Download or read book The Betrayal of Love Hip Hop written by Triva T Weatherspoon and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants real love, respect, and loyalty, but instead she gets a broken heart, lies, baby mama drama and betrayal. Follow Neveah Dior Whitley in The Betrayal of Love & Hip Hop as she struggles to find peace and purpose while growing up in poverty. Neveah continued to dream big no matter how hard the drugs being sold and violence that happened before her eyes daily made it. Pregnant at 16 by a rising star, who made life for Neveah hard and challenging by his actions. Neveah finds herself consumed by loss, heartbreak, and the everyday struggles of hood life. Broken relationship after broken relationship, scandal, and plenty of hood drama, can Neveah make it out, or will she find herself betrayed by love and hip hop?

Download or read book A Hip Hop Love in Hollywood written by Barbie Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n this episode of Hiphop Love In Hollywood, you'll experience Love, Lies and Betrayal. A young lost soul that is rescued by her Prince Charming after torment from her past life. Let's meet our guest.18 year old Blake Bailee who was abandoned by her mother and giving up to a pimp at the age of 15, is here to tell her story. Blake can you give us more details on your story and how did your love affair come about?"Well my mother traded me in for drugs when I was 15. I was giving to a pimp name Lenox. For years I sold my body until I was arrested. I did 2 years in jail so when I came home Lenox felt It was best I dance in a club. So I began dancing and on one of my many nights, a known rapper by the name of Yung Baby came to the club. Yung Baby was the hottest rapper in Cali and let's not forget how sexy he is. Every girl in the club wanted him. I think every girl that crosses his path is smitten with him. Of course I felt I didn't stand a chance, so when he summonsed me to his VIP I declined. Not giving up, Baby wouldn't leave me alone and eventually I fell putty into his hands. One night in the studio Olivia Luv, his artist, couldn't get her melody together so I called myself helping her. Yung Baby was blown away by my voice so he kept me on the track. Which is our hit song Ghetto Cinderella. Everything began to move so fast and It's like I had become a celebrity over night. But, of course all good things must come to an end. Secrets about my life started surfacing and in a matter of one social media post my world crumbled down on me.

Download or read book Black Opt s Division Betrayal written by Kenny Raw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Opt's Division takes you deep inside Philadelphia's underworld of drugs, dope-money, and murder. It exposes the hidden agenda of certain government branches and their insincerity of intentions towards African Americans race. Yet filled with enough swagger "Hollywood." This book will captive the reader's mind with it's intense violent scenes and exquisite sex episodes. While exposing the F.B.I. conspiracies with drugs in Philadelphia and explains how Feds manipulate the street with informants. Last but not least the romance love scene between J-Sizzle and Kema will leave you in tears. A tale of sex, murder, Hip-Hop, bad bitches and coke......

Download or read book The Betrayal written by Tami Cleckley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Trinity seems to have it all-a successful business, a beautiful son, and a handsome man who loves her. Tracy Thomas has a different life-two kids, a pile of bills and a love life that is more about something to do than someone to love. Best friends since the age of five, the thing that binds them together as friends and sisters is their mutual love for dancing. When the opportunity to join a world reknown dance troupe arises, Diamond and Tracy push each other to train and audition together. But when one is chosen and the other's dream once again deferred, love and friendship turn to jealous outrage, which leads to an unforgivable indiscretion. This is a moving tale of temptation and redemption, where love and ambition come together to create the ultimate betrayal.

