The Snider Files

The Snider Files

Chapter Eight: The Crips

Ninth installment of 'The Razzmatazz'

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Daryl Sanders
Jan 21, 2024
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Crips co-founder Tookie Williams.

By Todd Snider

less than a decade later, tookie williams,

a high school boy in the city of lost angels,

would unknowingly, in frustration,

take the blind lemon pledge.

it was last call in America,

and tookie williams called bullshit.

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