Video for Supreme Team Comic- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/702020282/supreme-team-a-comic-about-crime-crack-and-hip-hop?ref=discovery The Supreme Team has gone down in hip-hop's lyrical lore as one of the most vicious and emulated drug crews from the crack era. Seth Ferranti covered their story for Don Diva Magazine and in the book ... [Continue Reading]
The State of New England’s Mafia
The State of New England's Mafia by Mark Silverman In 2005, the Boston newspapers were reporting that Luigi (Baby Shacks) Manocchio was running a noxious, unhappy mafia family. A street beef between Anthony (Spucky) Spagnolo and the East Boston mafia street duo of Frederick (Freddy the Neighbor) Simone and Vincent (Dee Dee) Gioacchini ... [Continue Reading]
Bestselling Author Sa’id Salaam Claims Innocence
Bestselling Author Sa'id Salaam Claims Innocence Watch any prison movie and everyone claims to be innocent. Everyone was set up, framed or rail roaded. Sa'id Salaam is no exception, except he's telling the truth. He knows it, the police know it, even the jury at his 2007 trial knew it. So why is he serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't ... [Continue Reading]
Pistol Pete’s Beginnings
Pistol Pete's Beginnings The notorious Soundview/Castle Hill sections of the Bronx were known for poverty, crime-ridden projects and rampant drug sales and abuse. This cauldron of go-hard, gully streets defined what a ghetto was and it wasn’t anything nice. These same streets were where Pistol Pete grew up and came of age. They spawned the child ... [Continue Reading]
An Interview with Corrupt Cop Michael Dowd
An Interview with Corrupt Cop Michael Dowd The Seven Five is one of the hottest documentary films going. It has a Scorcese like feel and examines the corruption in the NYPD in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Corrupt cops are a blight on the community but somehow corrupt cop extraordinaire Michael Dowd makes his actions seem cool. He is ... [Continue Reading]
The Early Life of Wayne Perry
The Early Life of Wayne Perry Wayne Perry was born November 14, 1962. He grew up on L Street in Southwest Washington D.C., in the area known as 203. “I was raised in D.C. but I spent a lot of the summers of my childhood in Georgia,” Wayne says. “I even put fools in the dirt down there and back then it was super racist. Crackers used to call me ... [Continue Reading]
A Look Inside British Prisons by Niko
A look inside British prisons I got caught up in the drugs game during my late teens, but back then like most kids my age, I was just playing gangster. Things escalated when I made it into a prestigious London university where I found just about everyone and their mother was popping pills, smoking joints or snorting powder, and the money started ... [Continue Reading]
LA’s Original Gangster- Tootie Reese
LA's Original Gangster- Tootie Reese Back before the crack era put names like Freeway Ricky Ross, Monster Cody Scott and Waterhead Bo Bennett in the annals of gangster lore, and long before the Crips and Bloods held sway on LA streets, there was one man who was considered the Godfather in the black underworld- Tootie Reese. "When you mentioned ... [Continue Reading]
The Gangster Alpo
The Gangster Alpo “On the back of the bike with Alpo/doin’ a back down one0two-three/hopin’ to stay alive/favorite spot, Rooftop”- LL Cool J Alberto "Alpo" Martinez was from East Rivers projects in Spanish Harlem, better known as the Eastside. “Alpo’s building was on 105th and First Avenue," the Spanish Harlem hustler says. "Alpo was Puerto ... [Continue Reading]
From the Hood to Hollywood
From the Hood to Hollywood If there is one thing Al-Saadiq Banks wants you to know it’s that he didn’t start writing books for the money. He didn’t even set out to be an author. “I didn't start writing with the intentions of being an author or to sell books.” Al-Saadiq says. “I started writing basically to challenge myself and prove that I could ... [Continue Reading]
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