Documented intersection between Brooklyn’s Cash Money Brothers and the later McGriff/Supreme Team network in Queens.
New York street-history narratives often place famous figures into one informal citywide underworld. Federal records show a more precise pattern: distinct borough-based organizations could remain independent yet still exchange personnel or commission violence across organizational boundaries.
The Cash Money Brothers, led by Damion “World” Hardy, controlled narcotics activity in the Lafayette Gardens Houses through much of the 1990s and early 2000s. A feud following the 1999 killing of Hardy’s brother produced a series of retaliatory homicides and established Aaron “E-Bay” Granton as a feared CMB enforcer.
After his original Supreme Team period and imprisonment, Kenneth McGriff operated a later enterprise engaged in wholesale heroin and cocaine trafficking. Federal prosecutors proved that this enterprise used contract killings against rivals, including Eric “E. Money Bags” Smith and Troy Singleton.
The clearest bridge is Aaron Granton. Federal prosecutors stated that a separate gang identified as the Supreme Team recruited Granton in 2001 to participate in Troy Singleton’s murder. This is not evidence that CMB merged with the Supreme Team. It is evidence of a specific cross-organizational service relationship.
This period also overlaps with hip-hop narratives involving E. Money Bags, Black Just, Darryl Baum, 50 Cent, and McGriff. These references are historically useful but should be layered over the court record rather than substituted for it.