Anita Davis

Sheer, Brutal Poetry

Revisado: 07-05-21

Only a rapper could tell Trick Daddy's life story. And that rapper is the man himself. Magic City is the gripping manifesto of a man who was born to lose in the "United States of Amerikkka". Daddy spits unapologetically onto the page, touching on the history behind the systemic racism that stole opportunities, leaving only prostitution, welfare babies, drug trafficking and petty crime, for even the most brilliant. The flooding of Miami and other American cities with cocaine (crack, in particular) that fed the Prison Industrial Complex, now bulging at the seams with the Black and the poor. The brutality of what happens inside prison is related unflinchingly. Unreal horrors beyond my understanding of how humans can do these things to other humans... I know all of the history behind what created a Trick Daddy and the environment he grew up in: Chattel slavery, the Black Codes, and Jim Crow; night riders of the Klan and resentful White mobs that stole dreams through terrorism; the Slave Patrols that morphed into the modern day police; systemic racism and implicit bias. Trick only related to me from the inside, the feelings, impulses and forces that whirl people around on the edges of our so-called civilized society and makes them what they are. If you are ready for the truth I recommend this book. You may find you're not ready after all.

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