Bro, DID U JUST SAY METRO???!!
Ahhhhhhh man, u’re fa sho good w/ me champ. Bruh, Metro was our chit in college. Real hood rat chit that became offffff the hook when more & more ppl from the hood found out about it. Shoot outs & everything, & hella STDs ran wild up in there from the ladies of night partying up in there. GOOD TIMES! Lol
But seriously, both Inglewood & Compton were All White. If u were a person of color, in order to come through u had to have a work pass, & be out at a certain time. As more and more Blacks & Latinos started to migrate through, big businesses packed up their chit, & left (hence, the Great White Flight of the 70’s).
With no business & work opportunities, the streets became easy. Freeway Rick Ross (The Real One) will tell u himself how the gov’t knew what was what. He regrets what he did the community, but it was fast, easy $$. Ppl get fooled by L.A. U go to parts of Compton & u’ll be like **** this is nice, only to find out it’s infested w/ gangs. Same w/ Inglewood, & other areas in L.A County.
I can unequivocally & passionately tell u there’s parts of Inglewood, Compton, L.A City (Central L.A) that STILL have abandoned crack homes, buildings, from the late 80’s bro. It’s wild af to me to see places I knew that were shut down, shot up, burnt up when I was like 8. I’m 41 & them jawns r still deserted. The gangs that rose up went from killing for territory, to killing for revenge & its seeped to generations today.
I saw this youngin taggin, introduced myself to him & neighborhood. B/c of how I look & talk he didn’t believe me, so I FT’d his big homie who’s my bff & he was like oh ish. Lol. I asked him did he know what he was doing; baby didn’t have a clue. He didn’t know the history, how it started, any of that. I just told him as a Black man to Black man I want better for him, & that living to the age of 23 shouldn’t be a goal, it should be expected.
The lasting damage of the crack era in L.A left irrevocable damage to the communities.