Ferranti continues to amaze us with the most infamous OGs and their unfathomable street life.The SourceSeth Ferranti is one of the most prolific truecrime writers of our era. He knows the street game inside and out. From the streets to the penitentiary nobody rates better.White Boy Rick Wershe From the penitentiary to the streets its on and popping. Thug life is more than spitting rhymes or hustling on the corner. Thugs live and die on the streets or end up in the belly of the beast. Rappers namedrop guns by model number and call out drug dealers by name. Gangsta rap is crackera nostalgia taken to the extreme. Its a world where rappers emulate their favorite hood stars in videos celebrate their names in verse and make ghetto heroes out of gangsters. But what happens when hiphop and organized crime collideFrom the blocks in Queens where Supreme and Murder Inc. held court to the neighborhoods of Los Angeles where HarryO and Death Row made their names to RapALot Records and J Prince in Houston whenever rap moguls rose the street legends werent far behind. From Bad Boy Records and Anthony Wolf Jones in New York to Gucci Mane and the Black Mafia Family in Atlanta to Too Short and Daryl Reed in the Bay Area thug life wasnt glamorous. The shit on the street was real. In the game there was a common struggle to get out of the gutter. Cats were trying to get their piece of the American Dream by any means necessary. Drug game equals rap game equals hiphop hustler.In Thug Life Seth Ferranti takes you on a journey to a world where gangsterism mixes with hiphop a journey of pimps stickup kids numbers men drug dealers thugs players gangstas hustlers and of course the rappers who live dual lives in entertainment and crime. The common denominator Money power and respect.