homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i m going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. what do you want for your future? money, power, respect. top of the food chain. everybody s like that when they re young. they don t see the big picture. they can t see it yet. you know what i mean? it s just whatever happens happens. having been in and out of state prisons in california, fisher sought to share his wisdom with the younger thompson. i ve got him out of situations in here, he was just reacting to [ bleep ]. i m telling him you can t always just react. slow down. think about something real quick. he thanks me later on, like yeah. i m glad i didn t do that. he keeps me cool. i m real hot headed.
fisher s cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker. thompson was at maricopa appealing 2 murder convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. keep the noise down over there. rap has helped the two men bridge their generation gap. trying to film [ bleep ]. the cellies share one other thing in common. they re both members of the crips street gang. but they were at very different stages in their life. cousin ice was no longer in love with the lifestyle. i haven t actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they re from across town and all that. i haven t done that in years. but i still hang with my
he has pled not guilty to the new charges. cousin ice. they re trying to say everybody that dies in phoenix he had something to do with it. just because i m duker love. every time somebody s body comes up missing, they say i did it. dinell thompson had other choices in life before he took on the persona of duker love. he would have been a star football player. duker had scholarships to colleges, runningback. he chose to do the alley. you know what i mean? so, that s the mentality. yeah, i was ranked. i wasn t ranked in the nation i chose the streets over that. why? streets attracted me the most. i loved the streets. streets are my bitch. what excites you about it? the banging, guns, the money, the killing, all of it. to thompson s cellmate and sometimes mentor, wasting such potential is the real crime.