Three years ago a seventy-six year old man sat a young man down by the name of Troy Reed and began to document the history of the Black Gangster and how Black Organized Crime began in Harlem. The first words out of this elderly man`s mouth was "when people are poor they have to do something for money", then he explains how numbers were one of the biggest ways for black people to earn money the fast way. This was introduced to Harlem by a lady named Madam Queen who brought the number game here from Cuba. Sometime later a well respected gentleman called Bumpy Johnson began to change the number's and emerged in Harlem in the 1930s up until the early 1960s he would control Harlem. Bumpy Johnson would eventually die from a heart attack.
After Bumpy's death a new era began and a drug dealer by the name of Leroy Nicky Barnes emerged taking over Harlem. Nicky Barnes took over Harlem in the mid 1960s until the mid 1970s when he was eventually convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. (Click here to view newspaper article.)

Following the rise and fall of Leroy Nicky Barnes, a man fifteen year's younger became one of the head men of Barnes organization. That man was Guy Fisher, a friend and business associate of Leroy Barnes. By 1977 Guy Fisher notability on the streets of New York was enhanced when he purchased the world famous Apollo Theater, for the first time in history the Apollo became a black owned theater. Shortly after the arrest and conviction of Leroy Nicky Barnes, he would become a government informant and testify in a federal court against Guy Fisher and a number of other organization members who are now presently serving a life plus sentence!.
Shortly after the Nicky Barnes & Guy Fisher era a new breed of young aspiring hustlers began to emerge on the scene through out New York City. By the 1980s black organized crime would be know longer in place but a new form of hustlers would take Harlem by storm and they would be known as crews. Every decade it seemed a new form of hustling would comes on the scene from the Bumpy Johnson era of numbers to Nicky Barnes era of heroin to now the explosive era of cocaine & crack which three young men took NYC by storm at the ages of sixteen and seventeen their names were Richard Porter, AZ and Alpo. These three young men would go on to be major players in the drug game but ultimately their greed and treachery would lead to kidnapping, betrayal and death. Black Organized Crime would never again have a place in the history of the urban under world from the 1930s up until the 1980s I would now say the GAME IS OVER! Street Stars would characterize these stories as the closes thing to reality to any man or woman who interested in pursuing life in the street.

Street Stars' purpose in producing these real-life accounts of life on the streets is to present facts to the youth of the United States broken society. Crime has no color and a bullet has no name on it. A child is not born with dreams of selling or using a half of key of cocaine. Society's teens are producing nothing but babies, AIDS, and nightmares for parents. Statistics show how out of every 15 teenagers, only three will be successful, the other twelve will fall short to the street, which reflect sex, drugs, jail, gangs, and death. The number one though of teenagers in the inner city districts through out the U.S. is "How can I become somebody -- right now!" This is very vital because the streets don't respect patience, because there is nothing slow about the streets. If you don't have the necessities that most teenagers have then you are considered a nobody. Education is not respected because it is not in a physical form, until it is accomplished. So now the question is what price will I pay to accomplish the American Dream?