![]() ![]() Unauthorized duplication or distribution is a violation of U.S. ![]() Description This font and all original glyphs within are ᄅ copyright 2003 Matthew Napolitano / Highground Industries. ![]() Unique ID MatthewNapolitano(Raseone): WildStyle-Fill: 2003.I got jumped by 2 dudes who were 17 and 18 both with guns walking home from junior high school. I vowed that was never going to happen to me ever again. I was affiliated quickly after I got stuck up for my down coat in 1978 at gun point. If you were from the Bronx back in the early 80s and you were living that life OR you got victimized by a stick up crew then you know what was said. ![]() Pookie then while pulling out the sawed off shot-gun said A to the motherfucking C a shorten version of aid to the cane. In other words give me money so I can go buy cocaine. They would say “Yo, yo whats up wit ya ? Aid to the cane. If you were rolling solo with no street crew affiliation then you were fair game like anyone else. If you lived in their building on the same floor it did not matter to them. They would come up anyone, they did not care if they knew you or not. It was a quite common saying from older stickup dudes as they were always sniffing cocaine back then. That is when his partner said the line “ Look, here people you’ve heard it on the radio, you seen on the TV show.” Then the other actor sats “Aid to the cane.” meaning aid to them getting cocaine. If you listen to Pookie he asked Patti Astor’s character do you smoke and she replied I had enough then he asked her do you sniff, do you want to sniff ? She replies no, not right now. You had to live in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. 9mm in the presence of an established 9-Crew member Ĭ). You had to have robbed someone using the. 9 millimeter gun and carry it with you at all times ī). The 9-Crew were mostly stick-up kids and membership into the crew was 3-fold Ī). It was a 9-Crew member that shot and killed DJ Scott La Rock on University Avenue in 1987 shortly after he and KRS One burst on the rap scene. Slick Rick referenced University Avenue in his song Children’s Stories because it was the infamous border line between The Casanova Crew and the 9-Crew in the South / West Bronx area mainly and strictly controlled by the 9-Crew. Pookie was a known older member of a street gang known as the 9-Crew which were the West Bronx off-shoot of the disbanded Black Spades Gang division from University Avenue. I am from the Bronx, I was featured in the movie Wild Style as a graffiti writer which I was a prolific graffiti writer in the late 70s early 80s, I know exactly what Pookie said. "I know, I am late to this post, seven years to be exact. People have even asked the movies director Charlie Ahearn about the line and he says it wasn’t scripted and the guys playing the hoods came up with it (who were real hoods).Īnyway, the mystery has just been revealed someone posting on the Soul Strut fourm NYCGUNHILLNITTYCREW and we have all been mis-interpreting the line for decades. People have been trying to work out what this meant for years, and the general consensus is that A to the K referred to an AK-47, even though the guy pulls out a shotgun, an AK-47 would probably not be found in the South Bronx in early 80s. “you heard it on the radio, you seen it on the TV show” Im sure a bunch of you have watched Wild Style, even those who haven’t might have heard the the phrase “A to the K” sampled in a track or two: ![]()
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