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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.

Lost and Forgotten Soldiers

October 5, 2013 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

This is a tribute dedicated to all the lost souls, lost lives and casualties of war in this life we call the game. A game is where there are very few winners but way to many losers. To all the soldiers who hugged the block, whether it’s a city block or jail house to prison block. All the street generals, colonels, sergeants and lieutenants, who all ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: lost soldiers, prisoners, the drug game

Guilty by Association

April 21, 2013 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

Conspiracy- Con spare a cee   -An agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, a combination for an unlawful purpose. 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. I ain't trying to ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Conspiracy Laws, Drug Game, Drug Laws, Federal Prison, Snitches

Studio Gangsta William “Rick Ross” Roberts Continues to Deny he Stole Street Legend Freeway Ricky Ross’ Name, Image and Likeness

March 3, 2013 by Seth Ferranti 5 Comments

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. But with all the negative p-press the rapper has been getting lately, which has been shattering the ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Freeway Rick Ross, Rick Ross

Sports, Hip-hop and the Street Code

February 3, 2013 by Seth Ferranti 2 Comments

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. In the world of sports, hip-hop and entertainment he just always struck me as a fake. And with all the publicity- good and bad- he has ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: NFL, No Snitching, Ray Lewis

Seven Crowns

December 9, 2012 by Seth Ferranti 1 Comment

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, including Anthony “Pretty Tony” Feurtado, Fat Cat and James “Wall” Corley. “Seven Crowns was way early-’70s,” Bing says. “I was in ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Queens, Seven Crowns, The Supreme Team

Scarface Romanticizes the Dope Game

October 14, 2012 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

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. “In the early-’80s when Scarface came out, all the young cats wanted o be like that,” Lance said. Scarface was a movie about them and for them. The Supreme Team embraced the gun culture ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: F.E.D.S., Scarface, Supreme

Street Consequences Launch

October 7, 2012 by Seth Ferranti 4 Comments

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. Everybody has heard about throwing bricks at the penitentiary, but what about those who throw them back out. Some dudes strive to be ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Gangsters, Hip-Hop, Streets

Urban Gangsters: A Look at the Top 10 Films on the Drug Game

September 30, 2012 by Seth Ferranti 3 Comments

American culture loves it’s bad guys and urban gangster films that explore the drug game and gang banging have become increasingly popular, just as the Italian Mafia and Colombian cocaine cartel films have before them. Rap and crack were both born 30 years ago and the fusion of ghetto plus prison lifestyles represented in gangsta rap have ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: American Gangster, Belly, Colors, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Juice, King of New York, Menace II Society, New Jack City, Paid in Full, Scarface

Off Da Ruler’s Desk

September 23, 2012 by Seth Ferranti Leave a Comment

Back in the Day Part 1 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. That was Deejaying in the Badlands of Miami (Dade County)- having the most bass, catching all ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Badland Publishing, The Beastie Boys, The Boobie Boys, The Geto Boys

Today’s Incarcerated Scarface’s

September 16, 2012 by Seth Ferranti 2 Comments

“He's tough in the Ghetto/but in jail... he's Jell-O” - “Road to Riches” Kool G Rap 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... they all are looking up... being captivated ... [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Featured Story, Hustling & Hip-Hop Tagged With: Hip-Hop, Prison, Shakim's Hood

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