Without bikes, I don’t know who the **** I’ll be.
I see it being a sport.
I see it being legal in the future.
Them giving us a park that we can ride at
and not have to run from the cops all day.
**** that ****.
If I got to keep going to jail,
I’m going to keep doing it because this is what I love.
I believe in this,
and I believe this is the next thing that’s going to take over.
There’s no other feeling that can make me feel like
how I am on the bike.
I just feel like I can do whatever I want to do.
I can move the bike to wherever I need to move it.
I feel like a god, you know what I’m saying?
[Bike Life vs Everyone]
Tonight is Friday night, so there’s usually a ride out.
We ride into Times Square,
we go through Harlem, Bronx.
We ride through the whole city; we ride everywhere.
The whole city comes out, we all connect, know what I’m saying?
It just makes me feel great. This is my world, bro.
I consider the bike thing as a sport.
So you move around,
you’ve got to make sure your body is in shape.
My homeboy, he’s got a gym.
He’s a private trainer,
so I try to get up with him every other week.
What’s good?
We’re going to get up on the treadmill
and get a little warmed up before we get started.
I usually go to the gym on my own,
but he gives me new things to do.
It motivates me. I try to stay around the right circle,
into positive things.
You was telling me about your arms on the bike and all that, so we’re--
My shoulder’s popped in and out.
OK, I’ve got a great exercise for your shoulders.
We’ve got to strengthen those stabilizers,
keep your shoulders in place.
It was years I didn't go to the gym.
But just being in the neighborhood I grew up in, in the hood,
drinking and just eating wrong,
so now I just want to really give it my all and just go hard.
Balance is key for him, you know?
His core has to be firing, has to be working all the time.
So that’s why we want to do more functional movement
to get him more focused on his breathing and his core engagement
so that when he’s switching sides on that bike, when he’s wheelying,
this is the most important thing.
So making him aware of his imbalances,
it would be really beneficial for what he’s trying to do.
I’m bad at this balancing.
You’re not bad at balancing, you just got to do balancing.
-You’re right. -Know what I’m saying?
He’s at a high level,
so I will put him on the same platform as professional athletes,
based on the level of difficulty, danger situations.
So I'm just trying to help him get to that next level.
The media and the cops look at it like we're doing something wrong.
They don’t see how hard we go to really do this ****.
They're loud, they're dangerous,
and they're outlawed in the streets of the five boroughs.
But that hasn't kept them off the roads
or prevented them from scaring people half to death.
I look forward to standing with the commissioner
when we crush a number of these dirt bikes.
We want to send out a very strong message
to the nitwits and knuckleheads
creating extraordinary dangers not only for themselves,
but, more importantly, for the public.
They just see us as a bunch of gang members
just all getting together and messing up traffic
or making loud sounds.
They just don’t understand that
this is an outlet for people to stay out of trouble,
motivate the kids to do something positive
than just hang around on the street.
Some people will hop on sidewalks
and do **** that makes the cops not like it,
so I’m not going to be like,
“Oh, they are 100 percent wrong for not liking us.”
I understand why they chase some people.
But me, I still do it, but I promote it in a better way.
You’ll never see me riding on the sidewalk.
Yes, we run lights sometimes.
That’s just part of what we do.
But I stop the traffic, I make sure I’m directing it right.
I don’t just run in front of a car.
I’m not going to act like I’m a **** angel
or this thing is like an angel sport.
But we’re trying to get to where you need to go with it
because I got four cases.
My mom told me, “Stop riding.”
But it’s like, “You want me to stop?”
God gave me a challenge.
I found my talent.
So it was like I’m not about to stop because the cops keep locking me up.
If I got to keep going to jail,
I’m going to keep doing it because this is what I love.
I'm not going to stop.
Yeah, at this point you can’t even think about getting hurt.
If it comes with it, it comes with it.
Have you gotten hurt?
Yeah, I got hurt bad.
I got hurt a lot of times.
One of the worst times, I got hit by a cab.
I woke up three days later.
I had bleeding in my brain.
