Table of Contents
Part 1 Savior
1 The Boy From Nowhere 3
2 Lumberton 5
3 Alice 10
4 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense 15
5 Lesane Gets a Name Change 33
Part 2 Survivor
6 Who Plans a Motherless Child? 37
7 Nonviolence Is a Dead Philosophy 45
8 The New Start 48
9 Baltimore School for the Arts 52
10 The Bakke Decision 54
11 Years of Lean and Plenty of Mean 59
12 Jada and John 64
13 The Jungle 71
14 Leila 74
15 Shock G 80
Part 3 Star
16 Interscope 87
17 2Pacalypse Now 90
18 Juice 95
19 T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E. 100
20 The Women 107
21 Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z 111
22 Poetic Justice 115
23 Puffy 119
24 Biggie 123
25 A Shooting in Atlanta 129
26 New Friends 132
27 The Beginning of the End 134
28 Above the Rim 139
29 Keisha Morris 142
30 The First Shooting 148
31 What Happened Upstairs? 152
32 Where the Real Gangstas Live 156
33 Me Against the World 162
34 The Shogun of Death Row 164
35 Inmate No. 95-A-1140 176
Part 4 Avenger
36 The Man Who Walked Out of Prison 185
37 A Problem Between Two Rappers 189
38 Crusader 193
39 Piggie and Buffy 206
40 The Second Shooting 213
41 Black Royalty and Big Plans 217
42 The Notorious P.I.S.S.E.D. 223
43 The Third Shooting 230
Part 5 Beloved
44 Too Hard to Believe 241
45 Goodbye 247
Acknowledgments 251
Bibliography 253
Discography 261
Filmography 263
Index 265
