Troy still on some weak shyt. The streets only a "myth" for people unaware of the checks and balances; most dudes who get into it young learn the rules young. These dudes who get into it later have the misperception of these media rules...
Everybody should know there's always the threat of snitches and potential snitches. There's always the threat of your people turning on you, your "brothers". All that is in the game...
Troy justifies not really being cut like that with the streets being a myth...
Just to point out where my point of view is coming from, I used to despise snitches...
Being a snitch makes you the biggest p*ssy possible. This doesn't mean they won't hurt you in an advantageous situation but it also doesn't make them admirable gangsters because they'd still hurt you despite telling on people...
Regarding Po, couple things:
•there's an account of some dude back in the day smacking him up for fukking his woman, anyone know the story on this?
•Silk Perry says Po wasn't cut like that and he knew it...
•Alpo did his whole 24 years PC'd up, this dude was not on a normal yard around peers...
Personally I'm not inclined to believe Po was this rare breed of G, because there are types like him, guys that are dangerous with guns in their hands or with advantageous circumstances. There are guys who are street tough, guys who are prison tough, and some who are both. Prison is the ultimate exposal grounds because when you gotta walk that yard all that shyt you were part of outside is secondary to the activities of how you demo inside----->MANY nikkas will kill you on the streets and get the bytch brought out of them inside...
For this reason alone I'm not buying into the notion of Po as a different breed or respectable g, let alone other reasons. The nikka wouldn't even walk the yard after telling, and contrary to popular belief, there are snitches who are walking the yards at max prisons with a variety of outcomes...
I read up on his story the last few days and multiple accounts say this dude broke down in tears in court the day after his arrest, and immediately became an informant. Like, this nikka didn't even need time to bake on it, within a few days or a week he was already ratting. This is the worst kind of "street nikka", when he's up its all good but these types don't handle adversity well...
I've told dudes on here before, there are cats walking with verified bodies on them who really ain't cut like that. A nikka having killed someone only gets viewed as a "real gangster" outside the streets, ie by non-street folks, on the internet, in our media, etc...
Po was a killer and a "savage" in more ways than one definition but he was also kind of soft and if one nikka (Silk) saw it in him, there were others who did too. Whether people "ran down" on him checking his gangster is irrelevant as many dudes steer clear of people they get these impressions from anyway; other guys prefer not to involve themselves in politics that don't directly involve them, meaning if Po never hurt someone affiliated with them, they don't see the value in creating an issue where there is none...
So the crowd on here that says "well no one was checking him", this flies over your head...
The main issue here is "the streets" have become so saturated and oversimplified with galmorization, hype, entertainment, that people misperceive what it's really like in these rooms unless you've been in them, or what the players in the game are really like unless you've been them or around them directly...
Add to the glorification 80s dudes (and now 90s) get in general, there's a certain mythology those older guys take on as the decades disappear and the truth gets blurry. Obviously dude was a real factor in his day, but money and power (which he had in his youth) mask character deficiencies, and to the common observer if you've killed someone you're American Gangster....
Po was a gangster but not a unique breed of one and him being a gangster doesn't exclude him from being a buster...
