Gang Violence... This song is probably one of the most personal to me (Rey). I write this song having been in the actual nuclues and core of this self-murdering atrocity. Since the turn of the 20th century chicanos have been engaging in tribal-like murders and crimes beyond any level of evil. Thousands and thousands of countless murders have been intentional and accidental. So many that the bodies can probably stack up to the sky. The popular culture all over this country and world have completely parasited this gang culture that has impacted so many people. The way people dress. The cars they drive.
The rap industry and some so called "rap-rock" acts have tried to parasite this actual madness but having be that I am a chicano and having lived a whole life in this surrounding and being from a family and a neighborhood that has been involved in gang violence before any "Blood" or "Crip" was in sight, it makes me angry that most of these people don't have any idea of what this systematically wicked murder is really about.

The prisons are filled with my chicano/a brothers and sisters who probably never had a chance to really make a life for themselves in this system. The graveyards are packed with ghetto-barrio soldiers that have been sacrificied to this wicked god of a system. In my opinion gang violende is a direct offspring of a system that has failed in education, opportunities in jobs, welfare, prison systems, juvenile lockups and also a society that is on a total nazi-like moral degeneration etc... Generation after generation this murder has been almost non-stop. I think there is something more than what we can see. The FBI, the CIA, the LAPD and so on have not altered this plague at all because locking up people up is not the full answer to this problem. The true gang lifestyle that my people created in LA is a holocaust-lie tragedy in my eyes. And to be exposed to information that would lead me to know that members of our government have actually smuggled in drugs to our country and filtered them into the minds and bodies of children and young adults to create population control over my people is heart breaking.

I do not want trouble. I am not a criminal. I am just concerned with wanting to help my people get out of the projects and to understand that there is more to life than the ghetto-barrio. There are solutions that I have been involved in. Members of the Youth Gang Services and Edward James Almos, Robert Graham and actress Angelica Houston got members of gangs from East LA, Venice, San Fernando, Highland Park and Lopez Maravilla and gave us a job. Taught us skills in the arts and some of us were hardcore criminals that have been through much and some of us were taught things that held us back from the madness in our barrio-ghetto. So if you give, some will take the chance and some are just too far into the bloody mind state that they can never turn back, but if you have nothing not even a chance then you might be the same way. This is not a music video to me and this is not a bullshit rap song. This is a tragedy upon my people and it's nothing more than a holocaust. Blood to the concrete! Systematic terror!

Rey Downset 1994

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