WEBVTT - EP 128: The Crack Generation 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.960 When I right, y'all all across the usc conton Motts 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.720 Bank to l a com on the California the Valley, 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.200 we represent that kind of county. So if you're keeping 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.880 it real on your side of your town, you tune 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:22.919 into Gangster Chronicles. Gangsters. He gonna tell you how we go. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.680 If I my nose will girl like Pinocchio. We're gonna 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:30.400 tell you the truth and nothing but the truth. Gangster Chronicals. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.560 This is not your average show. You're now tuned into 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:37.960 the Reil m c A. Bick James and Bix Fields 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:45.159 from the streets. Hello, Welcome to the Gangster Chronicles podcast, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.360 the production of My Heart Radio and Black Effect Podcast Network. 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.080 Make sure you download the I Heart Apple, subscribe to 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.840 the Gangster Chronicles for my Apple users, hit the Purple 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.360 Michael your front screen, Subscribe to Against the Chronicles, and 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.959 leave a five star rate in the comment. This episode 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.600 is about a powerful upstance that impacted lives in every 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.200 city across the United States. I'm talking about crack cocaine. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.800 For those who don't know what crack eels, let me 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.800 give you the definition. Crack also known as rockets coke 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.480 in the free based form the smoke, crack gives the 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.600 user a short, intense high. It's the most addictive form 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.000 of cocaine because it leaves the user chasing that first 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.479 incredible high. But as we learned, the more that they smoke, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.080 the shorter to high, creating a full flags crack at it. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.880 Crack started off as a widespread recreational drug around four 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.800 and because it was cheap to attain, places like l A, 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.120 San Francisco, Miami, New York City, Oakland, and other major 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.479 cities became an epicenter for what would later be called 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.160 the crack epidemic. Now, as I mentioned earlier, it was 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.920 cheap in the eighties, you can see the visible impact 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.800 that the drug had in the neighborhood from both a 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.880 social and economic standpoint. You need to be a marketing 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.000 guru to sell crack because it literally sold itself. Cost 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.280 of a single rock range from five price on the average. 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.160 Create an ample opportunity for young entrepreneurs, mostly just young 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.360 black males looking to change their circumstances. But this became 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.000 more than just a way to pick up some extra 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.920 small change. In the eighties, it was easy for a 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.680 young dealer the clock anywhere from one thousand to ten 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.959 or fifteen grand daily, and like the late great Notorious 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.600 b actually once said more money, more problems. You saw 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.160 the level of violence escalate from here in the occasional 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.120 thirty eight go off later night and hearing fully automatic 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.880 weapons ring out. It became big business dealer and then 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.799 you usually share the same community, so often you had 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.079 situations like a dealer selling to his homeboy's sister of mama. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.080 Sometimes you had sexual favorites being exchanged. So you can 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.760 see how some problems could pop off behind something like this, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.240 you or your homeboy knocking down your moms and things. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.880 But the media also used the crack epidemic to make 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.239 black folks look crazy as usual. I beg you to 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.720 know that two thirds or cracks consumers were white, but 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.560 with images of black crack babies and things being shown 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.359 in American TV screens nightly, it was easy to assume 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.440 that this was just a problem confined to the hood. 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.880 Now was used to kick off the so called war 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.880 on drugs. Many of you too young to remember Ronald Reagan, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.959 but he was o g Mr Less make America great again. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.200 Also during this period you had Scarface, which detailed the 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.000 rise of the immigrant washings dishes at the Taco stand 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.400 to become one of the world's biggest drug dealers hit theaters. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.120 So this was the perfect opportunity to demonize the hood. 