-I think everybody has a little bit of hood rat in them.
You could either get it out
by going and robbing and shooting people
or you can get it out by killing some tires.
See, we keep a few of these of these bad boys on us.
-Oh! -[ Laughs ]
[ Tires squeal ]
-We open up the pit and stay out of the middle,
let the swingers swing.
-You got to have skill. You got to be able to swing.
You know what I'm saying?
Do donuts, do a mean-ass burnout.
Like...
-So, cops have adapted.
If I post an address right on the main page,
cops will show up like that.
-Cops, bitches! Cops!
-Alright! Alright!
-Cops, we love them. [ Horn honks ]
I mean, we just drive around, doing nothing.
-[ Shouting indistinctly ]
-I'm hoping this,
they can really see how Houston gets down.
We're not no joke, you know?
-Oh, shit!
[ Siren wails ]
-Y'all act like y'all don't fucking know what time it is.
You know what time it is?
[ Engine revs ]
This group has only been going on for about a year.
So I don't want to say that the takeover scene in Houston
is necessarily new,
but there's never been a dedicated group for this.
[ Engine revs ]
-Houston was really about trucks, mostly, and, like,
everybody know Texas is, like, the king of street racing.
Private, this has, like, a different scene,
a different culture.
[ Engine revs ]
-We started right as everything was getting started,
like, all the takeovers.
As soon as Private was giving us the addresses,
and it was great places,
like wide-open warehouses, intersections.
They were making it fun.
-There was a demand, and that's why it blew up so much.
It hasn't even been up for a year,
and look how much we've grown.
-I'm finna show y'all. I'm gonna show y'all.
♪♪
-So, Galleria was the stunt that got us up there.
And the reason Galleria was so controversial
was just because that's, like, a real touristic spot.
Anytime a celebrity or anybody comes,
you're not gonna visit Houston without going to Galleria.
-We were pretty much in the news for like a whole week, at least.
-That person we spoke to says they're just showcasing
Houston's car community,
but police say this is downright dangerous, and it's illegal.
-That was like a big "fuck you" to the cops, you know?
Because there was controversy.
Everyone was saying, "Where are the cops?"
If you see the video, there's not a single police siren.
There's nothing. It's just chaos.
-After that, the cops were getting much more on us.
They found the Instagram account, everything like that,
and they started tracking every movement we have.
-We have our main page, then we have, like,
a private, like, account, where it's exclusive.
Like, we literally inspect each account one by one.
Videos have gone viral from Houston.
People will clown it in the comments.
They don't know Houston has a car scene,
so tonight we're about to put Houston on the map
and Private on the map.
Right now we're heading up to the first spot.
We call it the meet-up spot. So, normally we get a crowd
about at least 100 or 200 people.
It just depends.
-Hey, hey!
-Hey, yo. What's good? What's good?
-If you go to the meets, you're a Private.
You know what I mean? Everyone's Private,
so it's everybody and nobody, you know what I mean?
[ Engine revs ]
-Not gonna lie, bro, you might get fired.
[ Laughter ]
[ Engine revs ]
-So, what we do is two things.
We're gonna air-drop a list, like with about 50 addresses
and random numbers next to it.
And in case the account gets compromised,
the cops, they start watching,
then we use the air-dropped addresses
and we post random numbers, like, "Go to address 25."
-Let's go.
-[ Laughs ]
-You would think that everyone seems to like this,
but there's actually a lot of controversy behind this.
People will try to ruin it.
They'll follow the account
and they'll just call the cops for every spot,
so we battle with a lot of haters.
He's gonna go get them. [ Chuckles ]
Right now we're about to go to an intersection.
We posted the address, so we ask people to block.
You know, if a cop comes, jump in front of them
'cause if someone's doing a donut or whatever they're doing,
we don't want the cops to come arrest them
'cause those are the people that make everything fun,
you know? [ Chuckles ]
[ Tires squeal ]
-It's the first spot. -I don't think
this is gonna last long. There's people out here working.
