
Cesar takes CJ to witness both Smoke and Ryder emerging from a garage and talking to Officer Tenpenny a "Green Sabre" car that is involved in the slaying of CJ's mother is inside. When CJ returns and begins his rise in the Grove Street Families, Ryder becomes increasingly jealous even though he is already aligned with the Ballas. In The Introduction, Big Smoke approaches him with an offer to betray the Grove Street Families in order to break into the drug trade. He fancies himself a "genius" and claims that he did not finish school because he was "too intelligent" and not because of his involvement with the GSF. Ryder has delusions of grandeur and a possible Napoleon complex stemming from his small stature.

In an effort to supply the GSF with new firearms and weapons, Ryder calls in CJ to help steal some weaponry from several locations, including the home of a heavily armed war veteran (Colonel Fuhrberger), a forcibly stopped ammunition train and a National Guard weapons depot.

Strongly resembling the late rapper Eazy E by wearing a baseball hat and jheri curl, is a senior member of the Grove Street Families, who lives in a home neighboring the Johnson House and smokes large quantities of marijuana laced with PCP.
