You know when people talk about open air Sometimes i wonder wat ppl definition of open air is...In almost every city in Northern jerz and some like camden,trenton, etc , its all open air, there aint really "more" open air cities than others IMO.....Now SURE ENOUGH...I will say that in the past couple years PATERSON has fell off as far as the corneres bein MOBBED like they use to...
Im talkin you would drive in and as soon as you get off any main road, the block is MOBBEN with ppl out there trappin, you get holla'd at every 20 seconds, it was just like armies of mutha fuckas in the street pushin D....NOW THESE DAYS...I still be in the hood and I drive by and see empty blocks....Places where the whole __ by __ block area, blocked out would be a place you could cold cop on any corner, use to be, its now bare and you dont see but a few people, but its also winter , cold and you dont got that block party mentality of the summer daze.
Shit even not this summer but the one before, Cant tell you how it was....I mean I alwas been devoted to my numbers and all that, but I cant tell you, how many times that me or my boys phone died, and we didnt even sweat--you could always find the same people out in the same places. Shit, every other time we went down there, we would run into one of his old boys from 3 years ago that he had lost the number of lol. Somebody didnt have a good stamp? we rolled a block or two over and seen somebody else. They wouldnt let us be a few bucks short? Go somewhere else. It was truely a buyers market...You could get the best, cheapest, as easy as 1 2 3 and it was always on point....
I Really feel that when they took down the Dawg Pound (Alabama Projecs aka Alexander Hamilton Homes) it was the end of a era for paterson. There was Riverside, CCP, the Pound, the Madison building which aint even worth mentioning becuz it aint nothing like it use to be (and damien or my other mods--This aint location giving, becuz nobody who aint been there knows WTF it is, uness they already know wat it is, u feel me? even if you drove right by it you would not have no idea that it was the building Im talking about becuz its just a term known by ppl that goes there, so its straight to say, anyways it aint shit these days anyways.) And of course all the assorted small one-building apt's all over the Fourth, and that aint even mentioning lets see prolly ONE HUNDRED corners (in a 8 square mile city) that you could easily cop on any time of day or year, no sweat.
The po po's didnt seem to have caught onto the real big deal until the past few years. The main surveillance was at the Pound, and the market st. exits by 46/20/80. There was regular raids and narc presences there when it was up and running but now its just a empty shell, aint nobody out there no more. Shit, i love paterson with all my heart and always will. It will always be home to me, and the home base of my dope life. It will always be my favorite city to cop in, even tho I dont even cop no more these days. But I gotta be real, I know it aint wat it use to be.
The heat has just got uncontrollable these days, I mean paterson has always been a real hot city becuz its so small, and so fucked up. Ive heard newark niggas, Brooklyn niggas, talk about paterson and say "damn, now THAT place is a REAL shit hole!" P town got its own brand of grimey and all of us who ran out there for good parts of our lives recognize that, its a flavor you dont find in other places even in jerz. But its like the people who started out there, got a certain affection for it, and they put up with the heat and all that, its like when you find a brand of cigarettes that you just like better than all th eother ones, and youll smoke a Kool if you prefer newports, but you always gonna select ports for yourself when its your choice.
but Man, Even after bein the last one at the party...The "Well yall do u, but Im out here, and I aint scared, I be in the hood all day and I aint coppin dope so it aint shiti to me when i do cop becuz everybody know me and its all good" girl....I still would be gettin out right abotu now If i was still in the game. The shit is just off the wall. The state boys is all up everybody asses, pushin ppl to roll. One of the best, big suppliers got knocked off last summer and we lost the dudes that was puttin out Black President and the red and green Gucci's, aka the crew that was distributing the real fire bags about once or twice a week with a new stamp all til the early summer when they got hit. The DEA be in there, and the sherriff narcs (Paddy wagon boys) still ridin....the state and sheriff banded together and made their TNT so they got more man power and swat gear and all that shit, and they just raid raid raid.
It use to be hot in the sense that every hood is hot, like how they would just wait with binoculars outside the Pound entrance and just scoop up people til their cars was full....but the problem was at the pound, and thats where most everybody who was a white suburb feen went and copped at. If you knew wat was up, and didnt just project-cop like all these newjack jokers, you had spots all over the hood on corners , residential areas, the boys wasnt even on top of that shit yet. Back then you prolly would be more likely to get stopped by a Paterson regular than a narc. Youd get stopped for a tail light, nmaybe theyd pat you down a little, fuck with you, and when they didnt find your dope, youd get a ticket for loitering, or double parking. Now, they even see you do anything theres a tinted unmarked Nissan ridin behind you callin in your location every thirty seconds, gettin a hit team ready to roll out and block the block, and before you can even say Oh fuck theres a swarm of narcs on you throwin you on the ground, tearin apart your car, without even tellin you that you pulled over or why. Its like some of that patriot act shit or somethin, iunno, but it sure as hell different.
Now ...its like they got so much extra funding and officers these days that they can just watch everywhere. no block is safe now, no area is "not hot", people be gettin watched and pulled over in border-land, residential one family house neighborhoods with flower gardens and no bars in the windows, edge blocks where the next street over is Fair Lawn, and it aint even nothing close to a dope hood, places where black peoplel is more out of place than whites--and they still get stopped and popped.....Its a shame...
But ive made my point more than enough times, Ill tell you yo, if you was there you know it without me tellin you, but it use to be like a fuckin PARTY out there. Coppin wasnt even no stressful shit, it was fun, and i miss that alot, but Im done wastin everyoens time with the i wish i could go back shit, cuz it is wat it is, and nothing else....