Gerrick Kennedy is an award-winning journalist, cultural critic and author living and working in Los Angeles. He is the author of "Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap" and "Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston." His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, GQ, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Men’s Health, Variety, NPR Music, Spin, Playboy, Teen Vogue, Shondaland, Cultured Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.
