A Young Thug's Heart


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Ciarra CeCe Greene grew up amidst all the hustle and bustle, hoodrats, and hustlas a life in the ghetto has to offer. She saw it out of her bedroom window and passed it on the way to the corner store, but was never close enough to touch it. After years of battling her sister, Kayzie, from the thug who stole her heart, Ciarras parents kept her locked away from the world. She longed for a taste of the life that seduced her sister once upon a time, but she never quite found a way. All her life, CeCe tiptoed the invisible line between her world and the wild world that circled all around her, never slipping over. That is until Marquis Ice Demone hit the scene, stealing her heart, shattering her carefully constructed castle, and pulling the princess over the line. Love in the hood aint no easier than life is there and between babymamas, haterz, and the game, CeCe was in for the fight of her life. The love was definitely real, but the price would be high. Would CeCe be willing to pay the cost for A Young Thugs Heart?




Heart of a Thug


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Inside a Thug's Heart


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UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Offering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before. With a new introduction and closing note from Angela Ardis, as well as a foreword by writer, activist, and television personality Kevin Powell In 1995, one year before Tupac Shakur was shot dead in Las Vegas, he was jailed for two months inside New York City’s notorious Rikers Island. While there, he received a letter from a stranger—Angela Ardis, acting on a casual bet with her friends. She included her photo and phone number . . . and soon found herself answering a call from Tupac himself. Remarkably, their near-daily contact grew into a complex kinship of souls that neither could define—and touched both in unexpected ways. Alive in letters and original poems—some available nowhere else—Tupac’s ever-relevant heart beats within these pages. Playful, sensual, and serious, he gives insightful observations on music, prison, and life’s uncertainties—and his dreams for a future that would soon be tragically cut short. In this moving, one-of-a-kind tribute, generations of fans can experience a profound connection to the mind and unbroken spirit of a passionate, unpredictable musical icon.




A Thug Saved My Heart 2


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In the first part of this story full of secrets, hidden agendas, and heartbreak; you all were introduced to a circle of friends full of dysfunction. LeLe has so much on her plate. After serving that 2 1/2 year bid for being charged with Malik's death. Her main focus is getting her life back in order. Understanding that she needs to stay focused, she does the best she can while Cass is slowly trying to ease his way into her heart. She constantly wonders about Cass but will throwing her guard up keep her from being loved? Or will not having her guard up lead her to her true love? Abbey and Trell are caught up between being lovers and friends while hiding their relationship from LeLe. Abbey is finding it harder to ignore her feelings, while Trell continues to show her what she's missing. Every time she says it's the last time she gets caught up in Trell's young thug lovin'. Leon doesn't know how people would react to his secret. What he does know is he loves his twin brother Trell more than anything, but after receiving the news of Trell putting Leon's lover in the hospital, Leon is force to accept and own his truth facing what his heart has been feeling all along. Kim has so many demons she exposed in part one that one would think her closet couldn't possibly hold anymore. Kim is ready to come to surface with everything, even if it means she loses everything. She's finding it harder to ignore her feelings for Majestic as well. After all, how could she possibly love him when she loved his brother first? Is Kim's twin sister Karter hiding something? Will Majestic ever forgive LeLe? Why is Trey so mysterious? Get the rest of the juice on this crew in this fast paced part 2.




Captured By the Heart of a Thug


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"Your sentence has already been decided before this court, and all parties involved. You have been found guilty of love in the 1st degree." Can a case of love be found within a thug? Follow the sisterhood of three young women who finds love within the court of love. Keyana Milton AKA Yana always had an easy going life, she only had one parent in her life which was her father. Her mother and brother died in a car accident leaving her and her father alone with just the two of them, although it was sudden, her father and her continued being there for one another. Her father continued to work hard giving Yana the best life he could. All he wanted was for her to focus on school, and accomplishing all of her dreams. Yana had her fair share of heart breaks more than her father wanted to allow, but she was grown and attending college, a social life and love was nonsexist, until a weekend away from school back in her hometown change all of that. Never would she have thought a man could capture her eyes, putting her heart under arrest. Miece, Yana’s cousin attempts to be the independent hard working woman she is. Not wanting to be anything like her mother she proves to the world she doesn’t need a man to define her, until a night of pleasure sentenced her heart to a life time of love, or will it end with tragic pain? Whoever says the state of my heart demands the loyalty of a woman was right. Payton, AKA Diva has been holding down someone special, when he is release from prison she feels good knowing his heart is still sworn to her. So, she thought. The Love Diva and Shamir shared has been violated to the first degree. Will Shamir, testify his love and win her heart? Havier Fisher AKA Hood was a man of many talents. Not only did he had a solid empire he has businesses and stock that continued to grow his money. His only fear was dying and not being able to provide for his sister and mother. Although they were well off, Hood wanted to always be there to provide for them. A man of Hood’s caliber had more women then he knew what to do with. None of them meant anything to him, and he never found interest in a woman enough to bring her around more than twice. While visiting his hometown before he moves back permanently he ran into a woman that spark his interest. Once, you get the interest of Hood, you got his attention. Who is the woman that held his attention? Will she find him of importance to fit into her life or will he have to put a warrant out for her love? While Love finds its way to Hood, an unwelcome guest does as well, finding Hood to be a threat to his world. Can Hood handle all that is coming his way?




6 - Inside a Thugs Heart


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Death of a Gangster, Rise of a Young Thug


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Wayne was brought into this world as what some would call a "lost cause." Both his parents were into all type of shit in the streets. When Ali caught Kenya with some dope boys from Florida, he ended up killing one and robbing the other. After he came up on 3 kilos of uncut heroin, he stepped his game up and exposed his only son who was 9 years old to everything that went on in the streets. After Ali committed the murder and Kenya got her son, she gets Wayne, but she robbed Ali's girlfriend for over 700,000 thousand and leaving Ali to think his son was kidnapped. After a spree of murders, most of the players were killed, but Wayne was left with the spirit of his daddy to get revenge on anybody who was involved. By age 21, Wayne put together a clique of young shooters, whose ambition was to stop at nothing! To them there were no rules, and as far as respect, that had to be earned. Wayne took his click to a level that was not seen in kids their age, they were all filled with grimy attitudes and murderous plots, but Wayne beat the odds and played at the top of his game!




Street Scriptures


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This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life. The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred. Nava reveals a largely unheard religious heartbeat in hip-hop, exploring crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Bad Bunny to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”




Crystal Society


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The year is 2039, and the world is much like ours. Massive automation has disrupted and improved nearly every industry, putting hundreds of millions of people out of jobs, and denying upward mobility for the vast majority of humans. Wealth and technology repair the bodies of the rich while famine and poverty sweep the world. Privately operated ventures carried humans to the moon and beyond, but space stations have become nothing but government trophies and hiding places for extremists. First contact did not bring advanced culture and wisdom, as the aliens were too strange, lacking even mouths or normal language. Face is an artificial intelligence created to understand and gain the adoration of all humans. She and her siblings control the robot named Socrates, using a crystal computer that seems too advanced to be made by human hands. She is learning and growing every second of every day, but the world and the humans on it are fragile. Can it survive her destiny?