Download or read book Gangsta Vol 7 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by a gruesome message, Marco heads out to rescue the kidnapped Constance. Drawn to a place he’d consigned to a dead past, he’s plunged into a desperate fight against an enemy he once thought of as a brother. It’s a time of betrayals and reversals, separations and farewells, as chaos threatens to tear the city of Ergastulum apart. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Vol 8 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, Marco turned against the Hunters, submitting to the “curse” Constance set on him to live and atone for his sins. But the bonds of the past aren’t so easily severed, and now Striker has tracked them down, still enraged by Marco’s betrayal and hell-bent on making him pay. Meanwhile, with their partnership in pieces, Worick and Nic struggle to cope with the shifting boundaries of loyalty, faith and duty. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Cursed Vol 2 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was a young child, Spas has been indoctrinated to believe that eliminating all Twilights is the only way to guarantee the safety of the Normal population. But as he and the rest of the Hunters carry out their gruesome duty, the foundations of that belief begin to erode. Unable to reconcile the high-minded teachings of his past with the brutal realities of his present, Spas stands on the brink of a decision that will change his life—and the lives of those he loves—forever. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Vol 5 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hunters and the Destroyers continue to rampage through the city, toying with their prey and piling atrocity upon atrocity. With no time to mourn their fallen, the Paulklee Guild are forced to fend off their enemies’ increasingly deadly attacks. The surviving members mobilize to fight back, and despite the terrible losses, hope is kept alive in the form of old vows honored and new ones made. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Vol 3 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ergastulum is a tough town, a place where the rule of law takes a backseat to the law of violence, where Handymen like Nic and Worick make a living doing odd jobs from routine deliveries to extrajudicial killings. Discreet, ruthless, and efficient, the men are respected by both the police brass and the Mafia dons, but it took many long, hard years for them to make their names. Behind those years is the hidden history of how the scion of an elite family and a boy soldier of the Twilights ranks formed an improbable, unbreakable bond. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Cursed Vol 1 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Killing is all Spas has ever known, and he does it without doubt or remorse. Taught to believe he’s ridding the world of monsters, he sees the extermination of the Twilights as a necessary step toward making Ergastulum a safer place. Until the day when he’s forced to confront the horrifying truth that the real monster might be...him. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangsta Cursed Vol 3 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After making the fateful decision to defy his fellow Hunters and save a young girl’s life, Spas finds himself caught between the worlds of the Normals and the Twilights. Branded a traitor by the Hunters, yet still considered an enemy by all the other factions, he’s on the run and desperately trying to find his way through the carnage and chaos that surround him. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Gangster Doodles written by Marlon Sassy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collectible, four-color illustrated A–Z treasury of gangster rappers, the hip-hop high-life, and notorious pop culture history, told through a series of graphic doodles on 3” x 3” sticky notes. Four years ago, a Post-it® note changed Marlon Sassy’s life. Using office supplies “borrowed” from his admin job, Sassy began creating colorful sketches of rappers in highlighter, Sharpie, and pen. He made his debut posting his rendition of Snoop on Tumblr under the pseudonym “Gangster Doodles.” Next was Bart Simpson and Biggie, then Yams and Yeezy. Soon, he had amassed a cult following of fans who clamored for his next artistic interpretation. Gangster Doodles brings together more than 400 of his most popular illustrations with thirty never-before-seen pieces. An impressive and comprehensive A–Z compendium, it features everyone from Black Jesus to Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar to LeBron James, Jean-Michel Basquiat to Young Thug, and Kermit the Frog to Action Bronson. This is the ultimate gift for rap fanatics and pop culture addicts alike.

Download or read book Black Gangster written by Donald Goines and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raw and true to the street, no one portrays the underground like the godfather of urban lit, Donald Goines. Trapped in jail for a petty crime, Prince hatches a scheme from his cell to make it big. Once Ruby, the only woman worthy of his brutal ambition, joins him on the outside, they take down Detroit one hustle at a time. Dealers, pimps, police and politicians—in the blink of an eye the hood is theirs. Now, the only thing certain is the cold hard truth of the streets—because with enemies waiting behind every corner, there’s only one way to stay on top of the world . . . “He lived by the code of the streets and his books vividly recreated the street jungle and its predators.” —New Jersey Voice “Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure.” —Tupac Shakur

Download or read book Gangsta Cursed Vol 5 written by , Kohske and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spas has lost the sense of justice that gave his life meaning. Striker still lives only for the thrill of the hunt. The rift between their moral stances forces Spas to break the promise they’d once made to each other, initiating a bloody parting that will scar them both forever. The final volume of Marco Adriano’s hidden history of savagery and redemption. -- VIZ Media

Download or read book To Live and Defy in LA written by Felicia Angeja Viator and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap—so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the top”—was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, and sun? In the Reagan era, hip-hop was understood to be the music of the inner city and, with rare exception, of New York. Rap was considered the poetry of the street, and it was thought to breed in close quarters, the product of dilapidated tenements, crime-infested housing projects, and graffiti-covered subway cars. To many in the industry, LA was certainly not hard-edged and urban enough to generate authentic hip-hop; a new brand of black rebel music could never come from La-La Land. But it did. In To Live and Defy in LA, Felicia Viator tells the story of the young black men who built gangsta rap and changed LA and the world. She takes readers into South Central, Compton, Long Beach, and Watts two decades after the long hot summer of 1965. This was the world of crack cocaine, street gangs, and Daryl Gates, and it was the environment in which rappers such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E came of age. By the end of the 1980s, these self-styled “ghetto reporters” had fought their way onto the nation’s radio and TV stations and thus into America’s consciousness, mocking law-and-order crusaders, exposing police brutality, outraging both feminists and traditionalists with their often retrograde treatment of sex and gender, and demanding that America confront an urban crisis too often ignored.

