Listen to music from Ponydown like Tuesdays of Danger, California Rodeo & more. The city's automobile industry has suffered from global competition and has moved much of the remaining production out of Detroit. Young Boys Incorporated, also known as YBI, was among the first African-American drug cartels that operated on street corners and created the formula for modern day "super gang" drug dealing. Pony Down (Prelude) is the debut EP by Detroit hip hop duo Drive-By. In the process, he encountered four additional groups. Stream The Detroit Cocaine 80's (2019) Mixtape by G. Twilight . In 1980 Taylor set out to study Detroit's two biggest and most powerful youth gangs: Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down. I chill in Detroit on the East side of town I can remember when niggas screamed "Pony Down!" The 70-year old Buttrum kept a low profile in his final years. He truly paints pictures with his words but not with pastels but with hues of … But in April 2017, he was paroled thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions arguing that because their brains were not fully developed at the time of their crimes, kids should face more lenient sentences than adult perpetrators. November 24, 2019 – Detroit street legend Leroy (Gun) Buttrom, founder and boss of the notorious Pony Down gang, died recently of natural causes. One Tuesday night in 1987, a couple of days before New Year’s Eve, Espree, then a 16-year-old high school dropout, was hanging out with some older friends from a gang called Pony Down. Bootleg(Lost From The Lost Vault Vol.1) Bruce Wayne(Gotham City_1987) Closed Casket. and Pony Down organizations. Pony Down Prelude. Coyle V.I.P. The evening news also gave extensive coverage to the lives, and oftentimes deaths, of homegrown street legends like Maserati Rick Carter, Butch Jones and Ed Hanserd. Big Ed, Maserati Rick, who received his name for his purchase of lavish and exotic possessions, Pony Down, a group of youths that were quite similar to YBI of the 70s, D. Holloway, who was more of an old school hustler with multiple revenue streams, and the Chambers Brothers whose ambitious hustling tactics led them high profits but also their downfall. Pony Down sprung up from an area near West Seven Mile rd and Murray Hill in northwest Detroit. The Young Boys were innovative, opening franchises in other cities, promoting brand names, and unleashing extreme brutality to frighten away rivals. Dead Flowers. completely took over the heroin trade in and around Detroit with sales estimated at about $250,000 per day. Using information from declassified federal documents and many firsthand accounts, the book focuses on the city's local Mafia, key mobsters, drug kingpins, serial killers, and unsolved crimes. Esham. Not so with Carl S. Taylor, adjunct professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University and director of the Criminal Justice Program at Jackson Community College. He's a little more rough around the edges yet holds true to his name, bold. Now look! James Lowery (born June 26, 1973), also known as Anybody Killa, or ABK, is a rapper from Detroit, Michigan, whose stage persona is that of a Native American warrior. ... Pony Down (Prelude) (Re-issue) (w/ Drive-By) (2008) Medicine Bag (2010) The Registered Agent on file for this company is Amanda Blanden and is located at 12826 Coyle, Detroit, MI 48227. Strike 1 Mix. Tales of the Shakespearean "Black Scarfaces" of Detroit in the 1980's. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Young Boys Incorporated, also known as Y.B.I., was a major drug organization in Detroit, Michigan, who were among the first African American drug cartels to operate on inner-city street corners. Strike 2 Mix. Directed by Flip Wilson. The entire Pony Down hierarchy was indicted in 1985, the same year Baby Ray Peoples was slain, allegedly on Jones’ orders. Gangstas in Detroit: YBI - Young Boys Inc. (Butch Jones), Pony Down, The Chambers' Brothers, Purple Gang, BestFriends, Maserati Rick, Black Killers, Akrawi-Kalasho Syndicate, Errol Flynns, Big Ed hanserd, The Jones Organization, Murder Row, Parker/Black Ring, The Outlaws Ponydown Club is a Michigan Domestic Non-Profit Corporation filed on July 3, 1984. The city of Detroit, Michigan, has gone through a major economic and demographic decline in recent decades.The population of the city has fallen from a high of 1,850,000 in 1950 to 701,000 in 2013. However, a conviction in December of 1982 following a major narcotics sweep that also brought down the leadership of Y.B.I. He is signed to Psychopathic Records. Drive By. Detroit-based rapper, actor, and film director, Al Nuke, explains, “To my knowledge, ‘What Up Doe?’ emerged in 1983, and it had a lot to do with the Pony Down gang. Growing up outside of Detroit in the ’80s, ... White Boy Rick) and gangs (Errol Flynns, Pony Down) had yet to produce a single rap act of note. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The Errol Flynns evolved, like other Detroit street gangs such as their Westside Detroit counterparts in the late 70's the Nasty Flynns (later the NF Bangers) and Black Killers" or drug consortiums of the 1980's such as Young Boys Inc., Pony Down, Best Friends, Black Mafia Family and the Chambers Brothers, out of the racial and economic unrest that transformed Detroit in the late 1960s and 1970s. Buttrom Willis began focusing in on more profitable locations held true by sellers employed by Young Boys Inc. Pony Down infractions upon Young Boys turf resulted in several shootings amoung the enforcement arms of both gangs. I wanted to demonstrate the resemblance between how Tony Montana's (Al Pacino) meteoric rise in wealth and position as head cocaine trafficker and how Black gangsters of Detroit's coke/crack era were equally as rich and powerful during the same time period. (including 41 of it's top lieutenants) left a void and huge demand for illicit substances throughout the drug community of Detroit. Local headlines were dominated by the exploits of notorious local drug organizations such as YBI and Pony Down. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Pony Down (Prelude) - Drive By, Drive-By on AllMusic - 2008 Listen free to Drive-By – Pony Down (Prelude) (Hear Us Commin', The Arrival and more). Source "Heroin Ring Grows to Fill Young Boys' Shoes", Detroit Free Press, October 2, 1983. The state sent him to die in prison. with similar paraphernalia sponsored by the Pony Down boys. Boldy James is not just your average rapper. About two years after its formation, Y.B.I. “Gun” Buttrom went on the run and was a fugitive for 13 months prior to being caught in a routine traffic spot on I-94 heading towards Chicago.