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do have mixed feelings about the book, It is compelling. There is a justified conclusion, It's even relateable, to both men and women from various industries, I just think it's a coincidence that years later she'd end up back at the magazine albeit new ownership considering all the turmoil and distress the name alone, The Source, brings.
It's her own 'I will not loose' determination to succeed, Despite the unrelenting horror she went through under Dave Mays and Benzino's 'grip', she could still say she loved her job, and the false illusion that a sixfigure salary abates any type of moral compass.
I don't know what to say, Despite her love for Journalism, it doesn't occur to Kim to strive to broaden her editorial landscape and grow into writing for The Atlantic, or NY Times or The New Yorker or just to another platform, which means, as far as I am concerned, I am not convinced she truly values her quality of writing and its potential.
An interesting read but also very very, . . exhausting. I wanted to give this,stars. Being a big hip hop fan, I was an avid reader of "The Source" back in the day when it was considered credible, I also remember several of the issues that Osorio recounts, I remember reading one issue and being angered by how completely biased it was, and how I believed very little of the information in there, If I noticed that as a high school senior, then I'm sure more dedicated readers were even more furious,
This book was great drama and insight into the world that "The Source" had become, However, it gets a little played out towards the end, It's kind of like, "Okay, we get it, Benzino was/is crazy as shit and ruining the publication, "
The most interesting insights come from the personal life of Osorio herself, when she "dates/hangs out with" Nas andCent at very telling times in both of those artists careers.
Certainly worth a read, but don't expect a grand expose of catastrophic proportions,
I had trouble sympathizing with, let alone respecting a journalist who created massive conflicts of interests by sleeping with the rappers Nas,Cent regularly featured on the covers and pages of her magazine.
Clearly the owners of Source were petty, ignorant, sexist and poor businessman, One of the only upsides of the book is seeing their empire start to crumble, That being said, the authors constant rationalizations do not come close to justifying why she woke up everyday and did their vindictive, pathetic bidding, As the Editor in Chief of Source for five years Osorio never once said no and apparently had no qualms about publishing work she was ashamed of, She printed pieces to get back at her bosses rivals, sold out friends, okayed libel and fired writers on the whims of her superiors, Never did she say "I am the Editor in Chief and I'm not going to do this" Ultimately though, this is a memoir and she can only detail what occurred which she seemingly does honestly and in detail.
And in the process makes the reader wonder just how its possible that the editor in chief of a major US publication is able to write so poorly.
Ok now, Kim gave us a look inside the world that she lovesthe hip hop music industry and takes us behind the scenes from a womans point of view at the "HipHop Bible.
"
I celebrate Kim O, for standing up and saying i will not be a puppet anymore, She was at the Source during some of HipHop's most pivotal moments and gave us some of the best writings on the happenings while she was there,
I loved the book, while i explored it, all i could think about was me reading the issues back in the day and now i have the real inside dirt to what was behind it all.
Kudos Kim O, Pageturning tellall from former Source editor, Cliff Notes version: Benzino even more of a dick than you might imagine, Dave Mays sad, emasculated halfman, This book was one in a long line of "hip hop/music industry" memoirs that I have read recently, They all start to sound pretty much the same after awhile, Although this one was different, what set this book apart from the rest is Kim's background as a "real" journalist, I have a lot of respect for her,
I always knew Benzino was a skeeze and Kim did a great job of exposing the "craziness behind the scenes" that I knew existed at The Source.
I had my own problems with "The Source" magazine in the past, The editorial and subscription departments come to mind, but I'm sure I wrote emails to other departments too, I just can't remember right now, Bottom line, a good read, I have only read have of the book and don't find it as interesting as I thought it would be, I actually got the book for onlyat Dollar Tree so I guess I should have known that it was not that great of a book, I thought it might be interesting to read a book by a woman who'd worked in the rap industry, In the end, not so much, at least in this case, It's too long on personal experience and too short on generalized viewpoint, It's nice to read a tellall book by someone who a can actually write and b someone who isn't afraid to tell stories that make themselves look less than angelic.
I especially enjoyed the parts that discussed how Benzino ran The Source into the ground with his hubris, The many, many sections where Kim discussed the abuse and overwork were very, VERY frustrating for me, I wanted to shout at her, "Get a new job already! This is what your emergency fund is for!" But that's the sign of an engaging story, I suppose.
This book is my own so it wouldn't be fair to review it, But I know you'll like it wink Kim Osorio wrote a damn good book here I was almost unable to put it down, I've never been a fan of the Source for my own reasons and I'm so happy to have learned some of what was going on behind the scenes.
To think that Osorio had to put up with all of that, and so much more I'm sure, is crazy, Good for her for doing what she had to do and what she should have done,
I'm still a little bit jealous about the wholething though! : I did not like this book because it was boring and it was too adult life for me.
I rate this book as a D, The main character in this book is Kim Osorio and she is a magazine editor for The Source, Please click the link below to read my Book on MissAlLeigh, com
sitelink coms i have not red it yet Absolutely loved the fact that she told her side and used her voice,
Shes spot on when she said, “A job could never make me, I make the job”, Much success and keep writing your truth and using your voice! Kim Osorio had a frontrow seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blowups in hiphop.
As the first female editorinchief of The Source, she had come up,
From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hiphop's hottest names: JayZ, Nas,Cent, Lil' Kim, She developed close sometimes intimate relationships with the artists she exposed to the public,
But The Source couldn't hide its own dirty laundry for long,
It's her own 'I will not loose' determination to succeed, Despite the unrelenting horror she went through under Dave Mays and Benzino's 'grip', she could still say she loved her job, and the false illusion that a sixfigure salary abates any type of moral compass.
