Never Drank the Kool-Aid: Essays
Never Drank the Kool-Aid is an interesting run through a collection of magazine articles and essays from hip-hop journalist Touré (Rolling Stone, New Yorker, New York Times, Village Voice, etc). Thematically driven, Kool-Aid is an easy, digestible read that takes a chunk of Toure’s work and gives it rhythm and meaning by grouping the stories into common threads like ‘Big Willies,’ ‘Icaruses,’ and ‘Almost Famous’. Often the pieces allow you to peak into the world of the artist he is covering, if only for a few pages, while others are more personal revealing his own various motivations, interests and convictions. Sometimes formulaic but never dull Toure’s journey constantly changes scenery and will take you from balling with Prince to getting yoked up by Suge Knight to lambasting Condoleeza Rice to writing Mary J. hate mail by the book’s end.
