Wahida Clark
Urban Book Source
February 2007

Jarold: Wahida, tell me about your upbringing? What was life like before the sentence?
Wahida Clark: What’s average? I came up in the hood and you know how that is. Survival of the fittest. Welfare, food stamps, government cheese, weed, boosting, partying. I had the average dysfunctional family, (smile). I always had a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Single parent home in the projects, Donnelly Homes, until I was about 9 or 10 then we moved to the West Side of Trenton with my Aunt Ann and Uncle John. May he rest in peace. That was all love. Before I was incarcerated, I was running my businesses and working a 9 to 5. Ironically, working the 9 to 5 is how I caught my case.

Jarold: So I take it that you went to trial?
Wahida Clark: I took my case to trial and loss. That’s right. This sista here lives by the code: Death before Dishonor. However, I lost two appeals so I don't hit the bricks until 07.

Jarold: Hmm, Death before Dishonor. So you don't have any love for those who snitch?
Wahida Clark: Not at all. When everything is going good, they eating, balling, and getting paid, taking care of their families, it's all gravy and they are happy to play their part. But as soon as the shit hits the fan their weakness and hypocrisy gets put on blast. The sad thing is without snitches the government 98% of the time doesn't have a case. Snitches tell the things that the government wasn't even aware of. If everyone on my case would have stood tall we all would have walked.

Jarold: So how has prison affected your views on life?
Wahida Clark: I appreciate being with and having a family that much more. I no longer take the simple things in life for granted. Freedom. My physical freedom is truly valued. If you have been locked down, or did time with a loved one you understand what I’m saying.

Jarold: How are you being treated by guards and inmates?
Wahida Clark: My fellow inmates show me lots of love and support. The guards, I stay out of their way and treat them with respect, so they can only do the same for me.

Jarold: Everyone is fascinated with the fact that you got to roll with Martha Stewart. Tell us what she was like?
Wahida Clark: I didn’t hang out with her. I met with her on several occasions. She put together a Business Seminar, with us allowing the guests to pick her brain. And I met with her to go over my business plan for my publishing company. She gave me some very valuable feedback. Martha is cool. She did her little five months like a trooper and was always willing to help you out if she could. Plus my agent used to date her niece and told her to look me up when she got here. Which she did. The first day she hit the compound she was asking who knows Wahida Clark. By that evening I had got the message and I went to meet her. I thought she was going to be standoffish. But she was the total opposite, to my surprise.

Jarold: So how did the inmates treat her?
Wahida Clark: Whenever I got with her it was always on a business tip. So I didnít always see how the rest of the population was treating her. You always gonna have your haters and I would hear different comments. But me? I'm not a hater. I’m a congratulator. I’m trying to get where she is. She is big time. Certified Gangster for real. Whenever you can do time and turn on the preview channel and see your TV show getting ready to air: That’s Big! Whenever you can do time and your magazines are coming out every month: That’s Big! Whenever you can do time and two major retail chains that carry your products merge and you make a billion: That’s Big! Whenever you can do time and your stock from your company is steadily rising: That’s Big! Whenever you can do time and when you set your foot out the gate and a TV show is waiting for you: Thatís Big! Whenever you can do time and bounce on your own private jet: That's Big! You get my point? I think she’s a brilliant businesswoman.

Jarold: Speaking of business, tell us about your upcoming projects and Thug Matrimony.
Wahida Clark: Well, I have an anthology coming out called, What is Really Hood? Vol. I. It is an Anthology of five blazing hood stories, by Victor Martin (A Hood Legend), Shawn “Jihad” Trump, Bonta, myself and introducing Mo Foxx. Everyone is on lock. Then in April '07, the highly anticipated, Thug Matrimony drops. Ninety-eight percent of my readers, hit me up and say, “Wahida, we love Payback is a Mutha, but…whats up with Snake? Angel's Wedding? Is Trae dead? Please don’t leave us hanging like that.” Well, all of the answers are in the highly anticipated Thug Matrimony.

Jarold: How do you keep your ear to the streets that is in literary business? How do you know what is going on with your books?
Wahida Clark: I read, I watch, I learn, I study. My team at home is whats really good: my husband, my sisters-in-law and my daughters, Hasana and Wahida.

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For more information on Wahida Clark, visit www.wahidaclarkpresents.com and/or myspace.com/wadhidaclark. Write to:P.O. Box 8250, Newark, NJ 071

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Nikki :

Posted 114 days ago

Ok so I've read Thug Lovin last night (Yes in one night) been dying to see what happend after Thug Matrimony...I fell in love with Trae and Tasha in Every Thug Needs a Lady and fell in love with the girls in Thugs and the Women who love them...( read that severl times)..ok back to Thug Lovin..I was devistated that Trae betrayed Tasha chasing that paper...taking her for granted and then was disappointed that Tasha stooped to sleeping with Kaylins brother that's like sleeping with family and to get pregnat was just a mess....I'm a hopeless romantic and really hoping it's Trae's baby...can't wait for part 5. Ms. Clark please give me a happy ending ....a girl has to believe that it happiness works out for somebody!!!!!!!!

latisha :

Posted 150 days ago

are you coming out with a part five im dyeing to know what happens to trae and tasha and kyra her daugter etc

regina :

Posted 164 days ago

need to have new book on thugs loving are what ever you are going to call this oneplease dont make us what long please

Amanda :

Posted 243 days ago

the book your thinking of is thug lovin...thats the last book she came out with. For that series it goes thugs and the woman who love them, every thug needs a lady, thug matrimony, then thug lovin...with the payback series it goes...payback is a mutha then payback with ya life..then final payback which hasnt came out yet

marian :

Posted 244 days ago

hello wahida i really love all your books,but im kind of confussed,i dont know which one goes first and second and third,i read all of them but not in order,i was reading this one called thugs and the women who loved them and it finish where trea came to trinas house tasha was staying with her and she took a pregnancy test cause kyron maybe got her pregnant and trae saw him and got mad,it finish there and i need to find the nezt book after that im curious?im addicted to them books,or if anybody knows please let me know ill appreciate it,i love all your books wahida,you are very talented on my opion,and i know i speak for more people out there too,well much love to you wahida,and i hope you have good luck doing a movie,i would never leave my house if there was lol,i love to believe im in it,it seems so real,well good luck and let me know.

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