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Gangstas Launch Blood Feud Crew's Superior Warns Wanna-bes
BY MARK KRIEGEL
Monday, October 13, 1997
TELEPHONE TIME is a precious commodity at Rikers Island. More than a few hard-core inmates have been killed or cut in a dispute over the phone. But at 5-foot-7, 141 pounds, a teenager named Sherman Adams, better known as Sherm Da Worm, talks as long as he likes. And the fact that he does has everything to do with his good standing in the Sex, Money, Murder set of the United Blood Nation.
"You talking to a real Blood," says Sherm Da Worm, referring to the legions of wanna-bes making headlines and heat for the prison gang.
At 18, Sherm is all too real. After his arrest on murder and attempted murder charges, he quickly rose to the rank of "Superior," the highest-ranking Blood in the Adolescent Reception and Detention Center, according to investigators. Now, Sherm says he has something important to share with the "free world."
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"I speak for people who have some say-so," he says.
He also speaks for some people targeted by a federal RICO investigation.
He's speaking for Rob Tucker, 24, also known as Rob Lowe, the most powerful Blood at Rikers, according to correction officials. He's speaking for Cash Blood and Paws Blood and Omega Red. He's speaking for the bizarre bloody codes formulated by the two OGs, the Original Gangstas who founded the gang in the George Motchen Detention Center four years ago. He speaks as a disciple of Leonard (Deadeye) McKenzie and Omar Porter, aka OG Mack, the man Sherm calls "our Godfather."
"OG Mack says no cutting, robbing, beating or raping of any neutrals," says Sherm. "He forbids the victimization of civilians."
The jailhouse Bloods are greatly offended by the wanna-be Bloods on the street. They are not of the eight "gangland sets" sanctioned by OG Mack. "Fake Bloods are enemies of the people," says Sherm, referring to the kids who slashed a 59-year-old woman and those accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old in Martin Luther King Jr. High School.
"They will be dealt with accordingly if we find out who they are," says Sherm. "If they come in here they jeopardizing they life 'cause they causing us unneccesary attention. If they raped, they as good as gone."
It has been a tough day for Sherm. In the morning, correction officers dragged him into the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office. "They trying to get us on this RICO law 'cause of what those fake Bloods did. They wanted to know what's going on in the street. I told them I don't want to talk."
One assumes OG Mack and Deadeye would have approved. "Bloods are supposed to be 110% gangsta," says Sherm. "A gangsta don't display the characteristics of primitive peasants. The Code is no snitching, no drug-selling, no black on black crime."
Unfortunately for the hierarchy, Bloods have engaged in all three. In that respect, they're a lot like those they most hate, the Latin Kings, whose leaders went down on a RICO last year.
"I need you to let them know we don't have no love for them," says Sherm. "S--t ain't like it used to be due to them . . . Latin Kings snitching about how we don't let them get enough time on the phone. We cannot peacefully co-exist with the Latin Kings, aka the Latin Queens."
Nor is Sherm happy with the Daily News, which he accuses of glorifying Latin King leader King Tone. "That King Tone is a rat clown bastid," he says. "You tell that King Tone he a queen."
In Sherm's strange scheme of the world, the Bloods are an equal opportunity organization fighting for equal opportunity.
Rikers incarcerates Russian Bloods, Chinese Bloods, Korean Bloods, even Hispanic Bloods. "We are firm believers in brotherly love," says Sherm. "We don't want to be known as a gang. We're trying to get more political, economical and social. We pledge our strong right arm to bring power to the people."
The Bloods profess much love for The People, provided they are not among the "oppressors": cops and Crips and COs, Netas and, especially, Latin Kings.
"It's a known fact that they initiated the circle of racism," says Sherm. For a teenager who never made it to high school, Sherm Da Worm speaks often of such "known facts." He's been reading more than the RICO statute. He's been reading about the Panther 21 and the Black Liberation Army. He knows all about Mutulu Shakur, the revolutionary whose most famous act of revolution sticking up a Brink's armored car resulted in three killings.
The Code, says Sherm, begins with Mutulu Shakur, whose gospel was later preached by his son Tupac, the famous rapper who did time for sexual assault. "Tupac was a Blood," Sherm says proudly.
And by all accounts, Tupac was killed for being a Blood.
Sherm's Blood syllabus also includes Ho Chi Minh and Frantz Fanon, the anti-colonialist writer who joined the Algerian National Liberation Front. And as per Sherm Da Worm's interpretation, they all support the known fact that incarceration is oppression.
"I'm wise beyond my years," he says.
Just where the youth once known as Sherman Adams acquired such knowledge is anyone's guess. He was born Christmas Day 1978 to a 17-year-old single mother in the Queensbridge projects. "I seen her struggle," he says.
As for his father, he adds, "my biological didn't bother."
Rather, his stepfather became Sherm's model of manhood. That man, Roger Rembrandt, was said to be a bona fide gangster. His murder on Nov. 6, 1986, in the South Jamaica projects, made him one of the first casualties in the Queens crack wars.
"His death took a toll on me," says Sherm. "The streets turned me into a man."
Also, according to authorities, a killer. He was 14 when he began a three-year stint for robbery, assault and weapons possession. In March, he was charged with murder and attempted murder.
Sherm "blooded up," as he puts it, last year in Rikers' Adolescent Reception and Detention Center and quickly became its most feared inmate. "He was the Superior, the highest-ranking Blood in all of ARDC," says one investigator. "Two thousand inmates jumped at his every word."
"I'm very influential," explains Sherm.
Such influence, along with the two slashings on his Rikers resume, occasioned Sherm's removal from ARDC to maximum security status in the North Infirmary Command. But he has few regrets. Then as now, his reasons are matters of principle: "I blooded up 'cause I didn't like the racist s--t that was going on with them . . . Latin Kings."
He's been talking for the better part of an hour now; that's a marathon session for anyone doing time.
But Sherm Da Worm will stay on the phone just as long as he likes. And therein suggests the real charm of the Code.
"This is a Blood phone," he says. "And Blood rules."