LIL WOODY " THEY WAS TRYNA GET ME" SPEAKS ABOUT TROUBLES BEFORE BEING RELEASED

This exclusive interview from Tales From The Jails Podcast features Lil Woody who spoke about many different topics. Lil Woody talks about the death of his son and how it changed. Lil woody speaks about how his criminal cases have affected his life. Don't miss this full interview on youtube. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:23

Now jail, right? And being uh being in the federal system. What was describe those those those the the most painful nights for you and like how was that how was it dealing with those nights when lights go out, you and there by yourself. Like you're mental with that. Because people don't really understand that. Like at night, them lights go out and you be in there by yourself.

SPEAKER_00 0:45

When you when my worst experience was in the state. Um you want to talk about that? That's good, yeah. Yeah, it was the state, the feds was different because they gave they gave more, they gave more things to do. But the state, when the lights go off, your eyes better stay open. Um that was the most scary experience I have ever like I'd have been out here, and I don't care who it is and how tough and like I don't been out here and I don't care how many people I had to fight against. You feel me? I'll fight against them because you know I'm in a position where I can protect myself in prison. You barely can protect yourself. The gang, they they outnumber you, they out weapon you, and they just real live animals. I once was an animal. So, you know, I know how to dealt. A lot of people don't. But I said, you know, I want different, I want to change. So when I walked in there, they was like, You gang. And I'm like, what better place to stop being a game than prison? So I dropped my flag in prison. And I walked in and said it, like, you banging? I said, nah. They like, you got tattoos on you. I said, I used to bang. These other convicts were the uh police assets. These convicts. Okay. Yeah, they at the door. Soon you walk through the door, they right there, like, what you banging? I don't bang nothing. Then another one sees me and like, oh, that's such a he did this to our big homie. So right then and there, I became, which they'll call it a plate. Food. But that's only when you around the ones that like that. These guys went like that. So, um, but they they seen out by myself. I had a reputation, so they thought I was sweet. Well, they didn't think it was sweet, they tried it. Um we um we got started. We I came in the dorm. I remember I came in the dorm. A couple people said, What's up? They introduced themselves, told me I mean, who was who, and then the game was came to me, they be like, um, hey, you already know what's going on. So when I hear these words, I know what they mean. So I jumped down out the bed. I stand with my back to the bed on photo crossing my chest. I said, What that mean? Like, bro, you gotta go ahead and pack your stuff up and get on the door. We ain't gonna eat you. So I know that you gotta you gotta be careful about let letting people talk to you a certain way. I say nobody gonna eat me. You feel me? He's like, bro, we don't even want to do it to you, bro. Jake, Jake gonna get on the door. So I know if I get on this door, it's gonna it gonna it's gonna hurt my reputation. It gonna help it gonna hurt my reputation because a lot of these niggas gonna take me as weak. So I'm like, if I stay here, they're gonna hurt me. And I love myself too much to allow somebody to hurt me. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna think. So I stood right there and I thought it took me two minutes to think how to play this out. I said, I'd rather let them whoop my ass than get on their door. And then what they did, like one guy snort me, he came from my blind side, hit me in the eye, and another guy hit me, and that was it. They took our hand, but they recorded it and tried to send it to some more people. So they don't even have an issue with me. Somebody else and other peers got an issue with me and send them out to me. So I look at the boys like, oh, y'all must not love y'all people then, because I ain't that type of person where it gonna allow nobody to violate me, because I'm not violating nobody else. And then they call my name for medical. Right after it happened, so my eyes swole. So I'm saying to myself, like, I ain't never been no coward. They jumped on me, so I'm coming back. I went up to medical, hid my face, because my eye was swole. Came right back. When I came back, them niggas was standing at the door because they thought I wasn't gonna come back. When they see me, they like they started reconsidering what they did. So the word got around in jail. They be like, boy, yeah, they just jumped. So now it's it's it's just a lot of politics going on.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

