THUG LIFE - THE TURE STORY OF HIP-HOP AND ORGANIZED CRIME, HARD COVER BOOK

“Ferranti continues to amaze us with the most infamous OGs and their unfathomable street life.”—The Source "Seth Ferranti is one of the most prolific true-crime writers of our era. He knows the street game inside and out. From the streets to the penitentiary, nobody rates better.”—“White Boy Rick” Wershe 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 Re