Just finished this one recently:
Saw someone reading it on a bus once, so I searched it out for fun. The author details his story as an ego/power-driven gangbanger, and his eventual spiritual/political transformation into a black nationalist.
It read a bit dense at times, which isn't always enjoyable for me, but it was still very fascinating; pretty disturbing at times, too. It can almost serve as a "101" guide to everything in gang culture: from structure to protocols, and the overall mission statement. But it also brings the ultimate purpose of it into question: the criminal ideology as it's powerful appeal to recruits, but its failure and futility to achieve anything "real", as in liberation or freedom to peoples communities. It's just destruction for destruction's sake, often times in his vantage point: black on black. Reading up on him since then, it appears that he might be in jail again. Not totally sure what became of his life, but his one contribution to the world in this book will be remembered.
This interview from the early 90's of him in jail was good, although at the time it focused more on the the criminal/shock aspect of his life, and less of his newfound philosophies that denounced gangbanging