How One Rapper Took on a Whole Gang Without Weapons - Bugzy Malone

You mentioned that story of the guys who tried to rob your house. Oh, yeah. We talked about that? If you like. I do want to, yes. What happened? I mean, look. There was There were some um like teenagers. I'd just moved into this house. Made a big thing online, I'm getting a new house. Cuz this is the game, right? This is the rap game. You're going to get to a place where you're doing well. And people want to know if it's true or not. Did Did you Have you really transcended the bottom? Is that really possible? Cuz that It's like in the Batman film, right? And there's that that prison. And to get out of the prison, you've got to escape. And and jump out of the hole at the top. And that's crabs in a bucket. We're all looking at the top of the bucket thinking, can we get out of there? And once you're in the process, it's interesting, really, cuz you've got to fake it till you make it, right? So, you're sort of demonstrating that like, here's where I'm at. You know, some people are less honest about it. I was trying to be sort of accurate. So, like, it's like, I've bought this house. And I've not really built up the walls on the outside or there's no blinds up at the time. And there's like a group of like teenagers up on the wall and they're they're shouting me. Boxy, Boxy, Boxy. And I'm thinking, thinking, whatever. And then my my girlfriend at the time gets out of the shower. And he's walking through the house naked. And they're looking in through the window. She's like, the kids outside have have seen me naked, right? And I'm like, yeah, just give them time to go. Cuz I'm thinking, I've not moved here to then start like going out and just even chatting to the kids. >> Mhm. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm going to try not to get too involved at where I live, right? So, time goes by and time goes by and then eventually, they just come a situation where I'd sort of left the house. Thought the coast was clear. Left the house. On this particular day, I was trying to get my little sister to make friends with my mom. And so, we're doing a bit of domestic healing. Mhm. Or whatever you call it. And um I go and collect my little sister. I'd not seen her in a long time. And I'm going to take her to town first. On the way to town, and at this point now, the the kids are trying to like terrorize the house. So, my ex-girlfriend phones me, they're up on the wall again and and it's all going on. So, then I drive back to the park, and the house in the the park. I pull up. And I see the kids and they see the car and they just want to see it's me. I get the situation. I get I'm a famous guy. I live in the area. So, then um as I like pull up, um they start to jog off through the park looking. And whoever they must have been in the area, their brothers and family were tough guys. And they've come back and broken into the house. Broken into the land, smashed the windows. Telling me when he gets back, he's dead. So, that was the that was the situation. I'm with my little sister in the car. And we had to we had to fly home. I drove home. Nervous. Cuz you you don't you like you just in a situation where you you're not sure. And by the way, there was a few little things happening around the house of like it was a big house. And you don't understand the ramifications of living in a big house. But it attracts a lot of attention. You know, and that to be honest has put me off. Like them kinds of luxuries. Cuz people see you as something different. So, now I'm like doing a lot of traveling and home in my mind and being in places with just a backpack. You know, to go back to basics. Anyway, so the the the yeah, so the the um I went back. I was nervous. You're driving back to deal with this issue. I'm yeah, I'm flying back. Flying back. My mom's on the phone to the police in the background when my ex-girlfriend is screaming on the phone. And my heart's just beating. I'm just like, oh my days. Cuz you don't I'm saying to my ex-girlfriend, did they have balaclavas on? Did they have gloves on? Did they have weapons? She's like, I don't know. And anyway, and they're breaking in. Right? And um yeah, I sort of I sort of pull up and you're straight into the chaos of the situation. And I think luckily, at that point, again, I've just kept up boxing for so long that as I was getting into these interactions with these guys, I was able to gauge distance enough to make one move and then threaten them with a fight. What's happening next? Do you understand what I'm saying? And and and and that was that. I mean, these deeper detail I don't I don't know how much I should go into, but they sort of barricaded the road off. It's like a country road that takes you to the house. And me and my sister are in the car. It's been the first altercation. We get into the car. We're driving down this country road. He's barricaded off with big boulders like that. So, I know there's an ambush coming. So, I look in the bushes and there's a big guy with a brick. So, I put my sister's head down like that. And really, what he should have done is he should have just thrown that brick straight through the car, created panic, and attacked me. But what he'd done is he tried to play Mr. Intimidating and tried to um have me a fight with this brick. But what he doesn't understand is what I understood is you have to jab me with that brick. Because if he starts swinging at me, it's going to end up knocked out of your hand. It's the nature of a heavy, you know, weapon of whatever description. So, he stood there. I put my hands up in the air. And psychology says that if I say to you, what t-shirt's that again? That you Exactly. Your brain starts to answer the question. You like your nervous system starts to answer the question before you get chance to think. So, I jump out of the car and I've gone, no way is it you. Is that blue t-shirt? [ __ ] off, you And I'm asking him these questions and he can see his brain doing all but I'm closing the distance and I'm sparring every day. And I know how close I need to get and he won't think I can touch him, but I can. And I'm getting closer and closer and he's not getting the time to get his feet in place to swing the brick properly. And when by the time he realizes I'm I'm close enough and he tries to do something with the brick, I've managed to hit him. And it just it just skimmed him and he spun around and dropped the brick. So, then it all goes to court, obviously. He doesn't try and press charges because me and him had a decent fight. You know, to be fair to him. We had a decent fight. But I won the fight. And um and then I get in the car. I move the bricks. Boulders. I get back to my house. And that's the