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The Trouble Kid: Harlem 144st Broadway
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 11 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Street Origin Story
Before he was feared.
Before jail turned him into a beast.
Before the name Wawa carried weight.
He was just a kid from 520.
Growing up on 144th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway, Wawa learned early that money moved faster than school. By twelve, he was transporting bricks in his book bag for the Dominicans on Broadway. By thirteen, he was shooting at cops out a project window. By fifteen, he was coming home from juvenile detention already stamped.
They called him trouble.
Not because he tried to be.
Because he adapted.
From Harlem hallways to Spafford.
From Washington to Rock Island.
From block hustler to Blood inside gladiator-style jails.
He survived cuts in bathroom fights.
He survived politics that get men killed.
He survived betrayal, indictments, and the streets that raised him.
But survival comes with a cost.
The Trouble Kid is a raw, unfiltered street novel about loyalty, violence, reputation, and the making of a name. No metaphors. No soft edges. Just Harlem, jail, money, and the choices that shape a life before it's even fully lived.
This is the origin.
And once you understand where he came from -
you'll understand why he became who he is.
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