P Man, they made me do all kind of stuff, stand over here, go over there, take everything out cho pockets, being all disrespectful, oooh my back stated cuttin up, I didnt think I was going to make that long walk over here, so outside of cheetos, know you love you some cheetos, whatelse can I get out the machines for ya? (both smiling)
And tthen, in swift tribal nature, The Hood rushed to console Popz, starting with the ESe homie Muggzy and his wife in the cage to my lft:
Muggzy's wife Yeah, that's messed up, they got new cops working outhere today, and the lady cop doesn't know what she is doing and just being rude to everybody, I waited over an hour.
XZ Popz, this is Mr. and Mrs. Muggzy (smiling)
P Yeah, I felt violated, nice to meet yall...
Then the homie J-Rock from Compton jumped up:
J.R. Excuse me, Hey Popz, my name is Jesse and this is my wife and I just wanted to respectfully acknowledge you first and foremost, but they not suppose to be treating you like that, got these rookies around here that dont know what they're doing.
P Thank you, and bless yall because I stood outhere in that line so long I almost went back home.... bout to work my last...
Now, mind you, Popz is still talking to us, while walking away from us on his way to the vending machines to cop some snacks and my cheetos, and as I'm standing there feeling happy and warm and thankful to the community for helping me console Popz with honor, I couldn't help but to look over at the homie Swoop from Long Beach staring at the door, becase after hearing how the cops treated Popz, one could only imagine how Swoops family was being treated.
SW Hell, thats probably what the hold up is, here they come now, yeah, that's fucked up Man.... Popz alright tho.
I layed that moment out for readers of this issue because on the surface, this is typical of the mistreatment that goes on that society has become numb to, so, it's, no biggie. However, on another level, Popz presence alone, by tribal nature, somehow, magically negated the fact that through the ignorant selfserving recorded eyes of the system, me, the Ese, The Pirk and The Crip are all supposed to be enemies, and are such a threat to eachother, that they built walk alone cages in the visiting room, where even our families, and most honored fom our communities are forced to visit us in seperate cages, that we all psychologically dont see, especially when law enforcement officers dont respect the loving wives., children, and the education administrator with a phd, community leader and church pastor in a space designed for intimate human engagement.
Me and Popz talked for almost 2hrs about the state of the hood, family, the good old days, you name it, it was like I was floating on His every word, until he said:
In urban America every hood'z got a Hood Popz, He's that one Elder that lil kids love to see coming and so respected by everybody that even if you dont have a father, you by street tribal nature call Him Popz, and if you do have a father, your father calls him Pops too.
Pops knows everybody, and no matter how far down the street you are away from Him, people make it mandatory to yell out His honorable hood acknowledgement:
"Hey Popz I see you"
And even though He may be too far away to recognize you, Popz always made you feel like family with those famous words:
"Alright now, take it slow, and tell yo mama I said Hello now."
Today, my hood Popz travelled over 500 miles from my hood to visit me on California Death Row, Yeah, that was me at 18 years old, untaimable, peerless and in selfdestructive mode and had zero respect for authority, at the time, fatherless, and even the demons of my enemies didn't want to talk to me, but there was Popz then, and today, here's Popz, in the visiting room, @Golgatha, as if 5 years of not seeing eachoher face to face never happened, speaking to me as if there was no break in our last conversation, as if time doesn't apply to him, seriously, check Him out tho, and it would be valuable that we take PIANKHIs idea for us all to engage our Hood Elders about the concept of solution based ideas about living longer, on our own terms; Enjouy your reading.
THE ANATOMY OF A ZINE: Now that I have officially consulted with my O.G., it is with stern confidence, inspite of my heathenistic current position, that I present the following to all parties involved. RESIST HATRED, AND FORGIVE Pt.1.
