RandomDudeOnColi
Banned
Interesting stories so far.
What was living in the Crack era like?
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Doobie Doo
Veteran
my parents worked jobs that required extensive travel so I stayed with my grandma in NE DC a lot. This was usually a safe middle class area but crack ravaged everywhere. I remember seeing a crackhead getting stabbed at Turkey Thicket park when I was shooting hoops at like 7 or 8. I ran back home crying and scared that if my grandma found out I'd never leave the house again.
Pops made a come up. Bought a ran down house on Irving st in DC for 70K loan from the bank. Place was horrible in the 80s man, crackheads getting murdered in front of the house. Drugs deals, fights, shootings YOU NAME IT! Kept the house and remodel it, renovated. Now the whole area been gentrified and the house is worth about half milly. Last time I went there they had the millennials walking their tiny dogs in the middle of the night and stuff
Pops made a come up. Bought a ran down house on Irving st in DC for 70K loan from the bank. Place was horrible in the 80s man, crackheads getting murdered in front of the house. Drugs deals, fights, shootings YOU NAME IT! Kept the house and remodel it, renovated. Now the whole area been gentrified and the house is worth about half milly. Last time I went there they had the millennials walking their tiny dogs in the middle of the night and stuff
AFRAM GLORY
Superstar
Mid eighties me and fam lived in this neighborhood called quadvilla. I was around 5-6 when I witnessed crack taking off. My grandma's youngest brother Master was in a shootout with the neighborhood dopeman reesie. I never met him before, he just popped up that day. My momma was yelling at him to chill out, dude hiding behind cars shooting the Uzi at reesie lol.
Same week, reesie is in a car chase with the police. He must've had kilos of hard in the back of his truck and it flipped over. The hard got ran over from the cop cars. Damn near the whole section of that side of the neighborhood ran to the road with utensils and started scooping hard out that street pavement putting it in cups and bowls. Mane im talking old folks, parents, teenagers they was going crazy trying to get all that rock outta the pavement. I'll never forget that day
Same week, reesie is in a car chase with the police. He must've had kilos of hard in the back of his truck and it flipped over. The hard got ran over from the cop cars. Damn near the whole section of that side of the neighborhood ran to the road with utensils and started scooping hard out that street pavement putting it in cups and bowls. Mane im talking old folks, parents, teenagers they was going crazy trying to get all that rock outta the pavement. I'll never forget that day
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Doctor Wily
CapcomSwag
2 uncles died from aids
1 aunt died from aids but she did drugs hard body out where she lived in the Bronx.
Food tasted better back then
Both parents had great jobs , we'd get new nintendo games every other week , new clothes , we were like the Queens Village huxtables of the 80's and early 90s... till they got divorced and shyt started to go left in Queens when Dinkins got into office
1 aunt died from aids but she did drugs hard body out where she lived in the Bronx.
Food tasted better back then
Both parents had great jobs , we'd get new nintendo games every other week , new clothes , we were like the Queens Village huxtables of the 80's and early 90s... till they got divorced and shyt started to go left in Queens when Dinkins got into office
RandomDudeOnColi
Banned
Damn.
Uncle Kingpin
No Relation
Seeing friends moms sell everything out the house from tvs, xmas presents to groceries for crack. Fiends lined up to around the corner like its black friday. Seeing older kids go from a dirtball on a pedal bike to a new maxima or audi 5000 in a couple weeks selling crack, then getting murdered all in the same year. Shootouts in broad daylight....I remember there was a running gun battle in my pjs that went on for blocks on some terminator shyt....went from revolvers to fully auto uzis....ambulance sirens all night long....calling 911 and them never coming. Everybodys fathers disappearing for some reason like drugs/prison or no reason at all. 
Parents used to just let kids run the streets back when there really were creeps snatching kids. we would wake up, have breakfast and leave and roam til dark. It was nothing for me to get sent to the corner store and buy cigarettes and beer for my grandma when I was in elementary school. Food stamps were embarrassing as shyt they looked like monopoly money not on a card like now. 
Saturday morning cartoons then kung fu theater. Penny candy and 25 cent sodas. People actually knew their neighbors and looked out for each other. Nobody would mind if you beat your kid in public. It was expected, I even remember getting beat on by any adult who knew you or your family was normal. We didnt have much so we would make things from what was thrown away like hoops out of milk crates or use pissy mattresses to have wrestling matches on.
havoc
Superstar
In my block, hookers were everywhere roaming the streets. The streets were littered with broken crack pipes, cigarettes, empty beer bootles, and used condoms. 
Recycling cans was one of the biggest hustle in the early 90s if you didn't have a job. Every week somebody getting shot. I remembered the few times I've witnessed drug test, drive bys, and watched a man got stabbed in his ass
Recycling cans was one of the biggest hustle in the early 90s if you didn't have a job. Every week somebody getting shot. I remembered the few times I've witnessed drug test, drive bys, and watched a man got stabbed in his ass
IVS
Superstar
I was living in Curries Woods Projects then. Sh!t was so crazy as kid, with all the drug dealers in front of the buildings and in the lobbies. Hella violent too.
live it to the limit
All Star
I remember a lot of my classmates being raised by their grandmother, aunt, etc because their parents were " on that stuff."
Some of my parents friends from the neighborhood and that they went to high school with being "on that stuff."
It was sad to hear stories about how certain people had it going on and then went down because of their crack usage. But then there were also "functioning " crack users that could hold down a job and keep a place to stay and only go on their "sprees" when they got the jones to smoke.
Some of my parents friends from the neighborhood and that they went to high school with being "on that stuff."
It was sad to hear stories about how certain people had it going on and then went down because of their crack usage. But then there were also "functioning " crack users that could hold down a job and keep a place to stay and only go on their "sprees" when they got the jones to smoke.
U ever see Wayne Perry in the flesh ??
Yes, I've seen him. Since we moved into his old house, he would come around and speak to my mom & older siblings so they interacted with him more.
I don't know about Wayne & Rayful being related.
Damn, breh, I was just playing on your username, didn't mean to bring up unpleasant memories
Hold some rep as reparations
Thanks man, from a legal perspective I wouldn't say what I've witnessed
Damn, breh, I was just playing on your username, didn't mean to bring up unpleasant memories
Hold some rep as reparations
That's cool, but I left a lot of those folks behind as soon as I was able to do so. Unfortunately the only gatherings I attend are family reunions and funerals.
The fukkery they were involved with...whew...the only reason I wasn't taken to CPS is because the case worker was a Sistah and didn't believe in breaking up Black families, so she told ma dukes leave or I am reporting...
A lot of scams went on then as they do now to short SSI, welfare, SSD, etc. Able-bodied folk taking government checks and hitting the casinos, gambling, etc.
I attended funerals of older cousins and at the time I didn't know why the caskets were closed.
I remember doing the dropping to the floor quite a bit because of random gunfire.
Good things to witness were sports,music, movies, and television which predicated the 90's...
Seeing Batman and Ghostbusters 2 in theaters:
