True to the Game | Netflix. True to the Game represents life on the streets, where it's true that there's no way out once you're in, and everyone stays in forever. Once upon a time, not too long ago, a young girl from the projects met Quadir, far from home, in the middle of Harlem. Now the story is told of how it all went down. True to the Game Trailer Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young girl from the projects of Philly. TERI WOODS is a native of Philadelphia where she worked as a legal secretary/paralegal for eight years. She started writing True to the Game in 1993 and began submitting it to publishers in 1994. After being turned down, the book sat dormant for several years. In a perfect world, a movie version of Teri Woods' novel "True to the Game" would be a bigger deal. Woods' pulp thriller has reportedly sold more than 2 million copies since the '90s and pioneered a new literary form: a cross between gangster melodrama, glamorous romance and hip-hop-scored slice-of, True To The Game (2017) - Rotten Tomatoes - Movie Trailers, True to the Game (2017) - IMDb, Watch True to the Game on 123movies: A charismatic drug lord tries to start a new life after he falls for a young woman from Philadelphia..