WEBVTT - EP 149: "The Brooklyn Way" w/ OG Fruitquan 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.760 When I wrote, y'all all across the USC Compton Lots 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.720 Bank to l A from on the California the Valley, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.320 we represent that Kelly County. So if you're keeping it 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.160 reil on your side of your town, you tune into 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.880 Gangster Chronicles chronic Goals. He gonna tell you how we go. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.440 If I line my nose a girl like Pinocchio, We're 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.080 gonna tell you to choose and nothing but the thanks 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.440 the chronic goals. This is not your average show. You're 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.120 now tuned into the rail m c A, Big James 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:47.680 and Bix fails from the streets. Hello, what's happing everybody? 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.920 It's your man, Big Steel with another episode of the 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.680 Gangster Chronicles podcast Today. You don't have the homies with me, 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.040 but I do have a very very special guest at 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.520 digg in the House for y'all to day, one of 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.840 the most mythic brothers from New York. You know what, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.400 I don't know if I can give him the proper 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.119 introduction that he needs. Man, do me a favor. Tell 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.120 the people where you're from. First of all, I'm from Brooklyn, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.520 New York that started the exact Lafayette Gardens projects, better 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:21.880 known as LG. Yeah, LG, my name is fruit Pom, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:27.480 also known as dig fruit Fruit. That's what. And there 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:31.640 are years right there. Seeing I'm gonna explaining to everybody something. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.119 The dynamics on the West Coast and the East Coast 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.679 is like night and day, not a day. L gez 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.920 twenty floors right, each building twenty floors? No, we got 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:48.480 seven buildings in the four block raids. Three out of 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.080 the seven buildings got twenty floors. Okay, that's what I 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.760 was saying. The other four buildings may have thirteen to fifteen. 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.880 That's still big though yall was an actual skyscrapers then 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:06.400 pretty much. Yeah, but seven buildings is very very small 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:11.359 compared to other housing projects throughout New York City. That's 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.079 what Dog he was telling me. Dog he was saying that, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.920 y'all kind of like the smallest projects. But you gotta understand, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.480 on the West Coast, we don't have no stuff like that. 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.040 Everything is short. Everything is short and kind of spread 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.359 out like you may see some town houses or something 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.000 like that. You look like town houses almost right, and 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.080 they just wind up right next to each other and 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.560 on top of each other. And I always used to ask, Dog, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.079 you say man, New York cats seemed like they move 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.080 a little different. I understand why now y'all living on 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.760 top of each other back in that motherfucker. So you 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.120 gotta it's pretty much when you do your history, when 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.920 you go back into African history and things like that 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.240 and slavery, you know how they stacked us up on 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.760 the boats on top of each other. That's all it was. 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.520 They brung their ship to the housing projects and stacked 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.120 the soul up on top of each other like slave ships. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:03:00.320 Exactly exactly, And that's what I saw. Now, you thought 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.480 the ports man like prior to the crack era, he was, 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.520 he was running the streets way before the crack era. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.280 I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that the crack 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:14.480 era came about. It started in the Bronx for sure. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.079 And then you're talking early early eighties, man, like eight three, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.840 forty five. Maybe I came out of the house in 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:26.959 nineteen eighty maybe three. I'm eighty three to Big Sact. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:32.600 I never forget. It was eighty three July, the night 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.720 Diana Ross hit Central Park. That's my first day at 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.640 the house. I watched one of my older cousins get 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:40.760 dressed he's about to hit the block. Go take him 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.800 some money, because that's what he was back then in 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.600 the early eighties. Uh dudes in Brooklyn, Brownsville and bed 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.040 styt he was on some snatching diamonds and take them 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.880 to the scale and you did their money that way. Um. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.720 I had an older cousin that was his that was 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.839 his swag, and I watched him get dressed that day 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.280 in nineteen eighty three. He on his way to sent 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.720 you Park to go take money, and I actually could 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.480 I go with it, and he told me, you'll take 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.360 me with him as long as I wasn't scared to 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.320 take nobody. So I came out the house that day, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.800 that historical day, Diana role set that stage and sent 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.080 you Park and he started raining. I came out the 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.880 house that day, brother, So that's three snatching pockets off, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.039 And that's what I wanted to get into because that 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.040 was a big thing, and that was a big thing 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.520 for y'all back then. Pretty much tearing somebody's pockets off, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:32.599 going to somebody's pockets. Okay, Now, when I came out 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.680 the house with that, that's what it was. Digging your 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.320 hand in somebody's pockets, snatching money and run. But prior 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.440 to me coming out of the house, the older generations 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.080 before me, what they used to do was called joscelyn. