Success in the drug game always comes with a price. If you think hustling is a glamorous professions, check out the fate of these legendary American gangsters before you try to become the next Scarface.
Washington, D.C. will forever be known as The Murder Capital of the United States because of the drug violence that jumped off during the crack era. The drug trade bred killers and Dodge City in the late-80s was a virtual war zone […]
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 […]
When people think of East coast gangsters, they think of New York City, but at gorillaconvict.com we are here to tell you that it’s popping off in the Garden State also. That’s right, we are talking about New Jersey, and to be more specific- Camden […]
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 Coast; including his home base of Washington, D.C. […]
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 most notable black figure on the east coast at the time […]
Just like Hollywood catapulted the Italian Mafia into the mainstream with the Godfather movies, New Jack City documented the devastating crack epidemic and the drug crews that terrorized and held court in the city’s projects […]
By the late 1980’s, the crack wave had riddled New York with addicts, traffickers and bullets. Howard “Pappy” Mason took care of enforcement duties for dealer Fat Cat Nichols, and became one of the most feared characters in Queens. This sticker features Fat Cat & Pappy in the heyday – before their reign of power came crashing down – against a backdrop of New York and imagery that reflects the elements of their business and product.
The landscape of drug use and trafficking was forever changed when ‘crack’ cocaine became king in the 1980’s. So too was a new era of gangster and kingpin born. Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff would build and consolidate a mafia-like organization, based in Queens, to systematically control as much of this ‘new’ business as possible. The Supreme Team became underworld legends. This organic cotton, ringspun tee from the Knokaround X Gorilla Convict collab line harkens back to the 80’s with a haunting silhouette of Supreme overlooking the NY cityscape. The back features key chronological points of historical interest relating to the rise and fall of McGriff and his team.
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff helped usher in a ‘new’ era of gangster during the 1980’s crack cocaine epidemic, forming his own mob-like crew called “The Supreme Team.” This poster from the Knokaround X Gorilla Convict collab line offers a colorful, retro 80’s vibe – prominently featuring Supreme decked out in old school form, with historical points of interest covering the rise and fall of the Supreme Team.
Tailormade: The Bucky Davis Story, A Junior Black Mafia Boss is a new documentary written by James Anderson and Damony Giles. This documentary looks into the life of Bucky Davis, a promising young amateur boxer[…]
