by M.M.P

Photos by The Social Trust

The first sentence in Kenny “Kenji” Gallo’s book Breakshot reads like this, “Kenny “Kenji” Gallo is and FBI-protected informant against Colombo Mafia Family and the Lucchese Mafia Family who currently lives under an assumed identity somewhere in the United States.”

Imagine my concern after I read that but had already agreed to meet Kenny with my photo editor, Paul at The Village Idiot on Melrose to discuss his incredible life as one of Orange County’s top drug traffickers–but it doesn’t stop there.

When we first met Kenny Gallo, he was not what I expected, even though I didn’t know what to expect. He definitely didn’t fit the typical “Mafia Guy” model we have grown accustomed to seeing in film and television.

Casually dressed in jeans, sneakers and t-shirt but with eyes that have witnessed the true ugliness of life as a professional criminal and porn director and producer. Yeah, you read that right.  Now the man that unknowingly stole 5 Kilos of cocaine from one Pablo Escobar lives the life of a normal Joe, expect he does Mix Martial Art competitions just for the hell of it. Actually on the night at the restaurant, Kenny didn’t eat because he had to make weight for an upcoming fight.

Kenny was a natural at being a criminal and it seemed liked he was always in the right spot to meet the right people to help him keep progressing in his trade. The life he led reads like a criminal fairytale, it’s so unbelievable that even Martin Scorsese couldn’t have dreamed it up.

What’s happening?
Nothing much, just trying to power through everything right now. There’s so many contests going on and I’m working on my video part for Globe as well.

Yeah I know your schedule has been hectic! You’ve got the stuff with Lil Jon, and the BME Click, and the new stuff going on with Oakley, too. Plus I know you rolled wih Teddy Pinderassdown (T-Pain) the other day at the Oakley party.
That all came about because of my relationship with Oakley. I’ve been on the team for a while now and so has Lil Jon and some of the best snowboarders and moto dudes. Jon just really wanted to do something different with everyone and brought us onto his gig. He actually skates and snowboards, not at the pro level of course but he’s down, and just into skating and things. It was his opportunity to support skating to try to put us on an even bigger platform than just skating would alone. Sometimes we don’t really think about it, but there are a lot of people who are supportive of skating even if they don’t do it themselves or not that often. This helps bridge that gap and lets new people check out skating.

Well to give Lil Jon some more validity in the skate world, I heard that Lil Jon used to roll with Andy Howell and Johnny Schillereff from Element. I guess they used to be in a hip hop group together. That blew my mind.
Yeah, he’s just down and wanted to do something cool with everybody. We even shot new footage for the website and everything, too.

I know you just launched your site too, correct? It’s Greg Lutzka.tv?
Yeah, it’s up now and we are getting up new content all the time, I’ve just been hitting everything this year and it’s been a whirlwind.

I know you, have been working hard. The weekend when we were shooting you went and won Globe’s Slaughter at the Opera, then turned around and won the Tampa Pro as well. There are only a handful of skaters who can kill it on street for real and then go kill it in a contest.
Thanks, brother, for me skating is just skating. I’m down to do it whenever, wherever, with whomever. I love skating that much and in a public forum it just lets more people see it.