Who these bags with? You? I wanna check every single one." There's no point of separating them, because now you're searching six people instead of just one person. Then he was like, "I wanna check all these bags. Then he wants to see everyone's, but it's just me and and my manager. I tell him I do music and that I just came here to do a show at the Grand Prix. He stopped me and he's like, "Who are you?" Because the camera was on me. We keep walking, but the officer ran to catch up to us. After he did that, I was like, Damn, he's gonna do something. He's like, "No cameras in the airport! Delete the pictures!" He made our cameraman delete all the pictures right there on the spot. I'm on my way out the door and a police officer stops the cameraman first. This is how this whole thing started-now we're causing a scene. Our cameraman starts filming me walking in the airport, but apparently there's no cameras allowed in the airport. And I didn't realize at the time that discrimination might be an issue, so I'm just walking around and thinking everything's normal. It's a whole buncha bags that we pushin'. So we land in Abu Dhabi and I'm just walkin' through the airport and I got everybody's bags. And if I would have known the rules and laws they got over there, I would have quadruple checked my bag and made sure there wasn't a piece of weed. We're at the end of the Europe tour, and it's my birthday, and we're in Amsterdam, so we're gonna celebrate! I got the weed.īut I'm not trying to walk around around with all this weed, you feel me? I was not intentionally trying to bring weed to Abu Dhabi. At the time, I wasn't really aware of the whole geographics, where everything was at. Once we left from Europe, we were gonna do this one show in Abu Dhabi, then go back to America. Then we got asked to do an extra show in Abu Dhabi. I had never been to Amsterdam, so wanted to go to a cafe and the red light district. My birthday was around that same time, so I was like, I'll wait to celebrate my birthday in Amsterdam. "I was more focused on how to get out then how I got in." Here, in his own words, is his crazy, terrifying, and totally riveting story.ĭJ ESCO: We had been on the European tour for a month and our last show was supposed to be in Amsterdam. "I wasn't pissed that I was the one that got caught," he said, recalling his experience for The FADER a week after he got home. As he tells it, during his stay he met a Taliban legend, learned about Islam, and befriended a warden who would ultimately help facilitate his release. He ended up spending 56 long days in a prison where few others spoke English. Future would later call his experience in Dubai "priceless" and something he would "never forget."Įsco will also never forget his experience in Dubai, which began when he was arrested at the airport for marijuana possession. He'd traveled there to perform with Future at the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, a swanky weekend also attended by Kim Kardashian, Prince Harry, and the Spice Girls. On January 13, Future's affable DJ Esco (real name: William Moore) returned to his mother's home cooking after an unexpectedly long stay in the United Arab Emirates.
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