Street Fiction: Urban Fiction Interviews, News, and Reviews

YOU KNEW BETTA by Cachet Johnson

Daniel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:07:17 +0000

No one said living a double life was easy. When Raimone marries his high school sweetheart and starts a family, he’s still not satisfied. What’s more, Raimone’s wife Sasha doesn’t know that her husband fathered a child right under her nose with his mistress NaTaisha. After four years of sitting on the sidelines, NaTaisha will do whatever it takes to destroy Raimone’s family and control him – even if it means putting him behind bars.

After Raimone is released and a pregnant NaTaisha is found inside her home brutally murdered, the search is on for the killer.

Filled with tension, sex appeal, and real-life events that happen on an everyday basis, the twist and turns of this love triangle will make your jaw drop. You’ll tell yourself: YOU KNEW BETTA!

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RIPPED DOLLARS by Raymond Francis

Daniel — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:14:29 +0000

When some people picture Philadelphia, they think of Cheesesteaks and the Liberty Bell. “Ripped Dollars” will change that perception. The story centers on Tone and Amir, two youngn’s who are their own and ready to do whatever is necessary to survive. From schemes to stick-ups, anything goes when it comes to making money. Tone and Amir are both truly reckless, living the fast life to the fullest. “Ripped Dollars” is far from just another gangster tale. The story deals with the emotions, reasoning, and consequences that come along with living “the life.” It shows that sometimes it can be hard to separate the people who really love you from the people who are only out for themselves. Action packed, gritty, and raw “Ripped Dollars” shows readers what true desperation is all about while leading to a blindsiding surprise ending.

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Altered Destiny: A Hustler’s Choice By Sherylynne L. Rochester (Kindle Book)

Daniel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:18:26 +0000

We meet Sasha Miller, a young girl from Brooklyn who has grown up amid drugs, crime, and violence. She manages to make a life for herself on the streets, with money, sex, respect, power, notoriety, and even love, and she feels that the choices she has made to get there are the right ones. No one can stop her or tell her otherwise.But it all comes crashing down when one of the choices she has made comes back to haunt her. While living the life of a drug dealer’s girl, entering the game and scheming her way through to get what she wants, she learns that success in this game and the choices she has made do not matter—especially when she faces Him, and He shows her how her choices have altered her destiny. Will Sasha get a second chance to make the right decisions? Or will it be too late?

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HOODFELLAS III: READY TO DIE by Richard Jeanty

Daniel — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:03:26 +0000

Deon and his crew are forced to return back to the States because of unfortunate situations in Haiti. However, lurking around in Deon’s mind are those killers who took out his boys, Short Dawg and No Neck. He won’t rest until the heads of the killers are delivered to him. This personal vendetta will have to be settled before Deon can have peace of mind, but will he allow a personal vendetta to become his downfall?

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Book 1: Hoodfellas
Book 2: Hoodfellas II: American Gangster
Book 3: Hoodfellas III: Ready to Die

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HOODFELLAS II: AMERICAN GANGSTER by Richard Jeanty

Daniel — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:33:15 +0000

Navigating in a foreign nation will take some time. However, with the kind of money Deon brought with him, he understands everything is for sale in Haiti and his buying power is unlimited. Deon never thought that he would be kidnapped for a ransom large enough to leave him broke by the most ruthless thugs that he has ever encountered. As he soon finds out, his life is also for sale and he better find a way to pay quickly. However, no one should ever underestimate the heart of an American Gangster.

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Book 1: Hoodfellas
Book 2: Hoodfellas II: American Gangster
Book 3: Hoodfellas III: Ready to Die

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The Genre Hookup

Daniel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:52:29 +0000

Danyel Smith has an interesting perspective on the potential relationship between literary fiction and urban fiction in Jeff Chang’s incredible book Total Chao: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop:

“Black literary fiction and street lit should embrace in a rowdy, passionate, illicit love affair – very Romeo and Juliet minus the whole star-crossed thing. The two genres should hole for a long weekend of wet, buck-naked lovemaking, and then part as the rare kind of lovers who remain acquaintances, but respect the other’s skill and heat. In a perfect world, the two genres, each gangsta in in its own way, would get together often for fun and pleasure, and truly for some respite from those who would try to erase them. Who knows? From such a hot hookup (imagine the gymnastic lust, the hair pulling, the scratching, kissing, and conversations), there might evolve love. Such things have been known to happen. If readers were lucky, there’d be many, many children – each freaky and bold and wonderful in his or her own blessedly ensured way.” (196)

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HOODFELLAS by Richard Jeanty

Daniel — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:30:53 +0000

When an Ex-con finds himself destitute and out of luck after he’s released from prison, he turns to what he knows best, crime. Crazy D was doomed to become a statistic until he took matters into his own hands. Hungry and determined for success, he uses his street smarts and connects to build an empire with his click , The Hoodfellas. Who will be victimized by the Hoodfellas? Who will pay the price for their success?

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Book 1: Hoodfellas
Book 2: Hoodfellas II: American Gangster
Book 3: Hoodfellas III: Ready to Die

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EXTREME CIRCUMSTANCES by Cereka Cook

Daniel — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:06:17 +0000

What happens when a devoted woman is betrayed? Come take a ride with Chanel as she takes her boyfriend, Donnell, to circumstances beyond belief after he betrays her trust with his endless infidelities. How long can Chanel’s friend, Janai, use her looks to get what she wants from men before it catches up to her? Find out as Janai’s gold-digging ways catch up with and she has to face the consequences of her extreme actions.

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The Ghetto Majority

Daniel — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:07:21 +0000

In his Book, Gettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, author Kermit E. Campbell writes:

“Perhaps to an unrealistic degree these books and films play up the ‘do or die’ mentality of ghetto living. In most of these works, in fact, we scarcely hear the ‘depressed, poverty-stricken silent majority’ that constitutes, according to Stone, the other membership of the ghetto. Were their voices more prominently featured in the aforementioned works, would then black pulp fiction more accurately represent ghetto life? Does the ghetto majority, in other words, suffer from the same deterministic or hopeless outlook in life as the ghetto hustler? And if they choose not to hustle their way out of impoverishment, are they less ‘real’ than those who do?” (102)

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STICK N MOVE 3 by Shawn Black

Daniel — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:55:33 +0000

Serosa becomes the subject to information that could financially ruin and possibly destroy the lives and careers of many prominent people involved in the government if this data is exposed. As this intricate plot thickens, speculations start mounting and a whirlwind of death, deceit, and betrayal finds its way into the ranks of a once impenetrable core of the government. Will Serosa fall victim to the genetic structure that indirectly binds her to her parents causing her to realize there s NO WAY OUT!

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Book 1: Stick N Move
Book 2: Stick N Move II
Book 3. Stick N Move III

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