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A warning before we begin.

This is a planet money adaptation of louder than a riot and this episode is explicit in every way.

It was a chilly January day in 2007.

DJ drama was in his Atlanta studio with his affiliates working on his next big project.

That's when drama steps outside to move his car.

I walked out the door and then that was when I just like swat and helicopters and you know, here come the SUVs and they just like pull from all corners.

Now drama plays a cool because he knows that whatever it is, he's not the target.

I'm not doing nothing. You know what I mean?

Fucking DJ drama like. I'm on the radio and making mixed tapes and all right.

We'll get to the bottom of this. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah, but then things escalate.

As they pull up, they jump out with M16s like drawn right at me and I'm like, you know, I've never had an automatic weapon pointed at me.

The four officers called drama by his government name Tyree Simmons.

They tell him to get on the ground and they take his ID. Then they get on their radios.

And I hear him on the other end saying, we got one of the perps.

So I start in my mind freaking out like, uh, like, who?

Y'all got one of them. Like, wait, it's got to be a mistake.

It's clear that these officers are looking for a lot more in the mixed tapes, especially from the way they're barking.

Tell us where the guns and the drugs are. Tell us where they are.

Like, they're going through the roof for the building and just looking for all types of shit.

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