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]
Guilty by Association
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]
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. But with all the negative p-press the rapper has been getting lately, which has been shattering the ... [Continue Reading]
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. 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]
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, including Anthony “Pretty Tony” Feurtado, Fat Cat and James “Wall” Corley. “Seven Crowns was way early-’70s,” Bing says. “I was in ... [Continue Reading]
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. “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]
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. 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]
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 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]
Off Da Ruler’s Desk
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]
Today’s Incarcerated Scarface’s
“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]
