WHAT'S GOOD: NOTES ON RAP AND LANGUAGE - PAPERBACK - BOOK THE RUNAWAYS

WHAT'S GOOD: NOTES ON RAP AND LANGUAGE - PAPERBACK - BOOK THE RUNAWAYSA NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA love letter to the verbal artistry of hip hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection that offers a rich and expansive land upon which to play." Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance" . . . an

and Al Jardine launched into their 18th studio album

All artwork recreated from original release including replicated fully printed inner sleeve

- Time Magazine put U2 on it's cover in April 1987

Geezer Butler and Bill Ward - youthful friends from Northern England - laid the blueprint for

6 Break Down and Let It All Out

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but also a shared appetite for self-destruction that threatens to overwhelm them both

1 Love's in Need of Love Today

Fantasy Beginning