@Golgatha w/Popz a conversation by: Xzyzst
Date: August 26, 2017 Time: 9am Saturday morning Location: San Quentin State Prison Condemned Visiting Room Cages Format: Hand documented by: Xzyzst Contributors: 7 1. Xzyzst 2. Popz 3. Mugzy & wife 4. J.Rock & wife 5. Swoop Category: Interview
THE BACK STORY:
The following experience was generated by the brilliance of our chief editor PIANKHI, that required our Venting productions to include, introspective challenges of exploratory ideas about solution based resolve as it applies to the horrific blood exchange on the innercity streets of America between Law Enforcement officers and our youth. PIANKHI's vision to power up THE VENTS reality with sound strategies towards the concept of the eraticication of hate, forced me to consult with one of my most adored hood Elders, who visited me here @Golgatha, to provide extreme confirmation of scriptual context language, "AS WE", Forgive.
@Golgatha w/Popz a conversation by: Xzyzst
P Man, if it wasn't for it being you I come uphere to see, I would've turned around and gone back home.
As Salaamu Alaykum my old and dearest friend Javier,
Curious if you know who it is yet? Its Kendra. I don't want you think I have forgotten about you. I have checked on throughout the years. I was in contact with your mom for years until her number didnt work anymore. I miss you very much and I love you dearly. We have been friends since 9th grade and that just doesn't go away. It hurts me to look at your picture because I want you out and free. Please keep your head up and remember you are loved!
VENT - to give vigorous or emotional expression to, or opportunity, or way of escape, or passage, or relief of pressure, to cause fresh air to circulate, so as to replace foul air.
Welcome to the second issue of THE VENT, yeah, with all systems powered up at 2.0. Now, just a few words before we get started.
Our editor, Piankhi, as most of us already know, has been dropping WRITE OR DIE ZINES (WODZ), for 8 years, yeah seriously, 8 years of layouts, designing, assimilations, hustling content, and contributions for production and distribution.
With limited to no resources, Piankhi has provided WODZ readers, and Papyrus Collective Group Bloggers @Betweenthebars.org/group/papyruscollective, full exclusive and unedited access to the youngest and largest condemned population in the United States of America. And for 8 years of his work from inside California Death Row, Piankhi has never asked anyone for one dime.
Y'all already know the business. The state of the struggle requires that wherever you are right now, to get active in our micro-fundraiser for the support for independent publishing, and the prisoner zine vision of this wise young man by picking up your gadgets right now, and go to Jpay.com, and rush a donation of any amount to:
Byron P. Wilson #P.76622 San Quentin State Prison San Quentin, California 94974 USA
And thank you for your support, Sniper Azande Xzyzot (Master of Ceremonies)
7. THE MOVEMENT BY: REYON 8. IDENTITY CRISIS BY: JUVENILE 24. WHO KILLED SAM BY: BIG ROCK 26. INCEPTION BY: SPEEDY CF. TWITTER@PAPYRUSCOLLECTIVE.COM 22. FEATURE GUEST POET 11. GRIMY SINCE BIRTH 27. A NEW ANTHEM VENTRODUCTION RESIST HATE END RACISM 1.800.273.8255 THE WAR ON SUICIDE LEAD BY CREATION MICRO-FUNDRAISER FREE PIANKHI NEW GENERATION RISING KILL THE 13TH AMENDMENT MONKEY-SAVAGE-SLAVE-PROPERTY PRISONER-CONVICT-INMATE-INCARCERATED THE DEVILUTION OF INHUMANITY
FORGIVE POTUS for lacking the courage to treat every American equal
FORGIVE VPOTUS for walking out on unarmed murdered innercity young people
FORGIVE HATEFUL RACISTS for losing their minds
FORGIVE EACH OTHER for same race-on-same race crimes
FORGIVE TERRORISTS for spreading sickness so contagious
FORGIVE THE SOUL, for killing our amazing souls in Las Vegas
FORGIVE THOSE that disrespected you as a kid
FORGIVE YOURSELF for whatever dirt you did
FORGIVE OUR YOUTH for attempting suicide for it just may be impossible for everybody to experience peace, love, and humanity on a global scale when we allow for our most precious natural resource to just die.
PAGE: TITLE: 2. VENTRODUCTION 4. BEHIND THE PAGES 6. VENTROSPECTIVE 11. A NEW ANTHEM 13. BLACK JEWELZ 14. ANGRY BLACK MAN 18. LIFE & DEATH 20. MY LIFE OF SIN 22. POET 24. @GOLGOTHA W/ POP'Z 29. FORGIVE PART 1.
