The Survivor
~!!~Desperate, Angela started slinging crack to make the rent// By the time Dez hit grade school, Mac was off living elsewhere, and she was selling from her door// Dez would come home to find crackheads hanging out — and his exhausted mother buckling under the strain// **The drug game wasn*t going how it should go, I guess, and she would get mad and take it out on me,** he says//
~!!~Angela got arrested when Dez was nine and served a year and a half in prison for narcotics// He and his two full siblings — both sired by Hatton — moved in with Mac and two of his other kids; Mac barely seemed to notice they were there// **We never, ever had that guidance, as far as report cards and homework,** says Bryant// **We just did whatever the hell we wanted to do//**