B-Boy Blues

B-Boy Blues, Book 1

By: James Earl Hardy

Narrated by: Damone Williams

James Earl Hardy's classic novel celebrates its 25th anniversary

Years before "homo thug" and "down low" became infamous catchphrases, Omar Little put the "G" in Gangsta on HBO's critically acclaimed series The Wire, and Lil Nas X claimed a same gender loving space in pop music … there was B-Boy Blues.

Revisit or experience for the first time the story that ushered in the Africentric gay fiction genre, and put Black-on-Black male love on both the map and the bestseller lists!

Mitchell Crawford always wished, hoped, and dreamed for a RUFFNECK—a hiphop-lovin', street-struttin', cool posin', crazy crotch-grabbin' brotha. And he finally finds one in Raheim Rivers, who is a vision of lust: six feet tall and 215 pounds of mocha-chocolate muscle. Mitchell knows Raheim will take him for a walk on the wild side, especially between the sheets. But he doesn't count on getting behind Raheim's mask—and finding someone he can love.

©1994, 2014 James Earl Hardy (P)2022 Recorded Books

Love, hate relationship with this book.

We don’t see many love stories centering two black men, so I must always thank the author James Hardy for this story. But I feel Mitchell’s characterization drove me insane. The way how almost every man centered his life before his own made me very disappointed. And this could be due to the genre these type of books are in, but everything was so overly sexualized.

being really real.

what I liked most about this story is how real and relatable it was.. I have listened to books over time, but this one made me feel like I needed to get back to it when ever I could. I was finishing it in two days. I really appreciate the ups and downs in the story. the voice of the reader was very soothing and extremely erotic.

The layers of insight

This is very relatable story and the history shared on current events of the-time was impeccable.

Great listen

I seen the movie first but this book was way better! What a great story!

Beautiful Queer Love Story

Once I saw the movie on BET+ I just KNEW I had to read this book! I was 2 years old when this book came out. This book never came across my path during my attendance of middle and high school…heck not even college! So, I’m glad that I was able to read this book to read about the love story between Mitchell (Lil Bit) & Raheim (Pooquie). I loved every moment of it!