Robert Jackall’s book is 100 x more in depth from the gangs perspective and overall so much more informative than Gangbusters. Wild Cowboys is one of the best books I’ve read on crime and New York City.
I need to get that book...I'm Intrigued by the lawlessness of NYC in the 80's and 90's it's really hard to imagine how wild it was and I'm from Chicago
1990 in the Bronx I was a member of the yellow top crew (The Wise Guyz). I went by the name of L Nitty, the Enforcer & Manager. I controlled everything. When the red top Dominicans (the wild cowboys) killed my homie Amp Gone but never forgotten, That was fucked up, That was not gangster to kill innocent people & tell us we can't work there. It was our block & we wanted in, so we started getting money, plus we had a lot of guns to protect ourselves after that episode. You will think I learned my lesson from that but when my bestfriend Gerard heard snitched on me because he saw me doing better than him & got me locked up. So after i finished my 5 years probation, I moved to Florida and got a job, but when they did a background check in all states, they found out I had a felony in New York & fired me. I went back to the streets & did what I knew best. I got into the weed game & got shot in the face & neck because they wanted to rob me. I was in the hospital for a month. I'm 52 years old now, so the past was the past it is what it is because I sleep well at night, thank God I'm out the streets, I'm not a Rat. (YTELL) & I'm not in jail. So after that, I quit the game & and stopped hanging out with people from the block or in that life & started taking care of my mom who is 73 years old from 2010 to the present. I only hang with people who live productive lives. No more street shit with me. It takes for me to get snitched on & shot to learn my lesson... True story!
@henrygonzalez360 Good looking, my brother. I'm glad you good. Where you from? You called me Nitty so i guess you got my ig or do I know you? Anyway we got to tell the youth the outcome of this street shit. Peace ✌️
I got put onto to this podcast from the Narco footage sub Reddit and I’m so glad I did. Usually I can’t sit and listen to 30,40,50,60 minute podcasts usually. But this podcast I can great work and keep it up.
2300 murders 1990.. that was my generation, generation X every time people say it’s much worse today which the older generation always seems to do I just shake my head and say you’re rewriting history.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The Bronx was burnt down back then, from the mid 60th thru the early 90's was terrible. It was wild, hard and very dangerous back then. "Only the strong survive!" "God is good!"
In the 80s or 90s 200 a week was good imagine 800 to 10,000 dollars a week . 🤦🏽♂️ yall just don’t know the truth and the life style but trust me they was making serious money
My father and family members were big dealers we had so many cars and business and now they are broke after getting arrested people don’t talk about this enough my Cousin and uncle once brought a black duffle bag full of stacks of cash so hard it made the mattress I was sleeping on push in and I was young like 9 and I still remember this
800 was a lot of money 💵. In 1998 my family moved to a 3 bedroom apartment in Fordham the Bronx and out rent was 700 dollars for 3 bedroom. So now imagine 800 back in the late 80s early 90s
My mom dated one of the crew members I believe around 1995. I was googling him and found this. She said he was the scariest dude she ever dated as a teen.
Back in 1989, 1990, & 1991 when I was a teenager, the building I lived in all I would hear Spanish people repeatedly saying RED, RED, RED,RED........ Then someone shouting out loud "RED IS OUT! If you know, then you know! On the streets of the South Bronx, where RED TOPPS was at, it wasn't a game. It was a very ugly seen in those blocks where ever RED TOPPS was being sold at.
@@newyorkbasshunter3552 bro are u kidding preacher was one of the biggest dealers in Harlem ..he ran drugs in Harlem NJ and Baltimore ..he was also one of the biggest extortionist in Harlem ....
preacher was feared by blk American dealers trust me preacher didn't want no smoke with Dominican puerto ricans or Jamaican dealers ...preacher didn't even drive thru edgecomb where the Jamaican had shyt on lock..no one f with the Dominican because they had way more money and they could ship up a team of shooters from DR and finish off a whole crew in a few weeks and send them back home ..
