Thugs Cry Author: Ca$H | Language: English | ISBN:
B007WOQN0I | Format: EPUB
Thugs Cry Description
Cam'ron and Raheem hail from the notorious Brick City in Newark New Jersey. The two friends grew up eating noodles off of the same fork, now they are primed to eat off the drug game. From the Bricks to the ATL nigga's must bow down or get laid down.
Cam'ron epitomizes the grimy streets of Newark, he's a supreme hustler with a vicious murder game. Cam'ron loves four things: his money, family, his homie, and his boo. Touch either one and you get served, Cam'ron warns the streets. Of course Newark niggas are the grimiest so they don't take heed to Cam'ron's threat, they touch all of the above.
Tamika who is Cam'ron's boo makes shit hotter when she sets out to show him that he's not the only hustler checkin for her and she does not have to condone his womanizing. When Tamika gets with a hustler who refuses to let her go back to Cam'ron the consequences get catastrophic for somebody.
Meanwhile, Raheem who is the polar opposite from his man, is quietly putting his G down in the Dirty South. When ATL thugs test Raheem's gun they find out that a quiet storm is the deadliest. Raheem is as gentle with his woman as he is proficient with his murder game.
Kayundra, Raheem's shorty has fallen into drug addiction and it has her in a vice grip. Raheem's love for Kayundra never wavers. He helps her beat her addiction and soon she's refocused on her dream of becoming a R&B diva. With Raheem's help Kayundra lands a recording deal and almost overnight she becomes a star. But success comes at a price that threatens to shatter their love.
Raheem and Cam'ron go hard for what they want, and they attain it, leaving a lot of bodies along the way. They make many mothers bury their sons and shed tears, but on the road to hood fame and riches they learn that sometimes the enemy strikes back and its your turn to cry.
When the blood and tears stop falling will what Cam'ron and Raheem gained be worth what they both lose?
- File Size: 545 KB
- Print Length: 153 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1492310034
- Publisher: Lockdown Publishing (April 22, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007WOQN0I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
X-Ray:
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,973 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Oh boy, where to start... I have to admit, I was immediately intrigued when I read the free preview of this book and within a few paragraphs there was a scene involving the main character witnessing his mother doing something no one should ever have to see his mother doing. Since the main character, CJ, is some kind of gangster-god who gets away with literally dozens of murders during the course of the story, by the end of the free preview he easily deals with the man responsible for his mother's humiliation.
This is where my complaints start, the writing is just lazy and unoriginal. Most of the story is just bad people doing bad people things, and having to deal with the consequences, usually by doing more bad stuff. When CJ has to deal with a rival crew early on in the story, he simply picks up a machine gun from his apartment, immediately finds the guys he is looking for (conveniently all standing together), mows them down "Call of Duty"-style, and gets away. No drama, no chases, at no point is there any doubt of his survival. Repeat this process countless times and it ultimately makes for a fairly boring story.
I do have to tip my hat to Ca$h for a couple of things:
1) The whole thing is written in ghetto slang, even the narration, which greatly enhances the entertainment factor.
2) About midway through the story, two characters are discussing books, and one of them glowingly praises the prominent author known as...Ca$h. Stop and think about that for a minute. It's like Juliet asking Romeo "Have you read this Shakespeare chap, he's bloody marvelous!"
3) Switching from third-person to first-person narration halfway through. Why not!
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