80% of the building is drug dealers, 10% are residents, and the other 10% of drug users.

I was gladiated school, and that's where I learned exactly what crack was.

As far as crews and young kids, nobody had what we had.

The guy with the most coke is the one that rules.

My guest today is a Harlem street legend.

He goes by Chango.

Chang, grew up on the west side of Harlem, New York, in the 70s and early 1980s, and

he began selling crack when he was just 13 years old.

By the time he was 18, he was running an operation that employed 45 workers who distributed

5 kilos of crack cocaine per day throughout four

city blocks on the west side of harle. His crew was dubbed YTC, or the Yellowtop crew, and made

so much money and committed so many murders that the New York City Police Department

established a task force for the sole purpose of taking them down.

Chango is the last of a dying breed of New York City drug kingpins who became unimaginably rich

during the crack epidemic of the 1980s. And he's here to tell us all about how he did it.

And for bonus content with Chango, including stories about his time in prison and

helping take down corrupt New York City prosecutors and cops, go over to Patreon. Patreon.com

slash The Connect Show. Without further ado, there'll never be another like him. I give you

Chango right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. I'm walking up to block one day, where I live on 107th Street, and I noticed three guys walking behind me. I don't know them. Get this, this, this, this, very feeling. And I got boxed in by H.I.U. Four cars. That's when I got kidnapped. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. Then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. And he pulls out a burner, shank. It's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive.

There's so many problems embedded in the ghetto.

Or in poverty, in whatever you want to, whatever label you want to put on places like where you come from.

And it all begins in the mind, whatever label you want to put on places like where you come from. Yeah.

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