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Mayor Eric Adams has ‘so many angles’ on notorious crack-dealing Queens gang ‘Supreme Team’
In the new Showtime docuseries “Supreme Team” — which traces the rise and fall of the titular gang — Mayor Eric Adams reflects on the “street entrepreneurship” that led the notorious crew to run the streets of Queens during the crack era.
“You saw street-corner CEOs popping up all over our city,” says Adams of the ’80s crack epidemic in the three-part docuseries, which premieres on Friday.
But Adams — who, as a 15-year-old growing up in Jamaica, Queens, was arrested for trespassing in the apartment of a go-go dancer who owed money to “my small little crew” — believes that those same street skills can take you from drug dealing to corporate deal-making.
“You can go in the system and use those same abilities that you made to be a street-corner CEO to be a CEO at anywhere you are,” he says.
It might seem surprising to see Adams appear alongside Queens rap legend LL Cool J, Murder Inc. Records honcho Irv Gotti and “Supreme Team” co-director Nasir “Nas” Jones in this docuseries (which was produced by Mass Appeal as part of the #HipHop50 initiative). But in telling the story of the gang that was highly influential on hip-hop style
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Yo, when you hear talk of the Southside, you hear talk of the Team/See n—as feared Prince and respected ’Preme/For all you slow motherf—ers, I’ma break it down iller/See ’Preme was the businessman and Prince was the killer … — 50 Cent, “Ghetto Quran” (2000)
Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff had a chance to go legit. The head of a notorious 1980s-era criminal operation would have had to leave behind a life that brought him money and power — but also a decadelong stint in prison. Maybe it was too late or not the right opportunity. Nevertheless, one of the biggest names in hip-hop put an offer on the table.
So why exactly didn’t he take it?
That question hovers over Showtime’s new three-part documentary Supreme Team. That was the name of a street drug business in New York led by McGriff and his nephew, Gerald “Prince” Miller. Nas, the Queens MC whose breakthrough 1994 project Illmatic memorably recounted the era’s experience of drug violence, directed and narrates this story of the influential crew.
McGriff and Miller are equal parts protagonists and antagonists, heroes and villains, as they detail the rise, fall and impact of their short time atop New York’s underworld in a series of taped speakerphone prison interviews.
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