First off before i go any further let me say this
Being a gangsta dont make you a man - taking care of your kids, breaking your back for a 9-5 job just to provide shelter and food on your table is what makes you a real MAN. and what makes you respectable is when you do it without hurting your own people, your raza. Without putting drugs back into our homes who the guero loco brought to us as well as the blue and red rags in prisons that seperated our people decades ago and sprinkled throughout our streets to kill our minds and souls. Why do you think the government got spooked when Dyno's CD put a stop to red on red violence?..um HELLO, it's a bigger fuckin picture than that..most of you choose or simply because of your situations CANNOT look past that. Never did i deny being a surena, and yes that picture was in fresno and yes i was 12 or 13 years old, over 6 years ago - I can't change anyone, but i do know that i have changed myself, and that is all that matters.
I work at YGC (San Francisco Juvenile Hall) in the girls unit, and day after day i see the same girls come in and out for 90% of the time the same charges...sellin or "ho'ing" for their dude...(now while most of you are laughing at this, or about to make some derogatory comment, another 12 or 13 year old GIRL is getting raped in an alley way, is getting shot on mission street, robbed and stabbed in the fillmore BECAUSE it is all they know) I'm there as well as hundreds of other people on the streets to show them that there is another way, i've lived that, been locked up for it, and changed my life completely around. I now see girls get out and staying out of the system, going to school fulltime, and making something out of themselves, and that is all i care about. So while many of you will be spending the rest of your lives on the East Co Co Records board talking shit, or out there on the streets talkin shit, remember there is much more out there. If you choose to continue to live that way, or if you simply believe there is no other way, then so be it. But don't get on others for having something to believe in, much more than a "set-up struggle" - Let them live, and worry about the ones who are trying to kill you day in and day out. And no im not talking about the cholos who look just like you but live on a different block or rock different color chucks. Look higher than that, at whos in office, who makes the legislations and read into all the propositions they put into effect. Whether or not you think it affects you, it does.
So i welcome all your criticism, your same old comments
"once a scrap always a scrap"
"fuckin ranker watch your back"
"you aint shit ugly bitch"
and so on...because it doesn't faze me, i will never stoop to that level, so to all the REAL men, i wish you the best of luck.