While in LA, you watched your mother kill her brother in self-defense. In your documentary, you talk about staying away from killing those who did you wrong.
Did seeing murder at such a young age affect your mentality on violence? Even if you regret doing it later, once you sober up or calm down. For me, it just makes sense all the way around. You played tennis as a youth and your friend Cornell Ward played football. Both of you became ineligible for sports, and soon after you turned to the drug game. Were drugs or sports really the only lanes for young Black men at that time, and how have options changed for young Black men?
I think this is probably one of the roughest times to be young and Black in America. Hip-Hop has done… the drug game did a number on it. We intimidated the country with our drug dealings. I mean, they literally took movies and stories and told people they were real. People believe that this is real, the kids believe that these people are real.
Just like the guy that took my name They really believe that certain guys are Crips and Bloods, but they never really lived that life. When we sold drugs, it was hard to gang bang and sell drugs. Because to a certain extent, you become a public figure. When you were hustling, you were rich without being able to read. The kids who are in the game, and the kids trying to escape, what lesson would you share with both. I've never felt this way before. But something keeps telling me, enjoy this.
If you really peep the documentary, it talks about education. Education is not just what you go to school to learn. What is your opinion of Reaganomics, and how can you compare his policies to what is going on in politics today? When Reagan came in, he took out all the programs that they had for inner-city kids. Right now, for African-American males the unemployment rate is at an all-time high. I believe that times are really similar. I was just reading an article, couple months ago, and it talked about Blacks being totally broke in twenty years.
I was alarmed. We had a discussion about it, me and a couple of my friends, and they argued with me that it was impossible for Blacks to go broke in twenty years. So, I did a survey. Statistics would go against your claims, the unemployment rate in minority communities is actually at an all-time low.
Do you think those numbers are being manipulated? Is it authentic and should society go for it? Thursday 28 October Friday 29 October Saturday 30 October Sunday 31 October Monday 1 November Tuesday 2 November Wednesday 3 November Thursday 4 November Friday 5 November Saturday 6 November Sunday 7 November Monday 8 November Tuesday 9 November Wednesday 10 November Thursday 11 November Friday 12 November Saturday 13 November Sunday 14 November Monday 15 November Tuesday 16 November Wednesday 17 November Thursday 18 November Friday 19 November Saturday 20 November Sunday 21 November Monday 22 November Tuesday 23 November Wednesday 24 November Thursday 25 November Friday 26 November Saturday 27 November Sunday 28 November Monday 29 November Tuesday 30 November Wednesday 1 December Thursday 2 December Friday 3 December Saturday 4 December Sunday 5 December Monday 6 December Tuesday 7 December Wednesday 8 December Thursday 9 December Friday 10 December Saturday 11 December Sunday 12 December Monday 13 December Tuesday 14 December Wednesday 15 December Thursday 16 December Friday 17 December Saturday 18 December Sunday 19 December Monday 20 December Tuesday 21 December Wednesday 22 December Thursday 23 December Friday 24 December Saturday 25 December Sunday 26 December Monday 27 December Tuesday 28 December Wednesday 29 December Thursday 30 December Friday 31 December Saturday 1 January Sunday 2 January Monday 3 January Tuesday 4 January Wednesday 5 January Thursday 6 January Friday 7 January Saturday 8 January Sunday 9 January A renowned drug dealer, Ross harvested millions as an unknowing participant of Central Intelligence Agency and U.
Drug Enforcement Agency operatives, who provided him with unlimited amounts of cocaine. The true story behind the crack scourge, featuring exclusive interviews with characters who lived it. Their stories reveal a crack in the system that implicates the centers of power in our government, their mass incarceration policies and militarization of police, the spread of gangs and guns, and the loss of entire generations to the war on drugs. At the center of the story stands the reformed King of Crack, Freeway Rick Ross, once just a clever kid from South Central with dreams of becoming the next tennis great and his eyes fixed on the good life.
Freeway Rick—not to be confused with the rapper, Rick Ross, who took his name and identity—built a drug empire that spread crack cocaine across the country, ruining millions of lives but profoundly influencing street culture in its wake.
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