪ Changing in the distance ♪

2255
01:44:49.790 --> 01:44:53.001
♪ Time consumes the image ♪

2256
01:44:53.961 --> 01:44:54.962
♪ Whoa ♪

2257
01:44:57.297 --> 01:45:00.551
♪ Before I lay me down to sleep ♪

2258
01:45:00.551 --> 01:45:03.220
♪ I pray the Lord my soul to keep ♪

2259
01:45:03.595 --> 01:45:06.849
♪ I hope it's not too late for me, whoa ♪

2260
01:45:37.629 --> 01:45:40.716
- Oh no. This is, that's not a toy.

2261
01:45:41.717 --> 01:45:42.843
That's not a toy.

2262
01:45:45.095 --> 01:45:47.806
CLEOPATRA: His son isn't old enough
to carry on his legacy.

2263
01:45:48.307 --> 01:45:50.142
There's nobody that can do it.

2264
01:45:50.142 --> 01:45:53.645
So I have to not only be here

2265
01:45:53.645 --> 01:45:55.772
for my other son,

2266
01:45:55.772 --> 01:45:58.317
I have to be here to maintain his legacy

2267
01:45:58.317 --> 01:46:01.028
as well as look after my grandson.

2268
01:46:04.406 --> 01:46:06.700
Jah was my practice baby.

2269
01:46:07.284 --> 01:46:08.660
I was 17 years old.

2270
01:46:08.660 --> 01:46:11.288
There was nobody teaching me
how to take care of a child.

2271
01:46:11.288 --> 01:46:13.457
I just had to kind of figure it out.

2272
01:46:14.875 --> 01:46:18.337
Jah kind of changed
my mindset from hammering,

2273
01:46:18.337 --> 01:46:19.880
"You're going to do this,
you're going to do that,"

2274
01:46:19.880 --> 01:46:22.216
because you lose your child doing that.

2275
01:46:23.091 --> 01:46:25.219
You have to allow them to be themselves.

2276
01:46:29.056 --> 01:46:31.099
- How are you?
- Good.

2277
01:46:34.353 --> 01:46:36.063
GENEVA:
After Jahseh died,

2278
01:46:36.063 --> 01:46:39.024
Cleo reached out to me,
like, a year later.

2279
01:46:40.025 --> 01:46:41.568
So, she calls me,

2280
01:46:41.568 --> 01:46:44.029
and before I answer the phone,
I'm like, "Oh my god."

2281
01:46:44.029 --> 01:46:45.906
Like, "I don't know if this
is gonna be bad or good."

2282
01:46:45.906 --> 01:46:48.867
I was, like, alleviated
but really nervous.

2283
01:46:49.493 --> 01:46:52.412
CLEOPATRA: You know, this is,
my son's no longer here,

2284
01:46:52.412 --> 01:46:55.457
and I feel like it's up to me now

2285
01:46:55.457 --> 01:46:58.585
to make amends for any mistakes
that he's done

2286
01:46:58.585 --> 01:47:01.547
and try to right his wrongs
as much as I can.

2287
01:47:01.547 --> 01:47:03.882
I would actually like
to hear you tell your story

2288
01:47:03.882 --> 01:47:05.425
because like I said, my son died

2289
01:47:05.425 --> 01:47:08.220
and I, he's never admitted it to me.

2290
01:47:08.220 --> 01:47:10.514
I don't think he would want me
to see him in that light

2291
01:47:10.514 --> 01:47:14.226
or know those things, that side of him.

2292
01:47:14.852 --> 01:47:16.436
You know, Jahseh...

2293
01:47:20.357 --> 01:47:23.068
was wrong for what he did.

2294
01:47:24.486 --> 01:47:28.282
You know, um, there's no excuse
for that, period.

2295
01:47:28.991 --> 01:47:30.701
You know? But, um...

2296
01:47:32.578 --> 01:47:34.872
I just want the world to know that

2297
01:47:36.081 --> 01:47:38.208
he wasn't that same person anymore

2298
01:47:38.208 --> 01:47:41.837
and that whether it's the past,
it's still a part of his story.

2299
01:47:46.133 --> 01:47:48.552
GENEVA:
Now, Cleo and I are cool.

2300
01:47:49.094 --> 01:47:52.139
It makes me feel like
a weight is lifted basically.

2301
01:47:53.140 --> 01:47:55.934
Because I felt like I wasn't accepted

2302
01:47:55.934 --> 01:47:57.769
by the whole family the whole time.

2303
01:47:59.521 --> 01:48:00.647
[sniffles]

2304
01:48:04.484 --> 01:48:07.237
CLEOPATRA: I'm not going to hate her
and my son's not here,

2305
01:48:07.237 --> 01:48:09.865
and I don't think she should
be mistreated in any way.

2306
01:48:09.865 --> 01:48:12.951
This is about his legacy,
and she is the love of his life,

2307
01:48:12.951 --> 01:48:15.120
and she was a part of that legacy.

