Whether we talk in world history, U.S. history, neighborhood history, some of us ain't really

have an option what flag we was flying. There was people one day that woke up in Arizona and realized

this was Arizona, that it's not Mexico no more. There was people that woke up in Central Europe and realized they was in

Germany. It just, they didn't move, didn't know what happened, you just are. There was a moment

I woke up and realized I lived with crips. I didn't know. I didn't get no flyers about it.

There wasn't no recruiting. At least I didn't know. I didn't get no flyers about it. There wasn't no recruiting. At least I didn't know. I was too

young. Maybe there was some recruiting. I didn't know. I just woke up one day and was like, oh,

oh, we crips. At least my neighborhood was. I ain't signed up for this. This is just where I live.

And then don't mess around and make a friend.

Because then you mess around and make a friend.

And if you and your friend one day,

y'all walking home and somebody with some other color

shoelaces decide that they was going to, you know,

take your bike right quick.

And then that friend go tell his big brother. And then

march you and your homie back over there to either squab up, you know what I'm saying,

to get your bike back or he'd do it too. Guess what? Guess what? Your shoe lace is the same color

as that big brother now in the eyes of the other hood this just you you wanted him now homie bamboo

was telling me when I asked him how he got put on the hood he was like look it happened twice

once I was just sitting outside of my uncles and they was like yo go fight this fool now I'm all

a sudden it's like okay and now I'm I just got jumped in. I don't know. Just what happened.

Of course, later on, he made his conscious decision to be in the hood, but that first jump in,

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