Too Short Ft. E-40, Yukmouth, Zar The Dip - Oakland (Official Video)
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Who Is Lil D aka Lil Potna?
In the 1980’s, Darryl “Lil D” Reed became the youngest and most successful rock-cocaine dealer on the mean streets of Oakland, California.
Darryl was raised in and taught the street hustle game at an early age, by the most noteworthy street legend in the history of the Bay Area; Felix Mitchell. Felix taught young Darryl the codes of the streets and warned that if Darryl chose to live the life of a gangster, then he must also clearly understand and follow the codes as rules and live by them. Darryl and his crew would later become an off-shoot version of the 69th Village MOB, which stood for My Other Brother.
At the age of 13, Darryl witnessed the older members of the MOB being brought down by the FBI. Later that night he learned that Felix was also arrested. With his idol off the streets, "Lil D" made the life altering decision enter the drug game full throttle and soon started successfully moving large quantities of marijuana.
Within months after the arrest of the older members of the MOB, a new drug called crack-cocaine came to the forefront of America’s problems and Oakland and Darryl Reed were in the middle of it. Darryl was introduced to the cocaine sales game by his friend, Rick and the two boys invested in the drug.
The rest is what they say legends are made of, money, power and women. What separated Darryl from others was that he got the money and power before the age of 20. Small in stature, young Darryl was large in the streets and a millionaire.
Darryl's story serves as a cautionary tale of the ultimate recompense paid for life's decisions made as a child.The hustling mantra is on full view and the codes of the streets are exposed as fraudulent. Darryl's meteoric accent to the top is followed by an even swifter descent to the bowels of the United States Federal Penitentiary system as inmate#83801-011.
Inside his words will take you on an emotional ride of his journey, maturation, and ultimate epiphany. In the end Darryl realizes that he has participated in the ultimate trap game and there are never any winners.
Darryl's ultimate message to the impressionable youth who still idolize him twenty two years later is there are other ways to escape from the grasp of poverty. The drug game has no winners, in spite of what you might see in your immediate surroundings. For those who appear to have some semblance of success; the "shine" time is short and the time in the dark could last a lifetime.
http://bit.ly/fGOUnz
In the 1980’s, Darryl “Lil D” Reed became the youngest and most successful rock-cocaine dealer on the mean streets of Oakland, California.
Darryl was raised in and taught the street hustle game at an early age, by the most noteworthy street legend in the history of the Bay Area; Felix Mitchell. Felix taught young Darryl the codes of the streets and warned that if Darryl chose to live the life of a gangster, then he must also clearly understand and follow the codes as rules and live by them. Darryl and his crew would later become an off-shoot version of the 69th Village MOB, which stood for My Other Brother.
At the age of 13, Darryl witnessed the older members of the MOB being brought down by the FBI. Later that night he learned that Felix was also arrested. With his idol off the streets, "Lil D" made the life altering decision enter the drug game full throttle and soon started successfully moving large quantities of marijuana.
Within months after the arrest of the older members of the MOB, a new drug called crack-cocaine came to the forefront of America’s problems and Oakland and Darryl Reed were in the middle of it. Darryl was introduced to the cocaine sales game by his friend, Rick and the two boys invested in the drug.
The rest is what they say legends are made of, money, power and women. What separated Darryl from others was that he got the money and power before the age of 20. Small in stature, young Darryl was large in the streets and a millionaire.
Darryl's story serves as a cautionary tale of the ultimate recompense paid for life's decisions made as a child.The hustling mantra is on full view and the codes of the streets are exposed as fraudulent. Darryl's meteoric accent to the top is followed by an even swifter descent to the bowels of the United States Federal Penitentiary system as inmate#83801-011.
Inside his words will take you on an emotional ride of his journey, maturation, and ultimate epiphany. In the end Darryl realizes that he has participated in the ultimate trap game and there are never any winners.
Darryl's ultimate message to the impressionable youth who still idolize him twenty two years later is there are other ways to escape from the grasp of poverty. The drug game has no winners, in spite of what you might see in your immediate surroundings. For those who appear to have some semblance of success; the "shine" time is short and the time in the dark could last a lifetime.
http://bit.ly/fGOUnz