2308
01:48:19.708 --> 01:48:21.585
GENEVA:
People have, like, asked me for advice,

2309
01:48:21.585 --> 01:48:24.087
and I just feel bad sometimes
'cause, like,

2310
01:48:24.087 --> 01:48:28.133
I don't know how I feel
about telling other people

2311
01:48:28.133 --> 01:48:30.010
what to do or, like,
how to feel about that

2312
01:48:30.010 --> 01:48:31.595
because I feel like it's just different

2313
01:48:31.595 --> 01:48:32.971
with every person.

2314
01:48:35.807 --> 01:48:37.768
SKI:
It's crazy to think that really and truly

2315
01:48:37.768 --> 01:48:39.811
that the end of the story
to Jahseh's legacy

2316
01:48:39.811 --> 01:48:42.439
is going to really help
so many fucking lives.

2317
01:48:45.275 --> 01:48:48.237
So hard to explain, but this
dude turned everything around

2318
01:48:48.237 --> 01:48:49.738
for the better.

2319
01:48:52.157 --> 01:48:54.785
GUY: He set out a parachute
with his name on it.

2320
01:48:55.494 --> 01:48:58.080
I think he wanted to talk about suicide

2321
01:48:58.080 --> 01:49:00.874
and those types of things
to help somebody.

2322
01:49:01.750 --> 01:49:03.252
Really, he wanted to save somebody.

2323
01:49:11.426 --> 01:49:13.095
SKI:
It could go a lot of ways for me,

2324
01:49:13.095 --> 01:49:15.681
but I just know that I have
to make Jahseh proud,

2325
01:49:15.681 --> 01:49:16.890
I have to.

2326
01:49:16.890 --> 01:49:18.308
Because I know I'm going to see him again

2327
01:49:18.308 --> 01:49:20.102
in some cosmic plan.

2328
01:49:20.102 --> 01:49:21.770
Some cosmic plan, I'm gonna see Jah again,

2329
01:49:21.770 --> 01:49:23.856
and that's what I live
my life based off of.

2330
01:49:23.856 --> 01:49:27.317
WOMAN: To Jah!
ALL: To Jah!

2331
01:49:30.737 --> 01:49:34.700
♪

2332
01:49:34.700 --> 01:49:37.035
- But thank you so much for coming, y'all.

2333
01:49:37.035 --> 01:49:38.537
[crowd cheering]

2334
01:49:38.537 --> 01:49:41.415
♪ True love ♪

2335
01:49:41.415 --> 01:49:44.626
♪ Shouldn't be this complicated ♪

2336
01:49:45.002 --> 01:49:47.546
♪ Thought I'd die in your arms ♪

2337
01:49:47.546 --> 01:49:49.965
♪ I thought I'd die in your ♪

2338
01:49:49.965 --> 01:49:51.592
♪ True love ♪

2339
01:49:52.676 --> 01:49:56.305
♪ Shouldn't be this complicated ♪

2340
01:49:56.305 --> 01:49:58.891
♪ Thought I'd die in your arms ♪

2341
01:49:58.891 --> 01:50:01.476
♪ I thought I'd die in your ♪

2342
01:50:01.476 --> 01:50:03.395
♪ No hard feelings
but these feelings harder ♪

2343
01:50:03.395 --> 01:50:05.939
♪ When I think about it,
my eyes fill up with water ♪

2344
01:50:05.939 --> 01:50:09.026
♪ Don't have our daughters
butterfly while they larvae ♪

2345
01:50:09.026 --> 01:50:11.695
♪ Wait, when you see the kids?
I'll see y'all tomorrow ♪

2346
01:50:11.695 --> 01:50:14.489
♪ Wait, when the sunset?
I see y'all tomorrow ♪

2347
01:50:14.489 --> 01:50:17.534
♪ Wait, when I pick 'em up,
I feel like they borrowed ♪

2348
01:50:17.534 --> 01:50:20.621
♪ When I gotta return them,
scan 'em like a bar code ♪

2349
01:50:20.621 --> 01:50:23.207
♪ Wait, no hard feelings,
but these feelings hard though ♪

2350
01:50:23.207 --> 01:50:26.084
♪ Wait, who got our kids in some,
"What are those?" ♪

2351
01:50:26.084 --> 01:50:28.837
♪ Wait, why they can't wear Yeezys
with the cargos? ♪

2352
01:50:28.837 --> 01:50:31.840
♪ Y'all know Nike don't like me,
y'all take it too far though

2353
01:50:31.840 --> 01:50:34.593
♪ At least have 'em in some Mike's,
he played for Chicago ♪

2354
01:50:34.593 --> 01:50:37.346
♪ I only see three kids,
who watchin' Chicago? ♪

2355
01:50:37.346 --> 01:50:40.390
♪ And you know all the nannies said,
"Daddy in Nebraska" ♪

2356
01:50:40.390 --> 01:50:43.060
♪ Let the kids dig a tunnel
to my house like Chapo ♪

2357
01:50:43.060 --> 01:50:45.854
♪ Only neighbor in the hood
with a door they can knock on ♪

2358
01:50:45.854 --> 01:50:47.773
♪ I leave the light on ♪

2359
01:50:50.526 --> 01:50:51.985
- When I first found out about X,

2360
01:50:51.985 --> 01:50:55.364
I was going through
a very rough patch in my life.