So um they like, hey, look, man, you good in here. Whatever, whatever. So the word got out to the street that they jumped on me. So I was in there by myself. Some people like, nah, look, I got people that's in another part. You need to be in there so they can have your back. Because you already know how they how the gains is, you feel me? I like, bro, look, I just need me a knife. Once I stab one of them, the rest of them they gonna know. He like, cuz you're not on the street. It don't operate, they don't operate like that in jail. So I took his advice, I put my pride to the side, and I got moved to a dorm where I knew people at. And it wasn't no difference, you feel me? Like, I wasn't a gang member, so I had issues everywhere I went. But it wasn't no real issue, it was just niggas just kept punk faking, trying to make it an issue. And um, they had advantage because they was like, I did something to a game member. So it was a pro all the half of the people like, nah, man, we rock with Woody, and the other half, like, bro, he did this to a game member. So you you you can't rock with him. He not gang. If he were game, we could all stand with him. But due to the fact that he said he's not banging, so they wanted me to get back down with the game, and I wasn't doing it. I was like, no, you know what I mean? So the guards, the guys, you know, they tried, they tricked one dude to try to stab me and me and him get into it. So they gave me a little knife and gave him a longer knife. I tried to stab him, and but he stabbed me, and then I started bleeding, so I run back inside. And the guard saw the whole thing. And she didn't report it. So once I wrapped myself up, I healed up like a two days, and then I was like, I had like two weeks to go home, three weeks to go home. I got three weeks to go home. These niggas trying to trick me in here. An old head put me to the side. He's like, bro, put your pride to the side. Go to the hole, man. Go home, man. You got something to lose. These guys ain't got nothing to lose. Ain't nobody putting no money on their books, no nothing. They just trying to get a reputation to survive prison. He taught me about five hours. And then when the guards came, he's like, hey, he wanna talk to y'all. So the dude, like, the guard like, what's up? I'm like, shit, man. I got three weeks to go home, man. Take me to the hole. He was like, nah, they ain't no reason. So I'm like, dang, I gotta get y'all the reason. But I can't get on no reason because if I get in trouble, they can take my parole date.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Exactly, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

So I'm like, dang. So now I gotta stay in here another day. So the dude telling me, like, well, they can't do nothing to you, bro. But and book, go to the hole, cause these dudes applying on niggas. They trying to get you. So I'm like, man, they ain't gonna get me. I go out on the yard. Them niggas out there waiting on me. So they waiting to get me. I see they finna get me too, but I got a little knife. But I just prayed. I was like, man, please, God, you know what I mean? Like, lead me, lead me. I I don't want to, I don't want to tuck my tail because I'm not a bitch. But I ain't finna let these niggas hurt me either. Exactly. So I just kept praying, and then I just got the courage and stood up to the officer, like, man, you're gonna take me to the hole. And as soon as I got to the hole, man, they put a they put a dude in the cell with me that was wigging out on on the on the whatever he was on. Why would you put him in a room with me?

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yeah, why you want me to deal with this problem? He'll be locked in 24 hours a day. And he freaking out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

He and uh, he and I talking to himself, he like he like wood, it's about to pop. I said, What's about to pop? The blood's in the Mexicans, and he's a Mexican. So I'm saying, why they put you in the room with me? So now I'm sitting up with my uncle all night. So once I realized he geeked up, yeah, I said, Damn, this nigga, this nigga high. Hey man, y'all get him out of the room with me before y'all get this man hurt, man.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

Nah, man, ain't nowhere to put him at. They do it to be funny, they do it because they wanted they want it. They want you to lose your date and him to get hurt. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

And and when I be like, they're like, what? So I had to wait till the next shift comes. But I ain't getting sleeping because dude tripping. Then she'll come. One of the officers they knew me, she be like, come on. I don't know why they put him in here with you anyway. They move him out. Then they put a 21-year-old in the room with me. And their boy came in there to my he's YSL and don't have a clue who he in the room with. And I'm listening to him. So we go to talking, and he tell me how he get locked up. And it hurt my feelings. He was like, So YSL was beefing with another gang. When he was on the street, he was the gang that YSL was beefing with. I don't want to put it on the record. But he was the gang that YSL was beefing with. He took it upon himself to put in work for that gang. I guess somebody that wasn't a gang affiliate. They took the person's life. The gang dry snitched on him. He ends up going. He ends up going to uh he get caught. He go to he go to court, fight for two years, they convict him, they give him life plus 40, no, they gave him a life plus 20 years. And he became YSL. And when he came through, as soon as the first day he got to jail, he came through, yelling and fighting and screaming and stuff, right? So I said, I asked him, I said, you got too much time for you to be in here acting like that. You need to be trying to learn something to give that time back because God ain't through with you. And once he started listening to me when I started talking about God, I told him who I was. And he be like, boy, get out of here like call that's anybody. And he was like, now that you said, boy, you this show is. And we started talking to you feel me? And when I saw that, it made me look at life totally different. So I got dudes in here trying to stab and kill me. The guards ain't got no control.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Nothing whatsoever. Or they don't even care.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Yeah, they don't care. They don't care. So then I'm saying to myself, like, man, I gotta make it back home. I got two little girls out there. I can't leave my little girls in the world without nobody protecting them. This ain't the life, this ain't the life of me.