Firstborn Walker is a book worm who dreams of attending one of America's most competitive universities. When his best friend is shot through the forehead with a hollow tip bullet, his desire to flee the mean streets only intensifies. Unemployed, he turns to the only person who can help him secure the money he'll need to supplement his scholarship, a childhood friend known as "Drama." Drama is a charismatic, ultra-violent block hog, an East Oakland crack dealer who makes his living with a triple beam scale and an Uzi submachine gun. He assures Firstborn that he can earn the money he needs in...

Crayon has been recruited by a brutal pimp named Phenomenal.She is 15 years old.Her grandmother knows only person who can save her.That individual is her late daughter Maggys ex-boyfriend, Firstborn.
Firstborn has been a year removed from his role as a crack dealer in the bloody streets of East Oakland.He lives a square life in a city where his past remains unknown.Ms. Holmes locates him and pleads with him to come back to Oakland to rescue Crayon.However, the task is easier said than done.Phenomenal is pushing a hard line in the streets.He is a head buster; a drug dealing gun runner with...