Episode 315 "Hurricane Chris"

Episode 315 - "The Baller Alert Show" Feat: Ferrari Simmons & You Know BT Produced by: Octavia March

Topics include: Dropping out of high school at age 16, Fallout with J Records & Dj Hollyhood Bay Bay, Acquittal of a Second-Degree Murder Charge, Criminal Justice Reform & More.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Word with me here.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You know bt know how it goes, shout out O
C T.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
No real color what we see, whole game?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Read the butler be something you can't stand on the house.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
See, I already know you came with me because up
with the squad of me, they get a little they
called me.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello, ball Alert Welcome to the ball Alert Show podcast
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
Please continue to like, subscribe, and share our YouTube page
at baller Alert Tv. One time for revolt. I go
by the name of Ferrari Simmons.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
I go by the name you know BT C T
with that hurricane Chris in the building.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
What's good?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
What's uping man?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
How you feeling? I'm chipping man, I'm good. I'm happy
to be here.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
Man.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now, see you pulled up something nice?

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Man?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
You staying in Atlanta?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, I got a spot out of here.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Okay, okay, that ain't a rental, that's.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
No he said. He said he got a spot out here.
That means he got a couple couple of different smiles.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Rentals, no leases.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Took you a little minute to the parkeet, but I still
can't drive, don't matter how Hurricane Chris.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I was going, sir, man, I'm good. I'm blessed to
wake up this morning. I had pancakes, bacon and eggs,
you know, and I'm up, I'm here.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
So you got a good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, that's every morning.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
We gonna give your business a little bit. It's that cool.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, Man, ain't nothing you can't ask me. I ain't ain't.
I ain't got no how good bad, no bad skeletons
that I need to have one at about me and
what I got going in my life. My grandma said, somebody,
if you need to hide it, then you don't need
to do it. Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:39):
Related birthday in February.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It was March to seventh Mar seven.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
Very cool, your season, what you do for your birthday?

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I just chilled at the house. I ain't. I ain't
too big on staying on my birthday around people that
ain't in my everyday life. Like that's a day that
I think I supposed to spend around the people who
mean the most to me, which is my son, my
significant other, you know, the people who who there for
me every day. That's who I celebrate my life with.
I find it kind of goofy to go celebrate your

(02:08):
life with a bunch of people that ain't helping your
life and ain't around you throughout your life daily. You know,
that's something that I take as a private thing. You
feel me. I don't even make posters or nothing like that.
I be seeing people say it's my birthday. I'm like
you asking to be celebrated, you know, for my birthday.
I just that's a it's a it's a it's a
sentimental value with that, you.

Speaker 7 (02:29):
Know, let's talk about those values. You know, going back
to the street for Louisiana, which is where you're from
growing up. You know, what was it like for Chris
before Hurricane Chris?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, Chris my real name. I'm a junior. My son
named Chris too. My daddy named Chris. A lot of
Chris going on, straight up, straight up man, Streetport crazy.
I ain't gonna lie. Streetport is like that's my hometown.
But it's been real gangstand Streetport for a real long
time since I could remember. Like my dad in them

(03:02):
was with the shit. Like I used to hear them
talking about missions that they just went on when they
came in a house. So I could lie to you
and tell you it's been peaches and cream and I
grew up like the fresh prince bell out, but I'd
be lying, Okay, it really was. It was. It was.
It was a treacherous town, and I think I witnessed
a lot of stuff I a kid should have never witnessed,
you know, Like I really was right in the mix.

(03:24):
At at three years old, I was watching my dad
they break down a whole key on the table right
in front of me, and by the age of five,
I knew what it was and I was repeating it
to my mama and my daddy was whooping me. So
it's like I grew up writing a mixed of some
some real deal street you know type cats.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Did it affect your your upbringing in any kind of way.
Did your dad go to jail or anything?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, he did four and a half years, but it
was over marijuana. It wasn't over what they you know,
really was doing. He he he did four and a
half years over marijuana. So it it. It definitely affected me.
It taught me to It helped me as well though
in some positive ways, because I'm well of my surroundings.

(04:10):
Like when I'm in my house, I watch everything that's
going on, and I don't sleep deep like all of
these is some conditioning from growing up inside the trap house.
Like well, I wouldn't say trap house, but in a
house where they really did a lot of you know,
illegal activities.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Just a certain environment.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, I grew up in that environment. So at the
age of probably five, my daddy used to give me
the strap, take everything out of it, and tell me
wash the dough. It got to the point where when
all his friends came in, they unloaded they straps and
handed it to me too, and they used to laugh
at the fact that I used to like the hold
of straps. And this was this was probably before the
age of five, It's probably four years old. So I

(04:51):
was sitting on the couch with three or four tools,
watching the door, like thinking, I'm doing what my daddy
told me to do. And still to this day, I
watched the door anywhere I go, I'm watching the door
if your home, well, walking here right now, he could
be here for you, but I'm gonna look at him
up and down because he's stepping into his own way
close enough.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
To when you walk there, you lift me up and
down before you shut my hand.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yeah, I gotta make sure. You got to make sure
your pockets empty, ain't nothing, You ain't reaching for nothing,
like I'm conditioned like that.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
So you did give me a pause, then yeah, I
gotta make.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Sure everything is good. When somebody get close enough to
do something to you, then it's done. So you gotta
you gotta be scanning what's going on before somebody could
even you know, get that close so or have enough time.
Sometimes it come off as being rude, but when a
person walk up to me and speak, the first thing
I'm doing is looking down at they waist band in
their pockets before I even respond. And it's just from

(05:44):
growing up in that environment.

Speaker 8 (05:45):
Where was your mom att in this at this time?
Like when you were.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Doing all this, my mama was right there telling my
dad and no, don't do that, and he was like,
shut up.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
What did your mom do for work? Like what is
your mom?

Speaker 1 (05:57):
My? Daddy put her in to school and after that
she got a beauty shop. Okay, she had a couple
of beauty.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Shops, and your dad was just outside.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Outside he would but he was he was. He was
a different type of dude. Like besides protecting myself and
everything around me, he ain't allowed me to to indulge
in nothing. Else and he he. He always used to
preach to me like this ain't what you want to
do now. They would hand me their straps and tell

(06:29):
me to hold them. But if you fired up some
gas in front of me, you might get stumped. It
was all about respect. Like if one of his homeboys
came around me and lit some up, it was a
wrap for him. I'm talking about bad. It would go
bad right down on the spot. I gotta literally watched
my dad almost get rid of people for walking in
my prisons and indulging in drugs.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
So that had to affect you when you were in
school too, So like you know, when you went to school.
How how how was Hurricane Chris in school?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
In school? I mean, like I tell you, he taught
me the right things as well. So it wasn't like
he raised me to just be stupid. He just raised
me to be aware of my surroundings and protect myself.
So when it came to school, my dadd didn't play
no games. A lot of my aunts on my dad's
side of the family was in the educational system. Both

(07:19):
of my antis drive school buses. I got two twin
teachers in my family, that's twin sisters. They daddy was
in the educational system. So that's something that we ain't
never play no games about. And he ain't never played
with me about no education. Like I had to come
home do my homework, I had to be in the
house before the street lights came on. So he ain't

(07:40):
raised me to be stupid. He just I grew up around,
you know, some stuff that he was forced to be
a part of because he had to provide for his family.
And it ain't like he had another house he could
send me to. You know, back in the gap, it
was different.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
It was like the gap, what's the gap?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Back in the day. In the day, like your spot
was your spot, your family was right there with you,
you know. So I just had the witness a lot
coming up.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Now was the neighborhood that you grew up in.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It was treacherous, it was. I grew up in Seedar Grove,
it was. It was a hell of a neighborhood. Like
I'd be outside playing one minute and then I see
a car pull up. Three dudes hang out the window
and they light the house up across the street, you know,
and like the house to the left of that, they
went to the gas station, came back, and almost everybody

