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Kids were turning into kingpins overnight
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Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy

Kids were turning into kingpins overnight

Kids were turning into kingpins overnight

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Kids were turning into kingpins overnight.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:42
Uploaded
May 25, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, history
Production
Firelight Films

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In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
A kid that was broke in the projects, wearing his brother's clothes to school, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
A kid that was broke in the projects, wearing his brother�...
There was an entire economy built around crack-cocaine. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
There was an entire economy built around crack-cocaine.
I wasn't even old enough to drive and I bought a car, cash. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I wasn't even old enough to drive and I bought a car, c...
I'm driving up to the high school to show it off. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
I'm driving up to the high school to show it off.
"Yeah, I got a car." - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
"Yeah, I got a car."
I was in there for money, clothes, jewelry, and girls. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
I was in there for money, clothes, jewelry, and girls.
And it started... It was fun. It was very fun. I had a bunch of fun. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
And it started... It was fun. It was very fun. I had a bunch...
All new. You wear them one or two times, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:05
All new. You wear them one or two times,
♪ You could say what you want ♪ - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:09
♪ You could say what you want ♪
I'll tell you what we can do. We can give it to the poor. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
I'll tell you what we can do. We can give it to the poo...
At that time, I was doing... - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:04
At that time, I was doing...
About a million dollars every day, at that time, would go through my hands. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
About a million dollars every day, at that time, would go th...
And my profit would probably be anywhere from 200 to 300,000, you know, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And my profit would probably be anywhere from 200 to 300,000...
I bought things like a motel, I bought a theater, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:11
I bought things like a motel, I bought a theater,
And, you know, I had about 15 to 20 guys around here that was millionaires, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
And, you know, I had about 15 to 20 guys around here that wa...
♪ Erry day getting money, money Money, money ♪ - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:11
♪ Erry day getting money, money Money, money ♪
You had the user that was addicted, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
You had the user that was addicted,
Handguns, rifles, a bow and arrow, - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:08
Handguns, rifles, a bow and arrow,
Police say street gangs run the crack-cocaine trade in Roosevelt - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:07
Police say street gangs run the crack-cocaine trade in Roose...
Many of these young men and teenagers armed up to obtain or protect their turf. - Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 00:06
Many of these young men and teenagers armed up to obtain or ...