#310. Congo Mob Murders To London Gangster & My Life Sentence - Rosca Onya

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Dodge Woodall

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Rosca Onya went from a war-torn childhood in the Congo to prison in the UK — and then rebuilt his life through music. In this powerful episode, he opens up about gang life, grief and how he was given an indefinite prison sentence at just 17 years old. Rosca also talks through the 16 different prisons he was locked up in.

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0:00.0	I was born in Congo. When I was five, a war broke out.
0:03.0	They were arresting some people and putting them in prison.
0:06.0	Some people are getting hurt there and then on the spot.
0:08.0	But what it was doing is taking children and turning them into like child soldiers.
0:12.0	There was a knock on the door and my dad and my mum got taken away.
0:18.0	What was it like for you being nine-year-old coming to South London?
0:21.6	I was like, I just need to survive, so I just proved my worth.
0:24.6	I'm not going to sit here and lie to you.
0:26.6	Yes, there was times where I carried certain things which I shouldn't have carried,
0:29.6	but I had to just do whatever I had to survive.
0:33.6	Dangerous man, and you've got nothing to lose?
0:36.6	Yeah. So from five to 18,
0:39.2	it's been chaos.
0:40.3	Real chaos, yeah.
0:41.5	How many prisoners did you do?
0:42.7	I've done about 15 joys.
0:44.4	When I touched down in ISIS,
0:46.1	I had half the gel on me, Dodge.
0:47.6	On you?
0:48.2	I had half the gel on me because I was Roscoe.
0:50.8	You don't know where I just come from.
0:52.6	I just started channeling that. And I'm just like, okay, so if you not want to take it there, like, I want to take it ten times
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