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- My name is Coss Marte.
I'm a former drug kingpin
and I ran a multimillion dollar drug business
which led me to six years in prison.
And I'm about to play never have I ever.
When you in the drug game happened multiple times
where I've been robbed, guns pointed
there was one particular time where like
one of my guys like stepped out of the stash house
and they came in, you know, with a gun pointed in his head.
They tied everybody up, which is crazy to me.
They, stole all the weed and a little bit
of money from safe, but there was so much Coke
on the table that they didn't realize it was Coke
and they left it there.
So we, you know they stole like maybe five grand of weed
and left like a hundred thousand dollars
worth of Coke on the table.
When I was younger, I was cutting my work
but I quickly found out the, the better way to like
be an honest truck dealer is not to cut your work.
And that's how you have people come back.
It's the same thing with the business world.
If you deliver a great product
you'll still have that consistency of clientelle.
Crazy, true story.
It was a drought
which means like there was not a lot of stuff coming in.
And so I had to go up
to a second supply that I had in Washington Heights.
I went up to this guy, bought a kilo off of him.
When I got home, I like left it on
on the table and I stepped out.
I came back and it was melted, like liquid melted.
And so I'm with my boy, Joey.
And we're like, yo, what the we're gonna do right now?
Like we just spent like $35,000 on this key.
He was like, yo, you gotta call this guy back.
You gotta call this guy back.
And so I was like
he's gonna be like, yo, he I'm playing him.
He's playing me.
You know, there's gonna be a, conflict.
I grabbed like the liquid yellow plastic bag.
And I went all the way uptown and brought it to him.
And I was like, yo, this is the sh you sold me.
And he was like, alright cool.
And so he gave me my money back and that was it.
You know?
And the DEA, like ran on me, they had a warrant
for the house that, that I had all the stashed drugs at.
They caught me coming outta the house.
They took my car, the BMW, M3, they were driving that.
And then they stuck me in this like Dodge caravan.
And I was there with one officer
sat with him and I'm like, yo
can you just let me like give you some money?
And you know you could stash the rest of the money,
blah, blah, blah
cause he had access to like the money that they caught.
And I was like, yo
just take like five grand and just leave the rest.
You know what I mean?
And he was like, yo
you really trying to bribe me right now?
And I'm like, nah, nah, nah, but you know what I mean
please? And, I was like, you know, nevermind that.
So yeah, I tried, but it didn't work.
We didn't call it toilet wine.
We called the hooch.
So I actually made like five gallons a week
and I was selling $5 cups to other inmates.
I would get these like large gallons
through the laundry room.
So we had like the detergent that would finish.
I would stash all those bottles families in New York state.
You could bring like packages
up to your loved ones once a month.
So I would ask'em to send me like grapes grapefruit
and just rot all the fruit and these bottles.
And then I'll take like tan cool aid, all that stuff.
And then I'll steal like the coffee filters
from the staff that was working in the library.
So I'll take those coffee filters take bread
and that'll be my yeast and I'll mold the bread altogether
and I'll stick it into the coffee filter
wrap it up and then I'm sticking it in the bottle.
And so it'll ferment.
And so you'll take that bottle and you'll,
open it up little by little to gas it out.
Cause if you don't gas it out, it'll just blow
up like a volcano and I've had that happen before
and it's not pretty and it stinks.
And so basically like your toilet is your refrigerator
cause it's like a metal toilet.
And but yeah, that's how it did it.
And you make like, you can make it
in eight days and it'll taste like wine.
I've witnessed multiple people overdosing unfortunately
off of drugs that I've sold, not proud of it, you know?
And it's, it's sad, you know?
And, and that's like made me regret all the things
that I was doing back in the day, you know, even neighbors
that I've seen like that I sold Coke to or heroin to back
in the day, I would see them, you know, pass out and OD.
I was, when I, when I was younger
I was selling crack out of like crack houses.
So I would see that happening all the time.
So yeah, I'm considering in selling
legalized marijuana again
I'm starting a company called Conbody
I'm working and talking to like legislators
and trynna be part of that legacy group
that was affected by the drug industry
you know, and trying to take advantage of like opening
up a space where I also have the same similar mission
hiring people, training people
and apprenticeship program where we teach people how to
you know, run a business and sell legal marijuana again.
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