A-Town Boyz is the story about an American Dream deferred for sons of Asian immigrants, who are drawn to gang life as th | dG1fWmdPUXBXQjFFb3M
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00:00 [traffic]
00:07 [music]
00:10 I was raised in Atlanta.
00:11 [music]
00:25 The white kids would call you Ching Chong Ching.
00:27 I'm not even Chinese or anything.
00:29 [music]
00:40 My dad came over here so I could have a better life.
00:42 But for us, there's still that little barrier.
00:45 I don't want to f***ing listen to that s***.
00:47 I want to be a gangster since I was five years old.
00:50 Stuff that he does on drugs, he doesn't remember.
00:52 [music]
00:55 I was forced to do what I do.
00:57 I didn't have family. That was my family.
00:59 [music]
01:00 [speaking Korean]
01:06 [music]
01:11 There was nobody famous or big that they could look up to.
01:13 When they saw somebody like me, who had a lot of money, had a lot of power, that's what they wanted to do.
01:19 [music]
01:25 I talked to myself. Is this the life that I dreamed about?
01:29 [music]
01:33 You know how cold this world could be?
01:35 But I have my own little dream.
01:37 [music]
01:44 Tell them what's your name. Why are you so shy?
01:46 [music]
01:50 [BLANK_AUDIO]