{"product_id":"straight-from-the-source","title":"Straight from the Source","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom infamous rivalries and industry parties to intimate encounters with the hottest names in music, the first female editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e finally tells all about her years at the helm of the notorious bible of hip-hop.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKim Osorio had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e, she had come up. From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hop's hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim. She developed close—sometimes intimate—relationships with the artists she exposed to the public. But \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e couldn't hide its own dirty laundry for long.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Behind the scenes, the magazine's volatile owners puppeteered every issue—even coveted honors like the 5-mic album rating and the Power 30 list of industry heavy-hitters. Then \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e declared war on Eminem and began the notorious assault that would send the magazine into swift decline.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 two-sentence e-mail 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 hip-hop history. \u003ci\u003eStraight From the Source\u003c\/i\u003e is the Book of Kim, the tell-all memoir only she could write about her influential years at the bible of hip-hop.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57297534648664,"sku":"9781451656947","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781451656947.jpg?v=1778835722","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/straight-from-the-source","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}