This is one of my worst nightmares! Getting locked up is bad enough, but getting locked up overseas with completely different laws, no family anywhere NEAR you and guards that may not even speak your language?! A HORROR STORY!

This very thing happened to Future’s DJ Esco, when the pair traveled from Amsterdam to Abu Dhabi for a show, and he got caught with a small amount of weed in his backpack…which wasn’t even his backpack. He was stopped by security while pushing a luggage cart (because they were annoyed the team was filming in the airport,) and after a search, the little bit of weed turned up…and it was off to a 56-day jail stay for him.

Marisa Mendez

He ended up spending 56 long days in a prison where few others spoke English. 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. “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. “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.

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