Mindful of the Hussle

Now…Cali is pretty big…and produces a lot of big artists…w/ gang affiliations. IMHO, by now everything in this commentary should be common knowledge by way of gang-related verses…but it’s not. If nothing else, it should be eye-opening to anyone that feels drawn to Gang culture which is born of unnatural conditions that create disastrous outcomes for its targets. The mere principle of calling a group of ppl a gang to project their assembly as nefarious is an example of negative marketing used to stigmatize organization amongst the have-nots. Not so coincidentally, assembly was also illegal amongst slaves. 

The Gang Enhancement that Nipsey discussed above is on the same level w/ Rockefeller laws. They both serve to remove/warehouse large segments of given societies AND directly add sustainability to the Private Prison Industry by sentencing mandates that do not match the crime. Not so coincidentally, the segment of society that is usually affected by this unjust law writing is also the segment that is most likely to show disdain for and revolt against whoever is responsible for the overall conditions dictating their reality. Those would be the 18-35 yr olds. The same ppl that would be eligible for a draft. Apparently, certain youth are expendable. 

While I totally agree w/ why this should signal the demise of a culture, I don’t think it will end soon. It’s too profitable. Profitable ventures are sustained. There are still drugs where they were intentionally placed in surplus b/c they are profitable. They have always had destructive outcomes resulting in broken homes, incarceration and death but none of these results were/are extreme enough to do anything other than further the conditioning and fill the hidden hands that placed them there…w/ bags of cash. 

Same goes for guns. 

Same goes for Alcohol. 

Our community still struggles w/ all of these daily…and technology isn’t making them less potent or accessible. I was born and raised in NJ BUT spent 12 of the last 14 years in Baltimore. While there, I encountered many young ppl who viewed a 10-year bid (prison sentence) as a rite of passage. I would hear things like “I’ll be home by 30.” No math being done on how quick important years of a developing life can be replaced w/ a criminal education. Reform and Rehabilitation are not goals. To do either would curb recidivism and thus adversely affect the bottom line for the Private Prisons which -like hotels- depend on close to or max occupancy for higher profits (State contracts aside of course). IN laymen’s terms, whatever increases convictions and sentence lengths increases the profits for the Private Prison Industry. An industry w/ Shareholders we know well, some of you work for and w/ products/services many of us use. 

In summation, this is why I deal w/ Nipsey. I’ve been rocking w/ him since the first time I heard him chopping it up in an alley w/ Gillie Da Kid. Sharp youth are inspirational to all generations. If they are not, then they should be. Don’t stop listening.He put me on w/ this breakdown and I hope what he foresees comes to fruition. Not for the sake of dissolving black street organizations but for the sake of disrupting a multibillion-dollar industry dedicated to destroying the family unit in much the same way that some of the more destructive and genocidal practices of the “gangs” have done for several decades now.