CHINO GRANDE... QVOLE! C.MON.YO SOY EL PINCHE CHINO GRANDE.I WAS BORN IN EAST LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.GROWIN UP IN A GANG INFESTED AREA TRADITION OF GANGS, ART, PRIDE, AND VIOLENCE. THE FASCINATING LIFESTYLE RUNS THREW A LONG LINE OF MY FAMILY GENERATIONS. EVEN BEFORE MY GRANDPA SAPO FROM LA LOMAS, PALOVERDE IN THE CHAVEZ REVINE IN THE NELA.TODAY KNOWN AS THE PLACE THEY KICKED OUT THE STRUGGLING MEXICAN AMERICANS TO BUILD DODGERS STADIUM. AS A KID I WITNESSED HOW RUFF THIS WORLD REALLY CAN BE. AT ABOUT 4 YEARS OLD MY UNCLE TONY HAD GOT SHOT IN THE HEAD BY A RIVAL GANG MEMBER WHILE KICKING BACK AT THE PARK. LEAVING HIM TO REST IN PEACE AT THE AGE OF 18. AS I GOT A LIL OLDER, I GOT 2 EXPERIENCED A TASTE OF THE STREETS FOR MYSELF."I WENT TO SCHOOL". PASSING THREW THE GRAFFITTI, USED NEEDLES BY THE STORM DRAINS, CANDLES ON THE FLOOR FOR THE DEAD THAT WERE SHOT, VETERANOS ON THE BLOCK, YOUNG KIDS TRYING TO HUSTLE SELLING WEED, HEROIN AND ROCK. IT NEVER STOPPED. THE CITY NEVER SLEPT CUZ AT NIGHT CAME THE GUN SHOTS, SIRENS, ROBBERS, AND HELICOPTERS. FOR SOME STRANGE REASON IT BECAME EXCITING. SORT OF LIKE A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE."YOU NEVER NEW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT". THEN CAME MIDDLE SCHOOL.THE METAL DETECTORS AN DRIVE BYE DRILLS. IN AUGUST OF "91" MY GRANDPA SAPO HAD PASSED AWAY LEAVING ME A SCAR ON MY HEART BECAUSE I WAS ONLY 9 AND LOST MY BEST FRIEND. FROM THAT POINT ON MY BLOOD BEGAN TO BOIL. AT 12 WE MOVED TO THE SOUTHEAST SECTION,"WHITTIER"LOS. THE CITY OF NO PITTY AN THE BOMB DIGITTY. I BECAME SO OBSSESED BY THE LIFESTYLE MY FATHER KICKED ME OUT.SO I HOOKED UP WITTA FEW KNUCKLE HEADS FROM THE LOCAL GANG "WHITTIER 13". THEY TOOK ME UNDER THE WING BY GIVING ME FOOD, SHELTER, AND A SORT OF BELONGING. ALL OF THAT WAS COOL IN ITS OWN WAY, BUT "THE RESPECT", WELL THAT WAS EVEN BETTER. I WALKED LIKE A DUKE, TALKED LIKE A DUKE, WHAT LEFT BUT TO GET JUMPED IN TO THE WHITTIER 13 DUKES.THE LIFE FLEW BY SO FAST I ENDED UP IN L.P., EASTLAKE, AND SYLMAR JUVINILE HALLS. WHEN I WAS REALLY ASSED OUT THATS WHERE I VACATIONED. TILL THEN IT WAS ALL ABOUT GUNS, DRUGS, INSTITUTIONS, GIRLS, AND CRIME, LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT. I LIVED OFF AN ON WITH MY PARENTS IN BETWEEN MONTHS.MY GOAL WAS TO BE A HARDCORE GANG MEMBER THAT WHEN PEOPLE HEARD WHITTIER THEY THOUGHT "ME".SO WHILE LIVING IN THE STREETS WITH THE FELLAS, I HAD GOT A KARAOKE MACHINE FOR MY BIRTHDAY.SO I PUT THAT PUPPY YO WORK MAKING NEIGHBORHOOD GANG TAPES.IN BETWEEN GANG BANGING AND HITTING UP EVERY GANGSTER I SAW WALKING MY HOOD. I THEN BEGAN TO WRITE ABOUT