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Cash Rules
Cash Rules is a tale about three best friends from Baltimore City who have big plans to make it in the rap world. Takeisha, Latrell, and Danita are three around the way girls who spend their teenage years in the streets of Baltimore City chasing the fast life that's filled with hustlas, money, expensive cars, and pure uncut drama. They see becoming the next superstar rap group as their way to make it outta the hood.
As a result, they sharpen up their lyrical skills and form a gangsta rap group called The KS (Killin'em Softly) Crew. They derive the name of the group from their sexy cover girl looks and hard core rhyme style. After hooking up with Scar, another up and coming Baltimore rapper, big time drug dealer, and Takeisha's boyfriend, they are given an opportunity to become major stars in the music industry. However, after Scar and Takeisha break up and he winds up in jail on a trumped up charge, the girls are left to fend for themselves.
They hook up with a group of producers from New York City, named The Smith Brothers, and land a record deal with Cash Rules Records.
The book chronicles their rise to the top of the rap world and the struggles they endure along the path of fame and fortune. It details the pitfalls that lie along the road and shows how the trappings of success threaten to tear the very fiber of their lifelong friendship with each other apart as demons from their past come back to haunt them.
As a result, they sharpen up their lyrical skills and form a gangsta rap group called The KS (Killin'em Softly) Crew. They derive the name of the group from their sexy cover girl looks and hard core rhyme style. After hooking up with Scar, another up and coming Baltimore rapper, big time drug dealer, and Takeisha's boyfriend, they are given an opportunity to become major stars in the music industry. However, after Scar and Takeisha break up and he winds up in jail on a trumped up charge, the girls are left to fend for themselves.
They hook up with a group of producers from New York City, named The Smith Brothers, and land a record deal with Cash Rules Records.
The book chronicles their rise to the top of the rap world and the struggles they endure along the path of fame and fortune. It details the pitfalls that lie along the road and shows how the trappings of success threaten to tear the very fiber of their lifelong friendship with each other apart as demons from their past come back to haunt them.
318 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2005
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January 1, 2009
Survive At All Cost
This East Baltimore GANGSTRESS TRIO `Kill'em Softly Crew' consists of best friends Takeisha (T-Love) Jenkins, Latrell (Luscious) Collins, and Danita (D-Boogie) Robinson.
They appear to have it all. The right people who come with all of the connections, beauty, and them hardcore rhymes. Can a Baltimore love thing destroy their chances at success?
Cash Rules proves to be the fruition the KS Crew needed. Just as they seem to be on top, the industry, jealousy, greed and karma threaten to ruin their dreams. Can each member of the KS Crew maintain and hold on to their reign? Or will the spoils of war steal their momentum?
The ending had the ability to be so much stronger, it ended in a fairy-tale manner, and I found way too many errors. HOWEVER, it was an enjoyable read.
Reviewed by: Crystal
This East Baltimore GANGSTRESS TRIO `Kill'em Softly Crew' consists of best friends Takeisha (T-Love) Jenkins, Latrell (Luscious) Collins, and Danita (D-Boogie) Robinson.
They appear to have it all. The right people who come with all of the connections, beauty, and them hardcore rhymes. Can a Baltimore love thing destroy their chances at success?
Cash Rules proves to be the fruition the KS Crew needed. Just as they seem to be on top, the industry, jealousy, greed and karma threaten to ruin their dreams. Can each member of the KS Crew maintain and hold on to their reign? Or will the spoils of war steal their momentum?
The ending had the ability to be so much stronger, it ended in a fairy-tale manner, and I found way too many errors. HOWEVER, it was an enjoyable read.
Reviewed by: Crystal
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July 30, 2011I thought I would dislike this novel based solely on the first half. It was slow and drawn out and I almost put it down and that is why I give it only three stars. Luckily I didn't throw this novel to the side because the second half was banging. Lies, fame, drugs, deceit, sex, and murder. Lots of it. This book is a tangled web and I couldn't wait to see what the outcome would be. This slow starting novel turns into a bona fide page turner. I am very happy that all the loose ends were tied up at the end of this novel because I wouldn't be able to bear a part 2.
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