So I make them 10 count. Cadres will come from all sectors of our nation and all classes. etc. My homeboy Poc (sic) had love for you so you know how it go if he had love for somebody I did too. Send our brother some love and light: Kody Scott (Sanyika Shakur), D-07829, PBSP SHU C7-112, P.O. Rebuild! I got him eighteen points. On hearing of his death, my first thought was that Suge had him set up. etc. And the material it printed to agitate, educate and organize clearly reflected this rejection of colonialism and neo-colonialism. And as I said, I read it all. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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. "To live and die in L.A., Where everyday we try to fatten they pockets, So many hustle for the cash, so it's hard to knock it, Everybody got they own thing, currency chasin', Worldwide through the hard times, worrying faces, Shed tears as we bury brother close to heart, What was a friend, now a. Smith was found not guilty and a decade later, while both he and Scott were in prison, Smith wrote him a letter to congratulate him on his book. Before Scott died, he also made amends with Smith. Gang Member, By Sanyika Shakur, a.k.a. Source: http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=305382.0, Haki Kweli Shakur ATC NAPLA NAIM MOI 4-22-53 ADM 2018 Free Sanyika Shakur. Monster, listen, when I went out to New York to see Pac, he was stressed out. etc. Despite his reputation, people closest to him said that they rarely or never saw the Monster side of him. Kody Scott, also known as Monster Kody, is a former member of the Crips gang in Los Angeles and the author of the autobiographical book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. As the guards gear suggests, the Hole has seen its share of warfare. Thats noting, replied Suge, his husky voice rising an octave. On went the cuffs, open came the door. He and I both had our hands cuffed behind our backs as we were escorted by two correctional officers with P-24 battle batons. Townsends schoolmate told Scott he had a stomachache and was just trying to get home. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Newman, 71, has presided over the high-profile trial . The Jags, the Bentleys. It has to, in order to continue to exist. M.O.I. I been in these stoops since i was fifteen. Smith was found not guilty and a decade later, while both he and Scott were in prison, Smith wrote him a letter to congratulate him on his book. M.O.I. Kody Scott was such a notorious neighborhood gangster that schoolchildren trembled at the thought of passing by his South Los Angeles home out of fear hed pick a fight or steal their bikes and lunch money. After years of moving up the gang ranks and then being shipped to prison for crimes like possession of an assault rifle, Scott decided to trade in his gang career, convert to Islam and strive to dissuade other youth from joining gangs. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Sanyika: When I first came to the kamps in 1985, I couldnt really read, perhaps on a fifth grade level. ), 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? Plus, how Im sposed to shave and shower in ten minutes? These killings are used as shocks and strains on the mass psychology of the people, and thats on the national level. JR: What do you think about the state killing Tookie and the reason they gave? Basically starting ny bloods. 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. Im only allowed 10 books at a time. 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. So when opportunities present themselves, such as with Dhanifu and this weapons charge, the enemy will swoop in and take full advantage of any given situation. ; Ambrose Video Publishing. Im very intent on making this time in this terrible place work for us and our national liberation struggle. JR: Lil Bunchy (Dhanifu) is facing Three Strikes. We were in what George called the riot stage of rebellion. I assumed he meant Orlando Anderson, the Compton resident whod already been named as a suspect in the shooting. Monster Kody Scott from Eight Tray Gangster Crips in South Los Angeles in a 2001 interview. To be a New Afrikan is to be guided by the New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, the New Afrikan Creed, and the Code of Umoja and the Nguzo Saba. Naw, Suge said with a tone of disgust. "Its the underdog story. After the cages were secured with Yale padlocks, the handcuffs were removed. Cooper, who joined the gang at age 13, said Scott took him and other recruits to the gun range, where he shared street game with them. Gang Member." Scott joined the Crips at the age of 12 and spent much of his youth involved in gang activity and crime. I had no funds to order my own books, so I had to read what was available. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for Los Angeles Magazine and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. And Im not trying to romanticize it or anything, but we thought we were like the Panthers; I mean that in the sense that we were outlaws. Wed never met on the streets. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. During Sunday's episode of the TLC hit, Robyn, 43, had a one-on-one conversation with reunion host Sukanya Krishnan about the current state of husband Kody Brown 's other marriages. I had an ill notion about what we were trying to get free from, and, further, to get free to? This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times. Scotts son was pragmatic about the arc of his fathers life. And finally through Crossroad: A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter.. Legendary Crip Co-Founder Monster Kody Dead At 57 Sha Be Allah June 8, 2021 According to several reports on social media, Monster Kody, the legendary co-founder of the notorious Northern 83G. 32:31. Well yeah why would you expect people on here to know what Kody did. And no sooner do we learn its current shape and form, does it shape shift again and continue on. When the Black Liberation Movement, however, was defeated, collapsing first from its own weaknesses and then from the weight of the states blows COINTELPRO, counter-insurgency etc. Them niggas thats catchin heel right now. I knew he was talking about the Southside Crips. Please Donate - https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ZV7RS7U9EU7QL Of all the little young kids out here, he chose me.. Pac was upset about that. His old hood became my hood when my set started. Straight crazy. A well-known gang banger in the 1970s, Scott remarkably became. Former gang member turned best selling author Monster Kody Scott has died, according to sources with AllHipHop. UPDATED AEW Revolution 2023 Full Match Card Gang Member, which was published in 1993. Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000. But. Weve been shouting from under here since 1989. By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet). Then the Vegas police come and draw down on us; they fin to shoot us! Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads! A few hours later, Tupac was shot dead at 11:15 p.m. in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip. Scott was initiated into the Eight Tray Gangster Crips the day of his sixth-grade graduation at age 11. JR: What does being New Afrikan mean to you, and why did you choose this ideology? Id heard that Afeni, Makavelis mom, had gotten a three-million-dollar royalty check from Interscope, so I asked about this. Lon Bing, a fashion model turned journalist, was the first writer to bring Scott to the attention of the world beyond L.A. in her 1991 book about gang life, Do or Die. We talkin bout this and that when all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, boom! All right, Ill see you tomorrow, he said, then sent them on their way, unscathed. This one, however, has brought greater attention and some indignation. And we deflected all of that. I related to the book, not because I come from street-tribal society of Los Angeles, but because a lot of what he wrote about reminded me of my memories and what I heard about Oakland in the 80s. So with me its ideological, theoretical and philosophical studies. I was on the run, about to go back to prison for a parole violation, and Makaveli was blowing up. Its like man, my stomach gets jittery because we have no idea what Kody is going to do.. Cooper, who joined the gang at age 13, said Scott took him and other recruits to the gun range, where he shared street game with them. 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. It is just one more place we find ourselves that needs agitating, education and organization. I said I was well and just taking it one day at a time. . You are doing a beautiful job of getting the requisite information out to the people in order to raise consciousness. The supposed third strike stemmed from the beating of a Bad Boy Records promoer at a 1995 Death Row Christmas party. According to Suge, Makaveli left owing him-after sicty million dollars worth of album sales in 1996 alone. Thats bullshit. Some comrades have life or lengthy prison sentences and may not get out unless we liberate them, so their thing is prison reform work for better living conditions inside the kamps though this is secondary to study and struggle around the picking, developing, maintenance and moving of cadres in concert with the overall National Liberation Struggle. This nigga had 18 bodies and you niggas praise people for 1 or 2. We have to believe our own spiel, that the beast is merciless and will go to any length to eradicate our resistance so it wont develop into a revolution. I always [saw] pops., He added, [He was] like the older best friend. After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members . Gang Member, was published in 1993. It may not have had its glorious ending, you know, but s, life isn't always a fairy tale," he said. Sanyika: Well, it was very successful in that it swung the spotlight this way and illuminated the draconian reality of our situation. Early last year, the two talked about starting a podcast together that would detail their upbringing, their fall-out and eventual reconnection, but Smith struggled to get in contact with Scott, who was "always on the go.". these kamps are for nationals of internal colonies: New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Indigenous Nations, and those very few outlaws and anti-imperialists from their own empire. By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet). What tools do we use to get free? This is not the shockingly raw man who's the frightening gang-banging boogeyman most people freeze in time. 