South side 1988.mov | Taheim Bryan

Buy low, sell high. Make the best product. Eliminate the competition. These are the rocks that America’s Fortune 500 is founded on. What happens when a team embodies that ethos to the likes, which the nation has never seen? When the rocks are crack rocks, eliminate the competition means elevating the national murder rate and making the best product nets you more money daily than the government of city you live in. South Side Jamaica, Queens in the 1980’s turned a team of men into Kings. Watch as they build their kingdom, expand it, and fiercely defend it. On one side of the coin, there is Officer Michael Lavardi, a recovering addict who lost his sister to an overdose. He has made Devinci and his crew the target of his rage. Taking them down is his number one priority and he isn’t letting something like laws get in his way. On the other side, is one of the most violent, dominant crews in NYC history. Devinci went from corner boy to kingpin and runs a tight ship. George Bush Sr. won the 1988 election on the platform that Devinci’s crew were lawless, cop-killing thugs after an officer was gunned down. The story of murdered cops, legions of fiends, president Bush Sr. appointed task forces have played out in the media, now see it first hand, from day one. South Side: The Series gives an unprecedented, never before seen, raw account of the crack era. With point of views of the dealers, the cops, the customers, the community you see that the lines between good and bad, right and wrong are often blurred. Boasting an all star talented cast including Treach as Devinci, Ice-T as Aryan, Mike Epps as Kenny Du, Method Man as Bay, Kymani Marley as Cliff, tune into South Side: The series