Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 Down Bottom
Chapter 1 Where I Come From 11
Chapter 2 Just Pass the Mic 21
Chapter 3 The Hurdles 25
Chapter 4 The Tradition of Failure 33
Chapter 5 Too Poor for Pop Culture 39
Chapter 6 No Retirement for the Hustlers 57
Part 2 The Biggest Gang in America
Chapter 7 An American Tradition 65
Chapter 8 How Our Trust Is Undone 79
Chapter 9 The Baltimore Uprising 85
Part 3 Never Patriots
Chapter 10 I'm Sick of Woke 99
Chapter 11 Are You a Real One? 107
Chapter 12 Intellectually Curious or Racist? 129
Part 4 Proximity
Chapter 13 Be the Person You Needed Growing Up 149
Chapter 14 There Are No Shortcuts to Change 167
Chapter 15 Don't Make It Out, Make It Better 175
Afterword 179
Acknowledgments 185
We Speak for Ourselves Playlist 187