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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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  • July 8, 2012
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. He was the ...
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  • July 8, 2012
Just like Hollywood catapulted the Italian Mafia into the mainstream with the Godfather movies, New Jack City documented the devastating crack epidemi ...
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  • July 2, 2012
By the late 1980’s, the crack wave had riddled New York with addicts, traffickers and bullets. Howard “Pappy” Mason took care of enforcement du ...
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  • July 2, 2012
The landscape of drug use and trafficking was forever changed when ‘crack’ cocaine became king in the 1980’s. So too was a new era of gangster ...
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  • June 30, 2012
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff helped usher in a ‘new’ era of gangster during the 1980’s crack cocaine epidemic, forming his own mob-like crew ca ...
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  • June 1, 2012
Tailormade: The Bucky Davis Story, A Junior Black Mafia Boss is a new documentary written by James Anderson and Damony Giles. This documentary looks i ...
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  • May 25, 2012
The 1980s crack era has reared its ugly head again in the form of James "Wall" Corley, hip-hop hustler icon and street legend, who was arrested last m ...
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  • May 11, 2012
George Jung transported tons of cocaine from Colombia to the United States for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel. His story was featured and drama ...
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  • May 5, 2012
What has become known as the Supreme Team was a crew organized in the early 80s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses, a public housing project ...
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  • March 16, 2012
In 1974, Frank Matthews, history’s first African American drug kingpin, jumped bail inNew York Citywith $15 to 20 million and ostensibly a beautiful ...
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  • February 24, 2012
Order Now- The Supreme Team 3" by 6" vinyl indoor/outdoor sticker, which features an era photo from the mid-80s of Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, the foun ...
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  • February 24, 2012
Order Now- the Frank Matthews 3" by 6" vinyl indoor/outdoor sticker, which shows legendary gangster Frank Matthews when he was caught in Las Vegas in ...