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Speaker 1: is about a powerful upstance that impacted lives in every
Speaker 1: city across the United States. I'm talking about crack cocaine.
Speaker 1: For those who don't know what crack eels, let me
Speaker 1: give you the definition. Crack also known as rockets coke
Speaker 1: in the free based form the smoke, crack gives the
Speaker 1: user a short, intense high. It's the most addictive form
Speaker 1: of cocaine because it leaves the user chasing that first
Speaker 1: incredible high. But as we learned, the more that they smoke,
Speaker 1: the shorter to high, creating a full flags crack at it.
Speaker 1: Crack started off as a widespread recreational drug around four
Speaker 1: and because it was cheap to attain, places like l A,
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Miami, New York City, Oakland, and other major
Speaker 1: cities became an epicenter for what would later be called
Speaker 1: the crack epidemic. Now, as I mentioned earlier, it was
Speaker 1: cheap in the eighties, you can see the visible impact
Speaker 1: that the drug had in the neighborhood from both a
Speaker 1: social and economic standpoint. You need to be a marketing
Speaker 1: guru to sell crack because it literally sold itself. Cost
Speaker 1: of a single rock range from five price on the average.
Speaker 1: Create an ample opportunity for young entrepreneurs, mostly just young
Speaker 1: black males looking to change their circumstances. But this became
Speaker 1: more than just a way to pick up some extra
Speaker 1: small change. In the eighties, it was easy for a
Speaker 1: young dealer the clock anywhere from one thousand to ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen grand daily, and like the late great Notorious
Speaker 1: b actually once said more money, more problems. You saw
Speaker 1: the level of violence escalate from here in the occasional
Speaker 1: thirty eight go off later night and hearing fully automatic
Speaker 1: weapons ring out. It became big business dealer and then
Speaker 1: you usually share the same community, so often you had
Speaker 1: situations like a dealer selling to his homeboy's sister of mama.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you had sexual favorites being exchanged. So you can
Speaker 1: see how some problems could pop off behind something like this,
Speaker 1: you or your homeboy knocking down your moms and things.
Speaker 1: But the media also used the crack epidemic to make
Speaker 1: black folks look crazy as usual. I beg you to
Speaker 1: know that two thirds or cracks consumers were white, but
Speaker 1: with images of black crack babies and things being shown
Speaker 1: in American TV screens nightly, it was easy to assume
Speaker 1: that this was just a problem confined to the hood.
Speaker 1: Now was used to kick off the so called war
Speaker 1: on drugs. Many of you too young to remember Ronald Reagan,
Speaker 1: but he was o g Mr Less make America great again.
Speaker 1: Also during this period you had Scarface, which detailed the
Speaker 1: rise of the immigrant washings dishes at the Taco stand
Speaker 1: to become one of the world's biggest drug dealers hit theaters.
Speaker 1: So this was the perfect opportunity to demonize the hood.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement begin to treat black drug addicts like criminals,
Speaker 1: locking them up rather than getting them treatment. Then, in
Speaker 1: the eighties six Congress pushed the Anti Drug Abuse Act
Speaker 1: through to literally said a hundred grams of powder and
Speaker 1: the Graham of crack would get the same sentence if
Speaker 1: you think I'm on some bullshit. In the total prison
Speaker 1: population was around three hundred thousand nas damn near at
Speaker 1: two point one million. So who the funk fool and
Speaker 1: who it's a Gainst Chronicles. We like to welcome everyone
Speaker 1: to another episode of the Gangster Chronicles podcast, you know,
Speaker 1: the podcast to Keep the Truth Streets and Number my dogs,
Speaker 1: Big Jake, Chip and Tonight Fellers. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the eighties to be exact, um, and that's a
Speaker 1: significant time of the That's a significant time I think
Speaker 1: for so many reasons. For me, that was almost the
Speaker 1: start of the crack epidemic. Now wait before that, yeah,
Speaker 1: for me, well, I'm talking about that's I think that's
Speaker 1: when it impacted me. The most. That's when it kind
Speaker 1: of started that I've been hearing about it and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and I think it finally just kind of
Speaker 1: came to life around me as far as like when
Speaker 1: I first saw it, when I first started hearing about
Speaker 1: what certain people in the neighborhood was falling off. You know,
Speaker 1: the brothers that had the good jobs and all the
Speaker 1: other ship like that had the good jobs, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they seem like they're doing bad. And
Speaker 1: now I was here, man, they're smoking that pipe, they
Speaker 1: hit that correct, you know what I'm saying. That's pretty
Speaker 1: much damn to the ascent of it. Like when it
Speaker 1: was really popping eighty eight, I came on from prison.
Speaker 1: It wasn't selling like it was cracking. Eighty two, eighty three,
Speaker 1: eighty four, eighty five, it wasn't cracking like that. Eighty three.
Speaker 1: That's when we first was up on it. That's when
Speaker 1: we was first tripping off people because you know, some
Speaker 1: of my fuckers rolled a dollar and they were snorting
Speaker 1: and ship. We didn't know my fucker's putting it in
Speaker 1: the pipe and all that other ship so like my uncle's,
Speaker 1: you know, they were they were snorting that ship. You
Speaker 1: know when we first got introduced to it, the hook
Speaker 1: got first introduced to it. So you know, as the
Speaker 1: years went on, you know, you've seen your uncles and
Speaker 1: other people fall off. It was their jobs. Uh, And
Speaker 1: you've seen niggers come up new cards and shape because
Speaker 1: you know, before you knew it, motherfucker was getting credit.
