Gorilla Convict has been interviewing and writing about street lit authors from the jump. Check out these exclusive interviews with your favortie urban fiction authors and true crime writers who pen stories on American gangsters.
When people think of Detroit they think of the Motor City and the Lions, Pistons and Tigers. All storied professional sports franchises, but those in the know can relate to the reality of Motown’s streets. Once dubbed the Murder Capital of the World [...]
Cavario H. is a well-known and respected member of the urban/hip-hop community having made his bones and honed his journalistic and writing chops as a founding father of two of the most respected magazines in the rap/street forum– Don Diva and Hip-Hop Weekly. After penning his first book, Raised by Wolves, an autobiography on his [...]
Shakim Bio is a street general from Queens who has been buried in the belly of the beast for the last twenty years. But he hasn’t let that stop him from being recognized and having his voice heard. From the streets to the penitentiaries and back again Shakim Bio has represented to the fullest [...]
With the success of American Gangster, the fictionalized story of drug lord Frank Lucas’ life, more and more true crime books on inner-city street legends, hustlers and players have been appearing in popular culture. What the street magazines, Don Diva and F.E.D.S. started [...]
When I first entered the netherworld of prison in 1993 the last vestiges of the convict were dying out. The convict was the ultimate prison ideal which has existed in prisons throughout the ages and has been portrayed and glorified in countless Hollywood movies [...]
Coming to you straight out of the penitentiary, street lit author and Center Park Bloods member, Clifford ‘Spud’ Johnson. He’s been in the feds since 1999 doing a 210 month sentence [...]
In the gangs and underworld of the Southside of Chicago, Art Williams grew up a local street tough and born hustler, who as a teenager learned the centuries old art of counterfeiting [...]
Pat O’Connor is a true crime journalist of note. He has been the editor and publisher of Crime Magazine since its inception in 1998. He is the author of The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, which was published by The Chicago Review Press in 2008 [...]
Bo Brown is a real street dude and he pens real street novels. Currently in the feds, with a life sentence due to his alleged activities with Miami’s infamous Boobie Boys crew, Bo is doing something positive and writing reality based urban fiction stories from the penitentiary [...]
Straight out of the penitentiary comes Shakim Bio with his first book, Love, Hell or Right from Mikahs 7 Publishing. Buried in the belly of the beast for almost two decades Shakim Bio has written a riveting and moving book on building and maintaining a relationship with doing time [...]
