Streetgangs.com Staff September 4, 2012 | 1:56 p.m. PST Former 1980s Miami drug trafficker who had been responsible for about 200 murders including her two ex-husbands was killed herself in Medellin, Colombia by masked gunmen on Sunday. Griselda Blanco, 69, was shot in the head by gunmen on motorcycles where Blanco had been living since [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER August 17, 2012 Despite the combative tone of Rick Ross’, or Rozay’s, new album “God Forgives, I Don’t,” the rapper appeared in sunny spirits on the new cover of Rolling Stone. Even though he suffered from numerous seizures over the past year, he said it was likely the result [...]
Hood Illustrated – Issue 4 $8.99 Hood Illustrated Magazine, Issue #4 covers: Exclusive Interview with Freeway Rick Ross The New West Coast: Jay Rock from the Bounty Hunters and Nipsey Hussle from the Rollin 60s Crips The Aphilliates: DJ Drama The Top Ten Midwest Rappers of All Times 8 Ball & MJG DJ Drama – [...]
Hip Hop Police: True Story of Hip Hop, NYPD, LAPD, and DEA $15.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines For many years, the Hip-Hop Cops were considered by many to be simply Rap folklore, glorifying and amplifying the gangster image through rappers stories that ran the gamut-everything from invasion of privacy through stringent surveillance tactics, [...]
Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary $21.98 $18.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines Hood 2 Hood, The Blockumentary is an action packed film that takes you on a tour through America’s highest crime rated neighborhoods. Rich Kid Entertainment contacted all the underground hood connections from hoods across the country from California to New York, to [...]
King of Kings $13.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines You’ve heard rappers like 50 Cent talk about them in numerous songs. They were on the cover of one of the best-selling F.E.D.S. Magazines. You heard bits and pieces of the real life drama on the street DVD Hood Vision. Now you get the full [...]
By Lora Neng WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER April 23, 2012 How John Forté became one of 14 people pardoned by President Bush in 2008, supported by the unlikely advocates of singer Carly Simon and Republican Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, or rising from his fatherless childhood in Brownsville, Brooklyn, to gain a scholarship to the Phillips Exeter [...]
Hell up in East Harlem $19.95 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines In the 80′s there was one block in Harlem that was known to be one of the most dangerous and drug-infested areas of its era. Drugs and violence took over the neighborhood. Not many can say heroin and crack was sold in the [...]
Rollin DVD: The Fall of the Auto Industry and the Rise of the Drug Economy in Detroit $11.99 See All DVDs, Books & Magazines It may be difficult to believe in the early 21st Century, but Detroit, Michigan – “The Motor City” – once reigned as one of the most thriving and economically healthy metropolises [...]
Streetgangs.com Staff February 24, 2012 | 7:46 p.m. PST LOS ANGELES – Last month a Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy was arrested for smuggling drugs into a jail facility. Henry Marin, 27, surrendered to his colleagues at the South Los Angeles station after he was informed of the charges. Marin pleaded not guilty to charges [...]
Alex Alonso Streetgangs.com Staff Writer June 28, 2011 | 4:24 a.m. For the last several years, we have been hearing that there is no way to arrest our way out of the gang problem in California. Former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, and current LAPD Chief Charlie Beck [...]
$15.95 Purchase other Books Cycles of the Ghetto a memoir by Andrea Woods Cycles of the Ghetto is a brutal but beautiful firsthand, narrative account of Ms. Woods’ childhood — growing up in the ghettos of Los Angeles and ultimately triumphing over her dangerous and difficult situation. Reviewed by Beth Cummings Andrea Woods is a [...]
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