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.280 Law enforcement begin to treat black drug addicts like criminals, 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.640 locking them up rather than getting them treatment. Then, in 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.400 the eighties six Congress pushed the Anti Drug Abuse Act 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.520 through to literally said a hundred grams of powder and 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.240 the Graham of crack would get the same sentence if 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.280 you think I'm on some bullshit. In the total prison 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.880 population was around three hundred thousand nas damn near at 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.000 two point one million. So who the funk fool and 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:51.240 who it's a Gainst Chronicles. We like to welcome everyone 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.200 to another episode of the Gangster Chronicles podcast, you know, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.920 the podcast to Keep the Truth Streets and Number my dogs, 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:01.600 Big Jake, Chip and Tonight Fellers. I want to talk 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:08.000 about the eighties to be exact, um, and that's a 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.520 significant time of the That's a significant time I think 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.360 for so many reasons. For me, that was almost the 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.760 start of the crack epidemic. Now wait before that, yeah, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.520 for me, well, I'm talking about that's I think that's 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.440 when it impacted me. The most. That's when it kind 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.560 of started that I've been hearing about it and stuff 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.080 like that, and I think it finally just kind of 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.200 came to life around me as far as like when 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:32.960 I first saw it, when I first started hearing about 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.279 what certain people in the neighborhood was falling off. You know, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.200 the brothers that had the good jobs and all the 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.440 other ship like that had the good jobs, and all 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.720 of a sudden, they seem like they're doing bad. And 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.600 now I was here, man, they're smoking that pipe, they 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.560 hit that correct, you know what I'm saying. That's pretty 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.440 much damn to the ascent of it. Like when it 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.440 was really popping eighty eight, I came on from prison. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:02.839 It wasn't selling like it was cracking. Eighty two, eighty three, 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:10.360 eighty four, eighty five, it wasn't cracking like that. Eighty three. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.880 That's when we first was up on it. That's when 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:18.400 we was first tripping off people because you know, some 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.839 of my fuckers rolled a dollar and they were snorting 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.640 and ship. We didn't know my fucker's putting it in 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.760 the pipe and all that other ship so like my uncle's, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.240 you know, they were they were snorting that ship. You 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.680 know when we first got introduced to it, the hook 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.520 got first introduced to it. So you know, as the 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:41.400 years went on, you know, you've seen your uncles and 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:46.719 other people fall off. It was their jobs. Uh, And 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.080 you've seen niggers come up new cards and shape because 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.920 you know, before you knew it, motherfucker was getting credit. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.840 And before you get your paycheck, you already in the 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.600 hold five six hundred dollars. We're here for sure. So yeah, 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.600 it was. It was a tough time. Now, couldn't click, 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:12.400 Please gotta have another. I don't give a if you're 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.160 nail down. That's something money man. I saw cast lose cars. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.920 I saw a cast lose the apartments. I saw cats 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.280 getting their apartments turned into the dope spots, you know 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.280 what I mean. Cast, they had nice cribs. Don't talk 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.280 about the next thing? You know this the spot. This 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.400 niggas riding around mama's car. You hear about certain mamas 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.919 in the neighborhood. Don't suck the homies, don't suck the 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.080 homi y'all. Just file ship, you know what I mean? Well, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.080 I went away for us with transportation ships, cars. Yeah, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.799 you rent your smoker's car and ship for that piece 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.240 and ship. You get to ride around, Go take care 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.600 of your errands, do what you gotta do, take your girl, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.800 especially if you didn't have a whip. At the time. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:58.400 Niggas was using smoking cars and go do drive. Yeah, man, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.279 he's you a dime or dug or dug piece. Man. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:10.280 You get this all night? And you know in the hood, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.720 did you You know, we had the homies. Some homlies 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.080 didn't give a funk who they shold too, you know, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.120 and you know right down to day, you still got home. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.760 You still stuck on that ship. Ain't no way out, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.200 you know what I'm saying, Sleeping in parks or or 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.400 downtown somewhere. It funked up a lot of people. But 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.200 you know, like myself and and some of the other homies, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.000 that was you know, testing that ship and trying it out, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.480 like what's the height? You know, motherfucker's was smoking promos, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.840 you know what I'm saying, and drinking that eight ball. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.800 You know. Us we used to go to the Vermont 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.160 drive in and everybody used to just kicking and bam. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.960 Then serving motherfuckers start going to prison. Prisons saved some 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.840 of these niggas lives over that cocaine and they came 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.680 home cool. Some of the funker's were the jail behind 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.040 cocaine and came home and went right back to it. