Bigg Slice – Urban Farming Week 9 Pt. #2

Bigg Slice is checking on his front yard garden. It’s doing good with lots of sunlight and lots of attention. Life lesson being learned. “We going to eat yall”.

Bigg Slice builds cars for Snoop Dogg

By Lee Cantelon of “Wordz from the Street”

He appears from the other side of the open hood of a ’66 Cadillac, the “Snoop de Ville,” one of Snoop Dogg’s cars, something he had customized, hung chandeliers in, had pinstriped in platinum. The car gave off a crazy glow in the fading light of the city street, caught the headlights of passing cars, sparkled like the entrance to a hotel in Monte Carlo. “What it do?” Slice says, and tosses off a fast pattern of hand shakes, the morse code greeting that is as important and identifying as dialect.

“He is Snoop Dogg’s personal car pimp. His customized lowrider collection is unbelievable.”

We’ve only just met, and I’m being drawn into the magnetic force field that Slice emits. He’s already lived more life on these streets than I could accumulate in several reincarnations. He should be dead, several times. He should be burned beyond recognition. But all of the drug-dealing, gunfire, and chemical explosions only propelled him out of the misery of the hard streets into the open arms of grace. He found a resting place, discovered that the ghetto could not hold him within its grim borders, and found out what it meant to give back, and lift up, and guide young lives away from the hell he knew too young.

See more home videos from Bigg Slice here.

See more about the film “Wordz from the Street” here.

And here.