A review by cmadrenas
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello

3.0

Mediocre as a rap book…mostly unoriginal and occasionally vaguely offensive (stuff about rappers as yuppies and about stereotypes just being “synecdoche” instead of, um, NOT THAT AT ALL.) Awesome as a History-of-DFW book, though. Guy is constantly making the hokiest grammar/linguistics jokes in the most inappropriate places. Every bit the messed up son of Avril Incandenza I MEAN his textbook-writing mother. I love him.