Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for more than a decade and has written for "The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Vibe, The Nation, URB, Rap Pages, Spin, "and "Mother Jones." He was a founding editor of "Colorlines Magazine, " senior editor at Russell Simmons s 360hiphop.com, and cofounder of the influential hip-hip label SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California.