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Yo what's good evil streets fam you know what it is we back at it again shout out to everybody who's locked in members and subscribers tapping in every single day y'all the whole reason this channel keeps growing and popping off anybody trying to get their music brand or business promoted hit my line evil streets media at gmail.com we can work something out I'm showing love to everybody who sent cash app donations too and if you trying to support the movement pull up to evil streets tv on cash app everything goes right back into building this channel up aight y'all let's slide right into this gangster ish gangster who flipped into a music kingpin that's our vibe today and we talking about Jimmy henchman straight out of Brooklyn New York November 30th 1994 Tupac Shakur got jumped blasted and robbed in the lobby of quad studios over in Manhattan somehow the god survived flashed them bullet holes to the world and the whole situation blew up everywhere from the hip hop magazines to the mainstream news that one night turned the East Coast West Coast tension from a slow burn into full blown war the million dollar question even pac was asking who set him up from the block corners to the newspaper columns from the LA times to the bars pac was spitting one name kept floating around Jimmy henchman James Jimmy henchman Roseman entered this world February 5th 1965 right in Harlem born to two Haitian immigrants he got raised up in the belly of flatbush Brooklyn in the Vanderveer projects where cats knew him as Jimmy ace even though he was Haitian people always thought he was Jamaican in the hood all the island cats got thrown in the same category he was tight with the Caribbean crew but also stayed linked with the grimy Brooklyn street wolves Jimmy was deep in the life hustling robbing and connecting with the borough's top tier criminals a true blue street general my people bounced from Haiti in the 60s running from Papa Doc's terror he said they dipped early and my moms was left raising five of us by herself she was grinding two jobs so I was basically out here doing whatever I wanted and with nobody checking him the streets welcomed little Jimmy with mad love at 16 the street life caught up and he got sent to Rikers over a bike robbery while he was locked in the juvenile section Jimmy connected with future street legends in the game King Tut scooter Haitian Jack baby Sam homicide Brian glaze the whole roster that bid was like hood university Jimmy ace came out with a PhD in the hustle and a network that ran through every borough quiet on the outside but always scheming always moving in silence he stayed in the cut but made major moves floating between Caribbean crews and Brooklyn shooters like a ghost he was smarter than most of the trigger happy dudes he ran with always thinking three steps ahead early on he was heavy in the graffiti scene a real B boy who moved like the dope dealers that's how he first got his name buzzing literally bombing every wall train and staircase he could find I was in a crew called the untouchables he said only Haitian in the whole squad rest was pure Jamaican I tagged ace one that was my tag trains buses hallways I marked my name all over then I switched it to Jimmy ace had that James Bond flavor to it 45 in the hand like my name is ace Jimmy ace son moved like Jimmy Cliff in the harder they come a straight up outlaw rude boy through and through the Jamaicans schooled him on the streets and the sound that whole rude boy energy the drums the bass the vibe was in his blood it wasn't that different from hip hop neither DJ Kool Herc the godfather himself kicked off flipping reggae records before breakbeats and the artists Shinehead Ninjaman Yellowman Shelley Thunder they set the groundwork Shabba Ranks came through later and took it to another level Jimmy ace absorbed all that his main circle was the touchies a no games Jamaican crew that moved with serious force school wasn't his thing so he went all in making sure his name rang out just as loud as his tags but the gun cases kept stacking up knocking him off his rhythm jail turned into a cycle still while he was locked he got his mind right got his GED even did some college time he knew brains mattered if he wanted to go the distance when he touched back down in 88 23 years old right in the middle of the crack explosion Jimmy ace got back to business college or not he was gonna be him get his paper run his plays and use them brains and leadership to climb higher and by then he wasn't just connected to Jamaicans he had ties with gangsters from every corner of the five boroughs and beyond in 1991 R Kelly was coming up and his manager back then was David Hyatt a Jamaican cat who was tight with Jimmy ace David's the one who opened the door for Jimmy to slide into the music world see the industry was that fresh lane where street dudes could ease in low key rub elbows with celebrities and move weight without all the pressure every rapper needed that one wolf on standby ready to handle business if drama jumped off and for somebody like Jimmy who had street intelligence and deep connections this world was ripe for the taking industry money was starting to match that drug money and Jimmy saw the blueprint early he found his pocket in 92 Jimmy got an opportunity him and some of his people threw a birthday party for Fab Five Freddy who was running Yo MTV Raps at the time Freddy was a heavyweight in hip hop and his network was golden if Jimmy wanted to lock in for real so he played it calculated packed the guest list with publicists rap journalists and label executives brought other people from MTV Jimmy said from there we ended up doing the how can I be down conference then I got into managing producers my first hit shoop by Salt N Pepa after that it was on Jimmy already controlled the streets now he was planting