Anonymous Patron writes “Gangsta-lit is hot, but some say it ain’t worth 50 Cent Now, a new genre in publishing is all about serving the appetites of a certain segment of young black urban America — those, like Ellis, 18 to 35 and interested in rap music and street life.
Hip-hop literature is also known as gangsta-lit, ghetto fiction, street-lit, hip-hop novels, street-life novels, hip-hop lit, blaxploitation novels and urban pulp fiction.
But by any name, these stories about pimps, prostitutes, street crime, drugs, violence and illicit sex are creating a new breed of reader and a new profit niche.”
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