Five Questions with Shea Serrano

After it was released last month, Shea Serrano’s The Rap Year Book quickly climbed its way onto the New York Times Best Seller list, spurred on by an informal network of social media supporters around the country. The book charts the history of hip-hop using illustration and “discussion, debate, and deconstruction“ to identify the most important rap song of ever year from 1979 to the present, arguing in favor of tracks like Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power“ (1989), Puff Daddy’s “Can’t Hold Me Down“ (1997), a