T.I.’s debut was much calmer than expected. It didn’t rave the drug infested lifestyle that many expected. In fact, the writing style for this novel was phenomenon. The vision behind the story was clear and straight to the point. Although David Ritz was a huge help in creating this story, Tip did a wonderful job at showing his mastermind skills in writing. There were no similarities between this story and T.I.’s life story. The story was about Power and Beauty, who were two children brought together by fate, but kept away from each other because of stubbornness. Beauty lost her mother at an early age and was adopted by Charlotte, her mother’s best friend and the mother of Power. Power and Beauty grew up together in the same household as half-siblings but took a liking to one another the night Charlotte was murdered at Charlie’s Disco. Charlie’s Disco was a place that was directly across the street from where Power, Beauty and Charlotte lived. Charlotte had been the bookkeeper at Charlie’s for the owner Slim, whose real name is Charles Simmons, and known to be one of ATL’s meanest business men. He practically owned half of ATL and stayed partying with fine women on a daily basis. After Charlotte’s death, Slim felt guilty and decided to give Power and Beauty a place to stay within his headquarters. Beauty not keen to the idea, she believed Slim had alternative motives because he separated her from Power. Never-the-less Beauty stayed devoted to attending school every day but locked herself in her new room when she was inside Slim’s home. Power had been given the bachelor pad above the four car garage, where he was allowed to have girls over anytime he liked. As months passed following Charlotte’s funeral, Power and Beauty grew a part and avoided each other much as possible. Eventually Beauty got fed up with Slim and left for New York to finish high school and pursue her dreams to be a fashionista under the famous Anita Ward. Power eventually dropped out of school because of haters. Slim took that as an opportunity to groom Power for his operation, so he sends Power to Chicago, Miami and New York to learn some important life lessons under some very powerful people. Power and Beauty, on their own journey find themselves sharpening their survival skills in order to master life alone. In the end, they find their way back to each other but before they can connect and hug, Power is pulled away from Beauty by a group of men in a dark location. Beauty believed it was Slim behind the kidnapping because Wanda, the family friend, warned Beauty that Slim was was on a war path to hurt anyone he felt was trying to take over his businesses, and Power was his number one suspect.
The street mentality in this story was very sharp and was definitely displayed as a story of survival. Overall, the storyline in this novel was very impressive and definitely worth the read. The book did have its moments where it took a while to follow the story but it ended well and showed there will be a Part II in the making.
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