Looking at the G4 tech X-Play’s best of ’05 one of my favorites made the list which was The Warriors by Rockstar Games. With no more than a few sentences the game was summed up as “The Fun of Gang-banging”. I was watching it with my brother and the first thing that he says after hearing this is “But they don’t use guns!” I tried to tell him that since it was the 70’s Bats & knives can fuck you up or kill you just as much as a gun. That opinion didn’t help change his view at all. I remember visiting my uncle (R.I.P.) in the hospital from getting a beatdown from BD’s w/ bats. Man, it was a scary site. It was like they broke all his limbs and continued till every thing was swollen but his face. Seeing shit like that was enough to stay straight; besides eventually the streets would’ve ate me alive had I stayed in the same neighborhood to this day. It’s also weird to me that he believes just because you packin it’s instantly gang related nowadays. I wonder if he ever was able to see The Education of Sonnie Carson (which I saw once) would that change his view? I guess with all the drive bys you hear and see in the news why wouldn’t you believe? I guess because born, raised and living in the chi, it’s been said your one degree short of gang-banging. Either you have or know somebody that is. I don’t believe that’s all true but at the same time I can’t deny it. It all comes down to a generation difference.