(08:34):
got killed except the mama. You know what I'm saying.
Like kids I used to play with, they mama took
them to the gas station and they was they was
killed their corner stoves, and like it really was a
treacherous neighborhood. I can remember so many nights of me
and my cousins playing in the living room on the
floor and and half of the hide on the beds
when we hear gunshots going off. Like I really grew

(08:56):
up in that type of neighborhood, you know, So it
is what it is.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
You know, you start rapping at ten years old, that's
like fifth grade facts and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
what got you into rap?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I ended the high school talent show with some cats
that was like around the corner from me, some older cats.
I always hung with older kids. I ain't never hung
with kids my age and my entire life. I got
one friend that was like two years younger than me,
but he was way more advanced than me. So that's
the only person. But I got in the rap because
I ended the high school competition with some high school

(09:30):
cats and we were in first place, and everybody said
it was because me, so stayed across the street from
the high school. Everybody came to my house and after
they got out of high school. I got out of
middle school elementary at two thirty two o'clock, so they
came to my house, and you know, they used to
stand in front of my house and tell me to rap.
So I just got popular in my neighborhood for rapping
before I can even, you know, understand what was going on.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
Where did the name Hurricane Chris come from?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
When I first started rapping, I used to rap real fast.
I ain't never rapped slow. I was like I used
to listen to Twister Bone.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
I was just about the same twistler.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know. I really listened to them a whole lot.
So I took after that. That's what helped me win
in high school competition.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Too, because they didn't know what you were saying.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I just know he was saying a lot, but I
was able to break it down and let you understand
it too. You know. Yeah, I was painting some immaculate
rhymes at a young age.

Speaker 7 (10:22):
So you go to high school and you drop out
at sixteen?

Speaker 8 (10:26):
What led to that decision?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
My mama just felt like it wasn't working because I
was getting Yeah, I was getting in so much trouble,
and she felt like it just wasn't working. So she
put me in I had to go to our alternative school,
and then I go back to regular school, and then
I get in trouble again and have to go back
to our alternative school. So she was like, you know what,

(10:49):
you just need to get your GED. So she sent
me back to the same alternative school to get my
GD and that was the end of school for you.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Always were rapping, yeah, yeah, yeah, took of the moment.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah yeah. And I think that that got me a
lot of haters as well, you know, because I was
different from everybody else. I had something that a lot
of people didn't have.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
So how did you.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Stay alive and stay out of trouble? Because this neighborhood
growing up from you, growing up for you is a
lot that you're dealing with. You seeing death and murder
and drug transactions and paraform. Then you'd see in all
these things, how does this hurricane Chris stay alive, stay free?

Speaker 1 (11:26):
So I could tell you that it was me watching
my surroundings, and I could tell you that it was
me being on point, but bigger than anything My grandmother's
was Christians, both of them, and like the type of
people that pray for you and make your whole life
change anything that's going on, Like when they lay hands
on you. It's serious. So I had some real, real, real, real,
real religious grandparents. Like one of them, I had asthma

(11:49):
growing up. One of them drew measurements on a cabinet
and told me, when you reached this height, asthma gonna
leave your body. I stood under these measurements every day,
and when I reached this certain level on the ruler
on the on the measurements, asthma had left my body.
So spiritual healing and and God watching over me, like
I think that's the biggest thing that brought me out

(12:11):
of my situation. God, you know, felt like I had
I had something to offer to the world, and I
guess he just he kept his hand over me and
made sure I was able to, you know, make it
out of the craziness.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
What period of time where your music started taking off
when you just started taking it serious, like, man, I
think I can really do something with this.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
I was on the road touring by the time I
hit I would say, like fourteen, around like two.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
So a Ba Bay didn't come out yet at all.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Nah nah, I was lit way before Ababay. I was
already on the road touring getting two thousand dollars twenty
five hundred a show, Iang got fifteen and like two
thousand and five, two thousand and four, two thousand and six,
you know, I mean I was already on the road
a couple of years before Ababaye even dropped. I got
my deal in like two thousand and then my first

(13:01):
record deal was in with two thousand and seven, which
was when.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
You were sixteen as well, when.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
You get it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I was.
I was already on the road, and that was another
reason why you know, I feel like I right, I
could come back and handle this school stuff later. Right now,
I got a blessing. My mama got eviction notices on
her door. I'm finna chase this rap bag right now.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
And where was dad? Was dad locked up at this
particular time?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, my daddy was locked up? And yeah yeah, so
it was like I had to man up and do
grown man activities. I had to provide for my mama
because we was going under real fast at a at
a fast pace. You know, she lost her beauty shop
eviction notice on the door where we live at so.

Speaker 8 (13:42):
She was also divorced at this time.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, they was divorced and he was locked up.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
So did that bother you too?

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah? It bothered me because I grew up in the
house with my mama and my daddy. So you know,
when when that happened, I was kind of you know,
I was missed up in the head about it. But
and the way I I kind of got over it.
I got over it because I seen it. You know,
they really didn't get along, so I kind of was
happy at the same time that they we didn't have
to go through the turmoil with them arguing, you know.

(14:09):
So I mean, like I say, like when I got
my deal, my daddy was locked up, so he wasn't
here to see none of that. But I picked him up,
you know, when he got out and everything was lit,
I had to go that bag. Now I probably had
like a I had just signed the deal, so I
hadn't even really got into the bag like that yet.
I probably had signed an entertainment deal with College Park

(14:32):
and then they was taking me to Jay Records to
get the major deal. Oh okay, so the bag hadn't
here yet. You understand what I'm saying. So I think
I had like a dodging trippet, and so.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was a Baybay already out before you signed.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, a Babay was out like a year before I signed.

Speaker 8 (14:47):
Which made College Park come for you.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, College Park flew to street party.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
You made that for uh uh big dog in.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Uh what's his name?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Baby baby?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
To be honest, I made it because I felt like
it was gonna blow. And that's why you hear me
in the song saying white folks, gangsters and the thugs
stunning with a stack of them dubs riding in Alec
with a mug. So I wanted to make it. I
wanted to make it worldwide, versatile for anybody, because I
knew everybody wasn't gonna know.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
You had him in mind.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I had him in mind when I when I heard
it in the club, when I heard people saying it.
But then I was like, I can make this bigger.
I can make this something that the world can exces.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
So you changed the lyrics on it.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
I didn't change the lyrics. I changed the meaning. Oh god, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
So did you ever go see him DJ?

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah? I was in the club when I first heard
people saying it, and he was djaying. But when I
heard that, I was like, I can make this world wide.
I can make this something that the whole world can understand.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
It was a chance that already was happening.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, they was chanting it in the club.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Okay, so that's where you got the idea from.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, I just felt like, you know,
I could, I could really make the world rock with this,
because if I would have kept it like that, then
they would have been like, who is he talking about?
What is he talking about? So I had to play
chess you know what I'm saying and make the world
be able to understand what I was talking about. If
you're riding in a lack with a mug, say Bay Bay,
you want to know what we say in the club,
A Bay Bay? You got a stack of them dubs?

(16:19):
Avay Vaye like, now.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
What was babet? Because he from Texas? Correct me if
I'm wrong? Right?

Speaker 1 (16:24):
Nah? When I made the A Bay Bay song, that
allowed him to go get that Texas situation, which you
ain't gonna never hear him talk about. He ain't never
gonna say thank you. The hurricane forget helping me get
all the way in Texas. He was in street Port, Louisiana,
at a radio station that don't even exist no more.
Basically God. So if I wouldn't have made the song,

(16:45):
I don't know where he would be. But I know
when I went to Dallas, they told me, even if
the radio station in Dallas told me, how do you
feel about helping him get this job?

