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Yo, what's good evil streets family? You already know we back with another one. Much love to all my viewers and subscribers and special shout out to every member of the channel. If y'all digging the content be sure to like and subscribe. It helps the channel grow, which allows me to keep bringing you all these videos. Every beat you hear in these videos and shorts is produced by yours truly. So anyone interested in any of the production you hear on this channel email us at evilstreetsmedia at gmail.com. That goes for anyone looking to promote their music or business as well. Hit me up and we can cook something up. We started uploading these episodes to Spotify's podcasts as well. So anyone can just listen on any device while you're driving or trapping. Link is in the description. I'm starting a Patreon as well where I will be dropping extended videos with more thorough deep dives so be on the lookout for that. Also anyone looking to just support the channel in general you can send a dollar or a million dollars to our cash app evil streets TV. Every cent donated is invested right back into the channel. Make sure to comment if you do so I can shout you out on the next video. Alright I've kept y'all long enough let's get to this gangster ish. Enjoy the show. The gangsters from Little Hades, Zonation and Zopound, Miami Florida. Miami Florida is one of the flashiest most poppin cities in the whole damn country. A place where celebs, shot callers, ballers and hood legends all come through to flex and live it up. It's palm trees, lambo's, yachts and bad bitches on one side of the bridge but cross that bridge whole different ballgame. Over there it's grimy as hell. The glitz disappears and survival becomes the only real luxury. Welcome to Miami Beach but not the tourist trap version. We're talking the bottom where it's rough and raw. Where blacks, Jamaicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Haitians all got thrown in the same melting pot and had to learn to swim or drown. Then you got Little Hades, a zone where the streets definitely ain't sweet. One of the wildest most feared gangs in Florida was born right there. Zopound. These cats came up from absolutely nothing. Robbery's dope scams, whatever it took to get ahead they made it happen. And their presence in the hip hop world, super heavy. But their story started way before the rap game. Back in the day the 70s through the 90s Haitians were fleeing the island like it was burning down because in a way it really was. Poppedoc had the whole country in a chokehold running it with death squads and rigged elections. He called himself president for life and dared anybody to challenge him. When he died his son baby doc kept the same operation going. Just dressed it up a little prettier. People were so terrified they wouldn't even bad mouth him behind closed doors. Instead they'd hop on anything that could float. Beat down boats, scrap rafts and take that damn near 700 mile trip across the ocean just to touch down on Miami sand risking death for a shot at life. Life in Haiti? That's the real hard knock story. Said Maccazzo doing life for murder and stick ups in an interview. Ain't no jobs, no food, no real way to feed your family. Cats try to play it legit but that don't pay the bills. So they robbing kidnapping and wilding just trying to eat. They landed in a broke down part of Miami and named it Little Hades. Four zip codes just over three square miles but it was all they had. A Haitian businessman named Victor Justy gave it the name. Life there wasn't easy either but it beat where they came from. Most families started from ground zero struggling for shelter, clothes and any kind of steady income. But even through the struggle they had hope. They believed the grind would pay off for them or at least for their seeds. By the early 90s Miami had one of the worst poverty rates in America. In parts of Liberty City 68% of families were living under the poverty line. Uncle Luke broke it down in his book The Book of Luke saying how the wave of Haitian immigration only made things more heated. New Haitian crews like zombie boys, e-unit and Zoe pound were forming fast and they weren't playing games. While the parents were hustling to keep the lights on their kids were getting jumped and clowned in school. They wore thrift store gear, had thick accents, practiced different religions. It made them easy targets. It's still tough but it was worse back then. Mac as O said we were seen as outcasts. Even by other black folks we was black too but we was different. We spoke Creole, believed different, moved different. That pressure hit hard as hell. Even in school they used to do us dirty. They had this thing Haitian Fridays. Every Friday folks would line up to beat on the Haitian kids but them kids didn't stay victims for long. They adapted quick. They realized early ain't nobody gonna save you but your own people so they banded together. Unity wasn't just a slogan. It was in their DNA. They stopped running, started pressing back hard. Retaliation turned into domination. The same ones who got bullied became the ones running the school hallways. And once they had the fear they ran with it hard. Started robbing, extorting, putting in work to eat and build their name. That was the birth of a whole movement. Zoe pound wasn't just a gang. It was a message. We ain't soft. We ain't victims. And we damn sure ain't the ones to play with. Out of that raw Miami street culture one gang rose up and made more noise than anybody ever expected. Zoe pound. This wasn't just some local crew wilding out in Little Haiti. Nah these boys made waves that hit way past Dade County. When Wyclef Jean popped up on David Letterman holding that Haitian flag and shouted Zoe for life most of the world didn't catch the deeper meaning. But folks who were tapped in they knew exactly what time it was. That was a salute to one of Miami's most feared and respected street organizations, a gang, yeah, but also a movement. Zoe pound stood on business and business was unity, pride and power for Haitians in the struggle. The streets whispered all kinds of origin stories about Zoe pound, but one name that always came up was Chub. According to founding member Ali Zoe Adam it all started with Chub linking up with clicks like the Sable Palm boys