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Split decision : life stories / Ice-T and Spike and Douglas Century.
"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 differentpath"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982148775 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: v, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Ice-T (Musician) Spike, 1962- Gangsters > California > Los Angeles > Biography. Rap musicians > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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- Baker & Taylor
In this no-holds barred memoir, the award-winning actor, rapper and producer and Spike, his former crime partner, recount the shocking stories of their shared pasts and how a split decision set them on very different pathsâone to stardom and one to prison after a robbery ended tragically. - Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Simon and Schuster
Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortuneâwhile a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.
Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall television audiences as Odafin âFinâ Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But it could have gone much differently.
In this âpoignant and powerfulâ (Library Journal, starred review) memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partnerâcollaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Centuryârelate 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.
But while Ice-T was discovered rapping in a club and got his first record deal, Spike was caught for a jewelry robbery and did three years in prison. As his music career began to take off, Ice made the decision to abandon the criminal life; Spike continued to plan increasingly ingenious and risky jewel heists. And in 1992, after one of Spikeâs 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.
âPropulsiveâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review), 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.
