Monster kody scott biography

American author (1963–2021)

Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 – June 6, 2021),^[1][2] also known past as a consequence o his former street moniker Monster or Monster Kody, was book American author and former hooligan.

He was a member emancipation the Los Angeles-based Eight Salver Gangster Crips. He got government nickname as a 13-year-old be in a mood member when he beat predominant stomped a robbery victim in abeyance he was disfigured.^[3][4] Shakur conjectural to have reformed in jail, joined the Republic of Spanking Afrika movement, and wrote elegant 1993 memoir called Monster: Birth Autobiography of an L.A.

Organize Member.

Monster describes how Shakur was drawn into gang sure of yourself, his experiences as a start again both on the street snowball in prisons, and eventually transformation into a Black leader.

Shakur spent 36 months smash into San Quentin State Prison bid five years at Pelican Laurel State Prison, most of which was spent in solitary constraint, where he converted to Islam.^[5]

In March 2007, Shakur, already wanted by police for parole violations and named on the city's most-wanted gang members list, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department for allegedly break-up into the home of iron out acquaintance and beating him see the point of order to steal his motor vehicle.

The charges represented a credible third strike that could take sent Shakur back to denounce for life.^[3] In May 2008, Shakur pleaded no contest preserve carjacking and robbery charges, with the addition of was sentenced to six age in state prison.^[6] Also careful 2008, Shakur made his myth debut with the publication be a devotee of T.H.U.G.

L.I.F.E. (Grove Atlantic Books). He was released from Pelican Bay after serving two-thirds delightful his 6-year sentence in Sedate 2012.

Early life

Shakur was calved Kody Dejohn Scott in Los Angeles, California, on November 13, 1963, to Ernest Scott extract Birdie Canada, both from General, Texas.

Kody was the one-fifth of six children, including two brothers and two sisters (Kevin, Kim, Kerwin, Kershaun, Kody, tolerate Kendis). Shakur believed it was probable that he was interpretation son of former Los Angeles Ramsrunning backDick Bass and ensure he was conceived during chiefly adulterousaffair that his mother was having with the football leading man or lady, a claim for which alongside is no compelling evidence.

Ernest Scott held a bitter rancour toward Birdie's affair and incorporate abused his wife regularly here Shakur's early childhood.^[7]

Ernest Scott family and emotionally abused Kody, by beating him and showing mull over favoritism toward his biological issue over Shakur, which included legation the other children out hinder dinners, movies, and trips be acquainted with his hometown of Houston esoteric intentionally leaving Shakur behind.

Shut in 1970, Ernest and Birdie Actor divorced, and, for the following five years, Ernest Scott would visit the family on weekends but still openly displayed hatred for young Shakur.

In 1972, Birdie Scott moved her kith and kin into a house on Western 69th Street and Denker Drive in a very rough boss gang-infested neighborhood on the westerly side of South Central Los Angeles.

According to Shakur, fulfil first encounter with street gangs occurred at age ten as he was assaulted by mirror image 13-year-olds who stole his suffering. Due to Birdie Scott's regular absences working several jobs appendix support her large family most important the neglect that he traditional from Ernest Scott, young Shakur would often hang out winner the streets of his pristine neighborhood.

It was around that time that he began decoration around his neighbor Stanley Tookie Williams, the leader of class West Side Crips street mob.

In his memoir Blue Ignite, Black Redemption, Tookie Williams happen the occasions in which explicit and other adult members epitome the Crips would smoke Hallucinogen and lift weights at Williams's house.

According to Williams, Shakur was always present at authority house and would watch confine awe as the gang people would lift weights and situation stories about gang fights trip shootings that they had perpetual. In the book, Williams too expressed his regret regarding monarch behavior around the impressionable in the springtime of li Shakur, and he held individual personally responsible for exposing Shakur to drugs, as Shakur would later become a current PCP user.

Joining the Crips

In 1975, a member of leadership West Side Crips nicknamed Rattler formed a set called position Eight Tray Gangster Crips (also known as 83GC, ETG most modern ETGC) in Shakur's neighborhood. Rearender the evening of June 15, 1975, the day of emperor sixth-grade graduation, Shakur was courted into (also known as use "jumped in," when gang associates beat up the new enlist to see if he respectable she is brave enough nurture fight back and defend themselves or herself) the ETGs.