SPECIAL GUEST: POP'Z, MUGZY'S WIFE, J-ROCK'S WIFE, STRIKER 8
ARTIST: PORTRAITS - ROBERT DUNSON GRAFFITI - JOSEPH "J-KUL" MERCADO BRICK WALL - ROBERT "COWBOY" WILLIAMS AIR VENTS - KEMET INK. SCROLL - JOHNNY "BANDITO' ESPINOSA
ZINED UP BY XZYZST (EXIST) -VENTROSPECTIVE-VENTRODUCTION
Oh say can you see Jose did you see DACA being murdered, you are not allowed to dream Presidential propaganda, opposite of Dr. King He is not our leader, so we stand to take a knee This is the new Anthem, hashtag when we tweet Black Lives Matter, looking at my skin I ain't black, but it don't matter Equality out the window, so broke, looking shattered By the leader of the Klan acting like a madder hatter White House cyber bully key pad pitter patter Done made his way to sports, working down the ladder Collins out of work, Billy Bush, what's sadder Proud when he brags, "I don't ask, I just grab her" Won't shame a killer cop, or Nazi and he'd rather Spew hate and divide, using words like daggers Speech ain't free when it cost the jobs we gathered. Still we take a knee, career suicide Land of the free is only freedom when you die Thank her for her service, put her life on the line Protecting freedoms and the flag that we fly Made her useless and revoked all her rights Cause she was born to He, transcend a girl from a guy? Watch 'em all unite and take a knee for their PRIDE Homophobic slurs over-compensating, you hide behind your words Scratches on your back and the lowest selfworth Cause the things you hate the most, is the love you prefer Take a knee for your shame Slave to your own brain Take a knee in your chains You full of fear, we could never be the same And no matter what you say You are not the leader of the home of the brave
RSS
being all disrespectful, oooh my back stated cuttin up, I didnt think I was going to make that long walk
over here, so outside of cheetos, know you love you some cheetos, whatelse can I get out the machines
for ya? (both smiling)
And tthen, in swift tribal nature, The Hood rushed to console Popz, starting with the ESe homie Muggzy
and his wife in the cage to my lft:
Muggzy's wife Yeah, that's messed up, they got new cops working outhere today, and the lady cop doesn't
know what she is doing and just being rude to everybody, I waited over an hour.
XZ Popz, this is Mr. and Mrs. Muggzy (smiling)
P Yeah, I felt violated, nice to meet yall...
Then the homie J-Rock from Compton jumped up:
J.R. Excuse me, Hey Popz, my name is Jesse and this is my wife and I just wanted to respectfully acknowledge
you first and foremost, but they not suppose to be treating you like that, got these rookies around here
that dont know what they're doing.
P Thank you, and bless yall because I stood outhere in that line so long I almost went back home....
bout to work my last...
Now, mind you, Popz is still talking to us, while walking away from us on his way to the vending machines
to cop some snacks and my cheetos, and as I'm standing there feeling happy and warm and thankful to the
community for helping me console Popz with honor, I couldn't help but to look over at the homie Swoop from
Long Beach staring at the door, becase after hearing how the cops treated Popz, one could only imagine how
Swoops family was being treated.
SW Hell, thats probably what the hold up is, here they come now, yeah, that's fucked up Man.... Popz
alright tho.
I layed that moment out for readers of this issue because on the surface, this is typical of the
mistreatment that goes on that society has become numb to, so, it's, no biggie. However, on another
level, Popz presence alone, by tribal nature, somehow, magically negated the fact that through
the ignorant selfserving recorded eyes of the system, me, the Ese, The Pirk and The Crip are all
supposed to be enemies, and are such a threat to eachother, that they built walk alone cages in the
visiting room, where even our families, and most honored fom our communities are forced to visit us in
seperate cages, that we all psychologically dont see, especially when law enforcement officers dont respect
the loving wives., children, and the education administrator with a phd, community leader and church pastor
in a space designed for intimate human engagement.
