This is it - a story so grand, so epic in scale that no single series could contain it!

William C. Rhoden has been a reporter and sports columnist for The New York Times since 1983. Prior to that, he worked at The Baltimore Sun and Ebony magazine. He is also the author of Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. In the late 1960s, he studied black quarterbacks up close as a starting defensive back on Morgan State University's football team. He lives with his wife and daughter in New York.

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 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 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.
Straight From the Source is the Book of Kim, the tell-all memoir only she could write about her influential years at the Bible of Hip-Hop.

The man who has given us some of the most exciting music of the past few decades has now given us a compelling and fascinating autobiography, featuring a concise discography and thirty-two pages of photographs.