Born a Crime

(Chris Devlin) #1

They’re three hundred in the shops.
We’ll sell them to you for two
hundred.” We sell him the shoes,
and now we’ve gone and turned 60
rand into 200.


That’s the hood. Someone’s
always buying, someone’s always
selling, and the hustle is about
trying to be in the middle of that
whole thing. None of it was legal.
Nobody knew where anything came
from. The guy who got us Nikes, did
he really have a “staff discount”?
You don’t know. You don’t ask. It’s
just, “Hey, look what I found” and
“Cool, how much do you want?”
That’s the international code.

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