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:08.160 And today there's no respect for that dude in the 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.240 hood whatsoever, regardless of what he did and you know 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.320 what he put in the hood. The respect level was gone, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.920 and these juncts of the day jumping on them, disrespecting 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.320 them to the fullest. So, yeah, cocaine, it still exists 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.480 and it's still sucking the mind. Yeah, so you think 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.480 it's still guys stuck on cracking the neighborhoods to day? Yeah, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.240 right now today they still stuck. Then who's still in 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:39.320 correct the day? Everybody, my fucker's just still making their 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.640 little eyes and ends I got. I mean to some 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:49.320 of my closest niggers, it's still doing their thing. I mean, 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:55.400 it's it's just something that you know, that's just old. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.120 It's just overwhelmed that their situation to where they feel 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:04.600 like you know, that's what I do mean. No, they're 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:09.840 not on the motherfucking worldwide baller status and driving around 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.000 what some of these niggas is just on it because 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.600 should I ain't trying to go get on nine to five. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.880 It maintains who they are and their status keeping money 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.719 in their pocket. So motherfuckers do it. A lot of 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.880 the brothers in the hood don't have a choice, you know. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.200 Even though they got weed, marijuana dispensaries all over the place, 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.120 you still got cats out this selling weed. Their bags 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.560 are bigger because they gotta be. But you know what 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.720 I'm saying, um, some of us don't have a choice. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.960 That's the only way of making money, making its meet. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.800 And it might sound it might it might sound simple 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.440 enough to go out and get them on the fucking 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.480 job right now. Everybody hiring, you know, but it's something 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.080 is stuck in the system of that you know, on 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.920 the neighborhood or that that that hustle. That's what it 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.880 is to me. A lot of niggas are stuck in 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.960 the hustle mentality, and it's a way for them to 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.240 keep that that that the light bell paid, you know, 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.760 the gas bill paid. It. It's just crazy because I 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.000 was thinking about it earlier, right because I saw something. 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.800 I was looking at snowfall, and that's what That's when 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:23.079 I hit you, and I was like, man, I kind 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.559 of want to talk about the eighties. You know when 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.079 Craig first hid, you know, on snowfall they showed the 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.319 old thing it ain't nothing, the freeway ricks story about 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.600 how he met up with the guy the plan don't 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.200 dude and got the plug on the cocaine. And I 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.120 think they was getting it from eight thousand dollars a 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.360 key or something crazy like that, you know, and he 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.760 made millions upon millions of dollars. And I just thought 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.920 about and I say it, man, because the thing I 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.520 liked about Snowfallers they showed they just not only glorifying it. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.880 They showed how the neighborhood went from a place to 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.080 where it was kind of cool. But then they just 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.880 turned bigger motherfucker's machine guns. They went from holding the 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.480 twenty two now they got an a K forty seven 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.960 right now. They got just get she because they get 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.120 all this money. Right back then I was in the race. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:07.920 But nig he's getting paid already, can get like that, nigger, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.920 Sam or even young. They make their first breaking full 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.720 the age of two, like from Seen to Block Him 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.599 a little later Shames from fire Roof Street with the 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.120 older rest and beech little movie. He didn't have the 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.560 rag rollings said the tifth grade and a fin old 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.760 rack goddamn sucking coppy down. I just want it's the 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.960 check for some help. And she told me look around 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.640 because they don't sell, so it sells itself why they 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.120 can track and dis collect the wealth. And I was thinking, 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.839 it ain't nothing fun about these dirty yas taggers, T 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.439 shirt pin sacking. This could be away for me to 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.240 flip that little way twenty dollars that I earned right then, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.600 this when I learned, So, James, you see it came 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.280 through earlier. Do you remember the first time you heard 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.640 the stuff called Craig. Yeah, when it came out, Um, 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.920 some people in the