Breh on twitter is posting news clips from the 80's crack era

[FeloniousMonk]

Anita didn’t, but these cats did

C'mon blood.

Imma grown ass man.

Don't try and ruin my childhood with allegories.

Please.

I mean they where talking about being in love...right..

RIGHT?

 

[invalid]

You don't think that energy comes back around though? No wrong goes unpunished. Karma has no deadline.

Well, it’s a comforting thought, isn’t it? We have to put our hope in something, I guess, otherwise, we’ll see the universe as it really is; hostile, impersonal, and devours it’s own to survive.

 

[Wildhundreds]

No, I'm not familiar with North. Did he both bring drugs into the black community and then propose and put forward a bill in Congress to speed up mass incarceration?!

He was a military advisor in the 80s who ran guns to Nicaragua and drugs back to southern California.. The real rick ross was caught up in that..

 

[Waterproof]

C'mon blood.

Imma grown ass man.

Don't try and ruin my childhood with allegories.

Please.

I mean they where talking about being in love...right..

RIGHT?

Bruh read the lyrics. He was talking about that shyt

 

[truth2you]

But brehs, it hasn't gotten demonstrably worse. Black people aren't destroyed. Violent crimes in our community is much lower than it was 30 years ago... drug addiction, the same.

It is unfortunate that some were locked up for merely getting high or possessing small amounts of weed or something. That was probably an over-correction that wasn't accounted for. But the problem still needed to be addressed, and if we can use life now as evidence for how effective those policies were, then I'd say it wasn't all bad. It's sort of like #MeToo.... sure it's fukked up when people lump in those who make off-color or sexist jokes with the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.... but the situation was so fukked up that it's ALL gotta get addressed.

Again, youre wrong. Crime was falling right when that bill was written in 1994, I remember because I followed the crime stats for every year.

My take is people just got tired of the game. The worse of the worse got locked up, the rest got tired of crack, and weed became the new shyt. Look at the years we are talking about. Crack hit NYC in 1985, by 1988 money was all over the place, and guns started being everywhere to the point teenagers had acess to every gun, and could afford them

Then by 1993, people was getting locked up all the time, and wanted better, plus realized violence stopped money. Then 1996 comes, and a lot was coming home from prison, and cocaine wasn't the money maker it used to be. Rap became the new hustle, and you saw the rise of rappers, dis, and producers all over the country for street people. This is why the music started to change

It wasn't locking people up that changed shyt, people just wanted better, but white society doesn't see us as human so they don't even know any of this stuff. I know because I seen it with the people around me

Weed help keep a lot of people off crack. By 1996 stronger weed was around more.

 

[truth2you]

There was no high lead where I lived and the crime was just as bad, if not worse, than the high lead areas. Most of the areas hardest hit didn't have that issue, either.​

Where you lived?

 

[malbaker86]

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

So that's where the term basehead came from.

Yeah, that was the thing in the 70's. Richard Pryor did a routine about it and it was immortalized forever in the song White Lines by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5.​

 

[cheek100]

This won't be a popular opinion, but the Crime Bill saved more people than it harmed. If you survived the 80's like some of us did, you'd understand.

Did it go overboard? Absolutely.

At that time, it was NOTHING to see whole families/neighborhoods destroyed by predators allowed to roam freely preying on their own people because law enforcement was understaffed, underarmed, and undertrained to deal with what was going on. Gangs, dealers, and straight criminals ran the streets, the businesses, and in many places, the local government.​

There are people from my childhood/teens that I am glad will NEVER be free.​

I gotta agree to a certain extent. Only cats that were really in it understand. The crack wave was way more than rap lyrics. EVERYONE was affected by rocks in someway. One minute u having Easter with all your normal family next minute your whole family split over your favorite unc stealing goods or your favorite aunt (or your own moms) in jail for prostitution. 12 year olds quitting school to commit murder. Local sports stars GUARANTEED to go D1 shot dead in broad day. -see Len Bias

Then only to find out your best homeboy gets jammed up with some knuckle head. They charge him bc he was in the trap, not selling anything at all. His moms let two dealers trap out her garage. They take everyone to jail. Your mans gets 35 years just for being in that garage playing dominoes.

 

[truth2you]

Yes, my point is it's not just the government doing all these terrible things. Please stop reading Hotep Weekly.

So a cia agent was hotep?

What's sad is you don't even know what was happening, but won't accept what's being told to you. It's cause it's black people. Black people used to say the same shyt you just said when hoteps would tell us the government was bringing the drugs in. It's sad we have proof, and people like you still don't get it or want to hear it

If you are serious, read the damn article
Examining Charges of CIA Role in Crack Sales

How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Where you lived?

Asbury Park and Neptune, NJ.

Everyone along the shore came here to get drugs/hookers. You ask anyone who lives in Jersey about AP and they'll tell you this was the place to be unless you went up north to Newark or NYC.​

 

[cozy carl]

80's were

I was born in 77 and I seen how crack and Gangs rocked our community...

Pimps, Gangsta, Hustlers, Playas, The Reverend, The Deacon, Local Sports Athletes, Doctors, Lawyers all rocked Jherri Curls

Hip Hop was what youngins did

​

 

[truth2you]

So that's where the term basehead came from.

Crack was the poor man's version of freebase. Only rich people could afford freebase. You needed ether to make it, and it was dangerous

That's why when crack hit you was the man because only rich people or people who had money could afford cocaine($100 A gram), and freebase

 

[truth2you]

Asbury Park and Neptune, NJ.

Everyone along the shore came here to get drugs/hookers. You ask anyone who lives in Jersey about AP and they'll tell you this was the place to be unless you went up north to Newark or NYC.​

Well you proved me right, they were getting high. You don't lock up addicts, you fix them before they get to the point they doing heinous crimes

 

[IceDragon]

The sheer amount of damage the crack era did man..


I've asked my mother about it before since i was born in 89 and she get all eventually. She lost a few home girls she knew since high school in this era.