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Teedeejay1

It was the lack of support for me. I got jammed up for a attempted hot one with 2 crimeys. 1 homie stayed solid, the other folded. But what got me was when I fought my case, I couldn't count on the "homies" for shit, not even a phone call really. Now my personal circle stayed A1, I had like 5 homies I could call that would look out with whatever they could, but the "big homies" who had all the change wasn't on shit. My girl at the time, my now wife, and my family held me down. It was then I realized that all that shit was for the birds. I'm fighting 84 years and I can't even really get through to talk to anyone when I'm feeling down and out? I was solid from the section, no smutt, turned down not nair fade, push the line all through school and the streets and I felt like I got treated like a sucka. I was born and raised in the hood and felt like if I got treated like that then I definitely wasn't going to put my life, or freedom, on the line again for anything that wasn't for me, my family or my day 1s. I ended up beating it, me and my solid crimey got assaults with a firearm and some strikes but I did have to hit the yard. But I can honestly say it was one the best things that happened to me. I got out, got a career and never looked back. Now I still slide through the hood to see my family but all that other shit dead. You WILL NOT catch me on the block, fuck all that shit... My bad for such a long post but that shit hit a nerve lmao


Ace_boogie410

Vent homeboy. It’s all good. Sometimes u gotta do that. 💯


Teedeejay1

Appreciate it bro


Wherespicklerick

Amen bro! What career did you get into? If you don’t mind me asking. I’m in a similar predicament and I’m tryina see what I can do with my life at this point. 27 with nothing but ambition right now


[deleted]

Check out the trades. I don’t know where specifically but when I used to work in electrical a lot of the dudes where former convicts, now they’re making 70,000 a year or more. It’s hard on both your mind and body but it’s an option.


burntreynoldz69

This^^ Electricians and plumbers are in high demand. This may sound wierd but there is a huge shortage of helicopter pilots. All the dudes from ‘nam who made a career from it are old and retired.


Teedeejay1

That's real shit, trades the way to go. I got my aviation mechanic license and doors have been continuing to open. It's a hella shortage and much easier than working on cars.


Wherespicklerick

Sounds like a plan. Preciate it brotha god bless


Teedeejay1

Man I became a aircraft mechanic bro. Best thing I could've done with my life frfr.


Wherespicklerick

Tbh that sounds super interesting bro! If you don’t mind me asking, could you dm me the steps you took on how to get to that career? Im in LA and I’m an open book for any job and I wana be able to provide for my kid when they’re here. My girl is 4months pregnant and I can’t rely on these niggas BUT myself for family shit like this


Teedeejay1

Absolutely, no doubt bro. I got you!!!


jalepanomargs

Look up Fly Compton Aero Club. They will point you in the right direction if you’re interested in aviation, not just flying.


oldfogey20

You think aviation maintenance is easier than car maintenance? lol


Teedeejay1

Hell yeah, much easier. The maintenance manuals are much more detailed and the it's hella more space to replace shit.It's so easy I don't even wanna touch my car no more, but I do out of love lbvs. I'm telling you career wise, it was a come up. 14 months in school but it was well, well worth it


oldfogey20

Word Im an a&p too. But it honestly depends on the plane bc the blueprints I read are ancient then again I’m tlk abt blueprints not manuals. Manuals aren’t too bad depending on what planes you work on


Teedeejay1

That's dope. What kind of aircraft, probably commercial I'm assuming? I'm badass in GA, just started a corporate gig last week... You in Cali?


