Commentary
After a brief opening, Jabari Hayes introduces himself as the credits roll, saying that he’s the proud father to a 7th-grade honor roll student and husband to a wife who is beautiful “inside-and-out.” You can sense by the calm timbre of his voice that he’s a cool customer.
The narrator of “Miles in the Life: The Story of a BMF Drug Trafficker” then sets the backdrop, relating how the crack epidemic came about.
Powdered cocaine was the drug of choice in the 1970s. Drug dealers began converting it into crack cocaine in the 1980s. By the mid-eighties, the crack cocaine epidemic had swept through the United States and destroyed many lives, particularly in low-income neighborhoods….