The Surviving Marcy Book Series are the actual accounts of Muhammad Ali Lamont and his coming of age story. Born and raised in the Marcy Project Housing Complex located in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, New York City, the story brings you through an amazing journey from the African Motherland into the gritty hallways of Marcy Projects. Each book within the series breaks down a timeline of chronological events that began before the transatlantic slave trade and matriculated to the middle of hip hop culture. The author discusses how his parents played an integral part in the civil rights movement, were both members of the black panther party, and his father Ali Lamont, was one of Malcom X’s former bodyguards. This is a story that details personal accounts of an African American family’s struggle from slavery to the streets of brooklyn. This book is about their tragedies and their triumphs, government conspiracies, martyrdom, the effects of the crack epidemic and how the powers that be, now use hip hop music to assassinate black messiahs.