The cocaine was as low as $12-$15 a gram depending on how much weight you bought. That was on 163rd between Bway and Amsterdam. The whole building was a spot except for the top floor. The top floors usually has there personal cooks making food for the dealers
That was the days of the Fishscale . Coke do good it looked shiny pink like a diamond. 45 bucks for a 8ball. . 163rd also had the good Acid tabs back then. One 5 dollar tab was 12 hours of the matrix
I remember goin to 165 n st nich n 176 n Audubon 20 a g 600 a z nothin in apts but scale powder or cookup desk 1 man with the stuff another the muscle nothin else in apt no bedroom no furniture haha that was so long ago brother
It’s always been bad...now a days people think Washington heights it’s just getting bad....but it’s violence been suppressed cause it’s bad publicity for the area. Now that important individuals or higher income people are moving into the area cause of cheaper rent.....now that those higher importance to society people are moving in,now they’re noticing the violence and now they want change, but people been “jumping” over the George Washington bridge for years and it’s never comes out in the news cause it’s unsolved
I'm From Cypress & Beekman in the Bronx. In the 1990s I was a member of the yellow top crew (TheWiseGuy). I went by the name of L Nitty, the Enforcer & Manager. I controlled everything. When the Dominican Red Top Crew (TheWildCowboys) killed my homie Amp Gone but never forgotten, That was fucked up, That was not gangster to kill innocent people & tell us we can't work there. It was our block & we wanted in, so we started getting money, plus we had a lot of guns to protect ourselves after that episode. You will think I learned my lesson from that but when my bestfriend Gerard heard snitched on me because he saw me doing better than him & got me locked up. So after i finished my 5 years probation, I moved to Florida and got a job, but when they did a background check in all states, they found out I had a felony in New York & fired me. I went back to the streets & did what I knew best. I got into the weed game & got shot in the face & neck because they wanted to rob me. I was in the hospital for a month. I'm 52 years old now, so the past was the past it is what it is because I sleep well at night, thank God I'm out the streets, I'm not a Rat. (YTELL) & I'm not in jail. So after that, I quit the game & and stopped hanging out with people from the block or in that life & started taking care of my mom who is 73 years old from 2010 to the present. I only hang with people who live productive lives. No more street shit with me. It takes for me to get snitched on & shot to learn my lesson... True story!
I was with Francisco Medina aka Freddy Krueger in the feds and actually were bunkies book is fire but his paperwork/indictment is more of a movie but sad part is he was betrayed by the Dominican president and traded over to the U.S..HE NEVER TOLD EITHER 💯
Sadly, all of those guy's are dead, doing football numbers or deported. Nothing good came outta the crack era. Nothing but pain and fast cash of which most of those guy's wasted on foolishness. They really thought crack was gonna be here forever.
Hey Underworld a side note to the 90s NYC. There was a judge 👩⚖️ who many of her guilty decisions were overruled. Guess why? Her daughter was in a serious romantic relationship with a Dominican Drug Dealer. She had given exaggerated sentences to especially Dominican crews. Her nickname was “ football numbers” so just imagine.
Never thought about that but you are so right. Keep in mind it wasn’t just Dominicans but I guess because of her daughter she really took it out on them. BTW many of her sentences were reduced.
I remember this era. I was in it before they started the WC. Preacher Crew before WC; knock/drop drug spot raids (as NYPD) before that. Been there; done that. We don't talk the walk; We LIVED it 👊🏽
Freddie was my man he was a very scary fuckin dude but he was cool tho I guess if he didn't like you you needed to stay tf away from him he was dangerous
I'm a member of the yellow top crew i went by the name of L Nitty the enforcer & manager i controlled everything. When they killed my homie Amp it was on.. Rest in peace Amp gone but never forgotten. That was not gangster to kill innocent people it was our block & we getting money we had alot of guns after that episode but im 51 yours old now so the past was the past it is what it is cuz i sleep good at night. Thank God im out the streets (YTell)
But that riot was A Cop was been accused for throwing guy from firescate on 162 Amsterdam then the riots happened.i was There and in the Bronx when Cowboys were on Beekman Ave and in there Apartment they had a Moving wall that opens and slides and they can go to other apartment next Door. Cypress Ave 141 Bronx Ny.seen all those Actions you talking nice to hear from other's views.🙌🌟🌟🙏80s & 90s South Bronx with Washington Heights Dominican's. 🔥 🔥
I think you might have your facts wrong about the riot uptown on 162nd. I don't recall anyone getting thrown of a firescate. What I remember is a dealer name Kiko getting shot in the back of his head in the lobby of his building. He was getting robbed by the local motion cops. Undercover cops who rode around in those big delta 88 and they all had that local motion sticker on the car. Kiko didn't want to give up any money or work so the cop shot him. Then there was a riot for 3 days where a rookie cop got hit in the head with a cinder block thrown of the roof and killed. I think that was 91 or 92.
There's a film on YT about this called "Half Blood" (def has the word "blood " in the title ).. If that movie played in the background of this podcast it'll be like the narration.
Opening comment is accurate A/F! I haven't watched it yet, but I can guess what's after the intro...dudes decide to test the Uzi on the rich white kids that just pissed them off!
26:44 "where were. The cops?" The cops were around but you know how many eyes they had, watching from roofs an other blocks...they were all warned before they pulled up...they knew how to run it💯
I’m from texas. (everything is spread out here) it’s really interesting how much action was going on in such a small compact area. Very cool but also very sad.
