Snitching- The Streets Are Fair Game But The Game Has Never Been Fair

By Ms. Tee

Snitching is what the government has perpetuated as a means to solve crimes and allow criminals to escape sentences that they may very well deserve. This book is about how the street game has never been fair. This is the guide to how it goes down. For years the government has afforded criminals the opportunity to race other criminals to the finish line of freedom. It’s a game of who can get their attention first as a means to avoid doing long prison terms. The court system is filled with men sitting in the tombs and county jails waiting for their turn to get a better deal and make someone else’s life a living hell.Once upon a time snitching was a shameful act. The abnormal has now become the norm. The government perpetuates this act of betrayal. Times have changed. So, who’s really to blame?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ms. Tee
• Release date: Aug 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9780578515151

Ms. Tee

Tonia May Taylor was born and raised in Harlem to a two parent household. She is the middle child of 3 girls. She also has half siblings on her fathers’ side. Ms. Tee, what her father affectionately began calling her, became intrigued by Harlem’s fast life lifestyle. Her dad was a very disciplined Jamaican man and her mother was a sweet, not so disciplinarian from the south. She was raised around good morals and work ethics. She was raised around celebrities like Kim Fields and Al Fann who put on shows in her old block on 133rd and 7th Avenue. Seventh Avenue is where a lot of Harlem’s “Street Legends“ hung out in places like Smalls Paradise and Mr. B’s. These were landmarks that you would see in the old Blaxploitation movies like Super Fly and American Gangster. Although she was raised to be respectful and to take her education seriously, she yearned for that popular street life; a life that she kept hidden from her parents. She was able to keep that balance between staying in school and living that street life that she desperately yearned for.In keeping up with the streets she found herself in situations that almost ended her life at a young age, but I guess we can say that it was GOD’s grace that kept her safe. In all that she went through she managed to raise her daughter as a single parent, not because the father was a deadbeat, but his life in the streets caused him a long prison term.She didn’t allow any of her circumstances to determine her life’s outcome or the outcome of her child. She was the victim of a push in robbery and was shot on another occasion and made it through. She obtained 2 college degrees and became successful as a Realtor. Like her mother, she always had a passion to help others. She worked in Independent Living programs assisting youth for 12 years. Now she’s dedicated herself to assisting those with Mental Illness and for the past 3 years has joined a program that houses homeless Veterans.She can now add author to her resume. In 2015 she started her own publishing company, Royal-T Publishing, another name coined by her late father Keith, which is where she published her memoir “Harlem Heroin(e)- My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life and The Men Who Ruled It”.Her memoir is a fascinating depiction of how no matter what background you come from, what morals you’re given or the education you may have, outside influences has a way of throwing your life in a direction that you are not prepared for.Read and take this journey through HARLEM with Ms. Tee.

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SNITCHING

GUIDE TO HOW IT GOES DOWN

MS. TEE

© 2019 by MS. TEE—All rights reserved.

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ISBN: 978-0-578-51515-1

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Snitching Credits:

Written by: Ms Tee

Cover Concept: Tonia Taylor

Table of Contents

Copyright

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

SNITCHING

$ THE GAME $

MR. UNTOUCHABLE

CHECK THE SCENARIO

NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING LEGAL

RULES

ALPO

ANONYMOUS

PROFFER AGREEMENT

HARLEM PULL UP A CHAIR

PEPE LE PEW

PREACHER

REAL SHIT

TEKASHI 6IX9INE

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW

HONOR UP

2019

WHAT I LEARNED

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Shout out to an OG who pushed me to make this happen. We’ve been like family for over 30 years and the love has never wavered.

This is something that the streets needed, and I made it happen. Shout out to those who gave me their information in order to make sure these stories were told.

Thank you, Wayne Green aka Bump, for giving me the information I needed. Keep ya head up Boss. You’re one of the great ones who inspired this book along with the Big homie OG Tommy Frost.

Thank you, Albert aka Alpo, for telling me your truth. Thanks for trusting me enough and allowing me into your world. You were a good sport and I appreciate your cooperation-no pun intended.

Thanks to my guy Anonymous for giving me your views. You are my guy. Much love.

Thanks to all that gave me their love and support. I am overwhelmed by the love that you all have shown me on my first book Harlem Heroin(e).

I am so thankful to all the people that entrusted me to get the information out as if there was no one else that could do it better. Thanks for recognizing an honorable woman when you see one.

A True G

Ms. Tee

INTRODUCTION

This Book is not being written to glorify the street life in no way shape or form. Selling drugs, murder and committing other crimes are wrong. Those of us who’ve done it and are still doing it should use this book as a learning tool.

This book is to provoke thought. We always ask – "Why do the crime if you can’t do the time?" Well the answer isn’t as easy as one might think.

This book is for those who are still in the game and may be faced with doing prison time at some point. The question to them is; Are you ready for the consequences?

Everyone isn’t built for the game, so why play. Prison or death (unless you’re lucky) has been and will always be the outcome of the game. Plain & Simple. Nothing has changed.

Choosing the game comes with rules that you are expected to abide by. Right?

Someone recently asked me; Who made the rules? Are there really rules to the Game? Where are these rules written? Who’s the author? Great questions for which I have no answers for.

This book is told from an objective point of view although at times I will be subjective. It has been edited many times over due to the climate of the streets at this present time. So many things have occurred while I was writing this book, which is why I chose to be unbiased.

This book is about "Snitching—The Guide to how it goes down".

SNITCHING

SNITCHING—We hear this term being used more and more these days. We already know what it means. The question is, why do individuals choose to be in the game knowing what the consequences could be but decide to snitch on others as their way out.

"Snitch meaning informer" is indeed an older word, dating back to the late 18th century.

So, as we can see snitching started centuries ago with words like infomah (informer) as my fellow Jamaicans would say. The question will always remain the same Why become a snitch? Some will say Why not. Fundamentally, it’s just the easy way out. The price that one is willing to pay in order not to fight or stand up can be very hefty. Why would a man want to be ridiculed and looked down upon for doing such a thing? How does a man potentially put himself and his family in danger by committing an act that at times warrants death by those that despise such behavior? There may be a few answers to that. Maybe he wants to be with his family and doesn’t care what the world thinks. Maybe he just doesn’t want to do the time. Everybody is not mentally ready to hear twenty-five to life or natural life in prison. If you say you are, you’re lying. This doesn’t mean you won’t stand tall and do your time. I’m saying that no one is in the game saying, I’m saving this money so I can go in and do these 25 years to life." Who willingly wants to lose that much time away from loved ones and life period?

As you