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Yo-Yo Ma was in his late forties when he decided he was truly happy being a musician. It was then he realized that he could use the cello to explore the world, to ask what it means to be human and how we can navigate the future together. Now, he has invited six friends to join him in answering these questions, to explore how they came to understand who they are, how they learned to love what they do in life, and how they would like to live in the world.

From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.

Dalla penna di un amico, ma anche di un "addetto ai lavori", una biografia commossa e sincera, lontana dall'ufficialità come dall'apologia. Gli anni dell'infanzia con Fabrizio, "Bicio", sfollato in una cascina di Revignano d'Asti; lo zio Francesco reduce dal campo di concentramento, prototipo di tante figure dolenti che popoleranno le sue canzoni. L'adolescenza e la giovinezza a Genova, tra i primi tentativi musicali, la ribellione e la scoperta del sesso, l'alcol, la bohème cittadina.