THE COMPLICATED SITUATIONS THAT I LOVED SO MUCH. AT 16, I WAS SENT TO A CRAZY LOCKDOWN CAMP BY THE NAME OF SAN DIMAS GLENN ROCKY.AT MY STAY THERE, I SPENT MOST MY TIME IN THE SHU(SPECIAL HANDLING UNIT). IF I DIDNT LIKE THE WAY THINGS WENT I SQUABBED WITH THEM, INMATE OR STAFF.ON MY 2ND TO THE LAST VISIT IN THE SHU A DAY BEFORE MY BIRTHDAY MY GRANDMA ACEVES REST IN PEACE.WHEN I FOUND THAT OUT.THEY FINALLY GOT THE POINT.LEAVE ME ALONE. I WENT TO COURT WITH ONLY 2 WRITE UPS.THE REST WERE EXCUSED BECAUSE THEY FIGURED IT WAS A LIL MORE THAN WHAT THEY THOUGHT. SO THEY RELEASED ME TO A MENS TRAINING CENTER ON FURLOUGH. THEN CAME MY FIRST DEMO HOOKING UP WITH WRECK OF WICKED MINDS. WE HIT THE STUDIO AFTER ABOUT A YEAR OF BULLSHIT I WAS GOING THREW ON THE STREET.SINCE THEN WE PUT OUT"HARD TIMES IN THE VARRIO" AND HE'S HELPED ME TRY TO SEE A MORE POSISTIVE SIDE OF ALL THIS IN 2000-2001. TRAVELING ALL OVER THE SOUTHWEST INCLUDING MEXICO BY THE HISTORICAL PYRAMIDS. EARNING A LIL MONEY AN JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME. UNFORTUNATELY MY CRAZY WAYS GOT ME MY COUNTY JAIL VISITS AN ETC. TO CHALK THIS UP ALREADY. I MET MY BEAUTIFUL BABIES MOTHER WHICH GAVE ME MY SON "BABY CHINO" THE NEXT GENERATION .I LOST ALOT OF MY FAMILY AN RIGHTOUS HOMIES OVER THE YEARS TO PRACTICAL LIFE SCENTENCES AND DEATHS. LET ME JUST SAY THINGS AINT WHAT THEY USED TO BE. TILL THEN I REMAIN AS THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS."GANGSTER BY BLOOD"SWET AND TEARS...JA STUVO! ALRATO CON RESPECTO! WRECK WHAT UP MI GENTE, I'M WRECK, I'M THE ONE THAT CREATED WICKEDMINDS. I WAS BORN IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS IN THE NORTH SIDE. MOVED TO LA WHEN I WAS 10 YEARS OLD. SPENT MOST OF MY LIFE GANGBANGING AND RUNNING THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES. AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN I GOT ME A SET OF TURNTABLES AND STARTED WORKING ON MY MUSIC. I DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET INTO THE RAP GAME UNTIL 1994 WHEN STARTED MAKING BEATS FOR SOME HOMIES IN THE GAME(BUGZY, KREAM, ETC.) I STARTED RAPPING IN 1995 BUT DIDN'T RELEASE ANYTHING UNTIL 1997 WHEN WE RECORDED THE "MISUNDASTOOD" ALBUM. SINCE THEN I'VE BEEN WORKIN MY ASS OF TRYING TO GET THIS WICKEDMINDS THING GOING, RAISING MY KIDS, AND STUDYING LAW. I'VE HELPED OUT WHO I COULD, HOW I COULD THROUGH THE STRUGGLE. