This is the last installation of the pimping game. Look for one more compilations that will include all the books in my series combined into one Platinum Pimps and Players Edition. I have been bringing this game to you for a few years. But due to the many changes that are going on in my life it is time to move on to another chapter in my life. I will still be writing books and I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed taking this journey with me into the world of pimping, pandering, and prostitution. This chapter of my life has come to an end and many more are waiting to be written. Game Over! Now my new life begins. Thank you for all your love and support. The history of my voyage is forever set in stone. The game lives on. The game will never die but it will continue to innovate, expand, and evolve. And the players will change. Once one individual leaves the game another one is being groomed into the role as a pimp and a player. Check out all of my books online because I will continue to write more as long as the motivation is still there. I have an extensive body of work that will be appreciated for generations after I’m long gone. Respect the game or the game will disrespect you. Embrace the game and the game will embrace you. There are rules and regulations that have passed down for many years.

I have decided to combine all of my books in the Pimp Game series into one large collection to be read and enjoyed by those affiliated and interested in elevating their game to a higher level at a discounted price. It gives you the opportunity to advance your street education in the realm of pimping and pandering. This is a very valuable piece of information that I am making available to the world for a small fee. Game is to be sold not told so step your game up and put your pimping shoes on and get laced up. The morale of the story is to game up or lame up. It's time for you to shine and grind on a higher plateau. There is a million dollars worth of game between these pages. This is your scholarship in street education. Take your game to the next level. The game is to be sold not told. So, get in where you fit in. And game up instead of lame up. The world is yours. Study long. And study strong. This is the opportunity to step your game up. And advance yourself in this pimping game.

This is the last installation of the pimping game. Look for one more compilations that will include all the books in my series combined into one Platinum Pimps and Players Edition. I have been bringing this game to you for a few years. But due to the many changes that are going on in my life it is time to move on to another chapter in my life. I will still be writing books and I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed taking this journey with me into the world of pimping, pandering, and prostitution. This chapter of my life has come to an end and many more are waiting to be written. Game Over! Now my new life begins. Thank you for all your love and support. The history of my voyage is forever set in stone. The game lives on. The game will never die but it will continue to innovate, expand, and evolve. And the players will change. Once one individual leaves the game another one is being groomed into the role as a pimp and a player. Check out all of my books online because I will continue to write more as long as the motivation is still there. I have an extensive body of work that will be appreciated for generations after I’m long gone. Respect the game or the game will disrespect you. Embrace the game and the game will embrace you. There are rules and regulations that have passed down for many years.

Our generation made hip-hop. But hip-hop also made us. Why are suburban kids referring to their subdivision as “block”? Why has the pimp become a figure of male power? Why has dodging the feds become an act of honor long after one has made millions as a legitimate artist? What happens when fantasy does more harm than reality?—From the Introduction Hip-hop culture has been in the mainstream for years. Suburban teens take their fashion cues from Diddy and expect to have Three 6 Mafia play their sweet-sixteen parties. From the “Boogie Down Bronx” to the heartland, hip-hop’s influence is major. But has the movement taken a wrong turn? In Beats Rhymes and Life, hot journalists Kenji Jasper and Ytasha Womack have focused on what they consider to be the most prominent symbols of the genre: the fan, the turntable, the ice, the dance floor, the shell casing, the buzz, the tag, the whip, the ass, the stiletto, the (pimp’s) cane, the coffin, the cross, and the corner. Each is the focus of an essay by a journalist who skillfully dissects what their chosen symbol means to them and to the hip-hop community.The collection also features many original interviews with some of rap’s biggest stars talking candidly about how they connect to the culture and their fans. With a foreword by the renowned scholar Michael Eric Dyson, Beats Rhymes and Life is an innovative and daring look at the state of the hip-hop nation.

With roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip hop emerged in the streets of the South Bronx in the 1970s and has spread to the farthest corners of the earth. "To the Break of Dawn" uniquely examines this freestyle verbal artistry on its own terms. A kid from Queens who spent his youth at the epicenter of this new art form, music critic William Jelani Cobb takes readers inside the beats, the lyrics, and the flow of hip hop, separating mere corporate rappers from the creative MCs that forged the art in the crucible of the street jam.The four pillars of hip hop - break dancing, graffiti art, deejaying, and rapping - find their origins in traditions as diverse as the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira and Caribbean immigrants' turnstile artistry.

The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.

Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more. For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed and oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Set intimately within the social context of Black life, the stories, “big old lies,” songs, voodoo customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of Black Americans.

Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review). In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression—it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.” —Arthur Miller “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.” —Newsweek “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.” —The National Observer

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.