Interesting, Cargill was my uncle, I have read the book on the gang and murders, i just looked up the case again now, enjoyed the podcast, for anyone wondering, my nana who is passed now and her son who was killed, used to speak in prisons after he was killed, lets just say, the people involved def are getting the time they deserve in prison, sad an uncle, brother, son, cousin, and friend was killed over cutting someone off, makes you be careful driving, everyone stay safe out there, the worlds even crazier now
I was with Victor Mercedes in Attica C.F. in 2000. He was actually doing a bid when he was picked up for that shooting of the college kid on the highway. The guy who was selling the Wild Cowboys guns is Pillbull Raymond from Downtown Brooklyn Gowanus Projects who tried to get a deal with the Feds for cooperation and was denied and was sentenced to natural life in prison.
@@desertdetroiter428 bro everyone with a bit of sense knows once to kill a member of law enforcement or a Whyte person that's not in the game it's game over for u ..blk and Hispanic crews make millions of dollars but for some reason they catch that I can do whatever I want mentality Bec they think making money controlling a few blocks makes them untouchable ...u see it with fat cats crew once u drop a Whyte person especially a female or a child it's just a matter of time ..the feds flushed out Harlem over the kidnapping and murder of Rich Porter's brother... dudes get besides themselves and forget doing crime in the streets is not legal....
$800 was for a bag man or courier $ 425 for apt. Guys and $500 for scale guy but those were just the help or apt workers not spot owners (boss)or partners of. But I’m talking two years before Yayo’s crack entered the scene.
@@anonymousrd8882 he said he didn't know the recipe for making crack, it doesn't matter how pure the coke is...it could be 100% pure cocaine, that's still how you turn it into crack
😂 Also Crack and Freebase is basically the same thing . Same substance Just that nobody thought of cutting it in little pieces till Yayo (at least in WHeights ;circa 1985) not talking smack. I grew up with all these guys.
@30:00 George Calderon was the partner of Boy George, heroin kingpin in Bx, 138th st & Brook ave... No Joke, he was killed at parole building next to court house in the Bx. Calderon used to rent out squares on the street block for $1,000 a day or week & eventually "sold" the block for $4 Million.
Young people are so ignorant to history This is the time of Serpico And the hourly wage at the time $2.75 -$3.25 and hour - $800 a week for a 15 year old is RICH
Born and raised in Washington hights am 59 years old it was very very bad in the 80and 90 but back n the old old days of Washington hights it was very good back then but now its still good a lot of things change but for the good
Well I knew Polanco very well as he was madly obsessed with the mother of my Daughter and hated me so much that after I went to prison he threw my 6 yr old daughter down a flight of steps and before I went to prison we fought over that same woman I share a child with...I only know about the steps incident because me and my daughter have a wonderful relationship now and she told me... but Polanco I believe inevitably received 5 natural life sentences as well as 125 yrs
If your man is a Brit then he would know there were a few jamaican London boys our here back then with the Shower posse. Plus £800 dollars back then for a week's work was an ammount.
Tong still exists. All legit now. They use to have their own muscle. They restructured in the 60s . Members they were into illegally activities weren't in it for life like the Italian mafia. Going legit is the goal
The Heights in the 90's and early 2000"'s had the best cocaine , 186 my man ray ray was the man his pops owned the bodega on the corner of 186 and St Nick , the spot was in the Hudson apartment building between Wadsworth and St. NICK 75 PERCENT OF THE BUILDING HAD APARTMENTS TTHAT WERE USED TO SELL WEIGHT OF COKE, , 24 DOLLARS A GRAM FOR THE RAW , 20 DOLLARS A GRAM FOR COOK UP, SHIT WAS WIDE OPEN NOW AINT NOTHING GOING ON.
I can write you some scripts. Not only am I a professor on the underworld on all streets. I also lived the life. Down low dope slinging to brutality of nightmares. I've left that all behind and would really love to use my knowledge to help keep people out of that life. I've been questioned in 2 disappearances/homicides. That's how legit I am but very educated and an avid reader of anything crime related. Shoot me an email and I'll make you a script and we will see how it goes
@@UnderAlog572 no. There is zero chemical difference between coke and crack. The difference is that you are smoking one and not the other. If you smoked coke you would have the exact same effects because its the same exact drug.
Immigrant/young men living in a country with so much but at the same time you have so little plus the family values are questionable/ limited education. Lack of opportunities and they see they can make so much money so easy. Def a recipe for disaster. Myself Being first generation Dominican immigrant and knowing both cultures and struggles. I don’t support it obviously but I can def see why they did it. Como dirian los Dominicano Estados Unidos no es un maiz😂…. As immigrant you trade one struggle for another.