Download or read book The Heirs written by Susan Rieger and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “original and moving” (The New York Times Book Review), “must-read” (People) portrait of an unforgettable, patrician Manhattan family and the tangled nature of inheritance and legacy, from the author of Like Mother, Like Mother “An absorbing page-turner, full of sex and secrets . . . I loved getting to know the entire Falkes clan.”—New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR When English-born lawyer Rupert Falkes dies, his wife and five adult sons are bereft—even more so when six months later, their grieving is interrupted by an unknown woman suing Rupert’s estate, claiming that he was also the father to her two sons. The Falkes brothers are pitched into turmoil, at once missing their father and feeling betrayed by him. In disconcerting contrast, their mother, Eleanor, is cool and calm, showing preternatural composure. Eleanor and Rupert had made an admirable life together, and they were proud of their handsome, talented sons: Harry, a brash law professor; Will, a savvy Hollywood agent; Sam, an astute doctor and scientific researcher; Jack, a jazz trumpet prodigy; Tom, a public-spirited federal prosecutor. The brothers see their identity and success as inextricably tied to family loyalty—a loyalty they always believed their father shared. Struggling to reclaim their identity, the brothers find Eleanor’s sympathy toward the woman and her sons confounding, and they begin to question whether they knew either of their parents at all.

Download or read book Jay Z written by Julius Bailey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay-Z is one of America's leading rappers and entrepreneurs, as well known for his music as for his business acumen. This text seeks to situate Jay-Z within his musical, intellectual and cultural context for educational study. Thirteen essays address such topics as Jay-Z's relevance to African-American oral history, socially responsible hip hop and upward mobility in the African-American community. By observing Jay-Z through the lens of cultural studies, this study assists the teacher, student, scholar, and fan in understanding how he became such an historically significant figure. Each essay includes a set of review questions meant to spark discussion in the classroom. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Download or read book The Hip Hop Wars written by Tricia Rose and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering expert in the study of hip-hop explains why the music matters--and why the battles surrounding it are so very fierce.

Download or read book If Jesus Was a Rapper written by Cellus Hamilton and published by Cellus Hamilton. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve ever listened to music created by Cellus Hamilton, you are aware that he is much more than a rapper. His lyrics are multidimensional, revealing him to be a sort of scholarly visionary. Because music is often subject to the listener’s interpretation, interviews have been the closest outlet we have towards understanding the complexities that exist within Mr. Hamilton. Here in his book, “If Jesus Was a Rapper”, he lays his heart bare. As the businessman, family-man, and clergyman aspects of Hamilton are revealed in his memoir, his life and journey through the music industry teach us more about Jesus than many straightforward theologians have. His personality, creativity, and boldness work together to present him as a wholistic human artist who is deeply in love with Jesus. While Hamilton seems to intentionally target the Christian creative, his rags-to-riches story easily connects to us all. By the end of the book, Jesus will likely be your new favorite rapper.

Download or read book Let Love Have the Last Word written by Common and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” —Essence The inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—explores how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better control of your life through actions and words. Common believes that the phrase “let love have the last word” is not just a declaration; it is a statement of purpose, a daily promise. Love is the most powerful force on the planet, and ultimately the way you love determines who you are and how you experience life. Touching on God, self-love, partners, children, family, and community, Common explores the core tenets of love to help us understand what it means to receive and, most importantly, to give love. He moves from the personal—writing about his daughter, to whom he wants to be a better father—to the universal, where he observes that our society has become fractured under issues of race and politics. He knows there’s no quick remedy for all of the hurt in the world, but love—for yourself and for others—is where the healing begins. In his first public reveal, Common also shares a deeply personal experience of childhood molestation that he is now confronting…and forgiving. Courageous, insightful, brave, and characteristically authentic, Let Love Have the Last Word shares Common’s own unique and personal stories of the people and experiences that have led to a greater understanding of love and all it has to offer. It is a powerful call to action for a new generation of open hearts and minds, one that is sure to resonate for years to come.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop written by Justin A. Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.

Download or read book Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa written by Msia Kibona Clark and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines social change in Africa through the lens of hip hop music and culture. Artists engage their African communities in a variety of ways that confront established social structures, using coded language and symbols to inform, question, and challenge. Through lyrical expression, dance, and graffiti, hip hop is used to challenge social inequality and to push for social change. The study looks across Africa and explores how hip hop is being used in different places, spaces, and moments to foster change. In this edited work, authors from a wide range of fields, including history, sociology, African and African American studies, and political science explore the transformative impact that hip hop has had on African youth, who have in turn emerged to push for social change on the continent. The powerful moment in which those that want change decide to consciously and collectively take a stand is rooted in an awareness that has much to do with time. Therefore, the book centers on African hip hop around the context of “it’s time” for change, Ni Wakati.

