Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-hop Hustler by Ethan Brown

Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-hop Hustler by Ethan Brown

Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.

For years, rappers from Nas to Ja Rule have hero-worshipped the legendary drug dealers who dominated Queens in the 1980s with their violent crimes and flashy lifestyles. Now, for the first time ever, this gripping narrative digs beneath the hip-hop fables to re-create the rise and fall of hustlers like Lorenzo Fat Cat Nichols, Gerald Prince Miller, Kenneth Supreme McGriff, and Thomas Tony Montana Mickens. Spanning twenty-five years, from the violence of the crack era to Run DMC to the infamous murder of NYPD rookie Edward Byrne to Tupac Shakur to 50 Cent's battles against Ja Rule and Murder Inc., to the killing of Jam Master Jay, Queens Reigns Supreme is the first inside look at the infamous southeast Queens crews and their connections to gangster culture in hip hop today.

Ethan Brown has written for a variety of magazines, including New York magazine, The New York Observer, Wired, Vibe, The Independent, GQ, Rolling Stone, Details, The Guardian, and The Village Voice. Queens Reigns Supreme and Snitch are his works. He and his wife live in New Orleans.

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ISBN 13	9780859653909
ISBN 10	0859653900
Title	Fat Cat, 50 Cent and the Rise of the Hip-hop Hustler
Author	Ethan Brown
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Plexus Publishing Ltd
Year published	2007-07-20
Number of pages	288
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