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  • Street Legends

Street Legends

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.

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  • October 25, 2011
It was said that Aaron Jones was obsessed with the popular film The Godfather and crafted his persona in the mold of Marion Brando’s character Don V ...
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  • October 25, 2011
When the crack era in New York was jumping off in the 1980's a lot of street legends were born in a hail of gunfire [...] ...
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  • October 24, 2011
Fray was known as a man to be feared and a man to be trusted but most of all he was a man who was respected. He held sway in his city and in the chron ...
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  • October 24, 2011
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you were in the drug game in Baltimore, then you answered to one man, Peanut King [...] ...
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  • October 24, 2011
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 [...] ...
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  • October 24, 2011
The below article appeared in the New York Daily News 20 years after Char “Shocker” Davis was sentenced to 405 months for his role in Lorenzo "Fat ...
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  • October 24, 2011
A lot of factors figured in the death of the Washington DC street legend, Fray, but the main reason was Alberto “Alpo” Martinez [...] ...
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  • October 24, 2011
Freeway Ricky is a big name in the drug world. The dude is straight gangsta. He's been profiled on BET's American Gangster series, was the subject of ...
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  • October 23, 2011
Boy George was a multi-millionaire by the age of 21. A brilliant and powerfully ambitious drug entrepreneur who saw an opportunity and seized it [...] ...
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  • September 6, 2011
"Incarcerated author Seth Ferranti has compiled a who's who of the late 20th century's most infamous kingpins in Street Legends, a compendium series d ...
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  • September 6, 2011
"Have you ever watched American Gangster on BET? Author Seth Ferranti brings American Gangster from BET to the books in Street Legends. He chronicles ...
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  • August 11, 2011
“Seth is the one person that I know who will go above and beyond to protect the image of an honorable person. He is qualified to write this book in ...