his flag in hip hop that how can I be down conference was like the hood version of a music industry mixer people could get face time with executives A and Rs and hitmakers without all the politics and barriers Jimmy tore down that whole gatekeeper system he moved with that independent mentality and wanted others to eat like he did nobody else was operating like that at the time he wasn't just chasing money he was changing the game the industry was a whole new universe to me he said nobody knew me from the street people stopped calling me Jimmy ace and started calling me Jimmy henchman that's from the company I built henchman productions even with the fresh name and title Jimmy was still that Brooklyn savage at the core just playing on a bigger chessboard he understood the levels to this game way before Meek ever rapped it what he didn't know though was that the feds had eyes on him over a drug case out in North Carolina but while they were watching Jimmy was still building he signed R&B duo Groove Theory Bryce Wilson from Mantronix and the soulful Amel Larrieux landed a deal with Sony and executive produced their debut under henchman slash epic their track tell me hit number five on Billboard and the album went gold looked like Jimmy finally cracked the industry code real cash real records real wins but the streets never forget he caught a gun charge in midtown just like a regular street cat slipping when he got booked that North Carolina warrant popped up but word is somebody on the inside flipped his bond from 100k to 1k and just like that Jimmy was back on the pavement law enforcement was creeping but he didn't stop he kept stacking wins in hip hop managing some of the biggest names in rap and linking up with majors like Interscope Motown and Virgin and of course he stayed plugged in with other real ones moving through the same underworld circuits Jimmy henchman still had heavy street connections with some of the realest dudes in the hustle game I'm talking real street cats one of those was Jacques Agnant aka Haitian Jack Jack wasn't just a name in the underworld he was a straight up New York gangster who got close with up and coming star Tupac Shakur while a lot of rappers talk about who they roll with Pac was out there with real street dudes that's part of the Tupac mystique but also what led to his downfall Roseman remembers taking Pac on a tour of New York's roughest blocks while Pac was filming above the rim Pac wasn't just trying to get street cred for his roles he was trying to get the real deal for his rhymes I showed him what it was took him to Brooklyn with me Roseman said in Ethan Brown's Queens reigns supreme we was in spots with dreads full of weed guns money this is how we do it but Pac's wild ways like carrying a loaded strap while Roseman was behind the wheel started getting on his nerves Pac wanted to live out the character Bishop from juice but he wasn't playing it smart dude was reckless thirsting for that street life things got messier when Pac was out with Madonna and Haitian Jack hit up a few clubs and allegedly got caught up in an assault on a 19 year old woman Ayanna Jackson she claimed that Haitian Jack Pac and others violated her in a hotel room the streets started talking and Pac was paranoid feeling like everybody was plotting on him he went around Brooklyn Queens and the Bronx posting up with different gangs seeking protection and cosigning beef that wasn't even his when your name is hot in the streets and your pockets deeper than your hood knowledge it becomes a dangerous recipe Jimmy Henchman was smart enough to stay behind the curtain but Pac was out front taking every bullet meant for the industry and the streets the situation escalated when Pac got hit that November night and the finger pointing started immediately people were saying Jimmy Henchman put out the hit that he was connected to the shooters that he orchestrated the whole thing to protect his investment and keep Pac from flipping on him federal investigators came at Jimmy hard with questions and suspicions but he maintained his innocence and nothing stuck officially in 2023 Duane Keith Davis was arrested and charged with Tupac's murder but the case was far from simple it wasn't some random street beef it was connected to that whole East Coast West Coast machine with multiple players multiple motives and multiple people with something to gain or lose Jimmy Henchman's story represents the dangerous intersection of street life and entertainment industry where a man could rise from nothing to something major but could never fully escape his past the feds eventually got him on other charges money laundering and drug trafficking convictions that sent him away but his legacy in hip hop remained undeniable he put artists on the map he changed the game for managers and he showed how street intelligence could translate into industry power but he also became a cautionary tale about how the streets and the studios are not that different and how violence loyalty and money create a web that's almost impossible to escape Jimmy Henchman's story is ultimately about a brilliant strategist caught between two worlds a man who tried to legitimize himself through hip hop but could never fully shake the gravity of the streets that raised him his influence on the culture is real his impact on artists is documented but his name is forever tied to one of hip hop's greatest tragedies that's the double edge sword of a legend like Jimmy Henchman a street king turned industry mogul whose rise and fall serves as a reminder that sometimes the biggest moves come with the highest costs and sometimes the life you're running from comes back and catches up with you no matter how far you climb that's the true crime of Jimmy Henchman his genius was undeniable but his past was inescapable and that's a tragedy that hip hop culture is still processing to this day peace