For any NYC teen growing up in the center city during the 1980’s your lasting image of the Black superman would be LARRY DAVIS (R.I.P.). No one else has survived a shootout and subsequent manhunt the way that LARRY had.
This is how the story goes…
He was a smalltime narco bagman for some Bronx cops when he decided that he was going to keep the money he was handling along with the drugs. The police came looking for him to take him down hard. They expected him to shoot back. They didn’t expect him to escape alive.
NYC (The Bronx and Harlem) was turned on its ear as every two-bit pusher, pimp and hustler was throttled by the police as they searched for DAVIS who was able to elude the beast for over two weeks. When they finally corralled LARRY and brought him out in cuffs before the media I was amazed that he wasn’t this 7ft tall hulk.
He was just a brother in a V-goose with a part in his dark ceasar and a pair of Air Jordans on his feet. I knew a thousand kids in the city who could have been LARRY DAVIS. As a matter of fact I did KNOW them. On Sunday I will go to Reed Annex for a FREE pop-shop party celebrating the re-issue of the classic V-goose jacket.
I’ll be repping for the realest brother to ever rock one.
Larry Davis was indeed the ghetto superman able to evade the 5-0 in a single bound. Remember all the “Yo, I seen Larry Davis” sightings.
Pardon me , DPites, I’m from L.A. So, what eventually happened, professor. I saw the RIP…
I got my original goose down on Delancey(Orchard St)! Black with the snap fur collar.
Damn…
All we need is a Bally boot revival and I’m good. It’s credit card time for real. This is a MUST COP(no 5-0).
dude dressed as someones grand mother to see what was goin down in the hallway and when the cops busted in they sent out the female 1st to check on his apt…he shot her fuckin teeth out…then proceeded to wet everything in sight…cant front he was my hustlin hero when i was comin up in the eighties. fuck a nino brown…they shuda made a Lino Down….
me being born in 82 i asked my brother about this guy. when b.e.t was doing that show i think called american gangstas. he was on it while it was playing i was talking to my bro while watching it took him back.