J. Prince Was Targeted by Police for 10 Years

Even back then I saw where change was trying to take place in the industry and they wasn't going to allow. I call it a conspiracy. I saw the conspiracy taking place where they wasn't going to allow any more masterpiece, cash money, uh, uh, earth guidance. Independent people. Yeah, independence. They was like, shedding that door. Yeah. So, you know, in my mind, I'm like, okay, I see the mood they make and let me count on this and create another avenue for the youth to come in after us. And unfortunately, uh, I think, uh, they witnessed the same thing and they hit murder ink, which is herb, got it company, destroyed it. They hit sugar night, death row. We know what happened with that. And they came at me in a massive way, you know, all the way up to the point where they put a man on me that killed eight people. And I really believe, you know, he was trying to kill me. And when you say they put a man on you, like in what way? They assigned a guy by the name of Shumaker, you know, on me to arrest me to whatever he was supposed to do. But he sent death threats at me. And here's a man that killed eight people. You know, I hired an investigator. Since they was investigating me, I decided to hire an investigator to investigate them. And that's when I found out this guy killed all of those people. You know, I brought the investigating report so you can look at it if you choose. Yeah, you showed me outside. Yeah. So, you know, this was a real life situation that people may hear and think, you know, this is not true. But here's confirmation of how true it was. In 1999, you know, I reported this with the help of Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Janet Reno, because they intervened on my behalf because they saw what was happening. And of course, they had what you call that a congressional hearing on me. All of this is public information. A congressional hearing where the DEA and, you know, it reminded me of the time when Clarence Thomas was being, a hearing was taking place over his harassment or something. Then all of those people, Democrats and Republicans was around, you know what I mean? And they had him in a circle. So this is the conversation they was having concerning me, James Prince. And I'm watching this, you know, on video. I'm not invited, but I'm watching them have this conversation about me, about the congressional hearing. And I'm just like, wow, you know, these people want me pretty bad. But a long story short, you know, they were able to speak up on my behalf and, you know, which ultimately, oh, so many connections to this, because even Al Gore, you know, came in a portrait where they tried to set me up at my church with Al Gore. Al Gore came to visit my church, you know, which when you're running for president, you visit a lot of black churches and stuff like that. And my pastor wanted me to meet Al Gore that day. So when I pull up, you know, I was married at the time. You know, I told my wife, I say, all these people ain't here with the president because I was watching body language. You know, I saw black glasses kind of look in my direction. And she said, oh, come on, boy, you being leery, you know, them people not thinking about you or whatever. So I went and heard the sermon. And before the sermon was over, I say, let's go. Normally I hang around and socialize. And of course, pastor wanted me to meet Al Gore. I decided to leave. And shortly after the Dallas newspaper came out with a story and all of this, you can confirm and look it up. James Prince donated a quarter million dollars to Al Gore at the church to stop an investigation on him. Oh, man, just a bunch of BS. You know what I mean? So I was being set up news. Oh, yeah, it's documented. So they created this fake story to make you look bad. And they printed it in the news. So it had to be coordinated at the very top. Oh, yeah. Wow. Yeah. What was that like to know they were conspiring against you like that? You know, first of all, you had to feel like, oh, shit, I must have fucking made it. So I didn't quite feel that I had made it. I felt like they wanted to hit me, you know, because like these this guy one night I left my office and a DPS officer stopped me. He got behind me on the streets when I left out of the office, but he stopped me on the freeway. And it was the first time I was stopped one time to be told to go and stop again. So he stopped me on the freeway and told me to go and pull in the McDonald's parking lot. So I say, oh, OK. So as I exit the freeway and looked over in the McDonald's parking lot, it was dark. And I saw a carrot, a cherry key Jeep green and a cutlass. And it was dark. So I'm like, nah, I'm not pulling in that dark. So I kind of told him I'm going to pull in the Shell station where the lights were. So and I can hear him in the back pull fucking over on his on his thing. Make a right. I'm like, I'm going to go over here. So I went over there in the light. I had some guys behind me follow me because they had been sending me threats. So I'm not stupid. So I understood that, you know, I need to cover myself until I make it home. And when I pull over, you know, the officer got out and he said, why you didn't pull over like I told you? I say, sir, I didn't want you to think I was trying to hurt you in that dark. And I didn't want to think you was trying to hurt me. What's the problem? Well, you were swerving. I say, no, I say you got the wrong man. I don't drink. I don't smoke. What no swerving going on with me. Where are your guns? Right. How do he even know I have guns? I gave him my gun license. I say, well, how you know I have guns? I haven't even given you my license. So I gave him my license. I say my hands on the steering wheel. My guns under my seat. Well, well, get out the