LA Hood Life Van Tour - Compton & South Central Los Angeles / Hip Hop History Locations and MORE
A visit to Hollywood California for a van trip on the LA Hood Life Tour into Compton , Watts and South Central Los Angeles . This 3+ hour guided journey was packed full of information and locations .
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today's adventure begins at the corner
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of Hollywood and Vine
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but I'm not staying here this is only
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the beginning point I'm going to be
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going to areas of Los Angeles some of
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which I've never been to before the whoo
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here I want you to tag along with me as
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I board a van for the LA booths life
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tour
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join me shall you departing points right
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up here in fact you can see the vehicle
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parked just off to the right of the
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street this will be what I'm riding in a
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little mini van not full-size just a
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just a small mini van not a hundred
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percent sure what to expect on this but
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nonetheless it'll be an adventure
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change of plans we're actually going in
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this one tour without you know you in a
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legal state of cannabis it is not only
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medical here it is also recreational so
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if you got it you may roll it you may
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spunk it you may get it in here today
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represent a I watched a movie training
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day over here off of Crenshaw in the
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jungles is where his girlfriend lived in
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the book where him and his partner take
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got into the big fight and we got the
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famous quote insane King Kong ain't got
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on me also the Ike and Tina Turner
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story that movie was called what's love
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got to do with it as well as if you guys
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remember the R&B singer Brandi you guys
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remember she had a sitcom here called
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Moishe and they did two swingoff so from
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that called the Parkers please bear in
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mind West LA is not the same as the west
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side of LA
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there is a difference here in the city
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of Los Angeles for that according to
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what freeway interstate you are near and
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what side of the freeway
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interstate you're on it is what
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determines on where you're at you're in
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this city if you were to travel east on
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the i-10 freeway from here in California
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it will take you all the way to
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Jacksonville Florida
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it's called Phillips barbecue right here
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on Crenshaw and animals
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here in the West Adams community and
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here to the left side of the street you
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guys will see chef Merlin's right there
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that is one of our great carry out soul
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food restaurants your own Crenshaw
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Boulevard the West Adams community here
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has become famously known you guys for
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the very church here and it is known as
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West add to this Church of God in Christ
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the West Angeles Church of God and
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Christ for which you will see their
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buildings here on the left and right
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hand sides of the street would be the
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very church home for the
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african-american rich and famous here in
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the city now here to the right is where
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you see their original church home that
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they have now built a mega church here
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Brody over old here has officially been
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renamed after our last President
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President Obama right here on Crenshaw
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and Rodeo road
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not that buzias Rodeo Drive it's rodeo
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road and we're gonna have now be
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approaching here to the very corner of
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Crenshaw and Coliseum here to the right
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where you guys noticed the Pep Boys
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autoparts this very parking lot here was
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once the car lot back in the days and I
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say this is where Wesley Snipes and what
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he hasn't pulled over and the movie
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white man can't jump to make the bet
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that would he couldn't dumb to the left
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side of the street here you guys will
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notice the sign here that reads Crenshaw
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square it's the big red and white sign
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there
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now over there with a red sign rescreen
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shan square is where the very Chinese
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food restaurant is located from the
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movie rush hour it is a Rizzoli named
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Kim's
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restaurant and Chinese catering you guys
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see the yellow sign on the back wall
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over here
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that is the very restaurant Chris Tucker
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and Jackie Chan went to in rush hour at
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that time Ice Cube and his homeboys had
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got out here to seek revenge now in here
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to the left of us will be the Crenshaw
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Baldwin Hills Mall and like I say for
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what you would now see as Bank of
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America was once the fat burgers
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hamburger restaurant here never they
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pulled up and they stopped about here
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the guy was like set the lights off and
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they began to super kill those guys
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right there where you see the bank at
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all so if you remember Ice Cube had
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pulled up here yeah got out the car and
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ran over to continue and shoot and kill
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the guys that they were crawling on the
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ground kick the boy in his ass
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turn over Paul now dr. Martin Luther
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King Boulevard is one Street that you
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are 100% guaranteed to find in any city
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or state you may travel to here mistakes
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and if you want to find your way to the
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hood you want to find your way to the
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ghetto all you got to do is locate
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Martin Luther King Boulevard and I
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promise you 100% it will lead you to the
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ghetto in any city or state 100%
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guarantee
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it MLK in Oakland snow slide you right
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up on University boy is going down oh do
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I know and right here on buckingham road
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and palm with drive is where Denzel
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Washington did the movie training date
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like I say this is also where Wesley
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Snipes lived in the movie white man
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can't jump in the valley Butte visto
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parties now the way you guys can see the
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yellow sign in front of us the building
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directly to the left over where the palm
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tree is it has the address 4140 to the
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top front apartment deers with Denzel
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Washington girlfriend Leah you're the
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very coldest a cure for this disease
