Beats Rhymes & Life

Collects essays on modern hip-hop music and culture in which music journalists look at some of the most controversial ideas, symbols, and images in rap, and includes interviews with some of the genre's leading stars. "Featuring interviews with Mos Def, Nelly, Ludacris, Scarface, Luke Campbell, Heather Hunter, Ice-T, Common, Too Short, and more"--Cover. "Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson."