"How to Rap is classic in an art that is just coming into a definition of itself. Everyone who wants to go to the next level needs this book, it's the inside and outside of the trade." —Nikki Giovanni, poet and one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 Living Legends on How To Rap

 

"How to Rap marks a cultural coming-of-age for hip-hop—the first comprehensive poetics of this new literary form" —Dana Gioia, poet and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts on How To Rap