Speaker 1: And before you get your paycheck, you already in the
Speaker 1: hold five six hundred dollars. We're here for sure. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a tough time. Now, couldn't click,
Speaker 1: Please gotta have another. I don't give a if you're
Speaker 1: nail down. That's something money man. I saw cast lose cars.
Speaker 1: I saw a cast lose the apartments. I saw cats
Speaker 1: getting their apartments turned into the dope spots, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Cast, they had nice cribs. Don't talk
Speaker 1: about the next thing? You know this the spot. This
Speaker 1: niggas riding around mama's car. You hear about certain mamas
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. Don't suck the homies, don't suck the
Speaker 1: homi y'all. Just file ship, you know what I mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I went away for us with transportation ships, cars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you rent your smoker's car and ship for that piece
Speaker 1: and ship. You get to ride around, Go take care
Speaker 1: of your errands, do what you gotta do, take your girl,
Speaker 1: especially if you didn't have a whip. At the time.
Speaker 1: Niggas was using smoking cars and go do drive. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: he's you a dime or dug or dug piece. Man.
Speaker 1: You get this all night? And you know in the hood,
Speaker 1: did you You know, we had the homies. Some homlies
Speaker 1: didn't give a funk who they shold too, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know right down to day, you still got home.
Speaker 1: You still stuck on that ship. Ain't no way out,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Sleeping in parks or or
Speaker 1: downtown somewhere. It funked up a lot of people. But
Speaker 1: you know, like myself and and some of the other homies,
Speaker 1: that was you know, testing that ship and trying it out,
Speaker 1: like what's the height? You know, motherfucker's was smoking promos,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and drinking that eight ball.
Speaker 1: You know. Us we used to go to the Vermont
Speaker 1: drive in and everybody used to just kicking and bam.
Speaker 1: Then serving motherfuckers start going to prison. Prisons saved some
Speaker 1: of these niggas lives over that cocaine and they came
Speaker 1: home cool. Some of the funker's were the jail behind
Speaker 1: cocaine and came home and went right back to it.
Speaker 1: And today there's no respect for that dude in the
Speaker 1: hood whatsoever, regardless of what he did and you know
Speaker 1: what he put in the hood. The respect level was gone,
Speaker 1: and these juncts of the day jumping on them, disrespecting
Speaker 1: them to the fullest. So, yeah, cocaine, it still exists
Speaker 1: and it's still sucking the mind. Yeah, so you think
Speaker 1: it's still guys stuck on cracking the neighborhoods to day? Yeah,
Speaker 1: right now today they still stuck. Then who's still in
Speaker 1: correct the day? Everybody, my fucker's just still making their
Speaker 1: little eyes and ends I got. I mean to some
Speaker 1: of my closest niggers, it's still doing their thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's just something that you know, that's just old.
Speaker 1: It's just overwhelmed that their situation to where they feel
Speaker 1: like you know, that's what I do mean. No, they're
Speaker 1: not on the motherfucking worldwide baller status and driving around
Speaker 1: what some of these niggas is just on it because
Speaker 1: should I ain't trying to go get on nine to five.
Speaker 1: It maintains who they are and their status keeping money
Speaker 1: in their pocket. So motherfuckers do it. A lot of
Speaker 1: the brothers in the hood don't have a choice, you know.
Speaker 1: Even though they got weed, marijuana dispensaries all over the place,
Speaker 1: you still got cats out this selling weed. Their bags
Speaker 1: are bigger because they gotta be. But you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, um, some of us don't have a choice.
Speaker 1: That's the only way of making money, making its meet.
Speaker 1: And it might sound it might it might sound simple
Speaker 1: enough to go out and get them on the fucking
Speaker 1: job right now. Everybody hiring, you know, but it's something
Speaker 1: is stuck in the system of that you know, on
Speaker 1: the neighborhood or that that that hustle. That's what it
Speaker 1: is to me. A lot of niggas are stuck in
Speaker 1: the hustle mentality, and it's a way for them to
Speaker 1: keep that that that the light bell paid, you know,
Speaker 1: the gas bill paid. It. It's just crazy because I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it earlier, right because I saw something.
Speaker 1: I was looking at snowfall, and that's what That's when
Speaker 1: I hit you, and I was like, man, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to talk about the eighties. You know when
Speaker 1: Craig first hid, you know, on snowfall they showed the
Speaker 1: old thing it ain't nothing, the freeway ricks story about
Speaker 1: how he met up with the guy the plan don't
Speaker 1: dude and got the plug on the cocaine. And I
Speaker 1: think they was getting it from eight thousand dollars a
Speaker 1: key or something crazy like that, you know, and he
Speaker 1: made millions upon millions of dollars. And I just thought
Speaker 1: about and I say it, man, because the thing I
Speaker 1: liked about Snowfallers they showed they just not only glorifying it.
