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Freeway: Crack in the System (2015)  R  |  103 min  |  Documentary, Biography, Crime  |  7 February 2015 (USA)    The real Rick Ross is not a rapper. He's an urban legend in South Central LA, a black godfather figure whom most people have never seen, but know by name and reputation. He's 'Freeway' Rick Ross, the man who stood at the center of the crack epidemic, and whose name has been inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine connection. His story defies all odds and stereotypes and proves that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.     Director: Marc Levin    Writer: Marc Levin (story)

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00:00You know how they say that everybody has a purpose in life?

00:07Well, at one time I felt that selling cocaine was my purpose.

00:11We were starving, just looking for a way to succeed.

00:16The first time I seen rock cocaine was 1980.

00:20Murder rate was sky high.

00:22South of the 10 freeway was kind of a no man's land.

00:26So, you know, we're selling it to the blacks.

00:28So you go into these neighborhoods, there's no cops, you can sell it where you want,

00:32and when they start killing each other, nobody cares.

00:34I was going through like a million dollars worth of drugs just about every day.

00:38Let's like go, we can make a fortune.

00:41He was maybe the biggest guy in L.A.

00:44Rick, Rick, Freeway Rick.

00:47Freeway Rick was getting his dope from a very big operator.

00:50I think we're into something that's bigger than us, something we really can't deal with.

00:56She could prove what she was saying.

01:00The story was mind-boggling.

01:12There's a lot of people who think that, you know, I made that whole thing up.

01:15What they don't realize is the CIA admitted it.

01:17See, I didn't know until I was sitting in prison how valuable an education was.

01:22Yeah, drugs suck. Drugs are really bad.

01:24But the drug war is worse.

01:25You want to know a version of hell?

01:27Be the only guy playing straight in a 30-card game.

01:29And that's what the drug war was.

01:31There are more people in prisons and jails today just for drug offenses

01:35than were incarcerated for all reasons in 1980.

01:41Me being here is defying all odds.

01:44People don't get federal life sentences.

01:47You can beat them.

01:48We've been spending billions and billions and billions of dollars every year on this war on drugs

01:52to find out that the government was involved.

01:55That's pretty astonishing.

02:02Even if the government just turned a blind eye and didn't do anything about it,

02:05then you have to start questioning the whole system.

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