The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince's Reign of Terror and the Supreme/ 50 Cent Beef Exposed

Author:  Seth Ferranti The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince's Reign of Terror and the Supreme/ 50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends): Seth Ferranti   When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business-minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new-era black gangster. Drugs, murder, kidnappings, shootings, more drugs, and more murder were the rule of the day. They called it The Game, but it was a vicious attempt to come up by any means necessary. In the late 1980s, the mindset was get mine or be mine, and nobody embodied this attitude more than the Supreme Team. The Supreme Team has gone down in street legend and the lyrical lore of hip-hop and gangsta rap as one of the most vicious crews to ever emerge on the streets of New York. Their mythical and iconic status inspired hip-hop culture an