What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language

A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis

"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection that offers a rich and expansive land upon which to play." —Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

" . . . an often hilarious, surprisingly moving a...