A local rapper I once interviewed was snared in a gang raid in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park.
Dontae Gardner, who goes by the handle Scoot Dogg as part of the hip hop crew Dem Hoodstarz, was one of dozens of suspected Taliban gang members who got a police escort Saturday up outta the 'hood.
Here's part of my 2006 article on the pair that I wrote for the San Mateo County Times:
"My reality is having to go sit on a corner to sell some rocks to have food to feed my mom," said Scoot, who grew up in Midtown. "We living in the gutter. A lot of us have to make the decision to eat or go to school."
Scoot said the "hood reality" he raps was all around him, and he wound up spending 18 months with the California Youth Authority for gun and drug possession.
"The life that we see? I can't rap about me and my family sitting down to dinner and passing the cornbread and passing the peas," he said. "It ain't all peaches and cream where we from."
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Also, check out a KTVU TV news report about the arrests here.
Dontae Gardner, who goes by the handle Scoot Dogg as part of the hip hop crew Dem Hoodstarz, was one of dozens of suspected Taliban gang members who got a police escort Saturday up outta the 'hood.
Here's part of my 2006 article on the pair that I wrote for the San Mateo County Times:
"My reality is having to go sit on a corner to sell some rocks to have food to feed my mom," said Scoot, who grew up in Midtown. "We living in the gutter. A lot of us have to make the decision to eat or go to school."
Scoot said the "hood reality" he raps was all around him, and he wound up spending 18 months with the California Youth Authority for gun and drug possession.
"The life that we see? I can't rap about me and my family sitting down to dinner and passing the cornbread and passing the peas," he said. "It ain't all peaches and cream where we from."
CLICK HERE for more on this story.
Also, check out a KTVU TV news report about the arrests here.
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