Download or read book Zoe Pound Mafia written by Jermaine Atkins and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zoe Pound Mafia biography is a non-fictional account of triumph, tribulation, and injustice. It indirectly highlights Haitian pride and The American dream. Through the lens and life of Ali "Zoe" Adam, a Haitian-American exile, who takes a turn through the elaborate streets of Miami, building and underlying one of the biggest urban empires to ever make an impact on the African-American and Caribbean community. Starting from "The Block," originating at the "White House," all the way to Hollywood, garnering a featured segment for the acclaimed Bad Boys 2 movie debut, starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. Through drugs, money, music and mayhem, watch as he sets you back to a past time with Ganue "Chubb" Rashard, Graylin "G" Kelly and Mcharry "Mac-A-Zoe" Lafontant (original founders of the Zoe Pound Empire) and their many run-ins with the law, and relationships and confrontations with entertainment and Hip-Hop elites like Jim Jones, Rick Ross, P.Diddy, Lil Wayne, Jamie Foxx and a host of other industry titans that have made an impact towards the Hip-Hop culture.
Download or read book Zoe Pound written by Ras Nagast and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Pound is a book that will inspire and entertain you. It will also educate you. The same principles Zoe used to make his millions can also be used today to help you make your millions. So be empowered by this true rags to riches story and use it to inspire you to greater glory.
Download or read book Magic City written by Trick Daddy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.” Trick Daddy was born a thug—just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty and sparkling wealth. Where grinding poverty, deadly crime, and devastating racial tension taught kids to live by the ’hood rules. Remarkably, Trick came from nothing and made it big just when his chances had run out. Magic City is the extraordinary tale of a boy whose father was a pimp, who learned to hustle to survive, and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. It’s the untold truth behind the cult movie Scarface, of the drug money that transformed the city into a shining mecca for the rich and famous while turf wars between smalltime pushers claimed countless lives. It’s also the incredible story of how that potent mixture of extremes—the electric pulse and glittering abundance of South Beach and the crime, corruption, and despair in its shadows—gave rise to the most dominant sound in hip-hop today. Magic City is an ode to Miami, a riveting tale of a paradise lost and a native son determined to infuse it with new life.
Download or read book Thug Life written by Seth Ferranti and published by Hamilcar Publications. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the penitentiary to the streets, it's on and popping. Thug life is more than spitting rhymes or hustling on the corner. Thugs live and die on the streets or end up in the "belly of the beast." Rappers name-drop guns by model number and call out drug dealers by name. Gangsta rap is crack-era nostalgia taken to the extreme. It's a world where rappers emulate their favorite hood stars in videos, celebrate their names in verse, and make ghetto heroes out of gangsters. But what happens when hip-hop and organized crime collide? From the blocks in Queens where Supreme and Murder Inc. held court to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles where Harry-O and Death Row made their names to Rap-A-Lot Records and J Prince in Houston, whenever rap moguls rose the street legends weren't far behind. From Bad Boy Records and Anthony "Wolf" Jones in New York to Gucci Mane and the Black Mafia Family in Atlanta to Too Short and Daryl Reed in the Bay Area, thug life wasn't glamorous. The shit on the street was real. In the game there was a common struggle to get out of the gutter. Cats were trying to get their piece of the American Dream by any means necessary. Drug game equals rap game equals hip-hop hustler. In Thug Life, Seth Ferranti takes you on a journey to a world where gangsterism mixes with hip-hop, a journey of pimps, stick-up kids, numbers men, drug dealers, thugs, players, gangstas, hustlers, and of course the rappers who live dual lives in entertainment and crime. The common denominator? Money, power, and respect.
Download or read book Life of a Savage 3 written by Romell Tukes and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most deadly crew in Miami is back! After beefing with the vicious Zoe Pound and losing a lot of good men, SAVAGE has proven that his gangsta is prolific. Now, he has a different mission to accomplish. Savage's best friend is fresh out of prison and trying hard to remain on his Islamic deen as a Imam, but the streets is about to test them both.KILLER has returned to claim what was his, and he has a deadly team of Mexican hitters at his disposal to help him strong arm the game. Will the Mexican Mafia's leader crush Savage? Or will they run into a beast unlike any they've encountered before?When Savage finds out who is behind the recent mayhem that's aimed at him, vengeance will be served hot and swift and cold. Only one crew can run the 305 area code, and they'll have to be beastly to maintain their throne. But when a man has lived THE LIFE OF A SAVAGE, he fears nothing and no one.
