Ebook: Losing my cool: how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hiphop culture

The discovery of what it means to be a black boy -- A wicked genie -- What about your friends? -- Street dreams (who am I to disagree?) -- Slip the yoke -- You can't go home again -- Beginning to see the light -- To a worm in a horseradish, the world is a horseradish -- Every secret loses its force -- Epilogue.;Describes how the author's hip-hop culture radically contrasted with his book-loving father's endless pursuit of knowledge, revealing how the father-son bond eventually overcame the genre's rebellious messages.