Dog In The Yard

If you follow the Hiphop music business you already know Steve Lobel. His name is legendary in the Rap game. He has been a cornerstone since the 80's when he hung out with the Run DMC crew Jam Master J and others. His story is unique. He had his share of challenges with the law like many that he had to overcome. His addiction weren't with drugs or alcohol, but robbing. Once he starts making it in...

Outlawz Rap member E.D.I. MEAN talks about growing up in New York and then moving to California and getting involved early in the hip hop game through his childhood buddy , Tupac. EDI shares how he had brushes with the law and how people around him were there to get him back on the music path. He breaks down his trips to Clinton penitentiary to visit Tupac and how that experience and the stayed wi...

From the time he was 9, South Central’s Blood gang member Kaybe was getting in trouble with the law. He remembers stealing the neighborhood ice ladies pursue and getting caught and and twelve he was arrested for carrying a gun. Things got serious after that and by 16 he was charged for armed robbery, ski mask and all. His first stint in jail he saw young men his age hanging themselves because they...

LIL EAZY E grew up in Compton with a celebrity Dad, EAZY-E, the legendary founder of NWA and Ruthless Records. Then two weeks before his 11th birthday his Dad died suddenly and his world got turned upside down. He jumped off the porch and started gang banging and running in the streets. He has had to face the demons and the legacy of his Dad. For a long time he was full of anger and emotion. The p...

Crenshaw's Own Smokeone aka "SMOKE", an up and coming artist of Big U's, shares his journey from working the streets to going away for 4 years and having to wake up everyday in jail ready to go to war/ Smoke tells about his first day in the prison yard and seeing the dude next to him stabbed and thinking "man its like this?" Smoke explains how once he got out he made a vow to leave the hustle of t...

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is a legendary rap group. Lean back and listen to Flesh-n-Bone lay out how he started writing rap songs at 12 and was beatboxing with, Krayzie Bone, and Layzie Bone in their junior high school math class. Flesh-nBone shares how he and his family were living on government checks but he never stopped dreaming big. He always thought his basketball skills would bring him fame and...

Perhaps no one person in the history of music has had their hand in more hits with more artists than Scott Storch. He is a true legend. Storch had worked with the whose who of music early in his career including The Roots, Beyonce, Drake, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, Dr. Dre, Justin Timberlake, Lil Kim, Mariah Carey, Fat Joe, LL Cool J, Remy Ma, Ice Cube, TI, Ludacris, Ricky Martin, 50 Cent, Chris B...

Every bid is different. In John's case, he saw plenty of the dark side in prison and was forced to learn the "do's and don'ts quickly and how to be a dog and no dog food. From prison riots to cellmates killing each other and even killing themselves. Surviving and getting out on the other side and a path to freedom was not easy. Take the journey with him and Pistol Pete from a young teenager to a m...

Baldacci was working the streets of South Central at 13 and as. teenage he had one day where he stole stole three different cars and was caught by the police each time! Later he was shot five times with a AK47 semi automatic in a gang fight only to survive after two months in a coma. Afteer years in prison, he eventually turned his life around. Dog In The Yard: Real Stories From Real Comrades 🎥 F...

Susie grew up in Long Beach and had a strong family, but the street game was exciting and glamorous and soon she was dealing. She caught a drug charge and her world changed. Prison made her grow up and get tough real fast. She developed a reputation as "Big Sue" the toughest female on the block After getting out, she had four children and but couldn't leave the game and was back in jail again. Aft...

Being Lebanese and Arminian, Player had to be tough. He was on the streets his whole life. Starting at 14 years old, he was finding trouble. He started running the illegal weed distribution from No Cal to So Cal. It caught up with him and he started doing hard time from county jail to prison in the hole. Being a South Sider he knew the rules and how to represent in jail. He talks about how he and...

Krayzie Bone, member of legendary rap group , Bone Thugs and Harmony, share his story of coming up in Cleveland running his street hustle and trying to make music. He opens up and tells never heard before stories of getting locked up for robbing and how prison life effected him and his music. He tells about seeing guys get thrown off balconies and stabbings right in front of him and how those expe...