Speaker 1: They showed how the neighborhood went from a place to
Speaker 1: where it was kind of cool. But then they just
Speaker 1: turned bigger motherfucker's machine guns. They went from holding the
Speaker 1: twenty two now they got an a K forty seven
Speaker 1: right now. They got just get she because they get
Speaker 1: all this money. Right back then I was in the race.
Speaker 1: But nig he's getting paid already, can get like that, nigger,
Speaker 1: Sam or even young. They make their first breaking full
Speaker 1: the age of two, like from Seen to Block Him
Speaker 1: a little later Shames from fire Roof Street with the
Speaker 1: older rest and beech little movie. He didn't have the
Speaker 1: rag rollings said the tifth grade and a fin old
Speaker 1: rack goddamn sucking coppy down. I just want it's the
Speaker 1: check for some help. And she told me look around
Speaker 1: because they don't sell, so it sells itself why they
Speaker 1: can track and dis collect the wealth. And I was thinking,
Speaker 1: it ain't nothing fun about these dirty yas taggers, T
Speaker 1: shirt pin sacking. This could be away for me to
Speaker 1: flip that little way twenty dollars that I earned right then,
Speaker 1: this when I learned, So, James, you see it came
Speaker 1: through earlier. Do you remember the first time you heard
Speaker 1: the stuff called Craig. Yeah, when it came out, Um,
Speaker 1: some people in the neighborhood burglar rised the house and
Speaker 1: came up. I'm talking about big bags like this. And
Speaker 1: the first time I've seen motherfucker's rocking that ship and
Speaker 1: the miners jar and twirling it and putting it on
Speaker 1: the stove and rocking it up is one of my
Speaker 1: old GI's rest in peace named world. And you know,
Speaker 1: if you're doing so much without bringing that pressure, the
Speaker 1: motherfucker blew up. So in our garage we had paneling
Speaker 1: on the wall, and we had cocaine all over the place,
Speaker 1: and niggas Kenny Tubbs and everybody was striping the ship
Speaker 1: off the wall. It was it was crazy and he
Speaker 1: was making cookies and uh when they broke that ship down,
Speaker 1: and we we didn't know what the funk we had
Speaker 1: really because we was giving up big rocks for two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars ship like like this, and it's some cats
Speaker 1: that took that when we were selling them and got rich.
Speaker 1: We was buying motherfucking sixty eight shiitties. We wouldn't buying
Speaker 1: the ship that they was getting, but they knew what
Speaker 1: to do with it. We did, so you know when
Speaker 1: it when it came out, man, it hit and then
Speaker 1: we went from from homies to to to hating each other.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It just total hood up
Speaker 1: we had. We went from kids hanging out when the
Speaker 1: street lights was going off and going in the house too,
Speaker 1: more drive bys, more of the other homies going from
Speaker 1: this block to the next block, telling the homies they
Speaker 1: couldn't sell dope because we wanted it all. We this
Speaker 1: think of this hourth hood. So the homie that really
Speaker 1: wouldn't game banging felt the affect of that ship. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We had homies man, were just
Speaker 1: jagging them on GP. You know what I'm saying, just
Speaker 1: because and yeah, it went bad, man, it went bad.
Speaker 1: It turned the whole hood. And this is in every
Speaker 1: hood upside down. Best friends went to enemies, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And every time I talked to my
Speaker 1: homeboy matter to run, Man, I apologize to him because
Speaker 1: when we got it, this was my rider died. He
Speaker 1: was living with me the whole nine. We got both
Speaker 1: of our baby mama's pregnant in the garage at the
Speaker 1: same time. And uh, I would when the when the
Speaker 1: ship came, I got my sack. Yeah, I left him
Speaker 1: in the garage. I'm on the block now trying to
Speaker 1: push this ship instead of saying, come on, my ni,
Speaker 1: get this up. And I poked off a good friendship.
Speaker 1: This is my rider died home me and but I
Speaker 1: didn't know. You know, I'm just thinking about self. And
Speaker 1: that's what niggas do right now in today when they
Speaker 1: get that bag. They don't think about the homie. They
Speaker 1: yeah and so. But both of y'all being from Compton
Speaker 1: and I know them two different time periods future around Compton,
Speaker 1: it was damn near. It was basically get rich overnight man.
Speaker 1: When first came, I got introduced to I mean, I
Speaker 1: was going to I was going to Lynwood High School,
Speaker 1: and I started working with a couple of dudes and
Speaker 1: and uh, one of the niggas had a spot. He
Speaker 1: had a spot on Long Beach Boulevard where all the
Speaker 1: hotels is and right there by the car wash and
Speaker 1: all that on Long Boulevard. So we used to set
Speaker 1: up over there and be over there to like three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, and motherfucker' maga selling drugs like
Speaker 1: a motherfucker. I didn't know. Shout was a young adolescent
Speaker 1: kid when I saw that niggas get money. And then
Speaker 1: you start seeing, you start seeing the fruits from what
Speaker 1: niggas is hustling on the corner to night. You get
Speaker 1: to see a nigga's pull up in the flat, the
Speaker 1: fancy cars with the plush and the vote wagon bugs,
Speaker 1: the Knis signed trucks, you know, the El Caminos and
Speaker 1: all that ship And I'm like, damn, what niggas getting
Speaker 1: this money from. Because again, I'm still a young kid
Speaker 1: living at home, expecting moms and them to hand me
Speaker 1: some money for a pair of khakis or whatever. So
Speaker 1: when niggas was like, nah, nigga, you take fifty dollars
Speaker 1: and get you a double up. Still James eight, y'all
Speaker 1: niggas better give me my fire Donald, I put that
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Speaker 1: that g ship and blaze up some water merrow. So
Speaker 1: at that time, I was like, fuck it, save up
Speaker 1: a couple of you know, some acts of moms for
Speaker 1: ten dollars and pops for ten dollars, and and you
Speaker 1: get fifty dollars and give it to my sister and
Speaker 1: go get a double up. And next thing you know,
Speaker 1: ship she and they're cutting it up for me or
Speaker 1: we're cutting it up. And here you sell list for five,
Speaker 1: you sell list for ten, you sell list for twenty,
Speaker 1: and now I'm on the block with six other niggers.