Speaker 3 (16:53):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
So that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
So what's our relationship like now?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
I ain't got no relationship with him. When I got
out and burnt it out, I hit him up and
told him I need him to help me make some moves.
He told me he wasn't rocking with music. I told him, well,
I told him exactly how I feel like. I'm fighting
a second degree attempted murder charge and I'm telling you
I need you to make something happen for me, and
you're giving me excuses. So it wasn't nothing else for

(17:18):
me to say to him. After that. I was at
a point where I was fighting for my freedom, I
was fighting life, So anybody who ain't had my back
to help me make the moves I needed to help.
During that time, I raced them out of my life completely,
your number one block. You know what I'm saying, I
don't care nothing. I'm gonna get some money regardless. I
don't care nothing about nobody who ain't here for me.
You understand what I'm saying. It's just I'm gonna keep

(17:40):
it all the way real. The industry ain't gonna make
me fake with you. I come from a real place,
you know. And I had been told him, let's stop
acting like we're rocking with each other anyway, because you
ain't really got my best interest. You ain't really trying
to trying to help me make no moves regardless. And
my song is the song that got you this job
out here in Dallas. If I put you in a

(18:01):
position and then you see me take a fall, you're
supposed to do everything in your power to pull me
back up. And he just never did that and never
had the realness in him and used to say stuff like,
you know, I don't care about being real no more.
And once I started hearing this type of talk, I
realized that he ain't had a type of character that
I was willing to surround myself around. And like, I
got a son, I want my son to see the

(18:23):
type of people that I involved myself with, and I
want him to learn to involve hisself with real people
who got his back throughout life, you know, so I
can't teach a lesson through dealing with people who ain't
keeping it real. Now.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
I don't know Hollywood Babay like that, but I met
him a few times. Now do you think there's any
miscommunication on his part that he may feel different than
how you feel?

Speaker 7 (18:43):
And just for clarity, Hollywood Babay is a.

Speaker 9 (18:46):
DJ DJ radio personality, Doull, how much miscommunication can it
be if I help you get this job at I
Heart Radio because I made a song mentioning your name,
and then you see me go through some stuff and
life and.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
You don't do everything in your power to pull me
out of the situation. Even when I got into it
with my record label that I was signed, what I
called him and told him, hey, I need you to
reach out and let him know this what they're doing
ain't right. You know what he told me. I ain't
getting in it because I want to still be able
to go back to the label and still be able
to do business with him. But you the one who
introduced me to these people, you the one who told me, hey,

(19:23):
sign this deal, just sign it. I'm telling you, I
got your best interest sign this. But when it went
bad and I told him I need you to jump
in here with me and help, he ain't do that.
He told me he ain't getting involved in That's a
snake to me, And you could look at it however
you want to look at it. If you got more
as a principles about yourself, then you understand what a
snake is.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
So when you first got your deal with John or
with J Records, you asked him for advice and he
advised you to take the deal.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
He set the meeting up at his radio station and
brought all the label people to a room at the
radio station. I'm like a kid, I'm sixteen, So everything
they saying just sound like a bunch of you know
what I'm saying, Like, I don't think I know it's
out on to rap y'all thirty some years old. I'm

(20:11):
looking for y'all to help me, you know, guid me
into making the best decision. So at one point I
wasn't about to sign it, and they seen it, so
he kep talk to me outside the room, like, man,
just sign this, I got your best interest, just do
it because he knew what it was gonna do for him,
which is why he still got the job that he
got right now, you know, so some people are out

(20:33):
for theyself, and that's just what that was. You could
ask my whole city Street, Port Louisiana. They vouch for
everything I'm saying. They gonna tell you what I'm saying.
They gonna say he ain't look out for camp.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
So Ababay's out and you're signed with Jay Records.

Speaker 8 (20:49):
The song is.

Speaker 7 (20:49):
Everywhere like crazy. What was life like in that time?
I know, you know, you were kind of uncertain about
certain things, but you know, just for the moment the
success of the record, what was life like?

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I had resentment and I was happy at the same
time because I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that
I kind of was talked into this situation, I was
cohurst into.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
This situation is blowing up and you're upset. I would
never have.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Guessed that I would send me the label they send
me the meetings with I'm sitting at the table with
a shunty and Nelly eating dinner, and I got a
scrooge look on my face. To the point where the
label walked me out of the room, like, Yo, what's
wrong with you? I'm like, bro, I gotta you don't understand,
like I ain't sure about this whole situation still.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Because you don't even know what you signed.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Basically, you feel me like like, I'm still I ain't
sure about this whole situation. So I couldn't fake no happiness.
You understand what I'm saying, Like you would have thought
I would have just been psyched out and happy when
we flew to New York for the first time. We
flew to New York for the first time, they shut
down a restaurant for us to eat. Shout out to
Brian Leech. They shut down a whole restaurant for us

(22:01):
to eat. I ain't eat nothing. I'm in it looking
like baby was way more happier than me. And that's
what man as. Where I'm at now, I can think, Okay, yeah,
I know why he was happier than me because he
was thinking about how to position himself. You know, So
did he.

Speaker 8 (22:19):
Get more money than you?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Nah, he wasn't even in on a deal.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
You just talking about the leverage of bringing you in
there as talent to leverage his opportunity.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
And if he was smart, he would a bird man
the situation. He would have masterpeded the situation. He would
have made show we got a distribution deal. But he
was so quickly being greedy and want to make something
fast happen that he let them come sign me as
an artist. You could have he could a bird man.
Jay z the whole situation.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
We will be right back with more of a Baller
Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of the
Baller Alert Show.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
What's Popping? I go by the name of Hurricane right now,
you tune into the Baller Alert Show. You ain't gotta
be balling. You still could listen.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
But we bout when you signed, When you signed your
deal and you felt, you know, kind of angry about
the situation. Now, did you know or did somebody tell
you like, hey man, this ain't no good deal for you, Like,
did somebody ever tell you that? Or you just felt
like in your heart you didn't sign a good deal.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
I had, I had like people like j Prince come
in and ask me, you know, hey man, I get
you double what they gave you. But I was so
lawyer to Brian Leech for helping me get into the
position that I was in. I was like, nah, I'm good,
I'm straight. You know it just wouldn't know. I ain't

(23:42):
the type of cat to turn my back. I might
be kind of, you know, destrut about the situation, but
I ain't never wanted to look like a snake or
like I had two faces. You understand what I'm saying
in my lodge, you know, didn't hurt me to a degree.
You feel me like being lawyer will put you in
some mist of position, right about that?

Speaker 7 (24:02):
So you had a baby Baby, you did the remix
with everybody on it, then you had uh it was.

Speaker 8 (24:09):
What was the next one record?

Speaker 1 (24:10):
The clap?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Oh, the hand clap.

Speaker 8 (24:13):
And then halle Berry.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, so you play that right now to this day.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
You know, Sexy Red just she just did a remix
to Hella bed Fire, she did, and I sent the
a verse for it, like two bays ago looked on
her page.

Speaker 7 (24:27):
Okay, but halle Berry seemed to be the last hit.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
From that deal mainstream. What happened with that?

