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Double O.G.

My name is Bah-Bah and I am a Blood from Lincoln Park Piru in Southeast San Diego, 65 miles south of Los Angeles. I have been a Blood since I was 15 years old; now I am 37. I became a Blood by just living in a Blood hood. In the late 70's we would fight Crips at parties, the skating rink or at the parks - where ever the girls and the lowriders were.

It started getting real violent after 1981. It was hard being a Blood. Crips were always deep. No matter where we went, we saw Crips and it was on at sight. A lot of fighting still with shootings and killings mostly on the weekends. After awhile it started taking its toll on me mentally. I started saying to myself, I DON'T GIVE A FUCK - BLOOD OR DIE!!

About 1983, I started making a lot of money by doing robberies, burglaries, stealing cars, snatching purses - anything to get paid. I had been smoking weed since I was 16, but when I was about 19 I began using heavier drugs like PCP. My life was about getting that money, fucking all the fly girls and putting in work on them Crips. We use to do drive-bys, sometimes beating down Crips with baseball bats. It was not all glory.

Like between 85 and 87, I was getting fucked up on drugs and getting drunk, but with gangbanging, it was not a good combination. I was getting caught out of bounds and them Crips was ratpacking me all the time. 7 times I got jumped by Crips; hit in the head with bats, stomped, stabbed twice, and shot at many times, but never hit (Thank God).

All I thought about was killing Crips. I was losing my mind watching homies around me getting killed. All I could do was get high to take my mind off all these deaths on both sides, but after awhile it was easy to kill. I became a straight G and got much love and respect from the homies in the hood. But I paid a price for that.

Now I have been in prison for thirteen years. I was convicted of 11 armed robberies, kidnap, and assault. When I look back at my life, I regret a lot of things. I will be a Blood until I die, but I do not bang in prison. I want to get out of here to start the life I never did.

This is a short rundown of my life. B-Dog Forever on mines. If you want to hollah at me about anything - feel free. Much Love & Respect, O.O.G. Bah-Bah, LPP.

Robert Strokes E-31707
Salinas Valley State Prison
P.O. Box 1060 / D-1-128
Soledad, CA 93960