Some music. Corey Red and Precise: Tight rhymes, great lyrics. Enough said.

Krazy by The Kryz

Krazy,

is crawlin,

through the streets,

Brawlin,

with any kid,

who thinks that he got a problem,

ive met that kid,

but my homies shot him,

wronged him,

when i could have taught him,

bout hittin rock bottom,

when ya murder an robbin,

krazy,

is killin,

livin with villains,

dying as children,

but we think that we chillin,

but this aint livin.

Krazy,

is knowing,

going as the winds blowin,

kicking beats an flowing,

watchin ya boy die,

an let go him.

EX GANG MEMBERS GIVING SHORT TESTIMONY @ GANG PREVENTION & INTERVENTION ” BOYZ IN THE HOOD” IN SANGER CA.

Aiken Standard (subscription)

Youth rally aims to curb violence and gang activity
Aiken Standard (subscription)
How do you keep a child from joining a gang?

This is the question the “Faith In Youth” collaboration plans to address on Saturday at an free interactive youth rally designed to be a community-wide event on the prevention of gang activity and youth violence.

Who can save kids from gangs? This article explores how those closest to the issue may offer the most hope.

ON THE FRONT LINES: A battle cry to save kids
Investigative Voice

Community activist Greland Lowery got in trouble as a teen, stealing cars and launching a career of crime that culminated in a 12-year stint in federal prison.

But as he addressed a panel of criminal  justice officials assembled at Union Baptist Church in Baltimore Tuesday night to discuss juvenile crime, he made an impassioned plea.

“You’re not going to win this war without me,” he warned.

One after another, leaders of small community-based organizations — many of them ex-offenders themselves — told the panelists and audience members: Forget the endless discussions, the perpetual studies, and the rhetoric from bureaucrats and politicians. We’re out here in the trenches and we know what needs to be done, they said; just give us the financial support to carry out our work.

Self esteem. Self improvement. Self help. Self love. Self actualization. Self pride. It’s all self delusion. Preaching from Philippians 2:1-11 Pastor Mark Driscoll teaches how Jesus is for us the most happy person who has ever lived because, in part, He was the most humble.

A great show on how gang members can move away from gangs and change how they are perceived and how they perceive themselves.

A look back at street gangs and hip hop

Street Gangs and Hip Hop: A Retrospective
SoJones
Rap and organized street gangs were inextricably linked back in the 90’s heyday of hip hop. Stars such as The Notorious BIG, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac …

Gang members talk about leaving a gang.

Another Lost Cause

My people are hurting

children turned to monsters,

Northern Cali livin where 9 year old kids curse like mobsters.

Politicians cant figure out the reason

for all the drugs violence and hate,

but I alone know the answer to why all that seems their fate.

Ask them about their childhhood

and theyll become distant and blank,

some clutch 9’s with their lil hands

while watching their young mothers snort up crank.

Ask the lil cholas

why they settle for men who use their fists

and youll hear a story of a baby raped, at the tender age of six.

Little boys protecting their mothers from drunk inked up men

lil girls watching their older brothers sent off to the pin

Damnt dont yall see, it starts at home

broken and battred women, feeling safe by a cholos chrome.

Then having kids to young,

resenting their lost youth

the mothers take off

leavin the oldest kid to raise the other two.

I know a girl whos mother sold her tiny body

for a bit of cheap dope

to the same men who slept with her

and lived all in her home.

It sickens me, the rate that dehumanization is quickening

upper class fight over allowance

always havin but steady bickering.

While a kid across town

is lettin the homies pull a train

cuz she needs protection from them in this wicked terrain.

Wheres the parents? Some cant be found. Out tryin to ease the pain

that their parents handed down.

The cycle has to be broken

someone has to care

for these orphaned ghetto children

thinking normality is despair.