If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad. They're chasing these gold dreams, but what happens when you put too much value in your chain? If you spend all your money on your ring and then you go broke? It's not an advertisement for jewelry.

Everyone is jumping on the stop-snitching bandwagon. It's all the rage. Even if you have a conversation with police, you'll be called a snitch.

There is definitely a sense of Rain-mania washing across the 32nd Street land here in Manhattan.

For any normal person, that is the stupidest thing you could do. But you can't argue that his strategy didn't work. Everyone talked about it, and no one will forget it.

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

[Observers feel the magazine's spiraling problems mirror a central struggle within hip hop itself.] The roots of the music are very 'street', ... But that has to get along with its newer role, which is very big business.

If anything, the book shows the good, the bad, the ugly, and then the sad.

He can eat anything, even if it's scalding hot.