This silent winner
proves that
mental fortitude
always prevails.

Lengthy prison sentence. Miraculous prison breaks. Successful pro se arguments. A movie based on it all.

Quawntay Adams was born and raised in Compton, California, dealt a difficult hand from the start. He began running the streets, engaging in crime, and was ultimately arrested on a marijuana charge and sentenced to 35 years in federal prison — three weeks after his daughter was conceived.

Determined not to follow his father’s path and to be present in his daughter’s life, he escaped from a maximum-security prison wing, where he was confined to his cell 24 hours a day under constant surveillance. He was captured — but not deterred.

From solitary confinement, he penned Chasin’ Freedum, a memoir built around the outlook that would come to define him: freedom is a mindset, not a location. He taught himself law, fired his attorney, argued his own case, and won his physical freedom after serving 16 years behind bars.

As a free man, he took full custody of his teenage daughter, independently produced BOSCO — a film based on his life, now streaming on Peacock — built a successful vacation rental company with more than 50 properties worldwide, and now sits on the boards of two nonprofits while speaking to audiences around the world about resilience, purpose, reform, and — yes — mental fortitude.

BOSCO

Distributed by NBC/Universal as a Peacock Original, BOSCO dramatizes Quawntay’s escape and his fight to witness his daughter’s birth. He independently produced the film and raised the budget himself.

The soundtrack, produced through his label Blocc Boyz Entertainment, features original music from French Montana, DDG, Dave East, The Game, and Snoop Dogg.

French Montana  ·  DDG  ·  Dave East  ·  The Game  ·  Snoop Dogg

From the cell
to center stage.

Quawntay speaks on turning adversity into direction, and advocates for criminal justice and cannabis-sentencing reform — calling on institutions to reconsider the thousands of nonviolent offenders still serving time for convictions that are no longer crimes across most of the country.