FREDRO STARR (MARQUIS “BIRD” HILTON): Filming in Baltimore, that itself was an experience. Baltimore is one of the, I would say, less financial cities. It’s broke out there. Everything is torn down. It’s not a lot of businesses. I don’t know about now, but when they shot The Wire, it was like living in the past. It was kind of like a third world country to me, almost. Just cracks on the sidewalk. When you come out your trailer: bums, crackheads, gangsters, all by your trailer. Me personally, coming from [the hip-hop group] Onyx, the hood knows me from Onyx, too, so it was like, “Yo, what’s up,
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