EXTENDED INTERVIEW: How the notorious ‘where we roll’ freestyle about San Antonio got here to be

GATESVILLE, Texas – This is a transcript of a part of KSAT’s dialog with Phyllis Sentiva Ochoa. The prolonged interview may be seen on this article.

People both like it or hate it, however some have embraced an untitled, polarizing track as San Antonio’s unofficial anthem.

The catchy “where we roll, where we roll” lyric is plastered throughout social media platforms.

KSAT Investigates traveled to the Hilltop Unit in Gatesville, Texas, for an interview with Phyllis Sentiva Ochoa, who’s incarcerated on fees of aggravated theft and human trafficking of a minor.

Ochoa mentioned the viral tune, the choices that led to her imprisonment and her plans as soon as she can be launched on parole later this 12 months.

Here is the transcript of Ochoa’s dialog with KSAT Investigates’ Daniela Ibarra about how the tune’s origins. This has been edited for size and readability.

KSAT: You got here out with a tune about San Antonio. What impressed that tune?

Phyllis Ochoa: OK, so it’s going to be humorous as a result of lots of people don’t know this, which is loopy. But once I dedicated that theft, and I went on the run, I went to Arizona to go stick with my mother.

At this time limit, my mom was out of jail. She was staying in Arizona along with her spouse, and I went to go to stick with her. When I went to Arizona, I’m like, ‘Phoenix, Arizona.’ Like, not cool. Like, what’s going on right here? I didn’t prefer it. I used to be like lacking my metropolis. I used to be lacking San Antonio. I used to be, like, ‘I miss the River Walk. I miss people. I just miss the food. I miss that the streetlights, because, you know, San Antonio’s received these cool little, yellow old-school western lights. Phoenix, Arizona … I’m simply, like, I miss my metropolis.

Music has all the time been, like, an expression for me, one thing that I’d do that may type of categorical, like, how I’m feeling, my feelings and stuff that. So, once I was within the room, I used to be so bored and I used to be like, ‘I miss my city,’ so I’m about to drop a hook about San Antonio, and let all people know that I really like them.

I didn’t know that it was going to be a giant factor. I simply thought I used to be simply doing one thing, doing one thing foolish and it identical to went viral the very subsequent day. And I’m, like, ‘Oh.’ But the explanation behind the tune was I used to be on the run, and I used to be lacking the town as a result of I wasn’t there once I did the tune. I used to be in Arizona.

KSAT: The video was shot in Arizona?

Phyllis Ochoa: Yes. The video was shot in Arizona, and that’s what impressed it. [It] was as a result of I missed it and I already was on the market for about 30 days on the highway.

KSAT: There’s some debate. Is it “where we roll” or “where we roam”?

Phyllis Ochoa: “Where we roll.”

KSAT: “Roll.” OK.

Phyllis Ochoa: “Where we roll. Yeah.”

Resources

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If it’s an emergency, textual content or name 911. For wrap-around companies together with the Battered Women and Children’s Shelter, name Family Violence Prevention Services at (210) 733-8810.

You may also contact the Bexar County Family Justice Center, which additionally supplies wrap-around companies at (210) 631-0100.

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If it’s an emergency, textual content or name 911. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center may also help discover you native help by calling (888) 373-7888 or texting ”HELP” or “INFO” to the quantity 233733 for discreet assist.

Read extra reporting on the KSAT Investigates web page.