Ethan Brown - Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

Randy Allen: Former executive with RUN-DMC DJ Jam Master Jays record label JMJ Records and member of hip-hop duo Rusty Waters.

Darryl Homicide or Hommo Baum: Stick-up kid murdered in June 2000 allegedly by the notoriously violent Brooklyn drug gang called Cash Money Brothers.

Charles Fisher: Former president of Rushland, a fan club that represented Rush Management artists RUN-DMC and LL Cool J. In the wake of Jam Master Jays killing in the fall of 2002, Fisher started a tipline to solicit anonymous tips about the crime.

Donald Francois: Former employee of JMJ Records and Rush Management.

Jeff Fludd: High-profile Hollis resident who started a crew called Two-Fifth Down with Jam Master Jay and also road managed RUN-DMC.

Irving Lorenzo aka Irv Gotti: Music business entrepreneur born and bred in Hollis who rose from the ranks at record labels such as TVT and Def Jam to become the CEO of his own Def Jam-distributed imprint, Murder Inc. (Currently known as The Inc.)

Christopher Lorenzo aka Chris Gotti: Irving Lorenzos brother and vice president of The Inc.

Damion World Hardy: Ex-boyfriend of rapper Lil Kim and allegedly the leader of a Brooklyn gang called Cash Money Brothers.

Douglas Butta Love Hayes: Highly respected Hollis resident who befriended RUN-DMCs Darryl DMC McDaniels and shielded him from neighborhood hustlers.

Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent: Small-time crack dealer turned superstar rapper. Sabrina, 50s mother, was a crack dealer and crack addict who worked in the shadows of a drug organization run by Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols on 150th Street and Sutphin Boulevard in the South Jamaica section of southeast Queens.

Rodney Jones aka Boe Skagz: Nephew of Jam Master Jay and member of the hip-hop duo Rusty Waters.

Karl Big D Jordan: Road manager for RUN-DMC and former vice president at Rush Management. Jordan was also a onetime suspect in the murder of Jam Master Jay.

Karl Little D Jordan Jr: Son of Big D who was arrested in the May 2003 shooting of Jam Master Jays nephew Boe Skagz.

Harold Lovey Lawson: Childhood friend of Jam Master Jays who lived on Jays 203rd Street block.

Randolph and Lamont Lucas: A pair of brothers from southeast Queens who killed a parole officer named Brian Rooney in 1985 at the behest of Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols. Randolph also served as an informant in the federal criminal conspiracy case against Jimmy Henchmen Rosemond.

Howard Pappy Mason: Lieutenant in the drug organization run by Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols who ordered the slaying of rookie cop Edward Byrne. Mason also ran his own drug gang called The Bebos.

Darryl DMC McDaniels: Hollis-born RUN-DMC MC and lyricist.

Kenneth Supreme McGriff aka Preme: The CEO of the crack-dealing crew called the Supreme Team. After his release from prison in 1995, he became a hip-hop entrepreneur who went into business with The Inc.s Irving Lorenzo on a straight-to-DVD movie calledCrime Partners.

Thomas Tony Montana Mickens: A Scarface-obsessed cocaine kingpin from the Springfield/Laurelton section of southeast Queens who amassed an empire of yachts, condos, and luxury cars.

Gerald Prince Miller: Nephew of Kenneth Supreme McGriff who ran the Supreme Team while McGriff was imprisoned.

Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay: RUN-DMC DJ from Hollis who was slain in his southeast Queens recording studio on October 30, 2002.

Freddie Nickels Moore: Hollis-bred former hustler and onetime manager of Tupac Shakur.

Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols: The most feared and powerful hustler in southeast Queens. The Nichols organization not only netted millions from the sale of crack, cocaine, and heroin but also supplied competing crews such as the Supreme Team with drugs.

Ernesto Puerto Rican Righteous Piniella: Supreme Team strongman bred in South Jamaica.

Joseph Bobo or Mike Bone Rogers: High-ranking lieutenant in the Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols organization.

Jimmy Henchmen Rosemond: Brooklyn-bred former hustler turned hip-hop producer and manager who has worked with everyone from Groove Theory to The Game.

Curtis Scoon: Former hustler from Hollis turned screenwriter and onetime suspect in the murder of Jam Master Jay.

Joseph Run Simmons: Hollis-born RUN-DMC rapper and lyricist.

Russell Simmons: Brother of Joseph Run Simmons and cofounder of the Def Jam record label and Rush Management.

Darnell Nellie D Smith: Onetime RUN-DMC DJ and crew member.

Eric E Money Bags Smith: Aspiring rapper and sometime hustler from the Lefrak City section of Queens who was murdered near a friends home in southeast Queens in 1999. Kenneth Supreme McGriff allegedly ordered the killing of Smith in retaliation for the murder of Supreme Team associate Colbert Black Just Johnson.

Eric Shake Smith: Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based real estate broker and longtime friend of Jam Master Jay.

Randy Stretch Walker: Hollis-bred rapper and manager who befriended Tupac Shakur in the early 1990s and was killed near his home in southeast Queens during the fall of 1995.

Ronald Tinard Washington: Southeast Queens stick-up kid and onetime suspect in the killings of both Walker and Jam Master Jay.

Richard White Boy Rick Wershe Jr.: Caucasian cocaine kingpin (hence the white boy nickname) from Detroit who allegedly ran a multimillion-dollar auto theft ring with Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols from a Florida prison. Longtime friend of rap-rock superstar Kid Rock.

Chaz Slim Williams: Hip-hop entrepreneur born in Harlem but raised in South Jamaica section of southeast Queens who mentored 50 Cent and worked with Kenneth Supreme McGriff on the Black Gangster soundtrack released in 1999.

Derek Talib Yancey: Friend and longtime associate of Curtis Scoon questioned by the feds during their investigation into Irving Lorenzo aka Irv Gotti and Kenneth Supreme McGriff.

Irv Gotti Lorenzo is ranting about the government with a ferocity and paranoia that are equal parts Oliver Stone and tinfoil-hat amateur conspiracy theorist. The plump, chipmunk-cheeked CEO of The Inc., the record label that counts Ashanti and Ja Rule among its R&B and hip-hop stars and has sold more than 14 million records, is sitting on an oversize brown leather desk chair in the companys cluttered offices at 440 9th Avenue near 34th Street on Manhattans West Side. He is in the middle of a long, discursive tirade about the nearly four-year federal investigation into his music business empire.