About Corey Frazier

Born in Flint Michigan, Corey is the CEO & President of “Middle Passage Media”. Growing up on the northwest side of Flint, things wasn’t always easy. Living in a middle class neighborhood, from the outside looking in, one would believe that we were living the American dream because my mother was a General Motors employee. However, that wasn’t the case. My mother was a chronic drug addict and my step-father was an alcoholic.

The drug addiction and alcoholism trickled down and had a psychological effect on me because I was the oldest of 5 that all I wanted to was escape that reality. The only thing it did was force me to the streets. Early into my teens I began to gang-bang and rep my hood, CHG’s or known as the Civic Hood Gangsters. Our whole mission was to be the biggest and most notorious gang in Flint. So I, alone with my homeboys did any and everything we could to build our reputation. We beat up people, shot, and rob people, sold drugs, while using them ourselves. The gang activity had become so notorious that at the age of 16 I was shot by a rival gang in broad daytime, on a busy street because that’s how bad things had gotten between our gang and other gangs in Flint Michigan.

3 months before my 18 birthday, my life would change forever. An old friend of mine ask me to go with him to sell some drugs to a customer of his that lived in the suburb of Flint called Gland Blanc Michigan. This June night of 1995 wasn’t any different then any other night of drug dealing. So I didn’t think anything of it. However, the night didn’t go as I thought, this drug deal turned into a robbery that left 2 people dead. And on June 26, 1995 I was charged with 2 counts of open murder, 2 counts of felony firearm and 1 count of armed robbery. In January of 1996 I was found guilty of 2 counts felony murder, 2 counts of felony firearm and 1 count of armed robbery and sentenced to 2 life without parole sentences for the murder charges, life for the armed robbery and 2 years each for the 2 felony firearm charges. This rocked my world because of all the stuff that I did in the streets that I was guilty of, I never got caught, and the one thing that I wasn’t guilty of I was sentenced to life without parole. What a wake up call. After spending over 8 years behind bars, I successfully appealed my convictions and sentences, plead to a lesser charge and was released from prison in 2012.

Now living in Atlanta Georgia, with my wife, daughter and 3 stepsons, I spend a lot of my time mentoring to at-risk youth, motivational speaking, vlogging, podcasting, writing and a host of other engagements trying to inspire, not only young ones, but anybody that needs some understanding into what their purpose is and how-to live-in accordance with your purpose. I am also an advocate for criminal justice reform and my book “Right Glasses, Wrong Prescription: 5 Principles How To Stay Out Of Prison” (revised edition) available on Amazon, is a system of principles that I apply and know that it will help others like me, reform from the inside out.