Addiction, Death & Crime (Intro)

Faced with a rising wave of addiction, misery, crime and death, our nation has linked arms to save souls. It wasn't always this way. Thirty years ago America was facing a similar wave of addiction, death and crime. And the response could not have been more different. Television brought us endless images of thin, black, ravaged bodies. Always with desperate dried lips. We learned the words "crack baby". Back then, when addiction was a black problem, there was no wave of national compassion. Instead, we were warned of super predators. Young, faceless, black men wearing bandanas and sagging jeans. No matter how far from our lives crack was, we're guilty by association

When you started to take cocaine, you know, I used a lot of cocaine in my life. And I've said it, you've got good cocaine and bad cocaine. I'll guarantee you the stuff they're selling down here is bad. It's mixed and makes you feel like it's cocaine, but it's generally cut with stuff as bad as.. you know.. the stuff that cleans out toilets

I got a guy give me 24 oz' of flake twice a month, that we can step on ten times easy. And you're gonna let a beef with some $2 hooker screw that up? I'll find another distributor. (Aye, nobody can move that stuff in the streets faster than me. You know that.)