Crime Pays w/ Ash Cash & J White

At 13 years old, Rico aged out of foster care and walked straight into survival mode.

Years later, he tracked down his mother in Chicago looking for help — and instead heard words that changed his life forever:

That moment didn’t just push him into the streets.

It erased the idea of safety.

From flooding Chicago with ecstasy pills…

to getting set up by someone he trusted…

to sitting in a cell with no blueprint and no guidance…

Rico’s story could’ve ended exactly how the system designed it to.

But it didn’t.

After prison. After loss. After burying his brother.

He pivoted — not to motivation, but to ownership.

Today, Mercer “Rico” Prince is one of the youngest dealmakers brokering multi-million-dollar music catalog deals, helping artists, producers, and creators reclaim control of their work — and their future.

This episode isn’t about hustling.

It’s about replacing survival instincts with strategy.

In this conversation, Rico breaks down:

• Why foster care taught him independence — not protection
• How ecstasy became more profitable than crack in Chicago nightlife
• The setup that led to two Class X felonies
• Why he took 4 years even though he could’ve beaten the case
• The loss that forced him to leave the streets for good
• How he made his first $250,000 legally — and never looked back
• Why streaming platforms are robbing creators blind
• And how ownership is the real freedom play after incarceration

If you’re coming home with felonies, grief, or no direction — this episode is proof that belief plus education still beats the odds.

Tap in. This one hits different.

00:00 – “Unless you got drugs…”

01:06 – From foster care to the streets

04:35 – Realizing the system wasn’t family

08:51 – The moment his mother activated survival mode

11:00 – Why pills beat crack financially

14:57 – School vs money: the early choice

18:38 – The setup that changed everything

22:00 – Facing Class X felonies

24:48 – Why he took the plea deal

28:03 – Prison mindset: no plan, no guidance

29:55 – Losing his brother & forced reinvention

33:19 – Enter the music business

36:01 – The catalog game explained

40:01 – Why artists sell their catalogs

43:02 – Ownership vs exploitation

46:21 – IHQ Network vision

50:07 – Breaking culture cycles

51:50 – Advice for people coming home

53:05 – Belief, faith & self-education

54:25 – Where to find Rico

They didn’t just lock her up —

they tried to silence her story.

Angela Stanton King went from giving birth chained to a hospital bed,

mother gone, grandmother gone, partner gone…

with a newborn taken from her arms —

to sitting in the Oval Office, changing laws, freeing women, and saving babies across America.

From prison jumpsuit → presidential advisor.

From garbage bags & no support → bestselling author & national movement leader.

From trying to survive → helping nearly 100 babies live.

This isn’t politics.

This is pain → purpose.

Trauma → rebirth.

A Black woman turned warrior who refuses to fold, flinch, or shut up.

In this raw Crime Pays conversation, Angela opens up about:

• Giving birth while shackled — and how she got the law changed.

• Losing her mother & grandmother while incarcerated — and not breaking.

• Being framed, abandoned, counted out — and coming back stronger.

• Why abortion is spiritual warfare & generational impact.

• Her controversial alliance with power — and the criticism that followed.

• 97 births saved through Auntie Angie’s House… and counting.

• Why formerly incarcerated talent is the future of business & leadership.

• How to return home with nothing — and rebuild anyway.

• Do-for-self, no-excuses, faith-driven reinvention.

This episode is unfiltered. Uncomfortable. Necessary.

Not left. Not right. Real.

Watch with your heart open.

Share with someone rebuilding their life.

And remember — redemption is a lifestyle.

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00:00 – Abortion is life or death.

00:18 – “I gave birth chained to a bed.”

00:41 – Silence warriors on both sides: MLK & Charlie Kirk

00:53 – Misconception: “People think I’m a white supremacist.”

01:25 – Welcome to Crime Pays

02:00 – Introducing Angela Stanton King: trauma → triumph

02:55 – From pain to purpose → Auntie Angie’s House

04:06 – First impressions & the voice the system wasn’t ready for

05:01 – Pregnant in prison & pressured to abort

05:51 – Chained, watched, separated: the birth story

06:58 – From prison → palace → White House impact

07:44 – “God, if you restore me, I’ll spend my life helping others.”