neighborhood burglar rised the house and 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.640 came up. I'm talking about big bags like this. And 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:05.040 the first time I've seen motherfucker's rocking that ship and 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.320 the miners jar and twirling it and putting it on 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.320 the stove and rocking it up is one of my 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.840 old GI's rest in peace named world. And you know, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.040 if you're doing so much without bringing that pressure, the 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.680 motherfucker blew up. So in our garage we had paneling 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.559 on the wall, and we had cocaine all over the place, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.920 and niggas Kenny Tubbs and everybody was striping the ship 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.520 off the wall. It was it was crazy and he 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:36.400 was making cookies and uh when they broke that ship down, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:38.920 and we we didn't know what the funk we had 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.000 really because we was giving up big rocks for two 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.040 hundred dollars ship like like this, and it's some cats 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.960 that took that when we were selling them and got rich. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:56.240 We was buying motherfucking sixty eight shiitties. We wouldn't buying 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.520 the ship that they was getting, but they knew what 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.800 to do with it. We did, so you know when 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.720 it when it came out, man, it hit and then 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:11.800 we went from from homies to to to hating each other. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.240 You know what I'm saying. It just total hood up 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.800 we had. We went from kids hanging out when the 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.760 street lights was going off and going in the house too, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:28.240 more drive bys, more of the other homies going from 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.640 this block to the next block, telling the homies they 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.400 couldn't sell dope because we wanted it all. We this 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.480 think of this hourth hood. So the homie that really 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.080 wouldn't game banging felt the affect of that ship. You 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.880 know what I'm saying. We had homies man, were just 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.160 jagging them on GP. You know what I'm saying, just 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:53.120 because and yeah, it went bad, man, it went bad. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.680 It turned the whole hood. And this is in every 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.120 hood upside down. Best friends went to enemies, you know 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.080 what I'm saying. And every time I talked to my 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:06.280 homeboy matter to run, Man, I apologize to him because 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.040 when we got it, this was my rider died. He 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.720 was living with me the whole nine. We got both 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.640 of our baby mama's pregnant in the garage at the 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.959 same time. And uh, I would when the when the 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:23.680 ship came, I got my sack. Yeah, I left him 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.760 in the garage. I'm on the block now trying to 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.160 push this ship instead of saying, come on, my ni, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:34.440 get this up. And I poked off a good friendship. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.000 This is my rider died home me and but I 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.800 didn't know. You know, I'm just thinking about self. And 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.760 that's what niggas do right now in today when they 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.840 get that bag. They don't think about the homie. They 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.520 yeah and so. But both of y'all being from Compton 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:54.480 and I know them two different time periods future around Compton, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.840 it was damn near. It was basically get rich overnight man. 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.000 When first came, I got introduced to I mean, I 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.560 was going to I was going to Lynwood High School, 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.640 and I started working with a couple of dudes and 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:14.560 and uh, one of the niggas had a spot. He 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.640 had a spot on Long Beach Boulevard where all the 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:23.480 hotels is and right there by the car wash and 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.600 all that on Long Boulevard. So we used to set 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.080 up over there and be over there to like three 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:35.320 o'clock in the morning, and motherfucker' maga selling drugs like 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.680 a motherfucker. I didn't know. Shout was a young adolescent 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.960 kid when I saw that niggas get money. And then 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:45.120 you start seeing, you start seeing the fruits from what 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.960 niggas is hustling on the corner to night. You get 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.040 to see a nigga's pull up in the flat, the 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.760 fancy cars with the plush and the vote wagon bugs, 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:58.440 the Knis signed trucks, you know, the El Caminos and 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.840 all that ship And I'm like, damn, what niggas getting 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.360 this money from. Because again, I'm still a young kid 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.800 living at home, expecting moms and them to hand me 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.480 some money for a pair of khakis or whatever. So 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.840 when niggas was like, nah, nigga, you take fifty dollars 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:19.800 and get you a double up. Still James eight, y'all 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.920 niggas better give me my fire Donald, I put that 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.800 on a ship. I need to go get me some water. