To Live and Defy in LA Quotes

“The Yo! MTV Raps platform was tailor-made for the West Coast rappers who already understood quite well that breakout success in the expanding, fractured, and increasingly competitive field of hip-hop did not come from music alone. Neither was it a simple product of radio adds or music video airings. Those things mattered, to be sure—but market demand hinged, more than ever before, on image and intrigue.”
― Felicia Angeja Viator, To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America

“The Brooklyn rapper wondered how it was that these characters in the music “were stepping through the broken glass and into the Caddy.”
― Felicia Angeja Viator, To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America