Takeisha's Song: Cash Rules Everything — Thomas Long

The daughter of an R and B singer and professional drummer, Takeisha Jenkins was born to be a star in the entertainment industry. When she hooks up with her two best friends, Danita and Latrell, to form a rap group, they set their sights on making it to the top of the hip hop world. Scar, a local drug dealer and rapper with connections in the music industry, takes the group under his wing and develops a personal relationship with Takeisha. However, when the relationship between Scar and Takeisha goes sour, the girls are left on their own to pursue their musical career. When Takeisha's father, Rashid Jenkins, decides to finance the group's musical career, their dreams of making it to the big time are given a new life. Their demo CD manages to land in the hands of music mogul and gangster, Samson Miles, and he decides to sign the group to a record contract with his record label, Cash Rules Records. After releasing a smash debut album, the girls are able to transform themselves from being a trio of wanna be rappers to a superstar rap group overnight. Their rise to the top of the music business allows them an opportunity to reap the benefits of all of the money, fame, and notoriety that accompany success but it's at a costly price.
Takiesha's Song takes you on a journey with these three young ladies raised in the mean streets of Baltimore City as they navigate through all of the ups and downs of the music industry. Along the road to success, they are all impacted by the trappings of envy, jealousy, and greed that tear apart the very root of their once close sisterhood. As the story unfolds, readers will find themselves cheering for the girls' triumphs and crying out optimistically for them to survive the tragic pitfalls that lie in their path. Veteran author Thomas Long is able to once again deliver a novel that gives the readers realistic characters that they are able to relate to on a personal level. His writing style will pull you in more with the turn of each page and have you eager to find out how this story will end.