OG Lepke grew up in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. He bounced between his mom and dad's homes as a kid and got into the street game early. He was attracted to the flash and sizzle of the street life. His Mom was a hippy who always had drugs around the house. Whether it was acid, weed, or mushrooms drugs were no different than having a candy dish out on the table. Lepke was so immune to it he on...

He grew up in Long Beach and despite being bused to Texas every summer by his mom to get him away from the gangbanger life, Blue was having run ins with the law by age 12. He ended up doing time at each level of California's local and state judicial system. Going from Youth Detention Centers to Juvenile Camps to YTS (aka Gladiator school) and finally Solano State Prison, was like going from elemen...

Big U is truly. a man that walks the talk. After growing up in the worst parts of Los Angeles like Compton's Crenshaw area. Big U ran the streets and hooked up with the Crips and was associated with the Rollin 60's and eventually becoming one of the most notorious people in LA gang life. After being convicted of multiple charges and going in and out of jail, he started playing the music game and b...

No one tells a story like Fat Joe, so don't miss out on the conclusion of Joe's crazy story of prison life and holding it down inside and out while doing his bid. He shows his love for the friends and family that helped him get through it as well as his respect and appreciation for those that did bids and came out on the other side as well as those still behind bars. Its a life no one wishes for a...

Iconic rapper and Hip Hop legend Fat Joe, aka-Don Cartagena, shares his never told before experience behind bars. Joe talks about everything from getting advice from his close friends Pistol Pete and Lil Wayne along with other Terror Squad crew members on how to conduct himself while behind bars to the people that tried to shake him down and how he made sure that everyone in that jail knew he was...

Chris Gotti was part of the Hip Hop revolution. He and his brother built Murder, Inc. into a power house music label. They helped propel the music genre throughout the 90's and 2000's. They worked with some of the biggest names in the biz from JaRule to Black Child to Ashanti. Then in 2003, he his brother along with many famous rappers get targeted by the NYPD's "Hip Hop" police. As a result of th...

Gee spent more than half his life behind bars, but used all those lonely days ot learn how the law worked and how to better himself. He now spends every waking moment helping others. Whether it's helping convicted men fight their legal cases or getting someone reestablished into society or chauffeuring people that have health issues and can't take care of themselves. Gee give way more than he gets...

After 15 years and multiple bids, including a murder rap. Bobby is living out his dreams and no longer his nightmares. He figured out how to deal with the BS of day to day jail life. He had a bigger vision. He stayed focused and today he leads an organization that puts those newly released men to work and gives them the chance to live out their dreams free from the streets and the jail cells. Bobb...

Queens' own Yetti grew up in Hollis, one of the roughest neighborhoods in New York. His childhood was like many from the neighborhood., Broken home with drugs and crime at every turn and he quickly got caught up in the game after some minor offenses he got busted with his Mom on drug charges and went up state and learned to grow up quickly. After doing his time he went back again and then began to...

Fabian goes deep into his story and how he dealt with his time behind bars and came out the other side with hope and optimism. Dog In The Yard: Real Stories From Real Comrades 🎥 Full Episodes: YouTube.com/@DogInTheYard 📱 Follow: @dogintheyardpodcast 📩 Booking & Inquiries: therealdogintheyard@gmail.com 🌐 Join the movement: dogintheyard.org

Harry O opens up about what its like to be free most of your adult life then in a blink of an eye he's spending the next 18 years in prison for a murder rap. Harry O shares how he held it down and kept moving forward when most people counted him out. And after all that time away he didn't become a bitter man, instead become a better man. he's still on parole and laking the talk. This dude is a rea...

Leo spent more than 21 years behind bars. While on the inside he had two lives. The life of being that dog in the yard dealing with of riots and drugs and his other life of becoming dedicated to getting an education. Leo received his G.E.D., college Associates degree, Bachelors degree in Behavioral Sciences, a Masters and is now a Phd candidate. he went from cracking heads to cracking the books an...

Tony Perez is a real inspiration to anyone who has done hard time or anyone who thinks they can play the street game and not get caught. After ten years he is a free man and walkin the talk everyday and letting the youth know the crime ain't worth the time. Dog In The Yard: Real Stories From Real Comrades 🎥 Full Episodes: YouTube.com/@DogInTheYard 📱 Follow: @dogintheyardpodcast 📩 Booking &...