Goddam that Barksdale Crew was the shyt
They seemed like a legit crew of friends/family that grew up together. Marlo had Chris and Snoop, but I'll never comprehend why these nikkas were allowed to run buck wild like that. Nobody ever shot back??
What was the most important fukk up Barksdales made from seasons 1-3 of the wire?
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Goddam that Barksdale Crew was the shyt
They seemed like a legit crew of friends/family that grew up together. Marlo had Chris and Snoop, but I'll never comprehend why these nikkas were allowed to run buck wild like that. Nobody ever shot back??
Goddam that Barksdale Crew was the shyt
Well lets analyze
Marlo came up corner by corner by picking up loose corners near barksdale territory, muscling in on barksdale corners when their product was weak as shyt, and riding out on the ragtag crew of guys that stringer bell had on the streets (40 degree day
) and taking advantage of their weakness. At the same time, marlo was taking advantage of the tactical errors and divide in the barksdale team, them making themselves strategically weaker with the coop, and having to wage 2 wars at once with omar and with marlo himself.
Stringer virtually surrendering the corners (to dudes like marlo) for the towers which were later demolished, was a huge mistake...marlo saw that "barksdale weak" moved in simple as that. Even if avon hadnt gotten locked, he wouldve gotten got by chris and snoop eventually. shyt, they got to him in the truck once, and shot up his shoulder.
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No way. Dog, do you remember how tooled up and deep Avon was in that safehouse before he got busted? They had like 30 nikkas with machine guns and grenades and shyt, lol. They would've crushed Marlo's team if it wasn't for the CID investigation and Stringer snitching. They could've killed Marlo, Snoop, and Chris at the rim shop that very day but Avon was real emotional over killing Stringer and hesitated to make the call. They knew about the rim shop so it would've only been a matter of time before they got him there.Well lets analyze
Marlo came up corner by corner by picking up loose corners near barksdale territory, muscling in on barksdale corners when their product was weak as shyt, and riding out on the ragtag crew of guys that stringer bell had on the streets (40 degree day
At the same time, marlo was taking advantage of the tactical errors and divide in the barksdale team, them making themselves strategically weaker with the coop, and having to wage 2 wars at once with omar and with marlo himself.
Stringer virtually surrendering the corners (to dudes like marlo) for the towers which were later demolished, was a huge mistake...marlo saw that "barksdale weak" moved in simple as that. Even if avon hadnt gotten locked, he wouldve gotten got by chris and snoop eventually. shyt, they got to him in the truck once, and shot up his shoulder.
Marlo was just lucky in seasons 3 and 4. The Barksdale crew was under investigation and suffering from a leadership rift and then all got taken down by the law. And Marlo's team avoided investigation because they shut down the major crimes unit. He was all talking on the phone and hanging at the same spot out in the open. He wasn't some kind of criminal mastermind or dude that could've have gotten got in the streets. He had a lot of circumstances turn his way. Bruh was straight G in season 5, though.
I just wanted to comment on this...
In season 3, when Mcnulty's file showed Marlo was only 22 I was
The writers went overboard on building up Marlo and crew. It's like Chris and Snoop [and then Michael] were the only people in Baltimore with guns and shytThey'd be like, "Hey, let's go take a walk over here to these vacants" and nikkas was like "Sure
" And they were murkin' New York nikkas without any fear of retribution?
And then the Co-op, a group of hardened gangstas and drug dealers, were ALL that shook by Marlo
Think about it this way......back in the day in DC, Rayful Edmonds was only 23 with a $300 million dollar drug empire
Wayne Perry was around 26 and had nikkas so fukking shook when his boys came home from prison broke, they'd go rob random drug spots. Park outside. Send his boy in there saying "Wayne said don't make him have to get out the car" & they all knew better than to argue 
What you calling ducktales actually happened. Rayful was a young dude (Marlo) running an entire city;
on all them old muthafukkas & Wayne (Chris/Snoop) had everybody scared he'd empty a round in their head. Go read up on him. There's a special section in Hell waiting for that man. Ray & Silk were rivals though. Just using them for an example. I'm pretty sure there were PLENTY of old nikkas in DC that wanted no problems with them young nikkas.
