he keeps me cool. i m real hot headed. quick snap on somebody. real quick. no problem, don t worry about nothing. he keep me out of it, cool. despite the fact there was sort of a mentor relationship, you could see that cousin ice couldn t totally impart all that he had learned in his years on to dooker. a new generation. check all you old folks out. fisher told us that gang-banging has changed since he was thompson s age. we just wanted to protect our side of town. you know what i mean? i mean, none of us owned nothing over there. but we called it our side of town. when i was 18 there wasn t you heard about somebody getting shot maybe once every three months. now, it s every day somebody s getting shot. dinell thompson can attest to that. he s been shot eight times. i ain t scared of death, though. death s scared of me.
the banging, guns, the money, the killing, all of it. to thompson s cellmate and some time mentor, wasting such potential is the real crime. and that s something titus fisher was determined to see not happen to his own children. he moved his family from california to arizona to help them avoid a future of gang-banging i ve seen my son gettg ready to start when he was only 14. so, i hurried up and got him out of there. that s another reason i moved out here. when we moved out here, i said, you can be whatever you want to be. you know what i mean? now he s straight-as. he hasn t got a b in, like, three years. he s straight-as. he s on the football team. star football player. so, he s on his way to do something. you know what i mean? thompson also has three children. but their future seems less certain. i had a son. he go bang what daddy bang. really, is that what you want for him? he ll have the same life. but if he choose the other way, hey, go ahead.
prosecutors allege thompson has been on the other side of the gun plenty of times. besides the murder convictions he s currently appealing, thompson was charged with three additional drive-by murders while we were at maricopa. 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 dooker love. every time somebody s body comes up missing, they say i did it. dinell thompson had other on the persona of dooker loc. he would have been a star football player. dooker had scholarships to colleges, running back. 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?
possession by an ex-felon. they were making toilet music. you know, write on the toilet and you got to make your own beats. you know what i mean? isher s cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as dooker. it is the south side. thompson was at maricopa appealing two 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 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? dooker loc, 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. you know what i mean? you got to slow down and think about something real quick. he th