My name is Infant Too Cool, I'm from 69th Street East Coast [Crips], I've been shot.
I got shot twice, I got shot in the foot and I got shot in the face.
Intro: music
It's dangerous out here on this blacktop right here, there is so much going on,
and when you take your eyes of the street, you don't know who is after you.
I got shot in the face and it's the worse feeling ever.
I can't talk, I can't eat, my jaw is wired, its broke, it's really difficult
out here.
I don't want to see nobody else go through what I go through either.This shit is difficult.
It's all fun and games until you get hurt out here.
It's all about partying and doing things, until you actually get hurt.
Then you have a different perspective about life.
I was on the block, hangin out with the homies on 65th & Broadway.
You know what I'm saying? Where we all hang out at,
and what led up to me getting shot was I took my eyes off the streets. I,... was walking,
and a car pulled up in front of me. When he pulled up in front of me, it was right
then and there. He didn't ask me where I was from. He knew
where I was from. Because he see who I am hanging out with,
and that's how I got shot. Hanging out with people will get you shot.
Even if you don't gang bang.
Right now we are still talking about that, I go back to the doctor to find out if I'm
still gonna make a full recover. They still got to do some surgeries on my jaw and my face.
The still have to fix my jaw, because the
way I got shot, It went through my sinuses, so it's gonna
be hard for me to breathe from now on, so they have to do some more surgeries so I could breathe better.
My throat, in due time, I ain't gonna have to hold it no more to talk.
I was blessed to get my voice back. I couldn't talk for a very long time.
Alex: When did this happen? -two weeks ago?
-two or three weeks ago.
I been from the hood for a very long time. I ain't never thought that I was going to
get shot. But look at me now. I am shot.
I got shot in the face first. When I got up, the only reason I got shot in the leg,
is because I stopped at the corner to see who
shot me, and he shot me again in my leg. It went through my front and came out through
the back, it's just a flesh wound.
Alex: Your boy looks like he been through a lot of physical damage.
-He been through a lot man, and you know, I just want to tap in, just to let niggas
know, you young niggas that's coming up under my young nigga. If y'all talking about
bangin, this ain't for you. Ain't nothing good behind it, my nigga.
Because you can get it if you don't bang, my nigga. You will never know what's coming
around that corner. It's murder in the air over here for real. It's murder in the air man.
-But that street that happened at, 65th Street,
that's a spot that everybody knows that East Coasts hang out on. Right?
-Right!
So it's pretty dangerous to even expose yourself to be out there. You know if you
are on 65th Street, there is a chance that.. -That anything can happen.
-Yeah, but let me tell you something about 69th Street though.
69th Street homie, that's why they took them apartment from us,
because it was too many murders.
That light stay green for a reason. They called that muthafucka death lane.
-On Main & 69th, that light stay green because they don't want nobody to get hurt.
They took them apartments down. I wasn't there for the apartments.
I wish I was but I wasn't.
-And this my young nigga, my young life. Good nigga, stand up nigga, you looking at a nigga's
size but he will knock you down with those hands though.
Alex: Now what happened right there under your neck?
When I got shot in the face I swallowed my tooth. They had to cut my throat open.
Now I got a scar on my throat. I got to hold my throat just to talk to people.
Its a fu%$ed up situation. I can't cough, I cough through my hole. I can't sneeze.
If I got to sneeze, I have to hold my hole just to sneeze. You know what I'm saying?
I aint got no teeth back here, all my teeth are gone. You know what I mean? This shit
ain't, it aint fun.
-It aint no game, it aint nothing behind this, if you two feet in you made your choice, my
nigga. The only I can campaign though is tell the young generation, stand on the side lines,
this aint for you. You can do anything you want to do in life, that's why I am trying
to promote niggas to do this music shit.
And if you with this shit, I am out here every day. If you come up here on these corners
you aint making it off that block man.
We ain't trying to campaign on no bull shit, but an eye is an eye though, nigga gonna get
what they deserve. You take one of ours, you hit one of ours, you gonna get smacked back.
Alex: When you see something like this, to a certain degree it makes you angry. It makes
you feel like you just been victimized, and that now someone needs to be victimized for
what they did.
-First of all, back in the day when a nigga was bangin, you'd go get your man. You ain't
just gonna come on nobody's block and hit pop shots and hit a wrong nigga.
You don't know if he was banging or not. So you know, you got lucky, that's nothing,
we know what we signed up for. The infrastructure is retaliation.
-Retaliation is a must -It's a must, it aint no hesitation with
the retaliation over here though. We from Six Nine top of the line.
-All the time -Its death lane.