{"product_id":"9781416559801","title":"Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible","description":"Kim 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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 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":"MTV Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138637512944,"sku":"9781416559801","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416559801_p0.jpg?v=1763727317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416559801","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}