Hello kids, this is Risk!

The show where people tell true stories they never thought they'd dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes that we're calling

classic risk singles.

Each of these episodes features just one story from our earlier years.

If you're new to Risk, you should know that the podcast can be very uncensored.

This week a story that was first shared on the podcast in December of 2013 by JJ.

Here's JJ now with a story we call Judgment Day.

So I was born in Riggs and Brooklyn, and the Bushwick East New York section in Brooklyn,

and my family was a family of immigrants that were Jamaican.

So at this time in the 70s and 80s and 90s, you had a lot of immigrants in New York City

in general, but you had a lot of black immigrants from the Caribbean in different parts of Brooklyn,

particularly flat-boiled, crown hikes.

Bushwick was another area that you had a lot of big influx of immigrants coming to live

and buying homes and apartments, etc.

So that's the kind of way I was raised.

This is the 1980s.

This is the 80s and crackles abundant in the neighborhood.

It was abundant in the area.

For me, I grew up around drugs in general because I had my father hustled and I had several

other relatives who played in that space.

So I knew about it, but my mother would tell me real simply, like life is about choices.

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