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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Viator, Felicia Angeja, 1978– author.

Title: To live and defy in LA : how gangsta rap changed America / Felicia Angeja Viator.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019040585

Subjects: LCSH: Gangsta rap (Music)—Social aspects—United States. | Gangsta rap (Music)—California—Los Angeles—History and criticism. | Inner cities—California—Los Angeles. | Urban youth—California—Los Angeles.

Classification: LCC ML3918.R37 V53 2020 | DDC 306.4/842490979494—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040585