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BUBBA LOC INTERVIEW

First Mind Entertainment sits down with Maurice Hill aka Bubba Loc, a non-active member of the Rollin' 60's, a notorious black street gang, out of South Los Angeles, CA to ask him about his transition from being an active gang banger to the prominent, up and coming comedian he is today.

The first question we asked him was simply, "Why did you start gang banging?" He answered stating, "Because, my older brother Snoop, a founder of the Rollin' 60's was one of my mentors. I grew up watching him and his friends low-riding and having fun."

In 1984, he said he remembered being chased in the Jungles (a congested, low-income housing community in S. LA) by some Black P Stones, a rival blood gang, who some how found out he and his brother were Crips from Rollin' 60's. From that point he decided to go full fledge and became an active gang banger at the age of 14. He stated he was active for about 15 years and had been shot, jumped, in gang fights and did a year in jail for felony possession of a firearm, where he beat the case by 2 hung juries.

In 1993, his beloved mother passed away, ultimately leaving him with a decision to continue gang banging or do something productive with his life. So, he along with his friends Willie Burgess aka Billy Carter and Gary Nash aka lil Player formed a peace march to help stop the violence in their community. He also aspired to be a stand up comedian, featured on BET's Comic View and performing at several different venues, like the J Spot and the Savoy (in Inglewood, CA) along with most of the spots in Hollywood. He often jokes about his past life being a former Crip from Rollin '60's and how after being shot he realized you don't get an award for gang banging, so he said to himself, sh..t, fu.. this! He often talked about how things used to be updated with the latest gossip and news.

Currently, Bubba Loc is doing stand-up comedy and is also featured in the soon to be released documentary, Outside My Window, where he briefly talks about a fight that broke out at the LL Cool J concert between the Rollin' 60's and the Long Beach Insane Crips back in the mid-80's. Below you will find a video clip of Bubba Loc telling this very story, please watch.

Former gang member talks about his struggle with gangs and how he overcame his struggles in order to be the success he is today

Jamal Woodley, CEO of Urban Minds, a youth movement organization designed to help inner city youth, talks about his struggles dealing with gangs and how he overcame them.  I sat down with Jamal on November 30, 2009 at approx. 9:35 in the morning for the interview.  As I began to write, I couldn't help but to notice his passion and desire to be heard (like most of Americans today). 

We started our conversation talking about his transformation in the CA Youth Authority. There he worked for the CA Dept. of Forestry, a program designed to help inmates through firefighting.  He stated that while serving time and fighting fires he realized how stupid it was to fight over gangs when they had to help each other survive the forest.  They were no longer fighting one another, after all, at that point the enemy was the fire.  Shortly after, he focused his time and energy on becoming a success instead of going on the path he led as a youth.  Now Jamal Woodley owns his own company developing music artists, like Cali Alley, Jahrell Hayes Christian Nate and Melody Monroe, hot young talent surely making their way to the top.  

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Gang graffiti 

Is gang graffiti a problem in your neighborhood

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia                                                      

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire^[1]. In modern times, spray paint, normal paint and markers have become the most commonly used materials. In most countries, defacing property with graffiti without the property owner's consent is considered vandalism, which is punishable by law. Sometimes graffiti is employed to communicate social and political messages. To some, it is an art form worthy of display in galleries and exhibitions; to others it is merely vandalism. Graffiti has since evolved into a pop culture existence often related to underground hip hop music and b-boying creating a lifestyle that remains hidden from the general public.^[2] Graffiti is used as a gang signalto mark territory or to serve as an indicator or "tag" for gang-related activity. The controversies that surround graffiti continue to create disagreement amongst city officials/ law enforcement and graffitists looking to display their work in public locations. There are many different types and styles of graffiti and it is a rapidly developing artform whose value is highly contested, being reviled by many authorities while also subject to protection, sometimes within the same jurisdiction

Did  StanleyTookie Williams deserve the death penalty?

Redemption according to Webster's dictionary (ri-demp'shen) n. An act of redeeming or state of being redeemed.

So do I thinking Tookie Williams co founder the notorious street gang known all over the world as the crips deserved the death penalty my answer is no ! So why do you suppose the current Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to follow  with the decision of terminating the late Stanley Tookie Williams by lethal injection. 

Tookie Williams was convicted of shooting a 26-year-old convenience store clerk in the back twice with a shotgun while he allegedly lay prone on the floor. He was also found guilty of shooting a Chinese immigrant couple and their daughter less than two weeks after the shooting at the convenience store."Stanley Williams insists he is innocent, and that he will not and should not apologize or otherwise atone for the murders of the four victims in this case," Schwarzenegger wrote "Without an apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings, there can be no redemption."

Tookie Williams was  put to rest at 12:01 AM Tuesday morning

Stanley Tookie Williams may your soul rest in peace..

Unemployment on the rise in America but it looks like its been that way for some time in the inner cities of America.

South Los Angeles according to the Wikipedia encyclopedia South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A., is the official name for a large .... Widespread unemployment, poverty and street crime contributed to the rise of street gangs in South Central, such as the Crips and Bloods. ...