car. Get out. I say, OK, I don't have a problem with that. How much money you have? I say, you want to borrow some money or something? Why you asking me about my money? So he told me to go in the back of the car. So I went back there. And he went and searching my car. He in there. I see him moving around with things. But he went on the passenger side. So I walk around. I say, man, why are you violating my rights searching my car? And he jumped. Get back. I'm looking for the gun. I say, I told you where the guns are. Clearly, you then passed them up. You got my clips out. So anyway, he came back. And I could see him make an eye contact with the car, with the people across the street. And eventually, one of them drove over. And this was an officer by the name of Chad Scott. He had black paint on his eyes and an army fatigue type of uniform. And him and officer translated some words. And he came back to me and said, OK, you're free to go and gave me a warning ticket, a warning ticket. And it was then when I got home, I realized a bullet or two was missing. So red flags like went up. I'm like, damn, why would they keep one of my bullets? Why were they trying to pull me in the dark? This was before I knew Shumaker had killed eight people. So I went home. And that really caused me to want to protect myself and want to document why I wanted to protect myself. So bizarre that they would take bullets, too. Because without the rifling from your particular gun, all it's establishing is the same round you use. It doesn't mean anything. Yeah, I didn't understand. It's weird. I just counted them. And I'm like, wow. When you said that they were threatening you, like death threats, what kind of death, how are you receiving these? What they were doing, and it's an investigative report, people that worked for me, I had a street team that would promote my records in different clubs at night. What they had done was jumped on a couple of guys. They pulled them over. They took them down to the station, stripped them naked, jumped on them, took their jewelry, all kinds of stuff, and sent messages. Let him know, we're going to do this. We're going to do this. Which eventually, when I made my report, they ended up finding the jewelry in different things that I reported that God told them. These guys, you got road cops. I said, y'all put a hit man on me. You got two road cops that's doing this and doing that, and I'm in fear of my life. I just wanted to be known because if a situation take place and I come out on top, then I don't want nobody to be mad at me, because I'm going to protect myself. How long did this period of turmoil last? Because it seemed like that would be incredibly stressful. Well, it went on for years. Even before then, they stopped me one night, and they planted a pill on me called ecstasy. Where'd they put it? They put it. Here's what happened. I was in the backseat. First of all, the police stopped me, and this was an officer I had a run in with with a pistol case, and I beat the pistol case. So he stopped me on Richmond one night, and he was like, well, how did you beat that case? And he knew it was me because I had rap line on my license plate. How did you beat? I said, man, I don't really want to talk about that. I said, I'm trying to go to a party. Why are you stopping me? So it made me get out, put me in the back of the police car. Kept me there talking to people for quite a long time, and he decided to take me off the main street to a side street. And it was then where he took me out of one car and took me to another car with two more younger rookie officers. And shortly after, he came out with a pill in the back of the first car. Look what we have here. And I'm like, when I seen that taking place, I say it to the two officers. I say, man, I say, I've been in here. You all know. No, you're not trying to do that. That's not. Look what we have here. Look what we have here. And before I know it, I was headed to the police station, and they charged me with a pill call ecstasy. And I immediately got out of jail, took a test, a drug test, took a lie detector test just to prove I had nothing to do with any of that. So they tried to get me to cop out for probation and cop out. I'm like, no. So the pill changed from ecstasy to transact, whatever that pill is. And it changed again. It was constantly changing as they test the pill. And they were basically trying to get me to cop out for something. And I wouldn't. And eventually, the case was dismissed. So how many years did all this go on for? You said it went on for years. How many years? I would say 10 years. 10 fucking years. 10 years or better, I was a target. How did you stay calm during that time? Because that's got to be incredibly stressful. Yeah, it was. Because in the hood where I'm from, you have to survive the guys that's in the hood, because they're trying to get you. Wherever success is concerned, they're trying to get you. And the police that's supposed to be protecting me, the ones I'm paying all these taxes to, had became an enemy where they was trying to get me. So it was very stressful. But after so long, I became immune to it. It's almost like I had a made up mind, because I was on a journey to break the poverty curse, where my family was concerned. That was my whole drive. I'm like, I got to get my mother this house, that she always wanted. I come from the projects. So I was dealing with a power that was greater than the power was from the streets and from the police. And I was like, no weapon formed against me going prosper. So I had that mentality. I wrapped it around spirituality. And I said, if God be for me, the world could be against me. And it just became like a lifestyle dealing with them people. And I was like, no, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.