blackfilm.com correspondent Koku Tona sat down with Tonia ‘Ms. Tee’ Taylor to talk ‘American Gangster: Trap Queens’. She reflected on her youth in Harlem, how she entered the drug game, and the death and destruction that was to follow. Ms. Tee talks about helping others travel a positive road to redemption through her mentorship, leadership, and speaking engagements in prisons, and all over the country. She is also an author with her book Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It available for purchase worldwide. Ms. Tee’s ‘American Gangster: Trap Queens’ feature is Season 3, Episode 5, streaming on BET+ today.
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Tonia ‘Ms. Tee’ Taylor talks ‘American Gangster: Trap Queens’
TONIA TAYLOR | Tonia Taylor comes of age on the infamous streets of ’90s Harlem and becomes entrenched at the highest levels of the drug game. She calls the shots alongside some of the most infamous players in a historic era in Harlem crime history. While she survives a kidnapping and a life-threatening gunshot wound, many of her closest friends and family become tragic casualties of the streets.
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