NYPD's Secret Hip-Hop Dossier

OCTOBER 8--New York Police Department intelligence units have monitored street gangs, anarchists, and mob families. The NYPD's so-called Red Squad even monitored suspected Commies and leftist groups. And rap stars have also gotten the special intel treatment, with the production of a voluminous dossier on performers and their bodyguards and posse members. The 500-page NYPD report contains rap sheets, mug shots, and incident reports on many of hip-hop's biggest stars (below you'll find excerpts of the confidential NYPD dossier). We've included NYPD documents on Jay-Z (Shawn Carter); Ja Rule (Jeffrey Atkins); 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson); P Diddy (Sean Combs); Nas (Nasir Jones); DMX (Earl Simmons); Busta Rhymes (Trevor Smith); Flavor Flav (William Drayton); Fabolous (John Jackson); Capone (Kiam Holley); Noreaga (Victor Santiago); Cam'ron (Cameron Giles); record executive Irv Gotti (Irving Lorenzo); and Roc-A-Fella Records boss Damon Dash. Apologies on the reproduction of some mug shots--our copy of the police dossier is sketchy in places. Our favorite documents are the NYPD reports recounting instances when the rappers themselves called the cops to report crimes. Busta, for instance, once needed help when his baby mommy attacked him and pulled hair out of his head. 50 reported three separate assaults, during which he was shot, stabbed, punched in the head, and clobbered with a tire iron. For more on rappers and the law, have a look at Court TV's "Hip Hop Justice." (24 pages)

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