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Split decision : life stories

Title
  1. Split decision : life stories / Ice-T and Spike and Douglas Century.
Published by
  1. New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Ice-T (Musician)

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Additional authors
  1. Spike, 1962-
  2. Century, Douglas
Description
  1. v, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to capture television audiences as Odafin "Fin" Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit​. But it could have gone much differently. In this gripping and candid memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner--collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century--relate the shocking stories of their shared pasts, and how just a handful of decisions led to their incredibly different lives. Both grew up in violent, gang-controlled Los Angeles neighborhoods and worked together to orchestrate a series of jewelry heists in LA and across the US. But while Ice-T was discovered rapping in a club and got his first record deal, Spike was caught for a jewel robbery and did three years in prison. As his music career began to take off, Ice made the decision to leave the criminal life; Spike continued to plan increasingly ingenious and risky jewel heists. And in 1992, after one of Spike's robberies ended tragically, he was sentenced to thirty-five years to life. While he sat behind bars, he watched his former partner rise to fame in music, movies, and television. Harrowing, timely, and thoughtful, two men with two very different lives reveal how their paths might have very well been reversed if they made different choices. All it took was a Split Decision." -- Amazon.com
  2. "Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling and astonishing memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune-while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path"--
Subject
  1. Ice-T (Musician)
  2. Spike, 1962-
  3. Spike
  4. Rap musicians > United States > Biography
  5. Gangsters > California > Los Angeles > Biography
  6. African Americans > History
  7. Gangsters
  8. Rap musicians
  9. African Americans
  10. California > Los Angeles
  11. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiographies.
  2. Biographies.
  3. History.
Contents
  1. Don't hate the playa -- Cold wind madness -- 6 'n the mornin' -- The syndicate -- High rollers -- New Jack hustler -- Body count -- The fall -- Bowels of the devil -- The weight -- My mother's son -- A lick for my life -- Epilogue: Split decision.
Call number
  1. Sc E 22-1553
Author
  1. Ice-T (Musician), author.
Title
  1. Split decision : life stories / Ice-T and Spike and Douglas Century.
Publisher
  1. New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Edition
  1. First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local note
  1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Added author
  1. Spike, 1962- author.
  2. Century, Douglas, author.
LCCN
  1. 2022003438
ISBN
  1. 9781982148775 hardcover
  2. 1982148772 hardcover
  3. 9781982148782 trade paperback
  4. 1982148780 trade paperback
Research call number
  1. Sc E 22-1553
  2. JME 22-319
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