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Think about it this way......back in the day in DC, Rayful Edmonds was only 23 with a $300 million dollar drug empire
What you calling ducktales actually happened. Rayful was a young dude (Marlo) running an entire city;
How were they rivals if they were cousins.
You sure Rayful & Wayne was cousins?
Why would a nikka be thinking his own cousin would kill him, sending kilos his way to get in his good graces? Wayne “Silk” Perry « Gorilla Convict
“Wayne was so smooth with that murder shyt that when he first started killing for money in the city nikkas didn’t even know who was knockin’ them heads. nikkas was talking about it was a hit man in town from Detroit somewhere,” a dude from the era says. And as Silk’s name took on the eminence of his actions, he quickly became one of the most feared dudes in the city. “Some nikkas used to try to feed slim to keep him off they ass.” Manny says. “Rayful Edmond used to try to drop loads of shyt down 203, but Wayne used to be like, ‘Nah, I’m cool. I don’t want nothing from you.’ He wanted to make his own way. He had a game plan.” It was said that when Wayne was on the streets, certain hustlers wouldn’t even drive nice cars because they didn’t want Wayne to think they were getting money. And weak dudes or those that were punks weren’t supposed to have shyt as far as Wayne was concerned. Eighty percent of the dudes that fukked with him back then did so out of fear. When he started taking money for hits nobody was safe. If the price was right and the joker wasn’t in Wayne’s circle he had no problem killing them. There are stories of Silk sleeping in the yards of dudes that had money on their heads until he could get them. “I don’t play that across the street shyt,” Wayne says. “I walk right up and put seven in the head like it ain’t shyt.” The fear that he put in the hearts of some people was like no other.
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How would being cousins (assuming they were) prevent them from being rivals?
They fukked up by killing Omar's boy Brandon the way that they did. The Barksdale crew had enough problems to deal with from: Marlo and his crew, McNulty and Major Crimes's wire taps, competition from Prop Joe and Brother Mouzine (problem specifically for Stringer). They didn't need a lose cannon like Omar constantly coming after them like Batman cause Batman don't have jurisdiction and neither did Omar. fukking with Omar led to Stringer's death which fukked with Avon enough to lead to his downfall.
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"Continuing to use the office at Orlandos when they knew he was caught up and dirty"
eventually a cop ended up getting shoot behind that....
eventually a cop ended up getting shoot behind that....
I had to stop reading your post there. Marlo wasn't teaming up with nobody. The show clearly showed that dude wanted everything.
Orlando indrectly and directly caused:
D'angelo to get locked, and killed
Greggs shot
Himself hilled
Little man killed
Wee bey locked
Avon locked
Sovino locked
Poot locked
shyt blew up the investigation and attracted volcano heat to the case.
Greedy ass dumb nikka...dude didnt suspect shyt from a random at the club offering him a connect from NEW ORLEANS
Stringer trying to do street business like an Econ class was what deaded the organization.
String was gassed off of those college courses, but he couldn't apply that to the co-op with a nikka like Marlo around. Marlo was on some takeover shyt and String wasn't lettin' the dogs get back at them. Trying to hash things out and shyt, mean while you have nikkas dying.
Then on top of that, when Avon got back, the fact that they didn't see eye to eye on how shyt was supposed to be handled directly led to team falling. I saw where both of them were coming from, but in the end Avon was right. String was tricking off mad doe for that construction company and getting his ass ripped off
Then after getting salty about Avon's stubbornness he snitches on Avon and gets him locked up. And this was when Avon was starting to question going all out and warring with Marlo.
String fukked em up.
String was gassed off of those college courses, but he couldn't apply that to the co-op with a nikka like Marlo around. Marlo was on some takeover shyt and String wasn't lettin' the dogs get back at them. Trying to hash things out and shyt, mean while you have nikkas dying.
Then on top of that, when Avon got back, the fact that they didn't see eye to eye on how shyt was supposed to be handled directly led to team falling. I saw where both of them were coming from, but in the end Avon was right. String was tricking off mad doe for that construction company and getting his ass ripped off
Then after getting salty about Avon's stubbornness he snitches on Avon and gets him locked up. And this was when Avon was starting to question going all out and warring with Marlo.
String fukked em up.
I remember the disgust in avons voice when stringer said they need to buy corners
"Buy corners??
Since when do we BUY corners?? 
"
"Buy corners??
Since when do we BUY corners?? "