The Legacy Of An American Drug Dynasty: Third Generation Kingpin Reveals Secrets Of A Dope Empire

The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell

Johnny Mitchell

True Crime

4.3 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 253 minutes

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Cavario Hodges was raised in Harlem, New York. His entire family was involved in the illegal drug business in NYC for generations. He grew up around notorious figures like Nicky Barnes and Frank Lucas. Naturally, being surrounded by such activity led him down a similar path. He eventually starting running his own dope operation in Baltimore. His activities here was the foundation for the popular show The Wire. Seeing his future ending with either prison or death, he was saved by a spiritual awakening and left the criminal life for good. He tells us all about his road from kingpin to finding a higher and healthier purpose in life. Cavario also gives incredible insight and history of the drug trade in the Eastern United States. He is now an accomplished author and journalist and even conducts interviews for platforms like VladTV. Go Support Cavario! Website (all books available here): https://themindplugacademy.com/ YouTube: @Cavario.Online IG: https://www.instagram.com/themindplug/ This episode is #sponsored by Rocket Money! Stop wasting money on things you don’t use. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to https://www.rocketmoney.com/connect Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.7	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.5	They think they're better than us.
0:08.5	Who do you think you are?
0:09.7	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.5	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.3	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.1	There's a hierarchy within the game, and then there's a hierarchy within the crews
0:24.4	that are in the game.
0:25.5	So you had my sister and all my first cousins, then you had the generation before them,
0:30.6	which is my mother, my father, my uncles.
0:33.1	My mother was the Queen B.
0:34.9	They come in and, you know, I'm sitting to do my own work and how many
0:38.4	you want and they get two bags. I'm just at my job. I'm just working. I'm making $15,000 a day here.
0:45.5	Cavarrio Hodges grew up in Harlem, New York in the 1970s. He was raised by professional drug dealers.
0:51.4	Virtually every member of his family was involved in high-level
0:54.7	trafficking, including his mother, who was a captain in one of the largest dope rings in New York
0:59.5	City, led by infamous drug lords Nikki Barnes, Frank Lucas, and Cavario's uncle, Butch Cassidy.
1:06.0	Cavario grew up in drug royalty, a ghetto prince, if you will. And by the time he was in middle school, he was working at his family's spots in and around
1:14.1	Harlem.
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