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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