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- okay and it's the very area here that
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I call black Beverly Hills now it is
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called it is considered a little piece
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of heaven on the top of Hale for which
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we are traveling and the very halls that
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you're gonna see up here and bar with
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heels on these two million dollars plus
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to purchase for the way that you're
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facing those buildings everything to the
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right of them is what considered South
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Central Los Angeles City of White City
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of Compton area
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that nature Carsten long which is
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gripper part right here which is where
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the eggs orbit or II is also located she
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won't be up here yelling like that too
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long now she's from the neighborhood we
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just left out of the jungles that's
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where she's from and trust the people
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right there in that cul-de-sac we'll
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have to pull these up here you see the
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other girls getting out and getting in
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today car is Nathan the leaf and that's
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the white car they follow it behind us
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now leaving that's well as the very
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jacket of bars restaurant is located
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over here for which Kane and his cousin
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Harold knit we're headed to in the movie
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Minister society this kind of had a Ben
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came from the outside it is ugly very
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ugly within the past five years or so
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that the police have gained back to
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control over in the jungle and it is by
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way of them putting in police cameras
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the cameras that they have put in in
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that community now are directly
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monitored by the police departments will
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be what used to be the liquor bank
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liquor store here this is where Tyrese
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came out of the liquor store in the
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movie and got jumped by the young man
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and they took my this is where that
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pours another movie had took place
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jack-in-the-box rest around here this is
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the very jack-in-the-box from which gain
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in his cousin heroin and we're headed to
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administer society and right next to
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that will be the very car wash Snoop
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Dogg dr. Dre Eminem will be the very
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Beauty Salons Tyrese was southern the
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women clothing - in the movie baby boy
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and the very first shop you see here to
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the right is where Janet Jackson worked
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in the movie poetic justice would tupac
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shakur
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this is the very corner for which Cain
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and his cousin Harold were carjacked for
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the BMW administers society as they were
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headed to the jacket a box behind this
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old crinch on Stockton now this will be
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the very portion of our city here when
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the legendary rapper ice-t was raised in
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Gulu made a little pit stop here at this
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liquor store Hubert's liquor store
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this is the very house tyrese best Fred
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Pete lived in with his girlfriend Kim
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and their moms and baby boy now the
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neighborhood roller 60 Crips here will
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be the very gang neighborhood from the
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rapper Nipsey Hussle has also become
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famously known for one of the greatest
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african-american baseball players and
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his name will be Darryl Strawberry for
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which we are approaching here you guys
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you would have come to know from boys in
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the hood this would be the very portion
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of Crenshaw here where Ice Cube that
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we're hanging out with the lowriders and
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things in the moon Nipsey Hussle has an
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urban store here called the marathon
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clothing store
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it is located here on Crenshaw and
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Slauson it will be the one and only very
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place that one can purchase official
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Crenshaw apparel the only other way you
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will obtain Crenshaw peril you would
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have to attend the very high school here
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to the left
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Crenshaw High School this very mural
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here is known for to live and die in LA
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here's the Tupac mural to live and die
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in LA painted right here on the side of
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this little building will be the very
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dank that hangs out here at Ben Ann's
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Avenue park here on a daily basis and
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the very stoplight here is Vance Avenue
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and this will also be the very gang
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neighborhood for the rapper here known
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as Joe most want meat here this is our
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urban discount shopping mall some of you
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guys may know it as a flea market for
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that they are one of the same now you
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guys would have come to know what the a
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trade gangster crips here from the LA
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riots that took place here back in 1992
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you guys may be wondering for officers
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who were found not guilty and acquitted
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for the beating of Rodney King here the
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a trade gangsters are the ones who
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started the riots behind that verdict
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and the other notorious gang over there
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which is known as 218 streets
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which are two gangs that don't get along
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with each other
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because they're from two different
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countries at this very street right here
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has become famously known for
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prostitutes you see the young lady here
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to the left from the urban legend
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Freeway Ricky Ross it is not the rig
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Ross seen elastic wrapper it is the
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urban legend from Western wrapper got
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his name from you see the young lady
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here to the left
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she's prostituting now here now the 110
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freeway here runs north and south
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throughout the inner city if we were to
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travel south from here at this point it
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would take us to the city of San Pedro
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the city of course the city of
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Wilmington and the city of Long Beach
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California here now I want to welcome
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you all here to the east side of town as
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we travel here through the east side you
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guys will come to see it notice that the
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streets in area it's not as well kept up
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and clean as it is over on the west side
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one of our famous police helicopters
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there sit there to keep you up all night
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and hit the doors they live here they