Hi I, am writing a book with the real story of crack cocaine the has never been told I will come back when the book is done, you have a lot of true information but there is more to it.
Robert Jackall’s book is 100 x more in depth from the gangs perspective and overall so much more informative than Gangbusters. Wild Cowboys is one of the best books I’ve read on crime and New York City.
It's also a great albums by Sadat X.
Facts!
I read that book.. was good but dam way too much court room docs n stuff
Agreed
I need to get that book...I'm Intrigued by the lawlessness of NYC in the 80's and 90's it's really hard to imagine how wild it was and I'm from Chicago
1990 in the Bronx I was a member of the yellow top crew (The Wise Guyz). I went by the name of L Nitty, the Enforcer & Manager. I controlled everything. When the red top Dominicans (the wild cowboys) killed my homie Amp Gone but never forgotten, That was fucked up, That was not gangster to kill innocent people & tell us we can't work there. It was our block & we wanted in, so we started getting money, plus we had a lot of guns to protect ourselves after that episode. You will think I learned my lesson from that but when my bestfriend Gerard heard snitched on me because he saw me doing better than him & got me locked up. So after i finished my 5 years probation, I moved to Florida and got a job, but when they did a background check in all states, they found out I had a felony in New York & fired me. I went back to the streets & did what I knew best. I got into the weed game & got shot in the face & neck because they wanted to rob me. I was in the hospital for a month. I'm 52 years old now, so the past was the past it is what it is because I sleep well at night, thank God I'm out the streets, I'm not a Rat. (YTELL) & I'm not in jail. So after that, I quit the game & and stopped hanging out with people from the block or in that life & started taking care of my mom who is 73 years old from 2010 to the present. I only hang with people who live productive lives. No more street shit with me. It takes for me to get snitched on & shot to learn my lesson... True story!
Maximum respect my brother from London UK 🇬🇧
Don’t be saying that shit online. 🧢. You’re either a imposter or an idiot. No statute of limitations on M.
That’s crazy you was working with chango back then. Much respect for changing your ways. 🫡🇳🇱
Respect from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
@henrygonzalez360 Good looking, my brother. I'm glad you good. Where you from? You called me Nitty so i guess you got my ig or do I know you? Anyway we got to tell the youth the outcome of this street shit. Peace ✌️
I got put onto to this podcast from the Narco footage sub Reddit and I’m so glad I did. Usually I can’t sit and listen to 30,40,50,60 minute podcasts usually. But this podcast I can great work and keep it up.
2300 murders 1990.. that was my generation, generation X every time people say it’s much worse today which the older generation always seems to do I just shake my head and say you’re rewriting history.
It just seems much more dangerous cuz of social media
The crime rates were insane. People dont seem to realize how dangerous life was before now, its almost erry to think about.
No doubt. I don't understand why people think it's more dangerous today. I heard New York had 2400 murders one year back in the day.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
The Bronx was burnt down back then, from the mid 60th thru the early 90's was terrible. It was wild, hard and very dangerous back then. "Only the strong survive!" "God is good!"
My man grew up with all of them stories for days! Witnessed it all
The detail research is amazing for a underworld story of my neighborhood gangsters
In the 80s or 90s 200 a week was good imagine 800 to 10,000 dollars a week . 🤦🏽♂️ yall just don’t know the truth and the life style but trust me they was making serious money
great content and research, respect from germany
Great video really enjoyed it
A man ,not saying names killed an officer by throwing a fridge off a rooftop on 112th st in Harlem back in the day
He got caught. His name is known
i remember that
I'm sorry but he's 💯 accurate as to us loving baseball ⚾⚾ 🤣🤣🤣 we really do though 🤣🤣
And dominoes
My father and family members were big dealers we had so many cars and business and now they are broke after getting arrested people don’t talk about this enough my Cousin and uncle once brought a black duffle bag full of stacks of cash so hard it made the mattress I was sleeping on push in and I was young like 9 and I still remember this
....same and my father was the lawyer for dealers
Did your uncle touch you on that mattress ?
Were they Dominican???
@@blackcommunion3820yes
I grew up in East Harlem in the late 80s 90s and 2000s The 90s was definitely nuts in the five boroughs in the 90s
So u grew up around alpo then!
Washington Heights now is mostly populated with dominicans🇩🇴
No sir W H is on its way to being white again...
Been like that for almost 40 years already
You don’t say?!!
