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A Year in Reading: Kevin Powell

The soul of has always had a unique and profoundly spiritual way of leading me to places I did not expect, right from the day I first met him nearly thirty years ago. When I was writing magazine cover stories on the mercurial hip-hop star and actor, little did I know that I would become an alleged expert on his entire being these many years after I was there in Las Vegas where he died. But here I am penning a long overdue biography of his life, and I have spent’s remarkable 1986 study of ’s short but dramatic journey; and ’s breathtaking autobiography written with the actress , from 2004.

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