Speaker 1: You give me cars just coming through, you rushing the car,
Speaker 1: and everybody a nigga's look at my ship, now, nigga,
Speaker 1: look at my ship, nigga. My dubs just fatter that.
Speaker 1: So that's how I got introduced because at that time,
Speaker 1: that's how young black men were making their money. It
Speaker 1: was consequence niggas then. Niggas wasn't on no, let me
Speaker 1: go get a job at boys Market or some ship
Speaker 1: like that. Niggas was like, now I'm gonna give me
Speaker 1: a double up fifty turned that to a hundred and
Speaker 1: a hunting twenty and then I'm taking that hunting and
Speaker 1: go give me another one, and then I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: me nothing next thing. I'm working my way up to
Speaker 1: nine fucking ounces. That's my goal. Well, we failed to
Speaker 1: realize that that the way we was doing the ship
Speaker 1: and how we was doing the ship, it wasn't the
Speaker 1: right way. We was just out there ruthless with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. That's why some of the
Speaker 1: catch that made it big, you know, those was the
Speaker 1: quiet catch. Those was the catch. When the sun went
Speaker 1: down eight o'clock, nine o'clock, they left comfort and went home.
Speaker 1: They didn't serve no more. But we was grinding and
Speaker 1: we stayed out three four five in the morning. That's
Speaker 1: when everything ain't come out. The police, your drive bys
Speaker 1: and because they knew everybody was gonna run to that
Speaker 1: car and put their hands in there and you know
Speaker 1: something is here. That pop, pop pop, You're getting popped.
Speaker 1: Now you're dope and you got motherfucking smokers. That was
Speaker 1: crafty popping your hand up. Because it's ten niggers at
Speaker 1: the door trying to say they got the biggest ship.
Speaker 1: They popped their hand and drag gass while they're taking off.
Speaker 1: So cocaine sucked up a lot of ship. Not only
Speaker 1: are our families are homes, but they sucked off friendship
Speaker 1: with the homies, with with your friends, your partners you
Speaker 1: grew up with. It sucked off everything because all the
Speaker 1: money that the neighborhood made, the neighborhood wouldn't putting it
Speaker 1: back in the neighborhood, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: that's when everybody dads were going to prison, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You know, I remember when the shurm
Speaker 1: came out. You know, I was my POSSI was in
Speaker 1: the motorcycle club and we used to go to Salton
Speaker 1: Sea and man, when you see grown motherfucking man humed
Speaker 1: out and and Ryan dirt bites through the sand and ship,
Speaker 1: it'll flip you out. And just how they act. They
Speaker 1: were shooting each other on these runs. One cat got
Speaker 1: his head shot off with the shotgun. But our pops
Speaker 1: was was doing drugs and selling drugs way before us.
Speaker 1: And then the cocaine. Can you know they was using
Speaker 1: them long as more cigarettes and and dipping in there,
Speaker 1: sucking in and they were selling the mother fuckers and
Speaker 1: motherfucker's was really tripping off of that ship. But then
Speaker 1: here comes cocaine. So cocaine took us to another level.
Speaker 1: Like the kids today they're using these drugs. The ship
Speaker 1: they got today introduced me to cocaine anytime, compared to
Speaker 1: the ship they used it now, and tripping happened, counting
Speaker 1: up and doing this unnecessary as shooting ship is totally
Speaker 1: different from cocaine. So I don't know. I don't I
Speaker 1: can't say it's a system. I can't say it's our
Speaker 1: fault that we constantly keep letting something or some type
Speaker 1: of drug ruining our neighborhoods. You know what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's funked up. It sucked up a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of ships. My introduction to it, and I'm thinking about
Speaker 1: it now. My introduction to it, actually first seeing it
Speaker 1: was around eighty six because I was with my cousin.
Speaker 1: But you know, you always got a cousin. It's a
Speaker 1: little bit more advanced than you. I had a cousin
Speaker 1: that was already running up to Detroit back and forth
Speaker 1: by that time, and this nigga was just like getting money.
