Anti-Drug Public Service Announcement

[zapdos2]

name of song?

[zapdos2]

run nigga run!

[payless1981]

I remember this commercial

[hulkyone]

I remember this as a kid. I read somewhere it was set in Oakland

[Nightmastercool97]

I just love this PSA it inspired me to say no to drugs when i was little.

[305SEGA305]

wow that is old last time i saw that in FOX KIDS

[civilfailure111]

they should bring this PSA back to the television. its message is still needed.

[outlaw2747]

I wonder what Kevin is doing right now...

[starfighter673]

i remember this

when i was just starting high school

good thing this came on in the nick of time before i walked out the door

i wouldn't let anyone tell me ' 'this will get u laid after school dude''

i said to them ''get bent wannabe''

they looked at me like with this odd look and just stood there

[LatteBoy123]

This is one of the only anti-drug PSAs I can't laugh at. It's genuinely tragic.

[MultiSinoda]

WE LOVE YOU KEV!!! : )

[9Iamthewalrus]

You are basically locking the door to the new reality that a person could have

[wookie72]

Holy crap, that's real. It doesn't preach, it admits that it's hard, and it doesn't offer an easy message.

[KanWoo76]

"This used to come on at least 4 times in the morning when I was getting ready to go to school in 93!" - Wilbur Cross Governor 1994

[5canesNatcham]

I'm about to smoke a bowl hahahaha

[raouldukethegnzo]

i remember this

[EzPzLemnSqueezy]

its better than him sitting on his fat ass eating nachos

war on obesity>war on drugs

[ZeinFuhrer]

omg that black kid stole from an innocent white family tase him!

[amandamysong]

This is how I use to go to my bus stop. I teared up when this PSA came out.

[ayjaibai]

I have to do a PSA for my class

& this is the best example yet..

Nicely done.*

[PrideofWhitey]

Give that little nig a couple more years. He'll be selling rocks just like all the other nigs on the corner. That's the way it is in the ghetto. See how he runs fast and jumps fences so well? He's getting good practice for when he'll have to run from the 5-0.

[musze111]

This Was Probably The Best Anti-Drug ad....I could relate so much as a child

[lowaces]

join the CIA and deal cocaine !!!

[criminalistic]

the piano music sounds like something from Ahmad Jamal

[civilfailure111]

@criminalistic that's interesting that you say that cuz i was just starting to transcribe this and I was wondering who composed it. its a great backdrop for the subject matter.

[Luxiebabee]

damn this shit was deep

[NealDasgupta]

I get chills when I watch this.

[bearwarlock]

Anyone know the song?

[AbercrombieGirl2011]

i see black people

[ThrillersEscape]

How come they don't show as much PSA drug commercials as they used to on american television? Stuff like this used to really open my mind.

[sergioboy391994]

*spechless*

[darrellkaiser1985]

I remember seeing this at the theater before the feature.

[publica74]

I felt this one...It wasn't corny like the rest

[Bloodyquill]

This was a very down to Earth message about the steps that some inner city youths need to take just to stay out of trouble.

I used to live in neighborhood in West Baltimore on West Saratoga Street. At school, we weren't given a period of recess because the parking lot was always littered with broken glass and syringes.

Even though my elementary school was literally right across the street from my house, I was fortunate to have someone walk me home from school every day.

[jjtiojohn12]

this was in the early 90's when this happened?

[Bloodyquill]

I'm guessing it was from the mid nineties, since I remember seeing this while I was living across the street from Bentalou Elementary. I'm 20 years old.

[jjtiojohn12]

@Bloodyquill i was like 4 or 5 when this first came out around 94" and 95" I remember goin to lexington market it be junkies and dope fiends all over the place down there and on caroline st over east it scared the hell outta me when i was a kid cuz I didn't understand it

[RetardRepellant]

Wow, what a terrible PSA.

No information to help kids, just "don't give up, man." Yeah, keep running. Until one day there's no where left to run...then what?

How about joining up with other people and starting a group and taking the neighborhood back or at least giving the kid some non-BS facts about what becoming a junkie can do to you.

I work with people who do these things and they're actually making a difference, not just telling kids to keep running.

[fairnorth]

This one is very good. They should continue to broadcast this PSA. Two other ones come to mind. A father pretends to be a drug pusher to teach his son to say "NO" ! to drugs. Another one has a crying mother telling her younger son to take his older brother's clothes to the funeral home. Then she screams "Hold it, I'm coming with you. I had my eyes closed to drugs when it came to your brother, but I'm not going to let them get their hands on YOU " !!!!

[frankenb3rry]

I remember this.

