MARVIN HERBERT (EX HITMAN/GANGSTER)
KILLA KELA: You’ve been through quite the journey and transformation, talk to me about your mindset behind how you changed your life?
MARVIN HERBERT: It’s about being real being honest and people being able to learn from what you do, so how you behave how you conduct yourself a role model so to speak, we’re all supposed to be role models to the younger generations to perpetuate our species. I realized that I used my unique skill for the wrong purposes and products prior to transformation. You’re going to go through headaches, you’re going to have problems, you’re going to have dramas, people going to test you out, people are going to push you and take liberties, but you ultimately got to keep control and not react. Just do what’s correct and come out the other side and just eat the losses if there’s losses because what I’ve got for a brighter day coming.
I’m actually showing by demonstrating how I’m living and what I’m achieving. I think anything is possible for anyone. No one can say oh you can’t achieve if you’ve got a criminal record, you can’t achieve you’ve been in prison. Okay fair enough, let’s analyze the situation, Marvin Herbert one of the baddest men on the road one of the most lucrative criminals but I went on to go to downing street, went on to go to schools, colleges, and prisons, I’m going on to do books movies and programs. It is evident that anything is possible.
KILLA KELA: How do you feel about how the world views criminals?
MARVIN HERBERT: When people say that like criminals are not lazy people, its actually the opposite, they wake up with no money to go out and get it, so they’re not lazy people what it is is the product they deal with. That’s what traumatic and what that creates the problems, so if you start dealing with another product then you’re going to have a better outcome. That’s all I’m doing transfer my skills into a different platform. Now so I offer opportunities to people who want to transcend their life into a legitimate way by cleaning their hands coming on board and just finding out what special skill and talent they got and creating a business around that. I’m changing the narrative that people have thinking you’re going to be rich from crime and this is not true. I say to everyone what I say to everyone tell me the history of every major gangster on the planet and tell me I’d ever retired
“I’m not here to ruin anybody I’m just here to tell nothing about the truth about the criminal fraternity and change the narrative so youngsters don’t make mistakes and go to prison and do bad things.”
KILLA KELA: I have to get an understanding of where your drive because you have so much drive and tenacity, it’s incredible.
MARVIN HERBERT: Put it this way right what I wouldn’t wish on anybody is where I’ve been from. Why I have this work ethic is because I had nothing. I never ever want to live like that again. I don’t want to fail. I don’t want togive up like I want to make something of myself. I thought I wanted something different but now I can see what it is I really want.
My mindset it’s about getting everything done that needs to be done. it’s not about my convenience. I worry about everybody else’s convenience because what I’ve started to adopt on this transitional journey is that I need to add value and work ethic, so I am not important, the job and the project is important. No matter how tired i am no matter what sleepy I no matter am upset that project has to move forward and we have to achieve that goal.
KILLA KELA: With this change in lifestyle, how do you view the criminal world now?
MARVIN HERBERT I was programmed right for 42 years to believe that I was sensible risking my liberty every single day for a price i believed that straight guys couldn’t earn more money than criminals wholeheartedly but it’s a myth. Criminals are not the richest people on the planet they’ve got the biggest egos and the most materialistic asset, but reality is what the point in it?
Today we are talking to a man that over the last 3 years has turned his life around; from a long and self discovering journey, to one of the most noted public speakers on the criminal underworld. Ex Hitman and criminal Marvin Herbert is in for a chat. We’re talking Rehab, Graffiti, new music (yes, HIS new music!), work rate and transferring skills from the criminal world to the commercial world. Today Marv is dropping some real intel, so get your note pads OUT. This is Marvin Herberts Street Culture Podcast!
This weeks Podcast is on a subject never approached on this platform yet incredibly close to street culture – today we go deep into the darker side of the underground, into a world that often fuels the club and party scene, and influences many young people into a life of crime. This week we’re talking about the real Top Boy, with a man who has truly lived to tell his story – Marvin Herbert. Marvin is an ex offender who rose to the top levels of the criminal fraternity. From being born into the game at an incredibly early age, to becoming a member of the graff crew TU, to then being involved in football, debt collecting, armed robbery, hitman work, and every job obtainable within the criminal career path possible along with casualties. We talk about the physical damage he incurred, the emotional damage, the levels of risk he took to survive, the life’s lost, and the years where he was put inside prison. His statistics are jaw dropping and the stories even more so; if you’re even slightly considering to go down the road into a life of crime, Marvin is here to tell you why you shouldn’t. This is Marvin’s story.