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...right up to the coffin. Ron tried to stay calm. "Some kids said Yummy looked like he was sleeping, but he didn't look like he was sleeping to me." What exactly then did he look like? "Kind of like he was gone, you know?" His composure melts. "When Mama pushed me forward, I thought I was going to fall right in the damn coffin. That gives me nightmares, you know? Can you imagine falling into a coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...will ever be able to adequately meet her own needs, let alone to meet the needs of her growing family," a psychiatrist reported to the juvenile court in 1986. And so Yummy and his brothers and sister were placed with his grandmother, Janie Fields, whom Yummy took to calling Mama. Her prognosis as a care giver was not much more promising. The psychiatric report described Fields as "a very controlling, domineering, castrating woman with a rather severe borderline personality disorder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Snoop: My mama and my grandmama -- these are religious people I'm talking about -- they respect me for my music. I'm not out there gang banging, shooting motherf------ up. I'm trying to do something positive with my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg: The Dogg Is Unleashed | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

Snoop: They never was married. ((Mama)) did it by herself. She was real strict. Nine p.m., if you weren't in the house, the doors were locked, and when you came home in the morning, you'd get your ass beat. If we had that type of system going on with these kids nowadays, there wouldn't be as much violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg: The Dogg Is Unleashed | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

...Nairobi. To feed her family of five she entertains as many as 10 clients a day on her children's bed, charging the going rate of 25 cents a trick. Her latest boyfriend just landed in jail, and her kids -- forced to play outside in the mud while their mama "has a guest" -- often go hungry on a skimpy diet of corn mash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cursed, Yet Blessed | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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