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This story is told from a place of confinement where King finds himself trapped among those the World rejects. He sacrificed to keep his Crew safe for the greatest contribution, so he sits in his prison cell thinking and recalling a past time while kicking the shit with Umar.

 

See, in truth, it wasn’t about King’s track record here that made him appear unique but the feelings that followed in his day-to-day life as a street hustler. Here, his choice of lifestyle as a drug dealing entrepreneur gains him the power to embellish the witnesses of his tales with a beautiful account of details to a melody that tags him and his street family as Hood Stars who set the guidelines for readers to become familiar with how things were in The Hood of the 16 District of Ocean Hill Brownsville.

So, this isn’t the average hood tale of a street family from Brooklyn making it differ slightly from others as the story unfolds and pulls the reader into a rapture of how it is to be removed from a seat of power and influence while everyone else from the family was free to do as they please. At the same time, behind bars, locked away in a World of chaos, confusion, and madness, King builds another hunger and fills his appetite by expressing

A Hood Tale, because a lot of people thought he lost his mind based on his last community act.

 

In the Ocean Hill Brownsville section, King and his crew consisted of nine members, including the girls who became the cornerstone of change for these guys, and then, their homeboy Arnie aka (Lamik) stayed out in Queens. He gave the family just a bit more footing in the game.

King organized his crew around collective thinking back in ‘86 upon his release from Riker’s and from that point forward their rule will be known all throughout the districts making him and his partner Born be viewed as “The Brains” who becomes the undisputed champs in the game.

In all truth, that came from king governing with an iron hand, but he couldn’t do it by himself, so he realized early on that working with his partner Born, their two brains collectively activated together proves to be better than one.

Although this book is an imaginative creation and its content is not necessarily based on facts, the names, characters, places, and incidents are the true product of this writer’s vivid imagination as the characters are formed in life-like images of what life was like in one of the poorest districts in Brooklyn, so any resemblance to actual events, locations or persons living and the deceased are coincidental.

                                                  The Hill Is Real!

                                  Saratoga Ave. and Pacific St.

The Hill (Every Story Has a Beginning) Book 1

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    • Timeil CarterJul 30
      Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
      The Hill

      I feel like the message from this story (The Hill) is realistic which makes this a classic and raw piece of evidence about the hood. It displays how the adults before us grew up living by codes of the streets which is different from my generation of today. The kids are more lost today of my generation with no insight of a movement like King & Born ran, they ran the streets of Brooklyn with raw style. Not like the rappers or gang bangers of today, so this is inspiring to me. Just got book 2!

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    • Denise BrownJul 30
      Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
      The Hill

      The Hill is a very interesting book about what goes on in these mean streets of Brooklyn and how it affects our community and everyday life's as single black mothers especially trying to raise young black kings are forced to watch the youth become products of our environment.

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