Personalizing Hip-Hop: Interview With Felicia Pride

Felicia Pride's book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs is about living culture, incorporating its vivid soundtrack into every facet of your Everyday Life. It's for music fans and hip-hop heads, as well as self-help fans looking to put a little love into their hearts. We could use the love, considering the way hip-hop has been living lately, which is to say quite large. And like other multinational monoliths, the culture has lost its way in the new millennium, embracing bling when we should all really be ringing the alarm on literacy and more. Pride grabs the bell by the horns below.

Personalizing Hip-Hop: Interview With Felicia Pride
"I wish hip-hop would stop embracing dysfunction. I say all the time that there's a thin line between exposing dysfunction—such as violence in the community—as a way to understand it and perhaps end it, versus celebrating the ill and trying to capitalize upon it. The best artists know how to expose pathology, not embrace it..." MORE @ MORPHIZM