Download or read book The Second Machine Age Work Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies written by Erik Brynjolfsson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Download or read book Confessions of a Video Vixen written by Karrine Steffans and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kelly and LL Cool J, sell millions of albums with her sensual dancing. In a word, Karrine was H-O-T. So hot that she made as much as $2500 a day in videos and was selected by well-known film director F. Gary Gray to co-star in his film, A Man Apart, starring Vin Diesel. But the film and music video sets, swanky Hollywood and New York restaurants and trysts with the celebrities featured in the pages of People and In Touch magazines only touches the surface of Karrine Steffans' life. Her journey is filled with physical abuse, rape, drug and alcohol abuse, homelessness and single motherhood—all by the age of 26. By sharing her story, Steffans hopes to shed light on an otherwise romanticised industry and help young women avoid the same pitfalls she encountered. If they're already in danger, she hopes to inspire them to find a way to dig themselves out of what she knows first-hand to be a cycle of hopelessness and despair.
Download or read book The Starting Lineup written by A. C. Moses, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on one's Life Experience* A True Story!
Download or read book Gorilla Convict written by Seth Ferranti and published by Strategic Media Books. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gorilla Convict" is a selected compilation of Seth's work that has appeared on his long running blog at gorillaconvict.com. Online since 2005, the blog gives the scoop on street legends, the mafia, prison gangs, hip-hop and hustling and life in the belly of the beast. What makes this collection so unique is that Seth writes his blog and stories from his cell block in the Federal Bureau of Prisons where he has spent nearly two decades in prison. He founded the Gorilla Convict website from prison, and his intriguing and amazing stories have created a large and dedicated audience from prison. The book gives the reader real, raw and in your face stories that have not been written from the mainstream news media point of view. They are written by a man who understand the criminal and convict codes and who lives and resides with the men he writes about in the belly of the beast. This collection of crime, prison and street lore is as inside as you can get.
Download or read book The Crack Era written by Kevin Chiles and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crack Era: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Kevin Chiles chronicles one of the most treacherous periods in New York City's history. As told by a man The New York Times once described as, "The biggest drug lord in Harlem since Nicky Barnes," Chiles lays bare the harrowing exploits of the narcotics trade Uptown during the late '80s and early '90s - a world where the lust for freebase cocaine set off a veritable gold rush that turned ghetto boys into young millionaires almost overnight. "Baseheads" wreaked havoc on the black community. What's worse, upper Manhattan became the epicenter of murder and mayhem as drug related killings pushed the city's annual death toll well into the thousands. A teenager at the time, Kevin earned a rep' as a boss among bosses and, along with a handful of hustlers from his 'hood, he would directly influence the very music and fashion that ushered in the golden age of hip hop. The crack epidemic parlayed money, power, and respect for Kev but it also took his freedom as well as the lives of close friends and family. Now, this candid memoir exposes liars, dispels urban myths, and sheds light on an otherwise dark epoch that has bittersweet implications for many today. Having seen and survived it all, one of America's most iconic street figures recounts a bygone era of fast cash and high stakes hustling in Harlem.
Download or read book 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment written by Federal Bureau of Investigation and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangs continue to commit criminal activity, recruit new members in urban, suburban, and rural regions across the United States, and develop criminal associations that expand their influence over criminal enterprises, particularly street-level drug sales. The most notable trends for 2011 have been the overall increase in gang membership, and the expansion of criminal street gangs' control of street-level drug sales and collaboration with rival gangs and other criminal organizations.
Download or read book The Gang Paradox written by Robert J. Durán and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The areas along the U.S.-Mexico border are commonly portrayed as a hot spot for gang activity, drug trafficking, and violence. Yet when Robert J. Durán conducted almost a decade’s worth of ethnographic research in border towns between El Paso, Texas, and southern New Mexico—a region notorious for gang activity, according to federal officials—he found significantly less gang membership and activity than common fearmongering claims would have us believe. Instead, he witnessed how the gang label was used to criminalize youth of Mexican descent—to justify the overrepresentation of Latinos in the justice system, the implementation of punitive practices in the school system, and the request for additional resources by law enforcement. In The Gang Paradox, Durán analyzes the impact of deportation, incarceration, and racialized perceptions of criminality on Latino families and youth along the border. He draws on ethnography, archival research, official data sources, and interviews with practitioners and community members to present a compelling portrait of Latino residents’ struggles amid deep structural disadvantages. Durán, himself a former gang member, offers keen insights into youth experience with schools, juvenile probation, and law enforcement. The Gang Paradox is a powerful community study that sheds new light on intertwined criminalization and racialization, with policy relevance toward issues of gangs, juvenile delinquency, and the lack of resources in border regions.
