Video: Sadat X Talks About The Crack Era
So every Friday, Gasface is dropping these thisismyNYMinute supplements to their New York Minute mini-series. Last week it was Buckshot breaking down the end of Evil Dee’s rap career, and this week Sadat X regales us with tales from the days when crack cocaine ruled the streets of NYC (“yo when crack first came out? that was the greatest thing ever!”). He also speaks on Boy George, a hustler from the Bronx (Cormega name-checked him on “Glory Days”) who let Calvin Klein shoot a perfume commercial at his crib.
Previously: Media Gasface – New York Minute Ep. 3 (Land of Dream)
November 5th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
cOLD i know you got that locked down in the harddrive somewhere fam…
liberate that please… (nhjic)
November 5th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
I believe this is the wayne we should be expecting, nas always brings the best out a nigga.
youtube.com/watch?v=bhJSQebFvew
^
Rich Boy >>>
Whatever happened to that nigga?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
@mcb Idk man I’m kinda neverous to try it in the water nh. Something about it seems funny.
If its gonna be a mess than I might not try the cheese cloth either. nh
I think I will try it the same way as I have done before placing the weed and butter in a seperate container and boiling it. But previous times i have only boiled for about 2 hours where as on most of these youtube videos, these guys say at least 3-4 hours.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
youtube.com/watch?v=uHodee8Kfgg
genius at work
November 5th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Has anyone ever looked at all the scripts that run on NahRight?… Shit crazy given that this is just a blog.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
BOY GEORGE GETS SHOUTED OUT IN FRENCH’S VERSION OF BMF TOO
November 5th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
(“yo when crack first came out? that was the greatest thing ever!”). H
^^^^^
Dead’
This dude really loved smoking crack
November 5th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Remixznflow Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
cOLD i know you got that locked down in the harddrive somewhere fam…
liberate that please… (nhjic
^ man, I dont have much of a collection on my laptop…. I got physical copies of cd’s… Just go ahead and cop the whole I AM
November 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Funny how in this clip the dude is saying in the 80s police would take the crack and not do shit, because they didnt know what to do with it….
MaYBE JAY WASNT LYING…SMH
November 5th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
MaYBE JAY WASNT LYING…SMH
^
mAybe.. then again does it matter?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Nah’sOnlyWhiteboy Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
@mcb Idk man I’m kinda neverous to try it in the water nh. Something about it seems funny.
If its gonna be a mess than I might not try the cheese cloth either. nh
I think I will try it the same way as I have done before placing the weed and butter in a seperate container and boiling it. But previous times i have only boiled for about 2 hours where as on most of these youtube videos, these guys say at least 3-4 hours
^^
nah its not that messy, some just gets on your hands, (pause).
yeah everyone has different methods/times. some say 30 min, some say 3 hours, some say 24. just do what works for you. the importance is not burning the thc out of the weed obviously,
i imagine at some point theres not much difference in the THC getting released (nhjic). id say 2 hours is plenty. but if u got nothing else goin on, go for 2.5-3 i guess.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Mr. Iceberg Slim Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Funny how in this clip the dude is saying in the 80s police would take the crack and not do shit, because they didnt know what to do with it….
MaYBE JAY WASNT LYING…SMH
^ dude was talking about when it first hit, Jay was some 5 years later. SMH
November 5th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
# cOLD Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Remixznflow Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
cOLD i know you got that locked down in the harddrive somewhere fam…
liberate that please… (nhjic
^ man, I dont have much of a collection on my laptop…. I got physical copies of cd’s… Just go ahead and cop the whole I AM
^im sayin i have the whole album (or so i thought) and for the life of me i dont know where the hell that cut went…
smh at my library…
November 5th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
someone post a link to joe88′s rant about being a star from yesterday
November 5th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
rip landLord
November 5th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
(“yo when crack first came out? that was the greatest thing ever!”). H
^^^^^
Dead’
This dude really loved smoking crack
^^^
ROFF
November 5th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
rip landLord
^ cosign
his celestiall insight is well missed
November 5th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
# cOLD Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
rip landLord
^ cosign
his celestiall insight is well missed
^
word…
quite a few are gone…
smh.. how much longer can the integrity that once was survive?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
# Deen Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
(“yo when crack first came out? that was the greatest thing ever!”). H
^^^^^
Dead’
This dude really loved smoking crack
^^^
ROFF
^^^
Lmao did u see the clip, this nigga faced lit up, he was smiling like a kid on christmas he even showed us how big the rocs used to be, nigga was in paradise..