Oh s#i+ we didn't know that one Latin come millions come with them
Now??? Its been that way since the 70s wtf
$800 a week in the '80s is like $3,000 a week now
800 was a lot of money 💵. In 1998 my family moved to a 3 bedroom apartment in Fordham the Bronx and out rent was 700 dollars for 3 bedroom. So now imagine 800 back in the late 80s early 90s
@juan: $800 a week in the 80’s and 90’s was more like $4,000 a week these days
Your facts are twisted, Freddy Kreuger worked for Jose" El feo" who supplied the Cowboys
My mom dated one of the crew members I believe around 1995. I was googling him and found this. She said he was the scariest dude she ever dated as a teen.
ur mom is Dominican?
No one feared these guys. They just killed themselves. Garbage against garbage.
Basically there are some Dominican people in the comments actually proud of this bullshit. 🤦🏽🤦🏽🤦🏽
Back in 1989, 1990, & 1991 when I was a teenager, the building I lived in all I would hear Spanish people repeatedly saying RED, RED, RED,RED........ Then someone shouting out loud "RED IS OUT!
If you know, then you know!
On the streets of the South Bronx, where RED TOPPS was at, it wasn't a game.
It was a very ugly seen in those blocks where ever RED TOPPS was being sold at.
Preacher and his gang was way more feared….however, these were serious business. NYC was full of characters
Cowboys wasn't the ones to play with..preacher crew was mean but cowboys were very rich very rich ....preacher was just a kidnapper not a dealer
@@newyorkbasshunter3552 the title reads most feared gang not drug dealers. Preacher kidnapped and raped drug dealers
@@newyorkbasshunter3552 bro are u kidding preacher was one of the biggest dealers in Harlem ..he ran drugs in Harlem NJ and Baltimore ..he was also one of the biggest extortionist in Harlem ....
preacher was feared by blk American dealers trust me preacher didn't want no smoke with Dominican puerto ricans or Jamaican dealers ...preacher didn't even drive thru edgecomb where the Jamaican had shyt on lock..no one f with the Dominican because they had way more money and they could ship up a team of shooters from DR and finish off a whole crew in a few weeks and send them back home ..
OST were the hardest though. No one dared to step to 163rd st.
Definitely need to make a video on the Jamaican posses
SHOWWER POSSIE & ARMS HOUSE POSSIE 🍻💪MY BOY IS BABY DRED AKA BART FROM JAMAICA QUEENS ,REGULATED PINK HOUSES IN BK
South Clan or Area 63?
BLK roses, Spanglerz,drop top crew, showwer, and dozens more
The cocaine was as low as $12-$15 a gram depending on how much weight you bought. That was on 163rd between Bway and Amsterdam. The whole building was a spot except for the top floor. The top floors usually has there personal cooks making food for the dealers
Them was the 80s facts
Ya tu sabe
That was the days of the Fishscale . Coke do good it looked shiny pink like a diamond. 45 bucks for a 8ball. . 163rd also had the good Acid tabs back then. One 5 dollar tab was 12 hours of the matrix
I remember goin to 165 n st nich n 176 n Audubon 20 a g 600 a z nothin in apts but scale powder or cookup desk 1 man with the stuff another the muscle nothin else in apt no bedroom no furniture haha that was so long ago brother
@@dallas8854 remember you had to take a hit Infront of them in the house to get served.LOL
It’s always been bad...now a days people think Washington heights it’s just getting bad....but it’s violence been suppressed cause it’s bad publicity for the area. Now that important individuals or higher income people are moving into the area cause of cheaper rent.....now that those higher importance to society people are moving in,now they’re noticing the violence and now they want change, but people been “jumping” over the George Washington bridge for years and it’s never comes out in the news cause it’s unsolved
I'm From Cypress & Beekman in the Bronx. In the 1990s I was a member of the yellow top crew (TheWiseGuy). I went by the name of L Nitty, the Enforcer & Manager. I controlled everything. When the Dominican Red Top Crew (TheWildCowboys) killed my homie Amp Gone but never forgotten, That was fucked up, That was not gangster to kill innocent people & tell us we can't work there. It was our block & we wanted in, so we started getting money, plus we had a lot of guns to protect ourselves after that episode. You will think I learned my lesson from that but when my bestfriend Gerard heard snitched on me because he saw me doing better than him & got me locked up. So after i finished my 5 years probation, I moved to Florida and got a job, but when they did a background check in all states, they found out I had a felony in New York & fired me. I went back to the streets & did what I knew best. I got into the weed game & got shot in the face & neck because they wanted to rob me. I was in the hospital for a month. I'm 52 years old now, so the past was the past it is what it is because I sleep well at night, thank God I'm out the streets, I'm not a Rat. (YTELL) & I'm not in jail. So after that, I quit the game & and stopped hanging out with people from the block or in that life & started taking care of my mom who is 73 years old from 2010 to the present. I only hang with people who live productive lives. No more street shit with me. It takes for me to get snitched on & shot to learn my lesson... True story!
