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 […]
Category: Hustling & Hip-Hop
Legendary figures of the drug game have been the province of myth and hearsay until the rise of hip-hop. Cocaine or gangsta rap is crack era nostalgia taken to its extreme. Read these stories and interviews where hustling and hip-hop collide.
Street Consequences Launch
Hip-hop and the streets are a combustible mix, which invariably lead to prison, but sometimes from prison an idea that becomes tangible is born. From the inside out as opposed to from the streets to the penitentiary […]
Urban Gangsters: A Look at the Top 10 Films on the Drug Game
American culture loves it’s bad guys and urban gangster films that explore the drug game and gangbanging have become increasingly popular, just as the Italian Mafia and Colombian cocaine cartel films have before them […]
Off Da Ruler’s Desk
In 1986 I was two years into my career as a Deejay and when I say Deejay I don’t mean cutting, scratching, transforming, and all that mess, I mean setting up 8 to 16 speaker cabinets and shaking everything in a quarter mile radius […]
Today’s Incarcerated Scarface’s
A group of young men of different shades of color are standing up bopping their heads to the beat knocking in their headphones… some are sitting down in plastic chairs… reciting the lyrics of the rapper as he raps […]
Drugs, Guns, Hustle and Flow
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 and drug dealers by name […]
Uncle Fridge’s Pulpit
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 establishes law where there is none […]
Rick Ross the Rapper vs. Rick Ross the Drug Dealer
In this modern day age of multi-media, the Internet and popular culture proliferation, the barriers between criminal exploits and entertainment have been juxtaposed, blurring the already thin lines between reality and Hollywood make believe […]
Dissecting My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy
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 petty and gratuitous violence, but according to the book and rumors in the hip-hop world, it’s all true […]
Uncle Fridge’s Pulpit
Out of the 46 homies that were on this case (Short North Posse) with me, I’m strictly talking about the fellas that stood strong and kept it 1000, almost all of them are married and living pretty good “square” lives […]