08:40 – Meeting Trump & changing policy

10:13 – Women chained during birth — the part they don’t talk about

11:17 – Life in poverty, survival crimes & how the streets raise you

12:52 – Baby 97 born — legacy over stats

13:55 – Turning street skills into business skills

15:05 – Trauma, motherhood & why she had to stay strong

16:30 – Black lives matter starts at birth

17:20 – Pain → purpose as restoration

18:52 – Why men struggle more when coming home

19:48 – Faith-based rebrand & the assignment

20:57 – Race as distraction, power as target

22:32 – The Group Chat movement — everybody welcome

23:39 – Vision: Auntie Angie’s House nationwide

25:00 – The trust problem in Black economics

26:00 – “A million people. One dollar. A million a week.”

27:05 – Broken systems, fatherhood & prison reform

29:00 – Clemency, pardons & why we need second chances

31:00 – Expungement ≠ forgiven — know the difference

32:18 – Entrepreneurship as survival

33:30 – Intense or anointed? Both.

34:47 – Crime → purpose if you flip it

36:10 – Spiritual warfare & the value of life

37:47 – If she wasn’t born… generations vanish

40:02 – Preparing for freedom inside

41:11 – “Write my sister?” — on-air promise

42:10 – The biggest misconception

44:05 – Business is business — operate in your favor

45:16 – Reinvention formula: blend in or boss up

46:23 – Advice for women coming home with shame

47:45 – Every pain is an assignment

48:20 – Closing | Crime Pays family

They didn’t just underestimate him.

They completely misread the strategy in his eyes.

From selling weed in high school…

to getting locked up as a teen…

to being raised by the streets…

Marquel Russell grew up thinking he was just a dope boy — not realizing he was actually a strategist in training.

Today?

He’s helped entrepreneurs generate over $1 BILLION in revenue…

with the same mind the system said would never make it off the block.

This is not a conversation about crime.

This is a conversation about identity — and how changing who you believe you are changes everything around you.

Because as Dr. Russell says:

And when he changed that identity?

His family, his money, his mindset — his whole life — upgraded.

In this powerful Crime Pays episode, Dr. Marquel Russell breaks down:

• How survival instincts from the trap translate into million-dollar business skills

• Why your identity determines your income

• Going from dropout & dealer → father, husband, CEO, strategist

• The traffic stop that made him walk away from the streets forever

• Why he never removed his gold teeth

• How to build a business that runs without you

• How returning citizens can pivot into entrepreneurship

• Why “if you can run a gang, you can run a business” is real logic

• The mindset flips that turn street smarts into CEO brilliance

• How scaling isn’t about clients — it’s about professionalizing your whole life

• And the trillion-dollar vision behind Strategic Scale Institute

This is redemption through strategy.

This is personal development for the streets.

This is what happens when you rewrite the identity life tried to give you.

Share this with anyone rebuilding their life, anyone fighting for a second chance, or any young kid who needs to see a model of what’s possible.

Crime Pays is the #1 personal development platform for formerly incarcerated men, women, and their families.

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00:00 – “I saw myself as a dope boy.”

00:33 – Identity determines your decisions

01:03 – From the trap to a billion dollars

01:13 – Welcome to Crime Pays

01:46 – High school dropout • hustler • strategist

02:05 – The $1B revenue master

02:26 – Transformation, redemption & mindset

03:01 – Calm confidence: the Marquel aura

04:34 – Who is Dr. Russell?

05:02 – Childhood, trauma & early hustling

06:08 – Growing up around addiction

07:02 – Meeting his mother for the first time

08:27 – Entrepreneurship before he knew the word

09:12 – “Was it traumatic?” — hidden childhood wounds

11:22 – Adjusting to a new life

12:02 – Telemarketing, sales & early money mindset

14:24 – Why he never stood on the block

15:41 – School was easy until it wasn’t

16:49 – Dropping out at 16

17:49 – The small operation grows

18:31 – Seeing the strategy early

19:27 – The pricing advantage that changed everything

20:07 – Street economics 101

21:45 – Vision of becoming a kingpin

23:37 – Network marketing introduction

25:14 – The traffic stop that changed his life

26:59 – Jail, survival mode & identity shift

29:44 – Criminal logic = business logic

31:13 – From contract studios to entrepreneurship

33:50 – “You can run a gang, you can run a business.”

