College is a big adjustment—but not if you're Kenya Posey. Even at a Southern school far from her Jersey turf, she's the one the girls envy and the boys want. Kenya's the star of a hot singing/dancing troupe, her high-school BFF Lark is on campus—could things get any better? For Lark, the answer is yes. While she's flunking socially, life is one big episode of Everybody Loves Kenya—and Lark barely gets a walk-on role. Kenya's too self-absorbed to see beyond her fabulous new life. But with Kenya's brother Eric and his rapper friend Fiasco bringing drama right to her door, all that's about to change….
Author Ben Westhoff investigates the southern rap phenomenon, watching rappers ?make it rain? in a Houston strip club and partying with the 2 Live Crew?s Luke Campbell.
... allowing Mathis to take on the full weight of the prisoner, “and summon Doc Gould to tend to him. No other visitors, and no phone calls. We'll let him leave come morning.” “What did he do?” “He obstructed an investigation, but I'm ...
The second installment continues with Treasure Hernandez telling the tale of the Dirty South.
Wheatle brilliantly evokes the temptations of the thug life for young black men growing up in London's 'Dirty South' - this is a fast, compelling novel that offers no easy answers, but refuses to shy away from asking the difficult questions ...
Director's foreword / Alex Nyerges -- What you know about the Dirty South? / Valerie Cassel Oliver -- a poem for black art / Fred Moten -- Landscape : the politics and poetics of dirt.
The Dirty South: Witness the Becoming of Charlie Parker
Offers an overview of "Dirty South" rap--a phenomenon centered around cities such as Atlanta, Miami, and New Orleans--covering such groups as The Neptunes, Timbaland, OutKast, Lil Jon, Ludacris, and Cee-Lo.
Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars.
Steeped in geography, historical events, typology, storytelling, and popular culture, trajectories through the city that the guide takes are idiosyncratic but urge the discipline of architecture toward a long overdue reading of Dirty South ...
This is an unfamiliar New South-dirtier, deadlier, more vicious, where a music empire can fall in a sudden, bloody rain of bullets.