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Luc “Spoon” Stephen, Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff, Smitty, & Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols.

South Jamaica, Queens. 1984.

Spoon to the left, is a Haitian immigrant who came to the states in the 70’s with his family. After beating the case from the Big Mac’s deli arrest and only… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
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