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Yo what it do evil streets fam you know how we do we back at it again shouts to all my members and subscribers for locking in every single day y'all the backbone of this channel's come up and everything we built Anyone trying to push their music brand or business hit me at evil streets media at gmail.com We can work something out. Big respect to everybody sending love through cash app and anybody trying to support the movement can pull up at evil streets tv on cash app all that bread goes right back into building this thing up Aight y'all let's dive into this gangster shit Kelvin Darnell Martin known by his childhood tag Lil Shaft came up in them grimy streets of the south Bronx before a bunch of moves landed him in Brooklyn. His moms made the call to ship him off to live with his grandmother after his parents split which marked a rough beginning for the kid But even as a young buck Martin was already walking a treacherous road When the fam relocated to the Raymond Ingersoll houses in Brooklyn Martin stepped into unfamiliar territory but them streets had a way of catching up It was right there in the monument walk section where he linked up with the 5% nation A branch of the nation of Islam that molded his whole identity and pushed him to embrace the name Shamik This was a turning point for Martin But his life in crime was starting to take shape too At barely a teenager his problems with the law got him sent upstate to Rikers Island Where he crossed paths with cats like James Jimmy Henschman Rosemond A dude who would go on to build an empire in the drug game This early introduction to the criminal underworld set the stage for Martin's ascension through New York's street hierarchy After touching down from prison and getting back to Brooklyn Martin linked with the infamous Supreme Team street gang out of Fort Green This partnership helped him lock down his spot in the underworld and birthed his legendary nickname 50 cent There's mad debate about where the name really originated though Some claim it came from his ruthless hunger That he'd stick up anybody regardless of how little paper they had A well-known tale says Martin stepped into a dice game holding nothing but 50 cents But when the dust settled he left with $500 Others maintain the name was really about his compact frame which never stopped him from being absolutely vicious Martin forever strapped was never caught slipping without his preferred tools A colt 45 and a 357 magnum Different from most of his partners who jumped headfirst into the exploding crack cocaine wave of that era Martin avoided the drug hustle Instead he made strong arm robbery his bread and butter His name rang out fast and he eventually built a crew called Brooklyn Zoo A squad of young hungry teenagers who earned by hitting up everything from working class folks and college kids to liquor spots and club patrons The crew's primary operation was jacking people dry at packed locations Like the Latin Quarter Harlem world roxy and even the Brooklyn Armory They weren't just snatching cash Designer bags gold ropes and whatever had value was up for grabs Word on the street is Martin once even pulled up at a Rick James show at the metalands strictly to rob everybody in attendance This was Martin's reality a deadly grind where he snatched whatever he wanted and kept climbing the criminal ranks Martin started making noise in the hip hop world when he supposedly robbed multiple major players in the culture Among his targets were members of the iconic rap group Houdini along with a young James LL Cool J Smith One account claims that Martin ran down on LL Cool J in a white castle parking lot in Brooklyn And with a burner drew took his treasured solid gold rope chain The audacity of this play only amplified his reputation But it wasn't just stick ups Martin's street operations got him caught up in bloody beefs too One of the most notorious situations was his conflict with Jason Jam Master Jay Masell of Run DMC A heated confrontation between Martin's Brooklyn zoo crew and Jay's Hollis crew A gang from Masell's hood escalated into an all out gunfight The bloodshed between the two crews left damage adding more fuel to Martin's already expanding criminal mythology Despite the friction Martin wasn't always on the criminal end of the rap business He had a real friendship with Eric Barrier of Eric B and Ra Kim going back to 1986 The two got close with Martin eventually getting embraced into the inner circle of the paid in full posse A collective that included not only Eric B and Ra Kim but also a bunch of other street cats Both from the rap scene and from Martin's own criminal network Martin's link to the hip hop scene was immortalized when he showed up in a flick on the back cover of Eric B and Ra Kim's legendary debut album Paid in Full The title track of the album which chronicles the journey of a young hustler navigating his way through the game is often viewed as a mirror of Martin's own trajectory one that Ra Kim wisely rejected by choosing music over crime It's wild that Ra Kim who would later become one of the most celebrated lyricists in the culture was able to walk away from the lifestyle Martin fully committed to Kelvin 50 cent Martin wasn't no regular stick-up kid He built a name for himself by going after the most dangerous targets drug dealers and their stash