I couldn’t control the whole left side of my face,
I couldn’t control it.
And that was for almost a year, a year plus I would say.
For a minute, my mom is convincing me,
“Oh, forget the bikes.”
And I’m like, “Yeah, **** the bikes,” because I was so hurt.
Summertime came around and I saw my boys riding by and I’m like,
“Man, **** this. I’m getting back on my bike.”
I believe in this, and I believe this is
the next thing that's going to take off.
This is crazy because it keeps me out of so much trouble
and gets me in so much trouble at the same time, serious.
[After being approached by a number of brands for sponsorship,]
[Leeky reached out to a business manager]
[ to help him navigate growing corporate interest.]
So, the deal with JT Racing is all signed up.
-Yeah, I heard you’d finished it. -Ready to go.
The first activation they want to do with you is ComplexCon.
-Where is that? -That’s in Long Beach, California.
So one thing that we got to confirm is meeting with your PO
to make sure that she allows you to travel.
Also, what was the case title? What is it, reckless driving?
-10139, yeah, yeah. -There’s two of them, right?
Yeah, there’s actually four cases.
Four cases? Oh, wow.
Yeah, they’re all tied up together, though.
Reckless endangerment, reckless ****.
And what’s the status?
In New York, they start off as felonies.
So they’re still felonies right now, but they’re going to drop.
OK.
Bike life culture reminds me of the skateboard culture in the 80s
and the 90s
because the cops, they were harassing them
the same way they harass you.
But then 20 years later, 25 years later,
-they have skate parks. -They got parks in every borough.
They don’t see the money in it, that’s what it is.
That’s why I’ve been telling them, this is a beginning sport, bro.
This is going to pop in a couple of years
when people see that you can make money off of it.
These companies nowadays look for influencers, mainly on Instagram.
The numbers dictate your influence, right?
And so JT Racing posted on their Instagram account.
Did you review some of the comments?
Yeah, I saw them. I just laughed at it
because people don’t understand where I came from.
This is people that live with
nothing but dirt trails and open land,
and they’re talking about me that got nothing but a dirt bike
and to go outside, you know what I’m saying?
You know what I found interesting was
how they indicted you as a bike thief.
They said “bike thief,” they said “a thug.”
I don’t steal.
And I didn’t understand where did that derive from.
It just came out of nowhere, “He steals bikes.”
I said, “Nah, I’m a businessman, I’m a father, man.”
I don't know what they're talking about.
I just laugh at stuff like that.
You can’t even pay attention to the negativity.
I don’t think about **** like that.
-I know what I am. -Yeah, yeah.
I’m striving for greatness, so I don’t care what they say.
Well, I liked how Funkmaster Flex jumped in in your defense.
Yeah, Flex showed a lot of love because he sees what’s going on.
You come from the street level and you get to that upper level,
you see people that are doing good ****.
I’m not being negative.
Everything is positive with me.
And he promotes you on his show sometimes,
talks about you.
There’s a lot of people at me, the enemy, but let me be clear.
I ain’t never seen nobody doing it in traffic and against traffic
like Leeky Da Bikestar.
I really don’t know him from nowhere, to be honest.
I don’t know how he found my Instagram or nothing,
but he’s showed love.
You see, that’s the power of social media.
But one of the things that I want to inspire with you
as you get older and I leave the scene
is understand your value
and make a business out of understanding your value.
That’s the most important piece that I would like to share with everybody.
And so understand your value, and move on from that point on.
On the money baby, on the money.
Friday night.
I love this ****.
We’re at my boy’s mechanic shop.
This is my boy Jah Speed, he’s a mechanic.
He **** my bikes up a lot, but...
That’s my boy. Good energy, good vibes, he’s my man.
He looks at it once a week.
Goes over everything, make sure the chain is right.
Always make sure that chain is tight.
You’re robbing yourself of power.
Any little thing,
that could be the end of it.
So you’ve got to really make sure your **** is right.
Oh man, I’ve been doing this **** since minibike days.
You know, it's been a long time.
