This interview was the most honest shit I’ve ever heard from a former gang member talking about how can a grown man follow anything started by a 13-year-old. Enough said on that part
I mean it don't matter the age of the man when he started it most of the original organizations we're started by 13 year olds. They're not 13 now so what's the point. Ion know bout the gangs but I know about the Nation I'm in Chief was 13 and was whooping the older boys that was trying to push over on him.thd foundation of this nation was laid out by a 13 year old but it was for good.
Under a different environment, this man would have been a Professional in the Corporate World or an Educator. He was truly a victim of his environment. These gangs are aiding and abetting the demise of their own people, destroying potential.
Big skip seems like tha guy back in tha day that had all the new bikes an toys,video games an u could go ova to his house and play all day ..until momma came home😀
My momma from south central, 41st and Hoover. Even though we were in Alaska she had ALL that LA in her. She was a square too but she didn’t play when it came to us defending ourselves.
@@hustlengrind8833 How is it out there? Please tell me more about it, I very curious about the life style? Is it safe for people of color? Please expand on it. BTW my step dad is from South Central but I grew up in Brooklyn NY. I miss my family in LA. Some of the best & most loyal people I know.
@@BrooklynsFinest34 it’s actually a lovely place. It does get cold and I mean some cold you ain’t never felt before. If you can last a winter you can live there forever. It’s pretty much nothing to see a moose or bear just out and about wondering around. People are very nice for the most part, I guess because there’s really nowhere else to go. It’s expensive but you’ll get paid pretty good, plus the yearly dividend check for living there.
Growing up in LA in those times, unfortunately u had to grow up tuff n be violent if need be...with the gangs all around that's how it was smh...it is what it is...can't blame momma for tryna make her kid tuff
@@Urmak85 rewatch video he literally said mom “kept him from his father AND made him violent”. I’m 42yo raised and still live on the south side of Chicago I understand gangs and those times. Went through it myself. Having a father would have helped A LOT. Hence me pointing out his mom keeping him from dad. That’s not right is all I’m saying.
He seems to have vivid accurate memories to learning from the mentally of these specific era’s and learning the pros & cons of joining gangs to growing from them
I love when this guy talks he is very analytical and intelligent very calm and articulate I laughed when he said they all would go inside when tookie came around tookie was like a big swole Freddy Krueger in the hood 🤣 Everybody was terrified of him
My pops used to fight alot too in the early 90s got shot 9 times after beating up two niggas for jumping his brother when they left the club he got hit 9 and survived
@@user-lb9ee2ur1k so is that why it's so childish to gangbang? That's crazy I never knew a kid started it but makes sense the principles they stand on. Usually juvenile in true reality
@@sellyboy727 yes exactly you have 40-50 year olds now acting like children. Look at wack100 arguing with those bloods on clubhouse. Perfect example of kids in an adult body
@@sellyboy727 Bro do some history on it man. These were youths when the crips were started etc. A lot of them banged for a years then grew out of it. Went to the military, got jobs, got married etc.
I was the youngest of 3. New Orleans. 90s. My mama, cousins, brother, sister, uncles, aunt's, they Ain play that getting beat up shit. Well u can get beat up, but not without fighting back. We fought like a mf. I was skinny as hell. We fought but we didn't HATE eachother.
Those first 2:20 seconds is how mother's today needs to be raising their CHILDREN. He kept it 💯 about his dad. Not brought up the negativity, lack of knowledge of that his dad was also a PERSON. "Even tho I seen him 5 times a year, he was still my dad"💪🏽💯
@@jonjones7137 trust me I feel that... I don't mean to sound like Im giving him credit but hate him or love him his name will live longer than he did and will be spoken by many!! Can you say that about your name?? I know I can't!!
You talking about mom locking the door , brought back memories from my childhood. I was an only child and in the projects of Bmore. My grandma did the same thing to me. I haven't had a problem since then. Thanks grandma!
Skip is the homie, Gotten a chance to tap in with him onetime and he really is about the youth and has great ideas unfortunately not many of his peers carry the same focus or energy.
