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Thug Life was a Movement and philosophy, but behind that.. Was the streets in California & it’s Tragedies. This story starts With ‘Tyruss Gerald Himes’ .. he was known on the streets of Inglewood (L.A. County) as “Little psycho” , he was a member of imperial Village Crips and the set had enemies within a block or 2 away from Little Psycho and his homies was from, one of those homies was a dude name “Big Kato” who saw that Big Skye had talent & he funded Drug money to Form the group “Evil Mind Gangstas and would release their album in 1992. The same year, psycho life would change, He ran across the Rising rap star by the name of 2pac, Who was from The Bay Area and hung out with street figures himself (Babez, Mike Cooley, Man) but would go back n forth To L.A. before settling in L.A. for good. Tupac liked Psycho’s Street authenticity and Commanding Voice, They would later record tracks together and psycho would later become “Big Syke”, Talking about the movement and Group Of “THUG LIFE”. To Tupac, It was Code of ethic, Tupac visited Mutulu In a California penitentiary in 1992 And Made up of Codes of the Thug Life to Get Street figures to Make the Community safer and Keep civilians out of the Street drama they have goin on in the streets. Later on down the line. Big Syke Introduced Big Kato and Mental to Tupac, Big kato would hang out at studio sessions and video shoots wit Pac and even had a Cameo In MC Breed song “Gotta get mine” featuring 2pac. Then: A TRAGEDY HAPPENS in Detroit. Big kato was driving Big Syke’s Car that had Dayton rims on it, And he was ambushed, Shot and Killed because the attackers wanted the Expensive Rims on the car. This would crush Big syke, and The members of the Thug Life group Let 2pac know that Kato just got killed, he got off the phone and Told Warren G “You got something for me? I wan do something for my homeboy” and they recorded the Track that would be on the Babez funded Album call “Thug Life Vol.1” the track was call “How long will they mourn me”. But Tragedy struck again within the Thug Life Group, Mental was violently killed, and it’s been proven and said he was a influence on some of Tupac’s philosophical rap style, Most notably “My only fear of death is coming back reincarnated” he was mesmerized wit the line & Tupac would mention that In a lot of songs because of Mental. Big Syke’s own brother committed suicide because of the heavy weight of losing Big Kato and Mental, Big Syke Said it was stress of losing his Original Crew to the streets is guessing why he did it. Today, Big Kato and Mental names remain immortal figures in Tupac & Big Sykes Lore, They name would be in numerous Tracks Pac would record, he once said “We ain’t even rapping we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us”.

R.I.P Big Kato & Mental

R.I.P Big Syke & His brother

Shout out Mopreme & Rated R & Macadoshis

Shout Out Babez, Mike Cooley & Man