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out at their jobs, just to have to struggle to pay bills and not enjoy their lives and he was determined that wasn’t how he was going to go out. Tut could never see himself working for forty years just to put his boss’s kid through college. Tut wanted the immediate gratification that came with fast cash, so he set out to make his way.
    He started out hustling packs for an older dude in his neighborhood. He was able to make a few coins, nothing major but enough to fill the gaps in his pockets. Tut was trying to stack what he made working for the older dude to one day buy his own work. For as appreciative as he was for the opportunity to feed himself, Tut had never been very good at following the direction of others. He wanted to be the master of his own destiny. His plan was cut short when somebody came through one night and blew his employer’s brains out. Tut now found himself back at square one. He needed to find a new plug.
    As it happened, Tut went to school with a dude named Omega, who was said to be getting big money uptown. Every time he saw Omega he was dressed in whatever the latest fashions were and kept a bad chick on his arm. Tut knew Omega from having classes with him, and sharing some of the same friends, but he didn’t know him well enough to step to him about getting money. One day an opportunity presented itself that would change that.
    Some dudes had run down on Omega in the bathroom and tried to rob him for his chain. Tut just happened to walk in on the robbery. He didn’t have anything to do with it so he could’ve easily walked away and left Omega to his fate, but he saw it as his way in. That day in the bathroom, Omega and Tut had stood back to back and fought off the kids. From then on, he and Omega had started hanging out around school, and their relationship eventually spilled over into the streets. Omega started bringing Tut around and introduced him to Benny and Chucky. Tut never really rocked with Chucky, but he had major love for Benny. It had been Benny who gave Tut his first job with their organization, and he always looked out for him when he could.
    Tut was a quick learner and a loyal soldier, which helped push him up the ladder of the organization. Between Tut and Omega the future of the organization was looking bright, but Tut’s path took a detour when he got locked up. He and Benny had been together when something popped off, which led to Benny pulling a gun on a kid. Nobody got hurt, but someone called the police. When Tut and Benny were heading back to the block their car was pulled over and the police found the gun. Benny was already on parole for a gun, so Tut claimed ownership and took the charge. The whole time Tut was going through is legal troubles the police kept pressing him for information about Pharaoh’s organization. They had a hard on for Pharaoh that would make a porn star jealous. They had even offered to let him walk, free of all charges, if he gave them even the smallest bit of information that led to a conviction. Tut never uttered a word. For his silence Tut ended up getting three years’ state time for possession of a weapon. It was this display of loyalty to the crew that put him on Ramses’s radar. It broke his heart when he was in prison and got the letter, letting him know Benny had been killed, because they had been close, but his sadness wouldn’t last long. When Tut came home from prison he was presented with an apartment, $20,000 in cash and a promotion within the organization. He would be elevated from soldier to lieutenant. It was just as Ramses had promised at the beginning of his bid: they took care of their own.
    â€œYou still preaching to the choir?” Omega joked as he walked up. His long dreads hung loose around his shoulders making him look like a lion. “What up, O?” Tut gave him dap. “What brings you up to this end of the world? You know you don’t fuck with the Bronx like