Me and Popz talked for almost 2hrs about the state of the hood, family, the good old days, you name it,
it was like I was floating on His every word, until he said:
coming and so respected by everybody that even if you dont have a father, you by street
tribal nature call Him Popz, and if you do have a father, your father calls him Pops too.
Pops knows everybody, and no matter how far down the street you are away from Him,
people make it mandatory to yell out His honorable hood acknowledgement:
"Hey Popz I see you"
And even though He may be too far away to recognize you, Popz always made you feel like family with
those famous words:
"Alright now, take it slow, and tell yo mama I said Hello now."
Today, my hood Popz travelled over 500 miles from my hood to visit me on California Death Row,
Yeah, that was me at 18 years old, untaimable, peerless and in selfdestructive mode and had
zero respect for authority, at the time, fatherless, and even the demons of my enemies
didn't want to talk to me, but there was Popz then, and today, here's Popz, in the visiting room,
@Golgatha, as if 5 years of not seeing eachoher face to face never happened, speaking to me as
if there was no break in our last conversation, as if time doesn't apply to him, seriously, check
Him out tho, and it would be valuable that we take PIANKHIs idea for us all to engage our Hood Elders
about the concept of solution based ideas about living longer, on our own terms; Enjouy your reading.
THE ANATOMY OF A ZINE:
Now that I have officially consulted with my O.G., it is with stern confidence, inspite of
my heathenistic current position, that I present the following to all parties involved.
RESIST HATRED, AND FORGIVE Pt.1.
@Golgatha w/Popz
a conversation by: Xzyzst
Date: August 26, 2017
Time: 9am Saturday morning
Location: San Quentin State Prison
Condemned Visiting Room Cages
Format: Hand documented by: Xzyzst
Contributors: 7
1. Xzyzst
2. Popz
3. Mugzy & wife
4. J.Rock & wife
5. Swoop
Category: Interview
THE BACK STORY:
The following experience was generated by the brilliance of our chief editor PIANKHI, that required our
Venting productions to include, introspective challenges of exploratory ideas about solution based resolve
as it applies to the horrific blood exchange on the innercity streets of America between Law Enforcement
officers and our youth. PIANKHI's vision to power up THE VENTS reality with sound strategies towards the
concept of the eraticication of hate, forced me to consult with one of my most adored hood Elders, who
visited me here @Golgatha, to provide extreme confirmation of scriptual context language, "AS WE", Forgive.
@Golgatha w/Popz
a conversation by: Xzyzst
P Man, if it wasn't for it being you I come uphere to see, I would've turned around and gone back home.
XZ What happened Popz?
Curious if you know who it is yet? Its Kendra. I don't want you think I have forgotten about you. I have checked on throughout the years. I was in contact with your mom for years until her number didnt work anymore. I miss you very much and I love you dearly. We have been friends since 9th grade and that just doesn't go away. It hurts me to look at your picture because I want you out and free. Please keep your head up and remember you are loved!
Love, blessing and hugs,
Kendra
VENT - to give vigorous or emotional expression to, or opportunity, or way of escape, or passage, or relief of pressure, to cause fresh air to circulate, so as to replace foul air.
Welcome to the second issue of THE VENT, yeah, with all systems powered up at 2.0. Now, just a few words before we get started.
Our editor, Piankhi, as most of us already know, has been dropping WRITE OR DIE ZINES (WODZ), for 8 years, yeah seriously, 8 years of layouts, designing, assimilations, hustling content, and contributions for production and distribution.
With limited to no resources, Piankhi has provided WODZ readers, and Papyrus Collective Group Bloggers @Betweenthebars.org/group/papyruscollective, full exclusive and unedited access to the youngest and largest condemned population in the United States of America. And for 8 years of his work from inside California Death Row, Piankhi has never asked anyone for one dime.
