Rappers like Ice Cube, Snoop Dog and the Game have made no secret of their gang affiliations. Check out these stories and interviews on and with real street gang members coming to you straight out of the netherworld of corruption and violence.
A column celebrating the most infamous G’s from the streets of Los Angeles, California. The first interview is with the mayor of Inglewood, California, the one and only Big Wy. Read as he describes his life in the streets, recording with Suge Knight on Death Row records and how discovered and developed multi-platinum rap group Cali Swag District [...]
The Simon City Royals, formerly known as the Almighty Simon City Royals, are a Chicago street gang that began in the late 1950s as Simon City, a greaser gang. They named themselves for Simons Park, which is located on the corner of Drake and Wabansia [...]
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 [...]
The Four Corner Hustlers founded by Mr. Walter Wheat of Chicago’s Pulaski Road of the Westside is currently the largest of seven remaining tribes included inside of the Almighty Vice Lord Nation [...]
The Boobie Boys were one of Miami’s most violent gangs responsible, according to the Miami Dade Police Department, for more than 35 murders and 100 killings over an eight-year period, beginning in 1993 [...]
Alert and paranoia could probably best describe the day those elements saved my life. There I stood posted up on the intersecting corner of Budlong and Jefferson Avenue [...]
Baltimore is one of the nation’s murder capitals. There’s a reason it’s known as Bodymore. In the swirl of paranoia and profit surrounding the heroin trade in the inner city guns are pulled quickly and indiscriminately with no regard for the loss of human lives [...]
“The city ain’t been the same since then. Especially, with that bitchass Rayful telling. It almost seems as if he made it a fad. I definitely blame him for that.” [...]
Howard “Pappy” Mason was a soldier. In one of the most violent eras in New York City history Pappy Mason rose above the rest to cement his reputation as one of the most feared men in the five boroughs [...]
In California gangs are a way of life and LA is gangbanger ground zero. The Crips, Surenos, Nortenos, Eighty-Eights and Bloods all hold court in the streets, they all perpetrate in some form or fashion [...]
