Böcker av Kathy Iandoli

Create your own blueprint for creativity in the pages of this journal pulsing with the style and flavor of hip-hop’s beats, rhymes, and life—designed by an award-winning music journalist, writing professor, and media coach.The classic feel of your composition notebook, upscaled to align with your luxe and literary aspirations: Get Your Mind Write is a free-flowing, hip-hop-nuanced journal with room for writing casual notes and beginning your own literary masterpieces.Along with light-hearted prompts and listicles, Get Your Mind Write also features prompts inspiring you to make art while listening to your favorite tracks and others inviting you to write pieces using as many of the words printed on the page as possible. And as hip-hop celebrates fifty years, Iandoli invites serious examination of its ethos, with prompts like, “In what ways has the ‘hustle harder’ mantra supported your growth? In what ways has it held you back, or proven to be an obstacle more than a resource?” Drawing on her expertise media coaching up-and-coming musicians, Iandoli offers ways to dig deep and mine the emotional and mental depths that give rise to great art—and strong bars. Get Your Mind Write places the power of the pen in the writer’s hands—a tool for personal growth and deeper self-understanding that helps you channel your love of the music and culture into your own lyrics.

FOR FANS OF WISE GUY & GOMORRAH -THE KING OF NEW YORK is the story of how one gangster makes it his life goal (and obsession) to dominate across all affiliations of organized crime to achieve the most desired title: The King Of New York.For nearly 50 years, the mafia has existed in the underbelly of New York City, where the heart of organized crime originated. For Jimmy Bianco, the mafia is a way of life. However, young Jimmy inherits both an honor and a duty that he didn't sign up for, when both his father and his grandfather are simultaneously murdered, leaving Jimmy as the heir, or in mafia speak, the Don. While Jimmy is no stranger to navigating his Brooklyn streets, he's clueless on how to move like a Don, make money like a Don, and kill like a Don. He learns the latter of the lessons when his uncle is released from prison, and is hoping to dominate New York City as a new kind of drug dealing kingpin, annihilating everyone in his way, including his nephew. The only way for Jimmy to fight back is to align with some of the most nefarious crime families and gangs, securing a top alliance with the notorious Black Mafia Family. The mafia calls it the Don, the streets call it all city, but for Jimmy Bianco his mission is clear: to become the King of New York. The King of New York is an action packed hybrid graphic novel, including elements of both fantasy and true crime, a must read for anyone fascinated by the ins and outs of the mafia or those looking for an action packed animated read.

A stunningly illustrated oracle deck featuring 52 of hip-hop's most influential queens (from Lauryn Hill to Megan Thee Stallion) serving as compass points for spiritual growth and portals to guidance and meditation-from the author of God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop.Women have been the backbone of hip-hop since its earliest inception. Along with perseverance and creativity, they possess a spiritual and metaphysical presence. These female creators have a profound potency that makes them the perfect symbols for an oracle deck to help you address a question or set your intention for the day. The fifty-two artists included-from MC Lyte, Salt-N-Pepa, Queen Latifah, and Lil' Kim to Beyoncé, Missy Elliott, Cardi B, and Nicki Minaj-are hip-hop's oracles, now immortalized from tape deck to card deck. Veteran music journalist and certified oracle reader Kathy Iandoli matched each queen with an appropriate symbol, based on her decades of experience interviewing (and befriending) iconic artists, past and present. Rendered in the bold, colorful, pop art-style portraiture of artist Monica Ahanonu on sturdy, oversized cards with rounded corners, these DJs, MCs, and singers will guide you the same way they've blazed trails from the underground to the mainstream since day one.