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I mean, I mean halle Berry pop on my own.
Me and a manager named Anthony Murray, we went and
grabbed this song, like the label I had fell out
with the label. And this around the time when I'm
telling your boy, I need you to reach out to
him and and help me fix this situation. So nobody helped.
I guess they felt like they got what they was

(24:57):
in in the in the in the situation to get
so I drove the Dallas. I hooked up with a
producer name Playing Skills, and they played they played the
beat halle Berry and it had to hook on it already.
They didn't have that point. That's me cause.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Had that part.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
So I'm like, man, it's a hit. I bet if
I get on this, it's gonna go immediately. And I
just I rapped on it. When I rapped on it,
it took off to the moon. A label started calling
me immediately, very video. So again that's how I record
it was working.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Wait wait, they did they give you another advance?

Speaker 1 (25:38):
I don't even think nah they they we just continued
the situation that we already had.

Speaker 8 (25:42):
How long was y'all contract?

Speaker 1 (25:44):
It was for five albums? Okay, I only did three
and then once I, you know, got to the point
where I wouldn't work no more, and I I got
to the point where I just wasn't about to work
under the situation period like I ain't doing nothing.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
He let me out because there was no money needed.
That you was gonna they was gonna.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
At least because gave them.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
They made a million dollars a week. Well, I made
stupid millions? Is you crazy?

Speaker 7 (26:12):
Million week?

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:14):
What was you up buying at that time? What was
you buy? My mama a half a million dollar house
in Street or in Streetport. It was probably the biggest purchase.
You know, costs pops, house pops, it's five fifties range rovers,
stuff like that. You was going to crash. I mean,
I was going through money fast, but I ain't. I
wasn't going through it like you see these young cats
going through it right now. I went and I still

(26:36):
had real estate too, halfway houses, rent houses, purchased a
couple of homes. Businesses, you know, helped my mama do
what she was trying to do with real estate. Restaurant here,
restaurant there, like everything that I did may have not
been a successful business, but I always tried to spread
my money, and you know, some of it was successful,

(26:58):
some of it wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (26:59):
Did you have like Advisor, no advisor.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
It was just me, that's dope, because everything ain't gonna
hit right, Like every every business deal is not gonna
be as successful as you know, right right right, your
last deal.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
But you'd rather be putting your money into something that
could potentially make money than going to buy thirty new chains.
And you don't own no type of real estate or
no businesses to create residual income.

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right, So who taught you that? Did your mom teach
you to invest your money?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah? Because she always had some entrepreneurship inside of it,
Like even from being young watching her own beauty shops
and watching my my my grandparents they had a convenience store,
and I just understood that, you know, you gotta flip
your paper. My daddy was a hustler. I wasn't about
to get involved in what he was involved in, but

(27:50):
I knew you gotta flip your paper. So that's something
that hit me at a young age, and that was
something that helped me tell a label, I ain't doing
nothing cause you like, I'm good, I know how to
make some money, Yeah, I ain't.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
So why did y'all end up falling out? Y you
in the label?

Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was young and I had a direction I wanted
to go in. The label owed me money, chicks wasn't
getting cut on time. So it just led to me
having a real big outburst and it got real bad
between me and the CEO, Like I was telling them
exactly how I felt.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
And you know, they making millions and millions.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Of dollars exactly right, but chicks being laid in stuff
like that. Even after the deal, I had to go
hire a row to recovery agent to collect half a
million dollars. So it's just like the money wasn't being
sent to me. But at this age, I didn't know
how to go after the money. I didn't know I
could hire somebody that to make sure everything hit my

(28:48):
account when they's supposed to hit my account. I ain't
know how to aid it them or none of that.
And you know a lot of companies they just rather
you odded them or filesuit to get your money. They
gonna hold it as long as they can hold it.
So that that that was a big thing, and I
just blew up about it. And when I blew up,
they realized that this ain't a situation that we want
to play with.

Speaker 8 (29:08):
Yeah, so you're out of your deal?

Speaker 7 (29:10):
What is the temperature for the industry where you know,
did you get a lot of support or were you
trying to search for another deal or were you just
like I'm just gonna go independent.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
When I got out of the deal, it was like
I started focusing on financial literacy and how to create
money outside of the music industry. So I just started
moving around from city to city, state to state and
learning as much as I could about business.

Speaker 8 (29:41):
How is that like taking classes courses.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Nah, just from the people that I was able to
put myself around, Like I started just going to sit
with J Prince Senior and just just just ride with
them every day, somebody who done created a billion dollar empire,
and just learn how to be self sufficient and and
and how to make my money work for me. I'm
watching he owned this, We go to this building, we

(30:04):
find out he owned this, He owned this, He owned this,
So it's like ownership is where it's at. And he
got more money than any rapper. So it's like this
is some cool paper, but it's really a whole other
world out here of getting to some mega money, like
when you owning and and and and having the right
to be able to sell your your your stake and

(30:27):
business and you you really playing on a whole other level,
you know. So I just wanted to boss up outside
of the music industry for a minute, and you know
that's what I did.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
Did you leave with a good amount of money in
your bank account or yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:39):
I had?

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I still had paper. I was straight, ain't I ain't
have to worry about no paper, Like I still bought
everything I wanted to buy, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 8 (30:47):
Okay, were you doing shows.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Still or I was doing stupid shows? That's one thing
that really always kept me afloat performing. Yeah, I did
a whole lot of shows, Like I'm a college favorite
still to this day. College.

Speaker 8 (31:00):
How old were you when you left the deal?

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I probably was, like I signed a deal in two
thousand and seven. I think I got out of the
deal in like two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
How'd you feel out that you felt good? He was like,
thank god?

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, I feel like thank god because I felt like
I was in a situation that wasn't doing nothing for me.
I had been locked into this contract and the label
had shut down. They wasn't doing nothing. They wouldn't provide
me with no resources that I could use to get
to the next level. So I just wanted out of
the situation.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
So when you were on a major label, did you
ever feel like you was on a major label?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Did you still feel like you was kind of like independent?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I felt like I was on a major label. Yeah,
I definitely understood I was on the major label. I
was signing to Clyde Davis. You know, that's who gave
Whitney Houston had did know I'd been in a room
sitting at tables eating with Whitney Houston before she passed.
Like if you watch your documentary, some of the scenes
that they portrayed in a documentary, I was actually there
in those rooms.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
What was your experience of Whitney.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I mean, she a legend. So I couldn't do nothing
but be amazed that I was even in the same
room we were in Houston.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
But I heard she's like down to earth and all
that was. She cool.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
We ain't have conversations. I mean, you know this Whitney.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
So you was just a fly on the walk.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Yeah, I was a fly on the water. I'm just
soaking up the game and the fact that I'm Clyde
Davis got got his arm on my shoulder, like you know,
we're gonna make you the biggest thing in the world.
So I just was soaking up the game.

Speaker 8 (32:29):
You feel me, And this time.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
You're like you you had the deal, you left and
you're you know, you're making music. You're trying to find
your feeding entrepreneurship. Uh did you have any relationships going
on at this time? Where did you have, like a
long girl, long standing girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah? How was your personal life?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
I moved so when I signed my first deal with
Kylie Park, I ended up taking one of his artists
from him and moving up there was I think they
was about to get it there too, but I missed
they all up. I moved up all the way to
Street put Oh wow. He brought her down there for
a video shoot one time, and I was like, you ma, yes,

(33:12):
So I mean after that didn't that didn't last. That
didn't last. So I've been with the person, you know.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
So you ruin that girl career?

Speaker 7 (33:19):
Man?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Did she ever end up some music?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
Nah? The whole group broke up. I mean, you know,
when you take a female out of a female he
ruled the group.

Speaker 7 (33:32):
Heard after her or.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, the same person I'm with nothing, Okay, Okay, I've
been I've been with my old lady for like seventeen years.

Speaker 8 (33:40):
Is she the mother of your child?

Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (33:42):
Okay, So when you had your son, how did that
change your life? Because I know you didn't. You weren't
signed at this point.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
I wouldn't sign. But right before, right before I had
my son, it's when I started hiring people to outit
the label.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
So what that punt money was just flying in like
crazy because it was all the old back payments that
they never paid me. Like I went to the dealership
in about two Bentley's a Maserati, Ben's truck, Ben's cart, So,
I mean everything. It was a good situation. My son

(34:19):
ain't never had the one for nothing still don't want
for nothing, like he can't think of nothing that he
want right now.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
That's what that's what it's all about. At what point
of time did did you eventually say, man, I gotta
get out of street Port because you know, you hear
you know, even Boosey just talk about a lot of
the corruption that goes on in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
At what point did you decide like, all right, I
gotta get out of here.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I got charged with second degree murder for defending myself
against somebody who's in the midst of a violence, a
violent attack on me.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Can we talk about that.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
I mean, yeah, I was at the gas station and
somebody tried to ride me and reach into their pocket
for a weapon, and you know, I had to usual
leave the force. I stayed on the scene, and when
they got there, they choose to charge me with your
second degree.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
So they took you to jail. Yeah, it took me
straight to jail for doing the right thing, man.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Staying on the scene and everything I had. They didn't
get there till probably twenty minutes. I could have been gone,
and yay, I stayed there and you felt like you
in inside told little clerk died nine one one. When
they get here, give them the tape. Stayed right there.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
They gave him the tape.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, that's what cleared me and tried. But Shreetport's so corrupt.
Only thing they looking at it is we got Hurricane Chris.
They actually got officer saying this on recording. MMM, like, man,
that's Hurricane Chris. So a lot of this had to
do with them and risk the.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Me as well because of who you who you were.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
And the DA felt like if she could get a
conviction on on a celebrity, then she can run for
whatever she wanna run for after the district attorney. You
feel me like that? Yeah, so they they really tried
to use me as a chess move. So after I
seen that and then I seen the male didn't step
in and say nothing about it or try to.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Help with evidence that it was self defense. Cu.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Yeah, they had evidence. They had boooo evidence. This dude
was This dude was was was was in the wrong
a hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Like would you know the person?

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Nah, I ain't never seen him in my life.

Speaker 8 (36:12):
I'm just chilling in the gas station or were I
you were?

Speaker 1 (36:15):
I'm outside the gas station. I'm sitting in the car
with with my with my partner, with my security, and
were just chopping it up with your security. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
And then where does the guy come from? He just
comes out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
When I look over at my S five fifty, somebody
breaking in it.

Speaker 8 (36:29):
Mm, you're in another car, not your as.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Gas pumps over in another car. When I look over
at my whip, somebody breaking in it. So I run
over there, and by this time he didn't already got
the door open. I got a aar fifteen laying right
on the seat. M I wasn't about to let him
get to it, so I s I made him stop, instantly,
turn around, P get your hands away from your pockets,
cause he started reaching, you know, and et cetera, et cetera.

(36:53):
He started making verbal threats, reaching deeper into his pocket,
and he he just failed to retreat or or to
to do anything that I that I was asking him
to do, as far as take your hands away from
your pocket, step away from the car, put his hand
in his pocket, made verber threats, and step closer to me.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
So did did they? Did he end up having a weapon?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
He had a a a boulder like the size of
my the size of my head. It probably sound like
I'm exaggerating, but he had a boulder like this big
cement concrete cement block in his pocket, and that's what
he was going in.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
His pocket for, cause he was gonna hit you with it.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
I guess he was gonna try to knock me out
with it and do whatever he wanted to do. That
wasn't about to have.

Speaker 7 (37:32):
Against the gun that you had. He was gonna hit
you with.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
A d You didn't know what he had.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
I knew it was I knew that he was reaching
in his pocket and I seen a protrusion. I could
see something real big in his pocket. So in my mind,
he got a gun.

Speaker 7 (37:48):
So in self defense, you fire off and you know,
and then you wait for the police. Yep, cause the
gas station. Cause what happened with the clerk? Did he
come outside? Did he call the police? Or who called
the cops?

Speaker 1 (38:04):
I died now on one, okay, and I think he
may have died two.

Speaker 8 (38:08):
The person in the store clerk.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Yeah, So I told him make sure when when they
get here, give them the cameras, give them the tapes.
So when they got there, I'm trying to walk up
to the officers and tell them what's going on. They
telling me get back. I'm like, you want me to
tell you what's going old or you want me to
you want me to get in my call leave? They

(38:30):
basically trying to push me away from the scene. I'm like, nah, nah,
they don't know that with the situation, started putting yellow
tape up.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Around you, like I'm the one called y'all.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, God, I'm involving this whole situation. But they like
pushing me back. You feel me as they pushing me
back I'm like, hey, I'm involving this situation. They still
telling me get back. They ain't trying to hear nothing
I'm saying. So I guess one of them heard what
I was saying, and he was like what they walked
me over and you know, and that's when they put
me in the car.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Was the man already dead at the scene or I.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Can't tell you that, Okay, I couldn't sell.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
But he was still they were they were surrounding him.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
Yeah, they were surrounding him.

Speaker 8 (39:10):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (39:11):
So they immediately put you in the car after you
explained to them what happened.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Hand cuts and put me in the car.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
And the heat on inside the police car. So I'm
burning up in the back of the police car, like
going crazy, to the point where my body about to
shut down because they got the heat blasting on me.
And I'm banging on the window like turn it hell on.
Ain't nobody coming to the car. So I'm in a
I'm like getting sick in the back seat.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
By the time I got out of out swim buckshots,
they let me out for a second. Once they figured
out that they had me in a hot car, they
let me out the air, like to get some air.
When they let me out the back seat, I'm so
hot I almost pass out.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Then what happened after that?

Speaker 1 (39:50):
They took me.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Downtown, So call your lawyer.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Right So, when I get downtown, I'm thinking I ain't
did nothing wrong, so I answer the questions, which I
should have never did. I should have called a lawyer
straight off the dunk. If you ever get arrested and
you get took downtown, don't answer no questions without a lawyer.
I'm telling everybody this right now. I don't care how
right you thank you is because a police officers job

(40:14):
is to try to get a arrist to try to
help the district return and get a conviction. They don't
care if somebody was on top of your mama beating
it of death.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
It's a murder. It's a crime. We need to convict something.

Speaker 8 (40:28):
Because a lot of people don't know this.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Don't answer no questions until you get a lawyer. There
me being stupid, thinking that you know, shreet Port gonna
do the right thing by me. I answer questions and
they used all it, and once I realized, they started
asking me the same questions in circles, trying to trip
me up. I was like, I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Talk no more because they wanted you to change your story.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yeah, but it wasn't changing. But keep in mind, it's
three am and I'm sleepy, so I'm becoming to be
like not as responsive as I was earlier in the day.
It's three am at this point, and you can hear
like it in my voice on like I'm dog tired, sleepy,
like I'm about to drop and fall asleep right in
the middle of this interview.

Speaker 8 (41:08):
Because the incident happened at like nine pm.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
I think, I think like ten or eleven, okay, but
by this time it's three am, like way past my bedtime.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
So what was your security at when the whole incident occurred.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
I don't think. I know, I got a ton of vision.
I know nobody ain't doing nothing. Nobody ain't doing nothing,
Like I'm the only one who made the proper move
to make sure that we all was able to go
back home, because just saye fanswers, if he the rich
in my carn got that they off fifteen, he would
have hit them with it too.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Mmm.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's why I feel like everybody else who was there
was kind of like playing like you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (41:46):
So the gun was in the.

