Backstage: Street Chronicles by Nikki Turner

Author:Nikki Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780345517258
Publisher: One World Trade Paperbacks Ballantine Books
Published: 2009-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

Trapp drove the aluminum-gray Maserati with care on the Long Island Expressway. “I can’t believe it. Two weeks ago I was just regular old Trapp from the hood. Now I’m Big Trapp. I’m Hood Rich in one day.”

When Trapp got to Brentwood, he drove the Maserati through every block that was popping. By the next day his whole hood was talking.

It didn’t stop there. Ronald kept his promise and Trapp’s new single “Trapp or Die” was in rotation on every major radio station in the world. “Trapp or Die” was a huge success early on. “Trapp or Die” reached number one on the hot singles charts in two weeks.

Trapp shot a video in his hood, and just as Ronald promised, the video premiered on every music TV station. Trapp was quickly catapulted into rap superstardom overnight.

Trapp couldn’t go to the mall, or to the local bodega, because he was too famous. There was a riot at South Shore Mall because Trapp went to Foot Locker to cop a pair of Jordans. It would take Trapp twenty minutes to get a Dutch Master because he had to sign fifty autographs before he could leave. All this fame and he didn’t even have an album out yet, just a single.

Trapp’s whole lifestyle changed. He was becoming bourgeois because of his new associates. He was mingling with important New York socialites who accepted Trapp because of his newfound success. If it weren’t for that, they wouldn’t even let Trapp use their bathrooms.

“How’s the rest of the album coming out?” Ronald asked.

“It’s coming out hot as ever, Ron.” Trapp was lying.

Trapp ran into a little problem. He was running out of new material to steal from the rhyme book. The only songs left were songs that JJ already recorded before he got locked up. Trapp knew that if he recorded them, people that had JJ’s CD would automatically know that Trapp stole his lyrics straight from JJ Gates.

It was crunch time for Trapp. Either he used the songs or forfeit getting more money from the label.

“Fuck it, don’t nobody know JJ Gates like that anyway, he was just a local cat,” Tripp reassured himself. “Plus that nigga doing life, he can’t do nothing with them.”

Trapp went into the studio and began recording all of the songs in JJ’s rhyme book. He completed his album and turned it in to Ronald. When Trapp’s album was released, it reached the number one spot in the country, selling one million units in the first week.

Trapp was officially a rap star. He was leaving a legacy that would live on for years to come. A legacy that was stolen.

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