RALO PART1: SPEAKS ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATE AND FEDERAL PRISON

Tales From The Jails Host sat down with Ralo from Atlanta. Ralo addresses the snitch allegations and how his relationships with other rappers have been compromised. Ralo addresses the new goals of rebuilding his neighborhood. Ralo speaks about his life as a Muslim and how he decided to build a masjid.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:22

And it's something else that I want I want to talk to you about about doing that I that I do up in um up in up in Philly man. I think that it'll be real real major down here. Um it's like is it's home care. I don't know if you I don't know if you guys know about home care down here.

SPEAKER_01 0:37

Yeah, it's it's a female friend of mine by named Lakeisha, she was telling me about that.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Yeah, I got you know we can talk about that, but it's a it's it's a billion dollar industry. I'm already up. Yeah, it's a billion-dollar industry, like you know. So you know, we'll talk about that. But and that's that's like us all coming together as brothers and actually, you know, like and building and then making the name. If we if we are, like you said, five, six, seven good brothers come together and we just taking a certain amount of money every month and just building mash chairs or building whales for you know, you know, the people that's overseas that need water and things of that nature, man. Just imagine what that can do for us, man. On our scale, man, you know, now you you come from you said this you keep saying saying the the burrow. What what the bluff. The bluff, I'm sorry, the bluff. Now, you from the bluff and you and you in this area, right? And this Vine City. Oh, this Vine City.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

So this across the street from the bluff, this was our rivals.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

We was at war with these people.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

All right, so now I get it. I understand now. But coming from the bluff and being in the in the area, now, you ended up taking more jail stents, going to jail more so after that. How much time do you spend in jail totally?

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Um I lost count, but it had to be over like 12, 13 years.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Oh, 13 years of your life.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

I did four. I mean, I did two, then two, and I just had that nine, that um, that eight year bed. So that alone just with those is over twelve. But I did a lot of counting time. Like a lot of counting time. I used to always go to jail for eight, nine months, find the case, plea out to some probation. You know how that shit go? Yeah. So I did that several several times.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

And now your first long bill you said was what, eight years?

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Yeah, that was my that was when they smoked my booze. But of course, because you gotta think about before that, when I was catching them aggravated assaults and them trafficking haron charges and stuff like that, it was always a possibility that I could have got a lot of time. You know what I'm saying? So when they gave me them eight years, I was like, that's it. You know, like that's all y'all gonna give me. Like, I couldn't believe it. You know, once I got, because when I first got arrested on that jet in the back of my head, I said, oh damn, I'm finna do like 30 years like Big Meach. And I was cool with it. You see my I was like, shit, I did my thing. I did it the biggest out of my city. I did it the biggest out of my hood. Like, no nigga could say they talked this shit that I did. And that's all it was about at that time was who gonna do it the biggest or who did it the biggest. And at that time, no Lamborghini trucks, or none of that type of shit was out. I was the only nigga in the city with a Lamborghini, like a lamb off dope money. And um, those was like trophies to us. I know that shit it's played out to me now, you know what I'm saying? And it ain't nothing to brag about now because I'm on a whole total different path. Like that shit is lame to me and degrading and whatnot. But um, not not talking down on no street nigga that's trying to get there, but I'm just in a whole different lane where your mentality. Exactly. So I just knew I was gonna get 30 years and I was fine with it because I felt like I accomplished some shit that my dad uh Rallo or nobody ever accomplished in my hood. I ran up 20 million out of shit, you see what I mean? So like and it was documented, you know what I'm saying? And it was seen, nigga. I was showing that shit. So like um to me that shit, I completed the mission back then. And I don't really go lay down.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

You can think showing up showing the money let you go let you go to jail?

SPEAKER_01 4:21

It was people was getting killed, and um a lot of cases was going cold. And they just That's when they started coming. That when they came and they just got lucky and ran over some weed.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

What did you when did you know that it was on you?

