Season 3, Episode 10
Mutulu Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s step-father and the father of rapper Mopreme, has spent the past quarter century in federal prison, thanks in part to his conviction for helping to plan and execute the $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in 1982 that left three people dead. In addition to the robbery, Mutulu was later accused of helping his sister Assata Shakur escape from prison, enabling her to flee to Cuba where she lives today.
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Length: 20:41:00
Aired: 1/22/2009
Season 3, Episode 9
The Romper Room Gang was a group of notorious home grown bank robbers from the troubled Bay Area suburb of Vallejo including rapper Mac Dre. Mac Dre emerged as a major underground figure in the Bay Area hip-hop scene and nurtured the careers of several other Romper Room robbers-turned-rappers before his murder in 2004.
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Length: 20:47:07
Aired: 1/15/2009
Season 3, Episode 7
An incredibly violent gang with operations in the 1980s that stretched from Jamaica to New York to Miami and beyond, the Shower Posse got their name thanks to their frequent skewering of victims with rounds of automatic weapons fire. From their beginnings in the ghettos of Kingston Jamaica, the Shower Posse and their main posse rivals, the Spanglers, came to prominence as the muscle behind Jamaica's two political parties.
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Length: 20:50:27
Aired: 12/18/2008
Season 3, Episode 6
The first Black owner of the Apollo Theater in Harlem was a dashing ladies’ man, sports fan, bon vivant – and drug lord. Growing up in the rough and tumble Patterson projects of the South Bronx, Fisher became the youngest and most flamboyant member of “the council,” a consortium of top drug dealers in Harlem in the 1970s headed by Nicky Barnes. Both friends and foes paid tribute to Fisher’s sharp intelligence and organizational skills, which kept “the council” going long after Barnes’ own conviction and life sentence for trafficking in 1977.
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Length: 20:52:41
Aired: 12/4/2008