How bad was the crack era?

[J.J._Evans]

Do you want to know why young niggas lack respect and are savages......why so many young niggas and Bitches are gay......why too many niggas and bitches don't want to be parents to their kids.........

The answer is the crack era.

It is still destroying the black community. People now in their 50s were once addicted, which effected people now in their 40s, which effected people that are now in their 30s, which effected people that are now in their 20s, which currently effects teens and adolescent children.

 

[aneed123]

It ruined families and its a generation of crackhead and crack babies because of it.the projects weren't like they are now before crack.

 

[caddo man]

Nigga that shit was horrible. I never really thought about it until the other day when me and my sister was talking about it. I had a dresser drawer full of Funeral t-shirts. My school got shot up every year. Maybe twice a year. I swear the 90s made me feel like a war reporter.

I think back when I was young and my neighbor and schoolmate father had me deliver weight for him for $100. A $100 for a 8 year old was a million dollars. I walk in that house and my mom flipped out. Dude house was raided a week later just to have the dude down the block to pick up the slack. He wasnt lucky though. He was shot and body dumped at the water plant.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I once heard it said that the Crack Era was basically an atom bomb dropped right on the black community.

 

[Busta Carmichael]

Saw this interesting documentary about the crack epidemic in New york from '88.

They go around interviewing crack heads and dope dealers and ask them what it's like and what not. Shit looked crazy. Some of them are just transforming into full blown crackheads and they describe what the high is like.

"Crack clouds over hells kitchen"

 

[king hassan]

Man being a kid I remember crackheads fucking all over the place. You could be walking or riding down the street and see crackheads fucking, shit was crazy. And that's how the prison system blew up too, all those drug offenses, cats were getting 20 to life

 

[J.J._Evans]

I once heard it said that the Crack Era was basically an atom bomb dropped right on the black community.

It absolutely was.

 

[caddo man]

My hood is a ghost town but I remember when every house was filled with families. By 93, mfers was moving to the suburbs in droves.

I remember taking a chick to my hood and they walking around like it was a safari. "Talmbout are we safe? Like we are okay right?" Hilarious!

 

[The Lonious Monk]

I wish I could find the documentary I saw on the Crack Era, but it was really good. It talked about black neighborhoods were always infested with rampant drug use, but still the people could function and a lot of black neighborhoods were on the rise as far as prosperity goes. They said that the advent of crack practically turned most of those neighborhoods into ghettos damn near over night.

 

[caddo man]

Man being a kid I remember crackheads fucking all over the place. You could be walking or riding down the street and see crackheads fucking, shit was crazy. And that's how the prison system blew up too, all those drug offenses, cats were getting 20 to life

Out of all the changes Obama has done. Getting rid of the disparaging sentencing on nonviolent drug charges will be the biggest accomplishment.

 

[D. Morgan]

I once heard it said that the Crack Era was basically an atom bomb dropped right on the black community.

That is pretty much true though when you think of how some Japanese babies are still being born fucked up all these years later. Places where some black people live are still fucked up all these years later with people still smoking crack and new people just getting addicted to crack like they didn't see how the shit fucked people up. Same with people newly getting hooked on dope to as well though. People just love to get high no matter what it is or the effects of it.

 

[CapitalB]

i grew up in Cali..

i was born around the same time it hit so i dont really remember much.

but i can remember vividly my uncle strung out and runnin around my aunts house naked..

when he'd trip theyd always make us kids go to the room..

as a kid u really dont understand shit.. but in hindsight we was in the thicket.. majority of my family was slangin tho.. couple of my aunts were prostitutes.. granny was a pool shark and ran around wit a sawed off.. shit was wild. hahaha

pops side of the family all banged and slang..

what i remember most was all the funerals.. the streets really wiped out the men in my family.. they aint playin when they say u either gonna die or end up in jail..

the late 80s and the late 90s were bad in LA.. worst fuckin times!! smmfh

 

[jetlifebih]

It's funny that rappers made anti-drug songs now they singing songs about slanging dope

It's not funny and a lot of the conscious rappers who made anti drug songs will tell you the executives pushed that type of rap to the forefront for a reason to make it cool to be a gangsta and sell drugs aka destroy the black community

 

[king hassan]

It's funny that rappers made anti-drug songs now they singing songs about slanging dope

It's not funny and a lot of the conscious rappers who made anti drug songs will tell you the executives pushed that type of rap to the forefront for a reason to make it cool to be a gangsta and sell drugs aka destroy the black community

I already know.

 

[king hassan]

Man the worst is seeing your main man who you ran the streets with strung out. Me and this cat went through thick and thin, now I hate to see him coming because he always begging

 

[skpjr78]

It's funny that rappers made anti-drug songs now they singing songs about slanging dope

 

[PapaDoc223]

i grew up in Cali..

i was born around the same time it hit so i dont really remember much.

but i can remember vividly my uncle strung out and runnin around my aunts house naked..

when he'd trip theyd always make us kids go to the room..

as a kid u really dont understand shit.. but in hindsight we was in the thicket.. majority of my family was slangin tho.. couple of my aunts were prostitutes.. granny was a pool shark and ran around wit a sawed off.. shit was wild. hahaha

pops side of the family all banged and slang..

what i remember most was all the funerals.. the streets really wiped out the men in my family.. they aint playin when they say u either gonna die or end up in jail..

the late 80s and the late 90s were bad in LA.. worst fuckin times!! smmfh

There is a track Ice Cube made called "My Summer vacation," where he is talking about how LA gang memebers were leaving LA to other states like Texas and Oklahoma start selling dope cuz the market in LA was crowded. Did that shit really happened tho?

 

[CapitalB]

i grew up in Cali..

i was born around the same time it hit so i dont really remember much.

but i can remember vividly my uncle strung out and runnin around my aunts house naked..

when he'd trip theyd always make us kids go to the room..

as a kid u really dont understand shit.. but in hindsight we was in the thicket.. majority of my family was slangin tho.. couple of my aunts were prostitutes.. granny was a pool shark and ran around wit a sawed off.. shit was wild. hahaha

pops side of the family all banged and slang..

what i remember most was all the funerals.. the streets really wiped out the men in my family.. they aint playin when they say u either gonna die or end up in jail..

the late 80s and the late 90s were bad in LA.. worst fuckin times!! smmfh

There is a track Ice Cube made called "My Summer vacation," where he is talking about how LA gang memebers were leaving LA to other states like Texas and Oklahomato start selling dope cuz the market in LA was crowded. Did that shit really happened tho?

i know what song u was talkin about..

but i was too young to understand the politics bein played..

but yeh..

niggas was movin around..

i got a cousin.. he an OG still be out there in Nebraska.. been hittin them niggas over the head for decades. lol

 

[CracceR]

ionno mayne im white, my fam was more on heroine

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

"It used to be an honest hustle back then but nowadays

it's cutthroat, that's fucked up, niggaz want they come up

so bad they'll take the .357 and smoke they brother

A damn shame; but, that's the way the game go"

Scarface