Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400095230)

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.

Author: Ethan Brown
ISBN-10: 1400095239
ISBN-13: 9781400095230
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.22w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2005 pg. 53
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2005 pg. 1167
Entertainment Weekly 12/09/2005 pg. 92
Booklist 12/01/2005 pg. 8
Black Issues Book Review 01/01/2006 pg. 62
New York Times 06/04/2006 pg. 22
Library Journal 12/15/2005