SPEAKER_01 4:34

Like when did you know like like they they I mean they been on me in Atlanta all my life, of course. Of course, I've been doing shit. But you know, once I got a certain account, certain amount of money, I just felt untouchable. You feel me? And I and I had like a I had I had a nice little strategy of how I moved my dope. I had a strategy of how I handle my business, and then there weren't so many fucking ring cameras everywhere. So like back then, you know, before I went to jail, a nigga played, we pull up and handle the business, didn't have to worry about ring cameras and cameras everywhere, but now this shit's so fucked up with cameras, it's hard to handle the business when a nigga disrespect it.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

Yeah, you can't, and then they got the ring cameras and set the uh the phone ping on a satellite and started getting locked out.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Yeah, but I I used you can beat the ping.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

But I know what you're saying. Hit them because they people wasn't hip to that. So it was like a lot of cases. So, you know, um, you know, the eight-year sentence, right? You know, you um Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

I couldn't believe they gave me that time. I was like, wow, when they told me that, I wanted to go out there and kiss that judge. Everybody else was crying and sad. I'm like, nigga, I know what type of time I've been on. I know what type of money I touched, I know what type of niggas I don't touch, I know what I don't did in these streets. Boy, I can't believe God gave me another chance. That's what I was at with it.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

Now, um, you you said that they stumbled across some some marijuana. Right. So how did that come about? Was it like, you know, they just stopped you like randomly? How did how did that happen?

SPEAKER_01 6:10

So the whole world keep, you know, that what they was able to use to sentence me and you know, give me time and shit like that, and use on the news and stuff like that. But never have they ever came to me talking about no weed. They always came to me my whole time I was in jail. What about this murder? What about this murder? What about this murder? What about this murder? And I and so forth. So like they ain't never cared nothing about no fucking weed. And so, so while I was locked up, I never cared. Because they ain't care, and I knew they ain't care. I only was thinking like, shit. Like, don't put these bodies on me type time. You smell me?

SPEAKER_00 6:47

And how much how much weed was it that they that they found?

SPEAKER_01 6:49

It was a thousand pounds. A little bit over a thousand.

SPEAKER_00 6:51

At one time?

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Nah, they caught they caught 500 and 500. A little bit over 500, a little bit over 500.

SPEAKER_00 6:58

Wow. How did you feel like you know, like when you uh when you seen them, like did you did you see them coming or was it like you just So the first one they caught like 2,000 or whatnot?

SPEAKER_01 7:10

I kept taking losses like through like shipping and shit like that. They kept getting my packs and shit like that. So like I was taking L's, but I was trying to get the L back. It was a million now. I get late at the gambling. Damn, I gotta get it back. Yeah, okay, I gotta get it back. Okay, I got it back. Yeah, then let me try to, you know what I'm saying? So that was on my mind, like, nigga, I gotta get my motherfucking money back. I just lost a million dollars and I lost it again. And I lost it again. So that was three million. You know what I'm saying? That was my money. That was my money. Like, that was I ain't got nobody front of me this shit. I was spending my money on this shit. So like even when they caught me on the plane, I'm like, damn, I just lost another million. You get what I'm saying? So like it was never on no shit like um getting caught, nigga. I'll say it was lost to me. It was the loss.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

I could have done whatever I needed to do in this world with a million dollars. I did it four times. I lost four of them packs. Y'all only know about two because that's the only two they really caught me with. But I had four counts in my indictment.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Wow. So they can't so what when they can they keep getting these packages. A lot of people don't understand. A lot, like sometimes when you were adding it up. Yeah, when you in the streets, right? Like, you know, our our mind state when we in the streets is always about to get back. Right. You lose, you try and get right back. All right, keep keep pushing. And then ultimately you you're not really you're not really thinking about what the big picture, like if maybe this, maybe this is bigger than what I think it is. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 8:44

I I wouldn't even think, because you know, when I'm in Calais and shit, weed everywhere. So I wasn't thinking like the feds really stunned the weed. Like, I went I one time my people got caught with a truckload of my shit, and um I got them right out the next day. I just paid all their buns. You get what I'm saying? So right then, I in my head I'm still like, this ain't shit. This ain't nothing but some weed. You know what I'm saying? I get all my people out because the judge was just getting all my people buns that were getting caught with my truckloads. You smell me. Oh, it wasn't truckload, but it was van fulls or whatnot. And um, that shit just was like, I wouldn't have never thought they would carry about this, you know what I'm saying? Or I wouldn't have never thought they was, you know, they maxed me out with it because weed don't carry no lot of time, you know what I'm saying? But they they made an example out of me because I had that leadership role shit, the keen pen shit. They gave me three, four points extra. Wow. Everybody on my case got little time but me.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

Yeah, he did 21. So he he did 21 years in. He knows about everything I'm saying. Yeah, everything. Everything the points, the leadership role, the keen pen.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

All that he knows about all this shit I'm saying.