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  • By: Angie Thomas
  • Narrator: Bahni Turpin
  • Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
  • Publisher: Balzer + Bray
  • Publish date: February 05, 2019
  • Language: English
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On the Come Up Audiobook Summary

Don’t miss this audiobook, Audible’s Young Adult Audiobook of the Year and an Audie Award finalist!

The YA love letter to hip-hop–streaming on Paramount+ September 23, 2022! Starring Sanaa Lathan (in her directorial debut), Jamila C. Gray, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, GaTa (Davionte Ganter), Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Titus Makin Jr., and Michael Anthony Cooper Jr.

#1 New York Times bestseller * Seven starred reviews * Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book

Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win her first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri’s got massive shoes to fill. But it’s hard to get your come up when you’re labeled a hoodlum at school, and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral . . . for all the wrong reasons.

Bri soon finds herself at the center of a controversy, portrayed by the media as more menace than MC. But with an eviction notice staring her family down, Bri doesn’t just want to make it–she has to. Even if it means becoming the very thing the public has made her out to be.

Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip hop from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; and about how, especially for young black people, freedom of speech isn’t always free.

“For all the struggle in this book, Thomas rarely misses a step as a writer. Thomas continues to hold up that mirror with grace and confidence. We are lucky to have her, and lucky to know a girl like Bri.”–The New York Times Book Review

Hear about more of life in Garden Heights from Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose.

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Narrator Bahni Turpin
Length 11 hours 43 minutes
Author Angie Thomas
Publisher Balzer + Bray
Release date February 05, 2019
ISBN 9780062840684

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The publisher of the On the Come Up is Balzer + Bray. The imprint is Balzer + Bray. It is supplied by Balzer + Bray. The ISBN-13 is 9780062840684.

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Goodreads Reviews

Emily May

February 13, 2019

Aunt Pooh said I only get one chance to let everybody and their momma know who I am. So I take it. How do you follow a book like The Hate U Give? Reading THUG, I got the impression that I was experiencing something momentous. It was breathtaking. Important. I was witnessing a person using their art to say loud and clear “ENOUGH.” On the Come Up looks at some of the same things, but it is a different kind of book. I think, however, it is a book which shows that Thomas is a great writer, not just someone who can ride the wave of an important issue.Overall, people will probably like this book less than the author's debut. I've already seen some (understandable) comments about how Bri was a tough character to like compared with Starr. And it's true. Starr is a much easier character to like. She's a clear victim of a screwed-up system; clearly in the right for the whole book. She has very basic easy-to-relate-to relationships with her parents and friends and we are never asked to sympathize with hard-to-like characters. Bri is much more complex.For me, though, she was a far more interesting character than Starr. Her story may not make quite the same impact - being largely about hip hop rather than police shootings - but she herself felt like such an authentic teen voice. She's angry, resentful, impulsive, and outright rude at times. She gets into fights and doesn't play nice. She has a difficult relationship with pretty much everyone in the book. She pushes her family and supporters away, but believes she is doing it to get “on the come up” for them. She considers giving up important parts of herself for a shot at fame and fortune.I can see why some people won't like her, but I actually kinda loved her.I felt every bit of her pain and anger as she watches her family scrape together to try to pay the bills, watches her aunt buried deep in the world of drug dealing, watches security at her school targeting black and Latinx students for searches, watches male rappers make sexist jokes or erase her name and voice because she is a girl. And I loved how she turns to hip hop to make sense of her feelings, finding rhymes in her everyday life and spinning clever verses in her head.As someone who finds books about music a bit hit and miss, I have to say this one was a definite hit. I would have welcomed even more rap. You can tell the author used to be a rapper because Bri's songs are genuinely very good. I'd love to hear them recorded. I also love how she addresses sexism and double standards in the hip hop industry, and points out the ludicrous hypocrisy of a white journalist, who is against gun controls, fearing for her children because of the guns mentioned in rap lyrics. I think this is a great contemporary. A mix of music, family dynamics, fun dialogue, social media and activism, with a protagonist who is moody and difficult and everything I love to read about. I can't wait to see what Thomas writes next.Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube

