Survived Early 90s Drug Game in NYC AMA

[Piri Tomas]

Slow day at work, thought I'd do one of these.

It's an AMA thread but don't ask for any names/specific details about anything (statute of limitations). The dead/currently incarcerated are fair game, but I still won't be speaking on anyone's case.

I wasn't a kingpin or anything, just a worker/corner manager mostly in Spanish Harlem/the South Bronx so don't ask me anything about how much the cartel charged for a bird.

Anything that happened in the streets after early '96 I have no idea, no adult record to speak of.

I can speak on gentrification too and how much these areas have changed.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

What were some of the names of the major players? If not them, at least name drop some lieutenants

 

[Address_Unknown]

Ever had to muscle someone out they own shyt on some stick up kid steez??​

 

[Piri Tomas]

What were some of the names of the major players? If not them, at least name drop some lieutenants

By the time I was really active, Rich Porter was dead, Alpo was in DC. Plus that was mostly the West Side. Where I was Bob Lemon's name rang out, the whole world was on the Obsession wave (Boy George), Pure Energy, K-Ci and Purple City, in the Bronx the extortion game was strong, had legends like C&C, Willis Ave Lynch Mob... Chicky in Hunts Point. Uptown by my era most of the legends were Rican/Dominican

 

[L&HH]

Most number of bricks you lost?

 

[Easy-E]

How prevelant was snitching?

 

[Piri Tomas]

Ever had to muscle someone out they own shyt on some stick up kid steez??

Stick up kids were mostly a separate entity. For the most part you did one or the other back then. There was enough money in the streets that you didn't even have to sell drugs, you could just rob people. That was a dangerous game though. All of those guys are dead or doing life.

 

[blockburna420]

are you serious?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

What's your biggest regret in that era?

 

[Piri Tomas]

Most number of bricks you lost?

We always lost product. Teddy jumping out on your people, or your people lying about Teddy jumping out. It's hard to quantify, but I lost a lot when I first went outside. It took a lot of time to learn the angles.

 

[Piri Tomas]

How prevelant was snitching?

Snitching has been big in every era. That's kind of why I wanted to do this thread. I'm sick and tired of these fake OGs in hip-hop romanticizing the old days. The most gully, grimiest killers from that era were also the biggest snitches. There were NO RULES then and there are no rules now. If a dude has the option to rat and go home or do life in the Feds 9 times out of 10 they'll choose the former over the latter. Back then a lot of the bosses also snitched on their workers.

 

[Piri Tomas]

What's your biggest regret in that era?

I don't really have regrets. I have trauma/scars, but back then being outside wasn't really an option, I used to hustle to eat at 13/14.

 

[EBK String]

Did curtis sc00n name ring out in the city?

 

[PaperEnterprise]

How much p*ssy you get?

 

[Bumblebreh]

What is the most fukked up shyt you dun seen?