When The Feds Came for Hip-Hop 👮‍♂️💥 #hiphop #feds #raid #shorts #shortsfeed #cops

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]In 2003, when the offices of record label Murder Inc and its founder Irv Gotti were raided by the FBI for the alleged laundering of drug money, the case became the focal point of my investigation of the rumors connecting [music] hip-hop to organized crime, drugs, violence, and the so-called hip-hop police.

[00:00:21]The federal government's case against Murder Inc Records read more like an indictment against former mob boss John Gotti, the same man Irv Gotti's nickname from.

[00:00:30]Not something one would expect from a successful entrepreneur.

[00:00:36]Included in the charges were [music] allegations of a connection to one of New York City's most notorious drug kingpins.

[00:00:44]Kenneth Supreme McGriff ran a drug crew in the late '80s called the Supreme Team, responsible at one point for an estimated [music] $200,000 a day in drug transactions in and around the Baisley Park housing projects in Queens.

[00:00:58]The relationship between Gotti and McGriff was at the heart of the federal government's case.

[00:01:03]Had Irv merely been helping Supreme put his life in [music] order after getting out of jail in the mid-'90s, or was it deeper, as the press and law enforcement seemed to believe?

[00:01:13]Connections were made between [music] Murder Inc and several prominent violent gangsters from New York City like Supreme. I remember the reputation on the street of the acts of violence by the Supreme Team. They were pretty well known in New York for killing people and for drug dealing.

[00:01:33]The Murder Inc indictment represented an important landmark in the seemingly ever-going police interest in hip-hop.

[00:01:39]The hip-hop police, there's a hip-hop task force out there, yo. I ain't never heard of them, cuz I ain't never been arrested by the hip-hop police. Mhm.

[00:01:46]I've heard of the hip-hop police. There is a such thing as hip-hop police, man.