gerrick kennedy

Gerrick Kennedy is a journalist, essayist, cultural critic, writer, editor and editorial consultant based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap, Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston and a forthcoming collaboration with Brandy for Hanover Square Press. Kennedy is the founder of Nineteen Ninety Eight, a creative publishing house. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Men’s Health, Variety, NPR Music, Billboard, Spin, i-D, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Shondaland, Cultured Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.