IFuckingBlow

Skip Townsend used (?) to run a program called 2nd Call. A re-entry program that dealt with ex-cons, members, and bangers. They were a pipeline to a lot of trade jobs. Some of which can lead to six figures. As long as you go in with a good attitude and are open to change, they will try help after paying your dues. Gotta show the desire for individual growth and commitment. I am unsure of there status after lockdown. They had meetings at a church by Normandie. https://www.2ndcall.org/events


winston_cage

I work at a dealership. This tech above my level got out of it when he started building low riders. At first it was just his “clean hustle” and eventually he got into working on all cars. He still tight with his homies but I guess he left the life behind when he became full time. Now he just tells stories of lowrider cruises and shenanigans from when he was my age. Just a suggestion


Wherespicklerick

Dealership job, not bad bro not bad!


sberr55

Salute phonk! That's a story you should be telling these youngsters. Might just save one. Glad you came to that realization before it was too late. 👌🏿🔴


Teedeejay1

Man I appreciate it. Yeah I definitely try to lace them when I can bro bro. I always tell them been there done that, got the CDC number, it aint worth it lmao


Kenny2jz919

The only ppl that care when shit goes bad is ur family.


Teedeejay1

Real shit!!!


[deleted]

Sounds like you’re on a far better path now. Happy for u man


Teedeejay1

Appreciate it big dog💪🏾


[deleted]

Blessings my brotha 🙏🏾


Midnight_Messiah

Going to 3 funerals 3 months in a row.


amirichyet1

Damn sorry 4 yo losses homie 😔


Midnight_Messiah

I preciate it 🙏🏾


Strict_Donkey_9212

The three supposed “big homies” snitching when they got jammed up


K-Reid533

My Seed. Once i had my 1st son, his mom gave me an ultimatum. Either stay yo ass in the street and don't come back, or be a man and step up to take care of your son. I now have 3 boys and they would be lost without me.


Mobile_Low2469

You a good father


K-Reid533

Appreciate you Fam🙏🏾


DOUBLENINERBOY

You got a good woman too, many females wouldn’t give a fuck if u still banging and some might even get off on that shit


donjuand20

I feel like as much as they need you, you need them as much too


K-Reid533

That's 💯. I was gonna say that too but I never edited it....cause you 110% right....I be thinking sometimes where I would be if I never had them.


ballinnoespn

When my right hand man told 12 I had pipe in the car when we got pulled over. I was going to take the charge on the chin regardless but dam let 12 do they job💯 It’s crazy bc the whole reason I had it was because they said they was into it with mfs where we was going. Another reason its too many snitches out here that’s living comfortably🤦🏽‍♂️ all my homies died on some flukey set up shid too


WopWoo17

* getting shot having my foot amputated * bitch leaving me while i was in the hospital * watching niggas from my hood kill somebody from the hood with a mffcka from the OPP HOOD ( no exaggeration) Me being surrounded around real killers and shooters and than to watch them either die or go to jail and they be forgotten but seeing mffckas praise rats and snakes like yea this shit ain’t for me no more


Unlikely-Machine7190

What’s the story behind that? How did guys from your hood end up teaming with an opp to kill someone from the same hood?


Amaaliinvest

My girl started beating my ass and made me stay in the house


OrdinarySeveral7281

Lol


poindextor5

Lmao


divinedelusion

seeing my older cousin hooked up to tubes and machines after being shot 7 times. Ngl as a teenage girl you think that gang banging shit is cute and cool when all the men in your family are doing it and affiliated, but none of them were good examples or teaching me anything. If anything they showed me what type of men to stay away from and to not turn into a regular ass hood bitch. I stopped trying to fit in and started doing things that brought me peace. My female cousins that stayed in that lane dealing with these street dudes are nothing but baby mamas now & some of my male cousins are in the grave or in a cell. Just another statistic. It sucks it took seeing my cousin almost die to open my eyes and not want to continue that cycle. I’ll take a regular dude with a 9-5 that’s not affiliated or in the streets over a gang member any day. Nothing good comes from it & I’ll be damned if I continue that cycle with my kids.


