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Come Up Profit$
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 30 2024
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every dollar has a price. Some debts get paid in blood.
Chicago's West Side, 2003. Cousins Tim Grits Gray and Jacob Jay Gravy White have spent their whole lives chasing one dream: making Grits N Gravy the next big name out of the city. But their studio is a bedroom with a mic held together by duct tape, the open-mic crowds keep booing them offstage, and the bills keep coming.
By day, Tim counts other people's money inside a bank vault. Across town, Jacob works the teller window at a credit union still running on outdated software. They both notice the same thing: money nobody is watching closely.
A few bills here. A few fees there. Just enough to buy studio time, just enough to finally get heard.
The rules are simple: no slip-ups, no getting greedy.
But fast money brings fast company. Designer drip, old flames, new women and a dangerous new connect with a reputation to match his name pull the cousins deeper into a game where loyalty is currency and betrayal carries a body count. As the walls close in and the feds start asking questions, Tim and Jay have to decide how much they're willing to lose for the come-up.
Come Up Profit$ is a gritty, sexy, soundtrack-driven story of ambition, family and the cost of chasing your dreams by any means necessary.
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