Gang Reporting
The Mexican Mafia or Eme is one of the most notorious and powerful gangs in Southern California. They are allegedly running things from the penitentiary to the streets of LA […]
Category: Street Lit & True Crime
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.
Gangsta Lit
From the ghosts of gangsta past, notably Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, a new generation of writers are taking up the mantle, and resurrecting a long since dead, and underground genre- street novels, and making it into a multi-million dollar industry […]
Incarcerated Authors
Just like the rap game before it the world of hip-hop fiction is blowing up. Street lit as its called is now grossing over $50 million annually and a genre that started with self-published authors selling books out the back of their cars has quickly become a legitimate market that has harnessed the talents of writers either fresh out of prison or still in the pen […]
In the Hat Interview
The Mexican Mafia or Eme is one of the most notorious and powerful gangs in Southern California. They are allegedly running things from the penitentiary to the streets of LA […]
Vickie Stringer – Keeping it Real?
Triple Crown Publications is the first name in street lit, the booming genre of raw, gritty, urban fiction sold everywhere from street corners to small African American bookstores to Barnes and Noble […]
The Kingmaker
The Jam Master Jay homicide is still unsolved five years after the fact. Law enforcement has floated a lot of theories as to what happened but none of them has led to an arrest […]
The Life of Nikki Turner, Queen of Hip-Hop Fiction
A Hustler’s Wife, Project Chick, The Glamorous Life, Riding Dirty on I-95, Death Before Dishonor, Forever a Hustler’s Wife- these are the titles of Nikki Turner’s books but could easily be superlatives to describe the Queen of hip-hip fiction and her life […]
The Second Coming of Donald Goines
With the proliferation of street novels coming out it’s getting hard to separate the trash from the jewels. You got Teri Woods Publishing putting out books, Triple Crown publications, and a handful of other independents trying to get theirs […]