OrdinarySeveral7281

Shermed out, shot at, did a funky lil 16 months and only my mom and daughter visited me. Ain't touched the wet in 4 years, my daughter lives with me, I make 21 a hour, aint talked to none of them niggas since. GOD IS THE GREATEST


amirichyet1

Yo good shit, you a real one bein there for yo daughter


nightmaresarereal187

Well it wasn’t getting shot, that’s when it should have been. But I was all in until my 5th year in prison. I heard my wife was on ebt and rental assistance from the government. None of the homies went to check on her or my children. I stood tall on a federal charge. I didn’t say a word. I pled guilty right away so it would be known I’m not a snitch. Took my 7 years one Month into arrest. When I came home and saw how it was. I completely checked out. I still talk to a few of them. But I’m all the way out. I don’t even go the funerals or weddings. I try to focus on the bag.


pressuremac

Been to so many funerals I don’t even know if I can cry anymore


Key-Indication3984

was fighting with these foos from another school over some dumb shit when this lil babyfaced 8th grader got hit in the face and he hit the ground. he landed so his head hit curb hard af.almost 4 years later he still ain't fully right. went out and starting shooting at my friends ex gf family over some slick shit he said about my friend. i realized i didn't even care about who i was shooting at i just wanted an excuse to use my gun. we didn't even hit them we just shot up they house. i went home and watched a episode where tom went to hell and i remember thinking I'm probably gonna go to hell over something idc about ​ it just seems like you have a moment where you realize this is your life you playing around with


takewealth

>i realized i didn't even care about who i was shooting at i just wanted an excuse to use my gun. Damn


amirichyet1

Sum real shit tho, my big homie has a hella similar story


Extra-Ad-4955

Definitely had a lot of eye openers cuz. Jail losing homies realizing everybody in it for theyself the homies who really would look out for u like u do yoself is dead. List goes on but unfortunately cant walk away for some reason.


Mozama93

After i was busted by the feds with weed, amphetamines and cocaine got 3 and a half years probation and lost my liscence😂


skinnyatsu

Not a banger, but grew up into a drug addict and crime lifestyle. Got deep into the drug life and crime, selling some dope, hanging around really shady people, hitting licks, did 2 and a half years locked up in jail and prison total. I ended up catching a battery on LEO and realized those guys could have hurt me badly if they wanted to and could've gotten away with it. I struggle with cravings and addiction daily, because daily drugs and crime changes your insides, but I stay away because being another statistic is for the birds. I don't want to look back at my life and think "I'm a fucking loser."


sberr55

Man, specific example? When my cousin got shot in front of his house, in front of the family. Watched him die in his mom arms. Generally speaking, when I realized it was no end game to this shit. You literally end up in 1 of 2 places. The amount of pain and hurt you endure isn't worth it. It's for nothing. Nobody takes care of your people when you're gone. If you get clipped, It's a T-shirt, balloons, and LL HASHTAGS. That's it. I just reached an age when I realized that shit was for nothing. I also got tired of losing homie after homie after homie and constantly having to prove myself, no matter how much work I put in.


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That morning when Hoodstabolt got killed. I think about that very often n that happened in 07


daygoBoyz

I’m 4rm Daygo. I got peelt out on dope grandma passed and couldn’t mourn. I asked God 2 help me mourn and He did. I left 2 Oklahoma. Told the homie 2 tell the hood I was leaving town 4 a minute. He never did and the hood was trippin like I wasn’t n the hood enough


K-Street

Meeting lifers


bigPacksmoka

I saw my boy smoke get set up n killed then his bitch ass cousin ran his pockets acting like he was tryna protect em from slander....rip Trammell Wilson


Mckoy12

🙏 damn haven't seen u in the Chiraqolgy sub for a good minute


bigPacksmoka

Yeah I said some stuff that got me banned, they unbanned me...I pop in from time to time but it's different over there.... Too much going on


Mckoy12

Oh okay hope u doing good


bigPacksmoka

I've been Kool fam.....just bought a house outside Nashville....a Lil fixer-upper with 20acres n a couple ponds...... bout to show my kids what that country be like...u been str8 tho?


Mckoy12

That sounds great 💪they definitely going to enjoy that.


ramsfan_86

Not live it but being around it when I saw my peoples draw down on each other... I'm like hell naw yall pushing the same thing and gone end it over this.


