num_pages: 448
description: A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today Atlanta rapa masterful street-level story of art money race class and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.From mansions to trap houses office buildings to strip clubs Atlanta is defined by its rap music. But this flashy and fast-paced world is rarely seen below surface-level as a collection not of superheroes and villains cartoons and caricatures but of flawed and inspired individuals all trying to get a piece of what everyone else seems to have. In artistic commercial and human terms Atlanta rap represents the most consequential musical ecosystem of this century so far. Rap Capital tells the dramatic stories of the people who make it tick and the city that made them that way. The lives of the artists driving the culture from megastars like Lil Baby and Migos to lesser-known local strivers like Lil Reek and Marlo represent the modern American dream but also an American nightmare as young Black men and women wrestle generational curses crippled school systems incarceration and racism on the way to an improbable destination atop art and commerce. Across Atlanta rap dreams power countless overlapping economies but theyre also a gamble one that could make a poor man rich or a poor man poorer land someone in jail or keep them out of it. Drawing on years of reporting more than a hundred interviews dozens of hours in recording studios and on immersive ride-alongs acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli weaves a cinematic tapestry of this singular American culture as it took over in the last decade from the big names to the lesser-seen prospects managers grunt-workers mothers DJs lawyers and dealers that are equally important to the industry. The result is a deeply human era-defining book. Entertaining and profound Rap Capital is an epic of art money race class and sometimes salvation.
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title: Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
publisher: Simon  Schuster