Kai

February 04, 2019

"You'll never silence me and you'll never kill my dream,Just recognize when you say brilliant that you're also saying Bri."First of all, HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY and second of all THIS BOOK IS GONNA BE A FILM YOU GUYS. What a birthday present, am I right?Spoiler free!This is the 2019 release I was most scared to read. THUG was such a major, ground-breaking, and emotional book for me that the stakes for Angie’s second books were mile-high. Now I can assure you that there is no need to worry. Angie will not disappoint. This book is just as essential and spectacular.I don’t think I have ever read a book this black. I can’t think of a single white main or side character just now. And I know this is going to bother people. Just like they are bothered when there is more than one gay character on a show. White people have been the centre of YA (and the majority of other literary genres) for decades. It is time that popular culture makes room for books that represent and celebrate all kinds of cultures as a whole. This will not only help all kinds of teenagers feel represented, but it will also help us understand each other, it will create empathy, respect, and appreciation. I’m not black, I didn’t grow up in a poor part of town where drugs and gangs shaped society, I have never been discriminated against because my heritage or skin colour led others to think less of me. But this book brought me closer to not only understand the struggles of what a life like Bri’s includes, but also how important loyalty, family, friendship, faith, etc. are for a teenager like her.That’s not all, though. Angie addresses a lot of topics that deal with respecting other people’s backgrounds and stories. She does not pretend to know what is going on in a gay teenagers head but she still manages to tell his story with dignity and tact. She outright acknowledges that a gay boy’s story is not hers to tell because she has not made the same experiences as a presumably straight woman. I would love to see more of that in the literature community overall, not just in YA.Let’s talk about Bri while we’re at it. That girl is talented, lemme tell you. I love her family and friends but I often had a hard time connecting with Bri on an emotional level. She likes to jump to conclusions and often acts without thinking about the consequences. Even when people tell her to watch out and lay low because whatever she might say or do will put her in a difficult position, she still doesn’t stop to think. She keeps making that mistake over and over again and I quickly ran out of patience. Then again, she was hilarious and smart and often made me laugh out loud.The writing was great as always. Reading Angie’s books makes you feel things. The lyrics to Bri’s songs gave me goosebumps every single time. The dialogues between the characters were ultimately funny. So. Much. Shade.There are also a few Easter eggs in there. I am sure that I missed some of them and all I am going to say is that I love seeing authors referencing other authors and their books. Or to see them being inspired by other author’s stories.The reason I’m “only” giving this book 4 stars instead of 5 is because of, as I have mentioned before, the lack of a deeper emotional connection. I seriously wept while reading THUG. That book destroyed me. On the Come Up did not have that effect on me. But as I said, do not let this keep you from reading the book. It is just as compelling as Angie’s debut.I wonder whether we will get to see On the Come Up on the big screen. I would love to actually hear Bri perform her songs. They might become actual chart-toppers, who knows.Thank you to Walker Books for providing me with an advance copy in return for an honest review.Find more of my books on Instagram

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May 29, 2020

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Chelsea

February 12, 2019

While I didn't enjoy the plot of this one quite as much as I enjoyed the plot of the Hate U Give, this book was still soOoOoOoOo GOOD. Angie Thomas' writing perfectly fits the YA genre and we are truly blessed to be living in the same lifetime as her. SO DAMN GOOD.TW: racism, drug dealing, gun violence

Melanie

August 23, 2019

This was everything. I loved it completely.

Hannah

February 28, 2019

Going to keep this review short because everyone and their rap-loving aunt is going to read and review this book. And, cutting right to the chase, because everyone wants to know how On the Come Up measures up to The Hate U Give, so let me be straight: They're different books. THUG is about a girl, a victim, being shuffled along by something much bigger than her - a socio-political movement hundreds of years in the making. Starr Carter is a quiet girl, a good girl, who tries to keep to herself and waits until pretty late in the game to find her voice. That's not Bri. She's anything but quiet. This is her story. Action is driven, not by exterior forces, but by the choices she makes. On the Come Up is an intimate, interpersonal, tight narrative focused on one girl and the consequences of her actions in pursuit of her dream. Bri is flawed, driven, relatable. Her story is inner-city life, hip-hop, self-discovery and self-image rolled into one. THUG is about external conflict. OTCU is about internal conflict. They're different books, but they're both written by a gifted author who boldly explores themes of systemic racism, racial inequality, social injustice, and gang violence and who excels at crafting authentic voice and believable characters. Milez glares at me as he raps. Something about how much money he has, how many girls like him, his clothes, his jewelry, the ganster life he's living. Repetitive. Stale. Prewritten. I gotta go for the kill. Here I am, going at him as if I don't have any manners. Manners. A lot of words rhyme with that if I deliver them right. Cameras. Rappers. Pamper. Hammer - MC Hammer. Vanilla Ice. Hip-hop heads consider them pop stars, not real rappers. I can compare him to them. I gotta get my signature line in there - you can only spell "brilliant" with Bri. Aunt Pooh once pointed that out right before teasing me about being such a perfectionist. [. . .]Milez lowers the mic. There are a couple of cheers. Supreme claps, yet his face is hard. "Okay, I see you, Milez!" Hype says. "Bri, you better bring the heat!" The instrumental starts up again. Aunt Pooh said I only get one chance to let everybody and their momma know who I am. So I take it.

