The Cast
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Shakur spent the past 25 years in federal prison for helping plan and execute the $1.6 million robbery of a Brinks armored truck in New York in 1981. The heist left three people dead. |
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This group of notorious homegrown bank robbers, from the troubled Bay Area suburb of Vallejo, robbed dozens of banks in that area in the mid-’90s. |
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Loyd grew up in the Lawndale, on Chicago’s west side, a stronghold of the Vice Lords – the city’s oldest and largest active gang, along with the Gangster Disciples. |
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An incredibly violent gang with operations in the 1980s that stretched from Jamaica to New York to Miami and beyond, the Shower Posse got its name because it often rained rounds of automatic weapons fire on its victims. |
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Convicted for trafficking and sent to prison for life, Fisher embarked on a remarkable transformation, writing novels, counseling inmates to avoid a criminal life, and earning several academic degrees, including a doctorate in sociology |
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The first and most famous director of the FBI consolidated his power through a combination of brilliant public relations moves and compromising personal files he maintained on politicians who held his fate in their hands, including several presidents. |
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Rayful Edmond’s predecessor as D.C.’s drug kingpin was a native son who quietly plied his trade in the shadow of the Capitol, and ultimately developed a network that funneled drugs throughout major cities of the Eastern seaboard and even throughout Europe. |
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The son of a minister, this former drug Lord of Atlantic City was once said to have raked in more than a $1 million a month, a position he flaunted in public literally by wearing a gold crown on his head. |
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A legend in south central Los Angeles for his fearsome devotion to gang violence, Scott became a subject of mainstream fascination after the 1992 riots in L.A. cast a national spotlight on the conditions which led to that uprising. |
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Born and raised in the South Bronx, Larry Davis made headlines when he wounded six NYC police officers in a dramatic 1986 shootout, after officers raided his sister’s Bronx apartment to arrest him on charges of murdering five drug dealers. |
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Ving Rhames, the voice of BET’s “American Gangster,” was born and raised in Harlem, New York. He studied dramatic arts at the New York High School of Performing Arts as well as the Julliard School of Drama. After graduating, he went on to perform in Shakespeare in the Park productions. |
