 When I got to prison when I first came to prison from youth authority, I was young Marr. I Was the youngster putting it in and by 95 I was old dude and pops Okay, so so basically I I mean you've been you've been killing the game when I look on the internet I could I could find you on here man And you see it so when you when you was in prison, man Let's go back to that for a second because you hadn't been locked up now for a long time, right? Man since I've been by the grace of God I've been home since 1995 I went to the feds for a year on a fair to communicate and After that I've been I've been out about 26 years and that's the part what I think people don't understand You've been out for 26 years you out here maintaining. You know what I mean? I think that's something to applaud You know what I mean because you before that you was out. Were you in and out before that? Mm-hmm And and so what made you what made you get it right? How did you get it right? I think that would be some people will want to know I mean I got it what it wasn't that I got it, right I just when you get tired of being tired, you know if your mother it's about you know People can pray for you and I can say that I'm gonna get it right and I guess it before God see you'll never change a man until he changes his own heart. Yeah, and When I got to prison when I first came to prison from youth authority, I was young marr I was a youngster putting it in and by 95 I was old dude and pops Now I'm in prison with dudes that I was in their sons and their grandsons Wow And I found out that I had outgrew prison If you ever say I had an incident one time when I You know when I grew up it was from the first grade to the sixth grade was elementary. Yeah, you went to junior high Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. That's it when you was in the sixth grade you was the boss of the school That's right. So one day I we were getting ready to go to recess and I snatched the ball and My teacher told me Marvin put that ball. I wanted the ball first. I'm now I'm rumbling for he takes me to the principal office Go to the principal office. Mrs. Thompson. Martin. What's your problem? I'm pouting He's a woman since you want to act like a third grader. I'm gonna put you in the third grade And he sent me over to miss Holmes class in the third grade So when I sat down my knees was touching the punch. I was too big Right, and if you're talking miss Holmes, it hits you with a ruler And I got I was going home and all the kids is telling hey Your brother's in the third grade like and it was just a Torturing week of me. I man. I'm out of place here Man, so after 25 years in prison, my knees start touching the bench Wow, and it was time to go You know A man told me one time one of the first black business owners of Compton on on the main stone Compton Boulevard named Ronald Exum He had Exum styles back in the 60s. Well 69 6869 that he got a clothing store like y'all's clothes But it was the first black entrepreneur on Compton Boulevard before white flight, right? And he told me he said man, you're going in I was about 15 Tell me you're going in out of juvenile man. You're going there. You need to learn a trade Get you something that you have to do something for because if you ain't made it by time you 40 You need to shoot yourself in the head. I couldn't imagine that if you Right and it came to pass that my sister had gotten killed in 1982 and The guy that was accused his brother was in the same prison with me and Me and my crew was getting ready to go handle that little bit of business and a brother that I was in the nation of Islam What from the 60s brother yourself? Man hold up, bro. We got enough. He said why don't you do Ramadan with us? Oh, so he said man, you know if you want to kill him today, you can kill him in 30 days make sense to me So I'm going nowhere. So so this is the spot. I went in Did the Ramadan and I'm doing Ramadan and listen the nation of Islam and the Balinese and new Muslim And we didn't have none to do them We used to call them Abadabas and soft Muslims steal smoking cigarettes and eating hog and doing five prayers a day Then you got no discipline, right? So I went in there But it's every day we do there a 30th of the Quran and we read in the Quran and and so surah 62 It says that a woman suckles a child for 36 months and A man achieves manhood at age 40 So the same thing you did at 20 you don't do it 40 you start looking both ways, huh? Your thing ain't as quick as it was when you was 17 18. You ain't popping it like you was So if you're in prison at 40 What the hell you going home for? In San Quentin they got what calls citizens row West Block Everybody over 25 30 years the old men is over there old men for counsel young men for war and She knows Elm Hall All the handicaps and the old people Dude like Bob Wells. He was at the time. I was in prison. He did one of the longest times He did 42 years and he's have a cane and be cussing like a sailor, right? But so I'm just saying when you get to a certain point in your life You Start living a different life if you a man of any virtue Some people try to live their 16 year olds as a 60, you know, right? You know, why are you trying to act young? I don't act young. I just be down with who I am Yeah, we on boss talk 101