Scott Storch Raked in Hip-Hop Millions and Then Snorted His Way to Ruin

(AltWeekly Award Winner, 2011) When Scott Storch was 8 years old, he was dizzied by a soccer cleat to the head. His mom did not take such injuries in stride. She had been apoplectic when Scott lost his baby teeth in a living-room dive five years earlier, leaving him with a Leon Spinks grin. “I was an overly worrisome mother,” admits Joyce Yolanda Storch, who goes mainly by her middle name. “I was overbearing to a fault.”