Love Don't Live Here No More

Book One of Doggy Tales

Snoop Dogg, David E. Talbert

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2006
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416574613
• Index: Literature

Hip-hop megastar Snoop Dogg and award-winning playwright David E. Talbert join forces to bring you the unforgettable saga of an aspiring young rapper who finds himself at several crossroads at once, where everything, including himself, is about to suddenly change.

The year is 1989, Long Beach, California. When Ulysses Jeffries's mother decides to move her family from the drug-infested East Side to what she believes is safer North Long Beach, Ulysses and his little brother Bing are hurled into a world like none they've experienced before. Instead of moving on up, they've just moved on over.

From a classically trained piano-playing gangster named Buddha, to the next-door neighbor, a foster mother turned basehead named Crazy Betty, to Uncle Mike, a freeloading relative who has a knack for showing up when times are good and a knack for leaving just before they turn bad -- these characters and more take you on a journey like never before. With growing conflicts in the streets, and at home with his mother, Bing, and his mother's new live-in boyfriend Harvey, Ulysses is forced to make decisions that will forever alter his life. It's clear that his only chance of survival is through close friends, family, and the music he loves.

Love Don't Live Here No More is the first in a drama-filled series of novels called Doggy Tales that takes readers from the unforgiving streets of Long Beach to the bright lights of show business. The novel also comes with an original single that provides the backdrop to this compelling tale.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Also by David E. Talbert
• Book One of DOGGY TALES
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Snoop Dogg’s Acknowledgments
• David’s Acknowledgments
• PROLOGUE
• CHAPTER 1 Hello, Ghetto. To a son to a motha
• CHAPTER 2 Him and momma use to be cool
• CHAPTER 3 Break the rules (why, why) As time goes by
• CHAPTER 4 Gettin’ women havin’ money
• CHAPTER 5 As time goes by
• CHAPTER 6 Wanna be grown/out on your own
• CHAPTER 7 Coming up in the game/making a name
• CHAPTER 8 Even if it’s wrong, you gon’ say it’s right
• CHAPTER 9 Him and his momma they got a different relationship
• CHAPTER 10 She got a man in the house, doing her own thing…it’s a cold thing
• CHAPTER 11 It’s crazy how love changes. It’s amazing
• CHAPTER 12 He livin’ wild…He needs a woman’s touch
• CHAPTER 13 Some more drama. Gettin’ women, havin’ money
• CHAPTER 14 Everything was everything
• CHAPTER 15 The way she raised him…No one could faze him
• CHAPTER 16 You put your brother in danger, you put me in danger
• CHAPTER 17 He said he’s makin’ paper
• CHAPTER 18 Rung the doorbell, went to hell
• CHAPTER 19 Life is a lesson/’cause life is so vicious
• CHAPTER 20 See if you feel my pain…one more game
• CHAPTER 21 Should you stay/or just walk away
• CHAPTER 22 It’s lonely outside/if only I tried
• CHAPTER 23 I’m a dough boy/and no I ain’t givin’ it up