Aug 16, 2026 · 15 min · 10 segments
Many gang leaders lead youth and young men with bad direction and towards destruction. What’s the life expectancy of a gang member?
What I want to say, right, is when I was young and I joined Zulu, my mentality was one way.
But I knew the foundation of Zulu Nation was about hip-hop and it was knowledge-based.
And the outline... of all the literature the infinity lessons were all positive things that would make you strive for better you know what i'm saying and i also was shown this because many former black spades used to be around the zulu nation events functions i remember brother sundance from the black spades um had shown us some bullet holes in his chest lifted his shirt up and he said i did this you know, when I was a Spade, I received this, but this is for the Zulu Nation, where y'all don't have to live the same life that the Spades lived.
And I've heard, you know, different iterations or different ways of, like, Spades saying things similar in nature, you know, what they experienced as Black Spades, the Zulus don't have to experience.
But yet, in In all, we still did experience gang warfare because when you're in an organization, regardless of the foundation, and I think the foundation of Zulu, like I said, based on the lessons is positive.
but we still experience negativity because we were in communities that were gang infested, whether it be MS 13, uh, you know, blood crib, Latin King, so on and so forth, not to label all of those groups as gangs.
Um, you know however you see you know them to be labeled that's on you but those were the neighbor you know that was what was in my community and much communities across new york city long island you know i'm saying and so on and so forth you know i'm saying so brothers that i knew when we were all peers like starting off in these street organizations at the same time you know dudes like um You know, I don't even want to name names.
You know what I'm saying? And some of them have passed, living the life in the streets.
You know, life, you know what I'm saying? And they really not too concerned about the streets, but they still blood.
You know what I'm saying? But you got to do what you have to do to move forward and elevate in life.
You know what I'm saying? All these laws are put in place for the Zulus to come to a realization that the streets is not it.
You know, one of the laws, I believe it's law number three, negative activities or actions belonging to the unrighteous.
If you weren't following the laws, you probably would face a physical violation.
What I want to say, right, is when I was young and I joined Zulu, my mentality was one way.
But I knew the foundation of Zulu Nation was about hip-hop and it was knowledge-based.
And the outline... of all the literature the infinity lessons were all positive things that would make you strive for better you know what i'm saying and i also was shown this because many former black spades used to be around the zulu nation events functions i remember brother sundance from the black spades um had shown us some bullet holes in his chest lifted his shirt up and he said i did this you know, when I was a Spade, I received this, but this is for the Zulu Nation, where y'all don't have to live the same life that the Spades lived.
And I've heard, you know, different iterations or different ways of, like, Spades saying things similar in nature, you know, what they experienced as Black Spades, the Zulus don't have to experience.
But yet, in In all, we still did experience gang warfare because when you're in an organization, regardless of the foundation, and I think the foundation of Zulu, like I said, based on the lessons is positive.
but we still experience negativity because we were in communities that were gang infested, whether it be MS 13, uh, you know, blood crib, Latin King, so on and so forth, not to label all of those groups as gangs.
Um, you know however you see you know them to be labeled that's on you but those were the neighbor you know that was what was in my community and much communities across new york city long island you know i'm saying and so on and so forth you know i'm saying so brothers that i knew when we were all peers like starting off in these street organizations at the same time you know dudes like um You know, I don't even want to name names.
You know what I'm saying? And some of them have passed, living the life in the streets.
You know, life, you know what I'm saying? And they really not too concerned about the streets, but they still blood.
You know what I'm saying? But you got to do what you have to do to move forward and elevate in life.
You know what I'm saying? All these laws are put in place for the Zulus to come to a realization that the streets is not it.
You know, one of the laws, I believe it's law number three, negative activities or actions belonging to the unrighteous.
If you weren't following the laws, you probably would face a physical violation.
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