criminal activity, so it should come as no surprise that so man inmates consider themselves to be rap artists. [ rapping ] santa rita is a sprawling jail complex located 30 miles outside the city. but many of the nearly 3,000 men and women incarcerated here were arrested in oakland. most have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases and one is a bay area rapper who is more than a wannabe. we have an inmate come in a couple days ago, international rap artist named drew down. my kids know his songs, my daughters. they re all into the rap. he was around when 2 short
i need to be clean. one of silva s customers is gabriel taylor. both are housed in protective custody because they re gang dropouts. courtesy of the skinny. he will be reunited with another gang dropout, his younger brother ezekiel. let me see the dog bite. yes. good one. yes. good one. next time don t run. i didn t run. i was laying down. under the house, huh? that s what you get. after interviewing both brothers to assure they will not cause any problems together, jail officials decided to approve their request to house in the same unit. they will have separate cells with different cell mates. world series of chess is going on. but now ezekiel and gabriel can spend time together in the unit s day room. this piece goes like this, right? yeah.
why did you kill him? because he was trying to set me up. he was wearing a wire. well, if he was wearing a wire, wouldn t they have caught you? i thought it was a wire. what it was, was one of the ear bud for a radio. and you got luke in virginia. that was in 92. and why did you kill luke? luke owed me $40,000 and couldn t pay me the money. protsman says another took place in fort myers, florida. i was involved with a disturbance between two different gang rivals and this guy had a hit put on him. and word got around that someone had to take care of him and i volunteered. why? because is trying to build a reputation with this certain group of individuals.
to oakland after police linked his dna to a pair of 16-year-old cold case homicides. this time prosecutors were seeking the death sentence but offered a deal. they brought me a deal if i pled guilty to the two charges, they ll give me life without and one year for special circumstances. while protsman pled guilty and received two additional life without parole sentences, it made little difference to his future. he was already serving life without. he did come clean about the murder and says, they too, were fueled by meth. at the time he was both a dealer and an addict. there would be times when i needed to make $10,000, $15,000 in a week. the meth makes you do funny things. you re on a rocket to hell. lose your teeth, lose your mind. lose people, lose friends and even loved ones.
considers himself just another one of the guys. come on. that s why he s chosen to turn down the jail s offer to house him in protective custody or pc. i don t want to be treated no different. i m just the person that i am. i could be pc d up but no, that s never going to be me. i m walking the main line at all times. watch this. this is rock em sock em dano. what you going to do with it? you see that. talk to him. like that. hello. robinson is currently in jail for violating his probation by driving under the influence and evading police. but he says run-ins with the law inspired his music. i started rapping probably when i was 16 when i got out of juvenile hall.