November 5th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
rip landLord
^ cosign
his celestiall insight is well missed
^
word…
quite a few are gone…
smh.. how much longer can the integrity that once was survive?
^
word a lot of folks retired from nah and were ethered off nah
none the less rip to all of ‘em
November 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
^ dude was talking about when it first hit, Jay was some 5 years later. SMH
^
Didn’t crack supposedly hit everywhere in the mid 80′s?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Lmao did u see the clip, this nigga faced lit up, he was smiling like a kid on christmas he even showed us how big the rocs used to be, nigga was in paradise..
^ I fail to find the humor in a generation that was devastated by crack. When you see the crack babies born as a result, I dont think you’ll be laughing as much.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
84-85.. ? that’s what I’ve always heard.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Dam 80s niggas was “Rock” stars litterally
November 5th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
^ dude was talking about when it first hit, Jay was some 5 years later. SMH
^^^
He was born one year b4 jay
November 5th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
# cOLD Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Lmao did u see the clip, this nigga faced lit up, he was smiling like a kid on christmas he even showed us how big the rocs used to be, nigga was in paradise..
^ I fail to find the humor in a generation that was devastated by crack. When you see the crack babies born as a result, I dont think you’ll be laughing as much.
^^^
Nigga fuck that, we laughing at that nigga talking about how he enjoyed smoking crack, fuck all that other shit
November 5th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Didn’t crack supposedly hit everywhere in the mid 80′s?
^ yea around 83 is when hit 85 is when it smashed, Jay was 16 at the time, so that made it around 85
November 5th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
# cOLD Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Mr. Iceberg Slim Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Funny how in this clip the dude is saying in the 80s police would take the crack and not do shit, because they didnt know what to do with it….
MaYBE JAY WASNT LYING…SMH
^ dude was talking about when it first hit, Jay was some 5 years later. SMH
^^^^
You know he is only one year older than jayz right and he is telling u how back then, cops didnt even know what that shit was…Its ok cold, its ok
November 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
The bessssstttt…..
Era…..
All about those grams…..
PENTA
November 5th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
When you see the crack babies born as a result, I dont think you’ll be laughing as much.
^
word, leave the eli porters of the world alone
November 5th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Crack cocaine, often nicknamed “crack” after the sound made during its manufacture and when smoked, appeared primarily in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985.[5]
November 5th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Mr. Iceberg Slim Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Crack cocaine, often nicknamed “crack” after the sound made during its manufacture and when smoked, appeared primarily in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in late 1984 and 1985.[5]
^^
stop snitching
#justplayin
November 5th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
^ yea around 83 is when hit 85 is when it smashed, Jay was 16 at the time, so that made it around 85
^
Ok, from what i can gather, it’s turning into a semantic debate… a year or 2 off.. could of went either way. I’d tell a little story, but, for what…
November 5th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
BUSH: It’s always my fault. I mean I was the one who should have said, A, don’t take my picture, B, let’s land in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, C, let’s don’t even come close to the area. Let’s — the next place to be seen is in Washington at a command center. I mean, it was my fault.
^^^^
He really doesn’t care about black people..
November 5th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I’d tell a little story, but, for what…
^ because we are amused of flowery ornate story telling. go in!
November 5th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
cops called to schools were proba bit more strict when it came to having drugs on campus.. but who knows, and who really cares
November 5th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Bones Jackson Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
BUSH: It’s always my fault. I mean I was the one who should have said, A, don’t take my picture, B, let’s land in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, C, let’s don’t even come close to the area. Let’s — the next place to be seen is in Washington at a command center. I mean, it was my fault.
^^^^
He really doesn’t care about black people..
^^^
shout out to Lauer, suprised he basically called bush out on everything.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
I was born in 79 and trust i rmbr been in elementry when crack rolled out, i rmbr the just say no to drug red t shirts and the marches they used to make us do…..Just Say No.
November 5th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
my brother got left outside the class unattented with the entire drug cart.
the entire drug cart.
>>>>>drug Cops
November 5th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
Ok Ice your point is its logical that cops let him go with 3 days worth of hustling crack cocaine on him, 60 hours straight of him grinding at the boom of the crack epidemic. Blocks were making tens to hundreds of thousands in a day… Math says that with that much huslting Jay had to have atleast 5 thousand worth of crack, we know it wasn’t a punk clip that took him 3 days to get off. So how much yay would you say the let him off with, just walk away at a school zone?