Download or read book Social Structure and Social Interaction written by Readale Collier and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question needs to ponder over as we have entered in the new millennium. On what way we are going? What is the nature of social transformation? What socio-economic forces and value systems are emerging in the country? Keeping in view the expected consequences of socio-economic development as an instrument of change in the structure and culture, the present book mainly deals with Social Structure and Social Interaction. This book provides valuable insights into social structure and change in a complex society. Well researched and lucidly written, this volume will be widely welcomed by all those involved in the study of sociology, social anthropology and social change. This book is of great help and utility to all those who are interested in knowing the changing social structure.
Download or read book True Bleu written by Sherri L. Carroll and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skye “Bleu” Aberra, the main character is from a rural town in Alabama and going through a divorce from a cheating husband. Skye decides to leave her position as Corporal with the ABI, and accepts a job as a police officer in Miami, FL, opting for a new beginning far away from the life she once knew. It was difficult because this is where her dad was gunned down by gang members when she was 15 years old. She wanted to honor him and his legacy. But God was telling her there is more for her. She had always prayed for God to send her a man He created just for her. A God fearing man, full of love for his family, faith, loyalty and one who was real. Being 48 years old, she was now doubtful one existed, but her faith in God led her to follow His nudging her out of her comfort zone and telling her it’s time to move. She ran face to face into 50 year old Haitian Rico Viciere in the grocery store, and her world changed. All her defenses seemed to vanish and she knew this was the one. He was in love with her at first sight. He was drawn to her blue eyes. He loved “Bleu”. That was his nickname based on his love of her eyes, not knowing her dad gave her that for her middle name. From their first encounter, it was as if they knew one another and felt they were led to meet. She sensed his withdrawal when she spoke of her past on the Gang Task Force and possibility of promotion to the unit with Miami PD. Finally he comes clean of his time in prison for drug smuggling, carjacking and armed robbery. She feels he’s holding back. He’s frightened to tell her his truth because she had opened up about her dad. He knew how she felt about gangs. Could she get past this? Would his past ruin their future? Would her southern Alabama family be accepting of someone of a different race and culture with a questionable past?
Download or read book Bloody Mayhem Down South 2 written by Trayvon Jackson and published by Good2go Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new player in town and Haitian Black's enemy, has finally been revealed. Real... is his name, and Black's focus on his main rival Haitian Polo has allowed this young upstart to snatch most of Black's South Florida drug empire right out from under him. Black isn't going to go quietly into the night however. Piece by piece, day by day. He plots his course for vengeance. To reacquire the top spot. Something made possible by the backing of a few men still loyal to him. But just as Black is about to move phase one of his plan into action. The ultra-violent Real bodies an FBI agent. An act which complicates the FBI's mission to bring down both underworld figures. Now they too must recalibrate their efforts. Despite the local FBI director being incensed at the brutal murder of one of his best and most trusted agents. As Real basks in his ever-growing street cred, he's suddenly blindsided by a shocking act of deception. One that shakes his confidence and focus to its core. This might be just the opening that Haitian Black needs to reclaim what's his. While the FEDS could seize upon this opportunity to finally apprehend the pair of deadly criminals.
Download or read book Dirty Vengeance A Dark Mafia Romance written by Zoe Beth Geller and published by Kinky Ink Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the glamorous world of high society, the Michelis are revered as one of the city's most influential families, their annual gala a symbol of power and prestige. Yet, beneath the dazzling façade, secrets simmer, and organized crime flourishes. Salvatore Micheli, brother to the Don, finds himself in the crosshairs of an unexpected attack, setting off a chain of events that will forever alter the course of his life. The assassin who targets him is no stranger – she's Francesca, the captivating and deadly daughter of their sworn enemy. As their paths collide in a whirlwind of danger and desire, Sal becomes captivated by the enigmatic woman who should be his foe. Francesca, driven by vengeance for her father's death and a relentless search for a missing friend, finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue and betrayal she never anticipated. Binge-read this 5 book mafia series today.
Download or read book Brutal Promise A Dark Mafia Romance written by Zoe Beth Geller and published by Kinky Ink Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will love conquer the shadows of their pasts, or will the brutal promise that binds them be their ultimate undoing? Dmitry travels to New York City to visit his college friend. He meets Izzy at the Bratva's new club and rescues her when an unknown Russian threatens her. When it comes to their attention that she is being followed and not her Russian roommate, the four of them will embark on a perilous journey to unveil the hidden secrets of Izzy's past—a journey that will test their resolve and strength. Izzy agrees to a forced marriage to Dmitry for his protection. As danger looms at every turn, they must rely on each other's unwavering support to survive the deadliest game of all. This is a forced marriage trope with a morally gray possessive alpha, touch her and you die, manipulation into pregnancy, and spicy scenes. If you like to read mafia romance with suspense— download now. This is a HEA romance with no cheating.
