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He sold clear plastic couch covers in the hood. His mother bought a bunch...saved her a couch when Ricky got whacked out.

Dealing drugs and committing robberies since he was a kid. During the time when it was set in the late 80s you could make a killing selling crack. So many of his neighbors were buying crack, it was an epidemic.

It really shows how a young black kid could get sucked into that life.

He was running a small carpet cleaning business with Ted and Annette on the side, kept it quiet.

He sold drugs and they were not that ''poor''. Most of the people in that ''hood'' worked regular jobs. They were just lower middle class. If they had been that poor they would be all living in public housing or shitty apartment units with roaches crawling up and down the walls.

And back then those cars were a lot cheaper because they hadn’t been featured in movies like Boyz N The Hood or music videos like Nothin But A G Thang. Granted his was pimped out.