Um, you know what, after fucking 30 someone years, you would think that like, you gotta get over it.

But, apparently not.

I just, I'm not a bad guy, man.

I made a mistake and I fucking went down to wrong paths and...

I'm not a bad guy.

But, Zach, I mean, the story should be told.

From Odyssey Originals, I'm Zach Levin, the creator of Root of Evil, gangster capitalism and relative unknown.

And this is a story about a time that New York City would like to forget.

Dangerous times in New York City.

The biggest city in America is on the ropes.

On the streets of New York, it's called crack and the deals go down quickly.

It was the most violent year in the city's history, the height of the crack era.

There were no opportunities.

You got into the game back then, yo, you had no choice.

But, if you move in Coke, you making money and overflip, baby.

Entire neighborhoods have been transformed into open-air drug markets.

But, for some criminals brazen enough, even the dealers became Marx.

Was it a common practice to break into apartments which were suspected drug locations?

Yes.

Why would you break into these apartments?

For money, for drugs, whatever was in them.

Why aren't you afraid of getting caught at doing this?

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