G. Dep Breaks His Silence After Being In Prison For 13 Years For Taking A Man's Life In 1993.

I'm happy to have you on the platform, man, happy to be here, happy to be here, everything really, man, it's an honor, hey, it's an honor for me, H on the platform, man the same way, bro , you know, welcome home, man, yeah, man, thanks. man, thanks man, it's good to be, it's good to be back, how it feels to be a free man, a man, it feels, it feels good, man, you know, the air is different on this side, you know what I mean , you know, I mean, it's, it's It's, it's, it's, it's blowing more wind, you know what I'm saying, yeah, man, what surprised you since you're home, I know it must be a lot of things you have to get used to , man, oh, I don't know, I'd have to do it.

Say you know, you just know, the technology you know is everything, so you know instantly, you know you can know how to do a lot of the things on phones and you know what I'm saying and you just know how to be. I can, you know, uh uh uh, pay, pay for things in the store with the phone and the mopeds and scooters going around, you know what I mean, look, it's man, yeah, man, people, people kind of change man, you know what I'm saying, it's like the, the, the, too, the construction, like how things look different, how a lot of these things look like downtown Chicago now, like you know what I am saying. like the buildings were just tall skyscrapers when I left a lot of the stuff, you know, just warehouses and you know empty things, it said rent, call this number and when I came back you became fully developed, you know what I mean, complexes . like I'm like wow man I've been talking for a minute you know what I'm saying so for the most part I think I think I should I could say that's the most surprising thing to me that stuck out you know what ?

I mean, since you've been out, what's been the biggest challenge for you is probably learning how to pay for things with this Google payment app. I don't know what, I don't know what I got. money in there and I'm just stuck there, man, I just don't know how to get it out, how to pay with it, it's probably like my downfall right now, man, yeah, man, a lot of change made for the one you were locked up in. like 13

years

, yeah, man, I was there, I was there for yeah, about, yeah, about 13 and a half

years

, something like that, yeah, actually, with that

being

said, let's get right into it, man, for the people that They are not familiar with your story, can you? go back to November 19,

1993

and detail the incident that led to you going to

prison

well, well, you know, you know, for those who don't know, you know what I'm saying, what happened.

I turned myself in in um in 2010 for something that happened, you know, I, uh, you know, I killed, I killed a man in um 2000, excuse me in 1999, you know, and um, you know, there was, you know, excuse me,

1993

, you know and um uh, so I, uh, you know, I was beside yourself. You know going out at night You know what I'm doing You know the wrong thing You know what I'm saying Young just doing what I thought You know I I I I I was doing You know what I'm saying I tried to You know Rob the guy and you know things went wrong, the guy got shot , I shot him, you know what I mean, um and you know, you know, years went by, you know what I mean, no, I didn't know what had happened to the guy and you know it after you know it after some years and a little bit of introspection, you know, I, you know, you know, I, to, you know, restore balance in my

life

and you know the

life

of someone's life you know someone's family and and and you know things of that nature, you know, I, I wanted to, you know, just turn myself in and then actually see what happened, you know, you know, and um, you know, I was, you know, willing, willing to, you know, put me on the line if you know if he passed away or not. or not, you just know that he needed to get that out of my mind and out of my, you know, out of my heart, so you know, the spirit moved me to, um, you know, surrender.

I went to the police station and told them. you know everything you know that happened that night and um you know that they you know that they they F end you know saying that you know what I what I thought uh happened you know it actually happened so you know here I am 13 years later man how Were you able to deal with that all those years? Because it seemed like it was difficult for you to live with that burden. I mean, it was what you know, because as I got older, you know, it got harder and harder to shake, you know what I mean, you know, so, you know, I, you know, I started doing anything I could do to not think about it, you know what I'm saying, you know, you know, uh, you know, uh, pleasure drugs, you know what?

I'm just saying Bladen, you know, you know forgetting, you know what I mean, but you always know, you always know, I came back to the fact that you know I was living a certain life that I felt was, you know, a blessing you know so you know me living you know my life with my children my family you know for the most part you know what life is like how life wakes you up in the morning and shows you how beautiful it is you know and was and would always come back to me as a man, you know this man, You know I could have had a family, I could have had, you know, children I could have had, you know what I'm saying, all the things that You know I'm participating in, so you know it became more and more evident that I had done something wrong. .

You know what I mean. Did you tell anyone what you did or did you keep it to yourself? I mean, you know so far? like the situation, I mean, nobody knew about it per se, you know what I mean, you know, except for the family, I told them, you know, a little bit before, you know, I really started to get to a point where I felt like that's what I needed to do so I confided in a couple of family members listen you know I did something a while ago that you know you don't know I feel I feel I feel a way and I really need you know, to bring you this, you know, some closure, I'm, I'm thinking about, you know, maybe, turning myself in, what do you think, you know what I mean and they said, you know, they told me what they told me, they gave me their opinion.

I really wanted someone to say, listen man, that didn't happen, don't worry, you were dreaming, you know what I'm saying, I want you to know what I mean, don't work, you know what you're saying? you were that night that's not what happened we were you know what I mean was you know but that's not what happened you know I knew what happened you know then you know you know after a while you know I just like I said you I know nobody knew I was going to turn myself in, you know what I mean, that night I just went and did that, yeah, I know it had to feel good to take that burden off your shoulders, yeah, it actually did, man, you know , you know. in that moment you know, you feel, you know, it's like, you know, it's, it's, it's, no, it's no longer in your hands, it's outside of you, it's, you know, it's, it was never in my hands, you know, it was, It was always going to be what it was. it was going to be, you know, but at that moment you know it wasn't, it wasn't my burden alone, you know what I had to bear, like you knew it was, it was something that was going to get, you know, you know, resolved. in a way, so to speak, you know I still have to deal with what I've done, you know what I mean, but you know it's different now, although you know what I mean because you know it's not a secret when you were in

prison

Did you regret giving yourself up?

I mean, honestly, I can't say it was like you knew, I really felt like you know, it was like you knew because I always saw nothing but an affirmation for it, you know what I? I mean, like you know, you know, I started, I started getting stronger, I started, you know, getting, you know more, you know people, people in my life, that I was disconnected from, I was getting these connections back, you know what I mean? I was starting to, you know, I was able to, you know, stop a lot of things that I was doing that were harmful to me, for me, you know, I stopped smoking, I stopped smoking, you know,

taking

drugs and all that, you know what I'm saying.

You know I saw that You know that that really was You know what I'm saying Something I needed to do You know that was an affirmation for me Man Things were just coming You know coming You know coming into my life that was was was was was just you know it was undeniable you know so you know you know don't get me wrong like I have my you know what I'm saying where it's like I wow this is you know yes this yes I m I'm I'm I'm in I'm in jail you know what I mean and like I'm not it's not it's really a game you know what I mean but it was but it was always you know something that would bring me back and make me realize that you know, you know, I did it, I did it, I did the right thing.