Blending poetics, politics, and everyday life, the singular lyrics of Boots Riley, poet of the hip-hop underground are collected here.
Boots Riley, is an American poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, humorist, political organizer, community activist, lecturer, and public speaker--best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club. He lives in Oakland, California.
Adam Mansbach is the author of the instant
New York Times bestsellers
Go the Fuck to Sleep and
You Have to Fucking Eat. His latest novel, Rage is Back, was named a Best Book of 2013 by NPR and the
San Francisco Chronicle and is currently being adapted for television; his previous novels include the California Book Award-winning
The End of the Jews and the cult classic
Angry Black White Boy. Mansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award, a Webby Award, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video "Wake The Fuck Up," starring Samuel L. Jackson. He was the 2009-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theater Writing Fellow, and will be the 2015 Artist in Residence at Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the Arts. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
New York Times Book Review,
Esquire,
The Believer,
Salon.com, and on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He is currently writing an original screenplay about a young Barack Obama for director Vikram Gandhi. He lives in Berkeley, California.