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The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince's Reign of Terror and the Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed
- Street Legends
- Narrated by: Glenn Langohr
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Music
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When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business-minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new-era black gangster. Drugs, murder, kidnappings, shootings, more drugs, and more murder were the rule of the day. They called it The Game, but it was a vicious attempt to come up by any means necessary. In the late 1980s, the mindset was get mine or be mine, and nobody embodied this attitude more than the Supreme Team.
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- corey stanley
- 02-12-20
Didn't like the audio.
The person reading in my opinion is horrible. It makes me not want to listen.
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- Mal Mallucci
- 12-31-19
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Whoever was Narrating this I want my credit back this is horrible reading... he don’t even say there names right. It’s not interesting because his voice is horrible it’s just bad all around IM SORRY I deserve a credit to get another book for this
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- Victoria Hernandez
- 05-24-19
great story bad recording and remedial reading
dude reads like a remedial GED student and cannot pronounce word especially network street names and neighborhoods and names
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- Roderick Bethea
- 01-30-19
interesting story
the reader is difficult to listen to. He should AT LEAST learned the correct pronunciation of the MAIN CHARACTER. Preme (as in Supreme) is pronounced Pemay. Suge Knight is pronounced Sooge.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-19-20
Audio sound horrible
Audio sound like they did this in someone closet the performance sound like they didn’t put any effort into it and I couldn’t get into the story due to the performance
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- Tony
- 02-15-20
Decent book
Narrator was horrible he should never read in public. Book was entertaining. Stop having white dude narrate black hood stories.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-17-20
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The narrator was HORRIBLE mispronouncing names and words!!!!! Ugggghhhhhh...... He should have been prepared for this!!!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-23-19
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This is by far the worst narration of a book ive ever heard. Could be a wonderful book
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-23-19
Worst narrator
My nine year old reads better. Very disappointed with the narrator. The reading made this story hard to follow at times.
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- Katie
- 10-12-20
Great Book!!!!But
The book is great but the Narrator does not know how to pronounce certain words. Like the nickname of supreme its preme not prema.
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- Shayne Lovelidge
- 12-23-18
a very interesting book on queen's usa
if you live/love hip hop you'll be very interested in this book it's a sad story of how many live the life and then they're true colours come out when the rides over
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- Gavin henry
- 10-14-18
Thrilling story, poor delivery.
Audio needed a professional narrator, only got through the book because of they subject matter
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- robert
- 04-26-18
Unlistenable
Heard this is a great read but this is impossible to listen to as the narrator is a total imbecile. Talks like a robot with no flow to his speech and ruins it completely. Go buy the book.
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- Camo
- 02-22-19
Narrative disaster
Great real life story. Atrocious narrator. Struggled to listen. Should not be a narrator period!!