Speaker 1: He had come back in cars that made everybody else
Speaker 1: and ship look primitive, you know what I mean. He'd
Speaker 1: come back and some ship, you know, motherfucking five point
Speaker 1: ohs and just you know ship that niggas wouldn't used
Speaker 1: to seeing the motherfucking police, know how. He took me
Speaker 1: over this one chick's house something, and I remember he
Speaker 1: went over there. They was rolling it was passing weed
Speaker 1: at first, you know, passing weed around, and she was
Speaker 1: in there over the stove, cooking some ship, no shaking
Speaker 1: the motherfucking jar up and ship like that. Then she
Speaker 1: came out with some ship. By she doing that her sister,
Speaker 1: I want to say their name, and the thing her sister.
Speaker 1: When it got this other thing behind the book shelf
Speaker 1: was some some toilet paper. There was just a yellow things.
Speaker 1: Then I saw him chop that shut up. They was
Speaker 1: rolling up more weed and they was putting that ship
Speaker 1: in the weed, and they asked me if I wanted that.
Speaker 1: I was like, uh, I said, I'm good because I've
Speaker 1: spoken with nothing back then, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm looking just looking at this ship though, and I
Speaker 1: remember seeing them hit that weed with that ship laced
Speaker 1: in it. They called the motherfucker's promos. I saw them
Speaker 1: smoke that ship. It wouldn't like the regular week is
Speaker 1: they smoke that ship, didn't get the nodding off and
Speaker 1: ship thinks. But she was a cigarette. Wow, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It was totally different. It was some
Speaker 1: niggers on that shirt back then. Though you can't you can,
Speaker 1: you can. It was cool. It wasn't the ship that
Speaker 1: they've given you today. This ship that when when you
Speaker 1: start seeing nigga is tweaking. Like when I got out
Speaker 1: of prison, I saw one of the homeboys like on
Speaker 1: some buck eyed bulls, said what the fund is? This
Speaker 1: thing on cocaine was totally different. Now they're stepping and
Speaker 1: stepping on the ship, and you constantly had to my uncle,
Speaker 1: it's still like you're bug out. He had stay home
Speaker 1: for a year, but he gotta go bug out for
Speaker 1: two weeks. He got a bug out a week. And
Speaker 1: we all got somebody in our family that's on that
Speaker 1: ship and can't get off of it. And I don't
Speaker 1: know the reason why they gotta get high. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they gotta constantly keep doing it, but you know,
Speaker 1: it's just there. It's there, and and and our family
Speaker 1: is still affected by the ship. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I'm glad I went to prison, and they he said,
Speaker 1: because I don't know where I would have been a
Speaker 1: lot of us, a lot of cats that was smoking
Speaker 1: promos and and doing the hood ship. Some of them
Speaker 1: cats didn't come out of but a lot of the
Speaker 1: real ones came out of it and pushed on and
Speaker 1: you know, doing their thing. I think that I think
Speaker 1: that if you grew up in those type of areas,
Speaker 1: you know, the inner cities, the ghettos, the seventies, the eighties,
Speaker 1: you had somebody or some form of family whatever that
Speaker 1: had you know, drugs. You know, I knew a lot
Speaker 1: of motherfucker's who did did who did shum? You get me?
Speaker 1: It was like, you don't do crack, but then homies
Speaker 1: in the hood smoke shirm it was the cool thing
Speaker 1: to do. Fuck it, you give me. I never tried it.
Speaker 1: My thing was, I think I've seen so much shit
Speaker 1: be suyd it that I was one of those motherfucker's
Speaker 1: who felt like because honestly, you know, you was considered
Speaker 1: a cluckhead. If you're being cracked, it wasn't cool. And
Speaker 1: then I would see people off of you know, crack
Speaker 1: and shirm, dout and button necking and just so that
Speaker 1: always made me go, man, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: none of that. Ship. I smoked weed. That was my experience.
Speaker 1: I never tried anything else because basically, I was scared
Speaker 1: to try anything else because when you got family members
Speaker 1: and people you see, you know, I guess at that time,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in the hood around the AID
Speaker 1: eight nine, it was you know, you had the homies
Speaker 1: who did churm, and you had the motherfucker's who who
Speaker 1: did the crack and the pipe ship. Man, I tried
Speaker 1: that got the PCP. One time. My homeboy Tim came
Speaker 1: to the house. Right we're on the porch kicking, and
Speaker 1: he said, I got the stick man, that's just smoking.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I didn't even smoke cigarettes at
Speaker 1: that time. I was like, fucking light it up. So
Speaker 1: we did the ship and I'm like, damn that ship loud.
Speaker 1: So he passed it to me. I'll hit it. Then
Speaker 1: my homeboy Ryan hit it. Next thing. You know, I've
Speaker 1: seen all kinds of ship, right, so I'm on I'm
Speaker 1: on the top. I'm fucked up, so I don't know
Speaker 1: what I saw, but I jumped off the porch with
Speaker 1: my hands spread it why not, and I hit the ground. Bam.
Speaker 1: I had a not on my head about six months
Speaker 1: start growing hair. Man. I never touched that ship again.
Speaker 1: I was hey, and I know if y'all out there
Speaker 1: hearing that ship, I know y'all laughing like mother mother.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I thought I was like just
Speaker 1: on some like I could fly. Yeah, that I jumped James,
Speaker 1: that they I was on the porch. It was like
Speaker 1: they could watch this ship and I and I jumped
Speaker 1: off and flying around the hood. You but fuckers. So
Speaker 1: I've experimented with it, just like Manjuana. You know, I
Speaker 1: smoke weed one time. My jaws got so fattish ship
Speaker 1: and I got the clown in one of the homes
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, I'm jumping on this. So
Speaker 1: I just smoke weed no more. Never smoke weed again.