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.000 It's just a different name of pickpocket. Okay, So the 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.840 older generation, that's what they used to do, the Joscelyn, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.520 which is called pickpocket. By the time I came out 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.600 the house a few years later, dudes got tired of 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.080 the hustle and bustle that comes with pickpocket. They just 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:10.120 started snatching the whole pockets off. Man. And it's almost 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.520 like a universal appeal right there. So you know you'll 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.360 got all this going on, man, and you got your 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:21.000 first being in eighty seven, Yes, sir, Halloween eighty seven, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.440 I was thirteen years old. Now you're thirteen years old, man, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.480 and you're going to pretty much with juvenile jail, right 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.760 right right. Can you speak on what it was that 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.080 you did to put you in that position? Okay? In 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.720 New York City when I when I came out of 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.560 the house in the early eighties, I don't know what 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:45.000 it was about, but every Halloween, I can't compare it 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.680 to the l A Rice. Don't get it twisted, but 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.240 just imagine the l A rants on a minor scale. 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:58.400 This is every Halloween in Brooklyn, New York. Wow, every 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.680 Halloween in Brooklyn, New York, two hundred to three hundred 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.960 dudes from every house and projects just get together and 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.680 run rampant in New York City, throwing cocktail bombs, busting 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:14.800 jury store windows, running up and store snatching clothes, throwing 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.400 eggs like that's what they did on Halloween in the 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.840 eighties in Brooklyn. Why, I have no idea, and I 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.479 was just running them up with everybody else. So on 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.640 Halloween eighties seven, that's what was going on. And I 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:34.360 dug a pocket and the police was a block away 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:38.520 on a steakout. Oh man. So as we're running wow, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.880 doing what we're doing, the police got us in eyesight, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.120 and I guess when I made my move, they jumped 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:46.880 out and began to chase us. And I had nowhere 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.240 to go. I had nowhere to go, So you just 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.200 gave it up. Now, how was you feeling? She was 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.440 thirteen years old, He was a little kid man at 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.840 the time. I was trying to get away. But when 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:59.800 they caught me, you know, that's when that thirteen year 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.880 old child, kicking, crying like a baby, snocked bubbling in 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.880 my nose. Please don't take me to jail. I'm sorry, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.240 I get the money back. I tried all that. Ain't 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.200 none of that work. They processed me. Let me know, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.560 my grandmother was not taking me home, and I was 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.680 going to sprofit which was the Juvenile Potential Center in 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:22.960 New York City then, and going there, I cried on 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.880 that whole drive to the Bronx from Brooklyn, New York, snoped, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.160 bubbling in my nose, begging them please to give me 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.960 another chance. I'll never do it again. Ain't none of 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.040 that work, None of that work? How long did you 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:41.640 wind up doing? Uh? I ended up getting an eighteen 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:46.640 months sentence in family court October eighty seven. I ended 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.760 up coming home. Maybe I had an eighteen months sentence, 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.960 I might have did fourteen months out of it. So 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.040 I think about a year and some change out of that. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.560 At the juvenile facility called Berthshire Farms up state in 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.240 New York. And it's a real famous place because it 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.160 was a private facility. It wasn't a state owned facility. 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.800 It was privately owned, and the majority of the children 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.920 there were sent there by their parents and families. You 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.920 know what they got. And a thing called pens petition. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.880 When your family can't control you, you want to send 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:21.920 them away. The courts sent the majority of those kids there. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.800 Me being so young, they gave me a chance to 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.800 come to that facility as opposed to go into one 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:33.480 of those rougher juvenile facilities that I could have landed it. Okay, 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.000 So pretty much they're like, what was the experience like 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.480 in there, because you said that was kind of like 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:41.360 the lightweight spot right. Uh, where I did my jewel 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.280 now bid was very much like, very very very much 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.439 like it was a blessing as a It was more 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:52.360 of a blessing than a punishment. That this was a 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.760 non secure facility where guys, you had the opportunity to earn, 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.880 the opportunity to go home every month. Uh. You participated 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:02.800 in local high school sports. So when I shook up 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.599 the basketball court, I was in the dealer, I was 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.920 in the local newspapers. I was I was being scouted 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.360 by high schools and even junior colleges that were locally. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.080 That's not the treatment of a of a child in 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.360 the JUPI now facility, Oh no, not at all. You're 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.480 actually giving the kid a chance to actually still have 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.360 a future, right, that's what they was giving me. But 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.600 I was too young to recognize that this was a 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.040 facility where we would go to lunch and Mike Typson 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.480 movie standing in the mess all because the staff members 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:35.720 was his homeboys. Like this was a lesson as opposed 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.360 to uh discipline, and I didn't recognize that. Then. Now 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.760 you know what and what usually happens fruit and those 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:48.080 type of facilities, people usually learn how to become better criminals. Yes, 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.360 and that's what I did. I hate to admit it because, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.199 like I said, you was able to earn a home 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.800 visit every month, and I didn't earn them all, but 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.000 the ones I did earn. The bus was dropping me off. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:02.079 I was coming from upstate New York on the Grayhound 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.959 and the bus would drop me off in forty second Street, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:10.320 part authority. Forty second Street is what midtown Manhattan. So 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.040 I'm actually getting off the bus coming from the Jufer 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:17.160 Now facility, running into my homeboys in Midtown digging pockets. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.320 I'm actually digging the pocket before I get home and 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.520 tell my grandmother I made it home. That's crazy, man. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.560 So you still you still pretty much? So let me 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.000 ask you this now about the facility you're being in 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.720 being like you said, it was a blessing. But do 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.080 you think if you'd win somewhere a little bit more harsh, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.400 that you probably wouldn't have been acting when you got 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:42.080 back home. No, I think I would just still came 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.600 home and act up because I went I went away 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.760 at a time where it wasn't no O G s 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.600 pulling the shorties up. Lenderstand, I'm saying it was the 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.000 shortest raising the shorties, and it was hold your own, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:00.319 do what you gotta do. So it wasn't no Gee's 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.200 pulling us up. In my generation. Now, me being O 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.480 G knowing I got a bunch of little dudes in 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.840 my hood that respect me and looked up to me. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.000 I'm trying to change that site because they didn't do 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.040 that with us. They didn't do that, man, And that's 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.959 important too, bro New York City. In New York City, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.800 the o gs just coming home from doing a little 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.040 one of the threes to the Falls, and we thought 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.920 that ship was cool. Now we're coming home from doing 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.000 twenty five and thirty and we're telling these shorties, now, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:41.079 that's not what's uck. We when we was growing up. Yeah, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.360 let me ask you this fruit. How much time did 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.839 you actually wind up doing on that little stretch. O're 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.240 not talking to juveniles, you're talking to stretch. I didn't 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.200 with the department. Yeah, I'm talking to juvenile. We're gonna 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.920 go get to that. Okay, did juveniles? Man? I did 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.560 that first one party fourteen months I came back. I did. 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.640 I did total with three of them. I ain't learned. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.760 Tween the age of thirteen. I spent my sixteenth birthday 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.800 at one of those places. So between the age of 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.760 thirteen and sixteen, I didn't total of three of those 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.880 damn juvenal pays. One of them was for fourteen months 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.880 and the other two was for six months apiece, for 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.480 six months a piece, so and that was before my 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 sixteenth pirth day. So I would I would be remissed 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.760 to say that you probably didn't get to go back 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:26.760 to that nice facility that she went to the first time. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.240 Absolutely not, And I wish I did, and I wish 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.480 I did, because no, I'm lying to you, I didn't 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.000 because the other facilities. By the time I started going 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.160 to the second and third facility, that ship was a 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:41.960 kid walked for me, you know what I mean. So 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:43.920 it was that's why I was coming home in six months. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.600 The sittence was longer, but I was doing them since 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.280 and six months because I was thirsty to get back 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.240 to the speech and do same ship I was doing. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.800 So I knew how to get in and out, but 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.959 I knew how to play the game. Now let's get 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.640 back to that. Man. Hold on, because this this is 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.640 an important part right here. So when you get out 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.240 of jail, like when you get doing your juven all time, 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:03.680 I don't know if I can call the jail still 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.120 l You don't have your freedom, but you come home, man, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.200 you're back in the f G right. You know you're 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:16.360 hitting your pockets and everything when the cracks start popping up. Okay, Now, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.440 I came home from what juvenile big in nineteen ninety, 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.200 and I was messing with my men, big nut rest 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.720 in peace, nothings nothing. Let me let you every figure 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:30.280 out of Lofeed guards in Brooklyn and New York City. