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THE MESSAGE 100 LIFE LESSONS FROM HIP-HOP’S GREATEST SONGS by Felicia Pride
October 2007, Thunder’s Mouth, 1-56858-335-4, HC, $15.99, 256 pages
Who would have thought that you could get deep life lessons from hip-hop? Learn to deal with regrets by jamming to Jay-Z? Foster self-esteem listening to Mos Def? Exert your self-worth based on cues from a Queen Latifah song? Get career advice from an Ice-T rhyme? Reflect on spirituality through a Kanye West tune?
In her new book THE MESSAGE: 100 LIFE LESSONS FROM HIP-HOP’S GREATEST SONGS (Thunder’s Mouth Press/October 2007/$15.95), Felicia Pride extracts empowering lessons embedded within the genre’s most popular songs. Growing up with hip-hop, she has come to realize the way it shaped how she thinks, writes, and reacts, making her the person she is today. In THE MESSAGE, she uses short essays, aptly titled after a hip-hop song, and written in the language of the culture, to explore the themes of spirituality, success, business, and love. Incorporating her own experiences and reflections with the rapper’s message, Pride goes on to share the wisdom she has learned from hip-hop and focuses on the positive influence the music has on its audience.
THE MESSAGE turns the often negative perceptions of hip-hop completely around, offers a fresh perspective on why the culture is loved worldwide, and simultaneously provides motivational material for the hip-hop generation culled from its own unique artistic expression. In the introduction she writes, “This book is about searching for the power within and using motivational aspects of hip-hop music to help us successfully maneuver our worlds.”
THE MESSAGE unleashes the power in the music and leaves readers with a compendium of wisdom to incorporate in their own lives, proving in Pride’s words that “we can learn from hip-hop.”
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