murksiderock
Superstar
The only people who deify Wop are people who think that everybody with a body is the real deal. Like, nikkas robbed you and you had the hammer, were you not supposed to clap somebody? Doesn't warrant some extra praise...
When I was in Atlanta, we're talking 2013-14, I managed to link with a cat who grew up with Wop through some dealing. The dude's character was verifiable, not that i was looking into him, but he got me into a strip club that used to be off Ponce De Leon back then, and there were other cats there. The guy I'm talking about was solid, so I have no reason to think he would make up shyt...
I was 24 at the time, he was about 9-10 years older than me. Same age as Wop and if you're from Zone 6 side and tapped into the politics you'd probably know who I'm referencing if I mentioned this cat. He wasn't no kingpin or nothing outlandish, but a cat from Gucci era who had done bids and was active in the streets and wasn't a nobody...
This wasn't the day at the club, it just came up in random conversation we were chopping one day, I asked him how they felt about Wop in the hood, his era who grew up with dude. This is pretty much a summary of what he told me:
"Gucci cool, I fukk with him. Know his momma, his family. He was always a little different though, you know some cats from your hood where the lightbulb doesn't always go on at the top? He a little off, but he cool. He was kind of a sendoff, he was the nikka in the hood you'd gas up to do dumb shyt, cause you knew he would do it"...
Cat I'm talking about was 34 at the time, I remember now he was a decade older than me, cause he asked me about if I was affiliated since I was from Cali, I told him yeah, and he was telling me bout how he didn't bang but in prison he hung out with SMM and knew the NY cats that brought it to Atlanta. I asked him if that's how Gucci got on to the Blood shyt:
"To be honest I don't know where he got that shyt from (laughing), cause that shyt new here, like it wasn't out here when we were growing up. None of my nikkas who real Bloods from NY and put nikkas on really associate with dude, don't nobody know where he got that from. Like it wasn't no Cali nikkas coming thru Zone 6 putting nikkas on, we all think he just got it from jail. Dead ass he came home from jail one day and was wearing red bandanas out here (laughing), nikkas was like that's Gucci for ya"...
So the Bloods he knew that were put ons from the NY cats never pressed Gucci: "nah cause Wop a pop off now, he ain't a sucka. Plus he was already getting buzz rapping at the time, nobody was really on that. But how dude talks this hella bricks talk, nah, Wop wasn't no trapper like that. He was a nikka who would rob dopeboys and have a little weight on him, ball for a few weeks before going broke or going back to jail again. He was a Jack boy, that's the Gucci I know. I dont know nothing about him being this dopeboy with hella bricks, there was nikkas from our hood, including myself, who was like that and he wasn't in those circles. I'm telling you I grew up with the nikka, if he was here right now he'd tell you the same. Some of us were really getting money. Wop was a robber, nikkas knew he was on that, he wasn't the type to post up and get it"....
So he was with the gunplay? "He had some shootouts here and there, cats knew if he had he'd use it. Wasn't like nikkas were shook of him, he from here, we all know him. Big as he us he can't fight (laughing). He'll lay something down if he had to bit it was alota nikkas in our age like that, he wasn't unique. The unique thing about dude was he was a little off so he'd do shyt like the bandana shyt I'm telling you, march to the beat of his own drum. But we proud of dude, we fukk with him"...
Asked him if the gay shyt Snow mentioned bout Wop was true: "nah I never heard no gay shyt about dude, that ain't never been on him. But he did do hella drugs, it wouldn't surprise me if he did some off the wall shyt while high, but I never heard no gay shyt"...
