Magic City: Trials of a Native Son

✍ Scribed by Daddy, Trick; Bailey, Peter

• Book ID: 108948940
• Publisher: MTV Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781439148525

✦ Synopsis

A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

Trick Daddy was born a thugjust a stones throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty and sparkling wealth. Where grinding poverty, deadly crime, and devastating racial tension taught kids to live by the hood rules. Remarkably, Trick came from nothing and made it big just when his chances had run out.

Magic City is the extraordinary tale of a boy whose father was a pimp, who learned to hustle to survive, and whose only role model was his brother, the drug dealer he watched plying his trade on the block. Its the untold truth behind the cult movie Scarface, of the drug money that transformed the city into a shining mecca for the rich and famous while turf wars between smalltime pushers claimed countless lives. Its also the incredible story of how that potent...