A day in the Bronx pt4:Charlie Rock Speaks from Black Spades to Zulu-Fighting White Gangs

We caught up with original B-Boy and Zulu Charlie Rock who hails from the 22cd division of the Black Spades up on Gun Hill road in the Bronx.. He talks about how the Black Spades evolved and became the Zulu Nation..He talks about Disco King Mario and the founding Spade chaptersat Bronxdale Housing projectwhich was known as Chuck City...

He also talks about how the early gangs were organized and became targets to corrupt police.. He talks about how three members, Wildman, Soulski and Meathead Ron were murdered by police. He noted that because the Black Spades were organized many of them were targeted by the police who tried to break them up and shrink their numbers...

Charlie Rock also talks about how New York was segregated and runs down all the racial unrest and white gangs the Black Spades and later Zulu Nation had to fight.. he talks about the Golden Guineas and the Ministers up in Parkchester.. He talks about the White Assassins and the White Angels..

Rock also explained how the police used to work in concert with some of these white gangs to try and defeat the Black Spades which was the largest gang in NY.. He talks about how the police hung him over a rooftop and threatened to kill him..

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[H2T]

lol this fool wishes he were an actual Zulu

[Digirockdahouse]

Grew up in Bronxdale,1730 Watson ave. in the seventies, I remember when Disco King Mario used to set up shop in the basketball court in front of my building. To this day I still carry those memories in my heart, even though Im much older, I still have mad love for hip hop and all its elements, check out my mastermixes.

[djelvis1]

respect for surviving even though shit was ugly. grateful for how I have it.

[djelvis1]

I'm puerto rican. Suarez. live in philly. this shit is cray! racism is fucked up. I feel like thats where it all starts. that racism bullshit.

[mecca777]

history......word life!

[oakdawg04]

shout out to my big brother black spades monk , spanky,cutty, garu,peter williams,cowboy, sterl, big lenny,desi,ronnie,big dove,crazy eddie & mike wayne. Rip mario & blackie(the dog was a spade too!) ,packo,winston(curly),cookie cain,lil monk(bronx river),charlie rock (bronx river). And all my fellow chuck city crew/big mac crew homeboys

[BootStateSkinHead]

White gangs moved up and out. Lower end white gangs dont survive. Because they dont have the numbers. Thats why their are not many around today, unless they are high end, mafia types or small time skinhead and or racist gangs.

[popawilli]

@bxdale83

Yea that's what I thought, that the Black Spades came out of Bronxdale Projects by Rosedale Ave

[fatboi31659]

I was there in the days . 1435 Harrod ave. Bx. River

[btube316]

Yo I was a baby spade,my brother was president of the young spades division in my area.I lived on Story Ave.I've been chased out of Parkchester when i was little tryin to go bowlin..I used to come home from P.S. 100 and eat froot loops while my brother and em would be jumpin off the couch stompin dudes heads.I would ask them to move to side so I could see popeye while they were punchin some dude in the face and stompin him.Those were the day's.Monk,Mike Wayne,lenny Wilson,old school Spades.