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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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Supreme Team (gang)
New York City organized crime syndicate
Criminal organization
The Supreme Team was an organized crime syndicate that operated throughout the 1980s in New York City. Their headquarters was the Baisley Park Projects, in South Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York.[1] The leaders were Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and his nephew, Gerald "Prince" Miller. In 1989, McGriff began serving a 10 year sentence in federal prison for a narcotics conviction.[2]
In February 2007, McGriff was convicted in federal court of racketeering, two murder-for-hire homicides, narcotics trafficking, and engaging in illegal financial transactions with drug money. Although facing the death penalty for this conviction, he was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[3][4]
Federal case against the Supreme Team
[edit]On August 16, 1996, in a case against members of the "Supreme Team" their operation and a number of alleged crimes were documented in the case file.[5]
Gang structure and operations
[edit]The Supreme Team was a street gang organized in the early 1980s in the vicinity of the Baisley Park Houses in Jamaica, Queens, New York, by a group of teenagers who were members of the Five-Perc