Shea Serrano

Journalist and author Shea Serrano has covered basketball and pop culture for ESPN, XXL, Grantland, the Ringer and more. His first book, The Rap Yearbook, is a New York Times bestseller and a critical favorite. When we first talked with Serrano in 2017, he’d just followed it up with Basketball and Other Things, a book that is kind of like a written version of a late night party discussion with friends – with cool illustrations. Serrano covers topics like “great basketball villains” and “which NBA players get remembered for the wrong reasons?” He’s since released Movies and Other Things – a similar book with movie rankings, hot takes and more ice breakers. This past month he expanded the illustrated series with another entry: Hip-Hop and Other Things. A version of this interview originally aired in October of 2017