Rhyme Is Life: a bay area hip-hop adventure
PRAISE QUOTE:
"A pitch-perfect anthem for anyone who's ever been told their dreams don't fit the plan. Rhyme Is Life captures the heartbeat of Bay Area hip-hop while delivering a universal truth: your voice matters. This is the book I wish I had as a teenager."
- Bay Area Hip-Hop Influencer (anonymous)
DESCRIPTION:
They called him a trust fund kid. He's about to prove them all wrong.
Jordan Rockfire has everything-a famous basketball-star father, a mansion in the suburbs, and a future already written for him. There's just one problem: it's not his future.
What Jordan really wants is to rap.
When he and his best friend Ram sneak off to Bayfair Mall to buy their first explicit hip-hop CD, they have no idea that one afternoon will change everything. A chance encounter with Milo-a senior with a basement studio and connections to the underground music scene-opens a door Jordan never knew existed.
But making it in hip-hop isn't just about sick beats and tight lyrics.
Jordan has to prove he's more than his privilege. Ram is suffocating under his immigrant parents' dreams of medical school. And lurking in the background is Tyson-a rival whose anger runs deep and whose choices will send shockwaves through all of their lives.
As the crew forms Trail Mix and starts turning heads across the Bay, they'll face a question bigger than any rap battle:
When everyone else has already decided who you're supposed to be, do you have the courage to become who you really are?
Set against the golden era of '90s West Coast hip-hop, Rhyme Is Life is a story about friendship, identity, second chances, and the power of finding your voice-even when the whole world is telling you to stay quiet.
The mic is waiting. The beat is about to drop.
Will you step up?
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