‘King of QUEENS’ thread: “The Q-B don’t stand for no quarterback.”
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff was the founder & leader of the infamous ‘Supreme Team’ crime organization in Queens, New York in the 1980s.
Supreme’s second in command of the Supreme Team, was nephew, Gerald “Prince” Miller, the feared, violent, & murderous leader of the gang.
Prince was the muscle of the Supreme Team. He wasn’t afraid to kill or order a killing, & was the head man when Supreme went to prison.
James “Bimmy” Antney was a lieutenant in the Supreme Team. He was a street dude, but was a money-getter, & stayed away from the trouble.
Bimmy new Run DMC & LL Cool, 50 Cent & other rappers & industry people well. That was one of his many contributions to the Supreme Team.
Bimmy is also Waka Flocka’s, who was born in Queens, uncle. Waka’s mother Debra Antney (pictured) is Bimmy’s sister.
Troy “Babywise” Jones was one of Supreme’s lieutenants. He was a ladies man, didn’t talk on the phone, like to take pictures, or be seen.
Colbert “Black Justice” Johnson was also a lieutenant for Supreme. He liked expensive cars & as a Harlem native ran with Alpo & Rich Porter.
Black Jus was 50 Cent’s mentor, you can, back in South Jamaica, Queens. Blackie ran a boxing gym there & got 50 interested in boxing.
Black Jus & Rich Porter in the late 80s. Two smooth, nice dressing, money-getting hustlers from Harlem, though Black was raised in Queens.
Black Jus & Brooklyn drug kingpin Dememcio Benson, who Alpo Martinez had killed in 1991 at a basketball game over a dispute over a female.
Black Jus in the background with a Coogi sweater on, while JAY Z performs.
Black Jus posing with Queens native Nas. Black was murdered by rapper E Money Bags in 1999. The bullet was meant for Supreme but hit him.
Supreme & his team ruled Queens making $200,000 a day or more selling crack. Forcing him to ride around the hood in bulletproof BMWs.
The Supreme Team sold crack in vials: red for Babywise’s crew, orange for Black Jus, Bimmey, blue & Prince, yellow. Reminds me of The Wire.
Supreme hated $1 bills. He had a phrase, “no singles, no shorts”, meaning don’t pay with $1 bills & don’t ask for discounts on drugs.
Supreme & his team might have been the inspiration for the 1991 movie ‘New Jack City’, the way he ran the Baisley Park Houses in Queens.
Supreme was from Queens, & knew a lot of heavyweights in the rap game, like Run DMC, Russell Simmons, Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J, Jay Z & more!
Supreme was in and out of prison in the 80s & 90s. He did his longest stretch in 1989, seven years for his involvement in running the gang.
Eric “E Money Bags” Smith was a Queens rapper who was cool with Tupac, Nas, 50,Mobb Deep, Live Squad, Noreaga & many others in the industry.
E Money Bags with Pac. He once got into with JAY Z on Hot.97, a dispute over a rapper with a similar name signed to Jay, having him in fear.
E Money Bags had beef with Supreme over a car and some money. When he didn’t get his money back, he set out for revenge, killing Black Jus.
Supreme took the murder hard, & had E Money Bags murdered in 2001, shot ten times in his Lincoln Navigator. They even taped it all.
Supreme got out of prison in the late 90s & he looked to a new hustle. Teaming with childhood friend Irving “Gotti” Lorenzo & Murder Inc.
Supreme with Murder Inc.’s Chris & Irv Gotti. In 2003, the Gotti’s were charged with laundering money for Supreme, being acquitted in 2005.
Since Supreme was tight with Murder Inc., he was tight with Jeffery “Ja Rule” Atkins, who was was beefing with 50, all from Queens.
50 & Ja apparently went to war over a stolen chain. Supreme stood up for Ja, which 50 didn’t like. So now he had beef with Supreme.
