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I love Spotify man...being able to just pull up damn near any album is something I truly appreciate :to:

currently spending my evenings this week revisiting classic hip hop albums from 86-89, shyt would be a headache without spotify/streaming
 

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As big as Ross was, his interstate operation was quickly surpassed by another South-Central up-and-comer, Brian Bennett, an audacious young dealer with the nickname “Waterhead Bo.” In just two years, from 1986 to 1988, authorities contend that he rose from inner-city poverty to the heights of “high-roller” status, building one of “the largest cocaine distribution groups headed by a black trafficker,” said former Assistant U.S. Atty. Russell Hayman. Just 24, Bennett was selling more than a ton of crack a week.

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His secret weapon, according to federal investigators, was Mario Ernesto Villabona, a member of Colombia’s notorious Cali cartel. Police don’t know how the two met, if Bennett was recruited or if he sought Villabona out. Either way, their relationship provided the first evidence of a link that law enforcement officials had long suspected. “This is the single most important partnership ever established between a major South-Central drug dealer and the Colombians,” LAPD Deputy Chief Glenn Levant said at the time of Bennett’s arrest in 1988.
 

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Malcolm Klein and Cheryl Maxson, USC sociologists who studied South-Central cocaine sales from 1983 to 1985, found that gang members accounted for only about 25% of all crack-related arrests. They said they were prompted to conduct their study largely because of media images that equated gang members with “African Americans, toting Uzis and selling crack,” as Maxson put it.

A good crack ring “has to be cohesive, organized, strongly led and loyal--none of which fit with our understanding of the nature of street gangs,” Klein added. “If a drug dealer has people in his organization who are throwing gang signs and doing drive-by shootings, that’s going to screw up the business something furious.”



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