All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

by Jonathan Abrams

FREDRO STARR (MARQUIS “BIRD” HILTON): My niggas, Hassan, J.D., and I went down to Baltimore, and I hadn’t seen them in a while. We all blazed in my room. The whole floor smelled like weed, and HBO told me to move hotels. I did, and they blazed up the room again. I think that’s why I got wrote off the show real quick. I do think they probably thought I was a handful or maybe too much to handle. Maybe. I only did two episodes. Then they was like, “You’re going to jail,” or whatever. The writers wrote that because they were writing it every week, so they could have wrote that in: “All right, let’s just send him up to jail forever. He’ll come out of jail when Jesus comes home.” Something like that. I think maybe that might have played a part. Or maybe that was just the way they wanted Bird to be, a hit man, in and out. Back in the days—I’m not going to lie—I was just doing a whole lot of other stuff. It was on my part, not even thinking. Whatever. Fuck it. We’re going to blaze the hotel up. In corporate America, you can’t do that.