The Book
This is not a redemption story.
It's a record.
Growing up between New York and Southern California, Troy DeSimone learned early that loyalty came with rules, consequences, and silence. Raised in the shadow of crime, family legends, street codes, and unspoken debts, his life unfolded at the intersection of danger, music, survival, and responsibility.
From Queens block parties and California classrooms to nightclubs, arrests, addiction, and loss, God, Guts & Goodfellas traces a raw coming-of-age shaped by violence, hustle, and the constant pull between who you are and who you're expected to be.
The story doesn't flinch from its darkest moments—nor does it romanticize them.
What emerges is not an apology or a confession, but an honest account of a life lived inside pressure: the cost of loyalty, the weight of family history, and the long work of rebuilding when everything you thought defined you falls away.
This is what it looked like from the inside.
