Seth Ferranti has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince's Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed.
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince's Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed
Summary
When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business-minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new-era black gangster. Drugs, murder, kidnappings, shootings, more drugs, and more murder were the rule of the day. They called it The Game, but it was a vicious attempt to come up by any means necessary. In the late 1980s, the mindset was get mine or be mine, and nobody embodied this attitude more than the Supreme Team. The Supreme Team has gone down in street legend and the lyrical lore of hip-hop and gangsta rap as one of the most vicious crews to ever emerge on the streets of New York. Their mythical and iconic status inspired hip-hop culture and rap superstars like 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas, and Ja Rule. Born at the same time as crack, hip-hop was heavily influenced by the drug crews that controlled New York's streets. And the cliché of art imitating life and vice versa came full circle in the saga of the Supreme Team's infamous leaders - Kenneth Supreme McGriff and Gerald Prince Miller. In the maelstrom of the mid-80s crack storm and burgeoning hip-hop scene, their influence and relevance left a lasting impression. Going from drug baron to federal prisoner to hip-hop maestro to life in prison, Supreme was involved in hip-hop and the crack trade from day one. His run stretched decades, but in the end, he fell victim to the pitfalls of the game like all before him had. His nephew, the enigmatic Prince, who had a rapid, violent, and furious rise in the streets, also fell hard and fast to the tune of seven life sentences. The Supreme Team has been romanticized and glorified in hip-hop, but the truth of the matter is that most of their members are currently in prison for life or have spent decades of their prime years behind bars. This audiobook looks at the team’s climatic rise from its inception to its inevitable fall. It looks at Supreme’s redemption with Murder Inc. and his relapse back into crime. This audiobook is the Supreme Team story in all its glory, infamy, and tragedy. It’s a tale of turns, twists, and fate. Meet the gangsters from Queens where the drug game influenced the style and swagger of street culture, hip-hop, and gangsta rap and made the infamous cast of characters from the Supreme Team icons in the annals of urban lore.
©2012 Gorilla Convict Publications (P)2018 Gorilla Convict Publications
Prison Stories
Summary
Prison Stories is what Orange Is the New Black and Prison Break weren't real enough to be. Written by convict author Seth Ferranti, it takes you inside the belly of the beast, front and center. Prison Stories reveals a world of fearless convicts, inconspicuous snitches, and deadly gang rivalry. The book is a vivid look into the brutal and vicious world of prison. It takes the listener behind the fences, giving real life accounts from the netherworld of corruption and violence. Prison Stories' outlaw rawness mixes well with hip-hop's street essence. Fans of Iceberg Slim's Pimp Tales and HBO's OZ series will really dig this. In Prison Stories, Seth Ferranti brings forth a powerful memoir of life in federal prisons in the 1990s when the "war on drugs" and mandatory minimums were in full effect, quadrupling the population of the Bureau of Prisons.
©2005 Gorilla Convict Publications (P)2016 Gorilla Convict Publications
Street Legends
Summary
The original gangster legendary figures from the black underworld and hip-hop's lyrical lore Ice-T spit, "Gangsters don't die, they multiply" and to keep it all the way official read about the street's real legends - the original gangsters that inspired BET's American Gangster series, all those Hollywood gangsta flicks, the litany of true crime street documentaries and gangsta rappers galore. The black gangster is in effect taking over where the Italian mobsters and Colombian cocaine cartels left off. Street Legends gives you their stories. Read about the black John Gottis and Pablo Escobars. True to life and hood to hood. Real recognizes real. And this audiobook will give you the truth. Let recognized prison journalist and gangster chronicler Seth Ferranti, aka Soul Man, take you on a journey to the criminal underworld. Where real O.G.'s go hard and suckers get exposed. In Street Legends Vol. 1, he mesmerized readers with the exploits of the Death Before Dishonor six- Supreme, Wayne Perry, Anthony Jones, Aaron Jones, Pistol Pete, and Boy George. Now in Street Legends Vol. 2, he introduces the original gangsters - men of honor, respect and violence - street stars and hood icons, including: The Black Caesar, Frank Matthews - Original King of New York, Peanut King - Lord of B-More's heroin trade, Michael Fray - the Ambassador of Chocolate City, the Boobie Boys of Miami and rapper Rick Ross fame, Short North Posse - the Columbus, Ohio crew that Triple Crown Publisher Vickie Stringer snitched on, and The New World - Islamic bank robbers from Newark, New Jersey. Read these tales of chaos, murder, and mayhem that embody elements of cash money, debonair style, brutal diplomacy, unchecked violence, vicious betrayal, and brotherly unity.
©2010 Gorilla Convict, LLC. (P)2018 Gorilla Convict, LLC
Street Legends Vol. 1
Summary
In Street Legends Vol. 1, Seth brings forth powerful biographies of six of the most notorious gangster of the crack era who influenced hip-hop and street culture. This audiobook profiles six of the biggest street legends from the crack era - Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, Wayne Perry, Anthony Jones, Aaron Jones, Peter "Pistol Pete" Rollack, and George "Boy George" Rivera. Kilos of cocaine and heroin, millions of dollars of drug money, luxury customized cars, dime pieces galore, bling-bling to shine, multitudes of violence and vicious murder - these dudes were street stars, and their lifestyles are what gangsta rap represents. Hear their stories and ride shotgun with a hood legend.
©2008 Gorilla Convict, LLC (P)2018 Gorilla Convict, LLC
The Dope Game
Summary
Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous and legendary figures out of New York’s crack era, at a time that massively influenced rap culture and led to the ghetto icons becoming mythical figures in hip-hop’s lyrical lore. Not only did the street stars inspire rappers like Run DMC, LL Cool J, and 50 Cent with their styles, attitudes, and swagger, they set the tone for a generation of hustlers, gun thugs, and drug barons, who tried to live up to the hype and standard of violence these street legends set, with their vicious and brutal foray into the drug game that transformed the black underworld as Uzi-toting drug thugs in bulletproof vests, Timberlands, and BMWs became the norm. This audiobook details Fat Cat and Pappy Mason’s story, chronicling their rise and fall in the annals of gangster lore. Both drug lords are imprisoned for life, due to their crimes and exploits, but their legends live on in hip-hop and popular culture. Written by noted true crime historian Seth Ferranti, this is the most concise, prolific, and detailed account of Fat Cat and Pappy Mason to date. It explores their lives and impact on hip-hop culture and America in general, as their violent and unconscious tactics ushered in the war on drugs and mandatory minimum legislation that has affected millions, as the United States has become incarceration nation. Listen to find out how the street legends of the Southside of Jamaica Queens influenced hip-hop, the streets, and the dope game, changing the course of American judicial policy and sentencing practices, with their blatant disregard for law and order.
©2012 Gorilla Convict LLC (P)2020 Gorilla Convict LLC