Yellow top was chango crew right? If so he has his own interview on youtube
I was with Francisco Medina aka Freddy Krueger in the feds and actually were bunkies book is fire but his paperwork/indictment is more of a movie but sad part is he was betrayed by the Dominican president and traded over to the U.S..HE NEVER TOLD EITHER 💯
I was at Allen Wood with Freddy real good dude
For what i heard that dude freddy Krueger terrorized the streets back in the days !!
@@juelz392 u heard that for real??
Solid as it gets 💯
washington heights was booming with good powder in the mid 80’s and 90’s that’s where we drove to when needed to brighten up a lil ✌🏼
Russians weren't runnin shittttt back in those days.....
They sure are NOW, though, ain’t they!😂🤣😂
@@mikeoneil5770things always change buddy boy
Thanks Mr Gold
This is so interesting piece of NYC history.
Sadly, all of those guy's are dead, doing football numbers or deported. Nothing good came outta the crack era. Nothing but pain and fast cash of which most of those guy's wasted on foolishness. They really thought crack was gonna be here forever.
Keep investigating your on point, there’s two or three of them out there so go get more info,,, there’s lots you haven’t mentioned yet
$800 a week during 1980s is almost $2,400 adjusted for inflation on averagw
Hey Underworld a side note to the 90s NYC. There was a judge 👩⚖️ who many of her guilty decisions were overruled. Guess why? Her daughter was in a serious romantic relationship with a Dominican Drug Dealer. She had given exaggerated sentences to especially Dominican crews. Her nickname was “ football numbers” so just imagine.
That's insane. Sounds like the recipe for a good documentary.
Never thought about that but you are so right. Keep in mind it wasn’t just Dominicans but I guess because of her daughter she really took it out on them. BTW many of her sentences were reduced.
Wow her name just popped in my head. Last name is Snyder
She even tried to run for DA and this exposed her big time
Leslie Crocker Snyder
I remember this era. I was in it before they started the WC. Preacher Crew before WC; knock/drop drug spot raids (as NYPD) before that. Been there; done that.
We don't talk the walk; We LIVED it 👊🏽
What made ya choose that building to kill pplz in on the concourse
I walked those streets in 93 lots of cars were burning some were flipped over
Wow a long forgotten stories 👏👏i remember reading the book the wild cowboys back in 2001 many have never heard of them... Freddy Krueger was a beast.
Freddy Kruger aka Francisco Medina
Freddie was my man he was a very scary fuckin dude but he was cool tho I guess if he didn't like you you needed to stay tf away from him he was dangerous
I'm a member of the yellow top crew i went by the name of L Nitty the enforcer & manager i controlled everything. When they killed my homie Amp it was on.. Rest in peace Amp gone but never forgotten. That was not gangster to kill innocent people it was our block & we getting money we had alot of guns after that episode but im 51 yours old now so the past was the past it is what it is cuz i sleep good at night. Thank God im out the streets (YTell)
But that riot was A Cop was been accused for throwing guy from firescate on 162 Amsterdam then the riots happened.i was There and in the Bronx when Cowboys were on Beekman Ave and in there Apartment they had a Moving wall that opens and slides and they can go to other apartment next Door. Cypress Ave 141 Bronx Ny.seen all those Actions you talking nice to hear from other's views.🙌🌟🌟🙏80s & 90s South Bronx with Washington Heights Dominican's. 🔥 🔥
I think you might have your facts wrong about the riot uptown on 162nd. I don't recall anyone getting thrown of a firescate.
What I remember is a dealer name Kiko getting shot in the back of his head in the lobby of his building. He was getting robbed by the local motion cops. Undercover cops who rode around in those big delta 88 and they all had that local motion sticker on the car. Kiko didn't want to give up any money or work so the cop shot him. Then there was a riot for 3 days where a rookie cop got hit in the head with a cinder block thrown of the roof and killed. I think that was 91 or 92.
Yeah my fault and the bricks hit the police on 175 and Amsterdam r.i.p store clerk kiko from 162 1992 Summer Hectic days in the Heights those days
There's a film on YT about this called "Half Blood" (def has the word "blood " in the title )..
If that movie played in the background of this podcast it'll be like the narration.
Opening comment is accurate A/F! I haven't watched it yet, but I can guess what's after the intro...dudes decide to test the Uzi on the rich white kids that just pissed them off!
Great episode!
