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MIAMI (CBS4) ― The 2006 drug documentary “Cocaine Cowboys” took viewers into the violent, deadly and not-so-underground world of drug trafficking in Miami in the late seventies and eighties. Director Billy Corben’s sequel, “Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ with the Godmother” focuses on the lives of “The Godmother” Griselda Blanco, and her former lover Charles Cosby. Both Cosby and Corben talked about the film with Jim and Jade Thursday morning.

Griselda Blanco, aka The Godmother, was responsible for bringing in more drugs and more crime to South Florida’s streets than anyone else at the time. She led a $40 million cocaine business, and Charles Cosby was her lover.

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Cocaine Cowboys II Set to Hit Stores
Published Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:46 AM

By Ismael AbduSalaam

In a follow up to the highly successful cult original, Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother has been confirmed for DVD release on July 29.

The sequel will be narrated by Charles Cosby, a lover of the notorious Griselda Blanco, also known by the aliases “The Godmother,” “Black Widow,” and “Cocaine Queen of Miami.”

Cosby opened his first crackhouse in the late 80’s, and became well known throughout East Oakland’s burgeoning drug trade.

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via New Times

Griselda Blanco has acquired many monikers in her 65 years. The Colombian drug dealer earned the title of “Cocaine Queen” in 1970s New York, and she became La Madrina — AKA “The Godmother” — when she moved her operations to Miami. Because of her tendency to bump off her own husbands, three in all, she has also been dubbed “Black Widow.” Blanco got busted in California in 1985, and she was subsequently convicted in federal court of conspiring to import cocaine. The conviction made the nightly news, which is how Charles Cosby, a small-time street hustler from Oakland, California, learned about her. He was gob-smacked, he says. “My drug dealing was confined to the hood,” he recounts in a telephone interview from California. “I couldn’t see beyond the ghetto. I never knew anything about the higher echelons.”

Cosby saw Blanco as a role model, someone to be emulated. In 1991, he sent a fan letter to her California prison cell, and she wrote back. The two struck up a fast correspondence friendship. Authorities wouldn’t let Cosby, then 23, meet the 51-year-old Blanco in person because, he says, he was on probation for carrying a machine gun.

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The story of Oakland, Calif.-based drug lord Charles Cosby and his tumultuous association with Griselda Blanco (the so-called “Godmother” of the Colombian cocaine trade) is the kind of stuff Hollywood screenwriters salivate over and indeed, Cosby seems highly self-aware, conscious of the seductive nature of his tale. And so Cocaine Cowboys 2 follows Cosby from his Oakland childhood up through the ranks of Griselda Blanco’s organization (including their brief, torrid affair that might just re-define your ideas of conjugal visits) and their lethal falling out, culminating in protracted legal proceedings that most definitely do not end in a conventional manner.

Through it all, the implacable Cosby — seen frequently in snapshots fondling cash, posing in front of cars or sticking his tongue down Blanco’s throat — maintains an effortless cool, embodying the very type of outlaw celebrating in rap songs, a bad-ass dude who ran the streets and got out clean…

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via East Bay Express

Oakland crack-house operator Charles Cosby became the twentysomething lover of fiftysomething Colombian cocaine queenpin Griselda Blanco after writing the then-incarcerated billionairess a fan letter that said: “I wanna rub elbows with a legend.” Mano a mano with Blanco, Brookfield Village-bred Cosby soared to Medellín-financed überhustlerdom in the early ’90s, stashing his millions in suitcases and car trunks, burying some in backyards. See his saga in Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother, a straight-to-DVD documentary due out next month from Miami-based Rakontur Productions. Magnet Releasing, part of Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, has picked up world distribution rights. At one point, Cosby narrates authentic-looking footage of cocaine, water, and baking soda boiling in a coffeepot. “The cocaine turns into a yellow gel-like liquid,” Cosby intones somberly; subtitle-instructions superimpose the stovetop. Tapwater, ice cubes: a crack-cake forms and is tipped out onto a plate: “Take a large knife or a meat cleaver or what have you and break it down into ten-dollar pieces,” Cosby instructs. Now retired from mackerdom and married with children, he describes himself as “incredibly blessed … it’s my turn to save lives.” For starters, at CharlesCosby.com he sells Cafe Press items depicting his cigar-smoking face at the center of a hundred-dollar bill, wielding a semiautomatic weapon, and pointing the weapon at viewers with the caption “Respected by a City of Killas.” Select your favorite on a shirt, notepad, messenger bag, or thong.

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Fresh off the wire is a review found on Variety about Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With The Godmother. The author, Robert Koehler, says in his review that “the wild fusillade of colorful characters and incidents in “Cocaine Cowboys” gets toned down a touch in “Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother,” less a sequel than an extended chapter of the previous saga of how Colombian drug lords took over the U.S. cocaine trade in the early 1980s. Director Billy Corben veers from the first film’s panoramic view to a narrower focus on small-time gangbanger Charles Cosby, who has quite a story to tell — and does it extremely well. True-crime fans will make up the docu’s core and during midsummer release through Magnolia’s new Magnet distrib arm…”

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Looks like Miss Info considers Cocaine Cowboys a classic and the DVD extra Hustlin with the Godmother her favorite “hell-naw docu-drama footage ever”. Thanks for the love Miss Info.

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