While in her late 40s, Colombian cocaine queen Griselda Blanco liked to tell her friends, “I’m the baddest bitch to ever take a breath of life.” If you need proof, watch Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ With The Godmother, a spin-off of the 2006 documentary that drops today. While the original examined Miami drug trafficking in the late '70s and early '80s, the sequel focuses in on the post-Miami operation of Blanco (aka The Godmother), detailing how she fell in love with Oakland man Charles Cosby and recruited him to run her national cocaine distribution network while behind bars in the early '90s.
Told primarily through interviews with Cosby, along with archival footage and animated reenactments, CC2 is easily as riveting as the original. But while the first documentary offered broad social commentary about the effects of drug money on Miami, the sequel is much more of a focused character study about how these strange bedfellows developed a symbiotic relationship. If that doesn’t make you want to watch…did we mention that there’s a segment where they give instructions on how to cook crack? Either way, there’s something for the whole family. Watch the trailer here or learn how to win a copy of the DVD below.
Rapper 'PitBull' walks you through some of the highlights in the clip above from a new documentary hitting theatres that looks like kilos of fun to watch. It’s called ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ and offers a snap shot of some of the real kingpins and ballers that made a living shoveling tons of Ya-Yo down in Miami during the heyday in the 1980's. It's basically what inspired cult classic ‘Scarface.’ Don't get us wrong, we don't encourage massive international drug dealing cartels here at Complex, but there is something intriguing about having mountain lions as pets and burying money in garbage bags in your backyard cause drug profits are piling up too high. Check the official website for local listings and hope it’s coming to you a theatre near you.