How is this guy so informed and misinformed about these childhood friends and why does he need a sidekick with a fake British accent
26:44 "where were. The cops?" The cops were around but you know how many eyes they had, watching from roofs an other blocks...they were all warned before they pulled up...they knew how to run it💯
I used to deal with these dudes in Brooklyn. Very ruthless crew. Small dudes at that - 5'8" 150lbs. on average. Their trigger finger was no joke.
I’m from texas. (everything is spread out here) it’s really interesting how much action was going on in such a small compact area. Very cool but also very sad.
Interesting, Cargill was my uncle, I have read the book on the gang and murders, i just looked up the case again now, enjoyed the podcast, for anyone wondering, my nana who is passed now and her son who was killed, used to speak in prisons after he was killed, lets just say, the people involved def are getting the time they deserve in prison, sad an uncle, brother, son, cousin, and friend was killed over cutting someone off, makes you be careful driving, everyone stay safe out there, the worlds even crazier now
Both brothers are free
@@GUWWT huh interesting to know wasnt sure if they were or not thank you for letting me know to
I remember the Crack Era, even those Respected Businessmen on Downtown are smoking Crack on the Side
El YAYO created the best crack on Audubon
189x'd the murder rate! Damn.
The benny hill music during the chase 🤣
The Yellow Top crew was doing it back then.
Baking Soda, Water, Coke, a glass coffee pot and a ice cube and a stove
Yayo el millonario
@@stevendeleon6939 💪🏽
if u need info about the under wold let me know been around th block
Chris Paciello episode goin to be good
I was with Victor Mercedes in Attica C.F. in 2000. He was actually doing a bid when he was picked up for that shooting of the college kid on the highway. The guy who was selling the Wild Cowboys guns is Pillbull Raymond from Downtown Brooklyn Gowanus Projects who tried to get a deal with the Feds for cooperation and was denied and was sentenced to natural life in prison.
Was the college kid white?
Otherwise known as dirty Raymond with the red vette. That guy was no joke had hoyt street shook. Was shot numerous times but always lived.
@@desertdetroiter428 yeah
@@henrycruz4966 lol…figures.
@@desertdetroiter428 bro everyone with a bit of sense knows once to kill a member of law enforcement or a Whyte person that's not in the game it's game over for u ..blk and Hispanic crews make millions of dollars but for some reason they catch that I can do whatever I want mentality Bec they think making money controlling a few blocks makes them untouchable ...u see it with fat cats crew once u drop a Whyte person especially a female or a child it's just a matter of time ..the feds flushed out Harlem over the kidnapping and murder of Rich Porter's brother... dudes get besides themselves and forget doing crime in the streets is not legal....
Not that I would have done it. Buuuuuut. $800 a week in 1985-1988 was actually good money. Just not a big cut of the whole but hey.
$800 was for a bag man or courier $ 425 for apt. Guys and $500 for scale guy but those were just the help or apt workers not spot owners (boss)or partners of. But I’m talking two years before Yayo’s crack entered the scene.
Crazy times we lived in
Can’t wait for your pharmaceutical industry story, it’s bigger and more victims than
By the way Nelson and Lenin or home I saw them and said hi I grew up around them
It's literally just cocaine, baking soda, and water
Nah man 😂🤣 yu wouldn’t understand how pure shit was
@@anonymousrd8882 he said he didn't know the recipe for making crack, it doesn't matter how pure the coke is...it could be 100% pure cocaine, that's still how you turn it into crack
😂 Also Crack and Freebase is basically the same thing . Same substance Just that nobody thought of cutting it in little pieces till Yayo (at least in WHeights ;circa 1985) not talking smack. I grew up with all these guys.
$800 a week in 1980’s is nice money .
@30:00 George Calderon was the partner of Boy George, heroin kingpin in Bx, 138th st & Brook ave... No Joke, he was killed at parole building next to court house in the Bx. Calderon used to rent out squares on the street block for $1,000 a day or week & eventually "sold" the block for $4 Million.
Ain't. Nobody talkin abt puerto 🇵🇷he's talkin abt real druglords nd there all Dominican 🇩🇴
@@arielmercedes1011 Yeah but...they were snitches.
Lol them domi were a small piece of the picture back then
@@arielmercedes1011man you Dominicans are straight snitches lol right now ya praising 69 lol he practically running Dr right now
@@arielmercedes1011real drug lors lmao not taking notting away from the dominicans but you clearly dont know whos calderon or boy george 💥🇵🇷
Young people are so ignorant to history
This is the time of Serpico
And the hourly wage at the time $2.75 -$3.25 and hour - $800 a week for a 15 year old is RICH
Papiiii Perico!! Perico!! That was the Broadway greet. 😂
Back when coke was $17 a gram.