On top of that, 50 released a song in 2000 called ‘Ghetto Qu’ran’ that spoke of many hustlers from Queens, including Supreme & his team.
In one lyric, 50 said “Preme was the business man & Prince was the killer. Long after their reign, many looked at it as 50 telling on them.
In 50’s 2005 film ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, characters Levar & Majestic were based on Supreme and Prince.
In response to the song, Supreme ordered a hit on 50. April 24, 2000, he was shot nine times outside of his grandmothers home in Queens.
Brooklyn goon Darryl “Homicide” or “Hommo” Baum was the shooter. He was also Mike Tyson’s bodyguard and close friend.
Weeks after he shot 50 Cent, Hommo was killed by one of Damion “World” Hardy’s “Cash Money Brother’s” goons, shot in the back of the head.
That’s why 50 said, “Hommo shot me, three weeks later he got shot down”, in his 2003 hit ‘Many Men.’
Supreme was also said to have ordered the murder of Run DMC founder Jason “Jam Master Jay Mizell’s murder in 2002, but wasn’t charged.
A theory is Supreme had Jam Master Jay killed because 50 Cent was his protege. All Queens, NY figures. But that’s not enough.
In 2007, Supreme was found guilty of ordering the murder of E Money Bags. He paid $50,000 for the murder & was given life in prison for it.
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff and fellow Queens drug kingpin James “Wall” Corley.
These are iconic photos with some Queens legends: Ken Supreme, Wall, and Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols.
Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols is originally from Alabama, but moved to Queens at a 10 & became one of the top drug lords there in the 80s.
Fat Cat’s infamous partner in crime was Howard “Pappy” Mason. Together they ruled the Queens streets, selling drugs & were very violent.
Fat Cat was in the prison system at an early age, doing two years for armed robbery in 1976. He started selling dope & turned to murder.
During a raid in 1985 of the family deli he operated out of, Fat Cat was arrested with two guns on him, $180,000 cash and drugs.
Fat Cat was arrested again by his parole officer Brian Rooney. He was angry & wanted to revenge, so he had his goons kill Rooney.
Still in jail, Fat Cat continued to order hits including one in 1986 on a Guy for robbing his girl & in 1987 he had his ex killed for theft.
Fat Cat had top lieutenant Brian “Glaze” Gibbs kidnap his ex, who he had a child with, kill her & drop their son off at a relative’s house.
Myrtle Horsham had stole money from Fat Cat & spent it on another guy. Glaze killed her in Queens. She offered him $100,000 for her life.
In 1992, Fat Cat was given 25 years for the murder of Rooney & 40 years for his drug crimes, to served concurrently. Pictured with Supreme.
Fat Cat turned into a snitch, ultimately telling on partner Pappy Mason for lighter sentences for himself and his family.
Originally from Brooklyn, that didn’t stop Pappy Mason from becoming the most feared man on the streets of Queens in the 80s.
Fat Cat hired Pappy Mason as his muscle for $1,000 a week. But Pap had his own gang called “The Bebos” that he controlled.
Arrested in 1985 for a murder, Pappy beat the case and was released to the streets in 1988. Ten days later he was back in & his legend grew.
Pappy Mason ordered the murder of New York rookie cop Edward Byrne, shot five times in the head in February of 1988.
Phillip Mason,Scott Cobb,Todd Scott,& David McClary each split $8,000 given to them by Pappy Mason. They each got 25 years to life.
At just 5-8(?), Pappy Mason was small but he walked with a big stick. He was feared in the streets & in prison where he got life in 1994.
Queens legends James “Wall” Corley, Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff & Howard “Pappy” Mason.
Rapper Kurtis Blow, Fat Cat Nichols & his goon Chris “Jughead” Williams who killed Fat Cat’s parole officer with Pappy Mason.
One of Fat Cat’s goons Brian “Glaze” Gibbs on his way to a Mike Tyson fight in the late 80s. Both Brooklyn boys.