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know what I'm talking about
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and to the city and community known as
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watts
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now watch California here will be the
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very true birthplace and home of the
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1965 Watts Riots also here the city of
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watts will be the very home for the R&B
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singer Tyrese
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the rapper j-rock some bounty hunter
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blows the rapper glasses belong from 7th
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Street watch script and the rapper old 3
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Greedo from grape Street Barnes Creek
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now here the city of watts this city
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houses three of the largest urban gangs
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the city has to offer
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now all three of the gangs I just named
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here in the city of box they do not get
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along with one another for that two of
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them are Crips in one of them are Bloods
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this is a portion of the Bounty Hunter
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blood two neighborhood where the rapper
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Jay Brock is from elementary school
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right here kids came and did this wall
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right here in front of us he's all the
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towers here
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well you see over here to the right yeah
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my yeah just up the street here on break
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Street and back it in like I say as a
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kid they didn't have the fencing things
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up here we're going to now be getting
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here into the City of Compton California
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and it also has ten units in there for
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which they have given to great homeless
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people this neighborhood here is known
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as the original front Huah Compton Crips
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now I've been from this gang here for
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over thirty years for that I am 44 years
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old
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I've given up 13 years of my life
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incarcerated in prison due to my gang
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activities and I've touched a deaf bed
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here five times doing gang fighting this
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is where I was raised and grew up here
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to the right
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now this would be the very neighborhood
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here where kid Nicola Marbles raised and
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grew up Suge Knight felt he can come
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over here and pressure dr. Dre out some
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money at that very time the young man
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you come to know it's bone from the
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movie training day he was the one who
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started the physical altercation with
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Suge Knight that day Suge Knight got in
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his truck backed out of the driveway
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here for which he ran up a bonds foot
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and leg he didn't put the truck back and
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drive drove back into the driveway from
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which he ran over Terry and killed him
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right there at the very tense he will be
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another gay neighborhood for the rapper
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counting AED they will place your loved
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ones casket here in that picture window
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there they will open the casket you
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would dare travel from here in front of
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us on spring and you will come up around
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the building to where you see the hearse
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there this is the first drive-through
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funeral home as you will see here on the
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corner at the bottom of the sign it
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reads it is still in operation right now
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today arrived now at the official
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Compton story
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now the Southside Compton Crips here
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will be the gang neighborhood for the
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legendary rapper eazy-e may is soul
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resting here you guys are going to come
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to see that eazy-e
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MC Ren the ruthless villain and dr. Dre
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all grew up just one block for one
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another over here Merle Avenue here will
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be the very Street where eazy-e was
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raised and grew up it is also where they
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made the first NWA album here in eazy-e
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garage Straight Outta Compton that is
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the very house MC Ren the roof of this
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minute was raised and grew up in here to
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the right where you see the people in
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the driveway there this is the very
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house dr. Dre was raised to grew up in
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you right there you guys have officially
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been through the very community a
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neighborhood here for which founded and
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created gangsta rap right here on the
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very streets of the Eastside Kelly Park
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Compton Crips is where NWA and ruthless
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records was founded and created here in
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town
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the City of Compton deemed it the most
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dangerous place to shop for that they
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closed it down now you will see Walmart
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it's occupied two very building here
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very parking lot here to the left has
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claimed more bodies due to gang violence
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in the mid streets around it they put
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that camera system here the last within
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the last two years of the swap meet
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being open here and those cameras are
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directly monitored by the police
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department gang violence and if you
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wanted to see the lowriders and things
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like that here the city that was where
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you were gonna come see him on a regular
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basis as I touched a deathbed here five
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times three of them took place right
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back there in that parking lot back
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there when the swap meet we'll see
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little did I know that young man was
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sitting in the parking lot waiting on me
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to come out in that test every time he
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shot me in the back would a 45 caliber
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pistol now that very bullet went through
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my lung two centimeters from our heart
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and came out of my chest the second
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incident I had a fear was with three
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Mexican gangbangers who will also direct
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enemies in my gang I had went to prison
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for two attempted murders on two of
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their homeboys from their gang when I
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got out from doing that time was when I
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got into that occupation with them and
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those guys stabbed me up trying to kill
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me in that parking lot if he wasn't
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serious it was a place that you would
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have a point
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by all means for that you guys have
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officially been to embed all the
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requirements here but that you have Cage
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or her life ghetto pass right here in
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our city now Justice Ice Cube would say
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today was a good day nobody got sat in
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South Central and that's gonna do it for
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