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On March 8th, 1995, 2Pac Shakur, arguably the World' s greatest Rapper, arrived at the Clinton Correctional facility in Dannemora, New York, secured in shackles. Tupac walked with his eyes looking forward and his head hung low through the same hardened steel gates of the hundred-and fifty-year-old prison that men such as " Lucky" Luciano and John Gotti had passed through before him. Little has been written or said about Tupac Shakur' s time inside...
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Get the Summary of Jada Pinkett Smith's Worthy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Jada Pinkett Smith was living what many would view as a fairy-tale of Hollywood success. But appearances can be deceiving, and as she felt more and more separated from her sense of self, emotional turmoil took hold. Sparing no detail, Worthy chronicles her life-from a rebellious youth running the Baltimore...
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His name is Touré--just Touré--and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities he's profiled, he has affected the way that we think about culture in America. He has profiled Eminem, 50 Cent, and Alicia Keys for the cover of Rolling Stone. He's played high-stakes poker with Jay-Z and basketball with Prince and Wynton Marsalis. In Touré's world, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. sits beside Condoleezza Rice who sits beside hip-hop pioneer Tupac Shakur,...
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Powerful...Poignant...Inspiring. As a child growing up in South Central Los Angeles, Gregory Marshall was enamored with the fast life. Money, women and cars were the things to have and Greg was determined to get them-by any means necessary. It wasn't long before the innocent youngster had turned into a cold-hearted gangster known around town simply as G Man. His ruthless life of crime made him a legend in South Central LA-and the go-to man for everyone...
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We the Young Fighters is at once a history of a nation, the story of a war, and the saga of downtrodden young people and three pop culture superstars. Reggae idol Bob Marley, rap legend Tupac Shakur, and the John Rambo movie character all portrayed an upside-down world, where those in the right are blamed while the powerful attack them. Their collective example found fertile ground in the West African nation of Sierra Leone, where youth were entrapped,...
66) The Continuance
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Imagine controversial rapper/actor Tupac Shakur surviving his second shooting in Las Vegas in 1996 and marrying a Grammy-award-winning R&B singer whom Almighty God also slated to die at a young age, but kept alive longer than planned. Couple this with the humongous hoops and hurdles that the outspoken poet had to go through for the next two decades before becoming the President of the United States of America, having his life finally expire after...
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An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on inside us when we listen....
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Beyond the Fighter is about one woman's journey through a monsoon of insurmountable odds. Overcoming streams of challenges, such as being a single parent, surviving a toxic relationship that quickly developed into domestic violence, and through no fault of her own, like many, she fell victim to the 2007 housing market collapse.
Inspired by a poem written by Tupac Shakur, "The Rose that Grew from Concrete," his poem, like Beyond the Fighter, offers...
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The author of LAbyrinth exposes the cover-up surrounding Biggie Smalls' murder with exclusive material from the FBI and his estate's wrongful death suit.
In his 2002 book LAbyrinth, acclaimed music journalist Randall Sullivan revealed the story of "gangsta cops" tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's rap label, Death Row Records-and allegedly to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Now in Dead Wrong, Sullivan chronicles more than a decade...
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In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." And, It Don't Stop, edited by the award winning journalist Raquel Cepeda, with a foreword from Nelson George is a collection of the best articles the hip-hop...
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Kevin Powell is one of the most prolific and acclaimed American writers, thinkers, activists, and public speakers of the past three decades. His writings are important contributions to our national conversations on race, gender, class, politics, pop culture, celebrity, hip-hop, and the past, present, and future of the United States.
The Kevin Powell Reader is an electric and deeply inspiring selection from Powell's lifework, spanning the Reagan-Bush...
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In this unique inspirational audiobook, together we take a deep dive and celebrate the almost superhuman contributions of the greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each of them educating, liberating, and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a cruel largely racist self-interested exclusionary society. Fighting a Goliath of ignorance with little chance of success, each, in their...
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In this unique inspirational audiobook, together we take a deep dive and celebrate the almost superhuman contributions of the greatest black leaders from the 20th century. Each of them educating, liberating, and freeing untold millions of souls from the heartless bondage they were forced to endure at the hands of a cruel largely racist self-interested exclusionary society. Fighting a Goliath of ignorance with little chance of success each, in their...
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Some fugitives go underground, never to be heard from again.
Still, every so often, one rises from the shadows to become a folk hero like Mutulu Shakur or El Chapo... Some become LEGENDS, even Liberators as G-Money did in Warrior Life's Book 1.
Hunted for the next decade by the F.B.I., C.I.A., Interpol, and every other major intelligence agency his vast shadow hacking network threatens, G-Money - like a real-life T'Challa in Black Panther -...
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Not many gangsters make it to the top. Few last long, especially black mafia bosses historically. Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes each had less than 10 years before they were taken down by the system, but against all odds, 20 years have passed since G-Money became the world's most powerful and wanted - and celebrated - fugitive.
With murals of his image on buildings next to Pac's in ghettos around the world, G-Money has become a literal urban legend...
76) The Ghetto Blues
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My legacy is important to me. I want to leave a legacy that my children and grandchildren could be proud of. A legacy that would be a blueprint for future generations to tweak and make better.
I write this book for future generations to learn, grow, and inspire to be a better you. This book is the story of my life and based on true events. It's about a young lady that struggled through her identity crisis and was raised in unstable environments and...
77) Dead Wrong
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In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan's groundbreaking book LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm with its startling disclosures about corruption in the LAPD. It told the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who uncovered a cabal of "gangsta cops" tied to Marion "Suge" Knight's notorious rap label, Death Row Records, and allegedly to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Over twenty years later, no one has been...
78) Love Poems
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In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur,...
79) Summary: Worthy
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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK.
This is a summary, and it does not accompany the official
'Worthy' by Jada Pinkett Smith is a deeply personal memoir revealing the complexities behind her seemingly fairy-tale Hollywood life. The book delves into her challenging journey, from her rebellious youth in Baltimore to her involvement in the drug trade, her profound connection with Tupac Shakur, and her eventual move to Los Angeles, where she carved...
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Hadha Baladuna ("this is our country") is the first work of creative nonfiction in the field of Arab American literature that focuses entirely on the Arab diaspora in Metro Detroit, an area with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the US. Narratives move from a young Lebanese man in the early 1920s peddling his wares along country roads to an aspiring Iraqi-Lebanese poet who turns to the music of Tupac Shakur for inspiration. The anthology...
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