“Nigga gotta find a way, find a way to make some money” – 213
I have had designs on putting out a book detailing my youth in and around NYC, but there is a crush of writers turning out the worst bullshiite you could ever read. I don’t want to be lumped in together with these miscreants. How the fuck can you be functionally illiterate and still publish a book?!?
I can’t hate on these folks too hard because they have found a way to activate people into the habit of reading. We are living in a post-literate civilization. People receive information from television and radio well before they will pick up a newspaper. So for some folks to be able to sell books to convicts and the jigs on 125th Street is no small feat.
So where do I start? Do people want to read about NYC in the 1980’s? Everybody is pushing the story of crack cocaine, but no one is telling the truth about the destruction left in the wake of the epidemic. That was Black America’s tsunami 20years before Hurricane Katrina touched the coastline. Maybe I should tell my truths about selling drugs and taking drugs. There is an intimate connection between the users and the sellers and more often than not the roles get reversed.
I really want to put my story out about my asshole years and all the women I abused during the time that I hated myself. I had a contentious relationship with my family that almost resulted in my parents’ divorce and was probably responsible for the disconnect that I have with my younger brother.
So much shit to write about…
Damn, thanks for letting me think out loud to your eyes. I have to give thanks to all the good folks that ride with this site no matter what I put on these pages. Y’all will be the folks that get a free copy of the first hardcover edition. Now I am going back to bed and what I was enjoying before I decided to get up to jot down my thoughts.
First of all that chimp brain flick is just WRONG.
Second, I am obsessed w/ the crack epidemic and the fact that no one is doing anything substancial about the meth epidemic.
Third, I was just telling someone the other day about how there was a huge shift in public education before and after cracks.
Dall, u usta sell cracks…say word?!?!?!?!?
All them stories need to be told fam.
You should seriously publish that shit. The world needs to hear the story of
the crack epidemic. Nobody is actually going into how it destroyed the black community.
I’d tell every one I know to buy your book.
And I didn’t know you sold crak!
Damn.
Hell yeah we literate folks wanna read that shyt. Get to word slangin, son.
Write it down. We are still waiting for the scans from FED Magazine interview of your “brother”.
word to Big Bird smokin’ herb on the curb I will post the F.E.D.S. mag piece before this week is done. Nah’Mean?!?