$800 in 1970 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $6,026.72 today
Quoting d evils - Reasonable Doubt👊🏿
It isn't that crack was cheaper...coke in itself was cheaper.
In 1988 it was like $15 a gram of coke. 163rd between bway and Amsterdam
Yep $18 to $20 to be exact while in 80 to 84 it went from $100 to
$70.
Yah-yo not YAY-oh 🤣
lol it is 100% YAY-oh. Nobody has ever said Tony Yah-yo
@@TheUnderworldPodcast he's right, it's Yah Yo not Yayo like Tony yayo or yayo from scarface
@@TheUnderworldPodcast its def yah yo dominican accent
Born and raised in Washington hights am 59 years old it was very very bad in the 80and 90 but back n the old old days of Washington hights it was very good back then but now its still good a lot of things change but for the good
Guy doesn't know what he's talking about
Well I knew Polanco very well as he was madly obsessed with the mother of my Daughter and hated me so much that after I went to prison he threw my 6 yr old daughter down a flight of steps and before I went to prison we fought over that same woman I share a child with...I only know about the steps incident because me and my daughter have a wonderful relationship now and she told me... but Polanco I believe inevitably received 5 natural life sentences as well as 125 yrs
I have never heard of this Podcast but ya'll got something! Yeah, that riots of 92 was crazy, I was there !!!!!
If your man is a Brit then he would know there were a few jamaican London boys our here back then with the Shower posse. Plus £800 dollars back then for a week's work was an ammount.
I was hanging out with my cousin on 159th and Broadway when this was going down
Their was more members then that
No crew was as hard as OST (163rd st between Broadway& Ft. Washington).
Tong still exists. All legit now. They use to have their own muscle. They restructured in the 60s . Members they were into illegally activities weren't in it for life like the Italian mafia. Going legit is the goal
Brooklyn had more homicides than the Bronx, especially in the north. Brownsville, East New York.
What is a beeper store
The Heights in the 90's and early 2000"'s had the best cocaine , 186 my man ray ray was the man his pops owned the bodega on the corner of 186 and St Nick , the spot was in the Hudson apartment building between Wadsworth and St. NICK 75 PERCENT OF THE BUILDING HAD APARTMENTS TTHAT WERE USED TO SELL WEIGHT OF COKE, , 24 DOLLARS A GRAM FOR THE RAW , 20 DOLLARS A GRAM FOR COOK UP, SHIT WAS WIDE OPEN NOW AINT NOTHING GOING ON.
800$ a week was insane in the late &0’s
Way to apply todays economy to 35 years ago, ya dopes
yeah when you consider inflation it's definitely worth risking 15-20
Do the Anthony Jones out of Baltimore story.
dude was about his business straight FACTS 💯
I can write you some scripts. Not only am I a professor on the underworld on all streets. I also lived the life. Down low dope slinging to brutality of nightmares. I've left that all behind and would really love to use my knowledge to help keep people out of that life. I've been questioned in 2 disappearances/homicides. That's how legit I am but very educated and an avid reader of anything crime related. Shoot me an email and I'll make you a script and we will see how it goes
sounds good! What's you email? or you can just message us at theunderworldpodcast@gmail.com
Uptown always had good blow. So did Jackson heights
There is zero difference between coke and crack.
That's because you never smoke Crack. And if you have then you're justifying making a horrible mistake
@@UnderAlog572 no. There is zero chemical difference between coke and crack. The difference is that you are smoking one and not the other. If you smoked coke you would have the exact same effects because its the same exact drug.
Blessings to them. Did time with all of them.
Immigrant/young men living in a country with so much but at the same time you have so little plus the family values are questionable/ limited education. Lack of opportunities and they see they can make so much money so easy. Def a recipe for disaster. Myself Being first generation Dominican immigrant and knowing both cultures and struggles. I don’t support it obviously but I can def see why they did it. Como dirian los Dominicano Estados Unidos no es un maiz😂…. As immigrant you trade one struggle for another.
Drugs most drugs come from the middle east especially opium white people are on top of the drug game but never get arrested I wonder why
Hi I, am writing a book with the real story of crack cocaine the has never been told I will come back when the book is done, you have a lot of true information but there is more to it.
All the beautiful areas are getting over packed so now ppl are moving to the “beautiful secretly dangerous” areas..lol
Please none of the lame comedy 😫
nah bro. all of the lame comedy
Not the most feared, but they got busy.
Why are people proud to move to a different country and do this ????
Limelight wow
Base is the purest form of cocaine... Its the oil based stuff at the bottom of the pot after cocaine is put into water
Dominican Rich
And it was Coke is it. Not Coke it is
Gotta love the hts !!!!!!
R.I.P Frankie “GUS”