🔵 By James Finley. Photo by lauragrafie.
In a story of money, murder, and pain. Where dreams can become nightmares and love can kill you just as easy as an opp in the field. The code to the streets and the rules to the game are not a choice, but law.
Raised in the grimy streets of the south side in Phx, AZ, James aka. Pookagee has had it rough since birth, literally. Born to a mother with an addiction and lifestyle so tough that it would effect him and his siblings as if it were their own. The word childhood has had little meaning and actually been more like survival of the fittest with all the accents of danger, coldness, and surrealism attached to it. In a world where benchmarks are set by materialism, your rep, and a propensity for violence to protect which, only the strong survive. Thrown to the streets, and subsequently the wolves, when his mom completely gives into her addiction. Certain freedom of choices has been taken away from him. Left in a scenario that most men would fail in, let alone a boy. The instincts he’s honed from his primitive childhood will be even more incremental in the next chapters of his life. With the streets waiting and the game calling as it has for so many who came before him, his life as a street nigga has began. Welcome to the Valley of the Sun.
Coming soon…