{"product_id":"have-gun-will-travel-9780385491341","title":"Have Gun Will Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeath Row Records is one of the most successful music labels of all time. From its inception in 1992  it exploded on the rap music scene with sales climbing to the $125 million mark in just four years. Even more noticeable than the labels financial success is the effect it had on American youth culture  making gangsta rap more popular with suburban white youth and MTV viewers than traditional rock groups. But under the guidance of six-foot-four-inch  300-pound CEO Marion \"Suge\" Knight  Death Row also became the most controversial record label in history--a place where violence  gang feuds  threats  intimidation  and brushes with death were business as usual.  Have Gun Will Travel details the spectacular rise and violent fall of a music label that had at its heart a ferocious criminal enterprise cloaked behind corporate facades that gave it a guise of legitimacy. With inside access no other writer can claim  Ronin Ro  the countrys preeminent rap journalist  exposes the facts everyone else is afraid to divulge--from the initial bankrolling of Death Row by a leader of L.A.s notorious Bloods gang  to links with New Yorks Genovese crime family. Have Gun Will Travel lays bare the full story behind this influential label  including the still-unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G.  as well as Suge Knights rise to power  his fight with East Coast rap titans such as Sean \"Puffy\" Combs  and his eventual imprisonment.  Although it has been all over the news--from The Wall Street Journal to Rolling Stone--this is a timeless story about an empire built on greed  corruption  murder  and exploitation. With exclusive interviews and bloodcurdling eyewitness accounts  Have Gun Will Travel combines the behind-the-scenes fascination of books like Hit Men and Hit and Run with the violence and dramatic sweep of The Godfather  in a brilliant and blistering document of contemporary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647587311669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385491344","price":68.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385491341.jpg?v=1781694427","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/have-gun-will-travel-9780385491341","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}