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.600 I was messing with my man nothing. We go back 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.840 to juvenile history, thinking practice and all that. But in 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.280 nineteen ninety I came home from a juvenile thing and 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.760 I was messing with him, and I saw him change 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.720 on me. He was like yo, I'm not digging the 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.080 more fucking practice no more. And he became a hustler 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.839 and the drug dealer, you know what I'm saying. So 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:53.160 around the year nineteen crack was heavy to the point 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:57.320 where everybody wanted to be drug dealers. And with that 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:02.080 drug sheet in New York City came gun violence and beef. 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.720 And that's where my projects went wrong. We only got 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:11.600 seven builders, bro, who were gonna turn against each other. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:16.840 So all those childhood friends and that's who breveried each other, 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.160 child with friends. At the end of the day, it's 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.480 all because of the crack game. Because before we started 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.880 indulging in crack and we were just doing the digging 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:30.280 poppets and the petty Brodery's, everybody loved each other. We 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:35.280 competed because you know, friendly competition, but it was love crack. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.920 That ship did a number throughout the country, I'm quite sure. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.000 on the West Coast, Midwest, everywhere within the the story was. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.360 The story was the same everywhere you had lifelong friends 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.200 to go together. I'm talking about people from the same 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.080 lot start gelling each other, bro. Yeah, Now I said 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.920 it on one of his record he was referring to 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.640 rap when he said best friends become strangers. But that's 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.120 what happened in the crack game too. Best friends became 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:06.440 strange point when they would take each other live. Wow, man, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.800 and you was running with some pretty pivotal people. I've noticed. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.480 It's it's a few people that's really important to your story. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.240 There's a lot more, but it's too In particular, World 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.960 and Wise, worldand Wise, my childhood friends, Wise rest in peace. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:22.800 Wise is the only person I've ever known as a 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.560 big brother, even though he wasn't my biological brother. That 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.400 was World's big brother. Now growing up in Lafia, Guards, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.520 we grew up in the same building. Like we're saying, box, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:34.880 Me and World used to play with g I, Joe's 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:39.320 and Smurfs Like that's how That's what we did. And Wise, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.600 my Rime which was his real name, was his big brother. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:48.880 So he can't have a finger on his little brother 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.480 without acknowledging me and I don't have a big brother. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.560 So he raised both of us. The World was younger 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.680 than me, you know what I mean. World was younger 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.280 than plus. I was a little I was a little 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.080 off the rocket, you know, I was a little badass kids. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:10.440 So what I did and Wise foul amusing or somewhat cool. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.400 He didn't like for world to do don't do what 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.720 I did. Although I was his friend, why I would 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.520 let me get away with ship. And not to interrupt you, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.240 but I want to put this in context for the 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.680 people out there. But you know, first of all, you're 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.280 my you're good friends with my partner. Doggy Diamond shot 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:34.480 out the Doggy Diamond another child friend. He go back. Yeah, 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.080 he was telling me when y'all was kids, man, and 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.680 she was the size of a grown man. Okay, now 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.400 let me tell you. I put that first juvenile fig 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:47.640 October thirty, first Halloween seven. I was five to a 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.440 hundred and twenty five. I hate my puberty, spoke in 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:57.520 those fifteen months. I came home fifteen months later, fourteen 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:05.120 years old, about six ft a hundred and ninety five 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:10.120 pounds at fourteen, so I had my brokes first day 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.600 and it was like that from them, I was I 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.520 was over. I was two h pounds since the age 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:21.520 of fourteen, age of fourteen, so in the weight pound. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.840 So he was getting your swoll long yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:26.200 And I don't want to take you back. I want 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.840 to go back to Wise in the world because you 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.720 told me man that um not you told me personally, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.720 but I heard that Wise held down the lgs by 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:40.880 himself for a long time. Okay, you know everybody had 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.400 their little run selling crack when everybody started to try 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.080 to do it. Everybody had their run. But it was 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:53.680 one year in particular nine where Wise held that down 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.800 by myself. And at that time it was some it 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.239 was some heavy hit thats coming through my hood. You know, 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.600 you got some American's moves wanted cast like the light 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:02.720 out of Brooklyn, New York. He had the major bet 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.359 for Killebn Mkillerbin and for like both rest in Peace 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.240 U for like is coming through my hood. You had 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.320 a t rock Man he rest in Peace team out 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.840 t Rocks Hamo brother, you know his room with that. 