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, THINK THEY KNOW, OR WANNA KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT MY SITUATION WITH THE STREETS, WELL HERE IT IS. I AM FROM SOUTHSIDE EIGHTEEN STREET. MY CLICK IS DBA AKA DEFBOYS. DBA WAS STARTED BACK IN 1986 IN CUDAHY AND LATER IN TIME CLICKED UP WITH SS18ST. I PRETTY MUCH GREW UP WITH ALL THE HOMIES FROM 18 THAT RAN THE CALLES IN THAT ERA, AND CONSIDER THEM FAMILY. ALL THOUGH I'VE SAID A LOT IN MY MUSIC ABOUT GANGBANGING, IT WAS NEVER THE WAY I WANTED TO LIVE MY LIFE, IT'S JUST THAT IT WAS THE ONLY WAY I KNEW TO LIVE. TODAY I AM A DIFFERENT MAN, I EDUCATED MYSELF AND I NOW UNDERSTAND THE REAL WAY OF THIS LAND AND THE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE. GANGS, DEATH, AND JAIL WERE THINGS THAT CAME WITH THAT LIFE. I REALIZED OVER THE YEARS THAT I WOULD RATHER BE CHILLIN WITH MY KIDS, MY MOM, OR MY LADY THAN TO BE DEAD, IN JAIL, OR IN THE HOOD GETTING HIGH WASTING MY LIFE AWAY. WHAT I REALLY WOULD LIKE IS FOR OUR YOUNGSTERS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S MORE OUT THERE THAN GANGBANGING AND RUNNING THE STREETS. EDUCATION, FAMILY, LIFE ITSELF. I WILL ALWAYS BE AN EIGHTEEN STREETER, BUT UNDERSTAND THAT TO ME EIGHTEEN STREET IS NOT JUST A GANG ANYMORE. IT MAY HAVE STARTED AS A GANG IN LA WAY BACK WHEN, BUT TODAY IT IS SO MUCH MORE. TO ME IT IS AN ORGANIZATION, THAT'S RIGHT AN ORGANIZATION LIKE THE NCAAP, OR EVEN THE KKK WITH THE SAME LEGAL RIGHTS, AND THE SAME POWER TO DO GOOD JUST AS BAD IN OUR COMUNITIES AND WORLWIDE. WE HAVE FAMILIES, COPS, LAWYERS, ATHLETES, SOLDIERS, HARD WORKING MOTHERS AND FATHERS, AND YES ENTERTAINERS. WE HAVE A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION CALLED NO-GUNS WHICH WAS CREATED BY MY BIG HOMIE WEASEL. THE "NO-GUNS" ORGANIZATION REACHES OUT TO THE LIL HOMIES FROM ANY AND ALL NEIGHBORHOODS AND ENCOURAGES THEM TO PERSUE AN EDUCATION, TO WORK AND MAKE A LEGITAMATE LIVING. WE ARE FOR THE PROGRESS OF OUR PEOPLE. LATINOS HAVE PLAYED THE DEVILS GAME LONG ENOUGH. IT'S TIME FOR EDUCATION, SUCCESS, AND HAPPINESS FOR OUR PEOPLE. THATS HOW THIS ALBUM GOT IT'S NAME "THE UNFORGIVEN". TO WICKEDMINDS "THE UNFORGIVEN" IS THE KILLING OF A LATINO BY ANOTHER LATINO. THE ALBUM "THE UNFORGIVEN" IS A STORY WITH ALL THE DIFERENT ASPECTS OF A LATIN GANGSTERS LIFE: PARTYING, HAPPINESS, GANGBANGING, DEATH, BETRAYAL, HEARTBREAK, TRIUMPH, RELIGION, FAMILY, MISERY, AND EVENTUALLY REDEMPTION. OVER THE YEARS A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME WHAT DOES WICKEDMINDS MEAN OR STAND FOR. WHERE DID THE NAME COME FROM? THE NAME WICKEDMINDS MEANS "WHAT IS MISUNDERSTOOD IS FEARED" EVER SINCE THE BIGINNING OF TIME WHEN SOMETHING WAS MISUNDERSTOOD, IT WAS CONSIDERED EVIL OR WICKED. WELL WE ARE WICKEDMINDS, AND LIKE IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE "SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES." ..WRECK/WICKEDMINDS..
