she wrote a book called Faction Killa, how hip-hop revolutionized, high-fashioned

Somia. Good morning. How are you? I'm great. How are you? Thanks for joining. We're great.

We're chilling. You know, this book seems like a no-brainer, but we were just

talking before this interview, and I see one of your tweets here says, for all my

perspectives, tell the stories you want to tell 99% of people passed on

Faction Killa. They didn't get the vision. They didn't think the history was

important or deserved to be documented in a book. They were wrong. Keep going.

I would love to hear about that journey a little bit more.

Why does it make me sound like I'm DJ Khaled?

Yeah, they don't want you to put out a book. They don't want you to prosper.

You know what I did? I put out a book. Yeah, you know, it's funny because

so the process of this started three years ago, and this was I already kind of

knew hip-hop 50 was coming around the corner. So for my first book, I wanted to

tell an important story, but a story that hadn't been told. So when you think of

hip-hop in fashion, usually it's through this kind of surface level lens. So it's

the artist and what they wore and a bunch of pretty pictures, which of course this

has, but I wanted to go deeper into the history and the backstory into the

culture and all of these important things. And most publishers actually passed on

this book. It's funny. We can get an amazing press. The critics love this

book, but at the time I got so many knows because you know, I hate to say it in

the literary world. Hip-hop is still viewed very niche. And for me, one of my

experiences as a writer is to elevate hip-hop and to give it that same

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