I don't know what to say, Despite her love for Journalism, it doesn't occur to Kim to strive to broaden her editorial landscape and grow into writing for The Atlantic, or NY Times or The New Yorker or just to another platform, which means, as far as I am concerned, I am not convinced she truly values her quality of writing and its potential.
An interesting read but also very very, . . exhausting. I wanted to give this,stars. Being a big hip hop fan, I was an avid reader of "The Source" back in the day when it was considered credible, I also remember several of the issues that Osorio recounts, I remember reading one issue and being angered by how completely biased it was, and how I believed very little of the information in there, If I noticed that as a high school senior, then I'm sure more dedicated readers were even more furious,
This book was great drama and insight into the world that "The Source" had become, However, it gets a little played out towards the end, It's kind of like, "Okay, we get it, Benzino was/is crazy as shit and ruining the publication, "
The most interesting insights come from the personal life of Osorio herself, when she "dates/hangs out with" Nas andCent at very telling times in both of those artists careers.
Certainly worth a read, but don't expect a grand expose of catastrophic proportions,
I had trouble sympathizing with, let alone respecting a journalist who created massive conflicts of interests by sleeping with the rappers Nas,Cent regularly featured on the covers and pages of her magazine.
Clearly the owners of Source were petty, ignorant, sexist and poor businessman, One of the only upsides of the book is seeing their empire start to crumble, That being said, the authors constant rationalizations do not come close to justifying why she woke up everyday and did their vindictive, pathetic bidding, As the Editor in Chief of Source for five years Osorio never once said no and apparently had no qualms about publishing work she was ashamed of, She printed pieces to get back at her bosses rivals, sold out friends, okayed libel and fired writers on the whims of her superiors, Never did she say "I am the Editor in Chief and I'm not going to do this" Ultimately though, this is a memoir and she can only detail what occurred which she seemingly does honestly and in detail.
And in the process makes the reader wonder just how its possible that the editor in chief of a major US publication is able to write so poorly.
Ok now, Kim gave us a look inside the world that she lovesthe hip hop music industry and takes us behind the scenes from a womans point of view at the "HipHop Bible.
"
I celebrate Kim O, for standing up and saying i will not be a puppet anymore, She was at the Source during some of HipHop's most pivotal moments and gave us some of the best writings on the happenings while she was there,
I loved the book, while i explored it, all i could think about was me reading the issues back in the day and now i have the real inside dirt to what was behind it all.
Kudos Kim O, Pageturning tellall from former Source editor, Cliff Notes version: Benzino even more of a dick than you might imagine, Dave Mays sad, emasculated halfman, This book was one in a long line of "hip hop/music industry" memoirs that I have read recently, They all start to sound pretty much the same after awhile, Although this one was different, what set this book apart from the rest is Kim's background as a "real" journalist, I have a lot of respect for her,
I always knew Benzino was a skeeze and Kim did a great job of exposing the "craziness behind the scenes" that I knew existed at The Source.
I had my own problems with "The Source" magazine in the past, The editorial and subscription departments come to mind, but I'm sure I wrote emails to other departments too, I just can't remember right now, Bottom line, a good read, I have only read have of the book and don't find it as interesting as I thought it would be, I actually got the book for onlyat Dollar Tree so I guess I should have known that it was not that great of a book, I thought it might be interesting to read a book by a woman who'd worked in the rap industry, In the end, not so much, at least in this case, It's too long on personal experience and too short on generalized viewpoint, It's nice to read a tellall book by someone who a can actually write and b someone who isn't afraid to tell stories that make themselves look less than angelic.
I especially enjoyed the parts that discussed how Benzino ran The Source into the ground with his hubris, The many, many sections where Kim discussed the abuse and overwork were very, VERY frustrating for me, I wanted to shout at her, "Get a new job already! This is what your emergency fund is for!" But that's the sign of an engaging story, I suppose.
This book is my own so it wouldn't be fair to review it, But I know you'll like it wink Kim Osorio wrote a damn good book here I was almost unable to put it down, I've never been a fan of the Source for my own reasons and I'm so happy to have learned some of what was going on behind the scenes.
To think that Osorio had to put up with all of that, and so much more I'm sure, is crazy, Good for her for doing what she had to do and what she should have done,
I'm still a little bit jealous about the wholething though! : I did not like this book because it was boring and it was too adult life for me.
I rate this book as a D, The main character in this book is Kim Osorio and she is a magazine editor for The Source, Please click the link below to read my Book on MissAlLeigh, com
sitelink coms i have not red it yet Absolutely loved the fact that she told her side and used her voice,
Shes spot on when she said, “A job could never make me, I make the job”, Much success and keep writing your truth and using your voice! Kim Osorio had a frontrow seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blowups in hiphop.
As the first female editorinchief of The Source, she had come up,
From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hiphop's hottest names: JayZ, Nas,Cent, Lil' Kim, She developed close sometimes intimate relationships with the artists she exposed to the public,
But The Source couldn't hide its own dirty laundry for long,
Behind the scenes, the magazine's volatile owners puppeteered every issue even coveted honors like themic album rating and the Powerlist of industry heavyhitters, Then The Source declared war on Eminem and began the notorious assault that would send the magazine into swift decline, In a culture dominated by men, Kim rose to the top, and after years in the magazine's pressure cooker, she hit "send" on a twosentence email that would thrust her from the sidelines of the scandalous world she reported on to the center of one of the most explosive scandals in hiphop history.
Straight From the Source is the Book of Kim, the tellall memoir only she could write about her influential years at the Bible of HipHop.
Kim Osorio