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Street Tales, Grisly and Raw; Grim True-Crime Magazine Hits Home With Inmates By CHRIS HEDGES Published: December 06, 1999 Alberto Martinez, known as Alpo, once one of the biggest cocaine dealers in Harlem and Washington, was on the phone with Antoine Clark, the editor, reporter and photographer of F.E.D.S. magazine. Mr. Clark paced back and forth, slipping into prison jargon as he interviewed Mr. Martinez, who was talking from a maximum-security cell in a prison outside New York that he did not want named. Although Mr. Clark had to cajole and coax details out of him, Mr. Martinez wanted F.E.D.S. to publish his descriptions of some of the 14 murders to which he had confessed before he became a government witness. Criminal confessions and tales of the dark side of hip-hop life are a staple of F.E.D.S., for Finally Every Dimension of the Streets. The gruesome authenticity of these interviews has won a fast audience on Rikers Island, where inmates pass photocopies through ...