Speaker 1: Got high. I didn't do it. Cloud and eat a
Speaker 1: pistarnig off man and then he and then he probably
Speaker 1: laughed at like a motherfucker a jo everything that I've tried,
Speaker 1: my experience with it as a mother, like like you know,
Speaker 1: just sitting at my house drinking and you know, one
Speaker 1: of my homeboys did, and and we're getting fucked up,
Speaker 1: and I'm drunk as a motherfucker. Girl used to bring
Speaker 1: me fucking half gallons of that goddamn gin, thinking my
Speaker 1: gin and supercyco by my homie over there looking at
Speaker 1: me stupid. So you got a little twenty five and Ship,
Speaker 1: I'm like, come in my house with the gun. Let
Speaker 1: me see that. So I took the gun. I'm drinking
Speaker 1: the motherfucker right, So I take the motherfuck gunning and
Speaker 1: I shoot him. But I'm drunk as fun. So I'm
Speaker 1: tripping off him because he holland you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And I'm still drinking. I'm still drinking, and uh, I
Speaker 1: raised his shoulder and the nigger holland and Ship. So
Speaker 1: I told tell a little humby fuck, go get this
Speaker 1: niggas some alcohol. So he going to kitchen in the bathroom,
Speaker 1: get the alcohol. Put the alcohol in the band aid
Speaker 1: on him. I told nigga, shut the funk up and
Speaker 1: get drunk. And we just we just got sucked up.
Speaker 1: But he had, I mean, you had the opportunity to say,
Speaker 1: thinking you shot me, motherfucker, Now shut the funk up.
Speaker 1: Let's get drunk. So every experience I had, it was
Speaker 1: it was just way out for me. So I couldn't
Speaker 1: slow down on the liquor because I'm I'm full blown down.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm That's all I'm doing, drinking like a motherfucker
Speaker 1: every day. I started off in the morning, I'm drinking
Speaker 1: a ball all day. I'm straight eight ball. I'm on
Speaker 1: that gin and supersoccer soccer. I'm fucked up tripping. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to nik a drunk that sigul Gin
Speaker 1: with that socle on that Cisco was the worst ship ever. Man.
Speaker 1: Every time I drunk, Cisco blacked up. Well depends on
Speaker 1: how much you drunk, though. If you're drinking it all day,
Speaker 1: you're gonna black hout. And basically, like I said, if
Speaker 1: you was growing up in the hood, it was all
Speaker 1: about the budget. Get me, we're trying to budget, so
Speaker 1: we're buying forty ounces. We're buying gin and Cisco. My fucker,
Speaker 1: you can go to boys market get two fists of
Speaker 1: gin for eleven dollars. So Gen Christian Brothers, Nigga, Hennessey
Speaker 1: and ship like that was rich and drinking and they
Speaker 1: was from from the Gin to the Hennessey and I
Speaker 1: think the Hennessy is what gave me the diabetes. Probably
Speaker 1: they got a lot of sugar. Yeah, I mean me
Speaker 1: and my own boys showed the rest of peace. We
Speaker 1: used to sit at the mother spode. It just drink bottles.
Speaker 1: At the bottles, she gets sucked up. It's crazy. How
Speaker 1: as as as as a younger motherfucker, you don't even
Speaker 1: look at that ship like, I'm getting fucked up every
Speaker 1: fucking day, but you don't even think about that ship.
Speaker 1: You know, you're getting high. Nigga's smoking shum. Nigga niggas
Speaker 1: is drinking like serious ship like. As as as young
Speaker 1: niggas in the neighborhood when you ought have been on
Speaker 1: guard because of what everything was going on and the
Speaker 1: drive bys and all that. But ship niggas will be
Speaker 1: in the alley somewhere getting full up, every getting loaded,
Speaker 1: waiting up on the porch, somebody waking you up, knocked
Speaker 1: out on your porch. You know it. I mean to me,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change none of it, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: because without knowing what I was doing and how did it,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know what I know now. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of cats out here today. Don't respect
Speaker 1: the drug they use. Oh no, it's motherfucker's don't know
Speaker 1: what are the else they're using. It's so dangerous right now,
Speaker 1: all them casses on them peels, you take the wrong
Speaker 1: peel the complace with their ship, they're feding all and
Speaker 1: all kind of ship man, so you don't know it's
Speaker 1: got peele prists at home and make anything and think
Speaker 1: just and they killing their customers off. No motherfucker nor
Speaker 1: only put that ship in there to try to strick
Speaker 1: some ship and kill the whole bunch of people. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's definitely dangerous now. So because the relationship with no
Speaker 1: problem and I just don't understand that process of the drug.
Speaker 1: The drug dealer me like we we all, you know,
Speaker 1: I sold James whatever, but we were never to the
Speaker 1: point of where we're like, nigga, let's fucking this weed
Speaker 1: and then sherm and then sell it to it. But
Speaker 1: they're doing it, and see how the fun he act.
