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Get Your Mind Write.

A World-Class Wreck-It Journal
Brief Description
Create your own blueprint for creativity in the pages of this journal pulsing with the style and flavour of hip-hop's beats, rhymes, and life—designed by an award-winning music journalist, writing professor, and media coach. The classic feel of your composition notebook, upscaled to align with your... Read More
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Create your own blueprint for creativity in the pages of this journal pulsing with the style and flavour of hip-hop's beats, rhymes, and life—designed by an award-winning music journalist, writing professor, and media coach.

The classic feel of your composition notebook, upscaled to align with your luxe and literary aspirations—Get Your Mind Write is a free-flowing, hip-hop-nuanced journal with room for writing casual notes and beginning your own literary masterpieces.

Along with light-hearted prompts and listicles, Get Your Mind Write also features prompts inspiring you to make art while listening to your favourite tracks and others inviting you to write pieces using as many of the words printed on the page as possible. And as hip-hop celebrates fifty years, Iandoli invites serious examination of its ethos, with prompts like, "In what ways has the 'hustle harder' mantra supported your growth? In what ways has it held you back, or proven to be an obstacle more than a resource?"

Drawing on her expertise in media coaching up-and-coming musicians, Iandoli offers ways to dig deep and mine the emotional and mental depths that give rise to great art—and strong bars. Get Your Mind Write places the power of the pen in the writer's hands—a tool for personal growth and deeper self-understanding that helps you channel your love of the music and culture into your own lyrics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593581919

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 November 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

About the Author

Kathy Iandoli is a critically acclaimed journalist and the author of God Save the Queens- The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, Baby Girl- Better Known as Aaliyah, The Hip-Hop Queens Oracle Deck (illustrated by Monica Ahanonu), and co-author of Eve's forthcoming Who's That Girl, Lil' Kim's forthcoming The Queen Bee, and Prodigy's Commissary Kitchen. She has written for VIBE, The Source, XXL, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Pitchfork, Playboy, PAPER, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, The Guardian, and VICE and held editorial positions at AllHipHop, HipHopDX, and BET online. Iandoli is a Professor of Music Business and Writing at New York University and has appeared on television, radio, and panels discussing hip-hop and gender. She is also the premier Media Coach for both up-and-coming musicians and Billboard chart-topping superstars, incorporating elements of Life Coaching and Mental Health Wellness into her coaching programs.

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