spots His robberies didn't end at cash and drugs either Martin grew his criminal operation to include kidnapping and extortion He provided protection to shop owners and neighborhood dealers swearing to guard them from violence vandalism and robbery for steady cash payments Turning down his insurance program came with severe consequences as Martin himself or his squad would bring immediate punishment making him a terror in Brooklyn's criminal landscape Martin's dirty money not only bankrolled his flashy existence marked by his custom gold-colored Volkswagen Jetta but also amplified his infamy Different from many criminals who moved from the shadows Martin put zero effort into hiding his face during his attacks This recklessness got him an extensive list of opps leading to constant attempts on his life Through the years Martin survived getting stabbed numerous times and allegedly took at least 24 gunshot wounds in nine separate shootings Despite never catching a murder charge he was believed to have ended the lives of roughly 30 people further cementing his terrifying reputation The nonstop threats on his life finally pushed Martin to join the US Army possibly looking for some relief from the streets or a chance to start over However his exit from Brooklyn's chaos was brief After finishing basic training at Fort Benning Georgia Martin got knocked by NYPD detectives on robbery charges and got shipped back to New York His military stint ended with an honorable discharge but them streets were right there waiting Upon his arrival Martin set up shop in an apartment at the Albany Houses housing project in Crown Heights with his girl Precious Goldston But Brooklyn hadn't forgotten about him Not long after his arrival Martin got caught slipping and shot at the Albee Square Mall A close call reminder of the existence he had chosen From that point on Martin made it routine to rock a bulletproof vest Further proving the dangerous world he moved through Kelvin 50 cent Martin's existence of high risk robberies merciless extortion and fearless confrontations eventually led to his early demise Despite his routine of wearing body armor as protection against the countless enemies he'd created the precautions abandoned him when it counted most On October 20th 1987 Martin got hit multiple times on the stairway of his girlfriend Precious Goldston's apartment building in the Albany Houses He caught gunshot wounds to the head chest and stomach Four days later on October 24th he died from his injuries from severe hemorrhaging at King's County Hospital He was only 23 years old At the moment of his death Paid in Full the groundbreaking album by his close associates Eric B and Ra Kim had dropped only three months earlier on July 7th 1987 Forever preserving the cultural moment in which Martin had existed and flourished The shooter was later revealed as Julio Weimo Acevedo an 18-year-old former member of Martin's crew Acevedo got hit with a conviction of first-degree manslaughter and got sentenced to a minimum of eight years in prison for the murder However Acevedo insisted that he had moved under duress He stated that enemies of Martin had snatched one of his close family members and threatened to murder both the family member and Acevedo's entire family Unless he executed the hit On the fatal night Acevedo supposedly visited Martin at the 13th floor apartment before they bounced together around 10pm Trusting Acevedo Martin felt comfortable enough to leave his bulletproof vest A choice that would prove deadly Martin was found bleeding out on the 7th floor landing later that night His death signaled the end of a brief but explosive existence One that left an unforgettable mark on Brooklyn streets and the hip-hop culture that orbited him Kelvin 50 cent Martin's life may have been overflowing with wealth and infamy But in death his fortune seemed to disappear Despite his reputation for collecting significant wealth through his criminal ventures Martin's family only got his gold teeth after his passing His safety deposit box and regular stash spots were found empty leaving no evidence of the wealth he had built Reflecting the financial realities of the time for many New Yorkers living in that era The tragic irony of Martin's story is that he built an empire on the backs of others only to leave nothing behind but a reputation stained in blood and a cautionary tale that would echo through generations Kelvin 50 Cent Martin's legacy remains one of the most complex in New York street history A figure whose ruthlessness and fearlessness made him a legend while simultaneously making him a marked man His story represents a pivotal moment in hip-hop culture where the streets and the music scene intersected in deadly consequence Though his life was cut short at just 23 years old his impact on Brooklyn's criminal underworld and the cultural zeitgeist of the 1980s proved undeniable Unlike his friend Ra Kim who escaped the street life through music Martin chose a different path one that ultimately consumed him Yet his name lives on immortalized in the very album that documented his world Paid in Full serving as a permanent snapshot of an era where young men like Kelvin Darnell Martin believed they could take what they wanted and walk away with everything But in the end the only thing that remained was his legend a dark reminder that the streets always collect their debt