DJ Drama & Freeway Rick Ross Hosts ‘Crack In The System’ Private Screening [PHOTOS]

Freeway Rick Ross (@freewayricky) & DJ Drama (@djdrama)

Last night, Atlanta welcomed one of the drug game’s most well-known kingpins to the city to host a private screening of “Crack In The System.”   Freeway Rick Ross (or The “Real” Rick Ross as he’s called nowadays) alongside DJ Drama hosted the screening at CineBistro in Brookhaven. Many of Freeway’s supporters and influential people within the entertainment industry packed the theater to see first hand accounts of his life and the 80s/90s drug epidemic.

Film director, Carla Saunders (@carla_saunders) & Freeway Rick Ross (@freewayricky)

Freeway Rick Ross (@freewayricky) & Ms. Bels

Keisha Knight Pulliam (@keishaknightpulliam) & Ms. Bels

@djdrama

The documentary was interesting in that it explained the intricate relationship between Freeway Rick, the Nicaragua drug lords, the U.S. government, and the Iran-Contra affair.  The film started off with Freeway bluntly stating why he got into the drug game. He stated, “I was born to be a drug dealer. My job was to get everybody high.” And that’s essentially what he did.

Long after dreams of becoming the next Arthur Ash, Freeway became the largest crack cocaine dealer on the west coast. He, at his peak, sold as much as $1,000,000 per day in dope. Eventually, his operations spanned across the U.S. to places like Ohio and Arkansas. After his Nicaraguan plug turned informant, Freeway was convicted (for a second time) and spent approximately 20 years in prison. He was released in 2009.

“Crack In The System” revisits Freeway’s life story, but also the film challenges the 1986 Crack Laws and the governments participation in the war on drugs.

For more information about the film, follow @FreewayRicky @FreewayTheMovie on Twitter! #CrackInTheSystem