It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Prince s Red-Hot Rhythm Band is set to play hot jazz on the Mississippi Walter Von Bulow, the owner of the Morning Queen, has recently discovered Lucinda Lucky Martinson. Lucky s a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Prince s band. But she s in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinson s on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Lucky s left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williams a fellow jazz musician Lucky s in love with. She s put her personal and professional...

It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Prince s Red-Hot Rhythm Band is set to play hot jazz on the Mississippi Walter Von Bulow, the owner of the Morning Queen, has recently discovered Lucinda Lucky Martinson. Lucky s a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Prince s band. But she s in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinson s on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Lucky s left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williams a fellow jazz musician Lucky s in love with. She s put her personal and professional...

Forty-nine-year-old Dade Eduardo Lord is the founder and president of Precision Records, a heavyweight record company based in New York City. Lord loves money, and, in fact, he worships it. At the age of twenty-three, he fathered a child, Crystal Hill, whom he abandoned at birth.

At sixteen, Crystal became MC Ms. Lady, a Brooklyn-based rapper. By age nineteen, she's known as the "queen of hip-hop" with hit records produced by Konscious Flow Productions, a rival hip-hop company of Precision Records. Not only is Crystal a brilliant rapper, but a scholar who attended Harvard University for...