Know the ledge: the best hip-hop autobiographies

The tiny literary genre has only a few entries but the most accomplished rap memoirs offer insight into worlds that are unimaginable to mostWhen Gucci Mane announced that he’d written a memoir called The Autobiography of Gucci Mane last week, he joined a small but charming offshoot of the literary canon: the hip-hop autobiography. The genre is full of fascinating people, many of whom have used their intelligence and drive to overcome the sorts of economic and social inequalities that a siz