Best Friends
If Butch Jones was the quintessential Motor City drug kingpin of the early 1980s, Demetrius Holloway held that title for the latter half of the decade. Holloway was a business man’s gangster with a lethal reputation on the streets […]
Category: Street Lit & True Crime
Gorilla Convict has been interviewing and writing about street lit authors from the jump. Check out these exclusive interviews with your favortie urban fiction authors and true crime writers who pen stories on American gangsters.
Former Gulf Cartel Leader Gets 35 Years for Drug Trafficking By David Amoruso
Aurelio Cano Flores started out as a cop, turned into a drug lord, and now sits in an American prison where he will spend over three decades behind bars […]
The Life We Chose
The author Dre hails from the City of Chester, Pennsylvania. A former drug dealer turned creative writer. At the age of 23 Dre was arrested and sent to prison. He is currently incarcerated serving a life sentence for drugs and murder crimes inside a United States Penitentiary […]
Prisoner of Dreams: Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer by Rick Talley
Prisoner of Dreams: Confessions of a Harlem Drug Dealer is the true story of Rick Talley, a black man who returned from Vietnam with a dream that he made a reality and who then had to deal with the consequences of his actions […]
Mexican Cartel Boss Miguel Trevino Morales By David Amoruso
He is being accused of ordering the kidnapping and murder of 265 people, men and women. Killing was a hobby of his, it seemed. His favorite technique was putting a person in a barrel, filling it up with gasoline, and setting it on fire as his victim screamed and cried while being burned alive […]
Boston True Crime Writer
George Hassett’s new book, Gangsters of Boston is a well written and researched volume that goes in-depth to all things criminal in Boston. The city’s underworld is explored and examined in this thorough and detail orientated book […]
Diary of a Motor City Hit Man: The Chester Wheeler Campbell Story
This is the true story of a gangland hit man, and the parallel people and events that altered Detroit’s organized crime underworld. Drug wars, conspiracies, espionage, corruption and murder […]
Straight Dope
LeRon Barton is the author of Straight Dope: A 360 Degree Look into American Drug Culture. This book looks into American drug culture and delves into why drugs are so prevalent in America […]
The Mastermind Behind the Tupac Quad Studio Robbery
The streets of New York are vicious, as Tupac found out when he got robbed and shot in an event that ignited the East Coast/West Coast rap war which left two hip-hop legends dead. A lot for speculation has taken place over the years but from deep within the belly of the beast, an original Brooklyn gangster, Dexter Isaac, has written a book, From Friends to Enemies, which breaks down what happened, why it happened and who was behind it all […]
Gangsters of Boston
Boston’s crack era began in earnest in late 1986, when Darryl Whiting stepped into Roxbury’s Orchard Park projects for the first time. The jewels he wore, rumored to be made from a huge diamond he brought back from Africa, seemed to blind the whole city to what was coming […]