i dont know if this is what you had in mind.
i had a system setup in 7th grade, made about $200 a week
in highschool, 9th grade. i was running around 4 systems, bringing in about $1200 a week. when i turned 18 i was heading striaght for the life so i went legit. i never did any business with any "gangsters" or "ganstas" i did have business connections but they where all legit.
as for gangstas, all that are around here are punk-asses. my policy towards them is to use your gun as a last resort to dealing them as ammo is getting expensive. besides most ganmgstas you can easily deal with by hand-to-hand.
now is this what your talking about?