How to Make Money Selling Drugs Page #2

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Her old friends bought me things,

then they got tired

of just buying me things.

They gave me an eight

ball of cocaine.

And they told me,

if anybody bothers you,

you know, you tell them

you got it from us,

and you'll be all right

in the neighborhood.

I was about 12 years old

when that happened to me.

That's the incredible

thing about cocaine.

You can use it to make ends meet

when there are no other options.

You can be anybody, even a kid.

I would say about 14 or 15. That's when I

pretty much started into the drug trade.

Let's say you're down and out, like

John was, living in South Central L.A.,

crashing at your family's place,

with no money, not even for food.

We were living in the back

of my uncle's house.

He had this lemon tree, and one

day he came out and he was like,

We didn't have no food. You know, me and

my mom was eating lemons for dinner.

So, after that, I had to get paid.

The money that you could make

on the corner was real good.

I started off with small amounts,

then I got to the big amounts.

Crack, the most popular form of

cocaine sold in the open market.

It's cheaper than powder, so low

income users can afford it.

When you work for an organization,

they'll supply you with

$10 crack cocaine rocks.

Because most of your

customers are addicts,

they'll be impatient to make a

buy right out on the street.

And the good thing about crack

fiends is they'll keep coming back.

Some guys will make anywhere

from $1,000 to $10,000 a day.

Are you the man

with them jumbo 6s?

I'll take about three

or four hundred.

Damn.

It's harder than functioning in

mainstream or corporate America

because the dynamics

of it is different.

In order to take a position in that world,

you can just, "pow." Just shoot.

The chances of getting robbed

are pretty great, you know?

You do as much as you

can to minimize that,

but somebody at some point

is gonna want what you have,

and they're not gonna have

the money to pay for it.

They are gonna try

and take it from you.

with 30 years' experience investigating

the criminal drug world.

If I steal a television set out

of, uh, you know, Best Buy,

it lists for $1,000, I'll sell

it for $200 on the street.

If I go rob the dope dealer,

I get all his cash,

and I get drugs.

And the advantage

of stolen drugs is

when I steal a guy's coke

that's worth $1,000,

I get to sell it for $1,000!

There's no discount for hot dope.

Ever happened to you?

Mmm.

Not me. No, I never had

no problems like that.

'Cause at the end of the day, you f***

me, you gonna know what's happening.

Are you gonna give them your drugs or

are you gonna tell them to f*** off?

And I'm the person

that's gonna say f*** off.

If you don't have a pistol, I don't

know why you even selling dope.

You won't last. 'Cause

somebody gonna try you.

Anyone who is dealing

drugs in this community,

if they do not have a gun on

them, believe me, it's close by.

It's under a stoop, right around a

corner, tucked behind a phone booth,

but it's close by.

They look up in your face,

they look up in your eye,

they see the gun and they

know who's gonna use it,

who ain't gonna use it.

A, assess.

"Don't shoot them, kill them."

Because if you shoot them, you gonna

make them angry enough to come back

and really hurt you.

So, if you're gonna shoot,

shoot to kill.

It was like motherfuckers were shooting

each other every day on the news.

It was like, New York, very much

like a stabbing society, you know.

Something goes wrong, somebody

sticks a knife in your chest.

It was a drug deal gone bad,

I got the worst of it.

Stabbed here, stabbed

here, stabbed here.

Once in the back of the head, once in

the chest, entered the left ventricle,

and this is from

the open heart surgery.

I don't want to say it's a miracle, but

the doctor brought me back to life.

If you really want to lower

your risk of getting hurt,

stabbed or shot, packing a

gun can only get you so far.

Hiring backup is a great idea.

Who do I hire?

Do I hire nobody...

Nobody's heard of?

Or do I hire a guy who's

got the biggest reputation

for being the craziest

motherf***er?

The illegal drug market hires people

with reputations for violence.

But don't think just because

you have a gun and a few guys,

you can just go out and

start acquiring territory.

Officer Neill Franklin served 33 years on the

Maryland State and Baltimore police forces.

Having overseen 17 drug task

forces, he can tell you,

if you want to be

a corner hustler,

you're gonna need

permission first.

As you try to acquire

your market place,

there's probably gonna

be someone already there.

They're not going to share or give

up their territory that easily.

They're not going to share

it or give it up. Period.

They would definitely

approach you,

trying to sell it in an area

without someone's consent.

So I registered with the neighborhood

thugs, and that's how I got on.

Basically, you got to

protect your neighborhood,

and do the things that the

organization require you to do

I remember having

a homicide one day,

and they set

this inmate before me.

Two seconds into the conversation, I

realize I used to play with this kid

and knew his brothers.

"How'd you get in here?"

He said, "Well, I'm in here for homicide."

He says, "Well, I was in the game.

I was in the game.

"And in an alley

behind Callow Street,

"I had to do what I had to do,

and I ended up taking someone's life

"defending myself because

I had to defend my territory

"and my business."

So now you know what it takes to make

it on the street in the open market.

But prices for drugs nowadays are way

cheaper than when Big John was selling,

and the risks are just as high.

If you don't wind up

getting killed by rivals,

or hooked on your own product,

In today's drug market, you're risking

your life for less than minimum wage.

If you want to go for the real money,

you got to get off the corner.

Detroit. City of opportunity.

Once upon a time, the symbol

of America's might and power.

The heart of our

manufacturing industry.

The home of the American Dream.

One of the highest unemployment

rates in the nation.

Twenty-five percent of the population

has left in the last 10 years.

For those without a job or who

can't move, they need to hustle.

Mr. X wants to get out of the downward

spiral that's hit Detroit today.

And he's going to tell you

what that means.

or coke, or whatever the f***

they're selling that's illegal.

Because that's the only way out.

I have a lot of bills.

I got rent to pay.

But don't nobody really care

about your problems, man.

You got to have the money, so,

welcome to the cocaine game.

I rarely show

my face on the scene.

Oh, man, I play

the phone game, man.

Switch up my phones.

Keeps me off the corner.

Uh, what is it that you want?

Yeah I can get you a T for 70.

Okay, cool.

I'll see you in 30 minutes. Bye.

Bye.

And bam.

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