“Readers leave this book with a conviction that radio mattered in the 1980s and 1990s. And rap music’s inclusion on radio—as a marker of mainstream success, as a gateway to the genre’s increased popularity and economic power, as a means for spreading messages from the primarily Black artists who created it—was something that was heavily advocated for or resisted by various artists, listeners, programmers, and advertisers…Coddington’s book provides a well-researched and clearly written examination of perhaps the first time that these questions were addressed.”