You see that 18-wheeler up there?
Let's see how it goes.
-Yeah! -Oh!
-Hey, what up, Vice? What up, Vice?
[ Engine revs ]
-Oh, fuck!
[ Tires squeal ]
-I know you fucking with the vibe out here!
-He almost got fucking hit.
-We haven't yet had a problem
where someone got severely injured.
We had, like, little close calls.
[ Horn honks ]
In California, they're known for that,
where people are always getting hit and stuff,
and it's like, we haven't had that happen yet.
-[ Screams, giggles ]
-Go, go, go, go!
♪♪
-Hey, what's up, man? -What's up?
-When we finally started getting takeovers,
people were just excited.
They were just like, "How do we make this big?"
'Cause people were finally starting to go from,
you know, standstill donuts and just kicking dirt
and rocks up from actually swinging
and drifting around in donuts.
-Whoo!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That's what's up! -Let's go, go, let's go!
[ Siren wailing ] -Cops, bitches! Cops!
[ Indistinct shouting ]
[ Horn honking ]
-Whoo!
-We out here, baby!
-That was just the first spot.
Like, the first spot is usually the worst one with cops.
We don't want a cop-free spot.
We want the cops to come. They make it fun.
Running from the cops, going to the next spot,
moving around, that's what makes this shit fun.
[ Engine revving ]
-Whoever spins it, spins it, man.
[ Tires squeal ]
-This is really just for the love of it, you know?
This isn't to capitalize off of anything.
This is really just for fun.
You know, we have an addiction to adrenaline,
and we have to get it out somehow.
-Our generation, we grew up off of "Fast and Furious,"
watching all of them, wanting to do that, have the cars,
have the little buggies
when they have the battery-powered buggies,
like trying to drift them or tipping over,
so it's like we grew up off of that,
so we want to live it.
[ Tires squeal ]
-Cops. -Cops.
-Like to let people scatter,
'cause sometimes when the cops don't have the page,
they'll follow the crowds.
So we let people scatter around,
and they go, they hide from the cops, whatever,
they go to some Walmart or some gas station, whatever,
and we like to make our spots 20 minutes away from each other.
It's a lot of gas, but, you know,
you have to avoid the cops a little bit, you know?
This isn't actually just openly accepted in the car scene.
Like, not everyone who's into cars like this.
There's people who enjoy park and chills,
and they think that we're ruining the car scene.
[ Engine revving ]
[ Tires squealing ]
-Park and chill, it's just so boring.
There's no adrenaline.
You're not doing nothing but sitting there.
Y'all could park at home
and, you know, look at each other's cars.
-Us, as females, when we hop in a car,
they're expecting a dude, so when they see girls,
when we roll down the window, they be, "Oh!"
That's a good feeling also, you know,
trying to change the culture of get the females out there
'cause, I mean, we like seeing cars, too.
Like, why can't we do what y'all are doing, you know what I mean?
[ Siren wailing ]
[ Engine revving ]
-So, this last spot, it's an isolated intersection,
so it should last a while, unless we have a snitch.
It's about to get fucking crazy over there.
[ Chuckles ]
-We're about to, I guess, take over the intersection.
[ Engine revving ]
♪♪
Here's some dust, baby.
-At the end of the day, we're not killing nobody.
Nobody gets killed.
You hear people get killed, shot, walking down the street.
It's not at a takeover.
This is better than people robbing, people killing,
people selling drugs, and I just want them
to understand that, at the end of the day,
people could be doing so much different things worse.
-I'm fucking good.
[ Siren wailing ]
-Let's go, let's go, let's go!
-So that's it, man.
Like, now y'all see how Houston gets down, you know?
-Oh, shit!
-It was a good night, you know?
Yeah, just a regular Friday night in Houston,
and everyone got away.
♪♪