🛡️ "Back then, we saw ourselves as the vanguards of the community—revolutionaries protecting our people. But when drugs, guns, blaxploitation movies, and those Donald Goines books flooded our neighborhoods, we became the venom of the community, the poison. Life forced me to the west side after Sheridan, under parole conditions that shaped my next chapter. Every move felt like a fight for survival and purpose." OG Ike Taylor on the shift from protection to poison in his community. #TheOGsPodcast