00:05Do you see where there's so much more from here, bro?
00:07Mm-hmm.
00:08It's not going to happen, bro.
00:10What's the line of work that you're involved in?
00:13Serving up them nitties, you get me?
00:16Money, power and respect, that's what we're doing.
00:20Obviously, we don't let people cross us.
00:23A good sorting guy is in order.
00:30Are we okay to capture anything and everything that happens?
00:33You said this, yeah?
00:34Mm-hmm.
00:35I heard you.
00:36Walaikum salam.
00:37I don't play games with you.
00:39I care about respect.
00:40My respect is more than anything.
00:42Call what you want.
00:43You can record me cry chopping somebody.
00:46Take that out of me, but don't record my face.
00:49Don't record your face, okay.
00:50Make sure, man.
00:51For sure.
00:53Yeah.
00:54Basically, it's from Birmingham.
00:55North streets.
00:56So, obviously, a lot of things happen here.
00:57A lot of activities, a lot of gang stuff happen here, you know what you say.
01:14This is the block where things go down.
01:17We run up and down here, grafting, serving, working.
01:22What's the line of work that you're involved in?
01:25Serving up the nitty, you get me?
01:27So, obviously, now we have to get by, innit?
01:29Explain, I guess, to the audience what a nitty is, because I don't think they'll know.
01:33A nitty.
01:34A nitty is somebody who is a drug addict, yeah?
01:37It was really bad, crack, all of that kind of stuff.
01:40So, yeah, that's a nitty.
01:42Someone who don't take care of themselves and just abuse drugs differently.
01:44So, you feel me?
01:46So, that's where the money is, you know what I'm saying?
01:49Money and power and respect, that's what we do, innit?
01:51But, obviously, we don't let people cross us, so we just do what we have to do, innit?
01:55This is what gets man through, you know what I'm saying?
02:11Is that cocaine?
02:12Yeah.
02:13And this is where the money comes from.
02:15You can double your, triple your money, you know what I'm saying?
02:19So, this is how man lives, do our thing right here, innit?
02:22This is a building in which some of that stuff happens, is that?
02:25Yeah, this is the building, one of many buildings where things happen, you get me?
02:29So, obviously, there's here, there's a lot of places, and we always stay active,
02:34and we always do what we have to do, you know what I'm saying?
02:37So, that's what it is, innit?
02:39So, we're currently in like a, you know, a big kind of council estate block.
02:44Explain how the drug scene works in a place like this.
02:48You know what it is, bro?
02:49There's a lot of flats in the block here, bro.
02:52So, let's speak of how many people are in these flats, yeah?
02:55Think how many people are in all sorts of stuff?
02:5740 other flats, maybe?
02:59So, how many people are out in there, on stuff?
03:02Actually, on drugs?
03:03Yeah, 100%.
03:04So, this is basically your clientele?
03:07Everywhere, bro.
03:08Yeah.
03:09Yeah, 100%.
03:10So, you set up here?
03:12Yeah.
03:13Why?
03:14Because there's people you can sell to?
03:16Yeah.
03:17Obviously, I know where I am at it.
03:19Do you know what I mean?
03:20I know what's around me.
03:21I know what it is.
03:22So, I know what I can pat on up and do my thing usually.
03:26Yeah, well, that's what it's about, innit?
03:29What are you okay with showing us today?
03:37Why?
03:38So, there are certain things that I can't show you.
03:40You know what I'm saying?
03:41Because, obviously, it's a lot.
03:42You know what I'm saying?
03:43So, there's only certain things that we kind of can't show.
03:45So, yeah.
03:46As I say.
03:48What do you want to see?
03:50Yeah, what would you like to see, really?
03:52Ideally, we'd see the kind of operations.
03:54We could trust you guys, yeah?
03:55Because, obviously, what we're showing you, like, it's
03:57kind of sat information, you know what I'm saying?
03:59So, yeah, man.
04:00Come on.
04:01Come on.
04:02Where are we going to go now?
04:03The house.
04:04Right there.
