Straight Up Rapping

Straight Up Rapping takes no prisoners as one of the world’s biggest spitters rises up on the Rap Game Scene! Handsome, fierce, pure fire, Rapper, Dirty Ryse grew up in the East Oakland ghetto where rising above takes work? Somehow the most difficult elements of his “Hood” environment was the great rapper's motivation for his eventual global domination of a tough street game. Dirty’s father Sal, denied him the night he slit his son’s throat in a house fight over whether or not he was his son. This move changed Dirty Ryse forever when he heard his dad call his mom a DAB. In one of the smartest moves of his life, Dirty creates a rap, “Dirty Ass Bitch” as his motivation to get out of his awful condition. When the song becomes a stratospheric hit here and abroad, Dirty, a “A” student, challenges his abusive father, rejecting the idea that rapping won't get him out of the ghetto. Before Sony came-a-calling the world knew Dirty stood the means of claiming the rapping throne over some of the largest figures in the game. The rapper's meteoric rise to the top made Dirty Ryse an overnight superstar; but the past, that one painful incident of his youth; kept coming back to haunt him until one day the consequences of Dirty’s childhood ignorance stood to bring down his empire along with all those around him. When Dirtys father finally gleaned Dirty Ryse is his biological son, will Sal Ryse be able to make it up to his son by catching the vengeful agoraphobic killer that’s after his son? Or will it be too late? Carol Denise Mitchell’s soaring novel, Straight up Rapping reminds all that there can be bitter consequences resulting from the pure innocence of youth!