Sowmya Krishnamurthy

Sowmya Krishnamurthy is an American music journalist and author.^[1] She has contributed to Time , Rolling Stone , XXL , Complex , Billboard , Playboy and NPR .^[2] Sowmya is the author of Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster).^{[3] [4]}

Krishnamurthy began her writing career at The Michigan Daily .^[5] She interned at CNN and Bad Boy Records and was in William Morris Endeavor's agent training program.^[6] In 2012, she starred on MTV's Hip-Hop POV with Charlamagne Tha God and Amanda Seales. Sowmya has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, and CNN.^{[7] [8]} In 2021, she launched The Lookout by SoundCloud on SiriusXM.^[9]

She has provided commentary on The Breakfast Club and Ebro in the Morning.^{[10] [11]} She is one of Complex's "25 Music Insiders to Follow on Twitter" with other journalists Elliott Wilson and Charlamagne Tha God.^[12]

In 2023, Krishnamurthy authored Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. The book began as a story in XXL.^[13] This is the first anthology on hip-hop fashion.^{[14] [15]} Kirkus Reviews and Booklist named the book as one of the "best books of 2023".^{[16] [17]}

In January 2024, she announced that her next book is about Jay-Z and hip-hop label Roc-A-Fella Records: Roc-A-Fella Records: An American Rap Dynasty.^[18]

Krishnamurthy grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and graduated from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.^{[19] [20]} She is the first hip-hop journalist of Indian American descent and lives in New York City.^{[21] [22]}

ELLE has called Krishnamurthy one of the women authors "redefining" the hip-hop books canon.^[23]

Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion. Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster. 2023. ISBN 9781982176327.

• 21st-century American journalists
• 21st-century American women writers
• American music journalists
• Hip-hop books
• University of Michigan alumni
• Women in hip-hop
• Kalamazoo Central High School alumni
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