The Lakeside Gangster

The year was 1974, and the location was an elementary school in Sacramento, California. Ms. Brown, the fifth-grade teacher, came out of the classroom to tell the children recess was over. She started running the kids in, but one boy remained motionless and did not come in. She yelled, "Lance, time to come in. Recess is over!" The boy turned slightly to look at his teacher, which was when she saw the impending sense of doom on the boy's facial expression. She had never seen that hardened, troubled look on a child's face before. This boy named Lance Martin would go on to become a Lakeside Gangster and live by the gun and, like all gangsters, would either die in the streets or do hard time. In the penitentiary, he would install fear into other men and learn the way of the knife! "My name is Lance Martin, a.k.a. Lucky. I made my bones in the penitentiary and became a shot caller inside some of the toughest and most violent penitentiaries known to mankind. This is a true story, and throughout my criminal career inside and out of prison, I had dealings with the Aryan Brotherhood, the Hells Angels, and the Mexican mafia. I was given the Brand's knowledge in politics and used it, calling shots for my race on the inside of the penitentiary. I kept it gangster all the way to the end, and one thing I learned on the inside is, God might forgive me but a gangster never will. I was in three knife fights during my reign and was stabbed twice in two of them. The second stabbing took me out of good standing with the brothers, and I ended my criminal career. It was violence in and violence out. That's the game."