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Article: Up. (Short story)
- Article from:
- African American Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 African American Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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(contains samples of program music, "Gangsta's Paradise," and The Baptism)
Every night when the blues around a last quarter are stirring up another death rain and the white lady from the government is through giving away generic cheeses, some black boy with Mezz's roll fingers a nickel-bag of funk and the few dirty quarters he has in his pockets and recycles that same ol' dark rage-shit in the ghetto; with his other hand, the bastard squeezes his nine, shouting "Pop" as his gang walks through a crowd full of negritude. Photographed by a hustling street vendor looking to make money with a Polaroid Captiva, he travels the Tube, the New York City subway, on an ...