Definitely a classic thread here, but just a question, in all of your descriptions of NY's drug game, what do you think the dynamic of that culture is elsewhere?
Nobody amassed a name anywhere without being good at their craft, that ain't a NY-specific skill. The uniqueness in NY is the geography of the area, how everything is so vertical, do more people packed into larger buildings, but there are other places with that physical verticality.
Even without that though, the very nature of trying to make it as a dealer, means having to make it in your neighborhood first, then develop a name and brand with competing neighborhoods, and so on and so forth.
Killers exist everywhere and NY by virtue of being the biggest city here, has more killers in volume, but NY has never been among the most dangerous places per capita, there are places both past and present where murder is much more of a sport than it is in NY. So imagine what growing up in those environments is like, in addition to the fact that immigrants also aren't unique to NY.
Just pointing out that nothing you said is unique to NY but mf's respect NY because NY was the first big city here, so alot of historical trends began there. So we respect NY but only NYers, who grow up in the NY environment, think that they have the most treacherous proving ground---->which is also as homogenous and American as any other characteristic you mentioned, because there are other cities here also think they are the center of the universe
Being in the streets is a competitive sport in vast majority of places. We (the general public) are more familiar with NY names and faces but it's a 100% fact that there were Nicky Barnes', Alpo's, and whatever figure you wanna name---->there were guys just like this in many other places, back then, as it is now. This thread would always do bigger numbers than someone from another city saying the same shyt.
