Kim Osorio
Kim Osorio, had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief of ,The Source,, she had come up.,From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hop's hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim. She developed close- sometimes intimate- relationships with the artists she exposed to the public. ,But ,The Source, couldn't hide its own dirty laundry for long.,Behind the scenes, the magazine's volatile owners puppeteered every issue- even coveted honors like the 5-mic album rating and the Power 30 list of industry heavy-hitters. Then ,The Source, declared war on Eminem and began the notorious assault that would send the magazine into swift decline.In a culture dominated by men, Kim rose to the top, and after years in the magazine's pressure cooker, she hit "send" on a two-sentence e-mail that would thrust her from the sidelines of the scandalous world she reported on to the center of one of the most explosive scandals in hip-hop history. ,Straight From the Source, is the Book of Kim, the tell-all memoir only she could write about her influential years at the Bible of Hip-Hop.
Music,Autobiography,Memoir,Nonfiction,Biography
Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible