Grammy

Grammy was a tall lean nigga, frank and fresh, with shoulder-length braids and a ratty face. He got deep eyes, a scurrying nose, off-yellow teeth and nails cuz he chain-smoked and a big nasty scar across his eye from where his daddy hit him with a bike chain… That skinny nigga came up to Tyrell holding a tube of cloth — he seemed real skinny in prison, surrounded by chunky-butt niggas and musclehounds like Tyrell, but when he came into Burger Barn years later, he looked lean and cable-muscled — Tyrell ain’t know if Grammy got to working out and eating better after his release or if he just looked skinny surrounded by cage-grown niggas.

From Tyrell the Mandingo