TABLE OF CONTENTS PRELUDE 
Tale of the (Cassette) Tape INTRODUCTION 
Check the Rhime CHAPTER 1 
Streets Is Watching CHAPTER 2 
Brooklyn Go Hard CHAPTER 3 
Let the Rhythm Hit ’Em CHAPTER 4 
Walk This Way CHAPTER 5 
Welcome to the Terrordome CHAPTER 6 
Me Against the World CHAPTER 7 
Ambitionz Az a Ridah CHAPTER 8 
Dirty South CHAPTER 9 
Y’all Must’ve Forgot CHAPTER 10 
Lean Back CHAPTER 11 
Get Money CHAPTER 12 
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ CHAPTER 13 
What’s Beef? CHAPTER 14 
Hate It or Love It CHAPTER 15 
Watch the Throne CHAPTER 16 
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems AFTERWORD 
Don’t Call It a Comeback ACKNOWLEDGMENTS APPENDIXES : A COMPILATION OF HIP-HOP & BOXING SONGS APPENDIX A 
Songs that Reference Boxing Personalities APPENDIX B 
Noteworthy Hip-Hop Collaborations with Boxers APPENDIX C 
Noteworthy Hip-Hop Songs Specifically Crafted for Boxing APPENDIX D 
Noteworthy Hip-Hop Songs by Boxers NOTES WORKS REFERENCED
About the Author
Dr. Todd D. Snyder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Siena College in Albany, New York. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Marshall University (2004, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Ohio University (2011). Snyder is the author of Beatboxing: How Hip-hop Changed the Fight Game, Bundini: Don t Believe The Hype, The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity and 12 Rounds in Lo s Gym: Boxing and Manhood in Appalachia. His scholarly research draws from a variety of fields: rhetoric and composition, community literacy studies, communications studies, cultural studies, and critical theory. Snyder also teaches a course at Siena College in hip-hop studies and contributed a chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Studies. The son of a West Virginia boxing trainer, Snyder’s work is also intimately connected to his life experience, the theme of working class masculinity serving as primary focus of his writing projects.

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