Write Lines: Adventures in Rap Journalism

by Andrew Emery

Having failed at rapping, what's next for an endlessly passionate rap nerd? In this sequel to acclaimed memoir Wiggaz With Attitude, it turns out what's next is a sometimes controversial career in rap journalism. Write Adventures in Rap Journalism tells the tale of hip-hop writing from the inside. From death threats, to interviewing Lauryn Hill while she's in the shower. From calling Jay-Z a c*** to his face, to letting a notorious rapper sleep in his bath, it's a hilarious, anecdotestudded tale that takes in hip-hop's first ever magazine and lifts the lid on rivalries, squabbles and how music journalism really works. Brutally honest, endlessly opinionated, this story is also a love letter to hip-hop as it changed seismically through the decades. Write Lines charts those changes from the front line through encounters with many of the greats of Chuck D, Missy Elliott, RZA, Eminem, Jazzy Jeff and Gang Starr among them. This is an unfiltered tale of hip-hop that is both heartfelt and scabrously funny.

277 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2024

About the author

Andrew Emery is a writer and journalist who has contributed to dozens of magazines, papers and websites. He was contributing editor of Hip-Hop Connection, founded, edited and published Fat Lace Magazine, and is the author of The Book of Hip-Hop Cover Art. He has written for The Guardian, Arena, The Face, Loaded, The Observer, Jack, Word, Muzik, Ministry, Select, Q, Bizarre, Soho House Magazine and Ego Trip and the NME.

His new book, Wiggaz With Attitude: My Life as a Failed White Rapper, launched on 21st August 2017. Andrew is also working with Dan Greenpeace on Promo Only - a book of hip-hop memorabilia, and is full steam ahead (i.e. he’s created a thus far empty word document for each of them) on Adventures In Rap and The Biographical Dictionary of Hip-Hop.

Reviews

[Twan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I agree with the Jay-Z insult