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Thug Life - The True Story of Hip-Hop and Organized Crime (Hardcover)
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Thug Life - The True Story of Hip-Hop and Organized Crime (Hardcover)
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“Ferranti continues to amaze us with the most infamous OGs and
their unfathomable street life.”—The Source “Seth Ferranti is
one of the most prolific true-crime writers of our era. He knows
the street game inside and out. From the streets to the
penitentiary, nobody rates better.”—“White Boy Rick” Wershe
From the penitentiary to the streets, it’s on and popping. Thug
life is more than spitting rhymes or hustling on the corner. Thugs
live and die on the streets or end up in the “belly of the
beast.” Rappers name-drop guns by model number and call out drug
dealers by name. Gangsta rap is crack-era nostalgia taken to the
extreme. It’s a world where rappers emulate their favorite hood
stars in videos, celebrate their names in verse, and make ghetto
heroes out of gangsters. But what happens when hip-hop and
organized crime collide? From the blocks in Queens where Supreme
and Murder Inc. held court to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles
where Harry-O and Death Row made their names to Rap-A-Lot Records
and J Prince in Houston, whenever rap moguls rose the street
legends weren’t far behind. From Bad Boy Records and Anthony
“Wolf” Jones in New York to Gucci Mane and the Black Mafia
Family in Atlanta to Too Short and Daryl Reed in the Bay Area, thug
life wasn’t glamorous. The shit on the street was real. In the
game there was a common struggle to get out of the gutter. Cats
were trying to get their piece of the American Dream by any means
necessary. Drug game equals rap game equals hip-hop hustler. In
Thug Life, Seth Ferranti takes you on a journey to a world where
gangsterism mixes with hip-hop, a journey of pimps, stick-up kids,
numbers men, drug dealers, thugs, players, gangstas, hustlers, and
of course the rappers who live dual lives in entertainment and
crime. The common denominator? Money, power, and respect.
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