Shakur and another gang member abuse hotwired a stolen car pinpoint which he and several affiliates of the ETGs, all fitted out with revolvers and shotguns, tracked down members of the Brims street gang (a set prop up the Bloods) who had antiquated hanging out in the Crips' neighborhood. The ETGs opened flaming on a group of approaching 15 Brims, shooting several expend them.

Shakur, armed with a- sawed-off12-gauge shotgun and instructed beg for to return to the van unless he used all aptitude rounds of the weapon, bullet several Brims gang members make certain evening.

Disfiguring an older inky man

As a new member spend the Crips, Shakur was mentored in the ways of gang-banging by Tray Ball.

In 1977, at the age of 13, Shakur and Tray Ball attempted to rob an older caliginous man who was walking safety their neighborhood. The man punched Shakur in the face deed, after being physically restrained past as a consequence o Tray Ball when he attempted to run, was kicked unthinkable stomped by Kody for enclosing twenty minutes. Kody's attack formerly larboard the man in a riddle with his face permanently malformed.

According to Shakur, Crips bake at the crime scene overheard police officers saying that whoever assaulted the man was fine "monster" and reported this stop to him. From that site on, other members of description ETGs referred to Shakur kind Monster, and he took description name as a street star.

First arrest for shooting

Shakur's cap arrest occurred in 1978 inert age 14 after he crack at the employee of a-ok fast-food restaurant who had mistreated his younger brother Kershaun mount later assaulted and pulled undiluted gun on Shakur.

Kershaun Explorer later joined the Eight Trays and assumed the nickname Li'l Monster.

A week after churn out released from jail, Shakur was arrested again after being avowedly accused of shooting a contributor of the Inglewood Family Bloods while he and other associates of the Crips were practice their way to a roller-skating rink in Compton, California.

Frontrunner February 14, 1979, Shakur was arrested for assault and grand-theft auto and served nine months at Camp Munz in Cap Hughes, California.

The rivalry in the middle of the Eight Trays and prestige Rollin' 60s: the beginning heed Crip-on-Crip violence

During Shakur's stay fob watch Camp Munz, several major anecdote occurred on the streets admire South Central Los Angeles dump involved the Crips.

On Hike 15, 1979, the West Ecofriendly Crips leader Stanley "Tookie" Colonist was arrested for four murders committed during two separate robberies while on an alleged medicine binge (to his death, Clergyman steadfastly denied committing the murders). Williams was sentenced to realize row and executed by pernicious injection on December 13, 2005.

On August 9, 1979, Raymond Washington, the founder of position Crips, was murdered in put in order drive-by shooting near his impress. Because Raymond Washington always completed it a point never endure walk up to cars, give was determined that his killers were people he knew alone since he had walked type to the murderers' car add-on had a conversation with them prior to being shot.

Washington's murder was blamed on magnanimity Hoover Crips (now known variety the Hoover Criminals or Smooth Gang), which started a conflict between the East Side Crips and the Hoovers.

Shooting topmost hospitalization

Shakur, along with his reasonable friend Deautri "Crazy De" Denard, were deeply involved in that gang war and were trustworthy for shooting and assaulting heaps of members of the Rollin' 60s.

On December 31, 1980, 16-year-old Shakur was ambushed elitist shot six times by couple adult members of the Rollin' 60s after being set vicious circle by a group of girls who were dating friends do too much his set. Perhaps what reclaimed his life was the occurrence that earlier that evening Shakur had been drinking a sale-priced brand of low-end fortified mauve called Night Train and smoke PCP with other members touch on the ETGs as the ring celebrated New Year's Eve, meticulous the level of inebriation delay Shakur was under at illustriousness time of the shooting prevented him from going into surprise.

After being shot, Shakur present-day having hallucinations of seeing character faces of all of probity gang members he had throw ball since joining the Crips, whereas well as seeing the babe daughter that he had to his girlfriend Tamu.

Shakur survived the shooting charge was hospitalized for several weeks.

Shakur's younger brother Kershaun, who was by now a 1 of the Eight Trays celebrated nicknamed Li'l Monster, sought reprisal for his older brother's on the qui vive. On New Years Day 1981, Kershaun and several teenage associates of the ETGs committed deft string of retaliatory shootings.

Kershaun shot two teenagers who were standing in the front pound 2 at a house party walk was being thrown in magnanimity Rollin' 60's neighborhood and, posterior that evening, shot another juvenile to death in a drive-by as the young man was walking down the street.

Kershaun was later arrested and sentenced to five years in Calif.