Download or read book What Goes Around Comes Back Around written by C. D. Kirven and published by Chastity Kirven. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Goes Around Comes Back Around is a story of self-discovery and sexual awakening. This sometimes comical but always eloquent tale is a mix of erotic fiction and avant-garde literary works that will seductively capture your imagination through its use of a multi-faceted fast pace storyline and a host of empathetic homespun characters. The novel is a colorful coming-of-age that chronicles the events in the life of Kingsley Ross as she comes to grips with the meaning of true friendship, love and loss during the beginning of the hip hop music explosion. A hilarious but touching story about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of societys ideals. Sex, drugs, betrayal and self-fulfillment lead her on a journey of the greatest love shes ever known the love she has for herself. The Dallas Morning News compares the book to Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris. The author is also an award winning director of a documentary about same sex domestic violence.(http://thedarksideoftherainbow-movie.blogspot.com/)

Download or read book Hip Hop Heresies written by Shanté Paradigm Smalls and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards! SPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music SHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame/Clive Davis Institute Unearths the queer aesthetic origins of NYC hip hop Hip Hop Heresies centers New York City as a space where vibrant queer, Black, and hip hop worlds collide and bond in dance clubs, schools, roller rinks, basketball courts, subways, and movie houses. Using this cultural nexus as the stage, Shanté Paradigm Smalls attends to the ways that hip hop cultural production in New York City from the 1970s through the early twenty-first century produced film, visual art, and music that offer queer articulations of race, gender, and sexuality. To illustrate New York City as a place of experimental aesthetic collaboration, Smalls brings four cultural moments to the forefront: the life and work of the gay Chinese American visual and graffiti artist Martin Wong, who brokered the relationship between New York City graffiti artists and gallery and museum spaces; the Brooklyn-based rapper-singer-writer-producer Jean Grae, one of the most prolific and underrated emcees of the last two decades; the iconic 1980s film The Last Dragon, which exemplifies the experimental and queer Black masculinity possible in early formal hip hop culture; and finally queer- and trans-identified hip hop artists and groups like BQE, Deepdickollective, and Hanifah Walidah, and the documentary Pick Up the Mic. Hip Hop Heresies transforms the landscape of hip hop scholarship, Black studies, and queer studies by bringing together these fields through the hermeneutic of aesthetics. Providing a guidepost for future scholarship on queer, trans, and feminist hip hop studies, Hip Hop Heresies takes seriously the work that New York City hip hop cultural production has done and will do, and advocates a form of hip hop that eschews authenticity in favor of performativity, bricolage, and pastiche.

Download or read book Screens Fade to Black written by David J. Leonard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triple crown of Oscars awarded to Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Sidney Poitier on a single evening in 2002 seemed to mark a turning point for African Americans in cinema. Certainly it was hyped as such by the media, eager to overlook the nuances of this sudden embrace. In this new study, author David Leonard uses this event as a jumping-off point from which to discuss the current state of African-American cinema and the various genres that currently compose it. Looking at such recent films as Love and Basketball, Antwone Fisher, Training Day, and the two Barbershop films—all of which were directed by black artists, and most of which starred and were written by blacks as well—Leonard examines the issues of representation and opportunity in contemporary cinema. In many cases, these films-which walk a line between confronting racial stereotypes and trafficking in them-made a great deal of money while hardly playing to white audiences at all. By examining the ways in which they address the American Dream, racial progress, racial difference, blackness, whiteness, class, capitalism and a host of other issues, Leonard shows that while certainly there are differences between the grotesque images of years past and those that define today's era, the consistency of images across genre and time reflects the lasting power of racism, as well as the black community's response to it.

