Guilty by Association
Ain’t no socializing with any of ya’ll cats popping off no more. No hanging out. None of that shit. I can’t even tell ya’ll niggahs my name cause I might get tied up in yours or someone else’s shit [...]
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.
Studio Gangsta William “Rick Ross” Roberts Continues to Deny he Stole Street Legend Freeway Ricky Ross’ Name, Image and Likeness
Rolling Stone magazine called him “the William Howard Taft of the rap game; the self-proclaimed ‘big fat black nigga’; the guy T-Pain once called ‘Boss’ 20 times in 11 seconds; the only man alive with a diamond encrusted medallion of his own face [...]
Sports, Hip-hop and the Street Code
For some reason I have never liked NFL superstar Ray Lewis. Maybe because he always been too bold, too brash and too cocky. I don’t know why but he seems not made out to be what he wants the public to think
Seven Crowns
According to legend, Seven Crowns started out in 1970 as a street gang of rabble rousers whose members pelted houses and threatened to burn them down. Its members grew to include the future movers and shakers of Queens [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
