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Locked In with Ian Bick

Saigon: How I survived New York State Prison

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Saigon sits down with Ian Bick to tell the full story of his upbringing, how getting pulled into the streets and gangs led him down a path that ultimately landed him in New York State Prison, and the crime that changed his life forever. Saigon opens up about what surviving prison really took, how incarceration reshaped his mindset, and why he refused to glorify crime after his release. He breaks down how music became his way out, eventually signing with Atlantic Records, and working with Mark Wahlberg on Entourage. This is an honest conversation about prison survival, accountability, hip-hop, and building a future that doesn’t lead back behind bars. _____________________________________________ #prisonstory #truecrime #prisonlife #statesprison #prisonsurvival #lockedin #realstories #rap _____________________________________________ Thank you to PRIZEPICKS for sponsoring this episode! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! _____________________________________________ Connect with Saigon: https://www.instagram.com/saigontheicon/?hl=en Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Shop Locked In Merch: http://www.ianbick.com/shop _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Prison vs the Streets: The Mindset That Changes Everything 02:00 Growing Up in New York: Family, Pressure & Environment 09:00 Music, Identity & Early Dreams 16:00 Teen Years in the Streets: How It Starts 24:00 First Arrests & Real Consequences 32:00 Chasing Reputation: Violence, Gangs & Image 39:00 Life on the Run & Finally Getting Caught 44:00 Inside the System: Rikers, Rockland & Prison Notoriety 50:00 Prison Reality: Gangs, Politics & Survival 58:00 The Turning Point: Mentors, Books & Mental Shift 01:04:00 Life After Prison: Music, Temptation & the Industry 01:13:00 Rejecting Gangster Rap & Choosing a Different Message 01:18:00 Acting, Entourage & Breaking Into Hollywood 01:23:00 Modern Rap, Violence & Where the Industry Went Wrong 01:32:00 Building a New Life: Music, Tech & Purpose 01:39:00 Final Advice to the Next Generation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.9

This is how he survived.

1:14.4

Why he refused to glorify that life after release and how prison pushed him toward music

1:19.5

instead of back to the streets.

1:24.5

Saigon, welcome to Lockton, man.

1:26.3

Thanks so much for coming on the show today. Thank you for having me, man. This is special. Yeah, small world that you're in Connecticut now. I know, right? I love Connecticut, man. When I see other people from New York in Connecticut, I get mad. How do you know about this? Connecticut is the best kept secret. Yeah, yeah. And it's been there to Tri-State area the whole time. It's been there the whole time. Everybody goes to Jersey, the Hackensack, the Edgewater, to, oh, yeah, yeah. I'm like, nah, Connecticut is the gym, bro. And it's the same proximity to New York City. We all want to be close to home, so that's why we don't go to, well, some people go to Atlanta, but the ones who've got to stay here, got to stay here. Yeah, people are funny, too, when you say that, you know, you're near New York City. They're like, ah, it's so far, but it's literally like an hour and 15 minutes. I get to the Bronx and 15 minutes. Yeah, the Bronx is like right there.

2:17.9

Yeah, it's no different than going from New York City and New Jersey.

2:20.8

It's no, that's the same thing.

2:22.2

The proximity is exactly this.

2:23.7

This is actually closer.

2:25.2

Yeah, to get from here to New York City.

2:27.6

Yeah, because you don't got to deal with a lot of that GW traffic.

2:31.3

Yeah, the traffic.

2:32.2

Yeah, you shoot right here and you right there in Stanford.

2:36.8

Good old Stanford.

2:37.7

Yeah, when we go to like the airports, if you leave at the right time, you get there an hour,

2:43.5

hour and six minutes to JFK.

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