The Life of Street Ball Legends Pee Wee Kirkland and Earl "The Goat" Manigault

This story has held my interest for so many years. Mainly because it shows how easily it is to fall victim to a life of crime. Pee Wee Kirkland is a legendary street ball player in New York. He ran with the best of them and even caught the attention of the NBA. In 1969, The Chicago Bulls even shown interest in signing him to play for them. But, a young Pee Wee Kirkland had other plans that pushed his goals and ambition to the back. At the time, Pee Wee Kirkland was attending Norfolk State College in Virgina. He was labeled the fastest man in college basketball by Sports Illustrated. Outside of school and basketball Kirkland led a very flashy lifestyle. He had the decision of a lifetime to make a decision that will change his life forever vice verse which side he chose. He could either play professional ball for the Bulls under the now former coach, Dick Motta or return to New York and become hood rich overnight. He chose New York. Sadly, in 1971 Pee Wee Kirkland was arrested on several criminal charges including tax evasion. He was convicted of conspiracy to selling narcotics and sent to The Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary. It was there that he will begin a 10 year sentence. He was released from prison in 1981. He then dedicated his life to preventing kids from being trapped in the belly of the beast. Check out below the story of Pee Wee Kirkland

Another street ball legend is Earl "The Goat" Manigault. He was said to be the king of his own generation of ballplayers. Due to a heroin addiction he never knew his incredible potential as a professional basketball player. He would bring fans to their feet during one on one competitions in New York City playgrounds. These one on one competitions would be against now professional athletes such as Connie Hawkins and Lew Alcindor whom will be later named Karim Abdul Jabbar. Still to this very day professional athletes sing praises of Earl. He openly admitted in The New York Times that he let thousands of people down. 
Earl was a frequent participant in the Harlem Ruckers Tournament which majority drew top level players. Meaning if you weren't good you probably didn't get to participate. His jumping abilities is what captivated a lot of people. He was a little over 6'9" and able to pick a quarter off of a backboard. He even won a sixty dollar bet from dunking backwards thirty-six times in a row. He was kicked out of school after being accused of smoking pot in the locker room. He then attended a prep school in North Carolina. As he continued to build a reputation for being an outstanding ball player in the playgrounds of Harlem, he received visits from recruiters after completing prep school. A lack of academic confidence and self-motivation led him to over look major colleges and attend John C.Smith University instead. He suffered in academics and was basically using street ball rules in college basketball and eventually less than a year he left college. He then hit rock bottom after returning home. He started using heroin and developed a $100 per day habit. Unable to keep a job, he resorted to thievery to support his habit. which included stealing mink coats from the garment district in New York. Meanwhile, his basketball skills were withering away. In the 1965 Ruckers Tournament he fell down twice because he was unable to keep his balance. By 1968, he completely stop visiting the parks that helped build his fame. He then entered many rehabilitation facilities but, was still unable to shake his habit. In 1969, he was arrested for drug possession. After serving 16 months he was granted with a try out with The Utah Stars. However, he didn't make it due to his addiction robbing him of his skills. By 1977, he was re-arrested for attempted robbery and sent back to prison for two years. Upon his release he fled to South Carolina with two of his sons and finally lived a clean and sober life. Due to congestive heart failure, Earl "The Goat" Manigault died in 1998. He will forever be a legend for many generations to follow.  Check out his interview below:

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The Story Of Frank Matthews

One thing that I vowed to do before changing OnlyRocky over to a gossip blogsite is to write about topics that everyone will be entertained from reading.  I dedicated myself to not only write about celebrity gossip but, to use this site as a detour to some young girl or boy that is traveling down a road of destruction.  Some might read this site and think that some articles glorify drug dealers and gangsters.  It doesn't it gives you the end of their demise.  It gives that seventeen year old boy that's considering drug slanging the possible end results of being a drug dealer.  Every child isn't able or comfortable enough to go to a parent, adult, or family member/friend to discuss certain things.  I want to provide an informative platform for THAT child.  So, now that we got that out the way let's move on to some old but juicy information from the past.

