Jimi Starr is an accomplished musician, singer-songwriter, and producer fro… Read Full Bio ↴Jimi Starr is an accomplished musician, singer-songwriter, and producer from Chicago, IL. He has written and produced the soundtracks for the stage plays “A Raisin In The Sun” with Ruby Wilson, along with “Slick” and “The Whiz”. His previous album “SoundBarrier” with the hit song “Private Spot”. STARR has worked with top musicians such as members of Earth Wind and Fire, Archie Love of the Barkays, and famous writer/producer Willie Henderson. STARR completed his album “BLACK” late 2012 which includes the hit single “Egyptian Love Song” “Time” and “Fool 4 Da Planet”. He has collaborated on and produced several musical projects. STARR is also responsible for Humblekatz Productions, a label that has produced these and other projects and will continue to bring positive yet great sounding music that captivates audiences of all genres.
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Jim Reily
I lived in Western Sydney for 20 years. 10 years in Macquarie Fields and then My Druitt specifically for 10 years. They are crappy places, there's nothing to do. It's boring. And yes there is an element of danger, but it's not overt. You'll only get into trouble if you look for it.
But trap houses and gangs are very different in Australia, today, than in the US. There are no open air drug markets in Australia anymore. When I was a kid, people could get off the train at Cabramatta (in Western Sydney), and cross the road, buy heroin from a random Vietnamese dude right there on the road, and take the next train home.
You could do the same thing in Kings Cross (basically in the middle of Sydney).
It's not like that anymore.
The Vietnamese gangs used to be powerful, not anymore.
Gangs in Western Sydney earn money by basically doing favours for larger gangs, gangs with more influence in construction and commercial industries and such. Basically like crime families, but not as large or as influential as in the US.
A Sydney gang will earn money mainly by theft. They will do home invasions of people's houses, steal cars, steal drugs from drug dealers, and deal drugs themselves.
But it's way harder to buy hard drugs, even in the worst part of Western Sydney, than in the US. Sometimes you'll find a "trap house" selling weed that the cops don't care about.
But you won't find a trap house selling coke or dope, where gang members are dealing 24/7.
In the US in the 80s, you had no go zones.
You couldn't go to Cabrini Green as just some random, without getting, at least, questioned, and at worst, hurt or killed.
You can stroll down the streets of Mount Druitt with no problems as long as you don't stare at people, or threaten them or whatever. If you behave normally you'll be totally fine.
Mt Druitt isn't the O Block. Sydney isn't Chicago or Baltimore.
Our ghettoes here are semi-shabby suburban neighbourhoods.
Ghettoes in America ? Just look at some places like those open air drug markets in Philadelphia. They're like Night of the Living Dead.
Noisey
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999 wrld
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999 wrld
Lol
shane connolly
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Andrew
Australia definitely isn't a warzone. Very damn peaceful compared to most places around the world.
HL Vae
He said WESTERN Sydney, not the whole of Australia. Western Sydney was fucked up 10 years ago after pacific islanders started living there.
HL Vae
G B 50/50
tucko11
What about that movie Wolf Creek ? Mate ? Lol I’m a yank
m j
If it got too out of hand the bikies would keep them in check
Juri Ukkonen
dannyboyy48 WHAAT LMAO There's a safer place than Finland somewhere?
Couldn't hold my cringe when he said "we can't relate to shootings, we can relate to stabbings and fights tho" lmaoo and "there's still some violence every now and then" like seriously.