With the Cold War fading into the Crip and crack infestation of the 1990s, the most dangerous indulgences on urban blocks of America were benevolence, books and the Bloods. In Birmingham Alabama, a young poet with a pistol would make a way. Mastering the methods of the ballad and the bullet... accumulating wealth, knowledge and power beyond his wildest dreams. He was Willie Redd.. The Damu Godda.