Damion “World” Hardy had Hommo (the guy who shot 50 Cent) killed in Queens in 2000. Rapper Lil Kim was his girlfriend in the 2000s.
World once shot at 50 Cent and his crew in 2003 for dissing his fiancé Lil Kim on the radio about their song ‘Magic Stick.’
Mike Tyson once ordered World dead for killing friend Hommo, for $50,000. World wanted him dead too. Doing life in prison for six murders.
Queens native & rapper Marvin “Tony Yayo” Bernard allegedly slapped the 14-year-old son of Jimmy Henchman in March 2007.
G-Unit member Lowell “Lodi Mack” Fletcher admitted to the assault & did nine months in 2009. Two weeks after his release, he was murdered.
Nasir “Nas” Jones: born in Brooklyn but bred in Queens, in the Queensbridge House, the largest projects in North America!
Nas came up with best friend & neighbor Willie “Ill Will” Graham (left). Ill Will was killed in the Q-B Projects in 1992 as teenagers.
Nas and his little brother Jabari “Jungle” Jones growing up in the Queensbridge Houses.
Speaking of that, Nas had a kinda famous beef with some rapper from Brooklyn named JAY Z in the early 2000s. Most would say Nas won.
The beef between Nas and JAY Z started all with small jabs on tracks. Jay sampled Nas’ voice on his 1996 hit ‘Dead Presidents II.’
They stopped the subliminals & dropped names in 2001, when JAY Z went at Queens’ Mobb Deep on ‘Takeover’ & added a verse just for Nas.
Summer Jams 2001, Jay brought out Michael Jackson & put pictures on the screen of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy days as a dancer when he was a kid.
Nas’ ‘Stillmatic’ came out in 2001 & maybe the coldest diss song ever was born, ‘Ether.’ You know the opening line…
‘Ether’ was a strong diss track but Jay came hard with ‘Supa Ugly’ in late 2001 & ‘Blueprint 2’ in 2002. Very underrated diss tracks.
The beef reached its climax & in 2005, the two squashed the beef after almost a decade. ‘Black Republican’ came in 2006, both on the track.
Mobb Deep was from the famous Queenbridge Houses as well. The two-man were group was Kejuan “Havoc” Muchita & Albert “Prodigy” Johnson.
Mobb Deep had a small beef with Tupac just before he died. Pac teased Prodigy about having sickle-cell anemia on ‘Hit ‘Em Up’ in 1996.
Prodigy sadly lost his battle with sickle cell June 20, 2017 in Las Vegas, the same city Pac died in 21 years prior.
The 50 Cent/Ja Rule beef was like a Queens Civil War between G-Unit, Murder Inc., & Supreme McGriff.
Thomas “Tony Montana” Mickens was a drug lord in 1980s Queens. Before he was 30 he owned dozens of luxury cars & 20 pieces of real estate.
Thomas Mickens & Alpo: Mickens was just as flashy, and from 1984-1988, he bought over 20 cars, including Benzes, Porches, BMWs, & Ferraris.
Tommy Mickens was big on property & made over $2.5 million I four years selling crack. That came to and end in 1989, when he got 35 years.
Tommy Mickens was paroled in 2008, and now works as a fitness instructor in the NY/NJ area. Life humbles you.
James “Wall” Corley & Supreme McGriff. Corley had his own gang, the Corley Brothers in Queens, who sold drugs in the South Jamaica Houses.
Fat Cat Nichols, Wall Corley, & Supreme. Corley was last arrested as of 2012 for cocaine trafficking at the age of 51.
The Feurtado Brothers, Lance and Todd, supplied Queens & 23 states with marijuana, cocaine, & speed in the 80s until their bust in 1995.
Todd got out in 2002 after seven years, & Lance did nine. They now mentor youth in Queens to stay away from using & selling drugs.
Supreme McGriff used to pay fellow Queens natives of Def Jam, Russell Simmons, Run DMC, LL Cool J & The Beastie Boys to perform at shows.
