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Yo what's good evil streets fam you know how we do we back at it again with another banger shout out to all my day ones and subscribers for pulling up daily that's real talk Y'all the backbone of this whole operation the reason we still standing Anyone trying to get their music brand or business out there hit my line evil streets media at gmail.com We can make moves happen. Mad love for all the cash app donations coming through And anyone trying to hold down the channel can send that to evil streets TV on cash app every dollar goes right back into building this empire Aight y'all let's dive into this street legend ish Sam Bayer Christian checked out in 2016 and the mainstream media ain't even blink A quiet exit for a cat whose whole existence was built on bloody power plays and street crimes at 77 wasting away in some nursing facility Christian's departure didn't get no headlines but his reputation as one of Philly's most dangerous gangsters stayed cemented in stone Christian's biggest claim in the game was founding and running the black mafia a vicious and merciless operation that controlled Philadelphia's underworld from the mid-1960s straight through the 1970s Different from the Italian mob the black mafia built their own criminal kingdom deep in the city's black neighborhoods the crew's hustle covered every illegal play in the book from running numbers and moving weight to shaking people down and pimping As years passed they leveled up into more complex high stakes schemes stealing pieces of federal money that was supposed to help struggling communities Under Christian's command the black mafia painted the streets red with over 40 bodies infamous for how savage they moved Some of the most grimy acts included the severed dome of some stubborn drug dealer left outside a bar in North Philly and the chopped off hands of another cat sending a message to everybody that going against Christian's authority meant catching hell Christian's reign of fear though drenched in blood was also proof of his cold blooded effectiveness in the game getting him both reverence and terror But to certain people Christian wasn't just the feared street legend he was also a dude who tried finding salvation in his twilight years At his funeral service held at the Philadelphia Mosque in West Philadelphia more than 600 people showed up to honor a different side of Christian known as Bayah Imam Kenneth Naredin spoke on Christian's commitment to Islam remembering how Christian embraced the religion while locked up becoming a teacher to help others on their spiritual path His conversion and the dedication that followed to his faith became the center of how many in the Muslim community saw him in his final days While his criminal history would forever mark him in most people's eyes Christian's shift to a more peaceful faith in his later years painted a more layered picture of the man who used to represent death and chaos As homies and family on Facebook dropped prayers for his soul they wished for his forgiveness and that he could find peace in the next life a wild contrast to the violent empire he once controlled Sam Bayah Christian's story wasn't only defined by violence but also by a serious transformation in who he was After linking with the nation of Islam decades back he switched his name and fully committed to the teachings of Elijah Muhammad Christian's ties to the nation of Islam plus his climb through the ranks of the NOI's elite military wing the fruit of Islam showed a period of complication and pressure in both his personal world and criminal operations Along with multiple fellow soldiers from the black mafia Christian earned the rank of captain fruit of Islam collecting power and respect which fed his criminal enterprise in the 1960s and 70s During those years Christian and his crew pulled off some of the most infamous jobs on the east coast crimes so vicious and disturbing that they became part of Philly's criminal legend One of the most notorious moves went down on January 4th 1971 when eight black mafia soldiers walked into Dubrao's furniture store on south street The incident was labeled as one of the most cold blooded and inhuman acts in the long criminal history of this town by an inquirer columnist The crew shot a janitor cleaned out the store and then beat and tied up its workers before lighting them in the store on fire Even though police spotted Christian at the location he was never hit with charges for the incident But one of the cats involved Robert Newtie Mims got convicted and sentenced to life behind bars Mims would later run a corrupt underworld network inside greater for prison that was so dangerous it caused a massive raid in 1995 The network was so powerful that to get him out Pennsylvania traded Mims to Minnesota The black mafia's rule under Christian's leadership was merciless and far reaching with a solid foothold on the east coast Another infamous chapter in Christian's criminal story happened on April 2nd 1972 when Tyrone fat ty Palmer a major heroine connect got smoked during a shootout at club Harlem in Atlantic City Palmer along with his bodyguard and three females got killed when five black mafia members stepped in the club cops suspected Christian was the one who blasted Palmer in the face and a warrant for his capture was put out Christian though managed to stay ghost fleeing to Chicago and Detroit only to pop back up later connected to another of New Jersey's most brutal crimes Major Coxin's life was a twisted saga of schemes and power that stretched through the underworld of Camden and beyond a career hustler Coxin's connections went deep into the circles of thieves drug slingers and mobsters and he had a gift for winning in the world of nightlife and street politics As a middleman in plenty