Gangsta Rap (Benjamin Zephaniah)

Summary: Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school.  When Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended from school, their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group.  Through a specialized program, the boys are taught about the business and the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track.  Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top.  But their dream soon turns into a nightmare as violence escalates around them.  Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake.  But Ray and the Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.  (from amazon.com)

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Tags: Gangs; Rap (Music); Blacks; Interpersonal relations; England; Rap musicians; Student suspension