Trouble & Triumph PB

<p>Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist producer and actor T.I. proved himself a powerful storyteller as well with the publication of his debut novel <em>Power & Beauty</em>. Now he follows up with his second riveting street-lit epic <em>Trouble & Triumph</em>.</p><p>T.I.'s explosive sequel picks up the story of Paul Power Clay and Tanya Beauty Long as Power takes over his mentor-turned-arch-enemy's street empire looking to turn it legit while Beauty rises ever-higher in a glamorous world of fashion and celebrity. An authentic voice of the street in the vein of Sistah Souljah and other successful authors of contemporary African-American commercial fiction T.I. is a rap music legend who has lived at every strata of society and whose hard life experience adds truth and fire to <em>Trouble & Triumph</em>.</p>