The Baddest Bitch in the Room

Sophia is a good salesperson. I listened to her on the recode media podcast and bought the hype. Unfortunately it was mainly just that. No doubt she has had an interesting life and career, but instead of crafting an interesting narrative with what I am sure are interesting anecdotes and recollections from her time in the music industry and the hip hop world, this book is basically a very inwardly oriented chronology of her life. Unfortunately chronologies can often be boring because they often trade depth and reflection for inconsequential factual details. We don't get much insight into what she really thought about the industry in which she built an incredible and unlikely career, which is a shame.

She also really over sold things by name dropping guys like Method Man and indicating that they made significant contributions to the book, but they were basically poorly recorded pre canned lines ... I was expecting them to share little stories about her, or a shared experience or at least have some real conversation but it was literally a phoned in line she asked them to say. I think there was an element of dishonesty there , which I did not like.