04:05Let me phone this geezer to get the Yorkie.
04:08I have to go in the lift.
04:11Nah, you good?
04:12Jump in, jump in.
04:13Wait.
04:16Yeah, come in a little bit, bro.
04:17Yeah, there you go.
04:19Come here, man.
04:20Head in.
04:22Sit.
04:23Stay.
04:24Good boy.
04:30So, basically, where we're going now is what we like to call an office.
04:34Truck yard, basically.
04:36Where things are organized, you know what I'm saying?
04:39Where we work from.
04:41So, let me show you how we get down here.
04:48Yeah, let's check it out.
05:00So, yeah.
05:01Basically, here we are.
05:03The work spot.
05:04Trap spot.
05:05Where things go down.
05:07And, yeah.
05:08This is where we prep when we get busy.
05:12This is what we do.
05:13This is the lifestyle.
05:14This is the office.
05:15This is where we prepare.
05:16Organize.
05:17Work.
05:19And, yeah.
05:20That's how it goes.
05:21Obviously, we, we, we, uh, we, so we have different needs from here, innit?
05:38We weigh up things.
05:39And we just pattern up.
05:40And then, that's how it goes.
05:41Ready to work.
05:42That's how it goes, ready to work.
05:44So do you have kind of multiple places like this?
05:47Yeah, we're always more than one because you have to be one step ahead, you get me?
05:52You always have to be ready and you can't just leave your things in one place, bro,
05:57because you never know what can happen, you get me?
05:59Someone come through your door, tip what you've got, so...
06:02Who would come through the door?
06:04Gang robbers, bro, people who hate on you, or even anybody, bro, people who hate on you.
06:08People who want to tip what you've got, people who you see you're doing well, you know what I mean?
06:11People who want to get their money?
06:12Yeah, anything, bro, so that's what people do in this life, you know what I'm saying?
06:16How do you use these properties?
06:18Basically, like, normal people, needed people, we do, like, you know what I'm saying?
06:23Obviously, we pattern up here, we run this part, so...
06:26It's a drug user's house, you kind of come in and use it for your own purposes?
06:31Yeah, because we have to. We have to be everywhere, do you get me?
06:35So they'll have a property that they're staying in, they're addicted to drugs,
06:46and they kind of let you take over that property in exchange for drugs, is that basically what happens?
06:51100%, 100%, some people are poor too, they ain't got money, they ain't even got food like that, so...
06:58They're gonna let somebody in their yard to help them, because obviously they need help, they need food, they need drugs, they need anything, you get me?
07:07Some people can't afford none of that shit, so...
07:10They do what they need to do, you with me?
07:13And how much of a choice do they have in it?
07:16Sometimes it's their own choice, bro.
07:28What is that thing in your pocket there?
07:30It's a cosh, bro.
07:31It's a cosh.
07:32Well, it is, yeah?
07:33Do you see what someone tries to come from you, bro?
07:35Mm-hmm.
07:36It's not gonna happen, bro.
07:37Yeah?
07:38I actually have to protect myself.
07:39Otherwise, what I'm meant to do, you get a hold of?
07:41And that's not gonna happen, bro.
07:43Mm-hmm.
07:44Because, obviously, I stay protected.
07:46And I'm always ready, and I'm always out, yeah?
07:48You have to be.
07:49If you don't, you don't know what's gonna happen to you, innit?
07:52And that ain't gonna happen to me.
07:53We have to keep myself protected, yeah, yeah.
07:55I've got a big dog here as well.
07:56And obviously it's not a joke, bro, yeah?
07:58My knee is everywhere.
07:59When things happen, you get me?
08:00I'm a good guy, though.
08:01Yeah, yeah.
08:02But, when it comes to crossing the line, I do what I do, I do what I need to do, I do what I have to do, to protect, to look after my people from me, you know what I'm saying, what I've got.
08:10Would you actually, would you kill someone?
08:13You know what, bro?
08:14Depends.
08:15For my family, 100,000%.
08:17I ain't afraid of it.