I just love it, you know what I mean?
The sport got bigger.
And dealing with Leeky, and how they do it,
just it’s a different energy.
You know, we have our fun. We ain’t trying to hurt nobody.
You know, he’s good. He got nicer.
He respect the game, I think, a lot better.
We’ve been through our ups and downs.
Now it’s time to be serious about the whole game, the whole situation.
It’s not easy.
I would love to open a track right here in the city somewhere,
if we could make it happen.
But I doubt it’ll ever happen.
You know, I think that’d make a lot of peace.
Man, we’re going to turn up, man, we want to go crazy.
Lean, how we doing?
Good, how you going down, man?
Going to get Leaned up.
Where the Lean at?
I’m going to put [the dog] outside.
It's not a good idea.
We ain’t new to this ****, man.
We’ve been doing this **** since kid.
Yeah, this is around 2000.
I got my bike at eight.
I’m 28 now, so that’s 20 years.
I’m a **** veteran.
You can’t forget about the Ruff Ryder era.
That’s where I got the love, from watching the DMX videos.
It’s just like a whole stress reliever.
You get on that bike, it’s like you’re in your own zone.
It’s a freeway from the world.
Yeah, you know,
nothing is bothering you.
You might be riding, you might be wheelying,
it might be dangerous, but you know...
it’s life, you know?
You’re in control, that’s it.
Like you got all the power.
Nobody telling you nothing.
-Nobody telling you. -Nothing at all.
Whatever you’re ready to do, you could do it.
I’m trying to get further, you know what I’m saying?
Like Joey, we’re trying to get a park.
They need to make parks for kids.
You know, even regular kids that aren’t even that good,
they need a place to go
to outlet their energy, you know?
But there’s nothing like street riding, you know?
-The thrill of the street ride... -There’s nothing like it.
and looking over your shoulder.
Summertime in New York,
there’s usually a Friday night ride out
with my boys.
We come out.
The whole city meets up at one spot.
They just start turning up. We hit every borough.
The God! Flocka the God!
Yeah, looking forward to doing business with you.
The new spot we meet up at is pretty secure.
It’s not posted on Instagram
to ward them off.
So it’s pretty secure, but you still got to be on point.
I’m on point 100 percent of the time when I’m outside.
I'm always paying attention.
We all real, we all here.
Friday nights with my nigga Banshee wheel, man.
This is the ride out we do every Friday night.
Bringing the city together, bringing everybody together and ****.
You ain’t high when you’re riding,
you ain’t getting the full ride.
You could try to do all the stunts
and think that you’ve got the adrenaline for it.
You’re going need some bud.
Niggas go crazy for the ting, know what I mean?
Trust me.
Usually every Friday, somebody get caught.
If they go down, a lot of cops will be out.
It comes with the life...
bike life.
Got to pay attention because there’s a lot of cops.
The gas station’s usually where it goes down at.
You got to get off the bike, you got to go inside and pay,
and then the cops usually pull up real fast.
A lot of people get caught, and that’s when the cops come down.
You could lose your life, you could lose your freedom,
you could hurt yourself.
There’s a thousand reasons why.
When I’m on a bike,
I’m with a whole bunch of people I never met before.
We’re just hanging out, like we was buddies our whole life.
It’s nothing but good vibe.
It’s like that bike really connects me with real people.
There’s an energy that New York brings you,
that **** is like no other.
It’s just like a...
an adrenaline rush, you know what I’m saying?
You’re hyped.
You’ve just got to know how to control yourself.
You don’t want to do too much and bust your ass.
And when you get to Times Square, you get to Manhattan,
you see people cheering you on,
people from all over the world that never saw this in their life.
And they finally get a chance.
And that **** is... it’s a feeling like no other, man.
To be honest, the bike really saved my life.
From my day-to-day living to looking at my future,
it’s all wrapped around the bike.
The media and everything that paints it into a bad light.
It’s really not that bad.
I can feed my family off a bike.
What they say is so bad,
so I thank God for putting me in the position he put me in.
That **** just made me who I am today.