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:29.280 Mirror my motherfucking feet fucking with me. 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And here you sell list for five, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.960 you sell list for ten, you sell list for twenty, 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.560 and now I'm on the block with six other niggers. 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:54.560 You give me cars just coming through, you rushing the car, 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:59.560 and everybody a nigga's look at my ship, now, nigga, 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:01.720 look at my ship, nigga. My dubs just fatter that. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.119 So that's how I got introduced because at that time, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.439 that's how young black men were making their money. It 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.960 was consequence niggas then. Niggas wasn't on no, let me 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.480 go get a job at boys Market or some ship 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.520 like that. Niggas was like, now I'm gonna give me 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.359 a double up fifty turned that to a hundred and 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.879 a hunting twenty and then I'm taking that hunting and 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.200 go give me another one, and then I'm gonna give 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.320 me nothing next thing. I'm working my way up to 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.440 nine fucking ounces. That's my goal. Well, we failed to 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:33.800 realize that that the way we was doing the ship 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.399 and how we was doing the ship, it wasn't the 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.840 right way. We was just out there ruthless with it, 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.520 you know what I'm saying. That's why some of the 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.879 catch that made it big, you know, those was the 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.280 quiet catch. Those was the catch. When the sun went 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.320 down eight o'clock, nine o'clock, they left comfort and went home. 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.560 They didn't serve no more. But we was grinding and 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.440 we stayed out three four five in the morning. That's 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.520 when everything ain't come out. The police, your drive bys 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:05.960 and because they knew everybody was gonna run to that 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:09.480 car and put their hands in there and you know 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.200 something is here. That pop, pop pop, You're getting popped. 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.040 Now you're dope and you got motherfucking smokers. That was 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.840 crafty popping your hand up. Because it's ten niggers at 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.680 the door trying to say they got the biggest ship. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.280 They popped their hand and drag gass while they're taking off. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:32.160 So cocaine sucked up a lot of ship. Not only 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:36.800 are our families are homes, but they sucked off friendship 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.040 with the homies, with with your friends, your partners you 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.439 grew up with. It sucked off everything because all the 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.159 money that the neighborhood made, the neighborhood wouldn't putting it 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.520 back in the neighborhood, you know what I'm saying. And 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.639 that's when everybody dads were going to prison, you know 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.800 what I'm saying. You know, I remember when the shurm 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:02.639 came out. You know, I was my POSSI was in 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.639 the motorcycle club and we used to go to Salton 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:10.000 Sea and man, when you see grown motherfucking man humed 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.680 out and and Ryan dirt bites through the sand and ship, 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.600 it'll flip you out. And just how they act. They 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.640 were shooting each other on these runs. One cat got 0:21:20.640 --> 0:21:24.000 his head shot off with the shotgun. But our pops 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.680 was was doing drugs and selling drugs way before us. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.920 And then the cocaine. Can you know they was using 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.440 them long as more cigarettes and and dipping in there, 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:40.359 sucking in and they were selling the mother fuckers and 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.240 motherfucker's was really tripping off of that ship. But then 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:48.879 here comes cocaine. So cocaine took us to another level. 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.960 Like the kids today they're using these drugs. The ship 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:56.639 they got today introduced me to cocaine anytime, compared to 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:00.320 the ship they used it now, and tripping happened, counting 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:05.640 up and doing this unnecessary as shooting ship is totally 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:11.199 different from cocaine. So I don't know. I don't I 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.320 can't say it's a system. I can't say it's our 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:18.080 fault that we constantly keep letting something or some type 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:22.680 of drug ruining our neighborhoods. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:24.600 it's it's funked up. It sucked up a whole bunch 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.200 of ships. My introduction to it, and I'm thinking about 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:30.600 it now. My introduction to it, actually first seeing it 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.639 was around eighty six because I was with my cousin. 0:22:33.760 --> 0:22:35.399 But you know, you always got a cousin. It's a 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:37.800 little bit more advanced than you. I had a cousin 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.240 that was already running up to Detroit back and forth 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.200