4 Real Stories, 4 Ways Into Hollywood — One Financed It, One Played Herself

Hollywood loves a street story — but the real people behind those stories found very different ways onto the screen. In this true crime compilation we follow four of them. Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff of the Supreme Team put up money for a straight-to-DVD movie with Irv Gotti and Murder Inc., and federal agents followed the money. Felicia "Snoop" Pearson went from a Baltimore prison sentence to playing a version of herself on The Wire. Frank Lucas sold his life story and became American Gangster. And the Harlem crew behind Paid in Full saw their lives turned into a cult classic. Using court records, interviews and contemporary reporting, we look at what each of them gained — and lost — when Hollywood came calling. Subscribe to Bloody Reports for new true crime documentaries every week. #TrueCrime #BlackHistory #HipHopHistory