Interesting....
I dont think anyone out here is really clear about what really got you into this predicament. What are you in here for?
Well you know, what they call aggravated assault. But now, there was no bodily injury and it actually was not an assault. In the state of Texas, if a person fears for they life and you have a weapon, thats classified as aggravated assault. So Im gonna give you the quick run down of the story. Im in a mall, Im by myself, Im in a store and I got a cell phone up to my ear. I tell the manager, I need this pair of shoes and I got my back turned. Theres a group of five people, three girls and two guys. I hear a conversation going on behind me. One of the girls ask the girl behind the counter Whos that? And the girl proceeds to tell her, oh thats Pimp C whoop de whoo, this and that, gets to naming some songs. So real loudly and real belligerently the broad goes Oh! I dont listen to them old pus*y ass niggas. Like that right? So uh, Im on the phone with Bun at the time I tell him Hey man lemme call you back. So I hang up and I turn around and when I see them broads, I asked her I said Hey man uh, why you gotta talk my name with that s**t in ya mouth? You know what Im sayin? So me and the broad, we get in a little argument but its really funny. People laughin you know what Im sayin? She crackin on me, Im crackin on her, and in the process I got the best of her. So the broad was like uh Yeah nigga, I got your b**ch, this such and such street, and she reached off in her jacket and when she did that I lifted up my jacket and showed her the thang. So when I showed her the thang I said, look, I said, Freeze, dont move no mo. And I look over at the two dudes and I say mayne dont even try it and the dude put his hands up and said Man we dont want it. And I tell them, I dont want it either man. I look back at the broad and I say Yall need to back up out this store, this not funny no more. Thats the incident that led to me getting locked up here. I ended up getting charged with aggravated assault for that. They said that was an assault cuz I showed them my pistol. Alright, in the process, I ended up taking a probation, whats called Deferred Adjudication Probation on it. Which was capped off at 4 years. I ended up violating the probation a year later on a community service violation which is something they dont usually do. But in my case, hey it was politics. The rest is history man. I been gone ever since then. They sent special prosecutors after me. They started asking me, What is Rap-A-Lot Records, who is James Prince to you? And all that kind of talk and I told them, Thats a friend of my family. Im not signed to Rap-A-Lot Records, Im signed to Jive Records, so in the process, I felt like I was in the position where I had to take the probation because what they was talking was some way out s**t. And mind you, at the time I took it, I knew I was gonna violate it because the system is set up down here to where 90-95% of the people who take this type of probation violate it. But I also knew and I had it in my heart and I knew in my head that most times if you dont catch another case and you violate in some kind of way they usually give you the time you have left on probation. So what I was trying to do was cap something off that could have been 2 20 at 4 years. But now, uh, mind you, the judge got the right when you violate to give you what the crime carry. But now I didnt catch no new case and really if I hadnt been who I am or who they perceive me to be, it probably wouldnt have got violated for a community service violation and I probably wouldnt have got the extra 4 years tacked on to the 4 I already had.
So you got 8 years?
Yeah I got 8 years aggravated. Classified as aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
