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Author Fat Joe, author.

Title The book of Jose : a memoir / Fat Joe with Shaheem Reid.

Publication Info. New York : Roc Lit 101, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B FAT JOE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B FAT JOE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.92 FAT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  782.421649 FAT JOE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  B-FAT JOE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description vi, 283 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "Fat Joe is a hip-hop legend, but this is not a tale of celebrity; it is the story of Joseph Cartagena, a kid who came of age in the South Bronx during its darkest years of drugs, violence, and abandonment, and how he navigated that traumatizing landscape until he found-through art, friendship, luck, and will-a rocky path to a different life. Joe was born into a sprawling Puerto Rican and Cuban family in the projects of the South Bronx. From infancy his life is threatened by violence, and by the time he starts middle school, he is forced to make a life-shaping choice: to be prey or predator. Soon, Joe and his crew rise up to dominate the streets-dodging bullets and betrayal all along the way-but he discovers his true strength in the street corner ciphers where the Bronx's wild energy took musical form. His identity splits in two: a hustler roaming record stores, looking for beats; a budding rapper whose rep rings in the streets. As his day-to-day life becomes more and more fraught-he is shot and almost killed and watches as family and friends fall to prison, addiction, and even death-he gravitates toward the music that gives him both a voice to tell the stories of his young life and the tools he needs to create a new one. The challenges never stopped-but neither did Joe"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Fat Joe.
Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Puerto Ricans -- Biography.
Cuban Americans -- Biography.
Fat Joe. (OCoLC)fst01546057
Cuban Americans. (OCoLC)fst00884777
Puerto Ricans. (OCoLC)fst01083707
Rap musicians. (OCoLC)fst01089960
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Author Reid, Shaheem, author.
Other Form: Online version: Fat Joe. Book of Jose First edition. New York : Rock Lit 101, 2022 9780593230664 (DLC) 2022025254
ISBN 9780593230640 hardcover
0593230647 hardcover
9780593230664 electronic book
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