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"""Ferranti continues to amaze us with the most infamousOGs and their unfathomable street life.""-The Source ""Seth Ferranti is one of the most prolific true-crime writers of our era. He knows the street game inside and out. From the streets to the penitentiary, nobody rates better.""-""White Boy Rick"" Wershe From the penitentiary to the streets, it's on and popping. Thug life is more than spitting rhymes or hustling on the corner. Thugs live and die on the streets or end up in the ""belly of the beast."" Rappers name-drop guns by model number and call out drug dealers by name. Gangsta rap is crack-era nostalgia taken to the extreme. It's a world where rappers emulate their favorite hood stars in videos, celebrate their names in verse, and make ghetto heroes out of gangsters. But what happens when hip-hop and organized crime collide? From the blocks in Queens where Supreme and Murder Inc. held court to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles where Harry-O and Death Row made their names to Rap-A-Lot Records and J Prince in Houston, whenever rap moguls rose the street legends weren't far behind. From Bad Boy Records and Anthony ""Wolf"" Jones in New York to Gucci Mane and the Black Mafia Family in Atlanta to Too Short and Daryl Reed in the Bay Area, thug life wasn't glamorous. The shit on the street was real. In the game there was a common struggle to get out of the gutter. Cats were trying to get their piece of the American Dream by any means necessary. Drug game equals rap game equals hip-hop hustler. In Thug Life, Seth Ferranti takes you on a journey to a world where gangsterism mixes with hip-hop, a journey of pimps, stick-up kids, numbers men, drug dealers, thugs, players, gangstas, hustlers, and of course the rappers who live dual lives in entertainment and crime. The common denominator? Money, power, and respect."

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Seth Ferrranti is not only a supremely talented writer, he has also experienced crime and hip-hop firsthand. He is part of the culture. - Freeway Rick Ross Thug Life's focus on gangsta rap and organized crime is an inspired pairing. Seth Ferranti has an incredible story, and is a great storyteller himself. -Ben Westhoff, author of Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap Seth Ferranti possesses the zeal of a strong investigative reporter with the street smarts of a hustler. Even though I've been writing about street crime for two decades, I can always count on Seth to surprise me. -Ethan Brown, author of Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler

“Seth Ferrranti is not only a supremely talented writer, he has also experienced crime and hip-hop firsthand. He is part of the culture.”—“Freeway” Rick Ross “Thug Life's focus on gangsta rap and organized crime is an inspired pairing. Seth Ferranti has an incredible story, and is a great storyteller himself.”—Ben Westhoff, author of Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap “Seth Ferranti possesses the zeal of a strong investigative reporter with the street smarts of a hustler. Even though I’ve been writing about street crime for two decades, I can always count on Seth to surprise me.”—Ethan Brown, author of Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler

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"After landing on the U.S. Marshals Service ""15 Most Wanted"" list and being sentenced to a twenty-five-year sentence in federal prison for a first-time, nonviolent LSD and cannabis offense, Seth Ferranti built a writing and journalism career from his cell block in the ""belly of the beast."" His raw portrayals of prison life and crack-era gangsters have appeared inDiva, VICE, andPenthouse. From prison Ferranti published books likePrison StoriesandStreet Legends, which made him a celebrity in and out of penitentiaries across the United States and abroad. His incredible story has been covered by theWashington Post, theWashington Times, andRolling Stoneand he starred in the Season 1 finale of VICE'sI Was A Teenage Felon. He also wrote, produced, and appeared in the hit Netflix documentary,White Boy."

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