Out of all the crime stories that we read and hear about on a daily basis seldom, do we witness a successful ending.  Either someone is murdered, committed murder, dead, or incarcerated. Fortunately, this isn't any of the circumstances when regarding Frank Matthews.  For those of you who aren't familiar with the story of Frank Matthews I'm going to give you a brief rundown.  Frank Matthews was a self made millionaire in the drug trade of the 70's era.  He started of in the numbers racket and his desire for more money directed him to sell drugs.  After being turned by two major crime families, The Gambinos and The Bonnanos to help supply him with narcotics he joined forces with a Cuban cocaine dealer.  This connection was made through Harlem's number runner, Raymond Marquez.
In less that one year, Matthews became one of New York's biggest drug dealers.  Matthews proclaimed the image of Robin Hood until crossed.  By the early 70's, his organization was handling multi-million dollar shipments in at least 21 states.  According to the Government, Matthews was controlling the cutting, packaging, and selling of heroin to every major East Coast city.
As his empire grew, he was given the name of Black Ceaser.  Of course, years later the movie, Black Ceasar and Hell Up In Harlem will be made emulating the life and disapperance of Frank Matthews portrayed by actor Fred Williamson..  It wasn't unusual to see Frank out in Harlem with a mink sable, leather safari suit, pipe in his mouth and a harem of beautiful, exotic women.  Frank had six mistress spread across New York City in six of his apartments.  He drove a fleet of Cadillacs that he paid for with cash money.  During frequent trips to Las Vegas, he would lose as much as $190,000 in one gambling session.  That was nothing to him.  His main reason for visiting was to launder his drug money through his business contacts. 
Eventually, Frank moved his family to a multi-million dollar home and sent his children to private school.  Paul Castellano was growing irritated with Frank's flamboyant lifestyle and didn't take to kindly to Frank moving into his neighborhood.  Of course, this caused contemplations of Castellano murdering Frank.  Fortunately for Frank, Castellano was murdered before his plan came into motion. 
Frank Matthews was the only black man affiliated with The French Connection.  His net worthed was sixty million dollars.  Instead of  re-investing his profits into his drug business, he invested it into real estate and put additional funds into overseas money laundering havens.  Authorities estimated that he deposited at least one million dollars into a special savings account. 
In 1972, Frank's supplier was arrested in Miami, FL.  Frank was arrested a few weeks later and could possibly face 50 years in prison. 
On July 2, 1973, Frank Matthews was scheduled to appear in court.  He never showed.  He and girlfriend, Denise Brown disappeared with 20 million dollars in cash.  The authorities have been looking for him since.
As always I am forever grateful for your constant support by reading Only Rocky. May you blessed abundantly..Peace........

Street Files

For the last few weeks I have been M.I.A.  However, I am back and this time in full effect.  I would like to continue posting out of the block.  This topic should be of concern to anyone who had or has the opportunity to mentor someone that you fill is heading to a road of destruction.  In this article you will find different stories provided by different sites about the consequences kids face from traveling down dark paths.  Through these different young men you will see why it's so easy to succumb to a life of destruction.  Something that starts off so innocent can end up being a disaster.  Something so mediocre as a rap song can turn your child into a beast.  Check out the story below about George "Boy George" Rivera.

By the age of 21, George "Boy George" Rivera was a multi-millionaire.  He was brilliant, ambitious, and seen an opportunity to be an entrepreneur and ran with it.  Unfortunately, that was to be a drug entrepreneur.  Allegedly, he made over $15 million in a two year run. Boy George and his Bronx, NY based heroin organization grossed $250,000 a week. Boy George, barely out of his teens, built himself a reputation of being one of the wealthiest drug lords to come out of New York and one of the youngest to be charged with the kingpin statute. During this time in the 80's the crack epidemic was growing and kept the attention of the higher ups.  Therefore, this kept the attention off of his heroin ring.  Just like most young men in the streets, George became flashy and flamboyant.  On Christmas Eve he rented a yacht and threw a party and gave his whole crew Rolex watches for a token of his appreciation.  Little did he know was that this party would be the party that leads to his demise.  There were three off duty New York City detectives aboard as part of the yacht security.   However when it came time to talk to the DEA, these detectives were uncooperative and during George’s trial they remained steadfast in their refusal to testify to what they had witnessed.  But, we all know that drug game is a dirty game and few remain with with stories to tell. The eventually convicted him of attempted tax evasion charged in count fourteen and to one count of using or carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime used by narcotics dealers to camouflage their activities.  He once quoted in an interview with DonDiva Magazine that "if he had made it to his car, he would be a free man".  This is from an obsession with purchasing cars with the same gadgets as James Bond cars.  Point of the story is he didn't make it to his car.

