Wow.  The most feared drug gang in Mexico, Cartel Los Zetas, finally buckled under pressure.  But it wasn’t law enforcement, the military or rival gangsters that made the violent Zetas bow to threats… it was a gang of computer geeks. A few days ago, the hacking collective known as Anonymous threatened to expose the identities [...]

Rather than complain about how impotent the genre of Rap has become, I endorse creative artists making good music. L.E.P. Bogus Boys, the hardcore rap duo from Chicago, are at the top of their game right now.  Moonie and G. Count spit well-crafted gangsta shit and unlike many pure lyricists, their beat selection is outstanding.  [...]

People have gone to great lengths to save the whales, trees and oceans.  Hopefully the same effort will be made to save an “uncontacted,” isolated native tribe in the Amazon jungles of Brazil.  The Panoan Indians were first photographed from the air in 2008 and to this day, have never been contacted by the outside [...]

Rick Ross got the Triple C’s? Well, I’m gonna trump him with Five C’s: Cars Carrying Cocaine Cross Country. Guess if you’re gonna ride dirty, you might as well do it in the cleanest whip. From the Wall Street Journal: Four men have been arrested and a suspected ringleader was still being sought in a [...]

If you’re going to kill people in Mexico, do it while you’re a teenager. You thought the Casey Anthony verdict was proof of a flawed justice system? That was small potatoes compared to this.  After calmly confessing to torturing and beheading at least four people, American-born 14-year old Edgar Jiminez Lugo was sentenced in a [...]

ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREAS ROCHA First published in 1997, The Mafia Manager: A Guide To The  Corporate Machiavelli was allegedly written by a Mafia wiseguy simply known as V.  According to his bio, V is “a capo of distinguished fame” who “keeps several residences around the world.”  The business guidelines laid out in his now-famous book [...]

There’s a new video game in stores titled Call of Juarez: The Cartel, based on the never-ending drug war in Mexico.  Users can play as a Los Angeles cop, DEA agent or gang affiliate-turned-FBI agent to hunt down cartels from Los Angeles to Ciudad Juarez, a main drug capital in Mexico.  Mexican politicians feel the [...]

Wish I could take credit for shooting the above photo but I cannot.  This snapshot of paradise was taken by none other than Sara Jay.  Makes for the perfect screensaver, don’t you think? While we’re gathered here to oggle this wonderful photo, let’s look at a few nuggets of info: Producer DJ Burn One just [...]

TREATMENT WRITTEN BY DETECTIVE WILLIAM COURTNEY A can of worms was opened last week when prison inmate Dexter Issac, an associate of hip-hop mogul/gangster James “Jimmy Henchmen” Rosemon, claimed he was paid by Henchmen to rob Tupac at Quad Studios in 1994. There is currently a nationwide manhunt for Jimmy Henchmen, who is wanted by [...]

WORDS BY PACINO718 American drug dealers “pimp” their rides to look fly and impress the hoes.  In Mexico, however, drug dealers customize their rides into souped-up war machines of mass destruction. As if the beheading and disembowelment of rivals wasn’t crazy enough, feuding drug cartels are now doing battle in armor-plated, Terminator-like vehicles dubbed “Los [...]