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WRETCHED, PITIFUL, POOR, BLIND, AND NAKED BY GENE ELLIOTT THORNTON, JR. “My book is definitely needed at this time and for the hip-hop generation specifically. It’s not a book of, ‘This is how you should live your life.’ It’s not a book of, ‘This is what you need to do.’ It’s a book of what happened to Gene Thornton, decisions that he made, where it got him, and what it got him out of. There’s always that fork in the road and you can go down one way and you’re just doing what everyone else is doing, and you’re doing what you think the norm is, you’re doing what it is you want to do and a lot of times you’re putting on airs. You’re constantly wearing a façade and when you take that mask off, when you take the suit off it’s just so liberating and you never know you my find a better way of doing things, which was my case.”

WRETCHED, PITIFUL, POOR, BLIND, AND NAKED BY GENE ELLIOTT THORNTON, JR.

“My book is definitely needed…