You know who did it? Suge said, grittin his teeth. I knew that one day I wanted to be able express myself as articulately as the two of them. 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. They in turn contributed to the development of the Prison Movement. My head was bleedin, and Pac said I should be the one sweatin it cause I got shot in the head. Scotts girlfriend discovered his "badly decomposed" body in a tent, said Tom Bussey, a public information officer for the Oceanside Police Department. With Tookie, it was a national message, and its a testament to the weakness of our forces that we allow such blatant acts of murder to happen to our nationals. This led me to the Black Liberation Army Coordinating Committee (BLA-CC). JR: What do you think about the state killing Tookie and the reason they gave? The archaic cell blocks that extend from the central cooridor stretch threee tiers above the floor with as many as thirty-six cells to a tier. Its dialetical. We are re-building now. Gang Member, which was published in 1993. This 7-minute interview is a snippet of . A well-known gang banger in the 1970s, Scott remarkably became. Whatcha think about that? asked Rev. Monster recalls the 1992. The last time I had seen Makaveli was in April of 1996 during the vidoe shoot for the X-rated version of How Do U Want It.. I gotta be ready for my next and upcoming encounter with the beast. I was on the run, about to go back to prison for a parole violation, and Makaveli was blowing up. The BLM had just caught up to how the enemy had morphed his set of methods on our control from old colonialism slavery, Jim Crow to neo-colonialism civil rights, integration. According to Suge, Makaveli left owing him-after sicty million dollars worth of album sales in 1996 alone. Even when he ran off with my mothers .25 automatic and my mother was chasing me around about it. And whats up with that tier they got me on? Tyson had won, and we was going to celebrate. You know, its like with this violation here: At first they said it was beause I lfet the country. I was inspired by the sharpness of his ideas, his vocabulary and his grasp on history. Gang Member, was published in 1993. 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.". Yo. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. And finally through Crossroad: A New Afrikan Captured Combatant Newsletter.. So what I do is mind, body and spirit work all day. Because in monsters book he mentioned a prison gang the bloods had formed to organize themselves in early 1980s "UBN". The most fundamental things are ideology, theory and philosophy. Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. Suge was in his cage; I was in mine. Scott, who changed his name to Sanyika Shakur marking his rebirth and the end of his gang career, had a complex life. One cant be disenfranchised, if youve never been enfranchised, feel me? From LA Weekly article October 8, 1999 (vol.21 No. Of course I heard about the violence and I also read it in the book, but I never met Monster Kody, said Sanyika Shakur II, 31, Scotts youngest son. When he was on Interscope, he was only gettin four points. I read your book, he said, and seen you and your family on that documentary. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Things kept fitting ill to me. Not one vehicle, however-not the Benz, the Jag, the Rolls, the Hummer, or the lolo-was in Makavelis name. Monster Kody was an activist and author who was the founder of the Northern 83G Crips in Los Angeles, California. Monster Kody was born Kody Dejohn Scott on November 13th in 1963 and later changed his name to Sanyika Shakur. Get this from a library! ;] -- Interview with Kody "Monster" Scott, notorious Crips gang member. Prisoners and the Prison Movement will play just as important a role as students, workers and the military. M.O.I. This is ideology. The writing, like before, was in clumsy stick fashion. The Jags, the Bentleys. I asked just to see where hed go with it. But even then his stress was evident. I been in these stoops since i was fifteen. It wasnt washing my eyes, my mind of colonialism. Never. 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. He got his nickname as a 13-year-old gang member when he beat and stomped a robbery victim until he was disfigured. Sanyika: The thing about being a prisoner whether in a solitary situation like this or a mainline situation is you either do the time or the time will do you. Scott's son was pragmatic about the arc of his father's life. On the local level, theres other means and ways, as with Oscar Grant, Devin Brown, Tyisha Miller etc. The book tells the story of how and why Kody Scott got involved in gang life, what happened during his time as a gang member, and how his life changed after his incarceration. The we go on back to my spot, change, and hang out a bit; trying to find some freaks to come to the club. The oppressor has the luxury of having a long memory, of being able to strategize far into the future, to project, you dig? 85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors; More than 150,000 Images beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom . The thing is we are re-building now, but its going to take communication, patience and honest, genuine struggle around issues of grave importance. And heres the thing: Well, once Id been captured by a joint effort of U.S. marshals, FBI and LAPD, this guy recanted his story and said hed lied, and this and that. Gang Member, is an autobiography detailing the criminal and personal life of Kody Scott. Before Id be unarmed. The police officer who finally caught Britain's once most-wanted man Michael Sams after he murdered one woman and held another hostage in 1991 and 1992 has revealed chilling details about his arrest. Fools be yelling and shit. Clearly, he was going through it. