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Michael "Mista Meana" Patterson has built a legendary career as one of the pioneers in the New Orleans rap scene, a father, husband, and businessman. These successes didn't come without many adverse circumstances and life-altering sacrifices along the way.
After meeting Kango Slimm, in high school through a mutual friend, the pair teamed up and formed the rap group, Partners-N-Crime. Partners-N-Crime had widespread success in Louisiana and across the states with their single "Let the Good Times Roll", a song that discusses the social change in the black community in the year 1994. This year was one of the most violent years in New Orleans, the "City of Social Justice". "Pump the Party" was also produced in 1994 and still rides the airwaves today alongside their catalog of hits!
"Untold: The Story of an Unknown Legend" is a raw and transformational account detailing the true cost of success. From lifelong friendship to finding forever love and surviving debilitating losses, Meana aims to leave each reader with hope and guidance to persevere through life's circumstances while traveling the road towards self actualization and success.
About the author
Michael Patterson was born and educated in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. After thirty five years working in Marketing and Senior Management, with Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Esselte, redundancy gave him the opportunity his own on line business, selling lamination machines and consumables, as well as finding time to write crime novels. It also gave him the time to concentrate on his writing. Married with two children, he lives in Frimley Green, Surrey.
