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Split decision : life stories / Ice-T, Spike, and Douglas Century.

by Ice-T (Musician).

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Gallery Books, 2022.

781.649092 I15s

Ice-T (Musician)

Rap musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Gangsters -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography.

9781982148775 (hc.)

295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to capture television audiences as Odafin "Fin" Tutuola in 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.' But it could have gone much differently. In this gripping and candid memoir, Ice-T and Spike, his former crime partner, relate 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 in LA and across the US. But while Ice-T was discovered rapping in a club and got his first record deal, Spike was caught for a jewel robbery and did three years in prison. As his music career began to take off, Ice made the decision to leave the criminal life; Spike continued to plan increasingly ingenious and risky jewel heists. And in 1992, after one of Spike's 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. Harrowing, 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."--From publisher.

Century, Douglas.

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