30:17. Monster, listen, when I went out to New York to see Pac, he was stressed out. Sanyika: Why did the Death Row crew zero in on you that night at the MGM? Monster Kody, was responsible for a large portion of shooting's on the Rollin 60's, in return he became one of the main target of the 60's Crip's . Prisoners whod been traversing the corridor just prior to our exit from Segregated Housing Unit edged closer to the yellow wall while stealing glimpses in our direction. After one of his murders, he says, "I felt like a Native American on horseback retreating back to my The old Prison Movement came from organizations and formations on the street: the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, the African Peoples Party, the Nation of Islam etc. I was on the run, about to go back to prison for a parole violation, and Makaveli was blowing up. Its dialetical. We talkin bout this and that when all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom, boom! He wanted to get out of prison. "40 Glock up on yo block Headshot / Chestplate gettin blown when tha 9 Knocks / ". I used some prison connections to get Suge and I put on the law-library list together. Twelve years before the U.S. government opened Guantanamo Bay for so-called enemy combatants, California opened Pelican Bay for threats to institutional security. No charges, no rules, violations, no crimes all politics. So once I found myself in the hole at San Quentin in 1986, I was stuck because here I was this OG dude, you know, with major street clout and a growing prison rep, but I couldnt read, comprehend or write. Who shot him? And what I mean by that is if a day goes by and you havent learned nothing a new word, a new location on the map, made a new breakthrough in old thinking or thought of and put into practice new ways of realizing it then by and large you have wasted a day. In December 1996, Suge came to Palm Hall as i predicted. Did you see the lowrider I got him?. M.O.I. That is, until the people turn it off. Now, all Suges prior infractions were being reviewed. They in turn contributed to the development of the Prison Movement. Scott's handwritten memoir of. Then, later that night, Pac sees fool. VIP AUDIO 3/2 - PWT Impact Pod: Darrin Lilly discusses go-home show, a brutal X Division Monster's Ball match, No Surrender, more (21 min.) Thats my motto. And again, Im speaking of having a real rudimentary overstanding of politics, as perceived from the mentality of an adolescent. Thats my best friend, he said, speaking in present tense. We are re-building now. This one, however, has brought greater attention and some indignation. A guy who was supposed to be about something was physically disciplined for transgressions in the area, and he defected to the Amerikan Security Forces instead of correcting his behavior. I asked just to see where hed go with it. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. By age 13, he had been given the nickname Monster after beating a man so badly that police told bystanders the person responsible for the attack was a monster. The name stuck and for several years, Scott worked to live up to his moniker. Youth identified more with Malcolm and Black Power than with Martin and Negro Civil Rights, recognizing that we were more of a nation inside of this empire than a disenfranchised minority of citizens of the empire. JR: What does being New Afrikan mean to you, and why did you choose this ideology? Hed transformed himself into a formidable opponent of oppression, this on top of already being a stalwart street combatant and a leader. Pac was trippin, though. Fools be yelling and shit. Clearly, he was going through it. Written in solitary confinement, Kody Scott's memoir of sixteen years as a gangbanger in Los Angeles was a searing best-seller and became a classic, published in ten languages, with more than 300,000. A few hours later, Tupac was shot dead at 11:15 p.m. in a drive-by shooting on the Las Vegas strip. Ill tell you this homie, God dont like ugly. With the letter I included soap, deodorant, lotion, and a few Top Ramen soups. Any false teeth, dentures, or partials? Mad Bone stands near a poster remembrance at a vigil for Kody Scott, a former L.A. Crips gang member, in South Los Angeles. he said he needed it, so I let him get it even though he never gave it back.. Monster Kody opens up with a freestyle rap only to be surprised when Joe Rocc Head from Santana Blocc Compton Crips and my partner Baby Smac walk in unexpectedly. Sanyika: Well, it was very successful in that it swung the spotlight this way and illuminated the draconian reality of our situation. The curious life of "Monster" Kody Scott was soon to emerge as a cautionary tale of redemption and the relentless tug of gang life. When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I saw Suge facing the wall to my left. In 1981, Smith was arrested for allegedly shooting Scott. The following matches and events are advertised for Tuesday's NXT Roadblock edition of NXT on USA Network.-Roxanne Perez vs. Meiko . . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Scott is photographed shirtless on the books cover with dark shades and a MAC-10. these kamps are for nationals of internal colonies: New Afrika, Aztlan, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Indigenous Nations, and those very few outlaws and anti-imperialists from their own empire. And the house. Im gonna get the engine and all that chromed up. M.O.I. Good looking out. Yeah, we got one just alike, 1961. AEW media call report: Live notes on Tony Khan speaking with the pro wrestling media ahead of Sunday's AEW Revolution pay-per-view March 2, 2023 I gotta be better than I was before, better than our enemies. But on this day, as Townsend and a schoolmate passed by 69th Street near Florence and Normandie avenues, they happened to catch Scott on a good day. 60 minutes : Monsta. Kody Scott was such a notorious neighborhood gangster that schoolchildren trembled at the thought of passing by his South Los Angeles home out of fear he'd pick a fight or steal their bikes and lunch money. People really respected him in the hood and the people who were afraid of him, I think were afraid for all of the wrong reasons, she added. 