man, I remember getting to middle school and it being like a whole new world, from elementary. Elementary was super G-rated, and one month in 6-th grade was rated R
Everybody was cussin, there were fights, gangs, dudes had cliques, it's was crazy. And this was in Garland, I can't imagine Dallas, D-ville etc
I remember when the dudes who were Bloods were called "slobs", I think that's what the crips called them. And something else, maybe "oooo-lies" or something like that.
Then there were the mexican gangs like "Latin Locos" & "aTm clique"
I remember this lil dude named Jarvis Ross. It was always him, Ken Bohannon a couple other dudes. They were always together. Jarvis was a little dude but he was really good RB in football(lke Barry SAnders type) and bball player. But I think he kept gettingin trouble and I don't know what happened to him after middle school.
I remember this one Mexican dude I was cool with in Reading class, used to wear a Penguins Starter jacket or jersey everyday and he'd have ROLLS of $20s, $50's EVERY day. Like he had to be carrying $700-800 all the time at school. Back then I was still innocent to everything and I'd wonder how he got all that money, but its obvious he had to be slangin heavy.
Looking back, there was alot of crazy stuff back then that I didn't realize how dangerous it was until later. Once in high school, the police came to get this dude outta our math class b/c they found out he had a gun in his back pack.
Lol, Ken was cool as hell. He was starting fullback for us as a Soph. Had multiple 40 carry games. He used to hang out with Jarvis(we called him Dupree). He was on varsity for a little bit, but kept getting in trouble. Both of them used to have us trippin though. Don't know if you remember the scarecrow bandits a few years back? Dupree was one of them and got 330 years in the Fed. for armed robberies.
We had a bunch of dudes at Garland just not make it. Either in the pen or dead. I knew this one dude that got shot when we were sophs at a party after practice. Knew another dude that got shot about ten years ago in the Nawf. Was comin leaving a complex on Forest and got shot in the face. My damn best friend went to the pen for accessory and armed robbery, 35 to life. I look at pictures of our basketball teams from Austin, and I'm like damn, like 2 of the black dudes made it out including me. My parents were strict and I was just interested in school, so I wasn't out in them skreets, but damn if all kinds of fukkery would be told everyday. Our football team used to skruggle to keep dudes out of trouble. Was always someone getting arrested like weekly. Even a white dude got shot by a Vietnamese gang. We was still maintainin' at the top of the district.
Garland used to have a lot of Latino gangs on the east side. Glynn Boys, Taylor Boys, MS-13. Even them Tango Blast dudes started showing up. Some of them was affiliated with Surenos. Used to be daily fights. They wasn't bustin' guns like that, but they was goin head up, lol. Long socks, shaved heads with only a duck tail
Garland was like the main hub of skinhead gangs and white prison gangs back then. Now they more out of Kaufman County and like Van. Dudes used to straight up wear that Nazi shyt to school with them laid to the side 50s hairstyles and combat boots. Regular ass whoopins were doled out though, and it kind of self regulated itself out of the school. I used to swear we were going to have a massive school shooting because those dudes were emotional, wearing big trench coats and combat boots.
