Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris | Grand Theft Auto Biographies | S2E5

  / thecriminalhistorian   Image, Success and Legacy, these are the main motivators for tonight’s subject. We will take a look at the life of a man whose ambitions and aspirations took him to the top of the criminal heap in San Andreas during the 1990s and whose manipulative persistence as a pusher, a player and a money maker were practically unmatched. We will examine a man who lied, killed and smoked his way to the most powerful and notorious narcotics distributor on the west coast and the many acts of treachery and moral depravity which fascinated his rise and subsequent fall. A man whose dreams may have been too big for his sizeable britches and whose actions nearly brought a city on the brink of chaos to its knees; Melvin “Big Smoke” Harris.

Grand Theft Auto Biographies is a GTA Lore show which aims to explore all noteworthy characters from the GTA universe in a detailed and in-universe format. New episodes every Monday at 3pm Eastern.

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Voicework

Weazel News Reporter - CaptainGeo
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Scripting Help:

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Producers:

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Erik Cutino
John Marston
Matthew McGinley
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Erik Cutino
John Marston
Matthew McGinley
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Alex Vidal
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All rights to the Grand Theft Auto brand including names, characters, music, etc to
Rockstar Games and associates as well as Take Two Interactive

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Written, Produced, Edited Scored and Narrated by: Guiness Walker

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All music originally composed for Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive

All Footage recorded in game by Guiness Walker

Special Thanks to

Qualcomone for his GTA Definitive Editions

To Aap for his debug menu
https://github.com/aap/debugmenu

To Circuit.tron for his artwork of me:
https://linktr.ee/halleyjevelandart


To MixMods and all the amazing modders for their phenomenally helpful website

To GameTrailers and Brandon Jones for their Retrospective series back in the day
   • Grand Theft Auto Retrospective: Part 1  

To the GTA Wiki for help scripting this video
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude

To Vadim M, Badger Godger, Sonny Evans, SWEGTA, GoldVision and many more for inspiration

To KeeKnee for Thumbnail consultation
To Rani for the intro Spray Can


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Badger Godger
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Sonny Evans
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SWEGTA
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To my bandmates in Chronicle Millenia for musical feedback

To Lovice for giving me the gumption to start making youtube videos

To Rockstar Games, Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and all the people whose hearts, minds and time were put into the creation of some of my favourite video games of all time.

Chapters

Intro 00:00
Early Life 02:05
Ballin 03:58
The Sweet Release 07:32
Special Agent Big Smoke 13:27
Empire of Dirt 19:09
Death of a Salesman 23:17
Personality 26:25
Appearance 29:37
Known Crimes 30:35
Outro 33:00
Credits 33:49

#BigSmoke #GTASA #SanAndreas