35:55 – Network marketing + rejection

37:07 – The gold teeth debate

39:57 – Authenticity as a business magnet

41:44 – The affiliate moment that changed everything

43:47 – Realizing online business > street business

45:14 – Scaling a legit business

47:50 – Building Client Attraction University

50:20 – The identity you cling to becomes your ceiling

52:54 – Why entrepreneurs struggle with delegation

55:11 – The 7-figure identity trap

56:06 – Build companies, not hustles

58:23 – Enter: Strategic Scale Institute

1:00:32 – Equity plays vs coaching fees

1:02:05 – Natural-born strategist

1:04:01 – The real long-term mission

1:06:09 – Building a billion-dollar portfolio

1:08:44 – Final message: Identity shapes everything

1:09:22 – Connect with Dr. Russell

1:09:51 – Closing: Crime Pays

They didn’t just target him.

They built an entire political machine to silence him.

Sheriff Victor Hill — former homicide detective, top-voted Clayton County sheriff, bestselling author of Vigilante Sheriff — pulls up to Crime Pays for the rawest, uncut interview he’s done in over a decade.

For the first time, he breaks down how the system framed him, how a misdemeanor magically became a felony, and how prosecutors, judges, and political insiders flipped the justice system upside down just to take him out.

From locking down Clayton County with zero tolerance for crime,

to being sent to one of the worst federal prisons in America,

to becoming the first man in U.S. history charged with “police brutality” without ever laying a hand on anyone,

to now running for Congress…

this is the part of the story they never wanted you to hear.

This episode exposes:

• How investigators ignored real killers to focus on political targets

• How a misdemeanor turned into a felony so he couldn’t run again

• How prosecutors hid evidence while crime exploded on the streets

• How judges with conflicts of interest controlled the case

• Why plea deals destroy innocent people every year

• Why the justice system profits off chaos, violence, and indictments

• Why 50,000 people a year sit in prison for crimes they didn’t commit

• Why America’s “90% conviction rate” is built on fear — not truth

• How Sheriff Hill plans to fix Congress from the inside

This isn’t about left or right.

It’s about truth, accountability, and a system that punishes the wrong people while real criminals roam free.

If you’re behind the wall, coming home soon, or holding down someone who’s locked up —

this episode is mandatory.

Tap in. Share it. Save it. Study it.

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00:00 – “If they chased real killers, crime wouldn’t look like this”

02:00 – How a political case replaced real justice

04:20 – Why Clayton County was safer under Sheriff Hill

09:12 – When prosecutors care more about headlines than homicide

12:58 – Breaking down the felony that wasn’t a felony

17:45 – How corruption stole the voters’ choice

23:56 – Why crime exploded after he left office

29:30 – Judge shopping, political beef, and blocked appeals

33:40 – The truth about overstretched DAs and two-year indictment delays

40:02 – Why he still runs Democrat — and what voters really want

46:20 – The murder that shaped his law enforcement philosophy

53:14 – The lesson his mentor taught: “Clear the innocent like you chase the guilty”

1:03:33 – Mass incarceration, plea deals & America’s 90% conviction trap

1:18:50 – Why innocent people take 4-year pleas over 50-year risks

1:31:00 – Inside federal prison — what they tried to hide

1:45:12 – Why intent matters & how the system ignores it

2:00:05 – What he wants every American to know

2:10:44 – How the prison experience will shape him in Congress

2:15:34 – Final message: “Every convicted felon should fight back — starting here”

2:17:02 – Outro — Crime Pays family message

“They gave her 40 years. She served 2½. Now she’s changing lives every day.”

In this raw and powerful episode, Miss Connie shares how she flipped her time into a purpose—founding Building Bridges Enterprises, a real-world program in Savannah that’s training returning citizens to become CDL drivers, CNAs, IT pros, and homeowners.

She talks about cutting crime by 70 percent, fighting obesity, teaching credit, building family structure, and why the real crime prevention is economics.

This one’s about leadership, redemption, and financial freedom with impact.

