Kanye, Common, Chance & Noonie G. To The Rescue
“Chicago rappers Kanye West and Common are grabbing headlines for their comments about the violence that plagues their hometown of Chicago,” AllHipHopNews reported earlier this month.
“You see what’s going on with the young people right now, there’s a lot of death and violence going on in Chicago, but we’re gonna make change,” Common promised.
Chicago activist Harold “OG Noonie G.” Ward is a former high-ranking member of The Gangster Disciples, the nation’s largest gang.
Ward, who has worked with closely with Kanye and Common on various anti-violence events in Chicago, is featured in an in-depth article in Bloomberg Market, which is scheduled to hit shelves this month.
The article details the Gangster Disciples’ historical role in the heroin pipeline into Chicago, and the bloody grip Joaquin Guzman’s Mexican drug cartel holds over the city.
“It’s the Mexican cartels and the powers that be in Chicago,” Noonie G. told AllHipHop.com. “The drugs are coming from Mexico to Chicago. It’s a $3.5 billion industry. It’s the hardest on the South and West sides, where you see most of the violence coming from. People are fighting over that cartel drug money. The violence wasn’t as bad until this started happening, and now you see it going to another level.”
Noonie G., who was featured on an episode of American Gangster about Chicago’s gangs, turned his life around after a prison stint in 1994 and has been active in Chicago politics ever since.
Noonie has been at it for a long time. In 2006, he was the subject of Gangster With A Heart Of Gold: The Noonie G. Story – narrated by Common and Kanye.
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Posted on October 31, 2013
