The Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New America - Plot & Excerpts
Shawn Corey Carter, born in ’69, Marcy Houses, country of Bed-Stuy, planet of Brooklyn (New York and the universe came later). Fourth and last child of Gloria Carter, employed as a clerk; father Adnis Reeves, a preacher’s son. Marcy was a fortress in brick, twenty-seven buildings, six floors each, four thousand people, living to the left of him, right of him, on top and bottom of him—parties and stress, a birthday one day, a shooting the next. At four Shawn got on a ten-speed bike, put his foot up, and coasted sitting sideways. The whole block was amazed—“Oh God!” First feeling of fame and he liked it. Fame felt good. Mom and Pop had a million records stacked in milk crates: Curtis Mayfield, Staples Singers, ConFunkShun, the Jackson 5, Rufus, the O’Jays … He loved Michael Jackson the most, and when Gloria got home from work and put on “Enjoy Yourself,” Shawn sang and spun around the room, his sisters singing backup.
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