"Rio Whole Train" photo (partial) from Wooster Collective.com

For the Love of the Art

The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs

by Felicia Pride

Thunder's Mouth/Running Press

October 2007, 256 pages, $15.99

[4 January 2008]

by Quentin B. Huff

How cool is it to go to the "Self Help" section of a bookstore and get a book with life lessons from N.W.A., Little Brother, and Ghostface Killah?
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