Speaker 1: They're doing it though, But nowadays they'll be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's take this and mix it with this and then
Speaker 1: sell it to it. And you give him motherfucker some
Speaker 1: ship like that or you gonna never wake up, or
Speaker 1: he kills somebody in his house because he flips the
Speaker 1: funk out thing and he just smoking some regular weed.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, he's seeing colors and hallucinations and
Speaker 1: shipping and shoot up some ship. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: What knowing at the end of the day, you gotta
Speaker 1: look at it like this. We don't respect each other
Speaker 1: no more so. We don't give a funk what we
Speaker 1: get the next cat. And it's all about making that
Speaker 1: money today, you know what I'm saying. And Nigga is
Speaker 1: like back then. But nign went to jail today. He
Speaker 1: ain't got money for a lawyer or a bill. He
Speaker 1: ain't got no money. We don't think about the consequences.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this today, but then tomorrow I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta prove my innocence, you know, going to jail
Speaker 1: and going to court and all that ship. We don't
Speaker 1: think and the drugs like the lean. You know, these
Speaker 1: niggas take that lean and beyond the Perkins said. You know,
Speaker 1: and man, you lost, you can get robbed, you can
Speaker 1: get anything can happen to you, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But we just don't give up. Fuck not too funks.
Speaker 1: At all. It's a lot of motherfucker's out of the
Speaker 1: take for getting cords today. Get me. I don't think
Speaker 1: that we encourage the young homies under us too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: nigga gonna hit that shirm, Nigga gone head and do
Speaker 1: that crack. We didn't make it like where it was
Speaker 1: cool to do. I guess the fucking generation of the
Speaker 1: youth today and the appers and artists, you know, that's
Speaker 1: their niche. Let's make it cool to pop some percosets,
Speaker 1: not make it cool to pop some you know. It's
Speaker 1: like it's like it's like it's the party drug now.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a psycho with a different scenario,
Speaker 1: with a different drug, and it's gonna stay in the hood.
Speaker 1: If it ain't the ship they're used in the day,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be some ship that they made up after
Speaker 1: that ship. Because once your system get used to this,
Speaker 1: a motherucker wants something to really getting sucked up, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So they're gonna try the next
Speaker 1: drug that come along, and it's in the hood. It's
Speaker 1: in the hood. Let me ask y'all. Do y'all think
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's controllable or uncontrollable for a person
Speaker 1: to go from smoking weed or drinking. Is it within
Speaker 1: yourself or is it out of control to where you
Speaker 1: feel a motherfucker have to go to the next level
Speaker 1: of won't to get high because there's some cats, like
Speaker 1: you said, who tried weed and or not. I don't
Speaker 1: want to try nothing else. I won't never try crack
Speaker 1: or shern or whatever. And then there are some people
Speaker 1: who tried weed and go, oh shoot, I need to
Speaker 1: try sherm. I need to try powder now that I
Speaker 1: need to So is that the is that the beast
Speaker 1: of not being able to control your high? Because me
Speaker 1: I smoked weed and because what I saw with crack
Speaker 1: and SHM did to niggas made me go, I never
Speaker 1: want to do that ship. Oh same here with me
Speaker 1: because I didn't never want to try no ship that
Speaker 1: I couldn't stop doing. You feel what I mean? Like
Speaker 1: I hear weed every once in a while, right, but
Speaker 1: it's not something that I have to have. I can
Speaker 1: go whatever, like, it's not like even not to cut
Speaker 1: you off, even on the party drug ship. When motherfucker
Speaker 1: started going around and bitches start take and all that ship,
Speaker 1: I never wanted to go. Well, ecstasy make you funk
Speaker 1: a bit all night, and you go all nights and
Speaker 1: just never made me go, oh, I want to try
Speaker 1: That ship made me go I'm scared of that ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't be scared of it. It's just
Speaker 1: the ship that's going on today. So if you can't
Speaker 1: keep up with the Joneses, then you would never understand it.
Speaker 1: And that's why a lot of these chicks was getting
Speaker 1: caught up because they didn't understand it. My sister then
Speaker 1: might tell them, but not getting on top of your
Speaker 1: ship through your straw, don't leave your drinks sitting there
Speaker 1: and then go out there dancing and ship because this
Speaker 1: catch out there that's with it like that, that would
Speaker 1: put something in your ship. The bias. Remember back in
Speaker 1: the day, we're using the damn I said we was
Speaker 1: using back in the days when they used vizine knock
Speaker 1: a bits out. You know what I'm saying that that
Speaker 1: was the cheapest ship to do to put a female out.
Speaker 1: And those the hood parties. Now you in the backseat,
Speaker 1: she don't even know it, getting getting the brains sucked
Speaker 1: out because the nigger went back owner. But the choices
Speaker 1: that we make once we passed eighteen nine. Now we
Speaker 1: got choices. We don't. We don't have to go to
Speaker 1: it or or do this drug just because the majority
Speaker 1: of the time niggas did that same drug and wouldn't
Speaker 1: touch it because the homies, all the homies was on there.
Speaker 1: So just to be a part of that and feel
Speaker 1: like you you one of the homies too, they did it.
