Nick Cannon
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JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson's decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove. But as a rapper, he's sometimes not given the credit he deserves for just how great an artist he's been for so long. This book wrestles with the biggest themes of JAY-Z's career, including hustling, and it recognizes the way that he's always...
2) Drumline
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"Halftime is party time for the gifted street drummer who snares the top spot in his university's marching band. However, he initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top"--Container.
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A streetwise detective goes undercover... and ends up in over his head. Tracy 'Tre' Stokes is a rookie bike cop who finally gets the kind of heavyweight assignment he's been begging for: find the killer of a student at an elite private school. What he discovers is a plot more deadly than anyone imagined. With danger and preppies everywhere, Tre will need his hip personality to fit in and his unorthodox style of investigation to crack the case.
4) Drumline
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A precocious freshman drummer struggles to both succeed and fit in as a member of the marching band at a historically black university.