Review: Cocaine Cowboys Two: Hustlin’ with the Godmother By Casey Owen (DVDfeed) via DeVoteD DVD Australia Friday 10 July, 2009 Cocaine Cowboys Two: Hustlin’with the Godmother begins with the story of Charles Cosby. Cosby had a relatively happy childhood in Oakland, California, in the late ’60s and early ’70s. That is until his parents’ marriage fell apart due [...]
Monday, November 17, 2008
via Panache Report Scarface Meets New Jack City: In 1991, Charles Cosby was selling ounces of cocaine on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California. Bringing in a couple grand a week, he was living the new American Dream. Then he wrote a fan letter to “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco – immortalized in rakontur’s Cocaine Cowboys – who was [...]
Monday, October 27, 2008
via Honor Roll Music You are a guitar hero. No one’s going to argue with that. And you’ve been known to deliver a fierce “Welcome to the Jungle” when the karaoke occasion calls for it. But it’s about time you explored your recording potential. And that’s where Honor Roll Music comes in. Recently opened by two friends with [...]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Griselda Blanco - La Dama De La Mafia Via Revista Don Juan La leyenda de Griselda Blanco nació en un caluroso día de primavera de 1975 cuando su jet privado tocó tierra en el aeropuerto de Bogotá después de dos horas y media de vuelo desde Miami. Una caravana de negras limosinas, manejadas por un equipo de [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Charles Cosby’s inviting nature bears the classic sign of a salesman. He’s a skilled storyteller who speaks with a hint of hyperbole, which can occasionally trigger a “you’re being hustled” uneasiness. But Cosby’s salesman-like demeanor is understandable. It’s easy to seem outlandish when recounting the graphic tales of Griselda Blanco. In the recently released documentary Cocaine [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
via King-Mag.com Charles Cosby’s Origins Brookfield Village in the early 40s was acres of orange trees. When World War II kicked off, Southern blacks migrated to the Bay Area. They were the war workers, making munitions. Single family homes replaced the orange groves. My mom, Irma Jean Garcia, came to Cali from Texas in 1953. My mother’s [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
via King-Mag.com Charles Cosby Meets Griselda Blanco I was watching the news in February 1985, and Griselda Blanco’s arrest was an endless fuckin’ loop. I was fascinated—she was a billionaire moving 2,000 kilograms of coke a month. It blew me away. I never knew of a drug dealer, much less a woman, who could make those [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
via King-Mag.com Charles Cosby Enters the Top of the Food Chain Three weeks after I met Griselda, I took my first flight to New York, to meet this black dude in Harlem and broker a two million dollar deal. It was a guy who’s currently a criminal celebrity but I ain’t gonna put his name out there. [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
via King-mag.com Charles Cosby and the Black Widow Griselda’s moniker, “the Black Widow,” came about because each of her husbands, she murdered. She mated, then she killed. The business arrangements had been fucked off, or they tried to exert dominance over her, so she responded like any muthafucka in the game would. She dealt with it in [...]
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