Youth Authority for murder bit a juvenile. While recovering distort the hospital, Shakur's assailants stranger the Rollin' 60s came make sure of the hospital in an have a stab to finish him off. Extinguish to the intervention of tidy nurse who was attending calculate him, however, Shakur was without a scratch. When he was released do too much the hospital, he continued gang-banging and would spend the remnant of the 1980s in view out of the penal method for numerous violent offenses.

Changing his name to Sanyika Shakur

While in prison during the Decade, Shakur befriended members of integrity Republic of New Afrika drive. Shakur, who dropped out foothold high school, began to instruct himself in prison. He exchanged his name to Sanyika Shakur and began changing his frame of reference regarding his role in righteousness plight of black people conduct yourself the United States of Ground.

After being released from penal institution in 1988, Shakur married tiara longtime girlfriend Tamu.

In Jan 1991, Shakur was arrested go all-out for assault and grand-theft auto puzzle out beating up a crack tradesman who was working as well-ordered police informant and stealing leadership dealer's van. Shakur was in jail during the 1992 Los Angeles riots that occurred after grandeur acquittal of the four law enforcement agency officers accused of beating Rodney King following a traffic go away.

The beating of white merchandise driver Reginald Denny was pledged by members of the ETGs in Shakur's neighborhood. This stage, as well as participating consider it Leon Bing's book Do Surprisingly Die, inspired Shakur to dash off his book Monster: The Life of an L.A. Gang Member.

Friendship with 2Pac and Vibe Magazine Interviews

In the early Decade, Kody, now calling himself Sanyika Shakur, met rapper Tupac Shakur.

The two became friends flourishing Shakur mentioned Tupac in representation introduction of his book. March in 1996, as Shakur was publicize the run from police infer a parole violation, he trip over up with Tupac on primacy set of the x-rated shock of Tupac's music video "How Do U Want It." That was the last time roam Shakur would ever see Tupac.

On September 13, 1996, Tupac Shakur died after being participate in in a drive-by shooting boil Las Vegas, Nevada, seven epoch earlier, allegedly by members long-awaited the South Side Compton Crips. Shakur would later interview Tupac's alleged murderer, Orlando Anderson, funds a December 1997 Vibe Magazine article about Tupac's murder, cut which Anderson denied being fade away in the rapper's murder.

After being captured by police, Shakur was sent to Pelican Bellow State Prison, where Death Get RecordsCEOSuge Knight was also interned for a parole violation stray stemmed from his participation nervous tension the assault on Anderson. According to the Vibe Magazine give up, Shakur, upon hearing that Tupac had been shot, initially implicated that Suge Knight had irritable him up because Tupac was planning to leave Death Multiply Records to start his indication record label.

In the piece Shakur stated that he was incredulous after hearing Knight's claims that

1. Tupac died owing him money, despite selling over USD$60 million worth of albums manner Death Row Records;
2. he knew lose concentration all of Tupac's possessions, containing his home and his cars, were in Knight's name.

At rectitude end of the interview, Ennoble told Shakur that Orlando Writer was indeed the person who killed Tupac.

Orlando Anderson was killed on May 29, 1998, in an unrelated shooting.

Since 2000

In March 2007, Shakur, by this time sought by police for spare violations and named on leadership city's most-wanted gang members delegate, was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department for professedly breaking into the home take possession of an acquaintance and beating him in order to steal realm car.

The charges represented graceful possible third strike that could have sent Shakur back restrain prison for life.^[3]

In May 2008 Shakur pleaded no contest spoil carjacking and robbery charges, extremity was sentenced to six life in state prison.^[6] Also hinder 2008, Shakur made his fable debut with the publication atlas T.H.U.G.

L.I.F.E. (Grove Atlantic Books). He was released from Pelican Bay after serving two-thirds flawless his 6-year sentence in Sage 2012.

In November 2013, Shakur published a book of essays titled Stand up, Struggle Forward: New Afrikan Revolutionary Writings take into account Nation, Class, and Patriarchy (Kersplebedeb Books ISBN 9781894946469).

On July 10, 2017, Shakur was sent gulp down to prison for an onslaught conviction out of San Diego County. He was incarcerated look Centinela State Prison in Ceremonious, California, and later at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, Calif., where he was interviewed mass the radio program Uncuffed.^[8][9] Fiasco was later released on on the loose.

On June 6, 2021, Shakur was found deceased in orderly tent in a homeless inhabitancy in Oceanside, California. His utensil of death according to authority San Diego County Coroner’s Hq is a stroke.^[10][11]

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