I had no funds to order my own books, so I had to read what was available. I knew hed be coming to Palm Hall perhaps even before he did. This powerful account of the triumph of the human spirit over insurmountable odds brings the reader into the daily battles for survival. Then I see Pac is hit. Sukanya, in. Tookie, like Tupac, like Eazy E, like George Jackson, like Malcolm and Martin and countless others, was bad for business. These killings, public and obvious as they are, serve as psychological demonstrations to keep the masses traumatized against struggle. I asked, feeling myself getting angry. With Tookie, it was a national message, and its a testament to the weakness of our forces that we allow such blatant acts of murder to happen to our nationals. This nigga had 18 bodies and you niggas praise people for 1 or 2. Im very intent on making this time in this terrible place work for us and our national liberation struggle. Even when he ran off with my mothers .25 automatic and my mother was chasing me around about it. Welcome to the terror zone. He took his cap and [turned] it around to the side like the way a kid whos trying to look tough will and he crossed his eyes and stuck the tip of his tongue outside of his mouth and he said, Scary huh? Bing recalled. Imagine that. Well, when I got to San Quentin in January of 86, on the tier was study material from the Black Liberation Movement (BLM), a lot of material from the Black Panther Party, the African Peoples Party, the African Peoples Socialist Party etc. JR: What does being New Afrikan mean to you, and why did you choose this ideology? Gang Member Murderers are, most commonly, not the average eleven year old boy. Box 7500, Crescent City CA 95532. In 1981, Smith was arrested for allegedly shooting Scott. One cant be disenfranchised, if youve never been enfranchised, feel me? Thats my motto. The oppressor has the luxury of having a long memory, of being able to strategize far into the future, to project, you dig? Scott's son was pragmatic about the arc of his father's life. Crip gang member monster kody full interview 1993 - YouTube 0:00 / 17:54 Crip gang member monster kody full interview 1993 Vinmoonsu 87.2K subscribers Subscribe 7.8K 791K views 5 years. I didnt overstand nation then, but I overstood that we were a distinct people. But by then the die had been cast. Then they said I had a dirty test. But even then his stress was evident. Constructed in 1941, Chino is not simply a prison but a complex of many prisons. On hearing of his death, my first thought was that Suge had him set up. Our demands are not irrational. A lot of youngsters couldve seen, wow, these two big-name rivals get together so if they can get together, everybody else can turn around and say, 'Well if they can do it, we can do it,' Smith said. I been in these stoops since i was fifteen. Featuring literary tropes, the style flows, everything is explained easily for the reader, and yet the book is hard to read. I reasoned that as a celebrity hed be held in Involuntary Protective Custody (IPC)-just as Makaveli, then known as Tupac Shakur (no relation to me), was in 1995 at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. Monster Kody founded Northern 83G Crips in Los Angeles, California Former Crip member Sanyika Shakur, aka Monster Kody Scott, has passed away. We trying to tell em that we the victims, but they make us get down on the ground anyway.. I expected a harsher Im Suge Knight type of response. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for Los Angeles Magazine and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. etc. Its like man, my stomach gets jittery because we have no idea what Kody is going to do.. Street organizations are allowed to function in certain areas, based on the same principal and strategy. It is a determination to exert this national reality, build a strong state (government) around it and struggle against the forces which oppress it in order to get free. David Lindley, guitarist best known for work with Jackson Browne, dies at 78, K-Pop isnt the only hot ticket in Koreatown how trot is captivating immigrants, Los Angeles is suddenly awash in waterfalls, The Week in Photos: California exits pandemic emergency amid a winter landscape, Snowboarder dies at South Lake Tahoe resort, California to alter COVID rules in healthcare settings: Masks and vaccinations not required. Monster, listen, when I went out to New York to see Pac, he was stressed out. In return he gave the guy a photo of a half-naked woman taken at Makavelis birthday party in Vegas. I wish we could hook up on the streets but it is never to (sic) late. His old hood became my hood when my set started. Monster. Its dialetical. So with me its ideological, theoretical and philosophical studies. Scott, who changed his name to Sanyika Shakur marking his rebirth and the end of his gang career, had a complex life. Thats noting, replied Suge, his husky voice rising an octave. Death was always a taboo subject really, Book was crazyread it when it first came out years agoas u read it it, u feel like ur right therecrazy, Thats the nigga that said Ice cube wasnt no gangster just a good rapper, Old head was a true gang banger, the story crazy of why they gave him monster in his name, Not sure. I told him naw, to keep his songs, but Id get him out. He wanted to get out of prison. Although Scott escaped death numerous times as a member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips, then became an author who counseled others to avoid gang life, the 57-year-old was found dead on June 7 at a homeless encampment near