What happens when Grove street attacks Franklin and Lamar? Turns out you need a new place to stay and Franklin knows just the guy who's willing to protect with his life. - (Pretty much everyone has a crush on y/n here ;))

Torn Between Them and the Streets Los Angeles, late 1980s. The city hums with sirens, synths, and basslines thumping from parked cars. Neon spills onto cracked sidewalks. Everybody's chasing something-money, respect, a way out. She grows up with music as armor. Not polished pop yet-just raw female voices on cassette tapes, girls singing about heartbreak, strength, and staying whole in a world that eats you alive. The kind of music passed hand to hand, played low in bedrooms, teaching her how to survive love without disappearing inside it. Before Destiny's Child had a name, she already lives by its message. Then there's him. He comes from the streets-Compton corners, garage cyphers, backyard parties where the bass hits harder than the truth. He's hungry, angry, brilliant, and reckless. He's part of something new forming in real time: music that doesn't ask permission. N.W.A before the world knows the letters. No filters. No safety net. Just rage, ambition, and truth wrapped in beats that sound like gunshots. Their love is born in chaos. Late-night studio sessions in smoky rooms. Arguments over money that doesn't exist yet. Police lights washing over their faces mid-conversation. She believes in futures; he believes in survival. She wants growth; he wants respect now. Every kiss feels stolen. Every fight feels inevitable. The streets don't just surround them-they test them. Friends turn into rivals. Loyalty costs more than cash. Paranoia creeps in as attention grows. Music brings opportunity and danger in equal measure. And through it all, she stands at the crossroads-between loving a man shaped by the streets and becoming a woman strong enough to outgrow them. Torn Between Them and the Streets is an 80s love story.

"How are you supposed to keep your man with your hair in that mess, Tamia?" "And has your hair been looking like that all week?" She went on talking about my hair now, considering it was blown-out instead of well kept, hot combed and straightened the way that she liked. "No, mama." I dragged, annoyed completely now with all of my peace gone in this moment. "I just got out of the shower and I just finished washing and blow-drying my hair." "I'm going to hot comb it and then flat iron it when I'm finished doing my skincare." "Yasin's not going to be home until tomorrow probably anyway." I threw in there but of course she wouldn't chastise him about why and where.

The People We Were is a story about who they were together: two souls whose heartlines crossed just long enough to change everything. Their love was a storm and a sanctuary all at once: bold, bright, and too beautiful to ever fade. So life cut it short instead. They didn't break. They didn't walk away. They simply left the world together... and what remains is the memory of who they were, living on in the spaces they once filled, a tale of longing, of the selves they grew into and the ones they left behind, of a love that never truly ended. made by sugaluvsctrl!! 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑, '𝟐𝟓

Read for some rare facts! (And no I don't mean "rare" like Dre didn't know Em was white until they met. that ain't even a rare fact)

{Copyright © 2015 All Rights Reserved} "I'm not invisible, I'm right here" ∆ 3 years in the future ∆ ♥Tinashe & Eazy E♥ ∆ TRILOGY ∆ book 1: "straight outta compton" book 2: "wicked games" book 3: "treat me like somebody"

An Ice Cube fanfic about a girl torn between two friends. [Short Story] Cover by @Shayylondon

"ᴛʜɪs ɪsɴ'ᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴅʀᴇ , ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟ'ʟᴇ" 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 From the girl with the squeaky voice to a woman fighting to reclaim her power, this story follows Michel'le on a journey of music, heartbreak, and survival. Inspired by the true events portrayed in Surviving Compton, this reimagined tale dives deeper into the pain behind the fame-her rise with Ruthless Records, her destructive relationship with Dr. Dre, and the strength it took to walk away. But when Eazy-E becomes the one person who sees her, listens to her, and refuses to look away from her truth, Michel'le discovers a new kind of loyalty-one that changes everything. Blending real moments with original twists, this book tells the story of a woman fighting to find her voice in an industry determined to silence her. @ɪɴᴅɪ3ᴀᴀ__

When you have some one good in your life, you hold on to them. You never know when the unthinkable will happen ... #LongLivePac 2017 ©Shayylondon ** All Rights Reserved to "Shayylondon" ©2017. ARE U Still Down ? is under direct ownership of the author. For copyright purposes, I don't own any photos; images, or music that are apart of this novel. Content has been retrieved Via the Internet

[COMPLETED] In which a psychotherapist tries to dedicate twenty-four hours of her life to a troubled man who intensely fears that he is already living his final twenty-four. ❝It was down-home. It was all my fears, all the things I just couldn't sleep about. Everybody thought I was living so well and doing so good that I wanted to explain it. I get to tell my innermost, darkest secrets. I tell my own personal problems.❞ -Tupac Shakur on Me Against the World copyright © 2017, kayla-nicole