"His colorful history is the backdrop for his (George Lois`) startling forthcoming testament to his old friend Muhammad Ali, Ali Rap: Muhammad Ali, The First Heavyweight of Rap. Coupling Ali`s radical wit with a lexicon of graphic jests, Lois tells the story of the Greatest while constructing a compelling social narrative of the world Ali changed forever. From the boxer`s early bravado as a 12-year-old named Cassius Clay (‘This guy is done. I`ll stop him in one,` Lois quotes him as saying) through his decades as a political lightning rod (‘No Vietnamese ever called me nigger`), Lois`s nearly 300-page chronicle of Ali`s life reminds us how funny and ferocious a figure he really was."
Paper Magazine, New York,
United States