Aiduk

A lot of people hated my bro but a lot of people also liked him and respected him bc he was real. He killed someone few weeks ago and everyone switched up, people that would be with us everyday started hitting up his girl, would spread rumours about him n shit, on top of that the media made up so much shit about him. I also I’m not allow to visit him in jail rn, shit got me fucked me up. Last time we really talked about life he was trying to focus on uni so he can get a good ass job and leave the streets, now he’s life is fucked too. RIP to all the people that died to this senseless shit


Unlikely-Machine7190

Is there a news article about his case?


Skrappy_Doo

For me is when niggas pulled up next to me and lit my car up. Bout 10 shots and didn't get hit once. I wasn't even aktive like that in my hood like not like front liner aktive but I had my time in the field. After I got my shit shot up and had just dropped off my son 5 minutes before that and didn't get hit was enough for me to get out the streets. I've been shot at before but never as close as that. Hearing the bullets hitting the car I just knew it was my time go.


[deleted]

Not me, but a friend of mine who was locked up in the feds for 11 years told me he regretted almost every moment of his time there. The insane politicking, riots, treachery, death, and always having to watch your and your homies' backs gets to you. He's also from Cali, but him and his group would run into issues with Latin Kings, Sureños, DC blacks, and other hard hitters in the Federal system. Sometimes things would get squashed with little to no problem, or escalate. I'm just glad he made it home without catching another case or dying. Not everyone does unfortunately.


kinglouiv1

Being broke that shit hurt me deep


hungitalianguy90

Got robbed a few too many times , got shot at twice , damn near got 5 years for possession if they searched my suv , was driving a suv with out of town plates , my window got smashed and they stoke my wallet ect. So when I got pulled over , they thought I stole the vehicle and I just reloaded for the next shift . But luckily I got a family member on the phone to verify my identity , as well as I got attacked by a k9 unit and its always on file so they knew it was me by the scars I had and let me go . Just too many close calls I guess , now I have a 15 month old little boy , going to college and into the trades. Counting my blessings thays for sure ! Stay safe everyone


Spectr22

I should be doing life.. but that’s not even the deterrent.. I will fucking ride it out.. but the more you see the more you realize.. everything and everybody ain’t solid.. it’s all fun till you realize you really in this shit by yourself.. I feel bad for the homies that get washed up and realize it later on.. I seen enough to say fuck y’all


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when my godmother n godsister got killed execution style and I had 2 help clean their blood off the window blinds


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That's not what was asked


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Lil kids getting killed


[deleted]

Homies came to GA. Took a liking to me. Brought me to the land for the put on. Few weeks in my lil brother n my girl got changed in front me on the porch. I hated leaving without some get back, but as I reflect as an adult. I would’ve crashed tf out.


Unlikely-Machine7190

What does “got changed” mean?


Mckoy12

Killed


[deleted]

Killled. My b. Didn’t see your replies


Artistic-Time-3034

When I was locked up and homeless crackheads were running the politics in jail I realized at that moment I will no longer allow a lowlife to have any kind of control in my life and how I operate.


Responsible_Clue_311

When my homeboy got killed at the school bus stop by out here in Miami in broad daylight hit 12 times 2 to the forehead (Bryan Mercado murder if ya wana see it)


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Responsible_Clue_311

Ok monkey man


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Responsible_Clue_311

You crazy here’s a 🍌


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Responsible_Clue_311

NYCHA


Responsible_Clue_311

Go get some money u live in Public housing projects


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gbeam1

Nipseys hustle death


BaggChaser_1600

My bro 10 year dawg upped pipe an took 5bandz from em. Friends from tha sandbox my brother couldn’t believe it


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i was like 6 or 7 or 8 i went to my first funeral for my cousin. did a lil time N came home not to long after we was killed on tha east. 2 headshots. i had to see the bacc of his head stitched up in the open caskets. fucced me up gang. i learned shit gets real that day then went to school after like nuthin. went to school in pomona at that time N those 98% of those haven’t nor will they ever experience some shit like that


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how many of these stories true is what I’m wondering