81 Comments for "Sanyika Shakur, aka Monster Kody" Reply I tried to fake it, but the Brothas wasnt letting me off the hook that easy. And luckily for me, I had cats around me who were interested in growth and development, on an intellectual level. Before Id be unarmed. However this was 86, and by then the BLM as a whole had been defeated. What does Kody take with him after climbing out of a window at his mother's house in the chapter "The Juvenile Tank?" a gun The Professor mentioned that he has a family member that is in the book "Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Its revolutionary nationalism. The curious life of Monster Kody Scott was soon to emerge as a cautionary tale of redemption and the relentless tug of gang life. The beast couldnt afford to let him live. 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 an opportunity theyd been waiting for, and so they said I beat this guy up and took his car. Face the fucking wall, barked a jar-headed correctional officer in army fatigues. I eased over to him, noting his dimensions-six foot four, 330 pounds-in case things got out of hand. After Makaveli was shot, I procured an avenue for news clippings to trickle in so I could keep up with the case. To be a New Afrikan is to be guided by the New Afrikan Declaration of Independence, the New Afrikan Creed, and the Code of Umoja and the Nguzo Saba. This nigga had 18 bodies and you niggas praise people for 1 or 2. You know how we gets: when its on, its on. One day while Scott and Bing were riding in the backseat of a car through the hood, she recalls asking him to show her his mad dog face. The beast is trying to protect its way of life. If you sit around and get hypnotized by the TV, sports or gossip about whos gonna get kicked off of Big Brother or, as Gil Scott Heron said, If Dick finally got down with Jane on Search For Tomorrow, then time is doing you. I assumed he meant Orlando Anderson, the Compton resident whod already been named as a suspect in the shooting. Again, its dialectical. And we deflected all of that. I didnt overstand nation then, but I overstood that we were a distinct people. By the end of our conversation, Suges legendary bravado was gone. 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. It has to, in order to continue to exist. Yo. Wed not taken into account the dynamism of our enemys ability to morph . 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. Cooper, who joined the gang at age 13, said Scott took him and other recruits to the gun range, where he shared street game with them. We lived on the same street in South Central. On the east end of the corrior sits Plam Hall-or the Hole, as prisoners call it-CIMs answer to disciplinary problems and security risks. 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. The next day he replied: A Monster, Prisoners and the Prison Movement will play just as important a role as students, workers and the military. Newman, 71, has presided over the high-profile trial . 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.. In closing, Id like to say we appreciated all the support for our hunger strike and all the work you and Comrade Fred Hampton Jr. do. 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. So I became frustrated and I began to study for new tools to fight with. A lot of youngsters couldve seen, wow, these two big-name rivals get together so if they can get together, everybody else can turn around and say, Well if they can do it, we can do it, Smith said. I always thought Hoover s were the first to go to tx. That is, it is capable of morphing, melding and adapting to most any circumstance. I read and reread all the news clippings about the shooting. Though as a youth, not knowing the particulars, it wasnt no difference. 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. TwitterStanding in shackles and a beige prison jumpsuit, the once prominent South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh continued to claim he was innocent Friday as a judge slammed him as a "monster" whose conduct was worse than many offenders who got the death penalty.Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to life in prison for the June 7, 2021, murders of his wife Maggie and son Paulbut not . Sanyika considers himself a philosopher, cadre, or professional revolutionist who is a part of the New Afrikan Independence Movement. While in prison, he wrote the frighteningly authentic memoir Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Please Donate - https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=ZV7RS7U9EU7QL Thats like butterflies, said Skipp Townsend, a former gang member, now a community activist who works with 2nd Call, a community based organization that serves high-risk individuals. Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads! I had an ill notion about what we were trying to get free from, and, further, to get free to? I related to the book, not because I come from street-tribal society of Los Angeles, but because a lot of what he wrote about reminded me of my memories and what I heard about Oakland in the 80s. January 13, 2020. The razor broke. My head was bleedin, and Pac said I should be the one sweatin it cause I got shot in the head. April 1 1993 Sanyika Shakur, aka Monster Kody Can't Stop, Won't Stop Sanyika Shakur,aka Monster Kody April 1 1993. Crip gang member monster kody full interview 1993 - YouTube 0:00 / 17:54 Crip gang member monster kody full interview 1993 Vinmoonsu 87.2K subscribers Subscribe 7.8K 791K views 5 years. M.O.I. Suges entourage was allegedly made up of top-ranking (Blood) Pirus, so why would a Crip pass up all those points to shoot someone who wasnt even a Blood? It was under all this concrete, steel, and animosity that i met Suge Knight. I was inspired by the sharpness of his ideas, his vocabulary and his grasp on history. Tyson had won, and we was going to celebrate. Plus, I got his mother a house. Basically starting ny bloods. I too was still talking after the shooting. I knew Id be able to extract some inside information on Makavelis shooting. (He told "60 Minutes" in an interview with Steve Croft in 1993 that his godfather was singer Ray Charles, a family friend). Yeah, I responded, trailing behind his big frame. But you see, the old Prison Movement was a reflection of the movement at large. Yet in my experience, Makaveli went nowhere without a vest or his heat. Do we rely on the metaphysical, believing that some god is going to help us, do we use the theories given to us by our enemies or do we use dialectical materialism? Sanyika: Its the same as George said, the same as Sundiata Acoli posited, and the same as Owusu Yaki Yakubu pointed out: The Prison Movement must serve as a relevant part of the overall National Independence Movement by utilizing its capacity to teach, research, develop and produce able minded cadres for struggle. Monster Kody: an interview wit author Sanyika Shakur. Kody hit a running Shooting Star Press for a nearfall at 12:00.