The Next Next Level
''The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up'' is a book by Leon Neyfakh about rapper Juiceboxxx. It was released on July 15, 2015. Synopsis The book tells the story of a young white rapper from Wisconsin, Juiceboxxx, who writer Leon Neyfakh met when he was in the eighth grade. Reception The book received mostly positive reviews. The ''Kirkus Review'' called it "Strangely sad and triumphant." References 2015 non-fiction books People from Wisconsin Melville House Publishing books {{music-bio-book-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leon Neyfakh
Leon Neyfakh (born 1985) is an American journalist, radio host and writer. He is known for hosting the podcasts ''Slow Burn'' and ''Fiasco'', and his book '' The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up''. Early life and education Neyfakh was born in the Soviet Union and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. Both of his parents are Russian Jews who immigrated to the United States when Neyfakh was a child.The Impulsive Life Not Chosen ''The New Yorker'' He graduated from in 2007 with an in history and literature. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Melville House Publishing
Melville House Publishing is an American independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The company was founded in 2001 and is run by the husband-and-wife team of Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company is named after the author Herman Melville. It has a reputation as an "activist press" and publisher of left-leaning books. History The company was founded by husband-and-wife team of Dennis Johnson and Valerie Merians. Johnson wrote a blog called "MobyLives" and after the 9/11 attacks collected poetry related to the event and published it as a book to great success, which launched the company. They intended Melville to be a low volume boutique that specializes in poetry and "highly literary" novels issuing less than six a year. The company has a reputation as a "activist press" and became known for works of "political reportage with a leftist streak". Johnson once said they formed the company with the notion of "getting B ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juiceboxxx
Juiceboxxx is an American rapper, producer, and label-owner based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Music Juiceboxxx released his first album in 2005: ''R U There God?? Itz Me Juiceboxxx'' on Vicious Pop Records. In 2010, Juiceboxxx released two mixtapes: ''Thunder Zone Volume One,'' a 20-track mixtape featuring many guests, and ''Journeyman From The Heartland,'' a 10-track mixtape recorded on the road with a variety of producers from Dillon Francis, L-Vis 1990, BzukaJoe, and others. In 2012, Juiceboxxx released ''I Don't Wanna Go Into The Darkness'' on his newly founded Thunder Zone label. In 2017, Juiceboxxx released ''Freaked Out American Loser'' on Dangerbird Records, a 9 track album; alongside, a short documentary that follows him on tour and examines his musical journey. In 2022, Juiceboxxx took to social media to announce that Juiceboxxx is no longer active with the release of new singleunder the name RUSTBELT. Thunder Zone Entertainment Juiceboxxx founded the Thunder Zone ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2015 Non-fiction Books
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People From Wisconsin
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form " people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |