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Angie Martinez is the "Words of NY". Now, for the first time, she candidly recounts the storyline of her climb to become an internationally celebrated hip-hop radio icon. In her current reign at Ability 105.1 and then for nearly two decades at New York's Hot 97, Angie Martinez has had one of the highest scored radio shows in the united states. After working her way up as an intern, she burst on the arena as a young female jock whose on-air "Battle of the Beats" portion broke documents and became a program for emerging performers like a young Jay Z. Angie quickly became known for romantic, high-profile interviews, mediating feuds between performers, and taking on the most controversial issues in hip-hop. At era 25, at the elevation of the East Coast/West Coast rap battle, Angie was summoned by Tupac Shakur for what would be his previous no-holds-barred interview - which has never shown in its entirety and which she's never talked about at length until now. Angie shares reports from behind the displays of her most controversial discussions, from onetime presidential hopeful Barack Obama to superstars like Mary J. Blige and Chris Brown, and explains her emotional, bittersweet final days at Hot 97 and the highly publicized move to Ability 105.1. She also starts up about her personal life - from her origins in Washington Levels and her formative years being increased by an individual mom in Brooklyn to discovering the lessons that shaped her into the woman she actually is today. From the Puerto Rican Day Parade to the White House, Angie is universally named a powerful words in the Latino and hip-hop neighborhoods. My Words gives an inside look at NY City's one-of-a-kind metropolitan radio culture, the changing encounters of hip-hop music, and Angie's climb to become the Words of NY.
