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Split decision : life stories
- Title
- Split decision : life stories / Ice-T and Spike and Douglas Century.
- Author
- Ice-T (Musician)
- Publication
- New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- v, 295 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "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--collaborating with New York Times bestselling author Douglas Century--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. All it took was a Split Decision." -- Amazon.com
- "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"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Contents
- Don't hate the playa -- Cold wind madness -- 6 'n the mornin' -- The syndicate -- High rollers -- New Jack hustler -- Body count -- The fall -- Bowels of the devil -- The weight -- My mother's son -- A lick for my life -- Epilogue: Split decision.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1553
- ISBN
- 9781982148775
- 1982148772
- 9781982148782
- 1982148780
- LCCN
- 2022003438
- OCLC
- 1281582447
- Author
- Ice-T (Musician), author.
- Title
- Split decision : life stories / Ice-T and Spike and Douglas Century.
- Publisher
- New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Added Author
- Spike, 1962- author.Century, Douglas, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1553JME 22-319