Straight from the Source : An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible

English

ISBN: 141655968X

EAN: 9781416559689

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians/Music / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop/

Publisher: VH1 Books

Release Date: 09/11/2008

Synopsis: Kim Osorio had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief ofThe Source, she had come up.From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hops hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil Kim. She developed close -- sometimes intimate -- relationships with the artists she exposed to the public. ButThe Sourcecouldnt hide its own dirty laundry for long.Behind the scenes, the magazines volatile owners puppeteered every issue -- even coveted honors like the 5-mic album rating and the Power 30 list of industry heavy-hitters. ThenThe Sourcedeclared war on Eminem and began the notorious assault that would send the magazine into swift decline.In a culture dominated by men, Kim rose to the top, and after years in the magazines pressure cooker, she hit send on a two-sentence e-mail that would thrust her from the sidelines of the scandalous world she reported on to the center of one of the most explosive scandals in hip-hop history.Straight From the Sourceis the Book of Kim, the tell-all memoir only she could write about her influential years at the Bible of Hip-Hop.

Straight from the Source : An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.12 inches

Weight: 16.61 oz

Pages: 288