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The Book of Jose

A Memoir

By: FAT JOE,Shaheem Reid

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Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum–selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls back the curtain on his larger-than-life persona in this gritty, intimate memoir about growing up in the South Bronx and finding his voice through music. “An adrenaline rush . . . buckle up and lean back.”—Spin Fat Joe is a hip-hop legend, but this is not a tale of celebrity; it is the story of Joseph Cartagena, a kid who came of age in the South Bronx during its darkest years of drugs, violence, and abandonment, and how he navigated that traumatizing landscape until he found—through art, friendship, luck, and will—a rocky path to a different life. Joe is born into a sprawling Puerto Rican and Cuban family in the projects of the South Bronx. From infancy his life is threatened by violence, and by the time he starts middle school, he is faced with the grim choice that defined a generation: to become predator or prey. Soon Joe and his crew dominate the streets, but he finds his true love among the park jams where the Bronx’s wild energy takes musical form. His identity splits in two: a hustler roaming record stores, looking for beats; and a budding rapper whose violent rep rings in the streets. As Joe’s day-to-day life becomes more fraught with betrayal, addiction, and death, until he himself is shot and almost killed, he gravitates toward the music that gives him both a voice to tell the stories of his young life and the tools he needs to create a new one. The challenges never stop—but neither does Joe. This memoir, written in Joe’s own intensely compelling voice, moves with the momentum of pulp fiction, but underneath the tragicomedy and riveting tales of the streets and the industry is a thought-provoking story about a generation of survivors raised in warlike conditions—the life-and-death choices they had to make, the friends they lost and mourned, and the glittering lives they created from the ruins.

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Roc Lit 101

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The Book of Jose

A Memoir

By: FAT JOE,Shaheem Reid

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A Memoir

By: FAT JOE,Shaheem Reid

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Rhymes of Our Tymes for Adults & Adultresses

By: Fat Lloyd

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Rhymes of Our Tymes for Adults & Adultresses

By: Fat Lloyd

Rhymes of Our Tymes for Adults and Adultresses is a collection of humorous stories and/thoughts that are presented in a 'rhyme' format. Each 'rhyme' is designed to either make you laugh at yourself or your convictions or both. There is usually a lesson in each entry if enough tyme and energy is applied to find the under lying wisdom or lack of it. Many of these 'rhymes' have a twist from conventional thought and most have a 'punch-line' that will breathe these thoughts into life. This is not an educational project. Rather it is an entertainment effort that will certainly educate. Fortunately, many of these thoughts and ideas are a bit naughty.

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133

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AuthorHouse

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1467027987

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9781467027984

Chinese New Migrants in Suriname

The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing

By: Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat

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Chinese New Migrants in Suriname

The Inevitability of Ethnic Performing

By: Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat

This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as an analysis of Surinamese ethnic discourse and ethnopolitics. Starting in the 1990s, renewed immigration from China changed the dynamics of the Surinamese Chinese community, which developed from a Hakka enclave to a culturally and linguistically diverse, modern Chinese migrant group. Local positioning strategies of Chinese had always depended on ethnic entrepreneurship and political participation, but were now complicated by anti-immigrant sentiments.

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478

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Amsterdam University Press

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9056295985

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9789056295981

You Got to Have Faith

By: Fat Man

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You Got to Have Faith

By: Fat Man

This book comes from a revelation of the Holy Spirit for peoples salvation. May this book bring peace and bring people together all over the world. In Jesus name, Amen.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1669802280

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