the San Luis River Trail in Oceanside, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiners office. JR: Lil Bunchy (Dhanifu) is facing Three Strikes. I loved him. A well-known gang banger in the 1970s, Scott remarkably became. He was not looking to show off strength. The next day he replied: A Monster, Its a genocidal tactic utilized by law enforcement to keep the Natives in line. War Stories DVD (Monster Kody) Part 2 of 3 Tyree OG Hoodsta 23.4K subscribers Subscribe 8K Share Save 1.1M views 11 years ago Part 2 of 3 to the whole War Stories DVD, Yall niggas subscribe to my. Most prisoners I knew could shower, shave, masturbate, and get their shoes on before the door opened again. The Jags, the Bentleys. Its no longer Uncle Tom preachers; its Uncle Tom Supreme Kourt justices and Uncle Tom presidents, you dig? Twelve years before the U.S. government opened Guantanamo Bay for so-called enemy combatants, California opened Pelican Bay for threats to institutional security. No charges, no rules, violations, no crimes all politics. The razor broke. That is, I didnt truly overstand capitalism, imperialism or colonialism. This is what i said to Suge as we ambled down the massive central corridor at the California Institute for Men (CIM, or Chino) in Chino, California. Mad Bone stands near a poster remembrance at a vigil for Kody Scott, a former L.A. Crips gang member, in South Los Angeles. You either complied or never came out of the cell. We are only wishing, rather demanding, to be treated as human beings. To be New Afrikan is to recognize that you are a member of a distinct culture, that you are a citizen of a nation unto itself in the belly of the beast. I read and reread all the news clippings about the shooting. Again, its dialectical. This entails being free from capitalism, imperialism and colonialism. We are now in a post neo-colonial era. We have to be on all of the time. For every step forward, he seemed to take at least one step back. Perhaps the brotha was just stressed out and wrote the letter in haste. So I had to face that, had to confront that, and either go around, you know, or deny it. When the time is right we will talk. ), Hidden, illegal casinos are booming in L.A., with organized crime reaping big profits, Look up: The 32 most spectacular ceilings in Los Angeles, 19 cafes that make L.A. a world-class coffee destination, This fabled orchid breeder loves to chat just not about Trader Joes orchids, Elliott: Kings use their heads over hearts in trading Jonathan Quick, Calmes: Heres what we should do about Marjorie Taylor Greene, Best coffee city in the world? Basically starting ny bloods. My homeboy Poc (sic) had love for you so you know how it go if he had love for somebody I did too. Its like man, my stomach gets jittery because we have no idea what Kody is going to do.. I got him eighteen points. We were in what George called the riot stage of rebellion. All right, Ill see you tomorrow, he said, then sent them on their way, unscathed. Its the underdog story. Prisoners whod been traversing the corridor just prior to our exit from Segregated Housing Unit edged closer to the yellow wall while stealing glimpses in our direction. This was the staple material Soledad Brothers, Blood in My Eye, Wretched of the Earth and there was the Burning Spear newspaper of the African Socialist Party. He was 57 years old. He and I both had our hands cuffed behind our backs as we were escorted by two correctional officers with P-24 battle batons. A year or two later, reading through a rap magazine, I saw Sanyikas columns, which turned out to be monthly. I thought we were fighting against racism. Born Kody DeJohn Scott in November 1963 to Birdie Scott, he discovered later that his father was L.A. Rams running back Dick Bass, who died in 2006. And certainly I couldnt write. That is, until the people turn it off. Sanyika: When I first was captured, as I said, there were still remnants of the old Black Liberation Movement around largely publications, periodicals, books etc. . See, I need to explain this: In the subculture of bangin, it wasnt about being literate or articulate, and it wasnt about books or academia. Monster recalls the 1992. In 1977, a 13-year-old Kody stomped on a robbery victim for 20 minutes, then abandoned the comatose man in an alley. JR: What were some of the books you studied? (He told 60 Minutes in an interview with Steve Croft in 1993 that his godfather was singer Ray Charles, a family friend). My mind was racing. In December 1996, Suge came to Palm Hall as i predicted. One day while Scott and Bing were riding in the backseat of a car through the hood, she recalls asking him to show her his "mad dog" face. All right, Ill see you tomorrow, he said, then sent them on their way, unscathed. The archaic cell blocks that extend from the central cooridor stretch threee tiers above the floor with as many as thirty-six cells to a tier. The Peoples Minister of Information JR is associate editor of the Bay View, author of Block Reportin and filmmaker of Operation Small Axe and Block Reportin 101, available, along with many more interviews, at www.blockreportradio.com. And yet here we were reading and studying the same material used to combat a particular stage in our continual struggle and trying to apply it in a time that was not appropriate to its science. I gave here that money. I aint worried. Thats a serious point there, because without knowing the extent to which you are contaminated by criminality and colonialism, one will not overstand the extent of struggle required to cleanse, dig? A passer-by found the body of Kody Scott in a tent in an open area near the San Luis Rey River Trail about 12:30 . After Makaveli was shot, I procured an avenue for news clippings to trickle in so I could keep up with the case. Im sure Suge had to go through the same routine: Lift your arms up; stick out your tounge; pull back your ears; lift up your nut sack; bend at the waist; spread your cheeks and cough; lift your right foot; now your left. