USA VS HIP HOP EP. 3

If any story defines what New York was like at that time, it's the story of New York City subway vigilante Bernard Goetz's shooting of unarmed black teens.

On December 22, 1984, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur were shot and wounded by Bernard Goetz after they accosted him on a New York City subway train in Manhattan.

In America, you would think that we would learn from our mistakes as it relates to race, class, and the divisions that have been created.

One could see this case taking place in 2024, with protests in the cable news wars elevating it into the mainstream.

In the first two episodes, we set the stage in the early 1980s with iconic hip-hop drug kingpins who came to define an era.

Those names are "Freeway" Rick Ross in Los Angeles, Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols in Queens, Guy Fisher in Harlem, And finally, a mention of a crew called the Supreme Team.

These early kingpins were the table setters for what would become a new breed of hustling and the young men from Queens who launched a business idea that would revolutionize the drug trade forever.

In the Bible of hip-hop gangsters, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller of the Supreme Team were the top dogs.

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