Yo what's good to the evil streets family, you know the vibes we back at it with another installment mad love to all my members and subscribers for locking in every single day y'all the backbone of this channel's come up and everything we built here, anybody trying to get their music brand or business promoted hit my line at evil streets media at gmail.com we can make moves happen I see all the cash app love too and for anyone looking to throw support to the channel you can send it to evil streets tv on cash app every dollar gets reinvested right back into this operation aight y'all let's dive into this street saga Kenneth supreme McGriff came into this world September 19th 1959 down in south Jamaica queens his pops and moms both had jobs with the city's transit department grinding for that check he went to ps 140 edward k ellington for his elementary years then slid over to frances lewis high school out in fresh meadows but it was at catherine and count basie junior high school 72 in rosedale village where he got put on to the five percent nation by 1971 cats were calling him supreme his five percenter name before the crew got branded as the supreme team they went by the peace gods originally a name that came from how five percenters showed each other love when they linked up McGriff brought his nephew gerald prince miller into the fold as his number two even though they were only two years apart in age and really grew up like brothers the roster was stacked with soldiers david bing robinson troy baby wise jones ernesto puerto rican righteous piniella melson godby serious philip dalu banks demo and nathan green eyed born may at first the hustle wasn't about moving product they were pulling licks burglaries bank jobs and whatever brought fast paper but as beef intensified in the streets they recognized they needed strength in numbers to hold power in south jamaica so they connected with the seven crowns a neighborhood gang that had future kingpins like lorenzo fat cat nichols and anthony pretty tony furtado running with them McGriff got his introduction to the drug trade under the wing of ronald ronnie bumps bassett a hollis based heroin kingpin he came in as a stash house guard but by 1983 the peace gods had fully transformed into the supreme team and jumped headfirst into the heroin and cocaine game their first real block was the corner of sutfin boulevard and 150th street a small setup that would blow up quick queens at that time was already a warzone carved up between major players who controlled different blocks along with fat cat nichols and the furtado brothers names like tommy tony montana mickens the corley brothers and clawed skinner all had their own territory on lock but as the supreme teams reputation blew up they secured their stronghold in the baisley park houses a housing project with one thousand and fifty seven residents that became the headquarters of their empire beyond the business supreme and his crew moved with flash they were fixtures at some of new york city's most legendary nightspots latin quarter the red parrot brooklyn's empire roller dome and disco fever up in the bronx they weren't just dealers they were street legends living the fast lane with bread power and clout but with that level of success came the unavoidable pressure from both law enforcement and rival crews the rise of the supreme team was as explosive as it was undeniable but the empire they constructed was never meant to last forever one thing that separated the supreme team was its racial makeup while most of the members were african american the crew also had a strong latino presence making it one of the more integrated drug operations in new york at that time on july 1st 1984 gerald prince miller touched down from prison after doing time for burglary he jumped right back in reclaiming his position as McGriff's right hand man but this time his role was expanded McGriff brought him into the drug operation and prince quickly became his chief enforcer handling both internal discipline and external threats by 1984 the supreme team expanded its operation by getting into the crack game the crew branded their new product thriller and ghost buster and the names alone had fiends forming lines the demand was off the charts and by the end of 1985 their empire had spread beyond south jamaica they took over the dope trade in springfield gardens and saint albans making it crystal clear that supreme wasn't just a neighborhood dealer he was commanding an entire drug empire to keep things organized McGriff divided the team into four separate crews each led by a lieutenant james bimmy antney who started as a stickup kid before joining the squad was one of them troy baby wise jones ran another faction while gerald prince miller controlled his own and colbert black justice johnson who started out working under jones became the last of the four leaders each crew had its own identity marked by the color of the vial tops they used for packaging jones's crew used red tops johnson's rocked orange antney's had blue and miller's crew ran with yellow the supreme team had a signature look red jackets with supreme emblazoned on the back and many members also wore military fatigues giving them a paramilitary appearance on the block they had strict rules workers who sold directly to customers always yelled no singles no shorts making it clear there were no small transactions or discounts security was airtight they used coded language had rooftop lookouts with walkie talkies in the baisley park houses and drove bulletproof vehicles police scanners were in constant use and firepower was no issue they carried ar 15s mac tens tech nines and handguns like 45s 357s and 9 millimeters supreme team members even had access to tactical manuals point blank body armor the silencer handbook and improvised sabotage devices teaching them how to move like a well trained militia but the streets always bring problems in early july 1985 an eighty thousand dollar stash got hit in a robbery at one hundred and sixty six sixty six two hundred thirty first street not long after a murder went down at another stash spot on guy r brewer boulevard