Gorilla Convict

  • Hustling & Hip-Hop

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.

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  • August 19, 2012
Legendary figures of the drug game have been the province of myth and hearsay until the rise of hip-hop, where rappers name check weaponry by style an ...
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  • August 12, 2012
Only real hustlers know about the Game God. He's one of those mythical entities that exist for the purpose of keeping order in the land and establishe ...
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  • July 8, 2012
In this modern day age of multi-media, the Internet and popular culture proliferation, the barriers between criminal exploits and entertainment have b ...
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  • July 6, 2012
Prodigy's autobiography is filled with violence and mayhem. It’s hard to imagine that a rapper/entertainer of his stature was involved with all that ...
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  • June 22, 2012
Out of the 46 homies that were on this case (Short North Posse) with me, I’m strictly talking about the fellas that stood strong and kept it 1000, a ...
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  • June 15, 2012
I arrived at FCC Forrest City Low on January 5, 2011. I knew that the superstar multi-platinum rapper Clifford "T.I." Harris was on the compound, serv ...
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  • May 19, 2012
Rap and crack were both born 30 years ago, and more than a few rappers brag on their records about starting their labels with drug money. At nearly th ...
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  • April 6, 2012
We used to say things like, "playas have fun/and suckas have none” or “real niggas don't tell, we go to jail” and things that meant something li ...
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  • October 24, 2011
Legendary figures of the drug game have been the province of myth and hearsay until the rise of hip-hop where rappers name drop weaponry by style numb ...
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  • October 24, 2011
In Columbus, Ohio there was a group of youngsters that held it down like original gangsters. They lived by the code of the street and kept it old scho ...
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  • October 24, 2011
Is the rap game the new drug game? With all these rappers fronting, styling and profiling you would think so. From it’s origins in New York to LA ga ...
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  • October 24, 2011
"Ground zero for gangsters- the Southside of Jamaica, Queens. Home to multi platinum rappers like 50 Cent and legendary crack era druglords like Fat C ...