The video discusses the story of Maxo Cream, an up-and-coming rapper from Houston, Texas. Maxo's rap career began to take off in 2012 after his remix of Kendrick Lamar's song "Rigamortis" was picked up by WorldStarHipHop. However, the feds think his rap career is a front for his real business: laundering money and selling drugs.
Maxo's crew, The Cream Clique, was allegedly involved in a large-scale drug trafficking operation, with over 1,000 pounds of narcotics and $300,000 laundered. The operation was discovered after USPS packages containing hydroponic marijuana were intercepted. Maxo and his crew were using the postal service to ship the drugs across state lines.
In 2018, Maxo Cream and another rapper, NFL Cartel Bo, filmed a music video for the song "Hoover" at Lakewood Park in East Houston, which is next to an elementary school. The video featured gang members and guns, and the police were eventually called. Most people in the video dropped their weapons and ran, but one person, NFL Cartel Bo, was caught with an assault rifle and later escaped from bail before being arrested again at the airport. He was sentenced to six and a half years in prison.
Despite the charges, Maxo Cream managed to dodge all the charges. He is still active in the rap scene, doing features with other artists and giving back to his community. However, his life has been marked by tragedy, having lost his cousin and brother to violence.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. A music video by Maxo Kream and NFL Cartel Bo, titled "Hoover," was posted on WorldStarHipHop and gained millions of views.
2. The video was shot in part at Lakewood Park in East Houston, next to Hilliard Elementary School.
3. Investigators identified federal violations in the video and arrested over 20 people.
4. Maxo Kream is from Alief, a neighborhood in southwest Houston.
5. The neighborhood is a melting pot with a large Asian community, Hispanic, black, and white population.
6. Places mentioned in Maxo Kream's music, such as Foreign Park and Spice Lane, are considered dangerous.
7. Houston is a major distributor of drugs, supplying cities like Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia.
8. The Crips and Bloods gangs migrated from California to Houston in the 1990s.
9. Maxo Kream's rap career started to gain traction in 2012 when WorldStarHipHop picked up his remix of Kendrick Lamar's song "Rigamortis."
10. Maxo Kream's crew, the Cream Clique, was investigated for money laundering and drug trafficking in 2016.
11. The investigation led to the recovery of 85 pounds of "cush," 2,000 Xanax pills, 13 weapons, body armor, cash, and jewelry.
12. Maxo Kream was banned from entering Canada and from leaving the United States.
13. Maxo Kream's younger brother was shot and killed in Los Angeles in 2023.
14. Maxo Kream has been involved in charity work, including supplying nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
15. The US Attorney's Office has a bulletin focused on rap and gangs, and how to acquire evidence of gang conspiracy.
16. The DEA and the feds handle cases involving interstate commerce, including the shipping of narcotics across state lines.