from Scheme Magazine Felicia Pride: The Message
by Dale Coachman
When it comes to women in the hip hop culture unfortunately we predominantly focus on the video vixens and why they do what they do or the plight of Lil’ Kim coming out of jail and or Foxy Brown going in. Baltimore representative Felicia Pride who is an Author, Blogger (AOL.com Black Voices) and founder of The BackList has come to give her contribution to hip hop from a different standpoint. With her first book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip hop Greatest Songs do out the end of this month Ms. Pride is here to give her interpretation of what hip hop has means and has done for her throughout her life and career. Whether it’s learning the corporate ropes of publishing, discovering what brings her liberation of self or a stories of how and where she acquired her swagger. With a published book in addition to writing a literary chapter for the television series Everybody Hates Chris or interviewing the next up and coming writer Felicia Pride has her hands full, but without hip hop music the road would be a lot harder to travel.
Read the Full Interview with Felicia Pride
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