In this episode of J2BB, we are joined by Smigg Dirtee.
Smigg Dirtee was born Silas Pollard on Sept. 11th 1984 in San Diego, California to an African-American father and a Guamanian mother. Shortly thereafter, Smigg’s family would re-locate to the Florin Gardens neighborhood in South Sacramento. Florin Gardens or "The Garden Blocc" as it is referred to as in the streets is not unlike many other pre-dominantly black, working class neighborhoods of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Hard working, church going families that came to the Sacramento Valley from the Deep South in the 1940’s and 1950’s in search of better opportunity, would be awaken in the early 80’s to a horrible epidemic called "crack" cocaine which would take over those very same neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit, and all over the country and never let them go. Robbery, gangs, murder, and prostitution would come in the wake of this epidemic. Smigg Dirtee was a product of this environment and it would shape him as the man that he would become.
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