Jamaine Lynes

I was born in 1978 and raised in East Harlem. I went to school in East Harlem as well. Around that time, it was the Music Era so we were listening to music, dressing up hip-hop style wearing baggy clothes. Around this time, Criss Cross was out so we would just wear our clothes backwards. I used to hang out with my brothers, running the streets. Then it started getting a little too hectic for me, selling drugs and hustling, so I took to my sisters to be with our grandmother in the house cooking. Hanging out with my grandma we used to go to a rooftop skating rink. I had no money so I would earn the money from my grandma by washing pans and other chores.