Real-To-Reel: New Jack City Inspired By Detroit’s Chambers Brothers, ‘The Carter’ Was Really ‘The Broadmoor’
Based on a Village Voice article on Detroit’s notorious Chambers Brothers Gang, the 1991 gangster-film classic New Jack City moved...
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LSU Football & The Big Easy Underworld: Pair Of Former Tigers Gridders Linked To N.O.’s Hankton Drug Gang
Two former Louisiana State University football players were connected to New Orleans’ savage Hankton drug empire. The leaders of the...
GR VIDEO: New Orleans Crime Kingdom Comes Crumbling To The Ground, Hankton Boys Convicted By Feds
Just this last week in New Orleans, the leaders of the Hankton narcotics organization, the Big Easy's biggest urban drug conglomerate of all-time, were convicted...
BURNSTEIN COLUMN: White Boy Rick Loses Another Round In What’s Turned Into Shakespearian Struggle For Freedom
The plight of White Boy Rick continues. It's a seemingly never-ending saga of sorrow, bad luck, misfortune, tragic fate and unadulterated...
Moon Over New Orleans: ‘Moonie’ Porter Sought, Found Gangland Infamy In Big Easy, B.G. Rap Lyrics Tell Story, Feds Allege
Rap lyrics by former Cash Money Records artist B.G. about modern-day Bayou street legend Walter (Moonie) Porter, an accomplished hit...
