I've asked some real dudes from VA, not gangsters or killers, just solid guys from the hood, that work for a living, and they've pretty much what the most reasonable responses in here were, that Push and Mal were in it...but not IN IT like that, and were regular kids in the neighborhood when they were teenagers, and there boy Geezy was the one....Some said it with more contempt then others, like dude above me, that Pusha was never like that, a good kid, others agreed but said he could come through the hoods over there, and got love....I think he's been around it, and done enough to rap about it, without being 'fake', or just a lying ass coward that's never seen anything in his bars....
His boy, Geezy cooperated though, agreed to cooperate with investigations/prosecution of his suppliers, for a 30 year sentence, on the condition his fam and wife kept drug proceeds and homes bought with illicit funds...thats the way the game goes though, esp. in those leagues....not saying it's right.