Salute to big skip...i stay on his channel..i first saw skip on that slippin 10 years with the bloods doc bac in the 90s...sht blew me away when i got older and heard skip say that doc was script..one of the best doc
@1:37 that's crazy his moms didn't want to be around his dad but dude was an educated black man. I thought he would be a brother out there running these streets. Wow some black women really think they can raise three boys by their selves smh wow
Interesting O.G had a Physician Assistant as a father but his father was mostly absent. I’d imagine if his father was present his outcome would be a lot different
Why in the Black community it’s always the fathers fault when a young man turns to the streets.I grew up in one of the worst housing projects in America and never thought about getting involved in the streets and me and my brother was raised by a single mother. As a 54 year old African American man I will never let me not having a father in my house hold be the blame for the way I carried myself as a youth. As well as a grown man.And just to add one of my homeboys is the owner of TDE.
because it's the truth, just like if a young man is successful without his dad he is viewed as a "success". Studies have shown for years the likelihood of a child's success is greater in 2 parent homes. This is not the case for our community as a whole because we've been broken since we got here. As someone born and raised in South Central L.A. I can attest to what Skip is talking about because it's our reality out here.
@@bossknight3238 I wouldn't say necessarily that we've "broken" since we got here. I'll say we've have problems at the foundation of our cultural identity. The black family was really at it strongest during Jim Crow. But it pretty much stayed together up until social integration. silent Generation black American leadership sold out what worked and was industrious about the culture black people were able to cultivate.
Man if you actually sit here and truly believe that a child with two parents doesnt have a greater chance at success becuz yo ass was somehow was an exception to the rule then you arent living in reality. The fact is, especially as black people we need our children raised in two parent households. We have little to no room for error. We need to do things as right as possible. Shout out to yo momma or whatever but stop acting like a positive male role model for a young nigga in the hood wont do wonders for his development.
It's just a cliché bruh! One of my buddies has killed at least two people, he grew up with both parents in the house AND his pop was a preacher! It's a personal thing when we choose a different way, not sure if it's rebellion or what but it does have a little to do with the dad not being thee IF your mother is ghetto or is hardly there because she works. You'll find time to do things with the outside that you wouldn't dare do when she's home! Now that I think about my other old head buddy he's killed at least two people(went to prison for one) and he was raised with both parents, plus 6 siblings. His shit is just in his blood. He cool and I trust him with my life but......
Think brother... think....why would a KID run in the house... because of a GROWN MAN coming down the street??? I doubt most are catching the point because he is R.I.P and extremely hood famous...do ur on math brother it's obvious. Peace 2 u
@@lifestraight where I'm from....when we were told 2 come in the house because of a GROWN ass man is coming and we were kids...it's wasn't because he was a gang member or a street fighter. U have heard of a grown man that's hood famous fighting kids ? NO!!! I'm sure u heard other things that aren't favorable to talk about that grown men may do to little kid's. I'm sure ur intelligent enough too figure that part out
Skip remind s me if my friend fred step dad that lived in dallas tx on centerville road ,he was a real guy just like skip he use to give me and fred lecture s about building at a young age and he told us to work for ourselves I miss fred the older guy like skip there mom was cool and his sister
I remember I had a fight outside before they had opened the doors to let us in the school in 6th grade n got suspended…My sperm donor told me I should’ve went n told the principal while my mama said I did the right thing….I stopped respecting my sperm donor after that
All I knew is when ur a kid,and there is a grown man in the neighborhood...IM SPEAKING FROM WHERE IM FROM...u ain't running in the house because of fear of this grown ass man may hit u....it's another reason why u would...I will let u guys figure that out. Sum of us may not like 2 be REAL when it comes 2 HOOD or CELEBRITY legends...but I love what Skip is saying.... peace 2 him and everyone on the post and no disrespect 2 anyone. But there are certain individuals that are street legends and information about sum of there behavior IS LEFT out from the general public.4 a reason!🤔
If the Crips or Bloods were more of a mafia style organization with real leaders, structure, co leaders, presidents and treasurers it would be more understandable being an adult still being involved.
I’m not a gang member or gang banger but if someone puts hands on me I’m going to defend myself once you put hands on me there’s nothing to talk about whatever the consequences are I’ll deal with it I’m not looking for trouble or starting trouble and I know how to reason as a man but once it gets physical there is nothing to talk about