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. I asked how he was doing so far. I loved him. This has baffled us for years and has allowed our enemies to escape time and time again, as we stumbled blindly around trying to make sense of it. And the house. Sanyika Shakur: Well, first of all, before I even go into answering that, I want to give a clenched fisted salute to you as the minister of information (formerly) for the Prisoners of Conscience Committee. 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. The curious life of "Monster" Kody Scott was soon to emerge as a cautionary tale of redemption and the relentless tug of gang life. We gotta keep up. Fools be yelling and shit. Clearly, he was going through it. By age 13, he had been given the nickname Monster after beating a man so badly that police told bystanders the person responsible for the attack was a monster. The name stuck and for several years, Scott worked to live up to his moniker. M.O.I. It may not have had its glorious ending, you know, but s, life isnt always a fairy tale, he said. We lived on the same street in South Central. He fell silent, as it overwhelmed by the rush of memories. We were escorted through two security doors and out into the law library, where we were put into gray, telephone booth-size cages. Youll only be killing a man.. I never heard monsta being out there but maybe. I knew Id be able to extract some inside information on Makavelis shooting. Sanyika considers himself a philosopher, cadre, or professional revolutionist who is a part of the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Source: cdn.slidesharecdn.com I read that shit and its a great book, actually shows you the inside of of real gangmembers head. Monster Kody Scott, also known as Sanyika Shakur, photographed in San Diego. Of course we are trying to set up the groundwork for a new Prison Movement, since so many of us are here. And too, I began to look at all the others whod accepted the New Afrikan ideology practically all of the POWs: Kuwasi Balagoon, Jalil Muntaquim, Sekou Odinga, Abdul Shanna, Sundiata Acoli etc. Kody hit a running Shooting Star Press for a nearfall at 12:00. With the death of Comrade George and then the Attica Massacres, the death knell was sounded across the empire. Sanyika: Its the same as George said, the same as Sundiata Acoli posited, and the same as Owusu Yaki Yakubu pointed out: The Prison Movement must serve as a relevant part of the overall National Independence Movement by utilizing its capacity to teach, research, develop and produce able minded cadres for struggle. Gangs are not inducting and recruiting the average eleven year old boy. That is, until the people turn it off. In his first few days in prison, Suge Knight confided in fellow convict Sanyika Shakur (a.k.a. Thats the answer and the ample proof. We trying to tell em that we the victims, but they make us get down on the ground anyway.. A well-known gang banger in the 1970s, Scott remarkably. The U.S. government is the tool used by the ruling class to administer its business, America Inc. Overstanding it this way, we can see clearly that 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. Before my honorable discharge from the Eight Tray Gangster Crips (when i was known as Monster Kody), I had rund up a karmic debt myself-which i repaid during many years behind bars-but the poetic justice of Suges fate seemed even more profound. Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. VIP AUDIO 3/2 - PWT Impact Pod: Darrin Lilly discusses go-home show, a brutal X Division Monster's Ball match, No Surrender, more (21 min.) We are looking for ways of struggle that correspond to our particular set of circumstances. Gang Member Murderers are, most commonly, not the average eleven year old boy. They identified more with Malcolm and Black Power than with Martin and Negro Civil Rights. In the days following Makavelis shooting, their hood was practically overrun by shooters. Friends say the fugitives inclusion is unjustified. 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. So this cage is my classroom, my gym, my struggle chamber. Sanyika Shakur's, aka Monster Kody Scott, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. These thoughts ran through my head before i met the man. This incident was the reason for Baby Lane to gather three more Crips for a vendetta against the rapper. We had a small hunger strike in 2001, but it wasnt well coordinated; however, it caught some attention. We found ourselves stumbling blindly around the issues. This powerful account of the triumph of the human spirit over insurmountable odds brings the reader into the daily battles for survival. Once I got my reading and comprehension up to par, I started reading what was on the tier Soledad Brothers, Blood in My Eye, Wretched of the Earth.. But by then the die had been cast. 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? Monster. Suge was in his cage; I was in mine. Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 - June 6, 2021), [1] [2] also known by his former street moniker Monster or Monster Kody, was an American author and former gang member. All the jewelry, the limbo bills, and hotel accommodations were stacked against Makaveli like an advance. It's difficulty lay not in the writing but in the content and the emotions they evoke. 