the other guy, but he was cool with us, but he
had the gun in his hand. And then I saw him like
five minutes after, i went to get water, and he
was cleaning out the gun or something like that
and he took out the cartridge and I go, "Uhh,"
and then the guy looked at the bullets, he pulled
a bullet out and he showed it to me, he's all,
"Check it out, hollow tips," like exploding
Yeah, on their way out, they make a big hole.
So, what do you do?
G: I like to smoke some weed and kick it with
bitches, that's about it.
What goes on in your neighborhood?
G: Shooting a lot, Bloods shooting up the city. I
don't like to skate around. I'd be a sitting duck.
emm
What about your homeboy, Toker, and your
other friend?
G: Aw, man, my friend, a white boy, just got
shot. He's from H Street Crips.
How many of your friends have gotten shot?
G: About ten people that I used to know got
killed within the last three years, it's crazy. A long
time ago, it wasn't that crazy.
P: In my interview I wrote that Gabriel's neigh-
borhood is crazy and then the dudes read it,
those gangsters, and they got all stoked.
Do you know them and stuff?
G: Yeah, they're cool heads, but I don't kick it
with them because they're wanted and I don't
want to get shot. But I know all of them, they're
all cool with me and shit.
What do you listen to?
G: I like listening to oldies
a lot, they're fresh.
Like how old?
G: 1960 or some shit.
P: He likes Led Zeppelin.
G: I like all kinds of shit,
Pink Floyd's dope.
Have you been playing
music at all?
G: Yeah, I've been jam-
min' the guitar. Some fool
gave me a guitar, a dope
ass guitar for $150.
P: It's an original Fender
acoustic, in perfect condi
tion. It will probably be
worth about $600 over at
Guitar Center.
You been playing it?
G: Yeah.
P: Oh yeah, I traded it in
for a skateboard, dude, so
that's cool, right?
Who else do you like to
listen to?
G: I like Funkadelic, Stevie
Wonder, Love, and Jimi
Hendrix is the shit.
Who are your favorite
skaters right now?
G: I like Paulo, Rudy, Guy,
Joey, Fabian, Ivan, Ron
Bertino, Randy Colvin,
Rick Ibaseta, Jovontae,
Sheffey and Billy Valdez.
He does some harsh shit,
some bad shit.
How long have you lived there?
G: A long ass time, like fifteen years..
How come you don't move out?
G: Because I'd rather save my money because I
haven't been saving, I'll start sometime.
What do you want to do in school?
G: I want to be a nurse or something.
P: Come on.
G: What do you mean? Do you know how much
my brother got in one year just being a nurse?
He got forty thousand. I'm down for that. What
do you want me to be, a lawyer? Yeah, I'm going
to be a pro skater all my life.
P: Yeah, I guess a job is a job.
G: What do you want to be, Paulo?
P: A musician.
G: You can't rely on that shit nowadays.
R: All different music now is the scene.
P: So the thing to do is do something different.
What about playing what you want to play?
P: That's what I want to play.
When fools
rolled in
there with
cameras and
shit, they
got jacked.
Paulo says you can't stand fake people. What
do you think of that, Gabriel?
G: That makes a lot of sense. I've noticed a lot of
people aren't real, a lot of people.
You think they're not being true to them-
selves or they're just not being true to you?
G: True to themselves. When they're not true to
themselves, they're not true to nobody.
Do you have trouble hanging out with that
kind of people?
G: A lot of people can't hang with me. If you
can't take a joke, go to hell then. Sometimes
Are you still living with you're pissed, you talk shit or whatever, it
your parents?
G: Yep. It's pretty cool, I
got my own little room,
but I want to get out, I
can't hang no more.
Where will you go?
G: Somewhere like where
Rudy lives where you can
just relax, where you can
walk your dog, man.
You can't do that in your
neighborhood?
G: Hell no, it's ugly, you
don't want to walk your
dog in my neighborhood.
doesn't mean that's how you always are.
Everyone gets pissed, you say shit that you
regret. I say shit I regret.
Do you tell the people that you regret it?
G: Yeah, sometimes I feel I have to. I try not to
be a different person in front of anyone. Like, I'd
be the same exact person to everyone. I swear,
there's people that act different around different
people. The way I feel, if you want to say some-
thing to someone, you go up to them and tell
them. I mean, you can't be hiding shit.
Everything should just be totally up front,
cards on the table, and that way everything's
fair, everyone knows what's going on.
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