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