Michael Elliot Epps is an American stand-up comedian, actor, film producer, writer, and rapper. He is best known for playing Day-Day Jones in Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, and also appearing in The Hangover as “Black Doug”. He was the voice of Boog in Open Season 2.
Very recently, Mike Epps did something so heartwarming every rich rapper that ever bragged about selling crack or dope should be obliged to do! Mike Epps bought/invested his money in an old crackhouse that he used to hustle out of.
For most that are unaware, The “crack epidemic” in the United States was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. This resulted in a number of social consequences, such as increasing crime and violence in American inner-city neighborhoods, as well as a resulting backlash in the form of tough on crime policies.
In 1986, the U.S. Congress passed laws that created a 100 to 1 sentencing disparity for the possession or trafficking of crack when compared to penalties for trafficking of powder cocaine. These were criticized[by whom?] as discriminatory against minorities, mostly African Americans, who were more likely to have access to crack than powder cocaine.
There are many theories that support the notion that the American government under J Edgar Hoover, via the CIA helped to create the crack cocaine scourge that devastated America’s black communities and neutralized their political activist groups.
The accusation is that cocaine–already available and already in use–became more plentiful as a result of the agency’s unconscionable dealings with contras on the one hand and Crips and Bloods that were also controlled by the government.
But that is a whole other discussion on its very own.
The comedian Mike Epps is helping undo these long-lasting devastating effect by turning this into positive business for his community. He took to social media and posted the before and after renovations of the crack house and captioned…“A lot of people claim a Hood a city or a block but don’t own it this is my block in Indiana the before and after with family and friends in the homes they movin us out of our community’s at a rapid pace In the enter city’s I been arrested in this hood a thousand times and lost a many friends to violence and drugs in this nieborhood was a full crack house in the 80’s and 90’s look at it now God Is Good I tell all the youngsters to invest in real estate it will take care of you !!!#landiswealth #buyyourblockback #eastside #fallcreek #21carrollton #BUYYOURBLOCKBACK oh and I Had this land for 25 years or better not bragging just tryin to inspire !”
Many of his fans commented to acknowledge how inspired they were by his actions.