[jairoller4life]

never give up Kevin

[tightgrip]

this brings me waayyyyyy backkk

[HASSTYLEPROGRESS]

Greatest commercial ever

[mr7clay]

Ironically it's the prohibition of drugs that endangers this kid. Dealers don't wanna beat up random kids (which would bring police attention) or push drugs on them (kids don't have the money). They need to hire kids to be "runners", handing off the drugs and taking the fall if the cops come. They also need them "clean" so they think on their feet and don't start stealing the merchandise.

This sad organizational structure is created by our drug laws. Watch "The Wire".

[evrithnguneed]

This is a decent PSA. Most drug PSA's today use reverse psychology that actually encourages drug use. Phony scenarios & ridiculous dialouge only serve to discredit the message that drugs are bad, which makes kids disregard the commercial & laugh at them (how could you not?) It is a well documented fact that the NIDA's PSAs have either no effect on teens or EVEN SPUR ON the acceptance of drug use through making drugs seem cooler through cheesy "do what authority tells you to do" scare tactics.

[jjtiojohn12]

this came out in 1995, this one use to really bug the hell out of me because baltimore city is like this and I can relate to kids like him, I just wish that they would keep making commercials like this so that america can get back on track, you can't get nothin like this on television anymore

[CableReadyTechnoSIut]

BAHHZHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

America back on track from shitty PSA commercials.... what rock you livin under

[FunnyFreshman]

I remember a kid seeing this commercial in the 90s in the afternoon after school :D

[stevecooganfan]

I saw this advert in America bout 1999

[jjtiojohn12]

5 years too late buddy! lol

[thegirl44]

"So this was back in the 80's when they were having one of their wars on drugs, yet another war on drugs..." Roger Corman, B movie producer.

[moongirlply]

A powerful message.

[maddingo12]

I like how rap and black pop culture promotes this anti-cooperation with authorities and glamorizes a life of crime. When in reality most "gangsters" end up broke, dead or in prison. Its not really a great life. Crime pays. But it pays in the short term. Sooner or later someone is going to burn you, betray you or the police are going to show up on your porch.

[gabelikesgrapes]

"here boy smoke this weed"

"no i dont smoke!"

o my god you dum nigga smoke this five or i will fucking kill you!!!!"

this kinda stuff doesnt actually happen

[pgyogurt]

Looking at this video, this is why I'm a sociology and economics double major in college.

[corrupt200]

the only thng that lessens the fear is that the PDFA banner is in a sans serif font

[jjbiggs21]

i remember this commercial from when i was younger. brings back memories. they actually made good points in it.

[Ejvs87]

where nancy reagan went wrong

[illwauk]

That's good old fashioned Reagan-era racism.

I just love the idea of a "pusher." Like any drug dealer would waste their time with someone who didn't wanna buy. For all they know, that kid's dad is a cop.

[karlharleman]

no but they might wanna make him their running boy

[BruceWayne7777]

Kevin Scott's got a point. The sad thing about this commercial is that kids like Kevin Scott have to put up with the drug dealers everyday in this neighborhood. It's no wonder that this psa was so moving, even to me.

[Rennie00]

I used to be so afraid of this commercial. I honestly believe that the Partnership For A Drug-Free America scared the shit out of people intentionally in order to deter them from drugs. What can I say, it worked for me.

[StylistecS]

yeah i remember this commercial

[MountainDeW06]

This is one of the better PSA's. It actually drives home the point.

[a111z]

that lil nigga needs to smoke a blunt and chill the fuck out

[resistance022]

You need to shut the hell up. That "lil nigga" is trying to get through school and graduate from high school so that he can move away to a university and live a meaningful and productive life. Getting involved with those knucleheads on the street corner will just make him ignorant just like them. And it will also make him a drug dealer just them which means he will only have two life options: 1. An early death or 2. a lifetime in prison.

[lolomg69aids]

@resistance022 trust me, in this economic depression in america's cities, Alllllll that are easy to get are illegal... and if you're living in a rough are (i used to live in oakland, moved to south california) An early death can happen simply by walking down the street.

[Herald8]

I remember this one too. It's good to mention that sometimes "just saying no" isn't enough. But you still have to be brave.

[asmokeygrl]

i so, remember this commercial from long ago...its a great one!!

[davis21wylie]

Powerful commercial.

[CBslady4life]

THis is one of my favorite comercials too

[TheStoicAgnostic]

favorite commercial of all time, been looking for this ever since i got the internet

[dpakolypse]

call a cab man!

[dpakolypse]

call a cab man!

[JornadaPro]

"ain't no cab stopping for no black man" -black comedians everywhere :)