There's a car following us.

It's an Audi.

And somebody in the car said, make a U-turn.

And as I'm going by them, I'm looking at them, they start shooting. One of my closest friends got shot in the face. This is the war error. This is the era that we are outside with, you know, clips that whole 21 shots. And, you know, we're doing whatever we got to do. Yeah, we sell jobs, but we're going to take some money, too.

We're going to do whatever.

I'm with that.

This is what I was taught.

This is how you handle everything violently. You got a problem with somebody to shoot him. The rapper Mayno is a New York City legend. He comes from the meanest streets of Bedstuy, Brooklyn, where he grew up in the 1980s at the dawn of the crack cocaine epidemic. He and his crew hit the block at just 14 years old,

robbing and kidnapping drug dealers and getting in shootouts with rivals from the neighborhood.

He was that dude, a hard rock, a gangster.

At 17 years old, he took a pinch on a kidnapping robbery charge

and got sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison.

He didn't behave on the inside either.

He ran every cell block on Rikers Island and in the baddest prisons in upstate New York, where he

spent almost half of his 10 years stretch in the hole for slashes. It wasn't until the last few years

of his sentence that he settled down and began to write raps. It turned out that he was nice.

So when he got out of prison in 2003, he began to make mixtapes.

He signed his first major record deal in 2005, and then in 2009, he finally achieved mainstream

success with his first album, If Tomorrow Comes, with the hit singles High Hater and a million

bucks.

Since then, Maino has been one of the most consistent and prolific rappers to come out of

New York, with over 15 studio albums to his name.

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