Freddie Gibbs was right, it’s time to bring hoe-bashin’ back to rap.  The radio is full of Captain Save-A-Hoes down on bended knee, croonin’ to broads who don’t deserve it and crying a river on records.  They’re more tender than slow-cooked pot roast. N.W.A. ain’t give a fuck.  They had no mercy on these hoes.  […]

A lot of people, especially youngsters with no sense of Hip-Hop history or street lore, will read this headline and think rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was killed. However, I’m referring to Kelvin “50 Cent” Martin, the legendary stick-up kid from whom Mr. Jackson borrowed the moniker. The original 50 Cent is from Fort Greene, […]

Happy Black History Month. If Twitter existed back in the 80′s, everyone would’ve been on the edge of their seats, frantically tweeting about Larry Davis the way they did about Christopher Dorner.  On November 19th, 1986 Davis shot and injured six New York City police officers during a raid on his sister’s apartment in the […]

The Japanese Yakuza is a notoriously secretive crime organization… inaccessible to outsiders.  But Belgian-based photographer Anton Kusters and his brother, Malik, became the first westerners invited into the criminal underworld in 2008, after 10 months of negotiations with the Shinseikai, who control Tokyo’s infamous red light district, Kabukicho. Kusters must be a master in the […]

The Jekyll & Hyde image above, shot in sunny Acapulco, pretty much sums up the drug violence in Mexico.  Happy tourists enjoy a day at the beach, totally oblivious to the bloody corpse laying behind a wall, several feet away.  Not only is this a microcosm of Mexico’s clashing lifestyles; it also reflects the duality […]

Wow.  MacGyver ain’t got nuthin’ on this guy. According to the NY Daily News: A California man was arrested Saturday night for strutting around town with a homemade shotgun hidden in the hollowed-out shell of a plastic Super Soaker water gun. Randy Smith, 54, had the lethal version of the brightly colored child’s toy hanging […]

Apparently, blondes do have more fun. Usually, when I post something about Brazil it’s booty-related.  We all know Brazil is famous for babes with mega-phat asses.  But if you’ve seen the movie City of God (one of my all-time favorites) then you know Brazil is also famous for crime.  Hijacking, kidnapping, murder… you name it, […]

I saw a few excerpts from the upcoming reality/drama film Snow On Tha Bluff, directed by Damon Russell.  Looks like some real deal, in-the-trenches gangster shit.  The film made its premiere at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and will be screened at 2012 Brooklyn Film Festival. Russell produced three episodes of the A&E reality-series The […]

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 […]

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 […]

This morning, when I heard that the police beat another innocent civilian to death, I figured the victim was the usual unarmed black or Latino dude… then I shrugged it off and brewed a cup of coffee.  Ho-hum, another nigga dead…. what’s the weather gonna be like today? Imagine my utter shock when it was […]