of deals Coxin usually moved in the shadows a player linked to multiple powerful figures including the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali his high profile status only grew when in 1972 he made a failed attempt for mayor of Camden but it was his connection with the black mafia that would finally catch up to him In June of 1973 Coxin's game ran dry when a deal he struck with the black mafia went bad he was found tied up and executed in his luxury cherry hill crib along with three others who were also bound and shot one of them died shortly after adding more brutality to the execution the murder would go down as one of the most violent crimes in the 20th century in Philadelphia the main suspects in Coxin's death were two notorious figures from the black mafia Sam Christian and Ronald Harvey both men were feared in criminal circles and their involvement in the murders was suspected but not fully proven Harvey was later convicted of his own savage crimes including the massacre of seven people four of whom were infants drowned in Washington DC Christian and Harvey were figures that even the most hardened street dudes avoided speaking on as their names alone were enough to spread fear Coxin's death along with the infamous Palmer shooting pushed Christian into the spotlight with the FBI putting him on their most wanted list at just 34 years old Christian a dude with a criminal jacket that included 33 arrests and seven murder charges became a hunted man despite the severity of his crimes nobody was willing to speak against him and he was never convicted for either the Palmer or Coxin murders still his past caught up with him through an outstanding arrest warrant from New York which eventually sealed his fate In 1971 Sam Christian's criminal adventures took a more violent twist when he and two partners executed a robbery at the Charles record store when police rolled up to the scene a shootout jumped off resulting in Christian shooting a police officer in the arm despite his capture Christian used a fake name and managed to skip bail dodging arrest until 1973 when he was finally caught in Detroit just seven days after making the FBI's most wanted list he was convicted for the robbery and the shooting of the NYPD officer stacking more weight to his already brutal criminal career by the time Christian got paroled in November 1988 his black mafia had been torn apart by law enforcement and internal beef the Philadelphia underworld once dominated by Christian's syndicate was destroyed leaving much of the city's criminal scene in ruins despite his release Christian was arrested again in 1990 for crack cocaine possession even though he was supposedly offering guidance to the junior black mafia a failed attempt to bring back the power his crew once had Christian's last run in with the law came on January 22nd 2002 when he was grabbed for a parole violation by that time many of the main players of the black mafia had passed away Newtie Mims once a powerful soldier died in 2017 at age 69 while locked up in Minnesota Eugene Bo Baines who took over the black mafia after Christian's arrest died in 2012 at age 73 having spent his later years away from crime however some figures like Ricardo McKendrick and Shamsu Denali stayed active in criminal activities either behind bars or still operating on the streets Ricardo McKendrick's criminal legacy is both notorious and lasting he's featured in a widely circulated 1973 photograph from the black mafia ball a remarkable image that shows members of the syndicate dressed in tuxedos funded by stolen government money McKendrick's involvement in narcotics was a key part of his criminal history and he was also arrested for murder however he gained renewed notoriety in April 2008 when he was arrested in South Philadelphia for possessing 244 kilos of cocaine worth 28 million dollars marking the largest cocaine seizure in the city's history he eventually pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and went back down for a long bid solidifying his place in Philly's criminal history alongside Christian and the rest of the old guard that built the black mafia's empire Look fam Sam Christian's legacy is complicated and heavy that's facts The man went from being one of the most feared names in the entire game somebody whose word was law and whose enemies didn't live long enough to tell nobody what happened to them to becoming Bayah a devoted Muslim seeking redemption and peace That transformation though it came late still showed that even after decades of blood and chaos even after running an organization that left bodies across the whole east coast even after becoming the boogeyman that parents used to scare their kids straight it was possible to change your path to find something spiritual and meaningful But that don't erase the damage that was done and that's what we gotta remember when we talk about Christian The 40 plus people who lost their lives the families destroyed the communities traumatized they all matter just as much as Christian's journey toward redemption His story is a reminder that the streets ain't nothing but a dead end no matter how much power you stack or respect you earn it all crumbles eventually and what's left is just memory and blood on concrete Christian died in relative obscurity after his empire fell apart after his soldiers either died locked up or moved on but his name still rings out in the streets of Philadelphia a cautionary tale about what happens when you build your whole existence on violence and fear That's the real legacy of Sam Christian not the redemption not the Islam not the prayers at the mosque but the bodies and the broken families that marked his rise to power and that's something that can never be forgiven or forgotten no matter how many years pass or how close you get to God