Word: gangsterized
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...landslide victory in the city's Democratic primary, but what attracted national attention to Tuesday's balloting was the success of Wallace ("Gator") Bradley and Hal Baskin. The two candidates, who won runoff spots for city council elections to be held in April, were backed by the Gangster Disciples, the city's largest street gang...
Smith is the nephew of gangster Robert Smith,who is currently in jail for a drug traffickingcharge, and the brother of Brian E. Smith, 27, TheGlobe reported...
...whose stable included several rap acts. But the 6-ft.-tall, conservatively dressed Angeleno was not in Colorado to sell music. He was there as ``Q,'' the name he went by on the streets of Los Angeles, where police and the FBI say he belonged to the Eight Trey Gangster Crips. Q was out to expand his criminal franchise. And he found the perfect recruit...
...Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta. It was a cross-country advance that was halted only by an intense investigation coordinated by the FBI over five states, which included the arrest this month of a fugitive who had been on the run since September 1993. The so-called Eight Trey Gangster Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland...
...mysterious Black Album. In 1987 Prince ordered all the copies of the record destroyed just before they were to be shipped. It has now been released, and listening to it one learns that it was Prince -- of all people -- who anticipated the decidedly unlovesexy anger and violence in the gangster rap of the 1990s...