one of the main strips in queens the violence brought police heat and by september 10th the nypd was moving in led by sergeant clyde foster narcotics officers executed a search warrant at two locations connected to McGriff at one stash house seven people were arrested and drugs and rifles were seized at the second location apartment one hundred and sixty six sixteen on two hundred thirty first street in cambria heights cops caught McGriff and david bing robinson along with three others the haul was major thirty five thousand dollars in cash eight pounds of cocaine and heroin eight handguns and all the paraphernalia needed to keep the operation running the raid was the beginning of the supreme team's troubles with law enforcement but at that time they were still one of the most powerful drug operations in queens with the streets locked down and the money flowing they were riding high but the pressure was only just beginning to mount on may 19th 1986 kenneth supreme McGriff took a plea deal copping to criminal possession of a controlled substance in the second degree he got hit with a nine years to life sentence while his man david bing robinson was sentenced to six years to life with supreme locked up gerald prince miller took over daily operations keeping the supreme team's grip on the streets but the legal system ain't perfect both McGriff's and robinson's convictions got overturned on appeal due to search warrant issues after only 22 months behind bars at elmira correctional facility they were back in queens the streets weren't quiet while McGriff was gone though cops suspected that even from behind the wall McGriff and miller put out at least eight murder contracts keeping their enemies in check and their empire intact despite his reputation as a ruthless boss McGriff was loved by a lot of south jamaica residents he played the robin hood role throwing community events concerts and giving back to the people he brought in some of the biggest rap acts of the time ll cool j the beastie boys and run dmc all booked through def jam co founder russell simmons during the holidays he gave out turkeys making sure the hood ate one of his biggest moves was the annual summer basketball tournament at baisley pond park supreme's night international fast break festival the prize money was a wild fifty thousand dollars and it attracted big names from both the drug game and the rap world james wall corley another southeast queens drug lord put together a squad harlem kingpin rich porter entered his own team not only taking home the prize but also stacking an extra forty thousand dollars from side bets the paid in full posse was deep in the mix too the crew which included william rock him griffin and eric eric b barrier of eric b and rock him was filled with real street figures rock him's cousin jason riley eric b's brother alante and brooklyn's infamous stick up kid kelvin 50 cent martin they rolled with names like benjamin killer ben ogarrow supreme magnetic and his brother rap aj keith money green and rob garcia but the tournament wasn't just about basketball queens was a war zone and even a street ball game could turn deadly on july 30th 1987 things went left after a ref gregory vaughn made a call someone didn't like the dispute escalated and before the night was over vaughn was beaten to death it was another reminder that in the world supreme built violence was never far from the surface the wall started closing in on the supreme team as law enforcement put the pressure on on november 6th 1987 a joint state and federal task force hit multiple locations connected to McGriff and his operation the feds weren't playing no more they wanted the whole empire dismantled supreme faced new charges this time at the federal level and the conspiracy counts were serious McGriff knew the game was changing and by 1989 he made moves to distance himself from the day to day operations he transitioned into the music business linking up with russell simmons and focusing on entertainment ventures but the feds had their eyes locked on him and in 1990 he caught another major case connected to the murder of rich porter a young harlem dealer who had beefed with the supreme team the charges were heavy and McGriff ended up taking another bid but this time the street had moved on without him the 1990s saw the rise of new kingpins and the era of the supreme team was fading into history by 1996 McGriff got released and tried to build a legitimate life in the music industry he worked behind the scenes on various projects and attempted to rebrand himself away from his street past but his past had a way of catching up with him in 2010 he was indicted again this time on racketeering charges related to murders that allegedly happened decades earlier the feds used old testimony and new evidence to build their case against him and kenneth supreme McGriff found himself facing the weight of the system one more time in 2014 he pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and in 2015 he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole kenneth supreme McGriff's legacy remains one of the most complex in new york street history he built an empire from nothing turned a housing project into a fortress and commanded respect through both fear and community love but that empire came at a cost bodies dropped money burned and lives were shattered in the pursuit of power the supreme team changed the game in queens bringing organization structure and militaristic discipline to the drug trade they showed that you could be smart about the streets and build something real but they also showed that the streets always collect their debts whether through violence or incarceration from the baisley park houses to the federal penitentiary McGriff's story is a testament to how high you can rise and how far you can fall that's the real lesson family the game don't love nobody not the bosses not the soldiers nobody so keep your head on straight stay blessed and we'll catch you on the next one evil streets family this is real life this is real history this is what happens when ambition meets the streets and the streets always win that's facts