Rent Confessions of a Video Vixen

Synopsis

Hip-hop video dancer Karrine Steffans’s tell-all autobiography is a litany of sexual favors and conquests, drug-induced ecstasy, and often horrifying physical and mental abuse. The latter is consistently directed towards her, and, unsurprisingly for readers familiar with this type of confessional, she courts this mistreatment while lamenting its consequences. Steffans hates her sadistic mom, from whom she was liberated in her early teens, but, after embarking on a career as a stripper in Phoenix, she swiftly descends into the mother of all abusive relationships with the now-forgotten hip-hop artist Kool G Rap, whose most creative party trick is to impregnate her and then throw her out with instructions to find the nearest homeless shelter. She finally leaves him for the more considerate, if married, Ice T, who proves to be first in a long line of musicians prepared to finance her for sexual favors, though Steffans, or her ghostwriter, has a fine enough sensibility to rarely let the word prostitution feature in these pages. Her laundry list of conquests includes artists like Ja Rule, Jay Z, Fred Durst, and Usher, as well as actor Vin Diesel and basketball star Shaquille O’Neal. Erotic shenanigans there are aplenty. Depending on your outlook, you’ll be either titillated or appalled--but rarely bored.

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