When we were last with young Gerald he had just gotten arrested on a stolen auto charge, while his partner, Gregory, had gotten away…
Greg got away, he got away.
I went to court for the charge and they told me, they said, “We can give you probation.” My probation officer was Mr. Kendrick, Gerald Kendrick.
But I come home about three, four days later. I went around Greg. He say, “D***, Baby Gerald, you let Fat Albert catch your a**??!”
I say, “Yeah man.”
I say, “Man, big a** motherf***er, I should have smoked his a**.”
So we’re getting older, we like in our 20s now. Greg had been locked up in a juvenile facility.
I was locked up. I had been in like four years, something like that. But I come home on pass — meaning I come home on, like, a Friday, I gotta go back on a Sunday. I come home on pass and I never forget it — Gregory got locked up heavy. Real, real heavy.
There was Marlin, he from out the St. Thomas. And there was the youngin — Mazio, he from out the Ninth Ward. Mazio was my little man. I remember him when he was a little boy before I went in. Like you had him in a project, you say, “This gonna be my young killer. My young hustler. I’m raising him. He street grilled up. He in a gang.”
That’s the only thing I don’t like about Greg. The Tenth Ward and the Third Ward don’t get along. We don’t really clink clink like that. We can’t trust them and they don’t trust us.
But Greg run with dudes uptown, downtown. I don’t get down like that. I don’t care. We mostly beef with them dudes. But they know you the big head, they gotta come to you to get they thing solved. That’s how the street is, man
And Greg being a friend of mine, you know, I’m gonna roll with him. He went to mingling with them. I didn’t even like that, but my man go, I gotta go. I used to be like, “Man I don’t really f*** with these dudes, bro.” But I don’t want to bring this to you because you my man. But I don’t want to tell you cause you been out here, you know.
So they was in the Irish Channel Area, meaning the Garden District, near St. Charles Ave. It’s like Georgetown: That’s where all the rich folk come.
But I was locked up in juvenile. I was like, “Boy, I can’t wait. I hope my man hold on till I get out there.” I bounced out, I got home on a two-week pass.
I go round there. They say, “Oh shit. Man, what’s up Gerald?”
I say, “Where my man at?”
“That motherf***er out here robbin’ everybody. You ain’t seen on the news?”
To be continued.
