Sometimes people were reluctant to leave. But today, it's not like that. Saying back in the days. Back in the days, there was parties, what we called gigs or sets like that where we played hooky and went to somebody's house and danced, smoked a little reefer, a little wine or beer, whatever. We had fun.
People are very hard.
They treat you with a cold shoulder. Describe for me the mid-1980s when crack hit New York. I was a part of that in a big way, up in the Bronx. I used to travel into Manhattan. There were different people, Latino people who felt that when crack addicts or what they called baseheads first started using base, instead of making the base, buying the cocaine and making the base, and they coming back and buying more cocaine like that, they weren't making that much money from it.