08:19Sometimes in this world, you've got to do what you've got to do, to look after yourself, protect your things, protect your family together.
08:24Do you ever feel kind of like guilty that you go into like a guy like that's property and you're in his world and you know that he needs you for drugs, basically?
08:33Nah.
08:34I don't feel guilty for that because he's coming to me, bro.
08:37I've got what he wants in it.
08:39What's the bit you enjoy most about this life?
08:45The money, B. The money, bro.
08:48100%, people look up to you.
08:51You know what I'm saying?
08:52People are like, yeah, that's mine, man.
08:54You know what I'm saying?
08:56People show you, look at him, bro.
08:58What, like, so kind of little kids look to you as like a kind of role model figure, I guess, everything?
09:04Yeah, even the older Jews, you don't get respect to that, you know what I mean?
09:08So how much coke is that?
09:12About three ounces in there.
09:14What's the kind of street value?
09:16You know, boom.
09:17You can pay 3,000.
09:19You can make about five bags profit if you sell your small stuff to like deals, ten pound points, whatever.
09:27And, yeah, you just...
09:28So, wait, you buy that for 3K?
09:30Yeah.
09:31And then you'll make, like, how much?
09:33About five on top, maybe six.
09:35Well, it depends how it goes.
09:36It depends what you said.
09:37You do deals up for people, you look after them.
09:39You get me, like, what?
09:40Definitely a good value, a good amount, like, that you make about 100%.
09:49Did you ever want to be anything else?
09:51Like, was there a dream?
09:53Nah.
09:54Nah.
09:55I ain't the man the dream, bro.
09:56I'll be real.
09:57I ain't.
09:58I've always been out here.
10:00What do you think led you to this?
10:01Well, I got up, bro.
10:03In the hands of you, get me?
10:05And obviously, like, you meet people.
10:07It just happens, bro, get me?
10:09And you just fall into it, bro.
10:10It just happens, you get me?
10:11And you just fall into it, plus.
10:13When was the first time you realised, shit, I am now a drug dealer?
10:18Probably when I was, like, 15, wasn't it?
10:23I was at 15, even when I took a story in my year, bro.
10:26And, yeah, bro, that's it.
10:29Just...
10:30What's the hardest thing about it?
10:32Thinking which motherf***er is going to come through your door?
10:36Is that, like, a real thing?
10:37So people, like, what?
10:38Yeah.
10:39Kick your door through and come after you, like, with weapons?
10:43Yeah, bro.
10:44100%.
10:45If it's not the Jake's, it's David Mando, isn't it?
10:47You get me?
10:48What are Jake's?
10:49Police.
10:50Oh, police.
10:51The boy, don't you get me?
10:53So, yeah, that's what it is, isn't it?
10:55I guess I just saw first-hand the reality of how drug dealers come into people's lives,
11:04vulnerable people addicted to drugs, and just completely take over.
11:08You know, a guy told me there's over 20 people in that apartment block addicted to drugs.
11:14These guys are using their flats for whatever the hell they like.
11:18Just in the few minutes I was there, it was so hectic.
11:21I was scared.
11:22It's just so dark.
11:24And there's an absolutely crazy guy who's been following us around all day,
11:27he's part of their gang, he's drank a full bottle of vodka in about three minutes.
11:35Oh, yeah, I mean, the whole thing just feels very sketchy
11:37and we need to get the hell out of the address again.
11:42If you could do something else, what would you do?
11:45I wouldn't go to work and be legit.
11:47You get me?
11:48I would, but just doing what in it?
11:49I don't know.
11:50I've done my arse work, I've done all of work.
11:52I've been there, I've been that guy, I've done all of it, bro.
11:54It's sad, isn't it?
11:55I mean, like, I'm not judging you, but you know, like, you could have done so much more.
11:58I think that myself sometimes I do it all.
12:00I do what I know I'm best, you get me?
12:02Yeah, it's not a proud thing, it's really not, but you do what you do in this day and age,
12:07and you're doing this life, you get me, to get by.
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