saying? like we sitting in the cadillac riding through the day, like i m at a desk all day, you know what i m saying? i wrote this yesterday all day. the two men who are considered leaders of a sacramento gang known as the zillas also spend their day rapping. these parts each round try to swim with the per iran mays something authorities say is often used to antagonize their arch rivals, another sacramento gang calls the starz. i figured you field it like paparazzi through the lenses both the zillas and starz claim they are primarily musicians and not criminals. they re going to say, oh, we re just singing, we re just trying to give money to children s homes. they re going to try to put themselves out there as something that s legitimate when they re really not. it s validated gang members, it s a validated gang. prostitution, robbery, thing of that nature which is for their criminal purpose to keep their gang going.
feuds between the zillas and starz have led to violence on the streets. taunts and threats between the gangs are often communicated through the rap videos. because it s about respect and you don t want to be disrespected as a gang member or having someone else disrespect you because you re going to answer back either with another video or with violence. someone s going to take it to the next level, and they have done that. one year earlier, the reputed leader of the starz, donald oliver, also known as lavish d, recorded a fight between members of the starz and zillas at a sacramento mall. one of the starz members in the video is efrem wandik. happened so fast. wasn t supposed to happen like that. it just happened [ bleep ]. talking back and forth. so i m like, [ bleep ]. you keep talking like you just a tough guy, you feel me? i m going to beat your ass. wandik says the mall fights
[ bleep ] just happened. it was a [ bleep ] weekend. i m a big fish. and me, any time anything happen, i m going to always be oh, it was lavish d now. so once you build yourself an image you got to live with that image. you make your bed you got to lay in it, you know? the posted video led to the arrests of oliver, wandik, and other members of the starz. it happened. let s put this up. so i put it up. know what i mean? and it s like, that right there was like it was stupid, know what i mean? then i m recording it so it s making me look like the dude. like oh, that s the main guy, didn t have to do anything. then all the shootings happening and people getting hurt or whatever, even if it had nothing to do with the video, it still looks like it. when i found out about the video, i m not going to lie, i m like, [ bleep ]. yeah we probably going to go to jail. my mom seen it. like lavish d posted a video of you guys in a mall. like man, stupid. why the hell are you going to record
a firearm. though authorities consider him the leader of the starz gang, oliver insists the starz isn t even a gang. you know, i really don t play basketball, but you know, i m good at everything i do. we re not a gang, we re a rap group, we re a clique. we might be five deep but they say anything over three people is a gang. so the police and detectives and the gang task made this into a gang thing, you know what i mean? then you got people who s not really a star that s really looking up to me that s just young and like, i want to be like lavish d. now you re going to tattoo stores, now you re getting on the internet, f the other side from starz. now you got his little posse that s not even from the starz but they re die-hard fans of lavish d. but the circumstances leading to oliver s arrest revolve around a feud between starz and zillas. weeks before his arrest, a video emerged online showing two known starz members attacking a known
riding through the day, like i m at a desk all day, you know what i m saying? i wrote this yesterday all day. the two men who are considered leaders of a sacramento gang known as the zillas also spend their day rapping. these parts each round try to swim with the per iran mays something authorities say is often used to antagonize their arch rivals, another sacramento gang calls the starz. i figured you field it like paparazzi through the lenses both the zillas and starz claim they are primarily musicians and not criminals. they re going to say, oh, we re just singing, we re just trying to give money to children s homes. they re going to try to put themselves out there as something that s legitimate when they re really not. it s validated gang members, it s a validated gang. prostitution, robbery, thing of that nature which is for their criminal purpose to keep their gang going. what s going on, fellas? what s up with you? what s going on?