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.119 Hamo was the one that tried to put fi sit down. 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.600 So these dudes was was gansters and they would come 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.480 through my privacy at eighty nine And why is he 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:23.840 standing through it and the tintoes down holding that down 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.560 by herself. It wasn't getting no money in there. It 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.280 was coming through the presence was felt they wanted to 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.040 But while I was holding that sit down by herself, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:38.440 and they respected that. And we're talking. You said right nine, 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:42.240 And just to give you youngsters out there a little context, 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:47.560 the eighties was something else. The eighties was something else, 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.640 totally different. It was hard to hold something down back 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.080 then because you're using hold on to it for a while. 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:56.000 In the d game, it was always somebody coming absolutely 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.320 and in Brooklyn, though, Brooklyn is a big barrow man it. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.720 Brooklyn was so big they had to make queens. That's 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.840 real talk. Brooklyn was so broke big they had to 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.119 cut a piece of it and make queens. Brooklyn is 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.280 a big bro And you know what I'm saying, Brooklyn 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:14.160 grew up on robbing and stealing, backstabbing. So crack didn't 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:18.200 help me. Crack did not help And so you're mixing 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.320 the dude name Hardy. Back then you said he's the 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.240 one that tried to lay fifty sit down. That's it's rumor. 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:27.120 It's rumor that one trying to allegedly. Yeah, it's room 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.480 that that's what fifty said. You know what I'm saying, 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.080 this room with that Harmo spooth to be the one 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.159 that tried to put him down, and t Rock was 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.880 almost older brother. So this is the dude coming through 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.200 my privacy. He now with his gun on his hip. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:41.640 But Wise was standing in the middle of the projects 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:44.920 holding that down man by himself. He had dudes around them, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.440 but they was not shooters. They ain't had no guns 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.879 on their hips or no bests on their back. Wise 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:54.480 was like that for Dolo. I've watched that. I've watched 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:58.000 my big brother do that. He did his thing and 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.120 he held it down absolutely. Now you know you're you're 0:20:01.119 --> 0:20:03.120 mixing a few raps. You know, we're mixing fifty sim 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.280 when she's from Queens and Queen's Cat rightly, man, y'all 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.399 got some legendary mcs over there. You know. For as rappers, 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:15.240 you've got Biggie Smalls, you got the whole Junior Manfia faction. Yeah, man, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.440 you know, shout out to Queen's Bridge, Shout out the 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:18.840 fifty You do his thing. When it comes to that 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.000 music ship, Uh, you know what I'm saying, left rack Nor. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.199 You know, all the Queens is big, but when it 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.560 comes to hip hop, we only got seven buildings, bro, 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:34.199 and so we got Queen's Bridge is huge, I mean huge. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:39.520 So it's it's no surprise all the rappers came out 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.879 of it. I got seven buildings. Bro, we gave you 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:45.560 d J. Mr C. We gave you Big Daddy came. 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:49.040 Mr C gave you Biggie. Mrs you know what I'm saying, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:51.960 Junior Mafia and Kim all that. You know what I'm saying, 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.600 easy mob, we produced all that Tupac ship like that 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.399 came out of LG. Broye nothing up, another room up. 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:02.520 I don't know. I don't know, Mrs C. Body be 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.240 mad me, but it's a rumor one of my dude 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.840 in my projects. Then the Symphony bat but let it 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.360 be told, Molly Maul get the credit that b came 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.159 out of l G. I heard. Oh wow, so one 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.399 of the most pivotable, one of the most pivotal hip 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:23.480 hop records of all time from the Symphony somebody. The 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:26.719 rumor is a brother out of LG. Did that did 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:29.880 the third that you know they ran with that ship 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.800 that Molly Maul was But let's get that brother's life. 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:36.000 What's his name? His name is shim Shaw. Shim Shaw. 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:38.480 Letend wi shim Shaw. And that's the rumor. That's what 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:42.399 I got. I'm gonna repeated. I'm saying, you don't know 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.480 that claiming credit for no stuff. You ain't making issue, 0:21:44.640 --> 0:21:47.120 you know what I'm saying. I heard shim Shaw made 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:49.879 that more fun. Beat were breaking news on that. So 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.399 let's go back to it. Man, you had um on 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.880 all the reference. You new look Kim, right, you new Kim? Yeah, 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:59.879 me and now Kim went the school together, junior high school, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.600 a little bit of high school. Doggy diamonds too, is 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.600 that right, man? Because they you know, actually a lot 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:07.600 of people don't know what dogg he was producing stuff 0:22:07.640 --> 0:22:09.919 a big ye early on. Yeah, dog he grew up 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.800 with them boys. Man, actually, uh big, he grew up 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.800 with Doggy. But everything all that junior Marfi shid come 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:21.880 up under Doggy. That's something man, dog don't Yeah, dog 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:24.280 don't he deserved. That's why I want to put all 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.160 up with all this out there and let it be known. 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.959