November 5th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
“Did you know you can license a Joe Budden song to use on Youtube for $2?”
damn
November 5th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Listen Cold read the story again
* His First Arrest
Jay-Z’s first arrest came at age 16. He was dealing in Trenton, because his friend “Hill” had a supplier there. Hill had enrolled in the local high school, and one day when Jay-Z went to meet him, he got caught with crack in his pockets on the campus. Since he had no prior arrests, the police let him go, but they confiscated his supply. In order to make up the cash to the supplier, Jay-Z had to go back to Marcy and deal crack 60 hours straight — three days in a row, he writes. He kept awake by “eating cookies and writing rhymes on the back of brown paper bags.”
They took the crack from him and he was in Trenton, NJ, so the cops took all his work, so he had to leave trenton go to nyc get more work, make enough to pay off that work he just got AND make enough to give back the dealer in trenton. Thats why at took 3 days. I think thats what he is saying in the story. Jesus man
November 5th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
bitch i think im charlie sheen
November 5th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
They took the crack from him and he was in Trenton, NJ, so the cops took all his work, so he had to leave trenton go to nyc get more work, make enough to pay off that work he just got AND make enough to give back the dealer in trenton. Thats why at took 3 days. I think thats what he is saying in the story. Jesus man
^ lol, the jesus man at the end. ok
November 5th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
ive seen people get caught with alota shit and let go because the amount of paperwork and court bs that comes along with it is just too much. some cops are lazy. others dont wana go thru the trouble for a lil bit. unless they catch a major haul they just take it and tell u to f off. especially if u a first time offender. and bein 16 its even easier to get off.
November 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Crack destroyed families All across the USA. Its pretty sad real shit
November 5th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
E aka Mac with the Cheese Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
rip landLord
^ cosign
his celestiall insight is well missed
^
word…
quite a few are gone…
smh.. how much longer can the integrity that once was survive?
^
word a lot of folks retired from nah and were ethered off nah
none the less rip to all of ‘em
^^^
Raassss!
November 5th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
# 007 Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Crack destroyed families All across the USA. Its pretty sad real shit
^^^
Crack saved the economy in the 80′s and even still to this day, how the fuck u think a lot of them red neck prison towns still survive
November 5th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
problem is… i think… it got too corny here…
November 5th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Mr. Iceberg Slim Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
# 007 Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Crack destroyed families All across the USA. Its pretty sad real shit
^^^
Crack saved the economy in the 80′s and even still to this day, how the fuck u think a lot of them red neck prison towns still survive
^^^
word, MuFuckas built supermaxs WAY the fuck out.
November 5th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
rocstar Says:
November 5th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
ive seen people get caught with alota shit and let go because the amount of paperwork and court bs that comes along with it is just too much. some cops are lazy. others dont wana go thru the trouble for a lil bit. unless they catch a major haul they just take it and tell u to f off. especially if u a first time offender. and bein 16 its even easier to get off.
^ this is the biggest misconception placed on cops… These niggas are ego driven pigs, in it for the stripes and recognition… The reality is that cops “plant” shit on niggas, not let the walk off with having found an ounce of raw.
November 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Crack destroyed families All across the USA. Its pretty sad real shit
====
“thou it might seem wrong thank god for that white”
#RAWSE gems
November 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
problem is… i think… it got too corny here…
^ not to worry, you’ll soon adjust.
November 5th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
If you’re a New Yorker that grew up in that era,then you KNOW that what Sadat is saying is all true shit. And no..he said it was the greatest shit because it enabled young niggas who had nothing to have money.Buy a brand new car off the lot fully kitted out in a day money,so yeah,it was the greatest thing ever(and also one of THE WORST)..and to top it off,if you got caught,the cops did not have a fucking clue.Most times,they’d just take ya shit and let you walk off or just give you ya shit back.
Older heads back then said that the cops gave it back because letting that shit run wild in the ghetto WAS THE PLAN the whole time. It didn’t become criminal until it started showing up in white neighborhoods…true shit!
November 5th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
^ this is the biggest misconception placed on cops… These niggas are ego driven pigs, in it for the stripes and recognition… The reality is that cops “plant” shit on niggas, not let the walk off with having found an ounce of raw.
^
you dont earn stripes by making small busts, u earn em by haulin in the major players. the amount of time and work it woulda taken to take a 16 year old kid to juvenile and process him and the paperwork only to have him walk out a few days later isnt worth it to some cops.
November 12th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
[...] Previously: Media Gasface – New York Minute Ep. 4 (Night Nurse ft. G. Dep) | Sadat X Talks About The Crack Era [...]