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00:00 – Power, control & the truth about “knowing” people

02:15 – Meet Miss Connie: hustlers → leaders

06:40 – Young mom to licensed contractor

09:56 – The fall: 40-year sentence

12:45 – Running the jail from the inside

18:55 – Healing work: “10 things you love about yourself”

27:18 – Freedom plan already in motion

29:00 – Building Bridges blueprint: housing → jobs → wealth

33:58 – 183 graduates & 70% crime drop

41:05 – Nonprofit game & funding your mission

45:40 – Family & unity over ego

47:58 – Economics > lectures

50:46 – Boots on the ground impact

1:03:12 – Closing: from 40 to freedom

From 100 bricks to freedom. From college hoops to a 25-year federal sentence—then the judge says, “Conviction vacated.”

In this powerful episode of Crime Pays, Ash Cash and Jay White sit down with Greg McNeal, aka The Billionaire from Chicago’s West Side, who built a multimillion-dollar empire in the streets while maintaining a 3.7 GPA and hooping in college. Greg opens up about the rise, the fall, and the ultimate redemption—how a routine stop turned into a fed case, how illegal searches and a bad plea deal cost him decades, and how he turned prison into purpose.

Now free, Greg’s building gyms, restaurants, and a re-entry blueprint to help others rebuild their lives. This episode isn’t just about crime—it’s about accountability, resilience, and rewriting your story.

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🎙️ They lock us up... but who’s cashing the checks?

In the raw, unapologetic premiere of Crime Pays, Jay White and Ash Cash pull back the curtain on the billion-dollar business of mass incarceration. From the 1994 Crime Bill to the quiet corporate pipelines that profit off prison beds, they expose how America turned punishment into profit—and people into products.

But this isn’t just about the system. It’s about survival, redemption, and what happens when the hustle goes legit.

🔥 Hear how returning citizens are flipping street knowledge into federal contracts, real estate plays, and generational wealth.

💭 Learn the truth about “collateral consequences” — the invisible walls that follow long after release.

💪 And walk away with a blueprint to rebuild, rise, and win in a world designed to count you out.

This is not reform talk. It’s revolution talk.

It’s for the ones who made it home… and the ones still fighting to.

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He made his first million by 18. He ran trap houses across the country. He faced kidnappings, torture, and the death of his own daughter. But today, Keith Strickland consults for the White House on criminal justice reform and owns the very block he once sold drugs on.

In this raw and powerful episode of Crime Pay$, Keith opens up about trauma, redemption, and divine purpose — from solitary confinement to saving thousands of lives across America.

If you’ve ever doubted whether change is possible, this conversation will change your life.

If you want blunt lessons about grit, money, and transformation — this one’s for you. 👇

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This episode will wreck your assumptions. Wall Street Trapper grew up where survival meant violence — watching his mom get shot, living the hustle, and doing time. But in solitary, a single conversation flipped the script: markets, mindset, and millions — not murder. In this raw, unfiltered interview he walks us from the trap house to trading screens, the prison fights that made him cold, the mentor who showed him how money really works, and why he’s now on a mission to pull people out of the streets and into wealth that won’t kill them. You’ll hear: • Brutal moments from his childhood and juvenile years. • The betrayal that led to violence — and the aftermath. • The solitary convo that taught him the stock market is the easiest path to wealth. • How prison hustles became business lessons (laundry, tickets, subscriptions). • Why his mission now is to show formerly incarcerated folks a different way. If you want blunt lessons about grit, money, and transformation — this one’s for you. Smash that LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and hit the bell. Crime Pays is raw, unapologetic, and here to help people thrive beyond the wall. Subscribe for more stories that turn pain into profit.

What happens when loyalty turns into a life sentence? In this raw and unfiltered episode of Crime Pays with Ash Cash & Jay White, we sit down with Coach T Renee — a powerhouse business coach who went from building empires with the wrong man, to serving time in federal prison, to giving birth behind bars, and ultimately transforming her pain into purpose. She reveals: • How a toxic relationship led to the feds knocking at her door • What it was like giving birth to her son while incarcerated • The mindset shifts that turned prison into the birthplace of “Coach T” • How she rebuilt her life, her marriage, and her multimillion-dollar business • Why your past doesn’t define you — it elevates you This isn’t just a comeback story. It’s a masterclass in resilience, reinvention, and refusing to let your past dictate your future. 🚨 Tap in now. Subscribe for more stories the media won’t tell you — because on Crime Pays, we expose the game and flip pain into power.