2361
01:50:55.364 --> 01:50:58.033
His music was able to just help me realize

2362
01:50:58.033 --> 01:51:00.077
that no matter what I'm going through,

2363
01:51:00.077 --> 01:51:01.495
there's always somebody out there

2364
01:51:01.495 --> 01:51:03.247
who feels the same way
and has the same emotions

2365
01:51:03.247 --> 01:51:04.206
that I'm feeling.

2366
01:51:06.416 --> 01:51:07.918
- I looked at him as a mentor.

2367
01:51:07.918 --> 01:51:10.963
I would hit him up for advice
in high school.

2368
01:51:10.963 --> 01:51:14.091
Like, I would hit him up for advice

2369
01:51:14.091 --> 01:51:15.634
if I was going through something,

2370
01:51:15.634 --> 01:51:18.303
and it, he was always there.

2371
01:51:18.303 --> 01:51:20.013
Literally, he was always there.

2372
01:51:22.349 --> 01:51:23.851
- Everybody wants to be
acknowledged, you know.

2373
01:51:23.851 --> 01:51:26.270
And, you know, you get
the occasional thank you

2374
01:51:26.270 --> 01:51:27.896
for the deal and nice whatever, whatever.

2375
01:51:27.896 --> 01:51:30.190
But, you know, our first deal

2376
01:51:30.190 --> 01:51:33.193
which was a seven-figure deal,
he called me up and said,

2377
01:51:33.193 --> 01:51:35.237
"Thank you, you're the reason
my life has changed."

2378
01:51:35.237 --> 01:51:38.824
I'm like, "Okay, that's kind of cool.

2379
01:51:38.824 --> 01:51:40.200
No one's ever said that before."

2380
01:51:45.205 --> 01:51:47.708
- My favorite memory of Jahseh...

2381
01:51:49.501 --> 01:51:52.087
was when it was me,

2382
01:51:52.880 --> 01:51:57.050
my homie VINNY CHANGO$, Ski, and Jah,

2383
01:51:57.050 --> 01:52:00.053
and, like, we played
his music on the radio

2384
01:52:00.053 --> 01:52:01.972
and, like, he, like...

2385
01:52:02.848 --> 01:52:04.850
stood up in the middle of a car,

2386
01:52:04.850 --> 01:52:07.102
like, put his, like, ear mad close

2387
01:52:07.102 --> 01:52:08.395
to, like, to the speaker and was like,

2388
01:52:08.395 --> 01:52:09.897
"Yo, is this me?"

2389
01:52:10.397 --> 01:52:12.024
Like, "Is this me right now?"

2390
01:52:12.024 --> 01:52:13.775
And I'm like, "Bro, this is you."

2391
01:52:13.775 --> 01:52:15.736
And then for, like,
literally the rest of the night,

2392
01:52:15.736 --> 01:52:17.237
I kid you not,

2393
01:52:17.237 --> 01:52:19.990
he just screamed, "This is me!

2394
01:52:19.990 --> 01:52:21.450
"This is me!

2395
01:52:21.450 --> 01:52:22.826
This is me!" For the whole night.

2396
01:52:25.037 --> 01:52:28.207
- So, he's in the studio
doing his thing, I hit record.

2397
01:52:29.708 --> 01:52:31.668
He didn't know I hit record.

2398
01:52:31.668 --> 01:52:34.213
So, I hit record and he's doing
his little thing,

2399
01:52:34.213 --> 01:52:35.756
doing his little thing.

2400
01:52:35.756 --> 01:52:37.549
So, he's like, "All right, I'm ready now."

2401
01:52:37.549 --> 01:52:39.426
So, I just start playing back
what he just did.

2402
01:52:39.426 --> 01:52:41.720
He was like,
"What, what, what, you was recording?"

2403
01:52:41.720 --> 01:52:43.514
I'm like, "Yeah." He was like, "Shit.

2404
01:52:43.514 --> 01:52:45.557
I like this shit. Keep playing it."

2405
01:52:45.557 --> 01:52:46.642
I was like, "All right."

2406
01:52:49.186 --> 01:52:51.730
- He never turned this into a song,
but it was always one of those moments

2407
01:52:51.730 --> 01:52:53.440
that kind of stuck with me.

2408
01:52:57.694 --> 01:53:00.864
- ♪ I just wanna show the world ♪

2409
01:53:00.864 --> 01:53:04.284
♪ That I can
amount to something better ♪

2410
01:53:07.412 --> 01:53:10.791
[continues singing]

2411
01:53:14.211 --> 01:53:15.671
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