Felicia Pride – The Message

Felicia Pride’s The Message: 100 Life Lessons From Hip Hop’s Greatest Songs is due October 7th from Thunder’s Mouth with a striking cover.

From the press release:
Felicia Pride extracts empowering lessons embedded within the genre’s most popular songs. Growing up with hip-hop, she has come to realize the way it shaped how she thinks, writes, and reacts, making her the person she is today. In The Message, she uses short essays, aptly titled after a hip-hop song, and written in the language of the culture, to explore the themes of spirituality, success, business, and love. Incorporating her own experiences and reflections with the rapper’s message, Pride goes on to share the wisdom she has learned from hip-hop and focuses on the positive influence the music has on its audience.

Lynne d Johnson has lots of nice things to say about Felicia Pride.  Ms. Pride has both a blog and a MySpace page and is the founder of BackList among many other accomplishments.