Mayor Eric Adams has 'so many angles' on this notorious Queens gang
“These people were at the right place at the right time for the perfect storm.”“Back then, the drug dealers was making, in some cases, more money than a lot of rappers,” says Nas. “The Supreme Team probably had more money than [Def Jam Records co-founder] Russell Simmons back then.”Indeed, at the height of their crack rule, the Supreme Team was making $20,000 to $30,000 per day on a good corner or block.
Even the Supreme Team — who had been tied to at least nine murders themselves in the ’80s — considered it to be a “detrimental act” to target the police. “That was a big disaster right there, because it f – – ked up everybody’s money,” says McGriff. After Miller’s Queens Village house was raided, he was sentenced to six concurrent life sentences plus 20 years in. And though McGriff was released in 1994, he wound up back in jail on murder-for-hire charges — this time for life — in 2007.
Mayor Eric Adams talks about how his own journey should inspire “every street hustler alive” in the new “Supreme Team” docuseries.And while both McGriff and Miller — who are interviewed over the phone from federal prison in the docuseries — are still serving their life sentences, Adams believes that his own journey should inspire others doing time.
“It says to a person that’s sitting in Rikers [Island jail] right now that believes this is the end of the road, ‘Now wait a minute — Eric was arrested.’ Now every street hustler knows that you don’t have to stay where you are,” he says. “Every street hustler alive should see the possibilities right now.”
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