Inside The Gang World Of Willie Lloyd: The 'King Of Kings' Who Couldn't Leave

Willie Lloyd joined a street gang before he was a teenager, founded his own faction at sixteen, and spent fifteen years in an Iowa prison writing a sixty-one-page constitution for an organization that now operates in twenty-eight states. He ran a fifty-thousand-dollar-a-day cocaine empire from a prison pay phone. He built a theology still being enforced in federal courtrooms in twenty twenty-five. He survived three assassination attempts. The fourth left him paralyzed. He knew who ordered it — and never said their names. This is how he built it. This is why he couldn't leave it. And this is why the Unknown Vice Lords were just indicted in Memphis, Tennessee — fifty-eight years after a kid in Ghost Town made the word unknown his identity. DISCLAIMER: This documentary is produced for educational and historical purposes only. The criminal activities depicted are condemned in the strongest possible terms. We do not glorify, promote, or condone violence, drug trafficking, or any illegal activity described in this video.