Former 80's drug kingpin and Don Diva publisher Kevin Chiles pens a book of vivid reenactments of his life as a up and coming Bronx street hustler to the millennial visionary he is today.
From his days as a humble basketball playing hustler at Bronx Community College where he began to formulate his illegal business, Chiles' story always refers back to his allure to Harlem street life. The Crack Era, which many from that time period says began in 1984, offered a seemingly beneficial opportunity to escape the pitfalls of unemployment, miseducation and poverty. Chiles provides a front line commentary of the people, places, and things that served as the main ingredients of "The Life."
The founder and CEO of street publication Don Diva Magazine gFormer 80's drug kingpin and Don Diva publisher Kevin Chiles pens a book of vivid reenactments of his life as a up and coming Bronx street hustler to the millennial visionary he is today.
From his days as a humble basketball playing hustler at Bronx Community College where he began to formulate his illegal business, Chiles' story always refers back to his allure to Harlem street life. The Crack Era, which many from that time period says began in 1984, offered a seemingly beneficial opportunity to escape the pitfalls of unemployment, miseducation and poverty. Chiles provides a front line commentary of the people, places, and things that served as the main ingredients of "The Life."
The founder and CEO of street publication Don Diva Magazine gives a vivid description of the mentality that led teenagers, such as those above down an inevitable road of death and incarceration.
From court cases to robberies by former friends to father/son fistfights, The Crack Era offers an unprecedented peek into the carnage of a drug war on American soil and the results of the aftershocks that many of the war's vets still carry to this day....more