Seven Crowns
According to legend, Seven Crowns started out in 1970 as a street gang of rabble rousers whose members pelted houses and threatened to burn them down. Its members grew to include the future movers and shakers of Queens […]
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Anybody Can Get It (Even You)
That’s it B, that was the last straw. No more chances for this niggah. Bitchass niggah. I’m airing this niggah out. Always running his mouth, talking shit. Well, this is going to be his last night. I’m cash his ass in and leave him stretched out […]
The Jamaican Shower Posse: A Family Business
Christopher “Dudus” Coke controlled a state within a state on the poor west side of Kingston, Jamaica. He was the man who provided his underlings with free electricity. With schooling and food. He even provided them with the rule of law […]
The Hip-Hop Mafia
Back then the game was the game. Everybody stood by the rules. Soldiers were soldiers,” Bing says. This was the era from which Preme and the team emerged. It was a time when men were men, and the consequences of snitching were clear […]
Still Love the Dough
I get money, money, money!! I get that shit in abundance!! That niggah Fifty Cent and Floyd Mayweather was copying my style when they called themselves and crew “The Money Team”… Why […]
Uncle Fridge’s Pulpit
Contrary to popular belief, the Italian’s didn’t start the “loose lips sink ships” theory. I say this with all due respect to every friend of mine of Italian decent, as well as those whom I don’t know that are Italian and believe in the sanctity of manhood in these terms […]
Drug Empire Continues Behind Bars: The Rayful Edmond Story
In the 1990s, when the War on Drugs was in full tilt, one of the most notorious abuses of phone privileges in American prison history took place at USP Lewisburg, a Pennsylvania facility ran by the Bureau of Prisons […]
FCC Forrest City
Gorilla Convict writer and author of the Street Legends series and hip-hop artist/rapper Turk from Cash Money’s Hot Boyz at FCC Forrest City Graduation ceremony.
An Interview with Vonda’s Gang’s Enforcer Rah-Rah
Miami was known as the cocaine capital and drug pipeline into the United States from South America. As the cocaine cowboys, who acted as enforcers and gun thugs for the Colombian cartels, turned the MIA into the Wild, Wild West […]
Scarface Romanticizes the Dope Game
At the same time that Preme was getting his crew situated at Baisley Projects, a movie came out that impacted him and all of the young drug dealers of the era […]