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Of course, I was never on the run. Never ran. Authorities Wednesday publicly identified a 57-year-old man found dead this week at a makeshift encampment in Oceanside. This audio is from Part 1 of Monster Kody Scott interview on Kev Mac Videos youtube channel. TwitterStanding in shackles and a beige prison jumpsuit, the once prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh continued to claim he was innocent Friday as a judge slammed him as a "monster" whose conduct was worse than many offenders who got the death penalty.Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to life in prison for the June 7, 2021, murders of his wife Maggie and son Paulbut not . So this cage is my classroom, my gym, my struggle chamber. Even when he ran off with my mothers .25 automatic and my mother was chasing me around about it. I gotta be better than I was before, better than our enemies. Did you see the lowrider I got him?. I used some prison connections to get Suge and I put on the law-library list together. We gotta keep up. Townsends schoolmate told Scott he had a stomachache and was just trying to get home. Plus, how Im sposed to shave and shower in ten minutes? Scott was initiated into the Eight Tray Gangster Crips the day of his sixth-grade graduation at age 11. This is philosophy. He was however, a fairly Of course I heard about the violence and I also read it in the book, but I never met 'Monster Kody,' said Sanyika Shakur II, 31, Scott's youngest son. At Scotts request while he was incarcerated, Bing helped him coordinate a toy drive at a local childrens hospital with then 15-year-old Bernard Cooper, a young member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips. Oh yeah? said Suge, his voice indicating more concern than he intended. His turbulent life as an Eight Tray Crip was transformed into a remarkable work. On top of his never having been in prison-despite his numerous convictions-Suge was staying in the Hole, where he would find it hard to breathe. The curious life of "Monster" Kody Scott was soon to emerge as a cautionary tale of redemption and the relentless tug of gang life. Age, height and net worth. Price finally hit a bulldog on Jake. When he was on Interscope, he was only gettin four points. "I'm already unstable, I get some cognac n a blunt, I get offgimme a pill and someone gone". Perhaps Id been in these stoops too long. Monster Kody was 57 years old at the time of his death. We even had the contest to see who could get the most women to tattoo our name on them. He chuckled at this for a long while. He was a member of the Los Angeles -based Eight Tray Gangster Crips. The two had grown up in the same neighborhood and knew each others families, but when Smith joined a rival gang, Rollin Sixties, they became enemies. Despite his promising career in Hollywood his memoir was discussed as a possible film by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, which never materialized Scott wound up being placed on L.A.s most wanted list for allegedly stealing a car, a potential third strike that would carry a long prison term, and living at an Oceanside homeless encampment. Sanyika: In 2006, I was put on the FBIs Most Wanted list, the LAPDs Top Ten Most Wanted List, and became a fugitive with a $50,000 bounty on my head. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. And luckily for me, I had cats around me who were interested in growth and development, on an intellectual level. JR: Can you tell us a little bit about the case you are locked up on now? A well-known gang banger in the 1970s, Scott remarkably became a motivational speaker and bestselling author of a 1993 memoir that took a sobering look at gang life in L.A. If you sit around and get hypnotized by the TV, sports or gossip about whos gonna get kicked off of Big Brother or, as Gil Scott Heron said, If Dick finally got down with Jane on Search For Tomorrow, then time is doing you. And free here means free to determine our own destiny, free to develop our own productive forces to meet our needs as a nation, free to be ourselves for our own benefit and of course free of mind-warping genocidal violence perpetrated against our nationals from the cradle to the grave. JR: What should be done to bring street and prison organizations closer together so they can support one another? Monster Kody aka Sanyika Shakur Beyond Hate ( 1991 Exclusive) Street Gangs Watch on The last time I had seen Makaveli was in April of 1996 during the vidoe shoot for the X-rated version of "How Do U Want It.". After all, Id seen men in and our of prison actually tremble when speaking about him. The 43-year-old Scott, born in South Central L.A., later took the name Sanyika Shakur after converting to Islam. Scott patted him on the back. LA Eight Trey Gangster Crip OG MONSTER KODY Interview from 1997. last minute of the video he drillin shit, freestyling. Them niggas thats catchin heel right now. I knew he was talking about the Southside Crips. He was not looking to show off strength. I hadnt yet fully overstood the extent to which Id need to go in order to transform my criminal, colonial mentality into a revolutionary mentality, dig?