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This autobiography takes place in one of the most dangerous areas in the United States, South Central Los Angeles. L.A. has had terrible gang problems since 1969, and after only a few years the streets became treacherous war grounds that no one was safe from. Living in this area, the only way to have any safety is to join one of the gangs. Kody Scott, an eleven-year-old boy, makes this decision and is inducted into the Eight Tray Crips. After being beaten, or gang banged, by other Crips, he is sent on a mission. That same night Kody uses a sawed of shotgun to shoot six members of the enemy gang, the Bloods. In the police report he is described as a monster, and the name catches on. Monster Kody, as he was called by his friends and enemies, became one of the most notorious gang members in L.A. He committed murder frequently, shootings weekly, and fighting daily. For him, life was only a continual battle. He was at war, so he became a hardened soldier. While most know that the Bloods were fighting the Crips, the real war was fought inside the Crips, one set, or smaller communal gang, against another. Through repeated shootings and fighting, Monster Kody became an O.G., an Original Gangster. He describes this title a