Download or read book Do You Know Me written by Karen "kk" King and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced to the world as a criminal mastermind, Love and Hip Hop Atlanta's Karen "KK" King is more than what's supposed to be unscripted.Until now, everything we've heard has been one-sided. Finally, in her own words, KK takes us on an emotional and dangerous ride through her life and the ones closest to her.KK shares the deepest parts of her soul and some of the most difficult times as a mother, wife, and businesswoman. When the betrayal of her enemies tried to take her out, or her businesses were jeopardized, KK still rose above it all.Having had her share of trials, she has also had her share of triumphs, but the world is unfamiliar with those. That is until now. Take this journey with her as she lifts the veil off of the person that they want you to see and reveals the person that she really is.

Download or read book You Know Better written by B. Lisa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU KNOW BETTER- is a fictional novel based upon the lives of four people dealing with the ups and downs of friendships and relationships. An erotica, urban hip hop story combine with street smarts. A book about love, lies, betrayal and loss. The story begins with Autumn lying awake in her bed crying. She is furious that its four o'clock in the morning and Chance, her boyfriend is not at home. Despite their two o'clock curfew rule and the fact that they had just had it out two weeks ago about him coming home late, Autumn becomes more and more angry. Angry with knowledge that when Chance gets home he'll be expecting her to be up waiting to argue, fuss and fight only to end the night with sex; which is part of the "love game" he likes to play. But not this time, Autumn vowed to herself, promising that she will not give up or give in this time no matter what tricks Chance pull out his sleeves. So, when Chance finally arrives home expecting Autumn to be up waiting, he notices her lying in their bed pretending to be asleep. After undressing and getting into the bed with her, he calls out her name as he pulls her body close to his. Still pretending to be asleep, Chance knows that Autumn has a weakness for his touch. As he uses his methods of persuasion; sex, Chance touches Autumn's body and she changes her mind by giving into the feeling. They end up having sex as Chance expected. The next morning at work, she and her best friend, Imarnie "Penny" Culpepper, discuss the situation. After getting into a big argument about Chance and the way he has been treating Autumn, they get upset with one another and stopped speaking to each other. But Autumn know that Penny is right but don't want to admit it. Later that day, all is forgiven between the two friends. While dealing with her own problems with her boyfriend's, Devin Peterson, ex-wife and mother of their child, Penny knows that she is trying to do everything she can to get him back even using their daughter as a pawn. But the love Devin has for Penny conquers all. They finally get married and have a baby boy. As time goes on, Autumn and Chance stay together but their relationship becomes more and more fractured. Chance starts to cheat with his best friend's girlfriend's cousin named Nina and Autumn starts to cheat with an old boyfriend from high school, Marquez Wilson, her first love. When Autumn starts to feel the pressures of dealing with two men at the same time, she struggles with the decision to leave Chance. But when she catches Chance with Nina; his now pregnant fiancée, she ends their relationship and becomes engaged to Marquez. As the story continues, nine months later, Chance marries Nina but realize that he desperately want to get back with Autumn. She refuses and on the day of her wedding to Marquez, the situation turns violent. The manuscript ends with a surprisingly ending that you never saw coming. You Know Better is a hot and steamy page turner with more thrills and suspense than your favorite rollercoaster ride and more drama than your average soap opera.

Download or read book Hip Hop Versus Rap written by Patrick Turner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is the real hip hop?' 'To whom does hip hop belong?' 'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?' These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in London’s post-hip hop scene. The book is an ethnographic study of the identity, role, formation, and practices of the organic intellectuals that populate and propagate this ‘conscious’ hip hop milieu. Turner provides an insightful examination of the work of artists and practitioners who use hip hop ‘off-street’ in the spheres of youth work, education, and theatre to raise consciousness and to develop artistic and personal skills. Hip Hop Versus Rap seeks to portray how cultural activism, which styles itself grassroots and mature, is framed around a discursive opposition between what is authentic and ethical in hip hop culture and what is counterfeit and corrupt. Turner identifies that this play of difference, framed as an ethical schism, also presents hip hop’s organic intellectuals with a narrative that enables them to align their insurgent values with those of policy and to thereby receive institutional support. This enlightening volume will be of interest to post-graduates and scholars interested in hip hop studies; youth work; critical pedagogy; young people and crime/justice; the politics of race/racism; the politics of youth/education; urban governance; social movement studies; street culture studies; and vernacular studies.