Diary of a Hood Chick: The Beginning Part I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798417011917)

Diary of a Hood Chick opens with Ah'niyah Armstrong also known as Yah Yah sitting in jail and thinking over her life about how her decisions caused her to be fighting for her freedom and her life. Yah Yah grew up on the South side of Chicago, in the Robert Taylor Housing Projects. Her father was the local weed man until an unfortunate accident at work caused him to rethink his situation. However, growing up Yah Yah would experience child sexual abuse from her father's youngest brother which would cause her to accept certain things from the men in her life.

Upon entering a new high school Yah Yah met a classmate by the name of Latrice. Latrice would introduce Yah Yah to the hustle of selling crack cocaine including her first time being locked up. She also met a female by the name of Natasha, who Yah Yah viewed as her sister from another mister. Ultimately Natasha would betray Yah Yah by sleeping with her first love and plotting of ways to steal her new love. Which Yah Yah would meet her new love on a trip to Texas. This love would turn Yah Yah into a queen pin and murderer.

Latrice introduced Yah Yah to a life of crime and Yah took to that position like a moth to a flame. Yah Yah fell hard for a guy her first love Kevin. She loved Kevin wholeheartedly. He was a cheater, a woman beater, a liar and cheap, but she loved that man with her whole life and that love would cause many problems and ultimately land her in jail. Before that, Yah Yah would form an impenetrable team with the help of her oldest brother Craig, her best friend Katrina, her cousin Peaches, her cousin Dontae, Dah Dah her right-hand man, and a man who little knew owned her heart Bj which she would fight those feelings for years to come. Including help from Bj's mother Yolonda Jackson. They took over, and it wouldn't be long before they took the show on the road.

Yah Yah and her team would take over the north and south side of Chicago. It wouldn't be easy dealing with all the different gangs in Chicago and many wouldn't appreciate a woman moving like a man, but she would straighten out her crown and keep it the fuck moving. If that meant putting a bullet in a nigga head or bitch she was down for the cause. She would protect herself, her kids, and her family at all costs.

Yah Yah went half on her first murder with Latrice at the age of 18, but this wouldn't be the only person she killed. The love she inquires in Texas would introduce her to who she really was. Once she made the connection with the Bolivia Don Bernando Flores, there would be nothing stopping her. This connection had provided political and street protection, but it didn't protect her from Kevin's ass.

Yah Yah had a love for the hustle and there is nothing she wouldn't do to make sure she has money and her man. She experienced hardship, and betrayal while making millions. The question is can she beat the case she is currently incarcerated for which is the introduction of "Diary of a Hood Chic".