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. [Richard Bonin; CBS News. I tried to fake it, but the Brothas wasnt letting me off the hook that easy. Background. I knew that one day I wanted to be able express myself as articulately as the two of them. He wanted to get out of prison. he said he needed it, so I let him get it even though he never gave it back.. I ended up with six years with 85 percent for carjacking, even though the guy recanted and two others were actually caught in the car and no one could corroborate his story. In fact, a few times I went looking for them. Hey, I just saw you on the news this morning. Both Suge and I asked who. Though as a youth, not knowing the particulars, it wasnt no difference. The former Eight Trey Crip. I wrote him a brief letter introducing myself and explaining the politics of the Hole. Consciousness, real, political and revolutionary consciousness, came to me much later and in increments over a span of years. I read your book, he said, and seen you and your family on that documentary. The oppressor has the luxury of having a long memory, of being able to strategize far into the future, to project, you dig? Then I see Pac is hit. The razor broke. However this was 86, and by then the BLM as a whole had been defeated. Gang Member, which was published in 1993. Oh yeah? said Suge, his voice indicating more concern than he intended. It was under all this concrete, steel, and animosity that i met Suge Knight. My mom was probably at home taking care of all the business [and] getting on our behind, he comes in, he wants to play, crack jokes, tickle, play fight, things like that.. Scotts girlfriend discovered his "badly decomposed" body in a tent, said Tom Bussey, a public information officer for the Oceanside Police Department. What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? JR: What should be done to bring street and prison organizations closer together so they can support one another? I gotta be ready for my next and upcoming encounter with the beast. So I had to face that, had to confront that, and either go around, you know, or deny it. The beast couldnt afford to let him live. I used some prison connections to get Suge and I put on the law-library list together. There's a video on it with info minds and kevmac, This was von before von actually he was worst then von but still, And its funny a couple months ago i did a poll asking the sub who they thought was more savage between Monster Kody and King Von and suprisingly King Von won. "As real as it can be, this guy was a compassionate guy. Now, all Suges prior infractions were being reviewed. In this way well, because our activity was detrimental to ourselves, our community and nation we were allowed to prosper and in some cases encouraged by the pigs. A monument of razor wire and cinder block, it stands as one of the tightes maximum-security facilities in southern California. podcasting News Sanyika Shakur, aka Monster Kody Kody Scott author of Autobiography of an LA Gang Member and member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips in Los Angeles. And if his killers were the Southside Crips, with whom hes supposedly fought that evening, why didnt the shooter dump on every car in the caravan? We both had our demons. The beast is on all of the time. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Still didnt get that necklace, though. Im not trying to romanticize it or anything, but we thought we were like the Panthers; I mean that in the sense that we were outlaws. Wed not taken into account the dynamism of our enemys ability to morph . So I became frustrated and I began to study for new tools to fight with. But you see, the old Prison Movement was a reflection of the movement at large. The most fundamental things are ideology, theory and philosophy. A humble respect descended over him that reminded me of a defeated man whod lost his most prized possession in the game of life. The legendary rapper was unaware that a punch in the face of a Crips had sealed his fate. I knew hed be coming to Palm Hall perhaps even before he did. In return he gave the guy a photo of a half-naked woman taken at Makavelis birthday party in Vegas. That is, it is capable of morphing, melding and adapting to most any circumstance. And why would you still be working on it now? Gang Member (1994), Kody often refers to himself as a warrior (e.g., 27, 216, 220). Part 3 of the Monster Kody series with Og Cutes can be seen on Youtube Kev Mac Videos 3.5.3 thanks for listening. The book, which followed his journey from violence toward transcendence, arrived at a time when much of America outside L.A. and New York City was still unaware of gang culture. JR: Can you talk about your daily routine in Pelican Bay? 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. He just was who he was and he wasn't a showoff.". It sort of irked me that he called me Monster after I had clearly signed each letter Sanyika. According to social media reports from people who knew him. Ive been validated with an indeterminate SHU term since 1989.
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