Formerly titled 'The Great Dope Giveaway'

Researching Dialect for a novel I viewed this Al Profit film again, and have decided it is the best documentary about our worst city. Observe the skinny YBI boy with the lyrical style and notice how he is still incapable of speaking without looking right and then left.

Having viewed this documentary on Detroit’s downfall through the worldview of criminals and a criminal defense attorney twice now, I have to rank this full-length film as the best gangland documentary I have seen. From the perspective of a writer who has conducted thousands of interviews along the same lines as those this film was built on I have to commend Al for scoring six of the best interviews I have seen: a black DEA agent; a white defense attorney who is hilarious; a black scholar who once worked as a bodyguard in the Detroit area; an unapologetic street operator; a scrawny street operator with such creative ebonic virtuosity in language that he should be cast in the sequel to Black Dynamite; and ‘Boone’, the nicest, most frightening serial killer you could ever want as a neighbor—I loved this guy.

As oral history alone this is a goldmine. But the jaw-dropping clarity by which these men describe how they rode the implosion of the most corrupt city of the most decadent nation on earth like some post-apocalyptic tsunami, answers as many questions as it asks.