Street Legends Vol. 2 by Seth Ferranti

Author:Seth Ferranti [Ferranti, Seth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780980068719
Amazon: 0980068711
Publisher: Gorilla Convict Publications
Published: 2010-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Short North Posse

Short North Posse

In Columbus, Ohio there was a group of youngsters that held it down like original gangsters. They lived by the code of the street and kept it old school. The feds claimed the Short North Posse terrorized their neighborhood, an area called the Short North, that was adjacent to the Ohio State University. But the Posse didn’t terrorize the neighborhood, they held it down with an old school mentality and gangster code that emulated their predecessors from back in the day. They fought wars to keep the neighborhood sucker free. Keeping the big city drug barons and dealers out. They carried it like generations of Columbus City gangsters carried it before them. With honor and integrity, gunplay and heart, fierceness and loyalty- they represented for the Short North. Proudly flying the four finger salute.

With their street rep on one million and their neighborhood on blast the feds blew the spot and indicted the Posse on the biggest case ever in Ohio- 46 defendants charged on over 210 counts. The case exploded in the media and created major hype. But what fueled the legend over the years, giving it life, was the success of one of the main snitches on the case, another Columbus alumni- street lit author Vickie Stringer of Triple Crown Publications. While the Short North Posse took theirs and kept it moving, doing football numbers in the feds, Vickie Stringer rose to fame and fortune off their tradedy. It was the Posse’s blood that was shed to mark her ascension. Now it’s time to set the record straight.

Part 1- Short North Back in the day there was a crew on Columbus’ North Side that was holding it down. In the late 1980s and early 1990s they regulated their neighborhood and held gangsta status throughout the city. They called themselves the Short North Posse and the crew has gone down in infamy. It was said that any outsider who dared to sell drugs in the Short North Posse’s territory was beaten and robbed or even killed. Wars for control of the neighborhoods streets raged as hustlers from Detroit and Indiana tried to move in on the area but failed repeatedly. They were repulsed, beat back and sent packing, violently if necessary. “It was I think 86 or 87. A guy named Detroit Dre opened a spot on our main corner, the corner of Fourth and Eighth,” says Rah, a long time resident. “He was doing shit that people in the media was talking about. Boarding little niggas up in crack houses and shit and somebody massacred dude. I mean, it was so bloody that they didn’t reopen the house. Blood was all over the ceilings. That was the situation that reaffirmed those niggas commitment to restrict all outside entrance to the Short. The Short North Posse held it down for Short North. They didn’t let no outsiders run our streets, let alone set up shop.” In the Short North there were rules and the members of the Posse enforced them.

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