In an excerpt from her new book FIRST THINGS FIRST: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game, Nadirah Simmons pays homage to her favorite fashion icon the First Lady of Ruff Ryders.
We cannot understand the last fifty years of U.S. history certainly not the first thing about Black history without studying the emergence and evolution of rap.
Among her favorite childhood memories are those of going to Decatur to spend time with her grandfather at the tool and die company he opened in 1948. Her father and