Speaker 7 (41:47):
Car, you had an AR fifteen on the seat, but
then you had something else on you.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yeah. I had my side on ony okay.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
And these are all these were all registered too.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah. I had my conceial license since I was first
turned twenty one?

Speaker 5 (42:00):
So when where were you at when they told you
that you were actually being charged for murder?

Speaker 1 (42:06):
When I told him I don't want to answer no
more questions, called my dad, and my dadd had sent
the lawyer up there. My lawyer went and told them
we're done with the inter of you. And they came
in and said my lawyer walked back in there. She said, okay, Chris,
stand up, walk out of here with your head up.
They about to charge you with second degree murder.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
So you were put in jail immediately.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
And then you made bill Yeah, I had a half
a million dollar Bunn.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Mentally, what's going through your mind? Because you just killed somebody? Right,
and you're happy? I mean I don't want to say happy.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
You're you had to defend yourself, right, so you're here,
that person's not there, but now you're being charged. You're
in your hometown what's going through your mind?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
It ain't no way. I'm thinking, it ain't no way.
Like I practiced all of this and concealed weaping classes.
I know exactly when to use a whipping and when
not the user whipping I know, not for that.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Because I think that this helped you, because yeah, maybe
said the right things that you need to say.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
Yeah, like I know not to engage with fors u lists,
you know, and you feel like you your life in danger?
You know what I'm saying? Like, I notice, So I
took the same class that the police officers took. The
dude who gave me my license give all the police
officers stay licensed. So I know the same rules y'all know,
and I followed them to the t. So I'm like,

(43:33):
it ain't no way. I'm looking at the lawyer like,
ain't no way. She like, we ain't even gotta keep
going back and forth. We finna get you. We're gonna
get you out. Stand up when you walk out of here,
put your hands behind your back, and don't worry about
letting this.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
So you post the bell, somebody you know, post your
bill five hundred k. And then did you have to
put the ankle monitor on immediately after that or.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Nah, what's crazy is when I when I first got out,
I ain't have no InKo on it on. They called
me like, and that's the only thing I was worried about. Man,
i'm'a have to wear ankle monder though. Mm. Like three
days later they called me and said, you gotta wear
ankle underdough and they sent me to this place. My
lawyer called me in and he's like, you gotta go
to this place they about to put ankle on it
on you that you have to pay for right, I

(44:22):
pay like twenty seven thousand for the ankle.

Speaker 8 (44:23):
Onner WO for them to mark keep track of you exactly.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
And then they tried to raise my bun a police
one of the arresting officers went to the district attorney
and said, don't try to know he owned businesses. That
half a million dollar bun wasn't high enough mm. So
the district attorney submitted something for the judge to lock
me back up and give me another half a million
dollar bun or a million dollar bun. But the judge

(44:49):
looked at it like I seen the judge when he
pulled his glasses down when they approached him. Like they
denied it.

Speaker 7 (44:57):
Mm, they was trying to get you man.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Yeah, and it was and it was everywhere that was
national news, like.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Yeah, they tried to lynch me, bro And I feel
like as much as I did for this time, Like
if you pull up me, I'm I'm with the politicians
trying to help these state representatives be re elected. I'm
with the I'm in nursing homes, filling them up with
flat screen TVs. I'm moving around throughout my community giving back.

(45:25):
And to see nobody have my back during this time
was crazy. Even the politicians that I helped and I
helped them remain in position and came and supported them
for their causes. When I hit them up and told
them what was happening with me, they was like, well,
just get a lawyer. You just handled that with a lawyer.
I'm like what, So you know it was it was

(45:47):
really me against the whole entire state of Louisiana.

Speaker 8 (45:51):
So your lawyers go to work.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
You know, the trialers is going they say that they
were they had a pola deal for you for forty
years on manslaughter.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
Yeah, but my lawyer never told me that because after
the trial, he said, you know, they had a deal
for you for forty years, he said, But I know
if I would have told you that, you probably would
have fired me. Mmm, he said, I never even brought
it to you.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Forty years.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, they wanted me to cop out to forty years
because you know, in Louisiana, second degree murder carry life
and life in Louisiana, I mean, not twenty five of life.
You don't get no parole. If you go to jail
for life in Louisiana, you do life. I mean, the
district attorney was telling the jury, we're gonna walk him
in jail and he gonna come out in a bodybag.

(46:36):
It ain't no twenty five of life. It ain't no parole.
I need people on my jury that's willing to give
him life cause that's what he getting if we convict him.
So you ain't getting out if you get life.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (46:48):
How was home life at home during this time during
the trial, cause you know, like you was out on Bill,
What was it like at home for you and getting
in you know, waking up every day seeing your son
and you know, just trying to live life knowing this
is all going on.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Man, it was hard. It was real hard to live life.
It feel like a dream. It feel like I couldn't
make no promises to nobody. It felt like getting a
promise that I did make. I was lying even to
my son. You feel me. I'm looking at him like, man,
what what? What?

Speaker 3 (47:20):
What?

Speaker 1 (47:20):
What happened? If these folks actually locked me up for life?
And I got this, I got a eight seven eight
year old son that don't know nothing but his daddy
being right there every day like this was crazy to me,
you know what I'm saying, Like the craziest feeling I
ever felt in my life, you know.

Speaker 8 (47:37):
And was your grandmother's keeping you positive, taking you to
church or so?

Speaker 1 (47:41):
One of my grandmothers passed. She saw M she saw
it happen. She was she was alive when it happened.
But before I got a quit it, she passed away.
So that bothered me as well, like M. I hope
she know I'm straight. You know that bothered me a lot,
a lot. And it's the first person I went to
when I burned out, when they bumed me out, They
took me straight to my grandmother. You know what I'm saying,

(48:01):
Because this who give me all my spiritual healing? This
who give me all my confidence you feel me now.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
At any point of time when you was in you know,
when you was going to try for everything, did you
ever look at the jury and think they're like, man,
these people, you know, they probably think I did it.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
That like you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
I mean when they was an interviewing the jurors, one
of the dudes, they asked him a question. They was like,
so would you be able to to to give him life?
Would you be able to say guilty if we can
prove him guilty? And he was like, well, if you
say he did it, he must have did it. They might.

(48:40):
The judge took him off the jury because if you
say something like that, they gotta take you.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Yeah, they can't. Yeah, they can't just side with gotta.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
You gotta be willing. Your job coming here is to
listen to the evidence presented and then make a decision.
If you show any sign that you already want to
say guilty or innocent before you listen to the evidence,
then they take you off the jury. They can't keep
you on it.

Speaker 8 (49:04):
Good, that's good.

Speaker 7 (49:05):
So March fifteen, twenty twenty three happens. They deliver the verdict,
which is not guilty. Right, what was the what was
the energy in the courtroom when the verdict.

