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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

I saw myselfgoing down more and more, but I wouldn't and I couldn't stop

I saw myself
going down more and more, but I wouldn't and I couldn't stop

Full Transcript

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I saw myself going down more and more,
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but I wouldn't and I couldn't stop.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:33:19
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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Movie Summary

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
My waist's getting skinny. My shirt's getting too big. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
My waist's getting skinny. My shirt's getting too ...
Some of us tried to hide it at first, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Some of us tried to hide it at first,
That drug separated people from themselves. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
That drug separated people from themselves.
And it felt like the... range of the drug, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And it felt like the... range of the drug,
My grief and my rage consumed me, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:10
My grief and my rage consumed me,
When I used the crack, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
When I used the crack,
All of the chatter, all of the pain, all of the hurt, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
All of the chatter, all of the pain, all of the hurt,
When I started using this, I was working. You understand? - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
When I started using this, I was working. You understand?
You know, my first apartment and everything. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
You know, my first apartment and everything.
Soon as I get home from work, she'd eat, I'd wash her up, I'd check her homework. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Soon as I get home from work, she'd eat, I'd wash ...
That used to be our routine until I started messing with that crack. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
That used to be our routine until I started messing with tha...
It got so far out of control... to where I lost my children. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
It got so far out of control... to where I lost my children.
I had just had my third daughter. She was a newborn. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
I had just had my third daughter. She was a newborn.
So many women that were mothers and aunts that was just doing anything for crack. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
So many women that were mothers and aunts that was just doin...
Once they started on that particular drug, it was just a wrap. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Once they started on that particular drug, it was just a wra...
You would see women selling their children's toys. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
You would see women selling their children's toys.
You would see them doing the unthinkable, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
You would see them doing the unthinkable,
I seen women have sex with three men at one time, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
I seen women have sex with three men at one time,
When you didn't have the money, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
When you didn't have the money,
Anywhere they want to do it, you're gonna, 'cause you want that crack. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
Anywhere they want to do it, you're gonna, 'cause ...