Nearly every night that "Freeway" Rick Ross spent in prison, the same nightmare filled his head: He and his crew are sitting around a table piled high with hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and more money than they could count. His Nicaraguan supplier is there, too. Everyone's smiling and laughing as ...

The city of Chicago has a longstanding history of producing many of the brightest stars that the Hip-Hop world has ever known. With chart toppers stretching as far back as the 90s with rapid-fire rhymes of multi-platinum rapper Twista and Common to the latest Chi-town explosions Kanye West and Ludacris, ...

Bringing Me Down Born in Inglewood, California, to a musical family, Paris Montgomery was immediately drawn to singing and being on stage. At age 5, Paris was already performing on stage and recording with his godmother (gospel artist Mary Floyd), while sharpening his chops on stage at music festivals such as ...

This Week on AcrossTheFader.net we are doing a focus on the Freeway Enterprise, a music group owned by Freeway Ricky Ross. Today's Artist is Cryciz, a former standout from the early 1990's USC Basketball team. Cryciz aka Avondre Jones had a tough year in college when ...