and Carol City Haitians. It was Chub. Ali said he kicked off the White House with just four ounces and we flipped that into a fortress of respected pride. Chub was the general no debate whatsoever. The name Zoe came from Zoe Haitian Creole for bone meaning they was hard to the core. Some say the pound part came from the dope. Kilos weight. Others say it started when Chub hyped off that dog pound music stood up and yelled man forget the dog pound. This right here is the Zoe pound. You didn't have to get jumped in or throw up gang signs to be part of the family. Being Haitian and ready to hold it down was enough leaders weren't voted in they earned it. They stood tall off their street rep and hustle game. The only colors that mattered was red and blue the Haitian flag. As Mackazoo once said we ain't just a gang, we are movement, we fight for the cause. I come from them trenches so I can't turn my back on them to struggle built me that's Zoe pound. By the mid 90's Zoe pound had deep roots in Florida running with over a thousand sets strong. They started jacking cargo at the port of Miami then leveled up and started hitting entire freighters armed and ready. Some of these ships were bringing in work heavy. Word from back home let them know what was up. They'd run up locate the stashed coke and if the crew didn't talk torture until they cracked sometimes literally one lit couldn't let millions slip. They weren't just pushing weight they were taking it by force murders home invasions high level robberies. Zoe pound was making headlines right as they were trying to pivot into the rap game. Chubb saw the bigger picture early. He started branding all their dope with the Zoe pound name and formed a rap group by the same name Mackazoo red eyes G glint and blind held it down. That street buzz turned into national recognition Haitians from NYC to California started repping Zoe hard. It wasn't just street shit it was identity politics and pride as the Zoe's got richer and louder they started flexing heavy. Trick daddy shouted them out in round here and Wyclef stayed tapped in supporting the movement from the international stage.

By the late 90s Zoe pound was operating on a whole different level. They had their hands in everything from music production to real estate to straight up organized crime. The rap group was getting radio play but the real money was still in the streets. They controlled distribution networks across multiple states bringing in cocaine by the ton. Federal agents were watching close but proving it was hard. Zoe pound had lawyers on speed dial and they moved smart, compartmentalized their operations so if one section got knocked the whole structure wouldn't crumble. Violence was always part of the equation though. When rivals stepped out of line or when they needed to send a message they didn't hesitate. Bodies dropped in Miami regularly and the feds knew most of them traced back to Zoe pound but prosecutions were difficult. Witnesses disappeared or refused to testify. Fear was their most powerful weapon and it was working. By the 2000s some of the original generals started catching serious time. Chub's nephew got murdered in a dispute over territory and that hit different. It showed even the most powerful weren't untouchable. The feds stepped up their game too. They started building RICO cases gathering evidence over years interviewing informants getting wiretaps approved. The organization that had seemed unstoppable started showing cracks. Some members took plea deals snitching to reduce their sentences. Others went to war with each other fighting over what was left as the original leadership got locked up. By 2010 the heyday was clearly over. The music side had died down most of the rappers either got locked up, got killed or moved on to legitimate businesses. The street operations were still running but they weren't the same force they once were. The younger generation didn't have the same cohesion that Chub's crew had built. They were more about individual gain than collective power. The Zoe pound name still carried weight but it was fading fast as the older generation aged out.

What made Zoe pound's legacy so complex is that they were never just gangsters. They started as a resistance movement. Kids who got bullied came together and created something bigger than themselves. They built pride in their Haitian identity at a time when being Haitian in America meant being looked down on. They put Little Haiti on the map and showed the world that Haitians weren't victims they were warriors. The rap music was real too. Mackazoo and the crew made authentic street music that influenced hip hop across the country. They weren't fabricating stories they were living them. That authenticity resonated and gave inspiration to thousands of young Haitians who saw themselves in those lyrics. At the same time they were moving drugs, committing murders and destroying communities. They hurt innocent people in their own neighborhoods. Families lost loved ones. Kids grew up without parents. The duality of Zoe pound is real. They uplifted their people while simultaneously exploiting them. They fought oppression while creating it in their own backyard. That contradiction is what defines their legacy. When you look at organized crime in hip hop you have to understand that Zoe pound wasn't just about money or power. It was about identity and survival in a system designed to break you down. They refused to be broken. They refused to accept the bottom rung of American society. They grabbed power by any means necessary even when it meant stepping on their own. That's the complicated truth about Zoe pound. They were heroes and villains in the same story. They built a movement that changed Miami and influenced hip hop nationwide. But they also left a trail of bodies broken families and trauma that still echoes in Little Haiti today. Their legacy stands as a testament to what happens when poverty oppression and systemic racism create desperation. It shows how easily that desperation can be weaponized how quickly resistance becomes exploitation and how the struggle for dignity can transform into the struggle for dominance. Zoe pound rose from nothing and nearly everything and then fell back to nothing again. And that cycle, that's the real story of organized crime in hip hop. That's the evil streets legacy.