Get Down or Lay Down

From an outsider’s perspective, the housing complex named the Alba Homes on Chicago’s south side was some low income dilapidated buildings, but to those who reside there, it was the place they called home. Demetrius AKA Eat’em Up was one of the many children raised inside the dangerous walls of the Alba Homes. Learning at an early age to not only adapt to his environment, he also learned to survive inside the concrete jungle. Born to a single mother who had a growing addiction and promiscuous ways that often placed the two of them in potentially dangerous situations. Latisha Raggs, an older Italian women that volunteered at the rec center not far from the Alba Homes. Wife to the notorious crime boss Frankie Two Shoes. A near death experience forges a lifelong relationship that changed both Eat’em Up and Latisha’s life forever. It was that bond that placed an unlikely Eat’em Up in the presence of the Italian Mafia. Never in history has a black man had blood ties with the La Costra Nostra. Under Frankie Two Shoes guidance Eat’em Up sets out to unite all the underground organizations in Chicago, forming the first real black mafia family. Can Eat’em Up convince the other organizations to believe in and follow his concept and ideology, or will the cold streets of the Windy City do him in.