Yes Yes Ya'll: Crews, Security & Violence at Parties

This chapter talks a lot about rolling deep in parties for protection, something I didn't understand for a long time. Ray Chandler talks about the Casanova Crew on page 93, saying "...sometimes we'd have fifty or sixty Casanovas in the trucks 'cause wherever we went it was like a family." Ok, so when I was in middle school and I made myself a bunch of enemies by messing around with one of the most popular black guys in school, I had no conception of the idea of a crew and I got jumpped trying to "shoot the one". I mean, I can understand when it's crews or gangs up against each other, but I never understood the point of jumpping one or two lone people. It's not like they are much of a threat against a whole group of people.


---So, not to belabor this (and I hope I don't get in trouble for this), but I found another thing that Professor Ryan mentioned that day when he said people were making stuff up in the quizzes. Someone had said that the DJ's were able to throw parties in schools because they were friends with the janitors. Now, while it never says they were "friends" and it probably wasn't how it happened all the time, it does say on page 102 that for Busy Bee and Tony Tone, the janitors were key to getting school gyms as venues.