Hood by Noire At 18, Lamont Mason, aka Hood, grows up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, drug trade, despite a tough childhood where he and his younger brother, Moo, are cast off by their crackhead mother. Hood makes up a new family with the barber Fat Daddy and his daughter, Egypt, as well as Dreko, who Hood sees as a brother,.When trust start go bad, big deals go down and the drugs he sells begin taking over the lives of those close to him, Hood, while inventing rhymes that keep him sane, has to decide who he can afford. i give this book 4 stomps.