Crack Clouds Over Hells Kitchen (1988)

[96Blue]

I don't know why this shyt popped up in my recommendations.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Breh in the red tank top
Negra
The irony of Slim in the wheelchair
Growing up during that era and seeing one of my Uncle’s on that shyt
And his wife
He got into it with his wife one night visiting our crib..
Both were high as a kite..
Chased her out the front door with a cast iron skillet and molly wopped her upside the head..
She fell to the ground for one hot minute and was back on her feet running like nothing happened..
She stayed with him 6 more years and they always were into fukkery..
Looking back on it..
That’s some fukked up shyt to see as a kid but I didn’t understand the ramifications of crack at the time..
Didn’t understand substance abuse period..
One of my aunties is an alcoholic..
So just imagine a dope fiend and a alcoholic in the same room..
At the same damn time
And only one of them has changed and is sober now..
Don’t know why I was compelled to post this..
Video just brought back memories

 

[Auger]

Why were so many older adults hooked on crack? I always thought drug abuse skewed younger.

 

[96Blue]

Breh in the red tank top
Negra
The irony of Slim in the wheelchair
Growing up during that era and seeing one of my Uncle’s on that shyt
And his wife
He got into it with his wife one night visiting our crib..
Both were high as a kite..
Chased her out the front door with a cast iron skillet and molly wopped her upside the head..
She fell to the ground for one hot minute and was back on her feet running like nothing happened..
She stayed with him 6 more years and they always were into fukkery..
Looking back on it..
That’s some fukked up shyt to see as a kid but I didn’t understand the ramifications of crack at the time..
Didn’t understand substance abuse period..
One of my aunties is an alcoholic..
So just imagine a dope fiend and a alcoholic in the same room..
At the same damn time
And only one of them has changed and is sober now..
Don’t know why I was compelled to post this..
Video just brought back memories

Honestly Breh, these vintage (for lack of a better word) videos are always dope to me for some odd reason.

 

[WaveGang]

Why were so many older adults hooked on crack? I always thought drug abuse skewed younger.

Watching your dreams die will do it to you bruh

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

This footage was dope

It actually validated how Hip Hop emerged from the CRACK SMOKE



It was the best of times and the worst of times

I lived it

Great music by eric b and rakim.. Run Dmc.. Big Daddy Kane. ..public enemy...

But horrible conditions in our communities turned out by crack houses and drug crews

 

[Real N Quotes]

Breh in the red tank top
Negra
The irony of Slim in the wheelchair
Growing up during that era and seeing one of my Uncle’s on that shyt
And his wife
He got into it with his wife one night visiting our crib..
Both were high as a kite..
Chased her out the front door with a cast iron skillet and molly wopped her upside the head..
She fell to the ground for one hot minute and was back on her feet running like nothing happened..
She stayed with him 6 more years and they always were into fukkery..
Looking back on it..
That’s some fukked up shyt to see as a kid but I didn’t understand the ramifications of crack at the time..
Didn’t understand substance abuse period..
One of my aunties is an alcoholic..
So just imagine a dope fiend and a alcoholic in the same room..
At the same damn time
And only one of them has changed and is sober now..
Don’t know why I was compelled to post this..
Video just brought back memories

Yep. The block was hot back in 88 man. I seen so many crackheads in Brownsville and ENY
Family and friends caught up in that shyt

 

[Rusty$hackleford]

Is that park out there still like this with open drug use?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

My college John Jay is located in Hell Kitchen/Lincoln Center. Students were scared to leave campus back then.

There’s a methadone clinic next to the school that attracts a lot of junkies still.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

Is that park out there still like this with open drug use?

Not to that extent he’ll no. Most of the junkies are at the methadone clinic on 57th St.

Also the area looks much different today. Lots of high rises now!

 

[Piff Perkins]

Why were so many older adults hooked on crack? I always thought drug abuse skewed younger.

If you were in your teens or 20s in the 1970s you probably experimented with something, be if weed or coke. You also likely partied and were used to recreational drug use. When crack hit in the 1980s a lot of people assumed it was like coke or weed - something you just do here or there at parties. Instead it got people addicted and the rest is history.

 

[Doctor Wily]

The girl negra sounds like a late 80s version of Cardi B

 

[David_TheMan]

If you were in your teens or 20s in the 1970s you probably experimented with something, be if weed or coke. You also likely partied and were used to recreational drug use. When crack hit in the 1980s a lot of people assumed it was like coke or weed - something you just do here or there at parties. Instead it got people addicted and the rest is history.

LOL
crack is chemically cocaine. It isn't extra addictive just cheaper.
coke heads spend money and youth on coke, get older, and use crack.
They were addicts, the stigma of their addiction changed, nothing more and nothing less.

Blame the people, not the drugs, its their choice to use, their choice to continue

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

crack is chemically cocaine. It isn't extra addictive just cheaper.

Crack is way more addictive than cocaine because the highs are very different... due to crack being smoked

 

[David_TheMan]

Crack is way more addictive than cocaine because the highs are very different

No it isn't.
Numerous studies prove it isn't as well.
The difference you are describing is the method of absorbion, smoking is a different effect than snorting, same as injecting power cocaine is more "intense" than smoking.

Crack cocaine and cocaine hydrochloride. Are the differences myth or reality? - PubMed - NCBI

This shyt has long been proven scientifically.