azw3 |eng | 2011-09-12 | Author:Common

* * * The only time I ever feared for my son’s life was after he started rapping. Rapping was real different back then. Especially when they started doing that ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-30 | Author:Michael Diamond [Diamond, Michael]

As for me, my mom had just passed away and I was running from all kinds of things. The chance to escape into becoming a different person couldn’t have come ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Dee Dee Ramone

THINGS WEREN’T working out as planned, though. Getting ready for Subterranean Jungle was a rough battle. Marc was starting to flip. The years of self-abuse were catching up with him. ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2020-02-29 | Author:Diakité, Jason [Diakité, Jason]

One summer evening in downtown Charleston in 2015, twenty-one-year-old white man Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel AME Church, the same church that was founded by the revolutionary Denmark Vesey. ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Jonathan Reiss

CHAPTER 15 CARRY ON It was just the two of them for the first time in a while. They slept late. It was about three p.m. when they woke up. ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Jermaine Scott a.k.a. Wretch 32

5. The Father (‘Hush Little Baby’, ‘6 Words’, ‘Mummy’s Boy’) In this life, you are born three times. The first time, obviously, is when your mother brings you into the ...

epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Jermaine Dupri & Samantha Marshall

9 A JAGGED ERA The funny thing about success is that it never feels exactly how you think it will. Your song could get nominated or win a Grammy and ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Derrick Parker

8. THROW YA GUNS IN THE AIR, AND BUST ’EM LIKE YOU JUST DON’T CARE: Puff Daddy, the Club New York Shooting—and the Birth of “Rap Intel” Bust shots at ...

epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Kim Osorio

The next morning it was hard to believe that I had gone home the night before because I swear I was sitting in the same exact spot looking at the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Goldie

E6. ‘Headzville’ Everyone needs a home. Especially when you’re displaced and the beautiful model of that nuclear family with the perfect rosy driveway has fallen apart – that’s when having ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-13 | Author:Marc Shaprio

Chapter Eleven Pack Your Bags BTS barely had time to unpack their bags at the conclusion of their first world tour before they were hard at work on their fourth ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Michael Eric Dyson

Did Tupac draw from his own experiences, or did he raid the experiences of others to spin his haunting tales of urban woe and social neglect? If he did, would ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michael Eric Dyson

It’s the same year he was spotted with Beyoncé attending the international contemporary art fair Art Basel Miami Beach, and a year before he told the Mirror that he owned ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2019-09-27 | Author:Russ

Chapter 09 Naked Keep Your Barriers Down VULNERABILITY IS A MAGNET. My mom always tells me, “Keep your barriers down at all times.” It is her way of reminding me ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-22 | Author:Rakim

Strong Island to Latin Quarter We did our first show at a club on Long Island. We performed “Eric B. Is President,” “My Melody,” and a freestyle. Three songs for ...