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 […]

After reading the international gangster shit posted at this blog, someone asked me a theoretical question: “Yakuza vs. Zetas… who’d win?” Hmmmm… both of those criminal organizations are pretty hardcore so it’s tough to say.  It’s a concept that makes for a kick-ass crossover movie, ala Alien vs. Predator and Freddy vs. Jason.  As much […]

Recently, chickens have come home to roost for some of the world’s most brutal drug lords.  Infamous “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco was gunned down in her native Colombia last month… a long overdue slaying.  Gotta respect a woman who claws her way to the top of a male-dominated coke game but if anyone deserved those […]

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 […]

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, […]

The GOP would have you believe that President Barack Obama is soft on terrorism, national security, blah blah blah.  Clearly they’re blind with bias.  Like the Chi-town gangsta he is, Barry O has murked out a bunch of bad guys.  Bin Laden, Gaddafi (however you spell his damn name), miscellaneous al-Qaeda bigwigs and other super […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]