Speaker 8 (49:16):
Was being read.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
I broke down. I had a lawyer to the left
of me, a lawyer to the right of me. And
that's another thing I had my year ago. Yeah, my
lawyer had to shut his whole law firm down. They
had to shut the whole law firm down because every
lawyer had to work my try. Even their sons was
in court working my trial. Like from the publicists to

(49:38):
their secretary to all the lawyers, like they shut everything
down to win my trial. And that's that's something that
Alex Washington, I'm I always be grateful for because they
ain't have to do that, you know. So I had
a lawyer to the left of me and the lawyer
to the right of me. When they said not get it,
I grabbed both of their hands. I was just ecstatic.
My head hit the table, like couldn't do nothing. Thank God,

(50:00):
you feel me as I'm thanking God. And mind you,
we had probably one hundred and fifty people in his courtroom.
As soon as they said not guilty, and I put
my head down, Thank God. When I picked my head
up and turned around, it wasn't nobody in the courtroom
like they all came to see somebody get life. They
walked out like this ain't what I came to see.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Oh you feel me.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
We'll be right by. Stay tuned with more of The
Baller Alert Show. You're listening to a special edition of
The Baller Alert Show.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
What's pop? And I go by the name a hurricane?
Right now? You tune into the Baller Alert Show. You
ain't gotta be balling. You still could listen, but we bothered.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
So this might be a dumb question, but why was
it so hard? Why did they have to work so
hard to prove that you were innocent? If everything was
on camera.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
It's Louisiana, Yeah, in different states, Bro, if you not
a if you not a celebrity for number one name
used to trying people of my caliber. They didn't take
into account of They didn't take into account that the
world was gonna see this. They didn't take into account
that I already got a legacy that I created and

(51:10):
it's a good one. Ain't nobody knowing me for missing
with nobody? You know what I'm saying, Like, I ain't
never been known. There's no bad dude. I've been known
as the type of dude to show love. And I
got twenty of my homeboys at my house and everybody
sharing everything we got, you know what I'm saying. So

(51:31):
they thought they had a chance, But little did they know.
You never stood a chance that painting the negative picture
of me, because I already painted a picture. I painted
a picture since I was fourteen years old. The people
that you're trying to tell that I'm a bad person
and all of this, they like, we watched them grow up.
They looking at the district attorney, crazy upside of here,

(51:53):
like what this little Chris did? We watched grow up?

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Nah?

Speaker 1 (51:59):
I mean, and this Louisiana. If they feel like they
could hide you and the world ain't gonna see what's
going on and they can sweep you under the rug
without nobody paying attention, they gonna do it. It's just like
you when you was a kid, if you could get
away with something and your parents wasn't gonna see it,
then you was gonna do it. And that's how they
rock in Louisiana. Like it's a real, real messed up place.

(52:22):
You don't wanna go to jail in Louisiana. Racist, it's
real racist. But what's crazy is the district attorney was
black m M looked just like us and and and
really stood up there like they had one judge that
wouldn't even take the case in the court room. First
judge I had, she wouldn't even take the case went
to court one day, they was like, she has removed

(52:42):
herself from your.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Case because she she didn't think it.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
Was I'm thinking she knew that this was some bs mmm.
I even had people from the district attorney office reach
out to my lawyer like this is a bad situation.
He should have never been charged. You feel me. The
officers that was on the scene, like three of them
got fired after the case was over for all types

(53:05):
of stuff that they wasn't supposed to be doing. Wow,
you feel me, Like, so, it's a.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Corrupt it sounds it sounds like a documentary.

Speaker 1 (53:13):
It's a movie. I'm trying to highlight fifty cent.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yes, I hope you he out there now.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
I'm trying to highlight fifty cent and tell him let's
do the life story of hurricane.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Like when you got to quit it, the first thing
in your mind is what.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
I got my life back? For three years, I felt
like my life wasn't my life.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
I was gonna ask how long did it take for
all this back and forth a goo so three years?

Speaker 1 (53:32):
I feel like I had a lease on life and
that they least could be up at any moment when
they say it not guilty. I just started thinking about, Man,
I just want to go home and just walk around
in my boxes and man, just just do with my family.
You know, I got my life back. You know. I

(53:53):
felt like I fel like I was hanging off a
cliff for three years and somebody could have easily just
just cut the rope and I dropped them million feet
and to centigrade. But once they said not gifted, it
was like I got my life back, you know what
I'm saying. Yeah, I felt like I was gonna celebrate
and stand up and say I told you, But I
ain't do none of that. I just I couldn't do

(54:15):
nothing but think about God and thank Him for bringing
me through this situation. You know, I know it wasn't me.
My auntie and my mama. They couldn't even sit in
the courtroom when they read divertict. My Auntie went to
the bathroom and talked to my grandma the whole time,
Like I told you she passed before I went to trial,

(54:36):
but she was so much of a spiritual healing to us.
I'm still relying on her to this day because she.

Speaker 8 (54:43):
Was on the other side working for you.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
You feel me. I know she was in the courtroom.
You can't tell me she wouldn't so.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Music.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
So when did music start coming back around and you
start feel comfortable.

Speaker 8 (54:56):
A second world?

Speaker 7 (54:57):
Shout out to your lawyers, because, like you said, you're
in such a corrupt town, in a corrupt place for
you to be able to find somebody who would you know,
like you said, they had their whole family working. You know,
that is kind of like a needle in a haystack
when it comes to like a place like Louisiana.

Speaker 8 (55:13):
And you said, your dad found those lawyers for you.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Nah, the lawyer that he sent originally, I ended up
not letting that lawyer do my trial. Alex Washington is
who I use for my trial. Okay, that's who fucked
in the case the entire time, like anytime the whole
three years.

Speaker 8 (55:29):
How'd you find him when I.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Was in jail. He showed up at the jail.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Okay, you just showed up and I.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Ain't want to talk to him. I'm like, bro, this
a setup? Who is this? I ain't got no lawyer yet.
I'm just finna try to I'm just fina bun out.
Then get a lawyer.

Speaker 8 (55:44):
Did somebody send him?

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (55:47):
He probably he probably saw the news and he probably
thought that was something that he could fight for.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
You.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
I think I think one of my partners, three male
sent them. Oh okay, but he could have came on
his own. I ain't sure. I don't really remember that
good you never asks him about it. I did asks
him about it back then, but I just don't remember
the answer. It's been like four years ago since the
beginning of the whole situation. So he just popped up
and and and they said, you got a visit. I'm like, first,

(56:13):
somebody from the radio station that I ain't seen in
fifteen years came and seen me, and I'm like, what's up?
He was like, whatever you need?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Let me know who who was that?

Speaker 1 (56:22):
This was his name? Elo? Okay, uh my, my, my,
my cousin used to work at the radio station. I
used to hang out, not a radio station, a record store.
So that's another thing I forgot to tell y'all. I
actually grew up inside a record store. Okay, so my
cousin worked in a record store. The dude who owned it,
his name was Elo. He work on the radio. Now,
he pulled up, like what you need. I'm like, man,

(56:44):
I'm straight. I'm from the bun out. Mm. After that,
the lawyer popped up. The lawyer he even was asking
me what you need. I got people that could put
the money up for you right now. So I'm like, nah,
I'm straight. I'm good. So I mean I had people
who had my back.

Speaker 7 (56:59):
You know, are these the same lawyers that you are
gonna start the you know, invest in the law form
with or yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Yeah, yeah yeah. He actually just got somebody off on
a situation that a dude did thirty eight years for
a crime that he didn't commit. My lawyer just got
him off. I think it's in New Orleans. I had
to give you the jails thirty eight years, thirty eight years,
like for crime he didn't commit. My lawyer just got
him off on it.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
So that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
I'm highly invested with my lawyer and were planning to
do a lot of business. As far as justice reform,
I think that's gonna be my department that I deal with,
just trying to bring as much attention to what's going
on in Louisiana as I possibly.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
Can, even though that you live in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah, I ain't gonna forget. I ain't never gonna forget
the I think I forgot.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Do you still go home often?

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Though I don't go home offten Naw, I don't go often,
And that's because my family here, my son he played football.
I got business deals here, like big stuff I'm working
on out here, and Louisiana just don't have the resources
for me to be who I need to be and
to make the type of money that I'm trying to make.
So I mean, it ain't It ain't strictly because of

(58:07):
that situation, which it should be, because I shouldn't have
been there, seeing how they tried to take my life
away from me. It did kind of make me feel
like I don't never want to come back, But I
think I got over that and I focus on the
fact that Atlanta just got more business to offer for me,
and my son got his life set up here. So
this is where I'm at. This is just a new
chapter of my life. Atlanta. I grew up there, I

(58:29):
did what I was supposed to do there, and God
moved me for a reason. When God moved me, I
don't fight against God and try to go like he
gonna put me where you wanted me to be.

