Interview Transcript: James Broadnax
Reporter:
Let me get you to go ahead and tell us your first and last name.
James Broadnax:
James Broadnax. B-R-O-A-D-N-A-X.
Reporter:
Alright, James, then you're 19?
James Broadnax:
Yep.
Reporter:
Okay, tell me why you agreed to do an interview today.
James Broadnax:
Because I want to tell my story.
Reporter:
What is your story?
James Broadnax:
I don't want nobody sugarcoating anything. I'm going to tell you what it is, straight up.
Reporter:
Tell me what happened in the parking lot of that recording studio.
James Broadnax:
It's funny, man.
James Broadnax:
I don't know what I'm saying, the same thing.
James Broadnax:
Oh, you want me to just tell you the whole story?
Reporter:
Yes.
James Broadnax:
Alright.
James Broadnax:
See, what happened was, you know what I'm saying, got up.
James Broadnax:
See, I ain't just wake up, you know what I'm saying, playing like I'm finna go kill somebody today.
James Broadnax:
There was no shit like that, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Just have it like that, sort of common, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, shit, just like a normal day.
James Broadnax:
Gotta go smoke my weed, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
I played a couple bitches or whatever, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Me and my cousin, we hopped on the bus, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Like, shit, we was going to, the scenario, we was going to already go down anyway, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
But, who to say if somebody was going to be dead, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
We just going to hit a lick, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Or shit, whatever came with.
James Broadnax:
So, we on the bus, you know what I'm saying, in downtown Dallas.
James Broadnax:
Like, shit.
James Broadnax:
Man, fuck that, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Let's hop on the train.
James Broadnax:
Let's go to downtown Garden, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
And we going to rob somebody.
James Broadnax:
You have the niggas with the money, just being real.
James Broadnax:
Let's go out there where the rich white folks stay in, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Rob one of them, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, we get out there and shit, time just ticking, ticking.
James Broadnax:
Like, man, fuck it, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Shit, something got to go down, dog, because this is a long-ass walk back to South Dallas, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, shit, we walking through, you know where the recording thing is, right, you know what I'm saying, in the bank right behind it.
James Broadnax:
So, we walking through the parking lot, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
And, shit, somebody, I guess the motherfucker who was on the passenger side of the car, whatever,
James Broadnax:
so he was out there burning something, you know what I'm saying, and he threw the shit in the dumpster, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
I'm like, dog, you know you can get a ticket for that, right, that's virgilism, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, we got the, uh, topping it up and shit, you know what I'm saying, talking about the studio,
James Broadnax:
because I was rapping, so all that good shit, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, like, shit, fuck, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
We was finna get rid of the lady.
James Broadnax:
I went back and asked him, like, man, y'all got a, uh, one of y'all got a cigarette, you know what I'm saying, like, yeah.
James Broadnax:
So, shit, he went to go reach for it, pulled the pistol, shot him, shot the driver or whoever the fuck he was.
James Broadnax:
Shit, he, like, the one I shot at first, he staggered back, you know what I'm saying, like, dropped, got back up like he was finna run.
James Broadnax:
The one I hit second, you know what I'm saying, he raised up like he was finna do something, so I shot him in the head, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Then the other one, shit, shot him twice in the head, just to make sure, fuck that, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
I don't need that shit, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
Let that shit down, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
So, me and my cousin ran their pipes, you know what I'm saying.
James Broadnax:
He got the keys, he got their wallets and shit, hopped in the driver, hopped in the passenger side.
James Broadnax:
We did.
Reporter:
So, they did nothing to you or nothing to provoke you, but you just felt that you could take their life?
James Broadnax:
I just blanked out when it happened. I ain't ever killed nobody before.
Reporter:
You killed two young men now.
James Broadnax:
Better they life than mine.
Reporter:
Do you have any remorse?
James Broadnax:
None whatsoever.
Reporter:
Hopefully it's a death penalty?
James Broadnax:
Because if they give me life, I'm gonna kill somebody else. I can't do life.
Reporter:
But you pulled the trigger?
James Broadnax:
Yeah.
Reporter:
Still not an ounce of sympathy? Not an ounce of remorse for them or their families?
James Broadnax:
No.
Reporter:
Alright, thank you.