video that surfaces online of me flying down the drive. I'm flying. Taking your top off. The Well, the reason I'm taking my top off is because a van then comes screeching onto the path of their backup. So, now there's a van full of guys to come and back them guys up. So, I'm taking my top off cuz I'm going out to get back involved again. And honestly, like when I when I turned up for the second time, like I just turned up and was just shouting my head off like a lunatic, frothing at the mouth. And I was just like, what I was explaining to them is like, you're at you're at my family home. My mom's in there. You know, you guys have turned up to beat me up. I've turned up I've turned up here to die for my family. This is two different situations. You know? And you think I'm like a celebrity. I have really come from the dark. You know? And you you look like a bit of a plumber. You look like you go to the pub on the weekend. It's like you don't like that you're at my family home. I ain't got nowhere to run. And it wasn't as articulate as that, by the way. But you know, that was the >> shouting and screaming like >> shouting my head off, yeah, because you know, I didn't want to hurt anybody else. And it was getting out of hand. You know, because boxing allowed me to be able to deal with it clean-cut. But if I didn't have boxing, then I'd have gotten into a fight with the first guy, thrown onto the floor, and maybe beaten up outside my own house. You know, so boxing was able to get me through the situation. That was that. There was a After the situation, then they tried to phone the police. You know? And there was So, there was a court case. And there was this moment in court. At this point, the court case was a couple of years later. And at this point, I'd broken up with my ex-girlfriend and she had to come and give evidence, which was this mad situation for me. Um and there was just this point where I had to speak to the jurors. You know, they're going to judge you. There's like a panel of people that are going to judge. And you know what I'd done? I just I just told them who I was. Because I understand that people look at a guy that looks like a tough street guy and he's a rapper and all these sort of stereotypes go with these people look at things in categories, right? Because sometimes people are too lazy to understand that everyone's just an individual. So, I um I just spoke to them on a really human level and explained who I am and what my intention was going into that situation. And that was simply to protect my family. And I and I could have lost my temper and I could have took that over the top. But I feel like I dealt with every situation perfectly. There's many a man that would have pulled out a weapon and it would have been a different story in the news, you know, but I risked I risked it. I risked having a fair fight. And luckily by the skin of my teeth or maybe not the skin of my teeth, but I I come out on top. You know, and I feel as if I I was blessed because yeah, I was put my back was up against the wall, you know. So, I got not guilty. Do you know what Do you know what I've never really spoke about with this year? I'm sat in the room with my lawyers and that. And they're like, "Right, today's the verdict. You're either going to get guilty." Bro, if I get guilty, as a kid I was a persistent young offender. I was in lots of trouble all the time. That was something I had to overcome and get out of the habit of being. So, I'm thinking it like for the criminal record I had when I was young, like if I get a guilty here, this is looking like jail. Did it feel like you were back there? Yeah, no, I don't I don't Oh, man. What did it feel like? Because it's all over social media and the paparazzi are coming to my hotel. I'm not signed to a record label. I'm independent. You know, so for the newspapers to be turning up when I fell off my bike, it's in the newspapers. When I got engaged, it's in the newspapers. It's sort of unheard of. I'm independent. I'm not a record label's cash cow. Right? So, you're going in past paparazzi every day. It was just a bizarre experience. Um and on the day when he's like, "Today you get a not guilty or the guilty or not guilty." My heart's beating. [ __ ] my pants a little bit. And um and he's like, "We've got a prepared statement for if you get not guilty." I said, "That's the one I'm interested in." Because now I'm doing the law of attraction in my head. I'm like, "There's no way I'm getting a guilty today, right?" He reads it to me. I said, "Okay, it's COVID. We're just coming out of We're sort of in COVID. I'm doing a tour. Tour tickets aren't selling because people aren't sure whether to put into concerts cuz they might get pulled out." Do you Yeah, do you remember that stage? So, I'm I'm putting a concert on in the most controversial stage, right? I said, "At the bottom of that statement, just write, 'The Bugzy's going to go away now and concentrate on the on the ticket sales of his UK tour.'" You used your statement as an ad read for the tour. Listen, it's it's turning a negative into a positive, right? And in my heart, I believed I was um righteous. What the judge was going to believe on the day is, you know, who knows sort of thing, but they they did they judged me fairly. And I got this not guilty. And then and then I was on the stairs stood there in this pinstripe suit that I got made after John Gotti's suit when he um got off his court cases. I quite liked it. It was tailored well. I'm like stood there. And I remembered, "Oh, yeah, we've got all the news in front of us." And he goes, "And um Bugzy's going to go away now to concentrate on the sales of his UK tour." And bro, the tickets are sold out. So, I'd fell off my bike. I'd come back from the bike accident. I had this big court case from these guys that smashed my house up. And the um I ended up selling out the tour. You know, so it was a triumphant It was a triumphant moment. It was a negative into a positive, you know. You are probably not eating enough fruits and vegetables and you know it. And this is going to help. Good news, AG1 just released their next gen formula. It is a more advanced, clinically backed version of the product that I've been drinking every day for years. So, you still get the same one scoop ritual, but now with an even more thoughtful formulation, flavor, and four clinical trials behind it. AG1 has been evolving since 2010, continuously improving alongside the latest research. And AG1 next gen is the result clinically shown to help fill common nutrient gaps and support gut health, even in people who already eat well. In one study, it boosted healthy bacteria in the gut by 10 times. 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