GORILLA CONVICT

The world of gangster writers is a small one. You got the originals like Tiffany Chiles, Antoine Clark, Cavario H., Kevin Chiles, Shabazz, Ethan Brown, Seth Ferranti and Ron Chepesiuk […]

Ron Chepesiuk is well versed in the arts of street knowledge. This Canadian born and internationally educated scholar has jumped into the true crime genre and pumped out books about drug lords and gangsters like Lil’ Wayne pumps out hits […]

“Ain’t nobody pen’in like us man,” is Badland Publishing’s motto and they’re right. Most urban authors claim straight out the hood but Badland’s authors are straight out the penitentiary […]

How to Hustle and Win is a survival guide for the ghetto, written by hip-hop self-help guru Supreme Understanding, who has traveled the globe researching, organizing and conducting lectures, workshops and motivational speeches […]

In prison, there are many obstacles to a prisoner’s freedom. The razorwire topped perimeter fences, the walls and gun towers all ensure that the number one obstacle…escape, doesn’t occur […]

Street Lit O.G. Wahida Clark is doing it. With three Essence bestsellers to her credit she has entered the Teri Woods, Vickie Stringer, Nikki Turner realm in the world of hip-hop fiction […]

From gangsta rap to gangsta writer in the world of hip-hop everything spirals upwards from the streets. And in the annals of the gangsta chronicles a new writer has emerged suddenly, almost out of nowhere, to become the hip-hop writer of the moment […]

The Mexican Mafia or Eme is one of the most notorious and powerful gangs in Southern California. They are allegedly running things from the penitentiary to the streets of LA […]

From the ghosts of gangsta past, notably Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, a new generation of writers are taking up the mantle, and resurrecting a long since dead, and underground genre- street novels, and making it into a multi-million dollar industry […]

Just like the rap game before it the world of hip-hop fiction is blowing up. Street lit as its called is now grossing over $50 million annually and a genre that started with self-published authors selling books out the back of their cars has quickly become a legitimate market that has harnessed the talents of writers either fresh out of prison or still in the pen […]