In 83 what were the alternatives, I'll wait...
Do your history breh, it explains a lot of why the crack epidemic went down the way it did.
It wasn't as simple as don't sell drugs. Your applying 2017 logic to the past. Don't work that way.
Why not, they are victims too. Them nikkas spent their entire lives chasing fools gold.
Once again, I BEG YOU nikkaS TO DO YOUR HISTORY ON WHAT YOUR PEOPLE BEEN THROUGH.
In the 80's there was literally no choice. Jay Z breaks this shyt down brilliantly in his music. And I think you guys apply the logic of today's clown ass generation to the past.
That's where u mess up. Because those dudes were living in EXTREME POVERTY, most people in NYC lived in abandoned buildings at that time. Straight up dens, good frame of reference is documentaries like "Rubble Kings", "80 Blocks from Tiffanys", "Harlem: Our Faces, Our Voices" etc. they lived in ground zero level circumstances. There was no school, there were no jobs, you couldn't even be a train conductor or bus operator back then.
So when u take someone is dirt level homeless poor and tell them there is a MILLION DOLLAR OPPORTUNITY right there for them. What you think they gonna do!?!?!?
Let me ask you this... WHAT WOULD YOU DO?!? Your mom hungry, your sister pregnant, and you don't have any options outside of low lever labor minimum wage work? You gon trap.
These nikkas ain't choose that life, that shyt was a game of survival.
I was lucky enough to have uncles who explained these things to me.
The OGs I've spoken to from the "old New York" era didn't have the details to his case until his girlfriend Santra Rucker revealed info from HIS unsealed case
thats some shyt but at the end of the day thats why crime dont pay. At least he's trying to turn a negative to a postive and speak to the youth.
At drug dealers being homeless with a pregnant sister and hungry mother, then voila they become dealers. That sound like one of them true to game books or some chit like that. 
