CJ on Suge Knight, being in prison with Trevon Lane & Reggie Wright working for Death Row (pt. 3)

so so back at c stephen c foster was uh did should not go to steven c foster with you yeah sure i did go to steve 64. he's got to be a couple years younger than you though yes he is suga is uh 54. 54.57 now yeah i'll be 58 more to be 55 in april we went all the way to the sixth grade then there yeah so when i was in the sixth he was like third grade like third grade i think emily reggie probably was like in the same grade together with some [ __ ] oh okay yeah so um i mean he was just i guess an ordinary kid back then huh we were all in there [Laughter] [Music] in fact when we were at elementary school at foster uh on the back side of it where my mom lives at there was a baseball field back there and we were all involved in sports everybody's at the baseball field every weekend uh we're playing games we have you know several teams all the homies in the neighborhood we're on different teams uh our parents ran the snack bar uh as far as the refreshments and stuff like that so he was academic and athletically sound you know what i'm saying and we we all saw this and we knew this and he had great potentials and he was great in football yeah right in fact when we used to go up to linwood high school to watch the games when we would leave out of here off this block or wherever we was at in this sector right here to go to the game 20 30 of us right we're only going up there to watch the game because sugar's playing i guess there wasn't a big connection with suge because sugar wasn't hanging out with the mob and the looters during their years middle school and high school years no because he was into his sports and his school yeah his schooling yeah that's what he was into but yeah he's but yeah he came around and you dropped through here holidays dj what's up like hey what's happening you know he all at the homies you know what i'm saying but he wasn't hanging out like you know hanging out you know like shooting dice on the corner and drinking wine and all that like we was doing he wasn't doing that he definitely wasn't fighting no crips and you know i even he wasn't fighting no crips he didn't have to fight no chris we were already doing that yeah he didn't have to do that you know what i'm saying he did what he was supposed to do and because of what he did it got him to where he had gotten to had it not been for that would there be a sugar night in death row who knows yeah okay so um around 1988 89 he decides to get into the music business and by 91 92 he's got death row records i know you go you went to prison amazing yeah amazing before me and ganks and nate catch our 15-year sentence i'm fresh out of prison i'm coming from my mom's house walking toward mr ray house shield pulls up on me 88. asked me to go somewhere out of town with him but i was on parole and i couldn't go i didn't have no idea anyway i couldn't get on a plane anyway i got a [ __ ] id i don't [ __ ] get on the plane right so i don't go 1989 me and gangster nate catch a 15 year sentence go to prison while i'm in prison in 91 92 maybe i'll say 92 could have been 93. mark trey comes there trayvon lane trayvon lane comes to the prison and i'm there gangsta sanford lewis park is there uh johan from llama arrested pieces there vincent marshall from hollyhood is there uh boston from lionhood is there big out from the mob for my power glenn christmas is there so we're all there my power rules ludas park fire rules hollywood power rules line world probably we're all in this prison together here comes trey fonlan right let me real quick trayvon lane was a youngster back then he was a youngster assuming most of the homies on the yard didn't even know who he was you know who he was but that's my little homie so when he comes i'm there so that that was a relief point you know and i was happy to sing you know what i'm saying because why you here what you doing here you're going to say it like now you coming to prison now so we talking he says hey you know she'll start a record company and i'm like what you're like yeah you know he got dr dre in there with him so on and so forth and i'm like well trade dr dress with easy and they'll be like well no you know sure got him off the contract so on and so forth i'm like really like yeah i can call him on the phone right now so trey gets on the prison phone on the wall we ain't got no cell phones back then he's calling collette and he calls shook and he's talking with him and he puts me on the phone with ship and i talked to shook you know what i'm saying that was the very first time that i had spoken to shield since 1988 when he stopped and asked me to go somewhere with him and i wasn't able to go right but from that moment that trayvon put me on the phone with him i've been in contact and talking with him from then on so you get out in 97 and right 97 97. and i think correct me if i wrong you end up going right to death row right i go to the death row you know she's not there she's not there i go to death row when i get the death row shook not there coarse park is dead is reggie running it reggie's running it yeah reggie's running it i go there with a bunch you know it's my fact when i go in there because you know we all know about reggie reggie used to be the police and so forth right but the [ __ ] cool you know what i'm saying cause i know when i used to go to cop jail and [ __ ] [ __ ] would give me extra food give me extra phone calls and [ __ ] like that right we grew up down the street from each other so i know it's dead and everything and they know me well so i go and uh he's there you know he's running it now he's kind of running it there he's there right and uh neck bone was there but neck bone had to go back to prison for something so he was there just a short time