Extract from Burrel’s memoirs: “Tattoos On My Soul” – “Chemical Engineering”
I refined the science of engineering my days and nights chemically, for optimum efficiency. Through a potent combination of syrup, pills, weed, coke and sometimes heroin–I navigated my days and nights on autopilot. Hell, with all the experimentation I did, I should have qualified for a PHD in chemistry.
My mood swings were extreme. Getting high meant exactly that: a heightened state of sensory perception and leeriness. Coke did that for me. In contrast the effects of syrup or downers were soporific. A couple of slugs of Robitussin, Benalyn, Tussionex, or any of the other brands found at syrup houses all over the hood, combined with a handful of pills, usually 500 mg downers, turned me into a virtual zombie– unconscious but still moving. We called this sleep-walking and I sleep-walked my way through large tracts of my youth.
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