User:Silky slim "Da Head Bussa"

Silky Slim Da Head Bussa Is Baton Rouge Louisiana's First Gangster Rapper And Fist Street Gang Leader of the early 80's he is now a member of the NATION OF ISLAM

SILKY SLIM

Silky Slim is the founder and former leader of the South Side Wrecking Crew Street Gang and former member of the L.A. Rolling 30’s Crip Gang. He is now the president of Stop The Killing, Inc. a program organized to STOP VIOLENCE! It has taken the former gangster 22 years to find his way. Now he is helping others find theirs. Silky knows all too well what it is like to live life on the streets because he learned the hard way. Silky grew up Arthur Reed in a poor area of South Baton Rouge called the “Bottom.” As a teen dropout, he quickly gravitated to a life of drug dealing, intimidation and crime. Silky was just 14 years old when he first entered the Louisiana Penal System for attempted murder and armed robbery. He spent the next 17 years bouncing between gang life and prisons from California to Louisiana. Silky Slim’s life was turned around in January of 2003 when Silky and a SUV full of friends were driving from California to Louisiana when their SUV struck another vehicle and flipped several times. The violent crash killed everyone in the vehicle, except the person wearing a seat belt – Silky Slim. He had to push his dead friend off his chest in order to escape the wreckage. It was then that Silky says GOD spoke to him, telling him “Now I just bought you out of this, now what are you going to do for me?” Silky’s violent past bred into him a beast like mentality that he depends on his faith to over come the condition. Now Silky is working to make the “Bottom” better by helping the elderly and setting examples for the youth. He is filming a documentary on life in the hood that deals with growing up in the hood as well as dying there. Silky has been featured in many news articles for his work as an activist such as The Wall Street Journal, The Advocate, Play Boy of Japan, The Final Call and a full story of his life in 225 Magazine. Silky has been a panelist at several Stop The Violence summits including The Hip Hop Caucus Bayou Classic Community Meeting, The State of The Black Youth Summit, area churches, local high schools, youth facilities and he was recently the keynote speaker for the N.A.A.C.P Stop The Violence Summit held at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA. Silky for the past four years has organized annual Stop The Killing rallies for the entire neighborhood to celebrate a day of non-violence. Silky Slim feels he has escaped the violence but not without the scars and bullet wounds that serve as proof of just how hard it can really be. Some say he is motivated in part by overwhelming guilt, but he will quickly tell you himself it isn’t that. “It’s God,” Silky is quoted as saying, to why he is doing what he does.