Cece

February 16, 2019

I’m going to be bold about this and say that I loved this more than THUG. Angie Thomas had a hard act to follow, but this was spot on in every possible way.

Lilith

February 25, 2019

DISCLAIMERI get that some people might not see some of my words with good eyes, but these are the things that this book made me think about. So please, respect my opinion. It's against no one, but if you have a different opinion than mine, or you totally disagree with my thoughts, feel free to say your opinion. I will respect it, no matter what.When I found out about this book, I think it was a couple of months ago or something like that. Obviously, I wanted to read this one too after I loved "The Hate U Give". I was wondering what new story Angie will give us this time. I didn't want to know anything about this book, so I just got blind on it, knowing that the chance to not like it was almost inexistent.The way she puts on the paper problems like racism, drugs, poverty, police brutality against black people, and other things like this, is outstanding. She gets us to understand why black people are doing some things, how they think, why they react in the way they do it to the most atrocities against them. In this masterpiece, she shows us that black people have feelings too, even if they are drug dealers, rap artists or gang members. They are humans with feelings, with dreams, with expectations, just like the rest of us. True, they may have more "balls" than the rest of us, sometimes, but this doesn't mean they have to be put in the corner just because their skin color is not white.This is a brilliant insight into their lives, their minds, and their hearts. They can cry and love and hope, just like the rest of us. And you know what? We also can be drug dealers, gang members and what other bad things we put them on the corner for, just like them. Sometimes even with more "talent" than them. But you know what we can't really do like them? We can't really stick to our family like them. Because black people, no matter what, they stick and support their families, exactly how Angie shows us in her book. We can say about us, white people, the same thing? Yes, there are white people like this too, a lot of them, but the big majority can easily leave their family behind for various reasons. And about this, we, white people that can so easily judge black ones, and put them in the corner even for the thing that they speak their mind, I think we have some things to learn from them. The only thing that separates us, is just the skin color. This is all! And Angie Thomas shows this to us in one of the most beautiful and brilliant ways. I am waiting for her next book, the way I am waiting to have my next breath when I am underwater.

Angelica

May 08, 2020

Well damn. Angie Thomas did that.

BernLuvsBooks

September 03, 2019

Angie Thomas has such a way of incorporating social justice (and injustice) into her stories that is both moving and eye opening. This book focused on so many things - racism, drugs, poverty, family issues, being true to yourself and more & it dealt with each one undeniably well. I was worried going into this book that it wouldn't live up to The Hate You Give for me. While THUG is still my favorite, Bri and her family and friends definitely captured me. I was fully invested in the characters and their story. Thomas' ability to fully capture the community and people around her main characters is one of the things I love most about her books. One recommendation I would make if this one is on your TBR - consider the audiobook! There are lots of infused rap lyrics and I highly doubt I did all the rap battles justice. It would have been awesome to hear them aloud. I have no doubt it would make for an even more amazing reading experience.

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November 22, 2021

🖤 Yes, injustices will no longer prevail 🤘God, this book is so damn good! Young adult done right! Live your dreams like LIVE YOUR DAMN AMAZING DREAMS! I love the characters so much! The side characters. The family vibes. The friendship. The relationships. And, wow, I didn't expect the serious issues of racism and discrimination, police brutality, addiction and recovering, poverty and hunger, social media and news hype, LGBTQIAP and coming out could be handled so well! Damn right. This book needs more hype like the first book!I just love the writing. It's so upbeat and engaging. I love the word flow like nothing stopped the author from speaking her mind and nothing could stop the clueless readers to keep on reading. It's not only just some fiction to enjoy but also something urgent and important that would make you want to work anew for your dreams all over again. The situations in the story are quite realistic with amazing, convincing characters. The perfect balance in handling grief, romance, hurt and uncertainty worked so well. I just love the solid family and friendship bond representation. I mean WOW. The best part? The humour here and there out of nowhere!I love you, Angie Thomas.You are a genius!I cannot wait for the upcoming book!And hell yes, I am still rocking to 🤘On The Come Up 🤘 like the only part I can yell to is to'On the come up, nope, nope' like my reading life solely depends on it. And for the rest of the lyrics I do pretend I know them and my old hoodie is her Black Panther hoodie 😎And yass, do check out the last song. It's the fire that would keep my dream wings flapping! The emotions and the urge! So damn worth it!