LOYALTY
At the age of 15, Calvin Klein was in and out of prison.  He caught an attempted murder case in Maryland with  young Jay-Z that had him looking at a 45 year bid, if convicted.  Because the rapper Jay- Z had a promising career in rap he took the plea bargain and paid $50,000 to have Jay Z dropped from the case.  Calvin Klein played a major part in the streets of New York along with his now deceased partner, Danny.  This all led to 14yrs out of his youth.  Klein was promised by Jay-Z that when he was released from prison Jay would take care of him (financially).  Unfortunately, when he came home Jay proved not to be a man of his word and renigged on his offer of financial support and raped Klein of his image.  The moral of this story is there's limited loyalty in the fast life.

TRUST
Wayne Perry is known in the Washington, D.C. area as one of the most notorious hit men.  Where as Perry mastered the act of murder, he failed the test of trust.  Had Wayne followed the rules of the street and trusted no one he probably will free at this moment.  But, he broke all rules by trusting and joining forces with a now known "RAT" that will sell out and murder his own friends for the love of money.  Wayne Perry is the cousin of Rayford Edmond.  Rayford is who allegedly introduced Washington, D.C. to  crack cocaine.  It has been rumored that Wayne was involved of the murder of NBA prospect, Karlton Hines.  Hines dropped out of sports with the same goals as many other misled black boys to be a successful drug dealer.  Allegedly, he also been rumored to have involvement in over 100 murders.  He was labeled top enforcer to successfully carry out hits for drug crews and drug cartels.  In fact, he was so feared that whenever he drove through the streets of D.C. in his Mercedes crews would scatter because they knew if they seen him it was about to get ugly.  His activities outside of murder was bank robberies and gambling.  Wayne was hired as protection for then 17 yr. old drug dealer from Harlem, N.Y., Alpo Martinez.  A lot of you have heard of Alpo through the movie "Paid N Full". His character was portrayed by rapper, Cameron.  Allegedly, Wayne carried out many hits in order to keep Alpo alive.  However, things did pan out as they should have.  Wayne Perry is now serving life sentences in the Control Unit of ADX prison.  This is the result of trusting someone you don't know. 

LEADERS
Karlton Hines was an excellent basketball player at the age of 15.  He received over 35 letters from colleges around the world for the sport of basketball.  But, he had his mind set on Syracuse.  He was an all-star with similar skills of Lebron James.  Due to ferocious dunks he was nicknamed Duncan Hines.  But all of this changed after an argument with his coach and he decided to quit the team four months before his graduation.  After battling self-depression, he decided to play a few pick up games for money with a friend.  He was paid by drug dealers between 5 and 10 thousand dollars to play against other players.  He  became intrigued with the drug dealing lifestyle and shortly after he began hustling.  He was arrested at the age of 18 for stabbing a neighborhood man with a broken bottle.  This was in self defense.  He was released in 30 days.  The he hustled with a vengeance.  He was eventually assigned a team to hustle with him and the crew started averaging 100,000 per day.  After the birth of his second child he decided to get out of the drug game.  He was later approached to try out for the United Basketball society from a recruiter.  Karlton's friend, Bee-o threw a party for Karlton on his birthday.  Karlton was having custom-made seats put in his Lexus; they went to the shop to pick up his car.  One of the detailers was trying to talk him into purchasing a car alarm system.  After following the salesperson to question how the system worke he was frozen as bullets began to ring out.  When the shots stopped, the crew realized it Carlos was hit.  While others were rushing to his side, they saw Karlton lying on the ground in his own blood.  Karlton Hines died April 8,1994.  The moral of this story is to be a leader.  Because following can cost you your life.  
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