Gorilla Convict

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  • August 19, 2012
Legendary figures of the drug game have been the province of myth and hearsay until the rise of hip-hop, where rappers name check weaponry by style an ...
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  • August 12, 2012
Only real hustlers know about the Game God. He's one of those mythical entities that exist for the purpose of keeping order in the land and establishe ...
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  • August 5, 2012
With the success of American Gangster, the fictionalized story of drug lord Frank Lucas' life, more and more true crime books on inner-city street leg ...
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  • July 29, 2012
Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would end up in federal prison. Maybe you find yourself in the same position now and that is why you are ...
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  • July 23, 2012
Christian Cipollini, Co-Founder of www.knockbacks.com and Seth Ferranti, True Crime Author & Founder of www.gorillaconvict.com who is currently incarc ...
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  • July 22, 2012
With the recent capture of the infamous gangster Whitey Bulger and the arrest of 83-year-old Howie Winter, from Boston’s notorious Winter Hill gang, ...
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  • July 14, 2012
When I first entered the netherworld of prison in 1993 the last vestiges of the convict were dying out. The convict was the ultimate prison ideal whic ...
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  • July 8, 2012
Michael "Fray" Salters (above center-in hat) has been dead thirty years but his name still carries weight up and down the drug corridors on the East C ...
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  • July 8, 2012
In the 1970s the heroin market in the United States was dominated by a black distributor named Frank Matthews who operated out of New York. He was the ...
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  • July 8, 2012
In an exclusive Mob Speak interview, Seth Ferranti reflects on his latest and most powerful book to date, The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip ...
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  • July 8, 2012
When I first came up with the idea to form Gorilla Convict Publications in 2005, I didn’t know what would become of the company or where it would ta ...
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  • July 8, 2012
In this modern day age of multi-media, the Internet and popular culture proliferation, the barriers between criminal exploits and entertainment have b ...
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  • July 8, 2012
Just like Hollywood catapulted the Italian Mafia into the mainstream with the Godfather movies, New Jack City documented the devastating crack epidemi ...
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  • July 6, 2012
Prodigy's autobiography is filled with violence and mayhem. It’s hard to imagine that a rapper/entertainer of his stature was involved with all that ...
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  • July 4, 2012
I was 20 years old when I got busted. I never figured that my life would take this route but after being sentence to almost 25 years at age 22 […] ...