Y'all already know the business. The state of the struggle requires that wherever you are right now, to get active in our micro-fundraiser for the support for independent publishing, and the prisoner zine vision of this wise young man by picking up your gadgets right now, and go to Jpay.com, and rush a donation of any amount to:
Byron P. Wilson #P.76622
San Quentin State Prison
San Quentin, California 94974
USA
And thank you for your support,
Sniper Azande Xzyzot (Master of Ceremonies)
7. THE MOVEMENT BY: REYON
8. IDENTITY CRISIS BY: JUVENILE
24. WHO KILLED SAM BY: BIG ROCK
26. INCEPTION BY: SPEEDY
CF. TWITTER@PAPYRUSCOLLECTIVE.COM
22. FEATURE GUEST POET
11. GRIMY SINCE BIRTH
27. A NEW ANTHEM
VENTRODUCTION
RESIST HATE
END RACISM
1.800.273.8255 THE WAR ON SUICIDE
LEAD BY CREATION
MICRO-FUNDRAISER
FREE PIANKHI
NEW GENERATION RISING
KILL THE 13TH AMENDMENT
MONKEY-SAVAGE-SLAVE-PROPERTY
PRISONER-CONVICT-INMATE-INCARCERATED
THE DEVILUTION OF INHUMANITY
FORGIVE POTUS
for lacking the courage to
treat every American equal
FORGIVE VPOTUS
for walking out on unarmed
murdered innercity young people
FORGIVE HATEFUL RACISTS
for losing their minds
FORGIVE EACH OTHER
for same race-on-same race crimes
FORGIVE TERRORISTS
for spreading sickness so contagious
FORGIVE THE SOUL, for
killing our amazing souls in Las Vegas
FORGIVE THOSE
that disrespected you as a kid
FORGIVE YOURSELF
for whatever dirt you did
FORGIVE OUR YOUTH
for attempting suicide
for it just may be impossible
for everybody to experience
peace, love, and humanity on
a global scale when we
allow for our most precious natural
resource to just die.
—SNipeR AZANde XZYZST (exist)
PAGE: TITLE:
2. VENTRODUCTION
4. BEHIND THE PAGES
6. VENTROSPECTIVE
11. A NEW ANTHEM
13. BLACK JEWELZ
14. ANGRY BLACK MAN
18. LIFE & DEATH
20. MY LIFE OF SIN
22. POET
24. @GOLGOTHA W/ POP'Z
29. FORGIVE PART 1.
COPYLEFT 2018
FEATURING:
PIANKHI, SQUABBLEZ, LOUTAH,
B.G., XZYZST, JOKER, FACE,
NARMEER, SWOOP, MUGZY, J-ROCK
SPECIAL GUEST:
POP'Z, MUGZY'S WIFE,
J-ROCK'S WIFE, STRIKER 8
ARTIST:
PORTRAITS - ROBERT DUNSON
GRAFFITI - JOSEPH "J-KUL" MERCADO
BRICK WALL - ROBERT "COWBOY" WILLIAMS
AIR VENTS - KEMET INK.
SCROLL - JOHNNY "BANDITO' ESPINOSA
ZINED UP BY XZYZST (EXIST)
-VENTROSPECTIVE-VENTRODUCTION
Oh say can you see
Jose did you see
DACA being murdered, you are not allowed to dream
Presidential propaganda, opposite of Dr. King
He is not our leader, so we stand to take a knee
This is the new Anthem, hashtag when we tweet
Black Lives Matter, looking at my skin
I ain't black, but it don't matter
Equality out the window, so broke, looking shattered
By the leader of the Klan acting like a madder hatter
White House cyber bully key pad pitter patter
Done made his way to sports, working down the ladder
Collins out of work, Billy Bush, what's sadder
Proud when he brags, "I don't ask, I just grab her"
Won't shame a killer cop, or Nazi and he'd rather
Spew hate and divide, using words like daggers
Speech ain't free when it cost the jobs we gathered.
Still we take a knee, career suicide
Land of the free is only freedom when you die
Thank her for her service, put her life on the line
Protecting freedoms and the flag that we fly
Made her useless and revoked all her rights
Cause she was born to He, transcend a girl from a guy?
Watch 'em all unite and take a knee for their PRIDE
Homophobic slurs
over-compensating, you hide behind your words
Scratches on your back and the lowest selfworth
Cause the things you hate the most, is the love you prefer
Take a knee for your shame
Slave to your own brain
Take a knee in your chains
You full of fear, we could never be the same
And no matter what you say
You are not the leader of the home of the brave
- Loutah
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