Download or read book Chicago Hustle and Flow written by Geoff Harkness and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow, Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions of gangs. Gangs and rap music, he argues, can be a deadly combination. Set in one of the largest underground music scenes in the nation, this book takes readers into the heart of gangsta rap culture in Chicago. From the electric buzz of nightclubs to the sights and sounds of bedroom recording studios, Harkness presents gripping accounts of the lives, beliefs, and ambitions of the gang members and rappers with whom he spent six years. A music genre obsessed with authenticity, gangsta rap promised those from crime-infested neighborhoods a ticket out of poverty. But while firsthand experiences with gangs and crime gave rappers a leg up, it also meant carrying weapons and traveling collectively for protection. Street gangs serve as a fan base and provide protection to rappers who bring in income and help to recruit for the gang. In examining this symbiotic relationship, Chicago Hustle and Flow ultimately illustrates how class stratification creates and maintains inequalities, even at the level of a local rap-music scene.

Download or read book 24 Bars to Kill written by Andrew B. Armstrong and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions of an ethnically and economically homogeneous Japan, gangsta J-hop gives voice to the suffering, deprivation, and social exclusion experienced by many modern Japanese. 24 Bars to Kill offers a fascinating ethnographic account of this music as well as the subculture around it, showing how gangsta hip-hop arises from widespread dissatisfaction and malaise.

Download or read book A Companion to the Gangster Film written by George S. Larke-Walsh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to the study of the gangster film’s international appeal spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia A Companion to the Gangster Film presents a comprehensive overview of the newest scholarship on the contemporary gangster film genre as a global phenomenon. While gangster films are one of America’s most popular genres, gangster movies appear in every film industry across the world. With contributions from an international panel of experts, A Companion to the Gangster Film explores the popularity of gangster films across three major continents, the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The authors acknowledge the gangster genre’s popularity and examine the reasons supporting its appeal to twenty-first century audiences across the globe. The book examines common themes across all three continents such as production histories and reception, gender race and sexuality, mafia mythologies, and politics. In addition, the companion clearly shows that no national cinema develops in isolation and that cinema is a truly global popular art form. This important guide to the gangster film genre: Reveals how the gangster film engages in complex and contradictory themes Examines the changing face of the gangster film in America Explores the ideas of gangsterism and migration in the Hispanic USA, Latin America and the Caribbean Discusses the wide variety of gangster types to appear in European cinema Contains a review of a wide-range of gangster films from the Americans, Europe, and Asia Written for academics and students of film, A Companion to the Gangster Film offers a scholarly and authoritative guide exploring the various aspects and international appeal of the gangster film genre.

Download or read book I Love Yous Are for White People written by Lac Su and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, this stirring memoir chronicles one Asian-American immigrant's struggle to find himself--and to transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles.

Download or read book Gangsta Jake written by Nyerere Jase and published by What It to Do Publishing House. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayal...Revenge...Death... GANGSTA JAKE: The End Result Of A Snitch tells the heart throbbing story of how a hardcore gang member from South Central Los Angeles went from being freed off Death Row to becoming one of the most notorious serial killers the LAPD has ever sought. After tasting freedom, Gansta Jake puts into action his plan to murder, each and every snitch that put him and his partners behind bars. An oath made to his fellow Death Row buddies transforms Gangsta Jake into a cold blooded, execution style, murderer that has no remorse for his prey.

Download or read book Gangsta s Paradise 2 written by Latoya Nicole and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In part 2 of the spin off from the no way out series the Jamison brothers are fighting to stay on top. A retired Kingpin and the most sought out contracted killer comes together to take down their enemies all while dealing with drama and betrayal from the women in their life. Sin is still hiding and holding Paradise hostage and with each minute he knows that his time is coming to an end. Desperate to come out on top, Sin seeks the help of an unlikely ally. Kenneth "Gangsta" Jamison continues to unravel as he wreaks havoc to anyone that crosses his path. Still searching for Paradise and his brother Suave he now has new enemies to deal with along the way. Everyone he meets has an agenda to take him out or set him up. On top of everything else that Gangsta is going through he now has a war on his hands with the Garzon Cartel family, but with everyone around him missing or dead will he be able to stand against them alone and win. Or will Lucifer's reign finally come to an end. Kendyl "Suave" Jamison is fighting for his life and even in a comatose state a new enemy lurks in the shadows. With no one knowing that he is still alive, will his enemy prevail with having no one to stand against them