The Hired G.U.N. - Snap Classic

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sir Dyno is the Chicano Eazy-E, the king of lowrider car shows, an up-and-coming gangsta rapper straight outta Northern California. But when he gets the money to finance his next CD, he has no idea that the same music that made him a legend will also lead to his downfall.

This story contains drug references and offensive language, sensitive listeners please be advised.

Thank you, David Rocha, for sharing your story with us. Thanks also to Sharon Rocha, Justin Berton & Julia Reynolds.

David Rocha left prison in June 2009. He became a pastor and started a church in Modesto called House of Rest.

Produced by John Fecile

This story featured the music of David Rocha, the original score is by Renzo Gorrio

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Snap Classic - Season 13 – Episode 49

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0:00.0	Now, judgment studios.
0:07.0	Okay, so first of all, everything I'm about to tell you is all my fault.
0:21.4	If anyone should have known better, I should have known better.
0:25.5	It's just that I've been away from my extended family for a while.
0:30.3	Somehow I forgot the insane survival techniques you must employ to survive our gatherings.
0:37.1	Plus, I was hungry.
0:40.0	So my aunties announced that it's time to eat, and the backyard barbecue is set out.
0:45.5	I make the mistake of getting up to fix myself some food.
0:48.9	No one else gets up.
0:50.5	That should have been my first clue.
0:52.6	One of my cousins looks at me.
0:54.3	I'd hide, shaking his head warningly, but I figure if he's got something to say, tell
1:01.1	me after I grab a paper plate and start heaping potato salad on it.
1:06.9	Did I hear one of my aunties?
1:09.9	The after potato salad you want to eat?
1:12.9	The other auntie.
1:13.9	Well, that's my potato salad on his plate, ain't it?
1:17.9	And I know I've made a rookie error.
1:22.1	Maybe some slighted church.
1:24.3	Maybe a miss phone call, perhaps some straight gossip.
1:27.0	I don't know who did what, but I do know the two matriarchs are at war.
1:33.9	Again, the latest battleground being whatever I stick in my mouth.
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