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. 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. Previously, she worked as a staff writer for Los Angeles Magazine and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Includes interview with Birdie Scott, his mother. The cage squeaked against his shifting body weight. Black Power had been turned into Black capitalism; so-called Black nationalism had been twisted into Black community control and other watered down appendages. We are now in a post neo-colonial era. Of all the little young kids out here, he chose me.. Writing under the name of Sanyika Shakur in Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. I expected a harsher Im Suge Knight type of response. Thats my motto. Gang Member (1994), Kody often refers to himself as a warrior (e.g., 27, 216, 220). When shes not penning an article, shes DJing at events and parties around the city. Prisoners will invariably fall into this, simply because it is the nature of the beast to capture and imprison us to the degree it does. Well yeah why would you expect people on here to know what Kody did. No sooner had we made it through the door than the library clerk named Reverend Stern started yapping. Imagine that. I had no funds to order my own books, so I had to read what was available. Gang Member." Scott joined the Crips at the age of 12 and spent much of his youth involved in gang activity and crime. 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.". We gotta keep up. M.O.I. ", He added, [He was] like the older best friend. 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. Straight crazy. Thats my best friend, he said, speaking in present tense. He took his cap and [turned] it around to the side like the way a kid whos trying to look tough will and he crossed his eyes and stuck the tip of his tongue outside of his mouth and he said, Scary huh? Bing recalled. M.O.I. When the time is right we will talk. Monster Kody aka Sanyika Shakur Beyond Hate ( 1991 Exclusive) Street Gangs Watch on The last time I had seen Makaveli was in April of 1996 during the vidoe shoot for the X-rated version of "How Do U Want It.". Gang Member helped to turn around his life in prison.. Monster Kody Scott, also known as Sanyika Shakur, photographed in San Diego. I punch it; bust a U-turn, but realize I got a flat. These killings are used as shocks and strains on the mass psychology of the people, and thats on the national level. The curious life of "Monster" Kody Scott was soon to emerge as a cautionary tale of redemption and the relentless tug of gang life. This was the guy that comes in, hes ready to play all day. Rebuild! We know that they are not going to put the citizens in here, not to any real degree anyway. The following matches and events are advertised for Tuesday's NXT Roadblock edition of NXT on USA Network.-Roxanne Perez vs. Meiko . Lateral warfare has always served the system. We both had our demons. According to social media reports from people who knew him. We cannot afford to sleep, slip or stumble. Im gonna get the engine and all that chromed up. Sanyika, now a free man, reveals what Suge told him really happened the night Tupac was shot. It was about action war about being physical and macho, dig? And no sooner do we learn its current shape and form, does it shape shift again and continue on. In closing, anyone who has the vaguest notions about the length the American ruling class will go to maintain dominance or to answer your question about targeting conscious leaders should read The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders by John Potash. It sort of irked me that he called me Monster after I had clearly signed each letter Sanyika. In return he gave the guy a photo of a half-naked woman taken at Makavelis birthday party in Vegas. Monster Kody aka Sanyika Shakur Beyond Hate ( 1991 Exclusive) Street Gangs, Tupac & Monster Kody Phone Conversation October 18, 1995, HAKI SHAKUR, BREAKS IT DOWN ABOUT THE SHAKUR TRIBE & REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, U.K. INTERVIEW, http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=305382.0. 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. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. At Scotts request while he was incarcerated, Bing helped him coordinate a toy drive at a local childrens hospital with then 15-year-old Bernard Cooper, a young member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips. When the Black Liberation Movement, however, was defeated, the Prison Movement, too, collapsed. In the days following Makavelis shooting, their hood was practically overrun by shooters.