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Five Rap Albums That Sound Like Debut Memoirs

I’m working on a story that needs to flow like these hip-hop manifestos

Andrew Ricketts
6 min readSep 30, 2022

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Memoirs dig up the nasty gristle of each neglected gut part and hold it up to merciless, sterile light. They’re distinct from biographies because they don’t retell the timeline of a life. That would be boring and unfeeling, like the original intro I wrote for this…

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Andrew Ricketts

I’m a Caribbean and American writer from New York. My stories are about coming-of-age, learning how to relate, and family. It’s a living, breathing memoir.