when i got out of 97. and i kind of like bunched me i'm like busting like i'm like what's going up in here i'm like you know it's [ __ ] police man yeah it's a bunch you're like oh man you know what [ __ ] man they you know you're like man it's cool man you know like all right man you know i don't like the police though man you know cause i don't come from that you know we don't it's like how did he end up in here right well right there but then maybe it goes back to when it was that's high school yeah and plus that was a short decision and that's just decision since that's the thing you know what i'm saying it's his record company he has the right to do whatever the hell he wanted to do it's his [ __ ] and some of the homies was cool with it too and some of the homies and i i was like okay well we're butchering it's cool with it you know what i'm saying being busted type be the best of boys you know what i'm saying the best of boys you know what i'm saying uh i immediately you know uh uh grew attached to bunchery from the very moment that i met him the very moment that i met even though james is older you know what i'm saying james was a little more hostile back then you know he was kind of he was more he was aggressive you know he hostile he you know he want to beat everybody whoop everybody you know what i'm saying you know you always want to carry around a stick of some old [ __ ] and you know hit on [ __ ] and he was he was more hostile you know saying butcher was more laid back you know if that wasn't his character he was more mellow you know what i'm saying he was about the business don't get me wrong he was about to business but he was more laid back so yeah i get to death row and uh butchery's you know he's there uh lip dog's there mob tray trayvon uh and reggie of course now at that time there's no artists there yeah parker's already dead parker's dead snoopers on his way to no limit uh well uh the realest he didn't really do too much daz came through a couple of times as a matter of fact when i got up the last thing that was being pushed out was dad's uh revenge retaliation and get backs albums outside of the gang-related soundtrack so that's when i was there working with a bunch of you know what i'm saying through sugar and reggie and them and that was pretty much the downfall that was a downfall it was really it was really when i first got there and went into the office it was such of a a somber feeling you know what i'm saying it was really quiet uh you know i think everybody was like kind of like still like you know in mourning behind what happened with park and shield being arrested and having to go to prison and how do we survive how does the company survive without the boss being here you know we all know how that played out you know i'm saying because no one else can run the death row but chip yeah you know i mean reggie did the best he could but it was just a difficult task trying to to salvage that at that time it was it was a tough time it was a tough time it was hard you you kind of missed the heyday of death row i i did i guess the heyday of death row was from 92 to 96 90 right and then i also think you know i think too you know what i'm saying because of sure coming up the way he came up and then he starts this record company and then within a couple of years this record company has estimated that damn near half a billion dollars yeah you know what i'm saying who in there i don't even think that he thought that that would happen like that you know what i'm saying now here's this big old explosion you know what i'm saying of death row records you know what i'm saying and the revenue that's being made from this company now you got sugar and got all the homies you know what i'm saying now i want to say this i have to say this here's a man that grew up in our neighborhood way before some of the homies even came to the neighborhood you know what i'm saying he's a fabric of the community he didn't have to cut after he started his record company he didn't have to come back here to employ nobody he didn't have to do that why did he come back here and initially start working with james you know what i'm saying james was the first one working with you you know what i'm saying james was running uh let me ride hydraulics yeah i'm in prison i'm calling i'm talking to james yeah i'm up here we're running the low rider shop and and they they still up in here and i can hear i'm like what's going on man this [ __ ] giant tripping me running around with these guns and [ __ ] and i'm like what are you doing like what are y'all doing so now here's a man he starts a record company he's successful and he comes back he employs his homie he gives them job opportunities put them in shops to run right the shop fails thanks for watching streettv.net if you're not subscribed please hit that button below and click the bell to receive alerts and notifications feel free to comment below so you can give us your feedback and be sure to watch the two related episodes to the right if you want to support this platform or follow us on social media visit the links in the description and thanks for watching 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Channel: StreetTV

Views: 95,214

Keywords: gangs, street gangs, Los Angeles gangs, alex alonso, donald archie, Craig monson, Judson bacot, ernest roybal, Melvin Farmer, Raymond Washington, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips and Bloods, Surenos and Nortenos, Mexican Mafia, StreetTV, streetgangs.com, Alex Alonso interviews, The Gangster Chronicles, Mobb James, Reggie Wright, Death Row Records, Suge Knight, Travon Lane, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, No Limit Records, Dr. Dre, The Chronic, Lakewood Mall incident

Id: RbmrUyW86H8

Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020