Kate

February 07, 2019

Angie Thomas didn't just live up to the expectations I had after reading and loving The Hate U Give, she went to an entirely new level with On The Come Up. As a school librarian and reviewer of a great deal of young adult literature, I can tend to feel a bit of ”been there, read that" with many stories. This isn't a knock on YA, it's simply a result of being an adult reading a lot of YA. However, with On the Come Up, Angie Thomas brings a fresh and vital story to the genre, and also one of the most amazing voices I have ever read in any level of literature.This story is about the systemic racism (and poverty) that prevails in America and the realities of so many Black youths in our country. It hits rap culture, racism, police brutality, gangs, drugs, and more. Thomas doesn't hold back in her scathing criticism of the current state of things (and many of the people) in fictional Garden Heights and the surrounding wealthier neighborhoods, projecting to the cities of the US as a whole. What impresses me the most is her ability to build empathy in readers for characters who so often are written as villains - she digs deep into why drug dealers are dealing, why addicts are using, why parents abandon their children, why families are living in poverty, why gang members are in gangs, why some rappers are using the lyrics that they do, and more. The why is honestly the most important part of all of those issues when reading through a critical lens with the knowledge of the systemic racism that has always plagued the US.Reading this book at the same time as The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and immediately following Heavy: An American Memoir gave me such important context to bring to the story. I also recently read Rap Dad: A Story of Family and the Subculture That Shaped a Generation which helped me immensely as a reader who listens to NO rap music, but holds a very healthy respect for the genre as a cultural standard.On the subject of issue book vs. non-issue book - this is a capital-I-issue book. And it's the gold standard of such. If you get a chance to listen to Angie Thomas' interview on the podcast "It's Been a Minute", please do. It added such a rich layer to my reading of this book because it made me understand completely who this book is for and the motivation for writing it. Thomas makes it blatantly clear this book is for the Black kids in neighborhoods like the one she grew up in in Jackson, Mississippi and how closely the neighborhood of Garden Heights is based on this same neighborhood. Sure, this book is a window for suburban white kids and middle-aged white women like me, but that's not who she's really doing the work for.In addition, her words in the interview about the attempts to ban The Hate U Give are spot on. When she describes how an 8-year-old wrote to her after reading it and said his mom gave it to him and he loved it, she talks about how some white moms are worried about their 13-year-olds reading it. She lays it out that if a Black mom feels that her young son needs this story because of his reality, then white moms shielding their teens from even reading about it is absolute privilege. That hit me so hard. The attempts to keep OTCU out of hands of teens will surely come, and I guarantee Bri would have words to throw back about it. This is the life and circumstances that teens are living, and the very least white parents and teachers/librarians can do is encourage more privileged kids to read it, rather than shield them from it. As for the kids that Thomas is writing for, let's all do our part to get this book to them. In any way possible.If you are a white adult who claims to "not read YA because I'm an adult", I challenge you to READ THIS BOOK. Open your mind. Listen. Learn. You don't need to review it, but know that Thomas is speaking her truth, as well as the truth of a vast number of people in our country. Honor them and hear the story.

