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“When I first started working on this book, I told my editor I wanted it to do three important things,” says Jay. “The first was to make the case that hip-hop lyrics—not just my lyrics, but those of every great MC—are poetry if you look at them closely enough. The second was I wanted the book to tell a little bit of the story of my generation, to show the context for the choices we made at a violent and chaotic crossroads in recent history. And the third piece was that I wanted the book to show how hip-hop created a way to take a very specific and powerful experience and turn it into a story that everyone in the world could feel and relate to.”

thesmithian:

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art: by Doug Griswold

joygotjokes:

This is for every woman who’s not afraid to cut a man loose if he’s not doing his job.

This is for the women who get hated on by girls with insecurities tattooed to their faces. Sweetheart, they hate you. They hate you because their confidence is crippled with handicap thoughts and self-esteem. For the strong women. For every woman who would never dance half naked in a hip hop video because they understand how sacred their bodies are. This is for the woman who look in the mirror and see the closest thing on this earth to God. This is for the woman who remind me of my mother.

Remember, this world wasn’t built for you. So if need be you tear it to the ground… resurrect it in your image and make sure it’s just as beautiful as you are. -Rudy Francisco