THE FREE MASONS TRIED TO RECRUIT ME FT. JAJA SOZE | 90s Baby Show
90s Baby Show
90s Baby Show
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
JAJA SOZE: BRIXTON, THE STREETS, MUSIC & SURVIVAL | FULL PODCAST INTERVIEW
In this raw, unfiltered, and deeply reflective episode, JAJA SOZE sits down to tell his story in full — from growing up surrounded by American culture, dancehall, BMX bikes and street crews, to navigating crime, jail, music, and ultimately purpose.
This episode covers Brixton history, street politics, music industry truths and gatekeepers, prison realities, faith, culture, and growth. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is sugar-coated.
From favourite movies and Nike silhouettes to robberies caught on CCTV, jail time, industry manipulation, spirituality, fatherhood, and building Brixton Corner Studios, this is one of the most complete conversations JAJA SOZE has ever had.
🔥 WHAT YOU’LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE:
• Growing up influenced by American culture, dancehall & street dance
• BMX bikes, dust caps, Warriors, Atari, Amstrad, PlayStation & Xbox
• Early exposure to drug money and street life
• Moving from Birmingham to Brixton
• Formation of street crews and Brixton personalities
• First encounters with serious money at a young age
• Robbing banks, getting caught on CCTV & going jail
• Jail stories, holidays before jail & life behind bars
• Miami robbery gone wrong
• Positivity in music & whether it held him back
• Rapping, PDC & Indigo Youth
• Why he never fell into crack culture
• Brixton being blackballed?
• Music industry exploiting culture
• Why the streets needs hierarchy
• Surviving when many didn’t and feel subject to crack
• Faith, Rastafarian beliefs & spirituality
• Fatherhood, relationships & growth
• Freemasons, power structures & the glass ceiling
• Creating our own community & ownership
• Who is Brixton’s greatest rapper?
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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - COMING UP
03:00 - JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
08:00 - BMX’S & THE RUNNING MAN
15:00 - LETS FIGHT
23:00 - THE EARLY PDC DAYS
40:00 - ROBBING BANKS
49:00 - MY FRIENDS ENDED UP SMOKING CRACK
01:00:00 - 21 SAVAGE SAID F**K THE STREETS
01:09:00 - THE INDUSTRY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF OUR CULTURE
01:20:00 - POSTY & GRM CAN’T KEEP EVERYONE HAPPY
01:50:00 - SURVIVING THE BRIXTON STREETS
02:01:00 - THREE BABY MOTHERS IN THREE YEARS
02:18:00 - THEY ARE INJECTING PRISONERS WITH BAD DRUGS
02:30:00 - THE PDC DOCUMENTARY
02:33:00 - WHAT HAPPENED WITH JUELZ SANTANA WHEN HE CAME TO LONDON
02:40:00 - THE STREETS NEED STRUCTURE AGAIN
02:50:00 - THE FREEMASONS TRIED TO RECRUIT ME
03:00:00 - HOW THEY KEEP THE BLACK COMMUNITY DOWN
03:15:00 - TRIVIA
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Joe. |
| 0:03.0 | You're changing, Jimmy. |
| 0:05.0 | Do you want to go, bro? |
| 0:07.0 | I won't lie, I'll lose. |
| 0:10.0 | It's been a long time. |
| 0:16.0 | Come down. |
| 0:19.0 | Don't bring none of that good goodness right there, bro. |
| 0:23.6 | And that thing, that bit of the thing is in most people's record, yo. |
| 0:27.6 | So you see when you see people and see when something happens, like, say like, |
| 0:30.6 | people say like, say free Palestine or free God or free something. |
| 0:34.6 | Why is celebrity and everyone says, why is that celebrity not saying nothing? Because they sign that deal. In the deal it says that. Yeah. You can't talk on these. You can't talk about none of those things. When you see all the celebrities being quiet, it's because they've signed that thing. It says that in the contract. It says that in the contract. It says it blatantly. Nothing religious, not spiritual, nothing to be with anything kind of like basically good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You basically can't have like your own kind of like freedom of speech. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's in the contract, that's in the music contract. Most of these artists that sign a deal, that's like with any of these big labels, that's in there. That's in nearly everyone's. That thing it that's crazy so that I didn't want I didn't want to sign with that I was |
| 1:14.2 | like nah man that was for me I just like I like I like to want everything yeah |
| 1:18.5 | yeah that's mad that's what kind of put me off the thing so I would have I |
| 1:22.7 | probably might have been the shitty deal yeah to this day had like, you, there was a point in, shout out to London Street Lenders as well. I like, I like what you're doing over then. For sure. But you spoke about, like, oh, like how we should do things and you was like you know like this person should be like the market |
| 1:44.6 | manager this person's and then again i had that same theme of but like everyone can't go you know |
| 1:50.9 | everyone can go because because that's that's kind of like what dame got into that apparently that's |
| 1:55.5 | what dame was doing when there was the whole rockefeller thing he was just hiring bear of his |
| 1:58.8 | breadwin's to be there and it was just chaos nothing nothing's getting done. Yeah. So I'm thinking like, do you feel like, do you feel like you have a responsibility to bring everybody? Like is that, is that like your, is that like your, not your burden, but is that like your, is it crooks? I know you, man. Yeah, but I think what you're saying? |
| 2:18.7 | Yeah, like, do you feel like that's your thing that's like? Cross to carry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm more about the change, that changes happen. But what you're saying here, what I was, maybe I came across a bit wrong when I was saying that. I didn't mean like you just demand him that must put me in that position. |
| 2:36.3 | I meant people from our industry |
| 2:39.2 | from our community. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That can actually do the job. Okay, yeah. |
| 2:45.0 | That's what I meant to say. Mancault say inches is the marketing manager. Yeah, yeah, |
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