Hailey

March 31, 2019

Video review - https://youtu.be/w9617uq7Kk0?t=515

Carmen

June 22, 2020

It's like having a bucket of ice water thrown in my face.Ratchet hood rat.Thousands of people just heard me act like that. Millions more may see the video. They won't care that my life is a mess and I had every right to be mad. They'll just see an angry black girl from the ghetto, acting like they expected me to act.Supreme laughs to himself. "You played the role," he says. "Goddamn, you played the role."Problem is, I wasn't playing. That's what I've become. pg. 355OKAY, even though I was resisting (RESISTING), I am going to have to give Angie Thomas five stars for this one.Why were you resisting, Carmen?Well, you know. YA isn't my thing. I have an aversion to YA. Real-life teenagers? I like them. Fictional books about teenagers? Nah. They are usually forced, awkward, and lame. Just can't stand 90% of YA. It's so contrived. Probably because it's written by adults about alleged "teenaged" experiences.Secondly, the girl in here is a rapper trying to make it big. Music is not my thing, reading about music is definitely not my thing. I've said this before: play guitar? Think that's sexy? Not to me. Want to write a book about being a singer? Not for me. Playing piano and auditioning? No. So this rapping, make-it-big story is not my cup of tea. I don't give a shit. Any musical plot or plot that revolves around instruments or performing, singing, rapping, or being a musician is totally not interesting to me.Despite these two strikes against Thomas at the onset, she still managed to impress me a lot. She's a talented writer. She draws you into her story. She does a good job of blending the serious topics of her work (racism, gangs, protest/riots, poverty, drug addiction) which are very topical and more typical teenage dramas like is-he-going-to-kiss me?, will-my-mom-find-out?, and teenage friendships and their ups and downs.This could easily be very contrived. It could easily be awkward and lame. But Thomas is smooth. She is able to naturally blend everything together and do so with an authentic voice that doesn't make it seem like she is creating a narrative to fit her agenda. Instead, it seems like an honest-to-Betsy story with an honest-to-Betsy plot and real characters. Sure, it's YA, and therefore centers on teen issues (which might make some people weary) - Heaven knows 'teenage issues' make me weary - but for a YA book it's pretty natural and gripping.Same with the discussions of race and racial issues. Yes, it's very appropriate right now. But it's easy to jump on a topical current-events wagon and ride it for money. That's NOT what Thomas is doing here. When I first heard about The Hate U Give, that's what I thought Thomas was doing. Jumping on a current-events wagon, and with a fucking YA book to boot. However, I was wrong. I ended up giving The Hate U Give five stars. And now I've ended up giving this book five stars. That means something. Thomas can actually write.Yes, Bri, the main character in this book can be stupid at times. But she's a teenager. Teenagers do stupid things sometimes and don't think things through. (Ha ha, so do adults, but usually life has knocked some sense into them by then.) I usually am rolling my eyes, but I found Bri's moments of stupidity to be believable, even if I didn't enjoy them.Also, Bri stands up for herself brilliantly. Sure, there are some times in the book when she SHOULD stand up for herself and doesn't - but again, teenager. It's easier to railroad teenagers sometimes. But overall her self-confidence and ability to speak out was admirable and encouraging. I was cheering. She did not have the self-doubt I would have had in those situations. She tells off people with a clear voice, and I admire that. Her friends, her elders. She has a lot of courage. I admired that and respected it.It always seems like Thomas is writing a long-ass book - I'm always surprised by the length of her novels when I pick them up - but it goes quickly and I don't think she is padding it nor do I think she needed a better editor. The length suited the book. I feel like she needed the page-count in order to say what she needed to say. Another strike against Thomas is that this is her second book. The shininess has rubbed off. People know her schtick now. This can be awful - see Andy Weir or Ernest Cline for examples of authors who blew people away with their first book only to sadly reveal that they were a one-trick pony with their second novel.I was afraid that was going to be Thomas, as well.Because, let's face it, she's writing about the same area, the same basic ideas, the same types of situations... it could have been a disaster.But it wasn't. Here's to hoping she's got a decent third novel inside of her.TL;DR If you have hesitated to pick up an Angie Thomas book, I'd encourage you to give it a shot. I know it's tempting to dismiss her books as riding a current-events bandwagon, and the idea of suffering through a YA novel might make some people cringe. However, if you give her a shot you might be surprised. I certainly was. Her books are actually good, not your typical YA dreck and I feel like she writes flowing, authentic, naturally-formed stories instead of relying on trying to force some emotions and dialogue. Not an easy thing to do. Props to her. I'd recommend giving her a chance to impress you. If this cynical, hard-hearted reader actually enjoyed her books, there's hope. Not to mention I'm a YA-averse grump.If you care about representation, there are both gay male characters and lesbians in this book.SOUNDTRACK FOR THE BOOK“Flash Light” by Parliament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F7xb...“Sky's the Limit” by The Notorious B.I.G. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3vOe...“Kick in the Door” by The Notorious B.I.G. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRfnW...“A Tale of Two Citiez” by J. Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB7gy...“Niggas in Paris” by Jay-Z and Kanye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA...“Deep Cover” by Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op9Ml...“Shook Ones, Pt. II” by Mobb Deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoYZf...“Silent Night” by The Temptations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0mgk...“Fuck Tha Police” by NWA https://youtu.be/Z7-TTWgiYL4“P.Y.T.” by Michael Jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZZQu...“Apparently” by J. Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRaFM...NAMES IN THIS BOOK(view spoiler)[Aunt Pooh f Katricia Jay f Jayda Brianna nn Bri f Breezy Bookie Sonny m Jackson gay Jackson Emmanuel Malik mLawless mTrey m Lawrence Marshall Long mTate mNorma fLena fFrank mReggie mDee-Nice mDJ Hype mM-Dot mMs. Tique f Kayla CZ mMilez m Miles Supreme m Clarence Shana fDeon mZane mAja fKeyona fNevaeh fJabari mCurtis mKeandre mAunt 'Chelle fJojo mScrap mTony mMr. Daryl mMs. Pat fMs. Sonja fGina fDoc mLouise fCarol fBig Sal fEdward mEf-X mEmily f2Paw – cat Kennedy fParis fSkye fGeraldine fDavid mKaren fJames mLiz f (hide spoiler)]

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