Speaker 7 (58:38):
And you're still giving back because if you do this
law firm, you know, if you're an investor, that's still
giving back to your town right right in the whole
state of Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Right.

Speaker 5 (58:47):
Yeah, And I was thinking too, it probably like it
probably doesn't even make you feel safe even going back
because of how they tried to you know, do you
back in your hometown?

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Yeah, I mean, I just got the feeling that that
safer instance, if the situation occur, you ain't got people
that's being fair. The people who making the decisions, they
not fair. So why would I Why would I put
myself in that position on purpose? You understand what I'm saying.

(59:16):
And who know how they feel after getting stumped and
tried like that. I want all twelve jurors. These folks
wasted all type of money from the state for nothing.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
It costs a lot of money to go to try for.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
They shut the whole downtown down when I did my trial.
You couldn't even come downtown. Once you exited the highway.
They had police caused what they likes on. The whole
courtroom was surrounded three hundred and sixty degrees paddy wagons,
police officers outside with weapons like they wasted a lot
of money to try to get a wrong for conviction.
And my lawd you still told me if they would
have convicted you, I would have got you out, he said,

(59:50):
I would have put my whole life to the side
and dedicated everything I had in the friend.

Speaker 7 (59:57):
Well, like you said, you're on to a new chapter
where glad that you're free.

Speaker 8 (01:00:00):
We're glad that you're out.

Speaker 7 (01:00:01):
We're glad that you're telling your story and you're helping
other people.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Fifty. I know you're doing your BMS, your camera right there.
I know you're doing your BMF and all list. But
you need to come check Hurricane out. Plus you just
got a studio and street put so we need to
link up so we could do the Hurricane Life store, you.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Know, and I'll be tuned in. I'm in.

Speaker 7 (01:00:21):
I'm gonna be on the hiring page for the production crew.

Speaker 8 (01:00:25):
Need to be a party.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Yes, you do all of the production, you know, Okay,
don't worry you gonna see the clips.

Speaker 7 (01:00:31):
But new music coming out? You're working on new mixtape maybe?

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
Or I just dropped Hurricane Season two. I got a
mixtape with with Boosie Badass, Hurricane Too. It's our second one.
It ain't out yet. I just hear him yesterday. We
got it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
I'm glad, did you guys? You did that with him?

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
I think you two have the best distinct voice. Oh yeah,
in the South outside of j Z.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
Appreciate that. Appreciate that. And then I got a single
car Murder that I'm releasing with Boots It as well.
So I'm working. I'm working, working, working, and don't stop
with me. And I got some club bangers I'm about
to drop too.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
Oh how's your son doing?

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
He good? He good?

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
He ain't playing football, football and track.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
So that's really what I be dedicated to outside of
the entertainment industry. But my son come first. He come
before the industry before anything. Like you got a football
game or something, you try to book me, I don't
care if you got thirty thousand, forty thousand, it don't matter.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
My man.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
I'm going I gotta be my first. I ain't getting
booked on Christmas, you know. I look at a lot
of cats and they be touring on Christmas and they
make excuses for this. I'm like, bro, these days, you
ain't gonna never get back with your kids. It ain't
no bad And that's why I felt it was important
for me to learn how to make money outside of
the industry because you ain't finna play me out of

(01:01:51):
my life with my family. You know what I'm saying.
It's like, I feel like you you kind of like,
I don't know, I feel cheap at that moment, like came,
but you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
Came from Now.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
You know your dad was with you, your mom was
with you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:05):
You had those family values.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:02:07):
Yeah, you put that on your son too, and he
knows that. Do you want any more kids?

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Yeah, definitely, definitely. I'm gonna have some More's my.

Speaker 7 (01:02:15):
Plans marriaging your plans too. I know y'all been together
seventeen years.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
I ain't against it. Okay, I ain't against it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Now. You know what she's gonna be watching us now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
Trust me. It's conversations in my house like this all
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
So the first conversation, like, I got some stuff I'm
working on. I can't really speak on too much. But
you might see it in the future, but we might
end up doing it on TV. You don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:02:40):
Listen open invitation.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
We hope you come back.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
So we just glad you you outside, you free.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Man, moving and grooving. Man, I'm out here, honey.

Speaker 7 (01:02:51):
Did you want to plug any more of your businesses
or I'm good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
I'm good. I'm good. Just make sure you follow me
on Instagram. You know, I don't be on my own
Insta that much. Instagram is Hurricane Chris Offisher. Following me
on that, you know, and look out for the Hurricane
season two. I just dropped that, and I'm gonna drop
a Hurricane season three. So just keep your eyes on
Cane and watch what I do. I'm bag working right now,

(01:03:15):
so it ain't no telling what you're finish. See. I
just signed the ar A deal with an acting agency
and I got some TV stuff from working on too.

Speaker 7 (01:03:23):
So oh in the lawsuits, speaking of acting, because they
they took a lot of you know, during that three
year period, you had a lot of things on the
rise for yourself as far as acting.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
So the thing about the lawsuit is after you go
to trial, they not obligated to give you the court records. Okay,
So before I go deep into my bag with spending
a fload of money, I wanna make sure that it's
gonna be in my best interest. Cause I can very

(01:03:52):
easily dump a bunch of money and not even be
able to get the court records. So right now, I
gotta find an attorney that's gonna be willing to work
with me and go get these court records before I
just dump a tremendous bag. I mean, I'm gonna pay,
but I ain't trying to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Just why do you want the court record?

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
They gotta have the court records to go over everything
that happened to see what was my to see what
they in the wrong for taking me to trial for
this case.

Speaker 7 (01:04:21):
And the lawsuit will be failure to investigate.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Investigate, and you will be suing who the police department
and the district attorney for for wrongful of prosecution.

Speaker 7 (01:04:33):
Okay, so that's underway, or that you're just trying to
find a.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Lawyer who will wrong for prosecution.

Speaker 8 (01:04:39):
Get the records, and then you'll proceed if.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
That happened exactly because you and see, that's where the
systems so messed up. It's like if we went through
our list. I should be able to get all of
that those documents that should be my right, but they
gonna hold it because they know nine times out of
ten they slipped somewhere and did something they wasn't supposed to.
Do you feel me.

Speaker 7 (01:05:00):
Is there a certain amount of time they co legally
hold it and have to release it or.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Nah, they do not have to release all of the
court documents. They do not have to release. It's strict
and they try the best. Every lawyer I'm sitting with
like they gonna try their best to not release those documents.
So that's gonna be a fight before I can even
get deep into the lawsuits.

Speaker 8 (01:05:21):
Well that's another key piece of the story.

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
So you know, keep writing this book, man, because I
feel like it's gonna come to fruition as far as
you're getting it on TV docum.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Yeah, I'm shop. I'm shopping in my life story to
a few different people and you know, whoever, whoever want
to do the best situation with me that swo I'm
a rock with.

Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
You know, because you got a crazy you got a
crazy story.

Speaker 8 (01:05:40):
We appreciate you staring it right here before we get
out of here. That we do have a pet talk.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
What's popp and I go by the name of a hurricane.
I come from Louisiana and I made it to Atlanta.
You dig what I'm saying. I just want to let
everybody know to have faith, keep your head up, don't
get sidetracked by no negativity. Keep God first. I'm slidding
for Jesus. New clothing line coming soon. Slid for Jesus.

(01:06:06):
You know that's it. I ain't gonna talk too much
because if you talk too much.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
You learn.

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