Kody Scott was born in 1963 and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. In sixth grade he joined the Crips and soon earned the nom de guerre "Monster". He transformed himself into black nationalist Sanyika Shakur while in a California maximum-security prison.
"It was over 20 years ago that the book Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member exploded on the scene and gave us all a front row seat to explore the genocidal brutality of the neo-colonial world of gangbanging. A world that exists at the expense of New Afrikan communities and New Afrikan youth in particular, through our social savage way of attempting to gain power through AKs, bats and beat down It was in the belly of the beast (prison) that 'Monster' underwent a revolutionary transformation, dissecting and re-building himself from the inside out, slaying the colonial thug 'Monster' and emerging through a re-birth as 'Sanyika Shakur, ' a New Afrikan Revolutionary Nationalist."--from the Foreword by Yusef "Bunchy" Shakur
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