I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

We’re not gonna make it out of this alive. You know that, right?

Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers?”The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. “Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he’s Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew,...

My brother, he says. My brother is dead.”And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have...

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. ‘I am still here.’ I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be...