Speaker 1: And those are the ones that took that drug harder
Speaker 1: than the ones that was already doing it. And and
Speaker 1: he's the one that's fucked up out of the whole litter,
Speaker 1: he's still on it. Everybody else had a chance to
Speaker 1: get out of that ship or woke away. But the
Speaker 1: ones that didn't do it and didn't want to do
Speaker 1: it and and felt they had to do it, them
Speaker 1: them the ones that got stuck. But we all got
Speaker 1: a choice on what drug we used. Like myself, I
Speaker 1: tried PCP. I didn't like that ship. I kept a
Speaker 1: reminder my motherfucking forehead what it did. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: that no more. So those are choices that that we
Speaker 1: all we came lame the next thing, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, motherfucker gave it to Alec Baldwin and
Speaker 1: then turned around and said, the gun is free, it's ready.
Speaker 1: So whoever pass him that gun and loaded to be responsible.
Speaker 1: They should go to jail. Motherfuckers, saying the motherfucker who
Speaker 1: pointed it and pulled the trigger. Ship Be responsed, no clue,
Speaker 1: and they killed the motherfucker. On Thursday, balling discharge the
Speaker 1: firearm rehearsing a scene for the Western General film, resulting
Speaker 1: in a deaferent cinema photographer Elena Husks. Now, that's fucked up,
Speaker 1: so somebody got killed. He should go to jails. I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about doing that. She's gonna purpose that, sick bastard,
Speaker 1: because what are you doing is you got to load
Speaker 1: the real fire You know that means you really the
Speaker 1: real bullets in here, real slug. It's like us doing
Speaker 1: a ski here, James, do this skit. We're doing this
Speaker 1: skit together, and you point, you point to me and
Speaker 1: shoot me the mother for the leg for real, And
Speaker 1: I'm around it hard and screening. Whoever the motherfucker is
Speaker 1: a hand to tow that down, he asked me. But
Speaker 1: you gotta look at it. Everybody on that on on
Speaker 1: the scene. That's passion and propers or whatever it should be.
Speaker 1: Checked by more than one person. Whoever, who's ever in charge,
Speaker 1: more than one person should check every damn weapon of whatever,
Speaker 1: just on GP. So the safety of everybody, the actors
Speaker 1: and whoever, they're good, because this should have been checked.
Speaker 1: You check all the clips out, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They should, they should check it. But but they Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have a designated motherfucker who handles loading the gun,
Speaker 1: handing the gun to the actor or actress. So how
Speaker 1: do I know what you put up in this motherfucker? Right?
Speaker 1: And you can just walk up and go, James, here
Speaker 1: you go. It's ready to go, and you go, okay, action,
Speaker 1: you point that motherfucker steal or me or whatever and
Speaker 1: shoot and bop. But it kills like like you said,
Speaker 1: it kills everything else. If that problem gonna go through
Speaker 1: three people hands that checked it, if the first motherfucker
Speaker 1: loaded it with a live round, the second motherfucker gonna
Speaker 1: detect it, third motherfucker get it and say okay, he
Speaker 1: could pass it on. So now you know that it's
Speaker 1: some bullshit going on. Yeah, because how did this motherfuck
Speaker 1: keep getting jobs? It's like you suck up on some
Speaker 1: ship like that the first time. How does he allot
Speaker 1: in the city. Why they're having live rounds on the
Speaker 1: set anyway, which is not supposed to happen. Why is
Speaker 1: the armor guy the guy or the armory or whoever.
Speaker 1: Why is this is a set we got weapons on
Speaker 1: the set today. Why are their live rounds around period?
Speaker 1: So what you're gonna say, Oh, I was out last
Speaker 1: night shooting the gun with live round and that they
Speaker 1: when I came to work, I forgot to check it
Speaker 1: for live round. That's what I'm saying. I mean, but
Speaker 1: you had to load the motherfucker right before you handed
Speaker 1: it to Alec, So what did you do? And then,
Speaker 1: like you said, maybe it's some bullshit to where he going,
Speaker 1: Fuck it, I'm gonna put a live round in this motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Let him pull a trigger insane. I think he has
Speaker 1: to do some crazy. But then, like I said, there
Speaker 1: are people who are suggesting that didn't need to get
Speaker 1: charged with man, that Alex be charged. Yes, no, man,
Speaker 1: how would he if he had known that they put
Speaker 1: a live one in it? Then yeah, but that's that's
Speaker 1: accessory after the fact. But if he don't know, I'm
Speaker 1: only doing my job. I'm gonna set I'm doing it
Speaker 1: I'm doing a scene here exactly. It's not my faults.
Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to. It was she playing with it. Damn.
Speaker 1: Was a scene to where probably a cinema photographer and
Speaker 1: shooting him right action where he's just post to point
Speaker 1: the gun that way and pull the trigger. You see
Speaker 1: the sparks, you see the smoke, and then they cuts
Speaker 1: to probably to do the shot who got it hit right?
Speaker 1: So what they probably had was a glass set up
Speaker 1: with the camera lady behind the camera and they go
Speaker 1: action and I've done it in videos. Hold the gun
Speaker 1: by the black motherfucker, you pull the trigger by goddamn there,
Speaker 1: go to budget because every family needs to be comming.
Speaker 1: She should get her money. Well. That concludes another episode
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