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A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis" What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection that offers a rich and expansive land upon which to play. I'm grateful for Levin Becker's mining of that land and the revelations found along the way, revelations which come to life in this book with a vivid and generous exuberance." - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance" For those of us who love rap, What's Good is a gift. The book offers a new set of eyes and ears through which to see and to hear the language of rap. Its brief and brilliant chapters are like the best kinds of freestyles: spontaneous and structured, startling and profound.