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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gangsta Rap is about a man named x-ray-x that droped out of school. He is trying to find a purferd futer into Rap.   I think the one them for this book is confused. i say confused because x-Ray himself is confused in this book. I think what im saying is, he is trying to balence education {school} an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78942108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a book usually read by teens. &quot;Gansta rap&quot; as a catchy title for the story really caught my attention, after I read the blurb and first few pages I got really hooked to the book. This book is about a very intresting group of kids who gets expelled from school for being bad. Ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74374344">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book that I have finished reading is a novel called Gangsta Rap, a story by Benjamin Zephaiah Benjamin’s main theme of this in Gangsta Rap is that maturity and responsibility is in the traits of being a man and stick to your family though tough times.<br/>	 Gangsta Rap is based on a problem t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36961564">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very entertaining it kept me hooked from page to page. The main Character Ray was a teen that didn’t really take life seriously. Until his rap group got their big brake and he saw how violent the rap game could get. The book was full of deception and suspense. I would keep you wantin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38955957">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>I haven't  finished reading this book yet but so far it is about a boy called ray who has problems at home and school but knows exactly what he wants, to rap his feelings to people. When he gets permanently excluded from school, he is now like his friends and they just roam around the streets togeth...</u><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37508114">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gangsta Rap was an alright book to read, could be better as it didn't really have you hooked on every page. (:]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;School, what school? <br/>My name is X-Ray-X <br/>So be careful how you flex<br/>I used to freestyle in me bedroom<br/>But me daddy got me vex <br/>The teacher kicked me out of the classroom<br/>Now I'm rapping in The Rex.<br/><br/>Ray has trouble at home and trouble at school. It's the last straw for everyone when Ray and his friends Prem and Tyrone are permanently suspended. But they know what they want, more than most, perhaps. Their headmaster decides to give them a second chance, a chance to live their dream of forming a rap group. Through a specialized social program, the boys are taught the business of the music industry, what it takes to record an album, and how to lay down a track. Within weeks they have become the Positive Negatives, and within a few months they have signed a record deal and are on their way to the top. But their dream soon becomes a nightmare as violence escalates around them. Suddenly, not only their careers but their very lives are at stake. The Positive Negatives are determined to prove that you don't need to be a gangster to be a great rapper.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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