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The Supreme Team's most notable influence on popular culture is its role as inspiration for the Cash Money Brothers gang depicted in [[Mario Van Peebles]]' [[1991 in film|1991 film]] [[New Jack City]]. The film stars [[Wesley Snipes]] as a McGriff-like character, Nino Brown. Like the Team, the "CMB" operate out of an apartment complex, wear paramilitary outfits and wield [[Uzi submachine gun|Uzis]]. They also make approximately the same amount of money that The Supreme Team did during their heydey. The film is still a [[dramatization]]: Snipes' character is killed in the end, McGriff is alive and well, although numerous attempts were made on his life. He is also loosely portarayed in the HBO series "The Wire" by a gay character, causing many to question his sexuality. |
The Supreme Team's most notable influence on popular culture is its role as inspiration for the Cash Money Brothers gang depicted in [[Mario Van Peebles]]' [[1991 in film|1991 film]] [[New Jack City]]. The film stars [[Wesley Snipes]] as a McGriff-like character, Nino Brown. Like the Team, the "CMB" operate out of an apartment complex, wear paramilitary outfits and wield [[Uzi submachine gun|Uzis]]. They also make approximately the same amount of money that The Supreme Team did during their heydey. The film is still a [[dramatization]]: Snipes' character is killed in the end, McGriff is alive and well, although numerous attempts were made on his life. He is also loosely portarayed in the HBO series "The Wire" by a gay character, causing many to question his sexuality, although it is commonly understood that he is a practicing homosexual. |
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Revision as of 22:21, 15 December 2005
The Supreme Team was a crack cocaine gang that operated throughout the 1980s in New York City. Their headquarters was in a Jamaica, Queens apartment complex; however they controlled a huge chunk of the entire city itself, including Harlem. The leader was Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and his nephew, Gerald Miller, nicknamed "Prince". In 1989, thanks to the work of a high-ranking informant, the Team was disbanded, and McGriff spent 10 years in a federal prison for a narcotics conviction.
In film
The Supreme Team's most notable influence on popular culture is its role as inspiration for the Cash Money Brothers gang depicted in Mario Van Peebles' 1991 film New Jack City. The film stars Wesley Snipes as a McGriff-like character, Nino Brown. Like the Team, the "CMB" operate out of an apartment complex, wear paramilitary outfits and wield Uzis. They also make approximately the same amount of money that The Supreme Team did during their heydey. The film is still a dramatization: Snipes' character is killed in the end, McGriff is alive and well, although numerous attempts were made on his life. He is also loosely portarayed in the HBO series "The Wire" by a gay character, causing many to question his sexuality, although it is commonly understood that he is a practicing homosexual.