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this is grandma house maximum security
for women
my childhood was in here well if they
put you in here 15 I came down here with
all grown women I'm the youngest one in
here I'm thinking I gotta go to war soon
as I come in here the eyes was already
against me
Felicia Pearson is probably best known
as snoop one of my co-stars on the wire
before Felicia's career in TV
she served time in a maximum-security
prison Felicia's troubles began early in
life she was born to a crack addicted
mother and was raised by foster parents
in East Baltimore this is where mama
brought you home from the hospital Yeah
right
she planted this tree it's a good luck
John
you know that well man anybody that just
stabbed it kick it I don't care what you
do to it
some bad luck want to come to you I
promise you and this weird pop used to
I'll get the switches off the truth did
you know what your biological mother
evidence yeah oh they let me you were
for and she Ted took like my clothes and
stuff and my counselor was like nah you
can't come back the last time you seen
her
yeah they said she had got locked up
when I was locked up over City Jail yeah
but I ain't no she was I probably
recognize because you and your
biological mother would lock up at the
same time yeah
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and Sprite walked right past I think
about that all the time
no positive role models she felt deep
into the street life of drugs violence
and ultimately murder so pretty much
everything happened here right I was
sitting on the steps round there
everybody liked fight fight fight so we
used to run to a fight nah dude that
runs around this corner huh they
fighting over here I'm over here like
just watching it you know say shorty
comes out swinging
so I'm Stanley Meyer I'm standing right
here and she swinging at Joyce I said yo
ho they said she hit me I don't remember
then so I whip so like y'all back she
seen it I said yes too late but it was
her trying to protect herself and me
trying to protect myself I was feeling
alone in this world I didn't care about
nothing Hey absolutely nothing I didn't
care that if I died I didn't care I mean
why can't if your mother and father
don't care nothing about she's angry
yeah angry angry at the world
angry at myself
but you basically told me that pretty
much everyone you ever had to look up to
in this community basically either you
know we're gangsters at the time what
effect they have when you mentally had a
life because I would look duck to him
yeah you know and because they was much
older and I thought that was the right
way our youth now most definitely need
people with mentors kids now they they
look at you and be like well if you
ain't did dis that in the dirt
how can you tell me anything if you
haven't been down this road you can't
tell me
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