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The Folks crib wasn't nothing like them West Indian households Dexter grew up seeing back in Trinidad. Where he came from, shit moved on a code. Pops brought home the bread. Moms held down the fort. Kids either stayed glued to them books or hustled clean till they could hold their own weight. Order. Even when cats was broke, order still looked like order. America? Brooklyn? That whole picture got flipped inside out. The Folks spot ran ass backwards. Mrs. Daphne was the only one clocking in, grinding as a home attendant, keeping the lights flickering with legit paper. Uncle Sun? That cat didn't punch nothing. He floated in and out, gone all day sometimes, rolling back with a little tree, always smoking, always begging everybody around him for a couple dollars. The Suns? Every single one of them was elbow deep in illegal work. Dexter peeped early they never camped in one spot too long. At first, he ain't understand why. Later? It all made sense. Then Patrick touched down. Patrick, known as Dada, came up from Jamaica and crashed at Dexter's crib for a few days. Even though he was way older, the two locked in immediately. Dada carried himself different. Quiet power. No extra movement. He was about five foot eight, slim build, long dreads hanging, brown skinned, and already had a name that traveled faster than his feet did. Dexter would eventually find out Dada was a certified killer back home. Feared in Jamaica. Respected by Jamaicans in New York. He ain't even been stateside a full week before he copped two brand new burners. Not them old dusty revolvers everybody else scraped together. These joints was clean. Fresh. A black Smith and Wesson 38 and a nickel-plated Colt 45. Guns that meant connections. Guns that meant somebody trusted your existence. Dada handed them to Dexter to stash. Just like that. No sermon. No breakdown. That alone said everything. By then the Folks had relocated again. This time from Winthrop Avenue and Flatbush to Carroll Street and Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights, up the block from Medgar Evers College. A big four-bedroom apartment, fourth floor. Sometimes Dada brought Dexter with him. After a few visits, Dexter started sliding through solo just to be around Clinton and Donovan. Those two was always moving. Clinton specialized in burglaries. Donovan lived for stick-ups. Donovan always had heat laying around the spot, so whenever Dexter was there, everybody stayed strapped. Derek was into robbing big drug dealers and running extortion. Leroy, known as Color Reds because he was the lightest one in the bloodline, was hitting drug dealers too. Howard. Quiet and heavy-set, played bodyguard, always watching everybody's six. They called him Double. This wasn't just family. This was a unit. And they had beef all over Brooklyn. Dexter slid into it naturally. They became his adopted kin. He ain't have nobody else in America besides his moms and Carl, and no teenage kid wants to sit home with parents when the streets is wide open calling. Donovan had Dexter riding shotgun on robberies all over Brooklyn. They jumped into cabs, headed to Pitkin Avenue in East New York, robbed the driver, then slid to one of Donovan's man's houses to smoke weed and chill. After that, they'd go right back out hunting, snatching shoppers, stick-ups in broad daylight. Pitkin Avenue stretched for blocks, packed with stores, a perfect hunting ground. After every job, they'd grab another cab and ride over to the pool room on Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights. That spot was owned by a Trinidadian Indian and stayed packed with hustlers scheming on their next move. Right next door sat a bar run by the Jaguars, a fast-growing black motorcycle crew. The Pythons were the other big crew in Brooklyn at the time. Money plans never stopped circulating in that pool room. One winter, Dexter rolled with Kevin, Johnny, and C-Star on a run out to Long Island. They'd stolen a car and went hunting for PC Richard and Sun electronic stores. No bars on the windows back then. Just alarms. They backed the car up to the window around one or two in the morning while snow came down heavy. Smash the glass. Three cats climb in. Pass out VCRs and radios like a factory line. Fill the trunk. Fill the floor. Disappear back onto the highway in minutes. VCRs was gold back then. Eight hundred to twelve hundred retail. They sold them in Brooklyn for half, easy. Brand new price tags still attached. Every snowy night meant another store. Eventually the stores started putting gates up. Too late. Hustlers even sold empty boxes. Brick inside. Box sealed back up. Sold to a sucker who ain't know better. That was the mentality. Bergen Street was also where Dexter met Lakeshia Williams. His first real love. Ride or die. They even lived together at one point. That connection stayed solid for life. During the years Dexter ran with Donovan, they robbed everybody. Dice games. Corner dealers. Shoppers. Anyone flashing jewelry, radios, fresh sheepskins, new sneakers. If it looked valuable, it was coming off. Their home base stayed the pool room on President Street between Nostrand and Rogers, close to the Carroll Street house. West Indians filled the block. Stolen cars was always available. Eastern Parkway sat two blocks over. The same stretch where Brooklyn shut down every year for the Labor Day parade. One year during the parade, Mayor Ed Koch walked through surrounded by cops. Before Dexter even processed it, beer bottles started flying. Hundreds of them. Maybe a thousand. The mayor got pelted the entire walk. After he done, the West Indian community wasn't rocking with him. Then a Jamaican dread showed up and made a mistake. He opened a weed spot right across from the pool room. Bulletproof counter. Fake grocery display. Clean setup. Nobody knew him. He wasn't from the block. He lasted about a month. Donovan started plotting. One day Dexter came from Vanderveer to hang out and saw Donovan, Clinton, Rodney, Papa Dread, and a couple other dudes rolling blunts heavy, weed everywhere. Dexter joined in without asking questions. Then a gunshot cracked. The dread came running toward them firing. Everybody scattered. Dexter told Clinton he had his gun. Clinton took it, turned, and fired back. When that 38 Smith and Wesson barked, the dread spun around and ran. His little gun sounded like a 22. No competition. His hat flew off. Dreads spilling as he disappeared. Later they told Dexter the truth. They'd robbed the dread's spot earlier that day. Another night, Eric called Dexter to pick him up. Leroy and Trevor jumped in too. They were hunting a Rasta who owed them for a few pounds of weed. From Nostrand and Sterling Place to Bushwick to the Twelve Tribes headquarters. Eric told Dexter to park up the block and keep the car running. They dragged the Rasta outside. He said he ain't have the money. Begged for time. Eric wasn't hearing it. The Rasta ran. Leroy and Trevor opened fire. He escaped bleeding from the ear, disappearing around the corner. Eric stayed cold. He ain't joke. Didn't club. He bagged weed, counted money, cleaned guns. Sometimes he smoked with his father and listened to reggae. One night everything went wrong. Eric and two others were out to rob a drug dealer when their car broke down on Park Place near Schenectady. Cops rolled up. They ran. Eric pulled an Uzi and tried to fire. The gun jammed. He got caught. A cop later said he saw his life flash when Eric raised that machine gun. Uncle Sun was so proud he made a thousand copies of the newspaper article and passed them out all over Brooklyn. That was the Folks family. And by then, Dexter was already too deep to turn back. Dada ain't just move through Brooklyn. He dragged worlds with him. And when he decided to bring Dexter along, it was like pulling a kid backstage into a war room. He took Dexter to an apartment on Schenectady Avenue, wedged between Prospect and Park Place in Crown Heights. That place wasn't no home. It was a trap spot. A cutout. A holding cell for money, weight, and heat. Inside is where Dexter first crossed paths with Jimpy, Diamond, and a younger cat named Marlon. The apartment moved with purpose.