Ricky "Freeway" Donnell Ross

Harlem, NY - 1984. Imagine a world without social media. No Facebook, Instagram or Youtube. A world were influencers do not come from the screens but from the streets. A world where trends and styles are built far away from the the 5th Avenue. Well, this world existed, in the ...

Washington - 1991. A young drug trafficker confesses to the murder of 14 people. Among them, his best friend and partner in crime. For him it was just business, nothing more. Once seen as the Prince of Harlem, his name is now the symbol of ultimate betrayal.

Lear ...

Los Angeles - 1982, le jeune Ricky cherche un moyen pour payer ses cours de Tennis.
Le deal semble être une solution rapide.
15 ans plus tard, le voilà un des plus gros distributeur de cocaïne des Etats-Unis.
En prison, il découvre qu’il n’était qu’un pion de la C. ...

Known as the Teflon Don because charges against him would never stick, John Gotti was the invincible crime boss that ruled the streets of New York as head of the notorious Gambino family from 1985 to 2002. Following a four-year prison sentence for murdering a rival gang member, G ...  Show more

Cocaine production is at an all-time high, but it came to fame in the Miami Vice era of the 1980’s with the help of the “Cocaine Cowboys.” In this episode, Mariana sits down with JC Perez, who piloted cocaine smuggling runs for one of the biggest bosses in the business. Over the ...  Show more

In this first episode, a mysterious conspiracy letter sends us on a journey to find out just how entangled hip-hop and mass incarceration have become over the last 40 years. We travel back in time to 1980s Atlanta with Killer Mike, 1990s Oakland with Too Short and beyond. From Re ...  Show more